President. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara pierce bush, the wife of our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. And here for the next 90 minutes to tell us more about her life and her influence are two guests. Myra gutin is the barbara bush biographer, part of that first lady series weve turned to so often during this series this year. Shes a first ladies scholar, and she teaches at Rider University in lawrenceville, new jersey. Thanks very much for being here with us. Ms. Gutin my pleasure. Ms. Swain Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. Hes the author of one book on george bushs Foreign Policy and at work on another one. Thank you for being here tonight. Mr. Engel good to be here. Ms. Swain now, we heard barbara bush at the outset talk about the fact that, when she became first lady, her words had much more were much more attentio
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Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen
Cost our country 600,000 jobs . Yes. Moving discretionary funding backed up to the original cast and not having the sequester take effect. And that would take a half a point away from gross to mustek product . By the end of 2014. Florida, thein types of jobs we are talking about, we have seen some very harmful impact. Our premier Cancer Research center in tampa, before the sequester, they had 120 researchers working to find a cure for cancer. They are down to 100. The air force base is one of our Largest Community economic drivers. They are furloughing Mental Health counselors among others. That part of the budget is shrinking, but the sequester does not give us a lot of room to maneuver on where we want those cuts to take place. Law enforcement, job losses from cuts to the court, very significant cut accident education. Adopted republicans this cr last week, it became Crystal Clear that they intend to march forward with those sequester cuts. Report and at your those kind of expenditur