Page. Hispanic from politics and prose bookstore in dc mark and timothy xm and the tall choice relationship between the first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her first cousin alice who was Theodore Roosevelts daughter. The report is that the two women born eight months and 20 blocks apart in new york city were social and political opposites who publicly debated the issues of the day. First thank you all of you for being here this evening. We are delighted to be here in a very big thank you to the crew at politics and prose for making us feel so welcome. I want to give a big thank you to the publisher. In answering the most common question that weekend which is who was Alice Roosevelt and i realize in this crowd a lot of you were her neighbors. Nonetheless, what i am going to do is try to set a little bit of the context for the reading is going to do in a few minutes. Make sure they cover up some of these details. What we do you will see behind me a family tree. Its a simplified version of t
And growing up with seeing dont mess with texas signs everywhere and the appreciation for the bluebonnets there and just what that means into no that she and her world as first lady influenced all of that in a way that was quite subtle and not necessarily understood at the time but that we now do understand. Now carl im going to ask you because you are a scholar of the full breadth of first ladies. Dolley madison because she was one of the first who had a real sense of duty to his constituency meaning the country. It was unusual for a woman back then too perceived as part of her proper role a sense of duty and connection to the general public to people she didnt know. Shackling candidate very strongly because of her sense of where the u. S. Was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadnt and in a sense america had come of age and have as much dignity and had a right to maintain that dignity on the world stage. And betty ford by taking very personal and reall