Di Corporate Funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line,g, sheryl sandbnd welcome back to firing line, david miliband. Good to be with you. Thank you for having us. David, you are the president and the ceo of the International Rescue committee, and, sheryl, you are, of course, the chief operating officer of facebook. E and o of you teamed up to write an article entitled a second covid crisis is coming. And the subtitle was, if dont act now, women an girls will be suffering from the pandemics fallo for dades. Sheryl, id like to go to you first. Why did you and david te up to write this oped . Well, every time it exacerbatesrgency, underlying inequality, and vulnerable populations are often hit the hardest, and all over the world, that iwomen and girls. And so when you have a crisis like this, if we dont have t a gender lens s, if we arent focused on preventing genderbased violence increases, which are already happening, and makg sure women and girls get the resources and the service
Which is her base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joined you in your home, were trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house, but also in Education Mission to teach and to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 7092 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating education materials and content is a a core part of our mission, and thats what we do everyday through the wonderful, wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we h
Welcome to the Constitution Center. Tos is such a happy day celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] nonpartisans a mission and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. At the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, brian lamb. [applause] he is americas greatest interviewer. I was honored to be interviewed by him for this book, as were my colleagues. Welcoming him back to the center is so meaningful. Now to introduce this program, it is a special pleasure to wel
You could ask either franklin del anor roosevelt or Elanor Roosevelt after all the work did you on this book, what would they be . I think with he will anor, i would like to understand why she was unable at a certain moment in the middle of the war wh he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him to say yes to him. He loved her and she still loved him. Why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. For him, id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him. I would want to try to understand why that was so and why he couldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. What makes this book different than all the rest . Well, i think what i want to do in this book is understand not only franklin and eleanors relationship which is looked at in many, many cases about ut to un
Good afternoon, welcome to white house history. My name is stuart im the president of the White House Historical association. Today we will have an exciting conversation with the head of the Rubinstein Center for white house history in one of our historians on a brandnew book, the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of the american institution. Ordinarily we would do this event at the Carriage House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out this new mode of communications. It is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As you all know we were founded in 1961 by first lady, jacqueline kennedy, who had the vision at such a young age in a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the museum of standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach