Territorial politics of wyoming. I encountered gracious and wellinformed experts in the sources that i was seeking and their goals seemed to be to make my work and research as productive and rewarding as possible. The working atmosphere of the archives was congenial, stimulating, and fun. A friend of mine, the distinguished historian of the election of 1896, Hall Williams and i, would work at library in the library of congress until 5 00 in the afternoon when they closed, have a bite to eat and we could come over to National Archives, which was open until 8 00. So we made the most of every single day. Whenever i returned, as i did during the next decade, i had the same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities. The cliches about lazy government employees, repeated ad nasuem by unknowning politicians, had no validity within these walls. Instead i became convinced, as im sure most historians w
The same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities, the cliches about lazy Government Employees repeated ad nauseam by unknowing politicians had no validity within these walls. Instead i became convinced as a ms. Sure most historians would share, that the National Archives is one of the true ornaments of American Culture for which this individual can only say, from the bottom of my professional heart, thank you very much. Amen. , now there are two housekeeping things that i have to discuss before i can turn to Edith Roosevelt. I need to make them clear. Doris goodwin coming next week you are in for about of what i can call pettiness during the next week. There will be teddy this and teddy that in every direction. You wont hear me use that term. I will talk about tea are, roosevelt, carole roosevelt, theodore and the president , but i wont use the word teddy. There is a simple reason. He did
Transports loaded with lumber on its way to hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in first ladies and were going to look at her life, relationship and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladys influence and image series. Joining us to evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, anita black whos the leader of the project at George Washington university, and a historian. And another historian, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug, briefly, march, 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugural rated. What are the
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I know she still loved him why didnt you do it . But for him i would want to understand why he could not him share himself more fully with anyone the most charming and thoughtful personality but underneath there was such reserve in him and i want to understand why he couldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. And to understand not only franklin and eleanor but in many cases to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house and that these two characters really needed other people to meet those needs left over at the end of their troubled marriage so the second family quarters of the white house was like a hotel and there was about seven People Living there all intimate friends that was new and fun for me. Cspan if you had ask a question about personal relationships that theyve had with other people, who would you be most interested in . Frankly it would be franklin. Not just because he had an affair with her and almost broke up eleanors marriage