You are watching, and looking to leave the party you support. Daysll take a look at the topics of the day. Season two of first ladies influence and image begins monday, september 9 with a look a look at with edith roosevelt. Programs on every first lady from Martha Washington wine mckinley. Tonight, harriet lane. Quite she is probably the most tragic of all the first ladies. She hated it with a passion. She did not move into the white house with peace. They had eight rooms they had to furnish. When she arrived, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her dead son. She called them my presaged child. A very poignant letter. , andey were returning there was a terrible accident. It was devastating for the family. God. She concluded this was forhe house was too much jane to take care of. I dont think she was interested in housekeeping particularly. Most regarded peer us as a failure in the office. It was the happiest of all presidencies. Good evening. On this pr
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] sarah polk was on diplomacy and her strong suit is intelligence and political discussion. She made no bones about the fact she took an interest in politics. And that she was her husbands partner. She grew naup political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. Because she would not have married him if he had unfortunately for james k. Polk he died three months after leaving the white house. And sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to to come to visit and see the objects she had collected through her long and illustrious political career. To live there for many years on her own. During the civil war, generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay respects. It is an interesting commentary
The second person, john tylers second wife, but at least during the time, even though she did not come to the white house, she did use her influence to get appointments for her nephews and sons and grandsons, so she would have been political in that way but not the way he would think the second person, john tylers second wife, but at least during the time, even though she did not come to the white house, she did use her influence to get appointments for her nephews and sons and grandsons, so she would have been political in that way but not the way he would think of with someone like julia tyler. Which we will learn more of tonight. And this comment, she must have had good genes. What was going on in the Harrison Family that it produced so Many Political leaders . They were one of the first families of virginia, so you would have had them be involved in the revolution. They have a long history of political involvement. I think it is where they are located by the mid 1800s in the northw
She was not happy her husband had been elected president. She never made it to washington. When he resigned, he and his wife and their family moved here to williamsburg. It was here that Letitia Tyler suffered a stroke. John tyler learned he was elected as Vice President of William Perry region William Henry harrison. It is here that he became 10th president of the United States, so she learned she became the first lady. She had another terrible stroke, and her husband goes into morning, and then he meets another young lovely in her 20s. I think of her as the madonna of first ladies. She posed as a model at a time that was frowned upon, by all accounts was bewitching. There were 90 slaves, and they were her supervision. Julia lobbied for her husband, and she supported him tremendously in everything she did. Untimely death, a secret marriage, and outsize personality are stories of the women we examined tonight. Good evening, and welcome to the Season Series of first ladies. William Henr
Who best represents your Political Party . The rnc concluding its summer meeting, talking about its future as far as 2016 is concerned. Visits to iowa by joe biden. For the first 45 minutes we want to hear from the people that best represents your Political Party. Divided the lines by Political Party. If you want to give us a tweet on this topic you can send that our way cspanwj. Send us an email at journal c span. Org. Couple ofurred by a Different Things. The wall street journal has a new writeup about the rnc meeting. The head of the rnc talked a little bit about the 2016 strategy. In this write up this morning, he said that ist abt the strategy on the republican side. On the democratic side, iowa seems to be concerned, taking a. Ook at what is going on there the Vice President is expected to speak there next month. Abc news talks about Heller Clinton and the minnesota senator, saying for our first 45 minutes, a generic topic when it comes to , specificallyies we are interested in h