This week on the communicators, gordon smith who is the president of National Association of broadcasters. Our guest reporter is paul kirby. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How has it changed . Keep on coming. They tend to be major issues affecting both the radio and television, but it clearly on the radio side the issue of Performance Rights and performance tax or however you describe at, and ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive and both the digital platform cant, with a model that actually grows music and works for both. Right now, one has an unsustainable Business Model and the other works for radio. On the other hand, we did to work we the to work also. Thatu provide a rate simply destroys local radio, that is a bad inc. We cannot stand by idly for that. A lot contractual negotiations are going on for our major members like Clear Channel are doing deals with labels and the market is starting to develop in that regards. On the television side, t
If wed turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about suffering. Take advantage of it. Obesity is nothing short of a Public Health crisis. Somebody had their own agenda. I think they serve as a window on the path to what was going on with american women. She becomes the chief confidante. The only person you can trust. Many of the first ladies were writers. A lot of them were journalists. They wrote the books. There are more interesting human beings than their husbands. Notnly because they are first and foremost defined and limited by political ambition. Edith roosevelt is one of the unsung heroes. When you go to the white house today, it is Edith Roosevelt potts white house. There was too much looking down. I think it was a little too fast. Not enough change of pace. I think in every case, the whatever fits done her personality and her interest. She later wrote in her memoir, she said i never made any decision. I only decided what was
Next, first ladys influence taft. Focuses on helen later, Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister talks about the relationship between america and china. Helen taft was more ambitious about getting to the white house than her husband, William Howard taft, and was willing to get personally involved in politics to get him elected. She overcame a serious illness to directly manage the white house. Invited top Classical Musicians to perform there. Helen taft also has one of the most visible legacies of all first ladies. Washington d. C. s famous japanese cherry tree. Bring tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening and welcome to first ladies. The life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house until 1913. Here to speak about her life and legacy is her biographer. The biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that she is the most obscure of 20th century first ladies. Why do you think she deserves better than be
Was interested in so many things. It it was not clear why she had empathy andrest for advocacy for native americans island i wonder if your guests could explain about that. I think there were some indian chieftans who came to the white house to visit, and i think they made a great impression on her, and she became interested in indian welfare. And she was interested in their education. She was interested in their medical well being and health. Which was a very it was a proper thing for her to be interested in. Nobody is going to be objecting to educating children or taking care of people who were sick. So it was certainly a good thing for her to do. The indians thought of her as their great white mother. You talked about the first lady and the white house. She had connections to the Johns Hopkins hospital and the pediatric unit she set up. Well talk about that in a minute. A question from jenny webber. Harriet lane had a cutter named after her. Also, i heard she got into trouble for th
Nullification issues. Grid ands. Electric its former building, and a guest from the Pew Research Center in our america by the numbers serious. Series. Tomorrowon journal, and everyday day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. To the whitete house 2016 coverage with senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota. She will receive the beacon award for Hillary Clinton tomorrow at the annual wingding in clear lake, iowa. Live coverage of that event at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Season two of first ladies, influence and image, begins monday, september 9 with a look at the life of Edith Roosevelt. All this month, encore presentations of season one. Each weeknight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, from programs of every first lady from Martha Washington to ida mckinley. Tonight, Mary Todd Lincoln. [captioning performed bynational captioning institute] [captions Copyright Nationalcable satellite corp. 2013] born in 1818 in lexington, kentucky, mary todd grew up and lived to see her husband issued the emancipation proclamation 4