Laura bush i am here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria, because every life in every land matters and all of us can do something to help. After studying first ladies and knowing some of them very well like my own motherinlaw or one that i admired very much, a fellow texan Lady Bird Johnson, is that we benefit our country benefits by whatever our first ladiesinterests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughterinlaw of another. Laura welch bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. Bush to the white house. Less than nine months later came the 9 11 attacks and laura bush helped comfort the nation while continuing to pursue interests long important to her, including education, literacy and womens health. Good evening and welcome to cspan series, first
The general assembly, distinguished guests and members of the media, welcome. To the members of our national guard, our servicemen and women and our veterans, thank you on behalf of of the most grateful state. [applause] god bless you. To the citizens, the taxpayers of illinois, it is an honor to serve you. My report on the state of the state, this bicentennial year, begins with a reflection on what has been born, built and grown in illinois. Our history is rich. We were the first state to ratify the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. President lincoln, grant, reagan and obama called illinois home. We taught the world to rebuild the city when we scraped the sky after the chicago fire. We invented the 20 and started the First Nuclear chain reactor. With 36 fortune 500 companies, one point to million Small Businesses and 72000 of the nations greatest farms we are the worlds 17th largest economy. We are a top signed the Medical Center and 82 foreign consulates help connect us to
I am here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan. Women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria because every life and every land matters. All of us can do something to after studying first ladies and knowing some of them very well at my own motherinlaw or one that i married very much, Lady Bird Johnson, is our country benefits by whatever our first ladies interests are. She is the wife of one president and the daughterinlaw of another. Became firstush lady after a controversial election brought her husband, george w. Bush, to the white house. Less than nine months later came the 9 11 attacks and laura bush help comfort the nation while continuing to pursue interests important to her including education, literacy, and womens health. Welcome to cspan series first lady influence and image. Tonight, we tell you the story of the wife of our 43rd preside
About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
I want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. There is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. Let me start with myra macpherson. She is an author and a veteran journalist. She has had many years of the Washington Post writing for the papers legendary style section. She has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, International Leaders like Cubas Fidel Castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. I was four. She wrote for the post on Vietnam Veterans and led her to write her groundbreaking book groundbreaking book long time passing vietnam and the junta generation one of the first books about the first to examine the insidious problem of ptsd. In 2006 she wrote all governments lie, the life and times of rebel journalist i have stoned and she has also delved into intimate topics and she came to live out loud and i