Met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Good evening and welcome to cspans continuing series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies ellen and edith and we have two terrific guests here to tell you about this two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Kristie miller i
Traffic on the ground, Road Conditions are looking pretty good. Turn the headlights on, though, not ideal driving conditions. Our next cold front. For now, we have some patchy fog in the area and temperatures in the 60s. It will be cloudy today with a few showers possible north of highway 20 this morning and a better chance for storms area wide after 3 developing right now tensions are espeicially high in the korean peninsula. North korea just had their fifth and Largest Nuclear test. Test. It was first detected as a fivepointthree magnitude earth quake in the same spot as a nuclear test in january. State media in the isolated country touted the successful arsenal. They also say it was in reponse to Stronger International sanctions handed down earlier this year. Leaders in china japan and south korea all condemned the nuclear test. That comes as president barack obama is leaving a nearly week long trip to asia. He arrived in washington early this morning after he was briefed about this
Ms. Swain this is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28th president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921. Youll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two Wilson Administration first ladies, ellen and edith. Ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial eff
Live for three hours starting at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. And now to london for Prime Ministers question time live from the british house of commons. Every wednesday while parliament is in session Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. Prior to question time the house is wrapping up other business. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. As i said, we are all concerned of our youth unemployment but it is a matter for the lord, not us because we have the ball that responsibly. It is a rising tide of a good economic recovery that will bring work to young people. If i might just quote the chief executive and belfast who said we are quietly optimistic about economy improving the sugar it will take months if not years to filter to young people. Thats what we want is happening. My honorable friend will be aware next week is the beginning of National Apprenticeship week. Here, here. What steps is he taking to promote this to encourage employmen
Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen