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defense form and on the podcast. we appreciate it. a lot to cover today. so much is going on here in washington dc and across the country. that for our listeners many people know you you are the loan congresswoman from the state of wyoming. the daughter of vice president. but you going in and out of washington dates back further than when her father became vice president of course he was chief of staff during the ford administration then like you served in congress. coming in and out of washington for a lifetime with public office or a family member and then going back? i feel incredibly blessed way to grow up into have the opportunity to see both worlds but certainly some of my earliest memories have to do with my mom and dad in their publichave serviceo when my das chief of staff for president forward back in the early seventies my sister and i were toyoung it would take us down to the white house on saturday mornings to have breakfast with him and as you can imagine his
consider caroline harrison as one of the most underage or to serve in this role. we ll learn why in this segment of first ladies, influence and image. here to tell us more about caroline harrison or two guests who know the office well. the first lady s historian, the director meredith of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at this milled sonia. it s edi i thank you for coming in. and bill s seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that building s. among his books is the president s white house. and doctor s, we re going to start with an illustration tonight. for the government was spending a lot of money. it s she got into it by wanting to create a house, they were crammed in this house. the only lived upstairs. you see, understand on the picture, the middle of the upper picture, the columns and the street side of it the office was on the left. it s the east room was below that, and the other public rooms on the g
the lincoln forum symposium hosted the event. good good morning morning my name is, my name jonathan white and is jonathan i m vice chair of white and i m vice the lincoln chair of the lincoln forum. our form. our next next speaker this speaker this morning is morning elizabeth elizabeth are farran. she is williams professor of american history and varon. associate director of the john she s the associate l now the third center for director civil war history of the museum of civil war university of virginia. history at the university author of of virginia. she s the five book books author of five books that probe that probably important important issues from issues of the sectional the american conflict from the revolution to the civil american revolution to the war. her masterful civil war. her masterful biography, biography, southern southern leaning, yankees by the lady yankees spy, true story of a true story of elizabeth van lou a union agent a union agent in in the heart