Hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report, and be ready for action. And youve been listening to some of onerous votes radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And we are going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about owners about, allida black, who is the editor of the unnerves votes paper project at George Washington university, and a historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, the roosevelts are being inaug
Test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Doug brinkley, if i could, what about criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and throughout her 12 years as first lady . Were people critical of her . Weve kind of had a little bit of a love affair so far tonight. Of course, they were, because people didnt like fdr. A very polarizing president. He killed the opposition in 30 and 32 and i promise you eleanor was not an albatross. As i mentioned before, she was a huge asset. With that said, i think some thought her issue of pushing the labor unions and supporting the coal miners. If you were a coal owner, you would not have liked it. In the south, as i mentioned, the africanamerican issue was very controversial. In fact, theres one letter she wrote to an africanamerican person in chicago, the person wrote her because one of her columns, she called black people and this africanamerican rightly said how can you who is helping africanamericans use the word dark, and she sa
Transports loaded with lumber on its way to hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in first ladies and were going to look at her life, relationship and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladys influence and image series. Joining us to evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, anita black whos the leader of the project at George Washington university, and a historian. And another historian, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug, briefly, march, 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugural rated. What are the
Look at that. That is fantastic. We really appreciate your support its vitally important to us here. We want the community to feel like this is their facility. With the holocaust. He worked here at the library doing research for 30 years about. He has defined the art of telling complicated stories to a higher art form. And having read many books on roosevelt you often read the same story over and over again. But this, is a new story. This is a new hero and character that is emerged from the research. To find a new story that is this compelling. I highly recommend that you get it. [applause]. Thank you paul for that generous introduction. When one spends a long time on the book on the subject on a person that is not a household name is very gratifying to see that other the other people take an interest. It will be what will be the papers. I will give you some highlights. What they have deciduous today. He was born in 1886 that did he have anything to say with us today. Let me give you a
Cars americans by the president says the new trade deal must address that imbalance as for the japanese well they are very keen to protect their car exports to the u. S. At one point President Trump threatened to introduce a 25 percent tariff on Japanese Cars a key reason for japan joining the trade talks was to avoid that happening tokyo has existed a promise not to High Concepts must be in the deal but at what cost to japan thats a question i want to discuss with michael penn hes the chief of the gets a news agency michael welcome how is japan going to pay for for that promise they want from the u. S. Well it looks maybe 6 months ago that it would be very expensive for the japanese because they didnt want to be into in these bilateral trade talks at all in fact they resisted for many months to to get into this by that will trade framework with with the trumpet ministration however signs seem to suggest that that things have been going japans way in these in these negotiations more an