Her husbands presidency and adept at handling the media. Despite hardships, scandals, her husbands infidelities and his death in office as well as her own poor health, Florence Harding set many precedents that would help define the role of the modern first lady. Good evening. And welcome to cspans series first ladies influence image. Tonight, were going to be telling you the story of Florence Harding, the first lady that one of our guests said has been neglected and derided by throughout history. But in her time, the hardings came in as very popular people. Were going to learn more about the trajectory of her time and her husbands time in office and her interesting story that not many people know today. Let me introduce you to our two guests. Katherine sibley is a history professor at st. Josephs college in philadelphia. Shes a biographer of the first lady. Her book is called first lady Florence Harding behind the tragedy and the controversy. Thank you for being here. David pietrusza i
The barriers which were put up are no longer effective. It is an experiment. A lot of political scientists it is not clear there is evidence it is going to have much of an effect, at least not yet. I think we need a couple of elections to find that out. Thank you. [applause] are watching american his pretv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next, we will hear from a panel about the personal and political consequences of Warren Hardings love affair. Surviving love letters detailing the relationship were until very recently kept under seal by the library of congress, which hosted this event. The former president s grandnephew explains why they insisted to keep the letters seal and how the family continues to deal with the fallout of the love affair. This is about two hours. My name is jim hudson, chief of the librarys Manuscript Division. On the stage with me, we have james, a distinguished trial attorney, partner
And then the book on Warren Harding, published in 2009. We also have karen who is an archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. She graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was the president of the American Psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the vast majority of the letters all of them probably i dont know if there are any carrie letters in there. There are a few. The vas
Title and seems to have been a magician. A real magician. But he was the chairman of the Ohio Democratic party during the harding era. On warren e book harding, published in 2009. An so have karen who is archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. He graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. E was the president of the Association American psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 ages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the
On the stage with me, we have james romanald, a distinguished trial attorney, the author of two books, one about his great grandfather who has a wonderful title and also seems to be a magician. A real magician. Yeah. But he was the chairman of the Democratic Party during the harding era. Of course one of the books that brings it here on warden hardings affair, espionage during the great war published in 2009. We also have dr. Karen whos an archivist who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. Cakaren has a ph. D. From brown musicology but is an excellent historian and first rate person and we have the grandnephew of president harding. He is a psychiatrist on the staff of the university of south carolina. He was the president of the american psycho analytical psychiatric, sorry. Close. I shouldnt make that mistake since we have freuds papers. I need to apologize for that. A very brief description of the harding papers here which is probably unnecessary given the publicity