[applause] betty ford spoke her mind profment choice and a supporter of the equal rights aamendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is richard nort on the smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the jarled r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fournt to become a good friends of both of the fords. We want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they were going to be in the white house. How mu
Not in hyde park, mrs. Roosevelt on her own we choose to spend your time and theyll kill valkill. In this direction we have a direction to sarah delano roosevelts bedroom. Mrs. Roosevelts bedroom is sandwiched between sarah and her husband franklin. The same as in her lifetime she was sandwiched between franklin and his mother, sarah. The involvement of mrs. Roosevelt in the political career of frank and roosevelt is right from the beginning. She becomes much more active in whenole after 1921, Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio. She would encourage Franklin Roosevelt to continue with his political ambitions. And she would toyed forces with the political strategist. Were laid out,s and it was important because roosevelt and mrs. Did not have a close relationship until the polio came into the story and louis h owe was with Franklin Roosevelt sent 1910, when he started his political career. They would encourage franklin in the sense against the wishes of franklins mother, sarah. Felt bec
From expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is Richard Norton smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the gerald r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fortunate to become a good friends of both of the fords. We want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they were going to be in the
Coat designed by oleg cassini. I think it is a wonderful example of her simple elegance. That a became very, very popular. The only thing that she wore to adorn the ensemble was a beautiful ruby brooch by tiffany that j. F. K. Gave her to celebrate the birth of john junior, right after the swearing in. And of course most famously finishing the ensemble was the hillbox hat. She wore that on the back of her head so her face could be seen. That actually set a fashion trend. Whereas the hat would normally be worn on the top of the head, she had a pushed back to sort of frame her face. Displayed here at its storage box is perhaps one of mrs. Kennedys bestknown dresses, the dress that she wore during her televised tour of the white house in february 1962. Visitors to the museum when we have this dress on exhibit are quite surprised to realize it is red, because of course the program was filmed in blackandwhite and broadcast in black and white. But i like to surmise that she chose red for tha
Modernizing conservatism. Here is a brief look. In 2001, before september 11, one of the big issues that the new president faced was whether and how the federal government should fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research that involves the destruction of human embryos. To all of us, this means of the taking of a human life. Whether it was moral to spend money on that public research. The president made a decision that said you could spend money on cells that already existed but not new ones, you would not be using federal dollars to encourage the further destruction of human embryos. He said these kinds of issues are going to stay with us, they are not going away and we need help in thinking about them. He called together the bioethics commission, a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics. They would come together several times a year and consider a bioethical question with how it Public Policy applications and provide advice to the administration and the country in the form of repor