president who died in office and was ejected from his own political party. hello again everyone. welcome to another at home edition of our lecture hello again everyone. welcome to another at-home edition of our series. i m chair vice president for collections and exhibitions. at the museum of history in culture. so glad you could join us today. as always, we like to start by thanking our members who made this program possible. your support is essential to making these events happen. so we deeply appreciate that. now, on to today s speaker. today we are very pleased to have with us doctor christopher leahy who is the professor of history at college in york. you will be talking to us about his book, president without a priority, the life of john tyler. john tyler is the nation s only president to have been kicked out of his own political party. in 1841, angry that tyler s use of the veto destroyed the legislative agenda, the members of the whig party held a ceremony at the
or is meaningful or not. she s certainly being out there actively supporting her husband s position on annexization. she s talking to everyone she can about it. she s writing a great deal about it. she is holding all of the social events at the white house in order to influence that piece of legislation. so if we re talking about favorite lady as being involved in a matter of national public policy and being involved explicitly so, i think maybe you can take that to julia tyler. here s a question about first ladies and their perceived influence. jennifer sherman asked on twitter tyler having gotten to washington as first lady of the united states, secret service lingo, i think, believed she had a lot of influence rightly so. based on first lay dwris seen thus far, do you think they all felt this way, they were influential women as spouses of their influential husbands? i m not so sure all of them wanted to be. that s the first thing. she s perhaps the first who really w