President. She was not looking forward to being first lady. The problem was of course that he died only one month into his presidency and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate he and his wife letitia and their family moved here to williamsburg. Its right here that Letitia Tyler suffered her stroke in 1839, john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President to William Henry harrison and its also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became 10th president of the United States and that Letitia Tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and dies and her husband goes into great mourning. And then he meets Julia Gardiner who is this another young lovely in her 20s. Julie, i think of as the madonna, you know, of first ladies. [laughter] she loved publicity. She had actually posed as a model at a time when that was maybe, say, frowned upon but all accounts was bewitching. Juli
Thats fine. And either of you want to make a final comment . I think we have host i want to thank our panelists. There were many more questions that people would have liked to ask. Im going to ask you to remain in your seats for a short period of time. There is a security detail has asked us the National Archives. Foe first ladies, exploring the lives of those women. Live coverage. Host our partners in tonights program. Im jim gardner executive for the president ial libraries. So probably everything you are interested in. Im responsible for. Before we begin, i would like to mention two programs coming up. Tomorrow, friday april 24, at noon well have awardwinning White House Correspondent kenneth t. Walsh. He will be discussing his book celebrity in chief taking a look at the history of americas president s and the need for modern president s to also be celebrities. Then on tuesday, april 28, at noon again, here in the theater, we will have the general dunwoody, americas first retired f
William henry harrison. In the spring of 1841 he was informed to became the 10th president of the United States. Leticia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and her husband goes into great morning. Mourning. And then he meets another young lovely in her 20s. Julia was the madonna of first ladies. She loved publicity. She had posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. By all accounts was bewitching. Petunia was flourished. She had almost 90 slaves. Julia was loving and supportive him tremendously and everything that she did. Untimely deaths, a secret marriage, and outside personalities are part of the stories of the three women featured in our program tonight. As the political system grapples with the first time a Vice President steps into the office of the presidency, and sectional differences continue to grow in the country. Good evening, and welcome to first tonight, the election of 1840, ringing William Henry harrison and to offi
Previous book that was mentioned on Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass. That book prompted me to think the process by which slavery was destroyed during the civil war, and ended up producing the book, you mentioned, Freedom National last year. This is the rethinking of that process of slavery destruction. Before i continue the more i continue to think about the more i have to revise my freedom previous thinking. This book already revises some things that were in the Freedom National book. But they were all trying to do, all seem to be doing is complicating the usual, simple narrative of how slavery was destroyed. There are several of them out there. The most familiar one i suppose, lincoln freed all the slaves with the stroke of a pen by signing the emancipation proclamation. The more elaborate version of that, lincoln understood from the time he was a young man that it was his destiny to free the slaves, but knew that he had to wait until the American People came up to his advance to
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