Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this one is written by a Pr Department for the white house in jerry fords time. Those of you who might remember with inflation now or wind, poor jerry ford couldnt even get that part of his administration correct. That came and went with incredible speed. Keep cool with coolidge is not generally remembered or win with wilkie because they lost. There are many slogans which are still current in an Ethnic Community or in a smaller segment that were just not generally aware of because they never became generalized but those are slogans which tried to be i am not a crook, certainly was there. But i am not a crook is like a mission accomplished. Its like one of those slogans which characterize an era or a person and im sure that people in love would rather they didnt remember them. The subgroup of snarky slogans or catch phrases. The one which has lasted the longest and you and i have talked about this is once deliberately not in the boo
Partly in its genesis, hardly the kind of questions that arose, which for me, gave the book a kind of larger scope than i had originally intended. The quotations in the book, the slogans and catch phrases, up until 1955, were easy for me to remember. Because im a child of the 40s and thats what i learned in school. And thats how we learned history in school. Either the books we took out of the library in fourth and fifth grade or the way history was taught. But when i got to graduate school in the 60s, i discovered that some of my fellow students who were, who came from overseas, would come to me periodically and said who is this joe and why should he say it aint so . And so, i told him the story. And later, a friend of hour ours whos an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me say whats up doc and laugh ma maniacally sm people who were under 30 had no idea anymore of what these slogans and catch phrases meant. Where they came from. Or
She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the 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 laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thank you for telling us about your scholarship and we look forward to learning more about this period of American History through the writings of julia tyler. Thanks for your time. Thank you very much. We have a few minutes left. I want to get a couple more calls in. Next one is a call from bill in fishers, indiana. Hi. Caller enjoying your show very much and your two guests as well very much. I was wondering was julia a religious person and i was wondering about her conversion to catholicism and how that influenced her later life. Do you know. I will leave julia to talk about her. Was she religious . Not really, but she does join the Catholic Church later in life and im not sure why she actually does that. Perhaps the church gains more by that than she does because theres always been that tension between protestants and catholics in this country, even though we dont have an official religion, most people think of america as
Of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out of the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school n the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it int so. O i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients, when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used hem. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing the history the way i wanted to, the indepth