First families, 200 years of private life in the white house. He served as a consultant to the smithsonian, and was the National First ladys library historian until 2017. Hes currently writing camera girl for simon and schuster. So welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a back ground about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have per se a favorite child, and, you know, i think an author shouldnt perhaps have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book, and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book, researching this book at a time when there was still the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they were Young Children and one or two had almost been teen
Be widely available. We will have 100 million shots in arms by the end of february. The experience will look at what you do for a flu, cbs, cvs, krogers, or at your Doctors Office so that is the experience we are trying to recreate. Dana President Trump calling it a modernday miracle and touting Operation Warp speed. If i wasnt president you wouldnt have a vaccine for five years, okay . I push the fda, Companies Involved like nobodys ever been pushed before and now you have it rolling out. But this has been a great really medical miracle. And its going to have a tremendous impact. Juan williams, lets start with you and give the floor over to our cohost. Juan i think this is great news, dana. I had this covid thing and it is great news. You dont want to mess with this. I just think it is a wonderful day for america that we have this vaccine now being distributed. The key point i would ask everyone to keep in mind, no point, no time to let your guard down. It will take a while for this t
Registration and dramatically increased the number of latino elected officials in this nation. His appeal to the Hispanic Community was simple, passionate, and direct. Su voto es su voz. Your vote is your voice. We are going to be talking about the records of the southwest Voter Registration education project. They are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino Voter Registration organization in the country. The collection contains the first 20 years of the organizations existence. They are still in existence today. It is a very deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about Voter Registration, particularly in minority communities. The organization was started in 1974 by willie velasquez. He is from san antonio. As a very young man, he was heavily involved in the chicano movement. When he was in college, he was one of the founders of the mexicanamerican youth organization, which was involved in doing Voter Registration drives at local colleges. Also involved in high sc
Preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about American History. His previous book is lincolns white house the peoples house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms in office. Can you tell us
He is currently writing the chronicling of life when she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer. Welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and im very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child and, you know, i think an author perhaps shouldnt have a favorite book. But i will say that this the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings. Of course, they had been Young Children and one or two had almost been teenagers. And then at the end of the process the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he died in 1923, so this was in 199