Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic
Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
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I dont care and skymall fall. The wacky and wonderful catalog loved by millions of flyers heading off into the sunset filing for bankruptcy. A look at their most wild items tantalized you at 30,000 feet. Hey, rob, were ready to go, ron. Good morning, america. It is so great to have ryan smith in for dan harris. Great to be here and inside where its warm and dry, of course. Thats right because the roads are a mess. We want to you take a look at what drivers are facing around philadelphia thanks to this shot from our abc station wpvi. Snowy, slick roads. You have to be careful out there and if possible stay inside. Take a look from this tower cam downtown boston. Thanks to abc station whoa. Interesting. But in boston, look at how deep that is. Wcvb, our station there, low visibility as the snow tips to fall. Another storm system is right behind it and rob marciano braving the snow out there tracking it all from new yorks central park. Rob. Good morning, ryan. Its a bit slushy here in cen