Susan Grace Coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started
Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Susan swain good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity shlaes actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the state of massachusetts, and then to vicepresident. So, one could never be prepared for a shock like the death of a presiden
A downturn and why im going to divide my explanation into 3 parts and im going to you know what lets do this i want to go over to the wall so i can do this for you let me go over here so i could show you what it is that were seeing as far as some of the trends go right theres a theres a debt burden in our country right now we talked about this before its like no other ever experienced in our nations history Household Debt is above 14 trillion dollars thats how much the average american someone like yourself may owe right so let me try and break this down for you into 3 key parts that many of you may find well relatable thats why we put this line graph up here for you and i want to start with auto debt its been going up now for about 3 straight years thats the blue line that you see right there look at that line look at the trajectory thats taken you know what this number represents right here that number. Its 1. 00 trillion dollars now i want you to look at Student Loans thats represen
Economy is the worst behind us fair question when will we see a downturn and why im going to divide my explanation into 3 parts and im going to you know what lets do this i want to go over to the wall so i can do this for you let me go over here so i can show you what it is that were seeing as far as some of the trends go right theres a theres a debt burden in our country right now we talked about this before its like no other ever experienced in our nations history Household Debt is above 14 trillion dollars thats how much the average american someone like yourself may owe right so let me try and break this down for you into 3 key parts that many of you may find well relatable thats why we put this line graph up here for you and i want to start with auto debt its been going up now for about 3 straight years thats the blue line that you see right there look at that line look at the trajectory. Thats taken you know what this number represents right here that number represents 1. 35 tril