Cherryh you remember her blossoms, that is not what she focused on. She wanted to build a band show near washington so that people could, and listen to find music. She has a young woman had attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary Party to the white house of rutherford and lucy hayes. She decided she would like to come back one day and spend more time. [laughter] , we talke tragedies about the string of tragedies of helen taft, who really wanted to be first lady. Today she would be president. About three months after taft became president , she suffered a stroke. With characteristic determination, she had to relearn speech. And she did. But it contributed to the general melancholy of the single taft term, over which hung this cloud called theodore roosevelt. Susan dempsey, although she had lobbied to support her husband for the presidency, she had a much better political mind. As far astrusted tr she could throw him. She kept telling her husband not to trust theodore. In the end, in 1912,
Republican men, mostly men, and nancy was very Close Friends with their wives. And it was im simplifying it to some extent, because clearly it was a larger circle of people. It wasnt just this group of men who had their eye on Ronald Reagan. There were people around the country who thought he had been such an effective spokesperson for the conservative cause as the ge spokesman. We remember that when Barry Goldwater ran for president , Ronald Reagan gave a muchcommentedon speech. Carl m. Cannon the speech. Judy woodruff the in fact it was the thats right, that was the coming you can argue the comingout speech for Ronald Reagan. And all of those forces, those disparate forces came together while he was still in the governors office. And they gelled, more or less, in that year after, so that in when gerald ford was running for election he, of course, succeeded Richard Nixon in 1976, Ronald Reagan popped on the public consciousness as a very appealing, conservative potential challenger fo