In addition to being a House Historical Association board member, in my prior life, i did eight years in the Obama White House, six years as mrs. Obamas chief of staff during the entire eight years, i also ran the White House Council on women and girls. And so theres a special place in my heart for women in the white house, where women in history or women as leaders our country, and how important it is to tell that story wherever it is and bring out that rich history. I was struck last night by the photo of the first steak dinner that we saw and how it was just a bunch of men gathered in the blue there and how things are now, but how we should uncover the stories because there were clearly women behind all those men standing in that picture as. There are women throughout history and through what were doing. And so that how we will the panel that we will have this morning to discuss this. And so let me introduce our panels. We have as our moderator, greta bronner, who is a host for cspa
House, six years as mrs. Obamas chief of staff during the entire eight years, i also ran the White House Council on women and girls. And so theres a special place in my heart for women in the white house, where women in history or women as leaders our country, and how important it is to tell that story wherever it is and bring out that rich history. I was struck last night by the photo of the first steak dinner that we saw and how it was just a bunch of men gathered in the blue there and how things are now, but how we should uncover the stories because there were clearly women behind all those men standing in that picture as. There are women throughout history and through what were doing. And so that how we will the panel that we will have this morning to discuss this. And so let me introduce our panels. We have as our moderator, greta bronner, who is a host for cspan and executive producer for the affairs programing, joining her on stage on our panel. Be Amy Bracewell superintend of t
When she died in 1947, she lived an additional 51 years after leaving the white house, longer than any other first lady. Frances cleveland in cspans series. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. 70 years ago on july 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested near los alamos, new mexico. Heres a portion of the library of congress and Los Alamos National laboratory coproduction, the moment in time, the Manhattan Project which documents the moment of the explosion. The scene inside the shelter was dramatic beyond words. It can safely be said that almost everyone was praying. Oppenheimer scarcely breathed. At 45 seconds the automatic timer was started. The test was out of mans control. A physicist who was usually the coolheaded one changed his mind. He said, i am excited. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. In the dead silence of the morning at 5 29 45, the coronado de muerto was based in a flash that most men had only seen from the stars. The atom bomb did not fit into any preconcept
That were appointed position s, that were, you know, at the discretion of people in power, ended up being a power struggle within the party between an ohiobased party, which is James Garfields party also Rutherford Hayes was from the same not only the same part of ohio, but the same kind of thinking and what were called the stalwarts, which were new yorkbased. And, you know, you see certain states really emerge throughout history with holding on to power within a particular party. And then in new york, that was really headed by a man by the name of roscoe conkling, who became a United States senator. So this is the struggle, and you see then, of course, the person who ends up shooting president garfield, deranged, of course, Charles Guiteau, but proudly screaming with the gun in his hand, im a stalwart. Now arthur is president. And that was a reference to the fact that Vice President arthur elected with garfield was of the new york wing of the party. Swain well, garfield himself was a
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