And a natural, inspiring leader. In addition to the Lou Henry Hoover biography, dunlap is completing two other book projects. Louis comfort tiffany and the business of art, expected for release in 2017, and charles g. Dawes, to be published in early 2016. Following annettes formal presentation, there will be a question and answer period. If you have a question, please raise your hand and do not speak until a microphone is given to you. Now, the microphone will be given to you off. You just flip the little button. Look at the green light. That pull put it on. After you asked your question, shut it off and pass it back to the aisle. I hope youll join us in the lobby afterwards where copies of dunlaps biography of Frances Folsom cleveland will be available for purchase and signing. Were also pleased that cspan is here today to record this event for wider viewership. I would be especially grateful if everyone would take this moment to silence all electronic devices. We dont want to hear yo
Well as their individual personalities. Joining the panel is Lisa Kathleen graddy, the curator of the first ladies collection at the National Museum of American History. The National Archives hosted this 90minute event. Hello, everyone. How are you . [ applause ] thank you for being here. Were going to have a rousing evening, i hope. Its certainly an interesting one and an interesting discussion, and i have to say the whole topic of what the first lady wears we know is a frequent topic of discussion, and we have Lisa Kathleen graddy here, who wrote the book on the first ladies collection here at the smithsonian, and Lisa Kathleen, i would speculate that you run the most visited Curatorial Department at the smithsonian. We are told it is the most visited exhibition at the smithsonian and at this point the oldest. We turned 100 years old this year. How fantastic. 100 years old. That is wonderful. I want to ask all of our panelists why do we care so much about what the first lady wears. W
The most visited department at the smithsonian. Were told its the most visited and at this point the oldest. We turned 100 years old this year. How fantastic. 100 years old. 100 years old. That is wonderful. I want to ask all of the panelists, why do we care so much about what the first lady wears . What is the impact . What is the legacy . What is the message that the first lady sends . I think shes a symbolic figure. Shes in a way a little bit like the queen of america. And people look at her to see what kind of a female image shes conveying. And i think we also see her as a mother of our country for the time shes in office. And i think that people definitely want to emulate her and, you know, seek guidance, you know, from how she is conducting herself and projecting herself to the world. And i want to remind everyone were going to have a question and answer session at the end of this. If you have questions about any of these things and think you might forget, write them down. And we
And they are beautiful. They are incredible letters. You have my grandmother reporting to my grandfather that she lied to politicians to wanted them to back them on the campaign saying she is not home and cant possibly do it for you. She took part. She was engaged. She was a lot of fun but again compared to lou and elnore she was taking care of her mothers and brother and a family oriented first lady. My grandfather said in writing and in person had it not been for my grandmother doing that and holding the fort he could not have done the job he did. And unlike ms. Hoover she lived longer than the president. Outlived him by ten years. She is the longest lived first lady still. She was 97 when she died. And she died in new york . No she did in missouri. Your mother was in new york in no my mother was in chicago. My family dies all over the place. Talk about the person. That person was developed well before they became first lady and how they performed in the office has a great from their
Remain a free society. As soon as we start picking special groups and say, you get to change something for everybody else, where does that and . That is why the constitution was written the way it was written. We must remember that. We must be courageous. It is going to be up to us, we be people. We have to learn to think for ourselves. We cannot let other people tell us what we ares supposed to think. If we listen to the pundits and the political gurus, they will all steer you in a certain direction. That is the direction we have been going in for decades. This is where we have landed. What we need to is listen to what is being said. We need to listen very carefully. Something that benefits me and my children, and my grandchildren, and freedom is going to preserve our constitution . Is this something that is going in a different direction . We are the ones to make that decision. No one can take that for us unless we fall down on the job. I do believe we have the ability to analyze the