Diana carlin is a professor emerita of communication at Saint Louis University and a retired faculty member, an administrator at the university of kansas. Her research and teaching are in political communication, with an emphasis on women in politics. First ladys political debates and president ial rhetoric. She published book chapters on first ladys martha washington. Lady bird johnson. Barbara bush. Hillary clinton and Michelle Obama. And is completing one on julia grant. She taught a course on the rhetoric of first ladies at kansas and an interdisciplinary course on first ladies at Saint Louis University and American University in fall 2022. She also teaches courses on first ladies for the ocean, a Lifelong Learning institute at cu, and lectures on first ladies for a variety of community groups. She was a panelist at the 2021 White House Historical association asian symposium and the 2020 colloquium. She is a Founding Member of flair, the first ladys association for research and edu
Thank you you aim really excits event. This book feels a very, very big blank in the story of this country. And its a really important book for that reason. Its called speaking while female, 75 extraordinary speeches by american women and its surprise that donna rubin is the one who produced it. Ive known you for as we have friends in common. Weve known each other for many, many weve had some similar career paths. But its great to have you here in this. And you came and spoke to my group about new york city, about ten years ago. I remember that. Yes, i do that. And we have some other i just say we have some inhouse speechwriting celebrities here. Three of my former colleagues or a couple of my colleagues on white house, jeff shesol, tom bossert and paul orzulak are sitting in the back. Theyre three guys who came to this to hear about womens speeches. You guys are great. They also to be extraordinarily talented speechwriters. So they can give you a lot more tips than i could. Im sure so
and we will hear a lot more from them over the course of the next couple of hours. so don t go away. they have a lot more to do. so i ll start by introducing who i am and why i m here. my name is david j kent. i m the president of the lincoln group of the district of columbia or the lincoln group of dc. i assume that s for the lincoln group and not for me in particular. lincoln group is one of the most active lincoln organizations in the country and even though we are based here in dc. our membership is worldwide and really worldwide but especially countrywide so we ve been around since the 1930s. so we are very happy today to have helped organize this program. along with the national park service, and i especially want to call out jamie boyle who without whom this none of this would have happened. and and co-sponsored by the lincoln forum of which harold holder is the chair and harold you ll be hearing from harold in a shortly. so i also want to thank roberta and leiden schw
holzer to discuss. what sets it apart? guest: one is just the beauty, the building and the magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the united states, then and now. what further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished what lincoln called unfinished work. it has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that unfinished business of his. host: describe where you are and for those who haven t been there, with the should know. guest: i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. and of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it settled for it to settle before they had
magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the united states, then and now. what further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished what lincoln called unfinished work. it has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that unfinished business of his. host: describe where you are and for those who haven t been there, with the should know. guest: i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. and of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it settled for it to settle before they had the dedication. 100 years ago, the african-american community of washington came out to th