And its my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic Decatur House in the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the Us Capital Historical Society and the Us Supreme Court historical society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend Jane Campbell who is the president of the National Historical society. On june 4, 1919 the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge an equity and bring attention to their cause. Tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all we have guests smith college, the Washington Club of smith college. Stand up. [ applause ] they are special guests
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History tv. Announcer next on American History tv, author Rebecca Roberts talks about the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment and how women gained the right to vote through marching, picketing, and persistence. Ms. Roberts is the author of suffragists in washington, d. C. , the 1913 parade and the fight for the vote. The White House Historical association hosted this discussion. Stewart my name is stuart, the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratif
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Senator sanders, thank you so much for joining us. I am going to kick us off and ask a question here. At least. Why do you believe you are best suited to defeat donald trump. Donald trump . Senator sanders why dont you get to the point . [laughter] will tell yous i why i think i am best suited to defeat donald trump. In order to defeat trump and i know all of the polls say that trump will be beaten and they have me in michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin, battleground states, but let me tell you. I think donald trump will be a very tough opponent. Hes a pathological liar. He will say anything. He will do anything. It will not be an easy campaign and i hope everybody understands this. I think there are a couple reasons why i am the strongest candidate. , we needto beat trump a campaign of enthusiasm, of excitement, and the campaign which rings out and anonymously large voter turnout, ok . Campaign is the kind of campaign that does that. We are a campaign that speaks to the needs of w