Met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Good evening and welcome to cspans continuing series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies ellen and edith and we have two terrific guests here to tell you about this two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Kristie miller i
Ps, i appreciate it very much your coming to see me. It gave me a list. At his private writing, truman would write saw Herbert Hoover day before yesterday and had a pleasant instructive conversation on food and the general troubles of u. S. President s two in particular. We discussed our prima donnas and what makes them. Some of the boys are having problems with their dignity and prerogative. It is hell when a man gets in Close Association with the president. Truman likes to use hell a lot in his writing. Historians have faulted him for the exact details of this meeting. Certainly he recorded the spirit of the occasion. The call, the respect, the urgency, the drama, and even the humor. He noted that hoover rumor the way to the oval office. That hoover remembered the way to the oval office. Announcer watch this and other American History programs on our website, where all our video is archived at cspan. Org history. Questions frame their journey through the gayry. Gallery. How do people
Like davis creek they are almost wiped out. It just came down through this area just like an ocean wave more or less. People write in here, they do not have a chance, they took all these houses through here. Monday night, on the communicators, mark jamieson, a visiting scholar at aei on net neutrality. He is interviewed by david shepherdson. Take for example, that generation wireless. 5g. It is a technology that will start being bowled out next year and it will be in place for about a decade or so, it has slices. Each slice can be customized with ridiculous service or a particular customer or an edge provider, whatever it might be. It was designed to do that. That violates the idea of the treatment. That is gross net neutrality. Was the communicators at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. , in the second of a twopart of theo the Museum American revolution, Scott Stephenson leads us on a tour 1776ing the exhibit from through 1778. We asked the visitors in the galleries and questions to frame the
The third,ing george they should answer that question. The second week on a schism did the revolution survive its the second question we ask is how did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Largest overseas expedition in european history is headed toward new york, and so the mural you see beside me is an eyewitness depiction, which we have blown up as a mural, showing five british warships in about 6000 troops and landing boats about to land on manhattan on september 15, 1776. At the time, one official soldiers saw the ships gathering and said, later thought, i thought all london was a float, so it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. The first thing americans had to deal with was just survive onslaught that was coming in the in form of the british army. A really exciting opportunity to look a
Standing in. We enter here on my left. And you wrap around through 16 galleries and theaters. Pass behind the big painting that you see on the south end of the court all the way around and you actually exit just opposite of where were standing here. You enter a subject of king george iii, when you leave youre a citizen of the american republic. We tell a story. The core narrative is about 1760 to 1790. But then we actually carry you through to the present day to explore the legacies of the American Revolution. First we have to step back to 1776 and we actually start with the recreation of the moment on july 9th, 1776, when a group of soldiers and sailers in new york city first heard the words of the declaration of independence and gathered down at the Bowling Green which is now near the raging bull on wall street, a landmark familiar to many viewers, and tore down an equestrian statue of king george iii. Really marking the beginning of the war of independence. The beginning of the Amer