Sarah polk was very up on diplomacy and her strong suit happened to be intelligent political discussion. She made no bones about the fact and she really took an interest in politics and that she was her husbands partner. She grew up in a political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician. So she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature because she would not have married him if hed been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house and sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became something of a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to come for a visit to see the objects that they had collected throughout their long and illustrious political career. She lived there for many years on her own and during the civil war generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay their respects to her. Thats a very interesting commentary on what a
Sarah polk was very up on diplomacy and her strong suit happened to be intelligent political discussion. She made no bones about the fact and she really took an interest in politics and that she was her husbands partner. She grew up in a political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician. So she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature because she would not have married him if hed been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house and sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became something of a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to come for a visit to see the objects that they had collected throughout their long and illustrious political career. She lived there for many years on her own and during the civil war generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay their respects to her. Thats a very interesting commentary on what a
October and the weather is usually so nice and everybody packs everything into these couple of months. So it will be a business question weekend, lots of fun things to do. Well be talking about the forecast for all sorts of things. Take a look at or roxboro skycam. Looking pretty out there. Weve had some overcast conditions. Weve seep some clouds out there over over roxboro. 70 in goldsboro and southern pines. 72 in fayetteville n your planner, some cloud cover, temperatures in the upper 60s. 77 at noonment about that time, the clouds will begin to thin out just a little bit. 83 for the high this afternoon. Since bryan is over here. The roads look pretty great out there. No accidents except one just popped up in the last for you seconds there outside the beltline. Ill get information on that but it doesnt look like it is causing any problem there on the road. I40 and wade avenue, traffic moving it appears that way. Beautiful crepe myrtles there in the median. The drive from Johnston Co
Paint intimate portraits of all 451st ladies. Their lives and visions, and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. The series in the book provide an up close, historical look at these fascinating women who provide the scrutiny of the white house, sometimes at great personal cost while supporting the families and famous husband. Sometimes, changing history. Our program tonight will feature lively discussion with some of these contributing historians who will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program, we are pleased to welcome susan slang, the moderator of cspans first later influence an image. Susan slane is president and coceo of cspan, should sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cable network. She oversees programming, marketing for cspan Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, book tv, American History to be, she has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as a
This program runs about an hour. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the herself bert hoover president ial library museum. My name is tom schwartz. Im the director. Im pleased youve joined us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a card which talk about some of our other upcome events also dealing with our first lady exhibition. Were honored today to have annette did you knowlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an m. B. A. From Washington University at sthrunsde has more than 30 Years Experience as a writer, speaker, an entrepreneural consultant. In her spare time when shes not raising cattle on a 29acre farm in north carolina, annette writes books. Her first biology was frank the story of france it cleveland, americas youngest first lady. In her second book involved a bit about a biography in discovering her fathers gambling addiction. Her Current Research brings her to lou henry hufere. She has twice been a recipient of