This is the first of a twopart program. Story of women in congress begans with janet ranken, ele elected in the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally and in a way, she is really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full Political Rights really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full Political Rights. She was active in a National Women suffrage organization, helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple states west of the mississippi and she runs in 1916, she is elected to one of montanas two atlarge districts. Part of her platform is she is a pacifist. She is sworn into the house april 2, 1917 and the house has come into special session, extraordinary session because the president that night, woodrow wilson, delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany, the u. S. Entry into world war i. And rankin, with hen that vote held is one of a group of about 50 members who votes
Information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Each week, American History artifacts visits museums and historic places. Next we take you inside the u. S. , capitols house where Matthew Wasniewski and curator Farar Elliott use photographs to trace the history of women in congress. This is the first of a twopart program. The story of women in Congress Begins with Jeannette Rankin, who is elected to the house in 1916 from montana. She is elected to the house four years before women have the right to vote nationally, and in a way, she is really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full rights. She was active in the National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple of states west of mississippi. And she runs, in 1916, she is elected to one of two districts. Part of her platform is that she is a pacifist or she does one into the house on april 2, 1917. And the house h
Rivals and explains why the bill of rights was a source of controversy between James Madison and james monroe. A Central Campaign issue when the two future president s faced off in a race for a congressional seat in 1789. This event was recorded in november, 2011 at the changing hands bookstore. Its about an hour. Thanks to our gracious hosts changing hands. Independent bookstores are a treasure. No one is getting out of here tonight until every copy over there is sold. So our book is founding rivals James Madison versus james monroe, the bill of rights in saving the nation. For thoseoff who showed up to see the lead guitarist of kiss, i regret to inform you, that was last night. As important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first time i learned about the historic congressional race between two future president s in 1789. But what i do remember is reading about it in a book and it was treated with the one or two sentences you will see about this congre
The lead guitarist of kiss, that was last night. As important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first time i learned about this historic congressional race between future president s in 1789. I remember about reading about in a book. It was treated with the one or two sentences you would see about it. I thought come away to bury the lead. All of a sudden we are in this race between 2 future president s. They are debating the most important issues with effort talked about. Whether we should have a bill of rights, what union we should have. On the next page, they are in the First Congress. Way to bury the lead. I decided i would Read Everything i could. When no one had written anything about it, i decided i would tell the story. The book opens at the inauguration of George Washington. When he took the oath of office two of the 13 states are outside of the union. North carolina and rhode island did not ratify the constitution because of their concern it wa
Legislative advisor and lobbyist for kissinger really by default because there was no such thing on the National Security council at the time. And when dick, and i was assistant to dick, when he took over the overall, that was all full of congressional relations because the subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee was holding a series of hearings, a major series of hearings on foreign commitments and overseas commitments of which the bases were a central part. So i became by default when dick left, the base study was my portfolio. I spent half of my time on the hell on what became a hill on what became a major onslaught on the vietnam policy. This was theforum for the end the war group at the time. And gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that ended up coming ended up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. Dick kaegel big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when he