Discusses the life of the woman married to president Warren Harding and dispels some of the myths during her time at the white house. The Historical Association hosted the event and provided the video. Today we are welcoming the author of a dozen books on president ial families, including four full length first lady biographies and an overview of all the families who made their home in the white house. We wrote a two volume history americas first family an inside view of 200 years of private life in the white house. He served as a consultant to the smithsonian interpretation of the exhibit and was a librarys historian until 2017. He is currently writing camera girl ethe first chronicling of jacqueline bovine kennedys life when she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer. Welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the white house Historical Association today and im very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. You kn
First going tohe jackson bodegas life. When she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children, one or two had almost been teenagers. At the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he
The 29th President Warren G Harding s torrid letters to Carrie Phillips only recently became public. He wrote vividly about their sex life - but she later used them to blackmail him.