Frances Folsom Cleveland was a celebrity first lady unlike almost any before her, and the mass production of her image to sell a variety of goods by the American Consumer industry in the mid1880s angered both her and her husband, president Grover Cleveland. To help us understand the Frances Cleveland sensation sweeping the country, we begin our story inside 1600 pennsylvania avenue as a curious nation waited for the details of a 49yearold bachelor president marrying his 21yearold bride inside the white house for the first and only time in our countrys history, launching Frances Cleveland into instant celebrity. Youre standing in the cross hall of the modern white house. Its the same basic layout as it would have been on june 2, 1886, when president Grover Cleveland and his bridetobe, Frances Folsom, came down what was then the large staircase to the family quarters at the west end of this corridor. They would have proceeded down the hallway. The music started up at the east side behind
In the courtroom, they are fighting to save their careers and lives. The last image i wanted to bring to your attention is a. There was a book fair in chicago 10 years ago. Those are wonderful things to go to. For historical research, you can get some great finds. There was, wrapped up in plastic, front page copy of the sinking, july 25. There was a wonderful cartoon that to me, after all the years of research, brings it in chilling fashion to life. The cartoonists blaming greed for the shipwreck. This is a pretty good representation. This has actually shipped the tipped the ship the wrong way. But, the point is well made. That brings to a close the image portion of the presentation. I would be happy to take some questions. We have some books. Some questions . I was in chicago for a few days and took an agricultural tour of the smell river. It is in the middle of chicago. Smale river. It is in the middle of chicago. I get on my boat in south michigan. You were very close. You were at m
Cable partners we will explore the history of the city of just over 250,000 residents. The zero short of lake erie and the niagara river, it was the western terminus of the area canal. A thriving commercial and industrial metropolis. Coming up we will explore some of the close president ial history as we look at grover here as mayor. In the assassination of William Mckinley. Will the site where theater roosevelt was sworn into office after mckinleys death. We are in the library of the wilcox home. It is not a big room but it was filled with approximately 50 people. He stood in the middle of the room. There is no photographic representation of the actual aringin swear morning ceremony. Camera on that time were on tripods. They were very awkward. Unfortunately one of the cameras was knocked into, fell to the ground, roosevelt being nervous about all of this basically asked the reporters and photographers to leave. Later we will you about the buffalo Civil Rights Movement is the homee of
He was there for hours, one of the last person to leave. So that kind of charm, he was a champion of the city of providence. The city was as downtrodden. He would, you know, go on national tv, go on the don imus show when it was really popular. They figured, we have always said corruption. It predates buddy. It will post a him, but at least he made us feel good about ourselves. At least the, you know, helped the province back on the map. Thats what people left in. For more reformation on book tv recent visit to providence tomorrow diamond and the many other cities visited by local content vehicles go to booktv. Org local content. Next, the history of scandals surrounding the intimate lives of u. S. President s since 1789. This is a little under an hour. [applause] okay. Can everyone hear me okay . All right. Im Robert Watson. First off, welcome. Side of the third and final president ial debate this past october 22nd. A quick note on some of those awards that i have one, the topic i wil
Because if you dont show theres Growth Potential i should say portugal increased its experts substantially, exports substantially. You have to be competitive. You have to have deregulation. Those are even more important than a devaluation, because a devaluation only last so long, whereas if you make the structural changes this is going to be a challenge for you had 14 of these stimulus programs since the late 1990s in japan, and none of them have really done the job. So you have to bundle this up in a packet, and put them through. So thats the best way i can answer you. I think that where europeans have fallen down goes back to the questions we already had they didnt put the emphasis on being competitive. They didnt put the emphasis on driving the fiscal side and the monetary said and looked the other way. Now theyre paying the price, but so is the world. Ladies and gentlemen, im afraid ive got the bad job of having to say, i think we better hold it there on this one. And what an outst