Watched the announcement of the announcement of the book awards live on cspan2 on november 16. Member of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script and advanced mans guide to white house stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell switch, andrew frank and steve are, swaggering advancement who loom the craft on watcher mondales campaign served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to michael during the summer of 1988 and they taught me well. Schwartz was a lead advancement brimming with selfconfidence, and quick humor. [applause]. Was that selfserving and not by the way, i had to read that. Whos out here claimed that he was his mentor but in the book he got four pages that was known as a great teacher. So just to be clear on that. Josh is a good buddy and a good friend and a lot of people w
[inaudible conversations] space met good evening. Director of the Roosevelt Hall said is a pleasure to welcome you to what is the first of very evening Public Programs to mark womens history. Marches Women History Month please remember that part of the celebration is the opportunity to have another or your first look at the exhibition of the womens suffrage material that we have on view upstairs. I was going to say only through the end of the month but we will be announced an extension but dont allow that to deter you but tonight we will welcome to extraordinary women who will be speaking and it is the pleasure to welcome both of them to the home of Eleanor Roosevelt played such a big role of the courageous and Ground Breaking life as an activist were here to discuss the firebrand the she has made clear for the first time and it is a particular pleasure to welcome everyone here has by beta kappa class of 1933 and that was only one of the many milestones to hear about this evening. And
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Good evening. I am the director of the roosevelt house. It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to what is essentially, i guess, the first of our evening Public Programs to mark womens History Month. March is womens History Month. Please remember that part of the celebration is the opportunity to either have another look or a first look at the exhibition of womens suffrage material we have on view upstairs. I was going to say it is only until the end of the month but we are announcing we will extend the duration. Tonight we welcome two women who will be speaking about two special women. And it is a pleasure to welcome them to the home of Eleanor Roosevelt who played a big role in pollys activism. It is a particular pleasure to welcome you to murrays alma matter. She graduated january 1933. That was one of the many milestones in the life we will hear about it. Murray played a role in roosevelts life and they had a long friendship. You wil
That rate was already you have been a doctor, when are we going to tell all the white people, yellow people, and others that they are black and just discolored. They were originally black sand because of the fact they moved to different environments, they have different eating habits, and crime rates that is why they changed their color. The only way to finish the racism is to let them know they belong to the same race where we come from. I think what you are saying is it isnt just that we have dissected the human genome and we found 99 of the genes are similar. But it is really the one percent where there are differences. From the standpoint of the enormity of the similarities and many scientist saying we are one race, minor differences. It is like in a family. Some people are taller than others so that is that variation. In a sense, race in many ways is a social construct. But the Life Experiences that minorities have had, say, in this country, shows some of those things that really
Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic