Susan Grace Coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started
Cloudy right now and where it is not. It is all in the same exact places. Cloudy in the city and cloudy in the east bay which is the view over oakland. It is clear in san jose. Very much like yesterday. Even for the places i just showed you, we will burn off the clouds for much of the city by the time we get to late morning today. Temperatures range from 54 in santa rosa to 62 in oakland. It is a great start for most. It will stay cloudy at the coast all day. There is a warm up coming for later this week. 91 in concord and livermore. It will only be 83 in san jose today. 82, santa rosa. I will be back with more in just a few minutes. Police windows were smashed and a lobby was set on fire. A crowd on hand as people throw things into the fire. It was set in the library of the Alameda County superior court house. Just a few protesters took part in that distraction. People broke windows and shot fireworks and used fireworks as projectiles to assault officers. Earlier in the evening, prote
Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Susan swain good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity shlaes actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the state of massachusetts, and then to vicepresident. So, one could never be prepared for a shock like the death of a presiden
And more the Halftime Report starts right now. Good to have you with us on this friday. Our committee at the able today, josh brown, jim lethan that will, Jenny Harrington lets begin the markets. Stocks lower again, wrapping up a turbulent week that has thrown the remainder of the summer in doubt. Its how we came into the week and how were ending it are two different feelings you tell me what to do as we move forward here. Its deja vu. We saw it before well see it again. Heres how it plays out. As we get close to the fed meeting we saw the odds of another cut, they were high to start with the markets get excited about that we could see trump flip flop he put the tweet out, didnt get much play from it because he was asleep, so wait until dude is awake if youre going to smack him between the eyes so i took off a little exposure as soon as the tweet hit markets at all levels, alltime highs, were at high levels, getting nervous, antsy did anything change for you this week . You came in thi