Questions from cspan audience, we tell the stories of american 45 first ladies. Ellen edith wilson on first ladies. This is about 90 minutes. Susan swain this is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington, d. C. , the home of our 28th president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921. Youll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two Wilson Administration first ladies, ellen and edith. Susan swain ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first l
Met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Good evening and welcome to cspans continuing series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies ellen and edith and we have two terrific guests here to tell you about this two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Kristie miller i
They had been talking about the eclipse for months. We have been waiting for this for a long time. Its amazing. Ive been typing it up and looking all about it and im like oh, my god its so cool like im like wow mom like i cant believe were seeing this. Reporter everybody was like that, wow mom, i cant believe im seeing this. This is the lark ken family. They came from pottstown to see the eclipse and experience all of this here at the Franklin Institute. Why did you make the trip . Why did you need to be here. Well, we thought this would be a super fun place to see where real live science goes down. Whats happening in the sky behind us and this is science. What is science. Science is amazing. Reporter what was it cool to be here with so many others. It was really fun. Ive never seen anything like this. I love science. Reporter so cool. Reporter does this enhance your love of science more. It was really fun. Reporter will you tell your friends at school about it. It was really fun. It w
Ms. Swain this is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28th president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921. Youll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two Wilson Administration first ladies, ellen and edith. Ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial eff
When i had the opportunity to come to the ballroom, it is such a thrill for me because i know that this provided inspiration for fitzgerald, and the kind of stories that he was interested in to make money. The saturday evening post stories. This is the epitome of that huge volume of work that he produced that he felt a little bit ashamed of, but are wonderful stories. And so i see this as a real positive place for his career. There was one particular party at his house that actually fitzgerald didnt attend, and apparently a young man it was a costume ball, and they like to have costume balls and this room would have been filled with many people in different options. A young man differently dressed up in a campbells outfit and went to the wrong house. Who knows why . Anyway, the next day fitzgerald heard about the story and he said he tried to find out more information, but then he just sat down and wrote a short story called the camels back. Fitzgerald said he didnt particularly like t