Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
If i get paid, then i have to do what the first lady is supposed to do, but you can do anything you want to do and its such a great soap box. Its just such a great opportunity. So i would, i would advise any first lady to do what she wanted to do. If she doesnt want, and another thing i learned, youre going to be criticized no matter what you do. I could have stayed in the white house, poured tea, had receptions and i would have been criticized. As much i was criticized outside. For what i did and i got a lot of criticism, but you learn to live with it, as i said earlier. Just live with it, expect it and you live with it and never let it influence me. Rosalynn carter in a recent interview conducted for this series in atlanta. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. As first lady, she attended cabinet meetings and championed womens rights and Mental Health issues. Their partnership in congress has continued in their long, close white house years. Good evening.
I was born in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, in april 1927. Interviewer what date . April 9, 1927. Interviewer tell me about your family when you were born . Mary we were very poor. My father was from tennessee. Pittsburgh. S from and when i was born, we lived in pittsburgh then. I had two older brothers and a sister. Oldest brother was 10 years older than i was. So by the time i became aware as a little kid, they were already grown. If i was almost an only child. As if iit seemed to me was a no so it seemed to me as if i was only child. And i always missed someone else. But we were poor. We lived in a little house on a hill, and i was never without friends because we played on the on theand in the fields, hills. Pittsburgh is full of hills, so me when iwould warn would go out to play, not to go over the hill. Didnt, until, i i got to the end of the row went around the row, until she couldnt see me. But then i went over the hill, because that is where all the kids were. [laughter] interview
In kansas city, missouri posted this event and provided the video. Moderator our guest speaker teaches American Foreign policy in washington, d. C. He is a professor of Political Science and liberty missouri. He graduated with a bachelors degree from Oklahoma University and a phd as well. Assistant to a political scientist, economist, and author and teaching assistant to former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright who was here for a private dinner earlier this year to drop a name or two. [laughter] gary joined the William Jewell College Faculty in 1992 and Services Chair of the department of Political Science and director of the International Relations major. The William Jewell student body voted him professor of the year four times. Gary is also a longtime supporter of the National World war i museum and memorial and for that we are appreciative. Please give a warm welcome to dr. Gary armstrong. [applause] dr. Armstrong good evening and thank you for coming tonight. There shoul
Relieving the disparities between schools. And the other item that we discussed was whether to continue to extend the timeline and we talked about it and we considered extending the timeline for the redesign into the past the election into the winter. And decided as a committee that we wanted to stay the course. And still stay on track for a vote on the final plans in the late fall of this year. So more to come. I have not scheduled the next meeting of the committee yet. I believe that it will were going to take a little pause for the summer and then reconvene in august. President sanchez thank you. Although, you know, were probably going to meet throughout july anyway. Okay, so we have curriculum and program on thursday as commissioner collins has mentioned, thursday may 28th at 3 00 p. M. I want to make a plug that well talk about the summer so thats the time that people can talk about summer learning. President sanchez thank you. And rules, and policies and legislation will be monda