I am sure a number of you in this room know more about grants military career, particularly after taking this course, than i do. The second caveat relates to i am riding a book on the presidency of ulysses s wri ting a book on the presidency of ulysses s. Grant for the university of cambridge. Some of the things i will be sent today are tentative in nature, shall we say. We do not have the time to go through an entire chronology of the events of grants very busy two terms in the white house. Instead i would like to raise a few points to how to look at grants presidency. First to historiography. I will be very brief about that. Then we will look at some of the problems in the country during his presidency. Then i would like to discuss some of the access that he brought assets that he brought to the office that help them succeed. Not only personal assets, but assets in the culture in which he was operating. And then i would like to talk about some of the liabilities. And then i will talk
But, he was human. That is all part of the story, the good, the bad, the ugly. He was many things. But always, first and foremost he was an oilman. Watch all of our events from tulsa. On cspan book tv cspan 2 on a taste and 3. Cspan 2. On the communicators our National Security agency is building one of the World Largest Cloud Data Centers in a sick here mountain facility in utah. It is doing so because it surveillance needs requires that degree of storage and security. The u. S. Government chief Information Officer three or four years ago ordered the u. S. Government agencies to move to the cloud. As a result, even civilian agencies are turning to cloud services. Monday night on the communicators on cspan 2. Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes here every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Next, Charles Calhoun talks about the obstacles they buy faced by ulysses s. Grant during his presidency and
It is still very much a work in progress. I havent figured out everything about this man the white house. Perhaps that is an impossibility. Some of the things i will be saying today are tentative in nature, shall we say. We do not have the time to go through an entire chronology of the events of grants very busy two terms in the white house. Instead i would like to raise a few points to how to look at the grant presidency. First to historiography. How he has been treated in the past. I will be very brief about that. Then we will look at some of the problems in the country during his presidency. Then i would like to discuss some of the assets that he brought to the office that help him succeed. Not only personal assets, but assets in the culture in which he was operating. And then i would like to talk about some of the liabilities. And then i will talk about grants achievements in the white house and a little bit about the impact on the evolution of the presidency. First to historiograp
How it impacts the politics, and sports, and other arenas. It is not just about pop culture. Is areve our steer stories about history, history of media, newspapers. There are a range of things. When i formulated the site, i cast a wide net to see what would work. Doyle sundayjack at 8 00 on cspan q a. The way modern first ladies approach their role as the president Space President spouse. From the cspan archives, this is one hour and 45 minutes. Tonight, we will be looking at the traditional role a first lady plays and the choices she makes, her personal life, her life with her husband, her life with her children, her life as hostess at the white house, as the leader of special causes and Charity Events and so forth. How, in the context of the white house, all those sorts of decisions potentially carry various kinds of political implications and repercussions. Either as interpreted, or perhaps over interpreted, by the press, and, on the other hand, sometimes intended by the white house
And it was all gods will. Soanyones personality affect did negatively her Husbands Administration, it was certainly jamie jane pierce. Mrs. Pierce suffered greatly from depression and had three sons. Her first two sons died when they were very young. Her third son was 11 years old at the time Franklin Pierce was elected president. On a train ride between andover, massachusetts, and boston, the train went off the tracks and mrs. Pierce saw her last son crushed before her eyes. She considered this to be gods will, as a way of not providing any kinds of distractions for her husband. The fourears, two of pierce years, she did not appear publicly. When she finally did appear publicly, she was always dressed completely in black. It did not help her relationship with her husband and it set a permanent pall over the quality of the administration. The depressing entertaining style, she had black decorations on the table and stiff wired flowers presented at each of the womans seats affected ever