Florence Kling Harding once said she had only one real hobby and that was Warren Harding. She was a significant force in her husbands presidency and adept at handling the media. Despite hardships, scandals, her husbands infidelities and his death in office as well as her own poor health, Florence Harding set many precedents that would help define the role of the modern first lady. Good evening. And welcome to cspans series first ladies influence image. Tonight, were going to be telling you the story of Florence Harding, the first lady that one of our guests said has been neglected and derided by throughout history. But in her time, the hardings came in as very popular people. Were going to learn more about the trajectory of her time and her husbands time in office and her interesting story that not many people know today. Let me introduce you to our two guests. Katherine sibley is a history professor at st. Josephs college in philadelphia. Shes a biographer of the first lady. Her book
Japan suffering its deadliest todays yet. Italy and spain are seeing fatality rates slowing down. Governments stepping up advice to wear masks in public. But this may not stop people from being infected. Shery lets get a quick check of how u. S. Stocks ended the session. We have seen a week of declines. U. S. Futures gaining 1 . The s p 500, it finished 1. 5 down. It fell for the third time in four days. We had abysmal jobs data which came before the government mandated shutdowns. We have seen payrolls plunging 701,000 in march, the first to climb since 2010. Decline since 2010. Take a look at how oil is trading. We are seeing further declines for oil futures. This is after we saw the surge in the previous session. We have reports producers were ready to cut output including the opec would hold a Virtual Meeting this week. Iraq aboutimism from a potential deal. We are seeing pressure on wti and print, down more than 8 brent down more than 8 . The relentless march of the coronavirus pan
Stuff like you mentioned roadblocks Hunger Strikes getting arrested going to prison because this is the only way the real changes ever come about what we want is a declaration of climate and you know emergency what we want is 0 carbon by 2025 what we want is citizens assemblies to oversee Just Transition what we want is a Just Transition which put prioritize human rights or profit climate refugees and all the other disaffected communities that have been hurt most by this climate and ecological crisis. Through really the hard part that a lot of people dont understand is that the Climate Crisis isnt going to these things dont have that top one percent for they had everyone else everyone on the bottom theyre sort of kept away from that as you hear you. I. Like twice your age ive spent my whole life seeing how hypocritical corporations and government is when it comes to our environment i mean i remember earth day is when they were our age and thinking weve got this weve got it its all grea
If. You. Like that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the. I robot tour and today we will look back on the year that was we will start that look back with the Extinction Rebellion in our interview with giovanni to marcus a young man with such dedication to save our future that he led not one but 2 Hunger Strikes this year with the 2nd including hundreds upon hundreds of people in 27. 00 countries spending 6 continents all to protest our elected officials and government leaders lack of true Political Action or even actual leadership on combating Climate Change that my friends is a newsworthy event and that is why it was such a pleasure discovering just how passionate about this cause mr to marcus truly is. Whats the organizations goals and what is ultimately the purpose whats the endgame. A nonviolent direct Action Campaign which uses stuff like you mentioned roadblocks Hunger Strikes getting arrested going to prison because this is the only way that real change is ever come about
Bottom there sort of kept away from that. You know ive im like twice your age ive spent my whole life seeing how hypocritical corporations and government is when it comes to our environment i mean i remember earth day is when they were our age and thinking weve got this weve got it its all great what was the thing at 19181920 years old that made you like what was the straw that broke the camels back that you said i cant i cant just sit by and let this keep going. Because im going to die. Because. Theres going to be no more food in the grocery stores. Because there is not going to be water running from the faucets its because the hospitals are going to close down whats going to happen is theres going to be must starvation. And its going to lead to social collapse. Is it what do you how does it make you feel if you know were talking about that because its obvious like the scientists tell us this is what happens you can only go so far before that happens you can see it happening in other