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
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
Commissioner scott this is commissioner scott. I move the acceptance and staff recommendations contained in the presentation now on page 29 and ive forgotten the earlier page and the resulting rate cards that have been presented. President breslin do i have a second . Vice president follansbee this is commissioner follansbee. I second the motion. President breslin any other discussion . Commissioner zvanski commissioner breslin, im sorry. I was muted, but i do have a couple of questions, if i may. President breslin certainly. Go ahead. Commissioner zvanski ive noticed for some employees, the employee and family plus rate have been going down im sorry for the echo and im wondering why those rates or at least the outofpocket seems to be diminishing. I was curious about that, and i may have misunderstood something. I thought i saw somewhere there was a charge for a u. H. C. Dental h. M. O. , and im wondering what happened because i thought we had delta for employees. And the last thing, i
Board commissioners, the Health Service system staff and members of the public. I wish to thank all the people who have worked many hours to make this meeting possible. Please note that our board secretary Natalie Ekberg and many of the Commission Secretaries across the city have collaborated to learn about these meetings. I also wish to note that our internal team has worked behind the scenes to provide the technical support, including marina coridge, Brian Rodriguez and others have stepped in to help manage our Public Comments today. I want to share my gratitude and thanks to all of you, as well as the Health Service staff who have helped make this meeting a reality. And finally id also like to acknowledge the Citys Department and Technology Staff of government tv for their time and energy into preparing our team. The staff and board commissioners appreciate all of your dedicated work, and i would like the board secretary to share her remarks regarding how to conduct ourselves in thi