About two days june 10th and 11th, 1963 that defined jfks response to the Nuclear Arms Race and civil rights. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. Did i feel free paired . Yes. I wasnt elected so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge because the Vice President s wife can say anything, nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as the president s wife you have made the news. So that was a lesson i had to learn. During george bushs presidency barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She also earn her way into the history books. She and Abigail Adams are the only women in our history to be both the wife and mother of a president. Good evening and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara peers bush the wife of George Herbert wal
I was so late, i figured i better get started first. [laughter] well, good evening again. For those of you i have not met, my name is joanne drake and i serve as chief Administrative Officer for the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. I want to welcome you all here. It is our tradition here that in honor of our men and women who wear the uniform of this country around the world, we ask that you stand and join us in the pledge to the flag and i ask that you remain standing in a moment of silence in honor of our former first lady barbara bush. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Drake thank you. Be seated. I want to thank all of you for coming out tonight and bearing with us. All live in southern california, too. You know what we were up against. In addition to our honored guest this evening, sheila tate, we have a few special guests. First, of cou
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Treat to talk about the terrific books. I could talk more than an hour on each of these books. Before we get started, i need to tell you that you should silence your cell phones please. Personal recording is not allowed and also i will give you the first round after the session, each of the authors will be signing their books at the signing area number one that is marked in your programs. We will hold the books up and start the conversation. To my far left, camelot and kennedy versus carter and the fightfight broke the Democratic Party. Susan teaches that the matriarch barbara bush and the makin intof an american dynasty and to my right by former Los Angeles Times colleague the Family Dynasty that shaped a nation. Someone thats abou is about toi lived through a great number of the events described in the book and as i was saying just before the program started, the first i remember a High School Freshman in 1958 is a great year for the Democratic Party in california, pat brown got elec
Two visitors who did not have time to accommodate along the tracks, they set up tent camps. Children, wounded workers of evacuated factories, and just a lot of people rushed to tashkent, after all, the city of bread. And besides, its right here academicians, writers, musicians, a whole theater of the intelligentsia were directed, strengthened in the socalled european part of the city by the writer maria belkina. Here tashkent remained only on the chronicle of the earthquake of the sixtysixth, which destroyed most of the buildings, broke the contours of the streets, but there remained letters about how, getting used to the eastern horse , in the evenings, the overweight , trembling, always with a pipe in his mouth went out to the promenade tolstoy from his lyudmila in some superlegant kostya the old fabulous Korney Chukovsky, who descended from the pictures of ranevskayas kukryniksy, will walk widely like a man and throw some sharp remark on the go, and later she akhmatova with a barely