Good evening, everybody. Im Betsy Fischer martin, the executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University. And welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. We are glad you could join us this evening. To those of you need one of our events, wpi, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute in School Public affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. Now we offer academic and practical Campaign Training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics and leadership. And we are so pleased to be cohosting tonights conversation with the first ladys association for research and education, otherwise known as claire and amys first ladies initiative, which seeks to highlight the significant contributions of americas first ladies. And there is no doubt that the subject of tonights discussion edith wilson is among the most influent and powerful president ial spouses in history. In fact, for several months from late 1919
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Guest on in depth to take your calls on goveren and legal reform in america. Heas written six books including the collapse of the common good, life without lawyers, and his bestseller the death of common sense. His latest book not accountable is a critique of publicsector unions. Joined a live conversation with attorney and author Philip Howard sunday at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2. Senators Amy Klobuchar and rob portman have been awarded the madison prize for constitutional excellence from American University school of Public Affairs for their bipartisan cooperation on capitol hill. Following the awards ceremony both senators spoke indepth about their experiences working across the aisle to pass legislation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome everyone. Thank you for being with us this evening. I am vicky wilkins, the dean of the school ofth Public Affairs t American University, and i am pleased to welcome me to tonight madison prize for constitutional exc
Executive. At nbc she covered political coverage and long time producer of meet the press with tim russert. And the manager of nbc political news programming and currently shes executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in the school of Public Affairs and she also has provided on air analysis to several Television Networks including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn and included in washingtons 50 best and most influential journalists and gqs powerful people in washington. [applause]. Thank you all, its so nice to be here in jackson, mississippi, not too far from my hometown in new orleans. I see an lsu shirt here. Go tigers. Go tigers. laughter and i feel like since were at the Supreme Court, i feel like these guys are under oath how, be ready for an interesting discussion with our great i have no recollection of that. [laughter] were here to talk about inside washington, the view from washington were obviously approaching a big po