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on the next first ladies, influence and image, as the u.s. heads toward civil war we look at two administrations and two decidedly different women. while jane appleton pierce is in the white house her life is defined by the overwhelming loss of her children. by the time her husband, franklin pierce, is elected, two of their three boys are dead. and their last remaining son, 12-year-old benny, dies in a train derailment before president pierce is inaugurated. then harriet lane, the adopted niece of james buchanan. although president buchanan is ranked by most historians as a failure, harriet s tenure as official white house hostess is wildly popular. after years of schooling and entertaining while her uncle served as a u.s. ambassador to great britain only 27 when she comes to live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue to become first lady. jane pierce and harriet lane. on first ladies live monday night at 9:00 a.m. on c-span and c-span 3 and c-span radio nd c-span.org. our web site
we have an expert panel. this is not a debate panel. we do have time 12 minutes to be exact for a couple of questions. o if you have them, go ahead and start. t it s not necessary we hear from all four on all of the answers so i ll try to moderate that. keep in mind we now have 11 minutes but we ll get these questions in. scene, it s nice to see you again. and everybody buy her book it s great. last time i talked to her she was looking for a job. i m kelsey alexander. i m a capitalist and i would invite you all to come to the gun club and learn to shoot. if you would like to come as my guest talk to me afterwards. mary katharine you had great suggestions about things to say. we said every single one of those things last week. those things don t work for the legislatures. you are exactly right the agenda is coming from somewhere else and i don t know how we are going to beat anytime colorado. i would like to suggest that elections matter and so does money. elections wernt
other things, but by golly we are not going to protect the border unless you give us amnesty for people that are here. let s secure the border. no, we are going to hold that hostage. we are not going to do our job. we took an oath to do until you grant amnesty to the people here. people need to understand that are here in this congress what it does to those who did everything lawfully to come into this country. who have followed every part of the law. it is absolutely demoralizing to most of those people to have talk of amnesty to people who didn t follow the law as they did. once we have a secured border, not held hostage, but just do the job that the oath was taken to do, once that s done, let as talk about a pathway to a green card or pathway to being here as a permanent legal resident. a pathway to citizenship needs to have people who believe in the rule of law. because if that is not the case, we will become like the nations those peopeft because they couldn t find jobs,
of mine and i d like her because she is a real storyteller. she is always fiercely intelligent. her analysis of the characters always amazes you and yet that isn t all. she doesn t just do that and say be happy with that. she tells the full story. before he turned his back over, i want to ask a personal favor of you and ask you to sign this book. [laughter] [applause] by the way you will have a chance to do the same. while they are signing i just want to introduce myself, dale gregory vice president for public programs and how thrilling it is to have you all here and these two charming gentleman. i am sure you will agree and i just want to remind you the book is on sale and the books are on sale in our museum store, and the book signing will be out back, by the back doors. and so, i am so happy that you came and you said yes and we want to thank you charles osgood, for agreeing immediately on the phone to come and ken follett for also agreeing. it must have been immedia