Blue and Herbert Hoover came to the white house is trained geologists, an experience world travelers who were successful in both the private and public sectors. But just months into hoovers term, the market crashed. First Lady Lou Hoover used her office to advocate volunteer is a man charity, but as the Great Depression deep into, theyre one term and it amidst great public frustration. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies influence an image. Tonight the story of Lou Henri Hoover the. Hoover administration in 1929 to 1933 and what an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about her years before the white house as we get started tonight is annette dunn lap. Historian author first ladies biographer scholar with the Hoover Institution and working on a biography of Lou Henri Hoover. What is to just interested you to dispensable years of your life looking into this one. I got interested in her with talking with a friend of mine through the library up in canton ohio and when i started
Sunday night at 9 p. M. Eastern. Enter aisle or some of the things weve done in years past. There there are lots of people around with microphones. The authors happy to take questions. John tamny is with us courtesy of paul and barbara paul. He is senior fellow at reason foundation, a senior Economic Advisor in research and trading and an editor of real clear market. Com. He frequently writes about the Securities Market along with tax, trade and Monetary Policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the wall street journal, investors business daily, financial times, National Review savan frequently writes about the Securities Market along with tax and trade and monetary trade issues that impact the markets including dole street journal investors business daily financial times, National Review and the london dailies telegraph please give a warm welcomevannab to join tammy. [applause] thank you very much for the gracious introductionha and thanks to all
Is not short for a female name. He raised her as a tomboy. One of her early pictures is with her father fishing at a stream. We have a picture of her carrying a rifle on top of it a burro. She had great joy in being outdoors. Susan how does that translate into her grownup years . Annette she stayed fascinated with the outdoors her entire life. Her decision to study geology at Stanford University is an outgrowth of that. Even as late as her night as her 60s, we have material of her going on a camping trip at the age of 63. She slept on the ground and rode into camp on horseback. Her other camp mates slept in tents. Susan from a Public Policy perspective, she also spent much of her years encouraging other young women to incorporate the outdoors and physical activity into their lives. , she wantedust her those benefits for other women. Annette there started to be some interest in women being more physically active. She took it to the next set. There were two areas where she got involved.
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The senate is about to release a controversial report on the harsh interrogation techniques used by the c. I. A. On al qaeda terror suspects after the 9 11 attacks. The u. S. Government is concerned about the potential for a violent reaction, so its put diplomatic and military posts all around the world on high alert tonight. Democrats on the Senate Intelligence committee are expected to make the report public tomorrow. Justice correspondent beenor has advance word on whats in it. Reporter the report focuses on the months and years following 9 11 when the Central Intelligence agency was holding and interrogating al qaeda detainees at secret overseas prison, socalled black sites. And people familiar with the report say its a near indictment of the c. I. A. Led by chairman dianne feinstein, Majority Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee Found the c. I. A. Misled the government about
Denmark. There is going to be an audio taping tonight, and if we get to that point, come to our audience microphone over here that way cspan and politics prose will get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers to them. And lastly if you could do us a huge favor fold up your chairs lee them against leave them against something solid, itll help us get to the book signing. Welcome to politics prose. My name is abby i run our instore events, and this evening we are so pleased to have with us Rafia Zakaria to discuss her new book the upstairs wife. Its her experience with the country she grew up in and she begins at Pivotal Moment in 2007 when [inaudible] one of her uncles had decided to take a second wife and the book really becomes this unique look at culture and politics and shes really showing a lot about the country through her own story. So her works has appeared youve probably seen it in aljazeera america, other publications, and shes also a human rights activist and on