Hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report, and be ready for action. And youve been listening to some of onerous votes radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And we are going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about owners about, allida black, who is the editor of the unnerves votes paper project at George Washington university, and a historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, the roosevelts are being inaug
Features his springwood estate, his president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us. And thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldes
His president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us. And thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kin
Places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us. And thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kind of fell right in the middle and i think he always felt that h
First lady, president , whatever your title was, you came in as a friend. And coming into somebodys home as a friend is much different than walking into their place of business as a colleague. So going into the white house with fdr and talking about major world events would be much different than coming up to this very secluded porch where there were no bank of photographers waiting to take a picture of the handshake. It was a place he could be open with his guests. And showing him sitting in his wheelchair laid it all out there. Hes there showing off the fact that im not hiding anything from you. And i think his guests received that in such a way that they were willing to open up and not hide anything from him. And i think the way they used this place really facilitated some wonderful conversation. And they were able to really delve into some of the major issues and i think come up with some Incredible Solutions that may not have been possible at the white house or more formal places.