I would have been criticized for what i did, and i got a lot of criticism, but you learn to live with it. I never let it influence me. Rosalynn carter in a recent interview in atlanta. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. She attended cabinet meetings and championed womens rights and Mental Health issues and even testified before congress. Their partnership continued in the postwhite house years. Good evening and welcome to the span series on first ladies. We begin by looking at the lives of living first ladies. Let me introduce our first two guests. They will be in the studio to tell you about her biography. Our guest is a president ial scholar. Faith specializes on the history of the south. I want to talk about the themes. She was gracious enough to grant us an interview. We will post it online so you can hear all she had to say. I want to pick up on things i have learned that she referenced. The carters first visit to the white house was after he had bee
Husband, former president jimmy carter. And then steve ford, the son of former president ford and betty ford. He talked about his mothers struggles with substance abuse. You can watch Rosalynn Carter at 9 00 eastern time and steve ford at 955 eastern monday night on cspan. Our first ladys series returns this month with five episodes on the most recent first ladies from nancy reagan to Michelle Obama monday night starting january 13 live at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Houseong with a low white is oracle association, we are offering a special edition of the book, first ladies of the United States of america. It includes biographies and a portrait of each first lady. It is available for the discounted rights of 12. 95 plus shipping at www. Cspan. Org products. Cspan we bring Public Affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, White House Events, briefings, and conferences, and offering complete gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House all a
I think our journey as american muslims has to be about refusing to be told by cleric islam andfor us that its ideals is a seven century reality. We are americans and muslims who need an islam of the 21st century. Being muslim in america, sunday night at 9 00, part of. Ook tv this weekend on cspan2 online we will be discussing mark blevins the liberty amendments. Read the book and join the conversation. Our series first ladies continues in a few moments with an exclusive interview with former first Lady Rosalynn carter and steve ford, the son of former president gerald ford and first lady betty ford. Senator ron johnson on his lawsuit to stop members from congress and their staff from getting federal subsidies to buy Health Insurance. Later, president obamas top urges membersor of congress to extend unemployment benefits. As part of our series first ladies, it influence an image, we recently spoke with former first Lady Rosalynn carter in an exclusive interview at the Carter Center in
She had to keep the whole ship in the right direction. What was her personality like . Mom was a jokester, fun loving. She had a background in the arts dance. She was very expressive and wanted us as children to be expressive. I spent 25 years in film and tv business as an actor. I have to think what ever that calling was for me came not from dads side but from mom. How successful was she you did have a typical how did going to the white house change that at all . Looking back, we were fortunate. If you were a member of the bush or reagan family, there was almost an expectation that at some point, your father was going to run for president or be president. Not with gerald ford. He was a House Minority leader and wanted to be speaker of house. There was never any pressure on us that he would be president. It happened overnight, very quickly. We barely had time to comb our hair. Within days, nixon resigned. We moved to the white house. To our advantage as a person, there was no chance to
It was hard. Amy was a baby. I didnt like to leave her all the time. But i enjoyed it. I learned so much about our state. We have 159 counties. I knew the capital of every county. I knew and issues. That is how i got involved in Mental Health issues, running the campaign for jimmy. Our big Mental Health facility hospital. There had been a big expose and the Mental Health systems act had been passed, and this was in 1963. This was 1966 when jimmy first ran for governor. He got beat that time. We got in late because our leading democratic candidate had a heart attack. But they were moving people out of the hospital because there were like 12,000 people and had room for 3000. It was awful. It was happening all over the country. They were moving them out before they had any facilities for them and no services in the communities. And everybody started to talk to me about, what would your husband do if he was elected governor of georgia . I just learned so much about what was going on. After