Director at here at the New Hampshire institute of politics. This is a special series we have and we continue on today. Just a quick note, we have a new president of sane and some college and we are very proud. He has just arrived here a month ago this is his first politics and eggs. So this is a wonderful occasion and of course we will probably have a little more activity between now and february. But i everyone can recognize dr. Joseph ozzie. Joe for bazi . [applause] here are theonsors people that allow us to have some breakfast, we have wonderful new sponsors, particularly fed cap is our newest sponsor and we have the president Christine Mcmahon here today. We also have their board chair odonoghue, mark and Carol Kellerman are here today. Just a side note that carl worked for senator kennedy in the 1980 campaign. She was telling me stories about that last night. It was great. Thats when other recognition that todd fahey is here from aarp, leading aarp through a interesting time. An
Visiting our website cspan. Org history. And welcome to this program titled in her own words. This is a Program Brought to you by flare which stands for the First Ladies Association for research and education. My name is myra gooden. Im president of flair and i am so happy that you joined us for this very interesting. Look at four different first ladies and some of their rhetorical responses. Um before we begin this afternoon, id like to thank floyd flares inaugural institution lifetime members American University Rider University the White House Historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society and our newest inaugural lifetime institutional member the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. Were glad to have you with us. In the interests of time. Id like to take this next few minutes to introduce the four people who will be part of the afternoons program. Were going to be starting with nancy keegan smith. Nancy is former director of the president ial Materials Division at
Im president of flair and i am so happy that you joined us for this very interesting. Look at four different first ladies and some of their rhetorical responses. Um before we begin this afternoon, id like to thank floyd flares inaugural institution lifetime members American University Rider University the White House Historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society and our newest inaugural lifetime institutional member the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. Were glad to have you with us. In the interests of time. Id like to take this next few minutes to introduce the four people who will be part of the afternoons program. Were going to be starting with nancy keegan smith. Nancy is former director of the president ial Materials Division at the National Archives and Records Administration. She has written lectured and published on first ladies. Since the 1980s including Lady Bird Johnson Michelle Obama and the records of modern first ladies a Founding Member and inaugura
has been a tumultuous five days to say the least. where things stand as of now, old man, the interim ceo and at least one board member, what we understand to be adam d angelo are in heated discussions, intense discussions as the company put it in an internal memo early on monday that are still ongoing. the plan from what we understand is that they want things to be wrapped up, so people can go back to the thanksgiving holiday weekend with some assurance of where the company stands. now, some of the main points out of this negotiations, we know that altman would return as ceo if things go as planned, and that in at least one scenario, altman would be director of what they would call a transitional board of sorts. now, as we know, the board was the one that ousted altman in the one that ousted altman in the first place. it is unclear if board members are set to resign as part of any of these negotiations, which remain extremely tenuous, and the company made that clear to empl
Marissa mayer is she was hired to be a coder at google. She was hired to be someone who literally makes the programs. Her first big project was supposed to be like googles first ad delivery system, you know . Google makes billions and billions of dollars off of ads, and she was going to make the first one. And it was taking her months and monthses and months to do. Google went out and hired someone named jeff dean and this sort of shocked the industry because jeff dean is a superstar. Hes really known for being one of the best coders on the planet. And he did the project that meyer had been work on in a matter of weeks. And mayer, you know, to her credit sort of looked at this and said is, you know, she loved working at google and she said im not going to make my mark at this company by being a coder. Is so she said what else can i do. So she sort of threw herself at whatever problems the company had. You know she actually got involved in pr and marketing and all sorts of strange thing