Front burner. The president has put out some proposals. We have seen marco rubio changes position. I think congressional leaders, specifically Speaker Paul Ryan and mitch mcconnell, are going to have to answer questions about what now . What kind of Gun Legislation are you going to move . There is a bipartisan proposal sponsored by sarah chris murphy. It has support on both sides of the aisle. It would increase the system of communication on background checks and sending between various government entities. Say it needs to be shored up. Guncontrol activists are not going to be happy with that. They want stronger complete background checks. Pat toomey says he would said he would revise his old bill that failed a few years ago. I think its going to be something that congressional leaders are going to have to deal with front and center and remember, the florida movement, the student movement, which marched to tallahassee, thats coming to washington next month. This issue is going to be a
Ci sitting up here as quiet and peaceful as this place was, was a chance for him to, as he put it, recharge my batteries. We continue our look at the presidency of franklin roosevelt. Up next, a tour of Eleanor Roosevelts valkill cottage in hyde park, new york. The retreat is about two miles from the springwood Franklin Family estate. Certainly, this became the very First National Historic Site to be dedicated to a first lady and the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Well, valkill encompasses two major buildings. The first building, the stone cottage, was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors, nancy cook and Marion Dickerman. It was built on the eastern most end of the roosevelt property at the time. It was land that fdr had purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. But he offered to build his wife, eleanor, a Little Cottage here, because by the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. A
Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum in dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator Matt Anderson shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter and reagan, and the Lincoln Continental that john f. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. My name is Matt Anderson and im curator of transportation here at the henry ford. We are inside the Henry Ford Museum of american innovation. Just outside our driving america exhibit, where we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. Were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 carriage used by president theodore roosevelt. It becomes a force of the united states, starting in 91890, but by the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough
And museum in west blank, iowa. Chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The traveling exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the Hoover Library by cspan in partnership with media com. Curator marcus shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Today were at the Hebert Hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa. We are in the museum portion of the building. And this is our temporary exhibit, which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing in the temporary exhibit from cspan. Then adding something personal from each man, at least at this point, each man to show Something Different about them not we think about them that this is about the president s. We want to show them as human beings as well. Some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an exte
Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum in dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator Matt Anderson shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter and reagan, and the Lincoln Continental that john f. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. My name is Matt Anderson and im curator of transportation here at the henry ford. We are inside the Henry Ford Museum of american innovation. Just outside our driving america exhibit, where we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. Were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 carriage used by president theodore roosevelt. It becomes a force of the united states, starting in 91890, but by the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough