Only begins with trees, flowers and landscaping. Thats from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaigner, successful businesswoman and savvy partner to her husband, Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening. Tonight well tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson known toe everyone as lady bird. Here too tell her story tonight are Cokie Roberts, the author of two books about womens political history, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Thanks for being here. And we have an expert, with a number books from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, currently working on a new biography of Lady Bird Johnson. Ladies, i want to start with the beginning of where we were 50 years ago this week. Bhamp the immediate challenges in the first terrible day. They were enormous. First of all, nobody knew if there was a widespread plot. So the country was in terror for a period of time. Then
Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts 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, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were 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 Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is 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 inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
Way to that the critical bridge that misunderstanding of the purpose of america and the world, is to have an understanding of their perspective. The way they look at the problem, the way they see the United States and its history. You only get that by spending a significant amount of time in those places, where you can hear and begin to feel and brief the attitudes breathe the attitudes of people around the world. That has been incredibly important, in learning how to bridge and understanding gap that exists in many of these contexts, and to push through American Values in a world that is incredibly skeptical of the goodness of america and its role in the world. Steve how did you meet your wife, and what does she and your children and your candidacy . Candidate lessig i met my wife in chicago, we started dating when i was here at harvard and she was a lawyer in florida. It was a wonderful beginning, because i would fly down and spend a weekend with her on the beach every week, she was
With the first lady is by patricia, an associate with the realtor Real Estate Department of our partners. She has served as an account manager for several relationships and has had extensive experience representing buyers and sellers on real estate transactions. Her work is a fascinating historical look at first ladies. A traditional conservative woman, or activist. She comes from texas. Dr. Coopers research focuses on comparative experiences of women in the western world specifically the transnational ground of women and international relations. Shes the author of a number of works, including the book informal ambassadors american women, transatlantic marriages. Ourt first two administration officials. Dr. A in her 35 year career, she has served as curator, museum director, government official, association director, and advisor for private and public cultural institutions prior. Prior to assuming museum director, she was part of Library Services where she served in both the george w.
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag