Now on booktv, nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi adichie delivers the 2015 pen world voices freedom to write lecture. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im suzanne the executive director of Pen American Center and on behalf of our 4,000 members, its a great honor to welcome you to the tenth annual Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi adichie. [applause] just a word on the first Arthur Miller lecture delivered here in this room in 2006 by his knew appearances observations read as if they could have been written this week. He said respect for the rights of religious and ethnic minorities should never be an excuse to violate freedom of speech. We writers should never hesitate on this matter no matter how provocative the pretext. Our natural deattachments and desire to understand those unlike us should never stand in the way of our respect for human rights but thomas doesnt leave it at that. He goes right on to say he is always had difficulty expressing my polit
Political affairs herself. She always had been. She loved to use the white house yacht, the mayflower. She found that very relaxing. Again, i dont like to keep going back to the kidney disease, but on days when she felt good, that was a good place to entertain Close Friends and relax a little bit. She also, i think, relaxed a lot because she invited different people to the white house read she was very interested in hearing your views. This was in the days when he was still leave a calling card. She would pick one at random and invite them for to you that afternoon. It could be anybody. She is described as always listening to people very intently. She always said she looked in their eyes to see their soul. That was her way of knowing if you were being genuine with her. She would always class per hands around her knees and lean forward and intently Pay Attention to what you are saying. That was even a former relaxation for her. Ngg, should like to play bridge, she loves to go horseback
Francisco of a heart attack, is reported to the press earlier that day that he died that he might be coming out of the woods and of course, he dies. Much like grace, much like jackie kennedy, she is stoic. The newspaper reporter who got on the trip, they are reporting now that this horrible change events as they go back east on the train, and they say she is never breaking down. They are worried. Shes not crying. And she says im not going to. She knows she has this responsibility of setting the stage for the country. She takes that very seriously. Privately, she is devastated. This is her whole world. You have no children to rely on her one son from a first marriage already has died, he died in 1915. Its her. We can only imagine how lonely and afraid she felt. Lucinda annette, hoover. Annette we will do the light stuff first. She was very avid horsewoman she loved to ride. She liked to motor also. Not while she was first lady but shortly after lose mother passed away, after they left t
Announcer American History tv was live on saturday from marion, ohio, for a modern symposium on first ladies, from Florence Harding to Michelle Obama. That was the theme of the annual warren g. Harding symposium at Ohio State University at mary and it is about four hours. Host and now entitled paving the way, we you please welcome the two rector of special events at the National First lady library, lucinda fraley. Lucinda thank you. And thank you, everyone, who was involved in the symposium. You have absolutely no how thrilled we are to be here. Anytime we get a chance to present first ladies, we always look forward to it. Our mission, really good, which is to educate the public about the lives and the activities of the first ladies of this country, and believe me, they were all wonderful, and as i was talking to somebody at the reception we think all of the president s were quite intelligent. Every one of them, because they were smart enough to marry the woman who became their life pa
The newspaper reporter who got on the trip, they are reporting now that this horrible change events as they go back east on the train, and they say she is never breaking down. They are worried. Shes not crying. And she says im not going to. She knows she has this responsibility of setting the stage for the country. She takes that very seriously. Privately, she is devastated. This is her whole world. You have no children to rely on her one son from a first marriage already has died, he died in 1915. Its her. We can only imagine how lonely and afraid she felt. Lucinda annette, hoover. Annette we will do the light stuff first. She was very avid horsewoman she loved to ride. She liked to motor also. Not while she was first lady but shortly after lose mother passed away, after they left the white house, she gets in the car with her father, before they get into the white house, she gets into the car with her father in california they drive all the way across the country. Its a trip for him b