Test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 st. Petersburg is a hardship outpost. Its cold. There arent a lot of other women there. Most of the diplomat wives dont travel with their husbands when they get sent to st. Petersburg. They have a baby girl, louisa Kathryn Adams and the child dice after about a year and thatle really devastates her mother louisa. Its painful. And for john quincy. He is also very much torn apart by this. The war of 1812 here has broken out. John quincy is sent to negotiate a treaty and he leaves louisa with her youngest son charles in st. Petersburg and when peace is resolved and he is sure he will be returning home or sent to london, he asks her to join him. She makes this arduous journey from st. Petersburg in the winter to paris with her son and who is only about 7 at the time and a couple servants she basically just met that day and doesnt know if she can trust them. As shes crossing europe she encounters dangerous travel conditio
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 the Senate Health committee holds a hearing on Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus Response and about efforts to prepare for future pandemics. Watch live coverage beginning at 10 00 eastern on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Tonight on American History tv at 8 00 p. M. Eastern a look at the lives of Lucretia Garfield and frances cleveland, in cooperation with the White House Historical association, produced a series on the first ladies coming their private lives and the roles they played. Influence and image, featuring individual biographies of the women who served in the role of first lady over 44 administrations. American history tv continues with a discussion on the different ways women experienced the civil war, including class, race and geography. We heard about the relationship between Union Generals and their wives, the additional burdens for women on the home front, and t
I think it is good in a world where theres quite enough to divide people that we should cherish the language and the emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedys 1,000 day as first lady were defined by images, political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age, it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousness. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of the wife of the 35th president of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier kennedy. We will tell you more about her life story. President ial historian and author of many books on the presidency and has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Barbara kennedy is a political scientist and wrote part of the jack Jacqueline Kennedy biography. I want to get into more details about the white house years about the assassination
Historian featured. Order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Good evening, welcome, everyone. Im todd putman, members of our foundations board of dreshgts and all of my library and foundation colleagues, i thank you for joining us this evening. Let me acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedy underwriter forums, boston capital, the lowell institute, ratheon, and wbur and the boston globe. We considered have this Forum Last Night on the 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour, but didnt want to make you have to choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or with your friends here at the Kennedy Library. So were so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In many ways, the public already knew mrs. Kennedy through her role as the president s wife, mother of two children, and as the woman who charmed world leaders. But on february 14th, 1962, it was a more substantive Jacqueli
This is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28 president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921, youll see more of that over the next two hours as we tell the story of the story of the two Woodrow Wilson first ladies, edith and allen. Ellen and woodrow met in their twenties and their love was reflected in passionate letters. And passioned artists and an intellectual companion, she adopted causes and set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a series secret courtship, and she served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after the president s stroke remains one of the most controversial elements of any first lady. Welcome to the continuing series, first ladies, influence and im