Test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Doug brinkley, if i could, what about criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and throughout her 12 years as first lady . Were people critical of her . Weve kind of had a little bit of a love affair so far tonight. Of course, they were, because people didnt like fdr. A very polarizing president. He killed the opposition in 30 and 32 and i promise you eleanor was not an albatross. As i mentioned before, she was a huge asset. With that said, i think some thought her issue of pushing the labor unions and supporting the coal miners. If you were a coal owner, you would not have liked it. In the south, as i mentioned, the africanamerican issue was very controversial. In fact, theres one letter she wrote to an africanamerican person in chicago, the person wrote her because one of her columns, she called black people and this africanamerican rightly said how can you who is helping africanamericans use the word dark, and she sa
Transports loaded with lumber on its way to hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready for action. 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 first ladies and were going to look at her life, relationship and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladys influence and image series. Joining us to evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, anita black whos the leader of the project at George Washington university, and a historian. And another historian, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug, briefly, march, 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugural rated. What are the
This information do we have the ability to extract their intelligence . So on and so forth. Why not . I dont know how they did is from Carnegie Mellon university coauthor of the book steamy streaming stealing data cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] good evening. I guess everybody did not get the memo to dress up but i could not not to be herere because brcs so thrilled if i have not had a chance to say hello to have that extraordinary privilege to be the president of the extraordinary institution and could not be most fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book cannot serve and this subject in this house. [applause] as solid you know, so well we are gathered this evening in the home Eleanor Roosevelt shared with her husband and her motherinlaw of laugh 25 years from the front steps that you enter today departing for washingtona 1933 to take on the burden of life and the lighthouse and the challenges and with the decades after when roosevelt became not ju
[inaudible conversations] on the moderator. I dont mind you not listening to me. I used to be city editor of the Los Angeles Times and no one listened to me then, so i got used to it. After retiring from the times i wrote began writing for a number of web based evocations. I write mostly for one called truth dig, edited by the famous journalist Robert Scheer and depending on your political views, you will really love or hate this very progressive website. I also write for the Jewish Journal of los angeles and la observed a couple of others. Our subject is women behind the power and our panelists have written about how these famous men, three of them, how they were shaped or influenced by women. One of the women was one of the most famous people in the world intraday, Eleanor Roosevelt. Another was joan kroc, wife of the mcdonald mogul. She was as famous, but also dominant figure. In the third was was influenced by not one person, but by a movement of women and influenced him. He was th
Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic