Good evening, everybody. Im Betsy Fischer martin, the executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University. And welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. We are glad you could join us this evening. To those of you need one of our events, wpi, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute in School Public affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. Now we offer academic and practical Campaign Training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics and leadership. And we are so pleased to be cohosting tonights conversation with the first ladys association for research and education, otherwise known as claire and amys first ladies initiative, which seeks to highlight the significant contributions of americas first ladies. And there is no doubt that the subject of tonights discussion edith wilson is among the most influent and powerful president ial spouses in history. In fact, for several months from late 1919
Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen
Cost our country 600,000 jobs . Yes. Moving discretionary funding backed up to the original cast and not having the sequester take effect. And that would take a half a point away from gross to mustek product . By the end of 2014. Florida, thein types of jobs we are talking about, we have seen some very harmful impact. Our premier Cancer Research center in tampa, before the sequester, they had 120 researchers working to find a cure for cancer. They are down to 100. The air force base is one of our Largest Community economic drivers. They are furloughing Mental Health counselors among others. That part of the budget is shrinking, but the sequester does not give us a lot of room to maneuver on where we want those cuts to take place. Law enforcement, job losses from cuts to the court, very significant cut accident education. Adopted republicans this cr last week, it became Crystal Clear that they intend to march forward with those sequester cuts. Report and at your those kind of expenditur
In 1907. By 1908, he had scribbled on a little note somewhere. My precious one, my beloved mary. I dont think he sent it to her. I think he was venting her feelings. Ellen was upset. She accused him of emotional love for this woman. But she tolerated mary and tried to protect woodrow from the scandal. There still was some scandal. Theodore roosevelt was invited in the 1912 election to make use of this. Somebody said that they had letters between woodrow and mary. And although they were never as ardent as his letters to ellen had been, they were simply compromising. And roosevelt said, no, that would be wrong. And also that nobody would believe him. Yeah. Because that was that was very noble of Theodore Roosevelt. But you said you said, what i cant believe that somebody who looks like the apoth cares cud could be romeo. I dont believe that. Doing the best t. R. Invitation on the program. No. This momentous on the United States and those who enter world war i. What happens in the white h