Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
Susan swain good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity shlaes actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the state of massachusetts, and then to vicepresident. So, one could never be prepared for a shock like the death of a presiden
In the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. And so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. And so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. It began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the United States. Poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. When you come into the National World war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, theres a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this glass bridge is a beautiful field of poppies, red poppies of flanders field. There are 9,000 blooms, each representing 1,000 combatant deaths. Its really an architectural masterpiece, i think, of the museum, very striking for visitors. Whats interesting is to see how Different Countries respond to that. Americans, theyre moved by the poem, theyre moved by the experience. Europeans or people from t
Hosted this 35 minute talk. Good afternoon and welcome to the gettysburg Heritage Center. This is our second in the series for today. Ive the pleasure of introducing the next speaker, james rada. He is a historian and an author. He has written many works of fiction and nonfiction history. They include popular books such as battlefield angels, the charity work of civil war nurses. He lives in gettysburg where he is a freelance writer. He has received numerous awards from the maryland delaware d. C. Press association, the associated press, the maryland state teachers association, society of professional journalists, and computed hash Community Newspapers holding, inc. , for his newspaper writing. Without any further introduction, i will introduce to you james rada. James good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about a book that myself and a coauthor wrote called the last to fall. It is about the marine march in 1922 that saved the marine corps. The marines had proved themselves a Form