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
Parents with top jobs and the numbers have been edging up. It survived the sinking of the titanic, now this letter is being auctioned its thought to be one of the last to be written onboard. Good morning. Its friday. 20th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. In the last few minutes, theresa may, has given an update about brexit discussions with the European Union. Speaking on the second day of a summit in brussels, mrs may said she was positive about what the negotiations had achieved so far. Earlier, the head of the European Council, donald tusk, said eu leaders would begin to prepare for talks about a trade deal with the uk. The Prime Minister acknowledged a lot more was still to be done. Iam i am ambitious and positive for britains future for these negotiations, but in no we still have some weight to go. Both sides have some weight to go. Both sides have approached these talks with professionalism and a constructive spirit and we should recognise what has been a
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
Peter and 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 historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
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