experience at the international churchill conference, and i m pleased to be introducing our next speaker, andrew roberts. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, we have enjoyed many partnerships with the churchill center and looking forward to the next partnership this weekend at the builder one continuum symposium. excited to be working with the churchill center on a new young professional group that will be having a churchillian event next saturday. hopefully we have a new wave of churchillians joining the ko conference in the future. that is sold out and exciting news. as someone who works on social media 24/7, i can t help but wonder what winston churchill might have done had he had access to twitter, especially at 3:00 a.m. but i encourage everyone here to continue to tweet out using the #churchill2016. the social media team at the churchill center has been doing a wonderful john, and andrew roberts is also on twitter. that means it is absolutely ok
i want to show you some of the treasures from our collection. let s go take a look. we are located in the old norfolk city hall that was in 1850 and given to the macarthur memorial in 1984. city hall contained nine galleries that chronicled the life and times of general douglas macarthur. it answers the question, why is the macarthur memorial in norfolk? the short answer is mom. let me show you a photograph of his mother and the family estate. the family estate is on the south side of the city. it is now a city park. here is macarthur s mother who was born in norfolk and had four brothers who joined up to the confederate army from norfolk during the civil war. she was the youngest of the children. after the war, she met a man named arthur macarthur who had earned the medal of honor in the battle of chattanooga. they fell in love. when they got married, her three brothers who had served in the of northern virginia army and the cousins found other places to be during the weddin
was from an 18th century english poet. it was an ode, and the last two lines were, a rage for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than not be named at all. and i realized that from a small girl, she had realized she wanted to be famous. so i thought that rage for fame is just a perfect title because her whole life after that was to that end. c-span: when was this picture taken? guest: that picture was taken about 1942, just after she d been elected to congress by the famous canadian photographer kosch joseph kosch. c-span: how old was she here? guest: she was only about 39. c-span: and how long did she serve in congress? guest: she served in congress for two terms four years altogether. c-span: when did you first meet her? guest: i first met her in the fall of 1980 at her house in washington, but it was really a strange meeting because i had already conceived the idea of doing a biography of her. when i just out of the blue, this invitation came fr
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