Unidentified speaker begin video clip female today, it is our pleasure to entertain for the first time, our first lady, at this her belated Birthday Party. Female music playing singers to mamie many happy returns. To mamie with music, 160 million join in our chorus inaudible . To mamie with music, to mamie, with love . A birthday tribute to Mamie Eisenhower, televised nationally by cbs in march of 1956, just a few weeks after her husband, president Dwight Eisenhower, announced his bid for reelection. Tonight, 1950s america and the life and times of first lady Mamie Eisenhower. Good evening and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight is Mamie Eisenhowers turn. And here to tell us about her life are two people who have spent a lot of time with first ladies, and in particular in marilyn holts case, Mamie Eisenhower. Shes a historian and author of a biography called, Mamie Eisenhower, the generals first lady. We also welcome back edith mayo to the table. Edies be
Conveys a notion of nostalgic and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity, where america was a world leader, and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple, and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth, and its a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated hetero sexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently an anticommunist took away civil liberties. These are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. But i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions, and it created a sense of consensus. In
Reagan. That may be some of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans overall political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became so widely known and praise for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. In fact president reagan, first , as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. But one of those that jumps out at me, a few weeks ago, we had our annual Pepperdine Associates dinner in Beverly Hills at the beverly wilshire. This was on february 9 of 2020. In her remarks in talking about the future of pepperdine under our new president , our chancellor, sarah jackson, remarked tha
About the holocaust and other subjects. His talk tonight will focus on his first book called, reagans 1968 dress rehearsal and it tells the littleknown story of friendship that developed and ultimately a member a mentorship between eisenhower and reagan. I will not steal the thunder, but dwight d. Eisenhower was really instrumental in Ronald Reagans early political career. We all know how that ended with reagans election as president to decades later. So, he will tell that story. He will talk for about 4550 minutes. There will be some audio and presentations. We will do our best to make sure that we are adjusting it in the back and he can hear it. After he is done, we will open it up to a q and a paid leave join me. Please join me in welcoming gene kopelson. [applause] gene thank you for coming on a beautiful sunny seattle day. The audience should know that it really was. Thank you to the other people here at the discovery center. Keith, who originally helped, tessa, and also cspan. I
Friendship that developed and ultimately a member a mentorship between eisenhower and reagan. I will not steal the thunder, but dwight d. Eisenhower was really instrumental in Ronald Reagans early political career. We all know how that ended with reagans election as president to decade later. So, he will tell that story. He will talk for about 4550 minutes. There will be some audio and presentations. We will do our best to make sure that we are adjusting it in the back and he can hear it. Open he is done, we will it up to a q and a paid leave join me. Please join me in welcoming gene kopelson. [applause] gene thank you for coming on a beautiful sunny seattle day. The audience should know that it really was. Thank you to the other people here at the discovery center. Keith, who originally helped, tessa, and also cspan. I would like to go back to give you the rationale for why i wrote this book. To me, the 1980s, the age of Ronald Reagan was really a golden age for america and for the wo