Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
President harry truman like to refer to his wife as the boss. Family was their number one priority. Destroyed many of her letters and spend a good part of her white house years home in missouri. Truman served as true first lady on her own terms. Cspans continuing series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, story the 33rd president of the United States, this truman. Here to tell us more about her, we are pleased to welcome back to our set the white house historian, his latest book called the imperial season. And the history professor and author of a biography of harry truman called the coming of the cold war. Thank you for being here. Where we left off last week was the death of Franklin Roosevelt. April 12th 1945. The call comes into harry truman. Where is he . He gets the message that he is needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he often was known to do. A lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone cal
Pr hesident harry truman lid to refer to bess as the boss. Family was the number one priority. He had little to say to the media, destroyed many of her letters and spent a good part of the white house years at home in missouri. Bess truman served as first lady on her own terms. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight the story of the wife of the 33rd president of the United States, bess truman. Here to tell us more about her are two guests were pleased to welcome back to our set. Bill seal, and nicole anslover. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Where we left off last week was the death of franklin roosevelt. April 12, 1945. The call comes in to harry truman, where is he, then he gets the message hes needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he was often wanting to do. He thought a lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having a somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone call and said he just knew. The story goes that he ran to get to his car and get
On cspan 3, online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Kevin is a state house bureau chief for the union leader. He is joining us from concord, New Hampshire, and over the last 20 to 25 years the Granite State has become a real battleground state. Why . Whats changed . Yeah. Thats interesting. I mean its quite a contrast, right. Ronald reagan, when he ran for reelection in 48 declared it the most republican state in the country. You could have made that case like utah and nevada perhaps. New hampshire has become much more of a swing state. I think primarily because of the migration here. Were unusual in that now fewer people in New Hampshire actually were born here. More than 60 of its residents are not natives. Many of them are come from massachusetts. They kind of came to escape higher taxes and more regulation and but particularly on social issues, theyre very progressive and thats what weve really seen over the years in New Hampshire is not only more my braigr
Test defund, captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they decided together they would stay at home. There wasnt a precedent for a first lady and the first the second first lady, the Vice President s wife, to be living with the men. It was by choice. Martha did it. But abigail had the liberty to choose to go home and she did for the next six years. We learned the city of philadelphia was decimated at the start of the second washington term by yellow fever. Did she have any illness related to that . No. What was her illness . Its very hard to tell all these years later. She describes symptoms, but its hard to put a name on the symptoms. Rum tism. She did have rum tism. Beyond that the symptoms are hard to diagnose. There was no role model for being the second lady at the time, but jean spear asked, did the newspapers of that time mention abigail . Im not sure about that. They certainly mentioned john from time to time, although was she a National Figure at that point . No.