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I mean do you read about him today i guess the first question id ask could he be elected president today . I think so. Thats really the challenge of the book, whether we can choose someone who is as principled as he is as president. He did not believe coolidge who was president from 23 to 29 that perception is reality which he thought principle is reality. The challenge for us is we just have to have someone who is good looking and speaks well and good salesman or someone who has good principles. I think we can. We deceive ourselves we need looks alone. Who did he put around himself . Very important question. Coolidge came into office from being Vice President. Unfortunately, the president died so there is a cabinet there and some of them are compromised. We remember harding was a period of scandal so do you keep them. And the modern position might be clean sweep, right . Get them out so you will have the appearance of integrity. ....
History. Here are a couple of important things. Most of it seems to be about the tariff. The 16th amendment came into being. There was the oil decision in 1911 and more states admitted to the union. Tafts role, how long was stroke . That she had a 15 may 15 they went on a cruise, and they said, there is something wrong with ms. Taft. Realized she had a seizure. President ,ked at the seeing hisuch pain wife have a seizure. She had some temporary , and it came back shekly that was her voice. Lost that articulation, and it took a long time for it to come back. Earlier that morning her son had surgery. She was a nervous wreck that and worried about the operation. She was quite tense to begin with. He had blood and stuff. He was her favorite son. She said, i will never have him again. The nice thing, there are stories of him sitting on the , saying, say the. Say it again. He was running a rehab for his was also being president. Was he able to do his duties . I think he carried forward the d ....
Year. Good evening and welcome to first ladies. The life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house until 1913. Her lifepeak about and legacy is her biographer. The biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that she is the most obscure of 27 20th century first ladies. Why do you think she deserves better than being obscure . She did things that were very constructive. The cherry trees, bringing the Classical Music and musicians to the white house, and, generally, trying to make washington the Cultural Center of the nation. That was her ambition. Out because of medical reasons. That wouldagenda have made her rank with Eleanor Roosevelt or lady johnson in terms of transforming washington if things had gone the other way. She had an agenda to get her husband ....
Introduce my colleague sarah fling. She started at the White House Historical association in 2019 as a graduate public history fellow before joining as a historian in 2021 her research focuses on free and enslaved workers the first ladies and the white house collection serious. Sarahs previous Work Experience includes internships at Historic Sites such as George Washingtons mount vernon and the frick pittsburg. She received her bachelors degree in history from the university of pittsburgh and her masters in public history from american university. Sarah is originally from york, pennsylvania. Welcome sarah. Thank you, lena. Thanks so much for that introduction and good evening everybody. Thanks so much for being here with us tonight as we explore what i ....
Introduce my colleague sarah fling. She started at the White House Historical association in 2019 as a graduate public history fellow before joining as a historian in 2021 her research focuses on free and enslaved workers the first ladies and the white house collection serious. Sarahs previous Work Experience includes internships at Historic Sites such as George Washingtons mount vernon and the frick pittsburg. She received her bachelors degree in history from the university of pittsburgh and her masters in public history from american university. Sarah is originally from york, pennsylvania. Welcome sarah. Thank you, lena. Thanks so much for that introduction and good evening everybody. Thanks so much for being here with us tonight as we explore what i ....