The answer is, that i feel prepared . Yes, i really did. First of all, i wasnt elected, so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice though the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge, because the Vice President s wife can say anything. Nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as president s wife, youve made the news. So that was a lesson i had to learn. During george bush is presidency, barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She also earn her way into the history books this color. She and Abigail Adams are the only women in our history to be both the wife and mother ebay president. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies, influence and image. Tonight is the story of Barbara Peirce bush, the wife of our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. And here for the next 90 minutes sets to tell us more about her life and her influence our two gu
About two days june 10th and 11th, 1963 that defined jfks response to the Nuclear Arms Race and civil rights. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. Did i feel free paired . Yes. I wasnt elected so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge because the Vice President s wife can say anything, nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as the president s wife you have made the news. So that was a lesson i had to learn. During george bushs presidency barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She also earn her way into the history books. She and Abigail Adams are the only women in our history to be both the wife and mother of a president. Good evening and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara peers bush the wife of George Herbert wal
History promotes the study of the u. S. Presidency and it does o through its teaching and research. Through Public Outreach event such as this one and through its project which ry is an oral history run by staff who film and record archives of people who ad been in various administrations as well as local officials who work closely with those administrations. Also runs a very robust postdoctoral fellowship program. Effect for about five years and its raply become robably the most influential and famous fell he ship program in this area of its kind. Has published a a k or contracted a book at Major University press. Nd they all get jobs and were very proud of that. [applause] for president ial history, tremendously the workts complements we do, their own teaching and complement the department of history as well as the center for southwest histories. There are a lot of history buffs here, were bucking the National Trend and were getting more and studying history nd becoming history major
Hello, everybody. Wow a treat we have. I am so honored to introduce our next author. Shes an elegant and an exciting writer. Shes the kind of person that writers just adore. Stacy schiff. To boy, does she know how pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Interestedtewart was cleopatra. She somehow brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody had. By the way, cleopatra, a lot of long time. Her for a of course, shes won so many prizes, its fairly ridiculous. Child she won the writing about for the wife of vladimir she was runner up for the pulitzer even earlier, in 1995. And you comes up here see how young she is, its super annoying for the rest of us writers. Who knows how to write a this about , said stacy. Gunpoint, ced to at stacy schiff would be incapable writing a dull page or a lame entence, and david mccullah, you know that guy that just always writes best sellers, just stacy, his most recent, wright brothers, i love what he said about her. History in the hands of stacy full of invaria
I think he just took emeritus status which means he has more , time to write and more time to talk and more time to educate all of us, and i am honored that he has come here again. Hes come here a couple years ago and im honored hes back today. [applause] thank you. What im going to do here is give about 25 minutes. I hope without get more time for questions and answers, but were moving towards the end. Reconstruction stayed alive in the popular memory largely through its portrayal in popular media. And i want to look at the politics of the portrayal of Andrew Johnsons impeachment. And my primary works are going to be the novel the klansmen, the film tennessee johnson, and john f. Kennedys profiles encourage. My thesis is that although political factors inevitably influenced impeachment, on the under the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors should conviction should occur only if there is a transgression threatening the welfare of the republic. Most of you are familiar with this boo