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susan swain: grace coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. susan swain: good evening, and welcome to c-span series, first ladies influence and image. tonight, we ll be telling you the story of first lady grace coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president, in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. susan swain: here to set the stage for us as we learn about the five-plus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. welcome to the program. susan swain: let s have you just tell us about of the arrival of calvin coolidge into the white house. how prepare was he for the job? amity shlaes: actually, quite prepared because he d been a ....
the sudden death of president harding. is ato set the stage coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, and author of other books. welcome to the program. arrival ofut the calvin coolidge into the white house. how prepared was he for the job? why prepared, because he had been a politician all his life. president coolidge is one of those men who started small on the city council as city solicitor in massachusetts, and went all the way up the ladder in the state of massachusetts, and then to vice president. one can never be prepared for a shock like the death of a president, but he was quite prepared professionally. raise coolidge was at his side all along that way in public life. how ready was she for the white house? she didn t think she was. she wrote to her sorority sisters and pray for me, friends. wifead been a politician s and she had quite a realistic view of politics and that particular job. she called this kind of marriage a double harness. that is not a ph ....
the speaker has a continuing resolution that he could pass and create a heart eat that would extend the government. the medical research would be back to work. all of the agencies of government would be functioning for the good of people in america and that is what we re sent to do. there are no excuses and i yield the floor. on the next washington journal, and look at the rollout of the health insurance marketplaces. we will talk with the head of the white house health reform office. we will learn more about the president s health care law with mike leavitt. secretary ofthe health and human services under george bush. we look at the closure of national parks because of the government shutdown. head of the the national park conservation association. washington journal is live every morning. before she was first lady, grace coolidge taught at a school for the deaf. in a moment, the life of grace coolidge and the wife of calvin coolidge. then, president obama talks to ....
life. president coolidge is one of those men who started small on the city council as city solicitor in massachusetts, and went all the way up the ladder in the state of massachusetts, and then to vice president. one can never be prepared for a shock like the death of a president, but he was quite prepared professionally. grace coolidge was at his side all along that way in public life. how ready was she for the white house? she didn t think she was. she wrote to her sorority sisters and said pray for me, friends. she had been a politician s wife and she had quite a realistic view of politics and that particular job. she called this kind of marriage a double harness. that is not a phrase we would use now about marriage in a positive way, but she pulled her load along with the president when they were little politicians. even when they were courting, they would think about sitting in the governor s chair. it was clear even when they were courting, that calvin, her fu ....