.. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 this one is written by a pr department for the white house in jerry ford s time. those of you who might remember with inflation now or wind, poor jerry ford couldn t even get that part of his administration correct. that came and went with incredible speed. keep cool with coolidge is not generally remembered or win with wilkie because they lost. there are many slogans which are still current in an ethnic community or in a smaller segment that were just not generally aware of because they never became generalized but those are slogans which tried to be i am not a crook, certainly was there. but i am not a crook is like a mission accomplished. it s like one of those slogans which characterize an era or a person and i m sure that people in love would rather they didn t remember them. the subgroup of snarky slogans or catch phrases. the one which has lasted the longest and you and i have t
new york times book review. we recorded the program in september of 2018. good afternoon. welcome, everybody. i m david moskowitz, head of government relations and public policy at wells fargo and pleased to be here with you today. we are pleased to serve for the eighth year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and prouder to watch the book festival grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event it has become. i wouldn t be surprised [ applause ] thank you. wouldn t be surprised to see us move the needle on some best-seller list today. it s even more important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. the library of congress and the book festival s purpose here is literacy which leads to learning and opportunity which matches our goal of helping our community succeed, learning to love books and learning are what the book festival is all about. in this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses grant f we re lucky, cert
history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. we already had a chance to look at the case of harriet jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. there, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. we will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. we also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. and so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. so, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery? as you have all begun to see in your readings for today, t
biographical information on members, together data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. we enter reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the house. it is this very big, very old institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a humanly level. we do that through telling biographical stories or with clips from oral histories that give people a humans sense of a very large institution. today, we thought we would try to do that by telling you about the history of women in congress. that is a this is a nifty piece of campaign ephemera. it is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. it is quite handy. it tells you what to do. use this column when voting for clare booth luce. it has a little arrow, and how to make sure that you are pulling the levers. and clare boothe luce would ve been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. her career had started as a writer and editor. she
learn about the history of women in congress. of a second of a two part program we begin the story beginning in the 19 with republican congress one woman claire recluse. on the curator for the house of representatives. that means i take a care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the houses rich heritage. and that was a risky on the horse historian of the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data, and historic-less, to conduct oral histories. we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the house which is very big old institution in a way that people can connect with it at a human level. so we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense. a very large institution. today, we thought we try to do that with you about telling you about the history of women in congress which is the