I am from tennessee, chattanooga. And im thrilled to sit here today with the senator to discuss suffrage history. Let get started. Absolutely. Our first question. Tennessee has such a pivotal role in the story of womens fight for the revote. Do you have a favorite moment or suffragists from the story of tennessees battle for the 19th amendment . When you look at this battle you have to say the entire environment is the favorite moment. When you think about it as the war of the roses and the attitude the suffragists carried in, they were civil. We were gracious. They were polite. They met 40 at the Hermitage Hotel. Someone when they had who was prosuffrage they gave them a yellow rose to pin on their lapel. So when you talk about favorite moments you have to talk about that attitude that seems to permeate this. We are going to get it done. We are going to get it done right. We are going to get this job finished. Enough, tennessee had suffered clubs all across the state. Suffrage clubs a
anna: our first question. tennessee has such a pivotal role in the story of women s fight for the vote. do you have a favorite moment or suffragists from the story of tennessee s battle for the 19th amendment? sen. blackburn: when you look at this battle you have to say the entire environment is the favorite moment. when you think about it as the war of the roses and the attitude the suffragists carried in, they were civil. they were gracious. they were polite. tea at theor e hermitage hotel. and then when they had someone who was pro-suffrage they gave them a yellow rose to pin on their lapel. so when you talk about favorite moments you have to talk about that attitude that seems to permeate this. we are going to get it done. we are going to get it done right. we are going to get this job finished. interestingly enough, tennessee had suffrage clubs all across the state. instead of a moment, i would say it was truly that environment they created. that they could do this and d
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive