Stay updated with breaking news from Matt davenport. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
women can do anything if they are given the opportunity to do it. i think once they opened that door it was very difficult to close it. it is the women whose mothers in the 40s are some of the most feminist in the 70s, because their mothers told them, look we did all this stuff. a lot of people by the way do not believe women did all these things. when we open this park in 2008 we invited anyone who had been a rosie in the area. a woman came. a woman came up to me and she had a scrapbook and she had pay stubs, all kinds kinds of things, her card from working here. she turned her eyes and ice said what s the matter? and she said i i didn t think anybody would remember what we did. i thought that was a chilling statement because there are a lot of people who do not know what happened. they look at we can do it poster and they think maybe it was the 70s and they do not quite understand who these women were. they do not understand the sacrifice these women did during world ....
that came into town, to try to find them housing, to find them jobs, and to basically get through the war years and all of the fears that existed back then together. for more information on booktv s recent visit to long beach, and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go to c-span.org/cities tour. tonight s program is a presentation of the guggenheim-lehrman prize in military history. a $50,000 price jointly administered by the hari frank guggenheim foundation and the new york historical society. it is thanks to the leader shouppe of of great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar, lehrman, that we have joined with the hari frank guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage greater public discourse in wartime studies. i want to acknowledge mr. lehrman s vision of the importance of understanding military history for aural educated systems and his work on behalf of our great institutions and it s many intellectual endeavors. thank you so m ....
ascendant. thanks so much. thank you. thanks for having me. tonight s program is a presentation of the guggenheim-lehrman prize in military history, a $50,000 prize jointly administered by the harry frank guggenheim foundation and the new york historical society. it is thanks to the leadership of our great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar louis hillerman, that we ve join with the harry frank guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage greater public discourse in wartime studies your i want to acknowledge mr. letterman s vision of importance of understanding military history for all educated citizens and his work on have of our great institution and expanding intellectual endeavors. thank you so much. [applause] i also want to note of encouragement and support of our extraordinary board share. in her philanthropic role, am has seen and understood vividly how the study of the steps to work, the conduct of military campaigns and diplomatic ....