Unidentified speaker begin video clip female today, it is our pleasure to entertain for the first time, our first lady, at this her belated Birthday Party. Female music playing singers to mamie many happy returns. To mamie with music, 160 million join in our chorus inaudible . To mamie with music, to mamie, with love . A birthday tribute to Mamie Eisenhower, televised nationally by cbs in march of 1956, just a few weeks after her husband, president Dwight Eisenhower, announced his bid for reelection. Tonight, 1950s america and the life and times of first lady Mamie Eisenhower. Good evening and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight is Mamie Eisenhowers turn. And here to tell us about her life are two people who have spent a lot of time with first ladies, and in particular in marilyn holts case, Mamie Eisenhower. Shes a historian and author of a biography called, Mamie Eisenhower, the generals first lady. We also welcome back edith mayo to the table. Edies be
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. On this schedule not only did she have a diplomatic dinner, but the next morning she was scheduled to cut the ribbon on the Presbyterian Church bazaar. Some of the things that mamie would discuss with her social secretary were of a personal nature. For instance here, shes shopping for Christmas Gifts for their grandchildren and she notes to buy this doll for her granddaughter susan, but mamie was always particular about the budget and she kept her figures so she would never go over budget. Life in the Eisenhower White house. How many people lived with them there . They sometimes had mamies mother elvira lived there. The eisenhower grandchildren did not live there. They visited very often, spent huge amounts of time and the press loved them, loved to photograph them playing in the front of the building or sometimes they would have photographs of them inside playing, but basically, its ike and mamie and for long periods of time, mamies moth
who is joining us in conversation for her brand-new book the tramp of nancy reagan in addition to working at the washington post she has worked at time magazine of the los angeles times in the recipient of many awards including the prize for excellence and recording as four years ago by simon & schuster to write the prior gravy it is being published tomorrow on april 13, 2021. they call nancy reagan a luminous and exhausted biography which chronicles the private life of influence of nancy reagan, the book draws on interviews with cabinet members, friends and family members and she became one of the most influential first ladies of the century. we invite you to join our virtual program joined in conversation by reagan foundation institute board of trustees kathy busch. good afternoon i am so pleased to welcome you today for the very special sneak peek at a much-anticipated biography on former first lady nancy reagan, the book, the tramp of nancy reagan written by washingto
The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie
Justice Antonin Scalia appeared we begin with the Funeral Service scalia. We begin with the Funeral Service of nancy reagan. From the Ronald Reagan president ial library in california, this is about one hour. [band playing] [choir singing] [crowd noises] [applause] i am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, yet shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Lives that my redeemer and he shall stand upon the earth and those whose body has been destroyed quite yet i will see god. And my eyes behold, not of a stranger. Where none of us lives to himself. And no man dies to himself. For if we live, we live unto the lord. And if we die, we die unto the lord. Whether we live therefore or die, we are the lords. Blessed are the dead that have died. Even so, says the spirit, for the rest from their labors. Halt. Ready. Ready. Step. March. A reading from the book of proverbs. When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband has an un