A year after a power sharing deal was signed. Theres gold in these hills that im standing on perhaps 3800000000 dollars worth armory chalons in Northern Ireland keep watching to find out why some people here want to stop the canadians from mining it. So were beginning in the United States with the Democratic Party is holding its National Convention to formally name joe biden as its president ial candidate of course the coronavirus pandemic is still persisting so this years event is being held virtually weve got the vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former 1st Lady Michelle obama headlining this 1st night of speeches some of which have been prerecorded. I know joe he is a profoundly decent man guided by faith he was a terrific Vice President he knows what it takes to rescue an economy beat back a pandemic and lead our country and he listens he will tell the truth and trust science he will make smart plans and manage a good team and he will govern as someone whos lived a life that the r
Her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tragedy, as lincolns political partner, she also relished in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspans continuing series on first ladies influence and image. Tonight, as we look at Mary Todd Lincoln, we invite two of our academic advisers, our history advisors for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to rosalyn terborgpenn. She is a history Professor Emeritus at morgan state university. Richard norton smith, our other guest tonight and at our table again, is the director of five president ial libraries, including the Abraham Lincoln library in springfield, illinois, and a president ial biographer. Thanks to both of you for being here. Mary todd lincoln is and this is a que
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Also a member of the wig Political Party and todd and clay shared some political ideas especially in regard to slavery. Both clay and todd supported the American Colonization Society which was a movement to resettle freed blacks back to liberia. So this represents yet another view on slavery that mary lincoln was exposed to as a chi child. This is the gentlemans parlor of the house and its a section of the house that would have been offlimits to the women, but according to one of Mary Todd Lincolns cousins, mary would like to sit in on the political conversations when her father was entertaining the prominent men of the day. Mary lincoln might have taken an interest in politics to help garner attention from her father who was very active in state and local politics. And our next caller is from lexington, kentucky. John is on the line. John, your question or comment. Hello, thank you for taking my call. I certainly appreciate the empathetic and
Witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tragedy, she relished in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspan continuing series on first ladies influence and image. We invite to history advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to roslynter borg penn. And Richard Nortan smith our guest and at our table is the director of five president ial libraries including the Abraham Lincoln library in springfield, illinois. Thank you both for being here. Mary todd lincoln and this is a question for both, well start with richard, is viewed in broad strokes, bouts of depression, criticism of her lavish spending and and indulgent mother and what do you see. Oh, boy. That
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