World. I hope we have given that to our children. I know george w i heard him say several times his dad has given him unconditional love. That is true. All of this baloney about george competing with his father, its just ridiculous. They are devoted to each other, and there was never any competition, and my george is putty in their hands, i must confess, but i think they feel loved, and i hope if i have a legacy other than being the enforcer that it would be that i raised a great family along with george. American history tv is featuring cspans original series, first ladies, influence and image at 8 00 eastern sunday nights rather rest of the year. Next week, we look at hillary clinton. This is American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. They were wives. And mothers. Some had children and grandchildren who became president s and politicians. They dealt with the joys and trials of motherhood. The pleasure and sometimes chaos of raising small children. And, the tragedy of
This is about 20 minutes. Susan chris foss, your work has focused on the Pacific Northwest from the 1950s to 2000. Why did you pick that timeframe . Christopher i think part of it has to do with that being the emergence of the Pacific Northwest as the region that a lot of people in the u. S. Think of it as an environmental destination or tourist destination, or a place to go and have fun and to recreate. It has to become these things through a process. The process that i look at as having become that is through this process of globalization. Now, we talk about globalization as being relatively new. Something that starts in the 1980s which is really when this buzzword starts getting thrown around by political scientists and historians. As a way to kind of interpret and understand the world the postcold war world. What really changes is the northwests traditional reliance on trade is augmented on the one hand. Also the rise of a number of really significant political players. So, some of
Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you know, terrible levels of violence. So some the jobs that mexican immigrants used to do are now being done by the the lowest jobs are being done by Central Americans. And the interesting thing about the Child Migrants is that, you know, first they had to endure this, you know, very dangerous journey from Central America through mexico and then get over the border. But the interesting thing is that they get kind of dumped into this system of where they have the possibility of asking for asylum eve
Thats right but over the weekend the president extremely vocal on camera and over twitter. He took square aim at that federal judge out in seattle that overturned Donald Trumps travel ban on friday. President trump launching attacks against the judge that temporarily halted his travel ban. Accusing him of opening up the country to potential terrorists even suggesting americans should blame the judge and court system if something happens. All of this after calling him a bush appointee a socalled judge when the ruling was handed down on friday. The president of the United States has every right to criticize the other branches of government. Defending the tirade and saying the white house believes the ruling will be overturned. We are very confident that hes operating within his right as president. Equating the American Government actions with russian president putins regime. Do you respect putin . I do. Why . Well i respect a lot of people but that doesnt mean im going to get along with