First families, 200 years of private life in the white house. He served as a consultant to the smithsonian, and was the National First ladys library historian until 2017. Hes currently writing camera girl for simon and schuster. So welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a back ground about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have per se a favorite child, and, you know, i think an author shouldnt perhaps have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book, and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book, researching this book at a time when there was still the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they were Young Children and one or two had almost been teen
Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan 3, explore our nations past. Cspan 3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. We are four trillion dollars in debt, going into debt an additional one billion dollars every working day of the year. While we sit here tonight, we will go into debt an additional 50 Million Dollars an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault. Its not the democrats fault. What im looking for is who did it. They are the two folks involved, so maybe together they didnt. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there, there is an extra terrestrial doing this to us i guess. Everyone says they take responsibility. Someone, somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three president ial debates on october 15th, 1992. He was talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In the election, t
4 trillion in debt. Going into debt, an additional million in an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault, of course, and its not the democrats fault, and what im looking for is who did it. Now, theyre the two folks involved, so maybe if you put them together, they did it. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there there is an extraterrestrial doing this to us, i guess. Everybody said they will take responsibility. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during three separate debates in 1992 talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In that election the texas businessman won 90 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate sin since. Good night and thank you for being with us. Were doing this series as a way of looking at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in the white house but had an influence on American History. Ross perot is one of 12
Terror trial gets underway 5 years after the bloody attack on the publications offices in paris. Thanks so much for joining us today on r. T. International wherever you tuning in from welcome to the program im daniel. Moscow or locked in a diplomatic row with the alleged nerve agent poisoning of russian opposition figures. On sunday the Russian Foreign ministry question. To provide an explanation for what suggesting its the german side thats not been forthcoming. If the German Government is sincere in its statements it should respond to the request of the russian general Prosecutors Office as soon as possible that was passed along on august 27 it is the german side that really lacks edge unsee but not sending a response the lane is slowing down the very investigative process it is calling for is that on purpose ultimatums do not help anyone move forward but if never explanations follow from russia in the coming days we will have to discuss the response without partners we have high hop