Ladies and gentle blue, happy birthday. I am jeffrey rosen, president of the National Constitution center and we have an important responsibility on bill of rights day, the National Chart of the Constitution Center to inspire people around the world. Before doing that, here we go. We are going to recite not only the first part but the entire congressional charter and i know you can do it. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And the purpose of our charter, in order to increase understanding of the constitution among the american people. That is what we are going to do today. On december 15, 1791, the bill of rights was ratified. The first 10 amendments which are now known as the bill of rights have become iconic of american liberty throughout the globe but as we learned today in a fascinating series of discussions the bill of rights is not always the bill
List is partial to books that explore questions of race, freedom, equality and justice. The firebrand the firebrand and the first lady has it all. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone. Good evening. I am Harold Holzer director and its always a pleasure to the first of our evening Public Program to mark womens History Month. March is womens History Month and these remember that part of the celebration is the opportunity for you to have another look or perhaps your first look at the exhibition of womens suffrage material that we have on view upstairs. I was going to say only through the end of the month. We will be announcing the extension but dont let that deter you from seeing it soon again and often. Tonight we are going to welcome two extraordinary women who will be speaking about two extraordinary women and its a real pleasure to welcome both of them to the home of Eleanor Roosevelt who played such a big role in Pauli Murrays courageous thing gro
Poor people who can afford a brownstone that cause one or 2 million they cant afford a condominium that cost 800,000. I think gentrification has real impact. Urban america is being revitalized at the same time. In the 60s we called the removal. Host the first book that Peniel Joseph road came out in 2006 waiting til the midnight hour, dark days, bright nights came out in 2014 and stokely and life brandnew hot off the presses and it is booktvs Book Club Selection for the month of march 2014. Booktv. Org up there at the top. Theres a tab that says bookclub. Click on the enemy can participate in our discussion throughout the month. Peniel joseph thanks for being on booktv. Guest thank you for having me. Booktv continues with Angelo Codevilla who says u. S. Leaders have about the Founding Fathers place pursuit of peace is the highest object of american statecraft and the school was lost during the 20th century must be regained for the left to thrive in the future. This is about an hour. [a
From 1953 to 1956, there was a white house projectionist who wrote down every movie that the president saw and with one exception, who the president saw it with. The one exception is under kennedy. He saw a movie, we dont know who he saw it with. Its a treasure trove of all of the president s were seeing at a particular time. The theater has been around for a long time and helpful to president s trying to get people along on a vote. So, for example, george w. Bush brought in ted kennedy to see 13 days which was a movie about john f. Kennedys experience of the cuban missile crisis that made john f. Kennedy look good. So bush brought in ted kennedy and ended up working together on the no child left behind law. They were able to get that past the majority. Who was on the record . He would not watch movies with Robert Mitchum in them because he had been arrested for marijuana possession. He would try to sneak movies with mitchum by eisenhower. When mitchum got up on the screen, eisenhower
Much impact. I looked at cultural influences. Now thanks to the internet, there are so many ways to find out what president s have watched, read, tweeted, i put them together to take a look. What was the most interesting finding as you dug into this . Wood row wilson was the only phd. President and phd. I found that appealing. He wasnt that big a reader but he loved theater. He saw 250 plays as president. His favorite genre is vaudeville. He thought a hook across the stage or a pie in the face as much as the next guy. We found out when scott burge was here that he played 1200 rounds of golf. What about the image . Did that create the same kind of image todays golf would do . Interesting is wilson and the theater going, world war i, the Washington Post editorialized in favor of wilson going to theater in wartime. You see the critical of the president playing golf or going to the theater. Wilson was pratzed becau ee eee because it helped to keep that industry alive. You shouldnt overindu