Hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report, and be ready for action. And youve been listening to some of onerous votes radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And we are going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about owners about, allida black, who is the editor of the unnerves votes paper project at George Washington university, and a historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, the roosevelts are being inaug
Test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Doug brinkley, if i could, what about criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and throughout her 12 years as first lady . Were people critical of her . Weve kind of had a little bit of a love affair so far tonight. Of course, they were, because people didnt like fdr. A very polarizing president. He killed the opposition in 30 and 32 and i promise you eleanor was not an albatross. As i mentioned before, she was a huge asset. With that said, i think some thought her issue of pushing the labor unions and supporting the coal miners. If you were a coal owner, you would not have liked it. In the south, as i mentioned, the africanamerican issue was very controversial. In fact, theres one letter she wrote to an africanamerican person in chicago, the person wrote her because one of her columns, she called black people and this africanamerican rightly said how can you who is helping africanamericans use the word dark, and she sa
Transports loaded with lumber on its way to hawaii. By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in first ladies and were going to look at her life, relationship and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladys influence and image series. Joining us to evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, anita black whos the leader of the project at George Washington university, and a historian. And another historian, whos also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug, briefly, march, 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugural rated. What are the
Thanks for joining us. In a few minutes, were gonna take you inside two truly unbelievable homes. But first, i want to introduce you to a couple stuck in a property nightmare. Which one are you looking for, jacob . Let me tell you the story of mark and yessenia. Go like this. Theyre a typical young couple. Theyre trying to raise a family and provide for their children. Weve been married for seven years. Currently, im a firefighter with the city of henderson fire department. Yessenia is a stayathome mom right now with our three boys and running the household for us. We bought our first home in 2006. After we got married, we started our family and decided we needed to get into a bigger home. Throw it we were running out of room, and, at the time, the market wasnt the best for us to sell the house that we were in, so we decided to use it as a rental property. It was about three years of living into that house, and i lost my job. Once we realized my job alone wasnt gonna handle both the mo
When youre selling your property, doing some very simple things can give you an amazing bang for your buck. One of those things its called staging. Its basically remodeling or redecorating your home to make it attractive to any potential buyer so important. And the results . They can be dramatic. We tagged along with professional home stager jennifer paxson, as she transformed two properties that are about to hit the market. What we do as stagers is we bring furniture in so that people can see how they could live in the space. We me peop have an emotional connection so they see the way that they could livee. For Property Number one, jennifer went way beyond traditional staging and worked with the homeowner on repainting, restaining cabinets, and even replacing carpets. The style of the home is very traditional. And what were trying to do is make it transitional because transitional is gonna bring the traditional style as well as contemporary pieces. Contemporary pieces are more of what