Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum until dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator, matt anderson, shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan. And the and we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. And were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 broem carriage that was used by president theodore roosevelt. By the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough for all of the reputation he has as a real forwardlooking prog
Here at the henry ford. We are inside the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, just outside our driving america exhibit where we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. Were actually standing in front of series of president ial limousines telling the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Behind me is a 1902 clarj used by theodore roosevelt. By the time of his administration its a common occurrence of cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, for all of the reputation he has is a forward looking progressive. They thought there was a formality appropriate to the dig any to the office and he had a progressive and man of the people image he wanted to protect and automobiles were thought of as play things for the wealthy. It wouldnt do him good riding around in a car. He used a broem moving around washington, d. C. Vehicles like this were fairly common in larger cities. We have a vision in our heads by so many wester
Behind me is the 1902 carriage used by theodore roosevelt. By the time of roosevelts administration, it is a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough, for all the reputation he has as a forwardlooking progressive, really never cared much for automobiles. He wanted to remain in horsedrawn vehicles. I think partly hes out there is a formality involved with horsedrawn transportation appropriate to begin to see appropriate to the agency appropriate to the dignity of the office. He remained in that for his primary transportation when moving around washington, d. C. Vehicles like this would have been fairly common. Ofhave a vision in our heads so many western movies that everybody had a carriage. Not so much the case. Certainly in the city streetcars are available at that time. Rural areas, maybe a generalpurpose carriage. You do see these used firm personal transportation. Certainly he would be of use these as roosevelt fifth. Next we are going
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