you can send us a question or comment, #firstladies.nd on facebook, we have a question posted for you of anything you would like to talk about about martha's time and her life and we will mix those questions in. we welcome your participation. i want to spend the 15 minutes on the years in the white house, the two terms there. >> not the white house. >> sorry, new york city. 1789, she comes to new york city a few months behind george washington. start by telling us what kind of opinion to american public had of these two people. >> it began with the revolution. at that point, when martha would ride to join her husband as she did every year, people would line up behind every fence post to look at her. she said, i felt as though i were a very great somebody. she was somebody for the first time as his wife. the newspapers reported on how important it was for him to have her. they started then -- when they came back as president and his lady, they already had -- the public had an opinion of them. they were singular characters. other politici

twitter, two ways to be involved, use the hash it is g, #firstladies or our@firstladies address. here are the phone lines. >> you can't talk about the 1920 campaign without talking about harry doherty -- dougherty. who was he? >> he's the campaign manager. he's the man behind the throne especially the way he tells it. he elevates his influence and power a great deal in the telling of the story and since the other two people are dead, he gets to tell it far longer. and he does help harding out. but you also see correspondence from harding where he's telling harry in 1918, you think just because i listen to the gulf that people tell me that i swallow it all? well, i don't. ok. i know exactly what's going on. and harding is in fact an incredibly savvy politician. he's good. he's an excellent people person. people like him. even his enemies like him. he is -- he exudes human kindness. this is something which is quite often overlooked about him. he is a genuinely kind and if you shut out certain aspects of his life a good person. >> he's very lovable. daugherty is a kind of run of the

at c-n find out more firstladies. highlightsc-span from the memorial service honoring the late nelson mandela. toer that talking political's mike allen about jobs. thousands gathered at an open air stadium in johannesburg on tuesday to honor the life of warmer southampton president nelson mandela. he died earlier this month at the age of 95. within the next two hours you will hear some of their remarks beginning with president obama. >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] thank you. to graÇa machel and the mandela family, to president zuma and members of the government, to heads of state and government, past and present, distinguished guests -- it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. to the people of south africa -- people of every race and walk of life -- the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us. his struggle was your struggle. his triumph was your triumph. your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is

#firstladies. we'll get to as many of those as we can.rofessor doug brinkley, what kind of world was eleanor born into? >> she was born in new york city. part of that social swirl, societal. the roosevelt name was as good as you could get. her father was elliot roosevelt. the brother of theodore roosevelt. elliott was a character. a great hunter. somebody eleanor loved madly. her father, even though he was absentee quite a bit. and her mother, i think the thing for eleanor roosevelt is that she died when she was quite young. she loses her mother and her father. that was quite traumatic. beyond that as she moves up, the hudson is a great story in america. to the bay of new york, on the transpired along the river. -- all that transpired along the river. whether it is the new george washington or the steamboat, the world along the hudson river. she grew up just down the road from springwood. the home of franklin roosevelt, her distant cousin. >> did she have a happy childhood? >> no. she writes that the only place she ever felt safe was at t

find out more at cspan.org/firstladies. >> tonight on c-span a discussion on gender, race and the growing incarceration rate among women. after that a congressional gold medal ceremony honoring american tribes on their military service. and later a discussion about faith in the white house. >> i think radio is the longer and best form of media that is left. we're doing hour long conversation. only c-span does long forum conversation anymore. it's revealing when an author has had their book read these days because they don't get many who read their books. it's so rewarding to them. i get a great deal of satisfaction when an author says to me that's the best interview i've had on this book tour. charles. t from that makes my day. i like radio . three hours is an adone dance of time and i can do so many different things. c-span, we bring public affair events from washington directly to you putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u.s. house all as a public service of private industry.

that's at c-span.org/firstladies. >> coming up on c-span tonight, 1 iscussion on the january start of coverage under the affordable care act. hat's followed by the year in review, examining immigration legislation and the change in the senate's filibuster rules. we are in the gallery of the light catcher building at the museum. vanishing ice,at alpine and polar landscapes in 1775-2012. the purpose of the exhibition is to highlight the rich cultural planet's frozen frontiers, the alpine regions, the arctic and antarctica. this is a photograph of the greenland ice sheet by a german artist, olaf auto becker dated exhibited nd it's ide-by-side with a photograph by camille ceman, also of east ringland. it's from the last iceberg series of 2006. many people understand the importance of ice for the it's reflective qualities that help regulate the climate. are unaware that it's a collective consciousness western culture about these regions. so it's important within the climate change to let people know that these regions are fundamental to our identity. > there's more from the museum this wee

you can go to www.c- span.org/firstladies.f you go there now, you will find clifton truman sharing another story about his grandmother. the 1952 election. and have run again? >> and yes, but bess could not take another four years. they were in their 60's. 69 he would've been. she did not think he could take it. they were in good health for their age. korea and mccarthyism was starting to spread. they were getting worn down. >> it was pretty clear who was going to win. he was a hero. >> what was the truman- eisenhower relationship? >> he hinted he might support eisenhower if he wanted to run as a democrat in 1948. he really admired eisenhower for a long time. eisenhower was aloof from all of the letters we see. truman was highly offended during the transition when eisenhower do not appear to want to take his advice. a big social snub occurred on inauguration day. it is customer for the incoming president to stop at the white house. eisenhower said he wanted to be picked up at his hotel. truman said, no. he and mamie arrived at

a hashtag for the series we did not have in the first session, @firstladies.e will mix all of that up over the next 90 minutes. one of the other great things is we have a videographer out at the site of the earth's ladies along the way recording the places where they live. tonight, we will introduce you to two of those associated with the roosevelts. what is sagamore hill? >> a big house where all go from the long island public schools. the park service does a fantastic job. it is a great place to visit. >> one thing you should know if you are planning a visit, it is under complete renovation for the next couple of years. we will show you some of the artifacts. you'll learn a lot. we will start there with a video about edith roosevelt and her children, and you will hear the voice of the curator. let's listen in. >> this is a cartoon by a newspaper man. thomas nast. it shows santa claus arriving at the white house to discover there are children at the white house, that the roosevelts had moved in. the title of the piece was "there is life in the old house yet."

you can send us a tweet @firstladies. people are posting questions.e will get to as many of those as we can. you can also call. if you are mountain pacific or even further west, we welcome the conversation. this viewer asks, where was she educated? we are going to visit the town of clayton, georgia. how big is it? that's when she was there it was dirt roads. now the roads are paved, but it doesn't look much different today than it did then. they are surprised they ended up there because when they were younger the goal was to get out of the town. >> that's check out this video. >> not much has changed since the president and mrs. carter grew up here. if we were to take away this asphalt and have a dirt road in front of it, it would look very similar to a photograph of plains, circa 1925. she lived here with her mom and dad, brothers, and sister. one of her favorite memories is when her dad would come home from work, go into the kitchen, give her a hug, swing her around, and give her a kiss. rosalynn carter lost her mother at a young age. jimmy carter's

. >> watch our program on rosalynn carter at our website www.c- span.org/firstladies. or see it on saturday. on monday we will air our encore presentation. >> the archduke ferdinand and his wife were in surrey a low -- sarah rio tinto -- surrey able on a tour. it was a bad day for him to come to the national holiday, and serbians was furious that austria hungry had taken over bosnia. it was seen as a provocation. there were people who had been plotting to against the archduke. they decided to kill him. they did. it was sloppy police work. they shot the archduke and his wife point-blank and they both died. >> the assassination of archduke ferdinand and his wife. margaret mcmillan on the war that ended peace, sunday night at 8:00. >> we're waiting to bring you a live briefing from the united nations. a report released yesterday finds and go weapons were likely used repeatedly in four other locations in syria. this in addition to the already documented attack on august 21 in damascus. you're waiting for the u.n. team to brief reporters in new york city. while waiting, and

that is c-span.org/firstladies.ormsnow have secular instead of theological norms that govern our acceptance or rejection of the ways in which a god or goddess can speak to people. hashad david saying that he special insight into the bible. help otherhts members of the community understand the bible better and allows them to understand that they are living in the end times. itself doesn't seem to be a problem. when it leads to other elements that trigger both law enforcement concerns as well as the popular press is concerned, then this idea of somebody listening to god and having his followers do things that seem to the aberrant, that is dangerous. that needs to be policed and controlled. peterigion professor argues that religious persecution in america has been prevalent since the mid-1800's even committed by the government. sunday night at 9:00 on "after words." >> c-span, we bring public affairs evidence from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings in the white house evidence,

. >> watch our program on first lady rosalynn carter on c-span.org/firstlady and c-span at 7:00 eastern and monday will start our encore presentation of first lady season two, edith roosevelt to grace coolidge at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> it is are rare constant in american political life. if you look at congress, 1901, less than 2% of members came from working-class backgrounds, got into politics and wound up in congress. flash forward to the present day the average member of congress spent less than 2% of their career doing manual labor jobs and service industry jobs and this is one thing that hasn't changed. lots of different aspects of the political process, broadcast television, cable news, the rise of candidate centered elections, big money, the decline of unions and all of this is happening, one of the constants during that, during the last hundred years or so is working class people are not getting elected to political office. >> does it matter there is a socioeconomic disparity between most elected officials and citizens they represent in nicholas collins looks at a white coll

. >> watch our program on first lady betty ford at our website, c-span.org/firstladies, or see it saturday on c-span at 7:00 eastern and our series ontinues live on monday. >> as you walk in, there are tables out in front with lots of pamphlets. prior don'tering the gun show. and the pamphlets are all how the government's trying to take away the right to own guns and the government is doing this and obama is doing that and obamacare is terrible. those are the guys i wanted to talk to because those were were the guys with the leaflets, the ideas. they said, who are you? i said, i'm an academic, i'm a researcher and i'm doing research on these organizations, these ideas, and trying to understand the guise about it. and the men who believe this stuff. a bunch of them looked at me suspiciously and said -- sort of asked me questions and i said, look, here's what i am. i don't get it. so -- but here's my job. i want to understand how you guys see the world. i want to understand your world view. look, you will not convince me. and i will not convince you. that's off the table. what is on the tabl

. >> watch our program on first lady betty ford at our website, c-span.org/firstladies or see it saturday on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern and our series continues live monday as we look at first lady rosaline carter. two months after the rollout of the health care law and website, president obama said today that the overhaul is working and, quote, we're not repealing it as long as i'm president. the president's remarks are next on c-span. denis mcdonough will talk about the application. later, the house judiciary committee talks about how they have made certain changes to the affordable health care act by using executive powers. now, remarks from president obama on the implementation of the health care law and the .gov website. the president spoke for about 50 minutes from the eisenhower executive office building. >> when i was a 19-year-old college student at the university of central florida i began having symptoms of crohn's disease. at the time, i was covered under my parents insurance which is necessary since i required several surgeries. several years later while a grad school at flo