coolidge. this is about 90 minutes. ♪ susan swain: grace coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. married to a man known as "silent cal," she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. susan swain: good evening, and welcome to c-span series, first ladies' influence and image. tonight, we'll be telling you the story of first lady grace coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president, in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. susan swain: here to set the stage for us as we learn about the five-plus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. welcome to the program. susan swain: let's have you just tell us about of the arrival of calvin coolidge into the white house. how prepare was he for the job? amity shlaes: actually, quite prepared because

coolidge. he was born in a little house attached to the back of the store that his father operated. and then when he was four, he moved across the road to the building we now know as the coolidge homestead. this was an old-fashioned town for most americans of the sophisticated roaring 20s. this is quaint even back then. william jenney: grace, of course, spent some of the time just walking around. that was one of her great passions. she loved to walk, and so she would go down to the cemetery, especially after her son, calvin jr. died, to visit the gravesite there. she did a lot of knitting and other types of handwork while she was here and just enjoying the country air. william jenney: she was a burlington girl, grew up in the biggest town in vermont. and when she was growing up, her house had electricity and plumbing. when she came here, this was very much a country home still, and so no electricity or plumbing in the house where she stayed with her husband. william jenney: this is the kitchen

[applause] >> with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes off. grace coolidge was in the norm is a popular first lady and influence the taste of american women by becoming a style icon, although she married a man known as site like cal. she's her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. this is c-span possible original " from, "first ladies -- martha washington to michelle obama. that on american history on c-span3. >> each week, american history america" brings you shows that brings context to today's issues. the program addresses problem of overcrowded schools as a result of the post-world war ii baby boom. the program begins with a frustrated teacher writing her resignation letter and then shows how her once happy classroom gradually becomes dysfunctional and argues that overcrowded classrooms are incompatible with that education practices. it's just under 30 minutes. ♪ >> this is the classroom. the teachers professional home. louise roberts has spent half her waking life for the past five years helping children to learn. feeling h

grace coolidge this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image" examining the public and private lives of first ladies from martha washington to michelle obama. sunday on american history tv on c-span3. >>> another freshman profile now. this one with republican congressman ralph abraham of the louisiana 5th district. he's a practicing physician, has a veterinarian degree, is an avid pilot and has served in the national guard. >>> congressman ralph abraham, you are batting 1.000 when it comes to elections. this is your first ever publicly held office. >> that is correct. this is the first one we ran for and fortunately we won it. >> why did you want to run? >> i have grandchildren now. they're very small. and the direction i thought this country was going in was somewhat different than the way it was going. so that's why i jumped in the race. we need to leave a better country than we certainly came up with. and that's why we ran. >> was it hard at all to get the family on board

grace coolidge this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series first ladies, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. tonight on q&a, stanford luscombe professor deborah rody talks about her book "the trouble with lawyers," which takes acquittal look at -- a critical look at the legal education in the united states. >> i think we need a different model of legal education. we need that includes one-year programs for people doing routine work. two year programs as an option for people who want to do something specialized in the third year. full years for people who want the full general practice legal education that we now have. you know, it is crazy to train in the same way somebody who's doing routine divorces in a small town and in the midwest and somebody doing mergers and acquisitions on wall stre

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m.tern on c-sp c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency." american history tv on c-span 3. >>> in 1945, 70 years ago, allied forces liberated the nazi concentration camps from the united states holocaust memorial museum's oral history collections survivors remember their time in the camps and how they persevered. some of their stories tonight an american history tv. at 8:00 p.m. an interview with leslie swift, chair of film, oral history and recorded sound. at 8:10 kirk cline talks about escaping germany in the 1930s and returning in 1945 and helping to liberate holocaust survivors. just past 9:00, spending most of the war in a jewish ghetto and in a transit camp before being sent on a death march in 1945. at 11:00 paim mayor adler remembers being deported to auschwitz in 1944 with fis family and being the only one to survive the war. coming

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, first ladies, influence and image. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from march what washington to michelle obama sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. on american history tv on c-span3. >>> now more from this symposium marking the 70th anniversary of v-j day. this part of the event looks at the strategy of joseph stalin and the soviet union in the pacific at the end of world war ii. we'll heard from david glantz, editor in chief of the journal of slavic military studies. this is just under an hour. first, thank you for the invitation to come down and to return to the beginning because i began my work on the soviet army basically as a result of a trip to japan in 1978, '80 and '81. the questions they had were questions about man chur ya and now we are going full circle 30 years -- 35 years later. my task today is to talk about ending the war in the pacific. a few

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, first ladies, influence and image. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern opinion on american history tv on c-span3. >>> now more from this symposium marking the 70th anniversary of v-j day. this part of the event looks at the strategy of joseph stalin and the soviet union in the pacific at the end of world war ii. we'll heard from david glantz, editor in chief of the journal of slavic military studies. this is just under an hour. first, thank you for the invitation to come down and to return to the beginning because i began my work on the soviet army basically as a result of a trip to japan in 1978, '80 and '81. the questions they had were questions about manchuria and now we are going full circle 30 years -- 35 years later. my task today is to talk about ending the war in the pacific. a fe

coolidge this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on " first lady's, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and her influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama." tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern o american history tv on c-span 3. all weekend, american history tv is featuring the city of grand junction. in 1911, president taft established the colorado national monument after john otto built trails. before that, many grand junction residents believe the canyons were inaccessible to humans. hosted by our

coolidge this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on " first lady's, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and her influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama." tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern o american history tv on c-span 3. all weekend, american history tv is featuring the city of grand junction. in 1911, president taft established the colorado national monument after john otto built trails. before that, many grand junction residents believe the canyons were inaccessible to humans. chartery our communications cable partners, the city tour staffers only visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about grand junction, colorado, all weekend here on american history tv. julia: we are currently at a place called dinosaur hill. this is part of the national conservation area managed by the bureau of land management. this area was originally settled any 18080's. as soon as people started living here, they were finding

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama" sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> in 1945, 70 years ago, allied forces liberated the nazi concentration camps. tonight on american history tv, we hear holocaust stories from those who lived them. those interviews are part of the oral history collection of the united states holocaust memorial museum in washington, d.c. up next, mayor adler talks about being deported to auschwitz with his family in 1944, their separation and his later transfer to a labor concentration camp. he remembers concentration and returning to his childhood home where he searched unsuccessfully for any of his immediate relatives. this oral history is almost 90 minutes. >> october 6, 1929. >> i wonder if you could tell me something about your

announcer: with the sudden death of president harding, calvin coolidge takes office. coolidge was a popular first lady and influenced the tastes of american women but becoming a style icon. although she married a man known as silent cow, she never spoke to the press. grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's original series, first ladies: influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who but the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency, for martha washington to michelle obama. sunday at 8:00, on c-span3. announcer: south carolina governor nikki haley was an washington, d.c. this week speaking at the national press club about race relations. she shared her own experience as a minority in the south and talked about what her state was doing to improve racial equality in the labor force and education. this is one hour. >> welcome to the national press club. i'm an editor for bloomberg. i am also president of the national press club. our guest today is south carolina governor nikki haley. some pundits see her as a

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image, examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidencyunsuccessfully for any of his immediate relatives. this oral history is almost 90 minutes. >> october 6, 1929. >> i wonder if you could tell me something about your family, your early life before the war. >> well, we were a typical jewish family in a small town i had two younger brothers and my parents. a lot of aunts and uncles and cousins. and just as i said, normal kind of orthodox judaism. on friday, for example the world stopped, everybody came home and went to services friday afternoon, friday evening and saturday it was just very peaceful and no labor, no money. >> what did your father do? >> well, he was a merchant. he was doing several things. he had a lumber business and farm farming and things of that sort. >> do you have any recollections of that period? >> mostly the hardships

." >> with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office.ough she married a man known as silent cal, she never used -- spoke to the press but used the office to bring attention to issues she cared about. ladies," examining the public and private lives of women who filled the position and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama sunday at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on cspan3. >> coming up next, richard thornton examines president truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. he looked at the u.s. and ussr and the promises president roosevelt made during the yalta conference. he is the president of the institute for the study of strategy and politics which hosted this event. this is a portion of a symposium 1940focused on august, five, in asia and the pacific marking the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. it is about one hour. writtenssor thorton has books on the presidency of carter, nixon, and reagan. and also a book on truman and the korean war, which today he is go

police rushed to 7th street near coolidge high school around 3:30 this morning. they say someone shot two men, one of them in the head. derrick ward is there with more on the story. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, good morning. we understand and we can tell this is a pretty wide crime scene. it encompasses at least a quarter of this block at the intersection of 7th and tuckerman. it happened about 3:25 this morning. that's when police were summoned to the area where they found one man shot in the head and another person shot and wounded critically. we don't know exactly much more in the way of details on that. they were found a distance apart. and police are processing two crime scenes. we are here at the corner of 7th and tuckerman where two cars are about to be towed away. they were up on the truck and put back down again possibly to make sure they get through the police evidence lab. we do understand one of the victims of the shooting has died. we don't have an identity. both victims were adult males. again, this happened about 3:25 this morning in a

he then served as secretary of commerce under harding and coolidge. one question -- i have read that she was a globetrotter? what other parts of the world that they see? annette: burma, cambodia, a went back to australia together. they traveled in the countries of north africa. in the middle east. they were also in russia. that was just the short list. susan: during this time before the white house, they also published together. annette: lou published a couple of pieces on geology on her own. one of them was a biography of milne who created the seismograph to measure the severity of earthquakes. the work that they did together was the translation of a 16th century treatise on mining. it was written in latin. it had a lot of technical latin terms. lou had studied latin. they also used a professional translator. that book one and award. the first award given by the association for mining and metallurgy. herbert was a member of that association but lou was not. she is the one who gave the remarks and accepted the metal. susan: let's take a call from davi

president coolidge was shown in a photograph as vice president using indian clubs, a form of exercise. these were weighted clubs you would raise and do calisthenics with. this particular picture was not at the white house but was a great picture of one of these in use. we have a pair of these and they were stamped with the word u.s. to represent they were government property. this bowling ball which is marked white house, it would have been used by a woman or child by the size, a little lighter weight than the standard issue. in 1947, president harry truman added the first white house bowling alley in the basement of the west wing. it was later moved to these active office building. in 1970, president richard nixon was a big bowler so he wanted a bowling alley as part of the residential complex. a new single lane white house bowling alley was created under the north lawn. when you are standing at pennsylvania avenue and seeing into the white house, there are things located under the north lawn. the children at the white house often found ways for recreation, including gym equipment, s

after coolidge it of closed down . the depression and then the war and such and then our -- all our concerns of modern life has closed it down. it used to be the people's house. and she really brought the people back into it. susan swain: our partner for this series is the white house historical association. they have a compendium book about the lives of the first ladies that we are making available on our website for cost. if you'd like to follow along with us, you can find it at cspan.org/firstladies as we continue to tell you the stories of these women. how they shaped the administrations and how they shaped history in the country as well. thanks to our two guests tonight to tell us about florence harding. a first lady that wasn't very well-known when we started and hopefully you know more know. kathrine sibley and her book is available, first lady florence harding behind the tragedy and controversy" and david pietrusza who has several books that you , can look to, but one that's -- particularly this era in 1920, th

one of the things that she did she was unorthodox in other ways. -- she not have inherited grace coolidge's social secretary. she wanted lou to learn how to do things the washington society way. lou did not want to do things that way. those two parted company after one year and lou did not hire another social secretary. she did introduce a lot of changes. she was very unorthodox. susan: you know what they're an inauguration looked at like? did they have a ball? annette: it was pouring rain that day. they got soaked in the actual ceremony and in watching the parade. they did not attend the ball. vice president curtis and his sister-in-law served as his hostess and they attended the ball that evening. it was considered a charity ball, not what we would think about today as an inaugural ball. i do not know what charity it was for. i will tweet that after i find out. jordan.ello of thisi am a big fan series and i know all about the presidents. herbert hoover. my question is about them -- what was her favorite activity she did in the white house? annette: i am not sure there was just one. i will

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image." from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. this sunday night on "q&a," we talk about the book "the trouble with lawyers." it talks about the high cost of law schools and the like of diversity in the profession. >> we need a different model of legal education that includes one-year programs for people doing routine work, to your programs for those who want to do something specialized, and three full years for people who want the full, general legal education that we have. it's crazy to train in the same way, number you was doing routine divorces in a small town in the midwest and somebody who was doing murders and -- doing mergers and acquisitions on wall street. we have a one-size-fits-all style that is extensive. the average debt for a law student is $100,000. it assumes that you can train everybody to do everything in the same way. i am licensed to practice in two states a

ofwith a sudden death harding, coolidge takes office. harding influenced the taste of american women. she never spoke to the press. she used her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge, this sunday night on c-span's original ladies, influence and image, examining the public and private life of the woman who fill the position of first lady and their influence he on on the presidency. us tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. wednesday, a panel of republican and democratic pollsters previewed the 2016 presidential election, including the current candidates and political landscape. panelists discussed donald trump's impact and the role of social media. chuck todd moderated this event at george washington university in washington. he evening together. we will turn over to talk to you. [applause]. >> , a freshman are in the building? that is fantastic. twenty-five years ago was obviously the founding of the school. 255 years ago was when i step foot on this campus, by the way this was a parking lot, next-door was

great coolidge this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original theories, first ladies, influence and image. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency for martha washington to michelle obama. sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. up next, from washington journal, a look at the role of progresses and the tea party and campaign 2016. then, ben carson speaking at the steamboat institute's annual conference in colorado. later, ohio governor and republican presidential candidate john kasich meeting with new hampshire voters at a house party in bedford. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] host: joining us now is anna galland who is executive director of moveon.org. good morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's start with iran because we learned that the president -- the white house has secured enough votes, starting in the senate, to keep this treaty alive and it avoided being defeat

police rushed to 7th street near coolidge high school around 3:30 this morning. they said someone shot two men, one of them in the head. news 4's derrick ward is on the scene. derrick, what are police telling you? >> reporter: this is still a crime scene in terms of the investigation. take a look here. you are looking up tuckerman street toward georgia avenue. now here at the intersection of 7th and tuckerman police had a couple of vehicles up on tow trucks. they put them back down. they're still here. lots of evidence markers. we counted at least 13. so there are at least 13 pieces of evidence of various kinds that are being chronicled here. this happened early this morning at about 3:25. that's when police were called to this intersection. when they got here they found one adult who had been shot and a short distance away they found another person. both had been shot. now the first person they encountered had been shot multiple times. we don't know how many. one person has expired. the other person suffered what are called nonlife threatening injuries. again, p

grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original theories, first ladies, influence and image. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama. sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. , remarks from republican presidential candidate ben carson at the steamboat institute annual conference in colorado. seven we will look at this morning's headlines on washington journal. tv. announcer: ben carson was recently in colorado. he spoke on a range of issues including the national debt, immigration. this is part of our road to the white house coverage. dr. carson: thank you. thank you. we are delighted to be with you. thanks for all the hard work. jennifer and rick, all the the leadership program of the rockies, everybody whoas done such a fabulous job in putting this together. you know, america is still a place of dreams. there are a lot of people who try to denigrate ou

with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was an enormously popular first lady and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. although, she married a man cal, ad -- known as silent she never spoke to the press. grace coolidge. this and a night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, "first ladies." examining the public and private lives of the women who fill the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from the washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3. announcer: as we mentioned a few moments ago, barbara mikulski became the 34th senator to declare her support of the iran nuclear agreement, providing president obama a net votes to sustain an expected veto of a congressional disapproval resolution. now the white house saying it is trying to pick up support from an additional seven senators to prevent debate and vote on the measure from happening in the first place. next up, senate leaders remarked on the dea

grace coolidge, on c-span's series on first ladies. examining the public and private lives of women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michele obama. up >>> tonight on poke booktv in prime time. books by presidential candidates. next our "after words" nrintervw with john kasich author of stand for something and bobby jindal's book at the reagan ranch. and then our interview with senator rand paul "government bullies: how everyday americans are being harassed, abused, and imprisoned by the feds." and rick perry discusses his book "fed up!: our fight to save america from washington." and now john kasich. he is interviewed by clinton administration and economic advisor gene spiraling. -- sperling. >>> john kasich, former congressman and host of heart land on fox news says it is up to him to reset the moral comps of the country. he makes the case by drawing on examples from government, business, religion, sports, education, and poplar culture. john kasich is interviewed by

grace coolidge was a very enormously popular first lady. she became a style icon. she noticed a man known as silent cal. she use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge the sunday night on c-span's original series first ladies, influence an image, examining the public and private lives of first ladies and the influence on presidency from martha washington to michelle obama. on american history tv on c-span3. >> a signature feature of book tv is our all-day coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country with top nonfiction authors. here is our schedule. beginning this weekend, we are alive from the 15th annual national book festival from our nations capital. we are in new york for the brooklyn festival celebrating its 10th year. in early october, it is the southern festival of books in nashville. the weekend after that, we are live from austin for the texas book festival. new the end of the month we will cover two festivals on the same weekend. the wisconsin book festival in madison. on the east coast, the boston book fe

calvin coolidge embraced radio. donald trump is the first twitter candidates. he tweets. he uses social media. and 140 characters. it doesn't matter. they cancel themselves out. as reagan was the first real actor president, he is the first reality show president, and in this era, it's resonated with people. >> you don't think it's just about attacking foreigners, then in. >> you look at his tax plan, and it's progressive. and he doesn't -- i'm a person who is center. he does not care about -- he's pro-life. he's not going to do anything about the issue. he's a new yorker from queens. social issues, i think he doesn't care about a lot of issues. he just says these things and he's enjoying himself. >> he's having fun. >> i don't think he cares about being president. >> do you think he wants to be president? >> i don't. >> who wants live in the white house? >> have you seen the trump taj mahal? that's beautiful. >> he'll get out the basketball court, put in a casino. >> this sounds pretty good. i want to get in this liberal panel. i haven't heard much. what are your thoughts

>> any library from coolidge and before is either private or state-run but not national archives, although some of -- including the woodrow wilson library tried to become part of the system, try today get legislation passed to make part of the system. i think mostly every local and presidential -- look at the nixon library. it was not able to continue, and so that's why they sought out the national archives persons. >> thank you. >> thank you for your questions. >> you made a wonderful presentation, thank you, and my question is a sign of time, everything is digitize maybe that archives are going to be digital or in the clouds? >> that's a good question. one of the things i did was i wrote the script. if you watch hearings, there's a script. even the jokes were scripted, and so i would write the hearing in scripts and invite the witnesses and pick the topics. it was a very scare situation when i realized that that would be my responsibility. congress had passed a bill a few years ago requiring using a report for presidential models, i put that report. these are the five different ways we c

ofwith the sudden death president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was an enormously popular first lady and influenced the taste of american by becoming a style icon. she never spoke to the press, but brought attention to the issues she cared about. the original program "first ladies: influence and image." examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the office of the first lady and their influence from martha washington to michelle obama. department state international consultant recently spoke about women in afghanistan. charlotte, the program director for the american committee on foreign relations discussed challenges in progress for american women after the fall of - after -- four afghani women after the fall of the taliban. this is about an hour. [applause] ms. ponticelli: wow. quitet think i ever had such a warm and wonderful introduction and a want to thank my very good friend judy, who has been such a support and inspiration to me also for so many years now for the great here innow she does out this beautiful

president coolidge is in the middle there, we are talking roughly the 1920's. george putnam is standing to his right. mr. putnam was the head of the viewer lighthouses and the lighthouse establishment. the lighthouse service began in the 1789 but the british colonial government had lighthouses, too, in america. the lighthouse service and the lighthouse keepers and crews -- they did a lot of life saving. the lighthouses were stationed at dangerous entrances to ports. in heavy winds, the sailing ships did not have much maneuverability and they would hit rocks or shores and sink. the lighthouse services saved lives. so did the u.s. life-saving service save lives. the lighthouse service had light ships. they had the first light ship in chesapeake bay in 1820. here you see the coast guard ship number 612. it is dangerous duty. this is off the nantucket shoals of massachusetts. they were stationed by the rocks and the heavy seas. that was very dangerous. but lighthouse ships had the duty of warning ships away from dangerous territory so they had to be in the dangerou

grace coolidge was an enormously popular first lady. although she married a man known as silent cal she never spoke to the press but used her office to bring attention to the issues she cared about. >> i think we need a different model of education that includes one-year programs for people doing routine work, two-year programs is an option for people who want to do something specialized in the third year, and three full years for people who want a full general practice legal education that we now have. but it's crazy to train in the same way somebody who is doing routine divorces in a small town in the midwest and somebody whose doing mergers and acquisitions on wall street. we have this one size fits all model of legal education that is extremely expensive. the average debt level is $100,000. and that assumed that you can train everybody to do everything in the same way. i'm licensed to practice in two states and i wouldn't trust myself to do a routine divorce. >> former british defense secretary liam fox spoke at the heritage foundat

[applause] >> with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes off.grace coolidge was in the norm is a popular first lady and influence the taste of american women by becoming a style icon, although she married a man known as site like cal. she's her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. this is c-span possible original " from, "first ladies -- martha washington to michelle obama. that on american history on c-span3. >> each week, american history last

grace coolidge was a very enormously popular first lady. she became a style icon. she noticed a man known as silent cal. she use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge the sunday night on c-span's original series first ladies, influence an image, examining the public and private lives of first ladies and the influence on presidency from martha washington to michelle obama. on american history tv on c-span3. >> a signature feature of book tv is our all-day coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country with top nonfiction authors. here is our schedule. beginning this weekend, we are alive from the 15th annual national book festival from our nations capital. we are in new york for the brooklyn festival celebrating its 10th year. in early october, it is the southern festival of books in nashville. the weekend after that, we are live from austin for the texas book festival. new the end of the month we will cover two festivals on the same weekend. the wisconsin book festival in madison. on the east coast, the boston book fe

i want somebody who is competent, calvin coolidge, and his boringness. know everything is happening. next question. >> i think i know who you're talking about then. >> could be scott walker. >> i like ben carson. >> i told you. >> not that boring. >> he speaks in a very deliberative way. he is methodical and consistent and thoughtful. >> i want my brain surgeon to be boring. i don't want flamboyant. >> exactly. if you were president, what would be your first act on day one? we'll go this way. kimberly? >> i thought you said dana. >> it's from dana. >> what would be my first act? >> yeah. >> i would focus first on fornl poli -- foreign policy and focus on the military. i think that would have been to be done first. >> i think in following up my previous comments about uniting rather than dividing i would declare a state of emergency in urban america. i think the division between black and white and latino some place in the middle is exacerbated to some critical extent, and you see a generation of minority youngsters being wasted. >> the first thing in off

but the fact of the matter is when people say i'd love it if calvin coolidge was running. but he's not running. she's decided to sit out 2016. after the kind of guys we've had and if you're telling me, sean, that a republic after 250 years can do no bert than the son and brother of the previous president versus the wife of the previous president, i'd rather george the iii came back and got on the ticket because there's no point to a republic in that case. >> i want to get your perception, ben carson, kasich, rubio. mork with mark steyn coming up. >>> i've been challenged by so many people, and i don't frankly have time for total political correctness. and to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. >> donald trump, he stood out at the first republican debate. so who is the best debater in the gop field? we'll check in withaldo rivera, rich lowrie. hillary clinton is hosting a viewing party for tonight's debate. that must be fun. ed henry standing by with reaction from her brooklyn headquarters tonight. do you suffer from constipation or irregularity? trus

>> guest: any library from coolidge and before is either private or state run.not national archives. although some including woodrow wilson tried to become part of the system. tried to get legislation passed for this. look at the nixon library, it was called the richard nixon library and birth birthplace and it was not able to continue and that is why they were sought seeking out the national archives. >> you made a wonderful presentation. my question is a sign of time, everything is digitized now. there any idea that may be the oldest archive will be available in digital and in the clouds? >> guest: one of the things i did on the hill is planned hearings. i wrote the script. if you watch hearings there is a script. even the jokes were scripted. so i would write the hearing and invite the witnesses and take the topics. it was a scary situation when i realized that would be my responsibility. congress passed a bill a few years ago acquiring the archives to produce a report a report on alternative models for presidential libraries. i took that report and developed

i'm hoping the calvin coolidge maxim applies in this case says when you see 10 problems coming along the road nine are likely to run into a ditch before they reach you and i am talking to one of the nine. host: democrats can join at (202) 748-8000. republicans (202) 748-8001. .ndependents (202) 748-8002 tom mcclintock is a member of the budget committee and we are facing a government shutdown perhaps tomorrow at midnight if this budget situation isn't worked out. this playing out? >> we first have to reflect on how the last six months have turned out. the house has produced six of the 12 appropriations bills and despite mitch mcconnell's efforts to bring those up, harry haveand the democrats blocked it, holding it hostage on their demands and demanding that we bust the spending caps and spend a great deal of money that we don't have. how do we get out of this mess now that we are at the 11th hour and none of the appropriations work has been done. the only way forward is a short-term continuing resolution. but this must be accompanied by a timetable announced by the joint leadership w

silent auction, dinner and drinks, special guests, grammy award winning singer, rita coolidge. >> any relation to calvin? >> no. >> great animal lover, will help the folk out,. >> org for your ticket. >> make hollywood segway here, whenever we see this, i think of forest gump, runs in the muddy shirt -- yes. speaking of movies, fox's new pole season about to get underway. we have great shows for you coming up this year. >> one of them, based off the movie from 2002 minority report. and jen is live, also, talking about empire two, jen? >> any bill that says fox, all anyone wants to talk about empire. as you guys know, the new season start next wednesday. back in philadelphia, we're going have huge viewing party, so we want everyone to come to that. but, i have to tell you, that the list of potential guest stars we're hearing about this season nothing short of epic. every single hollywood actor wants it. even george hamilton, apparently, was talking to "tmz" the other day. he said he want to get n and he made some jokes about being so tan. but i have to tell you this: terry cruz is on t

it ushers in the republican presidency of harding, coolidge, and hoover.dr is sad that he lost in 1920 and 1921 he gives polio. what was just intimated out of the antebellum moment when you think he could contract polio from a boy scout pool where he picked up the virus and was taken to maine. he had terrible chills and count out and went to bed with the shakes and woke up and cannot fill his lower half. alumina roosevelt was there for him like nobody else -- eleanor roosevelt was there for him like nobody else. she showed her true colors of love and loyalty. that's real mind their marriage. after that, he adored her for more reasons. somebody who took care of him. >> before we move into the white house i want to introduce one more character. -- >> it is hard to overestimate the impact that hick as eleanor and fdr called her. she was the leading political journalist of the era. she was the only woman who was on the front page of newspapers and did her own bylines. ship assigned to cover eleanor and fell in love with eleanor. there is an intimate trust that

we counted as many as 13 evidence marketers on 7th street, close enough to coolidge high school.fficers arrested etheridge hours after he shot hooper. another man is recovering from a gunshot wound as well. >>> as we mentioned we are tracking that rise in violence after this morning we are now up to 108 homicides in d.c. now, that's in addition to sunday's deadly shooting of a 22-year-old man who died in that shooting friday night on 25th street northeast. police found a man's body with a gunshot wound saturday inside a burned out car on xenia street. there are 105 homicides in all of 2014. >>> a developing story now overseas. france's president just announcing his country will welcome 24,000 refugees. this comes one day after pope francis asked every catholic church in europe to help migrants fleeing from their countries. he's already accepted two at the vatican. germany and austria have opened their doors to migrants as well. migrants from several different parts of the middle east say that they have been treated horribly by the police. >> the police are not -- so that's why we

. >>> with the sudden death of president hard, vice president calvin coolidge takes af. grace coolidge was an enormously popular first lady and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. although she married a man named silent cal, she never spoke to public. this weekend on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image." examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama on american history tv on c-span3. >>> this sunday night on q&a, stafford law school professor draeb rodey talks about her book "the trouble with lawyers" which looks at the legal profession in the united states. the high cost of law schools and lack of diversity in the profession. >> i think we need a different model of legal education. it includes one year programs for people doing routine work, two-year programs as an option for people who want to do something specialized in the third year and three full years for people who want the full general pra

with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. she influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. she married a man named silent cal and never spoke to the press but brought issues to -- but brought attention to issues she cared about. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. republican presidential candidate donald trump held a news conference thursday in new york city. he announced he signed a loyalty oath by the rnc to support the 2016 republican nominee and pledged not to run as a third party or independent candidate. followed anference meeting. he talked about other candidates in the race. he also talked about changes to the immigration system. this is just under 30 minutes. mr. trump: thank you very much, everybody. this is some turn out. my great honor. a chairman just left, as you probably know. he has been extremely fair. the rnc has been absolutely terrific over the last two months. that is what i have wanted. i have wanted fairness. i do not have to be treated any differently tha

and it ushers in to the 1920s the era of the three republican presidents, you know, harding, coolidge and hoover. and fdr is sad. he lost in 1920, and now in 1921, he gets polio. but i think, which was just intimated, out of the campobello moment, when -- the day he -- you know, we think he contracted the polio from a boy scouts pool at bear mountain, new york, where he picked up the virus and was -- then went up to maine and went out actually putting a forest fire with his sons and just had terrible chills and tamped out the light and went to bed with the shakes, and then woke up and couldn't feel his lower half. eleanor roosevelt was there for him like nobody else. with that utter hell he was living, that anybody would feel, she showed her true colors of friendship, loyalty, love in a way that was just described. and i think that realigned their marriage. after that, it -- i mean, he adored her for more reasons. she became somebody who took care of him when he was beyond down. mr. slen: well, before we move into the white house years, i want to introduce one more character, and this

coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m.astern on c-span's original series, first ladies, it was an image. examining the public and private lives of the women who held the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> this sunday night on q&a, stanford law school professor deborah brodie talks about her book "the trouble with lawyers," which takes a critical look at the legal profession in the united states, the high cost of law school, and the lack of diversity in the profession. >> i think we need a different that of legal education includes one year programs for people doing routine work. as an optionrams for people who want to do something specialized in the third year, and three full years for people who want the full general practice legal education that we now have. but you know, it is crazy to train in the same way somebody who is doing routine divorces in a small town in the midwest and somebody who i

grace coolidge, on c-span's series on first ladies.examining the public and private lives of women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michele obama. up >>> tonight on poke booktv in prime time. books by presidential candidates. next our "after words" nrintervw with john kasich author of stand for something and bobby jindal's book at the reagan ranch. and then our interview with senator rand paul "government bullies: how everyday americans are being harassed, abused, and imprisoned by the feds." and rick perry discusses his bo

. >> with the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace cool age was a very popular first lady and became a style icon although she married . man known as silent cal she used her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. discovering the influence of first ladies on the presidency. sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> the c-span cities tour, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. where learning more about the history and liberty -- of grand junction colorado. mineralng of a certain had a lot to do. , outsetver the plateau of grand junction, we are surrounded by morrison rock. in it, we find a lot of dinosaur bones and that has really intrigued scientists for a long time. minerallso find a called carnatic it contains three different elements including radium, which is , it also contains an element used to strengthen steel. in the build up to world war ii it was of extreme value. , which contains uranium is one of the best sources for atomic power. >> colorado co