. >> a lady wrote a wonderful book called the art of guman, and it meant surviving the unsurvivable sort of. and she talks a lot about how the arts and the crafts were sort of how they kept their sanity. and it gave them something to do. and how about depression was so bad in a lot of the camps, and that people -- there was the high incidents of suicide. so people would make these little things of beauty to give to each other just as a way to say we support you and we care about you. >> our cities tour continues the weekend of may 5th and 6th from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >>> two granddaughters of dwight d. eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the 44th president. they appeared before a subcommittee hearing held to consider the views of both supporters and opponents of the design created by architect frank gehry and his collaborator theodore wilson. this hearing is 90 minutes. >> the subcommittee of national parks, forests and public lands is meeting on the proposed eisenhower memorial. under the rules, the opening remarks are