helen wilson who is an accomplished painter, created a private studio among the rich renovated ruins of the third floor the whiteuse. following president would wilson's debilitating stroke, edith wilson finally ran the executive branch of government for the remainder of wilson second term, including matters of state. florence hearting was the first first lady to vote in a presidential election and to receive secret service protection. watch first lady, influence and image, tuesday 8 pm eastern on american history tv on c-span 3.

helene in olney, maryland. >> hi. i wanted to ask you about the maryland component of this fleeing of the white house during the war. my understanding is that there's a house in brookeville, maryland that's called the white house for the day. and that my understanding is that madison arrived at that house and conducted business from there and i wondered whether dolley madison was part of that or if it was some kind of a transition from virginia to maryland? i do not have the answer to that question. >> i do not have the answer to that. either >> yes, i do not know it. >> i'm so sorry. >> juliÁn sorry. but you know that gives us another stop -- . i would like to go back for a minute and give my opinion about the second part of the question which was, who compared in the present? i would say jacqueline kennedy. i think she looked at imaging, her husband was an administration and recreating the white house as a stage for the conduct of politics and diplomacy through her renovation of the white house, in the same way that dolly looked at the white house as a stage and imaged her husband's presidency. so i see a lot of c

first deaf-blind graduate of harvard law school and named white house champion of change by president barack obama. she also received the helenward and was previously honored with a spot on the "forbes" 30 under 30 list. her memoir he titled haben: the deaf-blind woman who conquered harvard law ""is the story how she dealt with adversity whether it due to ray, gender, disability or or mother's own experience as a refugee. and we welcome you to the show. thank you so much for coming on with us and thank you for the wonderful story and interview with did for know your value at knowyourvolume.com. i want to start by asking you what your concerns are about people with disabilities who want to thrive, who want to reach their goals like you did. in the age of this pandemic with so much unrest in this country, as well as a pandemic with everything being online, how have things changed? >> i have a disability. very rarely is my disability a challenge. often its challenge is in the environment. and right now due to the pandemic, we're receiving greater differences in what disabled people have access to and what mainstream, not disable

helen fisher reports now from washington d.c. as in cases after almost 2 months away it's back this moment in the coronavirus pandemic is different and faced with a surge in cases across the country the white house coronavirus task force faces a renewed threat we're in a much stronger players the truth is we did slow the spread we flatten the curve recent days have brought a record number of infections 16 states are seeing a rising number of cases and infection rates states like texas which had started to reopen no bringing back called restrictions after a 145 percent rise in cases in just 14 days bars closed restaurants cutting capacity public gatherings limited houston's mayor calls it a crisis the numbers are jumping exponentially and rising fast and we are quickly moving in the wrong direction arizona has no more cases per head of population than brazil 88 percent of the state's intensive care beds are full doctors see a health system on the edge and as has been experienced in trying to make for each other at some point there's a tipping point and we're hoping we don't already actually say this is tender waiting to explode but i've thinking that some of that has already been let and th

law enforcement officials at the white house here in the best way to follow what is going on with this and other matters, our website at c-span.org. we will hear from helenn new york, democrats line. this issue began with criminals who committed crimes. about it anyone outraged the jogger who went jogging and was killed? why wasn't the issue brought up about that and racism? why are the police being the focal point because they enforce the law? i think it is a dangerous situation we are in, and i go to monthly police meetings. i think i have an understanding of what it is like to be a policeman. i would like to know why we are and whyriminals heroes we are talking about law enforcement and crushing their authority in what they do. host: it was a member of law enforcement to became the center of the conversation in minneapolis. what you think but his actions? caller: i think his actions were they aret i say that making a hero out of a criminal. the last crime committed was that he was in a robbery and he took a knife and pointed it to a pregnant woman's stomach. this is the person who is a hero. glendale, maryland, democrats line. caller: good morning. th

white or black people interest. i think that everybody can have a global look on this subject. thank you very much. really interesting having your thoughts. thank you. here's helena as we have seen in recent days in north—east england. that is moving into scotla nd england. that is moving into scotland and clearing northern ireland. the low pressure is to the south and west a that is where we will see more frequent showers. but for many other areas a lot of dry weather, good spells of sunshine, but you will know about the showers, because we have lost the wind, they're likely to last longer. they will ling and they could be quite active. there is concern that we will have some large hail, some squally winds, despite general winds speed being lower and lots of lightning. as we head further north we will see the sun emerge in northern ireland and south west scotland. the other part of equation is this this misty low cloud for the north sea coasts of scotland and england. as the thunder storms fade in the south, that low cloud will return. so more of it come tomorrow morning than we saw today. some mist and fog elsewhere. but a warm night. we go into tomorrow and w