his lady bird johnson, our first lady was the first to appear. it was based on extensive archival research and concentrÉ noted on mrs. johnson's environmental. it was really the first book focused on a first lady's substantive policy issue rather than a treatment. it became the model for the series. 17 books covering edith all the way through hillary clinton. for which dr. gould again broadened the field of scholars by inviting academics from very different disciplines. i'm to report that jill hummer and, catherine sibley are currently completing on laura bush and michelle obama respectively to continue that series. still in the rich 1990s, another marker of increased interest appeared when the national first lady's library opened at the ida sex, the mckinley in canton, ohio. led by mary regular, the national first lady's library reached a broad public audience through the biographical overviews and the extensive bibliography on their website. also reaching an arguably larger public audience was the brilliant redesign of the smithsonian museum. f

of modern first ladies. their documentary, legacy and lectures on first lady's and presidential records. let us welcome our guests. a friend, stephanie streett, executive director of the clinton foundation who had a central role, a white house where the first lady transformed that role will moderate. tonight's conversation. stephanie, i'll let you take it away. thank you. welcome, everybody. we're thrilled to have you here with us this evening. and i'm so thrilled to have you all with for this fascinating conversation. i'm just going to dive right in, if that's all right. there are numerous memoirs, the biographies of first ladies, plus plenty of significant historical documentaries, articles i'd love to know why you all decided this time to write book. and diane must start with, if i may. all right. well, this book, the read one, started with the blue one. i was approached about a little over three years ago from a publisher company about writing a textbook. i could pitch an idea to them, and i had been tea

of modern first ladies. their documentary, legacy and lectures on first lady's and presidential records. let us welcome our guests. a friend, stephanie streett, executive director of the clinton foundation who had a central role, a white house where the first lady transformed that role will moderate. tonight's conversation. stephanie, i'll let you take it away. thank you. welcome, everybody. we're thrilled to have you here with us this evening. and i'm so thrilled to have you all with for this fascinating conversation. i'm just going to dive right in, if that's all right. there are numerous memoirs, the biographies of first ladies, plus plenty of significant historical documentaries, articles i'd love to know why you all decided this time to write book. and diane must start with, if i may. all right. well, this book, the read one, started with the blue one. i was approached about a little over three years ago from a publisher company about writing a textbook. i could pitch an idea to them, and i had been tea

a first lady first lady's just did not talk about health and. it had only been three years since the public of the revolutionary book our bodies. but if you talk health historians, they will tell you in many cases it was betty ford who kicked off the real the real interest in women's health. at any rate, said to me something that she said. morley safer in, an interview that she did with him on 60 minutes. she said i thought if i had it others had it if said nothing, their lives would be gone. so i think that is i'm really pleased to the quote that anita read that she felt she could use that white house podium to do so much good. and we know that she thousands of lives because thousands of women and men went for was then the available cancer detection services when i was doing my research i'm sure that lisa found this as well i was shocked to find that mammography was such a new technology at the time. so there were all of a sudden men and women who requesting that, who were asking for information about breast self-exam a nation her impact. there

i want people to know who who lady say zainab and lady fatima and fatima massum, who these women were and what they accomplished in their lifetime, because women today are called to live through the horrors of war and persecution and violence, they're called upon to be brave, and they need models to inspire them, and i think in the ahait you have perfect models for inspiration. the title of my second book, the book about lady zainab, is called "isf kalbi, half of of my heart", and it is from lament sung by lady zaineb herself, on the day of karbala, when the tents are being burnt and the woman are being chased from the tents by the enemy, she sees the body of her brother lying on the ground with all the others who have been killed, and she refers to him as half of my heart, and i remember... reading this lament, it is recorded for example by al majd, you can find this lament, but by other authors as well, this terrible lament, she cries out to heaven as she sees the body of her brother, and took this phrase half of my heart as the title of the book also, because for me she is a person

the first lady's association for research and education, and serves as players treasurer. welcome, dr. carlin to history. happy hour. good evening, everyone, and thank you very much, samantha and the white house. historic association for the invitation to share this presentation of first ladies and civil rights. i've chosen two photos for this title slide down in the lower left. there's a photo of the washington hands, which would have been probably either in new york or philadelphia, showing them at home with their grandchildren and up in the upper right corner. there is a servant who was one of their enslaved workers who they brought from mount vernon to their presidential home. and this would have been a typical scene, apparently up in the upper right hand corner as eleanor roosevelt with marian anderson. and there's a very interesting story that will go with that photo to show the contrast and the change in times between the washingtons and eleanor roosevelt. and then what happened after eleanor?

she published book chapters on first lady's martha washington. lady bird johnson. barbara bush. hillary clinton and michelle obama. and is completing one on julia grant. she taught a course on the rhetoric of first ladies at kansas and an interdisciplinary course on first ladies at saint louis university and american university in fall 2022. she also teaches courses on first ladies for the ocean, a lifelong learning institute at cu, and lectures on first ladies for a variety of community groups. she was a panelist at the 2021 white house historical association asian symposium and the 2020 colloquium. she is a founding member of flair, the first lady's association for research and education, and serves as players treasurer. welcome, dr. carlin to history. happy hour. good evening, everyone, and thank you very much, samantha and the white house. historic association for the invitation to share this presentation of first ladies and civil rights. i've chosen two photos for this title slide down in the lower left. there's a photo of the washington hands, which would have been probabl

jesus and hussein, lady fatima and lady mariam, we should celebrate them, because they are thing of great beauty, they really are a gift and a grace of god to our world, and it's a great pityy if we fail to see them and to allow them to affect the way that we live. i 'i have a great love for not only lady fatima but also the other members of the beit, because i think that these are a group of men and women who have been raised up by god as signs of holiness of life, and holiness of life is beautiful thing to see, holiness of life when it's lived by believ in god, people who submit their lives to them, whether they are christian or jewish or muslim makes no difference, real closeness to god is a thing of beauty, and it's not something we'. often in our current world, i think that the members of the have been raised up by god to be models of holiness, of obedience, of sacrifice, and even of a willingness to give their lives for justice, for what we know to be right. now, one of the great things about justice is that unless we practice justice, we're never going to have peace, you can't make

of modern first ladies. their documentary, legacy and lectures on first lady's and presidential records. let us welcome our guests. a friend, stephanie streett, executive director of the clinton foundation who had a central role, a white house where the first lady transformed that role will moderate. tonight's conversation. stephanie, i'll let you take it away. thank you. welcome, everybody. we're thrilled to have you here with us this evening. and i'm so thrilled to have you all with for this fascinating conversation. i'm just going to dive right in, if that's all right. there are numerous memoirs, the biographies of first ladies, plus plenty of significant historical documentaries, articles i'd love to know why you all decided this time to write book. and diane must start with, if i may. all right. well, this book, the read one, started with the blue one. i was approached about a little over three years ago from a publisher company about writing a textbook. i could pitch an idea to them, and i had been tea

but then we got lady bird and that's where it all changed again and every since lady bird, we've expected to be out campaigning. we've expected them to have a very visible cause and give speeches and really propose that. and she also was doing everything she could to promote husband's programs. so she choose sites that would help with. talk about head start or his other great society programs and the environment. was her issue. so really, lady bird was one of the big, big change. and since then, we just sort of expect first ladies to be out on the stump, on their own, to be giving speeches, to be going around and doing many of these same things. yeah, well, that's wonderful. segway to my next and i want to recognize the folks that are tuning in tonight because all of our programs, obviously we're thrilled to have people here in the room that we also have people watching from home. and so we solicited questions from our attendees. and i'm going to ask a few that were came from our audience and i said, this is a great follow up to what you just said. i'd like to know a little bit about when

and lady bird johnson. and what were some of the documents that you used to read about them? well, there there clearly is a difference. there's certainly a difference. jackie was so ever elegant and use that in terms of foreign diplomacy lady bird came in and she was mentioned to fashion when dan coats after she called lyndon her mr. higgins and she she cared about fashion but not to the extent and she not she never tried to be or could be jackie kennedy and she used her love of nature civil rights, early childhood education and used the press to create special events with liz to promote those all over the nation. so was a difference there and then pat nixon used the press in terms of her volunteerism in terms of her travels, the great, wonderful pictures of pat in africa in the peruvian earthquake and the incredible she created in peru. she had a great deal of empathy. impact, didn't just go to very formal things when traveled. she reached out, would go to many first lady's hand. but pat made sure she went

i give you the first lady of our land, the first lady of our world patricia ryan nixon. i think you were in high school when your mother died, whether early and then you had to take care of your father and you were on your own. you kind of take care of the family. i didn't set it was a pleasure because we all worked together. she rose from the humblest and harshest beginnings to be voted one of the most admired women in the world for 22 years. she said, people are my project and she moved easily and eagerly among people who sensed her strength and, felt her compassion. she reshaped and expand did the roles of both the second and first lady. mrs. nixon personally active visiting hospitals and other institutions. mrs. nixon enjoyed the park herself, even to the point of rolling in a few pat nixon. truly experience embodied and exemplified the american dream. her story began in a cabin in the copper hills of nevada late on the night before st patrick's day, march 16th, 1912. she lost both her parents by 18 and went to work to pay the bills and keep her two brothers in schoo

first ladies. as always, flair is grateful to our inaugural institutional lifetime members that include american university, rider university, the white house, historical association, the massachusetts historical association, the gerald r ford presidential foundation. the national first lady's library. the center for presidential history of southern methodist university. the george w bush institute, and our newest members. the national trust for historic preservation. and the dole institute. it is their support that makes programs like tonight possible, and it is my pleasure to officially welcome you to flair's first program of 2023, an examination of the life and legacy of julia gardiner tyler. our moderator this evening is elizabeth backer estrada of the san francisco public library. other participants include sharon leahy, an independent scholar and christopher leahy professor of history at keuka park college. thank you, myra, for the lovely introduction. i'm delighted to be with all of you toda

well, well, lady, how did you sing, okay? hey lady, where are you?ere, row, george, don’t be lazy, george, one, two, uh-huh, well, that’s all, judging by size, this is your lady, yes, alas, yes, but, but if they turned over, with such calm water something else would be floating. mysterious disappearance, the novel drowned. haris, do you like to read what is written on this bakin? labyrinth. so, my friends, i am sure that such extravagant ladies as ours cannot pass by such a miracle as the hampton cord maze. but i’m not interested in the labyrinth, i want to eat. well, i'm sorry, but this is ignorant, people from all over the world come here to see this, shame on you, you who always boast that you can solve any puzzle, i'm not bragging that there is, that is, you are now in this make sure, around, to the center, or better yet, through and out, this is one of the most primitive labyrinths i have ever taken anyone out of, north, south, the hardest thing to determine in labyrinths. where is the west and where is the east, i usually do this on the way, my

but how did the first lady navigate at a moment like that? i actually that question was raised by steve bole, who has organized the event. and he asked me, should the family be there with the president? and of course, i thought of mrs. nixon. and of course, she's always been there with him, whether it is the fun crisis, where he wasn't sure what he'd do. and she said, you got to go fight it. and he did. and he won that. so in all these tough moments, she was there. she was a real fighter. and for her not to be would have just not been right. i think steve was asking, you know, would she be able to control emotion. well yes. there's no doubt about she was that type of a person. so we were all there. it was night before i was in the president asked me to be in the lincoln sitting room with him as he was preparing his talk. i was very calm about. he asked me to go to book the quote that he used about roosevelt, teddy roosevelt, about his past wife, and that tribute that he read. so i brought that book with me to that and and then we got on the h

but how did the first lady navigate at a moment like that? i actually that question was raised by steve bole, who has organized the event. and he asked me, should the family be there with the president? and of course, i thought of mrs. nixon. and of course, she's always been there with him, whether it is the fun crisis, where he wasn't sure what he'd do. and she said, you got to go fight it. and he did. and he won that. so in all these tough moments, she was there. she was a real fighter. and for her not to be would have just not been right. i think steve was asking, you know, would she be able to control emotion. well yes. there's no doubt about she was that type of a person. so we were all there. it was night before i was in the president asked me to be in the lincoln sitting room with him as he was preparing his talk. i was very calm about. he asked me to go to book the quote that he used about roosevelt, teddy roosevelt, about his past wife, and that tribute that he read. so i brought that book with me to that and and then we got on the h

betty ford as first lady. now when you were chosen for the white house position and then the first lady's staff, what qualified you for that? did they choose you and? what was your role? that's probably the best you could possibly ask. i came home from from school, high school my senior year and my grandmother was recovering from surgery. i went to sit down with her just to spend a few moments and she had on the television a talk show. i'm going to be aging myself, but it was something called the mike douglas show and his featured guest that early spring, 1971 was a woman by the name of an armstrong. she came on the screen and the television wasn't big enough for that personality. she was full of vitality energy just. substance. the substance of her remarks was fascinating. but again, it seemed as though the television just wasn't big enough to contain her. i wrote a letter that night and she had just been she had named co-chair of the republican national committee. bob dole was the chair and armstrong and bil

ladies and gentlemen, the honorable mike johnson. speaker of the united states house of representatives representatives. well, we have some great words for you in a moment but we're not going to delay the big thing that you've all been waiting for. so i'm going to ask governor sanders, leader jeffries, members of the arkansas delegation. secretary thurston mr. king, mr. victor, mr. broadway. to join me on stage as we unveil the statue. wherever. i go. ladies, gentlemen, the honorable sarah huckabee sanders, governor of arkansas. good afternoon. it is an absolute privilege to be here in our nation's capital to represent the great state of arkansas and honor one of our state's very finest, daisy gadson bates. thank to arkansas's congressional delegation and congressional leadership from both sides of the aisle for being here. and thank you, mr. speaker, for hosting us. it's great to see so many friendly and excited faces in the crowd. that's frankly always the norm for d.c. but it's no surprise that even after is gone, daisy is still b

greetings to you, dear lady of kashan , mrs. ghaziani, an example of chaste and chaste women of this world, who protect modesty and hijab. mazdar even sacrifices his own life from the religion and beliefs and learnings borrowed from the family of rich iranian and islamic culture and traditions. he is in kashan, in fin kashan, and since the beginning of today, my dear colleagues have been based in kashan and we have had many communications with different networks from this place, and now i think it is a good opportunity to communicate with my good colleagues in kashan and let's join with these dear ones and together with you who are viewers of the esteemed khabar channel and who watch us and accompany us, let's go to visit the grave of this dear lady. it showed all of us that we should stand by our ideals and our beliefs, even if the price is our lives. when we believe in something and this belief is a firm belief, we will definitely stand up and defend ourselves , defend our ideals and values, and even if we need to sacrifice ou

ladies and gentlemen, this is the arena. whether you are a speaker, delegate, or viewer at home, you have an opportunity to engage in the fight for a better future for our children. i ask you, as you watch this convention and hear these incredible speakers over the next few days, to listen, to share, the message that resonates with you and your friends and family, and help us channel the incredible energy of this convention into a resounding victory in november up and down the ballot starting with electing donald j. trump as president and j.d.vance as vice president. make sure your friends, family and neighbors are registered to vote. get your yard signs, make a plan to get to the polls. the fate of the free world depends on us giving everything we have got and ensuring we elect american first candidates up and down the ballot each endeavor office. thank you, and god bless america. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome the governor of the state of tennessee, governor bill lee. [applause] gov. lee: thank you, thank you. it is an h