john longworth, thank you - are burning it very expensivelyj john longworth, thank you very are burningto? hard to know what is going _ think the russians are up to? her. to know what is going on for size what we do know is over the last couple of months, this location which is very close to the nord stream one pipeline which has since closed down much of his gas piping, there has been a gas flaring event going on here for the last few months and it's a very large one advocacy of the data is cited to see in the data actually there is a large amount of carbon dioxide, about 9000 tonnes a day and a large amount of soot, black carbon, and it's essentially unclear as to what the real cause of this is. but everybody is pretty much certain that it's being done and that russia can control this. it is can controlthis. it is extraordinary - can controlthis. it is extraordinary and i can controlthis. it is extraordinary and a l can control this. it is - extraordinary and a time when can control this. it is extraordinary and a time when we are seeing people desperate for more energy that the russi

alice roosevelt longworth and william allen white.ho were they, and what were their contributions to the public's view of warren harding? ryan: william allen white was a newspaper guy from kansas. he was not a harding guy at all. he wrote a lot of books, wrote a book about coolidge. had a negative view of harding. alice roosevelt longworth was theodore roosevelt's first daughter. his wife died in childbirth. on valentine's day in the 1880's. she was very outspoken, she knew the harding's well. in her memoir, she called harding a slob. she was there in the white house, she knew him well. she did refute some of the myths. particularly, the myth that harding's wife once poisoned him. she felt that was pretty ridiculous. they did contribute to a lot of that, because people look at those memoirs where people had a negative view, and that carried on for 100 years. susan: about his death, there were conspiracy theories about what happened to him. how did he die? ryan: he was on the west coast. he went to alaska. harding was the first preside

also, john longworth, used to work for the economist _ longworth, used to work for the economist.e are a couple people in here he's— economist. there are a couple people in here. he's saying that tax cuts are the _ in here. he's saying that tax cuts are the way— in here. he's saying that tax cuts are the way forward because the key is avoiding _ are the way forward because the key is avoiding stagflation, that terrible _ is avoiding stagflation, that terrible mess where prices continue to rise. _ terrible mess where prices continue to rise. but — terrible mess where prices continue to rise, but the economist isn't growing — to rise, but the economist isn't growing -- _ to rise, but the economist isn't growing. —— the economy. he actually .oes growing. —— the economy. he actually goes far— growing. —— the economy. he actually goes far harder than liz truss is on tax cuts, _ goes far harder than liz truss is on tax cuts, wants massive cuts. £76 million — tax cuts, wants massive cuts. £76 million tax _ tax cuts, wants massive cuts. £76 million tax cut. he said that would double _ mil

in elliot's case in the words of his niece alice longworth the slide downhill was spectacular. but they i would say a bammy i think was closer to theodore and corinne was a little closer to elliot. now benny suffered from something called scoliosis, which is curvature of the spine. i've read it also might have been a form of tuberculosis. but in any case she was in a lot of pain for most of her life. but you'd never know it from the way she she dealt with life in the way. she and the effect she had on other people. um, not long before her death a friend who knew her well searched in vain for the source of her magnetism her power over over other humans. and this is the quote it says she is a woman no longer young. she is very deaf. she is badly crippled with arthritis. from all ordinary standards. she is very plain. and yet when she is in a room every man in the room old and young wants to sit beside her listen to her and we'll dessert the younger and more beautiful. ladies. now this is from lillian rixie's book. and she says the the three most important women in the roosevelt f

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alice roosevelt longworth was a first daughter. once said i have more power around my dining room table then i have with one vote. yeah, that's a great kind of sum up that attitude. yeah. she also said if you can't say something nice come sit by me right didn't she have an embroidered pillow that said that on her couch, i love that. oh, can we circle back to mrs. lincoln? we don't want to quite park on the 20th 21st century, but some of you here know my personal story of how i became interested in the presidency in the white house's my dear mother took me to see john f kennedy campaigning and our hometown of louisville, kentucky in october of 1960. just one month before he was elected and i always start with that story because my mother was not a political scientist or historian. she was out in the suburbs of louisville raising baby boomer children, and but was very well read and and a wonderful grammarian and a champion speller and and but she just was drawn to him we're catholic he was the same generation. he was a world war two

alice roosevelt longworth, roosevelt's daughter, who also had a way with words, devastating she called, he looked like the man on the top of the wedding cake. >> a middle man on the wedding cake. >> that cut. it is easy to make fun of people. >> that was a snapshot. but it took. >> he was very responsible for nixon's emergence, as well as his sudden emergence being elected in 1952 as a senator, he strikes the running mate. as you described, the, name there is a dinner 1952 where nixon speaks and then dewey comes up. >> yes. he takes him to the side and says, just stay the way you are. you can be president someday. and they talked a lot. and that he brought in her brand now, who was eisenhower's attorney general and do his campaign manager. brown houses and his mom, dewey made clear to me that this guy, next and, will be dewey's new candidate for vice president. so, next came in with wind behind his sails, when behind his back. wonderful irish saying. so, dewey was very, very instrumental on helping place him on the eisenhower ticket. >> he is an important figure. i think richard normen

. >> longworth house office building presidents recorded conversations while in office. here many of those conversations during season 2 of c-span's podcast presidential recordings. the nixon tapes. part private conversation, part deliberation, and 100% unfiltered. >> the main thing is it will pass, my heart goes out to those people who with the best of intentions were overzealous but as i am sure you know, if i could have spent a little more time being a politician last year less time being president i would have kicked there buts out. >> find president recording season 2 on the c-span 2 mobile apps or wherever you get your podcast. >> i am excited to jump into this. this is an excellent book with the perspective it is very unique. you've built and a lot of personal sides of it. i'm a sitting member of congress, don't get to be the one interviewing a lot. i'm excited about this because i will flip the script a little bit. >> as long as you agree not to treat this like a congressional hearing than i am fine. >> not looking to score political points, just wants to hear yo

but among elite women, most of whom we can count the first ladies among, alice roosevelt longworth, who was a first daughter, once said, i have more power around my dining room table than i have with one vote. >> yeah, that's a great kind of some of that attitude. yeah. >> she also said, if you can say something nice, come sit by me, right? >> [laughter] >> didn't she have an embroidered pillow? sit on her couch? >> >> [inaudible] i love that. can we circle, back to mrs. lincoln? we don't want to quite park in the 20th, 21st century. but some of you know my personal story of how i became interested in the presidency and the white house as my dear mother took me to see john f. kennedy campaigning in our hometown of louisville, kentucky, in october of 1960, just one month before he was elected. and i always start with that story, because my mother was not a political scientist or historian. she was out in the suburbs of louisville, raising baby boomer children and then, but was a very well read, and a wonderful grammarian, and a champion speller. but she just was drawn to him. we were cat