because, in my case, i think there's an incredible american story to tell about herbert hoover and lou henry hoover. and i'm frankly just interested in american history and i love this country and i think our story needs to be told. the american story needs to be told. lou henry hoover and herbert hoover had an incredible and unique journey through the american tapestry. it inspired me. a book that i wrote that came out last july was named after a book my grandfather wrote in 1922 and the ideas that he espoused are extraordinarily relevant still to the way we , see politics today. it's called "american individualism." by the time you get down to me susan talks -- i'm so delighted to hear susan say when she's in tulsa she can be susan ford or susan ford bales or susan bales. and sort of choose. that's incredible. i didn't even know that was possible for a child of a president. certainly by the time you get down to me, it's only sort of a matter of interest. a couple of us have expressed interest and are quite active, but it's a choice. rick: this is a great question. if you could ask your great-gran

lou hoover. >> unless you study lou henry hoover you don't know that she was the first first lady ever to invite an african-american woman to tea. and it caused a tremendous scandal. it was called the depriest incident. she was the wife of congressman depriest who had been elected from chicago, an african-american couple and it was the tradition that first ladies always invited all the members of congress's wives to tea. they were quakers, they were socially progressive in the context of their day on this issue. they knew it would be a scandal or it could be a scandal so they tried to handle it in the right way but decided to go ahead because this would be a good move for the country and it did create an outrage. to make her feel better my great grandfather the next day invited her husband to the white house. so this was the first time an african-american was invited to the white house publicly. teddy roosevelt invited booker t. washington but it was a secret meeting. >> more of this conversation with children and grandchildren of first families talking about first ladies sunday at noon eastern

reveals her grand grandmother lou hoover was the first first lady to invite an african american woman to tea at the white house. here is a look. >> unless you study lou henry hoover you don't know she was the first first lady ever to invite an african american woman to tea and it caused a tremendous scandal. it was called the depriest incident. she was the wife of congressman depriest who was elected from chicago, an african american couple and it's the tradition the first ladies invited the congressman's wives to tea and they were progressive on this issue they knew it would be a scandal or it could be a scandal so they tried to handle it in the right way but decided to go ahead with it because it would be a good move for the country and it created an outrage, my great grandfather invited her husband to the white house. the first time an african american was invited to the white house publicly. >> join c span this mother's day for programs with the children and grandchildren with the first families paying tribute to the first ladies and life in the executive mansion sent at noon eastern on c-span. >>> next the future of america's black community. speakers

lou hoover. >>> unless you study lou henry hoover, you don't know that she was the first first lady ever to invite an african-american woman to tea and it caused a tremendous scandal. it was called the depreast amendment. it was the tradition that first ladies invite them to tea. they were kwangquakers and socially progressive. they knew it would be a scandal or it could be a scandal so they tried to handle it in the right way but decided to go ahead with it because this would be a good move for the country and it did create an outrage and to make her feel better my great-grandfather the next day invited her husband to the white house. this was the first time an african-american was invited to the white house publicly. teddy roosevelt had invited booker t. washington but it was a secret meeting. >> more of this conversation with children and grandchildren of first families talking about first ladies sunday at noon eastern time on cspan. >>> jeb bush was one of the featured speakers at the national reviews ideas summit last week. the former florida governor discussed a number of topics including hi