mrs. hoover had stayed so far away from the fresh that black had been forced to bribe a male colleague to reveal details of mrs. hoover's daily schedule so black could write an article for women's magazine. doug mitchell colleague who was brought and had to snoop around a secret servicemen and report back to black, similarly thurmond reported to dressing up in a single girl scout uniform and sneaking into the white house to cover a christmas party that mrs. hoover gave for a scout troop. you can see that the idea of the lenore meeting openly with women journalists was very welcome to a good number of washington women. with the greatest of pleasure thurmond and black were among the 35 who gathered for a lenore's press conference on march 6, 1933. they had a nervous first lady who knew the white house staff was very undignified to meet with the press, explain why she intended to hold a conference. the idea of making an understanding from the white house to the general public, eleanor told them in a

mr. teeny. la grenouille mange le pamplemousse. all: la grenouille mange le pamplemousse. huh? this isn't miss hoover's class. do not know this mademoiselle "'oovair" of which you speak. what's happening? where am i? sacre bleu! what a foolish question. you are at west springfield elementary school. west springfield? i'm at the wrong school! ( all laughing ) en francais. ( snooty laughter ) ( gasps ) sorry. i was rushing because i'm in the wrong school. can you believe that? it's understandable. all the schools in this area were built from identical plans. i guess they didn't have enough money to hire i.m. pei. whoa... you know about i.m. pei? i.m. impressed. ( both laughing and snorting ) my name's thelonious. as in monk? yes. the esoteric appeal is worth the beatings. what do your friends call you? i don't really have any friends. ( gasps ) just like me. ( "happy together" playing ) oh, my god! it's 11:15! we've been spinning for hours. i've got to get to my school and hand in linguo. oh, but i don't want to leave you. you must. you can't sacrifice grades for romance. that's not the girl i fell for. will i

hoover as a progressive republican. >> which of the movements was closest to mrs. rose veelts heart? >> she supported parks and playgrounds in oyster bay. so i wouldn't think of her as being an active reformer. but she was sympathetic with some of the reforms. >> four minute, going to tie a bow around all of this. what we learned about edith is let's take a call from joel in monroe, michigan who's been waiting. hi, joem. >> i have a question for stacy. i read her book about alice. i was totally impressed with it. it's the only book i've ever seen about her. i want to ask a question -- were her impersonations of eleanor as good as what everybody said they were. >> yes, they really, really were that good. she did a mean one of mrs. taft that got in the way of the transition of the roosevelt-taft white house as well. she's a good mimic. >> did i read after she was leaving the white house and the tafts were coming in, she stuck her tongue out at the press? >> i wouldn't be surprised. >> it was her personality. >> in what ways was edith roosevelt best suited to the 20th century first lady

mr. wittes has, on occasion, consulted with our committee staff. so thank you for your frequent commentary and/or availability. you are the author of several books, a member of the hoover institution task force on national security and law. you have previously served as an editorial writer for the "washington post," specializing in legal affairs. and as a reporter and news editor at legal time. ur graduate of oberlin college. tim edgar is a visiting fellow at the watson institute or international studies at brown university. and an adjunct professor of law at georgetown university law center. he served under president obama as the first director of privacy and civil liberties for the white house national security staff. focusing on cybersecurity, open government and data privacy initiatives. from '06-'09 he was the first deputy for civil liberties and a director of national intelligence, greater new surveillance authorities, a terrorist watchlist and other sensitive programs. prior to his government service, he was a counsel for the american civil liberties union where he advocated for safe guards for a number of post-9/11 initiatives, including the u.s.a. patriot act.