ms. swain: thank you for being here and i see a lot of familiar faces and i thank you for watching you at home. so many of you are here and as jim toll you, what i wanted to start with is a quote from and i gail adams she sent him with an explanation, john, remember the ladies and tonight we are going to do that, the lives of these first ladies are forgotten and they shouldn't be and they made an he normous contribution to our history. and we are going to tell you some of those stories and video from film from the national archives collection and some of the historic photographs and some of the clips from our own series and hope to entertain you and inspire you to ask some questions because there are 0 minutes settle aside at the end. learn about the first ladies' contributions to the presidency and embarking to a new presidential campaign and we are looking at the spouses, some changes and changeed our dynamic. to whet your appetite, i want to show you a priceless piece of film. this is from t

ms. swain: i want to say thank you to our panelists. my colleague mark, back there -- he was the executive producer for our first lady series. all those clips the video and pictures -- thank you very much, mark. [applause] for our c-span audience, sorry those of us who are here get to have dessert and coffee. i would like to invite on behalf of c-span anyone who's here to stay. we have a book signing in that always makes me feel rather embarrassed. but if you are interested in buying it, all the proceeds of the book go to the c-span education foundation. we use it to do teacher scholarships, student documentary contests. you are helping a good cause. thank you so much for being here tonight. [applause] >> she was considered modern for her tied -- called mrs. president by her detractors, and was outspoken about her views on slavery and women's rights, as well as one of the most prolific writers of any first lady. she provides a unique window into colonial america. abigail adams, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original seri