the schlesinger library on the history of women in america. the nation's premiere archival election on the subject. and what we call academy ventures which sponsors research projects, seminars, conferences and lectures like this one. although radcliffe is no longer an undergraduate college, the institute continues radcliffe's tradition of deep involvement with students. we invite undergraduate and graduate students to meet informally with our public speakers as helen horowitz generously did earlier today. we create opportunities for them to connect with harvard faculty around subject matter but also around challenging and often taboo subjects such as how to balance life and work. we offer the prize and the schlesinger college regularly applies rich materials for student papers. we run a very successful radcliffe research partners program working with research assistants with our fellows. fostering close, mutually beneficial and also career-shaping mentoring relationships between harvard students and scholars and working artists. and we annuall

it was invisible then. >> i'm gabriela schlesinger, radcliffe college. i'm asking my question with a particular perspective because for the last almost 19 years i've been working with a group of the alumni called the committee for the equality of women at harvard, largely concerned about the lack of tenured women faculty which is now only 23% of the faculty of arts and sciences. i wonder whether you think that the alumni can be marshalled in any effective way to produce more effective change among departments which may be particularly stagnant or reluctant to tenure women? i kind of think i shouldn't interfere in this. i think that this is a domestic dispute that had best be carried on within the parties here. certainly something that i respect and i would urge, but that would be as an advocate for women's equity, not someone who can make a pronouncement, so my advocacy side says yes. my speaker side says you talk about in this gathering. i'm glad you raised the issue. >> i'm phyllis wilner, also class of 1963 with that -- >> it was a great year, wasn't

i'm somewhat of an outsider, for the exception of my one-year job at what is now the schlesinger, and my job at the teaching. i've lived and worked outside of harvard. ive come back many times to research. was a fellow at the radcliffe institute, as you know, and continue today my long and happy association with the schlesinger as a reader. of course, i've studied and written about higher education in women's colleges. so my talk today will focus on these things. and i want you to pay attention for it really is complicated. i'm going to talk about origins and exclusion, history and tradition, prestige and privilege, innovation, access, accommodation and invisibility. and struggle and equity. let me begin with origins and exclusion. i don't think it really began as a taboo, but rather as professor jeanie suggested, though perhaps exaggerated as part of the social order of the time generally unquestioned by women as well as men. but origins are critical for they can have great sticking power. in considering harvard, the question then becomes what have been the lasting effects of harvard

jill schlesinger think you >>> 5:46 a.m.ather with lawrence >>> at least in some parts will be cooking we get a huge variety of temperature from the coast line and the valley's heat. right now patchy dense fog on the coast line and some drizzle. mostly clear for the interior valleys we are seeing fogged in napa valley. the temperatures will skyrocket up to 97 degrees in many in the spots. eighties around much of the bay, 60s on the coast line today is a spare the air day. the low clouds and fog pull back toward the coast line it will set for most of the afternoon to keep cool but the temperatures are the big story the next few days. 94 degrees at morgan hill and 80 at hayward east bay temperatures upper '90s, inside the bay a little bit of a sea breeze to keep cool. will slowly cool on thursday. traffic with elizabeth >>> where are cruising with mobile 5 and allen brooks behind the wheel there on the nimbus headed to downtown oakland. not too bad of the morning commute. if you're north on 880 were falling this accident at th

we offer the prize and the schlesinger college regularly applies rich materials for student papers. we run a very successful radcliffe research partners program working with research assistants with our fellows. fostering close, mutually beneficial and also career-shaping mentoring relationships between harvard students and distinguished scholars and working artists. and we annually support three graduate students in the final year of dissertation writing, and we welcome them into our community of fellows. so although we don't officially have students enrolled at the institute, we delight in having them around us every day, and we consider them along with our foam fellows an important part of our radcliffe alumni community. carrying on the tradition of excellence and loyalty, begun by generations of radcliffe grads, many of whom have joined us here today for this lecture. let me extend a very special welcome to our radcliffe college alums. [ applause ] this is, after all, their history. i also want to tell them and others in the audience so you can spread the word for people who are

eisenhower and reagan, but eisenhower came in after his presidency in the first poll after arthur schlesinger junior in 1962 with a terrible rating. he was merely down there with arthur -- [laughter] and first johnson -- andrew johnson, chet arthur was a non-entity in and andrew johnson lost control of the government in a country he was supposed to leave. i thought that was remarkable that historians but eisenhower theater. almost immediately he began to rise at and is consistently in the near great category and reagan initially was down there. also right next door to chad arthur and he is moving up and hasn't reached the level, except in the most recent poll in 2005 by "the wall street journal." so what about the president's history lies at the voters didn't care for quite a while, one that i really have to talk about made me stirrups of energy in the room as wilson. the voters couldn't wait to get rid of that guy by the end of his second term. cleveland, john anna's and harry chernin. harry truman as a fascinating point. he personifies a significant element of this whole dang in terms of ho

jewels schlesinger is here to tell us how we can protect ourselves and tell us what happened in these and what was revealed >> this i will based brokerage firm is called peregrine financial firm and it operates under the name pg best. if file for bankruptcy and regulators cannot account for $220 million of customer funds. separately, a georgia banker has been charged with embezzling $17 million from the bank that represents customer funds. p f g chief ceo attempted suicide this week and did not succeed and aubrey lee price and disappeared last month and is still at large, the most wanted on the fbi web site, so very odd cases >> are there other red flags for investors? >> there are a couple of things that people need to think about. these are futures brokers and you need to be careful about maintaining futures, commodities, and currency accounts. these accounts have been no protections against bankruptcy, that is different than most retail brokerage firms that have members on the securities investors protection corp.. when that broker goes broke your cash and securities are protected

but arthur schlesinger jr. once wrote that he was more careless than villainess. overly protective of people he should have been watching more carefully. alice roosevelt longworth and have to capture these things said parting is not a bad man. he was just a slob. enhancing his newspaper business, unlike lyndon johnson, for example, used his rich friends to get into the television business, very lucrative, which he did under his wife's name and became very rich in the process. harding never did anything like that. that happened during his time in office. no intractable wars. yet the country in suit the economic depression and then presided over an economy including a 14 percent gdp growth rate which president obama could use right now. and social unrest which had been really bluey and percolating under wilson for many reasons that i believe are attributable to some of wilson's decision making, declined rather significantly. you could say that this guy, harding, notwithstanding his weaknesses and liabilities, was elected to nullify wilson by the electorate and to fi

he tailored that to arthur schlesinger the greatest historian. he said, "john kennedy knew history like you do. i don't know history. i need you for history." for someone else he said something tailored and they all stayed. >> rose: when did he begin to reach out to mrs. kennedy to comfort her? >> well, constantly. from the very-- you know, from the very beginning. >> rose: a telephone call here "what can i do?" they had to plan the funeral. >> he does even more than that. that very night-- you know, i said that night is remarkable. he gets back to washington, and there's so much on his plate. there's a memo there from budget director saying you know we're in the middle of-- we're in the middle of the budget process. you have-- i forget the date-- you have two weeks to sign off on the budget. but that night, he goes and gets two sheets of stationery from the oval office and he writes a letter to john-john, and he writes a letter to carolyn. he has the time to do that. it's like his mind-- i mean, if you're interested in power usay here's a man as

when schlesinger was doing one of the historian polls and jfk said, how can anyone but us, and it wouldho are alive. >> and jon meacham? >> nobody likes to have a predecessor or successor. >> yes. >> but this is perhaps the one exception is this club. >> exactly. the book is "the president's club, inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." nancy gibbs and michael duffy, thank you so much. good luck with that. jon meacham and doris kearns goodwin, thank you so much. we will be back with much more "morning joe." with the spark cash card from capital one, sven's home security gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! how does this thing work? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that's ten security gators, right? put them on my spark card! why settle for less? testing hot tar... great businesses deserve the most rewards! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? here's y

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the historian arthur schlesinger once observed that "in a city of gray and anonymous men, dean acheson stood out like a noble monument from another and more vivid era." indeed, sixty years after serving as secretary of state, and more than forty years after his death, acheson's unique blend of strategic brilliance and "personal bravura" are still well remembered in this town. having just enjoyed the hospitality of your cocktail reception, i'm reminded of the time when a newly elected president kennedy paid a call on acheson at his georgetown home. acheson offered him a martini, but kennedy declined and asked for tea instead. that deeply offended acheson. after all, according to a friend, "he never trusted a man who wouldn't have a stiff drink with him." i know i would have been his very dear friend. in fact, i learned that acheson and i share more than a love of a stiff drink. we both rose to prominence in the executive branch when we were both relatively young. and we were both fired from our jobs. acheson was fired from treasury by fdr in 1933, and i was fired from the office for civ