hello, i'm stewart mclaurin president of the white house historical association. our program is ready to begin. please welcome the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden. welcome to the first lady symposium hosted by the white house historical association in partnership with american university. first ladies are not elected and they have no constitutional role to guide them but over the years these incredible women have served our country in their own way carving out a place for themselves in our history books. they've supported their husbands agendas and launched their own campaigns. they've comforted americans during times of crisis and helped us to rise to better days. they've been trusted advisors diplomats and legends in their own rights. i'm humbled by the accomplishments of those who have come before me and grateful for the lessons they teach. the stories of our first ladies aren't always told but they are critical to our history as well. they reveal so much about the presidency about our country's relationship to the world and about women's role in

day-long symposium co-hosted by american universities first ladies initiative and the white house historical association, which provided the video and in an hour and 15 minutes historian, robert mary gives his views on why william mckinley's white house successes have been largely overlooked. good afternoon. i'm katherine malone-france chief preservation officer at the national trust for historic preservation. thanks so much to stewart mcglaurin and the white house historical association for this wonderful symposium today and for our ongoing collaboration to preserve the historic decatur house on lafayette square. i am especially pleased to be here today to talk about the incredibly important role that first ladies have played in historic preservation and to do so during may which has been celebrated as national preservation month. since 1973 at the national trust we're in the midst of our where women made history campaign to highlight and preserve the places where women made important contributions to our country. a key component of this campaign is to highlight the central role that women including fi

kennedy does is she institutionalizes by virtue of the white house historical association getting museum status for the white house setting up the various committees and and fundraising in part through the books at so she she sets up on infrastructure that allows these other first ladies to continue, but she certainly wasn't the first to restore the white house or work on restoration of the white house. there's a whole series of first ladies and presidents prior to that. absolutely. well, i was just going to say nancy. what a remarkable discovery during the the process of preparing this presentation. and so i guess quickly. i'll ask the other two of you. you know, you are tremendous scholars of these first ladies. is there anything you learned that was was new to you as you looked at them as preservationists? well, i actually last night was looking for some more information on john carl warnicki the architect from the west coast who worked with mrs. kennedy by virtue of his friendship. first of all with president kennedy, and so there's a really brilliant lecture given by a stanford arch

special bit of insight from one of the brightest stars that i know at the white house historical association. it's senior historian, dr. matthew costello, and he's going to talk just for a moment about the remarkable influence that teddy roosevelt had on the white house itself. good evening. my name is dr. matthew costello, and i vice president of the david m reubenstein national center for white house history in the senior historian on staff at the white house historical association in 1901. when president william mckinley was assassinated vice president theodore roosevelt became the youngest person to hold the office ever at that time. he was just shy of 43 years old. early on in his presidency roosevelt asserted his personality really on the office. he really wanted to expand executive power and he did this actually quite literally what the building of the west wing in 1902 now part of the reason this happened was because the roosevelt's moved into the white house with six children and up to that point in time. all presidents had worked on the second floor of the white house the workspace

the white house historical association hosted this event. >> this evening it is my pleasure to welcome dr. gwendolyn dubois shaw to white house history live. she is the national portrait gallery senior historian and director of history, research and scholarly programs. appointed in 2019, she is the first woman and the first african american, to hold that position. before joining the national portrait gallery, she was an associate professor of the history of art, at the university of pennsylvania. her work has focused on race, gender sexuality and class in the united states, latin america and the caribbean. in addition to the first lady's exhibit, that we will be talking about this evening, she has curated many exhibitions, including 200 years of african american art at the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia art. the__ clear art museum in new jersey as well. she received her ph. d. and art history from stanford university. if you'd like to ask doctor shaw the question, please write in the comments section of this life easy. we will get to as many questions as possible at the end

the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. well, welcome to john fitzgerald kennedy national historic site. this is the birthplace home of president kennedy. he was born in this very house lived here. toledo is about three and a half years old and then his family moved to a second home. just down the road three blocks away. and so his family called him jack. he spent the first 10 years of his life growing up in brookline before the family moved to new york. and so this house is owned operated and interpreted by the national park service and of all the 421 u

white historical association president stewart mclaurin exploring the american story watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3 next on the presidency, washington post columnist karen tumulty talks with white house historical association president stewart mclaurin about reconsidering nancy reagan's legacy. miss tumulty's the author of the triumph of nancy reagan this conversation is from a day-long symposium co-hosted by american universities first ladies initiative and the white house historical association, which provided the video good afternoon, and welcome to the culminating session of our symposium on first ladies. it's been a really terrific day since we began this morning with dr. biden's message then heard from fred ryan and anita mcbride from our board of directors and sylvia burwell are partner at american university and what a wonderful panel of presenters that we've had each and every time throughout the day and now i have the cherry on top of the ice cream sunday of having a conversation with karen. tumulty. karen was with the time magazine for a long time of her career and has been with the washington post as a political writer and is a really highly regarded and respected journal

thank you, susan, and thank you to the white house historical association american university for the invitation to be part of this. it's a pleasure to be with you susan and stacey and chris. having a session on first ladies and communication is very appropriate and important because as you've heard all morning communication from and about first ladies is what defines them their roles their influence and ultimately their legacies. we've already heard so many references to the way that they communicated from martha washington on as a political communication scholar. my interest is in political messages, whether they're from politicians or the public and especially how those messages are conveyed to the public. modern first ladies, especially use a variety of communication channels to influence the public's perception of them their relationship to the president and of course their own initiatives, so i group these channels together into five categories if you show the slide, please traditional speeches traditional media which would both verbal and visual so this would be interviews radi

including media calm. >> friday on american history tv, we continue with more from the white house historical associationand american universities first ladies initiative symposium on first ladies. the first panel we hear how jacqueline kennedy, ladybird johnson, and pat nixon worked to preserve the historic nature of the white house, and how their work reflected cold war politics, a focus on american art and the needs of the disabled. that starts at 8 pm eastern on american history tv. >> next we hear white scholars and the general public tend to narrowly categorize first ladies. catherine jealous and of ohio university shows they are more complicath

five weeks, 830 through june 27, we will feature a first lady symposium, hosted by the white house historical association. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern, here on american history tv on c-span3. 1846 this smithsonian institution was originally housed in a redstone building on the national mall known as the castle up next on american artifacts a behind the scenes tour of castle spaces not open to the public with novelist steve barry and curator richard stamm. much of mr. barry's latest work of historical fiction the lost order takes place here richard stamm is author of the castle and illustrated history of the smithsonian building. we met our tour guides inside the crypt of the institutions founder james smithson. this is abou40

tumulty talks with the white house historical association president stewart mclaurin about reconsidering nancy reagan's legacy in two hours 15 minutes. we see a camp david interview with president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan from 1985. this is the second in a wonderful series of panels co-sponsored by the cultural services of the french embassy which compare us and french approaches to the constitution. i want to share that yesterday. i was hiking in rock creek park in the us and i came across a monument to the french ambassador juicero, and it was right by a cliff where he used to hike with theodore roosevelt and there's a wonderful inscription right by it, which i want to read because it reminds us of the central fraternity of the us and france in defending values like free speech and liberty. this is what franklin roosevelt said in dedicating this juicero memorial in 1936. he said we shall link mr. joseph hall's name forever with the names of lafayette and the whole shambo and degrass and the other valiant frenchman who service to this country entitles them for all. to t

. >>> tonight on american history tv we continue with more from the white house historical association and american universities first ladies initiative symposium on first ladies. in the first panel we hear how jacquelyn kennedy, lady bird johnson and pat nixon worked to preserve the historic nature of the white house and how that work reflected cold war politics, a focus on american art and the needs of the disabled. that starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >>> welcome to the south dakota air and space museum. when people think about south dakota they don't always think about a great aviation state, but we have a huge aviation heritage in this state. over the years we've played a huge part in our national defense. ellsworth air force base began in world war ii. it's purpose in world war ii was to train bomber crews, specifically b 17 crew. if you think about it, if you're going to learn to navigate a world war ii bomber over long distances and expanses of territory, south dakota is really a great place to put the base and that was the beginning of ellsworth air force b

kennedy, who's obviously a favorite of this program because of her role in founding the white house historical association. >> she did. that was important. she also made changes to the white house. her famous stories about when she first visited the white house, and eisenhower showed her around she had some not very nice things to say about how it was decorated and how it was furnished. so that was important. she was very young. 34 years old. one of the youngest first ladies and of course at a very tragic time, but her reading in general was low, it's since been rising as the years go by, she's becoming more popular. she didn't have much time. she had two small children. she traveled a lot, on her own, she was absent a lot from the white house. people held that against her. people held against her the kind of renovation she did on the white house. which he called restoration. one criticism was that it was two t. so she certainly jackie kennedy was certainly an important style figure. i mean magazines around the world were named for her. she was world famous. french, but she did not really have much money

and white house historical association president, stewart mclaurin. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> all through september and october and the first week of november, the candidates carry their message to the people. [ cheers and applause ] ♪♪ >> it started in july when the democratic party nominated senator john f. kennedy for president of the united states and for vice president senator lyndon b. johnson. the party united behind its candidates. richard m. nixon was the choice of the republican party. he had served as vice president of the united states since 1953. now he was a candidate for the presidency. his vice presidential running mate ambassador henry cabot lodge jr. as the campaign gets under way the president candidates meet face to face on television debates seen by millions of people. the same people who will decide which of these two men shall lead the country for the next four years. but personal contact with the people is still an essential feature of an american presidential campaign. senator kennedy, a tire

white house or presidential connection. so before we answer a lot of your great questions, which are coming in i wanted to share a story that has come to us from white house historical association board member bob mcgee both bob and president mckinley were students at allegheny college in meadville, pennsylvania, although obviously not at the same time. and what bought what bob writes to us about is a funny story that i'd like to share with you about president mckinley. he says a widely told story both based in fact and fiction is that mckinley was expelled from allegheny college for somehow smuggling a cow into the belfry of bentley hall, which was the administration building on campus. although historical research has showed it was most likely a goat and not a cow the punishment was never recorded. nonetheless. mckinley could not complete his studies at allegheny college, which he he said subsequently that he deeply regretted. he returned to allegheny college as governor of ohio in 1895 to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws. degree, bob. what do you think about that story? well, actually i'm using story and i heard about the cow or the goa

american universities first ladies initiative co-hosted this event with the white house historical association, which provided the video then in about an hour and 10 minutes. we'll hear why theodore roosevelt is considered a modern president. i now have the privilege of introducing our second panel today and then later of course moderating your questions. of which we will take as many that we can. are panelists today? are amy greenberg? george winfrey professor of american history at penn state university and author of the book lady first the world of first lady sarah polk. amy will discuss a little-known story of the strong role mrs. poke played as a brilliant master of the art of politics and public relations. and who was a critical partner to her husband and his most trusted advisor? next we'll be lois romano. independent scholar columnist with the washington post and author of the book an inconvenient widow about mary todd lincoln who lois describes as the most ill served first lady in history and who was flawed but generous and empathetic and didn't deserve to be demonized the way that sh

television american universities first ladies initiative co-hosted this event with the white house historical association, which provided the video the program begins with introductory remarks, including an appearance by first lady jill biden. hello, i'm stewart mclaurin president of the white house historical association. our program is ready to begin. please welcome the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden. welcome to the first lady symposium hosted

thursday on american history tv will feature a first ladies symposium co-hosted by the white house historical association and american university's first ladies initiative. that begins at 8pm eastern on american history tv. next on the presidency ronald reagan gives his first press conference nine days after taking the oath of office on january 20th 1981 questions about the recently resolved iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath dominated a discussion that ranged from domestic affairs to the new administration's foreign policy priorities president reagan met with the press in the old executive office building next door to the white house. this video is courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. united states, how do you do i have a grief opening statement here before take your questions. yesterday's secretary of the treasury donald reagan sent to the congress of request to raise the debt ceiling to 985 billion dollars. this represents a dramatic jump of 50 billion dollars over the previous debt ceiling. the administration took this action with great regret because i

day-long symposium co-hosted by american universities first ladies initiative and the white house historical association, which provided the video good afternoon. i'm katherine malone-france chief preservation officer at the national trust from historic preservation. thanks so much to stewart mclaurin and the white house historical association for this wonderful symposium today and for our ongoing collaboration to preserve the historic decatur house on lafayette square.

thanks ahello, i'm stewart mclan president of the white house historical association. our program is ready to begin. please welcome the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden. welcome to the first lady symposium hosted by the white house historical association in partnership with american university. first ladies are not elected and they have no constitutional role to guide

tumulty talks with white house historical association president stewart mclaurin about reconsidering nancy reagan's legacy ms. dumulty's the author of the triumph of nancy reagan. this conversation is from a day-long symposium co-hosted by american universities first ladies initiative and the white house historical association, which provided the video then in an hour, we see a camp david interview with president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan from 1985. good afternoon, and welcome to the culminating session of our symposium on first ladies. it's been a really terrific day since we began this morning with dr. biden's message then heard from fred ryan and anita mcbride from our board of directors and sylvia burwell our partner at american university and what a wonderful panel of presenters that we've had each and every time throughout the day and now i have the cherry on top of the ice cream sunday of having a conversation with karen. tumulty. karen was with the time magazine for a long time of her career and has been with the washington post as a political writer and is a

discussion about nancy reagan's legacy with an author, and the white house historical association president. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> house majority whip james clyburn and minority whip steve scalise discussed the upcoming house agenda. this is 25 minutes. >> madam speaker, i ask to speak out of order, unanimous consent to speak out of order for the purpose of inquiring the floor schedule for next week to the house majority whip. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scalise: thanks, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scalise: with that i yield to my friend, the gentleman from south carolina, and the house majority whip, mr. clyburn. mr. clyburn: i thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. madam speaker -- mr. scalise: madam speaker, the house is not in order. mr. clyburn: madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman may proceed. mr. clyburn: th

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on the presidency, a discussion about nancy reagan's legacy with an author, and the white house historical associationresident. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> house majority whip james clyburn and minority whip steve scalise discussed the upcoming house agenda. this is 25 minutes. >> madam speaker, i ask to speak out of order, unanimous consent to speak out of order for the purpose of inquiring the floor schedule for next week to the house majority whip. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scalise: thanks, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scalise: with that i yield to my friend, the gentleman from south carolina, and the house majority whip, mr. clyburn.

the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> welcome to john fitzgerald. then his family moved to a second home just down the road three blocks

and white house historical association president. exploring the american story.c-span3. >> columbia law school professor talks about her award-winning book policing the american road. how cars transformed american freedom. she focuses on a chapter in the book dealing with what amendment rights dealing with search in seizures apply to automobiles and she argues that will prevent police abuses and mistakes. eleanor jones harvey reveals how the civil war can be seen in seemingly unrelated works such as landscape paintings. examines the work of several soldier artists. >> today's lecture where's the intriguing title automotive fourth amendment. the professor will speak about 30 minutes and then we will take questions. if you have questions or comments for the professor, please submit them via the q&a feature.

thursday on american history tv will feature a first ladies symposium co-hosted by the white house historical association and american university's first ladies initiative. that begins at 8pm eastern on american history tv. former minneapolis police officer, derek chauvin was convicted in the murder of george floyd and is scheduled to be sentenced this friday. his defense has asked for probation prosecutors are seeking 30 years in prison watch the court proceeding live friday at 2:30 pm eastern on c-span online at c-span.org or you can listen on the free c-span radio app. president ronald reagan addressed a joint session of congress in february of 1981 shortly after his inauguration up next on the presidency. we hear the new president talk about the economic health of the country from inflation interest rates and unemployment to taxes and the national debt. this was his first speech to members of the house and senate. us will be an otter. mr. speaker the chief justice in the united states the associate justice of the supreme court admit the chief justice and the associate's justice of the supreme court.

tumulty talks with the white house historical association president stewart mclaurin about reconsidering nancy reagan's legacy in two hours 15 minutes. we see a camp david interview with president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan from 1985. this is the second in a wonderful series of panels co-sponsored by the cultural services of the french embassy which compare us and french approaches to the constitution. i want to share that yesterday. i was hiking in rock creek park in the us and i came across a monument to the french ambassador juicero, and it was right by a cliff where he used to hike with theodore roosevelt and there's a wonderful inscription right by it, which i want to read because it reminds us of the central fraternity of the us and france in defending values like free speech and liberty. this is what franklin roosevelt said in dedicating this juicero memorial in 1936. he

kennedy who is obviously a favorite in this program because of her role in founding the white house historical association. yes. she did do that and that was very important and she also made important changes to the white house, you know, her famous stories about when she first visited the white house and made me eisenhower showed her around and she thought it looked she had some not very nice things to say about how it was decorated and how it was furnished. so that was very important her. she was very young thirty four years old, right? so one of the youngest first ladies and of course at a very tragic time, but her her rating for in general was low. i have to say it's been great. it's been rising as the years go by she's becoming more popular. she didn't have much time. she had two small children. she traveled a lot on her own. she was absent a lot from the white house people held that against her and some people held against her they kind of renovation that she did on the white house what she called restoration one. come one criticism was that it was too friendship by you know, and but she didn't real

the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> welcome to john fitzgerald kennedy national historic site. this is the birthplace home of president kennedy. he was born in this very house and lived here until he was about three and a half years old. then his family moved to a second home just down the road three blocks away. so his family called him jack. he spent the first ten years of his life growing up in brookline before the family moved to new york. so this house is owned, operated and interpreted by the national park service. of the 421 units of the national park service, we are actually the third smallest site. so you can see in this picture and just how very close we are to our neighbors. there is no parking lot. people pull right up in front of the house on the street. that is the parking. it's on a residential road in brookline, massachusetts just outside of boston. we are actually part of a try site park system, one park and three sites so to say. but my sister states are [inaudible] which is also in brookline, massachusetts. frederik law homeste

thursday on american history tv will feature a first ladies symposium co-hosted by the white house historical association and american university's first ladies initiative. that begins at 8pm eastern on american history tv. ronald reagan a republican and former california governor was sworn in as the 40th president of the united states on january 20 1981 up next. we'll see him take the oath of office administered by supreme court chief justice warren burger and here president reagan's inaugural address 1981 was the first time the inauguration took place on the west front of the us capitol which faces the national mall our coverage is courtesy of the us senate recording studio. here governor. are you prepared to take the constitutional oath? i am did you place your left hand on the bay of bible and raise your right hand and repeat after me. i ronald reagan to solemnly swear. i ronald reagan to solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states, but i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will to the best of my ability and will to t

tonight on american history tv, we'll feature a first lady symposium, co-hosted by the white house historical association and the american university's first lady's initiative begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >>> many history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story, every weekend. saturday at 7:00 p.m. jerry enzler on his book "jim bridger. "saturday on lectures in history, meghan kate nelson talks about guerrilla warfare on the confederate and union sides during the civil war, whose tactics included ambushes and surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and towns, sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, the definitions are compared of free speech in france and the united states and exploring whether france's model would work in the u.s. and sunday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, a discussion about nancy reagan's legacy, with "washington post" columnist karen tumulty author of "the triumph nancy reagan" and exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> 40 years ago on march 30th, 1981, johnlinkry jr. fired shots at r