Coincingth ant. Utni wks thho out which union works with whom. E ve pje where you can registernder article 21 and you can say, here is my organizing plan. Here are the resources i will use. I should get exclusivity here and here. It prevents a lot of the fighting. There will still be some of that. It has been easy to convince grad assistants who have been exploited for years. This is not new. We have organized grad assistants years ago. Then when university decided they should challenge that and they delayed it for 56 years. That is why you have the backup at cornell and other universities along the line. Those gates will open up. Those people understand that they need a voice as an employee. Yes, they are students, but their employees and as an employee, you need a voice so they dont get continued continue to get exploited. It is an easy sell. A little bit earlier you mentioned the states where your priorities are. The data in pennsylvania, those of the two that you mentioned. Can you
We interviewed the newly swornin librarian of congress, carla hayden, about her life and career. Youll hear from Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflecting on her time on the supreme court. Pulitzer prizewinning historian alan taylor examines the american revolution, and booktv visits grand rapids, michigan, to visit the citys lit air sites literary sites. Those are just a few of the programs youll see on booktv. For a complete schedule, booktv. Org is our web site. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend, booktv is television for serious readers. And now well kick off the weekend with Kate Andersen brower. She talks about the first ladies from 1960 to the present day. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out on this friday night. Im a bookseller and supervisor here at politics prose bookstore, and on behalf of the owners and the staff, id like to welcome you all to tonights event. Just a couple of housekeeping items. First of all, if yo
Tuskegee airmen, the navajo code talkers. People who continued the fight for freedom here at home expanding quality and opportunity and justice for an minorities and women. We will be grateful for what these men and women did, for the selfless grace a showed in one of our darkest hours preand as we mark the 70th anniversary darkest hours. As we mark the 70th anniversary lets commemorate ourselves to the freedoms for which they fought. We are a country no matter where we are or where we come from, what we look like or who we love, if we take responsibility every american will have the opportunity to make of our lives what we will. Lets stand united with our allies on behalf of our common values. Freedom, security, democracy human rights, and the rule of law around the world. And against bigotry and hatred in all of their forms. We give meaning to that pledge, never forget, never again. Lets salute that generation of americans whose courage and sacrifice are the reason we are here today.
Amazon the dining room of the floor where we love to eat in our jammies. As she wandered around, she sat in her rascally fashion, i remember this room. I had my appendix out in this. [laughter] i used to think of that every night when we sat down for dinner. [laughter] the white house has absorbed the hospitality of all the families that have lived there. And you feel that hospitality not just as a visitor but when you actually go there to live. You leave some of yourself behind as well for those who come after. So it becomes a warmer and more hospital place hospitable place as every generation goes on. One thing that i did notice about the white house when i first got there was that it was deathly still on the second floor and it was just no sound. I said with great trepidation to the reagans, how long does it take to feel comfortable. . They set about 30 days. After i had been there and accumulated 30 days, they were absolutely right. It did not feel like a museum anymore. It did fee
Where for many years she raised thouroghbred horses and where she and her husband remain active in civic causes. You heard something of luci baines johnson, of her sensitivity and her sense of history. Unlike peggy, luci was a young woman when she entered the white house in november, 1963. She wanted nothing more than to be a normal teenager. Life in the white house is many things but normal it is not. Lucis mother said as much when she gave her daughter the following advice, dont ever do anything you do not want printed on the front page of the paper. This would strike terror in the hearts of most teenage girls but luci rose to the occasion, no more impressively than at the time of her wedding. According to one newswoman nobody was invited except the immediate country. And notwithstanding, a press controversy over a nonunion bridal gown, the day went off gloriously. Soon after, luci left the white house for texas in what she has described as a normalcy that never quite materialized fo