Spend that we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter is there oh. I am from you ok youre watching this story elevates president Alexander Lukashenko is facing the most intense opposition since he came to power 26 years ago is what demonstrators had to say about him on sunday. I came out here because of the injustice and the slightest lies from the media lies from the president lies from all the government organizations leading us i want change i want freedom to live in a free country i dont want my children to leave and live here and raise their children and help the economy of our country of. The peoples voice has been stolen and we want to restore justice all of us here thats why im here we want new real elections genuine elections in our country thats why im here. Unpacking the politics in better reese thats what were going to be doing today with your help of course you to jump into the comments and you too can be in the street. I am going to say hello to
Page. Hispanic from politics and prose bookstore in dc mark and timothy xm and the tall choice relationship between the first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her first cousin alice who was Theodore Roosevelts daughter. The report is that the two women born eight months and 20 blocks apart in new york city were social and political opposites who publicly debated the issues of the day. First thank you all of you for being here this evening. We are delighted to be here in a very big thank you to the crew at politics and prose for making us feel so welcome. I want to give a big thank you to the publisher. In answering the most common question that weekend which is who was Alice Roosevelt and i realize in this crowd a lot of you were her neighbors. Nonetheless, what i am going to do is try to set a little bit of the context for the reading is going to do in a few minutes. Make sure they cover up some of these details. What we do you will see behind me a family tree. Its a simplified version of t
And growing up with seeing dont mess with texas signs everywhere and the appreciation for the bluebonnets there and just what that means into no that she and her world as first lady influenced all of that in a way that was quite subtle and not necessarily understood at the time but that we now do understand. Now carl im going to ask you because you are a scholar of the full breadth of first ladies. Dolley madison because she was one of the first who had a real sense of duty to his constituency meaning the country. It was unusual for a woman back then too perceived as part of her proper role a sense of duty and connection to the general public to people she didnt know. Shackling candidate very strongly because of her sense of where the u. S. Was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadnt and in a sense america had come of age and have as much dignity and had a right to maintain that dignity on the world stage. And betty ford by taking very personal and reall
The training is part of a nationwide effort by the RNC to restore faith and confidence in the election process, particularly in battleground states like Pennsylvania.