You can follow the action on twitter. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our guests. Please stand briefly. From your right, dallas morning news. Maria, fort worth start telegram. David callaway, usa today, editorinchief. Adrian garcia. Kevin, washington post. The honorable rodney alexander, texas state senator. Allison fitzgerald. Skipping over the speaker for moment. Bob carden with card in communications and the Speaker Committee member who organized todays lunch. I thank you. Bobby patton. Of thes leader and owner l. A. Dodgers. The senior sector producer and manager of political programming for abc news. Marilyn thompson, bureau chief for thompson reuters. A host and reporter with voice of russia and blogger for the washington post, she the people blog. Rick dunham, a political reporter with the Houston Chronicle and former National Press club president. [applause] it seems now like the whole country was watching when our guests today literall
A political casualty. But after the constitutional onvention, which, of course, washington sanctioned and mason it spelled in , many ways an end to their friendship. Twitter, george and Martha Washington, quite the power couple. We close out bringing us full circle, what are the important things for people to the influence of Martha Washington. I think its important to powerful she and on and how dependent he was her. His achievements were his achievements. Him aving her there with made them much more possible. I think thats true. Defined influence in a way that perhaps contemporary have difficulty understanding. But the fact of the matter is, she was the most influential of the earth face with the president of the United States. This says Richard Norton of george graphy washington patriarch Still Available if youd like to learn weve been talking about the book martha ashington with the striking portrait of young martha on the cover and widely available for people who want to know more
Ever called Martha Washington martha. She was always called patsy as Lady Bird Johnson was never called claudia. So i was just wondering, you mentioned in his letters when he referred to her in his letter that it was just mentioned on the telephone that he did call her patsy. And i also wanted to mention that in the story that im reading about martha and George Washington that the house, mt. Vernon, was originally the home of his half brother, George Washingtons half brother. That he lived in a smaller farm. And i wondered if you are going to talk anything about his years as a surveyor or is this really about the years with martha as an adult . Thank versus much. This is actually Martha Washingtons time in the sun. So we wont talk about georges early career. What about the nickname patsy . Patsy, pat, patty were the nicknames for martha in those days just as peg or peggy is a nickname for margaret. The martha nickname has fallen out of favor. Nobody was named patricia back then. The on
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