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Susan Caroline Scott harrison was born in 1832 where she met Benjamin Harrison. She grew into an accomplished artist, interested in womens issues. Although the harrison presidency has been rated as fairly unsuccessful by some historians, those who tracked first ladies considered Caroline Harrison as one of the more underrated to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies influence and image and here to tell us more about the story of Caroline Harrison, our two guests who know the office well. Edie mayo, thanks for coming back. And bill seale, white house historian, has ...

Thank you very much. So, you get to get out of school, come to the bookstore which has been on saturday night live and the president came to this bookstore, so this is a very special place, and special for me to be here too. Im very pleased. Im also especially pleased to talk to you about the great women because when i was a kid growing up, and well into my time as an adult, i have looked at all these stories from history and pictures and paintings and all that statues, and there were no women, and i started to think, maybe there were not women then. What duty . Do you think there were women a...

Well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. Youve mastered monkeystyle kung fu . No. Priceline is different now. You dont even have to bid. Master hahn taught you all that . Oh, and he says to say translated from cantonese you still owe him five bucks. Your accent needs a little work. Okay. Do you guys see that little look at that little obama doll. Im don lemon live from the National Mall in washington. It is just past just past the half hour here on cnn, live on the mall. Its so amazing here. Excitement is building here in washington to mark the end of p...

If you remember nothing that i said tonight, then you probably had too much to drink. [laughter] if you remember one thing that i said tonight, let it be this. As dire as things look right now, i am profoundly optimistic. We have seen things look dire before. I am optimistic for three simple reasons. Number one, we are right. Freedom works. [applause] there is a very simple dynamic, conservatives win when we effectively articulate what it is we believe. This is fundamentally a center right nation. Liberals win when they effectively off the skate obduscate what they believe. Their policies do n...

and bill, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that building. bill and edie are both members of c-span sass -- c-span's academic advisory committee for this series. we're going to start with an illustration tonight. like to -- the white house itself is one of the most iconic buildings in the world. i think -- >> certainly, yeah. >> is -- if caroline harrison had had her way, it would like different today. we have her designs for the white house that we'd like to show people at home right now. what were her plans? what was she trying to...