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academia to politics. set an example for future first ladies. year and a half of his term. edithieving president met , and she served as first lady for five years. her unprecedented role in managing affairs is one of the most consequential efforts of any first lady. good evening, and welcome to our continuing series. the wilsonry of first ladies. christine miller is a biographer f the first ladies. mr. cooper is woodrow wilson s biographer. we are going to break precedent. thesee been telling stories chronologically, but everyone knows about edith wilson managing the white house after a stroke. so many people want to know what happened. suffer the stroke? 1919.was in october of trying to sell the country on going into the league of nations. aborted the tour and got him back into the white house. five days into the white house he suffered a massive stroke. the story of the stroke is very dramatic. can you tell us what happened? conflicting reports about what happened, ....
that echoed you think it is a worthwhile way for our law enforcement community to be trying to eradicate his crime? absolutely. is tremendous pressure on local law enforcement to solve the crime that exists today. that discourages the longer look. raising awareness that there is a longer look to take is critical on dealing with state and local law enforcement. unless they know there is a bigger problem, as we found with what turned into the undercover investigation of the east european trafficking in bars and massage parlors, started as just a prostitution case, and then it grew. ,nce they are alerted to that better investigations will follow. thank you. the son of a required retired schoolteacher, i cannot diminish mys not respect for what you are doing. i have talked with students about this issue and their level of comprehension astounds me. you talked about some of the cultural things that you are seeing. candidlyto us very about the way those things are talked ....
in 1907. by 1908, he had scribbled on a little note somewhere. my precious one, my beloved mary. i don t think he sent it to her. i think he was venting her feelings. ellen was upset. she accused him of emotional love for this woman. but she tolerated mary and tried to protect woodrow from the scandal. there still was some scandal. theodore roosevelt was invited in the 1912 election to make use of this. somebody said that they had letters between woodrow and mary. and although they were never as ardent as his letters to ellen had been, they were simply compromising. and roosevelt said, no, that would be wrong. and also that nobody would believe him. yeah. because that was that was very noble of theodore roosevelt. but you said you said, what i can t believe that somebody who looks like the apoth care s cud could be romeo. i don t believe that. doing the best t.r. invitation on the program. no. this momentous on the united states and those who enter world war ....
the new role. about the funeral. they had the funeral in rome at the church where woodrow met her. the townspeople were there, but there wasn t a state funeral in washington. there was a little ceremony and the white house. yes, there was, at the white we already finished our first hour. cooper our guest john biography of woodrow wilson. do as we closeo out here, mr. cooper, is open it up and read this paragraph or you talk about her contributions to him. low. seth felt him a cold ellen had been his closest, wisest advisor. more influence over her than anyone else. he rarely let her severe depression affect him or her daughters. ellen had given him so much, and he was a far better man for her gifts. he had gone further and accomplished more in the world of scholarship, education, politics, and government than he could have without her, and he knew it. is it fair to say without ellen there might not have been a president woodrow wilson? absolutely. this man bloss ....
instability, anger and division. that s what is disappointing to me. mr. speaker, as i look to the president to lead this country, i want to look at a man who, of his past and who he is, a very dynamic person. came from very tough circumstances to become president of the united states. i wish he would say, you know what? my job is to lead this conversation about jobs and the economy. my job is to lead this conversation, look, we tried stimulus spending. i really thought it would work, but it didn t. some republicans, why don t you come to the white house? why don t you have a conversation with me? i haven t been invited for years. maybe we aren t going to find any agreement, but at least we can respect each other s opinions and say what do we need to do to get our economy back on track. why is it 7% of our neighbors don t have jobs, many of them are underemployed in jobs they don t want. why is that? what can we do to come together? mr. gardner: what we have been able t ....