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Portraits of all first ladies. This series provides enough close historical book to survive the scrutiny of the white house said great personal cost in sometimes changing history. Our program tonight and we will hear more about that. To moderate tonights program were pleased to welcome the modern writer for cspan susans way and is president and coceo of cspan sharing responsibility for all operations of Public Affairs. She oversees programming for the three Television Channels and cspan radio with the washington journal and booktv of American History tv. With the cspan history series though Li...

Preeminent historians and biographers. In the recently released, informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all 45 first ladies, their lives ambitions and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. This series and the book provides an up close historical look at these fascinating women who survive the scrutiny of the white house sometimes at great personal cost while supporting their families and famous husbands and sometimes changing history. Our program tonight will feature a live discussion with some of these contributing historians who we will hear about shortly...

And you will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program we are pleased to welcome susan swain, the moderator for cspan first ladies influence and image. Susan swain is president and coceo cspan sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cablenet work. She oversees programming and marketing for cspan3 Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, booktv, it American History tv. She has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as american president s, the lincolndouglas debate and american writers yo...

Say that she represents an important chapter in the countrys history. I think we have seen in her and in the times she has inhabited obviously great progress towards a world that is a. Built more fair, but lets keep in mind, took it was only a year ago that Michelle Obama giving a speech to commemorate the 60th neaves of brown versus board of education pointed out theres a long way to go. She said this is a country where too often the police will stop someone on the street because of the color of her skin. Michelle obama has no illusions that we have sort of crossed the great divide, but her s...

Thats fine. And either of you want to make a final comment . I think we have host i want to thank our panelists. There were many more questions that people would have liked to ask. Im going to ask you to remain in your seats for a short period of time. There is a security detail has asked us the National Archives. Foe first ladies, exploring the lives of those women. Live coverage. Host our partners in tonights program. Im jim gardner executive for the president ial libraries. So probably everything you are interested in. Im responsible for. Before we begin, i would like to mention two program...