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Sponsor the tribune and cspan book tv todays program will be broadcast live on book tv if theres time at the end for q a we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the whole viewing audience can hear your question. Before we c begin please silence your cell phone and turn off camera flashes. Let me introduce you to our guest. A reporter and columnist president of the chicago Chapter National association of black journalists president of the Journalist Association please welcome from the suntimes. [applause] good morning. Thank you for being here today and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as a president of the chicago chapter i owe my career to Dorothy Gilman author of trailblazer a pioneering j ....
Selfcleaning board. I want to give a special like you to our sponsors who have been generous in their support this evening. Excuse me, especially when thrust is our [inaudible] todays program will be broadcast live on the spin to book tv and if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the home viewing audience can hear your questions. For we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off the camera flashes. Im here to introduce you to here to introduce our guest is [inaudible], reporter and columnist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of black journalists and president of the chicago journalist association. Please welcome [inaudible] of the chicago suntimes. Thank you back. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for being here today. For joining us for what promis ....
That were appointed position s, that were, you know, at the discretion of people in power, ended up being a power struggle within the party between an ohiobased party, which is James Garfields party also Rutherford Hayes was from the same not only the same part of ohio, but the same kind of thinking and what were called the stalwarts, which were new yorkbased. And, you know, you see certain states really emerge throughout history with holding on to power within a particular party. And then in new york, that was really headed by a man by the name of roscoe conkling, who became a United States senator. So this is the struggle, and you see then, of course, the person who ends up shooting president garfield, deranged, of course, Charles Guiteau, but proudly screaming ....
Audience members, we ask that you silence all electronic devices. And now, to begin our first session, entitled paving the way, will you please join me in welcoming the moderator for the session, the director of education and special events lucinda. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you, and thank you, everyone, who is involved with the harding symposium. You have absolutely no idea how thrilled my colleagues and i are all to be here. Anytime we get a chance to present first the ladies, we always first ladies, we always present our mission, you can tell im really good today. [laughter] which is to to get the public about the lives and the activities of the first ladies of this country. And believe me, they were all wonderful. And as i was talking to somebody last night at the reception, we think all the president s were quite intelligent. Everyone of them. Because they were smart enough to marry the woman whod who became the lead partner and the first ladies of our country. We wan ....