A Word on Words; 2911; Bonnie Angelo

no single or once again welcome to oregon orszag yes donald you're young friends have been delighted to be here the women who shaped the president's we begin with franklin delano roosevelt mother sarah and we go all the way through to bill clinton's mullah virginia what women and then for what stories lives and what influenced the hall and they didn't in her own way really really as you say shaped him and there's a lot and posted one woman virginia going to be the woman who shaped him that's what amazon was that's really young you know air each one had different personalities and each reach one edit in unique ways to the lives of these men and their families might be well i mean doesn't look at all our viewers and interest in history

now i have to read because it gives a different perspective on history the lives of presidents from roosevelt franklin roosevelt appointment the uk anywhere the gang in a worldwide phenomenon and but that's just really assess do to give me i'll tell it then you react to it our she was not only a dominant mother she was a domineering mother she was on hudson valley aristocrat i didn't really think her boy should be in politics but once he was in it she wanted him to win to get along at all with her daughter eleanor daughter in law eleanor there was always the friction there but she was from the day that boy was born and put herself into him because she thought he was very special she made him very special one of river village like my mother young how could two women follow each other two

presidents follow each other so if the trial is where bryan teare people at martha young to her father was a wagon most on the prairie sky boehner's going from missouri to california will pioneers she was around it was always my favorite one of those eleven she knew what she believed in march and said to me my grand mother knew that right was right or wrong was wrong and there was no negotiating she was very short of her values she was some bad like the others he was absolutely committed to education taught our border read as they all did before he went to school board has lyme wars you could afford them books looks at that he runs either item on the issue was i gather likes it you know the smile that we all know

on the general's face the presents plays with the smile right off of either eisenhower's face that lloyd was troublesome son she used to call him but bp was her favorite psych she they know pour truly poor i think those boys to school her six sons in patched clothes when dwight was a schoolboy he had to wear his mother's high top pesto shoes to school which is eight which is in the main a scrapper i think on the playground somoza family were crammed into a van and eighteen square feet and believe the unbelievable evil he was you know this at that point i guess in his office is talking about how the oval office or compared to the house where these are profound role of this is actually was a general because generals have bigger offices and he said yes that he had more square footage than the whole

house did but somehow she shoehorn them in the sheet they were poor she never let them failed for ike said they didn't think about being poor and she brought up the six boys with a husband who was a failure and a doer manna an authoritarian man distant from his boys a disciplinary and she was the one who ended the cheer and the leavening but the responsibility was implanted in them sheep she made that family of boys all of them each of them a success story from it rose with euro ah well you know a lot about roses until we get it on the job and of course was one of the very few fathers who was a tremendous success ah but he was away as a movie producer much of the time on the west coast and and when the kids were little he formally sent to rose it is your responsibility to bring up a family she took that responsibility and happy later she was a born teacher units

travers made that point to me that she she was she barbecues and so it was almost a school world and you know i thought i was really significant that when john kennedy was elected president he was time magazine for whom i worked all these years and was doing a man of the year cover it and he was asked about the early influences and he said and it talks about my father said but the credit should go to my mother she was the one who was there she was the one who taught us the public service was a noble calling and i thought the embattled senate that that that rose and pine even her children and in her grandchildren this feeling of serving of of giving back for their own great wealth and when you look at the grandchildren or almost every one of them has a new coalition i knew where the absolute have some in politics some of the main rebecca baines johnson was on remarkable

woman in that she will head of kuwait's so she was on she won't win the worst things are washing was she when lyndon johnson to be a sign in her father's noble that was her word image she's examined and to take violin lessons and he wanted to use the girls but she also when they lose a with a wonderful dancer and a lively with revenue the first on the floor soda far less talk wonderfully so it didn't really have a residual effect here that actually graduate from a high school said he's an issue of education he was not going to go as broke our heart because education was paramount in her life her father or grandfather had been posted a baylor university's was un team looked about for couple years worked as what would pick and shovel on the road again and she was distressed at this i'm gay

carousing and row houses at night is pals would bring him home portman to be a drunk and she was so devastated then came an ant became a night when he had a terrible day with pick and shovel and the coal world february and he said mom mom i've tried it with my hands are ready to try with my hayden if you're healthy she well into action call the president of the teachers college nearby exactly she managed to get him alone so he could afford to go to cut along with seventy five dollars but it was hard to get that loan even graham is head sat up all night cramming as handful of geometry so he could pass a college entrance exam with and it is great to see if she does this boy on the road to win you got it became in a college than young men he went from success to success he never ever

i am very old he attributed all to his mother from that day forward so she saved at all the quake or the client quaker had much closer she had five sons in all much closer to her son richard than any of yours i talked again talked with the former presidents and members all kinds of members of the family which wellbeing being too me and why us correspondent for time and spending twenty five years in in journalism and politics it's not difficult for president and they're scoring they always act edward kennedy nixon they did the much younger brother who talked about how host those that that son and that mother were the other sons were not that close to how she had to put up with the bark shows are diminutive a difficult husband so different from herself this quiet introspective

woman but she helped out in the family store she baked pies that she would sell for thirty five cents a pint sometimes as many as fifty to she was a hard worker and pour herself into richard nixon's future hugo von i remember we all remember that that tearful changes worry the one ocean which he said my mother mother's side you said that there may be harry truman's mother was your favorite my favorite is is dorothy came forward this story sort of story i haven't known it in i knew that he had a brother i have a brother named king that summer came out i guess is what i had not realized that she was an abused wife she had the most terrible at that story as a young society girl married this wealthy and she thought the son of a big omaha businessman and as they went away on their honeymoon in a padded compartment in the train before they got from illinois to portland

oregon he had beaten her then continued to physically and literally with less a content abusers she went straight counterparts he followed hers that i won't do it again so she went back to back to him in ohio became pregnant she had a child a boy when that baby king jr was sixteen days old his father threatened the mother and the child with a butcher knife to me that's was chilling story that you can imagine she didn't sweat in the night pledging that baby tooth in her arms to give to give up altogether any thoughts of seeing him again and lived in with her parents that was so supportive of her she knew she would be ostracized she knew that and that is that she would have to make her way with this baby on her own but she knew she could not subject a child to that kind of life she then the story has a happy ending at home

huge grand rapids are purist and so she does not like the new she met there gerald dial florida who loved her and love that little boy and that little boy his name was the best stepfather anyone could ever have had had three other suns jerry ford said to me if any day he treated me better than his own son's which it was you know he said he was my father he was my father he said that was a wonderful ending to a terrible beginning alameda say or euros for those of you just tuning in were talking with by angelo mild friend author the first mothers the women who shaped the presence of you know inside the book and will go along with the account you're intently into account an unsolvable their arm but their follow up some in just two three pages of each one and some of pictures i had never seen before we listen it helps you have the face on the personalities of these kinds

have an address that's insult when they were little and has been a great pitcher darby bush mashing overhead on the tennis court to always so tell you something about about that like but let's go through before we have to in the north was just go to turn the celine dion ms lynn we all honestly and she raised jimmy she really believes he raped women larry and i mean we all as human of these correlate we all know how funny billy was about irish he was of how funny she was about yourself about this i think that with that lillian carter i'm not jimmy carter could never have been nominated much less elected president in nineteen seventy six years in pot would've been impossible because it was lillian carter bowman brought up lived in the ku klux klan when a south georgia who had a great

sense of concern a form of some racial tolerance she was a nineteenth century girl but that the long that early she felt some concern from ford it's true for black people she as a nurse she was i'm in an out of their houses as the only man there dr ruth sheen plenty jimmy carter that's a concern for civil rights which was crucial to his guiding that nomination spiking lillian carter was the quote but on the whole the more far side of her and she was that as you know is a one of a kind and as jimmy carter said to me my mother enjoyed being different and she was she was great baseball buff and i said she's the only presidents mother who threw out the first ball at a world series game and i'm sure as the only time that live in brooklyn dodgers manager and cancer were placed and hired by wider picture wearing his cabinet pets are what it says on the earth

the ammunition goes off to sixty she often before and sixties in the heart of hard to goad she wanted to go to consider that dark skinned people do ask for their arm you know we don't think much about knowing that it that his mom is the least known mother of eleven maybe have something to do with age although observe the loans the reason was this and nobody was more was closer to their son the nail reagan she died before he was in politics and all you are more authentic when ronald reagan got his movie contract renewed after the first always the tenuous first year he got his country he immediately set for his parents to come live in hollywood he bought for than the first house we ever and he would go by to see them almost every day

he didn't get to see that he would telephone so then the letters there is that they were isn't personal contact all it all those years that the rate of labor has nothing on her nothing was lucky enough to find somebody who had a trove of personal letters from her and that i think gave give the dimension to now rated should issue as a wannabe actress herself she loved to perform she wrote a place for her to church she put the dutch heard it when he was five and six years old in the place and he liked it he like the sound of a pause in the audience making much of him that i started him on his way to being a performer which was of course the way he came into politics later more than that yeah they were poor they were really poor his father a shoe salesman an alcoholic told a good story wonderful irish storyteller but was not much of a

breadwinner she painted and he and despite their poverty and a sense of optimism isis have confidence that i believe was the hallmark of our aid as character that optimism that things can get better and he may be conveyed that to the american people when he was president second straight from his mother she was responsible ability and then we moved to a privilege and i guess she wrote more than any others because she was the wife of press and work by unitas and understood the political life and unlike rose fisher also imbued him in her and her son became president that that understanding public service woes when exactly she's very strong and good bad the foot for whom much is given much was

on dorothy walker bush was the daughter of a wealthy merchant your family of st louis she was a day because she could have lived just a wonderful golden life which she had but she was very competitive very active she was the the national american up with it with the national girls' tennis champion as junior champion as det marburger set of her mother in law and then they got along wonderfully she said she's the most competitive human being she would beat her boys on the tennis court and bushes way into middle age she was a competitive swimmers she was a tenant in the deadly wings player but i when i read that i thought yeah i buy you just order of dollars about religion isn't going to see neighbors say i'm an animal hours it was not a debt limit

walker bush was very much an activist and her pliska paul very schoolyard they read bible verses at the table just a weight had on nixon as a quaker and her family read bible verses at the table she was a great friend of billy grahams in fact at a billy graham it was there on her invitation to kennebunkport window when george bush met him and felt that he'd been and became a different sort of person but as competitiveness wanes a sense of sportsmanship she had her voice began to get a big hit about things she brought back to size very quickly she was when george bush was running for president talked about himself so much of course candidates talk about themselves and he explained that when she says while jurors trying not to say so much and so when you hear dedicated his presidential library he was talking about the accomplishments of his administration and he's our appointed him and were in said my

mother's up there saying stop brad dains your words or you know in his book of love letters this last book that that as a man is you know more typical letters and letter he rides home to both a fallen mother about having lost those to compatriots when the plane went down to some very moving and he wept literally wept hearing that discussion and you know she not only raised shaped life of the sun but with a normal barbara she raised to help raised two grandchildren and give some direction to their lives in the cove won the governor's what has the president to say who says said to me today that his grandmother was just such a wonderful influence and that everybody knew was deeply impressed with diversity says some just what was candid that kind of ripples of public service go through yet another generation which brings to virginia virginia

virginia who was married and then abused their married again to the simon then married to neverland most people don't know about that that that their immersion learning and a fourth corollary <unk> white ex convict who yes he was a it's actually three other former husbands had done things with all on see she said was the air and the top title of the chapter reflexes she said was that she relies why she didn't like country music because she said my life was like the country and it was the first husband she married work toward time marriage was a bigamist absolutely supreme court papers show if he didn't and he died with killer automobile accident before their

son bill was born before more than she was and hope and he was wearing the day he was on his way from they were moving to chicago when he was well yeah i you know when i read that in her book i've got a fun about it when i read in your book i didn't have any doubt that he was on the runway together yes yes and they had bought that it put a down payment on a house and if you're in the chicago i you know i've i cannot say that that marriage would have been in any way successful he'd been married but he was died when he was i think twenty six or twenty seven and had been married and three tries before it was not a divorce from his deployment of his fourth wife yelling at her and i think acting her life could not have been other than the disaster with him then she mayor roger clinton who became an alcoholic he was a youtube abusive is we all read the stories about bill clinton when he was a teenager had been done and what is my mama yes we never tell thing for some have to grow up with she and she married the second time just feeling sorry

for him but she had to be the breadwinner of that of that family values were not the same as the others and quick to say that she was that she was so candid in her autobiography about eleven the racetrack the first baptist church and you founded the local racetrack every day the courses were writing it as soon as the rhinestones and racetracks kind of a gallery online are you the book is so full of anecdotes human interest anecdote i mean the muslin i'm harry truman's mother was something i never heard before oh and i think that's you know here she said and what i mean about the upcoming la mano is never should've and then it you're right again you have a hawkish president to have passengers

mahler's you notice among them others were but that virtually all of the mothers tended to be a pacifist there at which is not so surprising women don't like wars that it may lose their son is it eisenhower pacifist is at the core of her being and there was her son go off to west point was it was free education and to play football it is impressive that you want to be the military says in there in your quarters and she was a she was a pacifist and she's just getting on the streets are anti war and literature when he was the general of the biggest army that had ever been a solo and some of the brothers romulus and you know she's doing is that we should have or stop he wrote that if it makes her happy let her do it as the sichuan alongside a wonderful story when you were when you think about it lillian cahn i mean the story is there in the world that it was new insights to the laws of presents and jimmy carter has is that his one was

surprised at the number of them move ahead they're for inflation and this was harry truman smugglers and i'm like what about the roles that all religions were equal plus but little show hannity and animal house nixon a quaker religion in most of the cases dorothy bush the scribbled their religion did play a role in shaping alliance of these men whatever their religious beliefs turned out only to be however committed they work on how long i have been muslim and then about a religious commitment they certainly their leaders were shaped they're religious faith the fundamental values that in the end and date it is the no impediment that discipline their sons when they veered off of the jacket they felt that they might take to discipline which is different from i think women to date have to worry

about i wanna talk about it instead of this rose kennedy it would always active children would say yes c discipline them when their emissions are just use whatever was ahead and she said i found it religion well as some great to see you do well thank you for coming back money enjoy the author of the first mother's women to shape the president i'd forgotten to me and thank all of you for joining us here on word on words he really