. >> anna harrison had been with him through a long political career. what do we know about her? >> we know she was a religious woman. we know she was a reluctance first lady. she did not get to be first lady and the white house, because the day her husband and other members of the family left to go to washington, she was too ill to travel. the day she was all packed up and ready to join him in washington was the day she got notification he died. >> how did he die? >> that is an interesting question. the answer was always that he was not going to wear a top hat and topcoat to his inauguration, and he was exposed to cold weather and caught a cold and died. i think it is more complex than that. he was an older gentleman. he was exhausted by office seekers in the first month of his presidency, and i think all of that compromised his health, so he did eventually catch a bad cold that turns into pneumonia, and as a consequence, he did die. >> anna harrison was the first first lady to have a public education. readhe certainly did political journals, but i do not believe she was a polit

and anna harrison we know was the -- anna harrison was the first publicly be to have a public -- the first first lady to have a public education. but she certainly did read political journals, but i do not believe she was a political person. i do not believe she would have the role other first ladies would later on, especially the person who follows her. person, john tyler's second wife, but at least during the time, even though she did not come to the white house, she did use her influence to get appointments for her nephews and sons and grandsons, so she would have been political in that way but not the way he would think of with someone like julia tyler. >> which we will learn more of tonight. she must haveent, had good genes. what was going on in the harrison family that it produced so many political leaders? >> they were one of the first families of virginia, so you would have had them be involved in the revolution. they have a long history of political involvement. i think it is where they are located by the mid 1800's in the northwest territory, in this area that is opening up

we will be air hour special on the lives of anna harrison, letitia tyler, and julia tyler. after that a plan to close control towers because of sequestration spending cuts. next, a brookings institution's forum. this is an hour and a half. you for inviting me to participate in the debate. i was in charge for a long time from 2009 until 2003, when i was , sofirst visitor to tehran i have been in charge, and i maintain some lines of communication. i think it is important to have a perspective on how the process has gone. what has been the most important ,oments that have taken place and the steps could have been taken. with all the difficulties we , but 2003 was the first wee we went to tehran, and .igned an important agreement we signed thent tehran agreements, and that it had two points. it would not start their capabilities and we would give it facilities for whatever they wanted a peaceful use of nuclear energy nuclear energy -- and economic help. that went for a year and then everything went ok. at the general elections, there was a change. they denounced that agreement.

back.be right [video clip] >> on "first ladies," anna harrison, whose husband william henry harrison, who died the first month in office. julia tyler who becomes resident tyler second wife. >> i think of her as the madonna of first ladies. she loved the publicity. she actually posed as a model at a time when that was, needless to say, frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island. by all accounts was bewitching. certainly bewitched 57-year-old john tyler. who married her. and she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year. but it was she who ordered the marine band to play hail to the chief whenever the president appears, and also julia tyler who greeted her guest sitting on a throne on a raised platform with purple plumes in her hair. it was almost as if she receded to the more queenly role marco washington had deliberately rejected. >> we will include your questions and comments about these three first ladies by phone, face book, and twitter, tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span three. -- c-span3. and on c-span radio and www.c- span.org. >> th

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age does have something to do with it. >> anna harrison was if her mid--to-late 60's and julia tyler 24 years old when she came into the job so brought young sensibility with her. they left washington in 1845 and returned to their homes in the virginia tide water area, sherwood forest. by the way, how did it get its name >> it got its name because during one of -- during one of john tyler's breaks with the wigs, he was referred to as robin hood. so he embraced that and, therefore, called their home sherwood forest and julia embraced it too. she got there, she basically gave uniforms and gave uniforms to the enslaved men who rode the riverboat so she had bows and arrows as part of their -- as part of -- sewn on the collar as part of their uniforms. >> let's return to sherwood forest and learn more about what the tylers' life was like after the white house. >> the tylers, john tyler was born in charles city county at greenway. and he purchased this house at the end of his presidential term. he came down here once before he retired from the presidency, brought with him julia gardiner. t

[cheers and applause] >> tonight on "first ladies," anna harrison, whose husband, william henry harrison, dies after a month in office. she passes away just a year and a half later, and julia tyler, the president's second wife. >> julia is the madonna, you know, of first ladies. she loved publicity. she posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. she was professionally known as the "rose of long island," and by all accounts was bewitching, certainly bewitched 57-year-old john tyler who married her, and he loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year, but it was julia tyler who ordered the marine band to play "hail to the chief" whenever the president appears, and it was julia tyler who greeted her guests sitting on a throne on a raised platform with purple plumes in the hair, almost as she receded to that more queenly role that martha washington deliberately rejected. >> include your questions and comments about these three first ladies by phone, facebook, and twitter tonight live at nine europe on c-span and c-span3, and also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >>

first, and the harrison. -- anna harrison. president and moved into the white house with his wife, letitia. then the country had a new first lady, julia tyler. live tonight on c-span at 9:00 eastern. next "washington journal ," reporting on partisanship in the senate. we will look at the nation's infrastructure, and we will discuss the use of domestic drones. journal"why on c- span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> rachel was not a fan of anything that took andrew jackson away -- rachel was not a fan of anything that took andrew jackson away. theran the plantation and firm and kept everything in order. everything loved her -- everybody loved her. >> she could write a nice letter and had nice jewelry. she was not as frumpy and she was reputed to be. >> he rose in politics, that was an ugly sore. >> the campaign was so bitterly fought, that they went all out, calling her a whore. they used every piece that they could find and she was good garbage for them. >> made the statement that i would rather be a dookkeeper and live in that palace.

harrison,ht, anna and julia tyler. madonna of first ladies. she loved publicity. she posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island. by all accounts, was bewitching. ,he bewitched john tyler married her, and she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year, but it was julia tyler who ordered the marine band to play when the the chief" president appeared. she greeted guests sitting on a throne with purple plumes and her hair. it is like she proceeded to that more queenly role that martha washington had deliberately rejected. >> we will include your questions and comments by phone, facebook, and twitter, the night live at 9:00 eastern on cnn c- span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. will reducedter our grants by about 5%, which equates to $22 million, which will be distributed among the various licensees and stations that i have described. 13% cut inen about a our overall federal funding of the last two years, and if the entire federal government had sustained the cuts that we have sustained, the