she's also served in the administration of george hw bush and ronald reagan and is the founding member of the first lady's association for research and education also known as flare our second speaker today nancy keegan smith is the flare vice president. she was an archivist at the national archives and records administration starting at the lbj presidential library. museum and then work that the archives here in dc from 1973 to 2012 where she retired as the director of presidential materials division. she currently currently lectures in rights on the first ladies including lady bird johnson and michelle obama in his co-editor of modern first ladies their documentary legacy. she's also published articles on presidential libraries and access to presidential records and our last speaker who will be our first speaker as diana carlin. she's the flare treasure is professor emerita of communication at saint louis university and as a retired faculty member and administration of the university of kansas where she taught course on the rhetoric of first ladies, she currently teaches usher lifelo

then she really expected that ronald reagan would award her with some sort of high government position and there would be a miniseries. with her on the phone taking the calls from reagan who tells her, sorry, you have done a great job and i am not offering you anything. you see her crushing disappointment. as i watch the rise of amy barrett, much in common. i mean, a mother of many children. i think that it was maybe five. >> you know, living in a very traditional family structure. most lawyers, you know, obviously with ambitions far beyond the confines of the traditional household. they have chosen to live their adult life. all of those kinds of things. glamorous in her way. very well dressed and so on. it just occurred to me, that in a way, amy comey barrett in 2020 was the fulfillment of what she wanted so much and failed to do back in the early 1980s. that is why i do that comparison >> let me ask you a question about religion and also, i would like you to weave into how much of a back story you want to tell. you are focused on these 12 months. you had to develop a scaffolding for

bush and ronald reagan. and is the founding member of the first lady's association for research and education, also known as flair. our second speaker today, nancy can smith, is the flair vice president. she was an archivist at the national archives administration starting at the lbj presidential library and museum, and the work at the archives in d.c. from -- 2012 when she she currently lectures and writes on the first ladies including michelle obama and is coed her of modern first ladies, she's also published articles on presidential libraries and access to presidential records. our last speaker, who was also for speaker, is dana karlyn. she is chair trevor, president america communications at st. louis university and is an administrator of the university of kansas, where she taught of course on the rhetoric of first ladies. she currently teaches lifelong learning classes on first ladies, and lectures on their influence. she is the co-author or author on books on chapters, books and chapters. martha washin

well, and you know for ronald reagan the both of them turned out to be very historical moments first of all in terms of the weather still i think to this day ronald reagan's to inaugurers were the on the record for the weather the warmest and 1981 at 55 degrees as i recall and then and then also in 1985, it was minus seven degrees and i think it was a wind chill of minus 25 and so we canceled the parade and took the inauguration inside in both of those cases. it was the first president that was inaugurated on the west front of the capitol in 1981. that was basically done more as it cost savings by the congress the congressional inaugural committee that anything else because they didn't have to build basically, you know a large amphitheater because they took advantage of the terraces existed at the time same way in 1985 it all so had a advantage that it was the fifth time that a president was inaugurated actually on a sunday. so we had two ceremonies and i think chris this also happened with president obama on the second time that he had this historical thing of happening on a sunday.

that was ronald reagan in 1981. presidential records as government property only began since reagan. the most important thing it did in this first section, or second section really, was to say that all materials created or received by the president are henceforth government property from immediately upon receipt or creation and remain government property while the president is in office. when he leaves office they transfer to nara. that is the core construct. just to do a quick further backtrack along what trudy just described for you, the history of the national archives, the federal records act was passed in the most concrete form in 1950. that established -- even though the records of agencies were considered government property -- it created the whole system of records management and control and disposal of all the federal agencies. under that statute nara plays the controlling -- has the controlling responsibility for records management across all federal agencies and we issue the guidance regulations the agenc