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OneLegUpAlex Media Highlights the Mother’s Day debate of 1908 (5–11-26) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Darren. All right, well that's my dad.
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  Speaker 1: But yesterday we honored mom. It was Mother's Day, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, and I hope you had a good one.
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  Speaker 1: We had a nice lunch, my mom, my stepdad, Vic,
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  Speaker 1: and my stepsister Abby and I. We all gathered to
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  Speaker 1: honor my mom and of course the moms that have
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  Speaker 1: gone before us, my two grandmothers and Abby's mom. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get to this. The New York Post
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  Speaker 1: is celebrating two hundred and fifty years of America by
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  Speaker 1: highlighting the paper's history every day, liking up to July fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth. The Post is publishing notable covers and
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  Speaker 1: stories from our archives. You know they chose yesterday, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: the Mother's Day debate, May ninth, nineteen o eight. The
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  Speaker 1: article writes, the day before the first Mother's Day on
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  Speaker 1: May tenth, nineteen oh eight, So actually yesterday was the
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  Speaker 1: very anniversary of the date. That's cool. A Mother's eight.
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  Speaker 1: May tenth, nineteen oh eight, The Evening Post front page
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  Speaker 1: featured a small story on the quote unquote interesting debate
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate over a resolution declaring it an official
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  Speaker 1: national holiday. Senator Elmer Jacob Burkett of Nebraska Republican introduced
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  Speaker 1: the motion, which required all Senators to wear a white
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  Speaker 1: flower in honor of their mom. How sweet is that
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  Speaker 1: at the request of the YMCA Young Men's Christian Association.
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  Speaker 1: Several mocked the resolution and questioned the need for such
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  Speaker 1: a holiday. Senator Henry Moore Teller, a Democrat from Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: declared it absolutely absurd and said every day is mother
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  Speaker 1: with me is a Mother's Day, and that's true. We
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  Speaker 1: should respect our moms every day and love on our
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  Speaker 1: moms every day. It was voted down from thirty three
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  Speaker 1: to fourteen. It wasn't until well nineteen fourteen that the
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  Speaker 1: second Sunday in May became an official national holiday by
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  Speaker 1: a proclamation signed by President Woodrow Wilson. So my mom's
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  Speaker 1: got her master's degree in public history at Empire's Date College.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of fitting that we do all history of
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Day. Who knew that this was a debate back
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen o eight, But thanks to the New York
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  Speaker 1: Post for archiving that. Thanks to Woodrow Wilson for making
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  Speaker 1: it a holiday the second Sunday in May. And I
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  Speaker 1: also agree with a lot that was said in the article.
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  Speaker 1: I mean every day should be Mother's Day. We should
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  Speaker 1: always honor mom and treat her well and always respect
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  Speaker 1: her every day of the year, even if it's not
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  Speaker 1: the second Sunday in May or her birthday. So, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you had a great Mother's Day. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to drop the link to our interview I did with
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  Speaker 1: you back six years ago for Mother's Day in the
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  Speaker 1: link below for some interesting insight from my mom, Laurie
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  Speaker 1: Sue Brockway, And tell you what, she's the best mom.
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  Speaker 1: She's the strongest woman I know and I'm very proud
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  Speaker 1: to have her as my mom in the last thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years. I love your mom, and that's my message
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  Speaker 1: to day. On one leg Up alex Media