Susan Swain

C-SPAN former co-CEO and longtime on-air host. Editor, “The Presidents,” First Ladies” published by Public Affairs

[White House History @WhiteHouseHstry]

The “Unfinished Business: What Remains and How to Achieve It” panel was moderated by @cspanSusan, former CEO of @cspan. The panel featured Rachel Flor, Executive Director of @jfklibraryfdn, Kurt Graham, President of Adams Presidential Center, Nia Mosby, Head of Programs + Civics Season @historymadebyus, David Lee, President and CEO of National First Ladies Library & Museum, and Meredith Sleichter, Executive Director of @EisenhowerFound.
#PSSBeyond250

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

It has been great fun this week to have my @SalemMedia program simulcast on @CSPAN. Throughout the week (and will again today) I’ve been recognizing the work of the great Brian Lamb —who is doing the interview excerpted below— as well as the longtime hosts Peter Slen (@pslen), Susan Swain (@cspansusan), @howardmortman, and now the new CEO @SamFeistDC and of course many others that have made CSPAN the institution it is like @SteveScully, John MacArdle (@cspanJohn), @GretaBrawner, Pedro Echevarria and a dozen more behind the cameras and operations. It’s a remarkable institution among Washington’s many institutions.

Russell Kirk, in Chapter 8 of The Conservative Mind, “Conservatism with Imagination: Disraeli and Newman,” gets to the heart of what makes a nation: Institutions that preserve that nation’s essence. CSPAN was born in the brain of Brian Lamb about 1977 and began broadcasting in 1979, just as America shuddered through the hostage crisis and just President Reagan campaigned for the White House. Almost 50 years later CSPAN does at least as much or more to conserve the Constitution and the liberties it protects as any organ or platform of old or new media because it allows the work of the Constitution to always be on air and it presents without filter candidates and conversations. It has done so much with Book TV and Booknotes and the broadcast of thousands of author interviews from other venues as well as panels and symposia and of course “C-SPAN’s Q&A” and “Washington Journal.”

All because of the sage of Lafayette, Indiana and son of Purdue Brian Lamb, a gentleman of the old school.

I will have to talk today on my program about Brian Lamb with Dr. Larry Arnn, president of @Hillsdale College, who has himself been across from America’s most penetrating interviewer. I am certain Dr. Arnn will share with me and every other author who has sat across from Lamb, as well as those whose books have been searched by Peter Slen or Susan Swain, or videos curated and carefully collected by Howard Mortman, a deep appreciation for what they and their colleagues to numerous to mention, have built. Sam Feist is a great steward to carry CSPAN into its second 50 years. I hope Sam is searching for the next generation interviewer/host. @Continetti comes to mind. There are others.

But it is all because of Brian Lamb, who had an idea. If you have Kirk’s Conservative Mind gathering dust somewhere, find it and read Chapter 8 about what it is many conservatives do: Keep alive institutions as they rebuild and reorganize and then return to center stage. CSPAN has kept alive the idea and the actual conduct of conversation, argument and debate. When its 50th birthday party rolls around by decade’s end, I hope all of Washington, D.C. and publishers everywhere find a way to salute Lamb and his tribe of curators.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

We are devastated by the sudden loss of Gordon Wood. Known to many as one of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution, Gordon was also a teacher of generations of students and other historians who, like him, help us better understand who we are as a country and a people. He will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with his family, his many friends and all who he touched throughout his remarkable life.

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

RIP: acclaimed historian Gordon Wood who died yesterday at age 92. https://t.co/hlit2OdVM3

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

@JOHNatACA1 @ACAConnects @KYcableguy Best wishes to you, John!

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

@pkcapitol Thank you for all your fine work for Post readers over these many years, Paul. I know you will continue to shine your light at @washingtonsun

[Architect of the Capitol (AOC) @uscapitol]

Cherry and magnolia blossoms can now be seen all over the #USCapitol campus. 🌸🩷🌸

[CSPAN @cspan]

It's official!

All three C-SPAN Networks are now available on Hulu + Live TV.
Unfiltered coverage of Congress, the White House, and the issues that matter—straight to your screen.

Visit Hulu to subscribe today.

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

Thank you @YouTubeTV for making the decision to add @cspan channels to your lineup. Your company now joins in the #publicservice tradition begun in 1979 by America’s cable companies of offering noncommercial coverage of #Congress to your customers.

[CSPAN @cspan]

It's official! All three C-SPAN Networks are now available on YouTubeTV. Visit https://t.co/IhDF0rH7KQ for details!

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

Watch live coverage of Senate vote on C-SPAN 2 or @cspan app.

[Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove]

(Bloomberg) -- The record-breaking US government shutdown is nearing an end after a group of moderate Senate Democrats agreed to would support a deal to reopen the government and fund some departments and agencies for the next year, per @StevenTDennis and @elwasson.

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

Hey ⁦@BookTV⁩: th⁦e 2025 Charleston Literary Festival is underway with more than 90 authors. Will you be covering any this year? https://t.co/xe0r3dS35e. #books #readers

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

#Halloween concert at the US Naval Academy chapel. Phantom of the Opera, midshipman style. #USNavy

[Neal Mohan @nealmohan]

Looking forward to partnering with @CSPAN to bring coverage of America’s 250th birthday to @youtube and @youtubetv!

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

We are so pleased that @YouTube and @Hulu are now adding @cspan networks to their video packages. This will bring our longform coverage of Congress, the White House and #SCOTUS to millions more households —an important public service by @Google and @Disney.

[CSPAN @cspan]

#BREAKING: C-SPAN is coming to @YouTube and @Hulu this fall!

Press Release: https://t.co/DFF98957nt

Press Release: https://t.co/MV5elS64EC

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump Statement on U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites - LIVE at 10pm ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/Xe3fvCGOHc

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

That’s me onstage last night w historian Rick Atkinson in ⁦@KennebunkportME⁩ for a lively conversation about the characters and lessons of the #RevolutionaryWar. And we got to help support the town’s Louis Graves Library. #FateoftheDay #A250 #nonfiction #bestseller

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

Today from @pkcapitol: “What’s perplexing to the congressional supporters of C-SPAN (@cspan) is why such major corporations have put up a fight over something that is barely a rounding error to their financial books.” cc: @YouTubeTV @Google @hulu

https://t.co/GVwzdkDsAW

[Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan]

Here's the text to the 20 changes to the "One, Big Beautiful Bill" included in the recessions package rule. If the "self-executing" rule is approved by the House, these changes to the OBBB would automatically take place. https://t.co/3LQoMdMjzy

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

Exclusive — Senate Resolution Will Pressure YouTubeTV, Other Streaming Services to Carry C-SPAN. https://t.co/uB7G1T49RU

[Susan Swain @cspanSusan]

39 years ago today, the #USSenate began televising its sessions, carried in their entirety by @cspan 2 as a #publicservice.

It took 7 years after the #USHouse launched TV for senators to agree to camera coverage.

ttps://www.c-span.org/liveEvent/?senate-on-tv