certainly, governor dukakis leads that pack. and i just want to ask, you know, when we think about with governor dukakis, what do you see? what do you think? you know, what do you remember when you think of him sitting here in his tenure and what he brought to the state the years since? i'll let any of you jump in on that. well, i'll start just i'll come back to stewardship. you know, there was a i mean, that notion that. that policy matters where it touches people and that you must thinking about both the hard the human infrastructure as ways of enabling people to reach their potential. that's the job to think hard not sort of quarter quarter election cycle to election, but generation to generation about what we have to do right now to make things better for those who come after us. and i think that's that's the way i think of of michael's time office is time out of office the way he talks about and thinks about public service as being not just ambition, but actual service. and i think that's incredibly important and has really

governor dukakis was last boss. i was honored to serve with mike as my colleague for several years to witness his dedication to our students, to our faculty, and to the broader northeastern community. i first met governor dukakis as a 16 year old in 1988 when i was elected president of the massachusetts association of student councils. i wish i could say have aged as gracefully as you have, mike. there we are on the right. there. at that time, you wrote me a very letter and i've treasured it for 36 years. what impressed most about your letter was not the fact that you sent it, but the fact that it was dated july six, 1988, 12 days before the democratic national convention, just days before what was. the most high profile event of your political career? you made it a priority to write to high school sophomore in your state to congratulate him on an achievement. i'd like to read an excerpt from that letter. quote, i would like to extend commendations and gratitude for your outstanding contributions of time effort and

that was never mike dukakis.i sat at his feet there and i think put it to good use later, but he was inspiration to me then and inspiration to me now and his whole career through the presidential race, he just stood for being absolutely straight and it's what i aspired to when i got in the justice department some years later. and that's why i say at one level, we were separated at birth. great. [applause] >> governor patrick, you and michael dukakis have been very complimentary of each other over the years, certainly publicly. i'm sure you looked to his model of grass roots campaigning when you conducted your own race. you worked hard to get historic amounts of transportation funding to the state, which no one would appreciate more than governor dukakis. tell us your thoughts that michael dukakis had on your political life. >> it occurs to me, actually sitting here, that there are three governors from the same law firm. mike dukakis, this character, and me who was also at hill and barlow. >> they didn't offer me

certainly, governor dukakis leads that pack.want to ask, you know, when we think about with governor dukakis, what do you see? what do you think? you know, what do you remember when you think of him sitting here in his tenure and what he brought to the state the years since? i'll let any of you jump in on that. well, i'll start just i'll come back to stewardship. you know, there was a i mean, that notion that. that policy matters where it touches people and that you must thinking about both the hard the human infrastructure as ways of enabling people to reach their potential. that's the job to think hard not sort of quarter quarter election cycle to election, but generation to generation about what we have to do right now to make things better for those who come after us. and i think that's that's the way i think of of michael's time office is time out of office the way he talks about and thinks about public service as being not just ambition, but actual service. and i think that's incredibly important and has really set a tone

and michael dukakis was not. and in a way i've come to think in retrospect that michael and i might have been a one since ideologically separated at birth. [laughter] because if i had to summarize in one word the legacy of mike dick caucus in a politics into the united states the one word is honesty. [applause] [applause] and massachusetts that did not always go without question. our law firm very active with the crime commission. but the whole history. bill warren john william warren the president of amorous later scratching beneath the surface in finding out all was not well. i found out the same years later with u.s. attorney. in public positions thought it wass okay for them to slice up % off the top. i don't carry what party you leave in charge of government entity for 50 years it does not matter whether it is a libertarian, democrats republicans. they are going to think i get mine, that's okay it's part of being on the state or on the city. that was never mike dukakis. and i think put it to good use later.

that's michael dukakis. that guy was really, really powerful, but when he wasn't in governor anymore he could have been seen scrubbing graffiti from the walls of school walls and no chore was too small for hip. he always cared for that than his own. and he's matched his own, the ultimate citizen statesman. [applause] >> well put. it's not hard if we're not talking about insurance, but i really wanted to say that. >> well, that's a tough act to follow. [laughter]. >> but let me take that springboard from jim and i was the secretary of environmental affairs and secretary of economic affairs and then lt. governor and so i started thinking about, what are the lessons that mike taught all of us about how to work in state government. and he brought into-- when i first started environmental affairs, what i saw was he encouraged us to work together and that that came from the legislature because in the legislature, you have to work with other legislators to get anything done and so, he took that lesson and brought i

well, inspiration from governor dukakis. i, i had a work study job with a, um, agency nonprofit called the citizens housing and planning association and the governor early sixties was leading the charge to try to get a bill passed for affordable housing here in massachusetts. and actually was a kind of just a member of the task force with assistance, housing and planning to try to come up with that. and that was an inspiration to me. i was a. fresh air law student and, you know, and i it gave me some feel. first of all, how legislation as mayor is made. and, you know, the dedication and and commitment. but also the hard work that's required to pull something out of the hat, so to speak, particularly in a a tough, always tough legislature, which wasn't necessarily excited about the notion of, uh, federal housing at the time. but so anyway, that's, yeah, that was inspiration me a feeling that, you know public policy is the thing you can make a contribution and governor i have to thank thank for that and that sort of went off a

well, that's michael dukakis. he's really, really powerful. but when he wasn't in government anymore, he could be seen on weekends scrubbing graffiti from the outer wallsoo of schools and public libraries, no civic task was ever toohi large or too smal for him like cincinnatus. he always cared more for the public good of them for his own glory or comfort. in my mind he is the very model of selfless devotion and massachusetts own a cincinnatus, cincinnatus, the ultimate citizen states. [applause] sorry for not talking about insurance, i really wanted to say that. [laughter]t. >> that is a tough act to follow. [laughter] let me take that word from jim and i was the secretary of environmental affairs and secretary of economic affairs and i started thinking about what are the lessons that he taught all of us about how to work in state government and he brought into the environmental affairs what i saw was he encouraged us to work together and that came from the legislature because in the legislature you have to work with other legislatorse. to get

calls for party unity after losing the 1988 democratic presidential nomination to governor michael dukakis. >> when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development, and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. watch c-span's live campaign 20 24 coverage of the democratic national committee in gust 19 through the 22nd. you go wash it republican national convention any time our website. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer held a news conference and talked about senate republicans blocking a bipartisan tax bill that would've expanded the child tax care at it, added tax breaks for small businesses and helps communities affected by natural disasters. he also talked about the 2020 four presidential election and proposed changes to the supreme court. >> thanks for waiting. >> okay thank you for being here. thanks for your good work. it's part of our congressional session and the few minutes ago something very disappointing and stunning happened on the senate floo

they tried to paint barack 0bama and joe biden exactly the way you described they painted michael dukakisnot breaking any news here. whenever any democrat emerges, that is exactly what the republican party tries to do. and, no, kamala harris is not vulnerable to that. in fact, one of her biggest problems back in 2020, in the democratic primary, was the perception that she was too conservative by the democratic party standards, primarily because of her time as a prosecutor and as an attorney general. i don't see anything about kamala harris that gives an indication that she's somehow from the far left of our party. well, let me try... let me try a few of her positions on you and see if you think that they're going to be sustained through a harris campaign. for example, the republicans, you know, i've seen it already, they've been digging out what they regard as political dirt on her — her support for bernie sanders�* medicare for all proposals, her suggestion that private health insurance might ultimately be abolished, her position that fracking and offshore oil drilling should be ended in

dukakis road around in a tank with a helmet on and practically ruined him.e in the convention, go flip-flop, flip-flop, speaker after speaker. maybe we reenact that or maybe that is what the kamala harris thing is all about. >> i was listening, larry, i remember the campaign, talking about the hatch act restricted position, i watched it nevertheless very closely. george h.w. bush was down 17 points in july of 1988. he won by 8 points, 25 point swing in month. however the republicans went second that year. so they could do what that did. in other words under all the flip-flopping. the republicans are not going to have that opportunity this time. i think the vice president has a pretty easy two week stretch ahead of her. after that the going will get very tough very quickly. larry: very quickly. well, byron, won't she be held to some account for all these flip-flops? i mean it is not just the border. it is a flip-flop on health care. it's a flip-flop on fracking. you've been writing about this. i know her polls look better although rasmussen by the way doesn't

-- that mike dukakis supported.the spirits because despite a life sentence, horton received ten weekend presses from prison. and flooding kidnapped a young couple, stabbing a man and raping his girlfriend. dukakis on crime. >> john: are they committed at the hands of illegal immigrants who came into the country under the joe biden and harris administration her version of willie horton? >> let's keep in mind with georgia while we are talking georgia, georgia attorney general chris carr just said that as vice president harris who is the patron saint of progressive prosecuting attorneys who have not enforced the law and you see in city after city and even in rural areas where murders may be up and cry may be up and certainly a crime has into stores are up all because he had prosecuting attorneys that followed the same philosophy as vice president harris. and that's why you are seeing potentially the vice president at a peak in her polling numbers, because as you think about crime and you think about the fact that it is

calls for party unity after losing the 1988 democratic presidential nomination to governor michael dukakis. >> when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development, and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. watch c-span's live campaign 20 24 coverage of the democratic national committee in gust 19 through the 22nd. you go wash it republican national convention any time our website. >>

tonight, i salute governor michael dukakis. he has run. he has run the well managed, a dignified campaign, no matter how tired or how tried. he always resisted the temptation to stupid demagoguery. i've watched a good man fast at work steal nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowd at three, all without appeal to the worst in us. i've watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded. i've seen this toughness and the nasty close up know his commitment to public service. mike dukakis parents run. doctor and a teacher. my parents made the beautician and the janitor. there's a great gap between brookline, massachusetts and hanna street. the field village housing projects in greenville, south carolina. he studied law. i studied theology. the difference is that religion, religion and race differences and experience is and perspectives. but the genius of america is that out of the minute, we become one. providence has enabled our paths to intersect. chris for parents came to america on immigrant ships. my poor parents came to amer

tonight, i salute governor michael dukakis. he has run. he has run the well managed, a dignified campaign, no matter how tired or how tried. he always resisted the temptation to stupid demagoguery. i've watched a good man fast at work steal nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowd at three, all without appeal to the worst in us. i've watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded. i've seen this toughness and the nasty close up know his commitment to public service. mike dukakis parents run. doctor and a teacher. my parents made the beautician and the janitor. there's a great gap between brookline, massachusetts and hanna street. the field village housing projects in greenville, south carolina. he studied law. i studied theology. the difference is that religion, religion and race differences and experience is and perspectives. but the genius of america is that out of the minute, we become one. providence has enabled our paths to intersect. chris for parents came to america on immigrant ships. my poor parents came to amer

he's got a hammehe's gr, hammer, hammer, just like lee atwater hammered mike dukakis. mike dukakis was 17 pointswin -- ahead in 1988 when in july at this august, at this veryy mt moment, and when they exposeds who mike dukakis was, he was a nice guy, but he was a hard core liberal . e by george bush won by eight points. and that's that's what they got to follontst theyw that paradig they can't waste one day on any th. aneous issue they've got to show to thet th american people that this is the most far leftis that's ever been nominated in this country to prosecute the case her in her own words, and layn out your vision and stay away from everything else. t succes i agree with you completely. if they have to successfully will win, in my view. all right, victor davis hanson, thank you. or davis. you're take a look. you're looking live at joint base andrews, where we are awaitinge oint whe the retuf americans released by russia in the historirc prisoner swap earlier today. >> straight ahead, they had the dream. they had the idea good enough was not good enough for them ha

he bombed as the keynote speaker for then nominee governor michael dukakis of massive that's use its mr. clinton talking for more than twice the amount of time he was supposed to the restless crowd. finally, erupting in cheers when he finally wrapped up michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it in closing he later had to do a massive cleanup beginning with johnny carson my first question is how are you everybody least at home, those i can give us space now everybody knows like a blow on the truth this guy did it on purpose. >> i've always wanted to be on the show and worse clinton, of course, did recover just to touch. >> he went on to accept the presidential nomination of his party at the very next convention in 1992. and of course won the election. my colleague erin burnett is also here in the convention hall, as there is some big news that cnn has just learned exclusively, aaron. >> that is right, jake, you know, when you talk about the star power and the energy that has been in the room where you and i are over these past days here. we are learning in terms of the celebr

jesse jackson call for party unity after losing the 1988 nomination to michael dukakis. >> we must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change and growth. >> watch historic convention speeches, saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on america history tv an watch live campaign 2024 coverage of the democratic national convention august 19-22 and you can watch the republican national convention anytime on our website. >> welcome into a great national crusade to make america great again. >> taxes will go up. and anyone who says they won't is not telling the truth. >> we are in the midst of a spring time hope for america. >> because we are the party that believes in the american dream. >> read my lips. >> i still believe in a place called hope. >> here's the question for the american people. who do you trust in this election? >> the real choice is whether we will build a bridge to the future or a bridge to the past. >> i have unlimited confidence of the wisdom of our people in the future of our country. >> i stand here tonight as my own man and i want you to know me for

in america, and which, interestingly, already repeats the problems of the democrats that arose with dukakisth john kerry in 2004, who also tried to build an image of such hardened warriors, such serious guys, and leaders of the situation, but there is another reason why waltz was chosen, he speaks very well, and he speaks, well, you can say in the style of trump, he does not speak the template language of politicians, but speaks in normal human language in a language that is generally understandable to ordinary people, this is a huge plus we have politicians who also speak human language, i don’t know how it is with you, although politicians and others are also enough and generals, maybe once at best, so andreyevich, you know, our... the viewer will ask: why are we interfering so much in your affairs, there are nuances and so on, we are interested, we understand that of course, any president of the united states will defend the interests of his country and... and act against us, only us i'm interested in how quickly they will work with us, try, and solve all the problems there, that's why w

dukakis was sitting 17 points up then we found out he was weak on crime, he was letting willie horton, wait till you see her. she is a soros prosecutor, she's worse. we saw dukakis and that helmet, think about the decisions that she's going to make in the process. >> jesse: don't put on the helmet. johnny are down the street actually had a very pressing into observation i probably shouldn't even tell him that he will get a big ego. he said when he saw the crowd in atlanta, he said maybe these people are already going to be voting for biden. they wouldn't have gone to a rally but they are going to a kamala rally because they had a rockstar there. is she bringing out new voters or is she bringing out the kind of board biden people who are already going to vote democrat anyway. >> this is really what she always does. when she opens up in a campaign she opens up really strong. when she ran for president she had 40,000 people in oakland. people said she's raising so much money. she was the one her she didn't even make it to iowa so she starts strong and then collapses. will only have 96 mo

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over to the party that gave us mcgovern, mondale, joe carter and michael dukakis. where do they find leaders. no way. my friends. the american people are not going to go back to the discredited liberals of the 1960s and the failed liberalism of the 1970s. no matter how slick the package in 1992. oh, all of my friends friends. you know, the malcontents the malcontents of madison square garden, notwithstanding the 1980s were not terrible years in america. they were great. you know it and i know it and everyone knows it except for the carping critics who sat on the sidelines of history. at one of the great statesmen of modern time, ronald reagan. you know, out of remember that time out of jimmy days of malaise, ronald reagan crafted. ronald reagan crafted the greatest peacetime economic recovery in history. 3 million new businesses and 20 million new jobs under the reagan doctrine. one by one. it was the communist dominoes that began to fall. first, grenada was, liberated by us. airborne that the u.s. marine corps. and mighty red army was driven out of afghanistan. an

over to the party that gave us mcgovern, mondale, joe carter and michael dukakis. where do they find leaders. no way. my friends. the american people are not going to go back to the discredited liberals of the 1960s and the failed liberalism of the 1970s. no matter how slick the package in 1992. oh, all of my friends friends. you know, the malcontents the malcontents of madison square garden, notwithstanding the 1980s were not terrible years in america. they were great. you know it and i know it and everyone knows it except for the carping critics who sat on the sidelines of history. at one of the great statesmen of modern time, ronald reagan. you know, out of remember that time out of jimmy days of malaise, ronald reagan crafted. ronald reagan crafted the greatest peacetime economic recovery in history. 3 million new businesses and 20 million new jobs under the reagan doctrine. one by one. it was the communist dominoes that began to fall. first, grenada was, liberated by us. airborne that the u.s. marine corps. and mighty red army was driven out of afghanistan. an

i remember in 1988 when the democrats came out of their convention, michael dukakis was ahead by 17 pointst by 8. that means that between their convention and the election, one out of every four americans switched from dukakis to george h w. bush. if kamala harris is going to do all this, she had 1400 days. she said on day one, well, day one was in fact january 20th, 2021. she has been in the government. she has been next to joe biden. she's been in the white us hous. what we're getting is a purely political, i hope you're dumb enough to believe this kind of campaign. maria: doug collins jump in here. >> good to talk to you. i made this comment talking about the convention, you talk about the contrast. seems what they're wanting to do is set up the straw man argument versus reality. don't want to talk about economy, immigration policy, foreign policy, so they set up things that have never been talking about, like keeping people from religion, keeping people from practicing their lifestyle. the first amendment, saying they're kept from what they had want to say when it's the exact opposite.

can remember the 1988 convention, bush and atwater's tillage get a few things right and they had a dukakisk and he had a helmet on and everybody in the crowd of the conventional they flip-flop flip-flop, speaker after speaker after speaker if you can reenact that here live either but this kamala harris thing is all about. hugh: i was listening very and you remember the campaign well and is in the reagan administration watching it from abject restricted position what should nevertheless closely and george bush was down 70 points since july of 1988 and he any point in 25 points and however come up the republicans went second year so they could do what that did another words -underscore the full popping in the republicans are not going to have that opportunity this time i think vice president has a pretty easy two week stretch ahead of her and after that, the going will get tough quickly. larry: very quickly well byron york, some account for all of these flip-flops is not just the border is flip healthcare and is flip up on fracking and you been writing about this and i do know better polls l

larry: joe, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, it is like mike dukakis and john kerry.with it? everyone is asking will she get away with it? i don't know she will get away with it. what do you think? >> it was a much different media in 1988 when mike dukakis was leading papa bush by 17 points this time in the race. in 2004, more than 50% of the american people trusted the media. that number has gone down 20 points, among republicans single digits at this point. you had a media that would hold these candidates accountable based on past rhetoric and record. the tim russerts of the world, play a sound bite in front of the candidate, the candidate would have to defend it. the difference the candidate showed up for the interview. much kamala harris we're 24 days since she basically got the democratic nomination. she has yet to do one interview, take one question of substance. she has under done a press conference since she ran for mt. back in 2019. the reason why, when you take her out of a teleprompter she is human chernobyl. she cannot speak extemporaneously. she will not

they have given her a good launch, i was there in 1988 when dukakis, governor dukakis, the democratic nominee was 1points ahead of g h.w. bush, 17. he collapsed when people realized how liberal he was. her speech friday was the beginning of the end of the harris campaign. david: good point at which to end this conversation. newt, thank you for being here. coming up former president trump is sticking to the issues, driving home his message of economic growth and prosperity and promising to end the biden-harris affordability crisis. we'll be talking about it with the great art laffer when "kudlow" continues. nt to have enough money for retirement. (wife) and travel to visit our grandchildren. (fisher investments) i understand. that's why at fisher investments we start by getting to know each other. so i can learn about your family, lifestyle, goals and needs, allowing us to tailor your portfolio. (wife) what about commission-based products? (fisher investments) we don't sell those. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in your best interest. (husband) so how do your management fees work?

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at this moment in time, dukakis was up. we found out how liberal he was.hed a moment in time where he tried to show where he was strong, and -- then we watched a question in a debate and still stayed with the death penalty even if his wife was there. he said no. he watched what they just did with the 9/11 individuals. she just answer that question. you start going back and you see this type of talk. do not say merry christmas. she has been in charge of the border. i have been the leader of the republican party and the speaker. never once did she ask "what are your ideas, what should we do?" as the president you have to work with all sides pick she doesn't even work with her democrats: it's only the most liberal ones that she will defend. those comments, she defended her as a senator. >> this real-world experience and will true facts be enough to combat the gaslighting the media is putting forth? >> that's a great question. i think kamala herself loses in a historic landslide. it's something entirely different. this is why the new basement for her is the te

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aide to chief of staff for democratic congressman ed fagan of ohio and went on to work for michael dukakis, another greek american that led to work for -- gephardt. house majority leader, and eventually to his becoming senior advisor to president bill clinton after leaving the white house at the end of clinton's first term, he became a political analyst for abc news and rose steadily from there. okay, but what accounts for? the smile? perhaps it's being married for 23 years to someone who makes him laugh. actress, author, comedian ali wentworth and having two daughters. or maybe it's just getting up at 3:00 every morning. but why this book and why now? i loved his first book where he buried his soul in all too human, but that was in 1999. so why the situation room as you read this book, you'll understand it's all about the subtitle, the inside story of president agents in crisis. we're taken through the angst, the process, and the fast and eating drama that happened in the sit room from each administration. i look around and i think every one of us in this room will love the play by play o

>> that election season, benson's running mate, michael dukakis, in his debate with george hw bush, was asked a fateful question referencing his wife by cnn's bernard shaw governor if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer no, i don't. bernard and i think you know that i've opposed the death penalty during all of my life. >> it was terrible. this was the opportunity to show humanity and instead, he made himself look like more of a humorless, emotionless robot than he had seen before there were the wordless missteps, the body language gaffes at a debate in 2000, al gore audibly sighs, there's differences and in another debate that year, gore gets a little too close to george w bush on stage and i believe analyst hans nichols believes if the september 10 event is the only debate between kamala harris and donald trump. there will be more pressure on both of them to perform well at that debate and really more pressure not to mess up of the two nichols believes there is more overall pressure on vice president harris because she's had

>> michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it in closing in closing in closing gets the applause>> mark mckinnon, you could see there, i be read beeping light on the podium in the beginning that was telling him his time, who's already up in the beginning of that biden has governor bill clinton back in at 8:00. he went long during one of his first speeches to a dnc crowd and again, those cheers for the phrase in closing. let's flash forward to this year's dnc, former president clinton delivered his 13th speech, joe convention audience. he reportedly tore it up and started over on monday after he heard the first day of the convention and wanted to strike a happier and more joyful town. >> so happy when she actually enters the white house is president because she won't break my record as the president who spent the most time at mcdonald's he also. had some jabs aimed at donald trump now let's cut to the chase i am too old to gild the lily two days ago, i turned 78, the oldest man and my family for generation and the only personal vanity i want to assert his arms, still younger than

democratic national convention in atlanta it was in the party's nomination to massachusetts governor michael dukakis appeared exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on cspan2. and find aull schedule on your program gui o watch onle on c-span.org/history. >> impact of mental illness can have on local communities. mayors from california, new jersey and nevada long-term treatments for mental health, housing and social connectivity. u.s. conference of mayors annual meeting. >> our discussion with a few mayors who i call my writer dies they have been with us through thick and thin throughout this presidency. but one of the things they did and i'm so grateful for they did the liens, they did the advocacy they called their legislatures they were nonstop relentless warriors. you guys and no we do carry a pretty big stick in washington when all of us are collectively together. and so i could not be more grateful whenever i appointed the chair of the mental health task force and then it became -- my five became the president you know, this elevated to what we were doing on a whole n

from a to chief of staff for democratic congressman ed fagan of ohio and went on tono work for michael dukakis, another greek-american. that led to work for dick gephardt, house majority leader ando eventually to his becoming senior advisor to president bill clinton. after leaving the white house at the end of clinton's first term, he became a political analyst for abc news and rose steadily from there. okay, what accounts for the smile? [laughing] perhaps it is being married for 23 years for someone who makes him laugh. actress, author, comedian, ali wentworth, and having to back her daughters. or maybe it's just getting up at 3:00 every morning. but why this book and why now? i loved his first book where he buried his soul and all too human, , but that was in 1999. so why the situation room? as you read this book you understand it'sal all about the subtitle, the inside story of presidents in crisis. we are taken to the angst, the process and the fascinating drama that happen in the sit room from each administration. i look around and i think everyone of us in this room will love the play-by-