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ladies. next, three fofrs whose imagpho work chronicle the live of betty ford, barbara bush and laura bush. four years ago i was a washington outsider. four years later i'm at this dinner. four years ago i looked like this. [ laughter ] today i look like this. [ laughter ] and four years from now i will look like this. [ laughter ] [ applause ] that's not even funny.

>> mr. president, do you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. that was your best one yet. but honestly, it a thrill for me to be here with the president, a man who i think has done his best it guide us some very difficult times and paid a heavy price for it. you know, there's a term for guys like president obama. probably not two terms but -- >> miss any part of the white house correspondents dinner? you can watch any time online at the c-span video library, behind the scene, red carpet and all the entertainment at c-span.org/videolibrary. >> i seem to have earned a certain place where people will

listen to me and the greatest generation of writing that book gave me a platform that was completely unanticipated and i thought i ought not to squander that and i ought to step up not just as a citizen and journalist but as a father and husband and as a grandfather and if i see these things i ought to write about them and try to start this dialogue, which is what i'm trying to do with this book about where we need to get to next. >> in his latest "the time of our lives," tom brokaw urges americans to redefine the american dream. sunday, live, your questions for the former anchor of "the nightly news." sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> three white house photographers recently sat down to talk about their experiences and work chronicling first

ladies betty ford, barbara bush and laura bush. this was part of an all-day conference on america's first ladies, soesed by the george w. bush presidential library in dallas, texas. >> i'm jodie steck, and i'm the av archivist at the george w. bush library. if i make a mistake, my boss is in the front row, and not to mention my former bosses. anyway. i have been a photojournalist probably longer than many of you have been on this earth, and the one sure thing i know is that anybody can pick up a digital camera, but it takes a very special person to capture the moment. the three people i'm about to introduce do just that. carol powers, when you look at her images, see her images on the screens, you're going to feel the moment when mrs. barbara bush is sitting on the

chair with millie watching her husband play tennis. you're going to feel that moment. you're going to feel the moment and feel the emotion when she hugs her arms around an aids child. susan sterner, you're going to feel the tension in the air when mrs. laura bush arrives in afghanistan for the first time. you're going to feel the emotion, the compassion that mrs. bush has when she is in a classroom with kids, and the kids are up around her legs giving her, just wrapping their arms around her. david kennerly, david hume kennerly, we know him in the business as kennerly, he has been around -- i think he photographed martha washington, i'm not quite sure, and if he didn't photograph martha washington, he'll tell you that he did, so be very careful. his name is synonymous with excellence. he has photographed more first ladies i think than there really are.

and it's -- and it's a pleasure to welcome them. i have -- i have one rule that i always say to my staff when i'm hiring photographers. i want a photographer who thinks with their hearts, with their heart, not with their heads, so before i introduce these photographers who are very special hearts, i also want to say hello to mr. mark updegrove who is going to be the moderator. he's the director of the lyndon baines johnson presidential library and museum, and he himself is a journalist and an acclaimed author, and i hope he asks these guys the toughest questions, so without any further adieu, please welcome mr. mark updegrove, miss susan sterner, miss carol powers and mr. david hume kennerly.

[ applause ] >> well, thank you. it's a great honor to be here. the great ancel adams photographer once said a photograph is usually looked at but rarely looked into. today we have the opportunity to look into the photographs of three great photographers and what they say about three extraordinary first ladies, two of whom are in the first row. betty ford, barbara bush and laura bush, and i have the easiest job of anybody today because i get to run this panel like tom sawyer painted his fence. i get my friends to do it, and they are going to share some of their work with you and talk about the extraordinary images that they have taken, and the first one up at this podium will be david kennerly, and i'll tell you a quick story about david kennerly which happens to be true.

it involves henry kissinger with who david worked at the ford white house, and i was hosting a lunch for dr. kissinger some time back, and i mentioned david's name. and dr. kissinger said in that sort of inimitable voice, david kennerly is the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century. i said, wow, that's high praise. he said i know this because david kennerly told me that david kennerly is the -- [ laughter ] so in the words of david kennerly and henry kissinger, let me welcome to the podium the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century, david kennerly. >> that's good. i don't know how to top that one. i'm going to show some pictures. i was president ford's photographer.

it's great to be here with the bush women, barbara and laura, who i've photographed many times. i have -- i'm not taking away from my colleagues, but i did include one each of you in this presentation. i was -- i actually have a first lady picture i just took on friday, not in this country, and she's not an american, and if i press this, is this going to start? wow, magic. this is sophia bartelli, the first lady of haiti. i was just in haiti all week. i know president bush has been down there, and it's a place that needs help certainly and will for a while, but i thought i would include her in. i was down for a -- there's a group called vital voices. it was started by hillary clinton, women from america, particularly entrepreneurs

teaching women in the third world how to start businesses and all that. i was down for that. skipping back in time, jacqueline onassis, jacqueline kennedy onassis, taken in new york in 1970. i was a young boy when -- when kennedy was -- when president kennedy was assassinated, but i worked with her son on "george" magazine, john jr., who became a good friend of mine, and the first first lady i really photographed though was pat nixon. this was in 1970 in washington, d.c. going to a -- it was a school in washington, and i never really got to know her nor did i really get to know her husband that well, but this is a picture of the two of them