not just a place but an idea. >> it was a difficult beach. -- speech. they objected to my speaking because i had never done anything in my life, and i just had a free ride, and they were right. it happened that gorbachev was coming with her husband, and i couldn't leave her, so i invited i got highly criticized and she is ringing her as a protector. it was a difficult speech. it turned out there was one student from south america who we were treating to this great education and a girl from maine. the girl from maine called and

said i am so embarrassed, this thing.t into a great i was getting calls from president nixon saying you tell those girls to go to the devil and whatever. i had a lot of people for me. i did not want to get into a spitting fight with the girls but there was. on the plane going up, she didn't speak any english. we had an interpreter, and i said, do you mind if i work on my speech a little bit. she said, you are giving a speech? i said, you are too. she said, i am? she went into the ladies room, and i said to the interpreter, doesn't she know she is giving a speech? he pulled the speech out of her pocket and said, she knows. the speed.proud of

we worked very hard on it. i had given it at four or five other colleges that same spring. ,he university of pennsylvania the university of st. louis, community college. nobody gave a darn, but because of the controversy, the same everything. it made me, no question, because of the controversy people paid attention. margaret thatcher wrote me that it was the greatest speech she had ever heard. george heard it in the white house. was that high because of controversy. isn't that too bad? i became a great speaker that day. who knows? somewhere out in this audience there may be even -- there may even be somebody who will one footsteps andmy

take over as the president's spouse, and i wish him well. [applause] >> you brought down the house with your closing line about the political >> same thing i'd give the first wife which is be yourself. if you can watch your mouth. trouble with that. i would say just be yourself. and take advantage of the opportunity. i had lunches for heart, children, arthritis, cancer, nobody paid hometown except in the where the doctor came from or he sick child came from or -- and then you got great publicity

out in the country. that's counts. ho cares -- sorry -- broadcasters say. was care about is that the being know they're helped. >> barbara bush, what should in the firstng and about know?and her role we don't >> i don't know. what you don't know. seems to me i everything about the first lady. thing the first first lady ought to know is she not elected president, nor nor wasected president, i elected congressman's wife. i think you all the to know that not an elected official but that you have an opportunity of good things and you ought to take that opportunity. in your book, you

that, i am not too sure the american public likes the front and e too center. >> well, that i think's probably true. didn't elect her. do i think they like her to good things. i'm not too sure they want her to be too front and center. elected.'t contrary to popular belief. >> what do you remember about in the white house and your last day in the white house? first day in the white house. from the alking in receiving? h, you know we reviewed the parade. family er we had huge the twins, er

they're not going to like this, but going with the baby-sitter bowling alley and ordering a meal. ready to go to the balls and we had the whole gathered for a very large buffet meal. the twins were in the bowling ordering ham hamburgers. laughing. right up but i remember being surrounded to theing everybody of a balls and how pretty they looked and what fun they were having. mean, they were all over the white house, those children. >> what about your last day? day, our children left

town. around not want to be for that. moving and ery saying good-bye to the white house staff was difficult. would be reamt we back. it was hard. but life goes on. the plane with all our flew backd family and home. and the welcome here was unbelievable. we passed a pick-up truck on the ighway where there were two people standing on the back with the sign that said "welcome home barbara" and that part.ht huge tears on my they've been great to us ever since. > you have been here in this house 20 years in houston. >> when we moved in we lived two friend's n in a great

house that he was going to tear house.nd build a he built next door, next old house.s his we moved in there and the neighbors all planted the garden came home to a garden. it was wonderful. nice.st was very all unpafpledoxes perfect. david important will camp and kenny bunk port especially years. the white house >> camp david made such a ifference because there the president could really meet with fanfare.thout a lot of a lot of people came up, members, i , cabinet remember big education group george.up and talking to i just remember that every weekend. meetings and then the

afternoons he would take a nap or go might watch a movie bowling. they would play a game called up therel when we were which they played against the game sort of 's a volley but and like competition and then of course hor horseshoes but there entertained president gorbachev and many other leaders. john major just came into office came up to camp david. i remember him saying to george, well, i'm with you. and that was very important. but just a lot of things. noring a there when tkpwa was caught finally. had our vacation because we all the family for christmas up

there. easter. george w. did the same thing. throw this maybe i'd in too, i remember hearing that it of the first ladies said was so costly being the wife of the president. it's not costly at all. you don't pay your telephone bills. ou don't -- you do pay, i guess -- you pay for your food. time andests you a the it would say so and so one, egg $0.18. mean, you never could leave as cheaply as you lived at the white house. so it cost -- 90-something people taking care of you. your dryay i think for cleaning and we had someone we lived with us, 91 now, and doing our ironing washing. and she lived there. of those e care

hings, but it was great to entertain at the white house and camp david. a chance for family and bunk port is just the best. getting s it keeps lown down by bad weather, but if we can live through one halloween the house left us. stays with us. >> if you ever wanted to give or talk about policy with your husband, how would you do that? that?ould you approach >> if i wanted to, i'd just tell him. ut the truth is, i really didn't want to. he had great advisors. never, ever called his office say -- if i had something to him.i said it to

but i didn't call jim baker or anyone to say, george, this is should be because i just don't do that. an office except in the house. white house i had an office but i never went to it. my staff used it. i worked in the white house and i worked in the vice president's house at home. did not get into his office affairs. would on't think anybody tell you i did because i really didn't. that was -- i had something i i'd tell him.know but i really didn't. i mean, think of the advisors he had. he had jim baker. good, wonderful people. nick brady. this, they were in the cabinet. they knew what they were doing. ours.were friends of you know for a long, long time and george trusted them. did i.

>> barbara bush n-your memoir family andout faith, friends. we've talked about friends. e've talked about family. what about your faith? and i'm a y private believer in loving god. i pray. i pray every night sometimes we fight over whose turn it is, but we do. no fear of death which is we're comfort because getting darn close and i don't ave a fear of death for my precious george or for myself because i know that there is a not worried i'm about that. young like it for people, but i know we'll see way or another.

and our families so i have no fear of death. i have a great faith. sounds so arrogant. >> why? >> well, i'm a big shot. i have a faith in god. do have a faith in god. question it. i'm not as good as my children you rom your children learn. certainly certainly she has a prayer group gets on the phone for 30 minutes a night and prays for country.the i mean, i've learned a lot from her. and from george and from the all of them. of death. no fear

i think that's very comforting. marvin that about he does not like politics. all. but who was george's comfort the whole time he was in the white house? marvin. who was the one that -- to this one of the three people who raised the fund for his library. youngest boy 1k3 my boy are the closest to each but yet jeb certainly is he biggest defender of george and george is the biggest defender of jeb. is the spark that keeps us all going. port, when kneel leaves, something leaves because he's he says to everybody on the point and there may be 20 people the boat nt, taking over for ice cream who will come. everybody goes. the othersand i, but

all go. ball he one who gets the games going and the bonfire going. down and ne who goes has coffee downtown with 0 -- i -- people he's met, he and marie have met. everybody has got their thing nd one thing they have is loyalty to each other. hugely important and they request i havene siblings.stay loving so far so good. behave looking down so yourself. > mrs. bush, what's been your involvement with the george bush library at texas a&m. really very much. tons not onlydone the environmental part but in library.

i didn't do very much except the apartment maybe. but i just didn't. wasn't on my plate. y literacy does a lot up there and they have a wonderful literacy component to the part i'm d that interested in active in. but as far as building or have a or plotting, i wonderful rose garden up there in in my name, one wonderful gift. and i love the library and i dogs up there and letting them chase around the pond. people.eeting the i really enjoy the library a lot. there's twoof dogs, right here in the living room with us. two?are these >> this is bee bee. george and i used to call each other bee bee when we were first married.

so we have three bee bee's in our house. if i yell bee bee what do you so and so, george says which one are you talking to? and this one is mini me and she's feisty and jealous of bee bee. and she's my shadow. i can't move without her. known to nip at people. bee protects george, so she's very active protecting george. and they are huge comfort to me. always had dogs. these aren't springer spaniels though. >> i know. this is a leash city you and can't walk your dogs without a leash. span iland is a squirrel go by i'm flat on my face on the grounds. i can hold. good.hey're i'm not sure they're dogs though. they may be people. spoiled.very

we go over to the polo ground of of the 're not a member club but nobody dare say you can't come so i walk them at the polo ground. (dog barks) occasionally. k >> you have written your memoir it seems all rnal your life. >> still. >> still. will those papers go to the library. there and not to be opened for 50 years, so i can say what i want. i'm getting very togetful and really it helps have the memoirs to remember things. it easier to write it?ook, doesn't >> barbara bush, when you think about your legacy as first lady, it to be andu like what do you think it will be? about it.hought

she -- i will be that that her ll be children are her legacy and her three ildren and now great grandchildren and a fourth coming. certainly family is crucial. americanike to see the family come back strong. we had a great family and my dad only three nce, things you can give your children. ou can give them the best education. that doesn't mean stanford or or princeton. it means just the best education that you can find and you can help. you're the first teacher. you can find.tion and to set a good example. very important.

and all the love in the world. nd i hope we've given that to our children. i know george w., i've heard him ay several times his dad has given him unconditional love. all this bologna about george competing with his ridiculous.st i mean, they're devoted to each never any here was competition, and my george is in their hands, i must confess. and think they feel loved i hope if i have a legacy other that it g the enforcer will be that i raised along with a great family. barbara bush, thank you. >> thank

>> hillary rodham got involved in politics early in life. she campaigned for barry goldwater as a teenager. after graduating from yale law school, she served on the staff advising the house judiciary committee during watergate. they, live at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span3, and c-span radio. on the next "washington journal, " a discussion of the consequences of the supreme court's decision on citizens united. on the fourth anniversary of the decision. foundation,tage talking about efforts to fight the decision in recent efforts to update voting rights legislation. looks at u.s. job growth.

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facebook and twitter. cook on later, charlie the midterm elections. he addresses how parties attract women and young people. live at 1:30 p.m. eastern. now, vice president joe biden spoke at an event on martin luther king day. sharpton's organization hosted this 90 minute forum. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] al sharpton.nd >> good morning. 250,000f of the inloyees of at&t worldwide the national board of directors, of the national action network

am i would like to welcome you all here today for a very special day. kingust as today, the dr. holiday is special, the man i am about to introduce is very special. he is a voice for the voiceless, he is our leader, he is our friend, and he is an advocate to the world. is a visionaryon leader. after -- of the 21st century come a in a modern day drum major for justice. please stand and welcome a man who needs no introduction, reverend sharpton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you and happy king day to all of you that have gathered .ere this morning

certainly as stated, this is the fourth annual breakfast in washington of national action network has on king day and this annualon, our 23rd public forum in harlem at our national headquarters. and atwo cities a year half chapters around the country. not just to celebrate dr. king's date. and athat was fought for day that in and of itself took effort to achieve but to also recommit ourselves to what dr. king stood for. i was talking about that later but i want to first bring on before giving our words and making my remarks and introducing our keynote speaker we are honored to have with this

several people, first of all, we have some very special guests that will not necessarily be speaking but ought to be acknowledged create i wish you would help me to welcome my very special guest. would you turn to your right and shake hands with the one next to you. here ask you for being reverend al's special guest.

we are honored to have with us several members of the president's cabinet but one we want to speak before we do the awards and he is someone that has distinguished himself on the national stage as one that represents where we are in the 21st century to having a nation of competence and [inaudible] he became nationally known as the mayor of charlotte and hosted the democratic convention where the president was re- nominated and was very much the consummate host all of us i have none of us -- been to some conventions that we remember spending nights in jail from protests. that did not happen in charlotte. he is now the secretary of transportation and working with

us around infrastructure and development and around what is needed in transit. may we welcome the secretary of .ransportation [applause] >> thank you. good morning to all of you. sharpton has done such keeping thejob of folks on the ground attuned to what is happening here in washington and i want to give him a hand for the great work that the national action network is doing. let me also say it is an honor to be here with secretary jeh johnson and administrator mccarthy just as it is a great honor to warm up the stage for my great friend and our vice

president, joe biden. of all feels right that the martin luther king, junior days, to this point my i speak to you on this one. you see, last friday i flew home to charlotte to give a eulogy for a very good friend of mine. and yours. franklin mccain. ago, he was one of the four students who sat down at a lunch counter. along with his classmates, his simple but brave act touched off a wave of activism that spread throughout the south. and ended segregation as this country knew it. his passing coupled with the recent loss of another great

friend, the great solar -- a civil rights lawyer, is making something clear to me and hopefully to all of us. that is that many of those who inod and in some cases sat the front lines of the civil rights unit -- movement, we are starting to lose them, and they are speaking to us out the challenges -- about the challenges today. half a century ago, the fight ist so many others fought for the right to walk into a store and to buy something. by opening public accommodations , the workplace, the voting booth, america began to open its eyes to the injuries of the past and all americans began to reclaim some measure of dignity. julius chambers and franklin mccain and martin

self, ifing, jr. him they were standing here today, they would say victories have been one and progress has been made but they would shout -- tell us that the challenge in 2014 is simply not to walk into a store, it is john the store or to make the things that are so ld in the store. they would tell us that the challenge is not whether someone has the technical right to vote, but whether that vote could he effectively exercised if someone is required to resent an id card to vote. they would say that the challenge is not whether one can attend the school, it is whether that school is preparing its students for the jobs of the future. that, maybe we could divide the challenges ahead into two categories. internal to the individual and

challenges we still face as a society. adam clayton powell defined the internal challenge of which i speak when he said freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. said differently, what is in our minds is more important than anything happening in the temporal world. franklin mccain grew up in a world that confined him to a corner of a lunch counter if that lunch counter served him at all. 20 kids under the age of took it upon themselves to defy that system. they sat down and demanded to be served. the system did not change in one day. it took weeks, but it changed. segregatedcain in greensboro, north carolina, understood his dignity, his freedom was not negotiable. was an assertion of

human dignity. and he later said it was the first time he felt that he had asserted his own manhood. 2014, how are we asserting our human dignity? on the corners of streets in urban america or out in rural america where poverty continues to be an incredible challenge. we as a nation still have work todo in coming together realize the potential of every single american. is second challenge external. what pressures are being imposed upon us to make it harder to succeed? the reality, a child or in today bottom 20% of the earners only has a one in 20 chance of making it to the top 20%.

she is 10 times likelier to stay where she is and so the american dream becomes harder to reach. dream,put, the american the one that dr. king talked about as being deeply rooted, is unwinding. opportunity is narrowing. saidas the president has is the defining challenge of our time. us to the question what are we doing about it? if you want to know what we're doing about it, go talk to secretary shaun donovan. and here how he is using the full strength of the federal government to take 24 communities across the country and create in them an economic renaissance. go talk to kathleen sebelius about how despite the initial glitches we are enrolling 6

million people in health care plans since october. secretary arnie duncan in education and hear about his efforts to give all four-year-olds the chance to go to preschool. especially the ones from low- income families. our talk to administrator jane mccarthy who is making sure those schools are healthy places for kids to learn or secretary johnson who is ensuring that the streets are safe to help them get there. you may be wondering what i am doing. it is a fair question. our transportation system in a sense is like the rings of a tree. by looking at what we build and when we built it, you can read the social history of this

country. you pick just about any city in this country that was very active during the jim crow era thebefore and you will see manifestation of division, sometimes a highway or a railroad track. when we talk about someone who is not doing so well or lives in the wrong part of the city, we might say they live on the wrong side of the tracks. i believe that 21st century transportation has to be a unifying system of transportation, connecting people to 21st-century jobs and 21st-century opportunities. and we're seeing the evidence of that today. tomorrow. i will be in the us -- los angeles breaking ground on the

l.a. crenshaw light rail line. an opportunity to bring jobs into a part of a community that struggled for too long. a trip i tookon to columbus, ohio where highway had divided the lower income part of the community and cut it off from the central business district where job growth was growing so quickly. and columbus, they have a mayor there who is working to cap that freeway, restoring that connection, and giving people a reasonable chance to connect to the 21st-century economy. not outliers. these are 21st-century manifestations of that dream that all people should be connected to the opportunities and the fruits of the wonderful products that this country is

able to create. thato to you today, i see in 1955o from the time when rosa parks sat down on a bus to make a statement to a that the we are sure buses are rolling and connecting people to jobs, to a time when we are putting rail tracks in crenshaw and capping freeways and we are creating the opportunity for people to grow and to manifest their own destinies. 21st century, and transportation will tell you, no one should be left out and we will work as a department to ensure that what the president called standards of opportunity, rungs that allow people to move into the middle class, continue to be put in place. thank you and god bless you and happy king day.

[applause] year we honor those on king day that we feel have exemplified in their professional work and personified in their personhood things that are representative of what dr. king was about. rights,rea of civil there is none that has stood stronger and longer and taller than our first honoree. as one that has worked in civil rights all of my life, there are different roles that we play and some of us do things on the ,treets, some in the suites

some with mass mobilization and others with cola should building but everyone has a role. a choir in church for you that go to church. if you listen to acquire, some sang soprano, some sang alto, sam sang bass, some baritone, some just moved there live -- lipson cannot sing at all. but it takes all of that to make a choir. the one that has been the choir drifter, the one that has laid out -- our voices and style come together for bottom- line achievement in the 21st civil rights movement has been

the ceo and president of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. an aa cprved also at all of my active life. he has been a big rather and a true civil rights leader. we are honored this morning to attorney wade hendrix -- wade henry. [applause] >> thank you and good morning. i have been asked to set the tone of brevity for on a race that will come behind me. i will be extremely brief or a

lawyer. -- for a lawyer. i have five quick points and i assure you they will be quick. first i want to thank reverend sharpton and the national action theork, its leader and of thisl staff important organization. this is a great honor. i am privileged to stand with the other honorees and i cannot tell you how meaningful this award is, having this wonderful list of audience participants and knowing of the impact of this organization on public hollis e here in washington. it is a special privilege and honor to receive this award from the national action network. please join me in recognizing their great airship. -- leadership. [applause] second, i have a quick but important thank you to reverend dr. martin luther king and the movement that he led, where,

i can not for dr. king, assure you we will not -- would not be at the mayflower hotel in washington, d.c. and i will say to you that for the first 15 years of my life, growing up in rigid segregation comparable to what existed in south africa, but right here in the nation's capital, i know how transformed -- rights civil and movement has been. were it not for dr. kings standing on the steps of the lincoln memorial on august 28, 19 63, it would have been impossible to have barack obama accepting his party's nomination for president 45 years to the day that dr. king spoke. third, i accept this award on behalf of the leadership

conference on civil and human rights. the nations leading human rights and civil coalition working to build an america as good as its ideals. if you are not working in coalition, you're not practicing the politics of the 21st-century and so everything that we have accomplished we owe to the membership of the leadership conference and to the extraordinary staff that helps me do the work of this organization and i share and stand on the shoulders of people height, dorothy, irene and many others who made my work possible. let's not forget [inaudible] who made my work possible. this is the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty. dr. king gave his life in memphis, tennessee working for sanitation workers, lifting up workers rights. we have honorees here and our

friend is being honored here today. because of the great work that that unit has done. dr. king would be all over the wage. all overm the issue of the failure to extend unemployment insurance. all over the cuts on food stamps. he would be fighting to resolve all of these issues and lastly, dr. king would be supportive of the introduction of a bipartisan vote that was introduced in both house and senate as a symbol of what is possible even in toxic times. he believed in the transformative power of the vote and he would say to us today were he, get off your butts and stop whining. turnout in numbers consistent with your ability to impact the policies that affect your lives

and if you'd you that, history and will be achieved. thank you very much. thank you so much. >> wade henderson. dr. king was assassinated in memphis because he had gone to of workersthe call that were engaged in a strike for garbage workers in memphis, tennessee. lead, that union is internationally i an african- american who also serves on our board of the national action network. who has been in all -- acknowledged.

he introduced us to a man who has in many ways personified the ofing together in our time labor and civil rights, when the forces of the right wing or the close thisggression government down, it was this had thehat stood and strength to give the inspiration to government workers to keep on fighting. he has not missed a battle. he has not shrunk from being the giant labor leader that he is. adversity separates those of us that will fall under pressure and those of us that will rise as the phoenix. we saw a real leader in this nation during the government man stood withat

the principles of dr. king for the rights of laborers, for the rights of those that would .uffer for no reason he has shown that principle with issues throughout his life as it affects labor, as it affects race, as it affects civil rights and we are honored this year to give on martin luther king day our label -- labor award. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much.

my mother wanted a baptist preacher and so i feel the calling this morning and i probably will be done within two to three hours and you get that -- allut and we're going those type things. reverend sharpton and brothers and sisters, i could not be more humbled to receive this award today and be standing before you because you have got to understand how much it means to me personally. you can tell by the way that i talk that i did not originally start in silver spring, maryland. carolina in north about 30 miles north of charlotte. 1950's in thehe 1960's, brothers and sisters. ,ust like the rest of the south

my town was segregated. i've are member very vividly, whites only, colored sections, white sections, all those type's of things. i remember the little boy, i was one to the colored drinking fountain because i thought it was going to get kool-aid out of that fountain. i was looking for the treat that it was an american apartheid, brothers and sisters, that is what it was. also in north carolina, on of battles withabor cannon mills that we saw in the history of this country and before it finally went into bankruptcy, they had the right to organize for and join a union to make for better life for working men and women. right there, early in my life, i saw how the forces of greed and the enemies of justice practiced divide and conquer.

pitting workers against each other and inflaming racial hatred. all for the sake of keeping wages low, unions out, and profits high. hopes a singular beacon of offered by dr. martin luther king, junior. he provided the answer to divide and conquer in his letter from birmingham jail. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we are all parts of the civil rights and labor movements. tied in a single government of destiny. whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. sure and more inspirational words have never been written. north star that i have followed all of my adult

life. because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we are all parts of the civil rights and labor movements. you might have known i said in a singular. the labor and civil rights movement. we have been. we have been. we are. we will continue to be one and the same. our dedication to social and economic justice is one and the same. joining together in one movement into how we will defeat the forces of greed and empower workers to improve their lives and fulfill this potential. how we will make this nation for so it's promise. and sisters, by following the goals of martin martha -- dr. martin luther king jr., we can all reach the promised land. my land league made up of people

of all races, creeds, colors, national origins, sexual orientation, whomever and whatever. we are all children. thank you so much. >> give it up for dr. cox. [applause] >> your mama would be proud. when i was 13 i became the youth director of operation

breadbasket which is the economic arm of dr. kings organization. he was killed a year that i became youth director in new york. one of the main goals was laid out by dr. king, to make sure that major corporations had a policy of inclusion in the corporate ranks in terms of not only employment for practice, procurement, contracts and how they dealt with the consumers. to many corporations make money in our community. they do not deal fairly and equitably without it. one man who has stood tall and making sure not only people of color have the positions inside of one of the largest corporations in the world or that they do business with us outside and that they treat fairly the communities that they

sell their products. he is making sure that there is the democratizing of those efforts inside the corporate world. efforts that we feel and not just becoming basis for consumer goods. when i called him and say we want to honor him for what he has done he said are you sure you want to honor me. i am a republican. i said no. dr. king believed in bipartisanship. i do not always but dr. king did. [laughter] this man gives the party a good name. in my personal and public dealings with them, he has exemplified all the things we

believe. he has said that those across the board that it is a nation that we must have built under principles but dr. king believed in. it is important that we lay it today. is not about the policy. -- by the party. it is about the policy. it is not the person. it is the person stands for. is my honor to give the award to a man who has stood here that has no idea that he would ever be honored by a group like ours. we would not be in existence if it was not for a man like him. he would put principles above whatever political differences we might have. it was the art their flashers that wrote affirmative action it through those who were republicans and democrats voted

for the civil rights acts. we are not about a party. we are about where we are going as a nation. in that spirit it is our honor to honor the general council executive vice president and general counsel of pepsico, the one and only larry thompson. [applause] >> thank you for those mostly kind words. i want to congratulate all of the nominees here this morning. david cox, maria. terry o'neill. all of whom are so accomplished.

i especially want to thank the network for all it does to remind is that dr. king's work is not yet done them for standing up for the least among us, whether it is protecting young people are fighting for justice. i also must think reverend sharpton for all he has done and continues to do to advocate for charges that impact our society and for making our country a better place. despite the fact that i am a republican. it reminds me of the old adage that in order to achieve progress we really need not be the woman mind as long as we are always of one purpose.

there is no voice in america more compelling than reverend sharpton we talk about fairness, equality and justice for all.