and you suffer by that and like dolley madison, as first lady in the white house, she very effectivelyentertaining as a way to sometimes forward the objectives of her husband's political agenda. certainly, what people also don't realize about hillary clinton is she had a great love and fascination for american art. she started a sculpture guard nrnt white house, brought in contemporary crafts on display for the public. and she was one of those few first ladies, i must add that had an actual knowledge and interest and respect for the first lady before her. >> carl anthony from california, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >>> well, it is the s.a.g. awards tonight. something that actors would love to take home with them. but that's tonight. oh, look at that, live pictures from the red carpet of the s.a.g. awards, the highly coveted s.a.g. awards being handed out in just a few hours and we are live on the red carpet. details ahead. [ male announcer ] red lobster is hitting the streets to tell real people about our new 15 under $15 menu! oh my goodness... oh my go

. >> what if they do dolley madison? what if it is a first lady? >> that would not work. >> jummy olabanji is talking about this. tell us what you know. >> tomorrow is and tnats fest. the owners and players will be there to greet fans. they will unveil this fifth running president. last year everyone cheered on teddy. had not yet won a race. now a fifth character will be joining teddy a lincoln george washington, and jefferson as well this season. i'm going with ronald reagan. he already has a big airport in town. our executive producer ceres going with william taft. brianne carter, a graduate of james madison university, thinks it will be james madison. scott is going with ike. >> i think bush or clinton. >> this is your official vote, natasha. >> i'm going with madison. >> are you putting money down on at? >> andrew johnson, andrew jackson. -- johnson. >> we're asking our viewers to weigh in. we have this story at wjla.com. we already have a lot of comments and guesses. let us know who you think will be the steps president. >>-- 5th president. >>

the tradition of an inaugural ball officially began with james madison, first lady dolley madison hostingvy cost at the time, $4 to get in. and while dolly is said to have enjoyed the ball, her husband remarked, i would much rather be in bed. in 1865, the ball following lincoln's second inauguration, 4,000 dancing the waltz. and at midnight, oysters, roast beef and lobsters were served. "the new york times" reporting that table soon a mess, frightful to behold in their words. >> washington turned out in all her splendor for the inaugural balls to be held in honor of the president. >> reporter: after world war ii, the idea of multiple inaugural balls. eisenhower dancing here at one of four different galas. and this shows the newly inaugurated president and mrs. kennedy leaving the white house for five balls in 1961. and who was waiting? ♪ you make me feel so young >> reporter: frank sinatra. who would perform for them. more than two decades later, the reagans dancing and dazzling the crowd with a salsa. playing tuxedo junction. in 1989, an exuberant president bush and first lady barbara bu

that did not exist in the applied it to dolley madison and the first that anyone had used that term. he referred to as the first lady of the land. benjamin harrison was keep the ball rolling. jumping around a little bit but woodrow wilson had potomac fever which was something that harry truman loved to quote. politics is adjourned was woodrow wilson. watchful waiting was very closely associated with woodrow wilson. first in his relationship to the dictatorship in mexico where there was a lot of feeling that we should go in and intervene in mexico where there was a fairly active of ackley dictatorship and wilson said no this is watchful waiting. and once the war started world war i that was attributed back to wilson and using the word watchful waiting. for whatever reason watchful waiting is used in the diagnosis of certain illnesses where rather than treat them immediately you go through period of watching and waiting so that is a more serious one. some of them are -- and mckinley wayne mckinley the spanish-american war starting a mckinley has a telephone in the is the telegraph. he

. >> dolley madison loved every minute of it. mrs. monroe hated it, absolutely hated it. >> you can't rule without including what women want and what women have to contribute. >> you are a little breathless and it's too much looking down. a change of pace. >> yes maam. >> probably the most tragic of all of our first ladies. they never share their marriage. >> she never wrote in her memoir that she said i myself never made any decisions. i only decided what was important and when to present it to my husband. if you stop and think about how much power that is, it's a lot of power. >> prior to the battle against cancer, is to fight the fear that accompanies the disease. >> she transform the way we look at these bugaboos and made it possible for countless people to survive and to flourish as a result. i don't know how many presidents have that kind of impact on the way we live our lives. speech speeches walking around the white house grounds, i am constantly reminded about all of the people who have lived there before and particularly all

1837, jennings prepared the madison sitting house in washington for future use by the widow, dolley madison. paul jennings had returned to lafayette square for the first time in 20 years. james madison died the previous summer, and dolley decided she would make use of her sitting house in washington and sent jennings ahead to ready the dwelling. it was still february but in anticipation of the new administration, already the talent noise was gathering along with the first frost. they ask for your -- 28 years earlier. jennings took stock of a much altered lafayette square, a block from the madison house, the restored white house now at both the north and south front. past the buildings charred and weakened exterior walls had been rebuilt, and the course of which the workmen dug up a partially preserved in are displayed that jennings had prepared the day the british torched the mansion in august 1814. the george washington portrait had long ago been retrieved from the maryland farmhouse what it had saved arrested after the fire and returned to the white house. .. >> one could say that paine t

she was -- >> dolley madison also known for being a swank dresser. >> exactly. that's something we have not talked a lot about, what is michelle obama's role going to be in this -- >> they have decisions to make with this. she's so popular. >> and she's a real asset and so likable. >> the fact that she announced ofa, the 501-c4 suggests he could be taking a more direct policy role. she's not doing policy in the way mrs. clinton did, but i suspect ofa could give her a way to think about how to connect the volunteerism traditional model of a first lady job with a more accurate policy role. >> she'll be a motivator in the base, no doubt. >> she's done so much with joining forces with the military families, and also with dr. jill biden, there's the vice president. >> senator lamar alexander from tennessee. >> on the inaugural committee. >> are we noticing the jfks a pekaspect to the joe biden atti today? he's not a subtle man. >> that's what we like best about joe, though. >> does joe biden have an enemy in washington? i mean, joe biden, talk about his popularity an

house, the president will go back after the parade to the white house and two big balls tonight, dolley madison and aftermath of that speech as people digest it i think progressives are going to love that speech because he basically stood up and said this is who i am. this is what i stand for and this is what i want to do and conservatives are going to hate that speech and even though that 47% video was the death knell probably for mitt romney and hurt the republicans the country wants somebody that speaks to more than 51% of the country but speaks to 67% of the country. i think republicans are going to get entrenched after that speech as they swallow their high calorie meal and move on and i'm always -- i think they'll think they'll count on something with this president. teddy roosevelt always said walk softly -- i mean talk softly and carry a big stick. i think republicans think this president talks loudly and carries a small stick and so they're hoping that, okay, you had your words and time and we'll go back and compromise but this will entrench both sides. >> just to challenge you, the pr