bush, bill clinton, george w. bush and include barack obama's 2008 election.he university of virginia's miller center hosted the event.

bush, bill clinton, and george w. bush and include barack obama's 2008 election. the university of virginia's miller center hosted the event. >> we're going to get started here with round two of presidents on whom olyphant was able o bestow his gifts and a country on which he was able to bestow his gifts by commenting visually and with words on those

and you see the 487, 000, you see the old roofs from the boxing ring, bush clinton, reagan all beat up. it is a lovely example of taking a complicated political issue and ideally, if you are doing a good political cartoon, you can distill it down to a nice visual nugget that can convey the complexity, hopefully with a little bit of bite. this is a cartoon i did that they liked here. it is about the head of the chamber of commerce which happens to be next door. i should date my cartoons but i believe this one is from 2008. resistance is futile, and they are blasting the democrats with piles and piles of cash. i understand he actually likes these cartoons which fills me with mixed emotions. these represent the golden age of american political cartooning, which you would've found and punk magazine, which was a political cartoon magazine. they were done by caterpillar. their color lithographs i wish i knew the details of the time, but here you have a classic cartoon, a big thumb of the big interests being held down on the speaker and it says, the caption down here is very small, the leader

there's enough trump, bush, clinton, obama books out there. there's nothing i can bring new to the city that they don't know intimately. my goal is to tell an american story in the way that jon meacham, douglas brinkley, they do it, and i close them and i know for sure i can't do that. i want to do major figures in history and you open up the cover and know more about the people who made them great. like many people in this room you do great things on a daily basis without fame and acclaim. america is made up of so-called average people doing extraordinary thanks without a pat on the book. these people were known in their time, but not in our time. if you open up george washington's secret six, i love washington, great. when you close it you think of a longshoreman, austin rose, a bartender, you think about abraham, a farmer. when you open up jefferson, triple-e pirate. i love jefferson. but do you know about william eaton? my goal is this, when you leave here today if you're at the water cooler, the sports bar, hanging out at a tailgate when

administrator probably for at least 3 that administrations have gone through the white house trouble by bush clinton too you'd see that as one of the forefront leaders in communication you could take that model and put it in to maybe putting out a government sponsored by fire or whatever you want to call them things like but we're not seeing that because they got a lot of money but when you look at beckman operate and be able to manage an upcoming election both by mail is not possible without the postal service so true so true our everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. which is available on smartphones through google play on the apple app store by simply searching a portable t.v. or you can stream most to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. places like apple t.v. or online the portable the t.v. will be available we promise on more devices coming soon coming up this show the united states is still in immigration turmoil thanks to the covert 19 virus and of course the ministration growing immigration policies

there is enough trouble, bush, clinton, obama books out there. there's nothingn i can bring new to the city they do not know intimately. my goal is until an american story to tell in a way which dave mccullough, john beauchamp, douglas brinkley, they do it comprehensively i read those books and close them and say i know one thing for sure, i cannot do that. what i wanted to do is get major figures in history that you know who is on the cover, but when you open it up you understand more about the people that made them great. like many people in this room, you do great things on a daily basism. about flame unchecked fame and acclaim. america is made up of average people and doing extraordinary things without getting a pat on the back. what these people were known in their time but not in our time. if you wash up george washington secret six he said love george washington a bit when you close that you think about the loan sure man, you think of the bartender, you think about the farmer. when the open up thomas jefferson the pirates, you think thomas

bush, bill clinton, george w. bush and include barack obama's 2008 election. the university of virginia's miller center hosted the event. >> well, we're going to get started here with round two of presidents on whom oliphant was able to bestow his gifts and a country on which he was able to bestow his gifts by commenting and visually and with words on those presidents. i'm mike nelson. i'm the guy that you had to put up with the first panel. fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices that you heard from the scholars of the first panel. once again, we have miller center people here. the miller center, one of its main emphases is to study the presidency in historical depths with objectivity and in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a day-to-day basis, which pat oliphant did in his 60-plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. and whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartooni

bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches tonight on c-span and c-span.org. or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> former secretary of state john kerry and former u.s. ambassador and state department officials talk about the global impact of the coronavirus. this is hosted by yale university. >> welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. this is the fifth of these discussions. these discussions have tapped the exceptional leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. today is no exception. all of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jackson's founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. he then served more than two decades in the u.s. senate before becoming the 68 secretary of state under president obama. you probably know all of that, but what you might not know is tha

clinton: differences between bush and mccain maybe just to vast. mccain is bush's running mate. sn't the man suffered enough? [laughter] [applause] george w. clinton: bush has got a brand spanking new campaign strategy. he's moving towards the political center. distancing himself from his own party. stealing ideas from the other party. i'm so glad did morris has -- finally founds work again. [laughter] [applause] the clock isinton: running down on the republicans in congress too. i feel for them, i do. they've only got seven more months to investigate me. [laughter] fmr. pres. clinton: that's a lot of pressure. so little time. so many unanswered questions. [applause] example,. clinton: for over the last few months i have lost 10 pounds. where did they go? [laughter] why haven'tlinton: i produced them to the independent counsel? how did some of them managed to wind up on tim russert? -- some of them managed to wind up on tim russert? some of you might think i have been busy writing my memoirs. i'm not concerned about my memoirs, i'm concerned about my resume. here's what i've got

bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches tonight on c-span and c-span.org. or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> former secretary of state john kerry and former u.s. ambassador and state department officials talk about the global impact of the coronavirus. this is hosted by yale university. >> welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. this is the fifth of these discussions.

bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span and c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. at a news conference on capitol hill, house speaker nancy pelosi talked about congress's response to the coronavirus outbreak. she announced house democrats would move quickly to advance the next rescue bill geared towards cities and states. , house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly news conference with reporters. she talked about the coronavirus response and yesterday's passage of an economic aid package to help small businesses. speaker pelosi: good morning. morning. thank you for being here. it's a sad day. i know that many people, as am i, are quite shaken by the fact that we have passed the 50,000 number of people who have died from the coronavirus mark. over 50,000. the numbers are staggering but each individual case is so heartbreaking. yesterday on the floor we heard about a 5-year-old girl whose mother a police officer, her father, a firpte.

your term for walker bush william jefferson clinton who saw the water bush has gone into iraq who said obama do solemnly swear i dawdled you on trial do you solemnly swear. the world would make sense without the work of the general wages and living standards of working class people the city constant or declined since the late seventy's. the numbers of people who need housing and grow because of the growth in the population the supply is not known to the to nearly the same extent so somebody is going to get squeezed out and somebody you know most people the momentum people over the country have been squeezed out of the bottom. so now there's a new public housing so the shelter system is like a public housing because housing is not treated as even the writer of the title meant which it should be the country is both is this one. and order for us to get. and be back to society and company office to try to resolve this issue it's gone on far too long. it's a fundamental right like having food it's finished. if i can find a big chair to. take a look at the universal declaration of human righ

george herbert walker bush william jefferson clinton who saw all over the water bush. who said obama do solemnly swear i told john truong do you solemnly swear. the word of the general wages of living standards of working. or declined since the late seventy's. the numbers of people who grow because of the growth of the population the supply. to the to nearly. it's a mix up so somebody is going to get squeezed out and some of the most people the momentum people over the country have been squeezed out of the bottle. so now there's a new public housing so the shelter system is like a public housing so because housing is not treated as even the writer of the title meant which it should be the country is full of uses. and order for us to get. and be right back to society as incompetent as you tried it with this issue it's gone on far too long. it's a fundamental right like having food and fish. i think anybody care to. take a look at the universal declaration of human rights. as the peoples of the united nations have in the charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental huma

tradition, we will feature past dinner speeches, from presidents ronald reagan, george h w bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches, tonight on c-span and c-span.org, or listen .n the free c-span radio app "q&a," wallght on street trader turned photojournalist chris are naughty on his book "dignity," about the plight of those living on the margins of society in america. chris: it was a sunday or a saturday, and she was in the and theal point, intelligence kind of came on through, and we spoke for an hour, half an hour or so, and life, which is almost like a clichÉ of everything wrong that can happen to somebody, and eventually, i asked her what i asked everybody i photograph, which is, you know, how do you want me to describe you? give me one sentence to describe you? back, what i am, a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of god. p.m. eastern8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >>

bush and clinton, as was the vice presidents cheney and gore. arranging these interviews was difficult. we go to the white house to interview bush. bush and cheney had asked to be interviewed at the same time. we accepted. it was basically ten commissioners and me. but they had their note takers. some of the commissioners, the democrats, were upset by the ground rules because cheney would dominate the conversation and they would not be able to hear from bush. of course actually the opposite happened. bush absolutely dominated the conversation. he actually had to work hard to get questions to cheney and get him to talk. afterwards the democrats said maybe that was cheney's plan all along. people mean you've wish a little bit knew about his relationship this was not a surprise. for sure -- and this was in the spring of all four wishes not ash shrinking -- he's quite articulate talking to him was quite entirely different from clinton who also fills up the room conversationally digressions a musings or speculations burns the clock up. bush by the way

bush was the un-clinton. we have developed this curious habit, which i don't really associate with early stages in our history. irst of all, not since jefferson, madison, monroe have we had three presidents, successive presidents elected to two terms. only once before. but the paradox is we elect this person to a second term, and then we look for someone who is the diametric opposed lternative to take their place. i don't know if there is logic to that. susan: how much do you think it might be due to overexposure? richard: oh, god. [laughter] you know, it is true. the cult of personality, even those who do not have any personality. [laughter] victims of a cult of personality, the white house is ringed, figuratively, by satellite trucks. we have 24 hours. there is not enough news to fill 24 hours. in fact, if you watch it, you are not seeing news, you are hearing "analysis." hich is another word for opinion, depending on which station you tune into. the fact is that the assumption is everything a president say

to mark the tradition, we will feature past speeches from george clinton, george bush george w. bush, and barack obama. correspondents dinner speeches, tonight, on c-span and c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> thank you for being with us for this conversation about how we respond. i am so thankful that you all are with us for our first virtual

i don't know what layer you were in with each of the 4 presidents i assume they were the 2 bushes and clinton and obama i'm guessing that bet. what. when they when the new president comes in do you have to definitely i guess adjust your game to that that human being right it must be interesting to i don't know kind of fit them in the right way. you do because each think of it this way every president has their own personality and so is their good administration and they're going to work and behave a certain way but you know what we have to adapt i have to doubt they deny they don't adapt to me i doubt it to them when i say i am in the agency in general when they lie but they don't like it it's always a compromise but every administration has like its own unique personality and they behave and acted in different ways and look they're all extraordinary they're all fascinating in her own ways i personally served on the obama detail and that's when you get assigned somebody for like a 24 you know you're with them consistently and that was light they call it face to my latter part of the year that

serving under bush, obama, clinton. and trump. so there's no basis for this suggesting that all the reports all the interviews are the product of political bias. >> there's no question this country needs medical supplies. and equipment. why is the president so reluctant to use the powers as his disposal so address the issue? >> well, i think there a couple of things. one is the president continues to make reference under pressure from business and under pressure from free market within the white house to his support for federalism. i don't have the power to do that. we have a constitution. states are in charge. of course he's not asked to order the states to do something. he's asked to recommend. it's clear republican officials listen to him. there's a second aspect of the two. the more control the administration takes, the more responsibility it has for the situation. and it is a bad situation. it is very difficult in new york and difficult in michigan. louisiana. we have other rolling developing hot spots in other places. and if

president bush, running, biking. president clinton president bush, president obama, all the other activities. the secret service had to train agents on horseback. it's about how to extract or evacuate the president and the first lady while they are on horseback. how about getting to them on water safety, but patrol? president george h bush, 41, i remember being in kennebunk port and the press would say, and comedy fish did you catch question why he said with all these boats, it scared all the fish away. >> for those of you who may have read books about president bush 41, that boat was not a slow blow. he would drive that thing at full throttle. todd to us a little bit about the training. we are sort of making light of it, but it is serious. they have to learn to mountain bike. president bush mountain biked on his ranch and he is a serious mountain biker. you have to be able to keep up. >> before the mounting bite bike was the running. i hope is not listening but he averaged around a 740 pace and i was not a runner. i did not like to r

clinton term. the george w. bush administration inherited this from clinton. in some ways conditions were even more fruitful having to do wa. >> wendy: what is going on internally in iran in 2001. the bush administration never really formulated their iran policy. but more soft line people wanting to continue obama's approach of endagment. but once they wanted to overthrow the taliban government and wipe out training camps there, and then iran was very helpful in setting up the new government and the bush administration certainly took advantage of this good will by iran, but did not reciprocate. pretty quickly the bush administration started to reveal it's new approach toward iran in general. it was a global war on tr terrorism. iran was brought in, and iran as well. and so in early 2002 bush made a speech, i think it was a state of the union speech at that time qualitying iran an access of eefl. it was basically a period of coercion. gradually tensions letted up. there ethnic forces, carrying out terrorist attacks in iran, and iran backing militias in iraq that

spontaneous, when we heard him say in november to rebuke president trump, there are no obama, trump, bush or clintonudges, he was waiting for his moment to say that, he does not speak off-the-cuff, he still loves his history. before he went to law school, he was going to get a phd in history. >> so is justice kagan, he thought he would teach history before he went to law school. >> there's a lot in common in terms of extracurricular activities, he still reads a lot of history, he reads biographies, he likes to golf and for a while he actually was a writer and he ran a couple of marathons. >> when he was a young man. >> there is a reference that shows a side of him within the court i think he was called king john. >> can you tell us how they develop. >> he came in when he was 50 years old, he had a mere two years experience on the d.c. circuit and had not been on the supreme court where william rehnquist was elevated to chief in 1986 and already had 14 years and an associate justice, he knew the personality and how to work with his colleagues. as justice scalia told me, they had enough time and to to

all of his deficiencies is a least good at that reality television show in a way that jeb bush or hillary clinton is not and so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. politics itself and it affects the media so c.n.n. where is this money going it's going to networks like c.n.n. who perpetuate the. kind of moral and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they turn it into really just 2 sports teams fighting each other and that's conscious you know that zucker quite consciously model out of us p.n. is that is that dry you know $12000000000.00 just to really kind of like you said you know shrink what actually is being talked about really it's just spending to get recognition for the name recognition and to impart the way advertisers are quite skillful at doing an emotional response to elicit an emotional response we see it with bloomberg. you know what are the commercials are there content less like all of them bloomberg. you know surrounded by children holding you know whatever it is but that's so it's it's

bush, bill clinton, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, go down the line, what that moment would be like with any other president. >> jimmy carter. >> and jimmy cart, er, go back through history about the speech they might have given and the story they might have told. it reminded me in the briefing room when he barked at alexander what's your message to americans who are scared? and he said my message is you're a terrible reporter to peter alexander. these are difficult phone calls, but politically those are the easiest moments to just be a human, to just be a person, to express some base level of empathy. and as you guys just said, he's simply not capable of it. >> well, a conservative editor told me yesterday this should be so easy. get out -- >> that's the easy part. >> give them the facts, let the doctors speak, mourn with americans, move towards fixing this crisis. back up the man just is incapable of doing it. and, mika, this is, again, it's an ongoing problem, more people have died in america now of this than di

if you go back three administrations, president clinton, president bush, president obama all expressed concern about an infectious disease outbreak, but none did anything consequential to really get us ready for what we're now facing. >> reporter: former senator joe lieberman is co-chair of the bipartisan commission on biodefens biodefense. in 2015 they issued a report. stating that the nation is dangerously vulnerable to a biological event. >> we're like paul revere of the modern infectious disease age. but, you know, unlike the british that paul revere was warning about, people couldn't see it. >> the signals have been blinking red on emerging infectious diseases for probably two decades. >> reporter: dr. ellen carlin has spent her career studying the epidemically. epidemically.i >> we have understood the actions that could lead to a pandemic at the scale of a covid-19. it was a failure to act on that information. that's part of the reason this is so frustrating. it was totally predictable. >> reporter: predictable and fully imagined. two years ago, experts and officials role played

president bush, running, biking, and president clinton, president bush, president obama, all the other activities. so the secret service had to train agents on horseback, and u.s. park police played a tremendous role. because it's about how to extract or evacuate the president and first lady while they're on horseback. how about getting to them in water safety, in boat patrol? president bush, george h.w. bush, 41, i remember being at kennebunkport and the press would be around and they would say, "how many fish did you catch"? and he would say, fish? with all these boats around, they scared the fish away. >> and for you as well, that boat "fidelity" it was not a slow boat, because he would drive it at full throttle. >> full throttle. >> we're making light of the training but it is serious, because they have to learn to mountain bike. and president bush mountain bikes on his ranch in crawford and he is a serious mountain biker, and you have to be able to keep up with him. >> before the mountain bike was the running, because in the campaign, he averaged and i hope he is not listening, bu

boats, water, president bush running, biking and president clinton, president bush, president obama, all of the other activities, so the secret service had to train agents on horseback and u.s. park police played a tremendous role because it's about how to extract and evacuate the president and first lady while on horseback. i remember the press would be all around and say how many fish did you catch. he'd say fish, with all these boats and secret service it scared all the fish away. >> for those who may have read book s about president bush 41 that boat fidelity was not a slow boat. he'd drive that at full throttle. >> full throttle. >> yeah. so talk to us about the training, we're making light of it but it's serious, they have to learn to mountain bike. president bush is a serious mountain biker on his ranch in crawford and you have to keep up with him. >> before the mountain bike was the running because during the campaign, he averaged, i hope he's not listening, but he averaged around a tremendous 740 pace and i wasn't a runner, in fact, i didn't like to run. but he ran a race in

even the two-term presidents, bill clinton, george w. bush were there for only eight years, colin powell was there for nine, he served for american presidents as chairman of the joint chiefs for two of those presidents and secretary of state. and, cheney surfer 12, for secretary of defense and then ate as vice president. no one had the kind of longevity they did. and they are also strong personalities to look at there was a time some of you remember when colin powell was so popular many people thought he could have been president. and on the other hand, dick cheney was so powerful there is a time when many people thought he was the president. and they are great ironies i find as i delve into this and looking at them, powell thought of cheney and chaney's partner, donald rumsfeld as politicians where he was not. i was coal and pollens concept of himself. yet, it was powell who is a charismatic figure who is great with pick people and crowds. i have the reminiscence of someone who worked with both of them during the operation desert storm, the