nixon how the white house had been improved. she said there were no dark corners anymore in the white house, that she would done a beautiful job. and she also complimented their ability raising the two lovely daughters that you have and that she was -- she said to raise young women like that who are in the public eye their entire lives is a very difficult thing to do, and you did a beautiful job. and she was so happy her children got to meet the nixon's children. >> there's a portrait of pat nixon. tell us about that. >> well, it's a very poignant, extremely beautiful portrait i think. and it was painted out in san clemente in 1978 and he went out to paint her in the house, mrs. nixon there. but i have a quote from a note sent to julie about her impression of her mother while she was painting this portrait, and i'd like to read a little bit of it because it's so -- i think so beautifully provocative about who mrs. nixon was. she said above the bridge of a nose that's almost greek your mother has eyes that are like no one els. th

and you worked in the white house and you know how she worked with him in that white house office, and the departments that were there, thanks to leadership with you and armstrong that were very conscious of this's movement and mrs. nixon, politically astute, realized republicans or losing some ground and democrats were proposing legislation built to support women and she worked very closely with the office of women's issues and the white house to help get more appointments of women in the federal government, and as you said she spoke publicly about women. she was disappointed that was not the president's decision and discuss that pprivately. again, that was her character and the appropriate way to do it, but she was responding to what was going on in the country. >> can you come up in and join us? we have a chair up front for you. >> make no mistake about it, she was what i would call quietly politically astute. she was not about to brag about what she could do were not do. she was very quiet about her sophistication in terms of doing things appropriately politically. >> the times she

white house. so the first two presidents look at are truman and eisenhower and the both are the first two presidents who start with a white house staff. had to think how to create their white house staff, wanted to have a structure and boast both of them for the most part believe in cabinet government. the cabinet officers are in charge of the respective areas and the white house staff can help the president, can help guide, put really is the cabinet ofs setting policy and eisenhower was known to tell cabinet officer who came to women if problems and he would say this is your yeah, you work it out. i point out where you did have cabinet secretaries kind of butting heads with white house staffer or people delegated by the president in a way that was different from what the cabinet government would seem to entail. one story i tell in the truman administration is that truman was facing the issue of whether to recognize israel. today that's not such a controversial proposition because it's a close al

a national group of individuals organizing white people for racial justice. >> i think some white people get stuck in the idea, if we just israel go develop a good heart, good intentions, that's enough. while that's a critical part of the journaly as our own journey of change, if we are not pushing against structural and institutional racism, then we're just better hearted people and things will not change for people of color in this community. >> the east oakland activist john jones iii gives people this advice. >> start with organizing in your own community, in your own neighborhood. organize your family members, your co-workers. use your privilege. they have a level of assets that we as black people and people of color do not have. >> she trains people how to be allies and says the key come possibly is action. >> we have to figure out what we're going to do. what we're going to incorporate in our lives. what we're going to change. in particular, we need people who are not part of oppressed groups. we need people who are white. who historically held power. what folks really want to see

nixon invited him to the white house. and they walked through all of the rooms from the third floor down to the ground floor, through the private quarters and the state rooms. and he thought about it for a few days and decided to accept it. and she was a very strong supporter of this program. the rooms had been last refurbished in the early '60s, in the kennedy administration, but there had been tremendous visitation, tremendous receptions and a lot of crowds in the '60s. and things really needed to take shape. and clem conger was a very energetic, ambitious person who knew how to raise funds and appeal to donors and mrs. nixon would often write letters to donors and have receptions and teas for people that were potential donors or museums that might lend objects, such as the dolley madison portrait by gilbert stewart that belonged to the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, which was hung in 1971. and then it was finally purchased by the association here for the collection. but she was a big supporter. she, in fact, di

white flight was possible because there were white places to flee to. if we had not imposed residential segregation in suburbs, there could not have been white flight because every neighborhood would have had a diverse population. a lot of these things that we think of as being purely private rest on government policy. let me take a minute to go into one other, if i may, example of this. deis a big explanation for real estateation, families to the same race neighborhood. i would never suggest that just because someone is licensed by a state, they would be a state actor. if that were the case, everybody in the country would be a state actor. it would completely implode the distinction between public and private. the real estate agents are a different kind of state involvement. since 19 24, the national association of real estate boards has a code of ethics, which stated explicitly that real estate agents cannot sell a home in a white neighborhood to an african-american. this is not a rogue real estate agent happening to steer people. ofs is the official

the dinner set is white embossed with gold.hey had a tea set that was blue, and they had a dessert set in green. you'll often read that mrs. polk didn't allow alcohol in the white house, that her presbyterian upbringing precluded that from happening. it's not exactly the case. she stopped the serving of whiskey punches at public levees in the polk white house but wine was one of their largest bills during their years there. one of the more interesting objects in the collection sort of speaks to sarah and her ability with music as well. we have a music book that has handwritten notations and one of the songs featured inside is the song "hail to the chief," which she of course is credited with starting as the official presidential anthem during her time as first lady. [end video clip] susan: i wanted to ask about that "hail to the chief" because a little controversy has erupted between our last program with the tylers who are also claiming that they introduced "hail to the chief," and the polks who as you can see make it part of

create their white house staff. that the cabinet officers are in charge of the respective areas but then they were setting up policy. this is your area you handle it. that said i do highlight a couple of instances where you do have the cabinet secretaries meeting with white house staffers in a way that was different. so in the truman administration and to fly in the face today that such one - - not such a cultural proposition but it was a big ?-question-mark at the time including george marshall who is not only a war hero but also secretary of state and revered more than anyone else in public life. and then to recognize the white house meeting where he would be against marshall. he was not that interested in said what we are doing here but he said he is here to help. and john foster dulles who is secretary of state. and then to negotiate on the arms deal. the new york time when they came on board and he was causally trying to undercut. and then to have women to run afoul of the cabinet secretary. >> so another thing

you see here the white house. and a picture of mrs. during her televised taping, a color still picture taken showing her the blue room. one of the things the president talked about was how many people had come to visit. they had 1.3 million people in the year 1961. so it wasn't so much that the tour kicked off the interest in the white house, mrs. kennedy had already attracted the public attention. she was -- she got early in 1961 congress to pass the law that she mentioned which didn't just protect the collection but established that the museum character of the public rooms of white house must be maintained in perpetuity and the secret service has a lot of say about the security issues, but the museum character was what she was so interested in grasping. then she created the curators office also in 1961, with the idea that you needed a professional staff there to collect and preserve and interpret and conserve the pieces that she found in the house and the things that she was adding to the house. we actually have the dichotomy in our

supremacy as we have to put it on another white person well it's the white russia it's the white communists it's the russians who were behind dr king they were real big and so there always has to be this in the various liberal white person behind the scenes in order to make the white supremacist feel better about back that black people out here in the streets making a change even through the haitian revolution they didn't want to believe that it was the haitians who rules up against the white. purposes they have to say well it was them it's the overweight people doing is this white abolitionists who is behind this so in the mind of a white supremacist they always have to find a white super villain behind the scenes orchestrating everything to make them go better about getting. justice from whack people. right and again let me kind of return to a theme here because what you're saying and your documentaries dig into this it is providing a broader context for a conceit of american politics which would come under the heading of white supremacy just and that's not something people want to confro

they so enjoyed the white house.her women friends were very dear to her and she kept many of her friendships during her entire life. >> here is pat invented mississippi. you are on the air. >> that's in michigan. >> offensive michigan, sorry. >> we had the pleasure of going to independence and during the house. we had to go and through the back door just like the family. seeing the presidential library which we really enjoyed. my question is about the true man's -- tremendous financial circumstances. it was controversial that she was paid, perhaps they needed the money. certainly the president was the reason that congress has established a pension for retiring presidents. i wonder if their financial circumstances might have led them not to do is much entertaining and so forth as previous presidents who had their own budgets. >> absolutely. financial reasons were why he does put bess on the payroll. margaret truman always described her mother as a penny pincher but margaret all so admitted it was a good thing she did.

florist and the white house chef.'s involved in trying to plan a dinner that you think would be -- the most american but also a way that makes a nod to the culture of the country whose world leader you're entertaining. it was really fun to work on those, make all those plans for him. we always did a tasting of the food -- the menu the chef had proposed. many times we would ask members of congress to come to the tasting and tell them they were guinea pigs for the state dinner that we were hosting, and of course they would be very forthright and say i don't think you should do this, i don't know if this dish is that tasty, and they would be more forthcoming really i think than our friends would be, who would say that's great whatever you've got. and that was fun, really. that let us spread the pleasure of the state dinner out over a number of nights to do tastings and talk about what we were going to have. and then of course we would try to pick entertainment that represented the united states in a wonderful way. like t

let's make america white again? >> yeah, great to them is white.u see, it didn't include mexicans or spanish-americans. and so, when you say make america great again, from my perspective, when has america been great? america's always been white. america's always been us against them. >> in the wake of el paso, the department of homeland security, for the first time since it was created after 9/11, added white supremacist violence to its list of priority threats. at the prince of peace church, pastor grady held a special sunday service. he organized a fundraiser to help his daughter on her long road to recovery. then, the guest of honor, with a surprise appearance. it was the first time michelle had left the hospital. >> having this community, has seen me through countless bad days since this has happened. the support of my fellow church members has been profound. they're praying for me. it's helped me a lot to know that i have support. i felt like it was important to show that, you know, i'm still here. and not only am i still here, i'm getting bet

white house staffers are being taken by the army drivers with the white house staffers. presidents are trying to get a handle in the nixon administration became a union that led to watergate in the mitigation. the reason they were called the plumbers because they were designed from scratch week. they broke into the watergate themselves but the reason they started in the nickname because of leaks. there is a cat and mouse game between the administration and staffers on the leaking issue and there will always be technology leaking and noise technology identifying who the leakers are in the best way to address it is to have the president to make it clear in bringing people who are willing to not leaking against. i don't want to suggest all leaking is evil but sometimes administration will talk about a certain policy that they are making or personnel there picking up, this is necessarily designed to destroy and sometimes it's designed to get a policy between sunshine and air seek and assess whether he would be treated well by the american people. the leak has negative conden

jonaan: well, sure seems to be that's what they're looking at and looki at white voters, white women voters. or who the president thinks in suburbs across the country are rallyi around the confederate flag. it's an odd strategy. but that's -- that's what he's -- that's what he's pursuing. it's been strikg. but i think it's something tha doesn't -- this is not a strategic plan that is emerging from t white house political operation or from the trump this is trump going with his gut. he thinks he's going to be the law and order candidate. he thinks he's going to go out there and rally these -- these voters, these suburban voters, white suburban voters. but you know, he's gng arod for the past several weeks doing events, som of them increasingly elaborate events aimed at just about eve issue except for the issue that is first and foremost on so many ds people's mnd that's fear of the pandemic. this event that he had yesterday at the white house was really something special. you saw all -- you had a big red pickup truck, a big blue pickup truck packed with weights, massive weights that r

their officers were almost 2% white -- almost, to a person, white. at is important to note, either way, they were not treated as prisoners of war when captured. the confederacy threatened and did put them back into slavery, or execute them. not surprisingly, the casualty rate among african americans soldiers was higher than that among [indiscernible] we see the image of front,ck douglass'the to get a sense of the presence of this great intellectual. he was unprecedentedly important african american, abolitionist, order, state -- orate or -- orator, statesman. having his opinion on this matter is extreme a viable to the recruitment cause. harold: as historians say in recent years, he was about the most photographed american of his time, white or black. he made sure he was photographed almost every time he headed out on the lecture circuit. so we could see what a great looking man he was. this was eight years before the broadside. too often we see him portrayed as a white-haired old man. in fact he was still a vigorish -- vigorous, youngish man during

it belongs in the white house." and my grandmother said, "no, that's my painting, it's on my wall, and that's where it's going to stay." and i think mrs. johnson tried a couple of more times, so that eventually she gave up and had a copy painted. there are actually two copies made by the artist, greta kempton. and one of them hangs in the truman library just down the road and the other is in the white house, but those are the two copies. this is the original portrait. >> i don't know who did the portrait. i can look it up for you, but back to the table here, bill. >> okay. >> we have to tell the story about the renovations of the white house. >> okay. >> because the trumans, in their almost eight years in the white house, spent less time in that building than any other president. >> there you go. you want to do it? >> absolutely. it was falling down. the leg of margaret's piano fell through the floor, and the engineers were concerned that the whole thing was going to collapse onto the trumans, essentially. so -- >>

obama approached life in the white house?t has she done for the mansion and how does she use it perhaps differently than other first ladies? >> well, we just talked about the garden a bit. that has been a signature part of her stamp on the place. it seems to be the part that she's most excited about. we see her regularly going out for the kind of ceremonial plant things and harvesting and being out there with children but also using the house, she's referred to it as the people's house, this idea that whoever comes to the white house should be welcomed in and what are ways to do that and the kind of bringing in folks who have never been there before. so you see lots of school children coming through for workshops. when there is a celebrity who's giving a musical performance there will be a workshop earlier in the day with students from local schools. and so this idea that you can kind of use it as a third space or in some ways a community center is, i think, you know a little fresh and different. >> we must remember that for

a white honky who slides down a black chimney and comes out white.plause] brian: i have to say that last remark was interesting. white honky who slides down a black chimney, comes out white. rep. lewis: there's a lot of rhetoric and there's a lot of playing on words and very emotional. brian: did it work? rep. lewis: and that was not -- that was not part of the sncc that i knew. brian: what happened? rep. lewis: something went wrong. sncc came to that point where, in my estimation, it was forced to die a natural death. we were conceived in this whole idea of the building of a truly interracial democracy. there were black students and white students, working together, building together, suffering together. you cannot forget that in 1964, one year after i became chair, during the mississippi summer project, that we recruited all these young people, blacks and whites, primarily students, but lawyers and doctors and priests and nuns came to work in mississippi during the voter registration drive. that state had a black vote in each population of more tha

white women in politics.outhern lady, inky spy, the true story of elisabeth, the union agent in the heart of the confederacy. and the coming of the american civil war, 79 - 8059 and victory defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war. today will be speaking about her was book, "armies of deliverance", new history of the civil war. this is an amazing book on how i had a chance to read it so now, i will stop sign my screen and welcome the professor elizabeth varon. welcome. elizabeth: think is much. james: tackling this seems like an incredibly daunting task and you have done it through the theme of deliverance is in the title "armies of deliverance". but deliverance seems to touch on so many different topics related to the civil war. can tell us a little bit about why you decided to tackle the whole narrative history of the civil war. in the little bit more about what is meant by deliverance rated. elizabeth: absolutely. so i'm a historian of american politics. my focus is mostly on the american path. in my

to acknowledges that white women outpaced white men in voting for brian kemp. we have to have tough conversations about why people are supporting people who are suppressing and oppressing people of color. if these are people that don't agree with that but you have people in your family who do or friends that do, it's incumbent upon you to address those people and confront those people. black people are held responsible for our community all the time and why people have to be held responsible for members of their community. host: our guest is a graduate of clark atlantic university. are you a georgia native? guest: i was born in ohio. i've moved to atlanta when i was 11 and moved to d.c. for 20 years now. host: looking at the election again, you write about black economic anxiety. given the history of this country, when it comes to the economics broken down by race, ever wonder why the term black economic anxiety was never quite? black voters certainly take this into the voting booth. we have certainly impacted elections with measurable results. i have never see

susan: well, the two boys came home for some of their vacation to the white house, come to the whiteouse that summer. and that's really when tragedy struck. we're going to learn a little bit more about what happened with the coolidge sons on our next video. [video clip] kate bradley: let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge's earlier life before her marriage to calvin coolidge, as well as documents about her relationship with her family, specifically, her sons and her grandchildren. grace was not only a loving wife. she was also a loving mother. and we have some wonderful correspondence that documents that. in 1922, grace wrote to the head of the mercersburg academy where both of her sons were. and she writes, "is there a way in which we can arrange for calvin jr. to have a soft boiled egg for breakfast for a time without great inconvenience?" calvin jr. just had a little minor surgery and grace was very worried about his health. the other letter we have is written by calvin jr. this was written in 1924. like many sons, he talk

whites alongside blacks.hanged the evening news as we know it. >> by the fall of 1963 cbs first went to 30 minutes and huntley brinkley went to 30 minutes. >> these make possible the expansion of the famed hunktley brinkley report to a full half hour. >> this was in the peak of the civil rights era. >> the explosion of tension brought new recruits into the movement, mostly black and white. >> we are hopeful something will come out of the summit. >> what areas will your movement be in? >> voter registration and freedom schools. >> one of these was bob moses. >> sncc. the whole campaign was stanford and yale. >> we have been invited and simply helping people. >> students representing the elite structures of our country. >> i really believe in these things. it may sound idealistic, the constitution and bill of rights. >> it was clear at the orientation that the media were latching on to every little white girl they could find who would post a picture back home. that's what interested the press and brought the pr

become white. and the close of the are to being white, the more and better they are. the other side of that is assimilation ideas is to standardize what white people consider to be a civilized society, and then the society is created based on white norms and white standards. everyone else is asked to assimilate in that civilization. so when we are think about and antiracist society, we should not be thinking about it from this standpoint of what is the standard for white people. particularly information as diverse as the united states. we should be really thinking about a society that brings in the perspectives and the standards of multiple groups of people. because if we are not in we're not building an antiracist society. >> somebody else has ask him a cup of people are asking about your personal experience with surviving and overcoming cancer and the lessons that you learn from that. >> in talking about my diagnosis, i i was diagnosed in january of 2018 with stage four colon cancer. as i i went

about how to make certain educated white readers feel better about themselves white readers or white guilt seminar attendees will know they've done something meaningful by examining how much of a as white people suck and then decide they don't need to do anything really tangible to help anyone volunteer as raises the profit of white guilt d'angelo says in her book wanting to jump over the hard personal work and get a solution is a foundation of white fragility solutions are racist and action is racist how convenient for corporate america and companies like amazon that they don't need to think about discriminatory hiring practices or a living wage for black employees racism can be solved in getting all the white people in the room and having them sell flagellate so much that they like it the anti-racism consulting industry also serves a more sinister role in keeping real corporate civil rights violations hidden holding an anti-racism training however ineffective can be illegal shield against the civil rights lawsuit and you have to mire mckinsey d'angelo and all the other grifters tak

i grew up in georgia and to watch them go to the white house and for amy to grow up in the white house. it was -- it was a really exciting thing to watch if you were a kid. and she seemed right there in the center of all of the events and i remember thinking about that a lot as something that was really exciting. >> as a mother with a young child in the white house, how did she approach protecting young amy from the press, the public interest, that sort of thing? we have a photograph right here, it looks like kind of like coming down the stairs from the blair house, and you can see how young she is. how did they approach parenting? >> well, i think that they felt that all their kids should be able to have a private life if they wanted to, and amy certainly did.you know, if you're a kid in the first family, you've got secret service protection, so it's a little hard to just blend in, even if you'd like to. but i think the press in general respected that, you know, and realized that a child shouldn't be exposed to, you know, the kind of press that their parents, you know, get. so, you kn

obama met with students at the white house to talk about it. >> having the platform of the white housereally helpful in getting attention to stuff. a lot of times when i do something, a lot of cameras show up and people tend to watch and write about it. sometimes they write about more than what i'm wearing. so i think it's my job to help shine the light on things that are already working. so that's one of the reasons why i chose this as my initiative. i also think that one of the reasons -- the ways that i think we can move this effort, one of the reasons why i think that we can be successful is that it doesn't require, i don't believe, and others may have struggled a bit more, it doesn't require whole scale changes in your life. the beauty about kids, you guys, is that you're young, your metabolisms are really healthy, which essentially means once you start moving and eating right, you're going to, you know, you guys change really quickly. you're growing and everything is working right. so if we make some little changes, get you guys moving more, a little more movement, a little less

room at the top of the white house.y hired teachers and had other kids around the same age who were mostly the children of other members of the administration. and that school went through the length of the kennedy presidency. and at the time of the assassinati assassination, november of 1963, one of the things that lbj did do which was gracious which was to say the school can go on at least until the end of the semester. >> there was a controversy because all the children were white. >> there was. although there is a photograph of them, in fact n michael's ho oral history of mrs. kennedy shows the class portrait of caroline and her schoolmates and there's one african-american boy, son of andrew hatcher, assistant press secretary. they were receiving. >> he said to his father, the president addressed me by name. how do you think he knew it was you, he must have been told i was the one with the blue pants. >> as opposed to the african-american child. >> this is at the height of concern over integration and people were wr

white guilt or writing a check for white privilege this anti-racism training manual leads one to buy into a whole new system of white supremacy where white people are the only ones with agency and black americans are no more than victims plus new research suggests the anti-bias training combat fire because training whether consciously or subconsciously activate stereotypes and wait for jodi is in the end a book about how to make certain educated white readers feel better about themselves white readers or white guilt seminar attendees will know they've done something meaningful by examining how much of a as white people suck and then decide they don't need to do anything really tangible to help anyone volunteer that's racist the prophet of white guilt d'angelo says in her book wanting to jump over the hard personal work and get to solutions is a foundation of white for jodi solutions are racist and action is racist how convenient for corporate america and companies like amazon that they don't need to think about discriminatory hiring practices or a living wage for black employees raci

house, nixon white house in many ways was a model of the modern white house.he white house decided how the presidential family would be used or not used. and we -- i hope we'll get into this more, pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would have liked the way in which she was presented the american people. >> and was this precedent setting? for the white house to go to this extreme with the media? >> no, i mean, the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie and the very fact that jacqueline kennedy went to dallas, was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to be just a political tour. so this was not the first time jacqueline kennedy was the first. roosevelt thought about her own public role but she pushed that. i would say she is unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house wasn't pushing her in front. i think jackie kennedy is really the first lady that is part of a media strategy. pat nixon did not play the role. the public role of -- the white house wanted her t

white house press association, i have often advocated regular briefings by the white house press secretary, which lapsed in 2016. canmerits of the briefings be debated, but i think the white house has obligation to answer pronouncements of the executive branch. the white house press secretary's job differs fundamentally from those of a spokesperson, a candidate, or a political party, and the white house press secretary serves as the president of the -- pleasure of the president, but their salary is paid by the taxpayers." from your standpoint, we are not getting that from the administration, correct? guest: no. i am glad to see that briefings are taking place, but if you look at the briefings, they are very short events. they are almost always less than half an hour. sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and they have fallen into a pattern where there is kind of an opening monologue that is meant to, you know, either attack the people in that room, the reporters in that room and the news organizations, or to promote some political issue that the president is harping on. and then they closed i

a white honky who slides down a black chimney and comes out white. [applause] brian: i have to say that last remark was interesting. white honky who slides down a black chimney, comes out white. rep. lewis: there's a lot of rhetoric and there's a lot of playing on words and very emotional. brian: did it work? rep. lewis: and that was not -- that was not part of the sncc that i knew. brian: what happened? rep. lewis: something went wrong. sncc came to that point where, in my estimation, it was forced to die a natural death. we were conceived in this whole idea of the building of a truly interracial democracy. there were black students and white students, working together, building together, suffering together. you cannot forget that in 1964, one year after i became chair, during the mississippi summer project, that we recruited all these young people, blacks and whites, primarily students, but lawyers and doctors and priests and nuns came to work in mississippi during the voter registration drive. that state had a black vote in each population of more

so are white people. more white people, by the way. more white people. >> reporter: research suggests that black people are about three times more likely to be killed by police than white people, but the overall number of white people killd is higher, because white people make up a larger percentage of the overall population. the president also made news on china, saying for now, he does not want to continue trade talks. >> look, we made a great trade deal. but as soon as the deal was done, the ink wasn't even dry, and they hit us with the plague, okay? so right now i'm not interested in talking to china about another deal. i'm interested in doing other things with china. >> reporter: how will you hold the chinese government accountable for covid-19? >> you'll see. you'll see.

he changed it to the white house. david: linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? linda: i think when he went to the congress and asked them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] david: that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? linda: he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american. but for instance, when he was the senator, our phone number was in the regular phone book, and he got a call, a hispanic in texas, i believe he was killed in korea. the local funeral home in texas refused to take his body. they said that if they took his body from th

is white supremacy. white supremacy is a big complicated web of systems and institutions set up to keep power and privilege with one race. guess which one? ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> pittsburgh is a paradox. it's known as steel town, usa, but the factories that gave it that name are mostly gone. it's a progressive liberal at city, but in the heart of deep red western p.a. it's an industry still, but also a booming intellectual and technology hub. it is america's most livable city, one of the safest, most affordable cities, and the worst city in america for black people. wait, what? what in the name of pittsburgh's mr. rogers is going on? the paradox of a seven times higher infant mortality rate for black babies over white babies, or a safe, livable city versus the deadliest attack on jewish people in our nation's history at the tree of life synagogue means that in pittsburgh, like in america, the history and structure of white supremacy has us living two totally separate realities. you know, whistexisting while b in pitt

it has not reached the least skilled whites which are whites it has now reached the least skilled whites is true but you can tell a story. so we don't think of this as an only white story. it issue that african—american mortality rates are consistently been higher than white american mortality rates and so if you're asking where is the injustice in mortality, certainly in the african—americans. -- it is —— it is certainly true that african—american mortality rates one of the things interesting about britain is you have this excess mortality from covid—19 among what you call bames, but prior to that, the mortality rates for black english people were lower than for a white english people. that was not true here. donald trump, from the very beginning of the covid—19 crisis, made a point of saying that he feared that if america led in a prolonged lockdown, health impact and the death and the mortality as a result will be far greater than that caused by the virus itself. in a funny sort of way, given your work, do you have a little bit of sympathy with that view? not at all. it is wrong. what

and broadcast in black and white. but i like to surmise that she chose red for that program knowing that it would be televised on valentine's day, 1962. >> let's go into the museum and look at some other examples of jacqueline kennedy's clothing that we have on display. >> mrs. kennedy put an awful lot of thought into her wardrobe when she was representing the country both at the white house and while traveling abroad. she would think about "what colors would mean something to the country i'm about to visit." so, for her visit to canada in may of 1961 -- actually, the first state visit the kennedys made as president and first lady -- she chose this red suit by pierre cardin as a gesture of respect for the -- the red of the canadian maple leaf, and knowing that she would be greeted by the royal canadian mounted police, who very famously wear red. >> in this case here, we display a pistachio green coat and hat worn by the first lady for her arrival in bogota, columbia in december of 1961. the president and first lady tr

this commission against lack people is required for white people to have white privilege. that emma kratz did so much with desegregation and affirmative action has made it impossible for poor whites to have a white home and a white school at their low income which means they definitely need donald trump. that is what they were voting for. am i wrong? is there some hope for this , i'm assuming in 10 years hispanics will be white because white people are not fooled. that it's essential black people be the negative out party so that there is white consistency in this country? richard: it is certainly two sides of the same coin. you can have superiority without in -- without inferiority and vice versa. so white privilege does depend on black subjugation. the reality is, as you alluded to, poor whites are much more likely to be integrated into middle-class white communities then poor blacks are integrated into any community. we have lots of poor whites in this country and in metropolitan areas. we don't have white ghettos. they are mixed in with the broader population. so yes,

initially, the people in the white house were terrified. after the 60 minutes interview the president said, he says jokingly, you've lost me ten, no 20 million votes. it was only a few days later when the first polls came in and people in the white house were astonished that, in fact, there was an overwhelming 70% of those who opposed and sympathized with the first ladies candor, if not necessarily her specific views. >> here are the first lady herself talking about the equal rights amendment under the constitution and urging its ratification. >> the equal rights amendment, when ratified, will not be an instant solution to women's problems. it will not alter the fabric of the constitution were forced women away from their families. it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women in to the old stereotypes of behavior and opportunity. it will help open up more options for women. but it is only the beginning. the debate over the equal rights act has become too emotional because the fears of some, both men and women, about the

what donald trump is doing clearly is appearing to white fears, white resentment, white grievance, and in some ways he's doubling down on the lie as i write in my book. we need to see what this is. we need to see this for what it is. it's blatant, crude, crass white nationalism. we need to not call it culture wars. we need to call it what it is. >> you wrote in your book white america would never elect such a person to the highest office in the land. i was wrong, given my life long reading of baldwin it was an egrooee egregious mistake. >> i thought we had an opening. when i wrote in my last book that we had an opportunity for african-american communities to push the democratic party to address substantively our condition of living because the republican party was in some ways falling apart. i didn't think that the country would, in fact, double down on someone who was so blatantly unqualified for office. and then i realized -- you know, and baldwin went through this as he was trying to decide whether or not to vote for jimmy carter in 1979. baldwin said that black folk, we know that o

,'cause it was in the lincoln white house. and lincoln, of course, was a very important figure to president eisenhower. >> so, alyce evans, how would the eisenhowers use this room? when was it used? >> really, the big time of year it was used was christmas. they would put their christmas tree in front of the fireplace. they'd have presents for all their grandchildren spread all across the room. >> mamie would be at the piano playing christmas carols. there'll be sing-alongs. so, that was really when this room was used -- in those important family times. >> when world leaders would come to see president eisenhower here, he wouldn't entertain them here? >> no, he would not. he would do that on the porch. >> and we will see the porch next time we come back to gettysburg. >> thanks to our colleague peter slen, who is in gettysburg, pennsylvania at the eisenhower farm. >> so, the entertaining at the white house was notable. for example, the queen of england, queen elizabeth came. >> yes. >> how important an event was that? >> well,

welcome to the white house, everyone. i am so honored to help introduce this year's nominees for best picture. >> this is my mid life crisis, the bangs. i couldn't get a sports car. they won't let me bungee jump. so instead i cut my bangs. >> so you went for the bangs. ♪ >> you can take it from me. eating the right foods can help make you a better athlete. >> ooh! >> i'm just wondering if you can do more push-ups than i can do. >> you know, it depends how your back is. i know you get these back issues. >> no, no. no, no. [cheers and applause] 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. [cheers and applause] >> so it has been fascinating during the series since television arrived on the political scene in the 19 -- late 1950s, you mentioned jacqueline kennedy and her tour of the white house. to watch how the political campaigns, the white houses have used this medium to communicate with the public and to portray an image. how is this white house doing, and how is the public receiving it? >> you know, it is fascinating to look at the w

people that we don't often see behind the veil of our whiteness. and it gives us the opportunity to make new choices. and the invitation i offer to white people is to take this moment up on its offer to create a world that is better for us as well as for people of color and indigenous people, that we as white people often, when we talk to each other about whiteness and racial equity, we talk as though it's charity work that we do for people of color as opposed to something we do for ourselves as well as our entire community. there's something in it for us. the world is better for us as well as for everybody in the world that has racial equity in it, in a world where we are pursuing antiracist policy. that is important for us. and we get something out of it, and that is an important message for white people to give one another. >> it's a thoughtful and provocative piece. thank you for joining me. betsy hodges is the former democratic mayor of minneapolis. her new opinion piece, "as a mayor of minneapolis i saw how white liberals block change," it's

she held a news conference apt the white house. i'm going to listen to one question that was asked of her and her response. >> how would you like to be remembered? for what? >> well, i like to be remembered very -- in a very kind way. also, as a constructive wife of a president. i don't expect to come anywhere near living up to those first ladies who have gone before me. they've all done a great job and i admire them a great deal. and it is only my ambition to come close to it. >> i never forget, one day out of the blue, we were talking and she said to me, i don't even know what prompted it, but i don't know why everyone thought it was a bad thing that i admired eleanor roosevelt. she was one of her heroes. and i think it wasn't just a public accomplishment of mrs. roosevelt's life or even her life in the white house, as it was the private challenges that eleanor roosevelt had confronted along the way. and in becoming eleanor roosevelt. but it was clearly, she was a role model. and i think lady bird johnson. first of all she was a