no, it's not the white house. it's a summer house. it's the shadow white house. but it resembles the south facade so spectacularly. and poor president wilson is just trapped by the shadows of all the issues he has to deal with. and he's according to conservative cartoonist john mccutchen of chicago 's not doing it too well. however, when we get to the larger tha presidency of franklin delano roosevelt about r caesar of working for the new york times imaa white house that's overtake washington as the personnel of the president and strength as a president redraws the map. we get to truman who gave us the white house. we more know and love today and he's remodeled it. her block the washington post cartoonist us that he's remodeled it but he can't quite fulfill his promise as president because nobody will run with in his first campaign. lyndon baines johnson larger than life. everything's coming up. roses is as it gets to pass legislation and settle issues it's it's almost like a honeymoon between him and herb block and we have a great her block editor a cartoon coll

ties to white house history. she also formed the white house paintings committee to seek out important works art that could be added to the white collection and displayed. she appointed first ever white house curator and she championed a public law that was passed by congress giving the white house museum status, which then meant that all items required for the white house collections, for her project and for after would be preserved and protected in perpetuity. and as i have said, she helped form the white house historical association, which carries on work to this day. jacqueline kennedy worked daily and tires tirelessly on the restoration project. she was by no means just its figurehead. hundreds of pages of her handwritten notes, memos, correspondence. now part of the jacqueline bouvier kennedy onassis papers at the kennedy library are evidence of that. did much of the research and seeking out the fine antiques and furniture that had some connection to the white house. early american history for a presidentia

the white house. now, it's shorthanded by saying white house history with frank sesno, who's our moderator. and. and, frank, you have big shoes to fill, at least high shoes to fill, because we have ann compton here and we had four episodes of white house history with ann compton. and that was great fun as well. this program is put together by the david rubenstein national center for white house history here at the association, led by dr. colleen shogun, dr. matthew costello, and all of their colleagues who are here today. put in a tremendous amount of work to put on this series, as well as our other substantive programs that we have as part of our education mission here at the association. i'd like to acknowledge a member of our board of directors, anita mcbride, who is here, and three distinguished former members of our board, bob mcgee, martha kumar and mike mccurry, who are also on the panel. we have several members of our national council on white house history who are the real wind in a in the sa

so, the white house destination, white house as a patriotic symbol. so, why am i even showing you the west we this westside? by the mid-and late-19th century, the facade tells the story of what the content of the cartoonist. and the first story that gets told is, the presidency becomes important enough that there are spoils to be had and the spoils come out of the side. they do t come out of the front. no one will take wealth out of the entrance. it is the side of the building thatdepicted. and part magazine, a weekly publication from about the 1850s to 1917. the spoils of presidency, it is the side. want to know what cleveland is thinking? you go to decide. why doesn't the side appear in ese cartoons anymore? itis because we do not associate spoils with the presidcy anymore. in my transition from facades, i am just brinng you this teddy roosevelt, with a train wreck running at him. and this is squashing the white house, giving wilson the entry, right? speaking of wilson, now we are getting into the south facade. it is my argument, not 100% of the tim

the white house. well, with us to give deeper insight into pat nixon and betty ford, we have some distinguished people on this stage, susan ford bales only daughter of president and mrs.. susan is the sponsor, the aircraft carrier uss gerald r ford and recognize one of her extraordinary service as the ship's sponsor. susan was named an honorary aviator by the united states navy, becoming only the 31st american ever to receive this distinction and the first woman ever to be so honored. she is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and is the author of two novels set in the white house. i'm waiting for those novels. get on tv now, because the netflix we need to clean up next looks a little. edward cox next to susan, the son in law of president and mrs. nixon. many of you recall that the hauenstein and the ford held a joint program. i figured it out 12 years ago. you asked when it was 12 years, 2011, where we were at the ford museum and featured ed cox talking about what it's like to work with presid

one very, very role, of course, in the white house is that of the white house. social secretary, relying on one's expertise in protocol, tact, etiquette, hospitality. i think there might be some magic. it has, and it remains key to build relationships, maintain diplomatic ones, present the most welcoming experience possible at the white house. the kansas city star in 1921 reflected her duties will be as complex as that of an. that was laura harlan, the social secretary for, warren g. harding and calvin coolidge, who served from that year to 1929. but, of course, was 20 years prior, in 1901, during president theodore roosevelt's administration. that first lady edith hired the very first official social secretary at the white house, isabella hagner james, and ever since social secretaries have helped create memorable experiences for all guests at the white house from kings and heads of states, artists, scholars and little children chasing those easter eggs at the white house easter egg roll. while the reins of the job varies and you will likely never them on a goo

you don't need to label white house to everybody knows it's the white house. i know i've gone quickly through this, so if you want a slide set a pdf version of my slides that with all the links to the cartoons or if you want to ask you questions after the presentation, i be happy to answer them. you can grab at lunch or at the actors, i'll be around all day, but you can also contact us through our ask the librarian service, and ofag the 17.6 milln images in the library of congress, if digitize 1.5 billion, a 1.4 million are available to you because they are the public domain to download free of charge. and with that, i pass it to my colleague megan. >> i come and gone. my name is megan halsband. i am a reference librarian in the newspaper and current periodical reading room at the library command of the great fortune of being able to work with the comic book like you at the library because it's considered a serial. sors goes along with newspapers, right? there's actually quite a long history of comics and newspapers. for those of you not familiar with the hist

there's no white houses, private space other than here's the new president arriving at the white house. it's a public space only in an editorial imagination. of course, we know the president lives in the white. but as far as i can tell, it's really just the public aspect of the presidency. and that's the purpose of the editorial cartoon right. the purpose of an editorial cartoon is to express an opinion and persuade you to the artist's point of view. and so they're not to do, oh, there's a new president happy days. somebody else is moving into the white house. no there's problems in america this sucker just took this job and has to deal with it. let me come to the room for questions. so please just give me a quick hand. if you have questions, any of our panelists. i see one in the middle of the front row. where is the microphone? here. here we go. ringer, please. thank you very much. just a quick question. if we have a lot of the comics recently of depicting trump and biden, obama but in the earlier years of comics were real presidents featured you know not fictional presidents, but ac

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what is the white house saying what does the president saying? and believe it or not it matters where presidents say things, the setting that they are in. think of the complete package. you know, like i said about obama, it's, you know, looking at how all the moving parts together and there's a lot that goes into creating a presidential or white house communications. and what's the president trying to sell through this? if you think it from the standpoint of there's a message that's being put out there, is this about a policy agenda? yes, that's should be the ultimate goal. but it's also about advisors promoting and selling the president as an individual. so when we're talking about, you know, what's going on, president biden does the speech think about all that went into that. and then i want to think about all the reaction after it. and what is the goal for the white house if president biden he's given a couple recently, if he goes out and gives a speech or he to michigan and goes out on the picket line with autoworkers who are out on strike, w

the white house stated -- did the white house know about that procedure? did you know he was undergoing a procedure? >> no. >> doctors used the phrase selective in their statement. the use of that described by the pentagon was fully transparent. >> that was my mistake. i thought that was in the statement. i refer to the pentagon on that. i am not a medical expert. i cannot. >> elective procedure >> do you know what an elective procedure implies that might sound like what we are not being told? >> -- are there any consequences for any dod officials that knew about secretary alston but did not report that information -- secretary austin but did not report that information. what did the president -- he's the commander-in-chief. >> he should get the appropriate care that he needs to get better. so he can get back to work. he believes that we should learn from this both in terms of notification and transparency to the american people. and we're going to do what we have to do and as karin said, we will take steps at the white house to make sure that we have a go

the white house chief of staff has sent a memo to all cabinet secretaries saying that the white houseeviewing agency protocols for a delegation of authority from cabinet members, essentially the white house is reviewing the protocols and policies of when a cabinet secretary is unable to carry out his or her duties, you got to tell the white house. either got to tell the office of cabinet affairs or you have to tell the white house chief of staff. let's bring in lieutenant general keith kellogg, fox news contributor, former national security adviser to vice president pence. if you had gone into the hospital when you were the vice president's national security adviser, and you didn't tell anybody and they were looking for you, and they could not find you, what would have happened? >> thanks, john, for having me. well, i would be a nonadmit back into the white house grounds. i think the secret service would have pulled my clearance and my pass. look, i did go to the hospital for actually hip replacement, when i was in the white house, and i told the president that's what i was going to d

i do believe in large measure because of this issue i do think were going have a change of the white house were going have a republican president i think were going to win the senate expand the majority in the house is well predicted as d ministration shot back accusing the gop of standing in the way >> have house republicans that's literally blocking the president's effort to do something. that is what they are doing their playing political games. >> all eyes will be on washington next week dh secretary mayorkas facing an impeachment inquiry on wednesday. but first he will travel back down here to eagle pass for another operational visit scheduled for tomorrow. shannon: we know you have us covered on that comment casey stegall live at the southern border thank you. joining is now texas or publican governor greg abbott. governor, welcome back to fox to send a. we got the lead negotiator in the senate coming up saturday james lankford the white house says it needs more money he said they are pressing for policy changes. what is the number one thing you would tell senator lankford you need t

donald trump: the white house popped up on his screen. rusty bowers: so i take the call and donetta steps out goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out in front of the house where i'd get better reception. jake tapper: rudy giuliani was on the line too, and bowers says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. rusty bowers: i can't give you the exact numbers, but i'll throw out numbers, but they're kind of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted, 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. jake tapper: bower says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. rusty bowers: and then i said, but what's the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and they said, well, we've heard that there's an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause, that you can throw out the biden electors and put in trump electors. and i said, that's a new one to me.

what's the reaction at the white house, peter? reaction that president biden has full confidence in austin, and austin has no plans to resign. the white house is telling us they would not accept a resignation if one was offered. accountability for the lack of transparency will be down the line. but a real test of this ongoing three years ongoing now white house narrative that president biden is always working when he's on vacation, always plugged in. he was in st. croix when an ambulance took lloyd austin to the hospital, he didn't know about it. sandra. >> sandra: very interesting reaction continues to pour in. tom emmer, although he wishes him a speedy recovery, he must be held accountable for the stunning failure of leadership. another member of congress weighs in. check back in with you at the white house shortly. thank you. john. >> john: and going to have a lot more on this developing story. senator tom cotton will join us in the next hour. lloyd austin has given no indication he plans to resign. but should he. peter said th

and it would just say the white house. or if ap or reuters or getty or anybody pulls the image off the internet to publish it, then it ended up on somebody's front door and they open it up and look at it and say oh, it's a news picture when in fact it was a white house photo. >> what does that matter? >> because it's filtered. propaganda. it's a strong word and i have been pushed back a number of times by different administrations for using that word because i feel like it is. it's unfiltered. there is no filter. they are putting out what image they want you to see. that is being -- you know, this is a perfect example here. we went to africa with president obama and he went to nelson mandela's jail cell. this photo op was talked about for weeks before it happened because it was put on the schedule yes, he's going to visit. so much stress and anxiety about this. editors getting amped up. we were told okay. wait, wait, wait. then we ended up going down the hall. the picture on the left is what we saw. that's what all the wir

liz: democrats too, john, including the white house have attacked house republicans over subpoenaing biden is a different tune on subpoenas not too long ago. watch this. >> lesson is includes your children out in america and get a subpoena to go before congress or get a subpoena to go. you have a legal responsibility to go. >> are you listening to people that defy congressional subpoenas on the january 6 committee? >> i hope the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? >> i do, yes. liz: so before that, then candidate biden said they should agree with the subpoena. john, there's news coming in and what's in your estimation, what's the fallout of this. jim jordan is getting serious about drafting articles of impeachment against the president and jim jordan sent fbi director christopher wray a letter requesting the fbi director release the fbi document from march 2017 and that document, john, detailed a veteran fbi informant alleging president biden is hunter biden each took $5 million in bribes from the cofounder of burisma. they hired hunter bi

i'm there at the white house demanding action on behalf of the american people. ans are going to stand on that ground. we have been con sis lently and we will continue to do so. >> if ukraine is absolutely has to be a priority which i'm certainly not for guess pratt to get money to ukraine. again the american people aren't for that i think it's only 41% in our fox voter analysis poll in iowa say they want to give more money to ukraine. but if you guys all want to do that. do a ukraine bill stand alone why tie that to our border. >> ukraine is leverage to get border but to your point they may indeed be broken up. we will see how it develops. the devil is going to be in the details of all these proposals. what is happening in ukraine is not acceptable. the status quo is not acceptable. we sent billions of dollars over there without any clear artic could you a little of the strategy. i have been telling the white house this as well. what is the strategy? what's the end game? how do we have accountability? >> laura: why are we giving any more money then? they have --

council at white house.in before indicting trump, he again went to the white house and met with as you pointed out the january 6 committee, democrats in the spring of 2022. so that's nathan wade going down there. >> sure, nathan's wade role was to look into the potential prosecution and codefendants in that case and those meetings related to that prosecution and politics written all over this. trump has been saying this all along and he's been proven right and seems like the wheels are falling off of this case in every which direction at this point. elizabeth: what do you make of house judiciary chair jim jordan saying fani willis' office got federal tax money and he has a right to ask and call on willis to disclose her team's contacts with the january 6 committee? final word. >> i think that make as lot of sense, and i think there's a lot of questions that the american people deserve answers to and specifically the defendants in that case. elizabeth: got it, katie cherkasky, thank you for joining and yous g

can you tell us about this white house meeting? resident is adamant he wants $ $10 billion in -- 110 bill in funding for ukraine, israel and other national security measures. house speaker mike johnson is saying you've got to do u.s. board or security first. no border security, then no aid to ukraine, no deal. is he sticking to that? >> yeah, i think he's going to stick to that. look, that's the position of our conference. we've made that loud and clear through speaker johnson. we expect the number one policy initiative should be to secure the border. that's what the democrat big city the mayors want, that's what every taxpayer who's kept up with this issue should want. people that are battling fentanyl overdoses, people that are seeing human trafficking in their communities now, we've got to secure the border. and no amount of money is going to go to another foreign country until the biden administration secures the border. we shouldn't even have to negotiate with the biden administration to secure the border, but unfortunately tha

you have the attorney general of new york meeting with the biden white house and white house counselknow who? how many occasions have you identified the biden white house? what was the timeframe of that? >> sure. we saw that there was a meeting in august, the month or two before they filed the complaint. there was another meeting later in the midst of our litigation on the attorney general's claim. that is twice confirmed. i believe there are also reports that she had been at ms. kamala harris's home. this is not normal. she's a new york attorney general voted by the new york constituents. the only thing they all have in common is the sorrows backing. i cannot understand why she would have because in the middle of a trial to go see the white house and the biden administration let alone the top. one of the record said they met on the front long. i can't believe what i am seeing. i really can't. i am with you reporting with you every day. i am in the weeds. i still am shocked they cease to amaze me. this is unbelievable. i thought georgia was bad. today i have to sit in court and get n

multiple days befor the white house was told about this. also happening on janry 4th and i'd like to a time for when the whiteas informed because at noon local time, there was a strike in background conducted by the u.s. mr. biden and austin approved the strike before he was hospitalized, but still, the strike could have been happening while the defense secretary was in the hospital and the white house did not know about it. >> you're right. the, jake sullivan in one of his briefings with president biden on thursday, january 4th, informed the president that austin was in the hospital. that's when we, the next day obviously is when we learned about the fact he was in the hospital and had transferred authority to his deputy. it's reasonable to assume that the deputy secretary of defense would have been a part of conversations along with the chairman of the joint chiefs and other members of the national security staff. the president's national security team. about whatever level of approval needed to happen from that high up in terms of a stri

for great white house correspondent peter doocy what is the latest, how is austin surviving? reporter: there are important details they are not telling us, officials will not disclose whether or not secretary austin ever lost cop consciousness as he was rushed from his house to walter reed in an am an ambulance, on january 1st. >> it is not something that we can speak to right, this is his own medical -- it have a private thing. reporter: here is the thing pentagon carried out a airstrike in iraq while austin was in the icu, we told it was authorized before he went in. and republican senator tomctom cotton said that secretary of defense is key link in chain of commanding between the president and uniformed military. there must be consequences for this shocking break town it true. we're told austin did participate in a secure call with the president on january 1st, the day high went to the hospital for post surgical issues, but white house situation room, which needs to know where people on these calls are located, did not' exactly where he was. >> it is generic, peter, what t

white house correspondent mj lee is standing by. let's go to our national security reporter, natosha. what is the pentagon saying? >> reporter: after days of uncertainty with surrounding secretary austin's hospitalization last week and what prompted it, the pentagon did relate a statement from secretary austin's doctors just today at around 2:00 p.m. that revealed that secretary austin had undergone surgery for prostate cancer on december 22. that surgery is what led to those complications that resulted in austin being transported in an ambulance to walter reed medical center. in the statement, they said that prostate cancer was detect early and his prognosis is excellent. on january 1 last monday, he was admitted to walter reed medical center with complications from the procedure , including nausea with severe abdominal, hip and leg pain. initial evaluation from that revealed that it was a urinary tract infection. the infection has since cleared and it involved various complications about abdominal fluid that was ultimately drained

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they would just say things about the white house. if one of the wires were being pulled from the internet to publish it, then it ended up at somebody's front door. they open up to look at it. it is a news picture. the white house voted on it. >> why does that matter? >> it is filtered propaganda. that is a strong word. i have been pushed back a number of times from different administrations for using that word. there is no filter. they are putting out the image that they want to see. this is a perfect example. we went through africa with the president. we looked at nelson mandela's jail cell. this is what we talked about for weeks before it happened. so much stress and anxiety about this. the editors were getting amped up. we were told that we were going to go in. we ended up going down the hall. the picture on the left is what we saw. that's what all the wire photographers saw. including myself, all the televisions were there. that was very impressive. it was a really somber moment. we get out 30 minutes later on twitter, and everyt

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thank you for sharing at the white house. please join me in thanking our panelists thank. greati want to introduce our pa. in addition to being a house historical association board member, in my prior life, i did eight years in the obama white house, six years as mrs. obama's chief of staff during the entire eight years, i also ran the white house council on women and girls. and so there's a special place in my heart for women in the white house, where women in history or women as leaders our country, and how important it is to tell that story wherever it is and bring out that rich history. i was struck last night by the photo of the first steak dinner that we saw and how it was just a bunch of men gathered in the blue there and how things are now, but how we should uncover the stories because there were clearly women behind all those men standing in that picture as. there are women throughout history and through what we're doing. and so that how we will the panel that we will have this morning to discuss this. and so let me introduce our panels. we have as our moderator, g

if that is the case, the white house will let us know. but i'm not aware of a discussion today. >> with the president not finding out until today, he spoke with him after the procedure and you said they had a conversation first authorizing the strike in baghdad, was he going to tell the president about his cancer. why did he withhold that? >> i don't have anything to provide beyond what i spelled out to you. i'm not going to get into when strikes were authorized other than the strike in iraq was authorized by the president and the secretary before he went into the hospital. they had the authorization to take that strike. last question. >> what i'm unclear about, the secretary committed to doing better about transparency and you don't know that he called the president. it has been three days and he is not being transparent with the white house over the weekend with his diagnosis. i would love to know and you can can ask him and part of the transparency, we would like to know when he is feeling better to ask him these questionses himself, w

productive one, but my question is, where is the common ground between you and the senate and the white housemigration? >> well, we are about to find out. the senate has been working on some sort of compromise bill. the house passed our manager, h.r.2, about eight and a half months ago. it has been angered -- sitting on schumer's desk for a long time. it has keeper visions and if that would actually solve the crisis, which is the open border, and the humanitarian catastrophe that comes along with that. we would reinstitute the remain in mexico policy, we would end catch and release, we would reform the asylum and broken parole processes, and even rebuild parts of the wall, but many of those elements are critical to solve the problem, and i articulated that to the president today as i have been doing since i got the speaker roll. >> but of course, you know the white house and emmitt -- senate democrats say they won't pass h.r.2. so, where do you agree? where can there be some movement, here? >> well, i think we had a productive discussion today at the white house because i told them, it doesn'