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in january, walters wrote saying she had contacted c in.'s piers more began on her behalf and how terrific you are and attached the resume', appropriate? >> not appropriate and much to barbara walter's credit she owned up immediately and said she made a mistake and was sorry, apologized, a great reporter and great anchor over many, many years, she shouldn't have done it and she knows it. >> jon: so, jim, she also wrote to a former abc news executive richard wald now at the columbia journal echl school journalism school and tried to get his support. >> this is a window into the world of celebrity get. how you get access to the fill in the blank person who is famous at the moment. the and assad said i have nothing to do with people getting murdered and she sat and listened to them. now we know how the game works and played. >> they get chummy with aides, this is not every journal, but some might get chummy with aides and exploit the relationship and return the favor. you have to ask the question if somebody on the right had done this, they wo

walters: it depends on what the families wish to accomplish. hopefully, most of the initial decoration has been done on inaugural day. thoughtst there may be about having additional carpets done, or a painting of the rooms because they have been eight years in one color and maybe they want to change the color. those kind of things go on. it is the events that will follow on. there will be some thank you president and mrs. carter had the whole inaugural parade for three days after. they will be thank you parties after. early in february, the president has 50 governors that had to stay at a state dinner event. there will be swearing in its of the staff. the white house staff. we do not slow down, it is just a change in administration. with the work of the presidency goes on and the work of the staff to support them goes on. host: i want you to relay the story happened on september the 11th, how quickly the staff has to react to international events. of september 11 in 2001, you were preparing for a congressional barbecue. mr. walters: we spent ab

would be historic, walter, really would. >> now what john f.nnedy we had the first catholic american president, with barack obama we had the first african-american president. and now, mike, i think it's time for the kind of american i am, to be president. >> and what kind of america are you? >> i am a proud mannequin american. >> that's an interesting idea. and you know, i don't think anyone whose he' made of wood has ever been president before. >> no, but al gore and mitt romney have come awful close. >> mike: walter, if you're going to run for president, which party are you affiliated with. >> i'm not sure. i'm considering starting a whole new one, maybe i'll be a re-puppet-kin. or think of becoming a dummy-kratt. >> will there be a first lady? >> you bet and a second and third and fourth. >> walter be, don't you think it's a little much? >> it did hurt bill clinton. >> what about the theme song. >> i've got the perfect one for washington d.c. ♪ i've got friends in low place ♪ >> i tell you, terry, all this have campaigning is exhausting, and

walters: that is true. the ushers office, led by the chief usher at the time, give us our responsibilities. gather information, put together things. i was the new guy on the block -- tried to learn as much as i could on inaugural day i arrived there at 3:00 in the morning to see what was going to go on from morning until late at night. my actual job on inaugural day while the president and president-elect went down to the capital to take the oath of office, was to go across the street and bring the carter's cat back from the blair house. that was one of my primary jobs. there is a lot that goes on in the preparation leading up to inaugural day. gathering information, chief usher talks to the first family. principally the first lady about the way she would like the house on the first day there. the activities they will be associated with on those days. i remember the carters invited everybody who marched in the parade to come to the white house over the next three days. the carters greeted them and shook han

walters and obama -- walters writes about obama. obviously, walters passed away in 2010 of cancer. he is around for the '08 election. he writes his column. wrote a weekly column for decades on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama but also disappointed that obama refuses to listen and understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that's what he is disappointed by. he realizes that obama is president of the united states but what walters makes an argument about in his writings and criticism of obama but also black leadership and black people is that as president of the united states, you have to listen to multiple agendas and then decide the importance of those agendas, the order you are going to tackle those agendas. presidents of the united states, they listen to armenian americans, turkish americans, they listen to multiple constituencies. what walters argued was that barack obama was being disingenuous when he said he couldn't advocate for black agenda. he could only follow the law. because walters

walter: thanks, jake. i hope many people here and watching on tv now know why i find jake to be such an interesting and important voice in american foreign-policy. thanks for coming and thanks for showing us it's possible to have really serious, interesting discussion at a time even when the country seems a little bit polarized. jake: thanks, walter. i really appreciate it. [applause] walter: jake said to me there is a call he needs to get to, so we will not be able to stop for questions. i want to get him to his next appointment. jake: i hope that is ok. walter: that was great. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [inaudible conversations] >> we're happy to announce the winners of this year's c-span student cam video documentary competition. answering the question, what does it mean to be american? we received almost 3,000 entries from 48 states, with

walters -- to ask about mrs. walters firm but no one called us back.ybody asks for a fee in exchange for counseling or loan modification services, be cautious. >>> let's take a live look at the candidates right now. it is down to the wire. who will win the presidential election tomorrow? it's the question on the minds of millions tonight, and there will be no answer for at least another day or so. but tonight, derek says the campaign itself has already answered a number of questions, most of us didn't think to ask. >> reporter: yeah, anita, first of all we learned debates do matter. some pundits will argue the point, but there's no dispute. mitt romney was dead in the water until the first debate a couple of months ago. not only that but millions of americans tuned in for 20 debates during the republican primaries. if you don't think that matters, ask a certain texas governor. we also learned sadly there is no penalty for lying to the american people. both candidates consistently lobbed monstrous falsehoods at each other. fact checkers went ballistic,

with walters and presidential leadership and walters and white nationalism, what walters sees is the fact that black politics and the way in which it moves from protests to politics, we have to remember, there is all kinds of grassroots insurgency happening in the 1980's and 1990's, and walters is connected somewhat, but this is absolutely happening. but we are thinking about black politics as it is organized at an elite level, it goes from protests to policy. they are not organized. in 1972 we saw a congressman from michigan align himself. and this was not happening by the 1980's. walters says black politicians have to reach out to the grassroots. he tries to connect this at a national black leadership roundtable, a national black faculty congress, all these things that are never well resourced enough to become institutionalized. and when it comes to white nationalism, walters sees what we are experiencing today, but when you think about whiteness as a socially-constructed identity, postwar whiteness includes all sorts of previously marginalized white ethnics, people who could not b

that's what walter's argues.lack people can't just say that because you like the first black president that there is no black agenda and to quote that walter said is that there are so enthralled that they let this one pass. they gave this brother a pass so he's speaking with black vernacular and gave your brother or sister a past and just because you're black this is fine. it's an in house deal. when we think about barack obama and black politics walter's pushback is not because obama wasn't trying to run as a black power, he realized that obama ways the black power sign at the democratic convention, if obama came out on the lawn with the malcolm x t-shirt, that these things would be politically disastrous. but i mean that obama was the black president and had to ignore a black agenda. i think that is fair criticism and is much different from other criticism that trying to attack obama for not just solely advocating which no president can do. although, one of the things that waters remind us is that you got ronal

walter: mrs. carter, when you go to a place like saudi arabia, what is your role and what is your role in advocating for women in places like that? mrs. carter: this time i did not advocate for women. walter: but you have before. mrs. carter: i did not with the king. but i did in dubai and qatar and the other places. and i also -- we went to seven or eight of those countries. the main thing i worked on was health issues. i have fellowships with journalists, teaching them how to report on mental health issues accurately and in depth. we have been doing this for 18 years now. so, i wanted to get a journalist from outages era -- al jazeera because they cover the whole region and the stigma there is so bad. they shut people up and do not let anybody know they have a mentally ill person. but there is a really good program, so i did talk to and advocate for women and caregiving and those kinds of things. but not with king solomon. i take notes. walter: ok. [laughter] mrs. carter: i get to see the top of

was walter cronkite the last of his breed? >> racial tensions make headlines following the president's remarks. did the news media play a role? the results are in. beauty editors and research institutes are seeing results. [ male announcer ] best cleanser, essence magazine. hydrates better than the $350 cream. [ female announcer ] most importantly, women are seeing results. and still no drastic measures. olay regenerist. >>> thisa@ is my last broadcast as anchorman a moment i've long planned but comes with some sadness almost two decades we've been meeting like this in the evenings and i will miss that >> and we'll miss him. the face of cbs muss for more than 20 years known as the most trusted man in america. walter cronkite died last week. he was 92. marissa will we see another one like him? >> no and the environment is different. you can have another walter cronkite because there are 5,000 people who want to be in that position. so he occupied that position in a unique period in media history. >> and there were only a handfu

and walter didn't either. >> reporter: walter it seemed was always there. for the moon landing. >> man on the moon. oh, boy. >> thank you. boy. >> reporter: for watergate, the mideast peace break through. he was humble, honest, straight for war and never made himself the story even on a winter day in 1981 when he saint the anchor chair for the last time. >> old anchormen you see don't fade away they just keep coming back for more. and that's the way it is, friday, march 6, 1981. i will be away on assignment. dan rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. good night. >> good night, mr. cronkite. good night and godspeed. anderson cooper, cnn, new york. >>> president obama is reacting to the passing of walter cronkite. he has this to say about the newsman once termed the most trusted man in america even in the most trying of circumstances. >> he was the first to share the devastating news of john f. kennedy's assassination, crystallizing the grief of a nation while fighting back tears of his own. he cheered with every american, when we went to the

leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges and in philadelphia we cross to walter he is an independent scholar and freelance journalist as well as a former senior executive at the department of defense or a gentleman cross-talk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage you james let me if i go to you first in washington used to be there was a left right division on looking at foreign policy and american interventions abroad is that just completely disappeared now because it seems that there are variations of being a hawk these days. yeah well i think the premise of your shows you know completely wrong i mean i think they were wrong reading of american foreign policy is so you know first of all american there's always a bit of a sine wave between the left and the right we're go through these periods of relative consensus and then clear divergence you know so for example the early years of the cold war there was kind of relative convergence in the in the early fifty's but what's going on i think here is interesting i think yo

walter: cautious. president carter: we've got a lot to work on, but one of the things putin said, almost to change the subject, he said, i have had two different sessions in russia this year, in january and april, with representatives from syria to try to resolve the syria issue. he said it has not been very fruitful. but what i think we should do is have the united states and russia sponsor a meeting with the top leaders in the region. saudi arabia, iran, and turkey. if you get those five leaders together or the representatives, and we can decide together what to do about syria, and whatever we decide, aside and his syrian opposition will have to agree to it. i said, that's a wonderful idea. have you made that proposal to president obama? he said, no, i haven't. i said, do you mind if i make that proposal to him on your behalf? he said please do. so the next day i sent obama an e-mail and told him that is what putin had asked in about a week later, you may remember that john kerry went to see putin to

barbara walters is there for life. i'm a guy out here thinking, wow, this is the first time in my 59 years i've got a president who i believe actively dislikes people like me. that's a weird place to be for a country. >> bill: i can't really challenge that because it looks to me, and miss walters didn't see the cockiness and maybe it wasn't on display. but it looks to me like the president, after he won reelection, is more entrenched now in his view that the government should really run everything, including private business. and that he knows best. it's like the president knows best, bringing back bud and kitten and princess without robert young, he'll play that part. i know best and you better not challenge me. whether he dislikes achievers like you, miller, i don't think he dislikes you. i just think he wants to you agree with him and if you don't agree with him, then he dislikes you. >> well, isn't that the same concept behind those fat guys who beat that kid up yesterday? by the way, is there a more apt place for

walter: i agree i love the quote. i wrote some years ago, i lost a lot of faith in the american intellectual foreign policy class because at the end of the cold war, everybody said that is mr. putin. he is such a genius. there's 40 years ago. and finally work. then they simultaneously said another russia is communist, we can be friends. and it is all going to be great. in fact the whole point was that the problem here is not that the communist with the air russian. that's the thing that we really have to come to grips with. and also very discouraging for the foreign affairs to realize that the most profound essay may be in the 20th century in america could be so universally misunderstood. and you wonder sometimes why you get up in the morning. speech of some things are truly evergreen. this truly is one of them. and i am glad, this just jumped out, is wiling to go reread get us every once in a while. walter: i want to move to global issues here now. and maybe sort of a halfway house think about latin americans hemisph

>> that was classic walter cronkite. want to emphasize his point was that so many people trying to play a reporter on tv. the very essence of walter cronkite was he didn't just play a reporter on television, he was a reporter, had been a reporter for a very long time, and i think his point was that so many people now are just -- are presenters and should be called presenters. i don't like the chances of that happening. >> not good. anyway, let's look at walter cronkite on the issues of politics. here he was in a 1996 interview, which would be 13 years ago for all of us. here it is. >> my older brother is a bit more conservative than me, a bit. he once said the big controversy about you in the old days from the conservatives who didn't like you, he said, you know, i'm a conservative. and cronkite's a liberal. but he does the best broadcast on television, the best, i'm going to watch him every night. what is your reaction to that? >> richard nixon called me the best of a bad lot. i don't know whether that was good or bad.

walter went on railing about walter, and the caller, amazingly unaware that he was talking to walter,et this collor de fin walter for a bit, and then he said, well, maybe you are right. -- he let the caller defend walter. walter thank him and hung up. he looked at us and said, now that is how you do it. [applause] >> do you know who would have loved this day? walter. what today is. mr. president, and mr. president, members of the cbs family, member of walter's family, the other day, walter's grandson, who is a proud member of the cbs washington bureau now, working this summer as an intern, came into my office and ask me, what was it like when my grandfather was here? i tried to tell him, and the first thing i told him was, it was fun. we all wanted to be there. his grandfathers' enthusiasm captured us all. walter cronkite was the most curious man i have ever met. he always wanted to know everything about everything, and he wanted to know it before everyone else knew it. that was the spirit that settled on to the washington bureau and the cbs news. there was a downside to this. many of

i'm going to walter reed hospital. think i'm doing very well. but were going to make sure that things work out. so, thank you very much, i appreciated to, i will never forget. thank you. >> jon: while democrats have been quick to criticize the president, his challenger joe biden takes a different path. his campaign pulling all negative ads and biden himself offered condolences to president trump and first lady melania trump who tested positive for coronavirus. >> sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and the president of the united states. after they tested positive for covid-19. this is not a matter of politics. if it's a racing reminder to all of us that we need to take it seriously and it's not going away automatically. >>> jon: right now, the presidents in walter reed national medical center and he was taken friday evening after receiving experimental antibody treatment at the white house. if the president boarding marine one wearing a mask and giving a thumbs up and he did not speak well.

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only with barbara walters. >> how do you keep the fire going? >>> trimming the trees with the first dog bo. inside a special tradition. how they deck the halls at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >>> and ask mrs. obama. first graders with a very special connection to the white house tree ask their questions of the first lady. >> do they give each other presents? >>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," december 26th, 2012. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. for a holiday, this has been a busy time in washington. as the negotiations surrounding that looming fiscal cliff come to a fever pitch just before the new year. but this is also a time of tradition and celebration in the nation's capital, and nobody decks the halls like the team at the white house for christmas. christmas is there, has come to mean a special visit every year, not just from santa claus, but from abc's own barbara walters. barbara? >> terry, in what has become one of my favorite holiday traditi