carter family except for ms. lillian because she had stayed home to take care of amy. so when -- she was the carter family member that people hadn't already have met, so the big push at the convention was because i -- can i get to meet lillian carter. >> well, it was exciting to be in elementary school at this time. 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 d

amy carter. she was born in 1967. they arrive at the white house with a young daughter and their son is off doing other things in their lives. but the inauguration was cast as people's inaugural. we have video that became iconic at the time. the president and first lady getting out of their limousine and actually walking pennsylvania avenue. how important of symbolism was that? >> i think that was important in a lot of different ways. i mean in part, they were sort of prompted to do it. at least as i've heard a the story. you could jump in here if you want to, by a congressman interested in physical fitness issues, urged him to think about it. it became a desire of their desire to connect with people to not present themselves as kind of elites above the people. to really be in touch with ordinary americans. that's really how it played out in terms of the inauguration and i believe she's spoken about people along the way just weeping as they walked by and shook hands and spoke to people. so it clearly was meaningful to

tonight were featuring books written by former presidents including amy carter.sh, bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama. and what saturday august 8, is a feature books written by former first lady. barbara bush, hillary clinton, or bush and michelle obama. then to watch book tv. all summer, on "c-span2". here's a look at some books that are being published this week. harvard university history professor alexander case on pass attempts to abolish change the electoral college in why we still have the electoral college. and, yes, i can say that, comedian judy gold weighs in on free speech and censorship. lawrence roberts recounts the protest against the vietnam war in washington dc. in the spring of 1971 in mayday, 1971. in the revolution, reporter matthew recounts the founding of the new site the drudge report. in his role in challenging mainstream media. also being published this week, former film executive, recalls exceed experiences in the markets and offers his thoughts on the challenges and other entertainment businesses make. then the hunting of h

amy carter roller skated in the east room. alice roosevelt gambled, partied and was even seen wearing a live boa constrictor. this let her father teddy roosevelt to say, i can be one of two things, i can be president of the united states or i can control alice. i cannot possibly do both. many presidential descendents have gone on to do great things. two presidential children have later become presidents themselves. other children of presidents and their children have made contributions to american life representing a wide variety of fields including educators and entertainers, activists and artists. steve ford even became a national villian as the boyfriend who broke meg ryan's heart in "when harry met sally." we've been honored to have over 40 descendents of american presidents join us. these unique americans represent administrations from james monroe to george w. bush. and amazingly, it's going to be here in a few minutes, but we'll be a few degrees removed from the 10th president of the united states, john tyler. he served

amy. in 2010 president carter appeared on the tv afterwards where he discussed his white house diary that he kept while in office 1977 through 1981. here is president carter being interviewed by presidential historian doug brinkley. >>. >> welcome to washington dc mr. president. it's wonderful to see you. when you fly in here and go over the monuments in the potoma potomac, what do you think when you fly into this town? >> the white house is still there. i think about the wonderful times we had. and 40 miles a week which is a lot. thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. >> is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with? >> howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal

amy. in 2010 president carter appeared on the tv afterwards where he discussed his white house diary that he kept while in office 1977 through 1981. here is president carter being interviewed by presidential historian doug brinkley. >>. >> welcome to washington dc mr. president. it's wonderful to see you. when you fly in here and go over the monuments in the potoma potomac, what do you think when you fly into this town

amy anymore. and that was really wonderful too in the white house. we didn't have to worry about that very much. >> where did you first meet jimmy carter? >> well, plains georgia has a population of 634. i think i knew everybody in town. there were no girls my age in town. and, of course, i knew who he was. can i drink some water? i knew him, but he was three years older than i am. but his little sister who was three years younger than i am, would stay in town for -- if we had a basketball game or some event at the school, she would stay with her grandmother who lived in town. we became really close friends. she was my best friend growing up. >> this is ruth? >> thises is ruth. and he graduated high school at 16. we only went 11 grades back then. i was 13. there was no way i ever thought i would go with jimmy carter. i didn't go with him until he came home the last -- before he was a first classman he came home from the naval academy and i went out with him the night before he was going to leave. ruth and i plotted to get me out there with him because i wanted to -- i had fallen in love with his photograph on the wall in her room at hom

his son, who is the oldest carter grandchild, jason is running for the state of georgia. chip lives in the atlanta area. jeff and amy both live in the atlanta area. so three of them are sort of close to home and jack is out in nevada. >> could you also comment about the grandson who made news during the last presidential campaign by unearthing the romney video. changed the direction of that campaign. >> this is a child who was in the inaugural parade, but he was in his mother's womb. he is chip's son and he is a master of the internet. and uncovered candidate romney's speech about what the 47%, was it? so he sort of got in the news as a member of the carter family. >> do we know his grandparents' reaction to what happened in that campaign as a result of it? >> i think they were pleased. >> we have one more video about six minutes left in our program. and this is plains. and the carters life there after the white house. let's watch. >> after the white house, mrs. carter took great interest in downtown plains. one of her projects was to help restore and refurbish the plains inn and antique mall. each room in the inn i