so we called over arthur burns who was then chairman of the federal reserve. maybe some of you remember. and we said, we passed this bill. and women all over are telling us they're not getting -- oh, he said, we thought you just meant it for shopping. so, i mean, i could tell these stories all night. they're just absolutely amazing. but i think one of the things, too, we find everywhere is that women don't celebrate women enough. you know, one of the things we passed was to celebrate august the 26th, which is the day the 19th amendment passed. you would think that would be a big day. over half the population gets to vote. but we're all too busy. and then we have wonderful helen reddy coming out here one time. she sang "i am woman," this whole bit. and we decided, i couldn't get back because we had a vote. so jim was looking for someplace to take her where there was some monument to women. and we found monuments to buffaloes, monuments to everything. but the only one we could find for a woman was this thing in city park that's just kind of, you know, liberty or

we called over arthur burns, who was then chairman of the federal reserve, maybe some of you remember, and we said we passed this bill and women all over are telling us they are not getting -- oh, he said, we thought you just meant it for shopping. i could tell these stories all night, they are amazing. one of the things we find everywhere, women don't celebrate women enough. one of the things we passed was to celebrate august the 26th, which is the day the 19th amendment passed. you would think that would be a big day, over half of the population finally gets to vote. but, we're all too busy. and then we had wonderful helen redding, singing woman, the whole bit. jim was looking for someplace to take her where there was some monument to women. and we found monuments to buffalos and everything but the only one we could find for a woman was this thing over in city park that's just kind of liberty or justice or something. they are always -- no real women. so that was also interesting. and then i see marvelous sally brownback here, the two of us decided there should be some type of memori

the famous statement of arthur burns who is richard nixon's chairman of the fed and a very bad man who once when question when questioned about this after he was out of the fed made a hilarious statement he said look the chairman of the fed has to do with the president wants otherwise we'd lose our independence. now what the independents means they'll get to live it up the fed the fed unlike the governor all the whole government lives up but the fed is really on the top of mount olympus drinking you know drinking nectar nectar of the gods they live it up to an unbelievable extent and they can determine their own expenses and so forth so that's that's what they mean it's not actually independent of the rest of the government to say and you're not buying said chairman ben bernanke is argument that this is going to open it up to the politics well the fed is of course a political organization all it cares about is politics all its all its whole its whole concern is just nothing but politics and my view bernanke is whatever he says believe the opposite then you would be right all right i wa

>>arthur: what is worse, pimples or sun burn with a kid with previous condition? >>shepard: new investigations on the historic attempt for the republicans to hold the united states attorney general in contempt of of congress. how stress could be making us sick and causing dementia. if that is new information. but, this specific part, you should hear about as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news from "studio b" today. ÷ >>shepard: i am >>shepard: and this is "studio b," the bottom the hour and the top of the news. senior members of the obama administration according to republicans could have been involved in "fast and furious, and the fallout and the white house says "that's absurd." the person in question is california republican chairman issa, investigating the operation and he wrote a letter to the president and he questions why the white house asserted executive privilege after the committee requested more fast and furious documents. the white house maintains it has a legal precedent in this case. and over the weekend, chairman issa tol