bush and barbara bush. >> thank you. welcome. i feel like i probably do not need to introduce my fellow panelists here, because everyone knows who they are, but on my left we have george p. bush. speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] >> susan page is the washington andau chief for usa today author of the best-selling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. she will be signing copies of it after this. [applause] beschloss, one of our most well-known presidential historians who has written so many things, so many books, i will be asking you about some of the stuff that i found in my worn copy of character of all. something i want to ask all of lost- given that we have barbara bush and george h. w. bush so close together, what kind of reassessment do you think this has brought for the country as to what the bush name and what the significance really was of all of the work that they did in so many arenas of public service? >> looking back on it now coming close to a year, i just think about a life of public service.

further and or millie introduce today's guest, il -- special invite the chairman of the george and barbara bush foundation and a nephew of president and misses bush. [applause] >> thank you, president herbert. lovely moment of remembrance as well. on behalf of the george and barbara bush foundation, i want to thank you president herbert and your team for producing this special and important event. i also want to thank the foundation for their generous foundation and of this event. at the george and barbara bush foundation, we believe the four years they served in the white house were four years that changed our lives for the better. president bush worked to secure freedom and the cold war without a single shot fired between the superpowers. he helped unify germany within nato and the division of europe. he forged and led an unprecedented coalition to reverse the brutal invasion of kuwait. also during the four years, in the white house and beyond, george and barbara bush helped change our country for the better. today, in this beautiful facility, we can see the impact of americans with disabilit

the george and barbara bush foundation, we believe that four years a of george and barbara bh served for four years that changed our world for the better. to secure freedom for the victory in the cold war without a single shot being fired between the superpowers. he helped unify germany within the nato and the division of europe. and he forged and led an unprecedentedd coalition to reverse the today we can see it is refreshing particularly today and in no small part to the clean air act of 1990 which george bush signed into law and addressed in a very innovative way acid rain was clearing away the smog that was choking the city. no other issue affects the nations of the people and more of an education. we are delighted to be cohosting this important event for the university of england as they not only look back at the groundbreaking collaborative work of the 1989 education summit also classic george bush fashion looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities that remain. convening this under the auspices of the distinguished lecture series that seems especially poignant in the fir

the george and barbara bush foundation founded this -- hosted this gathering. [applause] >> george h w bush said he wanted to be the education and environment bush and one-of-a-kind look, gentler america. how better to tell us his vision for this summit than george h w bush himself. ♪ ♪ >> the spirit of this summit is how can we get results? we are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves. and now it is time to defined goals. this is the time for action. i value your advice and ideas as we continue to refine the federal role. to those who say money alone is the answer, i say that there is no one answer. if anything, hard experience teaches that we are simply not getting our moneys's worth in education. our focus must no longer be on resources. it must be on results. this is only the third time in nation that aas a president has called a summit with the governors. i've called you together because you bear the constitutional responsibility for education. and i didn't ask you to such an historic momen

and barbara bush was definitely not shy.at nixon did not seek credit, which may be why she is not as fully appreciated as she should be. she never sought recognition for herself, but those of us who knew and admired her always wished that she had received the appreciation she earned over a lifetime of service. mrs. nixon wanted the work to speak for itself, she did not care about getting the credit and genuinely did not." >> you once told me that the role of first lady adapts to the woman as much as the woman adapted. anita: someday it will be a man. that is the white house in general. throughout our history that the occupant adapts to the office in the office adapts to the occupant. i think mrs. nixon, like all first ladies, this finds all of them together. there is no person who cares more about the success of the president and the presidency and the president's spouse. that is their single focus and that is something that will bind all of them together in what they share as the single person who has experienced the ups an

terrible ordeal it was a big scandal because it was a huge scandal soul of barbara bush was on the board of the she was an invalid at the time i was with the human body and have been civil her husband was the boss president at the time and of the come to the actually the home base was houston yes so so that was the reason really the white house was involved and the bushes and even ronald reagan who was the president of the time was involved in seoul and. because the media was all there the f.b.i. was all involved as well so eventually be released and. give me the freedom to do with us in the west. what are you doing doing the pastry now and you make them more round and then they're going to make them into pancakes you wrote a book about your life and yes how did you decide to write oh i was encouraged to rob a book i never really wanted to run a story and then why all the friends said to me that. my story will give people hope and courage in my life and that was the reason really i mean also my wife said it well because when we go to dinner parties people ask me about a life story i woul

barbara bush, though frequently opinionated -- >> america loves barbara bush. >> -- was beloved for her persona. hillary clinton dubbed a meddler in american policy. >> i'm here as an american citizen concerned about the health of her family and the health of her nation. >> michelle obama not necessarily in love with the restrictions of white house life. >> turn it up. >> but publicly viewed as an open and friendly first lady. but melania trump, almost three years in, remains something of a mystery. from the start, an ambiguous participant. it was clear she had to fend for herself. a reluctant entrance to public life. >> hello, iowa. >> fewer events, a smaller staff and a lower profile. however, with melania trump, the flares of independence crossed from private to public, unique to a modern first lady, defining her as a spouse not joined at the hip with president trump. as her spokeswoman once described her to cnn. she tweeted and released statements on her own, sometimes without president trump approval, sometimes in direct opposition to his. taking her own motorcades, cancelling a tr

barbara bush though frequently opinionated. >> america loves barbara bush was bee loved for her grandmotherlyllary clinton, privately engaged in cultural improvements at the white house, but dubbed a med letter in west wing policy. >> i'm here as an american citizen concerned about the health of her family and nation. >> michelle obama not necessarily in love with the restrictions of white house life. >> turn up for what? >> but publicly viewed as an open and friendly first lady. ♪ >> but melania trump almost three years in, remains something of a mystery. from the start an ambiguous participant. it was clear she had to fend for herself. a reluctant entrance to public life. >> hello, iowa. >> fewer events, a smaller staff, and a lower profile. however, with melania trump, the flares of independence crossed from private to public. unique to a modern first lady, defining her as a spouse not joined at the hip with president trump. as her spokeswoman once described her to cnn. she tweeted and released statements on her own, without trump's approval. sometimes in direct opposition to his. taking h

barbara bush, though frequently opinionated -- >> america loves barbara bush. >> reporter: -- was belovedton, privately engaged in cultural improvements at the white house, but dubbed a meddler in west wing policy. >> i am here as an american citizen concerned about the health of her family and the health of her nation. >> reporter: michelle obama not necessarily in love with the restrictions of white house life. >> turn up for what? >> but publicly viewed as an open and friendly first lady. melania trump almost three years in remains something of a mystery. from the start, an ambiguous participant. it was clear she had to fend for herself. a reluctant entrance to public life. >> hello, iowa. >> reporter: fewer events. a smaller staff. and a lower profile. however, with melania trump, the flares of independence crossed from private to public, unique to a modern first lady, defining her as a spouse not joined at the hip with president trump. as her spokeswoman once described her to cnn. she tweeted and released statements on her own, without trump's approval. sometimes in direct opposition

b barbara bush, though frequently opinionated. >> america loves barbara bush. >> was beloved for herona. hilary clinton, dubbed a meddler in west-wing policy. >> i'm here as an american citizen concerned about the health of her family and the health of her nation. >> michelle obama. not necessarily in love with the restrictions of white house life. >> turn up for what? >> but publicly viewed as an open and friendly first lady. but melania trump, almost three years in, remains something of a mystery. from the start, an ambiguous participant. it was clear she had to fen for herself. a reluctant entrance to public life. >> hello, iowa. >> fewer events. a smaller staff. and a lower profile. however, with melania trump, the flares of independence crossed from private to public. unique to a modern first lady. defining her as a spouse not joined at the hip with president trump. as her spokes woman once described her to cnn. she tweeted and released statements on her own without trump's approval, sometimes in direct opposition to his. taking her own motorcades, cancelling a joint trip when h

susan page is the author of the matriarch, barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty and themadam speaker, nancy pelosi and the arc of power. our final panelist, jon meacham joins us from nashville, his latest book is the soul of america, the battle for our better angels. it examines national divisions, at critical times in our history. jon, i am going start with you, you wrote recently that this impeachment question tells us something larger, it is not just about a president, it tells us something about the country. so what are the stakes right now? >> moments of enormous existential crisis over the direction of the country. andrew johnson and the verdict of the civil war, where are, were we really going to act on the immr. i indications to victory of the union victory at appomattox. president nixon was coming with vietnam, and the questions about the nathan of the country. in many ways, in fact, i think we can think of the modern founding of the country as 1964, '65 with the civil rights act. we only have governed this particular policy for 60 years or so and vietnam and th

plus a look back at previous years' decorations by former first ladies hillary clinton, barbara bush and michelle obama. a discussion about technology issues with peter thiel and journalism director john miller on the history of jurnism and fake news at the liberty forum. on thursday, at 5:45 p.m. eastern, a joint economic committee hearing on the high cost of raising a family. then at 9:10 p.m., constitutional litigator justin pearson talks about occupational licensing requirements at the federalist society. watch this holiday week on -span. queen elizabeth ii delivers her annual christmas message from windsor castle located about 25 miles outside of london. the tradition of the royal christmas message dates back to 1932 with a radio address by king george v. queen elizabeth made the first televised address in 1957. this is just under 10 minutes. [music]

>>> finally, barbara bush.n behalf of captain little steve -- and all of us -- >> all: want to make whoopee >>> finally, barbara bush. jenna's very special guest for her digital series "open book" discussing barbara's favorite novels, how the two fell in love with reading and the kind of genre barbara usually stays away from. >> do you ever read a romance novel? >> rarely. >> you're against them do you read romance novels >> i haven't i like a sad romance novel i like romance novels that it >>> very good morning to you, i'm laura garcia, light rail riders may be commuting in tighter trains this morning. an apparent problem with connecter pins means there are fewer two car trains operating. we're looking at that and other traffic concerns this morning. let's check in with him now. >> they have been tweeting all morning about delays specifically on the t 30, but you will want to check and be prepared for those delays because they're running shorter trains this morning. fog and drizzle in effect for north bay comi

>> susan: thank you, good to see you deirdre barbara bush there, now let's talk about the countdown,es, it's on, and today's countdown closer says yes, the stocks that won't drop the ball in the year 2020 and we are joined the sarg 986 president, stephen gilf oyle. where did that number come from? >> that was my badge number on the new york stock exchange floor. >> susan: let's go back in history if you had a year like this closing in on 1997 although we might fall smart of a 31% gain that we saw 20 years ago you've had 29% gains so far in 2019. will you just close it down and say we've had a good year, low volumes let's take it out. >> if you're a trader that's working for someone else and working for a bonus then yes you probably have your bonus in the books. if you're a guy like me who trades his own money and tries to get by you'll probably keep working all the time. >> susan: what about the winners of this year. will they do maybe not as well since apple had the best year in 10 years, and 80% gains nobody is expecting that again for the next 12 months. >> the market is up 10% ov

today washington bureau chief sues pan beige recontinued life of former first lady barbara bush. saeed jones offers thought odd generalter and identity in his memoir hour we fight for our lives. pulitzer prize winning history continuan writes about; british are coming, tony horowitz retraces the travel of homestead in the leadup to civil war and in the chief, look at the life of legal career of supreme court overjustice john roberts. >> i started picking it up in mr. interviews buff i chose chief justice roberts as my subject. i wrote but justice scalia and justice sonia sotomayor and i found elements elements of distd resentment with him. frankly, sets himself above the others, just as you read in that letter. and i didn't know how much to make of it. so i mention it. at little points in the book but what i say is that it doesn't really affect the law in the end. might affect how they navigate on cases, how they -- who picks the phone to work on a compromise, who might feel like backing off of a concurrence that the chief might not want to have stated, but in the end it's more a

we have great mourning or demonstrations of presidents former most recently president bush and barbara bush. and he washington funeral the way was mourned as the first resident set a precedent for presidential mourning? >> absolutely. washington is looked to for a lot of presidential so not only during his time in office but how did interact in the new culture and are they supposed to be or vocal. when he could be service he litary tried to stay out of national affairs. creating a a of state funeral really wasn't sitting til our first president died in office william henry harrison. planned harrison's uneral they looked at how former presidents were mourned and it was from the model of and ngton and jefferson adams there were able to concoct state e new american funeral would look like and with arrison moving forward for sitting presidents it was usually a service in the east oom and remains to the rotunda and lie in state and usually a and then the n iing remains go back to the president's home state. that last part is important not se washington was entombed in the capitol. if he was what

it depends on the day, but i'm currently obsessed with the barbara bush profile. it is fascinating.e in it but it is really deeply reported and it tells you a lot about the way that women of her generation exercised power, you can call it soft power and how that ended up playing in george h.w. bush's exercising of his own power in the white house and the choices and compromises that she makes abo about her ambition. and it is a theme that runs through the house. >> you also have a profile of queen elizabeth who younger americans and brits have become a little more familiar with with "the crown" and we're now in season three, but what a remarkable life she has had from winston churchill to boris johnson. >> the people she sas seen, tha the people she has put up with. but you raise a good point often through current cultural expressions, television shows like "the crown" we come to meet someone who is very active and alive in their world right now, and we see them finding their way. and i think for american audiences to see her and see her profile, it's exciting. it is a reminder espe

as you know, misses barbara bush referred to bill clinton as the black sheep of the bush family. >> shed events unfolding. we can see an hour of crisis. one of the reasons you went into this and you have gone forward is the complexity and the panoply of every kind of human condition, ups and >> he's doing great work. >> we've never had presidential to that you know who talked about it? if you ask if jfk had survived he and bury gold walk water talked about it >> they were both senators. they knew each other. >> they respected each other. here, when you look at justice o'connor and justice ginsburg and then look at the dead white guys around them, you realize that yes, progress is possible. >> progress is possible. sandra day o'connor i became friends. she was a mother who raised three boys and a republican, a conservative republican and she and ruth bader ginsburg were best of friends. this is kind of the female equivalent of the kerry-mccain picture. president ford loved interacting with the press. he was one of those presidents who actually believes in the constitution and the first,

think back since the passing of our dear friend, first lady barbara bush. shortly after, president bush followed his brid has died at 7s into the data beyond. today i ask that we bow our head for the moment to reflect on the void left by the passing of these two iconic americans and how

barbara plett usher, bbc news, bethlehem. hundreds of families in australia are spending christmas in emergency shelters because of the bush firesly a thousand houses have been destroyed in new south wales. more than 1,700 firefighters are battling the crisis. conditions have eased slightly but another extreme heatwave is expected later this week. our correspondent shaimaa khalil is in sydney for us. how is it looking from their? as you mentioned mike, there has been a lull in the weather in the past couple of days. we are seeing cooler temperatures. there is rain forecast in some areas of new south wales. of course not nearly enough as the rain thatis course not nearly enough as the rain that is needed to help out with the bushfires. again, so many families are still away from their homes in this holiday season. some are still spending time spending their time in shelters was not many still haven't gone back to their homes and many of course, will have no homes to go back to because of the kind of destruction we've seen in new south wales. but really, given that this isa wales. but really, given that this is a lull in the weath