george h w bush, the first president bush said the only way to have a full life, some measure of public service in it. public service has never been easy, we get focused on our own time. i joined the cia in 1966 just heading into the heart of the vietnam war. i lived through watergate, joined the national security council staff a few months before nixon resigned. i used to tell people -- >> we will be the last few minutes of this recorded event. you can finish watching on booktv.org. we go live to the house rules committee as they meet to work on legislation related to the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the postal service. >> post office boxes are being ripped out, shredding machines have disappeared, this is threatening people's ability to get life-saving medications and social security checks in a timely way. all the while the postal service is in need of additional resources heading into november. the house acted for more funding months ago but the senate has done nothing, not a thing. the postal service, this is an assault on our democracy. these actions call into question whet

of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ship's wheel that was built by the crew of the uss george h w bushvn 77, which will be the last of the nimitz class air carriers, but the crew built it and presented it here in june of, i believe, 2019, i believe, and they created it themselves. we had all the sailors from the ship here. we bring them in once a year, the sailors of the year, and they do a service project. the cases have the shells that were used for the 21-gun salute at arlington air force base in houston, which is where the body arrived here in texas from washington, d.c. we have the guestbook, which is on the page that angela merkel signed. we have the condolence book, which is turned to barack and michelle obama, and we also have the program from the service, and we have the u.s. senate condolence book, which is turned to mitch mcconnell's signature. we have a photomontage of throughout his life. of course, the early life, they were married young. he was just still in the navy when they got married, so we have a montage of photos from their life, from his career here at the librar

george w. bush excessive emanation at the 1992 republican national convention in houston. president bush lost the presidential election to democrat, bill clinton. ross perot finished third. [cheering and applause] george h. w. bush: thank you so much. -- george h.w. bush: thank you so much. thank you very, very much. thank you so much. thank you. [cheering and applause] this is fantastic. thank you all very, very much. let's go to work. thank you. much.you so thank you. and i am proud to receive, and i am honored to accept your nomination for president of the united states. [cheering and applause] and may i thank my dear friend and our great leader, bob dole, for that wonderful introduction. [cheering and applause] and, let me say this, this nomination is not for me alone. it is for the ideas, principles and values that we stand for. and my job has been made easier by a leader who has taken a lot of unfair criticism, with grace and humor, the vice president of the united states, dan quayle. and i am very grateful to him. i want to talk tonight about the sharp choice that i intend to offer americans this fall, a choice between different agendas, different directions, and yes, a choice about the character

host: for those that don't know the obvious reasons of comparing him to george h w bush, what are they? reagantwo terms of followed by h w bush running on those coattails in 1988. for a myriad of reasons, he is credited -- reagan is credited with that. comparepeople like to trump to a reagan type character in terms of what is transformational inside the republican party and american politics. -- insly, there is no america from this reelection campaign. those analogies have their limits. team -- for his pence and his team, that is what they want. it certainly makes winning the republican nomination easier. isaac if you are supporting trump -- i think if you are supporting trump, it makes it harder in the general election. four years is a long time. i am old enough to remember march of 2020 back before the pandemic took over everything. [laughter] things seem to change quite often. host: for the viewers, our phone lines. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 your questions and comments about the vice president, the role he has played during

february 14, having previously served in the same position from 1991 to 1993 under president george h. w. bush.

she and -- would lose the general election to gop's nomination ronald reagan and george h. w. bush. ♪ ♪ (noise) hello! (noise) ladies and gentlemen of the convention. (noise) ladies and gentlemen of the convention. ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is gerald team furrow. i stand before you to proclaim tonight america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the words of dr. martin luther king jr., who made america stronger thank making america more free. he said occasionally in life, there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. tonight is such a moment for me. my heart is filled with pride. my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. and. >> (noise) >> the wonderful. geraldine geraldine geraldine geraldine geraldine geraldine >> geraldine geraldine >> beyond, i am proud to run with a man who will b

white house years barbara bush was second , lady of the u.s., married to then vice president george h w bush lady in 1989. barbara bush and abigail adams are the only two women to be the wife of one u.s. president and the mother of another. her son, george w. bush, was the 43rd president and jeb bush, the 43rd of florida. -- governor of florida. after one of her six children was diagnosed with dyslexia, she focused on literacy, calling it the most important issue we have, and later starting the barbara bush literacy foundation. she spoke at the republican convention in 1992. [applause] [applause] >> thank you very, very much. thank you very, very much. thank you, lee, and thank you all for that warm welcome. before i start, i just what to say how proud i am of my very good friend, marilyn quayle -- [cheers and applause] i want to thank her very much for those really nice overly generous words and tell her what a great speech she gave. so thank you very much -- [cheers and applause] i also would like to say that whoever arranged for me to speak after those fabulous points of light is fired --

the story and in 1988, another party establishment has a value, who's running for president, george h. w. bushreagan's vice president and in may his opponent, the governor of massachusetts is attacking bush and saying he is sleazy and part of the reagan administration i wrong contract, scandal after scandal and he called it the sleaze factor, his campaign was lee atwater, he was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that played on racial backlash and was very much a character assassination kind of campaign, in may when bush is struggling in the pool he convinces bushey to talk about jim right all the time and to take the story that really was on the fringes and stream into the campaign it was a bloodsport, character assassination was totally fine and it was about storytelling, gingrich was a historian who understood what storytelling was about and about professional wrestling and he thought politics should run accordingly. >> absolutely, i want to back up a little bit, jim wright lives large in this and for people who don't follow the story, in the late '80s there was a house speaker who

george w. bush. but he ran a very lean -- george h w bush. but he ran a very lean operation, and i wanted to do that. number two, you have been an ambassador at the state department and i have been and when you are outside of it, you get a little frustrated by the nsc process. dc's, pc's. but at the end of the day, it is that allows us to get the best advice and best options in front of the president. oftentimes, by running the full process and finding out where the pitfalls and traps are, potential policy or reaction to some world event that takes place, we keep america safer. i think general scowcroft understood that better than many national security advisors and many people in foreign policy. i think our team has run over 200 dc's and pc's and in the last year since i have been in office. i think we may have a record on that front. what that allows us to do is get the consensus to the president, although there is not a consensus -- general scowcroft, the third thing i distilled from the scowcroft model, and that is being the honest broker

take as an example 1992, george h. w. bush, bill clinton, ross perot. we told ross perot, screwed clinton and married george h. w. bush. the outcome isn't always a foregone conclusion. in the case of the presidential election in 2000, america was divided whether to screw george w. or get screwed by al gore but we all agreed on killing off ralph nader. i won't venture examples from the more recent elections in fear from attracting attention from the secret service a as pat is that sometimes seems to be from the obama white house. [laughter] anyway, so, screw, mary works in the government. kill the postal service, get in bed with fema housing, and married the armed forces. agricultural subsidies, mary social security and health care reform tells us. it's great to the political analysis because in a free and democratic country, politics is a sort of three-legged stool. politics balanced upon a tripod of power, freedom and responsibility, to screw mary. we live in a free and democratic country, a little less democratic than it was last night which is fine wi

he went on to lose the general election to george h w bush.plause] >> we all know many americans have come to this country with nothing, nothing but hope. today, one of their sons stands before you with the opportunity to be president of the united states top ladies and gentlemen, it is with honor, pride, and with love that i give you michael f dukakis. [applause] ♪ "america" by neil diamond playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [applause] [crowd chanting] gov. dukakis: mr. chairman. a few months ago when olympia dukakis in front of about a billion and a half television viewers all over the world raised that oscar over her head and said, "ok, michael, let's go," she wasn't kidding. [applause] kitty and i are - kitty and i -- are grateful to her for that wonderful introduction and grateful to all of you for making this possible. this is a wonderful evening for us and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. [applause] my fellow democrats. my fellow americans. sixteen months ago, when i announced my candidacy for the pr

ronald reagan picked george h .w. bush, and they campaigned against each other.n kerry picked john edwards barack obama -- picked john edwards. barack obama picked joe biden. it's about political pragmatism more than what happened in the past i think the calculation that joe biden made was that kamala harris, first of all, reflects the diversity of the democratic party, balances the ticket as far as age goes. she has a feistins that i think would be useful on the campaign trail. ace presidential running mates are supposed to ack dogs. she has shown she has a sharp claws. they will be going against donald trump and mike pence. jane: we've seen history made today, but we are also living in a moment of history, because this is a campaign taking place in the middle of a glo pandemic. how do you think kamala harris's selection might change the way this campaign goes? >> i think what you might see ir that kamala is the one who gets out on the stump more than joe biden does. for healths, conceirst. in the same way that mike pence has been the one going around the countr

including bill clinton, and george h. w. bush. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span three. next, 6 million institute secretary lonnie bunch, and philanthropist david reuben stein discuss the role of slavery in antebellum washington d.c.. the white house historical's, ocean host of this event at the st. johns church, across lafayette square from the white house, in recognition of their in mishit of slavery in the presidents neighborhood. >> as we begin tonight's program, please welcome -- st. john stretch reverent rob fischer. law >> welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. john's church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the white house historical association asked us to provide space for tonight's conversation. stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. the architect was benjamin henri vitro, and not only did he designs churc

this is when the partparty establishment sees abt human gingrich, who is running for president, george h. w. bush, reagan as vice president. and in may, michael dukakis, the governor of massachusetts, is attacking bush saying that he is part of the reagan administration and the iran contra scandal after scandal and bush was part of it. he called him a squeeze factor. lee atwater was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that weighed on the racial backlash and was very much a character assassination behind the campaign. when bush is struggling in the polls, he picks up on the story and convinces bush to talk about jim wright and take the story that had spoken about the fringes and made the campaign. so, lee atwater saw politics like him. it was a sport, character assassination, and it was about storytelling. gingrich understood what storytelling was about. lee atwater was a fan of professional wrestling and pop politics should be run accordingly. >> guest: >> host: absolutely. backing up, jim wright looms large in this and for people who don't follow the story, the late '80s there was a healt

he went on to lose the general election to george h w bush. [applause]

she and -- would lose the general election to gop's nomination ronald reagan and george h. w. bush.

political conventions except the speeches by presidential nominees, including bill clinton, and george h. w. bush. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span three. next, 6 million institute secretary lonnie bunch, and philanthropist david reuben stein discuss the role of slavery in antebellum washington d.c.. the white house historical's, ocean host of this event at the st. johns church, across lafayette square from the white house, in recognition of their in mishit of slavery in the presidents neighborhood. >> as we begin tonight's program, please welcome -- st. john

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attacking the president to his fight with the republican establishment at that time embodied in george h. w. bush >> right. the party is split and it has been split since the fifties. in 1952, eisenhower or robert. soft senator taft represented the republican outsiders. nixon, lodge, goldwater rockefeller and again nixon, rockefeller. but there's always a split in the side center of the republican party bc the conservative outsiders the more moderate insiders. this happens again in 1980. reagan comes as across as the conservative side isn't bush represent seconds the more moderate insiders. this is the future of the party boil down these two individuals. it was a seesaw battle for a while because reagan kind of coasts. reagan is that is worse when he doesn't have a challenge. he's at his best when he's someone is challenging. he's a competitor. it was one said he was the most competitive sob we have a new. if he doesn't have a challenge they needed won't rise to the occasion. so he doesn't take the george h.w. bush challenge seriously and he ends up lying the iowa caucuses in guy january of 1980

attacking the president to his fight again with the republican establishment assessment embodied in george h. w. bush. >> right. the party is split. it has been split since the fifties 50 to eisenhower probably outsiders nixon and lodge cool water rockefeller is always a split between the republican party and more moderate outsiders happens in 1980. reagan represents the conservative outsiders in bush represents more moderate insiders this represents a fight over these two individuals. well it was a seesaw battle for a while so reagan kind of coasts. mike devin wants told me but reagan needs to challenge he doesn't take the george bush challenge here seriously. and he ends up losing the iowa caucuses 1980 which is a stunning stunning upset to the political world is enormous it's huge a bitter broadcaster in illinois in the thirties. he's a local hero. and george bush is from new england our texas. he has lost ties to iowa more than any prep school in new england so he beats reagan. that night tom pets of nbc goes on national television and says we has just witnessed the political funeral of ronald re

president trump don't be fooled by that you must take bid seriously dukakis had 17-point lead over george h. w. bushte make him defend debate his issues i think gave him easy pass saying he couldn't stand up there 77-year-old man my age we do stubble sometimes we do miss words sometimes, but his ideas are bad ideas also a been someone accommodated wafer group around whether right wing conservative element, when he first went to congress, or like left out there today basically, pushing hard on an agenda, make him talk about how he is going to spend two trillion dollars, on infrastructure where is -- going to get the money? tell me how he is going to create a -- a clean air environment, don't give me the answer ip going to create union job everybody having a better job than ever before economy will be booming you have a 26 trillion-dollar deficit, rising, give us some specifics you want to take out trump,less talk about your policies. >> michael, generally, the candidate gets a bump, after the convention i am not sure that is really going to happen, and according to cn. n's poll into the convention, j

george h w bush, bob dole.ow rick davis will observe trump/pentz as they move forward to the first two debt -- trump/pence as they move forward in the campaign. . what does president trump need not to do? rick: he's going to have to really try to avoid creating any kind of controversy that takes away from the message that he has. he loves controversy. he literally does it to himself half the time. you will notice the whole biden strategy last three months has just been let trump talk. i think the managers around donald trump have got to get a hold of the narrative for this convention, and hope that they've got four calm nights where there is not a twitter storm or an out lash. tom: an impolite question, it is rude friday, are there any rick davises telling the president what to do? or is he without rick davis? rick: well, he's got a new campaign team. something dramatic happened about three weeks ago, where he took his old campaign manager brad parscale and replaced him with a rick davis. i wish i were as good

called me and bring me in, i had the president of the united states write me letters, i went with george h. w. bush who wanted to spend the week in houston and people from fort knox said they want to talk to me about whether there's gold in fort knox anymore, in fact i got one day through the lawyer, the family who shot abraham lincoln, tracked me down. and said to me, it was an amazing moment that this is a family and everyone knows if you read any history book, the 12 days after abraham lincoln was shot, john was then killed, this is his family and they actually escaped and they have the proof, do you want to hear the story? [laughter] yes, i want to hear that story, i want to hear that story, to me i love the people tell me the secrets, i went to a private lunch in the white house and walked in and had private lunch in the presidents private dining room, where they telling me secrets, i write thrillers for living, and hosted a tv show about conspiracy and i realize i'm the perfect by, i am, the thing is the more i insist, the more you laugh and the more you say maybe he's telling you the truth,

. >> for george h w bush and eisenhower, the presidents who turned out to be the right person, we were lucky, you don't agree with george bush ideologically thinking he is the right person for the fall of communism and the collapse of the soviet union, we were a fortunate nation in so many ways. we are actually in the room where you wrote the book. behind you are the many books you cite as resources in your book. talk about the process you followed, 3:00 in the morning, tell us how you managed this. >> it was in my head all this time. i remember talking to you over breakfast at one point, the ideas and challenges and what we are seeing in conversation with the trump presidency and you were talking about the responses to it, you might have mentioned the number of candidates who decided to run as a reaction to donald trump and it was one of the signs i kept trying, working on the book, to open the aperture, i kept trying to think bigger about what i was looking at in the point you had made for me was to think a president does ask and why. over here, changed the political dynamic and aliv

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george h. of the bush in 1988 running as the hand- picked successor -- george h. w. bush in 1988 running as the hand-picked successor to ronald reagan. he was not a charismatic figure, but people felt, i liked reagan, i guess i can vote for bush. people who like roosevelt felt they would be safe with taft, and that is why he won. william jennings bryan tried to use some of the same rhetorical techniques. he talked as he had done before, but it was not very successful. the country was prosperous again after a sharp recession in 1907. times looked really good. taft was popular because he is the handpicked successor to a very popular president, theodore roosevelt. >> his closest race was 1896. for the election results, we're joined by marie in connecticut. welcome to the conversation. >> i wanted to know, how did williams jennings bryan come to live in miami, fla.? >> in fact, coral gables, florida. >> he contracted really bad, crippling arthritis. -- his wife contracted really bad, crippling arthritis. she could not live in the winter climate anymore. miami was beginnin

department in the carter administration and served on the national security council as an advisor to george h. w. bushime condoleezza rice spoke at the 2012 republican convention, she was teaching science at stanford. she is currently a fellow and is slated to become director of a think tank next month. >> ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the former u.s. secretary of state, condoleezza rice. [cheers and applause] sec. rice: thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. so much. good evening. good evening. good evening. good evening, distinguished delegates. that evening, fellow republicans. good evening, my fellow americans. [cheers and applause] we gather here at a time of significance and challenge. this young century has been a difficult one. i can remember as if it were yesterday, when my young assistant came into my office at the white house to say that a plane had hit the world trade , and then a second plane, and then a third plane, the pentagon, and later, we would learn that a pla

strategist joe watkins is with us now from philadelphia former white house aide actually to president george h. w. bush nice to have you with us what just said there isn't that what the president should be say. well i think that the milan the trump took advantage of the state of course these protests have been happening in just in the last couple of days at some point that shooting took place and malani that from took advantage of the fact that she was the keynote speaker at the convention and that she had a massive american audience listening and she took time to say what needed to be said about the need. for americans to to love each other. and not consider the color of a person's skin but to love each other because we're all human beings with respect to that doesn't answer the question isn't that the type of thing the president should be saying the president's going to appear every night at this national convention not just on his acceptance night do you think he should be addressing it directly. i think that the american public would expect the president to address this directly except that you hav

including bill clinton, and george h. w. bush. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend, on c-span three. up next, historian -- talks about the history of slavery in new england, from his book black lives, native lands, white worlds. which focuses on the regions involved and slavery, and the slave trade during the colonial era. they -- hang on the historical society, and i'm society -- cohost of this event. welcome. >> welcome to the -- museum. my name is dana anderson, and i have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the ham historical society, whose home here is abraham heritage museum. and what a treat to welcome you all tonight, at the sold out program. i'd like to thank on the behalf aboard a director and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. i'd also like to thank gerard -- excuse me, are dusty for traveling across the country to be with us tonight. i'd like to thank c-span, for filming us. so that others who cannot be with us, can see us

host: for those that don't know the obvious reasons of comparing him to george h w bush, what are theyterms of followed by h w bush running on those coattails in 1988. for a myriad of reasons, he is credited -- reagan is credited with that. comparepeople like to trump to a reagan type character in terms of what is transformational inside the republican party and american politics. -- insly, there is no america from this reelection campaign. those analogies have their limits. team -- for his pence and his team, that is what they want. it certainly makes winning the republican nomination easier. isaac if you are supporting trump -- i think if you are supporting trump, it makes it harder in the general election. four years is a long time. i am old enough to remember march of 2020 back before the pandemic took over everything. [laughter] things seem to change quite often. host: for the viewers, our phone lines. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 your questions and comments about the vice president, the role he has played during his first te

it was busy back in those days, and you know, he was a very and obviously, somebody that george h w bushvery well, which is why he made in national security advisor. >> are you confident either party can get back to the grace of -- after a given length of a trump era? >> i think it gets harder and harder to do which is one reason why, for the first time in my adult local life, i'm not going to vote for president. i think we can correct what has happened after one trump term. i'm worried two might not be possible to correct. he is not the only cause of the lack of stability although he has made almost every aspect of it worse and i just don't even know how he would react to the way it is today. >> what does joe biden need to do to make it a one term trump? >> i will not vote for biden either. he and the remaining days of the campaign projects evenhandedness, steadiness, courtesy, a sense of humor, lack of vindictiveness, being a normal guy would go along way. i think people crave it. even with many republicans who will vote for trump, they are not happy about that either and i think many

february 14, having previously served in the same position from 1991 to 1993 under president george h. w. bush. he also served as deputy and assistant attorney general and the office of legal counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the central intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has --ensive service plaque to practicing law in the private sector. he received his ma from kobe university and a jd from george washington school of law. we welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. if you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. if you could raise your right hand, or left-hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. please note the written statement will be entered i

it did not tell you a lot about george h. w. bush but he told you a lot about ross perot. that might have changed peoples minds at the time. when you think back to 45 days ago and you think of where the approval of the president and federal government or any one of our major institutions was then versus where it is now. given those 45 days worth of developments and thinking about doing that at the start of flu season. you have a very fluid ground upon which we will hold this election. whatever the results and however it comes out, we have to recognize that the consent of the governed is what is at the core of any government here. specially if we get into cases where we have a system that is built for blowouts and it is to be able to say we have a 10,000 or 20,000 vote margin. when it gets down to the narrow ones like we saw in florida for 527 votes at the end of the day you could have a problem, but it is doable. for the 527 nobody recognizes what we haven't really talked a lot about this 380 some odd votes they have the process and went through the battle. so how particul

he would lose a political race george future president h. w. bush. looking towards the camera. who our the guy university is named after, all watching the football game together. universityent at the of arkansas. it was a thriller of a game. are twohave here letters, several, actually, and the paper from president johnson. a longtime senate leader, majority leader in the 1950's, then became president after the kennedy assassination, and he and fulbright had a close relationship and were good friends, but they also had a lot of disagreements in their time together as major political leaders in the country. the two we have are really telling. this letter right here on the presidential white house letterhead from johnson. you can see it is actually a very long letter to senator fulbright, and what he is doing is explaining the state of asia as he sees it. he has been to asia and has met with world leaders. he has met with people and has talked to people on the ground and with their military, and he tried to convince them that they wanted support in cambodia, they want us fighting

george w. bush was extraordinarily -- george h w , he was an extraordinary and hadved two terms been defeated twice. in 1980 andresident had been the runner-up to president reagan. he clearly had more electoral experience than ambassador rice does, but he did not have a lot of electoral experience. he was viewed as a very effective candidate, a very good choice, and a very effective vice president. ambassador rice, from both her service in the united nations and as the national security advisor, has really been involved in diplomatic and national security matters at the highest level in a way that is relatively unusual. henry lodge who was richard nixon's running mate is another former ambassador to the united nations. he was ambassador when nixon picked him as the running mate which he had earlier been a united states senator from massachusetts until he was defeated by john kennedy. earlier abouted daniel webster turning down the vice presidential slot. accepting the vice presidential slot and not becoming president, or running for vice president and your ticket not winning, is that a career under

george w. bush was extraordinarily -- george h w , he was an extraordinary and hadved two terms been defeated twice0 andresident had been the runner-up to president reagan. he clearly had more electoral experience than ambassador rice does, but he did not have a lot of electoral experience. he was viewed as a very effective candidate, a very good choice, and a very effective vice president. ambassador rice, from both her service in the united nations and as the national security advisor, has really been involved in diplomatic and national security matters at the highest level in a way that is relatively unusual. henry lodge who was richard nixon's running mate is another former ambassador to the united nations. he was ambassador when nixon picked him as the running mate which he had earlier been a united states senator from massachusetts until he was defeated by john kennedy. earlier abouted daniel webster turning down the vice presidential slot. accepting the vice presidential slot and not becoming president, or running for vice president and your ticket not winning, is that a career under for a p

george w. bush laid out his agenda and the senator laid out his. voters were able to make a stark contrast looking at the gentleman to who would become the next commander-in-chief. joe hid been here in washington nearly 50 years. the question is, is he part of the swp that trump is trying to drain? or part of the solution donald trump that many democrats believe are at his feet. laura: many americans can start voting by mail in september. how do you see that affecting the tactics here? ro you will see both candidates, the vice president leave his so-called basementnn d t with voters in key battleground states so he can get them to cast a ballot by mail oin person. donald trump is going to be spending time in the upper midwest, wisconsin, michigan, states he needs to win. the fact a lot of the states around the country are going to allow early voting is going to sh these candidates to make the case a lot earlier than expected. r earlan the first debate. laura:hanks for that analysis. toreturning no our top story, today's march on washington and for that i am joined by martin luther king the third. uma rights advocate. thank you for being with us. what do you see as the

george w. bush, -- george h w bush, cvn 77, which will be the last nimitz-class aircraft carrier.he crew built it and it was presented here in june of 2019, i believe. and they created it themselves. we had all the sailors of the year from the ship here, we bring them in here once a year, the sailors of the year, they come to the library and do a service project. the cases have the shells that were used for the 21-gun salute, at ellington air force base in houston, which is where the body arrived here in texas from the in washington, d.c. this is the page angela merkel signed. we have the condolence book, which is turned to barack and michelle obama, and we also have the program from the service. and we have the u.s. senate condolence book, which is turned to mitch mcconnell's signature. we have a photomontage from throughout his life. the early life, they were married young, he was still in the navy when they got married. we have a montage of photos from their life, from his career here at the library. and some photos, a nice photo from tomball, texas as up 4141 carried the body,