there's a great portrait of george h.w. bush and his son george george w. , and artist that painted a portrait. it was kind of confusing though george w. bush post this way, george w. bush poses way. he said i-40 when he's 43. a gust of confusing the artist at heart he won, 43. it was the way to distinguish them. >> president clinton told me once, actual i think his chief of staff told me this, that i think it was 43 who called president clinton 42 once and the president clinton, it made his day. he told his staff oh, my gosh, -- pretty sure it was 43 who called in that. he just called me 42. i'm now like a member of the family. which i thought was very funny. >> so president bush was reagan's vice president for eight years, and there's question here about, you know, they were adversaries and i'm not sure that president bush ever thought he would be picked for the vp, the talk a little bit about how that relationship grew between the two of them. >> well, i should point out, who have asked the question i apologize, that predates my book and it predates from

bush loved being called 41 and it was perfect. >> a great story about that, a great portrait of george h.w. bush and his son george w. bush the artist who painted the portrait. it was confusing george w. bush you need to post this way, george bush finally said i'm 41, he's 43 and he said i can't. prime it got so confusing the artist did 41 and 43 because it was the way to distinguish them. >> president clinton told me once, i think it was chief of staff told me this that i think it was 43 who called president clinton 42 once and president clinton, it made his day. he told his staff all my gosh, i'm pretty sure it was 43 he called him back, he just called me 42, i am like a member of the family now, i thought that was funny. >> so president bush was reagan's vice president for eight years and is a question about, they were adversaries and i'm not sure president bush ever thought he would be picked for vp but talk about how that relationship grew between the two of them. >> i should say weber asked the question, i apologize, it predates my book and it predates when i was in president bush's inner

george w. bush to distinguish himself from his father. my boss was urged to go by george h.w. bush and a really are tainted him. thank heavens for the brilliant man and i cannot remember who it is but it's in the book. they came up with 41 and 43 and oh my gosh the president liked being called 41 it was perfect. >> there's a great portrait of george h.w. bush and his son george w. bush and it was confusing for george w. bush. george bush finally said i'm 41 and he's 43. brenly got so confusing they just said 41 and 43 as a way to distinguish them are. his chief of staff told me i think it was 43 who called president clinton 42 once and president clinton had made his day. he told the staff oh my gosh. i'm pretty sure was 43 who called in that. he said now i'm a member of the family. >> president bush was reagan's vice president for eight years and there's a question here about they were adversaries and i'm not sure president bush ever thought he would be picked for vp but talk about how that relationship grew between the two of them. >> i should point out and i apologize it pred

and now we've got this story, the far left is putting biden in his own george h.w. bushead my lips, no new taxes controversy. that's the same one that got clinton elected where george h.w. bush lost. also outraged 9/11 families now telling president biden stay away from the 20th anniversary commemoration events of 9/11 unless you release classified government evidence you promised on the campaign trail. they believe that evidence links saudi arabia's top leaders to the 9/11 attacks. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. we are beginning this, with this story, new york governor andrew cuomo's attorneys going after the investigation and the credibility of the accuser who filed the first criminal complaint against him. listen to. >> this woman's story which is stated as a fact in the report is false. the documentary evidence does not support what she said. elizabeth: okay. we've got this story coming in too, the state attorney general is now firing back and so is accuser charlotte bennett. lo

advisory boards of the george bush presidential library and george bush school of government and public service. our moderator for tonight's discussion is lauren, director of the george h.w. bush presidential library museum. horn has more than 30 years of experience of the national archives and records administration, first with the officer presidential library here in washington d.c. and fenced with the ronald reagan library in california and not the bush library and museum. details to the bush white house in 1992 to assist the move of bush presidential materials to texas and has been there ever since. that's where from jean and lauren now. thank you for joining us today. >> hello. >> good evening, great to see you. >> thank you for the kind introduction. also, i like to shout out to our partners in crime, but george barbara bush foundation. my colleague from lower alabama and also the dean of the bush school and the staff at the library event have been so helpful here during covid it also staff of the former president's office, a great organization we belong to. very lucky to be part of it and the life of george and barbara bush for all these years. my first question,

of my favorite items in this exhibit is a ship's wheel that was built by the crew of the uss george h.w. bush class of aircraft carriers. the crew built it and presented here in june of i believe 2019 i believe. they created it themselves. we had all the sailors of the year from the ship here. we bring them in once a 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 arlington airport base in houston which is where the body arrived here in texas from the funeral in washington d.c. we had the guestbookok from blair house which is on the page that merkel signed. we have the condolence book which is turned to barack and michelle obama. we also have the program from the service. we have the u.s. senate condolence book which is turned to mitch mcconnell's signature. we have a photo m montage throughout his life. of course the early life, they were married young. he was still in the navy when they got married. we have eight montagef otos fro his life and career here at the library. and some photos, a nice photo from texas as th

there's a great story about, there's a great portrait of george h.w. bush and his son, george w. bush, and the artist that painted that portrait. and it was kind of confusing though, george w. bush saying you need to pose this way. i think george bush finally said i'm 41, he's 43. and the artist said, i can't call you -- and finally it got so confusing that the artist said 4 1, 43 was the way to distinguish them. >> president clinton told me once, or actually i think his chief of staff told me this, that i think it was 43 who called president clinton 42 once, and president clinton, it made his day. he told his staff, oh, my you know, i, i'm pretty sure it was 43 who called him that. he just called me 42. i'm now like a member of the family. >> yeah. >> which i thought was very funny. >> so president bush was reagan's vice president for eight years, and there's a question here about, you know, they were adversaries. i'm not sure that president bush ever thought he would be picked for the vp, but talk a little bit about how that relationship grew between the two of them. >> well, i

george h.w. bush. cvn 77 which it will be the last sentiments class aircraft carriers, but the crew built it and presented here in june of i believe. 2019 i believe and they create themself. we had all the sailors of the year from the from the ship here. we bring them in once a year the sales of the year and they come to the library and do a service project. and then we 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 funeral in washington, dc. we have the guest book firm blair house, which is on the page that angela merkel sign and then we have the condolence book, which is turned to. barack and michelle obama and then we also have the program. and from the service and we have the us senate condolence book, which is turned to. mitch mcconnell's signature we have a photo montage of throughout his life. of course. the early life they were married young. he was just baby when they got married and

it had become a big issue in the 1992 presidential campaign with clinton and george h.w. bush. clinton pledged he would eliminate the ban on gays serving openly. the compromise that was reached was called don't ask, don't tell. don't tell us you are gay, we won't ask you if you are gay. shilts' book came on the edge of that discussion and was helpful for illuminating for people this concept of we are training military members to be experts in all sorts of skills then as soon as we find out anything about their personal life in terms of who they love and who they spends their life with, we are throwing them out and throwing away their careers. this was the only work that shilts was able to dedicate to any real coverage of gay women, lesbian women. they were severing disproportionately the number of discharges from the u.s. military based on their sexual orientation and a lot of them being threatened with losing their families and children because of their sexual orientation being exposed. this book was finished as randy was in a coma in the hospital. he recovered from that for t

she brings the reader into the room with george bush gives a close-up look at his work week after leaving the oval office jean thacker was president george h.wsh was chief of staff for nearly 25 years from 1994 -- until his bush inl the 2018. another boring story of george hooper walker including when he died and subsequently facing the challenge and great honor of being in charge of his state's funeral. previously jean surged after first lady barbara bush from 1989 -- 92. she is also a member of the scholarship award on the cancer port as well as a member of the advisory board of the george bush presidential library. ... materials to texas and has been an station ever since. now let's hear from jean becker and thank you for joining us today. >> jean. good evening. nice to see you. >> thank you for the kind introduction. also, a shout out to our partners in crime the george and barbara bush foundation and my colleague from alabama and then also to the dean of the bush school and the staff at the library have been so helpful and also to the staff of the office it's a great organization that we belong to. very lucky to be a part of it and part

and this had become a big issue through the 1992 presidential campaign with clinton and george h.w. bush. clinton had pledged that he would eliminate the ban on gays serving openly. it was called don't ask, don't tell. you don't tell us you're gay, we won't ask you if you're gay. that remained the policy of the u.s. military until 2011 when president obama eliminated that with an executive order. but shilts' book came right on the edge of that discussion and was very helpful toward illuminating for people this whole concept of we're training military members to be experts in all sorts of skills, and then as soon as we find out anything about their personal life in terms of who they love or who they spend their life, and we're throwing them out and throwing away their careers. this was particularly the only work that shilts was able to dedicate to any real measure of coverage to gay women, to lesbian women, because they were suffering disproportionately the number of discharges from the military based on their sexual orientation. and a lot of them were being threatened with losing their f

was the leader of the treasury department as the secretary of the treasury, of course during george h.w. bush's presence that he was the leader of the state department of secretary of state. in the year 2000 he became the leader of george w. bush's legal team that prevailed in the landmark case of bush versus gore. so we simply could not have a better lawyer leader to be part of this program than secretary baker so secretary baker. thank you for taking time and and being with us today is the the final market is very important conference. thank you damage. i'm delighted to be with you. now since you've been a leader in so many different arenas and we're going to be talking about the lawyers leader. i think a logical place to start the conversation is how do you define the word leadership secretary baker? well, you know, i think it was the great historian james mcgregor burns. who said that leadership is a commitment to values and the perseverance to fight for those values. i think that's a pretty good description of leadership. and the toughest part of that formula is the commitment to to fight

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george h.w. bush, the first george bush president, 1992, got us onto this whole path. and the sustainable development essentially means it's going to control every aspect of your life. it's going to have bureaucratic planners saying you can't to this, you can't do that, this part -- we have presidential candidates now saying a moratorium on new home building unless they're sustainably built. and we have, again, when i mentioned these climate lockdowns, the climate lockdowns which they're talking about, it's literally marrying a covid lockdown -- mirroring, and it's all about economics as well. so one of the things i mentioned in 1972 george mcgovern ran for president supporting a universal basic income. that would have helped with health care and other things, that was their goal was to help those. but even democrats didn't support that. and what happened was george mcgovern lost in the largest land slide election. well, fast forward. because of the covid lockdowns and now the representation of economic growth, we now have -- repression of economic growth, we now i hav

president george h.w. bush was a distant second with 331 jokes during that period of time. that oim of humor represents nothing more than an appetizer for the way political figures were treated by in the years that followed and as i described in my new book late night with trump political humor in and the american presidency might co-opt an identified 1841 jokes on president trump during his first year in office on those same two programs. it is a much much more relentless focus on politics today. carson's treatment of quayle had one other impact that was lasting and really shaped the growing importance of late-night political discourse in american politics starting with carson's attack on quayle read news organizations increasingly turn to comedy clips and use them as a way to shape their own news report or this increases the linkage between news and entertainment and helped late night conditt -- comedy be a key source of political discourse and even political learning. i think one issue that i think is important to touch important to touch on as we talk about johnny carso

i think there is room today for doing the kinds of things that we did during the reagan and george h.w. bushtration. we are in the same environment. >> of course with this audience and the theme of this conference and with your spectacular career as a lawyer became such a success in washington d.c., when i interviewed myself peter and susan i asked them about what was it about your training and practicing law that translated readily into your service and washington while you were leading in different parts of the government? >> what did they say? what did you ask them that? >> i asked the map. they said you being a lawyer was absolutely key it absently was. i wrote a book about my four ars my experience as a lawyer help me. secretary of state, you do a lot of negotiatiting. a lot of skills i have an negotiation. but secretary of state's job is to negotiate on behalf of this country. this negotiation is notot a business negotiation. it is international negotiation. so being a lawyer and learning to cross the tease, not the eyes, be careful, and think through things, t those are all traits i t

. >> joining me now, cnn correspondent john hardwood and former adviser to george h.w. bush and john mccain, and he's executive producer of "the circus". gentleman, good evening. the stories are really just unbelievable coming out of afghanistan. john, the president is back at the white house tonight while his administration tries to contain the fallout over the chaos and the fall of kabul. he is going to do an interview with abc news tomorrow and he's sure to be press on what went so wrong. what do you think we'll hear? >> well, i would expect that george stephanopoulos will press him on why it was that the united states was caught so unaware by the rapid collapse of the afghan government and security forces. president biden has said in his speech yesterday it was faster than we anticipated, but we don't really know why it wasn't anticipated. was it intelligence? was the intelligence disregarded? the other question would be, why didn't you do more with the time that you had to get tens of thousands of not only american personnel, but you the afghan personnel who helped the

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forces were and how they were in charge and leading the operations and priority that president george h.w. bushr claims. the bay of pigs didn't take 20 years. the latest push by the taliban is about 18 months old. they started going to local leaders, going to local war lords and paying them off well before this final push. the fact we would be completely by surprise is a shock and i think part of what joe biden has to explain. i'm sure he is coming out and be unapologetic about the policy at large and he has to explain the execution over the last week and why he said what he said. >> is this a one-off? forgive the term. but is this about joe biden and afghanistan, or the united states and afghanistan, or is this a moment, a lot of bad actors in the world see a american president on his heels a little bit? should the eyes be looking around the world for some sort of domino effect? >> the bottom line if you want to understand how the world's bad actors are looking at this, you could do no better than look at the chinese propaganda today. a lot of self-satisfaction that the idea that the americans

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it was convincing until he shows videos and pictures of obama hugging hurricane victims and george h.w. bushging katrina victims. the line is, you can hug or kiss on the cheek. he was grabbing you know what and kissing on the mouth. that is unacceptable. so he says new yorkers aren't naive and they won't go for this and they know it is political. and you know what, maybe it is an italian thing, right? that is what italians do and old guys do. i'm just saying, and i will hire a consultant to his me maybe i shouldn't do this anymore, case closed. can you move on? i don't know appearance before the news may be for the show, joe biden stood by what he said back and i think or april in which he said and found to be guilty, he should r. and that he might be prosecuted. so president biden, katie, just now at the press conference doesn't answer the question saying andrew cuomo should resign. he just says yes, yes so you don't actually have the words, but the meaning is there. he is calling on the governor to resign. >> katie: back in march joe biden was backed into a corner because if these things t

george w. bush in october 2002 signed a permission slip from congress to send american troops into iraq. formally it's called the authorization for use of military force. now his dad george h.w sent troops to it gulf in '91. both of those authorizations from congress are both still in the books and the balance of power in our system of government is supposed to kick in here. the power of war, which the president can use, isn't supposed to just be there forever. now almost two decades after the start of the iraq war, more than 30 years after the gulf war finally it actually looks like congress is ready to reel in some of these authorizations because the senate foreign relations committee voted to repeal both of them this week. giving democrats the 60 votes that nowadays they need for most things because of the filibuster. so it looks like we'll actually see an effective repeal of this war power, the first in 50 years. and that's an updated we wanted to give you before the week's out. and now we turn to the long awaited news about rachel. some have asked a big question including a lovely lady named pat who's gained a following online just by being herself. her granddaughter sh

james baker reflects on leadership in his career serving as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and is ronald reagan's treasury secretary. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, joseph ellis looks at how society can learn from the wisdom of the founding fathers in today's world. look tv features leading authors to stuff sing their latest nonfiction book. we will feature all their discussions for freedom fast, and annual libertarian gathering. including gary hoover, and associate professor anthony davies. carrie mcdonald and think take scholars benjamin powell. at 7:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards. robin d'angelo discusses her book, racism, how progressive white people perpetuate racial harm. she's interviewed by the author and professor of african-american studies at princeton university. watch american history and book tv every weekend on c-span two, and find a full schedule in your program guide or visit c-span.org. >> earlier today, house foreign affairs committee ranking member michael mccaul, representative andy kim and other members discussed evacuation efforts in afghanistan. from capitol

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remember when george h.w. bush, we won the gulf war. his approval rating was 83%.gan withdraw peace keeping troops. in february of 1984 he easily won on to win reelection. the thing i would keep in mind right now is yes, biden's approval rating is dropping but that doesn't really mean too much a year from now or eight, ten months down the line. a lot of things can change. the american mind can move very, very quickly from one issue to another. >> if you want all the different chefs in the kitchen with afghanistan, ronald reagan is in the beginning of the list in terms of who started putting money in the situation. biden's handling of covid. now, how is that a balancing fact for him now in the midst of afghanistan? >> this to me is interesting because biden's biggest strength was his reaction to the coronavirus. remember, it was his number one issue over donald trump last year in the election and his approvalness is so high. it was 60, 61, 62% most of this year. look at it now. it been declining. it's at 52% in the average. so what you essentially have is sort of th

that's what reagan talked about, what george h.w. bush talked about.g about it. and if they don't, democrats will. >> thank you all. i appreciate your time. >>> next, thousands of american troops are on their way back to afghanistan to help get americans evacuated, as the taliban is taking over more parting of the country at lightning speed. and the republican congressman who aided and abetted president trump, who is scott perry? basis. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it's innovative. my go to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sales rep lisa has to send some files, asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee... yeah i should've just led with that... with at&t business... you can pick the best plan for each employee and on

james baker reflects on leadership and his career serving as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. at 10:00 a.m. eastern joseph ellis looks at how society can learn from the wisdom of the founding fathers in today's world. book tv features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. we will feature author discussions from freedom fest, an annual libertarian gathering, including gary hoover, antony davies, kerry mcdonald and phillip magness and benjamin powell. watch american history and book tv every weekend on c-span 2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. >> next on american history tv, california state university professor andrew stoner talks about his biography of author and journalist randy shilts who covered the

james baker reflects on leadership and his career serving as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. and at 10:00 a.m. eastern historian and best selling author joseph ellis looks at how society can learn from the wisdom of the founding fathers in today's world. book tv features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. we will feature author discussions from freedom fest an annual libertarian gathering. including businessman gary hoover, duquesne university associate professor antony davies, education policy writer carrie mcdonald and phillip magnus and benjamin powell. at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards robin deangelo discusses her book nice racism, how progressive white people perpetuate racial harm. she is interviewed by eddie glaude author and professor of african-american studies at princeton university. watch american history and book tv every weekend on c-span 2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. >> next on american history tv, assignment washington. the cor

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griff, joining us now is former diplomate on middle east affairs that served under president george h.w. bush, clinton and obama, dennis, thank you for joining us. >> sure. good to be with you. jacqui: i think what's most stunning to a lot of people watching this is how swiftly the taliban seized control of the huge swaths of the country and provincial capitals have been falling. and you look on the map. the biden administration maintain that the afghan forces have the advantage and we've invested and trained for 20 years. but it looks like that may have been for nothing and the u.s. lost this war. so, i ask you, did we? >> well, it's hard to say it was a success. look, we've been there 20 years, we've spent close to $100 billion in terms of investing in the afghan military. they've quickly crumbled. there's no question about that. the biden administration inherited from the trump administration an agreement to pull out by may of this year, and the biden administration made the decision not to pull out at all. clearly the taliban would have focused their guns on us. we're facing a reality whe

. >> president george h.w. bush'sebecca schaeffer was a young actress on the rise. >> this was not just some cute, little actress. this was a very special talent. >> she was still just 21 years old. she'd already done two seasons on a sitcom called "my sister sam" with pam dawber. ♪ don't trust an evil heart ♪ >> and now she was living in los angeles and auditioning for movies with a bright career ahead of her. she had an excellent agent, and her prospects were superb at that moment. >> that morning, rebecca schaeffer is getting ready for the audition of her life that could change the direction of her career. >> she was about to audition for the most coveted role of 1989, the role of mary corleone, daughter of michael and kay in "the godfather part iii.” >> to be asked to audition for "godfather iii," directed by coppola, was extraordinary. >> so, as she's getting ready for this meeting that might change her life, she has no idea that her stalker, armed with a gun, has just gotten off a bus in los angeles and is makin

george w. bush administration had its first ambassador confirmed at day 75. for the clinton administration, it was day 75. for the george h.w. bush administration, it was day 83. we are now more than 200 days into the biden administration, and as of this moment, there is not a single confirmed state department country ambassador, not one. and going back four administrations, there is a precedent of moving a pane of nominees before the august recess. under george w. bush, the senate confirmed a package of 81 nominees. during the obama administration, the senate confirmed a package of 104 nominees. and during the trump administration, we confirmed a package of 75 nominees. we should be ashamed of holding the record for the longest delay in fully equipping the state department and usaid to pursue the foreign policy, development, and national security interests of the united states. now, some members of this body call on one hand for assertive american leadership on the global stage and at the same time they hold up these critical positions. many of these nominees are career diplomats, public servants who have dedicated their l