in 2017 he spoke about his biography of president george hw and george w. bush. >> we've only had one other father-son president in the history of the united states. john adams and john quincy adams and there was 24 years, nearly a quarter of a century to the presidencies of those two men area john adams was in his last 15 months of life when john quincy adams was in office. he was in quincymassachusetts . three days stagecoach ride, a six days stagecoach ride away from washington so he really wasn't able to be in washington to be an economy of influence on his son's presidency but george hw bush was a spry 76 years old when his son took the office.he had just been there eight years before and he was in a position to be a real influence around on his son's life so this is a story that needed to be told . and 41 agreed to do it if 43 which george w. bush agreed to do the book, i wasn't sure whether he would say yes, sir no republic of the dallas and i knew george w. bush alittle bit . the meeting and i was shocked that it would the beginning of the meeting he sai

ronald reagan and george hw bush carried maryland. some folks are saying stand up and stick with your principles. >> i am going to stick with my (pells. i'm not going to -- principles, i'm not going to vote for joe biden who is not a conservative. if something happened that gave us a conservative choice that is realistic, i would be happy to vote for that person. i plan to spend a lot of time trying to help the republicans keep control of the senate and if possible, it's much harder, get control of the house. i think especially if trump loses, keeping control -- keeping republican control in the senate is going to be critical from preventing a lot of the left ward urges of the democratic party from becoming law. eric: finally, i covered you as a un ambassador, you were a fox news contributor for a decade, coming on with me in this time period for 10 years or so. and so the audience watching you now, they became very familiar with you, relied on your advice and your analysis and insight. what would you say to what probably would be a s

george w. bush, bill clinton and george hw bush. binge watch booktv all summer on c-span two. legal and just à Ãincluding her time is one of the special prosecutors on the watergate case. here's a portion of her talk. >> in the first hearing where we were trying to figure out who had handled the tics, who might have been able to explain why they are missing. the white house was presenting witnesses and one of them was rosemary woods because she had handled the tapes. i felt by that time there was three of us, jim neal had returned to nashville to attend his private practice with the promise he would come back if we succeeded in getting an indictment he would come back in time for the trial. that left rick and myself, 230-year-olds come in charge of this whole thing a against the white house. we were known as the children's march against the wicked king. [laughter] rick is a very gregarious, assertive, powerful persuasive, totally unlike me. i'm organized and thoughtful. we were a great team but i felt he was taking too many witnesses. he only had a couple years more experience

george hw bush, bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama.urday 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 hillary, journalists michael antonio reports in the attempt to dama

again, as you say, george hw bush was not an incumbent president.t dukakis lead was a moment terry lead the day after -- moment c'ary lead after the convention. i take comfort from trump supporters saying oh, well this is going to go away. they did the exact same thing in 2018 when all the generic ballots had democrats winning by unprecedented numbers and guess what, they did. that's how they flipped the house. the notion that somehow, well, biden's not getting the support of people, they're not enthusiastic for him, unlike trump supporters guess what, nancy pelosi is speaker of the house because democrats and independents were profoundly enthusiastic about not voting for donald trump's party. leland: it's interesting that you bring up the issue of the enthusiasm gap. the journal sentinel in mill walky, wisconsin, -- milwaukee, wisconsin, the main paper for the state, their headline on july 4th. biden's voter enthusiasm is limited. we've seen this in the polls. it's something democrats have got to be worried about is that people are not that excited

george hw bush had his. i am not saying one is wrong.resentation to the president has to take that into account. so does the president read lengthy briefing papers, does he get it by movies and that sort of thing -- the question from donald -- four donald trump is whether he gets it at all. i think he is uninterested in learning. facts that are on convenient for him don't stick, despite repeated tellings. so can he say he was never briefed on it or he thinks it is fake and get away with it? we will see. maybe he will. national former u.s. security advisor john bolton. we will talk about how the pandemic has expanded the push towards digital existence, as people try to become more efficient while working from home. mercedes with a new deal with ibm to push to the ibm public cloud. how much faster is cloud adoption the coming? -- becoming? wonderful to have you with us, howard. who tookfrom the man the reins at ibm, talking about how everybody needs to understand ibm's forces of competitive advantage. how does the daimler deal make evidenc

saturday were featuring books written by former presidents including jimmy carter, george hw bush. bill clinton, george w. bush and barack obama are needed watch saturday, august 8th as we feature books written by first ladies, barbara bush, hillary clinton, laura bush and michelle obama. binge watch book tv, all summer on "c-span2". secretary of state mike pompeo traveled to london for talks with uk officials including british prime minister boris johnson. he also mentioned with the british foreign secretary and held a joint news conference. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. >> i am really delighted to welcome the

up next, isolate george hw bush.he wrote three books including a memoir of his time as vice president and he also co-authored a book with his national security advisor, about foreign policy. from 1999, here is the former president talking about his collection of personal letters and diary entries during his tenure as america's 41st president. >> one of the major person on a bookstore as you get to see advance copies of an of a parade i was privileged to read this book, all about a few weeks ago pretty this recounting of president bush's life through letters, memos and diary entries over the past six decades. nowadays most politicians at

up next, isolate george hw bush. he wrote three books including a memoir of his time as vice president and he also co-authored a book with his national security advisor, about foreign policy. from 1999, here is the former president talking about his collection of personal letters and diary entries during his tenure as america's 41st president. >> one of the major person on a bookstore as you get to see advance copies of an of a parade i was privileged to read this book, all about a few weeks ago pretty this recounting of president bush's life through letters, memos and diary entries over the past six decades. nowadays most politicians at least take lipservice to old-fashioned concepts like honesty and integrity, civility in public life. humility and honor. on a challenge many of them. for talking the talk. it seems a depressingly few has actually walk the walk. how refreshing it was then to joint devolve bush's book. by this value is never a page not in sermons or lectures or speech. but in his own moral compass whic

joe was 14 years old when president george hw bush signed the americans with disabilities act. >> it would be so much different in big ways a little ways. that is if there were not the ada. >> reporter: he is blind and nose without the law that life would not be the same, starting with his job as a program manager with the ada center. >> i may not get the screen i do. is is woven into what i expect, and how i perceive our community should be. >> reporter: the transformed and law making sure those with disabilities were protected against discrimination and provided physical accommodations. >> it really had a very broad goal which was to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities in virtually all facets of american life. >> reporter: the grants, designated parking spots all a result of ada, but one area of modern life is not addressed >> accessibility requirements for websites. websites did not exist or envisioned in 1990 when the law was passed, so they are not specifically addressed. most have held that websites are a place of public accommodation. >> reporter: with th

aboard the george hw bush aircraft carrier. 5,500 people aboard. the point was that you have billions of dollars of equipment. and it's run by 19 to 25 year-old kids. when the kids get out, they have incredible skill. a great deal of diligence and discipline. and a lot of employers don't really realize that we have a lot of employers who say we want to hire veterans but to it because in many cases they think it's charity. this isn't charity. these are the best people you can find anywhere. >> right. in fact not just experience and decision making and accountable and responsibility. in excess of age and a lot of people in the work force have. we don't typically give young people that much responsibility. what's different now when people come back. veterans have had different issues. including after vietnam they were disrespected. what's the difference now? >> first is that we don't have very many veterans. as a result the large majority of people are disassociated from veterans. because they aren't veterans themselves. after the second world war we

jimmy carter and george hw bush went on and lost. >> could the debates be game changers. >> probablyy really will be. debates generally don't really shift a lot of things. part of the reason is because it's a referendum on the president's performance on virus pandemic. right now what we see is people think he's being actually unhelpful in actually helping out -- >> because he is. he's being unhelpful. he didn't wear a mask today at the airport. which the mayor says is a criminal offense. probably illegal. not criminal. anyway. two other factors, you always talk about the suburbs. what do you see now about why they matter and which way they are going? >> the suburbs always matter. that's the swing area in election. that is the area that tends to determine winners and losers. because it's in between the urban areas and rural. we're seeing across the country as well as in a swing state like pennsylvania is the president is getting crushed. >> put up pennsylvania so people can see. >> the poll came out from pennsylvania earlier today. what did we see in that poll the president of the uni

earlier, i spoke to donald ayer — former deputy attorney—general — under george hw bush.e. evidence this morning, nadler the evidence this morning, i think nadler provided an excellent summary of the broad list of things that have occurred under the tenure of attorney—general danieb, and they do need to look at in context, that's ha rd to need to look at in context, that's hard to do, because there's an awful lot of them —— barr. a lot of the conversation today, so far, it will go on for a few more hours, but a lot of the conversation has focused on the use of federal law enforcement troops from various agencies in portland in particular, but also other american cities. with regard to that, i think there is a few things that need to be kept in mind and they are not entirely obvious. the first one is that even though he is not always mentioned, attorney—general bart really is the person calling the shots on all of these activities. the second thing is that, yes, it's true, there is some violence there, but a lot of it is in fact, as best as anyone can tell being provoked b

saturday, july 25th rated feature books by president donald trump, rock obama, bill clinton and george hw bush. men's watch book t a summer on "c-span2". here are some of the current best selling audiobooks according to audible. topping the list is president trump's niece mary trump's critical look president and the trump family. too much and never enough. this followed by journalist james examination of the science behind how we breathe. after that is white for agility. robithe challenges of discussing race in america. in abram argues that america must choose to be antitrust is to work towards building more equitable society and how to be an antiracist. and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling infection audiobooks, according to audible this activists lynn doyle's memoir untamed. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them on line, booktv.org. ♪ welcome. a new program sponsored by american history. my name is jim and i'm president of the institute pretty will be presenting important books and emerging history which fight in the 18th century, our current im

jimmy carter compared to say george hw bush bill clinton. some of them in my view, deserve more focus and attention. the way that my instinct is, gerald ford deserves more attention than he's received. he deserves first rate biography. because any think of all that happened in the very time that he was precedents, and when you think of what he coped with. could kill them twice. his wife suffering from alcoholism. i was here on the profiles on the encouraged panel, the year you gerald ford profiles in courage or because of his pardoning nixon. and when he did that, you know it would probably cost him reelection prideaux most certainly. and he did it anyway. he did the right thing. saved us all kinds of grief pretentious behavior. people all roles. the big difference today is start taking a look at gerald ford. i discovered it this, the volume of material that you have to deal with. as a researcher, as a biographer, is overwhelming and otherwise you're just sort of skimming through all this material. what is in this collection here. could keep

george w. bush awarded him the medal of freedom. george hw bush called him a personal hero. >> i think of dr.lth. doing research about the disease of aids. >> now dr. fauci facing cartoons lampooning him and the president himself retweeting a former game show host accusing dr. fauci and other public health officials of lying about coronavirus. game show host chuck wool ri. >> that following the president's tweet critical of cdc guidelines on school reopening as, quote very tough and expensive. >> we've seen a sidelining of the cdc. >> reporter: four former directors for the cdc wrote an on ed in the washington post decrying the overriding of the once vaunted agency. the former director, tom frieden. >> the people who worked there have spent decades figures out the best way forward. >> the president asserts dr. fauci changed his mind about early restrictions on travel from china. and wearing a mask. but republicans like white house ally senator lindsey graham know it runs deeper and yesterday warned the white house to reverse course. >> any effort to undermine him is not going to be productive

george w bush pardoned -- he commuted the sentence of scooter libby, former chief of staff to vice president cheney and cap weinberger, going back to george hw iran contra situation. i mean, george washington even pardoned two guys who were convicted of treason in the whiskey rebellion. if you're a president, unless it's a real do-gooder, these are very controversial, especially dealing with someone like roger stone whose got richard nixon tattooed on his back. >> controversial is the right word. you're right, it's not just president trump. it's republican and democratic presidents have made controversial pardons. certainly president clinton's pardon of mark rich was very controversial. the difference though in terms of political risk is president clinton did it on his way out the door and it hurt him politically and he has said so since, that the politics of that was really bad. he wasn't running for re-election. this president is. the question is, from sort of an electoral perspective, does it hurt him? does it help him? does it even matter to voters who will be going out to the polls on november 3rd. eric: jeff, always good to see you. yo

the panel today, this afternoon, which will cover the presidents from george bush -- i don't use the hw. he was george bush when he was president. when john quincy adams became president, john adams didn't have to change his name. so i'm sticking with george bush and his immediate successor bill clinton. and then george w. bush, the one who came next and finally we dip our toe into the obama presidency, part of which pat oliphant was able to capture in his cartoons. we're also going to see at least one example of pat oliphant's great gifts as a sculptor, unfortunately we only get to see it in two dimensions. one of our panelists, mary kay kerry, can tell us something about that sculpture and the president who it portrays. mary kate is a senior fellow at the miller center. she's been teaching this year in the politics department of the university. she was a speech writer and a communication specialists of all sorts in the bush/quail campaign of 1998 and during the george bush presidency. the former director of the miller center and member of the history department here held prominent pos

saturday, featuring books written by former presidents including jimmy carter, george hw bush. ill clinton, george w. bush. and barack obama. watch saturday, august 8 feature books written by former first lady's credit including rosalynn carter, barbara bush, hillary clinton, laura bush and michelle obama. page watch tv all summer on "c-span2". american history tv on c-span three. exploring the people and events the telling american story every weekend. coming up this weekend, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on lectures in history clearly back to 2012 from phyllis about the roots and development of the modern conservative movement and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on real america, training films from the 1960s . at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, mature of the ellis island immigration museum at 7:00 p.m. eastern historians david and annette gordon talk about recent debates about removing historical monuments pretty his point the american story. what a mark in history tv. this weekend on c-span three. services in honor of the late congressman john lewis speaking this weeken