caller: will george w. bush be remembered as a good president, or a bad president? do you think president bush hurt the republican party? bigger question to the pundits. i am not a pundit. i do not mean to be evasive. as a historian, the world is still too close to the bush years. harry truman was unable to get insurance, and yet we credit him with planting the seed. it set in motion events leading to the current health care plan. george w. bush spoke about the need for immigration reform. he also talked about privatizing parts of social security, more controversially. we will not know for some time the course of those issues. my hunch is, he will be ranked higher than he was on leaving office immediately. that is often the case with former presidents. favorable, unfavorable ratings that show in the four years he has been out of office that his approval ratings have increased fairly substantially. host: we are less than 100 days presidential library. this is exactly what the president will be looking at across pennsylvania avenue from the reviewing stand. it is the r

and president george bush did the same thing, he pointed one democrat, norman mineta was chosen by george wbush to serve as transportation secretary. in george w. bush's second term, norm mineta stuck around. he did not leave until close to the end. so president bush never appointed another democrat, but he did have that one democrat, norman mineta during that term in his cabinet. barack obama at this point has doubled the record of cabinet bipartisanship of his predecessors, and more than that. you'll recall that he picked bob gates to stay on as secretary of defense. so republican at defense. president obama also picked ray lahood for the norm mineta honorary bipartisanship chair over at the department of transportation. transportation was held by a democrat under bush. it has been held by a republican the whole time under obama. but beyond that, beyond defense and transportation, president obama also had another attempt at bringing another republican into his cabinet. you remember when he offered judd gregg the job of commerce secretary? judd gregg initially accepted the job, and then he

caller: will george w. bush be remembered as a good president, or a bad president? you think president bush hurt the republican party? guest: i will leave the second question to the pundits. i am not a pundit. i do not mean to be evasive. as a historian, the world is still too close to the bush years. harry truman was unable to get insurance, and yet we credit him with planting the seed. it set in motion events leading to the current health care plan. george w. bush spoke about the need for immigration reform. he also talked about privatizing parts of social security, more controversially. we will not know for some time the course of those issues. my hunch is, he will be ranked higher than he was on leaving office immediately. that is often the case with former presidents. favorable, unfavorable ratings that show in the four years he has been out of office that his approval ratings have increased fairly substantially. host: we are less than 100 days from the opening of his presidential library. this is exactly what the president will be looking at across pennsylvani

the public was not over enchanted with the war in iraq when george w. bush ran for reelection. against john kerry, but voted by a small margin seem to believe bush should be the better theater cannot be with the vote reflected a favorable referendum on george w. bush's first term. the importance of the communication of a candidate cannot be discounted as a factor however. but all of this misses a different valuation of mayors being taken into account in judging between incumbent or obama and his challenger, and that rummy. that is the of the second term on so many presidents. only seven of 19 presidents elected to a second term avoided having a troubled or failed second term. i would give the country about a 30% chance of obama and the nation next. cnn improved security and economic climate. after four years if obama is reelected. i do not suggest the campbell should not be taken, simply that history playing with politics might give us pause. so what does history project about a second term for barack obama? where he reelect it was so few president having success at that time in

the all these tests do is enrich corporate executives like george w. bush's brother neil who sell these standardized tests to schools so our teachers in seattle now is showing us the way to fight back against the profiteers who want to turn our school kids in a profit tools joining me now is chris mcbride academic dean and testing coordinator at garfield high school in seattle washington chris welcome. thank you so much for having me thanks for joining us what what motivated you to start this boycott of standardized testing. actually it was my teachers teachers in the math and language arts department we've been talking about this for two years this is not new and finally the straw that broke the camel's back was i was going to take away fifty seven fifty seven class periods for math testing and we started talking about it and they said we're not doing this so it literally grew from you know lunchroom conversation to the entire math it tired language arts department coming together and then within twenty four hours we had the whole staff on board in two thous

the conclusion that we cannot in good conscience subject our students to this test again under george w. bush the use of standardized testing to judge progress in our schools exploded despite little to no evidence that these tests are actually good measures of how well a student is learning in reality all these tests do is enrich corporate executives like george w. bush's brother neil who sell these standardized tests to schools so our teachers in seattle now is showing us the way to fight back against the profiteers who want to turn our school kids in a profit tools joining me now is chris mcbride academic dean and testing coordinator at garfield high school in seattle washington chris welcome. thank you so much for having me thanks for joining us what what motivated you to start this boycott of standardized testing. actually it was my teachers teachers in the math and the language arts department we've been talking about this for two years this is not new and finally the straw that broke the camel's back was i was going to take away fifty seven fifty seven class periods for math testing and

george h.w. bush and george w. several boos in the audience not just for george w. bh,

and george h. w. bush would probably be an example of a president who was a very successful in business, and an effective administrator but he didn't communicate his position well to the american public, and he lost after his first term. so that i would, i would say that -- oh, i think there were some candidates out there that had strength of character, and this was over the years and both the republican and democratic party, governors, one who is now a senator from virginia who had great depth of character who have self-confidence in a quiet sort of way that could have made them excellent presidents. but they chose not to -- they were not able to win the primary. that's one thing, you could ask whether primaries are better than the old smoke-filled rooms, not equal today. but that's another topic, another question, another paper. any other questions? well, thank you very much. [applause] spent is there a nonfiction author a book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.

january 2001, just after george w. bush'swearing in. >> turned down pennsylvania avenue, and the military aide in the right front seat of the car i was riding in, and turned around and said, sir there, is a gas mask under your seat. get ready to put it on. which is a little startling. >> reporter: to prepare for possible teargassing of protesters. and deputy white house chief of staff under george w. bush. hagin provided security to big events, summits, trips to war zones. hagin says the secret service, the lead security service for the inauguration, will make sure buildings are clear of potential snipers, manhole covers welded shut, s.w.a.t. teams over the city. plain clothes law enforcement lingering in the crowd. bomb-sniffing dogs, and teams trained on mass destruction. >> dive team, intelligence analysts will be working around the clock. our hostage negotiators. >> reporter: that fbi official spoke to us inside the multiagency communications center, real time monitoring of surveillance cameras posted on buildings and roa

caller: will george w. bush be remembered as a good president, or a bad president? president bush hurt the republican party? guest: i will leave the second question to the pundits. i am not a pundit. i do not mean to be evasive. as a historian, the world is still too close to the bush years. harry truman was unable to get insurance, and yet we credit him with planting the seed. it set in motion events leading to the current health care plan. george w. bush spoke about the need for immigration reform. he also talked about privatizing parts of social security, more controversially. we will not know for some time the course of those issues. my hunch is, he will be ranked higher than he was on leaving office immediately. that is often the case with former presidents. favorable, unfavorable ratings that show in the four years he has been out of office that his approval ratings have increased fairly substantially. host: we are less than 100 days from the opening of his presidential library. this is exactly what the president will be looking at across pennsylvania avenue f

george w. bush. he had a medicare expansion. it is the largest in history, arguably the most conservative president in the second half of the 20 century. ronald reagan and george bush, both of them pass huge medicare expansions and both of them were really good at explaining a nice simple terms. reagan passed catastrophic medicare expansion and he goes out and says we've got to worry about people going through. republicans hated it in a year later congress repeal said, the reagan got it through and explained it in nice, simple terms. for a while it was quite popular. the legislation is so convoluted it into the collapsing. bush got out there and say prescription drugs too expensive. the details of the bill were hellishly complicated, but bush didn't go into the details. liberalize liberals criticize bush. but a nice explanation was told. the democrats like the expansion, but that's a sign of a successful operator, someone who could manage to get republicans in enough democrats with republicans to pass a then explain to the public

george h.w. bush still recovering from a recent illness and george w. the first family all the best on this special day, and their family. >> all of the dignitaries come down, they are seated, then the families will be announced and seated. the biden family announced and seated, just after 11:00 in ten minutes. then the obama family will be announced and seated. and then you'll have the ceremonial announcement of the first laid doe and dr. biden as well. megyn: bill clinton has done this walk a lot. >> there you see former president jimmy carter and rosalyn carter. jim angle is there right in front of the capitol. jim. >> reporter: hello, breath. as you saw both the president and vice president and the former president's coming in, the crowd could see that on a jumbo-tron and they all started cheering. in fact they started cheering when the president's motorcade got on to the capitol ground. so there is a lot of excitement here as you can imagine, and not only here but as you mentioned all the way up the national mall, up to th the washington monument wh

it is george w. bush. his staff tells the whole story. he decided he wanted an expansion of medicare to cover drugs. if you ten seconds late to a meeting when bush called it 1:00 and you came in ten seconds after 1:00, there are very graphic descriptions of what he did to people, and it was not nice. she had read the memos and he was incredibly well organized. he knew what he wanted. the george bush that emerges from these interviews that we did completely surprised us, and to a person including the staff, democratic staff in congress, they said this guy was focused and he knew what he wanted and he got it. nixon, ronald reagan and bush, three very conservative presidents had reached by the standards of the day each one of them who did these massive expansions of medicare or national health insurance. republicans had been surprisingly successful at getting health care. obama broke a string. first successful democrat getting a big major health care program through some since 1965. just one other story that's very important. when harry truma

that was all about george w. bush's second inaugural. and then for barack obama spending 50 million on his second inauguration, the times wrote fundraising is lagging so far for inaugural plans. and lamenting the fact that in this economy $50 million was tough to raise. just an interesting point. >> next on news watch. hillary clinton serves it up and the press reacts. >> what difference, at this point, does it make? >> hillary clinton finally answers questions about the benghazi debacle. delivering a powerful performance to convince lawmakers and the media to see it her way. did it work? find out next on news watch. y te a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur >> with all due respect, the fact is would have four dead americans.

thanks to president george w. bush and all those democrats who supported him after 9/11, the islamic republic's most important ally today isn't syria, it's iraq. second point, iranian policymakers don't believe that syrian president bashar al assad will be overthrown, at least not by syrians. assad still retains the support of about half the syrian society, even if assad felt compelled at some point to surrender damascus, he and his forces would continue to control a significant part of syrian territory. under these circumstances syria is hardly likely to become an ally of the west. indeed, any sort of plausibly representative post-assad government isn't going to be more pro-american or pro-israel than the as cads have been -- assads have been. such a government might even be less keen about keeping syria's border with israel quiet, and that will be just find for the islamic republic. iranian officials believe that overall developments in the middle east are continuing to steer the regional balance in tehran's favor. a

when george w. bush appointed an old family retainer i did a poem that rhymed with -- [inaudible] [laughter] and we both write about animals sometimes. he famously wrote a lot of things about cats. my daughter said once at the dinner table when somebody brought up cats, daddy hates cats. and i said daddy does not hate cat. that would be prejudiced, and you girls have been brought up to not have prejudice daddy has never met a cat he likes. [laughter] and i've written about corp. kor g.i.s. i wrote in a column once that corp. the dogs look like a breed of dogs that look like they have been assembled from oh parts of dogs. not the part that the breeds were sorry about giving up. [laughter] i'll admit there's never been a broadway show called cor g.i. i'm a second generation poet. my father was a grocer for most of his working life, but he had a restaurant for a few years, and he took advantage of that to write a menu at lunch every day. mostly about pie. not pi pie. pie. i had a lot of trouble with pi when

we saw that with george w. bush and 2006, and president's team is hoping that that does not happen with him which is why they're hoping to win some big victories in the upcoming months hoping that that helps to play out let him do better in the years after that. >> john: well, i assume you're talking about the midterm elections in 2014. it seems the next six months are really about the years 2015 and and 2016 for this administration to have both houses of congress back. >> if they don't win them in the midterm the historical track record shows that the president will not be able to get a whole lot done in his last two years. it's the way things have worked in presidential second terms. if you remember george bush was very ineffective in his last two years in the white house. bill clinton was wrapped up very much with the monica lewinsky scandal, so he had extend extenuating circumstances, and they're fighting some fights that they hope they can win. the chuck hagel nomination is a fight that they hope they can win.

. >> jon: and the new york times which complained about george w. bush spending 40 million dollars on his second inauguration, jim touched on this, the inauguration and ceremonies for inauguration in war time, a lingering question of tone. that was all about george w. bush's second inaugural. and then for barack obama's spending 50 million on his second inauguration, the times wrote, fund raising is lagging so far for inaugural plans. and lamenting the fact that in this economy, 50 million dollars was tough to raise. just an interesting point. next on news watch, hillary clinton serves it up and the press reacts. >> what difference at this point does it make? >> hillary clinton finally answers questions about the benghazi debacle delivering a powerful performance to convince lawmakers and the media to see it her way. did it work? find out next on news watch. power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my polic

the final picture and the one that was taken four years ago is george w. bushdent basicing out of white house. to the right is president-elect obama. what struck me about that moment is bush never looked back. it's like he threw the keys to the place over to obama and that was it. it's a very powerful moment. it also goes to the transition of power in the united states. we have one party going to next. it's peaceful. we've been in place where is transition has been difficult. >> that's for sure. thank you so much for taking to time to talk about some of these images. thank you so much. in the last four years michelle obama has had her picture taken countless of times. it comes with the pressure that every modern first lady has faced. the style watchers are always looking. we heard headlines around the world when she had bangs. the fashion police not too far away. there's a lot of fashion designers who are on the edge of her seat because they don't know if she will wear their style. >> reporter: she's often called the first lady of fashion whether it's target, t

we watched george w. bush do it when he did it in a controversial election, first term and second term. first term he reached across the aisle and got tax cuts for everyone even though the united states senate switched majority control from republicans to democrats in may of his first year in office. then he worked across the aisle to get education reform done. it can happen, but it takes a president who is willing to be presidential and really lead rather than just demand. >> eric: do you think he can take a page from george w. bush. what did you advise the president at that time and what lessons from that experience that president obama can take as he enters into his second term? >> president bush had the advantage of being a governor where he had to work with other people on the other side of the aisle. he did that successfully in texas. when he got to washington, d.c. he was committed to govern the country, not just the one that demanded change. he wanted to work with the democrats and republicans to bring

i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo under george w. bush and he later became a vocal critic of the practices there and strongly supported president obama's pledge to shut down the prison he says the perception of guantanamo in the u.s. has come a long way since two thousand and eight when he was a burning and highly controversial issue with the nation demanding action he gets a free pass on i mean the public largely could care less the mainstream media now here in the us. you know is more interested in car dash and then they are and what happens at guantanamo. so who's going to challenge it if we're looking for the biggest threat to america right now she's right there her name is kim carr does she and. america has moved on and so has its perception of torture polls by the american red cross show the majority of americans now find torture acceptable sixty percent of young people agree whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the us. hollywood has arguably contributed to that evolution of public opinion in the movie zero dark t

phony argument that you hear every now and then president obama is not half as aggressive as george w. bush would have been or mitt romney would have big and it seems there is a notion that as long as there are no u.s. boots on the ground as long as wars are fought either with a remote control or through proxies it's a success and it's not perceived as aggressive again president obama's hit and run style intervention was touted as a success then the u.s. ambassador died and it became more difficult to brag about libya and ignored the mess that we be it turned into so it very much seems like it's not about the president's actions. it's about perceptions president obama talks beautifully and smiles beautiful wee how could he be aggressive so perceptions are the reality of politics here. openly criticizing barack obama making you win a whole lot of trouble starts to dot com we've got the story of how one grammy nominated rapper was shown the door for delivering a diatribe against the american president. travel chaos has taken over europe which remains paralyzed by snow and freezing temperature

president clinton used the plates but george w. bush chose to use a different design without the protest phrase. >>> white house is changing the signature threshold from 25,000 to 100,000 for official responses to petitions on the website. not a bad move. it comes after a request that government build a star wars like death star that got enough signatures for an official white house response. >>> and in utah, george burnett, a pro oil activist and small business owner known as the i love drilling guy is using his new smoothy shop to take a stand against liberal spending. he charges liberals $1 more for than conservatives for a 16 ounce smoothy. >> i'm very open about it. i'm going to charge more. and i have liberals come in. and pay the extra dollar surcharge. >>> actor dicaprio came up with the cash at a charity auction. he and another bidder joined forces to offer $400,000 to spend the day with president bill clinton. >>> and seth myers nominated hillary clinton for qg's list of 100 hottest women of the 21st century. he said he thinks

they sue president george w. bush announces democrats who supported him after 9/11, the islamic republic's most important ally two days in the area in iraq. second point, the reigning policymakers don't believe the syrian president bishara lessard will be overthrown, at least not the syrians. aside still retain support of half the syrian society, it even compelled at some point to surrender damascus, he and his forces would continue to control a significant part of territory under these circumstances, serious are they likely to become ally of the west indeed any sort of possibly representative post is that government isn't going to be more pro-american or more pro-israel. such a government might be less keen about keeping serious border with israel quiet and that would be just fine for the islamic republic. iranian officials believe that overall developments in the middle east are continuing the regional balance in tehran savior. as far as the press picks for u.s. iranian diplomacy or can you come to hillary and i thi

. >> chris: the democrats started it in 2007 with harry reid to block george w. bush. george w. bush never challenged this. >> correct. and in fact, george w. bush's lawyers wrote recently in the newspapers that this is presidential power. the constitution gives the president the power to make recess appointments. and they are undermining. >> that is really not in dispute. what is in dispute here is whether the senate was actually in recess and the question comes who gets to decide whether the senate is in recess? the senate or the president? >> and i think the oath -- you also have to put this in broader context. >> things got done during that -- >> they weren't in town. they weren't in town. you could not consider a nomination because they weren't here. >> the thing about this, though, put it in broader context. the more interesting aspect of the ruling was them dialing this way, way back and saying in fact if you look at the constitution you can't even if you are a president hold out the recess appointments and then make them finally put them forward when the senate is in rece

in addition to position for president george w. bush she has served as will on the staff of domestic policy council for president george h. w. bush, and as a staff economist for the council of economic advisers during the reagan administration. in 2003-2005, she was chief economist of the u.s. department of labor. she's also the author of this past july of women's figures, a guide to the economic progress of women in america. please join me in welcoming senior fellow diana furchtgott-roth. [applause] >> thank you very much, howard, for that very kind introduction. and thank all of you for coming. i'm really grateful that you could be doing so many of the things today and coming to listen to me, but yet here you are, listening to me talk about green jobs and the fallacies of green jobs. i'd like to thank the manhattan institute not only for supporting this research but for organizing this talk. i'd also like to thank john, a mechanical engineer, who is here and to advise me on the technical aspects of energy in the book, and to read the

that's a 73-point gap, tied with one other president, george w. bush. another poll shows since president obama was re-elected, just a third of voters think he has been more bipartisan. but the majority, 55% say he's been more confrontational. does this mean nothing can really get done that's meaningful in washington to solve our nation's national debt and help the economy? we have a former white house political director under president george w. bush and a former chief of staff to west virginia senator joe mansion. >> great to be here. >> eric: matt, let me start with you. how do we get here? >> well, you know, i think about the president i served, george w. bush. when he came to office, he really was concerned about trying to if i understand a way to reach across the aisle because clearly bill clinton left the presidency with high numbers. he worked with ted kennedy. he worked with democrats and signature domestic policy issues and then 9/11 happened and the wars occurred. really, the nation polarized again, right versus left. i don't think we have com

ing george w. bush when he uses drones to assassinate people abroad so one of the few things they've had is to say well you're not protecting classified information you allowed disclosures of information to wake you leaks on your watch you allowed these instances where the new york times are publishing sensitive information about national security programs and so that's something that they have used and i don't think it's actually worked so their vantage because what you had happen is that barack obama even when he was campaigning puts on a campaign web site how proud he is that he has convicted these people how proud he is that he is gone after the whistleblowers and be a legit leakers and as clam down and has posed these safeguards of classified information that impacts freedom of the press and the mass and that they're obviously this is going to have some type of impact on freedom of the press have to say how much chemical stella blogger at firedoglake thank you for joining me thank you still ahead o

he was a very conservative member of the senate who happened to lose to george w. bush and took out all the grudges of george w. bush, then he was a mavericky liberal. went back to the right, now you have a guy here his term is going to be up in 2016. he will be 80 years old. this is an issue he really cares about and i think he really looks at it, i'm going to leave the senate in 2016, what is my legacy beyond being a sore loser and holding grudges, well, here is something worth fighting for. >> krystal ball, steve kornacki -- the teleprompter didn't get that right. >> no worries. >> thank you all for helping me tonight. >>> coming up, president obama and hillary clinton do 60 minutes together, what is that all about. >> and we're two days from knowing who governor duval patrick will appoint as the next senator of massachusetts. it is really very simple. he will appoint barney frank or make a big mistake. >>> and it is all over for sarah palin, nobody is sorry to see her go. sarah palin, the presidential candidate who never was is in tonight's rewrite for possibly the