i think gerald ford was left-handed, too. >> what does that mean? >> we're a tribe. >> last question, who named it wilderness warrior." >> i did. my wife may be the originator of it. i write a list of like then of them. and i think it's because tr is seen as a warrior, a wonderful scholar at university of wisconsin john milton cooper has the book, the warrior and the priest. his sense of a warrior wasn't just the battle field. he liked to have fights about everything that he believed in. he was a warrior fighting to save wild america. and so the title kind of came naturally and the sub title has the word crew said in it because it was. he was a crusaders for this. it wasn't just -- to confront roosevelt on wanting to save the grand canyon or mesa verde or the bird refuges in florida, you'd better be strong because tr knocked everybody over. i don't know any president that was as bold as roosevelt. his hue bris speckor. you can't comprehend. bill clinton is nothing like tr. they'll say george w. bush is like tr. they're nothing like roosevelt. roosev

gerald ford. ford. gerald ford. yeah. no, i do. gerald ford. gerald ford.ford is right, and you're back on track. [ laughs ] yeah! see, we'll get the hard ones. waging a violent war on trash, what neutral scandinavian nation claims to recycle 85% of its waste? scandinavia -- probably sweden or denmark. there you go. gosh. go give paul a call. we're doing a call -- mobile...shout-out! all right, a shout-out. a mobile or a street shout-out? a mobile. a mobile. okay. who you gonna call? i'm gonna call arthur. call your friend guinevere. [ laughter ] are you calling arthur? hello, arthur? i'm in the cash cab, and i've got a question for you. waging a violent war on trash... waging a violent war on trash, what neutral scandinavian nation... ...reportedly recycles... ...reportedly recycles 85% of its waste? do you have an idea? i only got a few seconds. five seconds. sweden. okay. denmark. denmark. he says denmark. denmark. bailey: oh, no, strike two. it's sweden. i knew it! ouch. oh, well. ouch! don't worry, arthur. all right, guys, an unsuccessful mobile shout-

i was called back as ambassador to nato to washington when gerald ford became president to chair his transition, and he had never been elected president or vice president. no one knew him around the world. i had been ambassador and had contacts in europe and he said, look, there is a conference going on in izmir, turkey, and i want you to go there and explain to people who gerald ford is and what our policies are going to be, and that dr. kissinger is going to be continuing as secretary of state, and kind of be reassuring. and the name of the conference was just the opposite of the conservative tradition, supposedly. it was the builderberg conference. and i went there to izmir, turkey, walked in, looked around, didn't see too many people i knew, and looked in the back and in the middle and there was bill buckley. i said, oh, my goodness, and i sat with him and he introduced me to a woman sitting next to him who i had never met, and we talked. it turned out the woman sitting next to him was a young, british parliamentarian named margaret thatcher who played a role in the conservative

you haven't been as you would put it a bureaucrat since gerald ford was president.hy wouldn't you be a good choice for mitt romney? >> well, i'm going to do whatever i can to help mitt romney defeat barack obama because i think the future of the country is at stake and i think mitt romney is going to be a fantastic president for our country. i'll do whatever i can do to help him. he's going to have a lot of great people to pick from. obviously any one would be honored to serve if asked. i've been telling people look, i think i can help in other ways but obviously anybody would be honored to serve if asked. >> have you heard from boston, from beth meyers in the campaign asking for your background information? >> the romney campaign has a policy, that we don't talk about the vice presidential policy in terms of timing whether it relates to me or any one else or the aspects ever that so that's something that we're going to leave for another day and time. and not because i'm trying to be coy. that's the campaign policy. we don't discuss the details of that process. >> y

. >> jaime, he did every president except gerald ford. i feel bad for gerald ford. >> bizarre, but he is gone now, so -- this is the ultimate cultural personality. this is like what dictators do. the former leader built a statue of himself. i am not saying president obama is a dictator, not at all. but to be bipartisan i think if newt gingrich wasn't he would do -- wasn't he would do the same. >> here is the thing. to me it is not a big deal. it is petty. when you were in an office and you would get a gift for somebody and everybody who chips in signs the birthday card. but then somebody else signs the card who didn't chip in. >> that's wrong. >> i guess they were citing the obama care thing and that is being challenged. >> you candy leet that. >> that's the great thing about the internet. you can add things in and take it out. >> i would suggest getting a computer for that. >> and for other purposes as well. >> do you have a comment on the show? e male us. 212-462-5050. still to come, the half time report 23r tv's andy levy. >> tonight's

we see carter and gerald ford's funeral. that is amazing. these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. that bonds them in ways that all of them are writing about politics and policy that few of us can experience. >> i want to ask nancy about the hoover/truman relationship. what did you find specific examples of where those two worked together? >> initially it is a difficult thing. truman found himself president. here he is facing a catastrophe. literally hundreds of millions of people are at risk of starting. it was a mammoth undertaking to figure out how we're going to get europe on its feet. no one knew more on how to do this than herbert hoover. it is a great problem solver. against the wishes, truman reached out to hoover and asked him to come in and helped him how to figure out how to do european relief. they are suspicious of each other. they had not had a relationship before. as they got over their suspicions and were very much united in the urgency of what they were up against, a tremendous

well-to-do, the connected, nominate people who come from humble origins -- ronald reagan, richard nixon, gerald ford. mitt romney reinforces the republican stereotyped as the rich taking care of the rich and only caring about the rich. he has got to break out of that. >> thanks very much. enjoy your weekend. see you next week. announcer: the new pbs for ipad app.

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listen in on the president's conversations with future president gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush and with key white house advisers and the directors of the fbi and cia. for schedule information go to cspan.org/schedule and listen online at c-spanradio.org and nationwide on xm 119 and 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. >>> all weekend long, american history tv joins our cox communications cable partners in oklahoma city to showcase its history and literary culture. settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. >> my name is terry jordan. curator at the archive. previously the tapes were on analog tape. it is in this room. it is chilly. we keep the temperature and humidity down for preservation of the materials. >> how far back does your collection date? back to the 1930s for radio advertisements to the 1950s for television advertisements. some of our earliest material are commercials from the eisenhower campaign. [ no audio ]

this week, hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 f.m. on, x.m. channel 119, and at vspanradio.org. >> i have seemed to have earned a certain place where people will listen to me, and i've always cared about the country. and the greatest generation writing that book gave me a kind of a platform that was completely unanticipated. so i thought i ought not to kwaunder that. so i ought to step up as -- not just a citizen and journalist but as a father and husband and grandfather, and as i see thing i ought to write them and try to start this dialogue, which i'm trying to do with this book, but what i'm about to do next. >> in his latest "the time of our lives," tom brokaw urges americans to redefine the american dream. and sunday live in depth, your questions for the former anchor and managing editor of "nbc nightly news." in his half dozen books, he's written about the greatest generation, the 1960s, and today. "in depth" sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> u.s. policy in the middle east

hear gerald ford, ronald reagan and george hw bush. 90.1 fm on xm 119, cspanradio.org. >>> more live coverage of the discussion on immigration and border issues coming up in 15 minutes. they're taking a lunch break. back now and listen to some of the opening statements for this forum. >>> good morning. appreciate everyone being here. officially presented by arizona employers for immigration reform, competitive enterprise institute, national immigration forum and texans for sensible immigration policy. we are going to have an immigration summit right here in washington, d.c. where we hope the benefit of which will be to offer some solutions and move some of our members of congress to get on with immigration reform. i'm norman adams, texan, a cofounder of texans for sensible immigration policy. and just as a setting or an opening i like to point out the fact i don't need to tell any of you that immigration debate is an emotional debate but that is nothing new. prior to 1923, if you arrived on the shores as most of our ancestors did, if you came in first class, you went straight to your

hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 fm. on xm, channel 119. at cspanradio.org. >>> now a conversation on the abolitionist movement and the underground railroad. republican congressman owen lovejoy used his home in princeton, illinois, as a stop on the underground railroad. and as a house member, he introduced a bill to end slavery in the district of columbia. he served in congress from 1857 until his death in 1864. we'll hear from historian and author owen mulder at this event hosted by the u.s. capitol historical society. >> okay, good morning. first of all, let me do a sound check. can i be heard? very good. well, welcome. good morning. i'm don kennen, a vice president of the united states capitol historical society. and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's lecture observing african-american history month. we are pleased to be joined by the illinois state society of washington, d.c. and the knox college alumni association of washington, d.c. in presenting today's lecture. i es

virginia between '64 and 2008 was in 1976, when the eventual president jimmy carter lost to incumbent gerald fordy just one percentage point. that election marked the tightest popular vote margin in virginia in the past 100 years. enough of the real news. let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch former republican candidates try, try to bring themselves to rally around mitt romney. newt gingrich, who ended his campaign on wednesday, had some tough things to say about mitt romney during the campaign. even calling him a liar at one point. gingrich was asked yesterday if he still believes that to be true. >> you still believe mitt romney's a liar? >> i still believe that the romney campaign said things that weren't true. >> is mitt romney -- >> the governor said things at times that weren't true. i think that's -- >> so the answer is yes. >> i also believe that compared to barack obama, i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. >> well, stephen colbert last night tried to help bridge the divide between gingrich and romney. >> in politics, these guys rib, they tease, they make robo calls sayin

this week hear conversation with his gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. in washington, d.c., listen to 90.1 fm and c-span@radio.org. >>> an event yesterday hosted by the bipartisan center here in washington. panelists from both sides of the university showed how both republican and democratic parties have clearly become more divided into conservative and liberal camps. this is just under 90 minutes. >>> good morning. my name is emil frankel. i'm a visiting scholar here. normally i focus on transportation and f infrastructure issues. my role this morning is to welcome all of you to this conversation about the vanishing republican moderate. i do so on behalf of the president of the bipartisan policy center and our colleagues at bbc. i want to -- i know there are lots of really important, famous, powerful people in this room. some vanishing, to be sure. but i do want to acknowledge two people. first of all, welcome congressman mickey edwards of oklahoma, now with the aspen institute. and a regular member here, senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center da

listen in on the president's conversations with future president gerald ford, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush and with key white house advisers and the directors of the fbi and cia. for schedule information go to cspan.org/schedule and listen online at c-spanradio.org and nationwide on xm 119 and 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. >>> all weekend long, american history tv joins our cox communications cable partners in oklahoma city to showcase its history and literary culture. settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people and is the sooner state's capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span3. >>> at high noon, the guns fire and the cannons go off and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique way of opening the public lands. since the 1860s congress had a policy on the books called the homestead act, and the homestead act said that anyone who would move to the frontier on the public domain and would stay for five years and make improvements and satisfy all of those con

this week hear conversations with gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush. washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 f.m. and at c-spanradio.org. >>> next on american history tv, kendall gott talks about the civil war battle of ft. donelson, a key victory for union troops in 1862. mr. gott is the author of "where the south lost the war: an analysis of the ft. donelson campaign." he gave this talk at the ftft. ft. donelson visitor center. it's 50 minutes. >>> the purpose of today is not really to give down and dirty blow by blow of battle. i've been asked to give a few random thoughts about the 150 years that have passed since the battle and the importance of the battle. i'll focus my remarks on that. i would love for you to buy that but there's some others out there, wrote an excellent book on the battle it. and the short film involved here and the interpretation with the rangers, by all means, seek those out for the blow by blow. we'll have more of a macro level for this here. it is exciting to be here for the 150th anniversary. as historians we look back and we thi

with the exception of gerald ford, a did you know section appears underneath each bio.t out thes accomplishment or factoid from the current obama administration. underneath ronald reagan's bio, you find, "in a jun june 281985 speech, reagan called for a fairer tax code. today, president obama is calling for same with the buffett rule." #obamaiin history made its way around this. they joked -- a white house official tells fox it's common to add links to the bottom of each page to encourage people browsing more page on the site. fifth grade teacher at georgia elementary school apologized for forcing students to sign a penal prior to getting their yearbook -yearbook, to not scri. >>> friends and supporters of former democratic presidential john edwards paid his mistress more than $9,000 month to lay low. correspondent jonathan serrie has the latest from the edwards corruption trial in greensboro, north carolina. good evening. >> good evening. >> the trial recessed today, without hearing from edwards' daughter. but they left open to call her on wednesday. with other witness

again, people like me used to be on the inside knocking on the door of people like ronald reagan, gerald fordited us to the white house. but we didn't run anything. now people with our views are either running the party or people like mitt romney are running so scared. the people at the top like karl rove done believe these issues at all. they get them to vote against their own economic interests. >> so they can achieve power. >> to give you an example dr liberty university is where he will speak at the graduation next week which banned the democratic club on campus for supporting same-sex marriage and lgbt rights. withdraw from cpac the question to have a gay rights group. >> he is going to have to be in very deep water here. the fact of the matter is the majority of the american people believe in gay rights. the majority of the gay people are not trying to take contraceptives away from women like roman catholics in their institutions, and going even further and lying about the first -- the president of the united states and saying he is anti-religious because he won't let them deprive women

president of the united states the other day changing the biographies on the president but for gerald ford and putting in to my father's biography that ronald reagan would have supported his warren buffett rule. i tweet add challenge to the president of the united states, saying, i will debate the president of the united states any place, any where he wants to, one-on-one, on ronald reagan supporting or not supporting the buffett rule. i am still waiting. i will not use a tell prompter. >>neil: celebrating a sell off today on one side of the market. ♪ [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. [ tires squeal ] then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx and the next chapter for lexus. see your lexus dealer. on my journey across america,us. i found new ways to tell people about saving money. this is bobby. say hello bobby. hello bobby. do you know you could save hundreds on car insurance over the phone, online or at your local geico office? tell us bobby, what would

those conservatives, the ones who backed ronald reagan, who ultimately lost in the convention to gerald fordf them didn't vote. you don't see that happening? >> i don't. because barack obama is that bad. there's that much of a hatred. that big of a riflery. -- rivalry. >> neil: did you go to usc or notre dame? >> i'm from indiana so i'm going with a red state versus a blue state. there's a reason. >> neil: the red state went blue last time. >> not this time. >> neil: thank you very much. you brought the a-game here. >> of course. >> that's the new pressure on all our guests, quick analogies. that man has mitt romney's back. could he have the plan to get the jobs back? bill marriott is here and only here. >> what do these miniature horses have to do with washington? it's got is to stossel fired up. it doesn't take much to fire him up. man: 1939 -- my parents ran across an ad for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this lit

security administrators apparently didn't recognize kissinger, who worked under presidents nixon and gerald ford. kissinger also won a nobel peace prize for his efforts to end the war in vietnam. >>> the lone survivor of a terrifying boating ordeal is suing princess cruises. passengers saw the stranded boat and reported it to the crew. but the ship never stopped. >> reporter: this is what the passengers saw. a disabled fishing boat. a drift in the pacific ocean. the passengers were aboard the star princess, a massive cruise liner that came inside the boat. one of the passengers who spotted it, described what he was doing. >> could see him doing this. with his shirt. over and over and over. >> reporter: meredith and at least one other passenger, jeff gilligan, who took this photo, say they immediately notified a crewmember on the star princess cruise ship. they say that crewmember visually confirmed the distressed cruise ship on his own. but the cruise ship never stopped. >> while we were on the ship, the feeling of powerlessness because we would have liked to have somehow gone over there and res

gerald ford the first person to come into office under the provisions of the 25th anticipatedment and president, nelson rockefeller became vice president as result of the 25th amendment process. by the way, really good nelson rockefeller biographies worked on that will be fun when they come out. >>> you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. >>> instead of hiring someone, she did her own market research. focus groups and surveys to find her products. for more, watch "your business" sunday morning the on msnbc. [ kate ] many women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. and she's looking directly at your new lumia, thank you at&t. first, why don't you show her the curved edge... now move on to the slick navigation tiles -- bam, right into the people hub. see megan, colin has lots of friends. hey, colin, what kind of phone is that? whaaa -- oh mega

gerald ford. >> reagan. >> rose: reagan. national security for bush 41 and lyndon johnson. what have you learned about leadership? >> well, first of all, they're all different. people ask me how can you work for presidents as different as president bush and president obama? i say "i worked for jimmy carter and ronald reagan." are you kidding me? >> rose: that's a difference! >> you adapt or you... or... but i think that... i think that the actually in some ways an important lesson. i think that president... i don't think many of these presidents worked hard enough with the congress. cultivated the congress in some ways the guy who did it best was the first president. >> rose: lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson. >> rose: because he knew the congress. >> but just in terms of inviting these guys down to the white house for drinks and having some time when there's no no agenda and getting to know each other i don't think either president obama or president bush did more of that. >> rose: and if they had we might have had less dysfunction in government today. >> well, it couldn't

. >> what did you do with gerald ford? >> i was the set -- assistant director. >> you are not on his detail. >> i was responsible for the men that were there. >> how about richard nixon? >> it with him. i was promoted to assistant director. >> what have you found that people expect from you in this book? you say no gossip, none of that. some people say it implies these two were very close. closer than just agent to protectee. >> we were close. very close friends. professional. i knew a lot of her secrets and she . it is accurate in saying really close. i wanted to have people get a better understanding of who she was. there have been a lot of books written. most of it has been written by people who talked to friends of friends of friends. people who do not have the information themselves. i happen to be there and i knew her. we had a direct relationship. i finally decided it was time to put on paper and let people know what she was really like. did she ever get mad and you? and if she did, why? >> she got upset a few times

i mean, if they are saying, you know, as far as a president supporting gay rights, you know, gerald ford gay rights before president clinton did and if they mean an actual gay president, historians are looking at the letters of george washington and abraham lincoln and pegging those two guys as being gay presidents, so i'm not sure what they meant by that, but the cover at least is provocative. >> yeah, i think -- i think i get it. i haven't read the article. i read what andrew sullivan wrote in "the daily beast" earlier in the week which was a very eloquent and heart-felt article. i haven't read the "newsweek" article yet because it hasn't been released. i think i get what they mean. it's kind of like we called bill clinton the first black president, so -- >> you might call him that. i'm not going to. >> that's what people said, but judging from what andrew sullivan said about gay kids who were bullied and gay people who finally have some degree of validation maybe for the first time because of what president obama said, i think that's what that cover means. that's just my interpretatio

we have the general -- gerald ford awards. tonight, -- on june 9th.we have our 15th annual beat the deadline race that benefit the national press club. tony horton will be here. ivo like to present our guest with our traditional -- i would like to present our guest with traditional npc coffee mug. [applause] have you learned of theflash -- the flash mob dance? >> i am a little stressed about that. but i have a beat. i will pick it up. i am ready for the challenge. >> if you want to try any of it? i hear you are a good dancer? [laughter] >> what is your favorite cookie? [laughter] >> oh, man. wow. you saved the toughest question until the end. i will tell you what my answer used to be. after i gave the answer, it was a little political. my husband happened to be listening when i said i loved all cookies. he said stop it when i got home. you have a cookie, say the cookie. so my favorite cookie is the samoa. i embrace it. [applause] but girls get to choose their favorite cookie. and we have an iphone app that says based on your favorite cookie, we can te