she talks about presidents from gerald ford to barack obama and shares her personal experiences with these men and her opinions on the administrations. c-span: after 40 years of covering the pres. of the united states at the white house, house, who had the best and worst press operations? >> guest: pretty much stable through all of them. marlon fitzwater, a particularly good press secretary under the george herbert walker administration tended to have less good strong number two's and number threes. i always thought that curious because of press secretary can do everything him or herself. the best press operation i think again that has been pretty even, but even but when barack obama became president they kind of reorganized it i'll walk in from the press. into the lower press office. almost twice as many people with a single best. people who specializes in each issue. instantaneous and getting answers back. ♪ -- c-span: which was the hardest to get information from? >> guest: each administration had times. toward the end of the carter administration we did not have email, we did not

they questioned president gerald ford. >> they won't let the mexicans in from mexico. they send them back. i mean we could be put out if we start letting the vietnamese in. >> from some sources i've heard, the people over there really don't mind it all that badly. i don't understand why we're bringing them over here. >> the lady that we've got too many walking the streets here that we need to take care of before we take care of them. >> i don't know how many we can absorb but we have a job to help the people there. >>> in 2005, ktvu's janine de la vega met some of the children and women that were on the flight. >> reporter: they waited anxiously inside a hanger at oakland airport this morning wondering what to expect. >> can you believe my mom -- >> reporter: three decades have passed since 57 vietnamese orphans arrived here flown from in se -- saigon. now as adults, 24 of them are heading back to their homeland some for the first time. >> i'm looking forward to this trip since i found out about it. but i had no idea the magnitude of this anniversary. >> reporter: 30 y

. >> i did not know at the time that gerald ford himself an orphan by the way had decided to air lifte of the victims out of viet flam. >> bud schrader was authorized to fly some of the orphans outside of vietnam. he had no idea he would be carrying orphans in his cargo hold. his survivor instinct came in to play. >> what we needed were blankets and pillows and orange juice and all that stuff. >> more than 300 people on board. 12 minutes into the flight, at 22,000 feet, disaster struck. the locks on the plane's rear loading ramp failed. >> the locks all broke. the ramp dipped into the slipstream, ripped off and when it did it broke the back of the pressure door. the trouble was when the door went through tail, it took all of the flight control cables. >> trainer had very little control of the monster cargo plane but he and hi co-pilot managed to turn the c-5 around for emergency landing down at tan son nut. >> we touched down on a rice paddy. but it broke up where the kids were basically all died just a handful survived. >> 138 died, including 78 children. to get an idea what it would

. >> january 1979 at the age of 70 after two rather dispiriting years as gerald ford's vice presidentany as governor of new york. c-span: how many times was elected governor? >> guest: four times. times. it is a modern record. and to be governor was ipso facto to[be regarded as a potential president. all the more so in his case because of the resources that he brought to the office and because of the personality. one one of the hardest things for any historian or biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. it is a relative term and different generations defined differently. c-span: how many times as he married? >> guest: twice, and that is another important part of the story, his divorce and remarriage arguably -- it certainly affected his chances to be president. i i would argue he was probably in the wrong party and never would have been nominated by the republican party after 1960 but there 1960, but there is no doubt in a way that today we would find difficult to understand c-span: how long was he married to his 1st wife? >> guest: over

after sweeping the series for the first time since gerald ford is in the oval office, the warriors will now have a week off for the second round. >> i am going to cab cabo tomorrow, i will not see them until sunday the earliest. i told the guys just to get work in if they want -- no, i am am just kidding, just kidding. >> this was not cabo. no beach for parker. game 4 for the spurs. they spark off of the bench for san antonio. clippers would bounce back from being blown out. now, evening that series now at 2 games a piece. now, 1st quarter, now, loaf tangled up, now, he is running the stretch of the locker room after that. would not return. now t it did not end at jr smith ejected after taking it. now, they will likely be suspended. now, there was a game. lebron, too much for the young celtics, he leaves them with 27 points, they lead, now, they move on for the second round. the gators after rain fell this weekend, now, cameron, looking for the second win, taking advantage of it. sank the chip on 7th hole and eagle. now, 21 under par. now, 13th on the t-shot, going into the trees, the a

. >> i go back to gerald ford and chevy chase. and not in a good way for gerald ford. >> to me it just further and solidifies the narrative. if you are running for president, if you are marco rubio announcing today, worry about what you do in the real world. that will be heightened in the comedy world. i worked at "snl" for years. they were great. they weren't inventing these people. they were based on what candidates were actually saying or the politician was saying in the real world. i'm excited. it's political comedy season now. cue the breaking news banner. this is the best time of the year. it will be so much fun. >> do you think tina fey's spoof on sarah palin hurt sarah palin's chances? >> i think it did but again it wasn't like they made up sarah palin as saying things like russia. i can see russia from my house. sarah palin did say when putin leaves his house and flies over airspace he can see alaska. they used that reality to exaggerate for comedic purposes. it didn't help sarah palin but at the end of the day i think bi

richard nixon in 1960, hubert humphrey in 1968, gerald ford in 1976, al gore in 2000 after eight years of incumbency. e.j. dionne says that hillary's model will be george bush sr. who in 1988 ran himself as a more palatable alternative to ronald reagan and ran a brutal campaign against democrat michael dukakis. hillary clinton will have to put distance between herself and barack obama and get tough on the more extreme elements of the republican party. jeb bush might be running himself. hillary clinton and not him will take his father as a role model. annette: controversy in turkey over the pope's mention of the armenian genocide. oliver: this template has a headline on its front page -- "pope 1915 crisis." the minister of foreign affairs summons the vatican ambassador in ankara and says they are straying from the facts. in the english edition it says the pope was only citing a statement that had previously been signed by his predecessor pope john paul ii in 2001. it notes that while a number of countries have recognized the genocide but not the united states, and he wonders if the arme

. >>> after sweeping a 4 game series for the first time since gerald ford was in the oval office, lawyershave a week off to get ready for the second round. [speaking in spanish] >> i want the benefits, guys. >> i am going to cobo tomorrow. i will not see the team until saturday. we don't play until sunday. at the earliest. so, i will be in cobo all week. i told the guys just to get work in if they want but, i am just kidding, just kidding. [ laughter ] >> is he kid something. >> really? >> anything but a day at the beach for tony parker. game 4, spurs, clippers, now, continuing to be a spark off of the bench. the saint mary star, 14 points today. the clips would bounce back after being blown out on friday night. now, shooting 54%, winning 114 and even the series now at 2 gamings a piece. lebron, the kafs, hoping to finish -- the cavs, now, here, heading straight for the locker room, will not return. it did not end there. smith, ejected after taking a swing. he will likely be suspended for that move. as for the game. lebron, too much for the young celtics, at 27. cleveland wins to advance

this inning on c-span 2 q & a with ann compton talking about the presidents she has covered from gerald ford to barack obama, at 7:00 eastern. booktv timetime at 8:00 with authors writing about education, and then at 9:00, on the book "cheated" the unc scandal. the education of athletes. and at 10:00 why schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you don't have to be. begins at 8:00. >> here some over of our features programs for this weekend. on c-span 2 booktv saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, president of americans for tax reform grover nordquist, says americans are tired of ther is and is our tax system. and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler about franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin, and their unexpected partnership beyond the war. and saturday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3, on lectures and history, university of virginia's college of wise professor jennifer murray on how civil war veterans reunions have changed, and at 1:00, american history tv is live, commemorating the anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >> c-

>> i would like to look into some of the dealings of former president gerald ford, which received millionss of dollars from drug addax. >> [inaudible] >> i am simply saying that on one hand, like $5000 versus itchy meth heads, you know, i'm talking about dirty algerians as far as i am concerned. >> okay, you worry. >> yes, i do. that is because books are a wonderful tool for learning. in the means that she is against literacy. >> i'm worried for her campaign because literacy is important for this campaign and she's in favor of book burning. and you could fill a wall of a small library. >> in dc there is a pile of lincoln books. they actually wanted to show how many books have been written about lincoln. >> if you ever want to sell a lot of books about the poker lincoln, that's the way to go. i wrote a book about what if lincoln was the pope and it was really good. [laughter] >> something else that is going to kill you, kraft macaroni and cheese will no longer be made with artificial preservatives and synthetic dyes starting in january of 2016, instead they will get the natural sources of p

president gerald ford authorized operation baby lift, ktvu covered it as it happened.ation of thousands of vietnamese children. their caretakers came too. >> because more or less we have to be with them because they need them. >> reporter: operation baby lift became the humanitarian gesture that resinated across the globe. many of those children adopted here in the bay area and offered citizenship assimilating to this country, riding the oakland zoo train and winning hearts here. today julie gave a reunion hug to one veteran who helped 40 years ago. >> it was a healing kind of experience. i got a chance to know that i was doing something positive for the country and for the people of vietnam. >> reporter: tonight where 40 years ago the veterans adopting parents a panel discussion. adoptees say they're eager to add their voices to this important time in history. >> we posted coverage of operation baby lift footage. you can go to ktvu.com to view it. >>> and told you about the story of mcguire. we have now learned the bank froze her account, froze that account before the

presidents dating back to gerald ford tried to curbing deals. how monumental is the deal in its current form? >> this deal in its counter form, and remembering, of course that there are months ahead. the ink is not dry on the deal. we have to go forward and theght details and final terms, and nothing that the president said is agreed to until all is agreed to. what was announced this week is a big deal. it's a serious deal putting verification and transparency measures on iran such that have not been netted before. this is -- negotiated before. this is something past presidents worked towards, have not been able to achieve, and ultimately, if this comes to fruition is historic. >> we know negotiators on both sides are faced with resistance to the deal. how far do you think some of those hardliners will go. what could derail the deal? >> so already the u.s. congress said they'll expect to vote. senator corker has a bill requiring the congress to vote up or down on a time agreement, and plans to push forward with that. senator kirk said that he wo

sometimes he took the same message 12 years later against gerald ford and successfully 16 years later on his own, that conservative or extreme view at the time was the mainstream. for all i know this extreme left view is the mainstream of the democratic party. i think in this short interim it is going to do more harm to democrats than help. >> well to me i think you're right to. meet real harm for hillary clinton and for the democrats is to have anybody challenge her. she's been able to keep challengers out because if the discussion is anything other than wouldn't you like a woman to be your next president? she's going to be hurt if it's foreign policy. all of the scandals are coming, tumbling out of closet. if it's economics. if o'malley is able to do that that tool be an issue. the american people want a woman elected as president they don't want it to be lannister. they see the nigerian donation and boko haram not being named terrorists. this spells trouble for hillary. neil: you know the one thing that comes up here, doug, is the idea that she will have to then account it is hilla

kennedy through the missile crisis johnson, the two to 68 -- six day war, the pueblo, the october war gerald ford a mild seizure carter as i mentioned reagan, did three george bush the persian gulf war created a nation the iraqi nation of kuwait 1990, clinton, george bush 9/11 and two things from obama's arab spring, the libyan intervention and the syrian chemical weapons red line crisis. what i did i tried to assess each of the 17 crises from two taxis. the first was how bold the president's response was on the horizontal lands whether it was successful in the long term or a long-term failure and applauded them based upon not just my analysis but assessments from experts throughout the foreign policy world, sort of an aggregated raid and rather than giving them a b c d, put them in their appropriate quadrants because none of us agree exactly where this one should go but we could agree where it goes in the squadron which means it is cautious and but failure and the cautious excesses and over here are the bold success and these of the bold failures and the bottom line is caution succeeds more ofte

. >> i didn't know, that gerald ford himself an orphan by the way had decided to air lift some peopleout of vietnam. >> authorized to fly the first baby lift flight out of saigon. just after 4:00 p.m. with the barest of necessities and more than 300 people on board. 12 minutes into the flight at in 22,000 feet disaster struck. the locks on the plane failed. >> only a handful of people survived. >> in all wu 38 people were killed in that crash including 78 children. baby lift adoptee laura price was told she was on that plane. one of the dozen seated in the top portion of the plane who survived. laura was air lifted out of saigon with very few records and almost no information about her birth family. >> i grew up with this belief that i came over on this plane that crashed. and i was a survivor. >> the crash was also traumatic for laura's documentive mother, loretta olmstead. loretta believed her chances of adopting were gone after the plane crash. but two weeks later she received a phone call. her baby girl was waiting in a denver hospital. laura recently ventured back to her home lan

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gerald ford was president and the united states was celebrating its bicentennial.ountry was also going through what was widely regarded as a sexual revolution. that's when moore's troubles began. >> i was convicted of killing my wife in 1976 in the state of iowa. >> moore's wife, terri williams, was a dancer at a local club when their relationship began. >> i was just a customer. i just walked in off the street. we met, hit it off pretty decently, you know, and ended up -- well, we picked each other up actually, so we went to terri's apartment and made love and enjoyed each other's company, you know. we got married. then i began to have thoughts about terri. i thought maybe terri was a little bit different, you know. >> how so? >> i felt that the person was more like a man than like a woman, and i thought that the person maybe had been a man. >> why? >> from feeling into this area of their body, you know. i thought that's very similar to me, you know. it's like the person has had their sex organ removed. that's what i thought, you know, but i wasn't completely sure

. >> not gerald ford and not richard nixon.y weren't wealthy men when they got in. >> okay. >> jimmy carter wasn't a wealthy man. >> in the modern era, in the modern ear remarks the presidential candidates have been very well off. >> i just gave you three that weren't. but, look, that's not my problem. >> you said richard nixon. >> he wasn't wealthy when he ran for president. he wasn't welgty at all. >> i agree but that's some years ago. >> that was modern times. >> in the era of campaign finance we have now. >> this income inequality team the democratic party has seized upon. you are part of that. because you advised president obama on this. if you get a socialist like elizabeth warren, maybe it could. although she has made a ton of money at the top level too. last word. >> look. may last word is if cutting taxes at the top were a big generator of growth and jack's magic beaten stock then it worked have worked under george bush if they cut it. it doesn't. the economy isn't driven by taxes at the top. >> but it's driven by busi

abc news reporter and white house correspondent and compton talks about covering presidents from gerald fordo barack obama. that begins at seven each and. at eight it is booktv prime time. >> each night this week while congress is on its spring recess, c-span is bring you interviews with new members of congress. it continues tonight with california democrat norma torres but she came to the u.s. at the age of five from guatemala and became involved with politics after working for years as a police dispatcher. here's a portion of the interview. >> it is incredibly hard to get here. the money involved in politics is, it makes it almost impossible for someone like me and average mom a 911 dispatcher by trade. is as credible that i made it this far but here i am. >> why did you decide to seek office? >> i answered a call at the 911 dispatcher of a little girl 11 year old girl who died at the hands of her uncle. it really pushed me into a political world that i friendly didn't know existed. >> see the entire c-span profile tonight, congressional freshman profiles each night this week at 9 p.m. eas

she talks about presidents from gerald ford to barack obama and shares her personal experiences withthese men and her opinions on the administrations. c-span: after 40 years of covering the pres. of the united states at the white house, house, who had the best and worst press operations? >> guest: pretty much stable through all of them. marlon fitzwater, a particularly good press secretary under the george herbert walker administration tended to have less good strong number two's and number threes. i

the nominees for the war and commission, you will here he talks about a future president named gerald ford. >> he's considered a pretty liberal fellow. you've got to southerners, but you got to northerners that are civilians. >> i wasn't undertaking to argue with you. >> i sure want you to if you disagree with me. >> you couldn't have better men but i'm just thinking of the geographical location on the legislative level and that is something i call to mind for you to consider. kentucky up north is considered self. >> they -- there are three men appointed to represent the public and none of them are southerners. >> you go ahead. >> you take care of the house of representatives for me. >> how my going to take care of them? >> keep them from investigating. >> listen, i got outside and i was doing some work -- i have a pakistani investor waited on me since oracle and 45 -- pakistani ambassador waiting on me since 4:45. >> that is a blatant error, but sometimes they can leave out a no worry not in the senate and it changes the meaning of the sentence or paragraph. i love this conversation. it s

nominees for the warren commission, you will hear that he talks about a future president named gerald ford. >> he's considered a pretty liberal fellow and fortis from the north. you've got to southerners but you have two northerners and they are civilians. it offsets. >> i'm not arguing with you. >> i want you to if you disagree. >> you could not have better men but i think the geographical location on the legislative level is something i call to mind for you to consider. kentucky up north is considered south. >> but then i might not have any senator. there are three men appointed to represent the public area >> listen, you go ahead. how am i going to take care of them? i've been doing it. >> goodbye. >> listen, i was doing some state work. >> you bet check, i've got the pakistani ambassador waiting for may. >> that's a pretty blatant error on that one. sometimes they did nothing except leave out a word in the sentence. that changes the whole meaning of the sentence or paragraph. i really love this conversation. this really shows the dynamic between lady bird johnson and her husband. durin

former abc news reporter and white house correspondent ann compton talks about covering presidents gerald fordobama. that begins at 7:00 eastern. then at 8:00, booktv in prime time, tonight with authors who have written about education starting with who wrote more than a score. at 9:00 eastern mary willingham, and kay smith. cheated. athletes in big time sports. at 10, anya kaminez. why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you don't have to be. coming up tonight on booktv. >>> each night this week at 9:00 p.m. eastern conversations with a few new members of c,ngress. >> and as a result i try to stay disciplined in my message in a football sense i try to stay between the hash marks. i understand, i represent everyone in montana and that is one congressman. i represent not only the republican side. but i represent the democrat side. independent side, the tea party side. i represent everyone in montana. i think if we take that value set forward, congress represents america. truly articulate the values and needs and desires of your district. but the purposes to make america bette

gerald ford replaced by carter. six times since world war ii that pattern has happen.ce was it broken when reagan was replaced by a candidate from his own party, to give you a closer idea of how this works, take a look at the 2000 presidential election. this is after eight years of democratic rule. after eight years of bill clinton. the country was in are great shape. the unemployment rate was under 4% on election day. this had been the longest sustained period of economic growth in american history. the country was at peace. peace, prosperity and approval rating of nearly 60% for the president. yet, the vice president to bill clinton, al gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. he lost in the electorial college. this country was still open to having a president from the other party. take a look at 1988. this is the one the clint in people will tell you they have in mind. this is the one exception to that pattern with george bush. nearly 60%. the unemployment rate down about 5.3%. and bush did win that election handally. he sort of handed it to dukakis. it is wort

this president deserves the same fast track authority every president has had since gerald ford.emocratic president has been given by democratic and republican congresses. if you don't like the treaty, vote against it. but to deny this president the ability to negotiate request the same authority as his predecessors, i don't understand why democrats would want to do that. >> congressman, did you support nafta? did you support the free trade agreement with colombia and panama? >> i wasn't here for nafta but i was here for clom yarksolombia, panama and korea and i voted for all three. >>> after the break, we'll zoom through other top stories, including a weather alert. check this video out of hail blanketing the windy city of chicago. all eyes are on parts of texas and oklahoma. storms later lead to. >>> plus at 93-year-old man goes on trial for crimes he allegedly committed 70 years ago. we'll explain next on t rounddown. 73% of americans try... ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. compl

bush, jimmy carter, and i am not sure if it was gerald ford, anyway, there were four presidents thatd this was a good thing. now, my question is, what caused all of this before nafta was enacted. and the summit people lost their jobs that they had to move out of this town that was once booming and if you were not going to be a doctor or lawyer, you work in those factories. can you answer my question of what caused this to happen? host: ok, thank you. guest: first come on your point about schools closing, etc. when good, well-paid jobs leave town and the factories themselves close and companies are not paying taxes you end up having the taxpayers shrink and public service workers from teachers, firefighters policeman losing their jobs. custom all the service sector workers like folks in construction -- no one has money to have something done youtube there house or build a new house. folks that duke services that are not mandatory but that people buy as an enjoyment because they have the wages to do it -- all of those kind of jobs and up getting hit with a manufacturing job goes. the s

as history remembers as an ideological anti-soviet right-wing warrior campaigned in 1976 against gerald fordnd again in 1980 as a foreign-policy realist. he was very practical about things. richard nixon campaigned as someone who was practical. george w. bush in 2000 campaigned on the idea that we are not going to go around the world and they won't be a nationbuilding corps from america and it is not america's top to go around the world and remove sovereign governments. all these people have managed to have success by portraying themselves as moderates, but for trained themselves as somebody who just looks at each situation and responds differently. not as somebody who is ideological, so i think it is difficult for somebody like rand paul or to a lesser extent, ron paul if they are perceived as an ideologue on foreign policy. hillary clinton is effectively avoiding this piper train herself as somebody who just looks at different issues and responds accordingly. so i think people fear ideology when it comes to foreign-policy because it is just so important. if you are an ideologue and uncompr

we went through watergate, for example, gerald ford was a new president the war had been going on forted on that as the war. >> let's take a look. >> reporter: no american war had ended in such painful humiliation. 15 years of american blood and treasure came to this. the u.s. embassy overrun, the communist north triumphant. here at the vietnam memorial wall in washington there are 58 o 300 names and for those people and their families the way the war ended 48 years ago was particularly tragic. for 15 years, it was war in the jungles. in the air. in prison catches andmps. at home on the campuses on the political fields of battle. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> reporter: it brought down one president from within his own party and ignited a fiery contest between senators mccarthy and robert kennedy for the democratic nomination. but bobby didn't make it to the convention. he was murdered by a palestinian fanatic. not too long before dr. king was murdered by a racist excon. 1968 was a violent and bloody year in vietnam and here at h

has been granted to every president since gerald ford. this long p standing long-standing and proven partnership between the legislative and executive branches is essential to finalizing those free trade agreements that create countless opportunities for american enterprise. t.p.a. will allow us to actually complete the trade negotiations that are currently under way. america is on the brink of some very ambitious and pro- pro-growth deals. it will also provide our negotiators with the credibility that they need in order to conclude those trade agreements. our trading partners, they must be certain that the united states is serious about its trade priorities and that we are serious about our commitments. to get the best deal, there is no doubt that our trade negotiators need this vital negotiating tool. furthermore as this administration negotiates the two largest regional trade agreements in history we must position ourselves to extract the best deals possible. the trans-pathe trans-pacific partnership includes countries such as japan an