know about gerald r ford? because so much has been written about him. to me the more interesting thing is the fact that he was born as leslie lynch king. that was his biological father. he was a junior. and my grandmother took him when he was very young, and i mean less than six weeks old, and got on a train and went to grand rapids michigan. she met a man, she divorced leslie lynch king, and she met a man by the name of gerald r ford senior. married him eventually, and my dad drew up as -- grew up as a gene. my dad was never adopted. we all assumed he was until we found the documentation. he was never adopted by gerald ford senior who i think of. he just changed his name and he chose to when he was in his late teens and early 20s. but that is the grandfather that i know and admired a lot. >> how did your parents meet? >> my mother was divorced at the time, and the stories that i have heard was she was dating quite a few men in grand rapids and she was a young divorce. my parents were 30 and 35 when they got m

he was born with a different name than gerald ford. ms. bales: he was. and when people say, what does america not know about gerald r. ford, because so much has been written about him in books and that kind of thing. to me, it was his name. he was born as leslie lynch king. he was a junior, and my grandmother took him when i was -- when he was very young, less than six weeks old, and took him on a train to grand rapids, michigan. she met a man. she divorced leslie lynch king

and when people say, what does america not know about gerald r. ford, because so much has been written about him in books and that kind of thing. to me, it was his name. he was born as leslie lynch king. he was a junior, and my grandmother took him when i was -- when he was very young, less than six weeks old, and took him on a train to grand rapids, michigan. she met a man. she divorced leslie lynch king and married gerald ford senior. married him eventually. my dad grew up as judy. my dad was never adopted. we all assumed he had been adopted until we found the documentation spirit he was never adopted by gerald r ford senior who i think of as my grandfather. he just changed his name. he chose to change his name when he was in his late teens and early 20's, but that is the grandfather i know and admired a lot. susan: and how did your parents meet? ms. bales: my mother was divorced at the time, and the stories that i've heard was that she was dating quite a few men in grand rapids and was a young divorcee. my parents were 30 and 35 when they got marrie

gerald ford spent much more time at yale finitude of university of michigan. it really was the chrysalis out of which he emerged as, he had never been east of ohio before, before he went to yale. and it was the school in many ways. he was offered legal jobs in new york, in philadelphia. but he knew even then he wanted to come back to grand rapids, because i think he knew even then that he had his eyes set on a political career. phyllis, on the other hand, did not see herself leaving her glamorous modeling career in new york to live in grand rapids, so they agreed amicably to go their separate ways. but it was a relationship about which not a great deal has been written for which i think was absolutely pivotal in reshaping the man that she herself referred to as the hayseed from grand rapids. the popular notion of gerald ford is vanilla, congressman, west michigan, we don't really know a lot about him. and gerald ford was a man of come as a say, great party loyalty and could be a fervent partisan, but he also embodied civility and respect for his adversaries. i

ford. he's the other son of former president gerald r and betty ford. mike and his wife, gail, have three daughters and eight grandchildren. he currently chairs the gerald r ford presidential petition and served on the ford school visiting committee for many years. mike is a ba from wake forest and a masters in divinity and for the last 36 years has built a long and successful career in student affairs serving in multiple leadership roles at wake forest. as he retired earlier this year wake forest presented mike with a medallion of merit award in honor of his many years of service to the school and his students. commenting on that award, one of my colleagues, university chaplain tim allmond, set up mike -- he models for students quote, what it means to be a person of integrity and to be a truth teller and to be a person who value service. mike, thank you for your project to the ford school and of course, for being with us here today. and now our special guest, highly successful award-winning journalist, lisa mccubbin. she has been a television news ancho

gerald ford is a surprising figure. the fact that he wasn't just the party loyalist, but he started his career as an insurgent, and he ended his career as an insurgent at the end of his life. he and mrs. ford were really marooned in a republican party that was increasingly hostile to their pro-choice views, for example. he told someone not long before he died that people had better prepare themselves for the coming of same-sex marriage. he expected it to be norm and in rellively short order. -- relatively short order. he's first american president, actually, to sign his name to a petition for gay rights. i mean, he -- and, again, most of us as we get older, you know, our attitudes harden along with our arteries, you know? and we often, we have more to conserve, we become more conservative. and, you know, at the same time, you know, nostalgia. yesterday was better than today. all those factors come into play. he wasn't like that. he -- woodrow is too simple, but he was remarkably -- liberal is too simple. but he was rema

and you know, gerald ford, captain of the michigan football team in the 1930s. went on to raise a family of four with miss betty ford and spent his life in principle public service in congress and eventually in the white house . when michigan named our public policy school in 1999, nearly 20 years ago, it went strongly in both directions between thefamily. a family visited here many times and students and family have come to talk often about what we call the ford legacy . that is leadership grounded in service, a commitment to hard work and getting the facts right and having the courage and wisdom as leaders to do what is right no matter what the personal cost. we are gathered here in one of our larger stages for classics and events, the betty ford classroom, aptly named, known informally and with affection by our students amply as the betty . i hope you got a chance to see some of the wonderful photos of miss ford in the vestibule that capture at least some ofthe strength and joy and love with which she lived her life . i'm honored to introduce today's featured

gerald ford decided to shake things up.ove people around within his cabinet and called bush home in order to be cia director. this is something bush thought was going to kill his political career. i believe the theory that donald rumsfeld, who was chief of staff to gerald ford, at least one of the reasons he thought it was good for bush to take this job was because bush was going to be one of rumsfeld's competitors should he want to run for the white house himself. having him being tarred as a spy, something that i would kill his career, was an added bonus for rumsfeld. brian: i'm old enough to remember back in the late 60's, there was an item called the washington wire in the wall street journal that predicted that george bush and donald rumsfeld would be running for president. when did he first started thinking about being president? dr. engel: george bush was such a popular and charismatic person his entire life. the kind of person people would often say you should run , for president. i think he began to consider in the

engel: gerald ford sent him. the president who comes after nexen.d sent him essentially as a reward for the service he had done for the republican party. bush had been talked about as being ford's vice president. that did not happen, but they wanted to give him a nice landing place. he had been such a good soldier. to be honest, ford wanted as many people involved in watergate and bush was the public face of watergate, though never involved. it is an amazing story how they got to china. everyone knew at this point he the diplomacy bug. he wanted to continue in that vein and president ford offered him the chance to become a u.s. ambassador to france or to great britain. essentially the two greatest , plums a president can offer for an ambassador. bush turned those down and said, i have got to go to china. i think he did that for two reasons. the first is the ambassador to , france and the ambassador to london are typically supposed to enhance the embassy social budget from their own bank account. bush still had three kids to put through college. he a

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>> gerald ford and i had treated each other fairly.clean election, we never said a negative word about each other and i respected gerald ford very much. >> but the nation still on edge from two recent presidential assassination attempts, jimmy and rosalind carter stunned the crowd. >> he's out of the car. this is a change in the schedule. he's walking. >> there's never been a picture like that. >> certainly not since television began. >> it showed that i trusted the american people. that i thought it was time for animosity and hatred and vituperation in our country's policies to be over. >> his walk down pennsylvania avenue was his first step to what he saw as a very nonimperial presidency. >> the first thing i did when i got in office was to -- >> united nations claims mistreatment of its citizens is solely its own business. >> the idea of human rights and democracy of course has always been at the center of the american ideal. but until jimmy carter really no american president gave it the emphasis that he gave it. >> one of his firs

they didn't try to make him look like gerald ford, right? it was all physical comedy.d not stumble all the time, was a good athlete but people still think he did because of chevy chase's hilarious impersonating. these come to define people. wait until they impersonate you, don. >> i was there by the way. please, don't let them do me while i'm here. it's a comedy show, scott. "snl" has a way of nailing the heart of the story. kavanaugh's case, binge drinking temperament partisan background after his testimony, you could see this coming, couldn't you? >> you know, oh, could i see hollywood and the liberals in this country jumping the shark, backing over and eating it? >> it's filmed in manhattan, scott. >> it's not hollywood. it's filmed in manhattan and they go after every single president. >> this is what they do. if it's a republican -- >> do you watch "saturday night live"? they go after every single president. >> he needs flake, collins and murkowski. he's not a president. he's a supreme court justice. he needs three votes. >> they go after public officials. doesn't

descendents of presidents from chains from wrote to gerald ford convened in washington for a conference hosted by the white house historical association. next we interviewed jennifer harville, the great con daughter -- great-granddaughter of calvin coolidge. this is 12 minutes. susan: what is your relationship to calvin coolidge? jennifer: my relationship to calvin coolidge -- i am his great-granddaughter. my mother was one of two girls who were there grandchildren of the coolidges. susan: where do you live? i live in new hampshire. susan: how far away is that from plymouth notch? jennifer: it's a little over an hour. susan: we are talking at the white house association. how associated are you with presidential descendents? how much work you do in that area? jennifer: i have been going to missouri for a few years to meet with some of the other presidential descendents. together there for a cherry blossom festival. there's usually a panel of presidential descendents and it's a lot of fun. we talk about how we are descended from our presidents and what it's like to be a descendent and how

you were appointed by nixon and then gerald ford and turned out over 35 years to be a liberal. justice sooner, nominated by george w. bush, another conservative, turned out to be as liberal as you. anthony kennedy, reagan-appointee, turned out to be the deciding vote on gay marriage. why did you, suter, and kennedy, drift away from the orthodox views of the republican party? hon. stevens: i have never been a political person of any kind. i am not conscious of changing my basic views. it was clear at the time that president ford would still appoint me. what has changed is a very large number of republicans. i really don't think all republicans are like donald trump. [laughter] frank: you don't think so? if that's true, why does the whole party get behind him? hon. stevens: i don't know. frank: that is an honest answer. okay. another case when people think about your long history, one of the cases brought up is the chevron case at rdc. you created a legal standard that has lasted for decades. basically, the congress writes laws, and everything embodied in the law isn't spelled ou

back spiro agnew, replacing him was gerald ford a well-meaning congressman. ford in 1974 finds himself thrust into the position of the presidency. ford will try as far as inflation goes on the economy, he tries to continue on the diplomatic front the work that nixon had begun dealing with the soviets. but he pardons richard nixon, which cost him some of the electorate. and under his watch in 1975, television viewers watched their tvs as the last of the refugees now are removed from saigon as north vietnamese forces take over the entire south.>> the 1976 campaign. gerald ford finds himself pitted against a fellow by the name of jimmy carter. another southerner, not just a southerner, but a southerner from georgia. jimmy carter, and this is a time magazine cover from 1971, he had been in the united states navy. he was from plains, georgia, grew up on a farm. in the navy, he had been an engineer, done submarine duty. and he would do when he gets back, he decides he has a responsibility to run for office. his early campaigns are notable. first, he runs for state

you were appointed by nixon and then gerald ford and turned out over 35 years to be a liberal. ter, nominated by george h.w. bush, turned out to be as liberal as you. anthony kennedy, oregano pointy, turnedagan appointee, out to be the deciding vote on gay marriage. why did you drift away from the orthodoxy of the republican party? hon. stevens: first of all, i have never been a political person of any kind. i am not conscious of changing my basic views. it was clear when we started that president ford would still point me. changed is ahas very large number of republicans. i really don't think all republicans are like donald trump. [laughter] true why doesnot , the whole party get behind him? hon. stevens: i do not know. >> that is an honest answer. ok. when people think about your long history, one of chevron versuse nrdc. you createdon case a legal standard that lasted for decades. it is basically that the congress rights laws and everything that is sort of embodied in that law is not spelled out, but federal agencies are entrusted to enforce those laws. you wrote that what t

you were appointed by nixon and then gerald ford and turned out over 35 years to be a liberal. justice souter, justice souter, who was nominated by george h.w. bush, another conservative, turned out to be as liberal as you. anthony kennedy, reagan appointee, turned out to be the deciding vote on gay marriage. republicans are saying why is it that so many people start out republican, and turn out to be liberal on the court? we have to find out a way they do that. why did you, suter, and kennedy, sort of drift away from the orthodoxy of the republican party? hon. stevens: first of all, i never really have been a political person of any kind. i am not conscious of changing my basic views. and first, it was clear from -- you heard when this started that president ford would still appoint me. i think what has changed is a very large number of republicans -- i really don't think all republicans are like donald trump. frank: you don't think so? hon. stevens: no. frank: if that's true, why does the whole party get behind him? hon. stevens: i don't know. frank: that is an honest answer.

descendents of presidents from james monroe to gerald ford met in washington, d.c. for a conference. next we interview clifton truman daniel, harry truman's grandson. this is just under 15 minutes. susan: clifton truman daniel, the last time you and i talked you had just come back from japan with a group of survivors of the atomic bombing there. your grandfather's legacy. you have been up to something else associated with his legacy. tell me about your project. clifton: if you're talking about playing my own grandfather on stage, it must be 40-years-old now, the play. "give them hell, harry." james westmore originated it in 1975. giving speeches about my grandfather over the last few years, people afterwards were beginning to say things like, you are starting to look like your grandfather. i must have had that play in the back of my head. and i mentioned this to a few people. they encouraged that. a friend of mine in wilmington north carolina at the center for , performing arts, said let's do it. we did the play in october of last year. it now -- it had a successful

state department before coming to the white house, ron nesson, who was the press secretary for gerald ford, and he was also at the white house correspondent before that, richard benedetto, and columnist ken wallace, who is this correspondent and journalist, and susan page who works as a journalist and washington bureau chief, she's the author of the soon-to-be published biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. please enjoy this presentation. i know it will be a good one, on the relationship between the presidency and the press, and how communication between the two has evolved, and how it is changed in time, and the way in which it stays the same. >> i will sit here and >> thank you very much martha for that wonderful introduction. i think on behalf of all of us, taking our seats, we want to thank you for what you do, to preserve history, and the connection between presidents and our current occupants of this great country. i am looking forward to this great conversation, he knows where it will go but mostly we will try to put in context of the relationship, often adversarial, betwe

ron nessen who was a press secretary for gerald ford administration and he also was at the white house as a correspondent before that. richard benedetto who was a former white house correspondent and columnist for u.s.a. "today," and he is now the adjunct professor of journalism at american university. ken walsh who is a correspondent and journalist and columnist for u.s. news and world report, and susan page who works as a journalist and washington bureau chief for "usa today" and she is an author of the soon to be published biography of barbara bush called "the matriarch." please enjoy in presentation, i know it's going to be a good one on the relationship between the presidency and the press and how communications between the two have evolved and how it's changed over time, and the way in which it's stayed the same. >> i will sit here and you all can sit wherever you like. thank you very much, martha, for that wonderful introduction. i think on behalf of all of us as we're taking our seats we want to thank you for what you do to preserve history and the connection between presidents

and susan ford bales is the only daughter of gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency. since 1981, she has served as a trustee on the gerald ford presidential library foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist, generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bloomberg's david rubenstein show, peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, clifton truman daniel, lynda bird johnson robb , and susan ford bales. and david rubenstein. >> thank you all for coming. i want to apologize again, as one of my roles as chairman of the board of the canada -- board of the kennedy center, i think this is the first time the air-conditioning hasn't worked. but most of you who are descendents of presidents probably had ancestors who did not have air conditioning. who knows when ai

that is a stunning comment from a retired supreme court justice who was nominated by gerald ford. yes, he was a liberal member of the supreme court but he was confirmed unanimously by the senate when he was put on the high court. he is saying brett kavanaugh should not be confirmed to the supreme court meanwhile sources close to the nomination process tell cnn republican leaders on capitol hill and white house officials are feeling increase. >> i optimistic about the prospects of brett kavanaugh but democrats are crying foul, arguing the supreme court nominee's background is being covered up. choosing his words carefully about his supreme court pick -- >> i think he's doing very well. the judge is doing well, right? >> reporter: president trump left it to gop leaders to all but declare victory in the battle other brett kavanaugh. >> i feel very good about where this nomination is right now. i don't say that from the standpoint of counting votes, i say that from the standpoint of the qualifications of this candidate. >> reporter: a big reason for the optism? two undecided republica

. >> you're well into your research about -- >> gerald ford. okay. >> but my point is just picking up on jeffrey rosen's comments about moments and turning them into teaching moments. so if you have a period of time where there's antagonism with the press or use of executive orders, can we historically use them as teaching moments? >> you know, it's interesting. the unacknowledged privileges of being a historian is the option if you don't like the present to live in the past. and i'm doing that right now. very happily. you know sh it, it's funny. i look at this differently. that is the relationship between journalists and historians. it's sort of like in oklahoma, musical, the song with the farmers and the cowboy "should be friends." i'm not sure -- ironically, some of our best historians are journalists. maybe vice versa. there's a reason though thafr it said that journalists write the first draft of history. the classic example in modern times is dwight eisenhower who at the first poll after a presidential historian after he left office, he f

i think we have a question. >> yeah, trying to tie into your comments, and i appreciate that gerald r. ford story. one of the things we did a year ago was to come up with the idea to take president ford's story of standing up for diversity in his senior year at university of michigan, where his traveling roommate, because of the color of his skin, couldn't play on that football team. now, an historical group had kind of put this our pbs thing together and students would fall asleep and there have been some stabs at it. and we said, let's turn it into a play. let's turn it into a 40-minute play. well, half my board is ready to lyn lynch me, and what am i doing with that, but we did 10 productions of the play. we have a waiting list of schools that want us to go in and do this play. but it's a 40-minute play talking about president ford in a locker room with his traveling roommate, willis ward, talking about why he can't go on that football team. so i think, i just wanted to share that, is we need to make our stories relevant to our audience. and i think that was discussed. and that's the way

john paul stevens, 98, a lifelong republican, nominated to the court by gerald ford, had praised kavanaugh in the past, but today, stevens said kavanaugh disqualified himself with the confrontational and partisan tone of his confirmation hearing. >> so, you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> you're asking about blackout. i don't know, have you? >> could you answer the question, judge? just -- so, you -- that's not happened? is that your answer? >> yeah, and i'm curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> reporter: today, stevens said kavanaugh does not belong on the supreme court. >> i think that his performance during the hearings caused me to change my mind. >> reporter: kavanaugh himself has spoken about the importance of nonpartisanship and temperament for a judge. >> it's important to have the proper demeanor, to be calm amidst the storm. on the bench, to put it in the vernacular, don't be a jerk. i think that's important. >> jon karl with us live tonight at

. >> stevens was a liberal justice even though he was appointed by republican president gerald ford. you can stay with abc new the abc news live app for live coverage of the kavanaugh vote today and throughout the weekend. lots to see. >>> we turn now to the city of chicago waiting for a possible verdict in the trial of a police officer charged with fatally shooting a black teenager, shooting him 16 times. schools and businesses are preparing for protests as the jury deliberates. this morning, chicago bracing for potentially violent protests as jurors deliberate the fate of officer jason van dyke. van dyke seen here shooting 17-year-old laquan mcdonald as mcdonald was walking away from officers while holding a knife. the suspended police officer is charged with first degree murder, official misconduct and 16 counts of aggravated battery for each shot he fired. prosecutors say van dyke showed no regard for mcdonald's life and claimed the officer exaggerated the threat mcdonald posed. >> he shot too early, he shot too often, and he shot for way too long. >> reporter: the defense callin

in trying to serve the president's needs or desires that we did not ask those questions. >> i gerald r. fordfull, free, and absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. >> president ford's pardon of richard nixon stunned the nation. nixon's legal problems were now over. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> by definition? >> exactly. >> the former president was still not accepting responsibility. three years after resigning, nixon was paid to participate in an historic interview with the british television journalist david frost. at the very end, the inevitable question came up. >> do you feel that you ever obstructed justice or were part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice? >> he would not -- he wouldn't really admit anything, not even mistakes or whatever. he was really stonewalling completely, and he was beginning to look like the haunted nixon of the actual watergate hearings rather than the californian ex-president. and so finally i said to him why don't you go further in the word mistake. >> what word would you express? >

and then gerald ford seat in a special election flipped to a democrat, the first democrat, richard vander vene was going to represent grand rapids, to ford's seat because ford was president. and another one flipped in pennsylvania, and another in michigan. these were special elections so you couldn't hold anybody back. everybody in michigan wanted to run, so i was trying to manage the primary field. i mounted the campaign,. >> wasn't running against nixon i was running on the bread and burt issues. i could see the animus towards nixon was going to work in my favor, and yints want to go out and tell people i was running against nixon. people were so upset they didn't want to be reminded. >> people didn't like that he was supported nixon i knew it was going to help me but i was running on the precisely of bread and milk, and great lakes water quality and jobs. so i had this all figured out, i won the primary narrowly, i thought everyone is going to be great, and then nixon resigns i go oh, no. and then ford's president for michigan, i'm going oh, no. he was popular, they were rallying aroun

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descendents of presidents from james monro to gerald r. ford convened in washington for a conference hosted by the white house historical association next we interview a descendent from over cleveland and william mckinley. this is just over 15 minutes. we are talking to you at the white house historical -- associations presidential summit in washington, d.c.. you work with the organization and are the descendents of two presidents. on my maternal side to grover cleveland, the 22nd and 24th u.s. president. , to william's side mckinley. i am the great great-nephew of mckinley and great great grandson of grover cleveland. >> how do those families get together? >> happenstance. my parents married and the two became one. >> for your parents aware of their lineage? >> i have no clue. my father was a longtime history professor at you ga, during the course of time, we talked about presidential politics and descendents and i learned so many stories about those families from those conversations. >> the two are very different, aren't they? with the family

no longer is there someone like john paul stevens put on by gerald ford, a lot of republicans talk about david suitor put on by george h.w. bush and turned out very liberal. forget about that, think of anthony kennedy, sandra day o'connor, they strad edled the middle. was no longer have that with the departure of kennedy and it will change the law of the land dramatically. >> can't understate that. david, listen to susan collins talking about this as yet unidentified leaker that revealed christine blasey ford's name to reporters and listen to ford's attorney talking about it and if she has regret about coming forward. take a listen. >> to that leaker, what you did was unconscionable. my only hope is that your callous act has turned this process into such a dysfunctional circsirk that it cause the senate and all americans to reconsider how we evaluate supreme court nominees. >> i don't think she has any regrets. i think she feels like she did the right thing and this was what she wanted to do which was provide this information to the committee so they could make the best decision possible

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here's a picture of president richard nixon and gerald ford holding a staff meeting.the joint chief of staff. president bill clinton holding a meeting in 1993. it is a room that has a ton of history, a room i was fortunate to be in for that very important interview. good night, everyone. i'll see you tomorrow. "kennedy" begins right now. kennedy: thanks, trish. will the allegations are gruesome. fingers snipped, limbs hacked, decapitation, all while music was playing to hide the screaming. but are we any closer to knowing what happened to the missing "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi, and can we believe the reports out of turkey? the president today said, well, we can't jump to conclusions. watch this. >> i just want to find out what's happening. in fact, secretary of state pompeo is going to be back probably late tonight or early tomorrow morning. he went to turkey. he went all over. but he spent a lot of tim

here's a picture of president richard nixon and gerald ford holding a staff meeting. president jimmy carter meeting with the joint chief of staff. president bill clinton holding a meeting in 1993. it is a room that has a of history, a room i was fortunate to be in for that very important interview. good night, everyone. i'll see you tomorrow. "kennedy" begins right now. kennedy: thanks, trish. will the allegations are gruesome. fingers snipped, limbs hacked, decapitation, all while music was playing to hide the screaming. but are we any closer to knowing what happened to the missing "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi, and can we believe the reports out of turkey? the president today said, well, we can't jump to conclusions. watch this. >> i just want to find out what's happening. in fact, secretary of state pompeo is going to be back probably late tonight or early tomorrow morning. he went to turkey. he went all over. but he spent a lot of time with the crown prince, and he's going to have a full report. i'm not going to cover it all. with that being said, s

cheers. [ applause ] >>> now on american history tv interview with susan ford bills, resident gerald ford's daughter. this is part of an event hosted by the white house historical association. >> susan ford bales, how did your life change in august of 1974? >> drastically. i grew up in alexandria in the same house i came home from the hospital in. women's hospital in washington. i never moved until i moved into the white house. i already had secret service protection. my mother did not but i did because of the threat from the fla. so i had secret service protection and my mother did

but basically gerald ford had a great observation.s impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the house of representatives decides it is at any given period of time, at any given moment. what most in history, when andrew johnson was tried in the late 1860s, it was as much about, if not more really, about his refusal to follow the republican will on reconstruction. johnson was a democrat, he had been put on the ticket with lincoln in 1864, to broaden his appeal in that terrible 1864 election, the tragedy at ford's theater propellets johnson to t to the presidency, and the civil war was won, but a southerner was president. if you real the articles of impeachment -- i don't recommend it, that's why you have me, you can outsource them -- you'll find the congress being outraged about the attacks that johnson has made on them. what they did is they found a legal occasion to try to remove him in one particular statute. >> wasn't that being secretary of war a part of it? >> they found the occasion. it was a very -- part of the reason my

so i am now to say late breaking news president gerald ford has pardoned richard nixon. yes. it was a great campaign i expected 54 percent but it was 59 percent 46 new democrats so there was an incredible time at the moment i didn't think it would be that big of a wave the numbers dropped nine eapoints and i did not expect that and then to be elected in 82 with the democratic governors i did and 74 but sometimeste you don't know until the morning after. >> your time is when polling was very different than it is now. so it was the wave of the anti-incumbent year you didn't have your gender working for you with the margins of victory and then to win the open sea. . >>. >> i'm listing to you thinking my story is so pathetic. i have a ridiculous number of children and always said you prhave to be prepared that they said would you run? i had a job as a reporter and that meant you really have to give it up and then to be represented by a democrat. >> but it never entered my mind that i would win. never. i only went into election night. truly it was the year of the woman that lasted

. >> descendents of presidents from james munro to gerald r. ford convened in washington, d.c., for a conference hosted by the white house historical association. next, we interviewed tweed roosevelt, the great-grandson of theodore roosevelt. this is about 20 minutes. >> we are talking at the white house historical association presidential site summit. what is your connection to theodore roosevelt? tweed: he was my great great grandfather. he had a son named archie. archie had a son and his son had me. >> your entire life, have you been connected with your famous ancestor? is it something that you always had a special connection and work to develop the history? tweed: people have this idea that our family spent all our time sitting around tables talking about theodore. actually, we never talked about theodore. we talked about what everybody else talks about. was going to happen here, what will happen next? i did not become aware of it until i was older and then it was mostly negative at first. as a teenager, people seem much more interested in my co

is that a retired supreme court juses tis, 35 years on the court, john paul stevens appointed by gerald ford last night in florida saying that while he had supported merits, and he is a republican, john paul stevens is, and he changed his mind because of the political and the belligerent approach that he took in the last hearing last week. we will play a little bit of that. >> sure. >> he is -- he has demonstrated a potential bias involving enough potential litigants before the court that he cannot fulfill his full support. >> and he is seeing bias and nonjudicial demeanor and how much that might influence senator collins who said that she did not believe that dr. ford's accusations of sexual assault were proved by the fbi report, and that she was reassured by what brett kavanaugh told her about roe v. wade and so is she going to be influenced in the final hours or has she been influenced by his demeanor this final hearing? >> i think that senator collins has always wanted to be a yes, and that is going to tilt her no matter what. she knew from the testimony that kavanaugh was not treating i

president has repeatedly refused to release his tax returns as all presidents have done going back to gerald ford? >> this investigation truly reveals a lot of information that donald trump has never once acknowledged. he has said he's a self-made man. often tells the story that his father had given him a $1 million loan and he turned it into a fortune. the "new york times" investigation says that trump's father had actually stepped in to bail him out many times over the years when his companies got into trouble. especially some of those casinos and lent $60 million not the $1 million trump repeatedly says. all this comes out "new york times" says because of 200 companies including lis father's other shell companies related to this and other companies as well as interviews with people. an extensive investigation at the time worked on revealing a lot of financial information we essentially have been in the dark about because the president hasn't released tax returns and won't answer questions about thm or how he made his money. >> gloria is with us as well. reading a couple sentences. the "times"