dorothy married gerald ford senior, who was a paint salesman. ford was ambitious, and he wanted to start his own company. and he bought part of the company he worked part of the company that he worked for and called it the ford paint and varnish company. it was a company he started two weeks before the stock market crash in october, 1929. he was able to hold onto the company through the depression. in fact, it stayed in the family until the 1960s. but it was one that he struggled to hold onto. but it was that type of family that ford grew up in. ford himself was made to work to earn his money. and one of the jobs that he had was at a burger joint across the street from south high, a place called bill's place. the prioritior hired star athletes from the high school to entice other kids to come to his burger joint and spend their lunch money. and one of the star athletes, of course, was junior ford. and so people would come to see the friday night stars when they were eating their lunch. but it was at bill's place where one of the important events,

betty ford will be the great love of gerald ford's life. betty ford is not his first love. however, phyllis brown is a professional model younger than he she's about 21 years old, but she's one of the top models in new york city. the coaches have an term for her have a name for her. they call her pb brown perfect body, brown and and ford is competing for her attention and he he says that in order to compete for her attention. he has to take on her interests and her interests largely revolve around his strength, which is sports. she plays tennis. she plays golf and she skis all of these things are rather new to gerald ford, but he takes them up and he becomes more than proficient at each one of them and by that means he's able to catch her eye and and they date such that by 1938. it's presumed that they are going to be trade he brings her back to michigan for a couple of summers. he visits her parents up in maine they attend. any number of events and broadway plays in new york she goes out on modeling shoots. he follows her on those shoots in at times. he ends up in the maga

up next we tour the gerald ford museum at grand rapids, michigan, and learn about the football playerd congressman and vice president and president. this is about 45 minutes. >> we are at the gerald r. ford presidential museum in grand rapids, michigan. we are in the new exhibit which opened a few weeks ago, and it is a brand-new exhibit on gerald ford, his life and times, that took about six months to complete. the museum spaces are broken down into his what we call the foundation years, and his youth and then move into the congressional years, and congress, and presidential and post presidential years. so in the gallery, we featured that gerald ford grew up in grand rapids, michigan, but he was born in omaha, nebraska. his mother had married a businessman in omaha by the name of leslie lynch king, and so she was dorothy king. they had a child in july of 1913. they named leslie lynch king, jr., and he is the person that we know as gerald ford. in this case, we have his christening gown and a book that his mother kept. in 1913, his mother began to keep a book on the baby's experience,

by 1957, betty and gerald ford had four children. three sons, jack, michael and steve and a daughter susan. but because out of his ambitiousness, ford was gone quite a bit. he was an absent husband and an absent father. his workaholic nature meant he was rarely home. he would wake up early, swim laps in the pool of the family home in alexandria, virginia, and then be at work by 8:00 a.m. he traveled a lot. some years he might be gone as many as 280 days in that year. he tried to be home on sundays. and if he was home on saturdays, he would try to take his kids to the capitol building with him and to his office where, i should point out the kids engaged in some mischief. one of the stories i read about ford's children is that when they would go to the office with him, they would move things around like nameplates and other stuff on the desks. and when i interviewed steve ford, i asked him, did you guys actually do that? and the fact that he never gave me a direct answer suggests to me that it probably happened. but the point i'm gettin

one was gerald ford. it was largely because he had that reputation of being able to work together with people of differing ideas, and to make reasonable conclusions. and he became one of the seven warren commission commissioners. he and another guy named jackstyljack styles worked together on the portrait of the assassination, and it is not the portrait of an assassin, because we believed firmly there was no evidence that was brought to the commission that would refute that finding. he remained open to other evidence that might prove otherwise that might counter that commission's contention, but during his lifetime, he never saw any that was, that it was lee harvey oswald on his own as the assassin of kendrick. so was alone that would have him act for his identity. what he is known for is being able to move legislation on capitol hill, and to be able to craft the coalitions and it is that reputation that moves him forward in conversations about leadership. so in 1964, ford mounts a campaign against charli

so president nixon nominates gerald ford to fill the vacancy of the vice presidency. over 400 fbi agents spread out across the united states to investigate congressman ford, and he passes that investigation the results of which are handed to congress congress then schedules a vote on congressman ford's nomination and this is the card that speaker of the house carl albert hands to jerry ford noting the house vote 387 voting in support of his nomination 35 opposing. there was another vote that was that was held in the senate and only three senators voted against his nomination to the vice presidency. congressman ford in december 1973 is sworn in as vice president. this is the bible on which he was sworn in and again, he hasn't open to his passage the passage that he and betty had leaned on many times in their lives of psalm. i'm sorry proverbs 3 5 through 8 trust in the lord with all your heart and leave not into your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your path. he'll have the same bible open to the same passage months later when he'

next on real america a time to heal gerald ford's america shown daily at the president gerald r. ford presidential library and museum, this film tells the life story of the michigan republican. august 1974 a husband and wife shared their deep concern about a nation in crisis. numbing changes were happening in washington, d.c., changes that promised to transform their lives overnight.overnight. >> president nixon stunned the country today by admitting he held back evidence. >> he acknowledged what the transcripts say is as mr. nixon puts it at variance of what he told the american people on other occasions. >> rumors of president nixon's imminent resignation swept washington and the world today. >> president nixon reportedly will announce his resignation tonight. >> i, gerald r. ford do solemnly swear that i will faithfully scoot. >> office of president of the united states. >> office of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution o

gerald ford is so dumb. he can't walk and fart at the same time. in other words ford was an intellectually vacuous klutz. and what i would suggest to you and this is what i argue in the book what what i think the nation came to see. during forbes tenure as president was not someone who was physically and intellectually vibrant not someone who had played football gone to yell law school swam and skied. instead what they saw was someone who was physically unsteady. and that physical unsteadiness became tied to an intellectual unsteadiness. that led forward to make bad led 4 to make bad decisions and make bad comments. hence the lack of a vision his refusal to clarify himself when he said there's no self-domination of poland the pardon of nixon his inability to find a way to solve the economic downturn his failure to recognize the reagan challenge early on all of these things tied him with this image. of a president who made who was not physically steady who was on intellectually steady and who made bad decisions? and that i would suggest to you is why

and gerald ford went off to war. for almost-two years, the aircraft carrier monterey would take him across 40,000 miles of the pacific. his experience in ten major battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place in it. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away. or that america could bury her head in the sand. >> i always felt that i was a moderate-to-conservative republican. i felt, very strongly, that the united states had to have an internationalist-foreign policy. >> chose a hut for headquarters. at stake was michigan's fifth district and the future of his party and his country. the red, white, and blue quansit caught people's attention and they listened to the energetic young lawyer and war veteran as he stumped the whole district. taking on the republican establishment. when the votes were counted in november, 1948, ford had won the first of 13 terms in congress. and that's not all he won that year. betty bloomer warren would bring a grace and a spirit to the life

we also have a contemporary it's a memo that was lost in the archives of the gerald ford museum, from 1974 detailing backers firsthand account of everything that he went through. so here is what we now know. within 24 hours of nixon leaving the office, ford picked up the phone and called, now the former chief of staff, for its chief of staff. general alexandra hague. sorry nixon called hague, and said send those boxes in here. during his time in the white house, nixon had accumulated a huge storehouse of documents, and these activated tapes in the white house that had been revealed during watergate. in fact, there were 900 reels of tape, and literally thousands of boxes of documents. so many that the secret service told me that they were afraid the fourth floor of the executive building was going to collapse from the weight of all of these things. so backer was finishing up briefing president for one day and alexander hague is ticking off the list of to do things, he nonchalantly says, as casually as ordering a cup of coffee. oh, yes we are sending president nixon his papers. he wants

now, therefore, i, gerald r. ford, president of the united states, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by article 2, section 2 of the constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all offenses against the united states which he, richard nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from july 20, 1969 through august 9, 1974. >> as you can see from this chapter, which is written by jeffrey crouch, who is a professor of history at american university, ford had been a loyal supporter since he and nixon began their careers together in 1948. he was actually getting ready to retire in 1973 when he was plucked out of relative obscurity to become vice president. now he is in the oval office. you have to picture this. he is surrounded mainly by nixon's people, nixon's loyalists as his own advisors. that presents some real problems. within days of his taking office on august 9th of 1974, journalists start swamping ford

>> susan ford bales is the daughter of president gerald ford and betty ford. she reflects on her family's time in the white house with former abc news white house correspondent ann compton. they focus on first lady betty ford and her impact on american society. the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> doesn't it always seem that the most chaotic time in our country is right now, the greatest risks and the greatest challenges. well, that isn't really true. when i was first assigned to come to washington by abc news in 1974 the nation was deeply divided in protests over the vietnam war, the economy was wrecked with inflation and for the only time in american history a u.s. president resigned in disgrace. it was at that moment that abc news gave me the great honor of assigning me to the white house to what came next. it was the administration of gerald ford and with that came, of course, the energy and the grace of betty ford. on the eve of mother's day we're going to explore those memories with her daughter susan ford b

it was the administration of gerald ford. and with it, came, of course, the energy and the grace of betty ford. on the eve of mother's day, we are going to explore those memories with her daughter, susan ford bales. and she is going to take your questions using that q&a function down at the bottom of your screen. now, when you type in your succinct question, please, also, tell us who you are. and if you can, tell us where you are as you're watching this. joining me, susan ford bales, who has carried the flame for her family and the work of the ford family ever since. welcome, susan, and happy mother's day. are you there in texas with your extended family? >> i am. i am down here with my girls and my grandchildren. the best part. >> well, i think, i've known susan since she moved into the white house. and um, i was a couple of years older than her as a young reporter. and i think back, now. maybe, we're fearless, at that age. but i cannot believe what it must have felt like being thrust into the white house, at a time of what h

, gerald ford, very good quality. the university of michigan. the first newspaper as far as dwight eisenhower, in 1912 i believe, profiling him as a future all-american at west point. to complete the baseball story, he probably didn't play it seriously but accepting money for any kind of game 1909-1910 was an example, gerald ford, was potentially a problem. the man by the name of red patterson invented the tape measure home run in baseball, great pr guy for the giants, somebody who concluded his career with the california angels. we used to go to california a lot in the late 70s. the giants in 1947 he was assigned to a company for a game and he said that he confronted general eisenhower, for several years, we understand you played under the alias of wilson. our records show two wilson's, which one are you? he said the one who can hit. and look at the camper state league there were two wilson's in that league, what was the first baseman, 285 in the first year and 340 the second year. they are great athletes and that ho

this week, president gerald ford as he presides over the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the smithsonian'sace museum in 1976. this film was recorded by the national photographic center and provided by the gerald r ford presidential library. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> president of the united states and the vice president of the united states. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [inaudible]. [inaudible]. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much mr. chief justice, mr. vice president, distinguished members of congress. secondary replay, it's english ladies and gentlemen. this beautiful new museum times exciting exhibits of the mastery of air and space, the perfect birthday present from the american people to themselves. although it is almost impolite to boast, perhaps we can say with patriotic pride the flying machines we see here, the wright brothers 12-horsepower claim to the latest space vehicle, mostly made usa. historic a flight in american, the wonder is that it has all happened within the lifetime in the memory of living americans. how many of us remember

i can't wait to read about gerald ford. that will be a thrill for me. i have great admiration for him. i would like to talk, and i agree that clinton deserves, despite his personal failures and being overshadowed by the hillary loss. i would like to say, i would like to focus on george w. bush. he was such a great administrator and moral person and ran a tight ship. i think he was very charismatic. he was a skilled logician and could, but the -- he was a skilled politician. host: let's take that because we have just about a minute left. i will let richard norton smith take that minute. guest: the caller raises a very important point. one reason i think the second president bush has risen in the rankings is applicable to this whole process. when we reassess presidents, one of the factors that we take into account is how did his for 40 years, every resident had to deal -- every president had to deal with the cold war. presidents and their attitude toward israel and the middle east. we have 70 to 80 years in which to compare. the fact that there is a lot o

so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good idea. for ronald reagan, maybe to throw his hat in the ring and run for president. to run the primaries he tried to get some support from his colleagues on capitol hill. nobody was interested. nobody thought ronald reagan would be a good president. so as it stood paul laxalt was the sole supporter basically of this notion that ronald reagan should run for president in 1976. and people like ronald reagan. they gravitated toward him. like i said, they knew who he was because he was a national figure. had been pretty popular as california's governor. and so they ran a good campaign pundits didn't think it was possible that he would even stand a chance. and i mean they were right he didn't win but his insurgency against the ford campaign probably is what contributed to gerald ford not winning. for the republicans and probably attributed to jimmy carter winn

died in the age of 88 this weekend he served for presidents including the defense secretary for gerald fordh. ms. rumsfeld appeared of up to be in 2011 to learn about his memoir known and unknown and here's a look at the program. >> we have this gathering because secretary rumsfeld because i've been getting much attention. so we thought that we would make up for that violates having one event and i know you're not doing anything else. [laughter] to make sure that we can get this book the attention it deserves. it is appropriate for us here in the national constitution center because one of the things of the founder, we are serious about was unlikely james in europe they were starting this country to be and make sure that we had a record of our leaders and what they thought about what they did in office read and also they have the record it would be open as soon as possible. >> and get them to quiet down. [laughter] >> and everyone here,. >> there's so much noise. [laughter] >> yes. it's a fake, people try to get upstairs see would like to hear us. [laughter] in any case, we americans have a

bush and gerald ford. his critics say he presided over systemic torture, massacres of , and illegal wars. we will look at his legacy with retired colonel andrew bacevich, whose son was killed in iraq. he is president of the antiwar think tank the quincy institute. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "so long, so long" by chumbawumba. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. i have joined by my co-host nermeen shaikh. hi, nermeen. nermeen: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. y: donald rumsfeld, chief architect of the iraq war, died wednesy at the age of 88. rumsfeld served under four esidents and was secretary of defense under both presidents george w. bush and gerald ford. his critics say he presided over systemic torture, massacres of civilians, and illegal wars. as defense secretary, rumsfeld was quick to advise bush to target iraq after the 9/11 terror attacks, even though al qaeda had been shelter

secretary donald rumsfeld, has died at the age of 80, and he served twice in the post under president gerald ford and george w bush from feld. oversaw the 2003 us invasion of iraq. you remained unapologetic about the war insisting that toppling saddam hussein created a quote more stable and secure world state news from berlin. there is a lot more on our website that is d w dot com. ah, oh. the german military's deadliest mission since 1945 came to an end late on tuesday night when the last bonus, fer soldiers in afghanistan started their journey home. the last us troops were expected to withdraw later this week and what will they leave behind? almost 20 years ago, f, dana stan became the front line in the us and nato's war against terror. now the top us general in the country warning the fighting may not be over that soon. it will be the tele bond against afghan troops. and yet another war, a civil war. i'm br, gotham, berlin. this is the day the news the security situation is not, not good right now it's what we're seeing is the rapid loss of our district centers . what we want to see, what we'd

i think that, from the time he was there, the fact that gerald r. fordwas - had such basic human decency, and was so naturally a human being that people could appreciate, i think that coming in as he did when the reservoir of trust had been drained in our country - following the only president in our history to resign. it was a terribly difficult thing, and i think he helped heal the country, and that was important. i mean, ronald reagan unquestionably had a strategic sense that was directionally correct, by my standard, and enormously helpful to our country, in terms of ending the cold war. he did an awful lot that was right, and i mean, dwight eisenhower had a largely successful presidency. richard nixon - my goodness, an enormously talented man with a wonderful mind and a seriousness of purpose, and brought an enormously talented team of people into government who affected the course of government for decades thereafter. people like henry kissinger and bill steinman and alan greenspan, and so many others. lamb: we're out of time, but why did you not t

i can't wait to read about gerald ford. that will be a thrill for me.e great admiration for him. i would like to talk, and i agree that clinton deserves, despite his personal failures and being overshadowed by the hillary loss. i would like to say, i would like to focus on george w. bush. he was such a great administrator and moral person and ran a tight ship. i think he was very charismatic. he was a skilled logician and could, but the -- he was a skilled politician. host: let's take that because we have just about a minute left. i will let richard norton smith take that minute. guest: the caller raises a very important point. one reason i think the second president bush has risen in the rankings is applicable to this whole process. when we reassess presidents, one of the factors that we take into account is how did his for 40 years, every resident had to deal -- every president had to deal with the cold war. presidents and their attitude toward israel and the middle east. we have 70 to 80 years in which to compare. the fact that there is a lot of crit

i think that, from the time he was there, the fact that gerald r. fordwas - had such basic human decency, and was so naturally a human being that people could appreciate, i think that coming in as he did when the reservoir of trust had been drained in our country - following the only president in our history to resign. it was a terribly difficult thing, and i think he helped heal the country, and that was important. i mean, ronald reagan unquestionably had a strategic sense that was directionally correct, by my standard, and enormously helpful to our country, in terms of ending the cold war. he did an awful lot that was right, and i mean, dwight eisenhower had a largely successful presidency. richard nixon - my goodness, an enormously talented man with a wonderful mind and a seriousness of purpose, and brought an enormously talented team of people into government who affected the course of government for decades thereafter. people like henry kissinger and bill steinman and alan greenspan, and so many others. lamb: we're out of time, but why did you not t

you served twice in the post under president gerald ford. and george w bush rumsfeld oversaw the 2003 us invasion of iraq. you remained unapologetic about the war, insisting that toppling saddam hussein created a quote more stable and secure world. hundreds of indigenous brazilians have been protesting against a bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations . the legislation advanced in congress on tuesday. the far right president, both the nato and brazil powerful farm lobby have supported the bill. arguing that indigenous communities are blocking development of the amazon authorities in ecuador have seized more than 7 tons of cocaine in the port of quiet here. the drugs were hidden in containers of canned tuna bound for spain. the cocaine has a st value of more than $300000000.00. of most intense heat wave north america has seen in years is sweeping across the pacific northwest, breaking temperature records, and causing hundreds of death. as the weather slowly begins to cool and coastal areas, the heat is

reporter: in 1975, gerald ford made him defense secretary. the youngest ever.ald reagan sent into the middle east. >> i am submitting the name to be secretary of defense. reporter: george w. bush reappointed him. within months, america came under attack. rumsfeld was in his pentagon office on september 11 wh an airliner hit the building. he helped move the injured and then planned a way to strike back. rumsfeld believed the iraq war would be over in months. the fierce insurrection that followed thousands of lives when no weapons were found, rumsfeld struggled to explain why. >> there are things we know that we know. there are no unknowns, there are things we now know we don't know. there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know. reporter: he was prepared to push boundaries. but when these photographs appear, there was a backlash. >> these events occurred on my watch and i take full responsibility. reporter: the scandal damaged him and with his iraq strategy in question, he resigned. donald rumsfeld reshaped the u.s. military and works to a

gerald ford i jimmy corder -- jimmy carter --/national defense.there were many in 1980 hurrah stamps. the soviets were practicing their newest technology including the bomber which was supersonic and quite deadly. that was his commitment. and a stronger sense this was the deltas of that was created but millions of people have been imprisoned between the iron curtain in poland and other countries and russia itself that it was a price worth paying. 3 million people were present behind the iron curtain. closely you talked about him being more pragmatic than he was given credit for. is h that going to hurt his legy among conservatives? >> guest: i don't think so. i think his legacy is pretty well cemented among conservatives. his library in simi valley and california still the most visited library, the most visited presidential library in all of america. some call it the reagan library which is not correct by the way. simi valley is off the beaten path somewhat inured more people go there then go to the kennedy library for the clinton library or the b

he first took the job at 43 under president gerald ford in the 1970s during the cold war.n 2001 rumsfeld became the defense secretary again under bush. the former naval pilot led military operations in afghanistan and the ike i can war in th mdle o wt the bush administration called the war against global terrorism. but the u.s. failure to find weapons of mass destruction in iraq and the prolonged fighting led to the ruling republican party's serio midrm election losses in 2006. rumsfeld resigned from the post and remained a divisive figure in the u.s. bush called rumsfeld a man of intelligence, integrity and almost inexhaustible energy and never flinched from responsibility. >>> staying with the united states, search crews in florida are racing against time and weather. they've found the bodies of 18 people in the rubble of a condo building that collapsed. 147 are still missing. the crs haveeen diggg da nowver sincthe beh rain andeat have hampered worriea weathesystem ere ofhore cou turn in a tropical srm. thr leaders worrsome of e respd to thaemergenc so theye reested exa

we did it with the vietnamese evacuees, in 1975, under gerald ford. we did it with albanians when the serbs attacked them in 1999. heck. five years after the -- the -- you know, the marching band and the cheerleaders turned out for the vietnamese evacuees at indian town gap, pennsylvania, which you just saw. that same base, five years later, hosted more than 19,000 cuban evacuees. again, for the same kind of initial processing. we -- we do this. we do this, as a country. we do this in times of international crisis. we, particularly, do this when we have people, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude as a nation because they helped us. because they provided crucial-local help to american service members at great risk to themselves in a dangerous place. and they were, then, targeted at home because they helped us. those people, we owe an explicit debt of gratitude to. in part, because we make them explicit promise that we will keep them safe, if they help us. last month, the governor of guam wrote this letter to president biden. she said, quote, dear presid

bush and gerald ford, his critics say he presided over systemic torture, massacres of civilians, illegal

he served in that role twice, first under president gerald ford and then for president george w. u.s. invasion of afghanistan after 9/11 and then the war in iraq. >>> former president trump blasted the biden administration's immigration policies during a trip to the southern border in texas. mr. trump was joined by republican lawmakers during yesterday's visit. the former president blamed the current administration for making the border crisis worse. since march apprehensions have hit the highest levels since at least 2000. mr. trump also continued to make false statements about the 2020 election. >> we have a sick country in many ways, it's sick in elections, and it's sick in the border. if you don't have good elections and if you don't have a strong border, you don't have a country. >> mr. trump was invited to visit south texas by republican governor greg abbott. >>> a california woman who falsely accused a black teenager of taking her cell phone inside a new york hotel is now facing felony hate crime charges. surveillance video from last december shows 22-year-old miya ponsett

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died in the age of 88 this weekend he served for presidents including the defense secretary for gerald fords. rumsfeld appeared of up to be in 2011 to learn about his memoir known and unknown and here's a look at the program. >> we have this gathering because secretarysf

decades of public service, but he is most known for his time as the pentagon chief for president gerald ford and later for president george w. bush. he died in new mexico today surrounded by his family. he was 88 years old. >>> taking a live look at capitol hill and today the house passed a resolution to create a committee to investigate the deadly january 6 assault on the u.s. capital. this comes nearly 6 months since lawmakers hid from attackers on the floor of the house under speaker pelosi's proposal. she would appoint eight members to the committee and an aide to the speaker said she is considering naming a republican as one of her eight members, tough so far she hasn't given an indication as to whom she would pick. >>> two republicans representatives, liz cheney and can figure of voted to support the measure and another voted to have a bipartisan panel. >>> the department of justice is taking on hate crimes, which have spike in the pandemic. we have seen a number of high profile attacks on asian americans this year in the bay area. the attorney general calls it a state of emergency of

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am gerald ford in the cover up let alone allen dulles of the ca who was sacked by the government, john kennedy? it should disgrace. the 1st of all that lyndon johnson appointed allen dulles who was fired. i can, and he is the chief of the cia kennedy, vowing to shatter the ca, into a 1000 pieces. dallas was put on the board with the warren commission at 7 people and controlled a lot of it controlled all the information coming from the cia to the board, making sure that nothing derogatory or anything about assassinations abroad was mentioned to these other commissioners is a big big difference make, you're right there. and top of that, lyndon johnson has to be looked at as part of a cover up. that's not to say he was enrolled the assassination because we can prove that. but then johnson was about to be fired as vice president, that we know. and he wanted this thing to go away. he didn't, he said, we don't want to war with russia. we don't want to accuse russia that was kind of an excuse to, to a point and a point, the warren commission, they wanted a peaceful transition. that's what the

i am saying he served twice in the post under president gerald ford prison and george w bush before run over thought the 2003 us invasion of iraq. you remained unpolished eric, about the war, insisting that toppling saddam disdain, created a quote more stable and secure warrant. hundreds of indigenous brazilians have been protesting against a bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining unprotected tribes. reservations . legislation advanced in congress on tuesday bar. right president jaya. both the nato and brazil powerful farm lobby have supported the bill, arguing that indigenous communities are blocking development of the amazon authorities and ecuador has seized more than 7 tons of cocaine in the port of why it is. the drugs were kidded in containers of canned tuna bound for spain. the cocaine has a st value of more than $300000000.00. officials in northwest canada say the most intense heat wave in years could be to blame for hundreds of deaths there. and in the u. s. state of oregon in washington. the weather is slowly beginning to cool and coastal areas, but the heat is spikin

in 1975 under gerald ford, he became the youngest ever defence secretary.m hussein, the leader he'd one day help to overthrow. i'm submitting the name of donald rumsfeld to be secretary of defence. nearly 20 years later, george w bush reappointed him defence secretary. within months, america came under attack. rumsfeld was in his pentagon office on september 11, 2001 when an airliner hit the building. he helped move the injured and then planned a way to strike back. rumsfeld believed the iraq war would be over quickly, but there was no plan for building a peace. a fierce insurrection followed that claimed thousands of lives. and the pretext for the invasion — saddam's weapons of mass destruction. but none were ever found. and rumsfeld struggled to explain why. there are no knowns. there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns. that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. but there are also unknown unknowns. there are things we do not know we don't know. in this so—called war on terror, he was prepared to push boundaries

the only defense secretary to serve two presidents, was both the youngest during the cold war for gerald ford i donald h. rumsfeld - >> reporter: and the oldest after 9/11, launching the wars in afghanistan and iraq under george w. bush but it is 9/11 and the iraq war that defined his service. today george w. bush recalled rumsfeld running to the fire in the pentagon to assist the wounded. only four days later rumsfeld told a national security meeting at camp david they needed a plan to go after saddam hussein, despite no proof of his connection to osama bin laden. >> there are known knowns there are things we know we know we also know there are known unknowns. >> reporter: then widely blamed after the 2003 invasion of iraq for not listening to advice about how to manage the war fired the day after the president lost both houses of congress in the 2006 midterms, rumsfeld remained defiant rumsfeld, 88, died of multiple myeloma in his memoir, he insisted he didn't lie about saddam having weapons of mass destruction. writing, "the far less dramatic truth is we were wrong." andrea mitchell, nbc,