[applause] >> grover, did you get this? >> he does not seem to havethu thumbs, so i will give this to you. i have two for you. how often do you get upstaged by bob betz, and who is your favorite muppet? >> the answer is often, and grover. >> good answer. >> thank you. i have been abused by moppets around the world. it is a wonderful job, and i hope we can continue to work with great colleagues to do great things for kids. [applause] >> i would like to thank all of you for coming today, especially the young folks an audience that gave us such terrific questions for grover. i like to thank the staff members, melinda cook, pat nelson, and joanne for organizing the luncheon. the video archive is provided by the national press club's broadcast operations center. we are available for download onitunes and our -- 9oon itunes and our

[applause] >> grover, did you get this? >> he does not seem to havethu thumbs, so i will give this to you. i have two for you. how often do you get upstaged by bob betz, and who is your favorite muppet? >> the answer is often, and grover. >> good answer. >> thank you. i have been abused by moppets around the world. it is a wonderful job, and i hope we can continue to work with great colleagues to do great things for kids. [applause] >> i would like to thank all of you for coming today, especially the young folks an audience that gave us such terrific questions for grover. i like to thank the staff members, melinda cook, pat nelson, and joanne for organizing the luncheon. the video archive is provided by the national press club's broadcast operations center. we are available for download onitunes and our -- 9o

[applause] >> grover, did you get this? >> he does not seem to havethu thumbs, so i will give this to you. i have two for you. how often do you get upstaged by bob betz, and who is your favorite muppet? >> the answer is often, and grover. >> good answer. >> thank you. i have been abused by moppets around the world. it is a wonderful job, and i hope we can continue to work with great colleagues to do great things for kids. [applause] >> i would like to thank all of you for coming today, especially the young folks an audience that gave us such terrific questions for grover. i like to thank the staff members, melinda cook, pat nelson, and joanne for organizing the luncheon. the video archive is provided by the national press club's broadcast operations center. we are available for download onitunes and our -- 9oon itunes and our website. you can also email us at archives@press.org. go to www.press.org, and we are adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite cor

grover does not seem to notthumbs, so -- grover does not seem to have thumbs, will give that to you. in your career do you get upstaged by puppets, and also, who is your favorite muppet? >> the answer is often, and grover. >> good answer. [laughter] >> i have been abused by muppets around the world. it is a wonderful job, and i hope we can continue to work with our great colleagues to do great things for kids. thank you for having us today. [applause] >> i would like to thank all of you for coming today, especially our young folks in the audience who gave us such terrific question is for grover. i would also like to thank national press club staff members for organizing today's lunch. the video archive of today's luncheon is provided by the national press club's broadcast operations center. our events are available for free download on itunes as well as our website. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website. thank you all, and we are adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable sate

republican congress is acting like democratic congress and a to 85, grover cleveland, ulysses grant finraof the greatest heroes in america. host: gary on independent line. caller: lieberman. the only reason why i am saying that, this is a politician, when you think you've got him figured out, he up in full view. he is now holding the whole country hostage because they already dropped the different options off of the bills to ensure they get his vote. you got to go with a guy like joe lieberman. host: referring to the headline in many of the papers, democrats may drop the medicare by in provision, the provision that had been to expand medicare to 55, and it seems this morning the news is they will not conclude that and any sort of final package. st. paul, minnesota. rita on the democrats' line. caller: barack obama personally. he is taking on a big mess from the bush and cheney administration and republican politicians want to sit back and pretend like they have had nothing to do with it and republican voters when act like they had nothing to do with it and the american people. this all ha

if you are a geologist on the surface of mars, how long would it take you to do what the grover does and one day? it might look at a rock -- do what the rover does in one day? he said i have timed it, 45 seconds. you can and mentioned that there is a lot of proficiency you get out of having humans. in the human eyes and ears can give us observations we don't have the capability to get. most of the missions we do our robotic exploration, but there is room for humans as well. >> we have time for a couple of more questions. you are one of them. >> my brother hopes to be an astrophysicist. when you were little did you ever dream of that doing what you are doing now? >> i could not even pronounced astrophysicist and i was a kid and i did not, but i wanted to follow in the footsteps of my heroes, which was those that serve in the military. i decided in high school that i wanted to go to the naval academy. i started aiming for that. then i fell in love with airplanes, so i became a pilot. it is just the progression of one step after another that leads us to the final career. i just tell eve

a report that president obama is the first president to refuse to address the gridiron club since grover cleveland. if that is accurate, why did he refuse? >> i do not know the history of this. i know that the president address the gridiron club before the president was president and before the president was a senator. i knew i should of laughed. i think the president -- look, i don't know what you have to get sarah palin. i thought she was quite funny. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . the national park service has been collecting stories. here is an expert excerpt. >> i took my you go and went to the bridge. i think it was a few minutes before 8:00 a.m. they came up and said, my god we are at war. the next thing i remember there's a tremendous explosion on the tennessee year the number two gun turret. there was shrapnel all over the place. he had most -- he was almost torn in half. we made him as comfortable as we could. that was about eight or nine minutes after 8:00 a.m. all of a sudden i saw

had endorsements of charlton heston and grover norquist and david keane, all the groups in washingtond.c. mr. barr was leader for there they were endorsing him because he was more vocal spokesman for conservative issues than mr. linder was. we wanted to come up with some kind of ad which showed the public, gee, john linder is good conservative too and let's talk about other things. we had to do it in way mr. barr could not come back at us, yeah but not how you should be judging us right now. this is what we ad. this ad went up early in mr. linder's election and ran at low level on daytime television for the whole campaign. after you see it you probably see why we chose that target group. >> character of a person by the relationships they have with those they're closest to. >> i was june 16th, 1963. and my brother and i just finished playing a county league baseball game. a car pulled up in our front yard in this little bity town. a young gal looking for directions to the resort. she said she just dyed her friend's hair that afternoon and turned blue and sent to town to get more dye to

if you are a geologist on the surface of mars, how long would it take you to do what the grover does and one day? it might look at a rock -- do what the rover does in one day? he said i have timed it, 45 seconds. you can and mentioned that there is a lot of proficiency you get out of having humans. in the human eyes and ears can give us observations we don't have the capability to get. most of the missions we do our robotic exploration, but there is room for humans as well. >> we have time for a couple of more questions. you are one of them. >> my brother hopes to be an astrophysicist. when you were little did you ever dream of that doing what you are doing now? >> i could not even pronounced astrophysicist and i was a kid and i did not, but i wanted to follow in the footsteps of my heroes, which was those that serve in the military. i decided in high school that i wanted to go to the naval academy. i started aiming for that. then i fell in love with airplanes, so i became a pilot. it is just the progression of one step after another that leads us to the final career. i just tell eve