let's go to h.w. bush. know. let's go to h.w. bush -- let's go to w. bush. the years can never be too big. but the interesting thing about his face is that, over time, i abbreviated him so fast that i can turn him out in six seconds. he has very strong flared nostrils, a set of parentheses, a civil like that, horizontal line, horizontal line, and a few lines like this. his chin as a w. then you have the strong growth like this. and you have tiny eyes, a tiny eyes. then the years. let's abbreviate the years a little bit like this and like this. then you have another parentheses here. then you have lines like this, which i called the perplex lloyoid. then you have george w. bush. what do you think? [applause] not bad. not bad. let's get on to president barack obama. it is interesting watching him over the course of time. he had a very young taut face when he first ran for office. the the combination of gravity and gravitas have worked its toll on his face the way it does. you look on the picture of any present, over four years, their faces age at an exponentia

during the years of president george h.w. bush, there were many matters of note. one that stands out was the confirmation proceeding as to justice souter, and when justice souter was up for confirmation and i participated in that as a member of the judiciary committee as i have participated in the confirmation of judge bork, the pro-choice groups were apprehensive about justice -- about judge souter becoming justice souter. and i examined his record very carefully and thought that he would read the precedence of roe v. wade in a favorable light and supported his confirmation. and then he became a stalwart for a woman's right to choose and a stalwart for constitutional principles involving civil rights and individual freedom. during the years of president clinton, i chaired the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, and education, and at that time had an opportunity to take the lead in increasing education funding very substantially. pell grants were raised very materially. they had been $2,400, and the committee then moved them up and now th

let's go to h.w. bush. know. let's go to h.w. bush -- let's go to w. bush. the years can never be too big. but the interesting thing about his face is that, over time, i abbreviated him so fast that i can turn him out in six seconds. he has very strong flared nostrils, a set of parentheses, a civil like that, horizontal line, horizontal line, and a few lines like this. his chin as a w. then you have the strong growth like this. and you have tiny eyes, a tiny eyes. then the years. let's abbreviate the years a little bit like this and like this. then you have another parentheses here. then you have lines like this, which i called the perplex lloyoid. then you have george w. bush. what do you think? [applause] not bad. not bad. let's get on to president barack obama. it is interesting watching him over the course of time. he had a very young taut face when he first ran for office. the the combination of gravity and gravitas have worked its toll on his face the way it does. you look on the picture of any present, over four years, their faces age at an exponentia

george h.w. bush, '89, 17%. reagan, back in '81, approval rating of 49%. all gallup polls i think. cnn "usa today" gallup polls. it's got to be causing some, some pand wringing in the wus? >> the only one that's relevant. because with george bush -- >> reagan number opinion 49%. >> yeah. dealing with, he's dealing with the fallout from the carter years. you have 18 1/2% interest rates. so that's a relevant number. clinton's number completely irrelevant. he inherited george bush's bull market. the economy's booming. the george bush number is completely irrelevant because of 9/11. none of the numbers vaguely comparable. the only one comparable, herbert hoover what obama's dealing with. obama dealt one of the worst hands in the history of the countries. go back and look at abraham lincoln's approval ratings which were terribly low and that's what's relevant. the other things are, those number, completely irrelevant. >> what has been dealt now, he has to partner with wall street, right, and the banking system to try to get it out. >> some of that partnering or talk of it is not in wall

if you recall, president h.w. bushmet with gorbachev in december, a few months after the defector at malta on ships. wet that summit there was no mention of biological weapons at all and one of the reasons was of course bush was afraid to bring it up. it would blow up everything else he was working on, the unification of germany within nato, strategic arms control and gorbachev did not want to bring it up because of the new about the defector. he also realized talk of a biological weapons program on his watch would cause them to ask questions about new thinking on glass noss so there was a little bit of a conspiracy of silence but the soviet nation worry terribly about how it they were asked questions and this continued to envelop gorbachev and bring in his top advisers including four in mr. schevenoski. we will propose to exchange experts. on may 14th, 1990, the american and british ambassadors make a formal day march to the kremlin to anatoly it was gorbachev's national security advisor brent into the foreign ministe

let's go to h.w. bush. know. let's go to h.w. bush -- let's go to w. bush.e years can never be too big. but the interesting thing about his face is that, over time, i abbreviated him so fast that i can turn him out in six seconds. he has very strong flared nostrils, a set of parentheses, a civil like that, horizontal line, horizontal line, and a few lines like this. his chin as a w. then you have the strong growth like this. and you have tiny eyes, a tiny eyes. then the years. let's abbreviate the years a little bit like this and like this. then you have another parentheses here. then you have lines like this, which i called the perplex lloyoid. then you have george w. bush. what do you think? [applause] not bad. not bad. let's get on to president barack obama. it is interesting watching him over the course of time. he had a very young taut face when he first ran for office. the the combination of gravity and gravitas have worked its toll on his face the way it does. you look on the picture of any present, over four years, their faces age at an exponential r

he searched in the george h.w. bush's re-election campaign. he's been in the white house in other positions. and he has a publication that i've uploaded to blackboard for you. i recommend it for you on government relations. some of -- how many of you have read it. oh, good, so most of you have read it. [laughter] >> they are on top of this. they are very busy. we're going nine days on this. he's a graduate of university of tennessee. and most importantly, he has a degree in public policy from indiana university where i got my ph.d. and i'm very proud of the fact that he's a distinguished alum. and he was a pmi. it's a presidential management intern. now it's pmf, presidential management fellow. i recommend to all of you to think about applying for this because you come in at a very high position, you at omb, and you're on the fast track if you don't screw up, you didn't screw up, you've done very well. welcome. >> thanks, jim. good afternoon. i'll start the session off by giving you a piece of good news that i just got. you know the geico comm

of the defense policy so it wasn't new and while cini was saying well, i backed the president h.w. bush and not going to baghdad, that is not true and if you look at the signatories on the project from the new american century they are all there. the whole cast of characters are there, said they did not hide it but they never discussed it with the american people. george w. bush said to the american people, we will not nation build. i am opposed to nation building. apparently president cheney sought a different view of the world of president bush did so you have to step back a little bit and that sort ahold era. that is why the think the 40 your timeframe is so important. and not to take something out of context, not to look at one event and think it is related to other events that preceded it so we looked at document after document, went through things that each side was saying and we tried our best to present them to you in a theory toned down clay savitt you can feel what it is to make your own judgment. it is very important that we use it as a history, our opinions, we try to keep t

when the administration of george h.w. bushd bill clinton had used the military base as an offshore refugee camp for haitians who were entitled to asylum in the united states but who were prohibited from entering the country because they were hiv positive. i learned the important lessons -- i learned important lessons from that litigation. first i learned guantanamo was a really bad place to be imprisoned. i compared the camp to dante's ninth circle of hell with its extreme heat, barbed wire, scorp uns hard ground, arbitrary beatingings hunger strikes and appalling detention facilities. the two prior administrations had argued and somewhat successfully that guantanamo was a law-free scone. that the refugees were not protected by the constitution and that no court could protect their rights. as a last short excerpt, within a couple of weeks we realized that the chances for getting relief in u.s. courts was going to be difficult and take many years. so we filed with the inter-american commission on human rights within two or thre

washington did so in 1991 after president george h.w. bush signed the agent orange act into law. and in the year since, justice seemingly done the issue of agent orange has largely disappeared from the news. but in reality, the problem of agent orange never really went away. in fact, it is now morphing into a new set of problems for our nation's leaders t. turns out that the long-acting toxin is continuing to damage lives in vietnam, not only for those exposed to it during the war, but for their children and their grandchildren. the government estimates that as many as 400,000 vietnamese have died early from ailments related to the exposure to dioxin and that half a million children have birth defects because of exposure to the chemicals leaching into the soil and water. until recently, the effects of agent orange were not something the vietnamese government talked much about after normal sizing relations with the united states in 1995, hanoi's overwhelming goal was to win favorable deals with the united states in addition to bodies like the world trade organization, bringing up

let's go to h.w. bush. let's go straight to w. bush. you really need three sheets of paper. i want you to use your imagination. the nearesears can never be too. the images show you quickly where you go with him. perry strong flared nostrils -- very strong flared nostrils. his chin is a w. little tiny eyes. then we at the perdd the ears. we have lines like this which i call the perplexoids. then his hair there. what you think? george w. bush. not bad. who wants this one? but get on to president barack obama -- let's get onto barack obama. he had a young face when a first ran for office. but now it is a combination of gravity and gravitas have worked their toll on his face. you only need to see pictures of any president and their faces age at an exponential rate. a first will drop barack obama from a profile to give you some idea of what i am looking -- i first will draw barack obama for my profile. the eriars. the sunlight hits him here. it casts a heavy shadow on his eyes. can see someone from a distance. they tend to be small. his nose is quite small. he has a strong upper

you know, bill clinton was that personality who broke in on george h.w. bush back in '92 with "it's the economy, stupid." now we will see if it is possible for somebody to make the argument that republicans have been making in such a galvanizing way that the american electorate turns away from the historic presidency of president obama. host: another question here and then we will get to one or two phone calls. go ahead, please. >> i'm jessica lee from massachusetts. my question to you is how do you feel about the current political discussion on expanding healthcare for minorties and do you think this is an important discussion -- a national discussion to have? guest: when you say expanding healthcare for minorties, are you are talking about as part of the healthcare reform bill or something different? >> for minorties. guest: obviously it does not apply to illegal immigrants. it would apply to all americans, minorties, majorities, everybody, in terms of people not covered for health insurance. we have already seen some expansion in terms of children's healthc

obviously, the administrations of george h.w. bush the administration of bill clinton and president george w. bush lot of resources go to haiti and the haitian people. we obviously have a vested interest in the government and the people there. he asked them again to come together in an effort similar to the one that was done for the tsunami. we'll have more details on that in the coming days. again, our focus right now is on ensuring what resources and capabilities we have are gotten to the region and gotten to haiti as quickly as possible to affect that window of time for search and rescue. >> have they initially agreed? >> both of them have agreed to take part in this. again, i don't have details past that at this point, but in the very, -- very near future, as we focus and for the time being focus on search and rescue. >> on banks and bonuses the president sounded particularly angry today. what made him catch up with the american people? >> helen, i remind you a little more than a year ago, the president was angry in the oval offic

you know, bill clinton was that personality who broke in on george h.w. bush back in '92 with "it's the economy, stupid." now we will see if it is possible for somebody to make the argument that republicans have been making in such a galvanizing way that the american electorate turns away from the historic presidency of president obama. host: another question here and then we will get to one or two phone calls. go ahead, please. >> i'm jessica lee from massachusetts. my question to you is how do you feel about the current political discussion on expanding healthcare for minorties and do you think this is an important discussion -- a national discussion to have? guest: when you say expanding healthcare for minorties, are you are talking about as part of the healthcare reform bill or something different? >> for minorties. guest: obviously it does not apply to illegal immigrants. it would apply to all americans, minorties, majorities, everybody, in terms of people not covered for health insurance. we have already seen some expansion in terms of children's healthc

one of the things i admired about former president george h.w. bush when he committed we were going to liberate kuwait from the atrocity of saddam hue cain moving in and taking over that country, he did a great thing he called in the military guys and said, you guys are in the military, you tell me what we need. here's what we're going to do, we're going to liberate kuwait. they put together a plan and that's what they did. it was not the civilians running the activity. as sam johnson a member of our body here, colleague, who was in the hanoi hilton for nearly seven years, as he was told after we carpet bombed north vietnam, hanoi, for two week, they rushed back to the negotiating table, worked out a deal that was favorable to them and not the united states, as sam says, when he was leaving the p.o.w. camp, the hanoi hilton, a commander was laughing and said you stupid americans if you'd just bombed us one more week we would have had to surrender unconditionally. we didn't do that. we didn't give the service member what they needed to win the war and

he served also in the george h.w. bush reelection campaign, he's been in the white house in other positions. and he has a publication that i've uploaded to blackboard for you, i recommend to you on government relations. how many of you have read it? okay. good. most of you have read it ahead of time. they are on top of it. no, they are very busy. we are going almost night and day on this thing. his graduate of the university of tennessee. and most importantly, he has a degree in public policy from indiana university when i got my phd. i'm proud of that. he was a pmi, presidential management intern, now it's presidential management fellow. i recommend to all of you, you come in at a very high position. you're on the fast track if you don't screw up. you didn't screw up. you've done very well. welcome. >> thanks, jim. good afternoon. i'll start the session off by giving you a piece of good news. you know the geico, not the gecko. when i told in, i was told i had to pay for parking. when i pulled it, it's complimentary day at