jackie kennedy didn't like the political side of being first lady. president kennedy understood this and gave her remarks about the way so she would go on vacation with her children or friend or sister of the world and their she made a huge splash wherever she went because she had such a glamour persona and a celebrity sense about her that she was of course very young and a substantially younger than her husband. she was very cultured and brought a lot to the white house and people were really entrenched by this in the policy. she was just sort of a modern media person basically. she had a tremendous impact on fashion. a lot of women sort of copied the fashion that she wore and the hairdo and so on and so she was a true celebrity first lady not on the policy terms but as an individual and the other thing i might add is the assassination intensify the mystique of jackie kennedy because of her grace under this terrible adversity and people of a certain age remember jackie kennedy handle it up with enormous grace and people remembered about and added to

. >> you have fascinating insight into jfk and jackie kennedy's relationship specifically jackie kennedytion and relationship with jb west a service attendant there. really growing close to jb west hugging him saying will you still be my friend when this is over? jackie kennedy for someone that's so stoic throughout the assassination ordeal bonded with the people that worked with her? >> she did. she call jb west the second most popular man in washington. he was a huge sounding board for her. after she came back after the assassination, there was a poignant moment she's with him in the white house watching as her husband's furniture is taken out of the oval office after the assassination. she says my kids are good kids aren't they? he describes this fragile woman. she comes across as untouchable really. >> she also had another attendant, the grandson of slaves march behind jfk's casket casket. >> yes. he witnessed amazing things in the elevator when she was crying after coming back from dallas. she was there with president nixon before he left the white house for the last time. he was th

>> well, in formal terms, jackie kennedy. the others had kind of function in that capacity. >> they knew they needed help. >> like mrs. hoover had four or five secretaries. one was very good with interfacing with the reporters so that's how -- >> another clip for you. this is too much fun. you know the white house correspondents' dinner is another one of these big precedents. it's coming up this weekend and it has become hollywood on the east. it's become quite a thing. there have been times when first ladies and husbands have used that to help enhance the image. let's watch laura bush at one of these just a few years ago. >> i said to george the other day, george, if you really want to end tyranny in the world you have to stay up later last. [laughter] [applause] i am married to the president of the united states, and here's our typical evening. 9:00 mr. excitement here is sound asleep. [laughter] and i'm watching desperate housewives. [laughter] with lynne cheney. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, i am a desperate housewife.

jackie kennedy said it best. she said, three, four stories about yourself that illustrate a good point about yourself or your family and you let them give them on it and that's it. and you read those things, stories over and over again and you try to read that and that's how much you give to your per son a. ms. swain: the first ladies fought the glare. >> martha washington was the first and setting the tone for everyone who followed, it must have been incrediblebly difficult. she had the ms. medford: people knew her. she had always been around the winter camps and the soldiers knew her and people appreciated her and after she became first lady she was pretty popular but people became to criticize and she doesn't know quite how to behave. all she has is the example of european royaltyy and trying to establish some practices that would be in keeping with what they have been doing in europe. and americans resented that. they didn't want her to go in that direction and had a tremendous burden and all that time during

but jackie kennedy i think said it best. she said during the 1960 campaign she said you take three or four stories that are real about yourself, that illustrate a point, a good point about yourself or your family, and you just let them get them out and that's it. you read those same stories over over again and it touches that and that's a much of your real self you give to your persona. >> we didn't have media coverage anywhere near where we have today and get even the early first ladies felt like a layer. spent if you think of someone like what the washington who was the first and was actually setting the tone for everyone who followed, it must've been incredibly difficult for her. she probably had the same kind of scrutiny in the sense that her husband pashtun husband to come out of more so than he did. people never of course. she had always been around the winter camps with her husband and so the soldiers certainly never. people appreciated what she had done before she became first lady. i think after she became first lad

jackie kennedy very strong where the u.s. was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadn't that america had coming-of-age with dignity and their right to maintain that on the world stage. to make those personal and emotional issues but to use that to help others. i have to agree it is eleanor roosevelt but they realize time is ticking. anything can happen in a moment. your husband could die or resign or be shot you have this opportunity to make a change people will like you and hate you no matter what what they think about you or how you look, what you say, and to hell with it. >> thank-you to a panel who i can see is in the booth is the executive producer for or first lady series who put all those clips together in the video and the pictures. thank you very much. [applause] for this c-span audience sari you have to find your own coffee. anybody who stays after we will have a book signing federal is makes me feel embarrassed to say by my book but if you are interested all proceeds go to the c-span

when jackie kennedy would go out of town president kennedy would swim nude with some of the secretaries in the pool the resident staffers always knew not to go to the second and third floors when mrs. kennedy was out of town. there are also stories about president nixon bowling with one of staffers late into the evening. then another story when i think is interesting, the temptations and james brown when they would visit the white house, they would hang out with the african-american butlers in the pantry connected to the state dining room before state dinners. they would all hang out together so there's a bit of entertainment in there, too. >> lbj, and meetings in the bathroom? >> yeah. well he was obsessed with the shower and he wanted it to be a fire hose strength intensity. he drove the plumbing crew so crazy that one of them even had a nervous breakdown trying to make the showers forceful. he want it to go from hot to cold immediately, and did call the plumber in to thank him for all the work he did. and the plumber, it meant the world that the president was finally happy with it bu

and jackie kennedy gave him the tie that jfk wore on the flight to dallas and he even walked in his funeralas standing there next to charles de gaulle and the huge world leaders. he never even graduated from high school. >> he was there as a loyal member of the family. also lighter moments, of course, we see images, photographs of people like nixon bowling with staff members there. and i think we have some of the images up on the screen there if we can put them up. you see the president, you know, at ease in moments where we wouldn't expect to see him. >> yeah, i love that story because it was tough in a staff to watch president nixon in particular it was even harder than jfk's assassination because he was decaying day by day and there was nothing they could do to help him. but he was bowling with the kitchen worker and he wandered into the kitchen late at night and said do you want to bowl and they bowled until 2:00 a.m. and he said my wife will never believe i was bowling with you this late. and he took him into the oval office and wrote a letter explaining to his wife that they were out.

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the curator of the white house, a position that came along as a result of all of the work that jackie kennedy did. as a way of introducing you to our panelists said and what kind of operations a first lady hums into, we're going to talk about a state dinner and use that as an introduction for all of us and how they are put on, where the first lady comes into it but all of the various parts of the white house that get involved, because it certainly is a big event and one that is involved for everybody. gary, can you start us off? as chief usher, you handled the resident staff and you can begin. gary: i would be glad to. the first notice of a state visit, comes from the state department. it usually goes through the social secretary of the white house, and soon after these social secretary has had conversations with the first lady to get some direct in, the social secretary would come to the chief usher and lay out the who, when, why how, what of what the state visit was going to be about. there's a lot of planning. sometimes a vents are planned for as much as 3, 4 -- events are planned for as m

betty is curator at the white house position that came about as a result of all of the work that jackie kennedyntroducing you to our panelists and what kind of operation a first lady comes into we're going to talk about a state dinner. and use that as introduction for all of us and where they are put on and where the first lady comes in and all of the various parts of the white house that get involved because it certainly is a big event and one that involves everybody. so gary, can you start us off? as a chief usher, you handle the resident staff and you can begin. >> be glad to. the first notice of a state dinner or state visit comes from the state department. it usually goes through the social secretary at the white house. soon after they have conversations with the first lady to get direction, social secretary would come to the chief usher and layout the who when and where and how and what of what the state visit was going to be about. there's a lot of planning. usually these events are planned three, four, sometimes as much as a year in the future. sometimes a lot less time depending on wor

the blatant fabrication of what she wrote about us in the paper from jackie is what stood out to me. kennedy: one was the last i've talked to jackie? >> i have not spoken to her since. ryan has and he said he reached out to jackie and she said her lawyers do not want her to talk to was. kennedy: why bother? what you think happened? >> we know now that she has a penchant for making false or erroneous reports. based on what the chief of police said a couple of weeks ago. i can say that for sure it doesn't look like anything happened but i cannot be 100 percent sure. i wonder sometimes if this isn't a childhood trauma manifesting itself. i about a psychology major but it doesn't seem like the story of "rolling stone" has any basis of reality. kennedy: thank you for taking the time. coming up the tennessee ruled squirt guns not within 150 feet of schools the lines to get in the bathroom over an hour per hour than talking about a student who pretended to be black to get into medical school. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud e

. >> that was jackie kennedy in 16216 1962 giving the first-ever televised tour of the white house inwe know far less about is the kennedy fame's life when the cameras stopped rolling, what their lives were like inside the white house. and that holds true for any first family. it's not that their private lives don't have plenty of witnesses. there are witnesses there, as they're attended to by a staff of maids and butlers and cooks, florist, doormen, engineers and others who tend to their every need. those loyal attendants don't usually talk about what they see. until now. somehow journalist kate anderson brouwer got many dpormer members of the white house staff to talk about what daily life in the white house is like. the secrets have been uncovered in the book called "the residence: inside the private world of the white house." and author kate anderson brouwer joins us ponl. she's also a former white house correspondent for bloomberg. thanks for joining us. the theme of the day here the clintons are trying to come back to the white house after an absence. hillary clinton probably an

jackie kennedy. >> what is the nightly rate? >> oh, you know it varies.e suite but it's expensive. in the thousands. >> like $2,000. >> like $1,000. >> what's the cheapest hotel on your list? >> i guess it would be 21 broad. there are a couple in that category. >> 21 broad is in nantucket. >> new hotel, really charming. you are in it. it feels like you belong there. >> i like to travel to crazy, far away places as possible. trend wise where are people wanting to go? >> i still think despite eebola that seems to have died down and i think back beyond africa is very -- >> that's the hottest place? >> one of these sort of you know, sort of god forsaken and glorious. >> dare i ask what is the most expensive hotel on the list? do you know? >> the most expensive hotel. a lot of them are very expensive. part ofaic paage. a lot of them aren't because we weigh different criteria. >> new york city. >> that's not fair. don't put me on the spot. that's on our cover. it is spectacular. i have to say. >> what makes it spectacular? >> the craftsmanship. when i was there

we remember martha washington and jackie kennedy.he historical view was to -- that's an unfaithful view of how extraordinary some of these women are. one of my favorites was francis cleveland. she was a fashion icon even though she is forgotten today. i love grace coolidge. host: if you want to read more about all the first ladies, the book is "first ladies." benjamin adams is the book editor. we appreciate your time this morning. guest: thanks for having me on. host: we have time for just a few more calls. is the tax system there. we're waiting for the house of representatives to come in. deborah is in connecticut on the line for people between -- who make between $61,000 and $100,000. caller: i don't think it's fair. i am self-employed. i do daycare. i and the pain so much every year. even with all the deductions allowed for having your own business. every tear bottles my mind how much i have to pay. when i try to find help, my heating bill is over $1000 every month. i'm not in that category. i'm not in the low category or the high

it wasn't long before she got her big break playing none other than jacquelyn kennedy oh that sis in "a woman named jackielove doesn't hide. >> that role eventually led to "touched by an angel." her stature as a beloved figure, not only with tv audiences, but especially in the faith-based community. >> "touched by an angel" was a show that in addition to being popular, it had fan tall fan base. i'm sure she encountered that not just in promoting the show but in everyday life. >> mark burnett had a different path to success. >> he was the equivalent of a navy s.e.a.l. basically in england. came out of that not knowing what he wanted to do with his life. >> he eventually came to los angeles to seek his fortune. he sold t-shirts on venice beach, sold insurance, and even worked in malibu as a male nanny, a manny. squirrelling away money, he worked his way into tv production. he created a show around a competition called "eco challenge" and later pitched the american version of a show called "survivor". >> the head of cbs thought it sounded like the worst program he had ever heard of. >> burnett got the show o

kennedy. this is a story about my brain injury and what the community living fund has done for me in the campaign. thank you. thank you, jackie glasson? >> good afternoon, members of the council and people in the mayor's office on disability. and carla, wherever you are, we have been working since 1998 since she was with the department of building inspection. and she dealt with disability issues and that was her narrow focus and she did that so well. a fun anecdote. we had a moeld envision and all of the community services would do was paint over it. it really made it really mad or gave it a spa day because it came back with a vengeance and then gave in newsom discovered moeld and came up with an ordinance to which the landlords could be held accountable and during that board of supervisors meeting i reminded then board of supervisors, newsom if he kept that appointment with he, i would have told him it was on the book. he doesn't blush, but he does sometimes. what i want to do is champion the crusade for the mayor's office on disability to have a department on disability so as the women's status on women to have a department

we remember martha washington and jackie kennedy. the historical view was to -- that's an unfaithful view of how extraordinary some of these women are. one of my favorites was francis cleveland. she was a fashion icon even though she is forgotten today. i love grace coolidge. host: if you want to read more about all the first ladies, the book is "fi