up on the mantle, i guess there were little lamps, in the base of the lamps. in his office they drilled -- they embedded six microphones on the surface of his desk coming up from the bottom. they didn't show, of course, but they were right there. but that came back to bite them because people often drank coffee at the president's desk, especially his aides. you the coffee cups rattling. anything at his desk wasn't picked up -- >> in fact, when you doctoring a coffee cup across the desk, it sounds like a train going through the oval office. >> and it was voice activated. >> why was it voice activated? >> they just decided -- i had nothing to do with this. they put it in. when they put it in -- >> it wasn't because no one thought nixon could hit the switch at the right time without being conspicuous? >> that makes a good story and that would be true. that would be true. >> the locations. so the oval office -- >> the oval office, i guess the cabinet room or was later. i'm not sure. the cabinet room, there was a switch under here that called the people from the st

it was that thick and on the mantle. i can see it as clearly as i am looking at them now. keu remember looking at the pictures and beginning to pick through some of the stories. and i learned to love those stories and if you read my books as a collection, and some people have, you will see that those 2 books

it was that thick and on the mantle. i can see it as clearly as i am looking at them now. keu remember looking at the pictures and beginning to pick through some of the stories. and i learned to love those stories and if you read my books as a collection, and some people have, you will see that those 2 books inform most of my writings in subtle ways, not overt, in subtle ways you can see those books and the influence that they have on my writing. daddy james would tell store reus about little girls named sara and pat and little boy named

rhino horn, or when you buy ivory, if you are taking this from a rhino for a decorative piece on your mantle. >> what would you sit down in the room with someone who does not know about the situation? >> i think they are extremely ignorant and selfish and totally wrong. >> it makes you angry? >> totally. it is a waste. >>, on the day of their departure, her horn is removed for the safety of the flight. she is a dated, -- she is sedated, crated, and just 24 hours later she is with her new team and armed guards to protect her. conservationists say there is a limit to what they can do. >> you need the cooperation of the chinese government, otherwise, it does not mean anything. china has a culture where if it comes from the top to stop this, it will stop. >> china says it is tackling the problem. if it does lead the way, the black rhino will survive. if it does not, it most likely will not. >> today in new orleans, the southern baptist convention made history. for the first time, america's largest protestant church elected an african-american as its president. down down walls for the organizatio

could she will be taking the mantle of the torch tomorrow morning and running through edinburg tomorrow. thank you. back to you in london, george. >> thank you very much. thank you. we are getting news that syrian state tv says authorities are in control of haffa after eight days of clashes. reuters is reporting syrian forces have "cleansed terrorist groups from the town of haffa and restored security." the u.n. has been describing was going on in syria as something very near a civil war. america raising concerns that what happens around haffa was nearing a massacre. that is it for this edition of gmt. please do stay with us here on "bbc world news." there is plenty more to come. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and shell. >> at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies. that's why we're supplying cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity. and it's also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing ethanol, a biofuel made from renewable sugar cane. >> a

. ♪ gonna be enough to last last free mantle media, who produces "america's got talent" responded withement. well sincerely apologize to u.s. army staff sergeant norman bone for using a photo of him in our story on tim poe. it was supplied to us by tim and used on the show in good faith. it is now been removed and will not be used again. it's the sameicture poe gave our abc affiliate in dallas. his fiance says that was just a mistake. >> it was just a complete mixup and he is totally, totallior ysy about that. >> reporter: but poe also told wfaa he was shot and injured in iraq in 2005. >> in the fire fight, i took a bullet in the leg. >> reporter: the national guard said sergeant poe was never even deployed to iraq. now poe is desperate to explain the unexplainable. >> everyone to jump on a bandwagon and say such horrible things and threaten family and things like that is horrible. because i did serve my country, the best that i knew how. >> reporter: in another bizarre apparent lie, sergeant poe told the "america's got talent" judges on stage he never sang before his brain injury. >>

and for these young people to pick up the mantle and do so very well, i'm just so pleased with that. know daniel is pleased with it. >> going, going, gone. how much you will have to pay,,, ,, you're going down! it's all over! no! it's not over yet! >> the first apple computer is going up for auction, it was built by steve jobs at back in 1976 and still runs with a 16 pin 4 kilobytes of memory. at the time was the first device to allow users to type letters on a screen, the stripped-down mother board will be auctioned off by friday, the price $180,000, or the best offer. >> that is it lot. healthy, fresh, tazing great. time for an easy tree that you can make your own kitchen. tony tantillo joins us right now but he brought a special guest? >> my daughter stephanie has actually taught me some great ingredients in great recipes because you were in school for how long? >> one year to read >> you learn a lot about great food? >> yes, simple sicilian dishes. this is just a simple sicilian burt salad and use it with either day old bread or bread that you have toasted. first you start cuttin

. >> congressman ryan claiming the catholicism mantle really set our teeth on edge. >> reporter: the nuns stopped at ryan's wisconsin office tuesday delivering to one of his staffers what they call a faithful budget proposal that protects the poor. the idea for the bus tour came after the vatican's recent public criticism of socially active nuns in the u.s. which the nuns say create an outpouring of sympathy and a lot of attention. >> so we said how can we use this opportunity of focus on us to show people what we are really about and who they care for. >> reporter: so far the nuns who now have their own song thanks to fans in iowa say they are overwhelm by the receptions they're getting. they're using their time on the bus to check e-mail and twitter accounts as driver bill gets them to their next stop. >> those nuns are something else. now the u.s. conference of catholic bishops has also called on congress and the administration to reject proposed cuts in domestic and international hunger and nutrition programs. >>> coming up on 9news topper says he has a super charged summer forec

' ♪ on my head ♪ and just like the guy ♪ whose feet are too big ♪ for his bed ♪ beneath its snowy mantleorgettable love songs. ♪ it's impossible ♪ to tell the sun to leave the sky ♪ ♪ it's just impossible remember all those beautiful songs from stage and screen? here's a show tune that became a number one hit for my wonderful mother-in-law, rosemary clooney. ♪ hey there, ♪ you with the stars ♪ in your eyes ♪ where do i begin ♪ to tell the story ♪ of how great a love can be? ♪ jean ♪ jean ♪ roses are red ♪ ♪ what's it all about ♪ ♪ alfie? ♪ is it just for the moment ♪ ♪ we live? ♪ to dream ♪ the impossible dream ♪ to fight ♪ the unbeatable foe that is such a pretty melody. i love relaxing to music like that and sharing it with friends. i think that's what makes the music of your life collection so special. it's filled with great instrumentals and beautiful ballads. ♪ ♪ there's a ship ♪ lies rigged and ready ♪ in the harbor ♪ tomorrow for old england ♪ she sails ♪ so i sing you to sleep ♪ after the lovin' ♪ with a song ♪ i just wrote yesterday ♪ and you light up my life ♪ you give me ♪ hop

beijing and russia as larry said the one gold she's since retired but is determined to take up the mantle and believes hope of aeration will put her in good stead he added i have already tested the olympic venue once and it was quite all right but it always everything will depend on the way down the board and maybe colored that but i have experience in such conditions and have competed in cold water before while there's joy for her there's heartbreak for a fellow russian swimmer he katrina syllabus of i was also taking part in this weekend's event she was one of the favorites to represent her country in london but failed to qualify during trials in portugal two weeks ago and it still hurts. unfortunately the watch in portugal was very cold but of course we knew this in advance and tried to prepare for it but my muscles just couldn't cope with the conditions so it was a big disappointment for me but i need to look forward and come out of it stronger . well hell presence was definitely appreciated in the most region in amateur swimmers makes with professionals in an event designed to combin

we do understand from latrobe's letters that the mantle on the east wall which you see right here had a long french plate mirror above with a lamkin valance atop trimmed with gilded balls and cloth. here we have president madison, mrs. madison, steven decatur and several other guests. ornamental palmettes were gilded as were the other grecian-inspired accents. here's the design latrobe came up with, the palmettes. the walls were papered and, perhaps, brushed over with a light coat of fleck coach paint and the wood work was -- george bridgeport of philadelphia was employed to paint the ceiling and wood work. he was known for his subtlety in application. this box is actually mrs. madison's tea box. it was given by her to mrs. latrobe, so it's one of the only other things besides the gilbert stewart that survives at the white house. this wallpaper was most likely to wallpaper used in the elliptical salon. when we come back to the painting again, you'll see this is actually used as historical reference. there's an inscription here from mrs. madison to mrs. latrobe. they'd known each other

additional four marble mantles were ordered. two were installed. he had a budget in mind and sold two to the u.s. capitol building. as for the furniture, the most iconic pieces were ordered from a pair of brothers in baltimore. of the 50 cabinet makers in baltimore listed at this time, john and hugh finlay were considered the best in what had

efforts called the regency room, naturally, because of the swag and tassel design of the fireplace mantle. that element is carried out in the silk wall coverings replicated for us in this room and also the original details in the cove and on the ceiling. this room had been painted completely white in the 1960s was completely refurbished and completed just a little more than a year ago by doing intricate color analysis of the ceiling using dental instruments our historic color analyst from chicago came up, revealed certain key elements of the ceiling and then mapped out the entire original pattern. we were able to transpose those colors down into the room because, of course, all of our photographs of this room in 1897 were all black and white. so using that we were able to apply colors to the silk wall coverings and also in our efforts to re-create the draperies and the bed coverlet as well. the rug was hand knotted for us and, again, brings out all of the decorative details and the color is harmonious and pulls together the entire suite of rooms. this is one of my favorite rooms in the ho

third a probe to tell us to keep syrian security initiative an ability to protect its borders the mantle is utilized why bother us to turkey and of course the united states and turkey can claim that syria has attacked it course there would be the route by which they would utilize if they wanted nato to further intervene so what you have here is a completely outside intervention and to this foreign t. syria and it's part of this larger plan to expand us to diminish harley into the area and then ultimately starting on libya and syria or opportunistic addition to this plan. for special u.n. peace envoy kofi annan has reiterated that iran has a role to play in mediating an end to the violence in syria the comment was made after sloot a clue ations from western leaders opposing tehran being given any such role report lawyer has more than boys. in exactly one month the u.n. supervision mission in syria will expire and at this point the international community is attempting to exhaust all options one of those options according to joint special envoy kofi annan is to form a contact group meeting

toughest test the sport has to offer and for one of the overnight leaders it's certainly lived up to the mantle tiger woods carting a full six bogeys to life five shots off the lead who are the only players to make par with the leaders just smile. who won the u.s. open nine years ago looking good after a birdie on the seventeenth while another former champion northern irish mcdowell captured some of those twenty ten for him to share the lead with fury on one under par shot of the day though came courtesy of this man playing in the first ever major john peterson a hole in rome on the thirteenth something tells me he'll be remembering that one. great stuff that brings us to tennis for roger federer has reached his first final long grass this season the swiss rushing right. mchale usually in straight sets at the gerry weber open to set up a showdown with local tommy else federer making this one looks simple taking the first set six games to one before winning out six four in the second for the match federer youzhny in all thirteen of their meetings he'll enter as a favorite in the decider after th

many have been to rate their frail as arguably against president bush and his failure to carry the mantle of limited government as they did against president obama. i mean, they have no sympathy or wish to bring president bush back. >> host: what did you find out about the tea party and money? >> guest: i don't know much about tea party and money as most groups don't get any money. they are grassroots organizations. a bunch of national tea party groups you can google and see right-click and i have no idea where they get money from. frankly that is not the tea party. those are people raising money for their own groups. it's a bunch of grassroots organizations in neighborhood and they don't get money. gop organizations that would like to bring them into a cross? >> guest: .i. know they get any super pack money. big national organizations have super packs are participating super packs. but they're just calling themselves tea party groups. they are not the tea party. the tea party as ordinary people living in your neighborhood. >> host: neck is regina and berkeley, california. >> caller: hi,

how does her travel fall under the mantle of air force one and do they traveled together? guest: they often travel together. people ask how it is different. presidents and first ladies often traveled together. on air force one, the president pays more attention to the first lady and may not be doing as much official business. we used to travel with president reagan. when nancy reagan was with him, he paid complete attention to her. they would be in the state room and not come out very often. when he was by himself, he would be telling stories and me going. we would always get a sense of whether nancy reagan was aboard the plane. they chose a new face of the president is going to have. if it was broiled fish and vegetables and fruit, we knew nancy was there because she took close care of his diet. when it was meat loaf with mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and chocolate pie, we knew he was on the airplane by himself. when president and first lady's travel separately, the first lady is entitled to protection. that is the big complication. do we want to put the first lad

and for one of the overnight leaders it certainly lived up to that mantle tiger woods starting a full six bogeys fly five shots off the lead who are the only players who actually make par with the leaders american fear rick who won the u.s. open nine years ago looking good here at the birdie on the seventeenth while another former champion northern irishman joel. recaptured some of his twenty eight ten for him to share the lead with on one under par show of the day though came courtesy of a man playing in his first ever major jump pietersen a hole in one on the thirteenth something tells me he would be remembering about one for a while the. great after tennis where roger federer has reached his first final season the swiss thrashing russia's mikail youzhny in straight sets at the jerry webber open to set up a showdown with the local tommy haas federer making this one looks simple taking the first set six games to one before winning a six four in the second for the match federer has not beaten usually in all thirteen of their meetings he'll enter his favorites in the decider. but there

the last time she saw the yankees play it was actually in the 1950s when mickey mantle was on the field> and anne arundel community rather came together for a young boy. this is a great story. he needed help. an abc abc2 news charlie crowson was there for more on the wonderful story on how this neighborhood pitched in. take a look. >> reporter: it's a workday for leroy. he's the honorary foreman for a crew of two dozen from the glen burnie home depot and surrounding. volunteer contractors working the make this 11-year-old's life a little easier. >> they're building that ramp for me because it's hard to get up my steps. >> reporter: lee row's grandmother margaret says getting around for the boy who suffers from muscular dystrophy has been a challenge his entire life. before today if leroy wanted to get inside he had to crawl up a set of concrete steps to his back door. >> he's had muscular dystrophy. i want to cry one minute because i'm so joyed and so happy that my grandson leroy is getting a ramp. so he can get in and out of the house without having to crawl. >> reporter: a lot of the

below davis, on the mantle, are various th that were made by confederate prisoners of war in union pis camps, out of anything they could find, shells, wood, bones, glass, whatever they could pick up in those northern prison camps. throughout ruffoughly the middl two years of the war tharks was a regular prisoner exchange service. many confederate prisoners who had been exchanged for union prisoners would come through richmond and give the davises things like this that they made in the camps and the davises displayed them like this. these two flags are replicas of the first and second national flag of the confederacy. this was the first called the stars and bars, adopted in march of 1861 as the national flag of the confederacy. that's before the war started. when the war did start, they used this on the battlefield. that proved to be pretty confusing. on a battlefield with smoke and fire and other confusion, it looked like the u.s. flag. so after the first big battle of the war at manassas, virginia, they stopped using this on the battlefield. however, they kept it as the national flag

germany has to become less competitive fan and i guess that someone who doesn't want this and that the mantle to say this is happening i mean job and wage increases are quite substantial at the moment and you seeing significant labor market reforms in spain and italy and liberalization of some of the closed shops that you had on the product side taxi drivers and so on so that all moves afoot but these are quite slow moving changes the whole market remember in the nineteen nineties when. the some advisor james carville wanted to come back as the bond markets in his next life because everybody is scared of the bomb well i think that's what's happening in europe know now that we're seeing these. first spanish and italian government that were rising up to levels that all sustainable ok over the long you know this but this was really very specific to finance and i'm thing about people in the destiny of this currency here dmitri if i can ask you. if more integration is the only solution to this because you the status quo is not tenable obviously you can't win that no one really wants to go back. bu

ignore reality if we suspect that is the quickest way or only way to have something to put on the mantleh to leverage ourselves into a better spot on the social totem pole. >> i'm going, yes! >> that's depressing. >> i agree with him. >> it's a funny speech. a lot of kids were laughing throughout. >> kids enjoyed it. trophies do become meaningless if everyone wins it. who knows who deserves and who doesn't. they are what they are. >> can we send love to a very good friend of ours who we adore. >> gosh, yeah. >> robin roberts announced on her show this morning. she battled breast cancer five years ago. she revealed she has a bone marrow disorder. >> they call it a preleukemia condition. >> her sister sally-ann roberts is a perfect match. robin is saying her doctors are going to beat this and she knows it's true. she is such a fighter. >> she is such a great woman. >> she is a sweetheart. we wish her all the best in all the world. >>> more than that, we have other favorite things. i'll do mine first. >> i just recently started having to wear reading glasses, which is awful. jo-ann, one of

women and the way it reverts back to the celebrities is that they are supposed to carry some sort of mantleever you want whether you're a fan or not but to put a woman in that position that's not her creating that position and i don't want to hear this argument it's implicated than that. i give credit to paris and kim kardashian creating evils. that is america. great. god bless them. the people that pretend they are not that makes me crazy. >> here is why i have an issue with it and i like paris and -- and i like them and see no problem with them doing the best they can. they both work very hard at it. is there a problem fundamentally with a society and the culture which puts people like that on pedestal in the sense it inevidentably chips away at the in stich of people who perhaps are more deserving of stars? you go back 50 years and you had the great actors and great singers. the only way you could be famous in that era is genuinely world class talented and that is gone. >> if you look at hollywood the way hold beauty standards have shifted. we have gone to lauren bacall like door next do

it's not a mantle that any politician should be overly proud of. >> no. no. and i think it was created by our national opponents. we have had a good working relationship. more than a third of the union households in the state voted for me because over the last year and a half private sector and unions are seeing they are my partner in economic development. i work on reinvesting in the transportation fund and rebuilding the infrastructure in energy and power in the state. we want to stream line the process for safe and environmentally sound mining in the state to put workers, union and non-union alike back to work. the thing to remember with private sector and union not only are we putting them back to work they are taxpayers. and so the idea that we can operate a government more efficient and effective and accountable to the taxpayers is better for taxpayers. especially the middle class taxpayers who are bearing the brunt of the cost. i want my legacy to be that we controlled the budget without tax increases and cutting things like medicaid and did so by crea