. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley.overnor conley on your left.

. >> governor and mrs. conley kennedy. things seemed to be going, very, well. >> as the car turned, she stepped out into the street. hey, mr. president, look over here. we want to take your picture. >> they are too young to have their own memories of what happened that day. >>> my grandfather was working at parkland hospital on november 22, 1963. >> but for the grandchildren of the people who were closest, november 22nd, 1963, was not just a tragic day in our collective history. >> my grandfather is most famously known as the man in the white stetson. they come out the doors. the flood lights hit. >> reporter: it is deeply personal. a family story of what was lost and what was learned. >> the usual welcoming committee. >> for governor conley and his wife, the president's visit was a chance to show off texas. >> i think there was nervous anticipation about hosting a president and his wife. >> mrs. kennedy who was known as this fashion icon was in her pink suit. my grandmother thought maybe she had not picked the ri

mr. conley of virginia last march we passed the federal information technology acquisition reform act. this bill would increase the authority of agency cios and provide them with budget authority over federal i.t. programs including hiring. we did that together. we did that in a bipartisan way. politics aside, we should roll up our sleeves and work together to constructively address these challenges. i hope constructively address these challenges. i hope that that's what today's hearing is all about. and i again thank our witnesses who i know are working very hard to achieve these goals. with that, i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. members have seven days to submit open statements and other extraneous material. mr. henry child is the director of information services center for medicare and medicaid services, for today, and probably called cms for the rest of the day. and deputy chief information afrs at cms. mr. frank bateman is the chief director at health and human services. mr. todd park is the chief technology aufrgs ot united states. mr. steve van rokel is the chief informat

mr. conley have already collaborated on what sounds like an excellent bill to fix overall federal i.t. i was very impressed when mr. van rokel pointed out it's an $82 million issue, but 0.6% of that. why don't we focus on the larger issue and fix it? because as i said earlier, it's much better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. >> the gentlemen would yield, maybe we could close on a positive note. both mr. palner who has talked about stress testing end to end and mr. van rokel who knows that microsoft never put a new operating system up that wasn't stress end to end. it still had bugs and vulnerabilities and when ever you create a new driver, you create a new one that has to be tested, but stress testing end to end was something this committee wanted to know at the onset. why it hadn't been done because it is a best practice, which geo has kindly made clear. and i believe it's in the record. we are trying to get to the point where best practices will always be used and in this case, not because of these individuals per se, they're here as experts, but this development over th

. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley.overnor conley on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and is reaching across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells thinner for the secret service. whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the

. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley.ernor conley on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and reached across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells thinner for the secret service. whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the parade. m

kennedy and mrs. conley sitting in the hall of the trama room, again, what a remarkable moment to have witnessed personally. what was it like in realtime -- >> well, i ran into the end -- i found the open door at the end of the hospital, remarkable, you know, no one there, no security, and i found a nurse very quickly and asked her if she would take me to ms. conley. and she did and i found ms. conley in a dark hallway right outside of trauma room two, the president was in trauma room one. she was sitting outside there and right across with jackie kennedy, two women, not a sound spoken, thinking about their husbands and whether they could survive. >> did you say anything to them? >> well, i talked to her. i talked to her. i certainly didn't say anything to ms. kennedy. i talked to her because i knew the press would be there in a minute. i wanted to know what happened. i wanted to report what occurred. she was calm, even under the stress. and knew he was inside in hands to save him, hopefully. >> and he did,

. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley.ernor conley on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and reached across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells thinner for the secret service. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the parade. my father had been invited to have lunch

so in the state of texas -- john conley and the others in texas said, you have to bring mrs.ennedy. she is so popular and you will have much bigger crowds. >> i have to say that john kennedy was much more wealthy than she. so why would the public not react to his help? >> he felt as may political leaders that come from affluent -- in 1957 she ar as ahim a jagu birthday gift. but hethis returned -- felt she was not someone who had a lot of political experience, and in 1960 -- this might be a difficult -- >> she felt she was a drag on him in the early days. >> she said, i am sorry i'm such a drag for you. this -- did not stop this did not last long. >> i want to talk about the imagery of camelot. jackie kennedy asked teddy white, who was a family friend, her,me up and interview with the idea of what she wanted to say would get into life magazine. night, before at jack and i were in the white house, wheeze to play the record of camelot. editorsless to say, the and life thought, this would be and they may -- camelot the major theme of the article. out, the kennedy presidency and

so in the state of texas -- john conley and the others in texas said, you have to bring mrs.ennedy. she is so popular and you will have much bigger crowds. >> i have to say that john kennedy was much more wealthy than she. so why would the public not react to his help? >> he felt as may political leaders that come from affluent backgrounds, -- in 1957 she bought him a jaguar as a birthday gift. he had this returned -- but he felt she was not someone who had a lot of political experience, and in 1960 -- this might be a difficult -- >> she felt she was a drag on him in the early days. >> she said, i am sorry i'm such a drag for you. but this did not stop this -- this did not last long. >> i want to talk about the imagery of camelot. >> jackie kennedy asked teddy white, who was a family friend, to come up and interview her, with the idea of what she wanted to say would get into life magazine. she said, late at night, before jack and i were in the white house, wheeze to play the record of camelot. and needless to say, the editors and life thought, this would be the big thing -- a

when jfk was planning the trip to texas, john conley and the others in texas said, you have to bring mrskennedy. she is so popular and you will have much bigger crowds. as indeed he did. >> john kennedy was much more wealthy than she. so why would the public not react to his wealth in the way he was concerned with her? >> he felt there are many -- as many political leaders that come from affluence to, he gave the impression that he was a guy from the navy. in 1957 she bought him a jag wire as a birthday gift. he had it returned and traded it in for review at -- a buick. he felt she was not someone who had much political experience. >> she talked in the oral history about how she felt she was a drag on him in the early days. >> she said, i'm sorry i'm such a drag for you. >> before we get into more detail on the 1960 campaign, i would like to understand the creation of the imagery of camelot. how did that come about? >> jackie kennedy asked teddy friend, writing for "life" magazine, to come to hyannisport and interview her. -- pressers were held for this. she said, late at night, before w

so under frank conley's regime, the first thing that he undertook was the convincing the state that he could use his contacts as laborers. so he hired a guy by the name of james mr. kelman it was a trained brick mason and stonemason to teach the prisoners how to construct things in brick and stone. the first thing that they undertook with the permission of the state was the construction of a wall around the facility. and so there was nothing but a board fence that had been built in 1875. the prison was notorious for a scabies. so it was very important to create this massive wall that stands today. the theater was built as a donation from the son of the copper king in 1919 to it's interesting because warden conley and park had a symbiotic relationship where only used his prisoners to work in clark's mind and on his ranges. he had amassed a lot of property. and so in exchange for using the free labor of the convicts, clark endowed the prison with a library and paid for the instruments that equipped the men for a prison band. and he also then, later his son donated the cost of the theater. and the theater was built in 1919. and it was, again, designed by the man wh

mr. obama gathered his senior staff members in the oval office for what one aide recalled as an one sparring dressing down. >> that's not as distressing. here's gerry conleyrom virginia. i'm livid this screw up plays in to the hands of critics. not that it disenfranchises people from their health care but might make the republicans more powerful. that's a stalinist response. >> other democrats quoted in the piece or cited in the piece close to the white house think the administration is not sufficiently panicked by the health care problems and affecting their 2014 re-election chances. >> the white house doesn't actually vote on bills the congress does and they pass this on a party line vote and these are people who brought you obama care and now trying to runway from it. >> love the main quote in the piece. from the president i'm quoting, if i had known we could have delayed the website. end quote. so he didn't know? no one told him? >> suggested they did know his staff pushed ahead. does anybody believe this website will be fixed by the end of this month. >> they are scrambling trying to make this website work and function by the end of the month. they a