mrs. roosevelt wrestles with tensions inside the home. her head housekeeper believe that the service that would function better if it is all one color, they dismissed all white members and hired only blacks at a lower-cost. >> that darkie in uniform -- >> i like to talk about the white house because the white house is seen as the central american place. i want people to realize that part of that centrality is because it is a place that crumpled with questions of race and was reflective of its time. want people to realize that what the white house is, is the symbol of america for good and ill, a symbol of what is possible and a symbol of america falling down and failing to meet its stated ideals. >> the employees today are diverse as the nation's population. working behind the scenes, they provide a continuity to the white house three different administrations. they make this place a home and stayed for presidential families. >> are we ready? >> they are part of a sense of privacy. you don't see them sharing all their stories. they feel pa

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we walked from the roosevelt room and i said, mr. peres -- mr. president, think of how bring it on is going to sound. he got indignant and he said, i have so much faith in our military, if anybody wants to tangle with us, bring it on because you will lose. he was sending a message to our military about the fate he had in the military. i said mr. president, it did not come out that way. he healed. >> mr. it- mrs. bush repeated what you said then that helps. >> a question from one of my colleagues. i love this question. why did the democratic press operations have so much more trouble controlling the party's message compared with republicans? >> i will take a crack at that. if you scratch any professional democrats or people who worked in the party, they came up the 1960's and 1970's through movement politics. th were late -- they were union organizers, feminist, environmentalist. they worked in a movement politics and believe that the press was going to be on their side. they were in the business of speaking truth. republicans never had that ficti

mr. alterman for a great talk but roosevelt was aided by a the media of the day or most of them and two-thirds of the nation's newspapers the popular demagogues were against him at that point* but he still triumphed. in some ways maybe the media isn't the problem at least on economic issues of big government but that we are a conservative country of those who go and active perhaps you put too much emphasis on the media? >> dr. candy and i appreciate your question but you came late to class. [laughter] there was much discussion of related points before i got to the media aspect but i will grant the point* that the press does have the additional problem that i did not get a chance to mention that american ideology is not have anti-government there is a libertarian streak that runs the left and the right and some of the most inspiring statements are from people like thomas paine and ever send and so forth. government that governs best governs least. [laughter] is quote correct and the book. [laughter] the president needs to find the alternate mythology and it leads me again to my most significant

mr. chairman, i rise to ask what happened to the party of teddy roosevelt? what happened to the party that helped us adopt, under richard nixon's leadership, the clean air act in what happened to the republican party that used to be allied in the adoption of the clean air rule that was so helped the health of americans? what happened to the party that adopted the clean air act 40 years ago which has helped save over 200,000 lives. i ask why, today, in this continuing resolution, the republican party has abandoned any pretext whatsoever to stand for clean air when they eviscerate the clean air law in their continuing resolution? this is a sad statement, to think that a party that at one time helped us clean up the air and reduce cancer deaths, reducing respiratory element, reducing heart attacks have seen fit to go and lead with the polluting tri-s to gut the clean air act. i want to make clear so people know what the republican continuing resolution does. even though the clean air act today requires the environmental protection agency to clean up our air aga

we walked from the roosevelt room and i said, mr. peres -- mr. president, think of how bring it on is going to sound. he got indignant and he said, have so much faith in our military, if anybody wants to tangle with us, bring it on because you will lose. he was sending a message to our military about the fate he had in the military. i said mr. president, it did not come out that way. he healed. >> mr. it -- mrs. bush repeated what you said then that helps. >> a question from one of my colleagues. i love this question. why did the democratic press operations have so much more trouble controlling the party's message compared with republicans? >> i will take a crack at that. if you scratch any professional democrats or people who worked in the party, they came up the 1960's and 1970's through movement politics. they were late -- they were union organizers, feminist, environmentalist. they worked in a movement politics and believe that the press was going to be on their side. they were in the business of spking truth. republicans never had that ficti

we walked from the roosevelt room and i said, mr. peres -- mr. president, think of how bring it on is going to sound. he got indignant and he said, i have so much faith in our military, if anybody wants to tangle with us, bring it on because you will lose. he was sending a message to our military about the fate he had in the military. i said mr. president, it did not come out that way. he healed. >> mr. it -- mrs. bush repeated what you said then that helps. >> a question from one of my colleagues. i love this question. why did the democratic press operations have so much more trouble controlling the party's message compared with republicans? >> i will take a crack at that. if you scratch any professional democrats or people who worked in the party, they came up the 1960's and 1970's through movement politics. they were late -- they were union organizers, feminist, environmentalist. they worked in a movement politics and believe that the press was going to be on their side. they were in the business of speaking truth. republicans never had that f

we walked from the roosevelt room and i said, mr. peres -- mr.think of how bring it on is going to sound. he got indignant and he said, i have so much faith in our military, if anybody wants to tangle with us, bring it on because you will lose. he was sending a message to our military about the fate he had in the military. i said mr. president, it did not come out that way. he healed. >> mr. it -- mrs. bush repeated what you said then that helps. >> a question from one of my colleagues. i love this question. why did the democratic press operations have so much more trouble controlling the party's message compared with republicans? >> i will take a crack at that. if you scratch any professional democrats or people who worked in the party, they came up the 1960's and 1970's through movement politics. they were late -- they were union organizers, feminist, environmentali. they worked in a movement politics and believe that the press was going to be on their side. they were in the business of speaking truth. republicans never had that fiction in mind