press secretary for gerald ford, and he was also at the white house correspondent before that, richard benedetto, and columnist ken wallace, who is this correspondent and journalist, and susan page who works as a journalist and washington bureau chief, she's the author of the soon-to-be published biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. please enjoy this presentation. i know it will be a good one, on the relationship between the presidency and the press, and how communication between the two has evolved, and how it is changed in time, and the way in which it stays the same. >> i will sit here and >> thank you very much martha for that wonderful introduction. i think on behalf of all of us, taking our seats, we want to thank you for what you do, to preserve history, and the connection between presidents and our current occupants of this great country. i am looking forward to this great conversation, he knows where it will go but mostly we will try to put in context of the relationship, often adversarial, between the press and the presidency. i was listening to martha, when she talks about

richard benedetto who was a former white house correspondent and columnist for u.s.a. "today," and he is now the adjunct professor of journalism at american university. ken walsh who is a correspondent and journalist and columnist for u.s. news and world report, and susan page who works as a journalist and washington bureau chief for "usa today" and she is an author of the soon to be published biography of barbara bush called "the matriarch." please enjoy in presentation, i know it's going to be a good one on the relationship between the presidency and the press and how communications between the two have evolved and how it's changed over time, and the way in which it's stayed the same. >> i will sit here and you all can sit wherever you like. thank you very much, martha, for that wonderful introduction. i think on behalf of all of us as we're taking our seats we want to thank you for what you do to preserve history and the connection between presidents and our current occupants of this great country. i'm really looking forward to this conversation, who knows what it's