>> i was in my class at robert e. lee high school. was in a philosophy class and you had to have certain scores and grades to be able to take. it was just one class that a history professor taught. he came in and told us that president kennedy had been shot. i went home for lunch that day and i went home to where my parents were. i was with them then. after that, the funeral that followed, i remember just lying on the couch with my mother and dad and we were watching that. i was amazed, really, at her strength. she was very young, really young. i think she was only 32, if i am not mistaken. she really had such strength. not only did she have the strength to be able to withstand it with such grace and poise, but she was also able to plan a state funeral after the most unexpected thing that could ever happen to a first lady, in a way. i think our whole country was so beautifully and so memorably planned that i think it helped in a lot of ways, everyone in our country, as he watched. and she did too with her strength. >> did you find you

somehow, i did not think robert e. lee fit in that group of texas heroes, but who knows. , that is what my school was named. and we were segregated. george washington carver was the name of the high school. reunion, myed the high school reunion at the white -- not kids, kids they were six years old by then, -- they were 60 years old by high school and george washington carver. that was the first time we met the students that were our age. you when youprise first became first lady at the platform you are given and the voice you had? >> i knew that intellectually because i had seen my mother in law and the platform that she had to talk about literacy, which was her interest. johnson andady bird how she influenced me at home in texas because of her interest in native plants. until it really know it made the presidential radio address in the fall of 2001 after the terrorist attack to talk about the way women and children were treated by the taliban in afghanistan. >> good morning. i am laura bush. i am delivering this week's r

listening to cantor it sounded to me like robert e. leeg grant if he could write a more complicated surrender document. >> let me ask you briefly -- >> let's a long way -- >> i thought of that just sitting here actually. >> let me ask you briefly david and bob, about this contention prfrom the proceed he can use executive power, use it to transform the country if congress won't move along with him. but the first two examples sort of glorified passbook savings october and a minimum wage for future federal contractors seems extremely small and almost seems to prove the point that his executive authority is actually very limited. >> i think you're absolutely right. there's a quota tributed to churchill. he says make little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood. that's exactly what's going on the here. this is small boar stuff. he didn't move his numbers. and i think he's got to find some way to mobilize the country. he's right about trying to create jobs. he's right about trying to deal with the unemployment and this subnormal situatio