rank in the list included other men like john adams and thomas jefferson, theater robo-- roosevelt harry truman i would have been amazed. it would have seemed like a real stretch for the man in my early 20s who was building powerline and transmission line across the state of wyoming and beyond. in the short version a few breaks came my way and one job always led to another and a life that has taken me to far more places than i ever expected. it took me into this capital for the first time in 1968. with the hopes of working for a guy named don rumsfeld has his congressional fellow and during that first interview he made it clear to me that i was not what he was looking for a through me out. 's a few months later he saw the error of his ways and recruited me to be his assistant during the first term of the nixon administration when jerry ford became president he accepted me on don's recommendation and later maybe white house chief of staff. don rumsfeld and jerry ford fundamentally changed my life. a decade later i returned to the capital as wyoming's sole member of the house of representatives a

>> theodore roosevelt, calvin coolidge, harry truman or lyndon johnson? ld say teddy roosevelt. >> i would say coolidge. >> johnson? >> teddy roosevelt. >> but why? >> he's a big-time environmentalist. >> he's like don't cut down the tree. >> natural history museum. good news, there's a lot more trees now than there were then. >> there's too many, cut them all down. >>> on the 10th day of christmas my true love gives to me -- pipers piping, golden rings, lord a-leaping or geese-a-laying. >> lords a-leaping. >> you know every one of the lines? >> he said hepatitis. >>> those were our six questions. i believe we have some additional time if anybody would like to participate for extra credit? you have any christmas trivia you would like to participate in? >> no but they're giving free mistletoe away on central park west and can you put it in your house and smooch someone. >> or like your photograph of greg? >> where does mistletoe come from? >> hopefully not feet. >> that's true. >> can we get out of here? >> we better get out of this. we're done. don't move,

the gipper, both roosevelts, lincoln and harry truman and joushr george w. bush. necessary. washington was decapitated and wilson has seen better days. but hankins has a plan. i'm going to build a park for them. for kids, education, tourism. help the community. and if that plan gets off the ground, hankins is ready with a model of president obama and whoever might come after. >> do you follow the current presidential race? any one of them you think would make a good bust? >> i think thinking about calling donald up. he would want a big one, might even out of gold. >> and until that day, here they sit, giving new meaning to the phrase washington is broken. >> hankins said it costs about $1,500 to repair each statue and the plan is to re-open it near colonial williamsburg. >> i'm a biography nut. i want to go to this park. can people go? >> that's the thing. he doesn't have a roadside attraction permit. but he's gotten some strange requests. someone asked to get married next to lincoln. >> naturally. >> he gets the gambit, but he can't do it. he's a couple million s

harry truman. we haven't had a war declared since franklin roosevelt. and we don't want to do it. all we do is send the troops into panama, send the troops into barbados, send the troops wherever we want, because we know with a volunteer army, there's somebody economically that's going to do it. now it's getting much larger. questions. and we could ask the questions if we had time. you know, who is the enemy? what do they want? give up? who represents them? what flag it is? and is this our war to fight? haven't been involved until president bush got us involved. >> but we are involved now. how do you think president obama is doing fighting the war on terrorism? he has a lot of critics. >> well, i'm one of the critics because it just seems to me that not enough people know exactly what the president knows. and he should be able to bring people from that part of the world to come to the united states from saudi arabia, from egypt, and from the people that know what this struggle's about for years, and explain what they are doing in order to have rest in this area. it's absolutely ri

roosevelt? troublemaker. mckinley is assassinated, he becomes president. i hope that's right. [laughter] gov. kasich: my history. teddy was a trust buster, he took on everybody. harry truman. my wife's been reading him. one day she comes down and says, "oh my god." she says the koreans have gone to war. saying it's in the book about harry. the other day she comes downstairs and says, "harry has died." i say, harry who? think about truman, reagan. these guys, it did not faze them that they had a job to do. that's the way i see it. i see it that way. take dead salmon, former house salmon, former house speaker. he whipped them into line. [indiscernible] gov. kasich: that's right, he got them to do it. all is not lost because the system is goofy. i'm not kidding you. i'm telling you the truth. we have got to get the people to make the best changes. it is always going to be like this. good leaders, bad leaders, what we've had is the line has been flatly. -- flat lately. paul ryan has great potential. it up here for a little while. off eventually, but we really good runs to clean it up -- we need good runs to clean it up. yes? the middle east drawn along the lines of she is and

harry truman once said. the day after franklin roosevelt became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. yesterday whatme had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans for democrats, and democrats for republicans. [applause] and i don't mean pray for a conversion. pray for a deeper understanding. when you are up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from, what ever you believe, we are all in the same boat. i never thought i would be speaker. early in my life, i wanted to serve this house. i thought this place was exhilarating. here you can make a difference. you could improve people's lives. the boundless opportunity to do good. let's be frank. the house is broken. we are not solving problems, we are adding to them. i'm not interested in laying blame. we are not settling scores, we're wiping the slate clean. [applause] maynor the members are satisfied with how things are going. we need to make some changes, start

roosevelt? troublemaker. mckinley is assassinated, he becomes president. i hope that's right. [laughter] my history. teddy was a trust buster, he took on everybody. harry truman. my wife's been reading him. one day she comes down and says, "oh my god." she says the koreans have gone to war. she's saying it's in the book about harry. the other day she comes downstairs and says, "harry has died." i say, harry who? think about truman, reagan. these guys, it did not faze them that they had a job to do. that's the way i see it. i see it that way. take doug scammon former house , speaker. he whipped them into line. [indiscernible] gov. kasich: that's right, he got them to do it. all is not lost because the system is goofy. i'm not kidding you. i'm telling you the truth. we have got to get the people to make the best changes. it is always going to be like this. good leaders, bad leaders, what we've had is the line has been flatly. -- flat lately. paul ryan has great potential. we need to get it up here for a little while. it will fall off eventually, but we really good runs to clean it up -- we need good runs to clean it up. yes? >> the middle east drawn along the l