rosalyn became a veterinarian just like her mother.ds her mother's old job at the federal department of agriculture. >> i get to find out what she was like professionally and know a different side of her. >> reporter: one side of their mother that these women believe they inherited was her resilience. >> no matter what the situation she never gave up on anything. no matter what has thrown at her, she's never been lying down. >> reporter: chelsea has chosen to become a school teacher. >> maybe in the back of my mind some day i'll run across a student just like myself and they need someone to talk to or help and i can be there for them. >> reporter: just as these sisters have been there for each other. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "the early show," the first big republican debate, who won, who lost and who was ignored. >>> president obama unveils his jobs plan tonight, we get a preview from white house chief of staff bill daley. >>> plus a look at the latest full-figured fashion. >>> and we gear up for a new season

rosalyn and i send our prayers for consolation and hope.y in pennsylvania, the 43rd president of the united states george w. bush. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, thank you very much. mr. vice president, dr. biden, president clinton, mr. speaker, members of congress, my friends tommy franks and tom ridge, thank you for helping raise the money for this memorial. members of the national parks service and the national park foundation, all those who support this memorial, but most importantly the families of flight 93. laura and i are honored to join you in dedicating this memorial to the heroes of flight 93. when the sun rose in the pennsylvania sky ten years ago tomorrow, it was a peaceful september morning. by the time it set nearly 3,000 people were gone. the most lives lost on american soil in a single day since the battle of antietam. with the distance of a decade, 9/11 can feel like a part of a different era. but for the families of the men and women stolen, some of whom join us today, that day will never feel like hi

rosalyn and i send our congratulations to those responsible for this memorial and our prayers for consolationt county in pennsylvania the 43rd president of the united states, george w. bush. [applaus [applause] >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, thank you very much. mr. vice-president, dr. biden, president clinton, mr. speaker, members of congress, my friends tommy franks and tom ridge, thank you for helping raise the money for this memorial. the national park service and the national park foundation, all of those who supported this memorial, but most importantly, the families of flight 93. laura and i are honored to join you in dedicating this memorial to the heroes of flight 93. when the sun rose in the pennsylvania sky ten years ago tomorrow, it was a peaceful september morning. by the time it set nearly 3000 people were gone. the most lives lost on american soil in a single day since the battle of entitam. the distance of a decade. 9/11 can feel like a part of a different era, but for the families of the men and women stolen, some of whom join us today, that day will never feel like h

business community and also a pretty heterogeneous group of middle-class american voters, and one way rosalyn wanted to do that was creating hispanic voters. mckinley tried to appeal to european immigrants have the time, and he was able to win over german voters for example. most of them became republicans for various reasons, so rove saw mark hannah, the impresario of his campaign, who producing this public majority. it did not happen. >> we are coming from a lincoln, neb., where william jennings bryan went on to run for the presidency on three separate occasions. our call joins us from illinois, the birthplace of william jennings bryan. caller: we have the birthplace open to the public. my question is how much influence did wj have been getting his brother elected. >> that is something people do not really know about. the governor of nebraska -- i am for getting his first name. the younger brother of william jennings bryan was the vice- presidential candidate coming out of the tumultuous commission in 1924. olderm jennings bryan's brother pushed him. at that time he was a divisive figure in

waiting out just a little ways down the road are lady bird johnson in her way but also betty ford and rosalynhe seems on the edge of those two worlds, a supporter, but also someone who is educated, quite sophisticate in her own right. and worried very much about how the burdens of the presidency were affecting her husband when she couldn't help him. listen to this >> suarez: the bay of pigs had been a disaster for the very young kennedy administration, and she was watching it weigh on her husband. >> just three months in, and he came in with very grandiose expectations, and suddenly, three months later, he's accused of being an incompetent, can't get this done, the invasion of cuba. he weeps with her in a bedroom in the weekend house they had in virginia. and, also, you look at kennedy's medical records. his doctors felt he had gone into a depression. so she felt very much part of her job throughout this presidency was buoying him up when he need it, and he often did. >> suarez: also, she was incredibly young, raising young children, and pregnant several times during that-- both phase. but at

i was with my sister and her boyfriend looking for a date, and rosalyn was in front of the methodist church, and i asked her for a blind date and she said okay. she went with me, and so i won't describe the evening, but the next morning, i went into the kitchen, my mother was cooking breakfast and said, what did you do last night? i went to the movies. what did you think of her? she is the one i am going to marry. >> he did not tell me that. >> the next february, she came to the naval academy and i asked her to marry me and she said no. from february to may, she dated every available boy in the county. >> there were two. [laughter] >> finally, my uniform paid off. then finally she said yes. 65 years ago and we have grown to love and know each other more every day. [applause] >> i was very young. [laughter] this was during the war. i was going to college. -- georgia southwestern college. the only two young men in college did not qualify to go to war. i was going with everybody, all of these men. >> i was a better choice than to -- two other people. [laughter] >> mrs. carter, are you p

i had known rosalyn since she was 1 year old, at which time i lived in the house next door to her and i was four years old. i used to peep through the cradle at rosa lying there, i presume. then, my family moved out, and i basically knew her through a friend of my youngest sister, but i never did dream of dating her because i was much older than she was. [laughter] on the next-to-last night of my vacation from the naval academy, i was dating the prettiest girl within 30 miles -- the naval academy uniform really paid off for me -- but her family had a family reunion and she could not go out with me. so i was cruising around with my sister and her boyfriend looking for a date, and rosa was in front of the methodist church, and i asked her for a blind date, and she said okay and went with me. i will not describe the evening, but the next morning, i went into the kitchen when my mother was cooking, and she asked me how my neck was the i told her i was on a date. she asked what i thought her, and i said, "she is the one i am going to marry." next february, she came to the naval academy to