mark updegrove, miss susan sterner, miss carol powers and mr. david hume kennerly. >> well, thank you. it's a great honor to be here. the great ancel adams photographer once said a photograph is usually looked at but rarely looked into. today we have the opportunity to look into the photographs of three great photographers and what they say about three extraordinary first ladies, two of whom are in the first row. betty ford, barbara bush and laura bush, and i have the easiest job of anybody today because i get to run this panel like tom sawyer painted his fence. i get my friends to do it, and they are going to share some of their work with you and talk about the extraordinary images that they have taken, and the first one up at this podium will be david kennerly, and i'll tell you a quick story about david kennerly which happens to be true. it involves henry kissinger with who david worked at the ford white house, and i was hosting a lunch for dr. kissinger some time back, and i mentioned david's name. and dr. kissinger said in that sort of inim

i'm susan sterner. thank you for being here. it's a really hard -- i just really drew the short end of the straw, i think. i thought i'd start with my last day of work with mrs. bush, my last 48 hours was in the spring of 2005 when we went on an unannounced trip to afghanistan. a little bit of background of the i started at the white house right after a two-year fellowship in brazil where i was living and working with families and looking into how government policies affected the lives and status of women. i thought that i had learned everything -- i didn't think i'd learned everything, but what i learned was the great lesson of my life. i turned around and went into the white house and had fundamental things like the v vocabulary we used every day challenged, words like white house, west wing, state visit and peace talks and most importantly the word government. that it stopped to me in the course of my time at the white house, it wasn't this