eight of the 12th first president sleeves in the white house. there were the virginia planters, southern planters, and they felt slavery was part of their livelihood and also politically they felt they couldn't do anything about it because the southern states and this is a common thing to our history, so we have a sort of sad failure to live up to our ideals in the beginning because all the notions of the founders and the declaration of independence and the quality and the rights of people really didn't apply to african-americans and this is what the first presidents did. it every first president george washington people might be surprised to learn how really racist he was propelled in many ways by his wife, martha. they felt slavery was part of what they had to have for their plantation. late in life taken to the realization that something had to be done about slavery in the personal life although he never ordered his sleeves be freed in his will. exactly, he did. but while he was president, he of course was president in pennsylvania and philade

and built the white house and built the capitol. for example, we know that there were people who did unskilled labor, for example, washington was basically a jungle. it was just trees. somebody had to cut the trees, somebody had to drag them out, somebody had to lay -- build in roads. dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, hard, hard, hard work. this was mostly slave labor. but there was also skilled labor that was carried on by people who were enslaved. for example, we know at least five of the carpenters who built the inside of the white house -- tom, harry, john, paul, we have their names -- were black. and they were enslaved. now, there was probably free black labor that was involved and, of course, white labor. but black labor, it was loved in washington d.c. and in the capitol and in the white house. and they were burnt down in 1814, and it took three years to rebuild. again, they relied on slave labor to do that construction. now, meanwhile, in this ten-year process while they're building the nation's capitol, the issue is where will

he forgot the african-americans in the white house. talk about what we did before. >> guest: in the very beginning of course we have sort of a rather appalling history of our presidents and the race issue. eight our first 12 presidents had slaves in the white house. they were the virginia planters, the southern planters. they felt that slavery was part of their livelihood, and also politically they felt they couldn't do anything about it because it would alienate the southern states and this was a common theme throughout our history. we have a sad failure to live up to our ideals through our presidents in the beginning. because all the notions of the founders and the declaration of independence and equality and the rights of people, really they didn't apply to african-americans. this is what the first president to do. our very first president george washington i think people might be surprised to learn how really racist he was, propelled in many ways by his wife, martha. but they felt that slavery was part of what they had left for the

in the capitol and in the white house. and when they were predominating 14 and it took three years to rebuild again the rely on slave labor to do that construction. meanwhile in the process while they are building the nation's capital, the issue is where will the president and the rest of the government be. and for a short period in new york eventually they all moved to philadelphia. so, washington and his entire household including his black slaves moved to philadelphia. he had to problems in philadelphia. one is a was the center of the abolition movement in the country. one the and the number of the free blacks, this is where you had the quakers and they were on that and they would set up the underground railroad, during petitions and lobbying, they were fighting to get rid of slavery. this is what george washington comes into with his household of at least nine black slaves. the other problem he had the ways in 1780 the pennsylvania state government passed what was called the gradual abolition act, and they said that any

room in the white house was different after the time that she left. but i think every first family that comes in there really does feel the presence of the ones that have come before them and really do take very seriously the responsibility to be a caretaker of the white house. i know it's something mrs. bush enjoyed, she embraced. she also had the opportunity, unlike other first ladies in our history, to walk those halls and walk those rooms for four years prior to her actually inhabiting the house. and so she gained a tremendous appreciation for the history, for the artifacts, for the furniture, for the art. and shared in a lot of the celebrations and historic events of the white house. so coming in as first lady was even that much more information that she was armed with to really do a number of restorations including the

i've covered the white house since 1986 full time. u're always looking at different ways to see the president, different ways to sort of get behind the curtain and public relations and so on. i've written four other books, and i've tried to find some prism to look at them through -- >> host: and if i might say, you really have. your book about the presidential retreats is fascinating because it really is like you're looking at the presidency, but at something that people wouldn't pick up. >> guest: well, thank you. and in this case i thought there was this very important and fascinating issue of race that's been with us from the very beginning in the united states and how did the presidents deal with that both in their policies, attitudes and dealings with the african-americans around them. and then the other motivating factor was when president obama was elected. the first african-american president. so the simple question, what happened with african-americans in the past. president obama has gotten to the height of our politics in ou

this is the white house christmas card, 1933. see, she's sitting properly by franklin's side. but she's making history in other ways. here she is showing an interest in african-americans, and she was really the ambassador of the roosevelt administration to african-americans who were unbelievably discriminated against. this is a picture, 1936, and she is visiting howard university. and the two students on either side are dressed in reserve officer uniforms. now, this picture caused an outcry from segregationists who used it in the south to attack the racial policies of the roosevelt administration. but on the other hand, it made a great hit in the african-american press of the day which would take pictures like this and run them to show that here you had a first lady who really was sympathetic to the cause of african-americans. now, she travels all over the country giving speeches, and some of them definitely paid lectures and some were not. often she is accompanied only by one person, that's her trustworthy secretary, melvina thompson who's the woman you see there with her. you

. >> i think she had a fair number who came to the white house, but i think she was very careful about it and kept it very quiet. she certainly has a group of friends that she sat for a long time, and i'm blanking on the name of one of them in particular. but they certainly were not, they didn't have the glitz and glamour of any of nancy reagan's friends. but she was supported by numerous friends and family. >> well, once again i thank you very much. it's been my pleasure. [applause] >> myra gutin's biography of the barbara bush is part of the university press of kansas modern first ladies series. for more information visit kansas press .au.edu. >> you're watching the tv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> up next week in kenya our first lady programming with jacqueline kennedy, barbara perry, former judicial fell at the u.s. supreme court recounts the transformative effect mrs. kidd had on the office of the first lady from our renowned celebrity when engagement and the support of cultural institutions. this is about an hour. >> go thank you for so mu

obama himself was not sitting at the white house. but his own director, jack lou, was definitely in the meetings and in close contact with the senior aides who were negotiating on behalf of the congressional leaders. and so the white house was as involved in all the details. and then there were times when the congressional leadership actually said, look, we just want to talk with each other. would you all please go down the street and go have lunch. so it definitely was involved. i think when you mentioned the differences with 1995 and today, a couple of other big ones, the wars. we were not in wars in 1995. so this late pressure that came on congress about the payments to soldiers was a really powerful point. gwen: and newt gingrich and john boehner are just not the same. >> very different people. gwen: and a lot of what happened in 1995 -- and the reason why it backfired, had to do with newt gingrich and his personality. >> the fact that newt gingrich had given boehner a road map of where not to go, he in some ways has a more diffic

roosevelt stayed in the white house over night. here she is visiting enlisted men at a base in the island off of the coast of ecuador during a world war ii morale building trip to latin mesh. here she is in england inspecting troops. she's certainly the first first lady to do this thing. she's traveling without franklin. in washington, she and mary mccloud are visiting a resident for african-american women war workers. once again, eleanor is making history by showing that she and the roosevelt administration really care in the plight of people who are at the margins of society. but she continues to play her official role at white house hostess too. here's she entertained in 1943. well, we all know the end of the story of eleanor's first lady. fdr died in 1945 unexpectly. guess who is with him? lucie mercer, the old girlfriend. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate to -- by the -- i'm sorry is appointed u.s. delegate to the united nations by president truman. and she is instrumental in the creation of this document, one the most importa

you were headed to the white house. >> yes. well, first thing i did was i after ray shut the door, the shift leader and shut the door, we didn't open it anymore. to open it, you make it vulnerable to anybody across the street if there was anybody over there, so there's much unknown stuff going on, but i did see as we pulled away, three bodies on the sidewalk, and then as we make the turn to go south on connecticut avenue there at tea street, i begin to examine him because obviously bull eel hole in the window and three bodies on the sidewalk is an assassination check. i ran my hands under his coat, back of the belt area, up his armpit area, back, head, and everything. there was no blood on my hands. that's when i radioed back to my shift leader that raw hide is okay. i assumed he was okay because i had no blood on my hands. he wasn't feeling too bad then, but between that location there on connecticut avenue and dupont circle, he said i think i caught the inside of my mouth, he took out a napkin, wiped his mouth, and it was brig

there is the podium at the white house. the president of the united states will be coming out momentarily. there is a lot to talk about this morning. >> yes, there is. the white house just released the birth certificate. president obama we've been talking about the birther controversy the issues surrounding getting the official birth certificate out. we have been showing that on our screen. >> think just released that long form critics have been saying we need to see it to prove that the president was really born in the united states and the president says all right finally here it is. take a look at it. it's from hawaii. it's signed by his mother, grandmother, and shows the doctor that delivered the president and all of these things. the president will be coming out to talk about that we assume and the president made a new appointment. moved around members of its cabinet today. >> he will be talking about that as well. we'll keep watching that as soon as we let us know he is keeping an eye on that in the newsroom. right now

so it remains to be seen whether they will be closer to the center of the action or whether the white house will keep them a little bit more at arm's distance than panetta. it may be a different and maybe even colder relationship. >> speaking of that prickly relationship, we have had the unusual sick of the president's ambassador to china, john huntsman, coming back and potentially running against him. there had been some talk that david petraeus was a potential presidential candidate. did that factor in? did they take seriously that presidential talk? >> i don't know if they ever took it seriously. he of course has ruled it out but there was concern about what to do with petraeus, what job to give him. i think the assumption was if he could have been chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, he would have liked that job but there was concern in the white house that maybe that puts you too close to the president and that wouldn't have worked out. there is this question with this guy who's been at the center of everything since 9/11, what do you do with him? i think this is a pretty good

>> your statement about children in the white house. for the first two years the roosevelt administration she had two grandchildren and the white house. >> there are wonderful photos of her followed by at least a dozen and i do have the pleasure this last december of a dining appear i was with of colleagues and i said did you see that gentlemen? that looks like one of franklin roosevelt's grandchildren and my a friend is said how would you note? i said i have seen it on c-span two years ago. my colleague was too embarrassed and i of course, go up to the man who is having dinner with his daughter and i say i you franklin roosevelt's grandson? he said yes. how did you know, that? i said i saw you two years ago he was on the democratic committee trying to determine whether mrs. clinton are barack obama would get which of the delegates so they are around but the franklin roosevelt had a number of young children it is not quite the same as the first couple. there is something that is the guiding about that especially if there are too young be

another interesting thing here is this morning, the white house put out the letter that the white house written a couple of years ago asking for this birth certificate. they asked at that time for what the people in hawaii put out today, the so-called long form which they normally do not do. at the time the president requested this, they put out the short form and that's what this argument has been about. i think this is going to bring this thing to a conclusion, quite frankly. >> bob schieffer in washington this morning, bob, thank you for your perspective. yeah, we should clarify as bob said when you actually request a birth certificate, the one the president did a couple of years ago, that's what they gave him, they made this special request for the long form birth certificate put out which they did and that's what the president just spoke about. we'll have much more on this story throughout the day on this cbs station and on "the early show" on the west coast and also tonight on the cbs evening news. you can also see more all day long on cbsnews.com. this has been a cbs news special

and the attitude of white people. when i was growing up, my father did not mind people calling him by his first named. his first name was qp. in the court case, they ask, what does that stand for? it stood for quinnith paul. the white people use to just call him jordy and they would call his son, boy. even the teachers and the faculty members of my school said they never called him buy anything other than his first name. and he was a professor of alabama state. so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is

the white house doors always open. this is really the only executive managing in the world where it's still open to the public, despite security concerns. i didn't know that about the campaign staff members staying in different peoples homes throughout the campaign trail. i think that's really interesting. and actually illustrative of the card to bring those people to the white house to say thank you. the white house is a special place and i don't know very many people who would turn down an invitation. they would have to be really way out the door to get that. >> host: we will talk to somebody who spent many years at the white house. carolyn at purdue university, if you have a comment or questions for one of your students. >> first a comment and then we'll turn to jacob miller. i did spend several years there, and work with hillary clinton's staff in my role as speechwriter to the president. and i'm just one is mrs. mcbride misses it? >> guest: i don't miss the precious everyday. i don't miss getting about 5 a.m. and b

she held occasional press meetings in the family quarters of the white house. people would be invited in and she would talk to them. everything was on the record. the reporters had mixed feelings about her. sometimes they found her very -- very outgoing, very helpful, especially, with regards to literacy. other times they found her a little hard to deal with because she was not willing to open up quite as much as they would have liked. but i would -- i think i'm safe in saying that's probably been the complaint about first ladies going back to martha washington, so nothing new there. during her time as first lady, mrs. bush gave 449 speeches. again, a fair amount of public discourse. she did not come easily or naturally to being a public speaker. she worked very hard at it. early on when they had come to washington, she had developed slide shows. she had one about the gardens of washington. when they got home from china, she had one about china. and she would coordinate the speech with the slide show. it worked rather well and it also gave her confidence as a pu

>> this is not under the review of the white house. these are actions that are effective independent, and they should be -- affected and independent, and they should be. this is just the nature of the circumstances. the bigger question is whether or not there are emerging technologies that are changing mechanism by which one sees the value of wireless technologies. we have these terms in this conversation, sharing the power of dynamic spectrum, and the market makers that would allow rights owners of the spectrum to all-out secondary users in that market, and there is an economic transaction to be had. my job is to say, are we properly reporting these investments, ensuring we have the entrepreneurial engine focused on this so we can ensure leadership on this issue? i have a lot to say on that policy? -- i love to say that policy. >> what would you say to this idea. there are some that would say t- mobile wanted to more quickly deploy 4g. before i get to that, do you think t-mobile was affected by that? they wanted that d-spectrum, that w

but the white house is threatening to unpool marinuchi from a white house reporter. >> for marinuchi to use her cell phone is approved as a reporter. >> reporter: the san francisco chronicle vie -- the white house says the san francisco chronicle violated their rights. chronicle director offered his own comments saying. -- required by key people in the white house communications office who told us it would remove our reporter then threaten retaliation to chronicle reporters if we reported on the ban. henry brady the dean of the goldman school of policy says the white house is making too much of a benign protest. >> they might have gently chided something, we told you you could only file a print report. we are distressed. but we understand the world has changed. that's the proper response. >> reporter: the chronicle was asking the white house for an on the record statement that marinuchi will remain as the white house reporter in san francisco. >>> the atlanta braves today suspended their pitching coach who pretty much lost it at a giant's game last saturday. roger mcdowell is accused

the white house confirms the president received a new letter from libyan leader qadaffi. in it, he asks the president to end what he calls an unjust war. then he also wishes president obama good luck on his re- election campaign. the white house isn't commenting but secretary of state hill arery clinton says he knows what he needs to do. she then called for qadaffi to step down. >>> you know things are bad when a neighborhood rally to stop the violence is interrupted by gunfire. shots were fired a block from where people gathered after weeks of problems. juliette watts there and heard the shots. >> neighbors in antioch are fed up. this. >> -- >> i'm not moving away. i'm note going to let them run me out of anywhere. >> reporter: her two-year-old daughter caught in the cross fire yesterday. >> she was sitting right there on the bench eating her food and they were just shooting, shooting at her over five times. >> just this afternoon, gunfire right around the corner from this stop the violence rally. >> we are federal up and tired of it. it's time to get out here and turn i

it's dysfunctional, and he had watched the nixon white house. and i believe he believed that part of the reason for nixon's downfall was that there was what was called the berlin wall, this type of white house staff system run by bob holderman and john, that they called the berlin wall because they both have names that sounded germanic. and he did not that. and he said he established this anti-conference he asked al haig to stay on and it turned on he felt he couldn't keep al. he asked me to come into and i told him, i wouldn't do it. it couldn't be done, that the model he designed was not going to work. and he said i know that now, but i want to have to get from rem to where i want to be, and just give me a little slack while we navigate over to a rational white house and chief of staff system. >> dick cheney has said serving as chief of staff as your successor under president ford, yet so many sites with doctor presidents were constrained. congress is moving in and, of course, to some extent they can he say when he became vice president, one of

that's what the white house was waiting for. icans staked out their vision of reduced government. you have the gang of six trying to put in legislative reform the president deficit commission. later this week he will come out with his own plan. that is essential going forward. he couldn't wait until the last minute on the debt ceiling vote like he did this time and jump in and try to cobble something together. he will try to define his terms of the debate early on, which makes sense. in terms of winners and losers of this negotiation, yes, the president started at zero and he agreed to 39. if you measure that it way, whoa, did he cave! on the other hand, the president always wins -- this president always wins when it looks like he is finding common ground, bringing both sides together. that's what independent voters want. that is the white house target constituency for 2012. he won because of that. >> chris: let's talk about that, because everything he does in this week comes in context of what happened over the weekend. it was j

we want to go over to chip reid at the white house. chip, do the folks there believe there's any chance there can be a deal by friday night? >> reporter: harry, white house officials say they do believe that a government shutdown can be averted. now, they say if there were a shutdown, they believe they would win the political battle. republicans would get most of the blame the, but they say that short-term political gain is far outweighed by the long-term damage to the economy. at his town hall outside philadelphia today, the president said it's not just government employees who would get hammered in a shutdown. it's everybody from home buyers who can't get their papers processed to small businesses that can't get government loans. >> we have the best jobs report we had in a very long time this past friday, but you know what? companies don't like uncertainty, and if they start seeing that suddenly we may have a shutdown of our government, that could halt momentum. >> reporter: the white house says the president is still deeply frustrate

in front of the stage, 29 hardhats and photos of the miners rested on white crosses. other memorials were held during the day. >>> a line of violent storms that hammered 18 states may be the worst severe weather outbreak on record. at least nine people were killed, including a georgia man and his 3-year-old son, found huddled together after a tree fell on their house. fierce winds and as many as 38 tornadoes swept in from texas to florida and up to the ohio valley. tens of thousands of people were left without power. >>> and taking a look, now, at this morning's weather from around the nation. much calmer and drier in the east today. showers around chicago, detroit, cleveland and pittsburgh. also, out west, more heavy downpours, from seattle to portland. and up to two feet of snow buries the cascades. 6 to 12 inches in the central and northern rockies. >> 54 in boise. 77 in albuquerque. and near 90 in phoenix. mostly 50s from fargo to detroit. kansas city hits 70. dallas, 81. 74 in new orleans. 68 in atlanta. and 57 here in new york. >>> well, it is the most famous pai

very quickly, we referred obliquely to this meeting that happen in the white house this week. what was this meeting? guest: earlier today a group of economists from all ends of the political spectrum if i may use the term, those that served in the bush of administration, in the clinton administration, those that are in all walks of life if you will in terms of their political leanings, came together and wrote a shared letter calling on congress to promote this notion of voluntary incentive options to ensure that policy lever is in place because fundamentally, our economy is a market-based economy where you have assets that trade to their highest and best use. what these economists that and of course i'm not trained as an economist at what these economists basically said is that by moving toward the voluntary incentive auction authority there will be a market mechanism that would allow whether or not the owners of spectrum or i should say those that utilizing spectrum today would see value in can and should bidding that the drum to be available for those that believe there is a

and chuck todd at the white house before that starting us off tonight. thanks to you both. one more note on politics. florida democratic congresswoman debra wasserman schultz, who we saw right toward the end of kelly's reporting there, was named the new head of the democratic national committee today. and she will keep her day job in congress at the same time. >>> last night into this morning as a violent weather front moved to the northeast across parts of the american south, nine americans lost their lives. they had no time to run as the fierce embedded storms that dropped down in the form of tornadoes took hold on several places. nbc's ron mott is two hours north of atlanta tonight in ellijay, georgia. ron, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. as you mentioned, at least nine people have died in these storms, most in georgia. amazingly, no one here. this was a big, powerful, fast-moving storm that needed little time to cause a whole lot of damage. >> wow. >> reporter: from kansas to texas, missouri to arkansas, monday was a mess, as a powerful storm syste

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the typical recipient is the white woman. rabbi michael learner, you know, lifts it, other scholars, other intellectuals have concluded that and also the federal government. and so antidefamation league pulls the covers off of these so-called legitimate movements that have, you know, sort of like hate mongers lurking among these movements. so i think african-americans need something like the antidefamation league; otherwise, i felt like a little like a crank 'cause i write these letters to the editor. these are the letters i've written to the editor that don't get published challenging some of the stuff that i've seen and the factual -- the lack of facts from the articles. >> host: next call for ishmael reed comes from portland, oregon, john. good afternoon to you. john, are you with us? >> caller: i was told i was second john from portland. caller: okay. mr. reed talks about superficiality of academia. i think he's a great example of it. he's trying to claim that rare incidents of somebody writing a racist car tune, that mean

the white house hasn't shared any specific details about the meeting with the congresswoman but you will recall she was critically injured after being shot at point-blank range last january. >>> the uprising in syria intensified as thousands of protesters take to the streets for a day of rage. >>> thousands of protesters were denouncing president ashad and calling for democratic reform. today the obama administration punished syrian officials for the damage. >>> in a story we first brought you on tuesday, state and local authorities say it could take months to finish their investigation into a chemical explosion at a santa rosa high tech company. the explosion happened at agelant technology. a 45-year-old worker remains in critical condition tonight with major burns. to determine the cause of the explosion. and whether agilent was using proper procedures. >>> late this afternoon, a big break in labor talks between san jose police officers and pay or pay cuts. coming up why the proposal raises hope and skepticism. >>> and we have a weekend just ahead. temperatures could reach near 80 or e

we are in discussions with the white house would be very difficult for the department to eat this cost tough talk from the house over president obama's unilateral decision we don't understand what he's doing still. and i don't think he has the support of this congress when was the very few have the armed services committee. there wasn't a year certain that you ought to be an expert on what's an act of law of war or not gates told congress the president actually did not make his final decision on what to do until thursday night less than forty eight hours before the first two hundred tomahawk missiles were fired gates and mullen repeated over and over again there would be no american ground troops there will be no american boots on the ground in libya who's the person on the ground that is terrific close air support missions against gadhafi forces there's no one on the ground who recent press reports at least indicate there are cia operatives on the ground so boots on the ground as i would define it and of other sending troops i guess is we'd all read about it in the newspapers the same

>> schieffer: today on "face the nation"-- at the 11th hour, congress and the white house were able to head off a shutdown of the government and the victory laps began. the president showed up at the lincoln memorial, to the surprise of weekend tourists. >> because congress was able to settle its differences, that's why this place is open today and everybody is able to enjoy their visit. >> reporter: at a fundraiser last night in connecticut, republican speaker john boehner regaled a partisan audience with insider details of the negotiations. >> all of a sudden the jovial, "never says a nasty word" joe biden jumps up and says, "well, i think we've had enough of this. i think we ought to shut it down and let the american people decide." >> schieffer: so. what happens now with a bigger battle being raised to lower the debt ceiling. we'll bring in jeff sessions the ranking republican on the senate budget committee, and new york's chuck schumer, a member of the senate's democratic leadership. we'll round out the discussion with two reporters who covered this story-- cbs news congressional

i also hold a senate-confirmed position which is the associate director for technology in the white house office of science and technology policy where i work with dr. john holder, the president's science adviser. the job of the assistant to the president and cto was created by our president because he felt that too off our policy -- the too often our policy discussions fail to capture the full potential of technology, data and innovation s. so he challenged me to complement the traditional technology portfolios that would have been in ostp, but to think about how those capabilities could leverage these other priorities of his with particular emphasis on the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation as a means to achieve these larger policy objectives. so that's been the bulk of it, to advise the president to insure that any piece of paper that comes before him is properly vetted to see whether there are opportunities to engage in interagency collaboration. >> host: let's start with one big technology on the front burner right now now, and that'e potential transaction of at&t buying t-mob

we've got mark over at the white house. mark, i'll start with you over . olouooatheum rerts stig, ot eriso as w wcat reh an agreent to avoid a government shutdown because the bottom line is here we're working off the same number. that number is $33 billion. now house speaker john boehner said today ty weren't operating off that number. of course the current house number is $61 billion. it's a game of chicken. decrs epaving. but is it now all eyes on the republicans? >> well, i think they're caving less on the question of the amount, although they have caved somewhat on that.loy' d e sctiar n-den discretionary spending that democrats think will hurt the economy and hurt less fortunate americans. so they have lost the pr battle on the terrain and are now actual number. >> for the first time, richard veme stdn. 'rlieng t ppl o nt ut enng wcagr o eno. there no agemt on a set of numbers, and nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed to. i've said it and i'm going to se is the fact. >> so, richard, they got job boehner to say there is no agreement. tha

during the time in the white house 18% of mrs. bush's speeches were devoted to the d'arcy and was a voice for the program and a friend who was very much involved with curriculum and development to say they put a human face on literacy and talked about an issue at the time nobody was interested in addressing the whole idea of inter generational literacy. she did talk about it and traveled to school where students were receiving ged degrees and showed up on oprah and spoke about it there and wrote articles and we know for sure that she affected both the national literacy acted the adult education act this is from a woman who said even when i met her, i had no effect on legislation but i would argue she put that particular issue and made it part of the national conversation and it seems that it was pretty successful. one thing that stands out september 1990 mrs. bush began to read stories on the radio two young children 15 minutes every sunday night and the particular program was called mrs. bush's story time the wal-mart company was

is there was what was called the berlin wall. this tight white house staff system that they called the berlin wall because they both have names that sounded germanic. he did not want that. he had established this and he asked how hague to stay on and then felt he couldn't keep him and al went to allied commander in europe and asked me to come in and i said i wouldn't do it. it couldn't be done. the model he designed was not going to work. he said i know that now but i want to get from where i am to where i want to be. just give a little slack while we navigate to a rational white house chief of staff. >> host: dick cheney said serving as chief of staff as your successor under president ford he had so many times -- that presidents were constrained. he said when he became vice president that one of the things he hoped to do was expand presidential power and move the other way. did you feel the same way? >> guest: when you have an embattled president in a white house that at that point was deemed illegitimate, watergate had drained the reservoir of

when the white queen was overthrown, she was a constitutional monarch. e was fairly universal suffrage. when the missionary dissonance overthrew her -- when the missionary descendants overthrew her, they established an oligarchy that was less democratic than the monarchy that they replaced. grover cleveland was president at the time. he refused to annex hawaii. they had to wait for him to leave office before they could. they realized they would have to be a government in that time and needed a constitution. a representative is writing his old buddies in charge in honolulu saying they should check out the constitution of the new state of mississippi. the jim crow masterpiece. they have figured out how to disenfranchise all of the former slaves in mississippi. we can also apply that to the hawaiians and the asian plantation workers. then he had the gall to say that the new country should have the word republic in the title. he wanted it to be called a republic but not be one. tavis: we know why we wanted to annex these places. you can put faces on them and

the president inside the white house using the backdrop of the white house to insist he was born in the united states and donald trump talking about how he played a role in getting this on there, all of this in the middle of what we're facing right now. >> david gregory, chuck todd, thank you very much. more information on this all day long on msnbc. we'll see you later, i'm matt lauer. this has been an nbc news special report. >> and we return back at 6:55. the president of the united states once again sort of playing the role of grownup. >> absolutely. >> in all of this. the president of the united states born in the united states. let's not repeat it from here on out and move on with weather. good morning. >> good morning to you. we have a beautiful day ahead of us. no matter where you're headed, you're going to find clear conditions. mostly sunny later on today, really nice. by this weekend our temperatures will be absolutely perfect. high pressure holding strong for a gorgeous weekend. you can make those beach plans right now. right now we're looking pretty distingui good. we'll se

why a local newspaper is in hot water with the white house because of that video. >>> and one of nine americans killed in afghanistan was from the bay area. what he was doing there. >>> good morning, westbound upper deck bay bridge traffic looks good into san francisco. another traffic and weather update straight ahead. >>> there it is. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. you see william and kate making their first walk as a married couple. this is just about an hour ago. they left west minister abbey for their carriage ride to birmingham palace. we are waiting for them to appear on the palace balcony to wave to the crowd. >>> britain does have a new princess this morning. craig is live in london where kate middleton and prince william are getting ready to appear on the balcony. we are still waiting for the big moment. the big kiss. >> reporter: exactly. that's what many have been waiting for since yesterday. i don't know if you have the live feed of a big huge wide shot of a sea of people streaming into birmingham palace. if you can pop that up for a second. very good. a

. >>> the san francisco chronicle says it's in trouble with the white house 37 according to the chronicle, this video you are looking at of a protest that happened during one of president obama's fundraisers in san francisco is the source of the controversy. coming up at 6:15 we will bring you a live report from washington, d.c. on why the white house says the newspaper should not have posted this video on its website. >>> a fremont man is in jail this morning after crash into a school bus. the 20-year-old was driving drunk around 7:30 yesterday morning when he hit the bus on middle field road. 38 elementary students were on board. officials say the bus driver was shaken up and complained of pain after the crash. no students were hurt. >>> our time is 6:07. we will get you to where you need to go this morning. sal has the very latest. sal. >> traffic is moving along well around the bay area. highway 4 is doing very nicely coming up to the willow pass grade. we had an earlier exit. also this mornings commute has been looking good on interstate 880 north and southbound driving up past the c

you are headed to the white house? >> after we shut the door we did not open the door anymore because then you make it vulnerable to anybody across the street. there is much unknown stuff going on but i did see it. three bodies on the sidewalk , and as we make the turn to go south nine connecticut ave on k street, a beesly three bodies on the sidewalk i wanted to check him over. iran my hands under his coat and up his back and our kids and head and everything and no blood on my hands. that is what they radioed back that rawhide is okay. i assume he was because i did not see blood on my hands. he did not feel too bad that to that location on connecticut avenue and dupont circle he said i think i cut the inside of my mouth and it was covered with bright red froth the blood. i looked at that and i knew that it was oxygenated it was in his lungs there was a lot of it and it was abundant and it was on him and on my coach and mated quick decision i am taking you to the hospital. that is what i told the driver. that is why i m

the park. he was wearing a white shirt. it was spotless. as soon as they pick them up, all the blood that ran down to his legs ran up to his chest. by the time they took him, his shirt was soaked with blood. there is no way he could have been murdered someone else. we felt this was a no-brainer. we cannot understand why they are people questioning in it. ken starr looked into this. he came to the same conclusion. it did not make any difference to the people that bought this is a some sort of a wet dream -- sir -- sort of a white ring conspiracy. >> why did they not announced when the president was cleared that he had been cleared until the impeachment had been done. no one had announced this. >> this had been announced. was maybe three or four other matters that were open. that understanding is that we announced this. we have been criticized for taking too long on the investigation. we are in a public prosecutor. there are things that we might have done differently. i do not know the particulars of it. there is no evil intent are anything. a

chip reid at the white house, thank you very much. we want to bring in bob schieffer now, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." bob, the other man in the middle has been speaker boehner. does he have a house divided among republicans? >> reporter: you know, harry, you can get even democrats to tell you if it were left to john boehner, he'd find a way out of this. he'd find a deal. he knows how to compromise. his problem is he's got these newly elected republicans in his caucus who think compromise is something akin to axe murdering, a felony offense. they don't want to be known as compromisers. so he'll, you know, present an idea to them and they just reject it out of hand. when the legislative body gets to the point that it cannot compromise, then you have a dysfunctional body, and that's basically what we've got right now. >> smith: so at the end of the day, is this really about policy or is it about politics? >> reporter: right now it's about politics. they are talking about such a small percentage of t

what do i learn from my nine years at the white house? people ask what is it like taking care of the president of the united states? it is a very humbling doperience. the only job that the president the secretary say dr., the president will see you know, .t' when you go to bethesda where they sacked everything at if you look and the waitingar room in the one by one waiting to see the president said then you have a different perspective i traveled with him everywhere, the first family, your with your patient 24 hours a day sickness and in health whether he is not compliant compliant, the food he eats, you can understand and then down the line you can use that. [laughter] and and thenn gave me the fam dynamics into any family ande of one of the secrets of white house doctors of the president refuses to listen to your advice you appeal to higher authority and go to the first lady. [laughter] one of the things about being the white house doctor you cannot have a job unless the first lady endorses you because it is about makinghe's sure she is