the walls of the white house do not isolate you from the protesters. all my white house memories none was more impressive than my father's anguish watching the casualties. he wanted so desperately out of that war. no one had more to gain from getting out of vietnam than we did, but only the peaceful honorable resin lucian would do it -- resolution would do it. on march 31, 1968, while my brother-in-law was literally on the way to vietnam, my father announced that he would not seek another term as president. that daddy was willing to give up his personal career which was in many ways his life to try to bring us to the peace table. he succeeded in bringing us to the peace table, but not the final piece that he desperately wanted. in many ways, i lost my youth in life in the white house, but i had been an eyewitness to history. a privilege few received and i will always revere. i was there on the front row of the white house when the public accommodations bill was signed. i have been on the front row of the capital when the 1965 voting rights act was sign

swain: one did the white house get the name the white house? mr. seale: we don't know for sure but there is a letter where it is referred to in 1803 and i suppose because it was whitewashed. it was never intended to be. it was because the stone is so bad, the rain would get in it and freeze and crack the stone so they did a heavy whitewash with a flat base and painted the house stark white. it was really more of a paste. it would protect the house and the house was whitewashed a few times but it was after the war of 1812 that there was any record of it being painted. black marks from the fire could be seen through the whitewash. it was a huge deal. i imagine that is why it got the name. ms. swain: i often see it referred to with theodore roosevelt becoming current. mr. seale: officially on the roosevelt immediately upon taking office dropped the old term executive mansion and said it here after it should be called the white house. the executive mansion didn't mean anything to him anymore. he spanish war took the presidency back to a level of power

she was at the white house. they love her. the staff at the white house were suspicious because she was brought in by the family. but i loved her story because you just couldn't make it up. the president was her parole officer, which is hard to believe. brian: where is she now? kate: she lives in georgia and she babysits for hugo, so she is still a huge part of the carter family. i set up the interview with mary through the carters' assistance. they consider her one of her own. brian: how often over the years has a president and first lady brought in somebody from the outside, instead of the white house staff? kate: it happens fairly often. the bushes brought one of their personal maids. nancy ragan took one of the maids with her to california too. it does happen the other way. they grow so close that they bring them with them after they leave. largely, they rely on the 96 or so permanent staffers at the white house. brian: zephyr wright. kate: she was the johnsons' longtime cook. they brought her from texas. ladybird has a gre

do they want to eat in the white house or do a larger event. eemed the prime minister and his wife preferred a smaller gathering inside the white house. you can all woes -- only set the maximum in the east room, 210 guests. the toasts or another big heart of the evening, right before the dinner. this time, it was done with a lovely sake. lovely, i'm told. the president and prime minister gives a toast. it is lighthearted and sincere. the prime minister referred to house of cards as an import that he enjoys in his country and also made mention of the fact that president obama seems to enjoy sushi. it was a cultural exchange moment. people raise their glass and then they need. the food looked quite lovely. it was a menu put together by the white house chef. she had an assist for a celebrity chef. we mostly know him through his appearances on "iron chef." the president and the first lady have dined in his restaurant and so have the prime minister. his work was known to both of them. the menu is a reflection. it's very difficult. you have to take in

we took my stereo up there, set on the roof of the white house. i think we were playing led zeppelin "stairway to heaven." it literally was "dumb and dumber" on the roof of the white house. anyway, that was my first night there. the first dinner -- i will be quick. the first dinner we had as a family, and there was this tension. i did not know you found this. when you first go there, you do not know the staff. they have been there for years. you rotate through. you are trying to get to know each other. everybody is a little formal. we are sitting at the dinner table. i saw dad, mom, mice to stir -- my sister susan. dad is trying to take the edge off. he looks and sees there is this wonderful fireplace in that room. he says, oh, gosh, when we used to go to vail, colorado for christmas, we always love to have a fire, and one of the people who work there thought the president must be telling us to light the fire. they went over and they lit the fire and it had not been used in 10 years. [laughter] steve: now smoke is billowing out here this is your fi

the white house determines by consulting with the guest country whether or not they want to eat the white larger event outside. it seems that the fund minister and his wife preferred a smaller gathering in the white house. the max in the east room is 210 guests. that is how that cap came about. the toasts or another part of the evening, right before the dinner of course. this time, the toast was dlovely. i am told, i didn't taste it. the prime minister gets a toast. a mix of lighthearted but also quite sincere. the prime minister of japan in his toast talked about an american import that he very much enjoys in his country. he made mention of the fact that president obama enjoyed it as well, a cultural exchange moment. people raised to the classtheir glass of sake and then they ate. the food looked quite lovely. the white house chef had a celebrity chef to come help out. chef morimoto, who is mostly known through his appearances on "iron chef" within the white house kitchen. the first lady has died in his restaurant, as well as the prime minister. -- has dined in his restaurant. putting to

she was known for her interest in the white house. >> she had charles dickens come to the white house>> she was way ahead of jackie kennedy in bringing some of the leading lights to the white house. washington irving was there. she was interested in literary pursuits. with her bad ankle, i don't think anyone understands what those receptions were like when they threw open the white house for 5000 people. our and hours and hours of standing on your feet. >> but this salon she created it seems very intimate. key members of congress. was it a way to be in the inner sanctum of the president and advances goals? >> i don't think so. few congressmen in those days were interested in talking to a novelist or a cultural gear like that. she brought the woman known as the swedish nightingale, jenny lind, to sing. that would've been a celebrity so perhaps some members of congress would've wanted to come see a celebrity. i think, in a sense there is a bifurcation here between abigail fillmore creating a cultural setting that the former schoolteacher really wanted to do -- by the way, as a mother sh

. >> it did not get above the edifice of the white house. it was definitely over. from what i saw. i was a little scared because you never know what to expect. reporter: the president was not of the white house at the time of the incident. he is a big camp david for a summit although he was wreath of the situation. there are some differing reports right now on whether or not the drone ever made it over the white house fence. that is still in dispute. we will learn more in bring it to you. scott thuman, abc 7 news. maureen: two senior secret service agents were likely drunk the night they drove a car into a suspicious package investigation outside the white house. that is the finding of a homeland security invest -- inspector general report to the march for incident. those agents report of the spent five hours at night thinking at a nearby bar. one agent, the deputy special agent agent in charge of the presidential protection division says he will do it -- retire. the other is on to administer to leave. there are calls for a fairfax county pol

[laughter] back to the white house. as you can tell i was only from two until six between 1928 in 1932. and i think i cross the united states 12 times by train in those years. we would be greeted at union station by my grandmother and i will get to my grandmother in just a second but due to her early training in girl scouts and the avigdor she has very peculiar distance reaching call and we would hear it starting way down the platform as we got off the train. my brother hated it. it embarrassed him. [laughter] anyway my grandmother was born in iowa just like my grandfather in the same year, 1874 in waterloo and the older two girls girls, charles and florence wead henry. when she was about 11 florence's health was such that she had asthma but charles henry thought it might need better to move the family to california. they arrived first in whittier and then after a little bit they went up to monterey and made their home in monterey. it was lucky for my great grandfather that he had a tomboy for an older daughter because t

, got into the white house itself ran around got up there in the east room of the white house. some disturbing incidents. and totally understandably, the secret service personnel uniform and non-uniform, they're very sensitive right now to potential threats, right? >> yeah. they are very sensitive, and there have been several reports on what they can do at the white house to make the security better. there was a lot of different proposals done by the department even a mote was one of them. they were going to increase the fence to make it taller maybe put spikes on the end of the fence. we did learn about i think it was in january or march of this year they were testing drones to see, the secret service was testing drones they had to get a permit in the middle of the night, and that was one of the things they were coming back to combat the entire things, they're trying to stop them in the case of something like this. because it happened in that incident where someone did end up flying a drone over the fence. what happened in that incident is they didn't have anything to combat t

in the white house? not to that degree. the sociables were informal, there was music, there was often dancing. once they get in to the white house, the entertainments are much more restricted, they're open to a lot of people especially the drawing rooms but they are not -- there is not that kind of dancing until actually end of their term as they're on their way out, the last great drawing room she holds, they actually have music and dancing and people stay until 2:00 in the morning and talk about how gracious the adams's are knowing that they are -- that they have failed in the reelection and it's probably one of the greatest entertainments that they have in the four years. swain: next is a question from leroy in monticello, kentucky. hi, leroy. leroy: yes, ma'am. i'm really enjoying this. this is great. swain: thank you. leroy: were the adams' family, john quincy and his wife where they god-fearing and devoted their attention in church and teach their children the thanks of the lord? i'm a minister, so

pat: they lived in the white house. e president's staff always lived in the white house in the 19th century. that's why they usually had relatives, because they want to people they would get along with. they lived in the family quarters and abraham was the secretary and the principal aid to his father. he had been to west point and fought in the civil -- and fought in the war. susan: did anyone ever mention hannah? pat: the only thing i really wants to say was that than pure and was not so odd about not mentioning his wife. many 19th-century leaders would talk about their lives without mentioning wives or children. that was so personal, it had nothing to do with their success. susan: we have about seven minutes left and what i like to do is wrap all of this up. took about the time. -- the time period. two administrations twined with scandal politics. let's talk in a broad sense about the changing country and the changing political parties. michael: i think one of the major things we forget because we are so comfortable a

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there was a definitive end date for the white house. ng otherwise i'd still be there. i loved the job. i loved working for president bush. one of the things i say in the book is i was asked if i would ever do it again. absolutely. i would. i would. but i wouldn't do it for anybody else. i wouldn't do for anybody but president bush. >> he seem to strike a balance between preparedness, planning and really taking on whatever comes. when an opportunity comes. >> that's a good way to put it. that preparation and being willing to make a move or take a risk is good. i've not always been good at it. in fact, a lot of people had to push me. president bush was one of them in the postpresidency. i had joined the big pr firm after the white house and i was terribly unhappy. i went to visit him just to say hello. i didn't want to tell him i was onion happy and he said, why don't you start your own business. and i said is 100 reasons why i shouldn't. and he said here is one reason why you should. if your business doesn't work out, you'll be fine. i kn

and so, she became the de facto hostess of the white house. , entered the chain of first ladies, even if she's not strictly a wife, but largely as a result of dolley madison doing a little matchmaking. susan: what condition was the white house when the madisons moved in? and washington, d.c. as a new capital city? edith: well, washington, d.c. was a very muddy place. and abigail had written home that it was the very dirtiest hole of a place that she'd ever been in her life. you know, the roads were rutted, the houses were separated far apart. so it's not like we think of it today at all. it's very rudimentary. and so, i think part of what she is doing is building a social network among the women, so that a lot of this is overlooked or you know, politics and diplomacy and fashion can carry people over the fact that we're not living in some fantastic capital of the world. susan: a question on twitter from anne onstriker who asked, "did dolley know abigail adams and/or martha washington and did they get along?" catherine: yes. actually, dolley mad

he works every week in the white house. nine numbers of his family works there, his uncle's john and charles were major days, which is like the head butler. he told me, my uncle ran the white house. and they brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959, during the eisenhower administration, and he is still working there. he describes how he used to work in the kitchen and he was such a skinny little guy, they kept giving him ice cream deeds. it's incredible that he remembers what the eisenhower's were like. it's a dying breed of person who were members that. that's what it wanted to do, was to pay tribute to these people. >> tonight at eight eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> this morning, former pennsylvania governor and homeland security secretary tom ridge discusses the prize for civility in public life winner as well as terror threats to the u.s.. peter sullivan talks about state-run health exchanges facing financial trouble. later, author and blogger looks at how some companies are changing their policies to a

he brings different values and the french ambitions to the white house. >> even though he was a widow the president, the ghost of his wife, over the white house during his years there. why is that? >> she was the woman of his life. he loved her. when she died just a few months before he was inaugurated, he was a rest. he spent all of his time thinking about her and her memory and having her portraits in his bedroom so he could think of her. it really changed the way the first administration wins. >> we need to go into the campaign of 1822 understand the presidency. 1828 was the year of what? how did it change? >> it was the first time we did not have a majority of electors. the whole election was given over to the house of representatives. we had these competing factions in the house of representatives. you had crawford from georgia. you had henry clay and calhoun and jackson. jackson won the popular voted but he did not win the electoral college. when the politicking was going on in the house of representatives, there was an opportunity to make deals. one of the deals that was made w

but the invitation to the white house kempt coming. veral newspapers report that franklin and eleanor invited alice to white house on february 12, 1934. that was alice's 50th birthday the warm feelings to run in the other direction too. on the day they sat together in the senate gallery to see the gold standard bill passed, will rogers noticed a considerably mow empathetic alice. she sincerely believes no president ever carried the faith of as many people as this distant relative. it was as if the roosevelt women were playing the role of hissing cousins much more than they felt it. [applause] >> thank you. so now what we'd like to do, if there i any questions we have microphone over here and be happy to entertain in. so we have one. >> as someone who lived in washington for 35 odd years this has a very inside the beltway flavor. the depression was full steam ahead in the 30s. were people really following this or wasis just sort of inside the beltway stuff like lincoln -- there was some woman the n history who kept -- maybe mrs. jackson

it ended up on the white house lawn. as you may remember it caused a lot of -- quite a stir and a national security concern, of course that this drone could end up on the white house lawn. it wasn't discovered until after. as it turns out, there was a forensic analysis of that drone, and it showed there was a malfunction with it therefore the drone operator was not charged in this case but it certainly raised a lot of questions about what more the white house, secret service can do to protect the property from drones. more and more people are flying them these days as we know. in fact the faa just sent out a tweet, brooke. it says your vacation could be blown if you fly a drone, d.c. is a no-drone zone. so the faa sending out that tweet in the wake of this incident at the white house. >> your vacation could be blown if you fly a drone. we saw what happened on the mall. that was last month with that gyrocopter. this is totally restricted air space. let's bring in our cnn national security analyst. this individual tried to

to make to the big iron white house fence. ite house fence, the plan is now to install a whole new, bigger badder fence around the white house, as of next year. but to get us to next year in the meantime they are also planning to augment the existing fence, which looks like this but not made of foam core and the way they are augments it we showed you this last night, they're going to be clamping something that looks a little bit like this right at the top. these extra spikes will bolt on to the top of the extra fence and put these extra spiky bits in between the decorative spear points that are already there. and the new spear points the new spikes will be sort of angled out a little bit. and honestly, while it is i will admit, very exciting to have a scale mock-up of the white house fence, and what the change is going to be to the white house fence, even doing this last night, i still don't really get it functionally. it doesn't seem to me that this will be any harder to get over than this. and so back to the drawing board. or

let's start with one issue that really became a game changer in the bush white house the terrible day. tell us where you were. what your feelings were like and any reaction with the white house. >> guest: i was on book tour for three weeks and have not had that question but it is the most important because it changed all of our lives, the presidency, the world, and i actually was in san diego california. [laughter] i worked on capitol hill in 1995. and then one day i meet a guy on an airplane and i hear the british accent and he was handsome i did the quick scan for the wedding ring. [laughter] he turned out to be very funny and i married him 18 years ago. we lived in england for about 10 months together. frankly socialism and rain did not suit me very well. [laughter] if you wanted to start a business we could live anywhere. there was nothing except for the six month-old puppy. he was a predecessor of jasper, your favorite. and my first job was city council. and rick was the spokesperson for the mayor. so we have quite a history going back working with the bush administration then fo

court the first white house -- >> the first white house allocated a salary of $25,000 for the president still about that much by the time the madisons got to the white house? edi: that i don't know. do you know? katherine: i do not know, no. well, let's presume that it was -- court yes. -- >> yes. >> which when we've done the web sites that translate it, it's about $1.1 million today which is a lot -- >> that's a healthy sum. >> compared to what we pay the president's today. but who paid for all these social functions? do they have to pay out of their own salaries for all these events that we're talking about? katherine: yes. this is a time when -- that was part of the deal about going into public service. this is why rich men -- rich white men -- were supposed to take on the burden of public service because a lot of it comes out of the pocket. and the madisons were not the first presidential couple to leave much poorer than when they had come in. what congress did do though was give her quite a hefty amount to redo the executive mansion which she did very well, may i say and spent that

the difference between me and the white house, the white house is currently supporting the usa freedom act that would, i think, significantly curtail the kind of surveilants that nsa is allowed to do right now. but in any event, the white house is saying for god's sake don't let it lapse. what a time erin to kind of on an act of faith, give up a program after the kind of things we've seen isis do not just in the middle east but motivate people to do here in the homeland. >> all right, general hayden thank you very much. as always we appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. >> all right, former head of the cia and the nsa with tough words for the white house, as you heard him saying john kerry's views had no foundation in reality. >>> "outfront" next hillary clinton finally answering reporters' questions after a month of photo ops. how did she handle questions about e-mails and the iraq war? >>> plus as texas police are struggling with 170 uncooperative prisoners, we have new details tonight about the deadly shootout between rival biker gangs, and our cameras were there when an ameri

susan: she also brought dancing to the white house. taylor: right. she brought -- she brought the waltz, she brought the polka she brought a number of things to -- to the white house. but -- but i think that when you're starting -- you're starting to get into the perceptions of that. i mean, it does work both ways that -- especially with the growth of the abolitionist (202) 748-8000 press, that the abolitionist press starts to see these kind of things that julia is doing in the white house, this level of extravagance as being yet another example of the corruption of the slave party. how -- particularly in -- during a distressed economic period how could they possibly be doing that? the only way they could be doing that is because they are gathering all of their wealth and benefits from the fact that they own other people. so -- so the -- in terms of a growth of that abolitionist press and the abolitionists send people just to keep an eye on the tyler white house and report back on things like this, that what julia is doing is in fact in some quarters,

tonight the white house hits back hard. >>> and getting personal. michelle obama like we have rarely heard her before. deeply candid about race and the private pain she's endured. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> good evening. the other shoe has just dropped in pro football's deflategate scandal. the nfl late today announcing super bowl-winning new england patriots quarterback tom brady will be suspended for four games. >> reporter: for days it's been the most debated, discussed and dissected topic if court. what punishment would the nfl hand down for reigning super bowl mvp tom brady. late this afternoon the league announced a four-game suspension for brady, citing substantial and credible evidence from an independent report that brady was at least generally aware that two patriots locker room attendants were deflating footballs. it also faults the star for failing to cooperate with the investigation by not turning over e-mails or text messages. your actions as set forth in the report constitute conduct detrimental to the public confidence of th

childrens mail is the best job at the white house. he president gave a speech right after 9/11 where he said we will not tire, we will not falter we will not fail. peace and freedom will prevail. [applause] and he, i actually i printed that out and i had it on my desk that seven 1/2 years because it spoke to me and of that moment. i will tell you that no matter what we were doing, if we were doing the little league baseball team or visiting the boy scouts or off doing an energy event, i could always tell in his eyes, in the back of his mind are we doing everything we can to make sure that never happens again. obviously the burden is lighter when you're not in the presidency anymore but if i could finish this with one story how my time in the white house ended and just a great book and i opened chapter one with it. the afternoon before we turn over to the white house to the obama administration george h.w. bush was being honored with his ship being commissioned, the aircraft carrier. we all go to norfolk virginia. i'm sure there are peo

there's other news net marks, the plan was to cover the white house correspondent's day down the roadd.c. for the most part they struck to it. >> so the white house correspondent centers is this nerd prom where you have all the u.s. based journalists come together. and they have this dipper and the president speaks and others speak, and it's like a roasting event. >> it's a weird mex us where you bring yournists who are supposed to be antagonistic and holding political figures accountable. when you bring them together. >> all main stream covers it. it was the day the white house correspondent's dinner was going on and mysterious happening in baltimore, the town next to it. the fact that cmn stayed on the white house correspondent's dinner and the president telling jokes talks volumes. >> welcome to the white house correspondents dipper the night when washington tonne celebrates itself. >> there's time for a time out. some are uncomfortable by it. sometimes i am. it's too cosy, i argue that it's important tore those being covered to have an opportunity to kick back. >> the institution

you inside the white house watching. one thing that the world does not know, how did president bush handle that? >> better than i did a. his instruction to his early on was we're not getting involved in this campaign. so do not let yourself get dragged into. it's very tempting because the white house press corps will ask your everyday well hillary clinton said this about bush and obama said this and that it was mccain and all of the rest of them said this about him. i was pretty disciplined. one of the things i always did at the podium was imagine if the president were watching me would he be proud? if the answer was no, and i didn't say. i just thought it. [laughter] there was one that i did push back. i remember the question, i remember where i was. i could see it right now comes a reporter asked me to push for something hillary clinton said in a primary fight against obama. spirit they want to give us the reporters didn't? >> no. someone who keeps a lot of statistics. >> senator nelson? >> no. >> inside joke. and i pus

nine members of the family have worked at the white house. i talked to one of the butlers who works every week at the white house. his uncle was the head butler. he told me my uncle ram the white house. they brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. he is still working there. he described how he used to work in the kitchen and they kept on giving him ice scream -- ice cream because he was skinny. it is incredible he remembers how the eisenhower's word. they are a dying breed. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> over the next four hours, we are giving you a special mother's day presentation with the children and grandchildren of former first ladies, sharing tales of life in the white house. we begin with the grand daughter of lou hoover, the grandson of breast truman, and a daughter betty ford. >> good evening everyone and thank you for being here. it is always a pleasure to be here. if what happened in the last few minutes back there isn't it -- is any indication, this will b

and to set the stage for our conversation on his white house and the first lady who served him, we'resten now to white house historian, bill seale.begin video clip) bill seale: he was president sherman's favorite portrait because she was pretty. she was a southern belle, she was a tall girl, kind of i guess today, you would say she was athletic-looking. she was a little bit that way and she married abraham van buren. she met him at saratoga springs. she was from near columbia south carolina and she was a belle at the time and had plenty of money -- the singletons were a big big family in the sand hills as they call it down there. and, sort in the area of fort jackson, around in there. and she have plenty of money she bought pretty clothes, she was apparently a lot of fun. and so she and abraham went to europe on their honeymoon where she was introduced to young queen victoria, approximately her age. and she was so excited about the way the queen received women that she came back to the white house and had a platform build at the blue room which was called the blue room for the first t

obviously the burden is lighter when you're not in the presidency anymore but my time in the white house ended and the opening chapter one with its. the last weekend before we turn over the white house george h. to be bush was honored the ship was commissioned because everybody was there. but i was trying to soak up the moment and it is historic because you have a father and son he might not ever see again we saw a mother and daughter ben not father and son. i get a tap on my shoulder whispered the president need to wrap the helicopter in 10 minutes. okay. i didn't want to make a sudden movement because press secretary the reporters watch your every move because we know terrorists try to use so i plated cool about 20 minutes helicopter ride so we arrived in their resolve these jong amazing american men in their suits listening to dick cheney give a speech to all have long beards. the president gave remarks off the cuff full of the motion and he has tears in his eyes and the marines will not stop clapping and it is in order they did not have to obey. so i make my way to the back of the ro

tonight the white house hits back hard. >>> and getting personal. michelle obama like we have rarely heard her before deeply candid about race and the private pain she's endured. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> good evening. the other shoe has dropped in pro football's deflategate scandal. the nfl late today announcing super bowl-winning new england patriots quarterback tom brady will bes is pended for four gamesgame s s. it takes place at the start of the fedex season a quarter of the nfl schedule. the team is facing substantial punishment along with two patriots employees. this comes after a report commission ped eded by the nfl found team personnel probably swengs intentionally deflated footballs and suggested tom brady was at least aware. >> reporter: for days it's been the most discussed topic in sport. what punishment would be handed down for reigning super bowl mvp tom brady? late this afternoon the league announced a four-game suspension for brady, citing substantial and credible evidence from an independent investigator's report that br

to stop a deal that ended a war and restricted presidents to two terms. >>> next, lock down at the white house as someone launches a drone outside the grounds. security concerns and how they are addressed >>> and the agency accused of wasting billions of dollars. >>> a security scare at the white house when a man was arrested for trying to launch a drone in a nearby park the same day as congress held an issue about impaired secret service agents. >> reporter: the secret service said a man was flying a drone over a park a block away from the white house. the white house wept wnt on lock down for an hour. the man was arrested. >> i was aware of this >>> the secret service released a photo of a commercially available drone. it has a camera and can take video. it's illegal to fly a drone over washington. a public campaign was launched a day earlier. there was a message to tourists - leave your drones at home. it warned violators face fines and penalties. four months ago an off duty employees crashed a drone. he said it flew out of his control, he was not charged. as the secret service did their wo

them true but i bet there's all kinds of conversations like that in the campaigns not just in the white house and the governor's mansion but getting these people to run. >> once they got to the white house and the war started she was shut out, wasn't she? >> she was totally shut out. first of all she was a southerner and there weren't any southerners because the union states were still there. she had relatives were fighting on the side of confederacy so she could never be trusted. it was alleged that she was a spy. she spent too much money. she acted less than sane sometimes and she embarrassed her husband in public which is something first ladies were not supposed to do. but you have to sort of understand what's going on with mary lincoln because this was a woman who had lost a son before she got to the white house, lost another son while in the white house, had a husband that was not always easy to get along with and i think we sometimes forget that lincoln had his issues as well and this is a woman who is really bright, who understands politics and loves politics but she was born a woman.

before we left the white house to discuss the pennsylvania avenue project when he would drive from the white house to the capital it has depressed him. he wants to do something that would ensure the architecture which is the main artery of the government of the united states. this is not something that came from somewhere else, it was his own vision. i knew he would have so many things piling on him. i begged him to receive them and he did. you can ask them how stuck they were to be among the first. here comes the hard part i gather he has reason to feel uncomfortable with you i don't know what the reasons are but i can guess them. i just wanted to tell you with all my heart this is something that is important to me. he found a way to make it happen. in so many ways both private and public she straddled two eras. the one where women stayed home and had few opinions that differed from her husband in the coming age where women broke free and became self supporting. she lived fully and both. she transformed it into a full-time job and restored its national pride. in doing so she created h

a dinner date at the white house. yet, of the six arab countries invited to sit down with the president, only two are sending their heads of state, qatar and q 8. ill health was always going to keep oman and the aue sheikh ka alisha fa away. the biggest no show is saudi arabia's king salman aziz. saudi officials say he's staying in riyadh to oversee a cease-fire supposed to go in effect in yemen tuesday. the white house has sought to downplay any rift with riyadh or the other gulf countries, noting that saudi's crown prince and his defense minister would be at the meetings but that hasn't stopped speculation that monarch is snubbing the president, but a closer look at those who will be in the room may paint a more nuanced picture. the gulf region is currently undergoing a generational transfer of power. meaning leaders like the saudi crown prince mohammed defense minister mohammed bin sallman or the premier are key power brokers who shape jcc relations with the west now and into the future. with them around the table,

secret service officers noticed the small drone near the white house. the details. >> reporter: the secret service closed down several blocks for around the white house for about an hour. it was a foot-long quad copter drone. they consider any drone a threat to the president and the executive mansion. >> secret service cleared the park. everybody clear the park. i turned around to take off running. i tripped. i almost tripped over whatever was behind me. >> reporter: over the drone? >> yes. the secret service grabbed me and said move, you are in the crime season. >> reporter: he was at the white house for a conference. he captured shaky video of agents walking off with the unnamed suspect in custody. the secret service says they ordered him to land the drone and he complied. pleasant says he then tried to escape. >> a guy took off running. they had a dog behind him. i guess the dog tackled him to the ground. after that they put him in handcuffs and walked him across the park. >> reporter: the second drone offers a reminder of another vulnerability in wh

when not in the presidency but how my time with the white house ended in an open chapter one with that. the last weekend before we turn over the white house to the obama administration george h. w. bush was honored because the ship was commissioned for the aircraft carrier. i am sure people in this room were there because everybody was there. in disguise i was trying to soak up the moment the was a last chance to be on air force one and everyone. you may see mother and daughter but father and son he would not see again. [laughter] i get a taproom shoulder from secret service who whispers of president major at the helicopter in 10 minutes. i didn't want to make a said the movement because as press secretary the reporters watch your every move. to was very nervous because we know that terrorist tried to strike in times of transition. and then condoleezza rise was there i didn't know what was going on so i get on the helicopter the president says let's go see the seals and that was as surprised to see the navy s.e.a.ls. they didn't know he was coming in was a huge hangar with all of these

i was really never any different once i was in the white house than i was before. enly everything had been an liability before -- your hair that you spoke french that you didn't just adore the campaign. and when he got in the white house, all the things i had always done suddenly became wonderful. i was so happy for jack that he could be proud of me then. because he made me so happy. ♪ >> remarkable partnerships and iconic women. their stories in first ladies, the book. chris she said the portrait of washington was one of the things that endeared her. >> find out what francis was staying at what she was doing and what she was wearing. that was going to help sell papers. >> she takes over a radio station. how do you do that? and she did that. >> she exerted enormous power. she would will amounted to make sure her husband was protected. >> first ladies is now a book. looking inside of the personal life of every first lady in american history based on original interviews from c-span's first lady series. learn about their lives, ambitions, family, a unique partnerships.