some of the white house sales. o this chair became the model for reproductions that were placed in the blue room to try to recreate the monroe era. when these chairs arrived at the white house in 1970 they were up holstered in crimson, that's how the room looked. since 1837 it has been blue and that's why the name is now the blue room. it's a very high style french chair. this is the one that we discovered had the most original material still a part of its guilding and its surface features and so it has been restored to look like it probably would have looked in the monroe administration with some very beautifully burnished smooth surfaces to simulate metal. in fact, that is fwilded wood. and then the red upholstery fabrics were put on to recreate its original appearance so that this became, then, the specimen chair we could use at the visitor's center while we still have other chairs in the suite up holstered in blue that are in the blue room. since the arrival of this chair in 1961 the white house has upped its to

the white house. it is really the centerpiece of the white house visitor's center and it is an amazing tool to understand the white house. both from an architectural standpoint because you very rarely if ever can understand the whole totality of what the white house s you can see the main part of the house but also, too, it's wings as well. you can do a 360 degree walk around the white house and see the construction of it and see really one of the most important historic objects in our nation, the white house, and understand its story much more, plus with the advent of technology we have touch screens where you can actually go inside the rooms and see them, see the objects in them, and then also explore them lieu the various centuries that the white house has been here. >> i'm here today in the white house visitor's center. we're going to take a look at some objects that have been lent from the permanent collection of the white house for exhibition here as part of the new and vastly improved white hous

as you said, the roosevelts had been in the white house for 13 years. at's the longest stretch any president's ever been in the white house. how did the transition happen there? seale: fourteen van-loads of furniture were taken out of roosevelt's things. because of his condition and also mrs. roosevelt's nature, as you saw in the last show, they liked to have everything around them all the time. they were table people. and they had tables in front of things, and all his things were in easy reach, so there were just thousands of things, pictures, all sorts of things. and imagine what the trumans faced when they went in there with these squares on the wall where pictures had been and the carpets taken up and the floors that jiggled like that. the transition was they only -- they had a little apartment in town and they took the piano from it. that's all they moved. swain: did they go immediately to the white house or did they spend some time at blair house? seale: no, no. anslover: no. well, the trumans thought they could stay in their apartment until they

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the roosevelt white house pushing her in front. think jackie kennedy was the first lady that is part of a media strategy. pat nixon did not play the role, the public role, that the white house wanted her to play. >> i think it goes further back. i think the republican party used her during the eisenhower, when she was second lady, and wanted to use this image of and pat as a young couple that mirrored america at the same time, two young children. the republican party actually helped to create the image of her as an ideal how to that house life. when she was there, they could not stop it. it took on a life of its own. >> do you think they were doing the same thing with mimi? >> mimi was so much older. i think pat had to fill in with many. many was more the grandmother. she was not making public appearances the way that pat was. they needed pat to be a perfect housewife who could do all of these things at the same time. >> it is the flip of what we learned with lady bird johnson and jacqueline kennedy. jacqueline kennedy did not campa

recently out walking into the white house and i saw people coming out of the white house as they looked closely. they do withilies and i said what are you doing we finishedey said meeting with the president. i found off with committees they were on, so i learned a little bit more. we always have our phones because our sources could tell us something that is going on. president. with the and being there, you get a chance to talk to the newsmakers, talk to the principles. it is about trust and relationships. candy bet you feel the talked to they will give you information and breaking news. it is important to be in the building. cost not a kind place it -- claustrophobic's need not apply. i am in a place that looks like a phone booth. the rhineland london phone booth, about that size. that when we started, a lot of times you filed your story from there. you would literally colin and dictate the story from a phone booth. and you have to pick a hand set up and you dial, did not have electricity. >> your point was about getting a sense of what is happening. april ryan: a lot of times they are

kennedy after she left the white house? thank you, again, for a great series. >> the relationship is better than one might think. jackie kennedy found appalling the idea that she would have to return to the white house after 1963. she thought it would be much too painful. told the secret service agents in washington prior to the way i will never have to see the white house because it will make me too upset, i'll start crying again. one exception, 1970-'71, her and j.f.k.'s portraits were painted by an artist. they were about to be displayed in the nixon white house. the nixons said why don't you come down and see them quietly. she felt she owed it to jfk to do that. so she brought her children. it was totally off of the record visit. they had dinner and she wrote to president nixon afterwards. she said, a moment that i had always dreaded white house turned out to be one of the most important days. in later years, not too happy with nixon. in watergate, came out the number of things that president nixon's people tried to do t

i used to worry about going into the white house. en you found that -- you know, it was really the happiest time of my life. (end audio clip) swain: you used to worry about going to the white house and then i found out they were the happiest years of my life. and closing comments and reflecting on her time there as first lady? beschloss: i think that was genuine and i think here's a case where she had a much bigger impact as first lady in all sorts of areas that we've talked about tonight but they may not have been the ones that people thought about at the time she served. swain: and you suggest that she was a transformational first lady? perry: um-hum. swain: the stage for those to follow. how so? perry: i think so. just very much the way her generation was a bridge between traditional wives and mothers and the post women's liberation of the modern era. i would say that's exactly the way she was as first lady, that there were traditional first ladies immediately preceding her and afterwards they much more modern, much more full partn

she completed the white house china collection, created the vermeil room at the white house, invited st to invite t.v. actors to the white house -- we've talked about the "i love lucy" group there -- and used -- first to use camp david as an official retreat for the president. and edie mayo would add "establish the role of the first lady as a campaigner... mayo: as campaigner. swain: we have really -- we're running out of time pretty quickly here. i'm going to go to robert watching us in portsmouth, new hampshire. robert, you're on. your question. my question is jackie kennedy has been mentioned a few times tonight and i'm curious how the eisenhowers viewed the kennedys and in particular, how mamie viewed jackie and the differences between them. irvin holt: well, i would say that jackie and mamie got off to a very rocky start and that was never righted. part of it is the -- the difference in age but it really -- beginning with a misunderstanding and it was just very rocky when mamie took jackie through the white house for her tour before the inauguration. and mrs. kennedy was telling

it is her entertaining in the white house. epression and world war ii ii and the truman renovation of the white house meant that they could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of return for political favor for the gift. that was made illegal. >> presidents still get lots of gifts. >> they usually go to the state department or the national archives. through the archives, they often turn up at presidential libraries. they are not owned by the president or first lady. >> one statement that the president and first lady can make is by who they did not invite. one person they did not invite was joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited to tea and receptions. she did not attend. >> what is a significance of that? >> she was making a political statement on her husband's behalf to not cross the door

has said over and over again that the white house is not going to be committing the country toround combat in iraq. we won't put it on the ground. we have heard issues to that declarative statement, and this is the white house going back on that to some extent, and at the same time, they do have to meet the criticisms on the other side of, this and that is that the white house is not doing enough, and they have done enough that is creating the vacuum that vladimir putin and iran is filling, and to the detriment of the overall campaign to rout out the terrorist organization is really a terrorist army, and this is the reality catching up here. >> and so, jim, i know that you can have to get back into the briefing room and you can pepper john ernst or whoever takes the podium with questions, and they won't stop the after today either. i want to bring in bob, our intelligence security analyst and former cia operative, and in a book years ago you wrote that this is the type of thing that can turn into the 30-year war, and while donald trump suggests thi things like the americans sho

the white house said it could be more joint raids. the strategy is for those u.s. troops to hang back. and not lead the charge and take the hill, but if the local forces are in trouble, they are need u.s. help, that could draw the u.s. forces right back into a direct combat role exchanging fire. >> okay. several developments coming out of area, we'll take a short back and see you right back here at the end of that. end of that. >>> welcome back. the white house announcing this morning that president obama has authorized less than 50 special operations forces to deploy to syria. i want to go to mike viqueira, our senior white house correspondent out there. mike unpack some of what we heard from the white house press secretary on what these troops will be doing. >> right, whether it is combat or it isn't combat, yes, it's sort of a rhetorical exercise, but this is an admission that part of the strategy has been unsuccessful. the white house has been forced to admit its policy of training forces in a third country has largely been a failure. they have also admitted ha

now i am at the white house. i think that one of the things that i said that is most unique about the way that is different from -- the way we covered the president is different than the way we cover any other politician in washington or anywhere in any statehouse, he is basically stuck with us almost all the time. any public statements, any public appearance, even a personal dinner out with his wife, a cough game -- a golf game, we are nearby. a small cluster of the press as representative of the larger pool of the press corps, it is not glamorous. looking for any sign we can of him, making sure he is where he is supposed to be, and giving a rhythm of his daily life. christi: we view say where you are from and what your academic past was. kathleen: i didn't do any journalism when i was in school originally, i didn't know what i wanted to do. i studied history, the classics. t wasn't a terribly useful major. i got into journalism later in life and went to berkeley for graduate school. i did internships at the l.a.

my m >> and did you spend it at camp david or at the white house? >> no, at the white house.s pageant for him. she was very clever. she cut sheets out and did cardboard angel wings and put garland on the neck and then foh halos she took coat hangers and put garland on the coat hangersw and putit them on our heads and strung them with lights and ey r attached them to a "d" battery with a button on the bottom that we could push and the halos would light up. one of my favorite things -- of course i was always in the reard because i was the youngest. she did it by height. i remember going through the third floor -- rather, the out second floor -- it goes ground, first, second. and with all the lights out, there was a huge corridor and we were singing "silent night" and we ta had our littled halos lit up ar all of that when the pageant was over he gave us a standing ovation, came running over and gave each of us a dollar. said it was much less expensive than the theater.bein >> i would like to follow this up. anne and i have a funny story between us about the white house being nor

walk away from the white house itself. or anyone going on a white house tour it will help them understand what they're seeing and bring much more context and meaning to their visit to the white house. for those who can't go on a white house tour this is really an experience in its own right as well. so you are here in the white house visitor's center which is theme at clee based around five different themes to understand the white house story. it is a home, so it's obviously home to the first family, it is an office for the president, it also, too, is a stage that we as a nation, we celebrate great events there, obviously state arrivals, events as well take place there like the white house easter egg roll. it is also, too, a park. it is part of a national park and we are proud as a national park service to consider it as such. and also, too, it is a museum pause the white house collection is inside the whitehouse and that helps to tell the story of the first family's connection with the structure and also to the story of ou

, nixon white house in many ways was a model of the modern white house in the television age. e white house decided how the presidential family would be used or not used. and we -- i hope we'll get into this a little bit more -- but pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would've liked the way in which she was presented to the american people. susan: and was this precedent-setting, the first white house to go to this extreme with media? mr. naftali: no, i mean, after all, the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie, and the very fact that jacqueline kennedy went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to be just a political tour. no, this was not the first time. jacqueline kennedy was really the first. eleanor roosevelt, of course, thought about her own public role, but she pushed that. i mean, i'd say that she's unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house wasn't pushing her in front. i think jackie kennedy is really the first first lady that is part of a media st

my m >> and did you spend it at camp david or at the white house? >> no, at the white house.s pageant for him. she was very clever. she cut sheets out and did cardboard angel wings and put garland on the neck and then foh halos she took coat hangers and put garland on the coat hangersw and putit them on our heads and strung them with lights and ey r attached them to a "d" battery with a button on the bottom that we could push and the halos would light up. one of my favorite things -- of course i was always in the reard because i was the youngest. she did it by height. i remember going through the third floor -- rather, the out second floor -- it goes ground, first, second. and with all the lights out, there was a huge corridor and we were singing "silent night" and we ta had our littled halos lit up ar all of that when the pageant was over he gave us a standing ovation, came running over and gave each of us a dollar. said it was much less expensive than the theater.bein >> i would like to follow this up. anne and i have a funny story between us about the white house being nor

, joe biden making potentially his announcement to run for the white house and the white house where president obama is the current president. strategically, is that interesting to you, i would have thought he would have made this announcement away from the white house. >> i will make a prediction since there are four minutes to go i don't have to agonize over it. i believe he was going to run. i think it is something he has always wanted to do so i think he will decide to get in. i would be stunned if the announced in four minutes the white house is not the place to do it, not appropriate -- maybe he is going to announce national ground hog day. it would be a mistake for him to announce that he was running the day before the benghazi hearing. maybe he will announce he is not running to take the edge off. that is the possibility too. it would be more legitimate to announce that he is not running at the white house. >> he is hiding in his office at this point speaking of opportunistic, you hit the nail on the head to make an announcement at the white house, what a great president

the world. steve: your favorite white house memory. do you have one? ry: i do. -- what done year you give the president for christmas? steve: did you spend it at camp david? mary: at the white house. my mother decided to throw a christmas pageant for him. she was very clever. she cut sheets out and did cardboard angel wings and put garland on the neck and for a los, she took code angers and put garland around the code angers and we wore them on our heads and she stronger than with lights -- and then with lights and attach them to a button on the bottom we could push and they were buoyed up. -- light up. i remember going through the second floor -- third -- second. out,all of the lights there was a huge corridor and we were singing silent night and we andour little halos lit up when it had just was over, he gave us a standing ovation and came running over to us and give each of us a dollar. he said it was much less expensive than the theater. [applause] susan: we have a funny little story about the white house being normal. i must say we were so extraord

but to give you a sense of how big of a deal this is at the white house, the white house gave no indication how it was happening. i was coming out of the pen and paper session with the environmental adviser, and i happened to take a peek to the rose garden and started to ask ed the sources, what is going on here, and within minutes, e we were getting the e-mails with the announcements, come out to the rose garden, because the vice president is going to make a statement. and this is extremely unusual to see joe biden the vice president come out here in a moment's notice like this, and wolf to, add to what i am seeing here sh, we are also seeing denis mcdonough, the chief of staff, and susan rice the senior advisers of the administration have raced out here to the rose garden as well as the news media here to establish the live shots in a moment's notice, because we know what ever is going to be taking place, it is a big deal, and that is after weeks and weeks and weeks of hearing from joe biden what his intentions are. as you have noted this is a difficult and painful process for vice presid

do you recall who specifically at the white house rejected sidney blumenthal? >> no, i do not. >> after he was turned down for a job at the state department by the white house, he went to work where? >> i think he had a number of consulting contracts with different entities. >> well, if he had a number of them, do you recall any of them? >> i know he did some work for my husband. >> well, he worked for the clinton foundation. >> that's correct. >> he worked for media matters. >> i'm sure he did. >> he worked for correct the record. >> i'm sure he did. >> when you were asked about sidney blumenthal you said he was an old friend who sent you unsolicited e-mails which you passed on in some instances because you wanted to hear from people outside what you called the bubble. we will ignore for second whether or not sidney blumenthal is outside the bubble but i wanted to ask you a couple things. because he was an old fwloend knew nothing about libya, was critical of president obama and others that you work with, loved to send you political and image advice, had busine

big news from the white house today. american special all sources are going to be on the ground in northern syria for the first time to help rebels fight isis. the white house downplayed the significance of the move saying it's not part of any new strategy. the new speaker of the house and some of the presidential candidates are already questioning his decision. why is president obama putting 50 american troops on the ground when he said he would not to i think it's because the situation is deteriorating. he's trying to do something to try to get a handle on the deteriorating situation. i think republicans claimants too little. i think the pentagon probably told the white house they need this to make sure the airstrikes will be correlated, that this move is not nearly as important as the peace talks. the white house needs to figure out if they can live with an interim government. i think the u.s. is headed towards that and that will make the military stuff -- the president himself said there is no military solution. john:

we will talk about how we cover the white house. kathleen alluded to something in her opening story about's the pool at the white house. this is a really important crew of 21 people they are very close event president for every or press open event. they report back to other members of the press corps about what has been said or done. numbers 13.vel the those people are on air force one with the president everywhere he goes. there with him sending feedback to their peers to report was going on. kathleen is a member of the permanent school. it's one kind of rare that we have her here right now. someone should be with the president. one of her peers. can you talk about the little bit. why is it so important that the us to keep that constant watch? -- somenk it's a mix of of it is just the dark lesson of history really in that the president -- people want to do harm to him. myanything would ever happen organization and several others have decided we had to be there. we have to be in the motorcade, have to be near him should thing ever ha

today cuban musicians performed at the white house for the first time in 50 years. margaret brennan. >> reporter: the sound of cuban music blasting through the white house was a remarkable moment for guitarist eliades ochoa... and singer omara portuondo. they never thought they'd make it here. what does that mean to you? she told us, "this represents her flag, her culture and her ideals." ochoa says the trip will be part of his artistic record forever. for decades the musicians were little known outside cuba until the 1990s when the buena vista social club album made them a worldwide sensation. that inspired an academy award-nominated documentary. and soon many band members had found fame in their 70s and 80s. omar a&e liades see hope in the fall of two cold war foes. do you think relations between the u.s. and cuba are getting better? eliades says a day will come when everyone will be able to sit down and eat at the same tame. that gets a laugh from omara who says her band mate speaks the truth and beautiful words. their final song was the spanish version of "perha

enough support to get some thorny issues off the agenda as the house is expected to transition to a new speaker. the package was negotiated by members of the white house with the top four congressional leaders, top speaker john boehner, nancy pelosi, and democratic leader harry reid. the senate leader talked cautiously earlier this afternoon. >> in the meantime, we also know that fiscal negotiations are ongoing as the details come in, and especially if an agreement is reached, intend to consult and discuss the detail with our colleagues. >> it's past time that we do away with the harmful, draconian sequester cuts. we must also ensure that there is equal defense and non-defense cuts or increases. >> congressional sources say they're closing in on a two-year budget package which would raise the debt ceiling from next week until march 2017. it would set a budget parameter, the overall spending goal for the next two years. it's expected to address massive medicare premium hikes for r 87 mi million americans, and it adjusts sequester cuts to defense and domestic programs. josh earnest chose his words carefully. >> we have talked about these base cuts

mike viqueira is live at the white house. good afternoon. is appears to be a shift from what president obama kept saying that he would never put boots on the ground in syria. >> reporter: it's clearly a shift, although the white house is going out of its way to down play that aspect of it. you are right, the president, this proposes a problem for him political and if you look at what is happening on the ground in syria, and you can see why they are making this move. the white house is going to play this down as within the parameters of the policy that stands right now. they will point to a commando raid that happened in iraq that freed kurdish prisoners. but the failed policy of the administration to train and equip the moderate opposition in places like turkey and saudi arabia has largely failed. and you look at the standing still. for weeks they have been saying the fight against isil is at a stand still in both iraq and syria, and look at the entry of russia into the war in syria trying to bolster the assad regime, hitting targets in oppos

a couple of session that chief bolton organized with andy card and me and a couple offense the bush white house, reflecting exactly what you're saying. and we'll get to john podesta and his role in the obama administration, but i recall that breakfast vividly, and of course that was where vice president cheney, who was chief of staff to president ford, made the great statement, one of the counsel is keep an eye on your vice president. it was very generous offer on the part of josh bolton. >> guest: i thought on that remark of vice president cheney that he was referring more -- not just to himself. he was referring to his experience in the ford -- >> host: you make a very good point. >> guest: with vice president rockefeller. >> host: you make a very good point. i don't think that was taken but i think your interpretation is likely the right one. i it got got a good hearty laugh and then he went ton give some serious advise, as we all tried. to now, it's interesting that when president bush began this process, early in 2007, he did not know who the next president of the united states was going t

fox news white house correspondent kevin corke is live at the white house. kevin? >> hey, greta. good evening to you. the white house says there is no evidence that this is an example of mission creep. they said today, you heard throughout the briefing this arch that this is merely a reflection of conditions on the ground. it is sort of a revamping of existing strategy. and whether or not you believe that one thing is irrefutable. we heard the president very clearly back in 2013 say he did not want to go down this road, listen to what he had to say back then and how white house press secretary josh earnst responded to it a question about it today. >> my answer is simple. i will not put american boots on the ground in syria. i will not pursue an open-ended action like iraq or afghanistan. >> the president did go out of his way to make quite clear that our strategy is quite different. the strategy was -- that difference existed then and that difference exists today. >> okay. so here is what the white house is going to say tonight, greta. the fact that this is not a long-term, strate

correspondent kevin cork has the latest from the white house. >> on a day when russian aircraft took to the skies over syria. half a world away in washington, the white house was ramping up its criticism of moscow. >> this highlights the fundamental contradiction in russia's strategy, they're supporting a regime that is either unwilling or unable to carry out strikes against isil and they're supporting that regime by taking strikes in areas where isil forces are not likely operating. >> but even as the administration's frustration with the kremlin boiled over, it's the president's strategy for the reason that's facing renewed criticism. >> the russians will begin to fly combat missions in that region. not just targeting isis but in order to prop up assad. >> that was gop presidential candidate and florida senator marco rubio. two weeks ago. his prediction not only came true, it's reflective of the feeling of many on capitol hill that the obama doctrine is failing and they point to the instability in syria as the latest example. >> three years ago president obama's opponent suggested t

. >> the white house is firing back. kelly wright with the latest. >> good morning to you as well. is the use of youtube and cell phone cameras causing police officers to hesitate when it comes to stopping violent crime? fbi director james comey posed those questions last week speaking at the university of chicago. he says violent crime is on the rise due to a hesitancy among police to effectively combat crime. he calls it the ferguson effect. >> i spoke to officers privately in one big city precinct who describe being surrounded by young people with mobile phones held high taunting them when they get out of their cars. >> the white house disagrees. press secretary josh earnest says police are still doing a good job in keeping crime down. >> the evidence we've seen so far doesn't support the contention that law enforcement officials are sherking their responsibilities. in fact, you hear law enforcement leaders across the country indicate that's not what's taking place. >> over the weekend, thousands marched through the streets of new york and other cities protesting police officers

the white house has two challenges. with an answer for why they have said no boots on the ground and you will hear that from the press secretary today saying that what the president always meant was no large-scale military invasion of ground troops. the second thing is that the president has said that these folks who are sent into iraq and syria are not going to be in combat. well, obviously that's not the case. but the interesting thing about this is that the president has made this decision and in the last two weeks has also announced that he's going to keep troops in afghanistan and has taken that provocative action against china and south china sea. so you see him taking these steps involving the military that he has not wanted to do since taking office. he's ramping up in ways when he thought he would be toning things down, so this is all just happened in the last two weeks, but make no mistake. this announcement today is a major significant reversal in certain things that he had said initially at the outset of this

the podium at the white house. sometimes they will let him inside the white house i guess the staff was not too happy but then the famous picture of john, jr. iran the desk lake the trap door it was widely circulated they would be with their dad while he was working. this was very effective to project him as to enhance his image as a family man that you can connect with. it was the first modern celebrity couple after the cleveland. johnson takes over after in he was a spectacular congressional leader. paid to how to get his way on capitol hill with senate majority leader johnson was that this ends or wasn't included or culturally in st. with the kennedy crowd so then this huge ego over flood into the be dash all -- we do if we had the saturation of coverage there would be a difficult time because he was so overbearing. he would invade the personal space to convince the legislation or the goal. >> you can see he looked scared. but this is what he did it conveyed on television he would be seen like a bully but he trie

>> i think he has answered questions within the white house. but as the head of the executive branch, i don'think you should go before congress. thereris something called the separation of powers. sharyl: administsttion officials acknowledged thahamistakes were made, but they said there was no malice behind it. and yet, nobody high up as part of making the decisions have been held accountable. in fact, if anything, a lot of them have been promoted. why is that? >> i think that is a fair i point. don't know why. there should have been at mid-level management, a lot of good rerting has identified failures of communication, but we know fromhe house armed services and intligence ommittee, despite all of the accusations by the republicans, there was no standdown order, there was no immediate ability to rescue those individuals, given the distance and the logistics. sharyl: you were close to hillary clinton, although you are not speaking officially for her. do you see a place for bernie sanders inin hillary clinton administrationon [laughter] >> i lov

the white house and the u.s.resident feels that russia has deliberately done things to snub the united states and really against our interests. i would agree, it is not a good relationship. for the rest of the obama term in office it is not going to get better. host: another element of all of this is in today's "new york questionesponding to a at friday's news conference the president was asked about hillary clinton. he said there is a big difference between running for president and being president indirect reference to hillary clinton. mark in utah. good morning. caller: i would like to know your opinion on this. overran the iraqi if we had decided at that point to go in their full force, put ground troops and like some people want us to do now, and then we start to drive isis and the other terrorists towards syria when we get close to the syrian border and then a sod -- assad is being threatened, russia could come in. he can bring in a lot of materials. then we have russia on one hand .oing at us and we have i

not in the white house. lynda's is the first white house wedding of a president's daughter, i believe, since the wilson daughter in what would be 1914. so this -- and she married -- he had been a military aide, charles robb. susan swain: and what was mrs. johnson's role in it? and was she very much involved in the planning of all these things? betty boyd caroli: oh, yes. i mean, everything became political, whether or not there was a union label in luci's gown. her diary has a lot about what an ordeal that was for her. i think the day after -- cokie roberts: they had to make two dresses. susan swain: is that right? betty boyd caroli: and the day after luci's wedding, i know she fled to the virginia farm where she sometimes went when she didn't want to see anybody. and, of course, after lynda's wedding, the president fled, so i think they both found it stressful. susan swain: barbara is watching us in san francisco. hi, barbara, you're on. barbara: yes, good evening. i want to say, i love your program. the qu

the american people have. which is this president, this , white house, the officials at this white house repeatedly, over and over again made it , clear there would be no u.s. combat troops fighting isis. that appears to be changing. not only this announcement you're talking about today, which you say there will not be a combat role, but you are not ruling out they might be involved in some sort of combat operation -- that on the rack said, you have pentagon officials this week saying we are in combat. so, it would be great if we just had a moment of clarity and you could acknowledge that, yes, this mission is changing. it's not what it was said it was going to be at the outset. secretary ernest: to say that would only confuse the situation. the fact of the matter is, the commander-in-chief has given the military personnel in iraq and syria, is to train, advice, and assist. we have gone to great lengths to make clear that that i no means diminishes the amount of risk that our men and women in uniform will be facing. we also have been quite clear that there have been situations where combat boots have been on the

>> look, the president deserved the lion's share of the credit. >> why is the white house uptight you're taking the credit? >> reporter: at a fierce dispute over a controversial former clinton political aide sydney blumenthal, barred by the obama white house working at her state department but sending private advice about libya to r private e-mail account. >> madam secretary, he had unfettered access to you. >> i don't know what this line of question does to help us get to the bottom of the deaths of four americans. >> i'll be happy to help you understand that, madam secretary. >> reporter: it was clinton who spent the most time talking about the victims of the attack. >> you know, i would imagine i thought more about what happened than all of you put together. i've lost more sleep an all of you put together. >> reporter: information officer and air force veteran sean smith, cia officers tyrone woods and glen doherty and ambassador chris stevens. >> i stood next to president obama as marines carried his casket and those of the other three americans off the force base. >> reporter: clinto

jc: two people are facing charges after a drunk rest of the white house. back in may be secret service thought someone flying the drone in front of the white house. back in january, a drone operator mistakenly crashed a small device on white house grounds. phil: it' capitol hill, as republicans scramble to find their next house speaker. the pressure is on paul ryan to take the job. jc: aixa diaz reports from washington, where many believe the wisconsin congressman can bring the gop together. reporter: a day after house majority leader kevin mccarthy dropped out of the race, gop litters medic -- gop leaders met again on capitol hill. >> to get them to come to consensus or compromises ethical. reporter: as republicans try to find common ground between conservatives and moderates, many are looking at paul ryan. the wisconsin congressman tweeted yesterday that he was not a candidate. >> i did everything except carry his gym bag this morning trying to get him to do it. foundation says no matter who is the nominee, they will have to convince the party they will h

you obviously did your homework, talked to a lot of people within the white house, so was that part of president president bush's motivation and thinking? >> guest: it certainly could have been. it's hard to get the motivation of people. i think republicans tend to focus on management and bush in particular had focused on management -- and managing a transition, you know, early when he came in and i think it was natural for him to do it going out particularly with -- with the war. but also in the last part of your administration, you don't have a lot of persuasion ability to persuade congress to do something that you might want them to do. you're not spending a lot of time there. >> host: good point. >> guest: you spend a lot of time on the road traveling, and i think it's natural to be thinking about a wrap-up of your administration. i think it's very useful to establish a narrative of what your administration accomplished, how it all fit together particularly with the president's vision, because some of the -- people will look at a presidency in parts and individual actions. >> host:

that is problematic from the white house perspective. in their hands to convince democrats to support the steel. obviously, the president saying when the deal is posted he will convince a lot of people to support it. he has a lot of work to do. once the deal comes out, congress has 90 days to vote on it. the deal represents more than 40% of the global economy. if the u.s. can't get on board, obviously that sinks the entire thing. david: samantha powers said she believes that iran was in violation of the u.n. charter by missile.allistic met obviously, this is important to the u.s. he is making a distinction that the deal solves a specific problem, that iran should not obtain nuclear weapons. phil: this is an argument they are going to continue to make, that they need to continue to put pressure on iran. as you said, samantha power, you and ambassador -- ambassador to the u.n. said today that this does violate a u.n. resolution. the president saying hey, when it comes to that, the u.s. needs to continue to ramp up international pressure, b

at the time, the white house insisted there only edit to her talking points was changing the word "consulate" to "diplomatic post." >> the point being it was a matter of non-substantive factual correction. >> to be very clear, the white house did not make any substantive changes to the talking points. sharyl: in mayay last year, we learned the white house did make substaive changes after all. documents showed an obama official help steer attention away from terrorism. >> the white house had a line about the administration warning of september 10 of social media reports calling for demonstrdtions. true? >> i believe so. sharyl: more documents revealed last year showed a top obama advisor coordinated the incorrect messaging to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. the committee is also investigatg why the attacks went on for more than seven hours, but the u.s. military did not come to the rescue. greg hicks, the stately department diplomat in tripoli said he repeatedly asked for military help, but was denied. >> is anything coming?

the white house trying to down play this announcement. retary will address the media at 12:30 today. this is a shift in policy for a president who wanted to ramp down the wars in iraq and afghanistan and were called just a few weeks ago president obama said he was going to leave a larger troop presence in afghanistan and now for the first time troops in syria. we'll hear more. we're announcing the white house plans say there's going to be an enhancement and shift in strategy that will involve more troops in these areas. >> we're going to be hearing that from the white house in a little while. >>> good morning i'm katy zachry, let's take a quick look at your halloween forecast. >> it's a spectacular day. we'll be seeing lots of sunshine and you can see on the satellite picture there's not much around there and the temperatures, well, it's going to be chilly today, in the 50s for a high today and tomorrow. >>> looks good for these trick-or-treaters. i'm katy zachry. with cancer, early detection can mean life or death. so, when chris brown an