progressive whites. progressive whites are the rodney dangerfield of american politics, they don't get any respect. they are frequently belittled or dismissed as irrelevant tree huggers or vegetarians or both. they were quoted as saying they should take their sushi eating, volvo driving, new york times reading, body piercing, hollywood loving, left-wing freak show back to vermont. [laughter] i must confess that some people do drink vodka and read the new york times. and i must confess that some people do drink lattes and read the new york times. they are still lovely people. if we look back his stork lee, we will see that the role of progressive whites in american social change has been heroic and vilified. when the abolitionists in 1859 to those who gave their lives in the 1960's civil rights movement. andrew goodman in mississippi. her aggressive seven long tradition of rejecting the privilege, refusing to stand idly by, and courageously standing with disenfranchised people who are troubling for justic

>> the white house.hat's part of the agreement when go behind the scenes as a photographer, you're there to see, not hear and not listen and not really repeat anything that you hear. it's kind of a mutual agreement because we are let into meetings when you're behind the scenes that are sensitive. i was there when president obama was at a rally and at the same time, the hurricane just come up the east coast and it was up in north. he was on the phone on a secure phone talking to fema director trying to organize it at the same time he was trying to run the campaign. really unique time to be in there and hear him in a really heated or serious conversation about what was going on the ground and organizing that. on the other side of the wall people are banging four more years. it's a unique time. >> here's a photograph i assume on capitol hill with senator schumer and senator mccain in the middle there and senator durbin on the right and senator menendez. how often do we see these photo s? >> not often. it's

that a white van similar to the other white van.hen, all of the sudden, there were millions of white vans. >> police are still looking for a white box truck. >> it got a life of its own that it shouldn't have gotten. >> two men inside. >> unfortunately, it was the only game in town at that point. >> lost in the hysteria of a white box truck alert was an alert put out by d.c. police after the last shooting of the previous day, october 3rd. >> the homicide detectives investigating the shooting on georgia avenue just inside the d.c. line had a description of a chevy caprice leaving the scene. it was not a big story. it was kind of buried in the news coverage. >> the white truck theory simply dominated the discussion, along with media experts who came forward with profiles of the sniper. >> this has all of the markings of an all-american crime spree. >> this is somebody who is actually trying to taunt the nation. >> the message is getting out there that no one is safe. >> everyone thought it was white guys because that seemed to be the

i covered the carter white house, in those years.people said, he is the one who has his finger on the bomb. there was a lot of this rhetoric flying around. this was, by no means, a walk-in for him. he had the people. he had the money. >> they were out in california. and he was the nominee in waiting for four years. the only thing that is remotely like it is like what is going on with hillary clinton, to be honest with you. they are not just going to hand it to her, but he had the money. he had the support. the republican party was in transition. and it was going to be ronald reagan's party. nancy that it was true, and she turn out to be right. >> let's fast-forward here. >> are we going to slowly? >> it was a landslide against jimmy carter. 489-49 for the sitting president. much of that was colored by the iranian hostage situation. that was coming to a common close on inauguration day. would you spend just a minute talking about that unbelievable inauguration day, when the country was waiting for the hostages to come home, and it hap

white power! >> in the last decade, the number of hate groups has nearly doubled, 602 to 1007. according to the southern poverty. matt was raid in a middle class suburb. his parents are schoolteachers. matt readily admits they did not raise him to be a racist. >> people say he was raised like that. i wasn't. i was raised very, very moderate. >> reporter: has it caused tension in the family? >> it causes a lot of tension. >> reporter: today he's estranged from his parents and siblings. >> may my parents have gotten death threats. they haven't done anything. >> reporter: in fact, his friend deanna was the only person from his childhood willing to speak to us on camera. >> matt was always a loaner. >> reporter: she remembers a smart but socially awkward boy trying to find his way and gradually becoming fascinated with race. >> we're all writing about cats and dogs and ponies. he's over there writing about the holocaust. >> reporter: he loved history and the bible. his reading of both found a place in

black-on-white violence.esolved issues. >> to what extent is it a rainbow nation? what extent are things getting mixed? we like to think we live in a rainbow nation, but in fact, in the states like to a great extent in different neighborhoods. in some ways, it looks to me outside looking in, a little more gracefully mixed up than we've managed in the states. >> here you've got black, white, colored, all sorts of people here. also once you have the knowledge that the economic disparities are managing to keep us divided as well. i think what we need to do is unpack what we mean by rainbow. i think the idea of being united and being diverse also means that there'll be moments of discord. >> and you think things will continue to improve? >> yeah. i think we've seen our worst. and that's not to say that we're getting it right all the time. but it's an experiment you need to find as you go along. that's really the south african story. the dream is there. we all agree that the visions are there. but these are not bi

i've heard that from three white houses but you know what has really changed over the few white housess the is the nature of the media itself. when i started in 1996 covering president clinton i was maybe two stories at the end of the day for next weeks printing and that was it. today of course we file web stories and we filed logs and we do a lot more tv and radio and podcasts. it's an ever moving ever shifting media environment that is up and makes it harder i think to do longer and more thoughtful journalism. at the "times" we tried hard to preserve despite the acceleration of the cycle. >> host: peter baker's wife susan glasser is that politico and was a longtime editor at the foreign-policy. >> guest: just launched last week, worth looking at. >> host: the cover story was a big piece. >> guest: it was called locking the cabinet. what it's like to be on obama's cabinet and how essentially the white house folks is powerless. i think it continues to be the track. every white house wants to stay in control. the cabinets have looked at people matters of policy but not necessarily centr

been clamoring for this at the white house. i did talk to one administration official who said they see this as sort of a happy coincidence, wolf. >> are they letting in a reporter in addition to the videographers or photographers? a reporter who might be able to ask a question or two to the president or vice president? >> reporter: no, they are not. that was not a part of the arrangement for this press access for this event. one of these photographers could conceivably ask a question of the president, ask a question of the vice president. we're waiting to see what the material is like when it comes back out of this meeting. but so far, we haven't seen it yet, wolf. >> because as you know, at least when i was a white house correspondent, when we had a pool going in for an event like this, there would always be, in addition to the photographers, a reporter who would go in, could throw out a question. they don't necessarily have to answer the question. but we would always insist that someone be there representing the news media,

bush switchgears in to post white house life?his is from brian watkins. >> part of her was really relieved. she wouldn't have been unhappy if they had left politics in 1980 when he lost the republican nomination to ronald reagan, but i think she slipped into it very gracefully. she wrote her autobiography, her first. she was enjoying seeing her family and the children. they were back in texas. she was back with friends and on more familiar ground, and then george w. bush decided he was going to run for governor. they were back in it again. but she also stayed on the election circuit and made some money. >> she did. >> she was bringing in some income. when did they begin work on the library? >> immediately. most administrations like to work on them in the second turn. they began working on most immediately after losing their reelection bid, and this really became one of the focal points for the post presidency is a place where they felt comfortable. he is often asked why he chose there instead of bl. he said, -- instead of yale. h

such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. i don't want to die like this. ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why life like this >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. [ rapping ] >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. now i'm locked in a cell. how could the lord forget me? don't cry. >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was performing. >> crowd was loving me. females was loving me. i'm just chitchatting and the person i was involved with, you

mike viqueira live at the white house right now, and mike, the white house keeps saying jobs, jobs, jobs, but the word from the white house is spend, spend, spend. >> well, the white house you can expect them to point out the positives. the unemployment rate was down to 6.7%, but as you pointed out, down for all of the wrong reasons. 2.2 million jobs created in the last year, the unemployment rate sinking by 1.2% during that time. but as you point out only 74,000 jobs created. economistss expected about thre times more than that. and 347,000 people dropping out of the work force last month, and one other figure to throw at you, the u-6 as it is termed here in washington, or the real unemployment rate, those who are unemployed and maybe looking for a job, that rate holding steady at 13.1%. but they use this opportunity to push the congress to pass that unemployment extension for the long term unemployed. here is jay carney just a little bit ago. >> the short-term employ rate is now roughly at where it was during the last expansion, and maybe a little bit below it. which means the unemploy

the book is called "angry white men."a powerful book, a lot of research and it, written by stony brook or fester michael kimmel. the secret agent man himself, singer johnny rivers. tavis: 50 years ago this month, the place to be here in l.a. if you love rock 'n roll was the sunset strip, specifically the whiskey a go go, where johnny rivers was just starting at the legendary club. five live albums recorded at the , 30 million albums and hit singles like secret agent man and poor side of town. town, rivers is back in headlining a concert. an honor to have you on this program. does it seem like five decades? >> no, it went by so quickly. >> it's really a thrill to be able to relive that again and play some of those songs and celebrate this anniversary, and have the bottom-line proceeds go to the music in schools program which we have been initiating around the country. tavis: tell me more about that first. >> we did that at the riverside more, awith deacon john legendary blues guitar player. the next day we did it at mckinl

she is alone in the white house.he refers to, on the day before what was going to be the last day of the white house, august 14, 1814, i hope i have that day right, and she is waiting for her husband to come home while she is preparing for the worst. she is writing this letter for her sister and running up to the roof looking for a husband. she is observing how badly the battle is going. she is also packing things, she is packing silver and what she considers the people's possessions, and she sends them away in carts. and finally, the word comes and it is time to go. >> the british were coming. >> how endangered was she? >> if she waited any longer, she might have been captured. that would have been a huge prize of war. she knew she had to leave. she wanted to wait for her husband to come home, but she knew she had to leave. and then they reunited a couple days later. apparently she had the table set for dinner, and the british came in and thought that was wonderful. but she did save the pour trait of washington whic

garden at the white house.ecause ellen wilson could look out of her bedroom window at prospect mansion, she could look down and see flowers all day. similarly, she wanted the president of the united states to be able to see roses when he looked out of his window at the white house. of course, this becomes the famous rose garden at the white house. ellen tragically does not live to see the rose garden completed. she is dying in the summer of 1914. she is wheeled out into the space outside of this, in her wheelchair, watching as the gardener works, but does not live to see the completion of the vision she had for roses blooming at the white house. that is a vision that really begins here at prospect garden in princeton. >> the daughter of a judge, first lady edith wilson grew up in a small rural town of whiteville virginia. >> this is the birthplace and childhood home of the edith wilson. today it looks very much like it did when they lived here from 1866 until 1899. originally, in the 1840s, this was two houses.

and there were 50 black families there and two white families. my father's family and the family that took care of the railroad. all my play mates were black kids. all my field workers were black children. my mother was a registered nurse and she was gone a lot and i was raised by african american women. as i grew older and ran for the state senate and ran for governor, i saw the devastating impact of racial discrimination on not only my black neighbors' lives but also the white peep's lives in my -- people answer likes of in my community. when i became governor, i said in my eight minute speech that the time for racial distribution is oarve. it watts -- over. it was such a remarkable statement i was on the cover of "time" magazine because of that. by the time i got into the white house, i resolved that the civil rights commitment at home and the united states of america should be expanded on a global basis and i should be a champion of human right. >> so full circle back to celebrating the achievements and accomplishments in south africa. do ame

man came along and securities freedom that white man played by brad pitt is painted in the movie in a way as northrop's savior a white man being the savior is something that's fairly common and sleepy so. slavery narratives but is that historically accurate and is it time to take with the white savior roll out of slave narratives altogether joining me now for more on this is daniel jose older writer editor and contributor to salon dot com his most recent article is titled it's time to take the white savior out of slavery narratives danielle welcome. thank you it's a it's a pleasure to be here thanks for joining us so you know i'm i got two sides to this last night i actually finished reading twelve years a slave when you and i talked last week i had just gotten and i was starting it and you know not only did a white guy actually you know get him out by you know communicating back to two is his friends in new york what was going on but the white guy actually wrote the letter in the movie i think it's it's is it's written that he wrote the letter and self and and so actually there was

and a period when rural white -- images of rural white southerners were all over popular white culture. "the andy griffith show," "petticoat junction," making comedy and so that is part of it as well. >> on this concept of acceptance in the public image, she wrote image did become an annoyance that wouldn't go away. i thought if i were working productively and accomplishing something worth while images would take care of themselves. wrong. i learned that labels are easy to come by and hard to overcome. we should ask you to talk about the carter's acceptance by the washington establishment's. the georgians come into town, campaigning as outsiders against the political establishment. how did the establishment react? >> well, i think one, i would say that no president or first lady has ever been satisfied with how they were shown in washington. look at president ford, featured a somebody who tripped over himself all the time. they did try to work around the press corps to some extent. they felt like they could go directly to the local press, the state and local level, and not feel so much

of the white house. >> that's right.and this will be the first time we do see the president in 2014. -- the first time in an official capacity since the christmas break. we will see him in the east room. this comes after a weekend in which the president did apply some behind the scenes pressure making some calls to senators, and evidently that has now born fruit. while libby was on the air, house speaker john boehner put out a statement in an email to reporter. the bottom line is he told the white house before christmas he would pass the extension if it were paid for. the senate bill is not paid for, in other words it would cost the federal treasury about $6.5 billion. there is no offsetting, either cost cuts or revenue raisers in that to offset that $6.5 billion. john boehner saying now he is not going to take it up in the house unless that happens. that is not a very high hurdle, but another way to look at this is there an opening now in the house of representatives to do this. after all it was a republican senator tea

i had recalled when barbara bush had attended brian white's funeral -- ryan white's funeral. do recall that she put candles in the window of the white house. i was wondering if you could explain to me why they did not visit. >> thank you for your call. i think it was a political decision. it was the first few weeks of the administration. i am not sure if they knew what their position was yet. she felt strongly about showing some support and that led to her action putting the candle in the windows. the very symbolic act of going holdingr's place and the baby at a time when people were not sure about the transmission of the disease. >> she was always very good at making solid political statements quietly. holding a baby, putting a candle in the window. her rationale of explaining that she was pro-choice was that she was not in favor of abortion, but she thought it was something that should be between a mother and a father and a doctor. she was keen to set boundaries to where the government should intervene and she wanted to take a moral stance without interfering in her husband

she held a news conference at the white house.e're going to listen to one question that was asked of her and her response. >> how would you like to be remembered, for what? >> i'd like to be remembered in a very kind way. also as a constructive wife of a president. i don't expect to come anywhere near living up to those first ladies who have gone before me. they've all done a great job and i admire them a great deal and it's only my ambition to come close to it. >> out of the blue we were talking and she said to me i don't even know what prompted it but she said i don't know why everyone thought it was a bad thing i admired eleanor roosevelt. eleanor roosevelt was one of her heroes. i don't think it was her life in the white house as it was the private challenges that eleanor roosevelt confronted along the way in becoming eleanor roosevelt. but she was a role model. and lady bird johnson was a very good friend and a role model for mrs. ford. >> the ford presidency was 865 days but this was a difficult time in our country's history

harry truman called the white house the great white jail. president clinton said it was the crown jewel in the federal penitentiary system. president obama said what the mistakes of his first term was failing to break out of the white house and mover of the country as much as he showed a tiny stream to change that now. so we've had the problem. church radios have biases funded johnson's 45 years ago wrote a book called the twilight of the presidency and he said the biggest problem he could see coming from the presidency was being isolated from reality. if anything, it's gotten worse in them because of many of the fact as i'm about to talk about. some of them are positive thing from the president's day-to-day life. the president has treated like a king in some ways. ichat white house staff that is there to do whatever the president wants. in addition to the official political staff. there's camp david, presidential retreat, air force one and i wrote a book about air force one that i can tell you of the five presidents have cover, does that me

white house in the television age.he white house decided how the presidential family would be use or not. i hope we get into this a little more. pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would have liked. the way in which she was presented to the american people. >> was this precedence setting? the first white house to go to this extreme with the media? >> no. the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie. the very fact that jaclyn kenny went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to just the apolitical tour. this was not the first time. jaclyn kenny -- kennedy was the first. eleanor roosevelt thought about her public role, but she pushed that. she is unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house pushing her in front. i 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 ba

that is the white -- what the white house tells us.he staff boils that down to 10 that they give him every day. he takes them with him to the residence at night and does read them and sometimes he reads them to his wife michelle and then they talk about what can be done and so on. they take this seriously. again it's not new. the white house likes to make it seem newer than it is but he is trying to reach out. lots of times the staff doesn't like this because the letters will then be sent back to the staff with notations on it from the president. a farmer in des moines gets five calls from senior staffers. the president has read your letter how can we help? he lost a social security check or something. the staff doesn't like this because they have to follow up on this stuff. president obama really does value these letters and i think that's important. he does try to break out of washington. he's doing a lot more traveling now than he had beyond the campaign. he is going to san francisco monday by the way and you will see that probably

this is the scene outside the white house. we will continue to watch as we hear from ken from california. caller: i think tonight we will hear more of the same from president obama, whether it is to raise minimum wage or obamacare. they will fund yet another program so people will be dependent on bigger government. republicans want you to keep more of your hard-earned money which you can put back into the economy that will allow jobs to be created for more americans. [indiscernible] >> thank you for the call. you're looking at the motorcade. president biden -- we are waiting for the president that will be departing momentarily to head up to capitol hill. re mr. nices -- no mo president. mr. obama needs to go and double at that take a stab nation cozy political n -- nation's political narrative. caller: thank you for taking my call. one of the main issues i want to millionhat -- 1.6 resourceshat have no whatsoever. i'm included. i'm 25 years old. i mail. i have an associates degree. i have been out of work since the december of

were benefiting from the minimum wage when whites were benefiting from social security when whites were benefiting from the f.h.a. loan no one complained once the civil rights victories were achieved and people of color gained access to the same public investments that whites along had that had built a white middle class suddenly those public investments became tainted suddenly reagan was able to use terms like welfare queen and was able to leverage this southern strategy. to turn many americans against the very government that had built that prosperity before and so race is one of the factors that. played into this historical trend what happened once reagan came in and once we started demonizing the government programs that are the foundation for economic prosperity and what we argue in united for a fair economy is that we need to come to terms with the way race was used in the past we need to move forward with an anti-racist agenda if we're going to build the kind of broad based movement for economic justice in this country that we so desperately need apropos of that hillary the presi

is white. of that population, 41% are progressives. that means the rest of the white population in the country is 26% of the entire united states. 26% and add that to the point i percent of the people of color which gives you the 55% which is the new majority in america. this demographic and mathematical theorem has been tested and proven twice at the national level with the election and reelection of president obama. what does this mean for u.s. politics going forward? ae census data is given geographic map that shows the future of u.s. politics is in the south and the southwest. the new battleground states are the old states in the southwest. in the land that used to be called mexico which we now call taxes in arizona and colorado. two last numbers. and 24. 19% of voters of colors is the threshold to whether a coalition of people in color -- of color can win an election. states withstood the wave and reelected democrats in the senate. all three of those democrats who won those elections lost

i want to move to the second term in the white house. i want to move to the second term in the white house. again there were so many issues. in brief, some of them included the arms treaty., the explosion of the challenger, and the iran contra affair. and there was the iran iraq war. did she become a positive political force in the white house and the second term? >> she came out of it and really was a very careful in her dealings with the press. she has a presence about her -- poise. she was able to communicate in a way that was helpful to the white house. the second term was very different than the first term. they both learned a lot by then. we know president's second terms can be rough. the problems came and you've listed several of them. hi, lucy from wisconsin. >> the question goes back to the jackie kennedy, nancy reagan episode with both of them having the same interest in changing the white house. i sense such a double standard with the press. i have no problem with the press reporting. i have a problem with the president shakin

i think i mourned it before i left the white house. i know i used to walk around the house i think, there is my mental health legislation. i think i realize how important it is for the president to have a second term, although jimmy carter would not have changed anyway. he would not have changed anything. >> in your book "first lady from plains," you close by saying, i would be out on the campaign trail today if jimmy carter would run again. >> all the time after he lost the election i thought there is no way he is going to run again. i would have been there. >> you have a grandson who just announced for governor of georgia. >> i am thrilled. i will do whatever he asked me to do. he's a great young man. he graduated from duke university and went to the peace corps, came home and went to law school. he is in a law firm now and has two terms as a state senator. >> rosalynn carter, you have had 33 years post-presidency, the longest in history now. and you and president carter have been very active. what do you think your legacy as first l

she was in the white house?>> i do not remember. >> do remember when she was around for the inauguration? 1921 was actually herbert bate. -- her birth date. this helps us with the transition from the ge years, to politics, and ultimately, to the governorship of california. did nancy personally like politics, or did she learn to like it is she loved ronnie? >> she did not love politics, and she was not built for politics. it was on the job training, and it wasn't always easy. , andidn't like the town the town reciprocated. she was asked to move into the governor's mansion, which was a victorian structure downtown, if i remember. i went to high school and junior high school delvin. -- down there. it was the second floor bedroom, and the screen was rusted shut. how does he get out in case of fire? he was supposed to run, pop up the screen, and climbed on a rope ladder. nancy decided they were going to live there, and they moved to east sacramento. i have an answer to jordan's question. in 1987, shoes to was alive f

i have heard that 33 white house is., what has really changed is the nature of the media itself. i started in 1996, i wrote a story, maybe too at the end of the day. that was it. in of course we pile weather stories, blocks, tweets, do a lot more tv and radio, bought gas and so on. ever moving, ever shifting media environment. sped up and makes it harder, i think, to do longer and more thoughtful journalism. * a try very hard to preserve despite the exhilaration. ♪ and now at politico. a longtime editor. >> exactly. political magazine launched last week. it's worth looking at. >> the cover story was a big piece. >> it was call rocking the cabinet. terrific piece. >> important are not important. >> how essentially the white house focuses power in this particular administration and is also reflected the previous ones. , think it is. every white house wants to stay in control and cabinets increase in net like that as equal matters of policy but not necessarily essential to the administration. >> how would you compare it? >>

>> we are waiting the start of the white house briefing. expect new reaction to the bombshell of a book from former defense secretary robert gates. >>> kristep powers and blake blackman. >> hello to you. christen, what do you expect him to say? is it a defense or, this is a cabinet member who worked close with each other? >> yeah, they put out a statement saying they disagree with the assessment which is what you expect. i would assume it will be respectful but they will claim that a lot of the stuff is not accurate. i can't imagine the president or hillary clinton are going to admit to that conversation that bill gates said he witnessed where they were talking about how they voted against the surge for a political reason. so it will be interesting to see how that is finessed. >> there are a lot of the revelations in the book. but one of them. hillary clinton made a political calculation not based on what was best for the united states or people in iraq, but best for her campaign and that's why she decided to oppose the surge. if you believ

it's one many which the white house -- in which the white house went to the speaker of the house warning about the release of information and asking that information not be seen, not be heard and not be delivered to this committee. it's one in which the secretary said she wanted to meet again to me. i flew back, and she refused to meet with me even though she was in town. i'm deeply disappointed that we're here today still dealing with the inability to deal with what happened prior to october 3st, what's -- october 1st, what's happened since october 1st and i think most importantly, a committee that on a bipartisan basis supports real reforms, real reforms that in many cases would have eliminated or mitigated some of the mistakes made and would have allowed the president's signature legislation to not be be marred by a web site that failed to perform at its launch and is still questionable in its security. lastly, i certainly want to make sure that we all understand the american people know that companies have been hacked, that credit card information has been taken. it's been widely pub

>> at the white house. you had lunch at the white house at this time last year, though, because my team and i were in rome doing roman things. >> that's true. >> i was kind of hoping you were going to be in rome again this year. that's not the way it worked out. i went to the corner bakery. it was fine. >> i was kind of hoping that -- >> in the president's state of the union speech, it's interesting, he's not going to be talking about income ine wu l inequality so much. they've done polling. when you talk about inequality, it sounds like you're talking about class warfare -- >> redistribution. >> -- and pitting rich against poor. he's going to talk about opportunity which is basically the same thing but puts it in context -- >> sounds better. >> we're going to build ladders of opportunity for people who are not doing so well to get into the middle class and lead more secure lives. it's not going to be a robust legislative agenda. he offered, proposed a lot of things to congress last year and didn't get almo

would you remember about your first day in the white house and your last day in the white house?alking in and receiving -- i family. we had huge i remember the twins. they are not going to like this. they went with the babysitter down to the bowling alley. we were getting ready to go to the balls, and we have the whole family gathered for a large buff a meal. buffet meal. i said, we do not order food that way. surrounded andg sending everybody off to the balls and how pretty they look and what a time they were having. >> what about your last day? >> they did not want to be around for that. moving.ery saying goodbye to the white house staff was difficult. it was hard. , but life goes on. the plane with all of our friends and family and flew back home. the welcome here was unbelievable. we passed a pickup truck on the highway where they were two people standing in the back. they have been great to us ever since. in this house 20 years now, in houston. a house that he was going to tear down and build the house next door at the next property. and we moved in their. garden.home to it

that's what the obama white house wants. but they need to get busy to take advantage. from health care reform to middle east peace to midterm election, they have their hands full. i'll go around the table to take domestically, what's the first thing president obama needs to do? >> he might want to start by kicking it off with the state of the union but i think march is going to be on his why. why? the management of the affordable care act. we have the dealt ceiling crisis that could emerge again and also the white house is watching those early primaries trying to figure out whether the tea party or the republican riffs might settle enough that immigration reform might seem possible. john: john kerry has been busy foreign front what does he have to achieve? >> a whole lot of middle east. john kerry is in the middle east trying to push on that and in the second half of january, there is supposed to be a peace conference near geneva on syria. there's an irony there because this is an administration that said it wanted to do less middle east and more asia. so far that's no

and he was doing that to twit white america, and white america didn't like it.ly just not be super selves but just ourselves. >> the notion of taking the thing you're afraid of, and the stereotype you have generated and me performing -- look, i keep angry black woman in my pocket. i'm not actually mad oh, 99% of the time. but i recognize angry black woman can be a powerful stereotype to be deployed when i feel like i'm in a circumstance that requires it, i can go get that performance out. and when i do it, i know it will be received as youauthentic, ev if i'm not that angry. but it's foisted upon me, and i can use it for navigating a world that's racist and sexist. >> but there's another side of this, and as a black man, you're keenly aware, and one of the most important lessons i got from my sophomore year high school math teacher who explained to me, i got up really quick and knocked over a chair, and he explained to me, a white teacher in a new york city public school, you have to be careful how you present yourself, because white people are afraid of you. it

her husband coming into the white house and herself coming into the white house.t was a very ceremonious occasion for her. occasion, nots only her entry into the white itse but really then added as a mark for first ladies of the united states when she became the first first lady to donate her down to dismiss sony and. she happened to be the first lady when the founders of the first ladies collection were putting the collection together. they met helen taft at a lunch commemorating dolly madison. they asked her if she would be interested in the exhibit they were putting together on first ladies. they were trying to acquire something from every first lady, every presidential administration. this is taft -- mrs. taft offered to lend and then donate her down. she is one of the patrons of the first ladies collection and established the tradition first ladies would donate their inaugural down to the collection. every first lady after helen have to had an inaugural down has donated it to the smithsonian institution. >> she love to travel. when taft got a chance to be cha

commissioner white. commissioner white is elected on a vote of 5 to zero. congratulations to both commissioners >> mr. president, that is the director's report. >> well, first, i want to say congratulations to commissioner president adams for your third 0 item term as the president and commissioner white for your second term. looking forward to 2014 with you. and so i'll get into my report and i'm going to be somewhat brief. a week before last the mayor is r had a state of the city and most of it was around affordability and the business items i want to highlight he brought out was his commitment to continue the 88 program that has been developed with the neighborhood. and continue on small business leading up and support for the business portal. those are 3 important things for the commission. and the mayor has - will be continuing his commitment on that. i want to make the announcement so on december 9th the commission approved a resolution to have the apply for the s b d c rfp and last friday open the 24th we received the official announcement that this

is it surprising that it is insular white house? not so much.t does reinforce what has been reported out of this white house. >> that is the bad news. his case is pretty week that biden has been wrong and everything. he has been right on a lot of things. >> yeah. one of the lasting damages is it does reinforce the insularity of bringing in rivals from the outside now. there are trust issues that will be higher up in consideration. >> when they bring in outsiders, they will not bring in any more republicans to be defense secretaries. julianna goldman and rich miller, thank you. when we return, phil mattingly on chris christie's apology. and his 2016 chances and more bob gates's book. ♪ >> welcome back. phil mattingly is here to talk about chris christie and the george washington bridge in the national limelight. we can agree this was a terrible thing that happened and governor christie's news conference was a tour de force. we don't really know what happened or what else there is. >> the investigation this is opened up. does anyone expect federal

that is what we mean by brown is the new white. state the obvious, for the past 400 years or so, united states has been a majority white country. it is worth noting that many native americans and mexicans prior to the arrival of the .uropeans for the purposes of understanding contemporary american politics, the majority of the country's voters have been white. addressing the needs and interests of whites has been the essential organizing principle of u.s. politics for a long time. when people talk about winning over swing voters were not alienating moderates, the picture they have in their head is the suburban whites, often women, frequently in ohio. 1960's, it was nixon's silent majority. in the 1980s, reagan democrats for it in the 1990s soccer moms and in the early 2000, exurban voters. he's constituencies have been seen as pivotal and the focus of politicians and their consultants. similarly, public holiday has been hypersensitive. the polling and impressions of what might alienate moderate white voters. recently, we have seen

and broadcast in black and white. i like to surmise that she chose red knowing that it would be televised on valentine's day, 1962. ands go into the museum look at other examples of jaclyn kennedy's clothing we have on display. an awful lot of thought into her wardrobe when she was representing the country, both at the white house and while traveling abroad. she would think about what colors would mean something to the country i'm about to visit. for her visit to canada in 1961, the first state visit the kennedys made, she shows -- she chose this red suit as a gesture of respect for the red of the canadian maple leaf, and knowing that she would be greeted by the royal canadian mounted police who wear red. we display the green coat and hat worn by the first lady for her arrival in columbia in 1961. the president and first lady traveled throughout south america on that visit, were greeted by hundreds of thousands of people, an overwhelming response, particularly when mrs. kennedy would address the crowds in spanish. i r