in the white house, one before the white house, and one after the white house. todd was left who was like at family and who was a cold as a fish. ice cold. and he offered her no comfort or anything. tad had been the one she was so close to. typical thing that happens to widows, maybe the first two years. terrified and being of not having enough money. the man has managed everything. that.e never done and people -- they think people are taking advantage of them. understandable. but they would drag on because they couldn't leave anything. mixed one the white house staff in funny ways. -- and there was a green house attached to the white house. for the son in john nter and a lot of -- gardner got close to her and she was a cook. he got close to her and she would tell him too much and he access to the office and then took one of lincoln's speeches and gave it to another unscrupulous person that she associated with. >> quick question on this. a couple more when we finished. robert todd lincoln and abraham lincoln ii are buried here. the entire family is in springfiel

arked i never -- white house i never think of the worst white house. the kerry harrison found white house in terrible condition. the structure was bad and the walls were in bad shape. moved out,oosevelts the germans moved into a pretty beat up house. the furniture was taken by the roosevelt. it was their own possession. things were beat up. it had been 13 years. it was pretty run down. that is not why truman remodeled the house, though. no president has time to do the house over. they had a requirement for it. the security was the basis of this with german. not the fact that it was shabby. the secret service said that it was too dangerous. the house was a house of would, primarily. one firebomb could ignite it. truman was presented a report that was done a week or two after pearl harbor. it was the safety of the president. when it was finished, truman finished remodeling it in 1952, it was the safest place in the world. it was concrete blocks and steel. every room was and caged in steel. steel.ged in bombs could go off and they thought that nothing cou

the octagon is two blocks from the white house. as a natural fit for james and dolley madison as they tried to resume government as quickly as possible. the majestic, elegant, spacious house was the perfect setting for the events that dolley needed to orchestrate and manage in the life of the president. this is the entry foyer. this is why the house is known as the octagon. it was a round room very popular in those days. this was an important room to welcome guests. as you can see, it is a round room. when you are in this room, no matter where you stand, you are equal. this was very important for dolley to make everybody feel welcome, be they enemiesor allies. the room is a good example of why this house was so good for dolley. she was known for her wednesday drawing room event. they had 200 to 300 people before the war coming, and during the war, up to 500 people were coming. this room, of course, could only fit about 50 to 100 people, but it still served that very important purpose for dolley. the nation was still at war when the

host: did dent live in the white house at some time? how was that received? guest: colonel kent was a jolly old man. he was very heavy, white-headed, and funny. he was very witty. that is probably where she got it. grant's father jesse would come in, who was a horse trader and entrepreneur, and he would go around the departments to try to make them buy horses and hides or whatever from him. the two of them would -- their rapport was unbelievable. the colonel called jesse grant "that old gentleman over there." they teased each other a lot. it was good-natured. it would've been stopped if it had not been. host: very different views about the world. guest: the old colonel was very lovable. jesse grant was never around enough. he was always wheeling and dealing. host: on facebook -- guest: i think that is quite fair, a good remark. she brought a real order and organization. she had to manage the money, the people, the servants, and all the payrolls, and she very much interacted with them. there was one named henry harris who had a lot of children. she suggested th

the center part is the old white house building that was finished in the 18th century and the white house a bank. that's 17 feet from -- on one side it's one story -- two-story house. it's a three-story house on the walkout on the back. about 17 feet, i guess. and so what you see here was a quadrangle with the green houses that they had had, which were really specimen conservetories up. see that's dropped. so the windows would still have the beautiful view of the potomac. it would not have been anence closed area -- an enclosed area. on the right side was to be, as i recall, the national gallery or the national museum. it was not washington one. and then there were other public rooms on the other side. the second floor then had guest room, family quarters and such as that to make it a much more livable house, as well as the office. >> looks a bit like some of the grand houses of europe. this is going to brand the other traditionalists, but are you happy she wasn't successful? >> yes, i am. from our point of view. it was basically theodore roosevelt who insisted it be restored. >> edie, wh

i have here at lenore's earnings in the white house years. this is based on study of income tax returns available in the hyde park library and it showed from the years 1937 to 1939 she averaged annual earnings of $62,000, a lot of money in those days, 68,000 before expenses. and they never wrote about eleanor. and enhance yourself. they covered up that kind of thing because they did feel somewhat grateful to her for allowing them to come to the white house every week. it was made craig, the one wy c first asked men be allowed in the pushed for the civil-rights activist for end to sex discrimination and forced news organizations to hire women on an equitable basis. in 1964, 81-year-old howard w. smith, a conservative virginia congressman, major civil rights legislation, and the pending act, jolo discrimination on the basis of race, by including sex, he held to review the proposed legislation to debt. capitol hill insiders, tagged the measure. and pushed for years, adjacent to the capitol press galleries for the women reporters accredited to th

the white house wasn't going to deny it.or did they think that it would be wise in terms of public relations to deny the portrait of their most immediate predecessor, the wife of their most immediate predecessor. the controversy as you know -- a percentage of money they were raising was being spent for the women's christian temperance union, other projects, so it had a slight taint of scandal. host: kathy robinson wants to know on twitter -- guest: there was very little time for lucretia garfield to actually become popular in the sense of functioning as a first lady the way we think it. the inauguration was march 4. by the end of april, she has contracted malaria. by may, there is even a fear she might die in the white house. president garfield, just president for three months, writes of how he was unable to work with fear that this was going to be, that something would happen to his wife. it is only after he is shot in july that the press really begins to focus on lucretia garfield and she becomes, not just a national, but

he opened the white house up.hey began to try to engage in a public conversation and tackle the issues that tarnished the republican party. the corruption of the grant administration when he said there would be civil-service reform. when he really pledges to pull the remaining troops out of the south. assuming that the governors, the government in new orleans and columbia will honor their commitment. he is trying to extend an olive branch to people, saying, i hear you. and i'm only going to serve one term so let's figure out how to make the most of this together. >> how did lucy help in this effort? >> she understood how politics work and how to entertain. she understood how to facilitate conversation between people that were difficult. she understood how to really bring people at the table in a way that would advance her husband. she was charming and everybody loved her, despite the no alcohol. she was able to do things in a way that made him seem approachable and ethical and blunt. >> she was the first first lad

esther was born in the white house. ey went to a rental house that they had been renovating in the cleveland park section. all of a sudden, there was an announcement in the paper that they changed their plans. mrs. cleveland wanted to take her baby to their place in massachusetts. so ruth could enjoy the wind and breeze. frances goes on a yacht with her friends. the yacht comes back and grover cleveland gets on it. in the meantime, to dispel some rumors, they said that he was on a diet program. they said he was on the 1890s version of weight watchers. they perform the surgery on the yacht. he is gone for a month on the yacht. the press starts to say, what is going on, mr. president? frances says, he's just having a good time fishing. he needs the rest. he needs this time away. finally, he arrives. he has to go back for a final the press is looking. a reporter finally breaks the story. the administration, unfortunately, decided to discredit him. and wrote to joseph jefferson said, he had a peach, when you think a child wo

house, ainto the white 47-year-old lady. she hated politics. she was obviously deeply depressed at the death of her last surviving son. especially under the circumstances in which she died. the whitence within house at the time, she didn't come to the white house after the inauguration. when she came, she immediately -- such was her influence with her husband that he agreed to it. that.epted the morning lasted for over two years. as far as influence was tocerned, she did manage influence the powers that be. yes, she influenced that. as far as any other incidents, i find it negative. they made the white house a morbid place. >> the country was deeply divided. >> how did this woman who hated politics with a strong father who was the president of boating college, she was deeply fundamentalist or self, how did she get matched up with a politician? >> i do not really know. my research tell me that they'd did think that about each other they were opposite completely and utterly. . when she was 17 years old, she and she her education, came home confide

it is considered some of the most beautiful of the white house china. it features the presidential seal embossed along the side, the dinners that is white embossed with gold. they had a tea set that was blue and a dessert set in green. she did not allow alcohol in the white house, her presbyterian upbringing precluded that. that is not exactly the case. she stopped the serving of whiskey punches, but mine was one of their largest goals during their years there. the more interesting objects in the collection, speaks to sarah and her ability with music am a e have a music book that has handwritten notations. one of the songs featured inside is the song hail to the chief, which she is credited with starting as the official presidential anthem during her ime as first lady. >> a moment to ask about that. there is a little controversy between our last program with the tylers, who are also claiming that they introduced "hail to the chief." is there a definitive answer on that jacko >> i won't touch t. [laughter] >> it came about in the 1840's it is possible tha

i've never laughed as much as when i worked in the nixon white house.se of humor was the leveling factor. things, messes we would find ourselves in or whatever it might be. >> i think a lot of younger staff people here find that he can far excel than in terms of energy and stamina. >> i took a camera on all my trips, a super 8 and i have quite a collection of film. >> john ehrlichman, a lawyer that went on the campaign tour will have an advisory role. >> i think this first year we'll see as basically the time of reform. >> ehrlichman is chief of affairs and under study. >> i was not a nixon person going in, probably if some college friend invited me to go advance for john kennedy, i might have gone. there were very few illusions about richard nixon, i think, the senior staff as we got into things, a good deal of kind of dry humor about his mannerisms and prejudices but nevertheless, you work for the president of the united states. he's the only president around. you-all elected him. we all worked for him and it's up to us to make it work. >> it was a ve

presidents. >> former white house chief of staff h.r. haldeman found guilty today on five counts in the watergate trial. >> do you regret what happened and what you did? >> oh, sure. the country lost motion, a lot of the good things we were working on in the way of domestic reforms were lost in the mess. you can't help but regret aftermath of that. a lot of good people had their lives spoiled in the process. >> john ehrlichman has finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase. the holding room gives you an idea they are holding a chemical or bacteria or something. >> former white house domestic affairs adviser, john ehrlichman, four counts, guilty. >> the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of its democracy, i mean, i just don't see it that way. >> chapin was linked to the watergate case, alleged sabotage of the dnc democratic campaign. >> i don't think you can take that little priest of history, which may have been the darke

the white house condemned it and the white house is warning of grave risks. forhis is a pivotal moment all egyptians. the path towards violence only leads to economic disaster instability and suffering. the only sustainable path for one towards a political solution. >> a political solution in egypt is difficult to see. the security forces went in hard because the army chief wants little or no space left for the muslim brotherhood after bringing down its leader, the elected president, who tried to clip the general's wings. the muslim brotherhood said that there victory was stolen when mohamed morsi was deposed but many egyptians think that mr. morsi's performance lost him support. his move towards islamic rule moved people to protest against him as they did against the mubarak regime. does the scale of today's bloodshed risk tipping egypt toward something far worse, even civil war? one powerful leader in the region, turkey's president, points to that danger, pointing to syria. i fear that if egypt continues on this path that it will descend into chaos from whi

he went to college with several men in the white house.em is the watergate claim deal -- >> yeah. how are you going to handle that? >> i'm of mixed minds but i thought one approach would be to attack the post for picking on a fine, clean, outstanding patriotic young man that came to washington -- >> hearsay. >> and done his part. >> why don't you use the word mccarthy -- >> i had that in mind. >> use that line. >> all right. being absolutely mum about the dirtiest campaign against a president in history. there is never been an editorial or reaction at all and it's shocking all the news. >> right. ed. >> good luck. >> all right. >>> i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear. >> i do richard nixon do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> and i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. >> and i will to the best of my ability. >> and i will to the best of my ability. >> preserve and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve and defend the con

now heading backing to chief white house correspondent ed henry at the white house. chris wallace mentioned that the president is traveling next week. as of tuesday. so should some limited action happen, one would think it would be limited enough before he leaves the country? >> that's right. either that or if he comes out now in a few moments and says we immediate more time, we are going to wait for the arab league, we are going to this carefully, part of what he is doing in russia the g-20 summit. with key allies like david cameron of britain. he could also end up huddling with them at that summit and come back next week and do something. obviously that would be an awful lot of time, would have given assad a lot of time to move his assets, critics would be piling on the president. that's one option he has. you may hear noise behind me. a sizable protest outside of the northwest gates here. syrian flags and the large majority of people who are protesting are saying obama, hands off syria. this is a nobel peace prize winner. he's thinking about the history books. yes

historic telephone call ever made from the white house.nquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth. for one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. one in their pride in what you have done. >> armstrong is on the moon. 38-year-old american standing on the surface of the moon on this july 20th 1969. >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ould get bob. then it would get larry higby, bob's aide, and then it would swing by my house and then into it is white house. i am responsible for the scheduling and also for the president's daily activities. our thing was a machine, and i knew my place. it really reflected a lot about richard nixon. the degree to which he wanted things controlled. >> literally from 6:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night every day of the week. and saturdays and sundays too. and that pace was unremitting. totally consuming for somebody like me. >> i was very tough on people feeling that i had to be. there's so

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i will say that. >> you are both right. >> abuse of power brings us to the white house. i have to say there is no more confusion. have not seen this surrounding foreign policy issue as the obama lighthouse focusing on egypt to be as well as said earlier this whitehouse was for mubarak before it was against them for morsi before they were against him and for the secular military what kind of mindless nonsense is this on the part of the white house? >> we haven't got one choice to throw our luck with the military that you suggested gives us the best use to salvage our interest in the middle east and throughout the region but bottom line this administration is incoherent. lou: i detect there is a comfort zone that it could not end with al qaeda and radical islamist and never look back. are they so absolutely diluted? >> i agree. i have been talking about this over the last several years this administration has actively supported the rise of the islamist from egypt to libya to tunisia even syria in even are being a these troubles that are part of the muslim brotherhood. >> b

jim acosta is over at the white house. he's our chief, our senior white house correspondent. it's been a busy morning. the president's been meeting with his top national security adviser, jim, but doesn't it look like this is what we anticipate as an address to the nation that military action has already started. this is still in advance of that, is that right? >> that's right. i did receive word that this will not be about commenced military operations nor is this about imminent military operations. this is going to be about the way forward for this president and a lot of this is vague and it's going to raise a lot of questions until the president comes out and you mentioned it is not an address to the nation, but with so many focused on what the president is saying and doing right now, i think it stands to reason that much of the world will be watching what the president does within the next hour. you mentioned some of the meetings going on over here at the white house. vice president joe biden is here at the white house. chuck hagel, the chairman of the joint chief, martin

then you look at how he furnished the white house. it is very different. very much understood the importance of symbolism. it was to present the united states in a fashion that, majesty is the best word. you do it in the president's house. >> not only majestic. the monroes actually befriended [indiscernible] when they lived in paris. the president originally ordered 50 pieces of mahogany furniture. he was told by the french that mahogany was not appropriate. this is what he got in its place. >> here is a tweet. "did the monroes face any lingering problems in the white house due to the burning?" what state of repair was it in when they got there? >> it was not ready in march of 1870 when monroe became president. they lived in another house for several months. on june, monroe left washington and went on a four-month tour and his family went back to virginia. he returned to the president's house and at that point, it was ready for occupancy. they began moving furniture in. the furniture they ordered was not ready. he used his own personal furniture. they borr

press corps today that a decision on aid to egypt has been set aside to contrast e white house position at two years ago when mubarak was in power president obama himself for in the end to cut off a billion and a half dollars of aid if his government did not meet the obama administration demands. the egyptian officials today's the order that it mubarak be released from jail after he has been in prison for just over two years for our prosecutor cleared him of a corruption charge, the former president's release stoking fears the muslim brotherhood will break up the already ashley violence. the brotherhood forces have been clashing with the military targeting polic officers torching dozens of churches prompting a contradictory response from the white house. >> mubarak is part of the ongoing egyptian legal process and was charged with crimes and is in the midst of the legal process. because that is internal to egypt i cannot comment but in the case of mr. morsi what we see it is clear there politically you motivated detention not in line with the human rights standards we expect of

the red hot -- white house living quarters. she furnished things with their pieces. that sort of thing. i think franklin definitely realized that these press conferences help him reach women who were voters. he also had absolutely no objection to eleanor writing her my a column, the ones offered to write it for her. she refused. it was her thing. he talked of the column by telling the man. there were few women. sieges rates a diary. and it was what we today would consider a blog. but think how it humanize the presidency. franklin, as hard as he was, realize that. let me read you this quote from the first column, dec. 301st 1935. right about yourself and the white house. the house was full of young people. my husband had a cd andas bed having to post for his supper. i said a politeig to everybody. at 730 and closed my door, let my fire, and settled d a nice long evening by myself. well, doesn't that give you a nice picture of life in the white house? certainly does not tell you about the opposing political factions in the white

>> they put this law in place, we won't have lobbyists in the white house. hey kept making exceptions. they have a number of people who they have waived that rule for. but ultimately i think what's happened is more op the other end. you said people leaving the house to go to k street. you had people leaving the white house going right to goldman sachs, bp. in the first term they're now being staffed by the highest level by people who were staffing the obama administration. >> obama's -- >> omb director. >> citi. >> high level at citi. jake seaworth, secretary of treasury, they were doing all kinds of battles with goldman sachs during the first term, especially after the financial crisis. jake is now the head of communications for goldman sachs. >> so many have a connection of other figures prominent here. robert ruben. >> robert ruben has been a symbiosis between washington and wall street. bob ruben, the storied head of goldman sachs for many years, coming to take the reins of treasury, he was a real guru, and brought a lot of proteges, larry summers being o

you are a former white house intern.ponsibilities and how did you and other interns pay for things? >> reporter: yeah. i worked in the white house as an intern in the department of cabinet affairs in the summer of 2010. and i have to say it was the most interesting jop i've ever had. my present job excluded mostly because i got to see the white house. it cost me several thousands of dollars just to live and work there. many employer -- many former interns have to rely on their families for support and many rack up a serious amount of debt just to be a white house intern. so it's a tough spot. >> emily fox, thank you so much. >>> next, a cabinet level meeting on the future of u.s. aid to egypt. but the white house says the reports about it are wrong. >>> and the governor of maine denies making a stinging remark about president obama. so what did he actually say? [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ m

for these guys in assisted of going to the white house -- instead of going to the white house to participate in shaking the president a ease happened just go to the watergate hotel and put a little tape on the door and recreate history jie. what position did you play? >> d tackle. >> what he said. >> i am guessing you played nickleback like you do on your i-pod. that was a good joke. >> that was a good joke. >> i am proud of that joke. >> imogen, not many people get to meet the president. should you go if you are invited out of respect for the office if not for the man? >> it is america, but this is a problem -- i love the constitution and i love when people ask me why does royalty exist in britain? the queen is above politics. she has a 90% approval rating and she is there as a symbol of national unity and pride, the head of $2 -- of 2 billion people. it is sad when people can't separate the office of the presidency and the president who is the president 6789 it is the nature of the beast. >> i met the president a couple of times, and it is not that exciting. >> oh, mr. big shot. >> it is j

the white house called him.didn't call the white house. >> i want to get all the story. >> i don't know how many stories you're going to hear because they swore him to some kind of a see credit code. >> he will kill you. >> it's like prison. >> get the hell out of here. >> i didn't know you are a hero. ♪ >> everything you are, everything you have, is because of that butler. jenna: probably recognize a few of those faces. kelly: a few. jenna: right? that's a new film based on uniquely american story coming out next week giving as you fascinating look at the white house through a remarkable time in our nation's history. this story is based on the real life of eugene allen. he's a butler who served eight presidents as they came, led and lived their lives at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. from harry truman to ronald reagan, allen played an incredible role behind the scenes. this is based on a new book by author, will hagood he wrote "the butler," witness to history. a staff writer for "washington post." we're lucky to ha

putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events. d gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. all as a public service of private industry. created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. >> unmanned aerial vehicles. and in encore presentation of first ladies with a look at first lady eliza johnson. the american civil liberties union discusses the use of domestic drones. the association for unmanned vehicle systems international had a convention in washington dc this week. are on washington journal for about an hour. >> he also serves as ceo, thank you for joining us. >> i am glad to be here. >> people call them unmanned aerial vehicles, but a lot of people call them drones. talk about language and why express it one way over the other? unmannedre called aircraft systems and that is a term that congress and the faa uses as their official terminology. they are also called remotely piloted aircraft systems. the key word is systems. that is what most people have when

the white house.i want to play a piece of sound here for you from congressman elliott engle from the foreign relations committee and talk about it on the other side. this is what the congressman said just a few hours ago here on msnbc. take a listen. >> i think it's important for the president to do something because i think to do nothing would show every despot around the world that you can gas your own people, you can gas innocent civilians, you can gas children and get away with it. >> you've got congressman engle of course representing that school of thought. the white house no doubt hearing from scores of other lawmakers there on capitol hill who are saying whoa, whoa, mr. president. we would like to at least be consulted on this before any sort of military action. the president, as he frequently finds himself, stuck in a really hard spot here. what can you tell us about what's happening behind the scenes in terms of conversations with lawmakers? >> reporter: well, craig, the white house right no

something the white house said today it is willing to do. u.n. inspectors were still collecting evidence today of last week's attack and now plan to leave syria saturday. their mandate is only whether a chemical attack took place, not who did it. the british jets landed in cypress, poised to take part in a military strike. the british government said an intervention would be legal on humanitarian grounds. but the jets are grounded for now. that's because the public is deeply opposed. and today the prime minister's own party rebelled against using force. looming over today's debate, the iraq intelligence failures a decade ago. >> the well of public opinion was well and truly poisoned by the iraq episode, and we need to understand the public's skepticism. >> we must consider, given where we've been before in this house, that the intelligence might just be wrong, because it was before. >> today the british government's intelligence assessment said it is highly likely the regime was responsible for the chemical attacks. but no smoking gun. and tonigh

. >> i think i changed during the time i was at the white house. i'm not sure whether it was for the better. it probably was not at the time that i was there. when you first go in, at least when i first went in there, i asked a lot of hard questions. why are we doing it this way? what is the justification for this program? why are we spending this money? why does this fellow work here? those kinds of things. after a couple of years, i felt like i was defending the status quo rather than challenging it and trying to get it changed and repaired and made better. and that does not satisfy me. i had a very clear sense that i was becoming part of the problem after a while rather than the solution. and i remember one day thinking i had just moved a pile of firewood from over there to here and i was going to have to move it from over here back to there and thinking to myself how strange it was coming to this historic place and dealing with these great issues, seeing the president of the united states two or three times a day, and feeling like i was just in

the white house press is a joke. on friday, jessica yellen who is the senior white house core responsibility, that sources are telling her, correspondent that white house is going to react to more transparency when it comes to the nsa issues. that is a white house person telling her. they are taking what the white house says and retelling it. >> kelly: let me read something quickly. an op-ed from the "wall street journal." disconnect lies in our failure to appreciate that while al-qaeda central has been badly weakened by counter-terrorism efforts, the group was never close to be extinct wished. >> that is correct. the president got away on jay leno, quote, we don't have a domestic spying program. media sat there and took that, too. but tom bloomer at news busters caught an example, on the tonight show he was talking about the geography of ports and charleston and savannah are on the atlantic ocean. and ap words to come him on that. president says media didn't jump on that either. >> kelly: we have to go on to somethi

sherwood forest and learn what the tylers' life was like after the white house. n tyler was born at greenway and he purchased this house at the end of his presidential term. he came down here once before he retired from the presidency. yuliya gardner, married. she said the hand of god and nature have been kind to my forest, but i can improve upon it. she did. she had it around the ceilings, he moldings imported from italy. she had the mantlepieces brought in from italy. -- knocker on the front door you have to look hard to see it. it has sherwood forest on it. it's been meticulously polished through the years and that was ne of the contributions to the house. julia and her mother are very, close. exceedingly fortunate to have many letters between julia and her mother. room is one room wide because you want the breezes to go from the north to the south and from the south to the north. so they would sit in the hall quite frequently. the open doorway opened to the president. she would sit there and the president would read the and throw oint the floor. in the gray ro

that source is a white house person telling her that they are just taking what the white house says and just regurgitating it. >> i see you weighing in on this. you want to weigh in. let me read something quickly. it is an op-ed from "the wall street journal." it says the disconnect lies in the failure to appreciate while al qaeda central has been badly weakened by u.s. counter terrorism efforts the group was never close to being extinguish and adapted. anyone else in the media see at this time same way. >> i think that's correct. just not what we were told last year. look, i mean, the president got away on jay leno saying we don't have a domestic spying program and media took that, too. nsa does not exist. tom bloomer at news busters caught a great example of where the media covered for president on "the tonight show" talking about the geography of ports and talked about the gulf coast ports. charleston, savannah, jacksonville. atlantic ocean. and the media -- ap -- words to cover him on that. remin reminds me. >> some big news for a big newspaper. stay tuned. we have a lot more. >> th

did the mckinley white house do that?> apart from her illness, because she had gotten the -- before she knew -- she was not interested in housekeeping. she was not interested in menus or entertaining. they had live in the hotel suites in washington and in columbus. she was interested in him. and, again, that -- that's a good question, but it's -- from the idea this whole idea that she was always this kind of inova -- invalid. mckinley took control and planned a lot of the dinners. she had weekly receptions. she did a lot of the traditional stuff. but not particularly interested in making those decisions. >> presidents are still being sworn in in march at this time in the country's history. so just six months later in september when they went to the exposition. we have more footage about the exposition. it. >>s a new america century. is america beginning to change the place in the world? >>> absolutely. the pan american exposition was america's coming out party. america owned now much of the western hemisphere. cuba, puert

the white house predictably today after repeated questions on red lines from the white house press corps, confirmed they are relying on a united nations investigative team to provide answers before they act on those red line threats. >> what we think is most important right now theree happens to be a united nations chemical weapons investigative team on the ground in syria. they were just granted access to the country yesterday i believe. so given the reports that we've seen overnight about what may or may not have taken place in syria, we think it's important for that investigative team to be given access to that area. >> the president's spokesman today pressed hard by the white house press corp, reporters looking for explanations on claims of syrian chemical weapons use and seeking the president's reaction to the release of former egyptian president hosni mubarak. fox news, chief white house correspondent ed henry hathe report. >> reporter: aides to president obama were pressed today on whether he looks weak from egypt where the military has ignored u.s. calls to end the violence to sy

the white house said no thanks. went on to explain how our leaders are subject to persistent threats daily and need protection and also mentioned assassinations as proof that people do such harm. of course if you went by the press and president obama aren't schools under similar threats by mad men? even more with assault rifles? anyway, this proposal, stripping protection from the president is idiotic but as a symbolic expression it scores a 10 out of 10 on the cleverness scale. if our leaders need nongun freeh zone they are safer than gun-free zones who title means feel free to shoot me a lot. forcing children to play in gun-free zones means they matter less than politicians. so the petition exposes the elitist destructive hypocrisy of the gun-fearing liberal hack. they don't have to live by the principles they espouse but willing to let you die from them anyhow. how does it feel to be the fish in that barrel? >>> you can't -- you cannot deny the findings, andrea. john lot does a lot of work on this, mass shootings

she married the president in a white house ceremony, the only white house ceremony for a first lady.odice, filled in with a neck piece. this goes around it and creates a softening effect. it was a longsleeved dress. and this wonderful long train on the underside, trimmed in lace. even the underside of his clothes you don't see had this beautiful trimmed. and this sweeping train. the collection contains more than clothing. at their wedding, we have public and personal pieces. one of my favorite things in the entire collection, this cake box. each of the guests at the wedding were given a satin covered box, painted with the bride and groom initials, to hold a piece of wedding cake. before the wedding, grover and frances signed a card for every cake box. inside, wrapped in lace. there would have been a piece of cake. this particular cake box was given to the minister who performed the wedding. byron sunderland. the minister at the first presbyterian church in washington d.c. that testing to the public fascination of frances cleveland. this is a piece of sheet music, the cleveland's wedd

summer at the white house. when the "cbs evening news" continues. >> there's been another leak at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan. today the operators said 80,000 gallons of highly radioactive water escaped from the storage tank. on top of another massive leak discovered last month. all this bad news has devastated japan's fishing industry. seth doane now with more on that. >> there haul on this day was a good one, at least for fishermen in fukushima. octopus is one of the seafood items is deemed safe enough to eat in these waters. more than a year after the march 2011 earthquake in tsunami that destroyed the fukushima plant here, fishing was not allowed at all. it finally resumed in june of 2012. then in late july of this year, the plant was found to be pouring 75,000 gallons of radioactive water a day into the pacific. it seems like we took one step forward and as soon as things were getting brighter, the leakage put a damper on it, fisherman told us. before the earthquake there were -- today there are 1