gorbachev to the white house.following their stork meetings -- his stork meetings -- historic meetings, the nuclear arms talks with the soviets, this was after he was calling the ussr the evil empire. there was a great deal of apprehension and tension surrounding this meeting at the white house. even though it was designed around the dismantling of nuclear arms at 1:45 p.m. on december 8, 1987, the president and general secretary came together in a white house. there was a short ceremony that ended with the signing of the treaty. it was followed by statements broadcast to the world from the state dining room, calling for the government to work together and pledging new cooperation between two superpowers. a podium was placed in front of the fireplace where there was a famous portrait of abraham lincoln looming as the backdrop. for the first time in my years at the white house, we lighted a fire in the fireplace, it warmed the room. it was truly surreal. there were few people in the room and i was lucky enough to b

these were the white house butlers. the clintons were surprised. they had found a cat, and named it socks. he was not a house cat. the fence around the white house -- and this presented a problem. i am not a cat lover, but we obtained a large device that could be screwed into the ground and we attached a rope to it. the other end was attached to a shoulder harness and socks. for months the sort, but then -- this worked, but then i received a call from a police officer on the southbound -- south ground. he said that socks needed an assistant. i could see socks in a tree. evidently, he had chased a squirrel up the tree, and literally to the end of his rope and was hanging by his harness in midair and definitely in distress. [laughter] i had someone responded with a ladder. socks was saved. from that time forward, socks was kept a safe distance from squirrels and trees. president clinton was one of the great conversationalists of our time. when he talks to you, nothing else intervenes. not his schedule or other activities. you had his full attention. h

know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white houseed to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. >> president nixon created a what you'd have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you're supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you've got to go get your enemies, well, we've got to go get our enemies. >> nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. >> by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. >> who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? >> well, the

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 >> 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 lady to hav

he started working working at the white house in 1979 leaving his townhouse. he would have the house ready for public tours by 730 setting up when the tour's rover he would take it all down only to start again the next morning. her morning. her quick breakfast you would get a call from the executive housekeeper who would tell he and his colleagues when the family was out. his relationship with the first president bush extended far beyond cleaning up around the house. one of the handful of household staff who played horseshoes with the president several times a month. the pres. and his son would happily had out to the horseshoe pitch and play with he and his supervisor when they got off work. they all got so into the game that there were t-shirts made. we always made. we always beat him until the end. last year we were there they won the championship. barbara bush said she and the pres. were so upset when i left because they knew the clintons were not likely to continue the tradition. the pres.. the president asked little to join him in the family dining room. w

the center part is the old white house building that was finished in the 18th century and the white house is on a bank. 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. see that's dropped. so the windows would still have the beautiful view of the potomac. it would not have been 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. susan: 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. susan: edie, what's interesting about the story is this woman came into the white house not bein

white house. lucinda thank you. : these ladies were outstanding in their own way and a time when women really were not supposed to succeed on that level, and they did. the first question i would like to pose to the lady of the day mrs. harding, this is the harding symposium, that it is also important. abigail adams, if we can go back to her for just a she wrote to second. her husband when he was in philadelphia -- remember the ladies, we have all heard this. however, she was really angry with john because he didn't remember the ladies. he thought she was kidding when she said make sure that you make as part of the laws of this new nation because, you know, we don't have rights like to in education, really. you don't have rights to our own property. lady washington -- to give you an idea, lady washington did inherit money from an inheritance from her first husband, but lady washington really needed to get married because it had to be in the hands of a man because a woman couldn't. this was the way

one staffer told me what goes on in the white house stays in the white house. it was not easy to get them to open up and it took a while. it took two years impact. i voted a couple different parts of the book to give you a fan of three of my favorite stories essentially. the story is about lindsay little who was a houseman at the white house and a houseman is someone who works on the housekeeping staff of those heavy furniture and vacuums and like a lot of the staffers he worked there for decades which is incredible. he started there in the 60s. actually started in the 70s. born in robbinsville, north carolina come a time to fewer than 1000 people in the house and went a little help take care of his six brothers and sisters and his father was a sharecropper but escape back to convert the peanut, cotton and tobacco farming and early 1950s. he started working in 1979 between his townhouse so close at 5:00 a.m. in order to make it to work at 6:00. seven networks only to start again the next morning after a quick reference to a call from christine lambert who attac

white house operations. and she said, of course, being mistress of the white house is a terrific responsibility. and i am truly grateful for my army wife training. she knew how to manage it large staff and she could be very demanding, but she kept a real friendly approach and treated everyone like family. mamie loved to entertain at the white house. the eisenhower's entertained a record number of heads of a. but even the president had to get her approval if you wanted to use any of the rooms of the mansion because she controlled the schedule. mamie posted the first white house performance of musical theater music, selections from hit shows that on broadway. that was one of her favorites. and then there was another side of mamie. when the president had a heart attack in 1955, she took charge. she took over the flow of work to the president. everything had to go through her to be reviewed. visitors meetings, she limited his schedule. based on medical advice. she strictly managed his diet. she played a similar

a lot of the white house staff thought that was really out of line. and they said, well, the blinds are open. and florence famously said, let them look in. it is their house. she had the marine corps band play concerts every saturday afternoon. and as a member of the public, you could just come on the grounds and spread a blanket and listen to them. she thought that that was her job. as first lady, coming out of that were experienced, coming out of the wilson years, that was her way of bringing back normalcy. florence working on the policies , bringing back at normalcy to the american people. and that meant bringing light back to the white house. she immediately has 60 vases of flowers filled every day. flowers is her communication device. there are no cell phones then. and she used the white house -- green houses -- and because of her love for flowers, she says, well that is going to bring color in the white house. that is the way for me to express my care for your. if she sent to a box of flowers and she did to just ordinary people -- sometimes peopl

what did she bring to the role in the white house? william: she brought an incredibly strong supporting role to the president. their -- their lives had been that way. she ultimately was very supportive of him. she'd argue, and all, but she was supportive to him. and they wanted to represent in the white house the ideal american family. and they weren't there but a few days when this huge portrait was brought in on an ox cart and hung in the red room. you know, the white house had been open to the public since jefferson's time. and they put this in the red room, this huge picture of the grant family so the public could see it on the tours -- see this was their home, this is where they lived. so, this whole symbolic home julia grant developed. susan: since you're working on a biography of her, tell us about her personality and what kind of woman she was. pamela: she was very outgoing warm. in some ways, they were opposites, and yet, they had similarities, as well. both had a fondness of riding horses and -- and reading. she was a very l

a lot of the white house staff thought that was really out of line. they said, well, the blinds are open. and florence famously said, let them look in. it is their house. she had the marine corps band play concerts every saturday afternoon. and as a member of the public, you could just come on the grounds and spread a blanket and listen to them. she thought that that was her job. as first lady, coming out of that were experienced, coming out of the wilson years, that was her way of bringing back normalcy. florence working on the policies , bringing back at normalcy to the american people. and that meant bringing light back to the white house. she immediately has 60 vases of flowers filled every day. flowers is her communication device. there are no cell phones then. and she used the white house -- green houses -- and because of her love for flowers, she says, well that is going to bring color in the white house. that is the way for me to express my care for your. if she sent to a box of flowers and she did to just ordinary people -- sometimes people, a

martha you're in the pressroom every day, the white house pressroom. you're not a reporter and you don'tquestions. >> that is correct. >> what are you doing? you were there all six years that i was there, you've been there a long time. what is it that you're doing? it's a fascinating project and i want you to tell people about it. >> well i study white house communications in addition to presidential transitions. and it came about a long time ago. in december of 1975 a co-author and i were going to write a book on the press secretary. so my job was to figure out how to get us in the white house, which i did, and get an interview with ron nessen. so we came in and that first day we talked to reporters, we listened to nessen talk to reporters some more. when we left we knewhere was a more interesting book and that was about white house communications. and so we ended up doing a book called pour"portraying the president." in it we tracked who was involved what kinds of actions were taken. the communications was really not just the press secretary, communi

along with his white house papers.e got so little publicity on this action. vs. florence harding, who burned only a small part of president harding's papers, and is still being vilified today. why the difference between the two? i am looking forward to your book on mckinley this spring. guest: thank you very much. president arthur, there are some indications that it was his son who may have had more of a hand in that. arthur himself did feel very intensely about protecting his privacy. we will be talking a little bit about the arthurs. the issue was in terms of the hardings, the air of suspicion coming on the heels of the various political scandals. the action that mrs. harding took suggested some kind of malfeasance and that was not the case. host: back to the story of lucretia garfield, we learned how often her husband was away leaving her with all of those children to raise on her own. she talks about the frustration of being the one who has to make the decisions. >> "my darling, i cannot conceive of any possible re

it as his little white house.t the moment we're in president truman's living room. his library. during the daytime it was his office. every evening it became a movie theater. he has a staff of 59 seven are playing poker so what do you do with the rest of them? they ran first run films here in the living room. now there's many neat things about the little white house and the living room is somewhat iconic in the number of pieces that are actually connected with president truman. ♪ his piano is in the corner. now rare l did the pi an jobs did the president have the piano here in key west. he had instead the piano came aboard the president's yacht uss williamsburg. on occasion it came into house to. that's how it was when the president was here as president. president truman was an extremely talented musician. at the age of 6 they found he had incredible musical talent and enrolled in music lessons for the next ten years. they expected him to become a concert pianist and around the age of 15 16 he drops out, saying h

she married the president in a white house ceremony, the only white house ceremony for a first lady.he bodice, 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. testament to the public fascination of frances cleveland. this is a piece of sheet music the cleveland's wed

lucy loved the 12 conservatories that are in the white house or were in the white house. every morning, she would make the rounds in there. she would send flowers off to the various hospitals in washington, d.c. she was a very compassionate person, in fact, one of the -- or a number of the flowers she sent were to peggy eaton, that -- eaton that we've heard about on previous occasions, that when she died, lucy sent flowers off to her funeral. susan swain: from the petticoat affair in the jackson administration. thomas culbertson: yep, uh-huh. susan swain: bob is watching us in baltimore, maryland. hi, bob. your question? bob: hi, i'm enjoying the program as always. my question involves from what i understand was a key intellectual purpose to both mrs. hayes and her husband, and that was specifically the collection of books. she not only enjoyed reading books, but also collecting them, which leads me to my question. did she have any particular type of book or genre that she preferred? susan swain: tom? thomas culbertson: the hayeses collected over 12,000 books, all of whic

the white house wasn't going to deny it. 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 an

for your general information, i will give you a brief history of the white house itself with the exceptionof our first president, george washington. every president has lived in the house. president washington was instrumental in the planning for the house. on march 14, 1792, a competition was announced offering a premium of $500 for a metal of equal value to the winning award designs for the white house, the president's house. the winner was chosen by george washington. the designs were to be submitted in four short months. excuse me. james home bain won the competition. he was hired to supervise the construction of the house. the cornerstone of the white house was laid three months later on october 13, 1792. for those of you who think your federal government can react quickly, there is an example that at least it could. president washington died december 14, 1799 before the house was completed. our first president, john adams moved into the unfinished house november 1, 1800. during the war of 1812, following the british defeat of napoleon in 1814, british troops enter the city of washing

former white house press secretary dana perino recounts her path to the white house her tenure in the bush administration end-of-life thereafter next on booktv. [applause] >> we are doing a little different format tonight. we have done this before. those of you accompli do i know we do in conversation with and tonight is in conversation with dana perino. now doing that is rick who has been with her for years. he is a spokesman for years for the united nations president bush named him the director of communications when he was president at the united nations where he remained for seven or eight years. he then was romney's national security foreign affairs spokesperson. he is a partner in his own firm now in los angeles, capitol media and he is with us tonight to interview the number one bestseller dana perino. please welcome rick grenell right there. [applause] it's all yours. >> thank you. >> what a. first of all we have to say dana welcome to california. [applause] we have so much to talk about. this book is pretty exciting i have to say and i want to get right into it and ask as man

in fact, in her memoirs, she again compares the white house to white haven because of the home that it represented. they traveled so much and had so many different headquarters or homes around the country that it would have been next to impossible to -- but she created home wherever she was for the family, i guess. susan swain: as is the purview of army spouses i think over the years. pamela sanfilippo: right. susan swain: well, we have one more video of white haven, that beautiful green structure we showed you earlier, but you'll have to go to our website to find it. each week we're putting a special feature on our website at cspan.org first ladies. and we have a video there that will show you the grant's life together at white haven. you're looking at just a little glimpse of it now, and boy does it look green. [laughter] pamela sanfilippo: it's called "paris green." susan swain: next is john, watching us all the way out in washington state, snohomish, you are -- snohomish, excuse me -- you're on the air. john: my name is john grant, no relation to ulysses. but my great-grand-uncle w

a lot of the white house staff thought that was really out of line. and they said, well, the blinds are open. and florence famously said, let them look in. it is their house. she had the marine corps band play concerts every saturday afternoon. and as a member of the public, you could just come on the grounds and spread a blanket and listen to them. she thought that that was her job. as first lady, coming out of that were experienced, coming out of the wilson years, that was her way of bringing back normalcy. florence working on the policies , bringing back at normalcy to the american people. and that meant bringing light back to the white house. she immediately has 60 vases of flowers filled every day. flowers is her communication device. there are no cell phones then. and she used the white house -- green houses -- and because of her love for flowers, she says, well that is going to bring color in the white house. that is the way for me to express my care for your. if she sent to a box of flowers and she did to just ordinary people -- sometimes peopl

he opens the white house up. they begin to really try to engage in a public conversation and tackle the issues that sort of tarnished the republican party, if you will. i mean, the corruption of the grant administration, when he says he's going to do civil service reform, you know, when he really pledges to pull the remaining troops out of the south, assuming that the governors -- that the governments in new orleans and columbia will honor their commitment to black rights. so he's trying to really extend an olive branch to people to say, i'm addressing your concerns, i hear you, and i'm only going to serve one term, so let's figure out how we can make the most of this together. ms. swain: and how did lucy hayes assist him in this effort? ms. black: well, she was very shrewd with him all the way along. i mean, she understood how politics worked. she understood how to entertain. she understood how to facilitate conversations between people that were difficult. she understood how to really bring people at the table

detention center. >> i think it is necessary. >> reporter: it is sharp half inch metal spikes on the white house fence. secret service will install the spikes to prevent would-be fence jumpers after several incidents where people made it over the fence and one man actually made it into the house. >> our president live there is. if you need to make sure people don't jump the fence i think it is a great idea. >> it is a deterrent for anybody hopping over the fence. anybody could hop over the fence. >> reporter: nick west thinks if there is a will there is a way. >> i think people might find a way to get around that. >> reporter: the hope is to deter jumpers without deterring tourism. >> tourism is a huge part of the local economy in town. you don't want to see that. the most important thing is ensuring the safety of the folks that work in the white house in addition to the president. >> reporter: secret service says they do not expect the new security measures to affect the tourist experience in the white house. >> thank you very much. the secret service expects to have a plan for a long term secu

. >>> happening today construction at the white house. agents will begin installing metal spikes on the white house fence. now these peaks, we are told, will be installed in between each of these posts that you see on the top of the fence here. they will be very sharp, so let that serve as a warning for any possible intruders or anything thinking of scaling that fence. it is a temporary fix, until there is a final security design. hopefully this fall, now the move comes after two people jumped a white house fence in the last year. the i want ulation will likely take six weeks, of course beginning today. but what the white house visitors think of this new change. >>> a new series of hillary clinton e-mails have been released. >> wusa9 is back after this, but first here's erica with a look at things outside. >> actually a pleasant start to the day. >> it is cloudy out here. the sunshine returns as we head into the afternoon. the sunshine will lead to temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90 degrees. a stray shower but that is it for this

he's in the white house. the thing is people have to be supportive of us here around the country, because there's no capital of any country that even has a hint of being a democracy where the people who live in the capitol, like paris london, bon, cannot vote. >> host: i think the statistics show that 80% of the people throughout the country don't even know that and that's one of the reasons why we don't have -- because other congressmen decide our fate. that's just unfair. that's taxation without representation, what this country was built on. >> guest: isn't that the lion plate. >> host: but it becomes just a slogan. no one really even pays attention it to, just like every other slogan. >> guest: and the democrats for blame more than anything else. they have 90% of the vote here. >> host: i agree. both parties have been complicit in this issue. >> guest: by the way, web site for statehood for d.c.? >> host: d.c. vote does a lot of work on this issue. so d.c. vote.org is an important web site to get started

in how long it took the white house to lower the flags at the white house and to put forth a proclamationhat on military basis i said in each instance we were given from the brain room the washington navy yard and boston bombing, they waited five days. that is not the case. they actually put the proclamimation in and lowered the flag within hours but ordered them to be lowered for five days. the same day on one and the bust bust -- boston bombing the second day and newtown the same day. this was much longer than the white house has made the decision to honor those victims and lower the fact. i want to be on the record so everybody has the facts and they don't bear out to make the situation any better. andrea? >> well the father of a woman who was killed while walking on a san francisco pier is one of several victim's family members testifying today on capitol hill. lawmakers are looking into the sanctuary cities that limit the cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. san francisco is one city with such policies and it is where kate steinle was shot an

>> we will see house democrats go to the white house this afternoon, stephanie. they are also doing a lot of outreach, though sending teams to capitol hill trying to have conversations. president obama even golfing with house democrats. house democrats are crucial to the white house strategy because it is expected that the house and senate do pass in september as soon as they come back, as soon as this 60-day window rolls out, it is expected for them to pass a -- a vote disapproving of this negotiated deal. it is expected then for the white house to veto that. the real question is will the white house be able to hang on to more than a third of either the house or senate to prevent a veto override and -- and while the house republicans yesterday were especially aggressive, really pushing secretary kerry some very heated and frankly exasperated exchanges, house democrats on the flip side may be the place that the white house can make the most inroads everyone from leader nancy pelosi on down, we saw yesterday a couple of house members, democrats come out and say the

correspondent jim acosta joining us from the white house. d been under criticism these past couple days for not immediately ordering that flags fly at half-staff. the house speaker john boehner earlier announced the flag atop the u.s. capitol would be lowered, would fly at half-staff and now at the speech the president just gave, the veterans of foreign wars he made a similar announcement of the flag flying at half-staff at the white house and other federal buildings. there was pressure building on the white house to do so i take it? >> absolutely wolf it was a straight sight this morning. you had the flag at full staff at the white house but at the u.s. capitol, house speaker john boehner and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced hours ago they were lowering the flags at the u.s. capitol. wolf you know from covering washington for a long time it's an odd site to see the u.s. capitol and the white house out of sync with each other. we know that our capitol hill producer diedre walsh, he says that boehner's office told the white

white house operations. and she said, of course, being mistress of the white house is a terrific responsibility. and i am truly grateful for my army wife training. she knew how to manage it large staff and she could be very demanding, but she kept a real friendly approach and treated everyone like family. mamie loved to entertain at the white house. the eisenhower's entertained a record number of heads of a. but even the president had to get her approval if you wanted to use any of the rooms of the mansion because she controlled the schedule. mamie posted the first white house performance of musical theater music, selections from hit shows that on broadway. that was one of her favorites. and then there was another side of mamie. when the president had a heart attack in 1955, she took charge. she took over the flow of work to the president. everything had to go through her to be reviewed. visitors meetings, she limited his schedule. based on medical advice. she strictly managed his diet. she played a similar

for those of you who may not have had an opportunity to visit the white house, this historical

we'll watch the white house briefing and you and others peppering the white house press secretary about this very issue. i want to go back to the state department to elise labott. elise, you have been following stories like this for some time and we know the chinese have been accused of hacking the government and others. what are you hearing about -- everybody is saying "glitch, glitch glitch" along the way but, again, it's kind of hard to imagine that all of these glitches happened at the same time. what are you hearing from their sources? >> well they're saying "glitch, glitch glitch" and they all seem terribly coincidental right now. but i think the level of concern by the administration is obvious by the fact that the president has been briefed on this, that the fbi did reach out to the new york stock exchange and by the fact that the treasury is monitoring, the state department is monitoring everybody is keeping an eye on this even though they don't -- you think these technical glitches right now, you have to look at the climate this country is in right now in terms of hacking. jim

taylor: less in this white house than probably in many of the previous white houses. and frances is involved in this in at least one occasion. like we said, one of grover cleveland's -- perhaps his biggest issue was tariff reform, and she actually attends a senate debate. she's sitting in the gallery over his major piece of legislation on tariff reform. so it's one of the only pieces of direct evidence that we have of her involvement in any kind of political influence. but other than that, they're using the white house for very different kinds of things, and she's able to improve his standing in d.c. simply by standing next to him because he has a reputation coming into the white house of being -- he likes poker, he likes hanging out with his guy friends, he likes smoking... he likes hunting and fishing... drinking bourbon. and she socializes him and civilizes him almost immediately, which gives him some political cache. but then when you're talking about how the white house is being actually used in the ways that we've talked about in terms of other first ladies, she

people jumping the fence and running for the white house door. political reporter scott thuman is live outside the white house. scott? scott: maureen, security is always an issue outside the white house. we are seeing a typical street closure. a moment ago pushed across in the park here. this is beyond us the fence. the tiny point at the top of the fence. one more security step outside the white house. from the activist to the onlookers. the white house is destination for tourists and to keep up tradition. this is an anti-climb feature, they are sharp metal spikes that some say are well needed. >> it would not be hard to get over the fence for someone like me. >> it's a shame we got to that point in the first place. scott: the second barrier was put up earlier after a rash of fence jumpers. one who went from trespasser to intruder making it inside. a sign of the times perhaps but not the last one. the spikes are a temporary solution to a more personalnant system to be put in place next year -- permanent solution put in place next year. >> i'm not

she gets to the white house. late that night, garfield breaks into a broad smile despite his pain and says that's my wife. now all will be well. she responds that she is there to nurse her husband back to health. despite all the confusion going on and, doctors running around, dr. bliss decides it's his turn to take demand of the situation. he decides that he is going to be in charge of everything, the medicine who could see the president, what would be done where he would be. high on his suspect is people who believe in lister and sepsis. anyone who believes that has no right to see his patient. bliss found the notion of invisible germs to be ridiculous and refuses to even discuss it. for the next 80 days the country has a death watch watching what's happening to president garfield. bliss issues a statement, if i can't save him no one can. bliss considers the greatest threat to garfield's health to be other doctors. who will get in his way. garfield's personal position, dr. hide baxter, shows up at the white hous

she was very involved in white house tours. she opened up the white house gardens. made that a formal thing that occurs at the white house every spring. mrs. carter, her efforts to broaden mental health awareness and her expansion of the major american paintings collection at the white house, not many people know about that. mrs. reagan raised private funds for redecoration 10 years later. 1961 1971, 1981. there seemed to be a 10 year theme on redecorating. the funds she raised for the white house china service that she was criticized for. they had not had a china service for so many years we did not have enough pieces of china for one service at a state dinner. in fact, her first question to chief usher wrecks skelton is, what does the white house need the most? he told her, a china service for 200 people. mrs. barbara bush, promotion of childhood literacy and literacy for adults. increased support for the preservation of the white house and establishing the white house endowment fund, a $25 billion fund so private funds are available to keep the public rooms of th

three colors that no patriotic american should have a problem with adorning the white house because, ines, along jeshd lines, and along religious lines, how about just this one time you promote some unity. red, white, and blue lights on the white house. might be tonight. you can go back to dividing us next week. the hat and it's lou dobbs, fox business, have a great weekend. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. growing concerns that the islamic state could attack this country over our 4th of july holiday. americans around the country are accustomed to heightened security warnings at independence daytime. in fact, it's become almost an annual routine. but we're told this time is different. security experts say that the year long rise of the islamic state is at the foundation of that difference. leaders of the radical islamist terrorist group have been urging supporters to attack over the holy month of ramadan which ends july 17

there's no indication it got to the white house. it has to be screened, all packages have to be screened. but now i think i have a contact in the white house and i may give it to her so she can give it to the resident of the overall office. >> what would would be a victory for you in this? a phone call from the president, and invite? what would be of interest? >> first of all by the way i send these letters around. you can't put all your eggs in the white house basket. you send send it to white house reporters, members of congress university professors who are interested in the subject. it has to do with courtesy here. i would like substantive responses. i had the four leading anti- nuclear groups who have been around for decades and i've never been able to see them. he would just blow us off. i wrote to your secretary to say he is not giving equal time here. no answer and they didn't even respond. i would like the executive to get some of these letters and respond. if they come to the white house they should have more meaning. >> n

they have hearts still at the white house. what they don't have is a handle on this federal breakdown of law between the federal government and the local government. >> he told me a story of a after last week. those who remembered her took all the flowers and brought they will to a convalescent center to help those who were hurting. they didn't riot. they didn't protest in the street. they didn't burn anything. that in other cases has gotten the white house's attention. and it is as if if you take a civilized route, if you take the respectful quiet, sad but objectioning route. you get ignored. there are people in this country who are angry enough to riot to burn something, to protest. but they're not doing that. the message is white house seem to be sending is therefore, you will be ignored. >> they have learned how to be ignored. even of the families we've heard about. and michelle malgkin has done so much reporting. about those who lost their lives at the hands of illegal. it would take courage to deal with the sanctuary cit

late today, president obama will defend the agreement at a news conference here at the white house. that will be just after vice president joe biden spends the morning briefing house democrats on this deal. the president's global pitch has already begun. he has made calls to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and saudi arabia's king and leaders in congress. lawmakers on capitol hill have 60 days to review and block this deal but the white house is taking comfort in in the fact much of that time is spent in the lawmakers' august recess and pushing a likely showdown to september and a showdown the president says he is ready for. >> i'm confident that this deal will meet the national security interests of the united states and our allies. so i will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal. >> reporter: but the big question comes down to this do the deals opponents in congress have the two-thirds vote needed to override a presidential veto? one white house official told me they don't believe the position opposition will be able to clear that hu

new rules tonight at the white house. >>> tonight the u.s. women's soccer team is one win away from its first world cup title since 1999 after a thrilling victory over top-ranked germany in the semifinals. and while much of the focus is on the celebration there is also controversy over some violent hits and questionable rules by fifa about letting injured players stay on the field. we get more on this from our national correspondent kate snow. >> team usa's going to the final! >> reporter: the team was euphoric. >> it's a dream come true. this is what we train for. this is the blood, sweat, the tears, everything. >> reporter: but as they shook hands with germany, blood ran down a player's face. 28 minutes into the game american morgan brian collided mid-air with german alexandra popp. >> two players are down. >> reporter: it was a brutal head-to-head hit. last summer after a german player staggered off the field with a head injury in the men's world cup, fifa changed its rules. so last night team doctors checked the injured players. >> and we

but for some reason the decision to lower flags above the white house and above u.s. embassies and military installations abroad in honor of the four marines and one navy sailor killed in the apparent lone wolf attack in chattanooga took nearly a week during which time the states of massachusetts and tennessee and arkansas all ordered their flags lowered as did john bayoehner over the capitol building. >> we draw strength from another american community that has come together with an unmistakable message. we will not give into fear. you cannot divide americans. you can never change our way of life or the values of freedom and diversity that make us americans. >> follow me on twitter@james rosen fnc and as soon as i'm done here i'll go back to the white house booth and i'll tell you how many previous times president obama has ordered flags flown at half-staff over the white house. >> and @gretchen carlson, as well because i'll do my take later on. >>> emotional testimony on capitol hill about the policy known assange sanctuary cities. communities that refuse to turn ov

get is, it is the white house on line two. but if you call them back in their district offices, suddenly there is a friendly voice. oh, the president of the united states is calling my member? who did he ask for? back in the local town hall meeting. oh, wow. did you agree with the president? you going to vote for him? or here is the lay of the land. all of a sudden that has an impact. i want to go back to the first thing i said at the beginning of the conversation. which builds on sandy's point. the way to govern is to build consensus for the american people. and that is how washington moves. it is not building consensus in washington. it is selling to the american people, whether it is a long speech or whatever. but bringing the american people into the equation, because the successful presidents have great faith in the will of the american people and judgment. john: so, could go on because we have enough knowledge on this panel to go on all afternoon but we have reached the end of our time. i would like to thank the henry m.

and they also - here's where you can hear the letter from the white house. i want you to attend my daughter's high school graduation. they have to be polite so they write a letter expressing regret. >> host: or dear mr. president i want to give you money. a scout i have a variety of letters which they could send out to the secretary of energy secretary of energy, transportation, the head of the federal trade commission. but they do not even acknowledge my letters and so i wrote bush and obama a letter and i said what is your policy answering letters and they didn't answer that one either. so, by comparison i sent to critical letters to the paymaster in canada and that came before mullah college meant and they've reverted to the prospective ministry. you at least know they answer the letters. so if it all goes to a dark hole and it's not acknowledged and few people write letters and the service shows the letter writing is declining. in canada they have an affirmative policy to encourage people to write letters to the members of parliament or the prime ministe

we're incorporating that into our effort to oppose what the white house is attempting to do. >> it's going to be quite a month or two hour. chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. >>> new warnings that the pacific northwest could be wiped out in a massive earth quake. the new yorker publishing a terrifying article in which it reports plates are grinding against each other located off the west coast. something that the geologists say could unlusheash a huge disaster. our operating assumption that everything west of interstate five will be toast if the big one, the very big one, hits. well beach goers in florida getting a little more than they bargained for. they were watching the navy's blue angels perform, the daredevil pilots known for pulling off incredible stunts and here we go. over the past weekend, one of them did a fly by so low it sent tents and umbrellas flying and the crowd loved every second of it. most of them cheering as the plane disappeared from the horizon after the very low pass. go blue angels. up next we take up

we're incorporating that into our effort to oppose what the white house is attempting to do. >> it's going to be quite a month or two hour. chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. >>> new warnings that the pacific northwest could be wiped out in a massive earth quake. the new yorker publishing a terrifying article in which it reports plates are grinding against each other located off the west coast. something that the geologists say could unlusheash a huge disaster. our operating assumption that everything west of interstate five will be toast if the big one, the very big one, hits. well beach goers in florida getting a little more than they bargained for. they were watching the navy's blue angels perform, the daredevil pilots known for pulling off incredible stunts and here we go. over the past weekend, one of them did a fly by so low it sent tents and umbrellas flying and the crowd loved every second of it. most of them cheering as the plane disappeared from the horizon after the very low pass. go blue angels. up next we take up