in the white house as well as emergency in the white house and use of social media by the president. i hope you will take the time to listen and to think about buying this book, fight house, where fourth of july coming up in the president's birthday the summer, anytime is a good time for love going to learn more about the white house and the presidency. >> skinner, has also a person of action and the scholarly repute, she is someone who has worked most recently in the white house in the state department as director of policy and planning and a number of white house administrations in advisory and other roles and welcome to the presidential campaign. she is also the toby professor and director of the institute of politics and strategy at the university. , their study is the presidency, she's written books on ronald reagan and the foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today, what we are going to do is jump into the meat of the book, we want to give you a little sense in one of the key points and i want you to hear her thoughts, we will have conversation and then will turn to y

intellectuals in the white house as well as emergency preparedness at the white house and the use of social media by presidents. so i hope you will take the time to listen, but also to think about buying this book. the fourth of july coming up we have presidents birthdays in the summer, anytime is a great time for loved ones learn more about the white house. karen skinner is in verse of action and scholarly repute she's worked most recently in the white house or the state department of director of policy and planning is served as another of white house or administration advisory and other roles as well as presidential campaign she is also the toby professor and director of the institute of strategy carnegie melon university. there she studies presidency she's written books on ronald ragan in foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today what were going to do is jump into the meats of the book we want you to get a little sense of what's in the book part of the key points that i want to hear some of her thoughts will have conversation and then we will turn to you prudhomme menti

he changed it to the white house. david: linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? linda: i think when he went to the congress and asked them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] david: that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? linda: he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american, but for instance, when he was the senator, our phone number was in the regular phone book, and he got a call, a hispanic in texas, has been killed -- i believe he was killed in korea. the local funeral home in texas, refused to take his body. they said, that if they

white house for the summer. that's when tragedy struck. we'll learn more about what happened with the next video. >> let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge early life, before married to kelvin. as well as documents about her family specifically children and gayle grandchildren. she was a loving wife and mother. we have wonderful correspondence that documents that. and i teen 22 grace wrote to the head of the academy were both persons were, and she writes, is there a way that we can arrange for calvin junior to have a soft boiled eggs for breakfast at a time that would be inconvenient. he just had a surgery and chris was concern about his health. this was written in 1924, like many sons he talks about his schooling, which wasn't going too well. his clothing that needed to be updated because he's going out of it, and his plans for traveling back to washington d.c. to visit his moment at. the letter reads i hope you are well and happy, i know you're, happy

create their white house staff. that the cabinet officers are in charge of the respective areas but then they were setting up policy. this is your area you handle it. that said i do highlight a couple of instances where you do have the cabinet secretaries meeting with white house staffers in a way that was different. so in the truman administration and to fly in the face today that such one - - not such a cultural proposition but it was a big ?-question-mark at the time including george marshall who is not only a war hero but also secretary of state and revered more than anyone else in public life. and then to recognize the white house meeting where he would be against marshall. he was not that interested in said what we are doing here but he said he is here to help. and john foster dulles who is secretary of state. and then to negotiate on the arms deal. the new york time when they came on board and he was causally trying to undercut. and then to have women to run afoul of the cabinet secretary. >> so another thing

the trumans thought they could stay in their apartment until they moved into the white house. ered mrs. roosevelt enough time as she needed. she took about two weeks. by then the trumans realized they could not stay in their apartment. they were living in blair house. i love the story that as eleanor roosevelt watched them pack up, and she and her female friends had seen a rat go across the room. >> she was thrust into the job. did she have any guidance from the outgoing first lady? >> eleanor established the tradition about press conferences. bess truman went to the secretary of labor and said do i have to do that? is it okay to set my own tone? she was assured she could do what she wanted. she put a lot of thought into it. at the last minute she decided that was not something she wanted to do and she never did hold a press conference. >> she said edith helm was the old white house social secretary. went there with mrs. woodrow wilson, and stayed through the roosevelts, all through everything. she knew everything to do. she knew where the bodies were buried. she knew everythin

and you worked in the white house and you know how she worked with him in that white house office, and the departments that were there, thanks to leadership with you and armstrong that were very conscious of this's movement and mrs. nixon, politically astute, realized republicans or losing some ground and democrats were proposing legislation built to support women and she worked very closely with the office of women's issues and the white house to help get more appointments of women in the federal government, and as you said she spoke publicly about women. she was disappointed that was not the president's decision and discuss that pprivately. again, that was her character and the appropriate way to do it, but she was responding to what was going on in the country. >> can you come up in and join us? we have a chair up front for you. >> make no mistake about it, she was what i would call quietly politically astute. she was not about to brag about what she could do were not do. she was very quiet about her sophistication in terms of doing things appropriately politically. >> the times she

>> did you work out out in the white house? >> i worked out in the white house.and had a trainer that came to the gym and up stairs and my sister-in-law margaret came and always worked out with me. and at the very end, the last couple of years after i think maybe the last year i had a yoga instructor come and that's what i do now. >> you do yoga here in dallas at a class? >> i have an instructor that comes to my house. >> makes it easier? >> makes it easier, yeah. >> mrs. bush, you were also involved in education as an issue, no child left behind. has that been a successful program? >> i think it has been really successful. i think the important part of it is just the recognition that -- that it is really a civil rights issue, that the kids who do get left behind are the ones who are in the poorest parts of towns, the ones whose parents don't speak english, the ones who are -- they are the ones who get shuffled through. and that's why it's very important to have accountability, to know how every child is doing. and that's the part that of course a lot of people c

intellectuals in white house as well as emergency preparedness in the white house, and the use of social media by presidents. i hope you'll take the time to listen and to think but buying this book "fight house. ". we have fourth of july coming up. anytime is a good time to learn about the white house and presidencies. kiron skinner is a person of action and of scholarly repute, she is someone who is worked most recently in the white house, or in the state department as a director of policy and planning. served in a number of other white house -- white house or administrations in advisory and other roles and on presidential campaigns and also the toby over and director of then constitute of politics and strategy at carnegie melon university harks written books on reagan and foreign policy as well. so we have great lineup today. we'll jump into the meat of the poock. we want you to get a sense from tevi what is the book and the key points and then i want to turn to kiron to hear her thoughts and have conversation and then turn to you. what i do come to you for questions, you have a number

they so enjoyed the white house.her women friends were very dear to her and she kept many of her friendships during her entire life. >> here is pat invented mississippi. you are on the air. >> that's in michigan. >> offensive michigan, sorry. >> we had the pleasure of going to independence and during the house. we had to go and through the back door just like the family. seeing the presidential library which we really enjoyed. my question is about the true man's -- tremendous financial circumstances. it was controversial that she was paid, perhaps they needed the money. certainly the president was the reason that congress has established a pension for retiring presidents. i wonder if their financial circumstances might have led them not to do is much entertaining and so forth as previous presidents who had their own budgets. >> absolutely. financial reasons were why he does put bess on the payroll. margaret truman always described her mother as a penny pincher but margaret all so admitted it was a good thing she did.

my name is stewart mclaruin and i'm the president of the white house historical association. it's my privilege to welcome you to decatur house and to the white house historical association. tonight's program is very exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the richard nixon foundation. we would like to welcome dr. jim cavanaugh of the nixon foundation and his wife ester in the front row. hugh hewitt the president of the nixon foundation you will hear from in a few moments. we have many distinguished guests with us here, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the nixon foundation and we're honored to have you here tonight. this year marks the 50th anniversary of patricia nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. under her leadership the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency. the significance of this will be discussed in tonight's program, but it's very important to us here at the white house histori

nixon invited him to the white house. and they walked through all of the rooms from the third floor down to the ground floor, through the private quarters and the state rooms. and he thought about it for a few days and decided to accept it. and she was a very strong supporter of this program. the rooms had been last refurbished in the early '60s, in the kennedy administration, but there had been tremendous visitation, tremendous receptions and a lot of crowds in the '60s. and things really needed to take shape. and clem conger was a very energetic, ambitious person who knew how to raise funds and appeal to donors and mrs. nixon would often write letters to donors and have receptions and teas for people that were potential donors or museums that might lend objects, such as the dolley madison portrait by gilbert stewart that belonged to the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, which was hung in 1971. and then it was finally purchased by the association here for the collection. but she was a big supporter. she, in fact, di

because even as early as 1840 they were envisioning that the public was attracted to the white house. period it was attracted because people like andrew jackson were living in the building. by 1961 mrs. kennedy gave the house a whole new level of attraction as a historic site and a shrine to the presidency and a great museum of important american objects. so following through her tour route, basically you would see the upper left-hand corner the east room as she found it in 1961. not too much has changed from what theodore roosevelt had done to the room in 1902 with the architects. the chandeliers, the torchiers, the cornices over the drapes dated from the 1902 period. you will see in the picture that the mantels are white and marble but mrs. kennedy thought white was better and painted them. and that was fine for a long time. they were difficult to keep white. the paint chipped and such. and so you see in the lower right-hand corner today's east room, as it was refurbished in the 1990s. the red mantels have been restored to their original color because they match the hearths and the

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

so, she goes throughout the white house. d remember, we're now talking about 90 percent of households having televisions. and even though it's in black and white, and we can't see her bright red dress on valentine's day, and even though, again, by today's standards, it's a bit stilted, people fell in love with it. they think there were about 56 million viewers. they think three out of four viewers watched it. one little boy wrote to her and said, "i really liked it." he said, "my dad was going to watch "maverick," a western at the time, but i talked him into watching this." and she even received a fan letter from -- from barbara bush, first -- future first lady. so it went behind the iron curtain. it went to 106 countries around the world. and she won a special emmy for it. so it was a real high point of her first ladyship. >> and deserved it. and also, you know, kennedy saw this, people loved it. he couldn't believe what he was seeing. you know, he thought he knew something about politics. and he would have thought -- and i

back here in washington the white house versus dr. fauci, that drama continues after the president's trade adviser of all people wrote an article slamming the infectious disease expert. dr. fauci is now speaking out about efforts within the administration to try to discredit him. he is calling all of this bizarre and says the, quote, nonsense, all of this, quote, nonsense he says, needs to stop. let's go to cnn's nick watt joining us from los angeles right now. nick, more disturbing numbers tonight from california, from texas, and elsewhere. >> wolf, yeah. record numbers in texas. you know, we just heard from our cnn team in florida that miami-dade county has now run out of icu beds, record numbers here in california. pasadena has just canceled the world famous rose parade, which was for new year's day 2021 and here in los angeles we have just been told that returning to a stay-at-home order is now a possibility. that we are right now in an alarming and dangerous phase of this pandemic. we're not alone. more theme parks opened up toda

, to loan pieces to the white house. they went out and sought out people to donate the money to be able to get the proper pieces to fill the room. >> she had always been very interested in decorating. she had decorated a number of their homes. so this was something that was very important to her and not something that was widely known. they didn't publicize this. it was kind of like she was doing it for a while before anybody realized that she was doing it. >> and then, when jackie comes, jackie says, oh, this is all wonderful. and she really tried to give the credit to other people, rather than giving -- than taking it herself. >> when pat nixon came to the white house, one-third of the furnishings were antiques. when she left the white house, two-thirds of them were antiques. but some viewers might not know this -- dolley madison is famous for saving the canvas of george washington in 1814. well, she actually saved two canvasses. the other one was a portrait of herself. and pat nixon brought it back to the white house.

with the depression and world war ii and truman renovation of the white house when they were living't entertain in the white house. it's mamie who brings back really large scale elegant entertaining to the white house. >> let me ask as curator of exhibitions and presidential and first lady memorabilia, how significant a decision was it, and why was it made, that presidents after eisenhower could no longer keep the gifts they were given? >> i think they were afraid it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of a return political favor for the gift. so that was made illegal. >> do you know where all those gifts go, because presidents stell get lots and lots of gifts. >> they go to the state department or archives. through the archives they often turn up at presidential libraries, but they aren't owned by the president and first lady. >> now, one statement a president and first lady can make is not just who they invite but who they did not invite. one person they did not invite to the white house was senator joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited. she

i think both sides kind of decided they like life in the white house. for mrs. rd, it was a great improvement. you know, her husband is house minority leader was on the road 200, 250 nights a year. she actually spent much more time with him once they were in the white house. so, they were both determined to do their best to extend the ford presidency. and i think for him, particularly, to have the mandate of a popular election as the only appointed president, almost a president with an asterisk next to his name. >> she may have supported his bid for the white house, but when they first met, she didn't know she was getting a politician. isn't that true? >> that's what she says. you know, it's hard for me to believe that she was as totally naive -- i mean, jerry ford was kind of big man on campus, local hero from his high school days playing football. it's not terribly surprising that he should decide to go into public life. but there is no doubt she was surprised. they were married in october 19 -- >> '48. here's regina on twitter. i want to get her question becau

i put him in the white house." you said you don't really believe that she thought that. >> well, i don't know if she thought that or not, but maybe at any given moment she did. but the nickname she had before she was the duchess was the boss. and warren sort of toned that down for public consumption but i think you probably thought half the time that she was the boss in many ways. he valued her opinion. i think -- i think there was a real partnership there. >> absolutely. >> roger (ph) is watching us in baltimore and you have the next question, roger (ph). hi. >> roger (ph) roger (ph): hello. thank you. i have a few questions for ms. sibley. since listening to you, ms. shipley, i think i would like to read your biography of florence. i've already read one biography that was very detailed and i'm wondering if you have an opinion on that one. do you think mr. carl anthony's biography of florence harding is accurate and well-researched? i haven't... >> shall, i answer? or, oh... >> roger (ph) roger (ph): one other que

how long does james k polk live after leaving the white house? three months. at happens to sarah polk especially during the civil war? she becomes a widow. she war widows weeds for the next 42 years. the house they purchased for their retirement became a shrine to her husband. she became very reclusive. but she received people. during the civil war, she did not take sides. the mayor came to her and said, the union is coming into the city, what should i tell the general? she said, you may tell him that i am at home. so he came to call. the confederates and the union troops respected her. she did not take sides. she was completely neutral and she isolated herself into that period prior to the civil war. people put their artifacts in storage at polk place to store them. she went right on through. she earned a great deal of respect for that. ms. swain: from both sides? ms. hunt: from both sides. ms. swain: do you have any more comments to add? professor finkelman: only that the contrast would be with president tyler, who becomes a member of the confederate governme

press secretary which lasted early 18 america over the years can be debated by think the white house spokesperson has an obligation to regularly answer questions aboutha the policies and pronounces of the executive branch for the whiteus house press secretary differs fundamentally from that of a spokesperson for a candidate or political party the white house press secretary serves at the pleasure of the president but also a public servant whose salaries paid by taxpayers the job is to inform thery public. so from your standpoint were not getting that from the podium, correct? >> ion am glad to see there are briefings taking place, if you actually look at the briefings they are very short events, they are almost always less than a half an hour. sometimes not more than 15 minutes there's an opening monologue that is meant to is meant to attack the people in the room the news reporters or other news organizations or promote a political issue the president is harping on. and then they close in precisely the same way. it almostay seems to me that the purpose of the briefing is one, to pro

last day in the white house? >> my first day in the white house. you mean walking in from the receiving? oh you know we reviewed the parade. i remember we had huge family, and i remember the twins. they're not going to like this, but going with the babysitter down to the bowling alley and ordering a meal. we were getting ready to go to the ball and we had the whole family gathered for a very large sort of buffet meal. i said, where the twins? we're all leaning. a said there in the bowling alley ordering hamburgers. they came right up laughing. but i remember being surrounded and seeing everybody at the ball and how pretty they looked and what fun they were having. i mean they were all over the white house, those children. >> what about you lost? a >> last day, our children left town. -- they did not want to be around for that. it was very moving and saying goodbye to the white house staff was difficult. we never drunk we would be back. it was hard. but life goes on. we got on a plane with all our friends and fami

how did they use it in the white house?> well, you think this, everybody talks about reagan was an actor, but she was an actor as well. she was on the stage. she had 12 feature films. the comfort level of these two behind the camera, it's the envy of every political couple, and they used it as easily as you and i would just pick up the telephone and call a friend, and that's what they showed. >> and even the little things. >> you know, she's talking about color and she's wearing a red dress, and they understood the lighting, they understood the message, how the message should go with the pictures. they really got it all, and it was almost second nature to them both. i want to move to the second term in the white house, again, full of so many issues. in brief, some of them included the soviet summit, which included concluded with the arms treaty, the explosion of the challenge or -- any of us alive at that time certainly remember that day well -- the iran contra affair, we'll take a little bit about the effect on the preside

i grew up in georgia and to watch them go to the white house and for amy to grow up in the white house. it was -- it was a really exciting thing to watch if you were a kid. and she seemed right there in the center of all of the events and i remember thinking about that a lot as something that was really exciting. >> as a mother with a young child in the white house, how did she approach protecting young amy from the press, the public interest, that sort of thing? we have a photograph right here, it looks like kind of like coming down the stairs from the blair house, and you can see how young she is. how did they approach parenting? >> well, i think that they felt that all their kids should be able to have a private life if they wanted to, and amy certainly did. you know, if you're a kid in the first family, you've got secret service protection, so it's a little hard to just blend in, even if you'd like to. but i think the press in general respected that, you know, and realized that a child shouldn't be exposed to, you know, the kind of press that their parents, you know, get. so, you k

. 0ver doctor anthony fauci and the white house. over the weekend, the white house issued a series of bullet points detailing why doctor anthony fauci should not be tested. then peter navarro today doubled down on all of that in an article in usa today. president trump has since sought to distance himself somewhat from peter navarro's comments and doctor felt she, you just were explaining, has said that he does not really understand what is going on. he called it a major mistake, did not understand why the white house would seek to discredit him. and it is of concern to people

go to the white house. and then after that, the ladies got to go to see the congress, which you just mentioned, they were discussing the panama canal treaty. and it was just a great event. but that night, it was so -- it was just so wonderful, being at the white house and meeting with all the -- and it was a governors' meeting as well.and then, we had done campaigning for president carter through some of the towns in alabama along with tammy wynette. and it was just a wonderful event, and we just really loved president carter and mrs. carter. and they were just so gracious. >> thanks very much. well, we learned that her interest in the arts was much broader than just southern music, and national. but did they, in fact, reach out to that constituency as well? >> well, it was interesting during the campaign, again, the expansion of the media during this time, a lot of musicians from the south endorsed carter's campaign. and i think most interestingly. and perhaps forgotten today, southern rock was really at i

and i started coming down here and looking for houses to buy before we left the white house. started really to anticipate what that house would be like and what it would be like to live there and furnish it and all the things that i like to do. of course we immediately started thinking about building this, the presidential library. i invited all of the heads of the libraries to camp david. none of them had been there. many of the library -- presidential library heads didn't know the president, that they -- whose library they work in because just only the more recent presidents do the -- you know, did people actually know the president. but none of the presidential library foundation heads are -- library directors had ever been to camp david. i invited them to come tour camp to see what it was like. the first presidential library is franklin roosevelt. and franklin roosevelt was also the one who first used camp david. i wanted advice for them, and i knew if i invited them there and they saw camp david, then when we had lunch together and the lodge where you have all of the meal

the white house supports unemployment insurance. benefits. the white house supports ensuring americans done get evicted. what do democrats support? what do they stand for? they have offered zero, nothing except rejecting martha mcsally's bill to ensure that those receiving those checks continue receiving them. reporter: as the white house set a cap for what they're wi ms. mcenany: not that i'm aware make sure money gets to the american peopl reporter: the trump administration wan million in coronavirus relief ill for the long-delayed modernization of the west wing. how is that a priority in terms of the coronavirus pandemic? you talk about priorities, you have the f.b.i. bill which doesn't seem to have much support from capitol hill as well. ms. mcenany: two things. i'm glad you asked that. i do want to give you some details about those two items in particular. when it comes to the f.b.i. building, this has been a long-discussed issue. i would note that the three previous covid bills that have been passed had plenty of other things in them th

white house press association, i have often advocated regular briefings by the white house press secretary, which lapsed in 2016. canmerits of the briefings be debated, but i think the white house has obligation to answer pronouncements of the executive branch. the white house press secretary's job differs fundamentally from those of a spokesperson, a candidate, or a political party, and the white house press secretary serves as the president of the -- pleasure of the president, but their salary is paid by the taxpayers." from your standpoint, we are not getting that from the administration, correct? guest: no. i am glad to see that briefings are taking place, but if you look at the briefings, they are very short events. they are almost always less than half an hour. sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and they have fallen into a pattern where there is kind of an opening monologue that is meant to, you know, either attack the people in that room, the reporters in that room and the news organizations, or to promote some political issue that the president is harping on. and then they closed i

has been her signature stamp on the white house. ee her going out for the ceremonial plantings and harvesting and being out there with children. but also using the house, she referred to it as the people's house. this idea that people who never come to the white house should be welcomed in, and what are ways to do that, in the kind of bringing in folks who never have been there before. so you see lots of schoolchildren coming through for workshops when there is a celebrity who is giving a musical performance. there will be a workshop earlier in the day with students from local schools. and so this idea that you can kind of use it as a third space or in some ways a community center is, i think, you know, a little fresh and different. >> we must remember for a number of years in the beginning of their administration, it was closed to public doors because of the financial down turns, restrictions were happening at that point. so they had different public interface than previous administrations. we have just 15 minutes left and a lot to

understandable why the white house might want to hold this event on the other side of the white housentinue to keep an eye on this jump from the golden knights as we await the president's remarks there. you can see the army flags behind the parachuters. one of the things we'll be listening for are what the comments will be from the president tonight. he spoke at length yesterday, as did a number of the other speakers, spoke at length at mount rushmore in terms of the efforts to, as they put it, cancel some of the founding fathers and the luminary figures from american history who were involved in some social atrocities. the president railed against that, as did some of the other speaker, including kristi noem, the governor of south dakota. tonight we hear to hear from the interior secretary david bernhardt who will speak before the president, after the parachute group, the golden knights have finished their jump. we'll listen back in for the president's remarks in just a moment. take a minute to take a look at that image from the golden knights. i believe we still have marq and derric

it was emotional. >> was it possible to have a private life in the white house, and did the white house feel like home? >> it felt like home to us immediately because we'd all been campaigning. all our boys had been campaigning and i'd been campaigning, and we were together -- not all, i had two of my sons and amy there. and we had meals together. we had to make a rule if you were not going to be there for a meal you had to check off a little thing so we'd know who would be there. and amy -- was there almost every day, sometimes not. but most of the time i was there when she came home from school. and i through the lessons and followed classes. and then as i said earlier jimmy and i would jog. or swim. if it was raining, we'd go to the boat. we had a fairly good family life. i think it was so precious to us because being gone, traveling for two years. >> does the white house affect a marriage? >> i think it could. i don't think -- it didn't affect ours. because we'd just been partners working together for so long. but i could see if the first lady was not particularly interested in the

it belongs in the white house." and my grandmother said, "no, that's my painting, it's on my wall, and that's where it's going to stay." and i think mrs. johnson tried a couple of more times, so that eventually she gave up and had a copy painted. there are actually two copies made by the artist, greta kempton. and one of them hangs in the truman library just down the road and the other is in the white house, but those are the two copies. this is the original portrait. >> i don't know who did the portrait. i can look it up for you, but back to the table here, bill. >> okay. >> we have to tell the story about the renovations of the white house. >> okay. >> because the trumans, in their almost eight years in the white house, spent less time in that building than any other president. >> there you go. you want to do it? >> absolutely. it was falling down. the leg of margaret's piano fell through the floor, and the engineers were concerned that the whole thing was going to collapse onto the trumans, essentially. so -- >>

jesse: we'd like to thank meridith mcgraw, "politico's" white house >> officials with pharmaceutical companies testified on a house hearing on covid-19 research and development. from astrazeneca, pfizer, merck, and johnson from johnson -- johnson & johnson. because of technical issues, we start a few minutes into the hearing. >> i am looking for my opening statement. i recognize you for five minutes. >> thank you chairwoman. today we will explore the pursuit of vaccines that could help contain the largest public health

these are the people who the white house is putting out.e saw them doing interviews this morning on the sunday shows. interesting, no mention of fauci and clearly here, again, the white house responding to our questions about a rift with what looks like something akin to opposition research, something we might get if we asked about biden or a democrat or democratic policies. so it's striking to see this with a top health official. >> it's extraordinary, indeed. we'll stay in close touch with you. >>> the rift between the president and dr. fauci didn't happen overnight. cnn reporter and fact-checker daniel dale is joining us right now. you've been covering this for weeks as it's been escalating, exploding. how far back does it actually go? >> we know it goes at least as far back as april, wolf. that's when the president retweeted the words fire fauci. he denied he wanted to fire fauci, but it was clear he wasn't happy. we know from kristen's reporting that the president has been frustrated by this cycle in which the president makes a remark

i would say really well in helping people to feel like the white house is the people's house and this is a family that could be the family next door and that you could relate to. >> and it is really the first fully social media white house. they have advantages on social media that past presidents did not so we've seen a lot of them in a lot of different forms than we have of earlier presidents and first ladies. john is in houston. hi, john, you're on the air. >> caller: hey, this show is great. i called during the helen taft show. my questions are after they kill osama bin laden, when they saw the pictures, what was his reaction, what was her reaction and will they ever release them and how come they never released them? thank you. >> thank you very much. do either of you know whether or not she had a reaction about -- >> no idea. if i'm remembering correctly that night, he was at the white house correspondents' dinner, and i think she went out to dinner with his sister maybe. so we don't know anything about the private reactions to the photos. we do know they were not in the white h

susan swain: so the coolidges left the white house to return where afterwards? hlaes: they returned to northampton, massachusetts where coolidge had begun his career as a county seat attorney, if you can imagine. nd they went back to their house on massasoit street which is half of a two-family with not much distance to the sidewalk so people could come up. and of course people did come up and as much as they wanted to fit back into their old clothes, that was the metaphor grace used, of course they couldn't because it wasn't comfortable because people were always pressing them, whether it was the president's office downtown in northampton or at the house. amity shlaes: so eventually they retreated to a house with a bit of a border around it, the beeches, also in northampton. nd the president said, well, the doggies can run here. but it was also a bit more fenced. hey could have some privacy, still quite modest by presidential standards, the beeches. and after the president passed away, mrs. coolidge built yet another house somewhere nearby. susan swain: how long

to lead the obama white house's ebola response.octor, welcome. thank you for joining us. let me start with a layman's question here. i see a headline, i read a story that says the goal here is to get to at least 50% effectiveness with a vaccine. my reaction is, i take the shot and it's got a 50-50 shot of working? is that too low? >> that's a great question, steve. you know what, i think what people should know is that's actually okay. historically our influenza vaccines that we use year-over-year are only 40% to 60% effective. so that number of 50% is actually right in the middle of that, and i think that's a reasonable estimate to start with. you know, i think as we have subsequent vaccines, assuming that we get there, you know, the second and third iterations will get better. but starting with a goal of 50% is in line with what we used for influenza on an annual basis. i think the context there is whether or not things are being rushed through too quickly. and i think using a goalpost like this, if that's really what the fda sti

it's a pretty mixed message about what goes on with the white house. and certainly needs to be looked at more carefully. >> catherine on facebook asked for mrs. movers opinion of the woman suffrage movement was she ever involved with it in any way? >> we don't have any evidence of her being actively involved. she wrote a very interesting thing when she was 15 years old in support of suffrage as a teenager. talking about the fact that she didn't think it was right, that women should be classified in the same category as jailbirds and convicts. in other words be denied the right to vote. because people being convicted could not vote. convicted felons cannot vote. she was very much in favor of seeing women to vote but she was not a suffragette. >> being somewhat a tomboy, did lou believe inequality between men and women? >> absolutely. >> let's show you that promise video better travels around the world, and some of the artifacts they brought back to collect. >> some of things that look like it's right or life was the chinese porcelain's, the blue and whi

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a senior white house official telling cnn that certain people in the white house don't trust dr. fauci anymore. they accuse him of not having the president's best interests at heart. the president only yesterday wore a mask in public for the first time. something most americans have been doing for months. largely because of sound advice from scientists like dr. anthony fauci. so who to believe? a globally-respected scientist and public health authority? or the man in the white house, whose message over and over has been, don't worry. the coronavirus is going to disappear. cnn's kristen holmes is at the white house for us. what else have we learned about this growing rift between dr. fauci and the president? >> reporter: ana, a white house working to discredit one of the nation's top health official would been extraordinary in any circumstance. given it's happening in the middle of a pandemic when we see cases surge it's striking. i reached out to the white house to talk about their relationship with dr. fauci, president trump and dr. fauci, and received a statement from a white h

joining us tonight areour aces who cover the white house weijia jiang, white house correspondent forbs ns. ayesha rascoe, white house reporter for national public radio. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new yorke " and jonathan lian, national cal reporter for axios. ayesha, i just got off the phone a minute ago with a trump campaign adviser who told me this speech tonight at mowrt after the left wing mob andto go cancel culture. seen all week with the president stoking racialnd culturaln? tens ayesha: yes. this is clear where the president feels most about white grievances, talking about the culture war, monuments, things of that nature, the radic left. that's where he wants to be and that's what he wants to bin ta about because he doesn't want to be talking about all that other stuff you moned like the russian bounties and he definitely doesn't want to be talking abo the cases that are surging and the reopening that is not going the way that he said it would be going so he's leaning back on those things that worked for him in 2016 andt hopit they'll work for him

two white houses the carter white house and then the hostage crisis white house. in retrospect is there something you would have done different like an extra helicopter on the rescue mission but would you have wish to do something differently? >> not really. but i don't think so under the circumstances because my top management team coming through with treatment of terminal cancer and kissinger and all my advisors said let him come. so i contacted the president and prime minister of iran and told them i was contemplating coming - - letting the shock and for treatment and i wanted assurances they would protect and at that time there were 8000 americans in iran working in different forces including the embassy. they sent me where they would guarantee nothing would happen to americans if the shock came to new york provided there is no political statement while he was in america. and he gave me that assurance. but then, to the surprise of me and to the president of iran, iran, the militants took over and when the ayatollah after three days supported the capture and th