the white house. she was so passionate about art that she even proposed the edition of a new wing on the white house to house an art gallery. unfortunately this never happened, but i think it's so interesting to imagine what it would be like if an entire wing of the white house was a gallery next slide. now in particular mrs. harrison loved watercolors china paintings and florals. she even helped to design the harrison white house china service this photograph shows a tea set painted by mrs. harrison featuring orchids, which were her favorite flower mrs. harrison would often go to the white house conservatory a large indoor garden where orchids were grown and get her inspiration while sitting and enjoying the flowers next slide. now here you can see a mahogany box which held mrs. harrison's watercolor supplies. it's in the collection of the benjamin harrison presidential site. and on the right is a sketch of her proposed white house expansion as you can see, it's quite palatial and it was too expensiv

i needed the white house with that. but i'll add just a little bit because i've answered your question that it was there was nothing not not an iota of truth to their portrayal in the crown. but um, there was a sort of a dramatic event during the dance bob mcnamara linda remembers this bob mcnamara then secretary of defense was twirling around the room christine ford wife of henry ford. it was a beautiful actually gorgeous woman low-cut white gown and and as he was twirling her around she had a wardrobe malfunction and people oh, but you know corrected it right quickly, but you can imagine that was a bitter of the evening. later dinner. i was not seated at the table with the president, but she wasn't of course and there was kurt douglas and happy rockefeller, but the summary answer was none of that portrayed in the crown was accurate. well, let me just add that. quite a few of the social aids dancing with mrs. ford and it's all i saved her. i pulled, you know help with up so but i mean it has been a story over 50 years

she became so identified with the white house and how to run the white house and how to present the white house that she was someone that several subsequent first ladies. consulted sure. and our last question because this has come up in a number of programs. so should we talk about the presidential libraries first ladies materials? so before the national archives and i i might challenge i'd say before the presidential libraries where where does one find first lady the actual primary source materials. well my library to give ohio in can't know ohio is gaining more actual research materials. it's a relatively new institution. and i think there is definitely a push to acquire more document holdings there. unfortunately some of the early first ladies, you know, their papers have been scattered hither hither and yawn some were sold, you know at auction to private holders, so i'm going to turn that back around on the national archives and say time there is a garage sale of first ladies documents out there patrick. you need to be first in line. i'll have to talk to the arguments the united. it's

1918 1899 she told the white house that she'd be back. d this is a quote i want you to take good care of furniture and ornaments in the house. four i want to find everything just as it is now when we come back four years from now. >> it sounds supremely confident. >> yes it isn't to be honest with you, the moment they hit new york which they are where they live for the next four years, she started campaigning for him. >> part of it is that he didn't lose the 1888 election. right he actually outpaced harrison by tens of thousands of votes. but he was swamped in the electoral system. so he's the only president rather than fdr winning more than two elections. >> so republicans were ahead of the democrats but doing this electoral college idea. >> exactly exactly. >> francis cleveland is so popular, people are imitating her clothes, her hair cell, but they really want a piece of her for themselves. it's like we've always felt that we've owned the first lady, she is someone you know. some pictures of the first lady became extremely popular. you

nancy reagan came into the white house.h a project, a pollster grandparents project that was not very well received. she did not get very good press the first year. she was getting to spending too much money people felt henry doing the white house. she was just spending too much money. her ratings were not very good. so she switched to the just say no program. her popularity, her ratings went up like that. so i think that was a lesson two first ladies who followed that it's good to have something that people latched onto. most people can name with the others were. the reception, and have the worst reception? i mentioned right nancy rig interception to foster grandparents was not that good. oh would say that -- has not been so good. but i should cealso say that first ladies have need different choices on/j># put their projects forward. for example, most of, it lady bird johnson had even first lady staff of about two dozen people. very competent, and when i asked her office how many people worked for her during her first lady

done. >> thanks to the magic of television, we are able to show you what one of our colleagues in white houseg room asked the press secretary. kelly o'donnell putting to her this question that i would like to hear from you on. i want to play what she had to say. >> obviously, the house republicans have some of their own internal matters going on. does the president think any discord they are having has an influence or comes into the meet meetings he will have with leadership? >> no. the president knows that there is some introspection going on in the republican party right now. a determination about who they are going to be, who they want to lead them and what they want to represent moving forward. he is not going to focus on that. >> what does your reporting tell you about how what's happening in house republican world could affect negotiations between democrats and republicans in the white house moving forward? >> it probably won't. very few people expect house republicans to be on board with a major deal. >> do you think it will come up on wednesday when they meet? >> surely it will. presi

prior to her illness prohibiting her from leaving the white house. she took members of congress and city leaders to the alleys where these individuals were living in squalor and she encouraged them to pass legislation to do something about this housing. in many ways. she established the beginning of the modern first ladies activism by directly focusing on legislative issues and leaving the white house to show policymakers what it was they they needed to be dealing with and finally lou henry hoover who was a trailblazer in many ways. she furthered integration at the white house activities once again through a social event by hosting a tea party but a tea party with very serious civil rights implications. when the countries first twentieth century african-american congressman oscar stanton depriest who was a republican from illinois arrived in dc the usual social invitations didn't follow for him and his wife. mrs. hoover's staff wrote a memo to the president's secretary for suggestions on how to provide a welcoming environment for the debris during the

the white house, at one point, $1.7 trillion.an they come closer or will republicans hold firm to their plan? guest: what i am hearing is that a final number could probably be a $1.3 trillion package, $1.5 trillion package, and that is if there is some wiggle room on the part of the white house on the corporate tax rate proposal. perhaps they don't go all the way to 28%, 25%, or something like that. that is something the white house says they are willing to negotiate. also, if the white house is able to compromise or maybe scaled down what the republicans call this human infrastructure component of their package, that will facilitate movement on the negotiations. again, for emphasis, republicans do want to get an in fish -- infrastructure package done. this is why they move the ball on their side to a $1 trillion deal. if they can reach agreement on how to pay for it, if they address the fuel tax within the highway trust fund that pays for our surface transportation programs nationwide, some sort of agreement on climate change po

that he wants to make another run for the white house. and it is really nancy who is telling him you've got to do this? this is your moment. when they arrive in washington you talk about describe them as if he were teflon. she's velcro. and given the fact that she learned lessons in sacramento and had gone through a rough period and then found a way to get involved in issues and rehabilitate yourself. why did she have such a difficult time in washington dc? why did the lessons not transfer? this is the great conundrum about nancy reagan. she is. so skillful, so shrewd so attuned. to her husband's image and yet she is just absolutely clueless when it comes to her own. and so they get to washington. united states is in the middle of what would become the worst recession since the great depression. and nancy reagan decides that this is the moment to collect a lot of private donations to refurbish the white house and to to buy a very expensive new set of thousand dollar a place setting white house china and they announced it on the very day t

sometimes they'd even moved out of the white house the clevelands moved out of the white house for a while to get more privacy for their kids, but the roosevelt's sort of said, we're here look at us and of course the the rambunctious children with their i mean they got so much attention and of course we must remember that it was during that the roosevelt administration that the west wing was built. so if you look at pictures of the white house upstairs born 1900 for example in the in the period of mckinley you wonder how on that second floor they could have the family living and also the office of the president, you know, there were telephones around there were jumbled desks. it was impossible for the roosevelt family to move in there and live with among the telephones. so it was during that period that the west wing was built and then the second floor the white house what we now think of as the residential quarters where you have to be invited up you don't get shown that on the public tour. that developed and the roosevelt's very much are a part of that. eleanor roosevelt is often c

and so what eartha kitt does when she comes to the white house and this is a white house lunch and that's focused on crime the crime bill that lyndon johnson has just announced the night before at the state of the union address now, we're moving into a political election season and linda has and as you say and now that he's not going to run again yet, but the the law and order backlash is rising and we hear people like richard nixon and george wallace pushing on the johnson administration to take a stronger stand on this thing called law and order so fighting crime, which is one way of that. this issue was discussed is the theme of the luncheon and eartha kitt is invited by the white house to attend because she has been an activist for civil rights, but also in watson los angeles and in anacostia and washington dc to try to do what we would think of as like basic youth empowerment how to empower local kids to feel that. they actually have an opportunity and possibility and so she's putting her her wealth behind dance classes and training programs and she's testified before congress about

the president's view and view of senior leaders in the white house is that our role as the white house, as the federal government, as the president of the united states is to play a constructive role in diplomacy, to use our role, our relationships around the world, to have intensive, quiet discussions with leaders in the region that we have long-standing relationships with. we share an objective of de-escalating the situation on the ground. bringing an end to the conflict. that's an objective we share with members of congress who have different points of view and are, of course, we support their ability to have different points of view. but we are approaching it through the prism of how we feel we can come to a most effective outcome. reporter: over the weekend there were reports that the israelis had shared intelligence with the united states regarding what was going on in that tower that was blowing up. secretary of state this morning said he didn't see it. has the president seen it? can you confirm that the israelis shared that intelligence with the united states? jen: this would b

services and lou hoover oversaw the first major effort to organize and catalog all objects in the white house collection. these efforts both preserve the past and transform the house into a museum and with mrs. kennedy support and her successors that has become even stronger today. while history is given more attention and credit to their husbands. it was these women who collectively saved pieces of our history for future generations. much of the associations work the acquisition of fine and decorative arts for the permanent collection. conservation and preservation efforts the selection of state services and the commissioning of portraits directly involved the first lady of the united states. we've been honored to work with 12 remarkable first. ladies since 1961. we could not do these things without our supporters. so on behalf of the white house historical association. thank you for your continued support of our work. now i'd like to introduce sylvia burwell president of american university. she's american universities 15th president and the first woman to serve in that role. since coming t

capitol, and white house.also learned a lot about why all these places are important to washington, d.c. in the nation. >> thank you to the students who provided questions and all of the experts who answer them. >> do not go yet. a very special person has a message for all of the students who are watching. dr. biden: being the first lady is the owner of a lifetime, i am grateful for every moment i get to serve the people of this country and i cherish the time i get to spend with students like you. i have been a classroom teacher for more than 30 years, and if there is one thing i know for certain, it is that you are the key to our country's future. please, stay curious, keep asking questions, learn about the issues in front of you, and know how much that your words matter. as we just learned in this discovery education virtual field trip, you are lucky to live in a country with a capital city as beautiful and historic as washington, d.c., and it truly is the city of us. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of g

i asked for white house about that today.g that the governor of the states, said he didn't want to, this is not the case of federal officials trying to snake something pass the state level officials? >> secretary psaki: i am confirming here that tennessee is near the middle of the country, and some kids have to travel through there to get to their destination. we have been very clear that our objective is to treat these kids humanely. >> peter: that kind of talk is not satisfactory to republican lawmakers who represent tennessee in congress, who want more answers, because they feel like their rights, as a state, have been violated. >> it's a violation of tennessee's tenth amendment rights. no one was notified, not your state, your federal, your local officials. no one knew this was happening. >> peter: they know about it now, and it's a part of the official white house record. we expect that record -- and a south korean president moon and president biden will have a joint press conference scheduled for the top of the hour. >>

is the the white house open again? can you talk about the considerations that went into these events over the last couple of days and is this the new norm going forward? jen: i can confirm we are a warm and fuzzy crew and liked to hug around here, but we were waiting for that to be allowed by cdc guidelines, which we certainly abide by. so we are, as many organizations and companies are, working to implement these guidelines at the white house. and so what you have seen over the last couple of days our efforts to do exactly that. and that includes welcoming back and having a full briefing room very soon. it includes having more events with more people. and certainly continuing to open the white house up, the people 's house up to the american public. go ahead. reporter: back to israel for a moment. one of the other examples is this pressure from lawmakers over the $135 million pending sales of guided missiles to israel. the president said he is committed to replenishing the iron dome. committed to making sure that but

counsel represents the white house, and he didn't represent trump but the office of presidency, now you have don mcgahn going to testify before the house. >> well, i think that the precedent is a good one because these are public servants and so long as the questioning is not going to get into material that is covered by executive privilege, public servants have a responsibility to report what they are doing when asked by oversight committees in congress. i think this is the way democracy is going to and should work. i think we'll see more of that in this administration. i think that the story overnight about the department of justice releasing in part doj memo under attorney general barr, and also fighting to keep part of it under seal shows the apolitical nature of the current administration, meaning they are willing to -- part of this for the sake of executive privilege should apply whether it's a democratic or republican administration. i see them putting their money where their mouths are in terms of not putting politics over what the law should be. >> what does it mean for

the president came out of the white house saying, we want a greet meeting, but we keep meeting with whiteod cops, bad cops, and they all have someone who's there who say, maybe we can make this work. and we have other people in the room who say, here are our red lines, or here what we're prepared toll give them on. but senate republicans would rather have conversations with joe biden, because they think they can pull him closer to their view and to their position. but is there a huge split inside the white house? maybe a minor. yes, joe biden wants a deal, but his staff are trying to make things work as well, and at the end of the day, they negotiate on his behalf. >> they sure do. hans nichols, thank you very much. really appreciate it. as we are heading into this weekend, the white house, according to my reporting and my reporting from democrats on the hill seem to be talking to an audience of one. and that is senator joe manchin who may hold the fate of all of this on his shoulders because they can't move it forward with 50 votes without him. thank you all for getting up way too early

it includes having more events with more people and, certainly, continuing to open the white house, thelic. reporter: thanks. back to israel for a moment: one of the other examples i think that would fit into darlene's question is this pressure from lawmakers over the $735 million pending sale of precision-guided missiles to israel. i know the president said yesterday he has committed to replenishing the iron dome. but is he also committed to making sure that sale goes through? ms. psaki: we have no plans to change our security assistance that we are providing to israel. but i will say that the president's view is through -- is that we need to do -- we need to move forward on a couple of fronts. certainly, supporting the security of israel is one of them. but another front is rebuilding -- playing a constructive role in rebuilding gaza providing , assistance and funding through the u.n. efforts to do exactly that; ensuring that it is not hamas, but is the palestinian people who benefit from that assistance. and doing that through the u.n. is, in our view, the best way to do that. it als

lost control of the senate and eventually, of course, lost control of the white house. now, the margins are small. we're at 50/50 in the senate. the democrats' margin in the house is certainly not large. and as '22 approaches, there are reasons for republicans to feel somewhat confident. the historical trend are that the party in power, the party who has the white house, tends to lose seats in the midterms. and it wouldn't take much of a swing to put that back in the republican column. and that's why they're doubling down on trying to put january 6th behind them. that's why they're trying to. they have made the calculation that at least in the certainly, embracing trumpism, even if mcconnell doesn't like trump personally, they still believe, though, this is largely the way to go. it's a way to energize their voters to get them to turn out in '22. we'll see in 2018, that off year election, that didn't go so well for republicans, when trump's name himself was not on the ballot. we also, the white house and democrats believe that they'll have a shot to rebuke the historical

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i want to bring in my colleague to the white house, nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welkerfarrenholt covers trump for "the washington post" and the one who broke this stare, legal affairs columnist for politico and joyce vance is former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. dared, let me start with you because it's your reporting here. it wasn't unexpected, but it's certainly significant. talk to us about what exactly this means, this empaneling of a special grand jury? >> well, it means as you said earlier, that the d.a. is shifting the focus of the investigation from gathering evidence, vacuuming up evidence of donald trump to put it together and make a case that one person or set of persons committed a crime. it's not going to be a quick process and that's the next step. over the next six months the d.a. will go to the grand jury and show them more evidence, probably more evidence than a regular jury would see, that somebody or maybe more than one somebody committed a crime. >> kristen, we've heard a lot from the former president and not

>> this photograph was taken by komodo, the white house staff photographer.a lot of the photos that we have seen of his is black and white but this one turns out to be available in color. this is on june 7th, 1968. it's the day after bobby kennedy's assassination. she was assassinated on the fifth and died on the sixth. the seventh is the one day that they have before the eighth when they are going to go up to new york for the funeral at st. patrick's cathedral. sitting on my left, on everybody's left is madame shumatav, who is there with lbj to paint his portrait. this is astonishing to me that they kept this appointment. if you can just imagine the tension and the anxiety and the fear and the exhaustion around this tragedy in the white house on that day but it's 1968 and they still don't have a presidential portrait of lbj, the first one that was done by peter ward they don't like in 1965 and for the johnsons the specter of becoming incapacitated in office hangs over their head. woodrow wilson's experience especially. they wind upkeeping this appointment. s

, but it was not until 1901 that president theodore roosevelt named it the white house. >> the whitese is huge. it has six floors, 132 rooms, 28 fireplaces, and four kitchens. there is also a swimming pool, tennis court, movie theater, and even a bowling alley. as you wind through these hallways and rooms, you not only see paintings, sculptures, and other priceless objects, you also get a sense of how much history has happened here, like -- history has happened here. >> like the east room, which has been the setting for countless beaches, concerts, and other important ceremonies. >> or, the state dining room where the presidents serves -- presidents throw fancy parties. as many as 140 guests can be seated here for dinner. now those four kitchens make a lot of sense. >> many of the rooms are named for the color they are painted, like the blue, red, green, and yellow rooms, which brings us to our first question. >> my name is olivia and i am in the sixth grade. dr. biden, do you have a favorite room in the white house? dr. biden: thank you for your question. there are many special room

is that something the white house would be open -- an approach the white house would be open to? >> again, i know there will be a range of ideas and proposals that will come forward from senator capito, from other republicans and other democrats as well. the president's bottom line, as you have heard me say a few times before, is he does not want to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. we certainly in that scenario would need to assess whether these funds are needed and not take them away from fighting the pandemic that we continue to battle every day. go ahead. >> reporter: thank you, jen. a couple of topics, quickly. first, house republicans are claiming that they have significant circumstantial evidence that covid-19 originated in a lab. has the white house seen any circumstantial evidence that it did not originate in a lab? >> i think first i would caution you against disproving a negative there, which is never the responsible approach in our view, when it comes to getting to the bottom of the root causes of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands

the news coming amid intense pressure by the white house. it's unclear when exactly the truce will take effect. this hour we'll be speaking to come bad veteran and iowa republican senator joni ernst on this major development. welcome. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. for to trey yingst with the very latest. trey? >> breaking tonight, the israeli security cabinet has approved a cease fire deal with hamas, the group in control of gaza. basically ending 11 straight days of fighting. we're getting reports right now according to israeli media this is set to go into place and into effect around 2:00 a.m. local time. there are no preconditions. this is significant. we spoke earlier today with hamas who said there would have to be preconditions in order to stop the fire. after the reports started to circulate that the israelis were on board with the cease fire agreement after a week of being urged by the united states and also the united nations to stop this fighting, we are not really sure if it's going to hold. one example of that is off in t

let's go to the white house to kaitlan collins. president biden just spoke within the past little while with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. tell us what you're learning. >> reporter: this is the second time he has spoken to him in just a matter of days, really showing how much this is elevated as an issue here at the white house after not really being one for president biden's first selveral months in office. the white house says that in a very carefully-worded statement we should note that president biden expressed his support for a cease fire and discussed u.s. engagement with egypt and other partners toward that end. they agreed that they and their teams would stay in touch. a senior administration officials says this is not president biden explicitly calling for a cease fire to happen yet. with all eyes on the middle east, president biden is under new pressure to address the escalating violence. >> i'll be speaking with the prime minister in an hour. >> reporter: biden spoke to israeli prime minister benjamin ne

he's at the white house for us.d dr. patel, is this the announcement the unofficial, okay, let's go back to the office, folks? >> i think we're getting the first indication of that when we hear from cdc director rochelle walensky in a matter of minutes now. as sources shared with nbc news, she's likely to say this is the day we longed for. this is the vj day, victory day, day where americans vaccinated can return to their lives in most instances. but obviously, the real challenge for this white house, for this president, has been the best way to communicate effectively what the science is on this without going too far, right? before the president took over, there was a lot of concern the last president, former president trump was not obviously in line with the science. the concern was the white house was going a little too far with the restrictions it had in place, given what we knew about the science and science right now. in many ways this is the sort of rip your mask off day, one the president can share with amer

joe biden will have people at the white house next week. i have to imagine that things are going to go a little quicker now. yamiche: dan, i want to come to you. how is all this traveling that president biden is doing, how might it help things along? jake says things need to happen fast. dan: it helps at the margins but the question is going -- is going to be, is there room for real comp mice between the president and the senate republicans. i'm told there'll be a meeting next thursday at the white house with senator shelly moore capito. i think the white house at that point will begin to see whether -- how serious republicans are about really giving ground and then how serious he is about meeting them closer to where they might want to be. so i think until we -- i would say a week from today, we may have a much better idea of whether what i would call a hard infrastructure bill which is just to say the kind of roads, bridges, that sort of thing, is possible. at that point if it's not possible he has to make a decision about what to do yami