the white house? well the theory of restoration and preservation, is that by restoring and preserving the past we can make certain that we don't make that were made in the past and we can learn and do better citizens for the future. that's the whole theory of history why we study history. it's to learn from the past make certainly don't make the same mistakes and do better at going forward. now the human brain has not yet evolved such that when you see a picture of the white house or a picture of any historic building, it's the same as actually visiting it you can look at the picture of the white house and get some sense of what it's all about, but it's not the same as a visiting it and therefore if you preserve it more people want to visit it what people want to see what this white house is about and therefore our citizens flock to see it all the time and they should and it's possible to make this white house better because we can provide the resources through the white house historical association t

in her view, the white house was the people's house, all of the people. continuing the slighting reasoning meant that the white house should also be a show place. she willingly, slow down just a little bit, she willingly turned to experts to help her accomplish this goal. in the, and she succeeded in both of these goals, accessibility and preservation, without most of the american public even knowing that she has that any handling it. if these efforts to do this, as in most aspects of her life, nixon's accomplishments were lost in the midst of her husband's career. i think we have to begin with the fact that mrs. nixon's background was very different from her predecessors, from both mrs. johnson and mrs. kennedy, and even mrs. eisenhower to a certain extent. she came from a very humble background, she worked most of her life, here is a picture of her working her way through college, she worked as a teacher. then we go to the next slide, and you could see that even as she and dick got married and started their political career, they were still struggling.

this program is from the white house historical society -- association. >> our final panel, the white house gardens today, features speakers with lived experiences working in and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportu

this is not the first white house school, but it likely was the last time the white house had a school inside. jacqueline kennedy had an experience where caroline had ballet classes outside of the white house, which was no issue until they became until her husband became president and then they were caroline was being followed by reporters. so she decided this is kennedy decided to create what was initially called a playgroup you're kind of evolved into a nursery and then by the time carolyn what caroline was school age became a first grade classroom and john jr. was part of the playgroup ultimately, but it was comprised of children. who were the kids of their close friends and the parents all pulled their resources and funded? the salary of the teachers the parents pooled resources for the supplies books. there was a trampoline that was purchased for the the school kids. it was her way of providing her kids with an environment where they were learning in something like a classroom setting with other children, but again, it was controlled they were. in you know behind is for private wa

ladies do to the white house. i would just say the emmy shows the popularity of the tour the televised tour 1962 and how it was received in we've already talked about first ladies and popular culture. it actually became such a part of popular culture so much so that if people have seen the fairly recent movie jackie, they know that that piece both the camelot interview that mrs. kennedy did right after the assassination and the tour in 1962 became a major part of that hollywood film several years ago. well, and i would just say that i don't think it's a matter of following up. i think that that anytime you have something like mrs. kennedy's tour in which in which what she did was kind of open up the possibility. i think that was that was really kind of if they followed in any way they followed that they followed this thing that we can say. yes. this is our home. this is where we live and this is anybody can come here and be a part of this and i think that's the part that they if they were following anything. they

they are also in the white house. did they have any interactions with them. >> they did run into them. >> frequently? >> i don't know how frequently, but i think it was something that was not necessarily anticipated when they first got into the white house. the first interaction caroline -- she went into the white house communications room. that is what it was. there were some reporters there. someone casually asked her, where is your father? she said something like, oh, he's not doing anything. he's just sitting around with a shoes off. he's not doing anything. it ended up in -- it makes the washington post. >> you try aspirins to create a normal childhood in the strangest of circumstances. it may be impossible. that is a timeline to walk. >> yeah. images that emphasized the normalcy of childhood behavior but in a setting where you are not used to seeing that. >> they really are just kids being kids. >> one of the offshoots of popularity of the kids was when they started getting into this era of the commercialization

telling the rich stories of white house history has been the mission of the white house historical association since we were founded in 1961 by first lady jacqueline kennedy, he was her vision at the young age of 1861 by first lady jacqueline kennedy. it was her vision that and the young age of 30 want to create an organization that would provide non taxpayer funding to maintain the museum standard of the house, which had been somewhat neglected through presidencies leading up to the kennedys. although the association has developed and expanded over the past 60 years, the mission established by mrs. kennedy still guides our work and our offerings. earlier this month, the association celebrated our 60th anniversary with a gala at the temple of gender and the sacrum win of the metropolitan museum of art in new york. the evening featured powerful and poignant remarks from the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden, ambassador caroline kennedy, david rubenstein, chairman of our board, fred ryan, and vice chair, john rogers, and l roker soviet the master of ceremonies for the evening. we h

this program is from the white house historical society -- association. >> our final panel, the white house gardens today, features speakers with lived experiences working in and around the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan pell, deputy director of science and public programs manager for the u.s. botanical gardens. jim adams, horticulture manager from the united states botanical gardens. and jim mcdaniel, secretary for the white house historical association board of directors and a former liaison for the white house and national park service. like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will return to the stage for a conversation moderated by dr. pell. we will leave time at the end for open questions with the audience. so please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thanks so much. it's an honor to be here today to speak with you all about white house gardens. i won't pretend that -- both jims worked at the white house. i will open it up at the end for the are questions because i feel like it's a unique opportu

stay at the white house overnight. for political reasons one he was married to a white woman and two he was african-american and jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis jr. this great celebrity stay at the white house. so it's a story. it's a it's a it's a long story that has major implications and the lincoln assassination changes. i think they're the trajectory of that story and you know, i don't do counterfactuals and i don't know what would have been different it had lincoln lived, but what i do try to show is that for a brief period for four years the white house is different than it was before and it's different than it would be for a long time afterd

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except it was at the white house. i think the example that most people know is the one that actually did get a lot of media coverage. stanley's image of john junior under the resolute desk, playing while kennedy is sitting at the desk. >> that's a famous one. >> iconic. >> yeah. >> we are going to move on, actually, to that section of the exhibit now. scenes. and obviously that is so here we are in the next exhibit. let's call this one, behind the scenes. obviously that is what we are seeing here. these are portraits. some from the official white house photographers, really giving us an inside look as to what life was like in the white house for the children. it's just like your family albums at home. >> you have pictures of your kids in their halloween costumes, hey we are walking outside the house. you know? it just happens to be the white house. [laughs] we do have a few official able to that were taken specifically for the media. this was taken for one of the photojournalist by stanley trebek. it just illustrates

everyone at the white house is so excited.could watch tonight. questions over whether we should gather with covid. we are telling the country we are ready to get through the pandemic. plus, everyone had to prove they were fully vaccinated and boosted. if you are at home watching this, and you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite fox news reporter. they're all here, vaccinated and boosted, all of them. [laughter] fox news, i am really sorry your preferred candidate lost the last election. to make it up to you, i am happy to give my chief of staff to you also he could tell sean hannity what to say everyday. ron klain is here. mick mulvaney. next, on cbs, i was tom. -- stunned. i know this is a tough town. i expected it, i just hoped it would be from republicans. i am not worried about the midterms. i'm confident we can work it out during my remaining six years in the presidency. folks, i am not here to roast the gop, that's not my style, besides there's nothing i can say about the gop that kevin mccarthy hasn'

she didn't like the idea of redecorating the white house a lot of people say dolly redecorated the white house, but what she did was restructure it in a way that mrs. kennedy would have proved by this is amazing that before dolly's white house, which is called the executive mansion and it would only be during her tenure where it would get that familiar loving nickname the white house there was no place in the in the capital city where all the men of government could get together. let alone their families let alone visiting diplomats. let alone visiting americans let alone anybody it was so what dolly did was she took that executive mansion and she turned it in to a center for entertaining where everybody in town would show up and they did and she threw weekly parties and they were as regular and as grueling as they sound but they became an independent and indispensable part of the washington political machine. and it's in those parties. i can tend that these people learn to work together in a bipartisan ways going towards something they didn't even know is going to happen, which is that

out of the white house complex. ten years later, president obama went over on one of those missions unfortunately, i had the experience from watching nick and how is teamwork it. and the rule was, if it leaked out, we would not do all the stops. we would limit the time on the ground. and as we were leaving turkey to go to iraq, it did leak out. so, once again, you're in a position where you have to make a recommendation which you know is not popular, but and the recommendation was, we just go to the military base and there was a lot of discussions about it. but once again, at that point, the obama administration, there was a pretty big discussion on air force one and they were very supportive. and it means a lot to the agents, of course, when you get that kind of support. >> [inaudible] could i [inaudible] infer second. >> go ahead. >> on that trip, what's joe didn't mention, joe was a special agent in charge of president on bomber. i was's sister director. and we were leaving, as he said, from istanbul to go to afg

stay at the white house overnight. for political reasons one he was married to a white woman and two he was african-american and jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis jr. this great celebrity stay at the white house. so it's a story. it's a it's a it's a long story that has major implications and the lincoln assassination changes. i think they're the trajectory of that story and you know, i don't do counterfactuals and i don't know what would have been different it had lincoln lived, but what i do try to show is that for a brief period for four years the white house is different than it was before and it's different than it would be for a long time after okay. thank you guys. all right. all right. we're we'll just get going. um, great. okay, so hi everybody welcome to disability in american history and culture. it's great to see you all and hope you had a great spring breaks and so our plan for the day. we're gonna start with a review. i assume that you haven't spent your spring break learn

coolidge had a very pristine white house even a laid off the white house housekeeper could see that they spent too much because he was asking is he said the people to cut the budget federal budget then he must cut his white house budget as well and the big character thing that he did was he was rather popular contrary to what history books suggests now. and so he easily could have run again in 19. 28 he chose not to run why because he was trying to convey that office. is more important than man? i'm not as an lbj or of course roosevelt who said the elections about moi, you know. coolidge wanted to receive to in order to make the office more respectful. we live in a republic of laws. not men. and that that was a tough decision not to run because the party didn't exactly thank him for it when a candidate is very popular. he has big coattails. well coolidge did it. anyhow, there were other factors including illness his wife and so on but the main factor was he wanted to make like george washington rather than make like theodore roosevelt who said he wouldn't run again and then did and also

white house to that country. with that, the limousine is on these planes where you see the military aircraft. you can fit 6 to 8 cars on these aircraft. you can fit helicopters on these aircraft. everything moves in this foreign country, beyond the logistics they challenges the advanced work. now you do not have the same authority that you would have within the states. you are relying on those foreign countries to do what you want. there is a lot of negotiating back and forth, a lot of nudging back and forth. you know what you want, you need to have a state safe environment. we do not always get to that point. >> reciprocity is a big part of it when you are negotiating for whether you can carry weapons and a foreign country. whether we can fly marine one. china would always find us on whether we could fly marine one. talk to us a little bit about how you negotiate. hopefully when their leader comes to the states it isn't even exchange. nick? we have a good video we are going to show you and a minute of how there

>> and moving into the white house. well, yes. and they were the first couple to move into the white house. but nobody stayed terribly long. they weren't impressed. i think abigail, in some ways, embodies another part of partnership that diana is talking about. she really wasn't interested in what they would call presiding. so, she adopted martha's innovations and ceremonies rather dutifully, but the role that abigail played was really that of advisor. she really was her husband's closest adviser. and in the spirit of republican virtue, that's small r republican virtue, john adams made a terrible decision not to change his cabinet, so he ended up with a cabinet full of trators all working behind his back, that he was always relying on abigail, but in that particular circumstance, she really was his very closest adviser. >> and that's fascinating that you mentioned that, catherine. because really, coming up to modern first ladies and contemporary first ladies in terms of personnel issues, we know for example that nancy reagan so im

trisha was the first white house daughter to have her shower given by a member of the white house pressnd others were honored guests. other guests included members of mrs. nixon's staff and women reporters. one of tricia's gifts appeared to be a gift of sympathy for the couple's desire to be anonymous. she dawned this disguise. on june 4th, at washington's beautiful anderson house, mrs. william p. rogers hosted a reception. ambassador's acosta led the way through the receiving line. the ambassador himself was unable to be there. trisha graciously accepted the ambassadors gifts. in his remarks, the president express this wish for her's daughters husband and his daughter. >> it is my wish for the bride and groom after the wedding ceremony to live their own lives. but second, the chance to know the world as i've had a chance to know it and i look forward at a time where this will truly be an open world where they will have the chance to go to your countries and to all the countries of the world and to know the people of those countries. because what a wonderful future it is for your childr

the white house can't tell them what to do with it. congress for billions more on covid, you have covid money that's approved, why not urge the cities and states to focus on covid mitigation with that money? >> well, part of the american rescue plan, we knew we wanted to make communities safer and every community should be a safe community where kids can play outside and families can feel safe getting gas, and doing those things. and so it's not one or the other, and so we want to make sure that our communities are investing that money in comprehensive ways to keep communities safe and on the covid hand, we have been focused on covid since day one in terms of making sure we have the vaccines, making sure we stay a world leader, making sure we get shots in arms, we get tests out, ppe, all of those things, and we can do both. but i think that what we're ask for in terms of covid funding is so we can continue to do all of those things so that we didn't have to shut down covid when there was a spike. we have 99% of our schools open now as

but afternoon, welcome to the white house. i'm very excited that you hear today with me and thank you in advance for sharing your stories and your thoughts about your struggles and trials. i want to help children everywhere to be their best. so with your help. we can achieve positive results. so before we start i would like to ask each of you introduce yourself. and then you could start them maybe share some hobbies or the story that you want to share with me as we see here. we have a two boards on. on my rights i put down some of the towards that we need to live by in everyday life and on the left. we have a board that is empty and what i would like is have three of you to come up and maybe share your emotions how you feel maybe in school how you feel at home or with your peers so we could have them discussion and you tell me your thoughts and i will tell you my thoughts. so maybe i could be the first one and tell you what i feel today. instead good. yes, perfect. so i feel today very excited. and thankful because you're here

white house, we will challenge corinne by asking tough questions in the white house.the way, the yacht of suleiman kirillov kerilov was arrested for this, in the united states , to hunt for the property of russians, not only oligarchs, by the way, a spokes detachment was created. it seems to me that the time has come to create a similar detachment in russia and in the allied countries to hunt for american property for the property of american billionaires, who, of course, are no better than russian ones. in the meantime, the white house continues to pump weapons into ukraine, the first footage of the use of american 777 howitzers by the ukrainian military in the zone has appeared, almost hundreds of such 155-mm guns have already been handed over to kiev during a special operation, the pentagon reports. nazis from the third reich. training takes place in the german city of count, where in the thirty-eighth year the german nazis were preparing for the blitzkried were preparing conqueror. erase the face of the earth. soviet union in addition to homegrown bandera, various

seung min kim, the white house reporter for the washington post.nd susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. it's so good to see both of you at the table, and you, manu, remotely. we are so glad to have you here with us tonight. let's start by talking about that package that the white house is asking for. remind us, how much are they asking for, and what is in that package? seung min: when they initially put forward that request to congress, they had asked for more than $22 billion to cover the cost of additional therapeutics, vaccines, all these essentials the country needs to continue fighting this pandemic. several months ago they were supposed to put it in this must pass package in congress to fund the government, but that got left out over disputes on how to pay for it. now we are looking at this orphan package. because of protests from republicans, that already $22 billion has been sliced by more than half. now we are talking about $10 billion. there are a lot of other complications. the biggest company and with that package is repub

the white house on joe biden the president now damage control again.rd time he raised the possibility of u.s. military conflict with china if china decides it wants to invade taiwan. >> quickly you didn't want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? >> president biden: yes. >> you are. >> president biden: that's a commitment we made. >> harris: the president's comments sparked outrage from beijing. the white house with yet another walk back said this as the president said our policy has not changeded. he reiterated our commitment under the taiwan relations act to provide taiwan with the military means to defend itself. we'll treat them the way we're treating ukraine and help them fight their own fight but that's not what the president said. >> it's a little strange to see his own white house kind of walking him back. he is the president, they're not. i think that all of his key people are hard line left wingers who are terrified of the world

or the biden white house.s vaccine available before joe biden became president. >> yeah, of course. i mean, he got vaccinated, and others got vaccinated. so i mean, i think from a pure accuracy, that's not a correct statement. but i mean, you know, it just went out. i'm sorry, there's nothing i could do about that, jake. >> all right. well, i think you have done something by pointing out it's inaccurate. dr. fauci, thank you so much. have a good weekend. >> coming up, israeli police beat mourners at a funeral procession for a palestinian american journalist who had been killed. the shocking video and what led to the attack. that's next. erie-style chicken. it's sweet, it's tangy, it's tender, it never misses. you could say it's t the steph curry of footlongs. you could, but i'm not gonna. subway keeps refreshing and refreshing and re... (vo) every business, big or small, coast to coast, needs internet that can keep up with its demands. verizon has fast, reliable internet solutions nationwide. so you can power

so really, as the white house, the white house is the people's house. i think it is really important to see that every american sees their stories reflected in the white house. their stories, their ancestors stories, they should be able to see themselves in the building. that speech by michelle obama caused a lot of people to head our way to find more information about slavery in the white house. and we really didn't have a lot of that information available at the time. and so us launching our slavery in the presidents neighborhood initiative is an effort to correct that, to add the voices into the narrative, to put them in conversation with first ladies, first families, and the presidents themselves. they are essential to white house history, and american history! they are not just witnesses to white house history they are deeply involved. one of my favorite stories, and things that is sort of a correction, and enslaved man for president james madison, paul jennings, he wrote the first white house memoir. it's a pretty remarkable read, and in it he act