there's no white houses, private space other than here's the new president arriving at the white house. it's a public space only in an editorial imagination. of course, we know the president lives in the white. but as far as i can tell, it's really just the public aspect of the presidency. and that's the purpose of the editorial cartoon right. the purpose of an editorial cartoon is to express an opinion and persuade you to the artist's point of view. and so they're not to do, oh, there's a new president happy days. somebody else is moving into the white house. no there's problems in america this sucker just took this job and has to deal with it. let me come to the room for questions. so please just give me a quick hand. if you have questions, any of our panelists. i see one in the middle of the front row. where is the microphone? here. here we go. ringer, please. thank you very much. just a quick question. if we have a lot of the comics recently of depicting trump and biden, obama but in the earlier years of comics were real presidents featured you know not fictional presidents, but ac

no, it's not the white house. it's a summer house. it's the shadow white house. but it resembles the south facade so spectacularly. and poor president wilson is just trapped by the shadows of all the issues he has to deal with. and he's according to conservative cartoonist john mccutchen of chicago he'not doing it too however, when we get to the larger than life presidency of franklin delano roosevelt about osca caesar of working for the new york times imagines e house that's overtake washington as the personnel of the president and strength as a president redraws the map. we get to truman who gave us the white house. we more know and love today and he's remodeled it. her block the washington post cartoonist us that he's remodeled it but he can't quite fulfill his promise as president because nobody will run with in his first campaign. lyndon baines johnson lger than life. everything's coming up. roses is as it gets to pass legislation and settle issues it's it's almost like a neymoon between him and herb ock and we have a great her block editor a cartoon collect

the white house. now, it's shorthanded by saying white house history with frank sesno, who's our moderator. and. and, frank, you have big shoes to fill, at least high shoes to fill, because we have ann compton here and we had four episodes of white house history with ann compton. and that was great fun as well. this program is put together by the david rubenstein national center for white house history here at the association, led by dr. colleen shogun, dr. matthew costello, and all of their colleagues who are here today. put in a tremendous amount of work to put on this series, as well as our other substantive programs that we have as part of our education mission here at the association. i'd like to acknowledge a member of our board of directors, anita mcbride, who is here, and three distinguished former members of our board, bob mcgee, martha kumar and mike mccurry, who are also on the panel. we have several members of our national council on white house history who are the real wind in a in the sa

ties to white house history. she also formed the white house paintings committee to seek out important works art that could be added to the white collection and displayed. she appointed first ever white house curator and she championed a public law that was passed by congress giving the white house museum status, which then meant that all items required for the white house collections, for her project and for after would be preserved and protected in perpetuity. and as i have said, she helped form the white house historical association, which carries on work to this day. jacqueline kennedy worked daily and tires tirelessly on the restoration project. she was by no means just its figurehead. hundreds of pages of her handwritten notes, memos, correspondence. now part of the jacqueline bouvier kennedy onassis papers at the kennedy library are evidence of that. did much of the research and seeking out the fine antiques and furniture that had some connection to the white house. early american history for a presidentia

so, the white house destination, white house as a patriotic symbol. so, why am i even showing you the west we this westside? by the mid-and late-19th century, the facade tells the story of what the content of the cartoonist. and the first story that gets told is, the presidency becomes important enough that there are spoils to be had and the spoils come out of the side. they do t come out of the front. no one will take wealth out of the entrance. it is the side of the building thatdepicted. and part magazine, a weekly publication from about the 1850s to 1917. the spoils of presidency, it is the side. want to know what cleveland is thinking? you go to decide. why doesn't the side appear in ese cartoons anymore? itis because we do not associate spoils with the presidcy anymore. in my transition from facades, i am just brinng you this teddy roosevelt, with a train wreck running at him. and this is squashing the white house, giving wilson the entry, right? speaking of wilson, now we are getting into the south facade. it is my argument, not 100% of the tim

you don't need to label white house to everybody knows it's the white house. i know i've gone quickly through this, so if you want a slide set a pdf version of my slides that with all the links to the cartoons or if you want to ask you questions after the presentation, i be happy to answer them. you can grab at lunch or at the actors, i'll be around all day, but you can also contact us through our ask the librarian service, and ofag the 17.6 milln images in the library of congress, if digitize 1.5 billion, a 1.4 million are available to you because they are the public domain to download free of charge. and with that, i pass it to my colleague megan. >> i come and gone. my name is megan halsband. i am a reference librarian in the newspaper and current periodical reading room at the library command of the great fortune of being able to work with the comic book like you at the library because it's considered a serial. sors goes along with newspapers, right? there's actually quite a long history of comics and newspapers. for those of you not familiar with the hist

the white house. well, with us to give deeper insight into pat nixon and betty ford, we have some distinguished people on this stage, susan ford bales only daughter of president and mrs.. susan is the sponsor, the aircraft carrier uss gerald r ford and recognize one of her extraordinary service as the ship's sponsor. susan was named an honorary aviator by the united states navy, becoming only the 31st american ever to receive this distinction and the first woman ever to be so honored. she is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and is the author of two novels set in the white house. i'm waiting for those novels. get on tv now, because the netflix we need to clean up next looks a little. edward cox next to susan, the son in law of president and mrs. nixon. many of you recall that the hauenstein and the ford held a joint program. i figured it out 12 years ago. you asked when it was 12 years, 2011, where we were at the ford museum and featured ed cox talking about what it's like to work with presid

one very, very role, of course, in the white house is that of the white house. social secretary, relying on one's expertise in protocol, tact, etiquette, hospitality. i think there might be some magic. it has, and it remains key to build relationships, maintain diplomatic ones, present the most welcoming experience possible at the white house. the kansas city star in 1921 reflected her duties will be as complex as that of an. that was laura harlan, the social secretary for, warren g. harding and calvin coolidge, who served from that year to 1929. but, of course, was 20 years prior, in 1901, during president theodore roosevelt's administration. that first lady edith hired the very first official social secretary at the white house, isabella hagner james, and ever since social secretaries have helped create memorable experiences for all guests at the white house from kings and heads of states, artists, scholars and little children chasing those easter eggs at the white house easter egg roll. while the reins of the job varies and you will likely never them on a goo

it is not the white house no, it's not the white house. it's a summer house. it's the shadow white house, but it resembles a south facade so spectacularly and poor president wilson is just trapped by the shadows of all the issues he has to d and he's according to conservative cartoonist john mccutchen of chicago, he's not doing it too well. however, whwe get to the larger than life presidency of franklin delano roosevelt, the new york timesimagines a white house that's overtaking washington as the personality of the president and his strength as a president redraws the map. we get totruman who gave us the white house we know and love today and he's remodeled it. herb block. the washington post cartoonist reminds us that he's remodeled it, but he can't quite fulfill his promise as president because nobody will run with him in his first campaign, lyndon baines johnson. larger tn life. everything's coming up rosesas he gets to pass legislation and settle issues. it isalmost like a honeymoon between him and herb block. mr. block got tired of johnson asking forever

the white house stated -- did the white house know about that procedure? did you know he was undergoing a procedure? >> no. >> doctors used the phrase selective in their statement. the use of that described by the pentagon was fully transparent. >> that was my mistake. i thought that was in the statement. i refer to the pentagon on that. i am not a medical expert. i cannot. >> elective procedure >> do you know what an elective procedure implies that might sound like what we are not being told? >> -- are there any consequences for any dod officials that knew about secretary alston but did not report that information -- secretary austin but did not report that information. what did the president -- he's the commander-in-chief. >> he should get the appropriate care that he needs to get better. so he can get back to work. he believes that we should learn from this both in terms of notification and transparency to the american people. and we're going to do what we have to do and as karin said, we will take steps at the white house to make sure that we have a go

what is the white house saying what does the president saying? and believe it or not it matters where presidents say things, the setting that they are in. think of the complete package. you know, like i said about obama, it's, you know, looking at how all the moving parts together and there's a lot that goes into creating a presidential or white house communications. and what's the president trying to sell through this? if you think it from the standpoint of there's a message that's being put out there, is this about a policy agenda? yes, that's should be the ultimate goal. but it's also about advisors promoting and selling the president as an individual. so when we're talking about, you know, what's going on, president biden does the speech think about all that went into that. and then i want to think about all the reaction after it. and what is the goal for the white house if president biden he's given a couple recently, if he goes out and gives a speech or he to michigan and goes out on the picket line with autoworkers who are out on strike, w

multiple days befor the white house was told about this. also happening on janry 4th and i'd like to a time for when the whiteas informed because at noon local time, there was a strike in background conducted by the u.s. mr. biden and austin approved the strike before he was hospitalized, but still, the strike could have been happening while the defense secretary was in the hospital and the white house did not know about it. >> you're right. the, jake sullivan in one of his briefings with president biden on thursday, january 4th, informed the president that austin was in the hospital. that's when we, the next day obviously is when we learned about the fact he was in the hospital and had transferred authority to his deputy. it's reasonable to assume that the deputy secretary of defense would have been a part of conversations along with the chairman of the joint chiefs and other members of the national security staff. the president's national security team. about whatever level of approval needed to happen from that high up in terms of a stri

liz: democrats too, john, including the white house have attacked house republicans over subpoenaing biden is a different tune on subpoenas not too long ago. watch this. >> lesson is includes your children out in america and get a subpoena to go before congress or get a subpoena to go. you have a legal responsibility to go. >> are you listening to people that defy congressional subpoenas on the january 6 committee? >> i hope the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? >> i do, yes. liz: so before that, then candidate biden said they should agree with the subpoena. john, there's news coming in and what's in your estimation, what's the fallout of this. jim jordan is getting serious about drafting articles of impeachment against the president and jim jordan sent fbi director christopher wray a letter requesting the fbi director release the fbi document from march 2017 and that document, john, detailed a veteran fbi informant alleging president biden is hunter biden each took $5 million in bribes from the cofounder of burisma. they hired hunter bi

council at white house.in before indicting trump, he again went to the white house and met with as you pointed out the january 6 committee, democrats in the spring of 2022. so that's nathan wade going down there. >> sure, nathan's wade role was to look into the potential prosecution and codefendants in that case and those meetings related to that prosecution and politics written all over this. trump has been saying this all along and he's been proven right and seems like the wheels are falling off of this case in every which direction at this point. elizabeth: what do you make of house judiciary chair jim jordan saying fani willis' office got federal tax money and he has a right to ask and call on willis to disclose her team's contacts with the january 6 committee? final word. >> i think that make as lot of sense, and i think there's a lot of questions that the american people deserve answers to and specifically the defendants in that case. elizabeth: got it, katie cherkasky, thank you for joining and yous g

the white house spokesmanjohn white house spokesman john kirby white house spokesmanjohn kirby conceded he put it "optimal," but the white house is not calling for the defence secretary to resign at least at the moment. he remains in hospital. contrast all this with back in 2006, for example, when the then us defence secretary donald rumsfeld was admitted to hospital for a shoulder industry. the principal was kept up—to—date constantly. ditto in 2003, when colin powell was in hospital for prostate treatment. it seems that there is a lack of transparency, some are saying, in the pentagon in the us defense department, and this also raises the question — how with all these heated conflicts going on in the world was the absence of the us defence secretary not noticed by those in the white house?— in the white house? david willis, thank _ in the white house? david willis, thank you - in the white house? david willis, thank you so - in the white house? david willis, thank you so much | in the white house? david i willis, thank you so much for updating us on that. quite fascinating story there

the white house seemed to punt on that yesterday. can the white house do that, shannon? >> shannon: exceptionally rare but think back to the late 1950s after brown v. board of education where there were students showing up, black students to try to integrate the schools as had been ordered. in arkansas the national guard was actually used by the governor there in 1957 to block these students from getting into class and dwight d. eisenhower, the president at the time, did take federal control of the national guard and tell them they could not be used to do that. >> sandra: important to get these in here, governor brian kemp of georgia and another standing in solidarity with abbott, two governors. listen. >> this is a no-brainer. every state now is a border state. the white house and joe biden obviously doesn't get it or they don't care. >> number one responsibility of the federal government is to secure the nation and they haven't done it. job one is to secure the border. >> sandra: does seem there are more and more governors stepping up and standing behind the texas gove

you have the attorney general of new york meeting with the biden white house and white house counselknow who? how many occasions have you identified the biden white house? what was the timeframe of that? >> sure. we saw that there was a meeting in august, the month or two before they filed the complaint. there was another meeting later in the midst of our litigation on the attorney general's claim. that is twice confirmed. i believe there are also reports that she had been at ms. kamala harris's home. this is not normal. she's a new york attorney general voted by the new york constituents. the only thing they all have in common is the sorrows backing. i cannot understand why she would have because in the middle of a trial to go see the white house and the biden administration let alone the top. one of the record said they met on the front long. i can't believe what i am seeing. i really can't. i am with you reporting with you every day. i am in the weeds. i still am shocked they cease to amaze me. this is unbelievable. i thought georgia was bad. today i have to sit in court and get n

they would just say things about the white house. if one of the wires were being pulled from the internet to publish it, then it ended up at somebody's front door. they open up to look at it. it is a news picture. the white house voted on it. >> why does that matter? >> it is filtered propaganda. that is a strong word. i have been pushed back a number of times from different administrations for using that word. there is no filter. they are putting out the image that they want to see. this is a perfect example. we went through africa with the president. we looked at nelson mandela's jail cell. this is what we talked about for weeks before it happened. so much stress and anxiety about this. the editors were getting amped up. we were told that we were going to go in. we ended up going down the hall. the picture on the left is what we saw. that's what all the wire photographers saw. including myself, all the televisions were there. that was very impressive. it was a really somber moment. we get out 30 minutes later on twitter, and everyt

the white house chief of staff has sent a memo to all cabinet secretaries saying that the white houseeviewing agency protocols for a delegation of authority from cabinet members, essentially the white house is reviewing the protocols and policies of when a cabinet secretary is unable to carry out his or her duties, you got to tell the white house. either got to tell the office of cabinet affairs or you have to tell the white house chief of staff. let's bring in lieutenant general keith kellogg, fox news contributor, former national security adviser to vice president pence. if you had gone into the hospital when you were the vice president's national security adviser, and you didn't tell anybody and they were looking for you, and they could not find you, what would have happened? >> thanks, john, for having me. well, i would be a nonadmit back into the white house grounds. i think the secret service would have pulled my clearance and my pass. look, i did go to the hospital for actually hip replacement, when i was in the white house, and i told the president that's what i was going to d

i'm there at the white house demanding action on behalf of the american people. republicans are going to stand on that ground. we have been con sis lently and we will continue to do so. >> if ukraine is absolutely has to be a priority which i'm certainly not for guess pratt to get money to ukraine. again the american people aren't for that i think it's only 41% in our fox voter analysis poll in iowa say they want to give more money to ukraine. but if you guys all want to do that. do a ukraine bill stand alone why tie that to our border. >> ukraine is leverage to get border but to your point they may indeed be broken up. we will see how it develops. the devil is going to be in the details of all these proposals. what is happening in ukraine is not acceptable. the status quo is not acceptable. we sent billions of dollars over there without any clear artic could you a little of the strategy. i have been telling the white house this as well. what is the strategy? what's the end game? how do we have accountability? >> laura: why are we giving any more money then? they

i do believe in large measure because of this issue i do think were going have a change of the white househink were going have a republican president i think were going to win the senate expand the majority in the house is well predicted as d ministration shot back accusing the gop of standing in the way >> have house republicans that's literally blocking the president's effort to do something. that is what they are doing their playing political games. >> all eyes will be on washington next week dh secretary mayorkas facing an impeachment inquiry on wednesday. but first he will travel back down here to eagle pass for another operational visit scheduled for tomorrow. shannon: we know you have us covered on that comment casey stegall live at the southern border thank you. joining is now texas or publican governor greg abbott. governor, welcome back to fox to send a. we got the lead negotiator in the senate coming up saturday james lankford the white house says it needs more money he said they are pressing for policy changes. what is the number one thing you would tell senator lankford you ne

the white house _ think hisjob is right now? tue: white house has think hisjob is right now? few days and earlier today that the president has confidence in secretary austin and that there are no plans to replace him. so we take them at their word as of today and there is no indication he is going to be replaced. i think there are a few things on the table and first and foremost his own personal health. this, apparently, is much more serious than had initially been indicated to anybody. will he be able to fully recover from the infection and complications and fluid buildup that he experienced that led him to be taken back to the hospital after his initial procedure by ambulance and what the statement calls intense pain. he is a 70—year—old man and he has had quite a knock so there will be that. can he recover and do the job? will be that. can he recover and do thejob? and will he be able to recoverfrom able to recover from any political fallout? there are now reviews of all of this both from the republican on capitol hill and reviews at the pentagon that people may not have a

for great white house correspondent peter doocy what is the latest, how is austin surviving? reporter: there are important details they are not telling us, officials will not disclose whether or not secretary austin ever lost cop sho consciousness as he was rushed from his house to walter reed in an am balanan ambulance, on january 1st. >> it is not something that we can speak to right, this is his own medical -- it have a private thing. reporter: here is the thing pentagon carried out a airstrike in iraq while austin was in the icu, we told it was authorized before he went in. and republican senator tomcat tom cotton said that secretary of defense is key link in chain of commanding between the president and uniformed military. there must be consequences for this shocking break town it true. we're told austin did participate in a secure call with the president on january 1st, the day high went to the hospital for post surgical issues, but white house situation room, which needs to know where people on these calls are located, did not' exactly where he was. >> it is generic, p

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let's go to the white house with mj lee. we heard from press secretary -- in the last hour and she would not answer directly as to whether the white house knew that hunter biden was going to show up on capitol hill today. >> reporter: that's right. the white house had been quiet all day long about this issue since we saw hunter biden on capitol hill and i'm just coming out of that briefing where, as you said, the white house press secretary fielded a number of questions about hunter biden's appearance on the hill, including the question of whether the white house had been given any kind of heads up that he would be doing this and, multiple times, she declined to answer that question saying that hunter biden is a private citizen and preferring any detailed questions to his own legal team. something i pushed her on was this idea that the president's son has pulled this stunt of his own, when the white house has consistently said that everything related to the impeachment inquiry which has everything to do with the president's

to make law, we have to have a democratic senate and democrat white house and a republican house to be this. this agreement has to work. everyone is counting on this working. but it will have to be an agreement that is a democrat white house and then, send it with a republican house and we are working to for the needle for things that actually work. >> shannon: it sounds like it is going to be a very difficult thing to accomplish. speaker johnson who was at the border this week and took dozens of house lawmakers, there were reports that he is thinking about negotiating directly with the white house but how will that impact what you are doing? and is the greater concern that even if you get a deal done in the senate, it can get to the house gop, where you have some folks over there making some very concrete domains of what it is going to take to get their vote? >> i would say the speaker should always be engaging with the white has. that should be the basic role of the speaker to be able to negotiate with the what has. i was the house has not been heard. it has a very strong bill. that

new ou havf i e the attorney general in new york meeting with the biden white house and white house counsel. >> i assume or i don't kno.w h who do we know who? how many occasions have you identified she was in the biden white house? and what was the timeframe of tha t? >> sure. we saw there was a meeting in august, the month or two, right before they filed their complaint. and there was another meetind te later in the midst of our litigation on the attorney general' s claim. so that is twice confirmed. i believconfirmee are also repos that she had been at miss kamala harris' home. this is not normal. sh he is a new york attorneyne general, voted by thraethe on new york constituents. and the only thing they all have in common is the soross bak backing. i cannot understand why shing.e would have cause in the middle of a trial to go seeof the house and the biden administration, leon lett alone the top one ofy the record, said that they met on the front lawn. i can't believe what i'm seeing. >> i really can't. and seeian'ti am with you, sean,g wh reporting with you every day. i am in the weeds

so we have a recreated white house.when you walk into our museum and you see mary lincoln and she's getting dressed for a ball. elizabeth is zipping up or i guess tying her up in the back. and then all of these sort of headless mannequins who are supposed to be other wealthy white women who are in the original design were gossiping about mary and talking about how much. they hate mary lincoln. and it's one of those things where i can always tell if the exhibit team, the design museum was diverse or not, because if it's not, that's the kind of narrative you get when. and of course, the exhibit's field is overwhelmingly male and which is part of the challenge. right. but so you have these kind of headless women who gossiping about mary, and that was the original interpretation. and one of the ways in which we've actually that is to really start to center the women in their own stories. so instead of talking about all the ways that these women hated mary, really talking about what were these women doing at the time using t

the white house still peddling disinformation. >> the white house statement implies and says that texas officials blocked u.s. border patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance. >> there were other migrants in the water as well. >> why wasn't that included in the statement. if that's what you were referring to. >> our statement is very much consistent with d.o.j. filing. >> harris: that was real. art del cueto, vice president of the national border patrol council. no doubt your agents are talking about this today. so i want to hear directly from you on the two things. the facts, and then this narrative. >> harris, the agents are frustrated. that's what it comes down to. there is so much frustration. they want to speak out and say what the problems are. you have statements coming out of the white house similar to and you remember very well you covered it very well the horse patrol guys where they came out and they made them be the villains. this is the pattern we continuously have seen from this administration is they take bits and pieces in order to bring out their narrative

donald trump: the white house popped up on his screen. rusty bowers: so i take the call and donetta steps out goes in the house. i sat there in my little prius and had a chat with the president with bad phone reception and backed out in front of the house where i'd get better reception. jake tapper: rudy giuliani was on the line too, and bowers says it was giuliani who began making crazy claims about voter fraud in arizona. rusty bowers: i can't give you the exact numbers, but i'll throw out numbers, but they're kind of the audacious numbers like 200,000 illegal aliens voted, 6,000 military ballots were stolen and used. jake tapper: bower says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. rusty bowers: and then i said, but what's the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and they said, well, we've heard that there's an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause, that you can throw out the biden electors and put in trump electors. and i said, that's a new one to me.