all right, white house myth number two. white house tunnels. in fact, we were just talking about this before class. the existence of tunnels. who use them. why did they use them? one of the stories is there were tunnels under the white house that a lot for a quick escape. that one could actually get to the potomac river and that dolly madison used it, that abraham lincoln had an escape tunnel. unfortunately, these are not true. we know that james hagen, the architect of the white house, did build several sewer systems. my guess is dolly madison probably would not have climbed through the sewer. she would not have wanted to travel that way. and these were installed for running water, but there were really not any full sized tunnels anyone could've used. this is the octagon house. this is where the medicines lived for about six months after the burning. it's just down the street from the white house. during the civil war, general winfield scott did suggest the possibility of adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury building. here'

white people.so i'll let you decide if that's progress or not, but you know, it's no longer segregation because you have just pretty much one race working in the kitchen. but overall, we see that we have these cooks who are culinary artists and at many times they're family confidants. presidents go to their funerals. they go to their weddings. they send them notes and gifts wh)i!pp significant family even happen. we see presidentsfn0yç terriblyd when they have to leave the white house at the change of administration, there's always this tradition where the resident staff lines up and the president goes down the line and just thanks them all for their service. and the other thing is we see that they're often civil rights advocates. they're pressing for african-americans to have their humanity accepted in the broader society. we saw what lizzie mcduffy did for fdr while campaigns but another example is ser ef wright who was the long-time private cook for lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson when he was pre

white house. to have any friends who might be interested in working on this initiative? i'm sitting in my office in denver, she's and. d.c. it was called initiative for one america. it was a outgrowth of president clinton's initiative on race. it had this wild and crazy idea. if we would just talk to one another and listened we might realize that we have a lot more in common than what's supposedly divides us. after she told me, this i did the same thing that dick cheney did when -- george washington -- george bush asked him to head the search committee. only mine went on the. list so i did get the job, move to d.c., and boy i worked in the clinton white house at the end of the second term, after that i started this interest in food, writing and that led to the publication of soul food, and then to this. book now what i love about the roosevelt presidency is that it has been found in my. book we have these african americans who are celebrated culinary artist doing their best to make the presidents

a privileged white person. someone who presumably, unlike her coworkers at cnn -- in fact, the dwarf king himself -- was both white and privilege, afflicted with something called white privilege. so much white privilege, in fact, that it blinded this person, because that is the thing about white privilege, keep doing it, you go blind. that is what the boss said. >> tucker carlson rolled his eyes at the idea of systemic racism. at white privilege. but perhaps he should roll those eyes on over to a mirror. it is entirely -- that clouds of black or brown americans would have been treated as a mostly white insurrectionist of the capital were on wednesday. >> tucker: [laughs] the lecture from the morning zoo lady. perhaps he should roll his eyes on over to a mirror. assuming you can even do that, when you've been blinded by white privilege.ro because white people can't see themselves, right? but maybe they should see themselves! they might stop insurrecting, stop being so white and privilege. it went on like this fo

for them white power equals white supremacy, and white supremacy is only achievable with numerical dominance. in their minds arise in the black and brown population threatens their very existence. that fear that white people have tried into extreme two kills and incarcerate many black and brown people as possible to maintain their majority status. what we saw play out at the capitol and jennifer six is just a a continuation of that effort. it started long before when slave patrols were created to brutalize and create come brutalize and kill black after slavery. white fear of extinction has shown itself in black men being castrated by angry white mobs because the white men were afraid black men's ability to procreate. it manifested itself in putting millions of black and brown men in prison during their time reproductive years. it's manifested itself in the raw hatred -- black president because he represented the loss of white power. it manifested itself in dog whistle slogans like make america great again, which really means make america white again. it manifests itself in putting brown and

house, pieces about intellectuals in the white house as well as emergency preparedness in 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, white house. we've got fourth of july coming up, we've got more president's birthdays in the summer and anytime is good for someone to learn about the white house and presidency. kiron skinner is also a person of action and scholarly repute and worked recently in the white house or in the state department director of policy and planning. served an um into -- served a number of administrations as well as presidential campaign and the professor and director of institute of politics and strategy at cash carnegie mellon university and she's written books on reagan an and foreign policy as well. we have a great line-up today and we're going to jump in the meat of the book. we want you to get a sense of tevi what is in the book, the key points and turn to kiron to hear her thoughts and we will have some conversations. i'll mention it to you, when i come to

and she said during her white house time, she said i really dreaded coming to the white house for fear loss of privacy, what would be the impact on her two young children. they're the only president and first lady to have a baby between the election and the inauguration so they come to the white house. 3-year-old caroline and infant john jr. she was really worried what would be the impact of living in this fish bowl? and she wrote to bill walton about halfway through her time in the white house and said it's the happy time that i know. i can farm out the things that i don't want to do. but i get to live in the same home with my husband. before, he would be out on the road frequently, campaigning, when he was in the senate. and this way, his office was at home, he had a home office. obviously the tragedies at the end of the presidency took their toll. but i think certainly towards the end of her life, she seemed to have found happiness with maurice, her children were doing well, she had grandchildren, one named from her husband jack and two granddaughters from caroline and i think at th

white import .r empathy or engagement. if the most part. announcing the no white person new jeremiah who he was. but i'm saying the white culture unlock the broader political. the identity was not impacted by an therefore unconcerned with jeremiah wright, once the sermons became an issue any came the rep. of the presidents to be, obama. a sensible hatred of whiteness . then all of a sudden, they were loving onto these sermons and deconstructing every syllable and looking at every adverb and looking at every announcement partied made in the church because all this and became of interest. so the black people are used to existing in a parallel universe or even our great genius for the most part is ignored by white people. and they are deprived up not only an acknowledgment of our humanity but enriching of their humanity is well. robin: i see that creates a false since of relationship for white people. we worship these heroes of these images and singers and athletes. so we think we have relationships re

we don't have white ghettos.hey're mixed in with the broader population. so, yes, i agree with you. >> i think it's very important to disabuse people of the notion that donald trump was elected by poor white people. the median income, i believe, during the republican primary of the average trump voter was about $72,000 or so. that is way, way above any sort of income that any sort of -- i mean, middle class black person even -- that would be a relatively high income for a middle class black person. so it's important that we not dump this at the feet of poor white people. donald trump swept white people regardless of demographic across the board. gender, class, education, et cetera. he just won. >> we are going to take three more questions. >> -- amazing and you're powerful and, mr. rothstein, i agree with the premise that segregation, the law, has pushed us through government programs to desegregated areas. my question is how does that enforce our de facto segregation. in theory our laws are based on personal cho

what is happening with the white working? 40 percent of the landscape and now yesterday every to put democracy further risk. was a very disturbing event and a very important trend and demographic group. we are very excited to have some of the best people to talk about this issue and as well to this situation might have the group turned around traditionally supported by democrat to go to a republican party before we introduce our judge i want to give aiv shout out to ambassador you have a lot of distinguished guests in our audience today and then to answer questions. we could go over tomo accommodate. and author of fox news channel but also served in a number of referrals. political real clear politics the first book was prescient with done neglected for white men and the democratic dilemma and other common years ago the latest are in the hardhat hardhat most notable blocks of 2020. it is available on the website and will sign the way if you would like this is a passionate interest occurs for a long time so we are grateful to

we have partnered with key lenders, the white house with special conservation support from the white house historical association. we've also partnered with the nationals first ladies library, the library of congress, the state department and numerous presidential sites and libraries. and to mark the occasion of this exhibition, we established what we call an evergreen book, a book that will outlast the exhibition of first ladies of the united states. and it's dependent on the for our book "america's presidents." these make fabulous stocking stuffers in case you're looking for something for the holiday season. at the national portrait gallery, while we do have this wonderful collection of presidential portraits, we only began to commission portraits of first ladies in 2006 with this portrait of hillary rodham clinton. and we've commissioned portraits of laura bush and michelle obama. and we hope that this tradition will continue. this is really important. first ladies have not always been the portraiture. and this is the lacking the faces of a couple of women that we consider first l

i believe no democratic presidential candidate has won the white vote, certainly not the white class working vote, that's a long time to lose a significant percentage of the population. are they lost forever to the democrats? we have a new president who is a working-class fellow himself, his background. is he able to change that dynamic or is he just going to be a transitional figure because he's going to be 82 by the time his presidency ends and i'm not counting on a second term. how did the democrats lose it? is it simply -- and i put the word simply", the emphasis on minorities, on immigrants and various interest groups, be they gays or women's rights or so on, all of which are legitimate, nonetheless left a ash left a lot of people feeling out of it. or are there other factors at work? i guess i will throw it to you, senator? sen. webb: -- let me let david -- [crosstalk] david: pat buchanan's note to richard nixon. in light of these events, let's member the hardhat riot occurred four days after kent state. the dow jones crashed to the greatest extent since jfk's assassination. th

did he bring slaves to the white house?>> nine of the first 12 presidents brought enslaved people, used enslaved labor at the white house because you're trying to figure out what do you need to get a building going and to get a whees going? what do you need for the entertainment? it was slave lake ror that was going to provide the foundation for them to craft and create what became the white house. >> so one of his aides or assistants was a slave named paul hemmings who wrote a book who later worked at the white house. did people believe slaves wrote in those days and why was it accepted? >> the enslaved people often didn't have a voice, but when they had the opportunity or to have their stories told they shared them in a very candid way. it is really one of the first books to help us understand about what life was like in the white house and definitely it was interesting because through the lens of someone who was enslaved brings a special richness to it. >> so many people who were from the north were against slavery and t

poor blacks and whites and hispanics. but it was ross perot and then later donald trump and as we step back but it is important to keep in mind that people are coming if you take away someone struggle as is pointed out to me explain to you for your - - upset. because you are and then we are trying to be ghost towns across america maybe attention every four e years. >> that would anything be different but what about the national service that we seem to not have shared anything. not in the user go through life with your who reforms or so one in be but if you are entitled to your own opinion but not to their own facts. will this be different? and i met people the president never would have come into contact with other than my journalist rule but not as a daily part of my life. and now what we see those tensions to be eased by that. >> we have a shared civic function and we have jury duty most people consider you to be an adult if you can get out of it is there some way out of this box? >> first of all i grew up in the milita

and white supremacy we're going to. have become arson is to comparatively speaking over the years and it also began to be true younger individuals who have learned how to push messaging that's a lot more palatable so especially when they're in we're talking about. broadening their messaging and recruitment efforts at recruiting younger individuals in fact shows are as young as 11 you know in some cases and they are who really individual . to think in certain ways right if you carry out a message that they're not very explicit at 1st it might start off with little need writers xenophobe aker racist or heterosexist however their guys as being come and help her and so it kind of mixed this type of rhetoric a lot more palatable and digestible for individuals and helps them to slowly each surely assure themselves into these. patterns and so in that case basically overlooks facebook and white organizations in many cases the overall look these mom are nuanced koger or our messaging in recruitment for my screen is organizations

all white panel talking about white supremacy in the us police force that's pretty telling in and of itself or i like. yes they're aware of it there was a strategic women like shift towards the end of my time in the way power movement for this particular infiltration to begin to happen to purposefully enter into policing into the military into teaching into government offices so that. there could be influence exerted from inside these spaces. and and i would disagree a little bit that i do think that the internet has played a role obviously yes the commander in chief of this nation basically giving a free pass that has in enormous impact what we know like facebook took down in a giant police group where there was all kinds of white supremacist stuff being shared and infiltrate and that the internet allows for this connectivity and also for the normalization of overtly white supremacist ideas amongst police forces beyond ones like local local area and i think that the influence of that and that connectivity and the ability to organize mobilize and normalize what they're doing is incre

when he did a seminar called white christian state which was kind of a play on when white people usedto ask get black slaves to be slaves but it is talk and white christians be sede heat and he says the problem facing white christians in this day and age is that there's a parasitic relationship between white supremacy and white christianity which is a vivid image because most of us know parasites and master the organism that can't survive without attaching itself to hosts and he makes a claim i think this is a really cheap way to think about what supremacy that it had to attach itself to a host in order to survive and i think you can really make a case that at least in the west white supremacy attached to white christianity in order to be able to survive. and so i still think we need the bible form of christianity we're just besieged by this reality that white supremacy is all intermixed with just there's too many of us who are willing to look past it or even to extend christianity without attacking what from sin is attach itself to it and so i think it's going to happen to crimes i s

we've had several outbreaks in the white house. so we're seeing two different types of administrations here when it comes to how they're handling the pandemic. and that's going to play out at this new white house. >> are they going to stagger the numbers of staff that actually work in the complex as opposed to work remotely? i think that, will they be required to wear masks while they're inside the white house in their offices. it definitely will be a marked difference from what we have seen. >> the biden team has already said they will not have all the staff in the white house right away. saying the goal is covid safety first for everyone. the bidens have received the vaccine for covid-19. biden hoping for a clean start there. and for the first time, a significant amount of taxpayer dollars will be used for outside contracts for that deep cleaning, $200,000. >> definitely, we always say unprecedented, but again, it's an unprecedented situation. and the fate of the chief usher's job still remains in the balance, because obviously,

well i think they decided to ban now because white people lie i think that you know you can't have white people are so if the president the most powerful person. in the country the. only. black people who didn't you know we got to put out his that you have to step up and do something is what i think but hey. to delve into that a little bit more d. i mean even pinterest has blocked him at who uses pinterest anymore. that people getting ready for weddings and clipping pictures do you believe that these social media companies should be forced to control and police political content that their users write and share on their sites and they feel you just a couple days ago weighed into this arguing that it could be used as a blanket power to silence activists and civil rights leaders so let's think you know be out well beyond trump a lot of supporters what do you think is or is there a problematic nature with how social media organizations are handling this. well trumka you spencers because he said a lot of weddings but you know i think that this is a double edged sword for me because i do beli

when you watch me when watching a crazy amount of white vomit the same way they do when white people get that he wants police officers get this revolutionary marvel superhero a level of restraint. but if a black person shows no justice no peace then we've got a part of it. that's the truly saddest part about this is the i want to thank you so much for coming on today and lightning our audience the way you always do thank you so much sir. thanks. as part of the newly passed covert 19 relief legislation that was recently signed by president donald trump the pentagon this must now disclose everything it knows about unidentified flying objects within the next 6 months naturally given the current issues facing the country this provision hasn't gotten a lot of attention but who is giving it attention as artie's own turn of the shop. it's a stipulation that was tucked into the $2.00 trillion dollar legislation passed last month it requires a director of intelligence and consultation with the secretary of defense to provide the congressional intelligence and armed services committees with an

i said, i do in the white house: instances where you have cabinet secretaries buying has white house staffers or people who seemed to be delegated by the president in a way that was different from what the county government would seem to entail one story in ministration is true and was basically he would issue whether it was recognized, today it's not such controversial proposition. but at the time it was a day? for us policy and most of the national security establishment was against it including george marshall was not only a war hero but secondary estate and truman was revered more than anyone else in public life. truman you he wasn't hearing the other side of the issue so he decided: at the time a white house aide to make the case are recognizing israel and his white house meeting or he would be running against marshall. marshall was not interested in having this junior white house a way the present no. truman backed up clifford and he said he's here because i have to me be here, clifford mexican in the us does recognize israel marshall was so angry he lost his argument he again

supremacy our history of racial violence until white people like me are ready to lean into that shack to construct some very strong and powerful in our work as far as questions for the author i have a 1000000 but i also think it's important that people like myself start doing the work for themselves instead of putting people of color in the position of having to mentor us teach us and guide us and ultimately make us feel better about everything we need to do this work it's our turn. you know i think that's very true that we live the work and i think it's also important to recognize when people hear. someone say the way in. which there was a society at the very were you are racist what. people get upset because they're like i'm so over for love but the truth is as we're talking about suspects in them and we're talking about overarching stories about the loud roar of populations of color that we can't know what is in some form and so it is important if you do have that love if you do so when there was nothing but love in my heart with you it will all races and ethnicities that you know

white privilege which. i think many people don't believe having in the 1st please what do you think about that yeah i think it makes it's consistent with what people understand and they've been told in that they believe and what i want to do is kind of interject like what is the data saying right so unfortunately there is what is this an earned white privilege so when i'm talking about the black tax i'll talk about how when you're looking for a home right you'll be treated as if your credit is $75.00 points lower you have 3 times more likely to have a mortgage that's $150.00 basis points higher if you buy a 400000 dollars house that's almost 20144000 incremental payments if you're white you're not receiving that now you didn't ask for it you don't know if you don't agree with it you're not giving those people permission you may totally disagree with it but you're getting it nonetheless and it's economic benefit so it is a flipside there is a cost to to to black people or sure which i'm highlighting but the

vtñ white house?adams did not own any slaves, but there were in slaved people who worked at the white house. so you begin to $x]oçhave ensld people working from almost the inception really through the 1850s, working in the white house itself. >> so he was very careful to never owned slaves, he did not believe in slavery i guess, but he in fact had enslaved people working at the white house. i presume he knew they were enslaved. >> there was labor that was needed. so for adams, there were people who did the laundry, some people did the work around the exterior into care of the horses. they were enslaved. >> adams was succeeded by jefferson. jefferson was a big slave owner. he had a longtime relationship with a slave, sally endings. did he ever bring selling hemmings to the white house? >> what jefferson did is that he brought some of sally hemmings family to the white house. but what jefferson did was that he brought a portion of his own enslaved population, but he often used people who were already h

the white people.ecide if that is progress or not. [laughs] [laughs] but it's no longer segregation, have one race walking in the kitchen. overall, we have cooks that are culinary artists and many times family confide'ce. presidents go to their funerals, weddi'gs, send them notes and gifts when significant family events happened. we see presidents moved when they need to leave the white house. there is always a t)adition during the change of administration or the presidents staff lineup and the president goes down the line and thanks them all for their service. the other thing is there are often civil rights advocates pressing for african americans to have humanity accepted in the broader society. we saw what lizzy mick duffy did for fdr while campaigning, but another example is the longtime private cook for lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson, one pressing for the 1964 civil rights act, he uses for jim crow experiences to persuade members of congress to support the bill, because the family would drive back

about when you talk about white. race i mean do you know anything has every ashy tilts jim color represented i mean it's not like russia where you you have a more sort of homogeneous scanner representation i mean if you can say that they had the discrimination against black automatically means the profits for white because simply a distribution is so no no no no no again i'm just sharing with you to date the dated like not my opinion on it so harvard has done a tremendous amount of work on something known as implicit of some concepts bias that they have articulated that based on the many millions of people that have taken these kind of these online tests which you are not able to break that system you can think of $5000.00 times the outcomes are going to be the same right the levels of automatic white preference amongst the population is about 75 percent it's almost 8 in 10 americans sort of that's impair cool and demonstrably you know to me i wish it wasn't for that but you know also all minorities they all prefer w

safely in the white house.he new york times" reports he initially rebuffed and resisted requests to mobilize the national guard to protect the capitol. hours after the insurrection began, trump released a video statement urging his supporters to go home while telling them, "we love you. you're very special." calls are mounting for trump to be removed from office before his term ends on january 20. multiple news outlets report some members of his cabinet have discussed invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from power. such a move would require the support of a majority of cabinet members, as well as vice president mike pence. the move has been backed by democrats on the house judiciary committee, as well as the national association of manufacturers which says it is needed to "preserve democracy." congresswoman ilhan omar says she is drawing up new articles of impeachment. new jersey senator cory booker condemned the president for inciting the violence. >> i can only think of two times in american history tha

that was the only white tie dinner that we had during that administration. >> royalty always gets whiteie. >> yes, and it was a tent out in the yard and actually, i think it was in the rose garden, if i'm not mistaken. i mean, it was a lovely, lovely dinner and when dad danced with the queen, the marine band played a song and it turned out to be musk rat love which was not a terribly appropriate song and my mother was standing in the sidelines oh, my god, i'm so embarrassed. >> popular song, but not the right place. your mother, she had to take care of -- usually the spouse of the visitor. did she have to brush up on policy or how did she handle that? >> you know, she didn't. she always tried to talk to the visitors and either the husband or the wife or whatever all depending what the situation was because they had parents and they had children and when i met queen elizabeth upstairs before the state dinner and we talked about family and sons and it was a very natural discussion and it was not about policy and that sort of thing and my brother jack was looking for studs and he came down

there are two ways the proud boys are related to a broader landscape of white activism. -- white powerctivism the first is that they are effectively organized around several issues that although they include activists of color and say they are not white supremacist, they are interested in a bunch of ideas congruent with violent white power activism. this includes what the proud boys themselves call western chauvinism, the idea of meeting -- that western, meaning european and white cultures are superior to other cultures. they are anti-islam, antifeminist, violent in many iterations and they work as strike forces for moments of white power activism. for instance, they were present in the charlottesville rally in virginia in 2017. they have showed up as de facto security personnel elsewhere. they are shoulder to shoulder with white power activist. >> in general, what do i do -- adherents of these kinds of groups, what kind of country do they envision and how do they realistically see getting there? kathleen: that question asked us -- asks us to go back and look at the history of this mov

book about the white house easter egg roll. into history, tell us about it today. how large is it in 2018? >> it would be a lot larger than it actually is, except the popularity is so high that everyone wants to be a part of they kept the attendance at about 30 to

almost exclusively white.ive american vice president several decades ago, but -- and then all of a sudden you have kamala harris' smiling face and it just takes you back and you're like, wow. it's really kind of embarrassing that we've never had a woman serving as president or vice president, but now that cannot be said anymore. and it is -- you know, the united states of america in so many ways is an idea and we're constantly striving to achieve that idea and those ideals. and whatever you think of kamala harris' politics or democrats or whatever, this is one more step towards achieving what the u.s. is supposed to stand for. we are closing in, of course, on the beginning of the biden/harris inauguration. big name guests are gathering. we're standing by for former presidents obama and bush and clinton to make their entrances. we'll bring all of that to you. stay with us. we'll squeeze in this quick break. aaaand welcome back to guess the price ok johnny tell our contestants about eargo. johnny: these top of t

christmas at the white house. ann: christmas at the white house. susan: that is in a store where we would spend our christmas and summer. mother bought a necklace which i know have. that was the last big family picture that was taken. that was about 2002. we did that at about the 20th anniversary of the betty ford center. most of those granddaughters are married and have children of their own. ann: where is that? it is out in palm springs in the yard. susan, i brought a picture as well. my kids don't remember this, this was long before i got married, but i often traveled with betty ford on her adventures around the country. i will tell you that, of first ladies who made themselves available to me, it was the first time i was covering the first lady so i had nothing to compare to, but i've now covered seven first ladies over a period of 40 years. i think she was one of the most accessible first ladies because she really did believe that it is part of your role as a public figure to carry your message out through the national media and local newspape

and the design to maintain white supremacy and white dominance.t the capitol is what happens when white people begin to perceive that they are losing status, that their position in the social hierarchy is becoming more preparious, and this is the most violent manifestation of those concerns, but we see them in more muted, perhaps, ways. we see it in white people's support for president trump. all of this is about maintaining white power, white dominance, and what happens is they're seeing the country browning, and people of color ascend the social hierarchy, it makes white people nervous. this kind of manifestation at the capitol is what happens when white people become anxious about that position. >> i'm going to leave it there. thank you, professor jefferson. i think you're right. that's why the new generation of young whites that understand partnership and coexistence was so encouraging last summer. but we must see where it goes. from racial insensitivity to lack of true diversity, as congress begins its second week, new members in both the hou

whites and working class whites have been used as pit bulls for the the wealthy here in this nation and that has been going on since its inception when ever for native americans chinese americans african americans whenever there was a threat to white wealth they have used working class people to do just what you saw it happen yesterday i think because. i think because joe biden comes from a working class family that he can bend reality to that simmering for the working class the greater torture as have a professor thank you so much for joining us professor gloria j. brown marshall from the john jay college of criminal justice and. and that was a day as ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter at steve w. news have a good day at. the fun. good. to the point sean opinion is a clear position on the international perspectives. for the 1st time in its history a member nation has much the european union the question is though can the united kingdom really forge an independent future and what's been cut is all going to have on the medium itself find out on to the point.

veteran journalist in this deduction, retired 2016 white house administration is. reagan, bush, clinton and also started in 65, you have covered america during a time when people said america would follow back and you have come all the way to now. we are looking to the as well as how you look at two coverage on the new part of the country. dd myers was white house press secretary. checking on with governor gavin newsom in california. i am really excited have you here it would be good from the press secretary vantage points where you see how the white house has an institution facing off with the press so that's why i like this group. just very quickly, you can start and i want to thank all the people in the audience for registering and coming on to take part in this. ask your questions anytime in about ten minutes or so. i will see the questions. she will see your questions and relate them to me. give it about ten minutes for these folks. then we can go from there. all three of you, i've asked you to respond a little bit, the white house press relationship, putting

decatur house and 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. i'd like to welcome dr. jim kavanagh, the chairman of the board of the nixon foundation, his wife esther right up here on the front row. and hugh hue wilt, the president of the nixon foundation you'll hear from in a few moments. many guests are here. we are happy to have you here tonight. this marks the 50th anniversary of patricia nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. they added over 600 paintings and 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 historical association as a core part of our mission, which was inspired as most of you or all of you know by first lady jacqueline kennedy for conservation, restoration of those beautiful state rooms in the white house, for the acquisition of items for the permanent collection at the white house as well, and fo

this white house. >> yeah, this white house. no, i never felt fearful. bullets flying over my head and i didn't have sharks coming at me from all directions so i had it easy compared to these two. the one thing that we were talking earlier, you have to have intuition in terms of when it's time to give the man some space. so it's more of just an intuitive sense of when it is time to sort of slowly back away. >> every three months we would go to walter reed and he would visit wounded warriors. i think it affected him emotionally. one time he went and we saw corey remsberg, the guy he was on patrol with in afghanistan was killed instantly. corey was thrown into a ravine. he was under water. somehow he survived, not drowning. he spent months in a coma and he lost half his eyesight and the ability to control half his body. he had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. but here's the thing that really took me aback. president obama had met corey in normandy the previous june. and i had taken a picture of that encounter. and the picture, we had sent a copy to th

since most white americans unless alerted to the contrary received her as a white woman. curtis' fair skin no doubt helped her as she navigated the jim crow south. in a family history provided by her daughter curtis was described as, quote, a blonde blue eyed matron of medium height. and apparent she was a blonde caucasian, end quote. given the overlapping rash of jim crow laws segregating public spaces and conveyances in the south eastern states she traveled, her complexion likely granted her privilege that many of the black women she recruited did not possess. curtis' physical appearance was frequently commented upon during her lifetime. her quarters described her as a woman of culture and beauty and alternatively as a woman of mystery. and yet history suggests that the white skin privilege she did enjoy she used strategically as a tool of racial advancement. thus to view her solely at face value, to read her efforts to recruit african-american nurses as merely the actions of a fair skin lackey of the mckinley administration desperate to stem the surge of yellow fever i

on productions depicting the white house and the presidency from the white house historical association, this discussion took place at the john f. kennedy center for performing arts in washington. >>> good evening. i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's fascinating and there's more to come. a year ago i was honored with fred ryan, the chair of our board, asked me to chaur the white house historical association's board committee for this important four-day summit. i want to thank the members of our committee, martha, mike, ann, and our historian adviser michael beschloss, for their year long/du#■ commitment and numerable contributions to the planning of this summit. with the terrific staff of the white house historical association and stewart mclawrence's vision and leadership we've convened more than 100 presidential sites as well as leading experts in the wide array of fields and interests that the presidential site representatives told us that they wanted to hear from. i want to thank our good friend david rubenstein for moderating a fascinating conversation with the desc

who you are hiring to work at the white house. it's really building a largema corporate headquarters with many subsidiaries in one building or three or four buildings because the white house complex is included in executive offices of the president, there's a lot going on. as of this should be focusing on right now and they can do it. it's kind of exciting though and you have to keep your head in the game. and one of the challenges you most people who go to work in the white house automatically find that their head grows about four sizes. and you want to remind people that know, just do the job. be humble and how you do it and remember that lots of people are watching you. >> john podesta, now i know that we have two very critical races inof georgia right now. but kind of put that aside, because as of the biden team is kind of the world are operating in right now. joe biden and his team, as they're trying to determine their cabinet picks, and anybody who would be a senate confirmation, let's just make the assumption that the repub

in the first place, the white physician isn't accustomed to treating white patients.e must handle the -- of commitment to get the results. they leave it to the hospital attendants and the men are consequently neglected. in many cases meant are discharged from the hospital before they are thoroughly well. if these men pretend to be's members of the labor battalion -- therefore i recommend colored nurses for colored troops. i consider this to be necessary for the good of the troops. while it might have been for it print, there was no greater symbol of the problem of -- and black leaders during world war one the black male genitalia. and here is where the story is they say, gets interesting. anxieties around race, sexuality, and genitalia produced two parallel and at times overlapping projects of black masculine predictability and restraint within the u.s. military at home, and abroad. . >> the presence of sexually infectious black soldiers provided the rationale used by white army doctors to and act novel and conventional modes of sexual control, and their efforts to di

other people around the white house to. jeremy: we cannot exactly say, well, valerie jarrett said no. so we were often the bad guys. joanne: absolutely. question over here? thought i saw a hand over here. jeremy: very shy crowd. joanne: it is a shy crowd. >> jeremy, i have a question regarding the couple that snuck into a party. how did that happen? how didn't they get checked? how did they get in when they were not on the guest list? jeremy: lea knows it even better than i do, because -- lea: that did not happen on his watch. jeremy: yes, let's make that real clear. [laughter] but it was, in fact, on june 7 of 2011 was my first state dinner out in the rose garden. it was gorgeous, but i could not relax for any of it, because you know that anything that goes wrong is what makes the story. and that gatecrasher certainly did put the fear in the white house that lasted the entire administration of mistakes happening. and it was -- unfortunately, the people who really suffer our guests now, because it is such a process. you hav