byron raymond white was born in ft. collins, colorado, but he grew up 11 miles away in wilmington, population 500 at the time. his father managed a lumberyard. wellington's economy was dominated by sugar beets, a crop demanding attention constantly and back breaking work. both white and his older brother clayton worked beet fields after school and during the summer from the time they could wield a hoe. winters were harsh. spring brought strong winds off the front range. summers were hot and dry. character was shaped in the relentless competition between the land and the elements. self-reliance was not an abstraction. by graduating first in his class from the tiny local high school, like his brother before him, byron white earned a full tuition scholarship to the university of colorado. there, he was a star in three sports. football, basketball, and baseball. president of the student body ify bait -- phi beta kappa and a rhodes scholar. his performance during his senior year is still statistically one of the most impress

but white kept his own counsel. one of his first opinions in fact was a dissent from a decision invalidating criminal punishment for habitual use of drugs which the majority of the court thought penalized a status, not an act. in violation of the due process clause of the 14th amendment. the case was called robinson versus california. and white wrote that the majority in the case was writing into the constitution its own abstract notions of how to best handle the narcotics problem, displacing the expert understanding of either the states or the congress. the early dissent was an overture to his first famous opinion, another dissent, in a case now known to every american with access to a television set -- miranda versus arizona. white viewed the majority opinion as inconsistent with text, precedent and sound policy. his opinion closed on a raw note widely quoted at the time. in some unknown number of cases the court's rule will overreturn a killer, rapest or other criminal to the streets and the environment which pro

you get a whole of the white house.ut this time the white house came to you. >> it really was extraordinary and it was a wonderful opportunity for our community here, hispanics in san jose and the greater bay area, to host the white house. the white house uniquely came out to us. they invited educators to the white house last fall, and they announced that they had this initiative that they were actually going to engage nationwide. and san jose was honored to be selected as one of the host cities. it was phenomenal because we were able to invite 500 leaders in our community to participate. and what was very unique is the fact that it was an open space format. so there was no preset agenda. it was an invitation sent out to all the bay leaders inviting them to come out and talk about all the issues near and dear to their heart. >> we were watching some similar event that happened late last year in other parts of the count country. but i hear -- and unfortunately i was not there. but i hear that the white house staffers and

and the truth is the white house itself is so well organized. it's pretty hard to make too many mistakes other than just my mouth. [ laughter ] >> well, i, of course, was prepared because i had a mother-in-law who i watched. [ laughter ] and i visited the white house. i had an advantage that no other first lady except louisa adams had because i had stayed at the white house a lot when president bush and barb were -- lived there. i had been to that inauguration when president bush was sworn in and then came in. i'd been to state dinners and then gone upstairs to sleep in the queen's bedroom when george and i were invited to events at the white house when they lived there. but really, of course, what i learned from barb was that it is a home. that it really is a home. where the family lives and where family times happen. where you laugh and you watch football on television and you have wild dinners and funny people -- especially all the bushes who try to be funny the whole time. especially one that i was married to. so i knew that it really was a

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i can remember sam lablonde as a little boy with wonderful white house trees in the foyer with white lights and snow on them and invited the children to come down and had a snow fight with all that stuff. sam lablonde was buried. >> he loved it. what the florist really looks at protocol for when she is working on what flowers you're going to use for a state dinner, and there's also another story, i don't know who this was, but the big faux pas of having the flowers of the state dinner to be the colors of their enemy's flag. there are a lot of things you have to pay attention to. >> one year when george was president, they brought out for the mexicans sort of an adobe house dessert, and it was perfectly beautiful, unfortunately, they had little figures on the side of mexicans taking siestas with the big cowboy hat, which they thought would be very insulting, so, therefore, as the waiters walked out, someone stood and plucked the people off. [ laughter ] crazy. >> there's a famous story of the ford white house at the height of the bicentennial and quin elizabeth and prince philip were

you whizzer white? white took a sip of coffee, measured her slowly, and replied in a soft voice, "i was." f. scott fitzgerald famously said that there are no second acts in american lives. but there must have been times when byron white wish that his first act could be forgotten once and for all. for his entire public career, white was constantly framed in the public eye by his headline making first act -- an act so to speak, that made him a nationwide household name while he was still a teen abler. but which penalized a shy, modest young man with expectations he could not foresee, did not wish, and sometimes could not meet. but we're already ahead of the game. summary of act one -- byron raymond white was born june 17, 1918, in ft. collins, colorado but he grew up 11 miles away in wilmington. population 500 at the time. his father managed a lumber yard. wellington's economy was dominated by sugar beets, a crop demanding attention constantly and back breaking work. both white and his older brother, clay

white college professors. >> white college professors. and almost all of the major history professors in this country. and findhat extraordinary. >> why? >> because until the capture of atlanta and the nomination of general mcclelland on the democratic ticket la in864, until late 1864, almost all members of lincoln's party thought he was a disaster as a president, and most of them were looking for some alternative candidate. almost all members of washington -- of the washington power structure at that time said he liked -- he lacked will, he lacked resolution, he lacked vision, and that he was prolonging the war by his inadequacies. lymon trumble said he lacked the resolution needed in this task. his attorney general bates said he lacked will. others said at the time that he was simply a terrible leader. and yet 135 years later, almost all the scholars say he was the greatest leader we have ever had in our country, perhaps in the world. >> why? >> because they have not read the record, i say. because there has been for 135 years one of th

it belongs to the white house. i'm the one who covered it in the tiger velvet, which my mother-in-law said, i can't believe you're doing that. but i love the way it looks. >> why -- you were so emphatic about,he i'm the one who covere it! >> because she didn't want me to, i could tell. >> when you look back, what do you want to be remembered for what you did in the white house? >> i hope the lincoln bedroom, because it's so beautifully refurbished, and then the green room downstairs, and then the acquisition of paintings like the jacob lawrence we just acquired for the green room. and i think the white house is historical, we want old things in it. we love the very major collection of american furniture that the white house owns. furniture both that either belonged to other presidents or it represents the very best of american furniture makers. the seymores, duncan fife, bellter, all of those names, early furniture makers. but, of course, the white house goes on. and history continues to be made here. and so i alwa

and the attitude of white people. when i was growing up, my father did not mind people calling him by his first named. his first name was qp. in the court case, they ask, what does that stand for? it stood for quinnith paul. the white people use to just call him jordy and they would call his son, boy. even the teachers and the faculty members of my school said they never called him buy anything other than his first name. and he was a professor of alabama state. so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is

johnson around the white house. she was able to come one time. she was in a wheelchair then and had lost her speech by that point, because of the stroke she had, but lynda robb, her daughter, brought her, and ladybird, even though she couldn't speak anymore, she was still so expressive in that very attra attractive way she had. she had see a painting she saw and liked and she would clap her hands together to let me know that she remembered that and liked it. when she met, one of the elevator men, who had been maÎtre d' when she was there, she hugged him immediately, and that was great to be able to have that one chance to show her around. >> first lady laura bush, thank you very much. >>> all day today, american history tv is featuring american's first ladies. who do you think was our most influential first lady? vote and join the conversation with us on facebook, at facebook.com/c-span. >>> you're watching american history tv on c-span3, and we're observing this presidents' day weekend, taking a look at our nation's first ladies. up next is caro

social schedules to make sure nothing is impeding the white house's or conflicting with the white house's particular social agenda. >> was that the impact of all that? >> mrs. roosevelt had a control over washington that i think some of the more recent prior first ladies had not. she formalized things. she had a definite code of behavior and if you did not follow her code of behavior you didn't really exist in her washington. and she did bring a power and a gr entertaining the visible side of the white house that bolsters theodore roosevelt's forays into political power to the presidency. >> lady bird johnson? >> lady bird johnson is -- i have to say, i am from texas. lady bird johnson is one of my favorite first ladies. she is the first first lady to announce her own political -- not political agenda but her own inaugural agenda. she announces during oh leading up to the 1965 inauguration she goes public with what is going to be her agenda for her time as first lady. she says that she is going to concentrasencentrate on beautif which really now i call environmentalism. mrs. johnson was n

white lights and snow on them. they invited the kids to come down, and have a snow fight, sam loved it. >> what the florists do, is look at protocol, on looking at the flowers they will use for a state dinner and there's a story for the white house, but supposedly the big foe paw of having the colors of the flowers cannot be the color of the country's enemy's flag. sow have to pay attention to a lot of things. >> one year when george was president, they brought out for the mexicans, a dpsh sort of an adobe house desert, but they had figures on the side of mexicans taking ciestas with the big cowboy hat, which they felt would be insulting t waiters walked out, and stood and plucked the people off the sides. crazy. >> there's a famous story of the ford white house at the height of the bicenntenial when queen elizabeth and prince phillip were guests. and nobody had vetted the band's program. and as they stepped on to the dance floor the marine band broke into the lady is a tramp. >> how about the story that ronald rea

poor whites. um, and if you look at that period of time before the civil war of blacks and whites were not segregated. it could not have been otherwise slaves were a captive work force, and you had to have racial interaction between black and white. so that's one of larger misconceptions about race relations in the south is that there's always been segregation when, in fact, there is not. a lot of your earlier scholarship on slaves and poor whites maintained that their relationships were most notable for their racial hostility, the animosity between the two distinct groups. and while that is true, it's also only, you know, part of the story. that if you take a look at court records and slave narratives, you can find another whole range of relationships as wellment -- as well, that slaves and poor whites inhabited a shared subculture of drinking and gambling and underground trade, illicit sex. that's another part of the story that people are less acquainted with. poor whites most commonly traded fo

west, the white house chief usher, mr.west, the president tells me that jack mcnally, who was against selling guidebooks in the beginning, now says lots more could be sold on the way out. but he says this is your providence and doesn't want to mention it, which is rather sweet of him. i agree we can use the money. every penny is needed. not long after, her commitment to history led her to support my father to save temples. she wrote a long memo to jfk, which you can see downstairs, laying out the importance of the temples and suggested that this would be a nice gesture to nassar, as he promised not to interfere with them in yemen and south arabia. she demonstrates an understanding of diplomacy writing. the russians are building the dam as strictly an economic enterprise. by saving the temple, the u.s. could show that they care about the spiritual side and realize the importance of saving the cultural patrimony of egypt. ming fath i think my father rolled over on this one, too. the temple was a gift to the people of the uni

members of the white house weighed in on this, but jay carney taking questions at the top of the white house briefing. >> on the issue of contraceptives, speaker boehner is wanting to deny it through the rule, and i'm kind of curious about your reaction to that, and if it were to happen, is that the kind of omeasure that the president would veto, or does he feel that strongly? >> well, that is a lot of speculation embedded in that question. i won't go there. on this issue from the very beginning we have concerns as we work to implement the law, and as i said yesterday on january 20th when this decision was announced secretary sebelius said quote we will continue to work closely with religious groups in this transitional periods to discuss their concern s. i would note that 28 states have similar contraception coverage requirements and eight of the states as i have mentioned before do not even the exemption that this provision requires for churches and house of worship. we want to work with all of the organizations to implement the policy that is as sensitive to their concerns as possib

madison's white house. some first ladies have been less successful because they were awkward in the job and their taste didn't jive with public state at the moment. nancy reagan came in for a more formal, what she thought more appropriate white house. she got some pushback for the increase in formality. as that went on, people began to admire what the reagans were doing in terms of the tone of their white house. >> so does the criticism, the praise sort of reflect the politics of the time? the culture at the time? maybe the public polling of the president at the time? >> i think it reflects popular culture at the time. where we are all in culture. we expect a higher standard at the white house. we know it is not our house. we know it is a more formal style. it can't seem too formal. it cannot seem too austentatious. it can't be showy. >> given that, which dress in here do you think reflects the times? eleanor roosevelt's dress for example. another dress that comes to mind, maybe? which reflects the times? >

>> well, she redid the entire white house. the white house that we know first came into being. edith roosevelt and theodore roosevelt wanted it to evoke its sort of colonial roots. so it's a very federal, formal white house. the beautiful pillars. the great entryway, the new grand staircase that she put in. it helps to bolster, the roosevelt brought in the regal, formal worldwide presidency. this is when america moves into the greater world as a power. this was to command respect for that and to show the power of the presidency. and mrs. roosevelt was in charge of the decoration of that white house. >> she added a first lady's portrait gallery? >> she did. she consolidated the portraits of first ladies. commissioned hers to be added to it and added a first lady's portrait gallery. >> politically, policy wise, what is known for? >> she steps away from policy. certainly is someone that can restrain her husband and i'm sure had words to say to her husband. she had young, large family. she was concentrating on that family. she wanted time for her family and for her husband. and so

they actually had been -- brought to the white house by edith wilson and worked at the white house. and then here to s street and stayed with edith wilson until she bought them a home in the 1950s. so actually stayed here on s street. here in the kitchen in the house, again, state-of-the-art for 1920. in the pantry you can still see some of the early packaging. campbell's soups and kellogg's products. bottle of tobasco and heinz catchup and maxwell house coffee on the range there. this was, again, a modern house when it was built in 1915. again, always electrified. always had a modern heating system. oh, an old steam coal fired steam boiler system, and we still use these old radiator, today. part of our modernization that we are envisioning for the centennial is to do a new geothermal state-of-the-art system that will be certainly more energy efficient. perhaps offset with solar panels up on the roof on the top of the house. that would not be visible from the street. all right. well, beyond the beautiful brick facade of the house on s street in north west washington, d.c., is the dr

teh white -- the white section was empty, and the colored section was full, so i sat in the middle, thet on the left, the last one in the middle. i was not thinking about anything in particular. i had a chocolate candy bar, and i was looking out the window. an older girl sat next to me. i continued looking out the window. more people got on the bus, and some more color and some were white, and soon, no more seats were available. colored folks started getting up, and white folks started taking their seats. i just stared straight ahead. "make light on your feet." other people got up, but i told myself that i would just stay seated. folks started staring at me. you know why -- you know, white folks. [laughter] "she knows where she belongs." open " i hope she is not one of them troublemakers --"i hope she is not one of the troublemakers." me? a troublemaker? just because of how i was born? my daddy that -- got a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. board rogers was coming to town -- roy rogers was coming to town. it was for white kids only. why? they think we are troublemakers? i do not want to mak

great whites.the hotspot in the world for great whites. >> cooper: a perfect hotspot because it's an ideal feeding ground for great whites. it's not far from the southern tip of africa, where the atlantic and indian oceans meet. the water is rich in nutrients, which attract whales, huge shoals of fish, and seals, some 60,000 of them. seals are a prime target for great whites. early one morning, rutzen takes us to an area called "shark alley." the seals pass through here searching for food. there are plenty of fish in the sea. why... why are sharks so intersted in the seal? >> rutzen: the reason for that is the blubber. marine mammals have a blubber layer, and their blubber... whoa! big shark. their blubber layer is extremely energy-rich. >> cooper: oh, my god. whoa! >> rutzen: that's what i'm talking about. >> cooper: the sharks leap straight out of the water, stunning the seals before devouring them. seals are mammals-- they're quick, agile, and smart. but as rutzen has learned, they are no match

they were classified as non-white or sometimes referred to as colored or semi white workers.hey were excluded from the white hotels and cafeterias, excluded from white dormitories and the spaniards were very angry about that and they mobilized and engaged in an artist movement. when i am in the archives i am interested in moments of tension between the workers and the officials so you are looking in the archives for evidence of strikes or anything like that. for a long time i saw nothing about that until finally one day i came upon a big box titled labor disturbances and i excitedly opened the box and the box was filled with spanish disturbances. strikes, walkouts, riots. >> host: were their unions for the workers? >> guest: that is a good question. not really. unions were allowed to exist but they were not allowed to strike. early in the years there was a strike of steam shovel men. i shed the unions were for the white workers. there was no union representation for the 35,000 or so black west indians. the steam shovel men went on strike and the chief engineers took a very ha

no but i was very happy in the white house. very happy. we had grandchildren, it was great, you could hear them swimming and hear them outside and riding bikes and we were lucky because we had laura and george very often there and we had marvin's children and i never forget little walker. practically brand new sleeping in the lincoln bedroom, little thing. it was a wonderful happy time for me. i'm not half as cerbral as laura is but i'm as nice. >> for us, for barbara and jenna, they also got to be there as children. you know, as the grandchildren of the president, so when they showed sash aa skand, malia, th could show them all the things to do because they were there when their grandfather was president. like the high bed that the usher puts the step out for someone stay engine that room. if known is staying in the room, the step is not there, so barbara and jenna showed them how to make a running dash and jump on to the bed or the ramp that has a wooden floor that every little kid that comes to the white house finally learns to slide do

white-only events, et cetera. one of the points i was trying to make. i think it was maybe in the text, but i don't know if i really gave full voice to it in the presentation. music, popular music, through the radio dissemmation and radio and television and to some extent in public performances, really transgressed the kinds of rigid racial and social boundaries that the segregationist south was so deeply committed to maintaining at all costs. so it wasn't just that it was black music. it was really in some ways a kind of unacknowledged campaign for the hearts and minds of white southern youth. i mean, if you think about youth who grew up in the south, who came of age during the civil rights movement and during this era of the music, i would gather that they have a very different way of looking, generally. i mean, you know, if we were to generalize, of looking at the issue of civil rights than say the generation older than them and perhaps even the generation younger. part of it had to do with being alive during t

and the attitude of white people. when i was growing up, my father did not mind people calling him by his first named. his first name was qp. in the court case, they ask, what does that stand for? it stood for quinnith paul. the white people use to just call him jordy and they would call his son, boy. even the teachers and the faculty members of my school said they never called him buy anything other than his first name. and he was a professor of alabama state. so i have seen all of that change. it

what had to be white. dealing with both african-americans and native americans andrew jackson at his southern supporters practiced a form of the belief in the permanent inferiority of all nonwhites black and indian. most looked the other way or agreed with their brethren. boudinot and john ridge discovered this painful reality during their wrenching experience in cornwall. as the trail of tears demonstrates race remained a key social divide. making much of america a white man's country. thank you. [applause] i will be glad to take questions and commentary, whatever you like. [inaudible] >> then it states it took them to -- [inaudible] >> that is a very -- the forbid be digital anecdote to make a point. most persuasive one. i don't know what the writer had in mind. his adopted son. it is fair to say that he protected him and treated him kindly but if you look at the way he was treated in the house it is like a pet. a loved and honored pet but apec nonetheless. people would look at him. probably suggests get

white developed an early allergy to stardom. when asked at retirement what his legacy would be, he replied i don't have a doctrinal legacy. i shouldn't. as one former clerk observed, being nonit logical and nondoctrinondock drink -- very important to white just as being higgs own person and not worrying about his place in history was. he recognized that being a justice who believes in a more limited constitution is not the way to gain historical notoriety. if we look with clear eyes at white's three-decade career, what emerges is a record less of ambiguity or inconsistency than one of constant questioning, not of first principles but of their application to new situations in light of new experiences and with new consequences. as the last connective tissue to john f. kennedy, the new frontier and optimism about the capacity of government that so energized the 1960s, white seemed to be a paradox, dissenting from progressive decisions, declining to be a full throated member of the white's revolution and voicing skepticism about jud

and everybody at the white house rushed up and they fixed it up. now, that person was never seen again. the table was gone for like four months, but it was just one of those -- it was an extraordinary day really. and it was so right to have the people who fought for them. that was amazing. >> i have to ask you, in your memoir -- >> are you looking at her? >> i'm asking you. you told a story about as the wife of the vice president, you were in tokyo, and you were at a banquet with the emperor and making uphill conversation. >> terrible, answer everything, yes, no, i went to your child's school, yes. did your grandchildren go there? no. and he's a very sweet little man, so finally, i said, sir, when we drove in, we saw the old palace, and i guess it was so old that it just fell down, and he said, i hate to tell you, you bombed it. [ laughter ] >> that is kind of a conversation killer, isn't it? >> i move to the man on the other side. >> did you ever have -- can you think of anything like that? >> not exactly like that. >> anything? >> speak up. >> tr

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a white nationalist hate website.anelists at cpac's panel on the failure of multi culturalism. congressman steve king of iowa was also on that panel. he said multi-culturalism is a tool of the left to sub divide our civilization. brimelow says they have given up on winning the white working class vote so they use bilingualism, the real issue is treason. what is a white nationalist doing there at that conference at all? these three guys were also at cpac today. i wonder if these presidential candidates think they can grow the party with a gathering like cpac when they invite known racists? let's turn to goldie taylor, managing editor of the goldie taylor project and mike papantonio, host of the "ring of fire" radio show heard on weekends. mike, let me ask you first, why is someone like this invited to a panel discussion at cpac? >> because it's what the republican -- what they have become, ed. you can't judge them any other way. they know who this guy is. this is the new david duke. he makes david duke look like a race

when they came to the white house it was part of their vow.is not easy because normal in the white house doesn't exist. three weeks after the inauguration they tried to go to chicago and thought they could step back in their regular lives every couple of weeks. the trip almost a disaster. it turns out going home for them is like the invasion of normandy. >> why? because people want to be with them? >> they are city people. they live in an urban environment. it's hard for the secret service to protect their house. the secret service dropped two black curtains down the sides of their house to prevent snipers. even the question of what the obamas would eat that weekend was confusing because the secret service says it caused huge traffic in chicago. there's no such thing as a quiet restful weekend at home for them. >> they were not wealthy prior to the election to the senate. let's talk about that. much has been made about their consumer choices, interior decorators, clothes, vacations, michelle's dresses. tell me about the relationship between th

c-span: you said 'east side of the white house.' you meant east side of the capitol. >> guest: i--i'm sorry--of the capitol--i'm sorry. yes. c-span: how did--how did the mood change when watergate started--hearings started? >> guest: i think the--the white house became more under siege all the time, and--and every day something was revealed that--that was unknown as the witnesses came one by one, and i think this was the most important show in--in america, if not in the world, at the time. c-span: on the screen on the far right is james hamilton, who was a counsel then to the democrats, but then in--popped up during the whitewater hearings as a counsel, i believe, to the clinton side; sam dash, there--who worked for sam ervin--who also worked for ken starr. and then sam ervin, the senator from north carolina--look at the hands. >> guest: they we--they were gnarled and arthritic, and it's just a beautiful--you know, expression of age in that hand, but i--you--he must have suffered greatly from it, because it's not the kind of hand th

not only to white people. not only to white people. but for the last 135 years every medium of communication outside the media we control, lincoln was the great savior, the great liberator, he freed you on january 1st out of the goodness of his heart. so, large numbers of black people just worship lincoln, i mean, he -- because they believe that he did what people say he did. and it's painful to say to them and to my community and other communities, he didn't do it. he didn't want to do it. he was a completely different man. >> reaction. >> the first people to revere lincoln were the former slaves. because they did recognize the significance of the proclamation. they didn't have benefit of all that we know today about other people who were involved in pushing emancipation as well. but they remained very much committed to lincoln's memory for a long, long period of time. by the time of the depression, however, things started changing, even before that, because african-americans in reveerir revering lincoln, they believed that he had pro

plenty of poor whites. so really, i am finding that as evidence that these kinds of relationships and that the meeting point between in the piedmont region of north carolina on the up country south carolina, this is where i found the best of them and of interaction. i look primarily at court records. unfortunately the deal with poor ways, that is about the best set of records you can come up with because the vast majority are literate. they are not leaving diaries, journals and five account books. they fire them the higher labor. so that becomes my primary source along with petitions to governors, slave narratives, it's easier to learn about slaves than it is poor whites. because you do have the wpa slave narrative project from the 1930s, were government workers went out very specifically to recover the stories of former slaves and you have the abolitionist movement publishing the autobiography of slaves. so slaves we know more about actually been poor ways. i went through every single volume of the wpa sla

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there was not a single white child in my school, and there was one white teacher and she was in the library. so, it was a totally segregated environment, well, for the most part. the officeholders were primarily white, although there was one black member of the board of supervisors, but for a county that's 82% black, one would have expected that there would have been greater political voice than we actually had. >> why wasn't it? >> i don't know. i think it may be that people became accustomed to playing a certain role. there were always people in the county who did fight for civil rights. i grew up knowing, you know, about what they were doing, and they were always in the forefront, insisting that their children go to the white school and that kind of thing. but generally it took some time, you know, for us to get the kind of rights, the level of influence in the county that we -- one would have expected from the proportion of african-americans in the population. >> you go back today, what do you see in the county? >> many more african-american officeholders. what i find interestin

a bottle by the white house at a time when the white house is going to have to play almost a perfectme to win. this issue struck many people who use contraception and who are not catholics as basically unfair, forcing a church to fund policy that is against church teaching whether their practitioners follow that teaching or not. now the obama administration walked it back. we are going to have to see, i doubt it's walked back far enough to satisfy catholic church leaders. that's not the point. will itç be walked back enougho satisfy one of the classic swing voter groups in america which are white ethnic catholics? this group will swing from republicans, will swing to democrats. they were the classic reagan democrats. this is the group obama is trying to satisfy. >> i want to thank my panel for being here. i need to switch gears. thanks for being here. beth, wendy, also i want to thank roger as well. we turn to the royal rumble to win hearts of conservatives. it may be romney's last chance at cpac for those who say he's the wrong pick. romney will walk into the lion's den. wary of hi

i am an older white woman. i live in the east coast in areas that is much more conservative listening to tv a lot but at a time when everything is so volatile, the voices like oprah winfrey and david appel and other media people are not there to stand by my president and help them and be with him and to speak with him. the own democratic party is not there. with the media is viciousness and allies. we have laws if you say a curse word you get a fine but if you tell the untruths that does not cost you. there is no consequence. >> host: we got the point* think you. dr. kennedy there was something a wanted to pick up on that you can answer whatever you want but talk about the democratic party not being fair to support her president. >> a couple of things. first of all, the job of the president of the united states is incredibly difficult. the president of the united states can expect to be criticized all over the spectrum from all sorts of people. the top person and a rambunctious democracy will be subject to crit

and he said you just can't touch the white house. he said it's so strange everyone, america feels so strangely about it and look at the truman balcony, it will just be like that. and i said it won't be like that. so as it went along bit by bit and how you set up the committee and certain legal things and clark was good good setting up the guide book. once jack saw it going along with good council, he was so excited about it. >> was there criticism of the things that punish did in the white house? >> never, no, the most pin credible interest. and then the tours would start going. and every night he would come home saying we had more people today, this would be after you had found the monroe table or something. then the eisenhowers had in their first two years, the guide book was selling, and we were teasing mcnally about it, he was so proud. i was so happy that i could do something that would make him proud of me. because i'll tell you one wonderful thing about him. i was really, i was never any different in the white house than i was

it was white supremacy. and i point out to people all the time the first sift rights demonstration i went on, i went to the southern bell telephone company for a job climbing a telephone pole. i was a understood dent, a good student and i couldn't even get a job. that was my first civil rights demonstration. didn't have anything to do with eaching at a lunch counter, going to a church or a school, marry anyone's daughter. it had to do with getting a job. now you think about that in the context of somebody who is just coming out of slavery and now they're starting a new community, a new life. they got something called a new found freedom and they've got to build a new world for themselves in the context of discriminat n discrimination, violence, klu klux klan and so they start churches and schools, schools and churches. schools break out like wild flower and is a school is a place where three people gather together and one can read and white. we've got tulsa, wilmington and all of these communities become tar