now i am at the white house. i think that one of the things that i said that is most unique about the way that is different from -- the way we covered the president is different than the way we cover any other politician in washington or anywhere in any statehouse, he is basically stuck with us almost all the time. any public statements, any public appearance, even a personal dinner out with his wife, a cough game -- a golf game, we are nearby. a small cluster of the press as representative of the larger pool of the press corps, it is not glamorous. looking for any sign we can of him, making sure he is where he is supposed to be, and giving a rhythm of his daily life. christi: we view say where you are from and what your academic past was. kathleen: i didn't do any journalism when i was in school originally, i didn't know what i wanted to do. i studied history, the classics. t wasn't a terribly useful major. i got into journalism later in life and went to berkeley for graduate school. i did internships at the l.a

as if white girls don't get that from white boys. [laughter] the children are socially ostracized from these relationships. i had never heard the term pinto applied to a person before but the minute he said it, i knew what he meant. he knew my husband was not white. the next day they hosted brunch, our wedding yes at their lakeside cottage. it dawned on me that he wasn't talking about the mixing of the black and white races anymore. he was talking about my husband and about the children jason and i wanted to have. multiracial babies that he pitied and reviled. disgusted, i wanted to leave. this whole interaction behind me. as i sat across from him, frozen, maintaining my southern stability, i thought about having this conversation with my grandfather and what it might have revealed about his beliefs. i wondered if poppa had shared his feelings about mixed-race children. i realize that taylor believed that i have betrayed them both in some fundamental way by embracing what they had tried to protect me from. what they most feared. my f

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like m

the people are mostly white. a new survey by the research center suggests that white christians make up less than half the u.s. population, proceeding with one key exception, the republican party. according to the survey, just 46% of american adults are white christians down from 55% in 2007. pugh says gnarl seven out of 10, 69% identify with or lean towards the g.o.p. while just 31% go for the democrats. >> reporter: gem - gem graphically, the republican is in a pickle. >> reporter: it is a problem for the republicans. -- it has a coalition base, a support base that is getting older, that is whiter certainly than the democratic party, and as the united states of america becomes as multi registrational country, that is playing into the democrats favor rather than the republican. >> reporter: among white chris tenses, 32% lean towards democrats and 13% the republicans in which case why aren't people flocking to ben carson, clearly a non-christian. -- they're not interested in ben carson versus hillary clinton. the

make sure you get out of the white house, have sources outside the white house, and just draw from a bigger pool to combat what you're talking about, i think, which is only hearing one side of the story all day long. right, and also, you have to bring the history into it. i think history plays an important part when it comes to conversations like this. you have to remember conversations you had in the past with president, private conversations, and with people on the national security council and then go out there. one of the most dangerous things in the white house -- it's a friendly atmosphere and relationship, but i think it's more dangerous for the white house to know that we do not rely solely on them. we go outside. you cannot just listen to what they say. you have to have outside sources thealk to people, to flush story out because they will spin it went away and the other side --l spin it the other way they will spin it one way, and the other side will spin at the other way. we try to use the information as it comes from all sides and give you the history so you know what may

some white people are now starting to call out other white people. we wouldn't know these videos exist are the e-mails existed unless a white person had called out another white person and i think that is the beginning of something. whether it ever gets big enough, we don't know. some things are beginning to happen that did not happen 20 years ago. >> lester spence. >> i went to push back against a couple of comments. if we work under the assumption that what our issue is his teaching black kids how to read, write that that is actually the fundamental problem like the reason we have a crime problem is because black men are not reading books a lot-- i'm willing to bet-- i am a political scientists and i'm willing to bet the people who are doing the most reading of the dictionary went dexterity in their language. but we have is an economy problem. we focus on black kids learning how to read and what we will miss is in a city like baltimore we only have three high schools who routinely send kids to hopkins, where i met. that is a structural problem with

the large non-hispanic white population, up over 780%. a lot of rural population, low education levels, and the higher than average unemployment rates. now, the higher than average unemployment rates, only half a percentage point higher, and still significant, but not enormous, where you really see the differences when you look at workforce participation rates in these places. extremely high for those not participating. 44%, 45%. and almost half of the population 60 and over not in the work force. these are older populations, retirees, and maybe people who want to stay home and not work. but when you compare those numbers to metropolitan areas, the numbers are a lot higher. it does suggest that [ audio difficulties ] it's right in front of your face, you can see it. >> we'll talk more about that as the show continues, and guests, stand by. we turn our attention to life in america for the 21st tre. for a large group of americans, middle-aged whites, are there reports coming across the country about the losses, the economic devastation x. t

the only thing she knew was that he was wearing a white shirt, the guy she'd seen was in a white shirt. he was first to run. does this sound so much anything you've heard recently? a.c. hall runs and the police shoot him. when they reach him, he is all but dead. he tries to right himself. he lifts his hands to surrender and falls dead. they look for a gun. 2 days later, they find the gun in a corner's jury, it's called. they have a gun. somebody in the jury calls in the man and the wife. they say "is this your gun?" they say, no, this is not your gun. jury,oroner's they do a complete statement that says we believe this was murder. meetingof white people and examining the evidence concluded was murder. it is picked up by a grand jury. the grand jury would not bring charges against the officers. have a lot of, we unrestrained agents of white supremacy acting to enforce, what they believe, to be the social order of things. injury and death to untold numbers of african americans in georgia and the south. duringgoing to ask you, this time, as i have said, to ask the question of the y. -- th

whites. they treated racism and racist acts as vestiges of the bygone era, marked by pre-rational, pre-democratic, prescientific movements. he render these problems of segregation as something kind of removed from the essence of american sentiment, something kind of not fitting with the american creed. african-american sociologist , oliver carton, in particular chided him for treating it as something specific to american culture and contended instead that the problem with race and racism was part of the american political and economic structure. the debates that myrdal had with his critics are interesting and frame a lot of discussions about american history. it creates an interesting interpretive tension, when we think about u.s. political and economic culture as inherently democratic or something else. it does a lot to shape our perspectives, right, of different events. but, i think the tension between myrdal and his critics is interesting for the purposes of the class. you think about the

grace hale: and for the record, the carter white house was a no hard liquor white house. jay hakes: well, i think that was more of a budgetary thing than it was aesthetics. they figured they could get better wines and better food if they didn't serve hard liquor. but, yes, that was one way of doing it.they had to do this on a small budget. so, you know, the fact that you're doing more events doesn't mean you have more money to do them. so you do have to have -- be cost conscious about it. grace hale: but also, i think that it was part of where they were from, their kind of background. they didn't -- many people in the south, small-town south, white and black, who are people of faith, do not drink. and it was also a part of who they were, and they brought that with them to the white house.and i think that was, you know, a cultural issue and also, again, a kind of class choice, you know, this isn't going to be an elite atmosphere. we're going to -- we're going to have more of the people's white house, and that was part of what they saw as something that they want to promote

north and the white south. is a road map between the two. once you can have the birth of the actual united states that we should have had all along, which is as the phrase, aryan. they are actually talking about the white nation coming together. century, nation and race are very closely linked. that is one of the most jarring things for us. we think of a multicultural, multiethnic nation, that is what we celebrate in the modern american narrative, but in this time, race and nation are pretty close. that is the very heart of romantic nationalism. and that is all about sex. family formation. in this story, if you have the misfortune to see the film -- [laughter] -it's- a story about family formation artery formation -- or we formation. after the carnage of the civil war, now overcoming the obstacles of reconstruction and the encroachment of freed people, on the legitimacy of the birth of this nation. it has to be racially pure. >> that is why you have these african-americans who are "co rrupt" and morally questio

white police followed him everywhere. not only was this embarrassing but it did make voter canvassing door-to-door in black neighborhoods rather awkward. steve bingham came to talk to was about the matter. is white police escort followed him to the campus, white police car on campus was dangerous for the police as well as the rest of us. the students would regard this visit as provocative if word of the police presence brett on campus students might attempt to rescue whoever it the police had captured. steve introduced me to the two officers and his car following him and after a lengthy conversation, i persuaded the officers to park near my house but just off the campus, right outside the gate. at my house steve parked his car where the other officers could see it. that was not be enough. his escort had orders to watch steve constantly. i promised not to sneak him off the campus but the police insisted on calling their headquarters. orders came back, one of them had to keep watch and would have to follow this volunteer ev

i remember recently i was walking into the white house and i saw people coming out of the white house. i looked closely and there were some congressional leaders and their families. they knew who i was -- what are you doing here? we met with the president. what kind of committee are you on? mhm! so you have to be -- you have to the ocd in this job. for instance, i keep my phone off, but we all normally have our phones because we need to find our sources, someone inside the white house can be telling us something. we are 24/7. it is all about anything presidential, and being there, you get a chance to talk to the newspapers. when they see you, it is about trusted relationships. if they trust you and feel they can talk to you, they will give you information and breaking news. you might even get a chance to talk to the president. it is important to be in that building. it is not a kind of place. claustrophobics need not apply. my room looks like a phone booth. two put together. >> they don't know what a phone booth is. [laughter] i had to go to london -- remember those red london phone b

of the tradition thata continues at the white house. the obama's posted one. host: it is another connection between the first ladies. floyd, are you there? caller: how to the reagan's interact with prince charles and princess diana? we saw the video. do you have any memories? i know that everybody in the world wanted to be at the white house and wanted to be at that state dinner. host: let's move on to the event that is important in the ultimate disposition of the white house. that is the contra investigation. crisis inreal confidence for the presidency. s role?s nancy reagan' she recognize the threat to the presidency and doubled down on negotiations that we were talking about and encourage that because she thought that would be a better way to change my fathersation and is reagan's preeminent biographer. he thought the most important contribution was pushing on reagan to apologize on iran-contra. he came out and had that funny speech. host: it took him a while. guest: there was an agonizing time span when the president didn't want to

predominantly white, right? and so people in the community talk about the fact that when you come into the school, the students mingle in the hallways, and you see them talking to each other, they go to classes, and they go separate ways. you can walk down the hall and see the difference between a regular class, which is predominantly black and latino, and honors and advanced placement classes where mostly white students find themselves. >> host: what was one other finding that you -- at riverview? >> guest: i think the other big finding is that we often think about parent involvement as a positive thing, and in some ways it certainly is. but one of the things we found is that the administrators and teachers and members of the community felt a lot of pressure from white parents who were powerful in the community. and those tended to be the parents of the students who were in these honors and advanced placement classes. so as they tried to create more equity in the context of the school, there was a process that

during the white house -- during the obama white house. so when that happens there is -- it happens every day, by the way. there is a mass shooting in this country on the average of once day. more than one person being shot and the gun person -- the shooter being -- having a gunshot as well. by that definition there is a mass shooting in this country almost every day. so there is a real sense of sadness that goes on with it. did i a story in the past week how this informs the president's approach to gun control, and i think that one thing we try -- i try very hard to do at the white house is exactly what kathleen said which is to step away from that -- whatever the white house fixation is or the white house point of view and to try to inform the conversation more fully with information, evidence, data from the outside. april: yesterday. sorry. yesterday i literally because the president was just in chicago talking to the police chief, the international association of police chiefs and gun control was one of the issues. so yesterday in the

confronting it defined her post white house years. we will tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38 president, gerald ford. for the next 90 minutes to tell her story is richard norton smith. he is one of our academic advisors for this whole project and he has helped launch a number of presidential libraries, among them the library for the forts. you bring that to the table. in the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible but i was very fortunate to become good friends with both of the fort. >> we want to start tonight story with where we left off, the night of august, 1974 when they learned they were going to be in the white house. how much of a surprise was it for them? >> this is one of the things that i find surprising. i took part in a lot of projects which included about 150 of the fourth associates including their children. you would think every other american household in the summer of 1974, at some point sat around the dinner table discussing what was happening and what might happen in

they reached the white house.nd it's interesting to note -- we were talking about this before we started -- we're doing this program live on the 20th of january, 2014, and it is today exactly the 25th anniversary of the bushes coming into the white house. the bush years -- and we have, as we do in each of these programs, a still of the important things that happened during those four years in the white house just to put it on the record books. and they include his "no new taxes" pledge. the savings-and-loan crisis also happened during that time period. of course, the first iraq war, which was known as desert storm. tiananmen square also happened during that time. and for many of your interests, the end of the cold war happened during the bush years. so on the national stage, so much going on. what was happening domestically during that time period? ms. gutin: a lot of social upheaval. jeffrey alluded to it with the changes in society and the role of women. hillary clinton becomes the first lady later, but first la

flight where white parents would encourage students to migrate to classes that were prominently white, even though they may have been interested in studying another class. .. >> >> if you put it down as possession of them will not happen so these are some of the dead and six that occurred with the academic context dead in the disciplinary domain. >> despite the best intentions what improvements to use to just to the retiring principal? >> one of the things we wanted to get across is teachers don't to education for the achievement gap. but they do live in a society where it permeates everything about this place across a number of the obeid's where you have people organizing it weighs to reduce racial inequality but the day today did ambac that is how it did avestan self of the subconscious level where people act on racial beliefs. those are some of the on mechanisms for the expectations of black students. that is what led to discipline referrals and that cumulative impact over time shaped this. >> host: so teachers are of the front line egad. >> they are part of the from wide and given

were in white units. there were some who identified as mexicans, they fought in segregated units. of may remember the story the wind talkers, the navajo indians who were able to communicate and the germans can break the code because they didn't understand the language. they fought in segregated units. but there always was spillover during emergencies. somebody was not as surly in combat might be called upon to pick up a gun. to defend himself, if not to defend others. host: do you have a sense of how hitler's army -- the nazis consider themselves to be the superior race. when they were confronted with african-american soldiers, any insights as to how they reacted to that? japan also consider themselves to be the superior race. professor cassimere: we have some anecdotes of blacks who served in the european front that german soldiers were less likely to surrender to black soldiers. they thought that was a disgrace. but in fact, they were blacks who distinguished themselves on the field. we know they were b

a black man is in the white house. a white man was in the white house.he matter what color of a person, or their life, you do not choose what color you are born with a what you are born. andto disrespect a person political correctness to denigrate somebody would've they are poor are an immigrant, everybody in life should be up to live in peace, not to be denigrated because someone is dropping bombs on you. rather they have food to eat. talk about climate change. climate change kills more people than bonds. host: we have been listening to patrick. a democrat calling in from brooklyn. this is out, a republican. for marilyn. caller: high. and not to be brief ramble. this is kind of a spontaneous call. i do not make notes. sidebar,ust as a during c-span 25th anniversary, i received an honorable mention for a poster i developed on protest buttons from 1960 up to 2003. let me start. aconite and 67 i lost a family friend in the vietnam war. the following year i would to college. i talked to a couple of antiwar eggen's asian's. i member sitting in a meeting and

and whites is 35%. changing demographics of the country. >> people try to blame barack obama for racism going up. that is untrue. what you see in that poll is barack obama. african-americans, we do believe, the picture with the little boy who reached out and touched the president's hand, every black person in this country has seen it, and yes although we may have obstacles we still have that hope. >> stand by. coming up. he is a successful hollywood actor and producer who believes that the problem is not racism. isaiah washington joins me next to explain. ♪ how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and get the mercedes-benz you've always wanted during the winter event. hurry, offers end soon. like limiting where you earn bonus cash back.hings. why put up with that? but the quicksilver card from capital one likes to keep it simple. real simple. i'm talking easy like-a- walk-in-the-park, nothing-to-worry-about, man-that-feels-good simple. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5

i don't know if you watch the briefings or the white house briefings or the press at the white house. jim stand up and turn around and start talking to after thes 30 seconds press conference ended. the rest of the press core is listening to the folks doing the immediate take. is very influential. that's the first read that most people get on air. not the only ones listening. the other people in the press corps are listening to that as well. it is an amazing talent. i usually need at least 15 minutes and a phone. >> i'm still working on it. [laughter] anyway we're going to pull back the curtain for you about how we cover the white house. that's the first part of the curtain. to something in her opening story about pool at the white house. this is a really important group of 21 people. it is 21 people at the white house every day. they are very close to the orsident for every open press open event. they report back to other the press corps about what has been said or done in a small room where you really can't fit the whole press corps. when we travel, the number is 13. people are on ai

such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. ♪ i don't want to die like this ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ ♪ tell me why is life like this ♪ >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and had made some inroads in the city's rap scene. [ michael jackson trying to walk back ♪ wish i was in school with backpacks but that's frivolous ♪ >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. ♪ now i'm locked in a cell and stale at bread, how could the lord forget me ♪ don't cry ♪ >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was pe

house trademark rubbed in his anchoring our coverage rate -- white house.crumpton is anchoring our coverage. let me begin with you. at this point, what does president aland one to hear from president obama? >> what he is going to here is a reiteration from president obama --bolically, but he once wants specificity. there is pulling to suggest frustration with this president on both sides of the island also abroad on how he has been able to communicate that strategy. hopefully the president will begin to appease us of those concerns at this press conference. mark: speaking of political standing, what has the aftermath of these terror attacks done for president franÇois hollande standing in paris or friends -- france overall? up,ou have elections coming but france also has some presidential elections coming up in 2017. importantse is very in terms of his popularity in front of the french people. now according to some of the holes that we had in the last thedays, more than 90% of french people support him and just after the attacks. the policemen being able to

and over and over she makes clear she is not sitting in the white section. there are a lot of myths she sits in the white section, not true, she's sitting in the beginning of the middle section, the middle section black people could sit there but if she put it on the whim of the driver could be asked to give up their seat. the first stop after she gets on the bus fills up, one white man is left standing. the bus driver notices it and james blake tells the people in her robe, for this one white man to sit down all four people in this row have to get up and he asks them to get up. no one moves. the asks again more forcefully you better make it light on yourself, and the other three people reluctantly according to rosa parks get up and she as she puts it pushed as far as she could be pushed, if she got up she would be consenting to this treatment and she did not consent. she thinks in this moment of a young 14-year-old who had been lynched in mississippi, thinks about her grandfather and she refuses. she actually declined to let the man dead iron slide over to

kris van cleave is at the white house. kris. >> reporter: elaine, the white house was on lockdown for several hours because of this incident. this area here outside the white house was just reopened to the public. now, about 2:45 today, the secret service says the jumper they've identified as joseph caputo jumped the white house fence. a photographer captured the moment caputo, wearing gloves, draped in an american flag, hopped the fortified white house fence holding a binder in his mouth before throwing his arms in the air seemingly in celebration. the woman who took these photos tweeted: the intruder dropped to his knees with his hands in the air as the secret service rushed to arrest him. his flag was put into an evidence bag while a bomb squad searched the white house lawn. the fact the intruder made it over the fence raises questions about the security upgrades put in place over the summer. in july, new spikes were installed on the white house fence to make it hard tore climb. the secret service called that a temporar

all white schools or black schools or private schools etc.? >> that's the next step i'm working with a number of schools in madison using the book itself as actually a common read for teachers selected with first and second year and last year i met with all the principles from the school district for times to talk about race and inequality and i'm looking at a particular k. through five school in madison now where we're doing a year-long developmental opportunity around race and inequality where we try to unpack what does race mean, how does it impact our dalia interactions and how can we engage in practices that can make a difference about the disparities that we see in the context of our schools so right now we're moving from the book itself to use the book helping schools address inequalities that they see and i excited about that work and there's been a lot of investment from people in the k-12 environments to see the book as an opportunity to engage this kind of effort. >> where did you grow up and what was your environment? >> i grew up

at the white house sometimes elected in the white house not to have that. this is the famous picture of president kennedy. a little trap door in the front. got wide circulation. was not really obsessed with the issue. very effective for rejecting president kennedy as a celebrity and enhancing his image. and there was the 1st modern celebrity couple. president johnson takes office. a spectacular congressional leader. just how to get his way on capitol hill, senate majority leader. guys presidential candidate. johnson was at loose ends. was not culturally insync with the kennedy and kennedy crowd. then this huge ego if we had the saturation television coverage he would have had a very difficult time because is just too much, so overbearing and overwhelming even invade the personal space of people and try to convince people what the piece of legislation of the gold. in still another. you can see this guy looks like he's scared. johnson tried to keep this below -- behind closed doors. did not understand popular culture. was not interested in movies except news

kris van cleave is at the white house. kris? >> reporter: elaine, the white house was on lockdown for several hours because of this incident. this area here outside the white house was just reopened to the public. now, about 2:45 today, the secret service says the jumper they've identified as joseph caputo jumped the white house fence. a photographer captured the moment caputo, wearing gloves, draped in an american flag, hopped the fortified white house fence holding a binder in his mouth before throwing his arms in the air seemingly in celebration. the woman who took these photos tweeted, i heard him take a deep let's do this. and went for it. the intruder dropped to his knees with his hands in the air as the secret service rushed to arrest him. his flag was put into an evidence bag while a bomb squad searched the white house lawn. the fact the intruder made it over the fence raises questions about the security upgrades put in place over the summer. in july, new spikes were installed on the white house fence to make it harder t

kris van cleave is at the white house. kris? >> reporter: elaine, the white house was on lockdown for incident. this area here outside the white house was just reopened to the public. now, about 2:45 today, the secret service says the jumper they've identified as joseph caputo jumped the white house fence. a photographer captured the moment caputo, wearing gloves, draped in an american flag, hopped the fortified white house fence holding a binder in his mouth before throwing his arms in the air seemingly in celebration. the woman who took these photos tweeted, i heard him take a deep breath and whisper, all right, let's do this. and went for it. the intruder dropped to his knees with his hands in the air as the secret service rushed to arrest him. his flag was put into an evidence bag while a bomb squad searched the white house lawn. the fact the intruder made it over the fence raises questions about the security upgrades put in place over the summer. in july, new spikes were installed on the white house fence to make it harder

were predominantly white, right? and so people in the community talk about the fact that when you come into schools, the students mingle in the hallways, and you see them talking to each other, they go to classes, and they go separate ways. you can walk down the hall and see the difference between a regular class which is predominantly black and latino and an honors class where mostly white students find themselves. >> host: what was one other finding that you -- at riverview? >> guest: i think the other big finding is that we often think about parent involvement as a positive thing, and in some ways it certainly is. but one of the things we found is that the administrators and teachers and members of the community felt a lot of pressure from white parents who were powerful in the community. be and those tended to be the parents of the students who were in these honors and advanced placement classes. so as they tried to create more equity in the context of the school, there was a process that we referred to as opport

as you just are i've covered the white house since 1986 so i'm one of the longest-serving white house correspondent in history. that's where i got the great in my beard, but when you're a white house correspondent you are always looking for ways to see behind the curtain, to get some sense of what the president is like beyond the spin and public relations coming to get more insights into the president. so in the books i've written i tried to do that. i wrote a book about air force one look at presidents and a very special habitat of air force one. the book about presidents and their homes and retreats and giveaways, sort of what they are like in habitats that way. a book about presidential isolation and the current book which is "celebrity in chief," and in that book i talk about the development of our celebrity culture in the united states and how presidents need to not only be commander in chief and policymaker in chief, educating chief and so on but celebrity in chief. presidents need to participate in popular culture more than ever and they can't just sort of the isa and the white

how did they use it in the white mr.n: well, you think this, everybody talks about reagan was an actor, but she was an actor, too. she was on the stage. she had 12 feature films. the comfort level of these two behind the camera, it's the envy of every political couple, and they used it as easily as you and i would just pick up a telephone and call a friend, and that's what they showed. and even the little things. you know, she's talking about color and she's wearing a red dress, and they understood the lighting, they understood the message, how the message should go with the pictures. they really got it all, and it was almost second nature to them both. ms. swain: i want to move to the second term in the white house, again, full of so many issues. in brief, some of them included the soviet summit, which concluded with the arms treaty, the explosion of the challenger -- any of us alive at that time certainly remember that day well -- the iran-contra affair, we'll talk a little bit about the effect on the presidency and ho

more snow is expected here this week. >>> a white house bench jumper but the white house on lockdown thanksgiving. joseph kacaputo is under arrest. kris van cleave shows us what happened. >> reporter: a photographer captured the moment caputo wearing gloves draped in an american flag hopped the fortified white house fence and holding a binder in his arms and throwing his arms in the air seemingly in celebration. >> i heard him take a big deep breath and whisper to himself, all right, let's do this and he took off. he jumped over the barricade and then climbed the fence and went over, he kind of lifted his arms up. >> reporter: the intruder dropped to his knees with his hands in the air as the secret service rushed to arrest him. >> it was chaotic. everyone around us was yelling and kids were crying. it was pretty unexpected. >> reporter: his flag was put into an evidence bag while the bomb squad searched the white house lawn. the fact he made it over the fence. in july, new spikes were installed on the white house fence to make it harder to climb. the secret service called that a tem

the white house was on lockdown for several hours afterwards.resident obama and his family were inside for the holiday. >> in case you missed it, today is black friday. what? many starting shopping last night, but retailers say there will be a brand-new round of sales for shoppers out and about today. >>> a little confusing because it's blurring the lines. >> little bit. don't have to worry about blurriness in the forecast today. sharpy sunshine forecast. if that makes sense. >> thank you very much for >> thank you very much for joining us. imagine a world where the holidays were about people again. where doorbusters referred to loved ones pouring through the front door. and the four-letter word that defined the season was l-o-v-e and not s-a-l-e. what if the only reason to wake up at 3 a.m. was to spot a reindeer in the sky? and coupons were only used to redeem one more kiss? that's the world t.j.maxx, marshalls and homegoods stores live in. where there's no need for sales because we offer amazing prices on popular brands everyday. and where yo

white house. we consider ourselves a constant set of eyes as much as possible. i started my career in washington and with the l.a. times. cover ao go and statehouse in nevada, and politics in las vegas, to get out into the country and cover politics on a more local level. i came back to washington to cover congress and national campaigns. now i am at the white house. one of the things that i said that is most unique about the way that is different from -- the way we covered the president is different than the way we cover any other politician in washington or statehouse, he is basically stuck with us almost all the time. anypublic statements, public appearance, even a personal dinner out with his wife, a cough game -- a golf game, we are nearby. a small cluster of the press as representative of the larger pool of the press corps, it is not glamorous. looking for any sign we can of him, making sure he is where he supposed to be, and giving a rhythm of his daily life. christi: we view say where you

and passing out the white house, thousands of people lined up. they thought of the president as the first citizen of the land, he was no different from other citizens as a human being. the president was not seen as some exalted figure, but only that first citizen, no better than the average person in the legal sense. only with fdr and world war ii and the cold war that followed to the white house become the imposing safeguard, sometimes under assault in movies, complex that it is today. the presidential papers were much smaller, though they were large in number, then they are now. to give you kind of an example, theodore roosevelt's papers on microfilm, 485 reels. for taft there is 658. for fdr there were 20 tons of material. every president since has had more papers than all the previous presidents combined taken together. you can see how the presidency has metastasized over the last century. taft had been elected over democrat william jennings bryan. bryan running for the third time. when he lost he said i guess they don't want to let me in the

this is below the mason dixon line. >> so many white mississippi people it was an outrage.rst time a black man had ever been allowed to appear on television in mississippi. certainly to argue against segregation. it made him, in some ways, a kind of marked way in mississippi. >> we'll be demonstrating until freedom m comes to negros in jackson, mississippi. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ nothing artificial. just real roasted turkey. carved thick. that's the right way to make a good turkey sandwich. the right way to eat it? is however you eat it. panera. food as it should be. mariecan make any occasion feel more special. so she makes her pie crust from scratch, and sprinkles on brown sugar streusel. so that you can spend more time making special moments with your family. marie callender's. it's time to savor. >>> our guest today on "meet the press" is governor george c. wallace of alabama. his state is the only one in the country today whose schools are completely segregated. next week the issue heads for a climax when two negro students will seek to enroll at the university of alabama. governor w