white house respectively. he had the cheaper ideological plane and outreach which are so important in the regular administration and he tried to be sure that they did not go off in even though baker was more moderate and he did not care about ideology at all, and the reagan image was so important and he was really good at making reagan. because he was in and they might have caught, they did not step on each other's toes in the specific area and i think that's important. another thing about this in the white house, the extent to which they distrusted each other so they stuck together as a group and the other staffers knew they could get a lot done without those three senior people bothering them because nobody wants a meeting with reagan without one of the three lovers because then reagan would say something that was detrimental to the members. and there is even an historian in the hospital that the three of them have to visit in the hospital together and know that they cannot visit them in the hospital, reagan

swain: and the pathway to the white house? ms. hunt: -- professor finkelman: the vice presidency is not a very good halfway to the white house. since thomas jefferson, only martin van buren made it as vice president. tyler did only because of the death of the president. ms. swain: sandy is watching us in delaware. you are on. >> my question is, i know they are from tennessee. did shesarah -- what actually think about slavery and what -- and was she a kind slave master? ms. hunt: james polk in his will made an expression that he died, she when she would free their slaves. -- she sold their plantation before the civil or. the issue of slavery was not brought to the forefront either in their marriage or during his administration. it became much more critical with the administrations that followed polk. professor finkelman: i think in some ways that's not true. the politics of america from the 1830's to the 1860's is swirling around slavery all the time. the opposition to the mexican war, which polk starts and which we did not have to

he changed it to the white house. david: linda, what is the fondest memory of your father being president? when you think back on those years, what do you enjoy the most, or what is the best memory you have about it? linda: i think when he went to the congress and asked them, it was bipartisan, he went and asked them to pass massive civil rights legislation. and i'm -- [applause] david: that wasn't easy for somebody whose best friends in the senate were not in favor of it, and had come from texas. why did he decide he wanted to do that? linda: he knew it was the right thing. before he represented texas, he represented his constituency. time had changed. and he personally knew of discrimination. he'd seen it, not just with people who were african-american, but for instance, when he was the senator, our phone number was in the regular phone book, and he got a call, a hispanic in texas, has been killed -- i believe he was killed in korea. the local funeral home in texas, refused to take his body. they said, that if they

it belongs in the white house." and my grandmother said, "no, that's my painting, it's on my wall, and that's where it's going to stay." and i think mrs. johnson tried a couple of more times, so that eventually she gave up and had a copy painted. there are actually two copies made by the artist, greta kempton. and one of them hangs in the truman library just down the road and the other is in the white house, but those are the two copies. this is the original portrait. >> i don't know who did the portrait. i can look it up for you, but back to the table here, bill. >> okay. >> we have to tell the story about the renovations of the white house. >> okay. >> because the trumans, in their almost eight years in the white house, spent less time in that building than any other president. >> there you go. you want to do it? >> absolutely. it was falling down. the leg of margaret's piano fell through the floor, and the engineers were concerned that the whole thing was going to collapse onto the trumans, essentially. so -- >>

>> yes. >> at the white house itself? >> mrs. roosevelt was at a luncheon, they went and got her and didn't tell her anything. steve early told her when she got to the white house, the press secretary. they knew roosevelt was going. >> no one suspected so quickly. >> i think it was an issue of when. >> 82 days. >> of when. he looked horrible the last campaign. he many spoken to the congress sitting down. he was ashen and his inaugural address for the fourth term had to be given from the white house. he stood up on the south portico, and the audience was out front. it was not really a surprise to anyone. >> two hours later, in the cabinet room at the white house, harry truman joined by his family took the oath of office delivered by chief justice harland stone. how surprised was the nation? did they know who harry truman was? >> no, they knew he was vice president, they knew his name. he had gotten some acclaim for his truman committee. he was an admired senator within washington. the general public was like who is harry truman? e

susan swain: another celebrity that they brought to the white house that they brought to the white house was someone that continued grace coolidge's passion with the deaf and that's helen keller cynthia bittinger: yes. susan swain: we have some film of helen keller's visit to the white house which we're going to show people, but as we do that will you talk about when she visited, the significance of her visit and how the public reacted? cynthia bittinger: it was very significant. helen keller wanted to use the white house to publicize the need for support for deaf education. and grace and calvin were both happy to accommodate her. and yes, you do see in this picture helen keller reading the lips of grace. and she also reads the lips of calvin too. cynthia bittinger: so grace did as much as she could to bring children, deaf children, children with disabilities, veterans with disabilities to the white house and highlight their needs for the american ublic. susan swain: anne in newport, vermont. hi, anne? anne: i was going to -- quite a few years ago i went to a yard sale found a, an old co

house, nixon white house in many ways was a model of the modern white house in the television age. the white house decided how the presidential family would be used or not used. and we -- i hope we'll get into this a little bit more -- but pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would've liked the way in which she was presented to the american people. >> and was this precedent-setting, the first white house to go to this extreme with media? >> no, i mean, after all, the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie, and the very fact that jacqueline kennedy went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to be just a political tour. >> no, this was not the first time. jacqueline kennedy was really the first. eleanor roosevelt, of course, thought about her own public role, but she pushed that. i mean, i'd say that she's unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house wasn't pushing her in front. >> i think jackie kennedy is really the first first lady that is part of a media strateg

to loan pieces to the white house. they went out and sought out people to donate the money to be able to get the proper pieces to fill the room. >> she had always been very interested in decorating. she had decorated a number of their homes. so this was something that was very important to her and not something that was widely known. they didn't publicize this. it was kind of like she was doing it for a while before anybody realized that she was doing it. >> and then, when jackie comes, jackie says, oh, this is all wonderful. and she really tried to give the credit to other people, rather than giving -- than taking it herself. >> when pat nixon came to the white house, one-third of the furnishings were antiques. when she left the white house, two-thirds of them were antiques. but some viewers might not know this -- dolley madison is famous for saving the canvas of george washington in 1814. well, she actually saved two canvasses. the other one was a portrait of herself. and pat nixon brought it back to the white house.

,'cause it was in the lincoln white house. and lincoln, of course, was a very important figure to president eisenhower. >> so, alyce evans, how would the eisenhowers use this room? when was it used? >> really, the big time of year it was used was christmas. they would put their christmas tree in front of the fireplace. they'd have presents for all their grandchildren spread all across the room. >> mamie would be at the piano playing christmas carols. there'll be sing-alongs. so, that was really when this room was used -- in those important family times. >> when world leaders would come to see president eisenhower here, he wouldn't entertain them here? >> no, he would not. he would do that on the porch. >> and we will see the porch next time we come back to gettysburg. >> thanks to our colleague peter slen, who is in gettysburg, pennsylvania at the eisenhower farm. >> so, the entertaining at the white house was notable. for example, the queen of england, queen elizabeth came. >> yes. >> how important an event was that? >> well,

nixon how the white house had been improved. she said there were no dark corners anymore in the white house, that she would done a beautiful job. and she also complimented their ability raising the two lovely daughters that you have and that she was -- she said to raise young women like that who are in the public eye their entire lives is a very difficult thing to do, and you did a beautiful job. and she was so happy her children got to meet the nixon's children. >> there's a portrait of pat nixon. tell us about that. >> well, it's a very poignant, extremely beautiful portrait i think. and it was painted out in san clemente in 1978 and he went out to paint her in the house, mrs. nixon there. but i have a quote from a note sent to julie about her impression of her mother while she was painting this portrait, and i'd like to read a little bit of it because it's so -- i think so beautifully provocative about who mrs. nixon was. she said above the bridge of a nose that's almost greek your mother has eyes that are like no one els. th

toluse olorunnipa, white house reporter for "the washington post." and amy walter, national editor of the cookal politeport. amy, welcome back to "washington week." how has the virus and this debate over schoolshaed the 2020 race? am there's no doubt, bob, that it has changed it dramatically. i mean, iyou look at where the president was and where the discussion about the campaign s back in january and february, it was a question about whether a good economy was going to be enough of a tailwi behind a president who had middling job appro ratings, somewhere in the mid 40's or so. we're no almost 100 days away from the election. the president's jobpproval rating now is down to close to 40% in some cas even getting below 40%. he's trailing joe biden in the national polls of course by anywhere from nine points to double digits and he's losing in all of the battleground states. and when you look at where this inflection point began, i think you do have to look to the coronavirusmi pan but also the protests around the kling of george floyd in minneapolis. t

amount of that in the white house. there also been leaks that have been incredibly damaging i've a whole chapter on this. does seem transcripts of world leaders leak and tired transcripts on the pages of newspapers. that is annera extraordinary breach of security breach. he had a right to be outraged by that. the president should be able to have a conversation with world leaders without thinking this entire conversation is going to be splash one the pages of the "washington post". a lot comes from the president's own top aides. who knows where those came from they could have been career officials and previous administrations. and let's face it, the president himself as someone in to talk to qualitatively different to veryky leaky white house we are now in chief of staff four, every chief of staff are setting out to stop the leaks and none have been successful present on twitter says make america great again pray the president looking at the try to help portland not hurt it, they're losing control of the agitators they

nixon invited him to the white house. and they walked through all of the rooms from the third floor down to the ground floor, through the private quarters and the state rooms. and he thought about it for a few days and decided to accept it. and she was a very strong supporter of this program. the rooms had been last refurbished in the early '60s, in the kennedy administration, but there had been tremendous visitation, tremendous receptions and a lot of crowds in the '60s. and things really needed to take shape. and clem conger was a very energetic, ambitious person who knew how to raise funds and appeal to donors and mrs. nixon would often write letters to donors and have receptions and teas for people that were potential donors or museums that might lend objects, such as the dolley madison portrait by gilbert stewart that belonged to the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, which was hung in 1971. and then it was finally purchased by the association here for the collection. but she was a big supporter. she, in fact, di

i grew up in georgia and to watch them go to the white house and for amy to grow up in the white house. it was -- it was a really exciting thing to watch if you were a kid. and she seemed right there in the center of all of the events and i remember thinking about that a lot as something that was really exciting. >> as a mother with a young child in the white house, how did she approach protecting young amy from the press, the public interest, that sort of thing? we have a photograph right here, it looks like kind of like coming down the stairs from the blair house, and you can see how young she is. how did they approach parenting? >> well, i think that they felt that all their kids should be able to have a private life if they wanted to, and amy certainly did. you know, if you're a kid in the first family, you've got secret service protection, so it's a little hard to just blend in, even if you'd like to. but i think the press in general respected that, you know, and realized that a child shouldn't be exposed to, you know, the kind of press that their parents, you know, get. so, you k

the white house supports unemployment insurance. benefits. the white house supports ensuring americans done get evicted. what do democrats support? what do they stand for? they have offered zero, nothing except rejecting martha mcsally's bill to ensure that those receiving those checks continue receiving them. reporter: as the white house set a cap for what they're wi ms. mcenany: not that i'm aware make sure money gets to the american peopl reporter: the trump administration wan million in coronavirus relief ill for the long-delayed modernization of the west wing. how is that a priority in terms of the coronavirus pandemic? you talk about priorities, you have the f.b.i. bill which doesn't seem to have much support from capitol hill as well. ms. mcenany: two things. i'm glad you asked that. i do want to give you some details about those two items in particular. when it comes to the f.b.i. building, this has been a long-discussed issue. i would note that the three previous covid bills that have been passed had plenty of other things in them th

go to the white house. and then after that, the ladies got to go to see the congress, which you just mentioned, they were discussing the panama canal treaty. and it was just a great event. but that night, it was so -- it was just so wonderful, being at the white house and meeting with all the -- and it was a governors' meeting as well.and then, we had done campaigning for president carter through some of the towns in alabama along with tammy wynette. and it was just a wonderful event, and we just really loved president carter and mrs. carter. and they were just so gracious. >> thanks very much. well, we learned that her interest in the arts was much broader than just southern music, and national. but did they, in fact, reach out to that constituency as well? >> well, it was interesting during the campaign, again, the expansion of the media during this time, a lot of musicians from the south endorsed carter's campaign. and i think most interestingly. and perhaps forgotten today, southern rock was really at i

they reached the white house. and 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? >> 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 lady asp

i am in the white house doing this. we had a mentor program that we never really publicized, but i worked every year with a group of 20 girls from the area, because mentoring has always been a big part of my life, and barack as well. he had some young men that would come and they would come once a month. there are usually kits from the d.c. area. not the top kids, but not the kids struggling. just the kids that are in the middle, where there probably isn't a lot of programming for them. they would be paired up with high powered women in the administration. valerie was a mentor. chris was the first female executive chef at the white house. she was bush appointed. she was a mentor. they would meet with these kids all the time. they would come together once a month in the white house. it was interesting to see their transformation when they first start. they were shy. they cannot look me in the eye. they were just nervous. because it was nerve-racking. you are in the white house. you are meeting michelle obama. why were yo

understandable why the white house might want to hold this event on the other side of the white house from where those protests are. we'll continue to keep an eye on this jump from the golden knights as we await the president's remarks there. you can see the army flags behind the parachuters. one of the things we'll be listening for are what the comments will be from the president tonight. he spoke at length yesterday, as did a number of the other speakers, spoke at length at mount rushmore in terms of the efforts to, as they put it, cancel some of the founding fathers and the luminary figures from american history who were involved in some social atrocities. the president railed against that, as did some of the other speaker, including kristi noem, the governor of south dakota. tonight we hear to hear from the interior secretary david bernhardt who will speak before the president, after the parachute group, the golden knights have finished their jump. we'll listen back in for the president's remarks in just a moment. take a minute to take a look at that image from the golden knights.

she was not held in high esteem by her white house -- many of her white house colleagues because she did that. >> tucker: nor by me, i can say. i think it's fair to have contempt -- i have contempt for most t politicians, but if you'e talking to one, i think they deserve it, but if you're talking to one, someone is crafting legislation, wielding power, don't you have an obligation to act on behalf of your readers or viewers and try and get them something meaningful from the exchange? in other words not just about you, right? >> it's not just a got you game. it's not just an attempt to embarrass a public official. it's to extract information in general, remember sam donaldson, as aggressive as any correspondent however cover the white house, he proceeded me there for abc news and was there for 12 years and he could be quite firm and strong and would ask very pointed questions, but he was always respectful and courteous and he rarely interrupted or argued, that was the standard. that was the one we all observed. and even all the white house briefing room was nowhere near as cozy as the

florist and the white house chef. everyone's involved in trying to plan a dinner that you think would be -- the most american but also a way that makes a nod to the culture of the country whose world leader you're entertaining. it was really fun to work on those, make all those plans for him. we always did a tasting of the food -- the menu the chef had proposed. many times we would ask members of congress to come to the tasting and tell them they were guinea pigs for the state dinner that we were hosting, and of course they would be very forthright and say i don't think you should do this, i don't know if this dish is that tasty, and they would be more forthcoming really i think than our friends would be, who would say that's great whatever you've got. and that was fun, really. that let us spread the pleasure of the state dinner out over a number of nights to do tastings and talk about what we were going to have. and then of course we would try to pick entertainment that represented the united states in a wonderful wa

you see here the white house. and a picture of mrs. kennedy during her televised taping, a color still picture taken showing her the blue room. one of the things the president talked about was how many people had come to visit. they had 1.3 million people in the year 1961. so it wasn't so much that the tour kicked off the interest in the white house, mrs. kennedy had already attracted the public attention. she was -- she got early in 1961 congress to pass the law that she mentioned which didn't just protect the collection but established that the museum character of the public rooms of white house must be maintained in perpetuity and the secret service has a lot of say about the security issues, but the museum character was what she was so interested in grasping. then she created the curators office also in 1961, with the idea that you needed a professional staff there to collect and preserve and interpret and conserve the pieces that she found in the house and the things that she was adding to the house. we actually have the dichotomy

white house press association, i have often advocated regular briefings by the white house press secretary, which lapsed in 2016. canmerits of the briefings be debated, but i think the white house has obligation to answer pronouncements of the executive branch. the white house press secretary's job differs fundamentally from those of a spokesperson, a candidate, or a political party, and the white house press secretary serves as the president of the -- pleasure of the president, but their salary is paid by the taxpayers." from your standpoint, we are not getting that from the administration, correct? guest: no. i am glad to see that briefings are taking place, but if you look at the briefings, they are very short events. they are almost always less than half an hour. sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and they have fallen into a pattern where there is kind of an opening monologue that is meant to, you know, either attack the people in that room, the reporters in that room and the news organizations, or to promote some political issue that the president is harping on. and then they closed i

but what we know now, and this is essentially coming from the white house, the white house is making a big push to get the stimulus program done by july, pushing mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans to compromise, find ways to compromise with nancy pelosi and the democrats to get a stimulus through because what we have is a problem with covid cases rising that would essentially slow some of the openings of states. it's already doing it here in connecticut. it's doing it in parts of florida. it's doing it in california. new york, throughout the country, there's a slowdown in the reopenings of states. that's going to have a drag on the economy. so the trump administration is pushing for the stimulus now. one of the factors of the day, as you know, cheryl, is that this is an election year, not just a year wracked by pandemic and protests and rioting, but it is an election year. one of the things that donald trump knows for a fact, that is if he has any chance of winning the election in 2020, he has to show that he's better on the economy than joe biden, his opponent, and one thing

white house for the summer. that's when tragedy struck. we'll learn more about what happened with the next video. >> let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge early life, before married to kelvin. as well as documents about her family specifically children and gayle grandchildren. she was a loving wife and mother. we have wonderful correspondence that documents that. and i teen 22 grace wrote to the head of the academy were both persons were, and she writes, is there a way that we can arrange for calvin junior to have a soft boiled eggs for breakfast at a time that would be inconvenient. he just had a surgery and chris was concern about his health. this was written in 1924, like many sons he talks about his schooling, which wasn't going too well. his clothing that needed to be updated because he's going out of it, and his plans for traveling back to washington d.c. to visit his moment at. the letter reads i hope you are well and happy, i know you're, happy

>> did you work out out in the white house? >> i worked out in the white house. and had a trainer that came to the gym and up stairs and my sister-in-law margaret came and always worked out with me. and at the very end, the last couple of years after i think maybe the last year i had a yoga instructor come and that's what i do now. >> you do yoga here in dallas at a class? >> i have an instructor that comes to my house. >> makes it easier? >> makes it easier, yeah. >> mrs. bush, you were also involved in education as an issue, no child left behind. has that been a successful program? >> i think it has been really successful. i think the important part of it is just the recognition that -- that it is really a civil rights issue, that the kids who do get left behind are the ones who are in the poorest parts of towns, the ones whose parents don't speak english, the ones who are -- they are the ones who get shuffled through. and that's why it's very important to have accountability, to know how every child is doing. and that's the part that of course a lot of people

obama approached life in the white house? what has she done for the mansion and how does she use it perhaps differently than other first ladies? >> well, we just talked about the garden a bit. that has been a signature part of her stamp on the place. it seems to be the part that she's most excited about. we see her regularly going out for the kind of ceremonial plant things and harvesting and being out there with children but also using the house, she's referred to it as the people's house, this idea that whoever comes to the white house should be welcomed in and what are ways to do that and the kind of bringing in folks who have never been there before. so you see lots of school children coming through for workshops. when there is a celebrity who's giving a musical performance there will be a workshop earlier in the day with students from local schools. and so this idea that you can kind of use it as a third space or in some ways a community center is, i think, you know a little fresh and different. >> we must remember that

welcome to the white house, everyone. i am so honored to help introduce this year's nominees for best picture. >> this is my mid life crisis, the bangs. i couldn't get a sports car. they won't let me bungee jump. so instead i cut my bangs. >> so you went for the bangs. ♪ >> you can take it from me. eating the right foods can help make you a better athlete. >> ooh! >> i'm just wondering if you can do more push-ups than i can do. >> you know, it depends how your back is. i know you get these back issues. >> no, no. no, no. [cheers and applause] 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. [cheers and applause] >> so it has been fascinating during the series since television arrived on the political scene in the 19 -- late 1950s, you mentioned jacqueline kennedy and her tour of the white house. to watch how the political campaigns, the white houses have used this medium to communicate with the public and to portray an image. how is this white house doing, and how is the public receiving it? >> you know, it is fascinating to look at the

the white house spokesperson says the op-ed did not go through normal white house clearancerocesses and is the opinion of peter alone. the president also responded. >>et that is per navarro. i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. there has never been a time when two candidates were so different. >> all this is president trump is behind in many polls and faces fierce criticism over his own response to the covid-19 and yesterday, what was billed as an official white house news conference quickly morphed into a campaign style event. the president spent 63 minutes, mostly criticizing hne november op joe biden. he mentioned biden by name some 30 times. he hit the former vice president on a range of issues. >> joe biden and president oma freely allowed china to pillage our factories, plunder our communities. to jobs. >> america lost near 10,000 factories while joereiden was vicesident. think of that. 10,000 factories. >> to the paris climate agreement. >> vice president biden was a leading advocate of the paris climate accord, which was unbelievably expensive to our country. >> biden

initially, the people in the white house were terrified. after the 60 minutes interview the president said, he says jokingly, you've lost me ten, no 20 million votes. it was only a few days later when the first polls came in and people in the white house were astonished that, in fact, there was an overwhelming 70% of those who opposed and sympathized with the first ladies candor, if not necessarily her specific views. >> here are the first lady herself talking about the equal rights amendment under the constitution and urging its ratification. >> the equal rights amendment, when ratified, will not be an instant solution to women's problems. it will not alter the fabric of the constitution were forced women away from their families. it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women in to the old stereotypes of behavior and opportunity. it will help open up more options for women. but it is only the beginning. the debate over the equal rights act has become too emotional because the fears of some, both men and women, about the

back here in washington the white house versus dr. fauci, that drama continues after the president's trade adviser of all people wrote an article slamming the infectious disease expert. dr. fauci is now speaking out about efforts within the administration to try to discredit him. he is calling all of this bizarre and says the, quote, nonsense, all of this, quote, nonsense he says, needs to stop. let's go to cnn's nick watt joining us from los angeles right now. nick, more disturbing numbers tonight from california, from texas, and elsewhere. >> wolf, yeah. record numbers in texas. you know, we just heard from our cnn team in florida that miami-dade county has now run out of icu beds, record numbers here in california. pasadena has just canceled the world famous rose parade, which was for new year's day 2021 and here in los angeles we have just been told that returning to a stay-at-home order is now a possibility. that we are right now in an alarming and dangerous phase of this pandemic. we're not alone. more theme parks opened up toda

at the blair house and couldn't entertain in the white house. it's mamie who brings back really large scale elegant entertaining to the white house. >> let me ask as curator of exhibitions and presidential and first lady memorabilia, how significant a decision was it, and why was it made, that presidents after eisenhower could no longer keep the gifts they were given? >> i think they were afraid it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of a return political favor for the gift. so that was made illegal. >> do you know where all those gifts go, because presidents stell get lots and lots of gifts. >> they go to the state department or archives. through the archives they often turn up at presidential libraries, but they aren't owned by the president and first lady. >> now, one statement a president and first lady can make is not just who they invite but who they did not invite. one person they did not invite to the white house was senator joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited. she was invited to teas, receptions

what did he do in the white house? >> he taped his telephone conversations as eisenhower and roosevelt had a little bit -- kennedy had a little bit more, but johnson, about 650 hours over 5 years and taped people in most cases without their knowledge which would include jacqueline kennedy whom at that point had a very good relationship more or less with lbj but i think she would not have been too thrilled to know he was having this call taped. >> this is a phone conversation with ten days after the death of her husband. jacqueline kennedy and the new president, lyndon johnson. let's listen. >> first thing you got to learn, you have some things to learn. one of them is you don't bother me, you give me strength. >> i wasn't going to -- >> don't send me anything. you just come over and put your arm around me, that's all we do. when you haven't got anything else to do, let's take a walk and let's walk around the backyard and let me tell you how much you mean to all of us and how we can carry on if you give us a little stre

kennedy after she left the white house? >> dan (ph) thank you again for a great series. >> the relationship was better than one might think. jackie kennedy found appalling the idea that she would ever again have to return to the white house after 1963. she thought it would be much too painful. she told her secret service agents in washington, "drive in a way that i will never have to see the white house, because it'll make me too upset. i'll start crying again."n' + >> one exception, 1970 - 1971, her and jfk's portraits were painted by the artist aaron shikler. they were about to be displayed in the nixon white house. the nixons said, "why don't you come down and see them quietly." she felt that she owed it to jfk to do that, so she brought her children. that was a totally off-the-record visit.n' + >> they had dinner. and she wrote to president nixon afterwards. she said, "a moment that i had always dreaded" -- meaning returning to the white house -- "turned out to be one of the most important days i've ever spent with my c

susan: well, the two boys came home for some of their vacation to the white house, come to the white house that summer. and that's really when tragedy struck. we're going to learn a little bit more about what happened with the coolidge sons on our next video. [video clip] kate bradley: let's head into the vault where we keep specific things about the coolidge family. grace coolidge's earlier life before her marriage to calvin coolidge, as well as documents about her relationship with her family, specifically, her sons and her grandchildren. grace was not only a loving wife. she was also a loving mother. and we have some wonderful correspondence that documents that. in 1922, grace wrote to the head of the mercersburg academy where both of her sons were. and she writes, "is there a way in which we can arrange for calvin jr. to have a soft boiled egg for breakfast for a time without great inconvenience?" calvin jr. just had a little minor surgery and grace was very worried about his health. the other letter we have is written by calvin jr. this was written in 1924. like many sons, he ta

i put him in the white house." you said you don't really believe that she thought that. >> well, i don't know if she thought that or not, but maybe at any given moment she did. but the nickname she had before she was the duchess was the boss. and warren sort of toned that down for public consumption but i think you probably thought half the time that she was the boss in many ways. he valued her opinion. i think -- i think there was a real partnership there. >> absolutely. >> roger (ph) is watching us in baltimore and you have the next question, roger (ph). hi. >> roger (ph) roger (ph): hello. thank you. i have a few questions for ms. sibley. since listening to you, ms. shipley, i think i would like to read your biography of florence. i've already read one biography that was very detailed and i'm wondering if you have an opinion on that one. do you think mr. carl anthony's biography of florence harding is accurate and well-researched? i haven't... >> shall, i answer? or, oh... >> roger (ph) roger (ph): one other que

last day in the white house? >> my first day in the white house, you're walking in from the receiving, you know, the parade. i remember, we had huge family. and i remember the twins, they're not going to like this, but going with the baby-sitter down to the bowling alley and ordering a meal. we were getting ready to go to the balls, and we had the whole family gathered for a very large sort of buffet meal. and i said, where are the twins? we're all eating. they said they're in the bowling alley. they ordered hamburgs. i said get them up here. the enforcer. we don't order food away. they came right up laughing. but i remember being surrounded and seeing everybody off to the balls and how pretty they looked. and what fun they were having. i mean, they were tailing all over the white house, those children. >> what about your last day? >> last day. our children left town. local. they did not want to be around for that. but it was very moving. and saying good-bye to the white house staff was difficult. we never dreamt

last day in the white house? >> my first day in the white house. you mean walking in from the receiving? oh you know we reviewed the parade. i remember we had huge family, and i remember the twins. they're not going to like this, but going with the babysitter down to the bowling alley and ordering a meal. we were getting ready to go to the ball and we had the whole family gathered for a very large sort of buffet meal. i said, where the twins? we're all leaning. a said there in the bowling alley ordering hamburgers. they came right up laughing. but i remember being surrounded and seeing everybody at the ball and how pretty they looked and what fun they were having. i mean they were all over the white house, those children. >> what about you lost? a >> last day, our children left town. -- they did not want to be around for that. it was very moving and saying goodbye to the white house staff was difficult. we never drunk we would be back. it was hard. but life goes on. we got on a plane with all our friends and fami

house. 0ver doctor anthony fauci and the white house. over the weekend, the white house issued a series of bullet points detailing why doctor anthony fauci should not be tested. then peter navarro today doubled down on all of that in an article in usa today. president trump has since sought to distance himself somewhat from peter navarro's comments and doctor felt she, you just were explaining, has said that he does not really understand what is going on. he called it a major mistake, did not understand why the white house would seek to discredit him. and it is of concern to people

these two were at the white house. and sanjay said it's very likely there are others who have been infected and, in fact, just today, the white house sent out a memo to staffers that said they had to wear masks when they entered the property, which is odd, too, because the c.d.c. told the rest of us a month ago that we needed to wear masks. so i don't know, although there is this idea that president trump might think that people who wear masks are displaying weakness or something. that's been suggested about why people don't do it at the white house. but it's very disconcerting, and i am at a loss for words quite often, covering this. >> stephen: you've talked on-air to a white house aide to ask the president to talk to him about invoking the defense production act for the manufacturing of tests, among other things, and asked members to have the g.o.p. to talk to the president, take the science seriously. is that the role of journalists now to encourage people close to the president to take action, or take certain aspe

but she continued after she left the white house. i think until 1990 which is 22 years after leaving the white house, she continued to give that highway beautification award out of her own pocket to highway workers in texas who had done most to beautify the highways of texas. so i'm always interested in which first ladies continue their project afterwards and which ones forget they ever did that. >> here are some of the key accomplishments and challenges from the administration including the process of a major education bill and the extension of public broadcasting and the establishment of medicare and medicaid and the signing of the civil rights act which had been krend administration legislation and the warren commission report with the findings on the -- excuse me the kennedy assassination. the establishment of the outer space treaty which people say today still is the framework for how the international community treats outer space. and of course the vietnam war. and the voting rights act of 1965 which i think is probably the mos

there's breaking news at the white house this day. the highest ranking coronavirus diagnosis yet, the president's national security adviser, robert o'brien. >>> live pictures there. this is joint base andrews just outside of the nation's capital in maryland, the body of john lewis, civil rights icon and american hero, 30 years plus representing the atlanta district and its suburbs and his casket will be taken through the streets and many landmarks here. the house speaker is on hand at joint base andrews, friends and family members, congressional staff members as well as we begin this journey. our special coverage throughout the day. joining me is cnn's dana bash, nia-malika henderson and van jones. dana, i want to come to you. you knew him very well from all the time you spent on capitol hill, but i want to start the conversation by going back to the second obama inaugural. this is after the re-election in 2013. listen to congressman lewis speak to you. >> i did everything i could possible to keep from crying. when i saw him standing

it was the stupidest white house press briefing in the history of the white house, but it succeeded in changing the subject. and that was its mission. mission accomplished. but changing the subject is not saving donald trump from voters' harsh judgments of him. a gallup poll released today shows donald trump with a declining approval number of 38%. leading our discussion tonight is former director of the cia, an msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst and also with a us a staff writer for the new yorker and professor of journalism at columbia university. and professor cobb, i want to start with you on this tonight because it does present a dell limb ma. it presents a dilemma for us in the news room. it is fascinating you can be asking the question in a white house press briefings why don't you fly the confederate flag here at the white house. but there is always that challenge of what are we moving out of the way in order to cover the latest trump outrage? and do we cover it just because it's the latest trump outrage? what would your guidance be for how we navigate thro

i even asked the white house. there is a timeline she is in italy and france where she speaks for a very short time like little words like toddlers but it is in a fluency. so i said i can't find anything online. can you send it back there was radio silence from the white house. she has had a lot foreign trips and opportunities. she's met the pope certainly met the french president and his wife so it took months and months and i asked everybody did you have private conversations with her and with dozens of interviews that i did nobody said that she did. can i say she doesn't? i'm not saying that but it is very very noticeable but there is no evidence of that. at that time jackie kennedy in the sixties way before iphones made it easy you can find a jackie kennedy online giving along address in french and spanish. so so to tell me about this is a key part of your resume. >> covering the pulitzer prize of a band cooperative with you? >> i have been a foreign correspondents working on three continents for 15 years. i h

catapulting silent cal into the white house. acutely aware that he was an accidental president, coolidge felt morally bound to carry on partings policies until the next election. this intern meant that the new president would keep his predecessors cabinet intact. some key among the cabinet secretaries whom coolidge thus retained with secretary of commerce, herbert hoover. since entering the cabinet in 1921, hoover had rapidly established himself as one of the ablest and most energetic of harding's advisers. hoover is the smartest genk i know, carding had remarked one-time to affront. in the presidents cabinets only secretary of state charles evans hughes had wielded comparable influence. if the hard driving hoover and the genial hearting had been an unlikely political to some, the pairing of hoover and calvin coolidge was to be if anything stranger still. them in 1895, each man had graduated from college. coolidge from amherst in massachusetts, hoover from stanford university in california. i'm from that point on, their careers

these are live pictures there inside of the white house. he's holding this event in just a couple of minutes on the crime fighting initiative dubbed operation legend. the effort involves sending law enforcement officers to cities across the country. and so this is happening as more than a dozen mayors have joined portland, oregon, in asking the trump administration to remove federal forces or stop plans to send them to these more democratic-led cities. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is live in washington. why is he doing this? >> reporter: well, you know, this is part policy, part campaign strategy, brooke. the president has been saying for weeks now that he wants to see as he puts it law and order imposed in cities where you see these protests, sometimes turn violent and he's about to announce in just a few moments from now an extension of what they're calling operation legend which will send federal law enforcement officers into cities around the country. in this case, and this extension we're told it is going to be sendin