house. -- entertaining to the white house. a lot of people think that is jacqueline kennedy. but it is really mamie eisenhower after several decades with world war ii and then the truman renovation of the white house where they were living elsewhere and could not entertain at the white house. it is mamie who brings back large-scale elegant and entertaining. , andere were expositions there is first lady memorabilia. why was it significant that president after eisenhower could no longer keep gets -- gifts? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of internal political favoritism. that was made -- >> where do all those gifts go? go to the state department or the national archive. from the archive, they turn up at presidential libraries. but they are not owned by the president or the first lady. >> one statement that a president and first lady can -- not only who they can invite, but they do not invite. one person they did not invite was joseph mccarthy. >> actually mrs. mccarthy was invited. she wa

crowds contain the outside the white house, and to surround the white house on all sides. traffic is moving normally and there are no other changes. we are also told that an assistant to vice president lyndon johnson has also arrived at the white house, torch -- george reedy. there is not a lot of word coming from the white house press office. pressrst word was that a officer was asking to enter. the mood there was one of utter shock, utter disbelief. the press house come at the white house press office is

house, to loan pieces to the white house. they went out and sought out people donate the money to be able to get the proper pieces to -- to build the room. she had always been interested in decorating. she had decorated a number of their homes. so this was something that was very important to her. not something widely known. they didn't publicize this. it was like she was doing it for a while before anybody realized she was doing it. and when jackie -- jackie says, this is all wonderful. she tries to give the credit to other people rather than taking it herself. >> when pat nixon came to the white house, one third of the furnishings were antiques. when she left, two thirds were antiques. some might not know this, dolly madison is famous for saving the canvass of george washington in 1814. she saved two canvasses. the other was the portrait of herself and pat nixon brought it back to the white house. >> chilecothe, hi, bill. >> i was a butler with the nixons. i was there at the house all the time at camp david. >> what would y

they so enjoy the white house. bess truman friends were very dear to her, and she kept him throughout her life. >> we have a caller. you are on the air. >> we had the pleasure of going and touring the house through the back door, just like the family, and seeing the presidential family, -- library, which we really enjoyed. my question was about their financial circumstances. you said it was quite controversial that she was paid, but perhaps they needed the money. , the president was the reason that they have established a pension for retiring presidents. wonder if it was the circumstances that led them not to do as much entertaining. >> absolutely. financial reasons were white he put her on the payroll. it was a good thing she did. the finances were often very tight. it was ironic in the second term. no one expected democrats to win. approved thehad idea that the president salary would be doubled. it went from $50,000 to a hundred thousand dollars -- $100,000. the president did not have pensions before truman. they

on the top of the white house. they had other kids about the same age, children of other members of the administration. and at the time of the assassination -- this was 1963, one thing that lbj did do, he said the school can go on to the end of the semester. >> but there was a controversy, all the children worldwide. >> there was a photograph that shows the class picture, of caroline and her schoolmates, and there is one african- american boy, i think he was the son of andrew hatcher, but they were receiving -- >> the president came over to address them by name -- you must have been told that i was the one with the blue pin. >> the african-american student. >> there was the height of concern over integration and people were riding into the white house and asking, are there any, they would say, negro childen in the class and they had to say this was a private school, not a public school, which would have to follow the brown versus board of education edict. >> we have more on the candy administration -- with the pres

thank you to the white house association for their assistance. thank you for being with us once again tonight. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] pe than any first lady before her, accompanying the president to the soviet union and asia. she took a solo trip to africa. watch our, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> in august 1970 four, vice president ford was signed in as president of the united states. . she was less excited about becoming first lady, but he encouraged her and said we can do this. she said, if i'm going to do this, i will have fun doing it. the fun started immediately. within 10 days, she had a state dinner to entertain. she had to prepare for in her role as first lady. she hit the ground running. first lady betty ford, monday night at 9:00 eastern, live on c-span. >> next from the linden being johnson's presidential library, a tour of the white house narrated by lady bird johnson. >> it is a very small room. a little crowded. let's walk th

in the white house. mr. meadows asked, who were those people who need to come in front of this committee that can answer these questions, like, why didn't you know the security assessment hadn't been done? who can answer the questions about why they decided to go ahead and launch this on october 1st? and we know who that person is. because according to the "washington post" story, november 2nd, a memo that they got from david cutler spells it out. mr. cutler said, we need to put someone from the private sector in charge, someone who has run a business and has that experience and expertise. the president said, no, he had already made up his mind, nancy ann deparl is that person. that's the person we need, mr. chairman. and mr. cutler also points out, mr. meadows referenced this as well, according to the memo, the overall head of implementation inside hhs was jean lambeau. those are the two people we need. would you agree, mr. park? they need to come here and tell us what took place, why these decisions we

that the white house doesn't support? >> well, again, we don't believe that proposed legislation causes more problems than it fixes is the right way to go, but we are interested in other avenues that actually address the problems identified, and as i justs, the president asked his team to come up with proposed solutions. you can expect us to be announcing something sooner rather than later. >> briefly, then, last week, the president in dallas speaking about the health care website said, by the end of this month, we anticipate it's going to be working the way it is supposed to. yesterday, you said we expect it to be functioning and properly by the vast majority of americans by the end of the month, and today, the chief white house internet technology said it was a goal. so the president gets updated on this daily. i wonder, what is today's appraisal of november 30th? is it going to be functioning, and when you say, you know, for a vast majority of americans, even if it doesn't help everybody, you could still be leaving mil

she continued it 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. i'm always interested in which first ladies continue their projects afterwards and which ones forget that they ever did that. >> here are some of the key accomplishments and challenges. the establishment of medicare and medicaid, the signing of the civil rights act which had an kennedy administration legislation, the worn commission -- the warren commission report with the findings on the kennedy assassination, the establishment of the outer space treaty which people say today still is the framework for how the international community treats outerspace. and of course vietnam war. >> and the voting rights administration of 1965 which is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation which made it possible for people to get the vote and to get thems

this white house. we have to admit it. we've been enablers. wow. >> i think journalists are realizing they've got to stand up, whether it's a democrat or se, and demand more access. in the clip you played a minute ago, the press shouldn't be in there when there's national security information being talked about in the situation room. of course, no one is arguing that there should be a camera in there when they are running the osama bin laden raid. the white house claims that they are having their own official photographers and videographer to present sort of the -- >> state-run media. stayed-run media. >> now, if that were just going on on its own and the media was still getting access to the news events, fine, do what you want. but the fact of the matter is, sometimes -- not all the time but sometimes the official administration-run media, i'll let you use the other phrase, is replacing independent journalists like myself and other networks from going in and asking the president direct questions with

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>> we're not the first white house to deal with leaks. every white house has dealt with it. i think we have been more leak-free than most and when we find them we try to stop them. >> is he angry about it? >> he's always frustrated about leaks. i haven't read it. he hasn't read it. but he hates leaks. everyone hates leaks. we should be able to work together to get the american people's work done. i think that anyone who leaks has to pay the price. i don't know who leaked in that book. >> the president also frustrated with the health care launch. the website was down overnight for maintenance. apparently it's back up right now. but given these challenges, jeff zients is now running the punch line for the site, are you still confident that the website's problems are going to be fixed by the end of november? >> yes. jeff zients said that as recently as this week. based on the work done, they can get it back up by the end of this month. we'll be able to get -- >> you lost almost two months here? >> right. the good news here is that the history of programs like this, in massachus

so far the white house really feels like what they are doing is sustainable. they don't believe they are under political pressure to provide more information to change their approach. we have to see after these hearings if there is a difference. >>> you listen to senators like senator graham, george, he they are adamant about. this take a listen. >> the survivors, the people who survived the attack in benghazi have not been made available to the u.s. congress for oversight purposes. so i'm going to block every appointment in the united states senate until the survivors are being made available to the congress. >> what do you think about that? >> well, institutional tension is built into our system of government. now, if you believe the administration's sincerity and it's been difficult to do this since they said the benghazi attack was just an excessively violent movie review but an internet video. if you believe they are worried about, a, national security, something was going on there that they think ought to be kept secret or they are worried about the inte

. >> let's start with the white house. this was the first time you had been inside the white house? >> first time i had been inside the white house, i had been in the rose garden a couple of times and on the lawn with my camera. and i only had have one picture of president kennedy in the rose garden, and he's standing on the porch with someone else. i can't remember who it is. but i had not been inside the white house until that -- until i got posted there. and i was -- the body was in the east room. the casket was in the east room. and the green room is where all of the dignitaries gathered. the east room runs north and south. the white house is laid out on an east-west axis. the east room is at the east end, of course. it runs north and south. and the green room is at the southwest corner of the east room. and so i stood by the door as the legion of dignitaries came through. of course, bobby kennedy, and he was talking to sergeant shriver. and then i can't remember who the chancellor of germany was. conr conrad adenaur h

house, the nixon white house in many ways was modeled in themodern white house television age. the white house decided how the presidential family would be use or not. i hope we get into this a little more. pat nixon did not have the opportunity to control as much as she would have liked. the way in which she was presented to the american people. >> was this precedence setting? the first white house to go to this extreme with the media? >> no. the kennedy white house had thought a lot about jackie. the very fact that jaclyn kenny went to dallas, she was going to dallas because the president knew he needed her help in what was supposed to just the apolitical tour. this was not the first time. jaclyn kenny -- kennedy was the first. eleanor roosevelt thought about her public role, but she pushed that. she is unilaterally responsible for that. the roosevelt white house pushing her in front. i think jackie kennedy was the first lady that is part of a media strategy. role,xon did not play the the public role, that the white house wanted her to play. >> i think it goes further back. i

house, white house health care advisor in 2010 saying you're not ready toe roll this out. then you get in to a very big problem democrats are going to have to defend which is can can a government handle the question like this this and republicans have all along argued, no, it can't. that gets to be a very big problem that can spin out of control. >> schieffer: you know, i think this goes beyond politics and fall out for republicans and democrats. this is about health care and a law has been passed that people are going to have to have it. now it's difficult to figure out how they're going to get it. what happens here, david? >> well, i think the reality is that we're going to stumble through a period of trial and error. the only thing i'd say is that there's no technology success streets in the world, he is specially in america that doesn't have a kind of rough break-in period. we have a zero defect culture for washington. anything in washington has to be perfect the first time out because it's so political. but in the real world, companies have beta products that crash al

new documents show the white house knew there would be problems. our panel next on obamacare and the fallout. also, growing fallout from the information leaked by edward snowden. what he is now asking dpor -- asking for as washington tries to rebuild some relationships. >> it is vital when it comes to america safe and keeping our european allies safe. as i said earlier, the tensions that have been caused by these disclosures are ones that we acknowledge and ones we are addressing directly. >>> a check of the headlines. plans are in the work tips to prove the quality of life in the largest syrian refugee camp. it is home to more than 100,000 people that fled the civil war. they are swapping their squad cars for big rigs. the reason? by sitting up higher they have a chance of spotting drivers who are texting. >>> and there is going to be a partial solar eclipse visible to most of the east coast tomorrow at sunrise. get up early. it is a rare eclipse where the moon blocks part of the sun and completely in other parts of the world. >> obamacare was the

for this white house. hi, ed. >> reporter: good evening. a democratic source tells me tonight that some of the senators in this meeting with the president floated the idea of a delay of up to one year for enrollment in fines. the president did not agree to that. but i'm told these senators felt it was a constructive meeting. he listened. the big question now is, is there going to be a delay of a few months or something like that? president obama conferred late today with michael bennett just moments after they wrapped up a dramatic closed-door meeting with 15 senate democrats facing the voters in 2014 who are nervous that anger over obama care will knock them out of office. one democratic source familiar with the meeting told fox it was feisty because, quote, candidly, a lot of pent-up frustration among senate democrats about the rollout. it's terrible politics for everyone right now, added the democratic source. this was a chance for the president to let a little pressure out, after days of republicans pi

. >> we have a mobile unit on its way to the white house now as you just reported, the white house doesn't seem to be have any more information than the reporters on the scene. and we are also establishing contact with our robert mcneil, who is with the president's party in dallas and we expect to be getting reports from him very shortly. so as you can imagine, extensive efforts are being made to get our men dispatched to the right place at the right time and get as much information on it as we can. >> the technology of the day was under enormous strain. every radio and telephone circuit connecting dallas to the rest of the world was instantly snarled. anchors in new york began relaying whatever reporting from dallas and from memorial hospital they could collect. they confirm that the president had been shot, and they confirmed he was still alive. then a new grave detail, they learned there had been a call for a neurosurgeon, suggesting injury to the head or the spinal cord. also a call for a priest. nbc's bill ryan urged caution. >> it might be pointed out in that last report from dallas,

but the white house is worried about her bill. her bill would allow americans to keep their policies indefinitely. that changes the whole balance of all this not all that many democrats are signing on with her. i think seven have now. but even the others, like the senator from new hampshire has a bill. tom udall has a bill. so many different bills out there. but people want to vote on something. >> i want to ask about the president's proposed fix. if the idea is to allow people to keep their old plans that was -- that were supposed to be phased out for a year, isn't that kicking the can down the road and we'll have the same decision to make right before the 2014 election. is that any different for democrats at that point? >> john was right. the president wasn't compelling anyone to do anything. it was very much a message yesterday at the white house. he's fallen on his sword. we've use than metaphor so many times. you're right, it is kicking the can down the road, not solving anything but gives people more time to deal with this.

the white house in the 19th century. it was just so perfect. because the capitol is the building that i grew up in. and the rear view of them. >> so we've learned from you and from this tape that she continued to be a very active first lady, post first lady. and her -- into her very late years. >> into the 1990s, the macular degeneration in the '90s, she had to stop reading and that's when she stopped giving speeches, i was told, because she couldn't see the notes well enough. but she certainly until the '90s, she was very active. and then we were talking earlier about how even after the stroke, she continued to see people just so valiantly going out to restaurants and even though she couldn't voice her reaction, she laughed and made people feel that she really appreciated them. >> and she was very active at the library. and very interested in the work and proud of the work of the library. i was there at least three times in the -- in this century. the 21st century. and she was always there. >> she was so important in th

house and the executive office buildings over bad as the white house president obama and his family say they have the two weeks prior to his first inauguration the president is approaching the end of his fifth year in office community says when obama at five well george will the columnist said obama's head the worst first year of the second term since nixon i think that's. overstatement but obama's having trouble now and certainly with obamacare it's not just that the technical website issue it's is it going to work what does it mean to people and whenever there's a change like this a change i think is wise i think people should have health insurance and what the going to make it function for millions of people like they promised we were going to see any second terms when he said in terms get off well. and good question i mean they're generally is a bump in the road. but if you look at the world right now i think the world is such a dangerous place all of the if you go from north korea down to libya in egypt and ask questions of china and russia one of the cia people came over recen

the white house. we'll take it, pocket hit and a year from now probably push for more delays. i think under the circumstances you take it. >> charles? >> i would reject it as a straight offer. the democrats had a chance to get the one year delay. i would say if you want a one year delay, we demand changes in the law. i think that ought to be the bargain. ment d-- the democrats are on their knees. i imagine asking for torque reform or stuff democrats ignored when they ran this through, redo and fix it on ways that are important. >> across state lines. >> whatever. impose things they rejected. now is the time of maximum leverage. >> the feeling is just what you said. for democrats, the feeling okay this is a sucker's game. in other words they just want to pull us into something where they're not about trying the pragmatic approach. they're out to destroy it. >> reform is not a pragmatic approach to reduce hundreds of billions of of waste of on medicine every year. it's a constructive approach. it would

could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of return for political favor for the gift. that was made illegal. >> presidents still get lots of gifts. >> they usually go to the state department or the national archives. through the archives, they often turn up at presidential libraries. they are not owned by the president or first lady. >> one statement that the president and first lady can make is by who they did not invite. one person they did not invite was joe mccarthy. >> actually, mrs. mccarthy was invited to tea and receptions. she did not attend. >> what is a significance of that? >> she was making a political statement on her husband's behalf to not cross the door into the white house. >> some people do not know who joe mccarthy is. a quick snapshot of who he is. >> he was -- he was the senat

it's on the white house website. they have not acknowledged the basis fact that this administration misled the american people. when he says these things, nobody is listening. there is a crisis of credibility. nobody will listen to a word he says until he comes out and tells the american people, i misled you. what i said was inaccurate. i'm sorry. let's move on. >> he's not doing it. >> no. >> i don't know why we have that. you can take it off. it's distracting. his favorability is dropping. >> yeah. >> his job approval. favorability is key. all along despite scandals and so on, the irs, benghazi. people still liked him. for the first time this week we saw it changing. more people disliked than liked. job approval dropping. the question is can the man who promised to have the most transparent administration ever get away with this, marc? >> he can't. look, people don't like being lied to. when the president of the united states says to you that you can keep your health plan no matter what, period. and it turns out he

part of the white house would be torn down. >> dolley madison -- the white house was lit up -- >> it would have been replaced by federal office buildings of the time -- a penitentiary and a prison yard. this really helped the historic preservation -- >> in the book you quote aldrich >> this was her schoolmate at miss porter's school. >> she wrote that mrs. kennedy designed her mission of first lady along the following lines. do you remember this? >> preservation of family, entertaining with style and grace in the number one house in the world, the makeover of the white house itself and the raising of the cultural stature of this country. >> wasn't that amazing that she wrote that before going into the i don't mind for myself -- but i think it is hard with them, i wanted to take my daughter to the circus last week and decided, i just shouldn't because that would ruin it for her. i worked so hard to make a little ballet school a private thing we can do together and there were a number of photographers when we got there. >> do you think caroline, who is older than john junior, has she c

one reason that why it worked is the white house was shown a very simple example. they weren't given a complicated family with all kinds of relatives who were trying to enroll it was a very simple example. and it happened to work. let me go back to may of 2010. great article in the "the washington post." two months after the in the signed the law. almost self-inflicted wound that was sort of the first warning site that they had. they really needed to bring someone in to run. this. >> well it, turns out that there was quite a difference of opinion within the white house over who should run the big project of implementing this law. and the debate began when a harvard economist who had been an advisor healthcare advisor to the 2008 obama campaign wrote a memo saying i don't think that either the people or the processes that you guys have put in place are likely to produce a result that we all want. after that memo arrived the head of omv, the economic team basically said yeah, we are kind of concerned about. this and they raised some questions as to whether somebody f

lou: what is the white house to do? remind the iraqi people that other than clinton this administration is also throwing president bush and the bus? of course that is exactly what they did. >> it is important to note that president clinton also said, and i quote, the big lesson is that than without it. he said, the enrollment did not come off well because the national website was not ready. this happened once before, when president bush put in the medicare drug program for seniors which was not as complicated but adds that this same problem with the rollout. disaster. lou: president obama does not need any more problems, and there is an old saying, when you find yourself in a whole, as the president certainly has, it is time to quit digging. here he is taking away. it is, by the way, for years, nine months, and 23 days since george w. bush was in the oval office. how long do you have to be in office to stand on our own as a man and as a president and quit blaming someone else? in this instance by your predecessor. let's

white house chief technology officer said, it is not there yet. >> i would be comfortable saying that system has been comfortably handles at present. >> reporter: the administration promised that the oranguta obame would be fixed by the end of november. >> you have to tell us when it will be in good shape. is the end of the montrealistic? >> the team is working really hard to hit that goal. >> the fact on november b 13 yer not where we will be and' to be by november 30. it remains the case that we believe the site will be working smoothly for the vast majority users by the en of the month. >> reporter: 31% of those surveyed expressed confidence that the web site will be fixed. >> centers for medicare and medicaid service, and its contractor failed to fully deliver what they were supposed to deliver, congressional oversight is warned. >> one asked in health care do the gov is as secure? >> fully tests like the other rit projects you have overseen. >> i'm trying to continued what you moon by fully tested. >> fully tested? holy cow, this is like a new low. >> would you put your personal

martha: we have a chief white house correspondent ed henry live from the white house. ed, a lot ever talk about rolling of heads issue and whether anybody will get a pink slip from the white house. >> reporter: martha, nobody has really been held accountable so far. there is new pressure with the revelations coming out at this hearing about the fact that months ago, people like kathleen sebelius, the health and assuming services secretary got a early warning from mckenzie and company that things were not going well. that might not square with what kathleen sebelius said in her testimony and interviews and whatnot that will get scrutiny. robert gibbs, the president's former white house press secretary told nbc yesterday, look, if this were the private sector somebody would be fired already and held accountable. his successor jay carney, said he would not rule out a staff shake-up but he indicated it would be after the website got fixed. >> he believes his team ought to be and is focused on getting this right for the american people. making fixes to the website that are

the white house. the vote itself is a moment of real triumph for her. she is there at the front porch. she travels 25,000 miles with him after they leave the front porch. she is reaching out. there are number of problems. much excitedry about women's possibilities. there is a quote you can perhaps allude to, where she talks about how thrilled she is to see women succeeding in active in politics, wanting to cultivate that. >> they break the vote down by sex in 1920. i believe the harding-coolidge team does well. you also see it is an advantage to the republicans. you see precincts in massachusetts where the immigrant areas do not do as well. it is the republican party which puts the amendment through. the south is not particularly into it. neither is the traditional immigrant culture. it is the native american or older stock, republican areas to which are more interested in putting suffragette. it is something which boosts harding that year. he is a hell of a lot better looking than james cox. >> this

i'm critical of the white house. we have a responsibility in media too. what's happening is our editors and our producers are taking these pictures off social media and putting them in our papers and putting them on tv. i think a lot of time they don't realize. without clarifying. >> right. what's the difference between putting a white house photo out there? what's the difference between that and putting out a press release and preletang it is news? >> to your point, there is none. this is another point. i'll show again to our viewers on the left and the right. the left, this is what journalists were given. the access that our industry had to the president's trip to the gulf coast. him eating lunch. that's it. and i know the photographers wrld, hey, that's it. he is not going swimming. nothing else will happen. but he did go swimming with his daughter sasha and the white house took that wonderful picture and that was the money shot. as you point out, a reminded, take a look at the picture of vladimir putin frolicking

. >> push back to the white house. >> push back to the white house. and again on a similar line from what we're hearing from house democrats which is give us another option. we're asking for you a fix. you tell us you're looking at it, but we haven't seen anything yet. >> or shall sort of assurance that this will be fixed. steve and sam, latest snapshot of the 2016 race isn't looking good for vice president biden of all people. just 25% of people in a new quinnipiac poll say joe biden would make a good president. 54% say hillary clinton by comparison could ham the job. the poll also shows chris christie and hillary clinton neck and neck. and while clinton leads with women, christie with men. independents go to christie by a margin of 16 points. yesterday, this is interesting, senator rand paul took a shot at his possible 2016 opponent, new jersey governor chris christie, for federal spending on sandy and for including himself in post-storm tourism ads. >> you call him a moderate a couple of times. what do you base that on? >> well, i think that his vi

she continued it 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. i'm always interested in which first ladies continue their projects afterwards and which ones forget that they ever did that. >> your some of the key accomplishments and challenges. of medicarehment and medicaid, the signing of the civil rights act which had an kennedy administration legislation, the worn commission thert with the findings on kennedy assassination, the establishment of the outer space treaty which people say today still is the framework for the international -- how the international immunity trees outerspace. and of course vietnam war. >> and the voting rights administration of 1965 which is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation which made it possible for people to get the vote and to get themselves in a better situation.

todd on the white house lawn this friday night. thanks. >>> and there's more to report on this health care law. it has to do with mental illness. the new law requires health insurance companies to cover mental illness and substance abuse the same way they cover physical diseases. it's a big deal because it's estimated only a fraction of those people who need those services are getting them currently. we get more from correspondent rehema ellis. >> reporter: 20-year-old chris valdez was diagnosed ten years ago with bipolar disorder. an illness that could lead to dramatic mood swings. even with health insurance as a police officer, his mother says her costs have been overwhelming. >> if you need treatment, you can go to the doctor. you have a selection of hospitals. when my son is suffering or in a crisis, i don't have those options. i have to go where the insurance company tells me to go. >> reporter: in the wake of the school tragedy last september in newtown, connecticut, the president promised to bridge gaps in mental health cove

when i got married, they were in the white house when i got married and she sent out to the house the beautiful, a beautiful print of the capital seen from the white house in the 19th century. it was just so perfect. the capital is the building i grew up in and their view of it now. and it was signed by them. >> so we have learned from you and from this tape that she continued to be a very active first lady, post first lady into her very late years. >> into the 1990s. i think the macular degeneration in the 90s, she had to stop reading and that is when she really stopped giving speeches i was told because she couldn't see the notes well enough. but certainly into the 90s she was very active and then we were talking earlier about how even after the stroke she continued to see people, just valiantly going out to restaurants, even though she couldn't voice her reaction, she laughed and made people feel that she really appreciated them. >> she was very active at the library and very interested in the work. i was there at least three times in this century, the 21st. she was always there. >

plus a special section "welcome to the white house." it's the white house historical association and chronicles life in the executive mansion in the tenure of each of the first ladies, you can find out more at c-span.org/first ladies. >> c-span, we bring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, conchses, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage to the u.s. house all as a public service of private industry. we're c-span created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. >> now a discussion on u.s. diplomatic efforts in mutz limb countries. we'll hear from foreign service officer walter douglas who spoke at the center for strategic and international event for 50 minutes. >> john was hinting at the origin of this report. it went up on the website last week. i am not going to go through it because i think you can read it, but i want to point out how the things came about and where it t

thank you to the white house association for their assistance. thank you for being with us once again tonight. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> c-span series "first ladies" continues on monday. but worst, a white house tour from 1968 with lady bird johnson. a white house to or from 1968 with lady bird johnson. >> what do you think? of a brand new texas congressman, i snapped photos. i never imagined that one day i would live on the other side of that fence. like the tourists, i had the distinct feeling that this house belonged in part to me. i think that is a feeling that everyone who visits here shares. just like the thousands who come here every year, i was impressed by the majesty of the pride of through each of the rooms. what the passerby doesn't always realize is that there are two sides to the white house. the official side that remains in the public eye and the private side that the public rarely sees. living quarters for the president and his family. h

i think certainly the white house staff, i do think this president has had tighter control of the white house. and not used his cabinet quite as much as other presidents have. but you also got the first lady always influential with every president as andy and david know firsthand and foreign leaders. depends on the subject matter, don. and the decision at hand. there's a number of people who the president will reach out to, listen to, and you've got to take in that information and make the best decision possible. and the old adage, don't agree with the last person you just talked with, i think that's still very much appropriate. >> mr. card, you heard mr. mclarty say this white house staff has moreover any other previous administration. >> i think they are hyp hypersensitive about control. what's very important, however, is that there are people at the white house who take a look at job and do it in an unvarnished way. in fact they speak very candidly to the president. and i worry about that. i'm not sure the president is getting completely candid advice. for example, he should have bee

did you get anything from the white house to delay the shopper function? were there any political situations that went into your decision to do so? >> none what so ever. i look at the facts of whether the system is going to be ready. everything is always a hundred percent perfect. and there are certain toll rantss. but in this case, it failed so miserably, that we could got let people use it. >> thank you. we now go to the gentleman from north carolina. could you yield for just 10 second. >> happy to. >> mr. chao, if it couldn't calculate the prices properly, when people went through the back door, that it did go through their plan and let them shop a completely different portal. >> if you don't go through -- >> no, no, i've taken six seconds from the man. >> if you fill out an online application and you put your information in, you ask for financial assistance. >> yeah, you to through everything. be u you're saying you didn't get d right rice through the same software. >> no, anonymous shopping was using different software. >> okay. well, that remains to

for the long broad approach to the white house. from there to the white house. now the first cause to make the turn. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> how the cars are approaching the junction of constitution and pennsylvania avenue, constitution avenue is the great processional avenue in washington, but it is not in use today. ♪ ♪ ♪ there is the case on the casket ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. onto pennsylvania avenue. and there is a great long vista from the capital behind it down pennsylvania avenue and the treasury building into the white house ♪ ♪ riderless force behind the caisson. ♪ bucking, almost for testing out what it has to do. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> many people walking along the sidewalks. the area around the capital and around lower pennsylvania avenue, going to where the procession is at the white house. ♪ ♪ the white house, you will recall is 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the core cage is now six blocks away. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪. the marines are going by. and now the military commanders and the attaches. ♪ ♪. and now the court case itself,

the pressure on the white house when it comes to obama care. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger. there are a bunch of democrats now who are nervous, they are worried, and they are putting some pressure on the president as well. >> they are putting a lot of pressure on him. it's why the white house invited 15 democrats, senators who are all up for re-election, to the white house yesterday. they did it because they need, these folks need to be able to go back home and say to their constituents you know what, we're putting pressure on the white house to get this thing fixed, but these senators are concerned about a lot more than the website. they are concerned about the people who have lost their insurance, what's going to happen to them. they are concerned about the security issues. they are talking about the potential increase in prices people will pay, and they also believe quite frankly that the white house has not focused enough on these potential land mines down the road on the affordable care act so they're trying to

the white house is challenging her account. directing her to a left-leaning blog, and a story titled "the real reason the cancer patient lost her insurance." and united health care dropped her coverage because they have struggled to compete in california's individual health care market for years. it is true united health care only has a small share of california's insurance market but they left out that united health care is the biggest health insurance company in the country. and the reason they pulled out of california is the same reason they're only joining exchanges in a handful of states. they believe the exchanges will attract too many sick people and not enough healthy people. the ceo told his investors, quoting here, there will be access by those who have had a pent-up appetite for insurance. and we are approaching them with some degree of caution. and now we know, megyn, that to participate in the california exchange, then qualify for those federal subsidies, insurance companies had to agree to cancel their plans that

north lawn of the white house right now. peter, what do you know? >> reporter: gregg, we know that about an hour and a half from right now president obama's going to step up to the podium in the briefing room where we normally see jay carney, and we believe he's going to discuss some kind of a remedy to the affordable care act, his signature legislative achievement over his first two terms, a way to remedy that so that millions of people stop seeing their insurance plans canceled. and whatever it is that he announces, we know that he had options, because jay carney said yesterday that the president instructed his team to give him choices, basically, several different avenues that he could go through to stop -- rather, to help tease people who have seen their -- these people who have seen their insurance plans canceled. so we don't know which thing he will end up announcing, but one of his very close friends in congress who helped get the affordable care act through who is now the democratic minority leader, nancy pelosi, tal

the truman renovation of the white house meant that they could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. how significant of a decision was it? >> i think they were afraid that it would look like bribery or some kind of, you know, prompting of return for political favor for the gift. that was made illegal. >> presidents still get lots of gifts. >> they usually go to the state department or the national archives. through the archives, they often turn up at presidential libraries. they are not owned by the president or first lady. >> one statement that the they atement is who invite and who they do not invite. they did not invite senator joe mccarthy. >> mrs. mccarthy was invited to teas reception. >> what is the significance of that? >> i think she was making a political statement on her husband's behalf not to cross the door. >> some people watching this . n't know who joe mccarthy is [laughter] went was the senator that so-called commune ises in and mmunists in government saw it as a witch hu

the white house isn't defending the white house. >> chuck? >> my winner is max baucus of april of this year who stood up and said implementation is going to be a train wreck. my loser is max baucus in september in this year who having being given a tongue lashing by the white house said don't worry i think the train is going to keep running. poor max. >> more train metaphors. >> charles? >> loser mary landrieu. she is a democratic senator up for louisiana. desperate about the obamacare. she needs a vote where she can say i voted affirmatively in trying to aloud people to keep the plans. she didn't get a vote. she is going to need one badly. the winner, mohammed zariff foreign minister of iran. it looks as if our side is caving on the interim agreement and we are actually going to silently or implicitly grand. it doesn't have a right of enrichment. >> no aspersions on the jonas brothers. that's it for the panel. stay tuned for surprising peek at the way macy's is planning to celebrate thanksgiving. results from our s.r. bingthan pulse. e get i