, in that the senior bush, prescott bush, was very competitive. eisenhower said, "i like playing with him, because he's one of the only people that wouldn't let me win." and that really is an idea that was instilled into the entire family, that when you're on the athletic field, when you're in the arena, in any arena, when you're in business, when you're in politics, you're there to win, respectfully, but you're there to win. >> so from the harris county republican head to the national stage, how did that happen? >> well, there were two terms in congress, so the family -- >> before that, there was a senate try that didn't work? >> there was a senate try that didn't work. there were two terms in congress. there was another try for the senate that, unfortunately, didn't work. and then there was -- mr. bush was asked to be republican national committee chairman during watergate. >> before that time -- >> well, and between that -- well, actually between that time, he was united nations ambassador. and i think the broader political context is really im

dwellings bush including the bush lebron bush institute. and so, it pushes continue further the causes that they began to take initiative toward during the white house. >> did they do that with the help of donors? >> with the help of donors, yes, in the bushes to raise money then turned goes to the bush institute and projects relating to it, the bush library as well. >> now the case of laura bush, her husband isn't going to be running for president again and she certainly was not going to be running for president herself. so in some ways, while there could be influence that those donors might gain, if there were another bush for instance to run for president, yes i think that's possible. but in some ways i guess i think that they're sort of protected at this point from that, that. >> i think that's right. >> however in the case of mrs. clinton and the clinton global initiative, i think that that remains an area that the public rightfully wants the watchfulness on and i think that those of us in journalism continue to try to track because if

bush. we'll have a question and answer afterwards. because he spent is feeling tonight please use the microphones. will place one over there, another to the side there. that way your question doesn't get lost on c-span. i want to welcome you and tell you that we appreciate you being here tonight. especially given that the democratic party has done alternative programming. we have the opportunity to get our fill of the 2020 presidential campaign. we're going to take a few moments to commemorate a man who won it in 2028. a man who became more appreciated with time. i was struck like many others i think by the national outpouring of respect and affection in the days leading up to and through the funeral of george herbert bush in last november. and the funeral of his wife recently, he was the 44th president. gore said that he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. (applause) the country seemed anxious to celebrate those qualities. he was a world war two hero before he began h

bush's personality might be seen in her son president george w. bush? >> well, i think both of them have long memories. barbara bush i think does not let go of criticism very easily, and i'm not sure that george walker bush does either. >> and a similar question and you can respond to both. on twitter, are there any passions that a young barbara passed onto her own children? >> i think to understand barbara bush you need to appreciate she was really a product of her times and the passion she passed onto her children was the fact she had devoted her entire life to them, to raising a family to being a good loyal wife to her husband over the course of his varied careers. he was for many times -- in many sense an absentee father for many years because he was on the road as a salesman, a politician, as a government official. she was the one there every night. and so for george w. bush in particular i think that helped form a real bond between the two of them especially after robin's unfortunate death. >> just some statistics on that so people get a sense how

bush, bill clinton and george w. bush. including barack obama's 2008 election. the university of virginia miller center posted this hour and 15 minute discussion. >> we are going to get started here with round two of presidents on whom oliphant was able to bestow his gift. on a country who is able to impart his gift visually with presidents. i am mike nelson. i am the guy you put up with during the first panel. we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. once again, we have the miller center pit people here. the miller center, one of the main emphasis is the focus on studying the president sees in-depth, historical depth with objectivity. in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that in editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a day-to-day basis. which path oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. whereas, we all strived to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial c

bush, ever. don't dare criticize george bush, ever. >> when she came to the white house, she told her press secretary, anna perez, that there were three areas where you better keep hands off -- her fellow, her family, and her dogs. and that pretty much followed through. she was very concerned and reacted sometimes very quickly if there was criticism of george bush, who she always called george bush, and the children. today >> we are going to invite you, as we always do, to participate in our discussion tonight, and there are three ways you can do it. we have a conversation already underway on c-span's facebook page, and you can join that and we will work some of the questions and comments into our discussion tonight. you can also tweet us using the handle @firstladies. >> and finally, you can call us. we have our lines divided geographically. if you live in the eastern of central time zones, 202-585-3880. if you live in the mountain, pacific or even farther west, 202-585-3881. and throughout the

bush. we'll have question and answer after weekends awards and becaus filming tonight, please, use the microphones that we will place, i think one right there and one over to the side there, and that's so your question doesn't get lost on c-span. i want to welcome all of you, and let you know how much we appreciate you all being here tonight. especially knowing that the democratic party's done a little bit of counterprogramming. [ laughter ] of course, we've got another, another 15 months-plus to get our fill or probably more than our fill of 2020 presidential campaigning. here we're going to take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. a president who it seemed the longer he lived, the more loved and appreciated he became. i was struck like many others, i think, by the national outpouring of respect and affection in the days leading up to and through the funeral of george herbert walker bush last november. the funeral of his wife barbara, a little more than seven months earlier

the bush institute and the bush library. she was instrumental in the planning of the bush library, and i think her touch can particularly be seen on the grounds surrounding it, with its native grasses and native plants, something she has a graut passion for. i think she continues to lead a very full life. and as i mentioned earlier, susan, continues to pursue some of the causes that were dear to her as first lady through the bush institute. >> one of the nice things about being first lady in a way, too, is that you think you have just a brief period of time, but your impact does continue. and she actually has more room to continue to be involved in these policy initiatives than certainly the former president does or would or has suggested he wants to, because he doesn't think it's right for a president to be criticizing another one, but she and mrs. obama, for instance, have both been together in africa, have had a summit for first ladies of africa. they worked together on a number of things. mrs. clinton and she and the sec

i was on the 1988 bush/dukakis campaign on the bush side. i would say the top half is exactly not true, not how he was perceived. the bottom half is exactly how dukakis was perceived, from our point of view. i remember being -- i remember having a t-shirt that said, beware of greeks wearing lifts. there was a lot of joking about the difference in height between governor dukakis and president bush. president bush was 6'2" or 6'3". i remember there was a saturday night live skit because dukakis after dark. it played on this, that there was this other side to michael dukakis that nobody saw or knew about. but on the top side, though, i would say the left side of what they try to sell is exactly what we all perceived in george bush. a war hero, 58 combat missions, and lifelong public i was making a documentary about president bush, and david mccullough says that it takes 50 years for historians to render judgment on a president, and how glad he was to see that historians had come around on george bush and given him the credit that he truly deser

bush, very small. it will be interesting how history evaluates that relationship, and if any of you have been to the george w. bush library, it's a wonderful place to visit. again, i think they try very hard and obviously philip knows better than anybody, to push back on this narrative that his decisions were controlled by other people. and again, it will be interesting to see how the public perceptions change as history goes on. >> yeah, i recall very personally one occasion where this played out. i was the director of the 9/11 commission. we interviewed both of the relevant former presidents, bush and clinton. and the vice presidents, cheney and gore, in the course of our investigation. arranging these interviews was difficult, but anyway. so we go to the white house to interview bush. bush and cheney actually had been asked to be interviewed together at the white house in one lengthy session. we had exceeded to that request. the fear was basically ten commissioners and me, and then president and vic

i love george bush. i adored george bush. he was an incredible inspiration for me. i learned a lot from him. i learned structure and a white house. i never dreamt that i would be president when he ran in 1988. very few people dreamt i would be president. [laughter] including my mother. including you. >> i remember interviewing you in the texas delegation. >> that is right. >> i am interviewing a future president. >> i thought governor clemens maybe. [laughter] >> i hope he stays out of trouble. >> well -- [laughter] >> here is what i learned. i watched a gracious man be president. what is interesting is, watching my dad be president was a lot harder than being president. anything bad about him was said, i would get angry. frankly, at times, i was rude and i say so in the book. i was defending someone that meant a lot to me. when i became president, it was much easier to deal with that having watched him go through with it. it bothered me with my dad, it did not really bother me. i made that point in the book. >> tell me about the first time you pushed dick cheney fo

bush? >> sure. let me just mention though, one of the things she said in the interview i did with her, she sort of grew up out of that experience and there are things that happened in your life that you can't change and you have to experience, while very formative for a young girl in midland, texas, waswtj very helpful to h in the days after jke9/11. she had seen the role that faith can -- that fate can play, and realized that you have to move on. you have to be strong, you have to move on. so i think it's very helpful. i think faith plays a great role in both of their lives.>ej it changed his life in a will the of +w she is less i think vocal about her religious faith than he is. she's a little bit more low key about it. but i think it's important to both of their lives. from smu and teaching and said she wanted to go on to the university of texas and get a library of science degree and she said her father said, now we'll never get her a husband. to go on and get her masters degree when m

bush, when did you first meet george bush? >> i met george at a dance in those days, rye and greenwich exchanged christmas dances. and i met him at a christmas dance. he cut in on me. he didn't. he asked someone to introduce us, really. and i had on a red and green dress that my mother's great friend had given her and said, i wonder if barbara would like this dress. it had belonged to some friend of hers, and it was pretty, i guess, because george asked to meet me, and i met him there. we went out -- he came the next night to another dance. the first was in greenwich. and cut in on me. and my older brother, he asked him if he would play in a basketball game. prep school boys against the rye high school. and they were murdered, incidentally, by the rye high school, but george said yes, he would play. and asked me if i would meet him and go out afterwards. and every member of my family came to that basketball game to look at this boy that i had raved over. and when i would come home at night, my mother would say, what did you do

bush for 73 years. we talked to her in 2013 about her life before being married as well as her public and private life after marriage. >> barbara bush, with all the posts that you and the president have held over the years, was there one that best prepared you for the white house? and when you became first lady, did you feel prepared? >> the answer, did i feel prepared? yes, i really did. first of all, i wasn't elected, so it didn't make that much difference. i did notice, though, the difference between being the vice president's wife and the president's wife is huge because the vice president's wife can say anything. nobody cares. the minute you say one thing as president's wife, you've made the news. so, that was a lesson i had to learn pretty quickly. but, i felt very prepared because we'd lived in washington off and on. our father -- my father-in-law had been a u.s. senator. although we had lived in texas, why, i think probably -- i think i was very comfortable. i had a wonderful loving family and s

bush, the bush family did not like him at all. he made interim president and how they became together so i'm looking at the presidency through those eyes but also, i have a chapter on cashing in and how these former presidents like clinton has made up so much money off this position so it's a pretty bipartisan account. >> the new cycle moves so quickly, the twitter story front and center wednesday and thursday with the executive order may have subsided a little bit because of the demonstrations over the weekend but this is the headline, trump versus twitter. what you need to know about the showdown following the executive order. going back to the interview in july last year, we asked about his use of twitter. >> 43000 tweets, did you ever regret sending one out? >> not much. honestly, not much. i said the one about the campaign" and that turned out to be true. that was like about a minute after i sent it, i did, what's the big deal? the reason is it turned out to be true, i guess you could say a lot of the times from the retreat,

, laura bush. we talked about the speech where she she had given which compared you to don corleone. from the godfather. >> that's nice. >> you have been referred to as the enforcer of the bush family. >> right. >> what do you think about that reputation? >> i'm not thrilled about laura saying that. i deserve it. george is so -- anything i do is all right. but someone has to be sure that the standards are kept. he leads by example. i lead by denying some things, and i am the enforcer. there is no question about it. do i like that role? no. would i rather he had done it? yes. but it did not work that way. >> 1990, wellesley college. this is a speech you gave. -- >> it was a difficult speech. they objected to my speech. -- incidentally, it happened that gorbachev was coming with her husband, and i could not leave her, so i invited her to speak with me. i got highly criticized by them saying, she does not there come by herself. she's taking her to protect her. it was a difficult speech. it turned out,

bush, besides barbara bush, what other first ladies have you studied and either adapted their style or not adapted it? >> well, i think you really do study all the first ladies, and you live with their decorating choices, you live with their furniture. you live with them. the effects, really, of their lives and certainly in times that are tough like hours after september 11. when you think the other families, likely you cook what what is happening then it certainly length is the when you think about the most, but the worst time in our country's history and of course, mary todd lincoln was very unhappy with. her brothers fought for the confederacy and she wished them dead and they did die and then they lost a child. they lived there as well. you can imagine what it was like for her to have those tragedies, and then you knew it was like for him as well, the president, at a time when -- and one of the things that is comforting about living there with all the history, is that you see how we've overcome in our country the challenges that we face, when you think about the long years, world w

bush and bill clinton. there were remarkable friendships between the presidents who wanted to get [inaudible] i had to look at how donald trump would'v would change the presidents club. i think that it united them together in lots of different ways. they are closer now than they would have been had donald trump not been elected. they have more in common than was president of trump. that's what i wanted to look into is where do they fit into the club and did i ask him that and he laughed. he was very honest in the interview and said i don't think i'm going to fit in very well. he is under no illusions and i think that he sees that even after. >> host: we asked about that in an interview last summer. here's the exchange. >> host: george w. bush relied on his father and richard nixon. have you reached out to former presidents, and if so, who and why? >> not much. i mean, i speak with george bush, spoke a little bit to thee father but really not too much. it's hard when people are against you. i disagreed with

bush. we spoke with her in 2013. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said i think i'm going to run for president? >> well, i can't really remember exactly what my initial reaction was. i think it was a little bit slower than all of a sudden saying i'm going to run for president. he was governor and had been governor for one term and re-elected and i slowly think we both started talking about it. he talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it. i knew what it was like. i knew already what it would be like to run for president. i knew what it would be like to live in the white house. george and i had an advantage that only one other family has had so far, the john quincy adams family. because we'd seen somebody we loved in that office, and we visited him very often. we moved to washington in fact in 1987, rather, to work on president bush's campaign. and so i saw them then when they were campaigning nat

bush. and i'm delivering this weeks radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al-qaeda terrorist network and the regime it supports in afghanistan, the taliban. that regime is now in retreat across much of the country, and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing. afghan women know through hard experience what the rest of the world is discovering, the brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorist. >> and right after that i made that -- did the radio address from our ranch. we were at our ranch that weekend, then i went to austin, virginia, a freshman at the university of texas and jen and i went shopping together at a department store. and the ladies who sold c cosmetics at the department store said thank you so much, ms. bush. thank you for speaking for the women of afghanistan. >> not only because our hearts break for the women and children in afghanistan but also because in afghanistan we see t

bush alittle bit . the meeting and i was shocked that it would the beginning of the meeting he said i've decided this story needs to be told thatyou're the guy can do it . iwas so unprepared i didn't have a tape recording device . and he sat there and he put his feet up on the desk and he had a cigar and he started talking about his dad and i realized there was so much to him that was a mystery about his father. particularly hisfather's story early years . when he went to war as an 18-year-old, signed up for the navy to get in world war ii at 18 and was in the pacific theater and shot down when he was 19 and his life was spared but the lives of his crewmates were not and he realized it was some purpose that he had on earth that he was spared and his friends were not. he went to forgo, a family pass to the riches of wall street and goes to the fields of odessa to make his way in the oil business. it became a husband 21. became a father, soon thereafter. but lost his daughter, his second child before he w

bush really hadn't talked it was a lot about it. is a wonderful privilege to get this in the way they were willing to tell it. >> for those that have the historic throw away they are not particularly given to reflection and they rejected very much in the moment they rejected the idea of the dynasty how did you get them and what are your favorite stories for your favorite interview to get them to reveal? because they are remarkably candid and unfiltered comments. some language we cannot use in public but you got them to be reflective and candidate on - - and candid. >> i like the intimacy and in some ways they were revealing things about each other the others did not know his dad said i did not know that. and then to be circumspect george w. bush would get a perspective would say this is psychobabble in them and tell me something that was revealing. one conversation with george h.w. bush was very small office in kennebunkport and it was just the two of us and the legs were touching on the desk and what he would have done in iraq if h

up next, isolate george hw bush. he wrote three books including a memoir of his time as vice president and he also co-authored a book with his national security advisor, about foreign policy. from 1999, here is the former president talking about his collection of personal letters and diary entries during his tenure as america's 41st president. >> one of the major person on a bookstore as you get to see advance copies of an of a parade i was privileged to read this book, all about a few weeks ago pretty this recounting of president bush's life through letters, memos and diary entries over the past six decades. nowadays most politicians at least take lipservice to old-fashioned concepts like honesty and integrity, civility in public life. humility and honor. on a challenge many of them. for talking the talk. it seems a depressingly few has actually walk the walk. how refreshing it was then to joint devolve bush's book. by this value is never a page not in sermons or lectures or speech. but in his own moral compass whic

bush, bill clinton and george h w bush. bins watch booktv all summer on c-span2. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many authors in the near future in booktv on c-span2. >> joining us now on booktv is senator joni ernst, republican from iowa. she's written a new memoir called daughter of the heartland. what prompted you to write this book at this time? >> guest: thank you so much. this is been a journey of love for me. i grew up in southwest iowa in a rural part of the state and the perseverance, dedication, the hard work my parents

bush. anybody remember his quote bush was urinating on the constitution? and now it was toned down as a version of that which morton dpo downy had established. entertainment masked as news, constant conflict, good guys versus bad guys and preordained outcomes just like what? prowrestling. good for ratings, good for revenue, bad for the country. here's another barometer of change in the last 30 years. according to the congressional quarterly as late as the 1970s the typical member of one party voted with his or her party colleagues just over 60% of the time. in fact, my favorite example is a texas congressman by the name of george herbert walker bush. papa bush was in congress, and he overlapped the administrations of presidents linden johnson and richard nixon. well, guess what? congressman bush voted with the democratic johnson administration about as often as he voted with the republican nixon administration. and that was typical then. but by 2010 the typical member of congress voting with party members 90% of the time. look, i'm not blaming polarization

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and i remember when president george herbert walker bush and barbara bush's daughter was going to get married at camp david. and i saw mrs. bush and i said, so what can you tell me, and she said absolutely nothing. there are some things that first ladies and the family -- let's end on this point. every president who serves brings a family that also finds itself in the line of fire, in a very, very public glare of public life. and how the nixon daughters and son-in-laws and their children have flourished so despite what they went through especially in the last couple of years of the administration. >> i do remember working a lot with julie when she was living -- i think he was overseas or something. >> he was in the navy. >> yeah, and she was living in the house at that time but she became very involved in the projects and i remember trying to review her scripts and things like that she was writing. she was very active and interested in people like her mother, you know, very outgoing. trisha was much more reserved. she did tutor a student, but she wasn't there for too long. >> and it w

bush and barack obama. this is a 45 minutes. >> my name is steve crown and on behalf of the crown family it's my pleasure to welcome you to the second annual leicester crown distinguished lecture on u.s. foreign policy. for last your selection we hosted former defense secretary jim mattis in front of an audience of 900, a scenario which would be unthinkable today. covid-19 pandemic has transformed america's economy, society and international relations. and along with protest for racial justice there are questions about america's global leadership, image and power. these questions have elevated the importance of the work of the leicester crown center on u.s. foreign policy and the chicago council which my siblings and i founded in 2018. the center serves as a forum for the discussion and elevation of diverse perspectives on the big global questions. they can be policymakers, military leaders, journalists and analysts on stage stop the year to discuss their insights with the public and others. the center prod

bush and george herbert walker bush. and in the book i talk about what to me feels like a vice on the vice presidential head, which by the way has been with the job since the beginning. the pressure, the whine and self-p self-pitying was unattractive, but nonetheless presidents from the beginning have felt the pressure from the job. and one of the parts of the modern hook of the job is during george herbert walker hoover's presidency they knew the press would bring something historically almost every day they would have to scramble to manage. and they would scramble to do so and at least either knock down the story or confirm the story or give their shape to the story by 6:30 which is when the evening news broadcast started. and they had some period of time before the morning papers hit and before the morning news television program. what he said happened in between the time he worked for george herbert walker bush and the sun, two things happened. one, there 24 hours news cycle became a much bigger driver of the news en

. >> so, the bushes honeymoon at the cloisters. this is george and barbara bush, this is inland. there's her husband. and i'm guessing they share the camera back and forth, back and forth together, but they were both on their honeymoon. looks like somebody is trying to

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bush. and most recently national security adviser to president donald trump but they working relationship ended in acrimony and accusations up to 17 months trump tweeted bolton services were no longer needed in the white house bolton insists he quit his recent book the room where it happened the white house memoir caused controversy as bolton portrays a president driven only by his desire for reelection. in this interview we go beyond this latest well covered controversy to explore what was the truth of his

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bush and president george w. bush tried and sometimes came within two or three votes to get that required legislative support. i hope that never happens. over time i think more americans are realizing we need to preserve the special area. >>host: what about offshore drilling? shall wants to drill offshore. >> i don't think so. that's for the islands are in the musk ox are up in that region. when we passed the alaska lands bill in late 1980 we opened 95 percent of all coastal areas for oil drilling this 5 percent is a special area where they are prohibited for oil drilling. i think 5 percent is not too much to save because it is just like god made it. >>host: why do you feel sarah palin is part of her discourse? is at her personality or have you ever met her or have any views what she is contributing? >> i've never met her but obviously i've watched television i think she's one of the most dynamic and attractive speakers we have ever seen. she knows how to appeal to a crowd, she's extremely eloquent, she has a ver

and those that work for him recognize that bush is learning on the job. and that he needed to be more involved in rigorous. and with president obama but in that intent to unify america in the abstract or what happens is donald trump. i don't have a preliminary view. and it can start another 20 years or so. and doesn't talk about his legacy the relationship with the iraq war and we're not there yet. that's a fair point to make. so at this moment is an example of what we write about in your book now dealing with a pandemic with this incredible protest that just erupted maybe his presidency that these are huge events that we expect them to deal with. >> and with the economy covid. so let's take the race question. and then to have obligations to different constituencies but also those who are not and his political base as a definition of character as i think about what needs to happen that's defined quite differently his argument is self-control and not take seriously the views people who are not in your camp so let's start the clock from two weeks ago the pr

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rubio maybe but jeb bush will be resuscitated they are delusional it isn't going to happen i mean the democrats are playing for keeps they do win this election with biden this is the end they are going to change their electorate 1st order of business will be comprehensive immigration reform and that's going to dramatically change the electricity 20 study 40000000 of them who knows how many illegals there are in the united states will be added to the electoral roll and then republicans can say goodbye to texas florida to arizona and there is no way republicans are going to come back in a generation to generation so it's a fantasy world that somehow republicans will be back in 2024 and many of them want to see me read you their mission statements quite interesting here tonight and mobilize a community of historical historically republican voters who are dismayed and disappointed by the damage done by our nation done to our nation but these are these are the people that have done damage to the nation many i don't you know we on this program the 3 of us we have often kind of dissected dru

bush, his book fight house looks at the internal site that shapes the ministrations. this was a virtual event hosted by the bipartisan policy center. >> good afternoon i am the director of governmental studies at the policy center and thank you for joining us in a virtual event where we are here for an important reason, the release of a new book, the book is rivalries in the white house from truman to trump and the author will be joined to make commentary on this book. let me start by introducing our guest and then we're going to talk a little bit and looking forward to having you ask questions as well. the reason i'm very excited about this book and about our guest, there is a rare thing to be good at public service, to be a person of action and a rare thing to be a scholar and excellent at the study of something. and both bring that to the table. chevy was somebody who worked in many places in public service from the congress to several departments, the department of labor and partly in the white house which is what these books are about in several of his other book

reagan's vice president, the bushes george h. w. bush. and we have about 15 minutes to talk about a very long post presidency. as we said at the beginning, that was marked fairly soon with the announcement president reagan's alzheimer's. >> before that, in very sort short order, this memoir came out. this was just a 1989, so she clearly been working on it during at least the latter part of house white house. here's >> my turn is the name of it. so her turn out wet? how did she use this book? well. -- >> well, she used -- it she talked about some of these aides, and you know, she told her side of the story. but the book doesn't have any surprising revelations in, it's not really. if you knew about. nancy she talks about how she supported the president. she supported reagan. and she makes, you know her -- you might say she wanted it both ways. she was very powerful but if you crossed or you feel that, but if you said that she was powerful, she would think you were dissing reagan and she just put pushback on. you >> also, during that time, t

and then in about an hour and a half, barbara bush and her role as patriarch of the bush family. >>> if you enjoyed watching first ladies, pick up a copy of the book, first ladi"first ladi influence and image" featuring profiles of the nation's first ladies. through interviews through top historians. now available in paperwork, hard cover, or as an e-book. ♪ >> so, all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. thank you. [ applause ] my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever paths their talents and their natures point to. i think they thought that the white house was so glamorous and your role was so -- what you did was so glamorous, your life was so glamorous, and all they saw were the parties and the meeting people and, you know -- and i've got to tell you, i never worked harder in my life. >> nancy reagan served as long-time political partner, fiercest protector, and ultimately as the caretaker for president ronald reagan. an involved first lady, she was active in key staff decisions and policymaking and in campa

and i thought what on earth is this not doing in the bush justice was for the bush. plan. to live a man succeeded in building a 4 kilometer long runway through the rough terrain on the plateau and soon afterwards the runway would be listed on international flight charts under the name hoover while at ports. for the move from germany to zaire boat. and subsequently founded it 7 and 9 under the congolese fly. us. blind from from the british air force of painted them fire engine red so we could find them in the bar she was. on i thank i well i'm cautious so we set up a big open 10 where the team assembled the rockets and since i'm new ball i just try to move it was basically a balloon like a beer tent to have it settled and we called the tanks the by their embassy. thanks. initially the 40 strong team slept in tents for the 1st few months while it eludes was built using local materials. to showcase of the complex was the restaurant with a total of 80 seats. thanks i was. worried i am not god one and a half years after the start of the work and we were able to carry out our 1s

neil bush, the younger brother of george w. bush, is the co-chairman of a chinese real estate firm that's partnering with the communist party's principal producer of space and military equipment. ing senate republicans also continuing their investigation into joe biden's son, hunter biden, and his business practices in china. we'll be taking all of this up later in the broadcast with the hudson institute's michael pillsbury. also breaking tonight, the fbi and department of justice found 29 fisa court applications during obamagate had, quote, inaccuracies but not enough to affect how the court ruled. this add adds to the 17 errors or omissions the fbi made in applications to spy on carter page and the trump campaign. a reminder the fisa court has approved more than 99% of all the warrant withs sought in its 42-year history. doing important work for the nation, don't you think? well, joining us tonight is congressman andy biggs. he's chairman of the house freedom caucus, a member of the house judiciary committee who was at the he