And so if i wanted to say, well, the presidency in humor, humor in the white house didnt quite do it. But then i thought about it some more and actually it does work because neither of the first two president has a sense of humor. So it gets me out of that problem. But, im going to follow the lead of perhaps the most successful humorist in the white house. It might not be the person youre thinking of by doing what he always did, in most cases what he did at the beginning of a talk, he started with a joke. Again, some of you will have heard this joke, but please pretend you havent heard it before and laugh at the appropriate point. So this is a joke and this is a key to part of my story. That Ronald Reagan used to tap. And the key is, as youll see, Ronald Reagan was effectively telling the story on himself. It related to a time in his career when he didnt know sort what he was doing or where he was going. As you will know of Ronald Reagan, he had two careers primarily. He was a film act
Captioning performed by vitac on that note, Pablo Miguel Martinez on facebook references that. Mrs. Bush invited and then disinvited poets to the white house. Has she ever commented on this debacle, as the viewer called it . Has she spoken out about what that meant . Not that im aware of. I think that she has a tendency to say that it is unfortunate that people cant come together and have a civilized discussion. That once again, you might be able to find some Common Ground if you can get beyond that rhetoric. But i dont think shes smopoke about it directly. Martha is watching us. Hi, martha. Youre on. Caller hey. Thank you so much for taking my call. You know, its interesting that between laura bush and last week Hillary Clinton, theyre two women of my generation. One has chosen one path. One has chosen another path. Both women i admire very much. The one success they have had is that they have both raised strong, successful young women. Can you comment on the difference between the tw
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, an interview laura bush, what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said i think im going to run for president . Well, i cant really remember initially what my act reaction was. I think it was a bit slower than all of a sudden saying im going to run for president. He was governor and had been governor for one term and reelected 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 wed 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 bushs campaign. And so i saw them then
Collection, and was conducted by a former libraryngtb director, timothy nephtally on july 9th, 2018. When you graduate in 1973, what do you expect to be doing in 1974 . Well, i expected to be doing what i started out doing when i graduated, which was to go to work for the Childrens Defense Fund for marion aidalman. B6 and again, i think thats right. I wanted to go to work with her so i moved to cambridge, and began working doing investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with adults in adult prisons or the efforts to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes. Issues like that. T5, j expanding child care, 2 Getting Better conditions for migrant workers. I mean, thats the kind of work we were doing. And thats what i started doing when i graduated and went right to cambridge to workynjz for he. Please tell us about the call from john dole. This is a very funny series of actions. I was down visiting bill in
Childrens future and our fight to restore the nations economy. Solving our Nations Health care crisis. There is nog] . Dn prescriptio role model or cookbook for being first lady. A future is created every day. The future is not something that is out there waiting to happen to us. The future is something that we make. And i have said and i believe that there is a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton logged many firsts in her role as first lady. Since law school, the clinton impeachment of president n 5in b clinton and as she considered another bid for the white house, beingfs good evening and welcome to cspan year long series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight we tell you the story of the spouse of our 42nd president Hillary Clinton. Here to tell us the story are two journalists who know the clintons well by covering them for many years. Gail sheehy from vanity fair, a b biographer and her book in 2000 was called hil