Well, good morning, everyone. Us by facebook and youtube here at white house history live. This is a special edition coming you from historic Decatur House on lafayette square. Just 200 yards from the north door of the white house. Today, we have a wonderful guest, pete souza, who is the bestselling author and for eight years was the chief White House Photographer for president. Obama headed the White House Photography Office and was a president ial photographer for president reagan. We have much talk about gathered with us here today. Indicator house is a wonderful audience. Friends of the White House Historical association. Many of you have the white house for years in either journalism, television, radio, photography and its great to have you with us as well. So lets dive in, have our first question to pete. Do you remember what the circumstances were, how old you were, the very first time you visited the white house . I do. I was a 1965. Okay. My parents took myself and my sister,
On lafayette square. Just 200 yards from the north door of the white house. Today, we have a wonderful guest, pete souza, who is the bestselling author and for eight years was the chief White House Photographer for president. Obama headed the White House Photography Office and was a president ial photographer for president reagan. We have much talk about gathered with us here today. Indicator house is a wonderful audience. Friends of the White House Historical association. Many of you have the white house for years in either journalism, television, radio, photography and its great to have you with us as well. So lets dive in, have our first question to pete. Do you remember what the circumstances were, how old you were, the very first time you visited the white house . I do. I was a 1965. Okay. My parents took myself and my sister, jane to d. C. And we we toured washington and we visited the white house. We went on the white house tour. We have no oh, no visit. Do you know why . Why is
Evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded
Evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded
Years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded with the United States marine corps during the invasion of iraq. His very first book was the New York Times bestseller the breach inside