He carries these views into irancontra. He is a member of the House Republican investigating committee. He feels a little bit insulted by the way because senator inouye on the senate side has seen fit to name rudman as vice chairman of the committee. Lee hamilton by all accounts refus to name cheney as vice chair. It sets off a kind of a running conflict. Throughout the hearing, cheney asked the point repeatedly that the problem is not the president , the problem is congress. Congress overstepped its bounds in the 1970s, tried to take over president ial power. It was unconscionable, unconstitutional. And it is the cause of a whole lot of Serious Problems for the american way of doing politics. He repeats this in the minority report at the end of the congressional hearings, and that report gains new life years later when cheney reminds people who are this is i think 2005 so hes been in office as Vice President at this point for four years, and people in the media and public are still tr
It is probably not as many times as you have used the word illegal. So backwards. One person is all it takes. Hopefully you will look in the mirror tomorrow and see who that one person is. We are not going backwards. [applause] we are not. We have one more question. I just want to respond to your statement, and i want to say it is interesting that there is one person that is attracting everyone. That is what the tea party is doing. That is why we are where we are at. And we just have to go out and vote, people. That is all i will say. Thank you, everyone, for being here, thank you to all the panelists for coming. It was a lively discussion. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] next, reporters and correspondents talk about their experiences and challenges covering the white house. After that, a forum on the money intelligence x. And then former secretaries of state at the
Amazon the dining room of the floor where we love to eat in our jammies. As she wandered around, she sat in her rascally fashion, i remember this room. I had my appendix out in this. [laughter] i used to think of that every night when we sat down for dinner. [laughter] the white house has absorbed the hospitality of all the families that have lived there. And you feel that hospitality not just as a visitor but when you actually go there to live. You leave some of yourself behind as well for those who come after. So it becomes a warmer and more hospital place hospitable place as every generation goes on. One thing that i did notice about the white house when i first got there was that it was deathly still on the second floor and it was just no sound. I said with great trepidation to the reagans, how long does it take to feel comfortable. . They set about 30 days. After i had been there and accumulated 30 days, they were absolutely right. It did not feel like a museum anymore. It did fee
Where for many years she raised thouroghbred horses and where she and her husband remain active in civic causes. You heard something of luci baines johnson, of her sensitivity and her sense of history. Unlike peggy, luci was a young woman when she entered the white house in november, 1963. She wanted nothing more than to be a normal teenager. Life in the white house is many things but normal it is not. Lucis mother said as much when she gave her daughter the following advice, dont ever do anything you do not want printed on the front page of the paper. This would strike terror in the hearts of most teenage girls but luci rose to the occasion, no more impressively than at the time of her wedding. According to one newswoman nobody was invited except the immediate country. And notwithstanding, a press controversy over a nonunion bridal gown, the day went off gloriously. Soon after, luci left the white house for texas in what she has described as a normalcy that never quite materialized fo
Could she possibly be an activist . Part of the following an International Activist first lady, with, as Hillary Clinton. I suggest to all of us that we have to look the fact that conservative women care about the world, too. And we have as much interest in our sisters and progress around the world as our liberal counterparts do. One person who commented on this quite beautifully actually and recently was the first lady of afghanistan. I racer because they can at this point of consistency. Laura bush said she worked on afghan womens issues for the rest of her life. And recently in dallas, the new first lady of afghanistan came for a meeting of u. S. Afghan womens council, established 13 years ago not long after the fall of the taliban, still in existence come a Publicprivate Partnership between afghan and u. S. Government many individuals and private institutions in our country. Weve never left the women of afghanistan and laura bush has been our leader. And since in the last few years