White House Press Corps was a little depressed so i said lets do economics and cheer everybody out. Digging around the Chairmans Office i noticed that on my bookshelf there was a copy of the first economic report of the president from 1947 and harry truman in it said this. He said the economic report is an opportunity for national selfexamination in some criticism. Its a challenge to the president and the congress to determine the causes of whatever problems we face in our economic life. In find a solution to those problems. That is what we endeavor to do at the council of economic advisers. And what we endeavor to this report that came out yesterday. We reached the president on it yesterday 11 30 in the oval office and i encourage all of you to read it because its a scintillating read. The economic report has eight chapters in the first after is an Economic Outlook where we project in our policies will create a 3 growth rate Going Forward over the next ten years. Gdp will be about 2 b
What the hell . So its not a strong field. And who knows if they can beat you in 2012 . But i tell you who could definitely beat you, mr. President. 2008 barack obama. You would have loved him. So charismatic. So charming. Was he a little too idealistic . Maybe. But you would have loved him. I still think we all remember that inauguration day. The first lady was there. And may i say for as beautiful as you look that day you look even more beautiful tonight. [ applause ] now, you on the other hand, mr. President , have aged a little. What happened to you . When you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the old spice commercials. Now you look like Louis Gossett sr. I never said this to anyone before, but maybe you should start smoking again. Is this the change you were talking about . Mr. President , look at your hair. If your hair gets any whiter, the tea party is going to endorse it. They say diplomacy is a matter of carrots and sticks. And since mrs. Obama got to the white house,
The first black president. I know youre biracial. But the first black president. Youre proud to be able to say that. The first black president. You know, well, thats unless you screw up. Then its going to be whats up with the half white guy, huh . [ applause ] who voted for the mulatto . What the hell . So its not a strong field. And who knows if they can beat you in 2012 . But i tell you who could definitely beat you, mr. President. 2008 barack obama. You would have loved him. So charismatic. So charming. Was he a little too idealistic . Maybe. But you would have loved him. I still think we all remember that inauguration day. The first lady was there. And may i say for as beautiful as you look that day you look even more beautiful tonight. [ applause ] now, you on the other hand, mr. President , have aged a little. What happened to you . When you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the old spice commercials. Now you look like Louis Gossett sr. I never said this to anyone before
A lot of us have been advocating for a long time that the two leaders of this government project that theyre working together and with the internal dynamics and as we say it is unlikely to have been. But there are some things regarding Strategic Communication and People Like Us point out not of government itself. What have we done and what are we attempting to do . And a lot of the frustration with this government is that it doesnt understand that sense of crisis and those uncertainties. That is what helps to power the opposition that there is a lot of politicians that are not so good but they are in the opposition and government that seems even worse. Picking up on a good point that not acknowledging the crisis that it faces of lot of president can do and quite frankly there isnt that many options but there are two issues one is out of president can strengthen the eyes of the International Community and also nearly in the eyes of his own government. To strengthen the position in the b
On American History tv on c. Fan 3 we are here to review the major findings of our full investigation of fbi Domestic Intelligence including the cohen tell program and other programs aimed at domestic targets. Fbi surveillance of lawabiding citizens and groups, political abuses of fbi intelligence and several specific cases of unjustified intelligence operations. The 1975 Church Committee hearings convened to investigate the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, irs and the nsa saturday night at 10 00 eastern the commission questioned former associate counsel and staff assistant to president Nixon Tom Charles houston on a plan he plent presented to president nixon using burglary, electronic surveillance and opening of mail. The bureau had undertaken black bag jobs over a number of years up until 1966. It had been successful and valuable, again, particularly in matters involving espionage. And that they felt this, again, w something given the climate they needed to have the authority