objects and artifacts we do not have on the table today is available on the site. this was the first of a two-part program. you can view this and all other american artifact programs on our website, c-span.org/history. each week, american history tv is american artifact visits museums and historic places. next we take you inside the house wing of the u.s. capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. in the second of a two-part program, we continue the story into the 1940 s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. i am sarah elliott. i am the curator for the house of representatives. i take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork, objects that document the house s rich heritage. i am the historian at the house. my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the h
[applause] thank you very much. Im glad you liked the president. I like him too. [laughter] mr. President , mrs. Johnson distinguished guests, you have done me a great honor and coming here today and made me a very happy man. This is an important hour for the nation. For those of our citizens who have completed their to her of duty tour of duty and moved to the sidelines these people are our responsibility and are entitled among other benefits to the best medical protections available. Not one of our citizens should be abandoned we dont want these people to have anything to do with charity or have them have an idea of hopeless despair. Mr. President , i am glad to have lived this long. [applause] at the signing of the medicare bill, it puts this nation right where needs to be. Your inspired leadership and responsiveness forwardlooking congress, have made it possible for the state to come about. I thank you for coming here. It is an honor that i have not had for quite a while. I will sa
About wilbur mills. Mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. I told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. I just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot Read Everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. He is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what would be of intere
George h. W. Bush. And he was the only republican. He was the only republican. Who came that day. And i always thought it spoke so well of both of them. It did. It spoke well of both of them. Folks, we have to stay on the clock. One thing i learned in television, i know how to get off on time. Thank you very much. You have a great day coming up here. [ applause ]. On our next washington journal, Gretchen Morgenson joins us. Looking at some of the shortcomings of the home loan modification program, which was set up to help homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments. Then Susan Carlson of the Minnesota Organization on fetal alcohol syndrome about a new study examining drinking and drug use among pregnant teenagers. A after that, john jackson of Conservation Force talks about endangered species and big game hunting. Plus, your phone calls, facebook, comments and tweets. Washington journal is live each morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday night on q a. Institute n
Instructions well get licked on that too. The only judgment i can make at this point is that mills will certainly try every device he can to get an agreement on a conference that would include king, reluctant as they might be because hed hate like hell to be on the house side of a conference where he and two republicans vote against two democrats to come out with a conference report. And geez, he starts ill speak some business right now. You talk to ill talk to you as soon as i get out of these independent businessmen. My thought would be that if we could get mills to agree that we would take it in confidence that would be fine. If not i would try to instruct the conferees. No, at the moment i share that view. But i do think this, that with the stories around the country today, weve got something going on this damn thing. And god almighty, i hate to see that leadership join with mills as some kind of a wrapup that screws us quickly. Well, i dont think they will until we decide it. All