The answer is, that i feel prepared . Yes, i really did. First of all, i wasnt elected, so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice though the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge, because the Vice President s wife can say anything. Nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as president s wife, youve made the news. So that was a lesson i had to learn. During george bush is presidency, barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She also earn her way into the history books this color. She and Abigail Adams are the only women in our history to be both the wife and mother ebay president. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies, influence and image. Tonight is the story of Barbara Peirce bush, the wife of our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. And here for the next 90 minutes sets to tell us more about her life and her influence our two gu
Room that does not see the future of israel through the lens of your legacy. Last year, i had the honor of meeting president peres on a trip to israel with some of my colleagues. It was an incredible visit from jerusalem to ramallah, to galilee, tel aviv. Of all the memorable moments, though, theres one that shines through. And a dinner tel aviv, i met a. She helped one community in particular for years. And without disclosing much of who she was or where she came from. One day she finally let the syrian commander know that she was an israeli. He was stunned. And right then and there, refused her help, calling her a sworn enemy, despite the lives she had saved and the selfless assistance she had given his people. Luckily, she was not willing to be easily deterred. She took it to the community for a vote. If they said go she would pack up. If they said stay she would continue to serve. They begged her to stay. So she did. Mr. President , this is your legacy. Every bit as integral to isr
Family was poor and lived in the middle of nowhere and the chances of them coming together as leaders of the world was you know . And they realized that and said Something Special happen to me, you and Something Special brought us together. And i think one thing i should have added that maybe people were right and the house was haunted. What happened there was so extraordinary and in a way so mysterious and so extra worldly that, you know, maybe they are right, maybe it is a ghost house or haunted house. Host well it is an ex extraordinary story and thank you for your time. This was a lot of fun. Welcome. On the next washington journal, former u. S. Ambassador to iraq, James Jeffrey is here to talk about the latest options in iraq and options regarding isis. And a look at the proposed 12 percent increase in the high gas tax to increase highway funds. Later, draw breakspear from the state bank super visors conference on the emergence of currency. Washington journal is live every morning
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
From the big screen to the book, a WMU professor has written an English translation of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, the novelization of the original Godzilla movie and its sequel.