Relationship. They did not blind side each other. That cooperation helped to make the senate work even when they were disagreeing with each other, fighting each other, they did it by the rules and respected each other as colleagues. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Coming up in 20 minutes, well continue our look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader with a lecture from former leader robert byrd from west virginia. First a conversation from 2010 with senator mitch mcconnell, the incoming Senate Majority leader for the 114th congress that convenes on january 6. He talks about the history and traditions of the United States senate. Senator mcconnell, as you come to work each day, you look at this building, what does it represent to you . The history of the United States. And the symbol of the greatest democracy and the oldest democracy in the world. And i think about it really almost every day as i walk into a structure2 and had been developing in phases. The greatest deve
Not blind side each other. That kind of cooperation helped make the senate work. Even when they were fighting they did it i the rules and they respected each other as colleagues. Donald richie, thank you very much. My pleasure. Coming up in 20 minutes, we will continue our look on the historical role of this Senate Majority leader. First, a conversation with senator mitch mcconnell, the incoming Senate Majority leader. He talks about the history and tradition of the United States senate. Senator mcconnell, as you come to work each day, you look at this building, what does it represent to you . The history of the United States. And the symbol of the greatest democracy and the oldest democracy in the world. And i think about it really almost every day as i walk into a structure that had only then partially opened in may of 1800 when the government moved here from philadelphia and had been developing in phases. The greatest development, i guess, prior to the civil war. This office itself,
Our experience to come in was different than any other family. Probably will never happen again in history. We took a picture of the family behind the oval office desk. That night we did not get to move into the white house because nixon had left so quickly, so unexpectedly, they had left their daughter and soninlaw to pack all of their clothes and belongings. We had to go back to our little house in alexandria, virginia, suburbia the neighborhood surrounded by secret service. We have been living there as dad was Vice President. I will never forget that. Mom was cooking dinner. We were sitting around the dinner table and moms cooking dinner and she looked over at my dad and she goes, gerry something is wrong here . [laughter] steve you just became president of the United States and i am still cooking. Literally, dad would commute to the office every day, which was the oval office. We got there a little different way than the rest of the family did. Jenna . Jenna we got there a little b
Like theyre willing to do something with the hope that the United States stands down on that. It gives then the chance to get some relief, have some money again maybe restart this some of their ambitions without Going Forward able to continue at any time. Theyre still going to be enriching. Schieffer what is going to happen among congress . I see even before this agreement was finally reached you had somebody like Chuck Schumer who is one of the strongest administration backers expressing some reservations. Thats right. The president met this week with senators in both parties saying, wait, just dont create new sanctions while im trying to work this out. The white house thinks that they have about six months to work on this bigger deal they think they will be able to hold support together without new sanctions. Its not going to be easy. Theyre going to have tending to do. One thing that strikes me we look at this president and how hes pinned down on the domestic front. But president st
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