Former white house staffers discuss the impact of second terms on president ial leadership and effectiveness. The Panel Suggests that president s often change their focus to Foreign Policy welding news media is already looking ahead to the next president. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Think you to the foundation. We have had a great partnership. This is a series where we look at leadership not in the abstract, but at a particular institution. We have the majority leader from the senate, senators lott and daschle. We have also looked at congressional leadership and Foreign Policy. We have a panel of people who are extremely knowledgeable who have served with and encountered multiple president s we can talk about today. Let me say a few things quickly and then introduce our panel. We put together a book about the second term of the bush administration. It was called second term blues. That is not to pick on george bush so much as to say second term president s have difficulties.
The spaces are broken down into his what we call his foundation years, his youth. We move into his congressional period. Then has president ial and pose president ial experience. In the first gallery we feature his foundational years. He grew up in grand rapids, michigan, but he was not born in grand rapids. He was born in omaha, nebraska. His mother had married a businessman in omaha by the name of leslie king. She was dorothy king. They had a child in july of 1913. They named him Leslie Lynch King junior. He is the person we know is gerald ford. We have his christening gown and a few other things of interest, but one of the things we featured is the baby book. A lot of mothers keep books on their children, even today. Dorothy was no exception back in 1913. She began keeping a book on the babys experience. We cant present the real thing, but we present a duplicate and flip form. Some of the things you see are the first picture of dorothy with the baby. He was born in a house in omaha,
Building until december. Gators feeling at home, though. Part of the gators 1530 run to open the game. Its all florida in the second half. Barrett extends the lead to 9 with his dad and former nba great rick barry watching along. Robinson drops a three in. The gators move to 40 with a 7860 win over belmont. Because of all the injuries, the times, but it gives opportunities to a number of players along the o line. Its been and roberts and peyton barber. A couple of guys stepped up when theyre chance came on sunday. Defensively one of those guys verner stepped in for brett grimes who was knocked out early in the game. Did a nice job. Had just one bad play, a bounce offensive i how about alan cross having his number called in the fourth quarter. The second nfl reception, and its a touchdown, and thats the game winner. Dirk koetter says everyone is doing their part. You know, we talk about role playing all the time. Play your role and understand your role could change at any second. Its ea
We showed it today to introduce you to cspan cities tour. For five years, we have traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visit that cspan. Org cities tour. That is grand rapids. And the grand river which divides the city. And in many ways, defines the city. There is a good chance that most people over the course of any given day will see or interact with a piece of french are made in grand rapids. We were the first city to ever receive a grant from the endowment to be used specifically to commission an original work of art for a civic site. This weekend, the cspan cities tour will explore the literary life and history of red rapids, michigan. That is on book tv on cspan2. The author of the book, thin ice will talk about that the book people who grew up in grand methods grand rapids. Then we will hear how Richard Smith works and his newest biography on gerald for. An author gordon enters talks about the life of attorne
Program was started by a three person committee, but they wanted they wanted to take it possible for American Cities to commission an original work of art for that city. We were the first city to ever receive a grant from the endowment to be used specifically to commission an original work of art for a specific civic site. It was 16 years old. It was in the spring of 1930 and he was working at bills place when he noticed a new car pulled up and stopped in front of this store. This big fellow stepped out any stepped into the entryway of the sedre and cost pau for a long time. Ford asked him if you help him. The man city where Leslie Lynch King junior. He said no, im gerald ford junior. He said you are my son, im your father. I want to take you to lunch. Welcome to grand rapids on American History tv. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes we will take you to michigans secondlargest city. Once called Furniture City. We begin with a tour of the newly updated