He did every day in my chief of staff. Mr. President , thank you for the privilege of serving . Did you say that . I did. Sometimes there was a variation of it. But i did as chief of staff, i visited with the president first thing every morning. He got to his desk at about 6 45. And i would get five minutes to get settled. Our tradition was the first person the president sees was the chief of staff. I would walk in at about 6 50 in the morning. I always said something to the effect of, thank you for the privilege of serving. And it wasnt intended to flatter him or to thank him, it was intended to remind me and to help me remind everybody else what a privilege it was to be inside the white house. So i just made it a habit. It was a privilege. What did he say back . He would just move on. He was a president i think really understood the presidency, understood the privilege of being in the oval office. He didnt need the reminding. He probably didnt even need the reminding that i was appre
Myself. When you think back about the last three years, whats the first thing that comes to your mind. The last three years of the Bush Administration. When you were chief of staff. Whats the thing that flashes in front of you . Boy, a lot of things flash in front of me. Theres a trauma and a recency effect to the financial crisis. That was the last thing that happened on the way out the door. For the Bush Administration. You remember we went through 7 1 2 very difficult tumultuous years, hugely consequential, dramatic changes in the world and in the united states. You know, wed had a recession. We had a crisis of confidence in american business. We had the 9 11 attacks, the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, hurricane katrina. All of these things. So when we approached the last year of the Bush Administration, as we got to 7 1 2 years in, most of us thought lets try to wrap this up in a responsible and effective way and for whoever wins the presidency, leave the country and the whit
Host we have been talking with sam goldfarb from cq roll call. Thank you very much. Explores the history and literary culture of all money of albany. Tonight on cspan, a Senate Debate on the fiscal cliff. Shaun donovan discusses it. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell when backandforth on fiscal cliff issues and a proposal to raise the debt ceiling. Here is part of their exchange. Yesterday afternoon, i came to the floor and offered president obamas proposal on the fiscal cliff to show that neither he nor democrats in congress are acting in good faith in these negotiations. With just a few weeks ago before a potentially entirely avoidable blow to the economy, the president proposed a plan the members of his own party will even vote for. He is not interested in a balanced agreement, not particularly interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, and clearly not interested at all in cutting any spending. With the president is really in, as we learned just yesterday, is getting as much taxpayer mone
I guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i dont mean to condemn it but i think its passed me by a little bit. I still have a wonderful career and a beautiful audience that i really love but the spotlight is elsewhere now and im a known quantity now. And thats fine with me to play out this hand. But i dont pay a whole lot of attention to i never did listen much to the roofment when i was a kid i did. I dont listen to music much. Kim works with the boston symphony and we get a lot of classic cal music in the house. We have 11yearold twin boys and they have their preferences, maybe its because theyre playing most of the popular music im hearing in the house i have such a negative take on it. Do you have an i pod . No an ipad. Do you listen to music on there . No i listen on cd and vinyl. They have said taylor swift is named after you. What do you think of her music . I like her music. And i like the n
United states of america. And widows and orphans funds will invest in government bonds. Host alma, thank you for your call. We will consider your suggestion. The senate banking, housing and urban Affairs Committee is about to hold a hearing on the oversight of the fha program. Shaun donovan will be testifying. We will be going to that as soon as that hearing begins. I want to show you this article in the New York Times took. President obama plans to ask congress for about 50 billion for emergency funds to help rebuild the states the were ravaged by hurricane sandy. Regional leaders complained wednesday it was not enough. The white house will send the proposal to capitol hill this week. It should be between 45,000,000,000. 50 5 billion, according to officials 45 billion and 55 billion, according to officials. Both democratic and republican lawmakers from the region quickly expressed disappointment in the pending request and lobby the administration to increase it before sending it to co