You know, we may disagree with some of our partners in the p5 on many things. Some of my European Partners sometimes want to go further than i want to go, but at the end of the day, we come to an agreement because we all understand how important it is to be united in going forward. And i appreciate, as senator risch says, the bipartisanship on this issue. I did, if i may, senator, want to make one remark in response to senator risch, which goes to this as well. The shutdown and putting a piece of legislation on for the Intelligence Community or for treasury are you would be hesm, but not nearly enough. There are so many parts of this that are problematic, even in the state department indeed, funding for israel, for instance, will be delayed until there is a c. R. Or fullyear appropriation. Our ability to protect the sinai is delayed with that force. So no one piece of legislation is going to solve what is a very complex International Issue that we face, and we are beginning to see edit
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
The right shoulder lane. Thats cleared. For folks traveling eastbound, no incidents. Westbound as well on 66. In fact, all the way from hey market to the beltway clear. Inside the beltway clear. If youre on twitter tweet us first4traffic. 5 02. We are five hours into the first Government Shutdown in 20 years. Soon lawmakers will return to try to once again agree to a funding deal but the outlook is not good. Were near the National Mall where we expect to see barricades go up around the memorials this morning. Melis melissa. Reporter were at the mlk memorial. No barricades here. As you mentioned, we drove around for about 20 minutes this morning to various memorials throughout washington. We did not see anything at this point. Of course we know its something that is going to happen here shortly. Lets talk about last night. Lets talk about whats going to also happen today. It has been a very bitter partisan fight. The senate will reconvene at 9 00 this morning. At that point harry reid s
Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen
History from the 1898 spanishamerican war to the present. Welcome to the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. Im carl warren, im going to show you around today. This is the part of the facility more like a museum rather than an artifact archives or storage facility. Its our way to show the American Public the sort of materials we have here so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was not ready to go to war at this period of time, when the u. S. S. Maine exploded in havana harbor and cubans rebelled against the span ir, everything came to a head and we declared war