Captioning performed by vitac on that note, Pablo Miguel Martinez on facebook references that. Mrs. Bush invited and then disinvited poets to the white house. Has she ever commented on this debacle, as the viewer called it . Has she spoken out about what that meant . Not that im aware of. I think that she has a tendency to say that it is unfortunate that people cant come together and have a civilized discussion. That once again, you might be able to find some Common Ground if you can get beyond that rhetoric. But i dont think shes smopoke about it directly. Martha is watching us. Hi, martha. Youre on. Caller hey. Thank you so much for taking my call. You know, its interesting that between laura bush and last week Hillary Clinton, theyre two women of my generation. One has chosen one path. One has chosen another path. Both women i admire very much. The one success they have had is that they have both raised strong, successful young women. Can you comment on the difference between the tw
Knowing some very well, like my own motherinlaw, or one that i admired very much, is that we benefit, our country benefits by whatever our first ladys interests are. She is the wife of one president and daughterinlaw of another. Laura welch bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband, george w. Bush, to the white house. Less than nine months later came the 9 11 attacks while she helped comfort the nation with education, literacy and womens health. Welcome to cspans series, first ladies. Tonight, well tell you the story of the wife of our 43rd president. Here to do that are two people who know her well. Ann is a laura bush biographer. Her 2000 book the tells the story of her as she covered her since 2001. Welcome. Mark is a president ial historian, the author of several books about the presidency and is working on one about the relationship between president s bush 41 and 43. In your biography, you refer to the role of a job of first lady as, this is a quot
They were cut down by such. Fallen selection. Then what ive described as a play on ball with hand grenades hand grenades just came flying over the wall. One of the 2 days preceding a. Night and there was a throne inside the house. And something just exploded beside it. I got tossed i dont know 2 or 3 metres back. I got up and thats been the last my left eye and my right eye it was pretty badly damaged. And helicopters and airplanes started me. Great opportunity to. 3500 pound bombs dead center of that compound. Gradually the guys started treating this as. Containing things became quiet we moved down a little closer so we had a little bit quicker reaction time that they needed us guys start hearing breaking news that they were streaming and showing and stuff and i got scared i was thinking what should they do which they didnt know what to do. So i was just going to i was going to maybe just scare them away. And i just remember being. Dumbstruck that there was somebody alive and that aft
A japanese farm that produces luxury items in the Old Fashioned way to add Something Special to a popular desert. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us will it be the final stretch of talks between the United States and the taliban this is the 9th time theyve come together to try to hammer out a deal and 18 years of fighting in afghanistan they are doing this without the participation of the actual Afghan Government here are the 4 major issues being looked at the withdrawal of foreign troops mostly americans a ceasefire counterterror guarantees and the promise by the taliban to engage in intra afghan talks before we get into what any of that means he. A quick reminder of the rise fall and resurgence of the taliban. The taliban a marriage in the early 1990 s. Their aim was to turn off ghana stan into a theocracy im bound for an influence from the country in 1906 the taliban seize control of the capital kabul and began enforcing sharia law they forced women to wear b
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us will it be the final stretch of talks between the United States and the taliban this is the 9th time theyve come together to try to hammer out a deal and 18 years of fighting in afghanistan they are doing this without the participation of the actual Afghan Government here are the 4 major issues being looked at the withdrawal of foreign troops mostly americans a ceasefire counterterror guarantees and the promise by the taliban to engage in intra afghan talks before we get into what any of that means heres a quick reminder of the rise fall and a resurgence of the taliban. The taliban a marriage in the early 19 nineties their aim was to turn afghanistan into a theocracy and by foreign influence from the country. In 1906 the taliban seize control of the capital kabul and began enforcing sharia law they forced women to wear burkas clothes girls Schools Television and music or bond. After having been largely ignored by the west for year