Trustees, faculty, staff distinguished guests, faculty and friends i appreciate your hospitality. To all of the graduates, thank you for letting me share in this day as you become proud alumni of Liberty University. It is good to be here, and to visit with the falwell family. My dad thought very highly of your father, president falwell. He turned his back on no one. His legacy endures, and it only begins with this Great American university. My dad received an Honorary Degree here 25 years ago. Many of you asked this morning how he is doing one month shy of his 91st birthday. Im happy to say he is in good shape. It will stay that way if we can keep his mind off that darn parachute. Today was my first time to be able to meet with pastor jonathan falwell. Jonathan has a unique place at liberty, because among other reasons, at this university his dad used to be president , then his brother was president. Somehow, i dont know what it was, we really hit it off. [laughter] jeb bush im not sur
Amazon the dining room of the floor where we love to eat in our jammies. As she wandered around, she sat in her rascally fashion, i remember this room. I had my appendix out in this. [laughter] i used to think of that every night when we sat down for dinner. [laughter] the white house has absorbed the hospitality of all the families that have lived there. And you feel that hospitality not just as a visitor but when you actually go there to live. You leave some of yourself behind as well for those who come after. So it becomes a warmer and more hospital place hospitable place as every generation goes on. One thing that i did notice about the white house when i first got there was that it was deathly still on the second floor and it was just no sound. I said with great trepidation to the reagans, how long does it take to feel comfortable. . They set about 30 days. After i had been there and accumulated 30 days, they were absolutely right. It did not feel like a museum anymore. It did fee
Are eight definite. Definites. And there are others out there. But there are some republicans who are opposed, even though some republicans have said they would vote to proceed with the bill, at least move to an open debate on it. But it has they have two weeks coming up to get it done. Host some of those republicans up in 2016. What happens then . The senate, if they are able to get it done, what happens in the house deco house . Emma dumain i was going to say, the numbers in the house tricky. There are more members obviously. If you are not the whip, it is harder for vicki and i to even put the numbers on the table about where people are. A few of the House Democrats i was speaking to lessig who are either for or against tpa and are being very vocal about it said, you know, very few democrats have very few democrats are get to make up their minds. That is to say, there are a very few number of democrats who are for it or against it. And no those are the members that president obama a
Where for many years she raised thouroghbred horses and where she and her husband remain active in civic causes. You heard something of luci baines johnson, of her sensitivity and her sense of history. Unlike peggy, luci was a young woman when she entered the white house in november, 1963. She wanted nothing more than to be a normal teenager. Life in the white house is many things but normal it is not. Lucis mother said as much when she gave her daughter the following advice, dont ever do anything you do not want printed on the front page of the paper. This would strike terror in the hearts of most teenage girls but luci rose to the occasion, no more impressively than at the time of her wedding. According to one newswoman nobody was invited except the immediate country. And notwithstanding, a press controversy over a nonunion bridal gown, the day went off gloriously. Soon after, luci left the white house for texas in what she has described as a normalcy that never quite materialized fo
We won support over the active opposition of the obama pentagon and finally, those awards were given. I shook the hands of each soldier, i shook the hand of each wife or child of the 14 innocent souls who were murdered that day. Alike can say to them was i am sorry. I am sorry this took five years. This should have been acknowledged the day it happened, not five years too late. The great state of South Carolina plays a pivotal role in our nation. You have the blessing and the curse. So, you are going to see president ial candidates to send upon you like those federal regulators and locusts. My one request is to please hold back on the pesticide. I will tell you, the responsibility of this great state in the Republican Party is to ensure that we nominate a conservative. How do you tell . Because every candidate, and i dont know, there might be 15, 20, it might be the phonebook. Every one of them, i am the most conservative guy who ever lived. I am pretty confident, if you had any speake