nice. as dick says, it is almost enough to make you want to run for office. mr. cheney: almost. almost. we are delighted to be back here tonight, and i have had the opportunity to visit the nixon library and museum on a number f occasions. i served in the knickson administration during the first nixon administration during the first term. i am always pleased to come back and visit this part of the world and be reminded of a very important time in our history. i was happy to be a part of his administration. we are here tonight, we probably should explain at the outset why we are here together. the fact is, i was born in lincoln, nebraska, and lynne was born in casper, wyoming. in 1954, when i was 13 years old, my dad moved the family to casper, wyoming. he had a choice between there or montana. and i am glad that he chose the way he did. we grew up together, and i took her out when she was 16, and we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. [applause] mr. cheney: dad pic
and data we are divided on that s been the reason rand paul got a standing ovation they don t have problems with most social issues. i agree completely but i d like to come back to history. for those of you better students of history with the first evangelical president was elected jimmy carter 66 percent the evangelicals got mad. four years later he lost with ronald reagan carrying 64% my point is social conservatives have to be kept with in the structure or we will complete the reformulate i cannot speak for senator paul because i know the man they he is the social conservative to the best of my knowledge it with the issue he tries to ram down the throats. i paid three. fact is important. day concept that might be useful how do you relate to the concept with the term american exceptionalism to the allied presented? we have 17 kids to readers of the book and to talk about that in the book to say we are losing that the way that we stifle the market our government is inv
situation. when you talk about the recalls i would rather have a recall that allows us to get some corrected we are working hard to make that happen everyday. first on the mission problems gm didn t resolve the condition issues into the latest recall has reports of at least three deaths. deaths. are they going to look at the new recalls to see if gm didn t beat the five-day requirement to report them in a timely fashion? as a standard practice, we will take a look at the recalls. there is always a sort of decision points whether this stems from the same as the previous ones. that determination will have to be made by ntsa so we obviously will be taking a careful look and will point out that work with the gm auto resolution to the initial problem we have been able to extract from gm unprecedented commitments to fix things going forward. and so we are going to keep putting the screws on this until it gets right. how big of a concern across the industry as it is that they ar
that sense that we thought it was important to present an exhibition on the war of 1812. my name is rachel. i was assistant curator for 1812 a nation emerges. the exhibit is large. there are nine sections in all, 107 pieces. we set out to do this exhibit on a grand scale, getting all the best we could from all over the world. the first section of the exhibit which deals with america in 1800 is dominated by the portrait of thomas jefferson. gilbert stuart had a rare ability, recognized by contemporaries, of capturing the inner essence of people. if you look at this portrait of jefferson, it is very unlike some other portraits. image is that of a shy man, and jefferson publicly was a very shy man. want ton did not involve the united states in a war. his first term had been extremely successful. he had operated very well with congress, was able to get really all of his bills through. he had successfully negotiated the purchase of the louisiana territory, which doubled th
wyoming. in 1954, when i was 13 years old about to go into the eighth grade, my dad moved the family to wyoming. he had a choice between wyoming or montana and it was a good day because lynn and i grew up together. i first took her out when she was 16 years old. we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, august. [laughter] [applause] if dad had picked montana and wyoming, of course i would of never married lynn. .. nixon invented before, sponsored by the nixon library when i had other books to write, to publish. and now we wanted to have an opportunity for lynne to present yours. it s a superb book about our nation s fourth president, and the plan is i will ask your questions and she will respond. at the end of the period of time we ll open it up, take some questions from the audience as well. with that let me begin by asking why madison? what made you decide james madison needed another biography? before you get the august am so grateful to date for joining on thi