You from historic Decatur House on lafayette square. Just 200 yards from the north door of the white house. Today, we have a wonderful guest, pete souza, who is the bestselling author and for eight years was the chief White House Photographer for president. Obama headed the White House Photography Office and was a president ial photographer for president reagan. We have much talk about gathered with us here today. Indicator house is a wonderful audience. Friends of the White House Historical association. Many of you have the white house for years in either journalism, television, radio, photography and its great to have you with us as well. So lets dive in, have our first question to pete. Do you remember what the circumstances were, how old you were, the very first time you visited the white house . I do. I was a 1965. Okay. My parents took myself and my sister, jane to d. C. And we we toured washington and we visited the white house. We went on the white house tour. We have no oh, no
Watch book tv every sunday on cspan2 and find a full schedule on your Program Guide or wch online anytime at booktv. Org. Rosalynn carter, do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president . Ideal. What was thatve like . What was our conversation . It was very interesting. [laughter] we hadug a friend, he thought he ought toan run for president. Well, we could not even say the word. I did not tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. But then, once he decided that he would do it, that was when i could not, he could hardly say i was going to be president. It was just something that we never ever dreamed would happen. And, itxc was exciting. I was excited about it. I had campaigned the whole last year before the governors race. It was hard. Amy was a baby. I did not like to leave her all the time. But i enjoyed it. I knew the capital of every county. In fact, that is how i got involved in Mental Health issues campaigning for jimm
Rosalynn carter do you remember when you and president carter started having rosalynn carter, do you remember when you and president carter had conversations about him running for president . I do. What was that like . What was that conversation . Jaire it was very interesting. We had a friend that wrote that he thought he ought to run for president. Well, we couldnt even say the word that my husband was running for i didnt tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. Then once he decided he would do it, he could hardly say im going to be president. It was just something that was wed never known it was going to happen. I have campaigned the whole last year before the governors race and it was hard and amy was a baby and i didnt like to leave her all the time, but i enjoy it had and i learned so much about enjoyed it and i learned so much about our state. We had 159 candidates and the capitol of the county and i knew issues in fact got involved in Mental Health and Running Campaign with
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Cspan now, our free mobile video app or online at cspan. Org. Well, now on American History tv, were going to talk about Historic Preservation. I want to introduce you to jordan tannenbaum, the vice chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Mr. Tannenbaum, what is that organization . The Advisory Council of Historic Preservation is an independent federal agency, part of the executive branch. It was it is was created by the preservation act of 1956 and celebrated an anniversary. It is a Regulatory Agency and as we will see, have responsibilities not only in that area, but also to advise the president and congress on matters concerning preservation policy. The regulatory section is called section 106 and that is a requirement that all federal agencies have to request the to take into account the impact of their projects, of their undertakings and thats broadly construed, licensed in connection, nexus in any way, that they have to take that into account if theyre going to ha