[applause] vice president biden: thank you all. [applause] vice president biden: thank you all. et them celebrate. mr. president, i think we ve got a happy room here. it seems ridiculous to say thank you all for being here. ladies and gentlemen, to state the obvious, this is a historic day. [applause] in our business, we use that phrase a lot, but i can t think of a day in the 37 years i was a united states senator or the short time i ve been vice president that it s been more appropriately stated. this is a historic day. and history, history is not merely what is printed in textbooks. it doesn t begin or end with the stroke of a pen. history is made, history is made when men and women decide that there s a greater risk in accepting the situation that we cannot bear than in steeling our spine and embracing the promise of change. that s when history is made. [applause] history is made when you all assemble here today, members of congress take charge to change the lives of tens
from our studios in new york city this is charlie rose. dan pfeiffer was senior advisor to the president until his resignation became effective last week. charlie: former deputy chief of staff of operations called his departure the end of an every rasm he s the last of a select group which stayed with the president from the beginning of the campaign for the white house. announcing his resignation, president obama said he s been smart, steady, tireless, and true to the values we started with. he is a good man and a friend and i m going to miss having him just down the hall from me. early this week, i talked to dan pfeiffer about his years in the white house. his decision to leave and the challenges facing president obama. here s that conversation. you have had a remarkable experience. you re in your early 30 s and you have, since 2007, been at the side of the president of the united states. how do you decide when to leave? dan: that s a pretty complex question. that mayb
from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. dan pfeiffer was senior advisor to the president until his resignation became effective last week. before that he served as the president s communications director. the former deputy chief of staff of operations called his departure the end of an era. he s the last of a select group which stayed with the president from the beginning of the campaign for the white house. announcing his resignation president obama said, he s been smart, steady, tireless, and true to the values we started with. he is a good man and a friend and i m going to miss having him , just down the hall from me. early this week, i talked to dan pfeiffer about his years in the white house. his decision to leave and the challenges facing president obama. here s that conversation. you have had a remarkable experience. you re in your early 30 s and you have, since 2007, been at the side of the president of the united states. how do you decide when
choice. i it was a story-telling choice, where just bob cochran trying to create stakes. this guy has to stop it. ment the assassination would be a national catastrophe. and the first black american in the white house. that s where the choice came from, the choice for dramatic stakes. last question. it s been great [inaudible] i wanted to circle back to what you referenced about the saudi ambassador saying something that around the world from in africa and thailand and singapore and egypt are viewing americans through television, and i wonder you ve already discussed what you think what control do you have about the shows going there and being translated or maybe not the dialogue that you intended? i m just speculating. how does that work? because, according to him, this has a huge influence in how we re viewed as americans. right. well, what it s actually a distribution model. the question is, what control do we as artists have? terms of distribution?
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