At the marriage and Political Partnership between lady bird and Lyndon Johnson. Brian betty boyd caroli, your new book about lady bird and lyndon, you started in the prologue this way. At exactly 4 00 p. M. On december 9, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson started a slow, dignified descent down the wide stairway from the residential quarters of the white house to the state floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking ab
Argue is to get spending in washington under control so that we are are not up their borrowing more and more money all the time and war of our countrys assets and resources can be deployed towards things that would yield a return that will put more people to work that will grow the economy and expand their standard of living in the quality of life for the people across this country. Time is short. The clock is running. Time is wasting. We need to get this done. In the near term except the nine bills that are sitting here in the senate that have been passed by the house that would put a lot of these services and programs that impact people that have been expressed so many times by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they would put funding back in place for those and secondly lets get together, the president s democrats and republicans here in washington d. C. To talk about not only raising the debt limit but what we are going to do to address the underlying debt. You senators t
Interaction at a crisis point and really impact the behavioral side of that initiative and get them to the closest possible care before an emergency turns into a crisis. On the to all be focused physical piece which is so important but unless you bring the behavioral piece, break the stigmas, and make sure to be they are equally focused on, we will not a couple shower goals. We have one more question back there and thats the last one we will have time for. Thank you, i am with the Jewish Federation of chicago. One of the most expensive areas of healthcare is longterm care. Do you anticipate there will be to that soon and if so, what might it look like . This is a big issue for governors. States pay for a lot of Long Term Care services and we are working on a task force and thats one of the issues we are addressing. Anyone on the stage expects there to be a replacement for class anytime soon. There is a fundamental there are two big pieces of this. Systems isisteing how do we create a p
Topics, what is your message to washington . Washington could mean a lot of things. Your message to president obama, to house members, to republicans in the house and senate, or maybe specifically to your member of congress. Regardless, tell us which are message to washington is when it comes to shut down and the debt ceiling. Here is your chance to do so. Guest for republicans, host for democrats 202 7370001 for democrats, 202 7370002 for republicans, you can reach out to us on social media, on twitter, http twitter. Com cspanwj, and you can always send us an email at journal cspan. Org. All of the papers dealing with this issue, some from across the United States going back to the chicago tribune, the headline is obama will not pay ransom, boehner wont surrender. Obama onami herald, shutdown, apologies and blame. Insists he wont negotiate is the subhead. And hints ofs, compromise, from the Richmond Times dispatch. To get the latest on what is coming on when it comes to discussions no
Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the rose garden. Live coverage on cspan. The syrian envoy to the u. S. Will speak in washington at 11 00 eastern, we will have live coverage. For guys like us who have been in the game for a long time, we know that there are landmines and that you have to be careful about the way you manage these things. Issues to do with abortion in race, care of, israeli relations. In other countries, i have lived in other countries, they have their own bread lines to be aware of. What a cartoonist ca