In the 2nd piece will be wife of because i have gotten daughter of president and mrs. Johnson, wife of governor and mrs. Rob. And i think that we all your to have our own place no matter how big or small it may be in the world we want to be identified. So i tell my children, if they get to read my obituary i wanted the way i wanted. [laughter] i want the 1st line to be professional volunteer. Now, i am in being a professional volunteer because that is what my parents taught me to do. When i got a job after college and get my 1st paycheck my mother said well, now, who are you going to give it to . I thought, how. And and her belief was that you should give your 1st paycheck away. Of course being a smart girl that i am, i had trees put in johnson city in memory of my grandparents. But that was just a given. We have been very blessed. We are not financially stressed. You cant afford to give that away. In the most valuable thing i have is my time. Twentyfour hours a day. So whereas i can with varying amounts of money, my time is the most valuable thing really that i can give away. That is what i have tried to do professional volunteer and do not have as many paid jobs by my name. And that is what i learned from my parents. I feel very very blessed, all of the experiences that they gave me. Remember, catherine, 1st line [laughter] professional volunteer. I might add that barbara bush was right in their. When i was chair i asked laura bush to be on our committee. I am not a dumb woman. I asked her to be on and got her to be on our Advisory Committee because we want people who care about literacy to be up there supporting is. [applause] we obviously never lived in the white house. We were freshman. My parents made it clear that we could tag along for anything that they were doing. My sister and i both what we benefited from was the exposure our parents offered we travel to africa, Asia Latin America and got to see all the initiatives that they were implementing firsthand and i think that completely shaped my career. I run a nonprofit focused on Global Health issues. Linear obviously. My parents allowed me to be exposed to what they were working on, cared about the people he worked with everyday. The other thing is everyone who works in government is serving and are excited about service to other people. Everyday i work with young people who want to serve in Global Health, health and that is my way of trying to encourage more people to do what i saw my parents do everyday. [applause] she said everything i was going to say except that two quick things. We got to meet so many incredible people commanded encouraged us to come and meet a really great friend. He wrote as an email to tell us he job he got this job because he wanted us to know before it was released. I got i got to go to ethiopia with him. We fought over who he loved more. After our five days in ethiopia he chose me. [laughter] i think being able to be exposed to someone like that who has changed the landscape of our world that is so incredible. I am a teacher as to be able to meet this woman as i am teaching in innercity dc, it does not even really sink in until now and to be able now with journalism to interview people like mary fisher who told me that betty ford was the most inspirational person in her life command i just interviewed her last week. My parents 1st of all their friends are important, but people. They want to surround themselves with interesting people. I think that we tried to know all of these people as much as we possibly could and still stay in contact with them. [applause] well, i would like for each of you and we will start with linda to tell as one of your favorite stories about something that happened at the white house. It can be funny, about you, your parents just some behindthescenes thing that the press never found out about and now they are because it will be on cspan something that everyone here [inaudible conversations] gosh, i have been doing this for so long i think i have told everything i ever did but one of the wonderful things about being in the white house is the people you meet. You know, people in the theater people in the arts. All sorts of fancy folks. For instance, gregory peck. [laughter] when chuck was governor we invited back to come and spend the night in the Governors Mansion because they were doing something in virginia. I would not have dared to do that. When i called and told him who i was they would remember. So anyway, one day president s day Carl Sandburg came to the white house for tea on lincolns birthday. We had this tea party in the lincoln bedroom. And my mother was very, very excited and impressed. I was studying American History, so i immediately went and got my textbook and brought it in and asked him if he would sign [laughter] some paul of his. I took it back to school and hopefully get in a. Anyway, mother in the lincoln bedroom, at bedroom at least in our day and i hope you did not change it. [laughter] that is one thing about being there. I cannot speak for anyone else, we thought that it was our house. Any changes that were made where do they put that portrait that we put over theyre . Anyway, we went in there and on the desk is a copy of the gettysburg address. And this was written out by Abraham Lincoln to benefit and even then they were doing those things where they sold to have sold on the graphs. This was this was going to be sold to benefit the baltimore sanitary fair which was an early red cross type of project. And so mother brought it over and said to mr. Sandburg and here is one of the five copies of the gettysburg address and lincolns own handwriting. To which mr. Sandburg said everybody really could write. [laughter] [laughter] there is a lot of stories i could tell some of them i should not. We have time. Of course. [laughter] two quick ones. Seven or eight days before we get to move into the white house. When we finally moved in the 1st night i was there i called my my best friend from high school, Grade School Elementary School kevin kennedy. You have kennedy. You have got to come over here, this is unbelievable, Good Government housing. We took and you could not do this today because it is much different because of terrorism and what goes on in the world, but at that time we carried my two 18 yearold kids carried it up today they have guys up there dressed in black and antiaircraft guns, you could not do it to my but we a but we took my stereo up there, sat on the roof of the white house. I think we were playing led zeppelin stairway to heaven. It literally was like dumb and dumber. And so that was my 1st night. The 1st dinner and i will be quick. The 1st dinner we had as a family and there is this tension. I dont know if you know this, you do not know the staff. They have been there for years. You rotate through trying to get to know each other. Everyone is a little formal. Sitting at the family dinner table myself, dad mom, my sister sue to horses in. Everyone is trying to figure it out. Trying to take the edge off. He looks and sees this wonderful fireplace in the room and says gosh, we used to go to avail for christmas. We always love to have a fire. One of the one of the people that work there must be the president telling us to light the fire. They went over and let the fire. Had not been used in ten years. Now, smoke is billowing out. [laughter] this is their 1st dinner with the staff. The smoke is coming back into the dining room. Susan and i are coughing and trying to get up. I will never forget my dad looked at me and said sit back down. He goes, dont we just love the fire. He had such a good heart. Trying to make them feel good. Those are my memories. [applause] well, one thing the same thing happened on lucys 1st night in the white house. She had a friend over and started a fire in her bedroom. And smoke went everywhere. Zero, i no all about how to open everything. This will be great. No. The added part was she was in her nightgown. She was 16 years old. All of a sudden smoke is everywhere. She goes and climbs up on her desk to stand up and try to open the window facing pennsylvania avenue. And she looks up, sees the smoke. [laughter] trying to cover up. They are to put a sign up do not use. Danger. I dont think we ever had a fire. [laughter] i am glad. That would be the last thing that the bush twins could have done like the white house on fire. [laughter] that would have really helped with our college education. [laughter] i think one thing is you can still get up on that roof because i have my 1st kiss with my husband up there. Kind of embarrassing. Luckily i am married to him. Barbara is embarrassed. Awkward. Humiliated. I thought we were telling our secrets. Ignore these people. You are just talking to me jenna. One thing, you know, we grew up when my grandfather was president for holidays we knew all of this really, really well. So extra special. Many of them were still there. Have become a leader. Really excited. Mainly because i get to see them. Interviewing mr. Obama to. I heard you are going to do that. Call somebody who called somebody. They had become like family. They helped us out when we saw a ghost. I will let you tell it. Another twins story. And the book. Apparently in the white house, i dont know. Im not sure. Family dinner. Done a lot with the grandchildren. So she said to the white house, grandchildren. Zero, man, they have ordered dinner in the bowling alley. Not true. It was a snack. [laughter] it was not about dinner. But i do believe there was dinner served in the bowling alley. Okay. Easier to blame us for more things. And we took it. So should i tell them . Yeah. This sounds crazy, except it happened. Jenna and i well, jenna since we are twins we actually usually sleep in the same room even though we are adults. Came running in my room one night terrified because she had heard someone singing opera. Out of my fireplace. Out of my fireplace. And it actually was led zeppelin. [laughter] and i did not believe for. The next night we were sleeping in the same room and it happened again except this time we heard like olden times creepy piano music coming out of the fireplace. And then able to go to sleep because we were both working in dc and able to go to sleep and say that is just willard are. Played on the piano. But we had to sleep. We just pacified ourselves. The next morning i was getting up to go to work and somebody who worked at the white house. I said, buddy, 1st of all, and down really scared me a little bit. You are not going to believe, the last two nights i have heard this piano music coming out of the fireplace in my room. Was the piano topdown last night . Oh it is always down. He said, you would not believe the things i have seen or heard. And we have never slept alone. We really, i mean, we believe in ghosts. We would not, except this happened to us. We believe in ghosts. And mom and dad had a golden retriever the lives of the white house with them dog and liberty. One one night the dog out of the middle of the night and woke data nudged nudged him, dad got out of bed, left mom sitting there. He took liberty down the family elevator to go out the diplomatic entrance and it was like 2 00 a. M. He goes out the door the dog runs around and this is business. Dad goes dad goes to walk back in the white house and the doors locked. [laughter] and the secret service dont know he is out there, two in the morning in his pajamas with the dog. It lets you know that our life is just like yours. Dad knocking on the door in his pajamas with the dog trying to get back into the white house in two in the morning. Did he ever get in . He got an. Obviously. The same thing happened to my mother, little different the Grand Staircase that you come down well, mother is always trying to make sure that we did not spend any more money than we needed to. So one night after a state dinner she had gone back up stairs, upstairs, put on her nightgown and knows that the light was on right outside the door to get on the Grand Staircase. And so she being very careful, put 1 foot to hold the door upstairs and then tried to lean out and turn the light up. Well, she did not make it. It. The door closed behind her and that she was in her robe and she put her face up she describes this. Im not telling too much but she just much downstairs like she was supposed to be Walking Around with her robe they were all finishing the party up. She just walks she just walks right through, the elevator, go back upstairs again. [laughter] unfortunately i am getting the eagle eyes. Thank you all so much for telling us [applause] [applause] [applause] they were wise and and mothers, some had children and grandchildren who became president and politicians. They dealt with the joys and trials of motherhood the pleasure and sometimes chaos of raising small children and the tragedy of loss. Just in time for mothers day, first ladies looks at the 1st the personal lives of every first lady in American History, many of whom raise families in the white house. Based on original interviews from cspan first ladies series published by Public Affairs them unavailable as available as hardcover or ebook and makes a great mothers day gift. This sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on our original series we look into the lives of 21st ladies. The only first lady to date born outside the United States and played an Important Role in her husbands 1824 president ial campaign yet had difficulty when the approval of her motherinlaw former first Lady Abigail AdamsElizabeth Monroe and Louisa Catherine adams sunday night on cspan original series 1st ladies, influence an image examining the public and private lives of the women who fill filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from what the washington to Michelle Obama sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan three. Concluding with a 1994 event from the Ronald Reagan president ial library. Speakers include peggy hoover brigham, susan ford bales, and Maureen Reagan. Begins with remarks by former first Lady Nancy Reagan and historian Richard Norton smith serving as the Reagan LibraryLibrary Director at the time. This is now are in 45 minutes. [applause] [applause] and now our own 1st lady ms. Nancy reagan. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good morning. I am delighted to welcome you all to a very special program. I hope you had a a chance to see at least some of the remarkable new exhibits called madam president on your way in this morning. For the next six months visitors to the library and museum will be introduced to each of americas kayfive an ounce only to the close they were or artifacts that they used and that causes they championed and families they raised. Some of these women are historical celebrities others are all but unknown to us today but each deserve to be remembered for their contribution to the life of her time. 200 years ago Martha Washington said that as first lady she felt more like a prisoner of state than anything else a complaint echoed by some of her successors, as a matter of fact. Actually, it was the daughter of president , Margaret Truman whose light best to find the position of first lady when she called it the 2nd toughest job in america. Madam president is about much more than 1st ladies. The families who temporarily reside there become part of our extended families. This morning we are privileged to have as our guests several former inhabitants of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Better than any historian political scientists Robert Hoover brigham, Luci Baines Johnson, susan ford mail and Maureen Reagan can introduce us to the human dimension of the presidency. For these women have lived at the center of great events that spanned some six decades in the process of experiencing joys and sorrow trials common to any american household. His history is really too important to leave to professional historians. It belongs to all of us. The white house in which Abigail Adams hung her laundry and Mary Todd Lincoln endured the horrors of the civil war and that is what this Mornings Program is all about. And it is just the beginning over the next over the next few months the library will stage theatrical performances recalling eleanor roosevelt, edith wilson, eisenhower and german. Time magazine White House Correspondent we will be here in august while helen thomas, dean of the White House Press corps will share her own reflection on modern 1st ladies in september. All of this in keeping with my husbands desire for an institution that is lively and dynamic is america herself. Fortunately, we have a director who shares our vision of a library that is more the library. His name his name is Richard Norton smith command he will be our moderators morning. I would also like to express my own thanks to richard for all that he has done since becoming director of the library. We have never been happier with the library than we are today command it is all due where are you richard . You, richard. [applause] and the team that you have put together. Richard peggy, luci susan, maureen the stage is yours. Let me thank you for coming. I no i no that you are in for a real treat. Thank you again. [applause] good morning, everyone. Welcome. Delighted to have you here. Amid remembrances attending the death of Richard Nixon perhaps none were more touching than a story told by lucy bates johnson. President johnsons daughter recall the letter dated july 111974 less than one month before mr. Nixon resigned the presidency. In the mid