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Into law at the white house. the president put out a written statement saying he had some reservations about part of the minimum wage measure, but on the whole, the legislation contains more good than bad. >> nixon with a big grin. high spirits at the white house. and you know, on the one hand, on its own, that leading "nightly news" that night, that should be sort of unremarkable. it's basic politics, basic governance. republican government and democratic congress disagree over bill, negotiate anyway, sign a compromise into law. the american public gets a raise, right. but in context, think a...

Night, april 8th, 1974 is that president nixon and the democratically controlled congress had just passed a big new piece of legislation. they just passed a new minimum wage increase that would put extra money into the pockets of tens of millions of americans. >> good evening. president nixon today signed into law a far-reaching increase in the federal minimum wage. the measure will now extend minimum wage protection to an additional seven or eight million workers, and ultimately about 54 million americans will be covered. this is pretty much the bill which mr. nixon vetoed seven months ago, b...

Joins us now. >> good to see you. we have learned to the last few moments that after this story broke with this afternoon, hope hicks was seen crying as were some other communication staffers here in the west wing of the white house. what that without processes shen is somebody who has been very popular around here, particularly with the president and top aides and that this was very unexpected and sudden. she's only 29 years old and became very effective around here, influential, the president's longest serving aid, getting high marks for helping to shepherd the tax cut messaging last year. t...

That was just another unforced political error. at "the weekly standard," a conservative writer named john mccormack responded to that mistake by saying, quote, isn't one benefit of an establishment candidate supposed to be that he's not going to make gaffes like this? jeb bush, after he made that gaffe, did put out a written statement, trying to take it back. taking back what he said about women's health. he said he misspoke about that. in response to that, craig robinson, a longtime republican operative in iowa, told politico.com, quote, every time jeb bush has stuck his foot in his mouth, i...

To mention this north korea mess in his state of the union speech tonight? and if so, if i may, how does it fit into his agenda? >> reporter: sure, arthel. bottom line is the president's aides say he is likely to mention this essentially failed test by the north koreans tonight. they are deeply concerned here at the white house, though, that know keeps doing these tests. as you say, the president put out a written statement calling this provocative, and they're basically saying, though, in the end it didn't really work, is so they don't think north korea is as far along in their nuclear progra...