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Wrote a play called something like sheep on the runway or something, about life in the white house, the signature song from the musical, which didn't go far, but it played in washington. it was called the secret service makes me nervous, it was a complaint of one of the daughters of the family, trying to live in the cacoon of security. >> the majesty of those few word, the presidential oath, written into the constitution, given by every -- i swear or i affirm, by every president since george washington and to see the chief justice delivering the oath and the president making the oath -- it's g...

Will be devoted to trying to set republicans up for failure in the mid-term elections? >> i think that's a great objective. i think the legacy he would like to leave is if not the disruption, but the minutia of the opposition. the way he exceeded in the cliff-hanging negotiations to drive a wedge among republicans and leave them historically weakened. i think that's one legacy he wants to leave. >> and that would be in the mid-term elections. normally a second-term president doesn't really care about that because he has four years and that's. it but i think he seem sees himself historically im...

Economy and to try to continue the some what anemic recovery we got and try to strengthen it and get unemployment down. and part of that and they are not separate issues is dealing with our huge debt and trying to get that under control. if that were to happen and you saw some certainty on the budget and fiscal policy and spending policy that that would be an enormous incentive to businesses to invest. and then this legislative agenda whether it is gun control or immigration, energy, education reform, there s a whole variety of issues. but he does have an -- and it is interesting david plouffe...

Up on capitol hill. i am not saying he will be able to do it, but the idea of a president using outside pressure to try to get public support to then put pressure on the folks on capitol hill is a time-other thanked tradition. there is an image that reagan and tip o'neill bargained -- no. reagan, on most issue it's taxes, spending, regulation -- beat tip oneme's brains in and he just was more effective at mobilizing public support. if barack obama can do it, more power to him. >> it's the oldest kind of politics -- organizing, harnessed to the newest political technology, a very powerful instr...

We ask things of government that government was not equipped to give. we yielded authority to the national government. >> as times change, so government must change. we need a new government for a new century. >> my most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people from further attacks and emerging threats. some have unwisely chosen to test america's resolve and have found it firm. >> a reminder second-term inaugurals always do sound like the message that won them their re-election. in all three of those cases you can hear their re-election message at the time, and i have a feeling you...