at my house, we had the washington post and the washington star every day. when the washington star died, i got the times. i remember riding my bicycle seven miles to get the first edition of the washington times. washington journalism mattered to me. my dream was a waste to work for the washington post. susan: there are lots of different answers to what was the conflict. i learned a lot. i was the national editor of the post at the time. these papers were not where they are today in terms of figuring out to the very uncomfortable digital transitions. our friends and colleagues had just left you found "politico." we were trying to reinvent political coverage. it was a special challenge for me to manage such a large staff of many very accomplished veterans. all of them extremely anxious about what this new era of transformation was going to be like. not incidentally i would say, the longtime editor of the post was replaced right after that. brian: leonard downie. susan: yes. think the paper went through a big series of changes that needed to happen. it has be

washington was the indispensable american. >> for generations of americans, george washington was essential to undering -- understanding the create -- creation of 9 united states of america. commander in chief of the continental arnly, first president, father of our country. p >> the very principles that make us americans. he was a farmer. an architect. a surveyor. he commanded the continental army against the military powers of great britain. he lost more battles than he won, but he still won america's war for independence. >> the revolution was a marathon. he was on horseback for seven and a half years. washington is the star of the american revolution not because of his cunning on the battle field, but he kept the spirit of the continental army alive. >> i, george washington, do solemnly swear -- >> eyes the father of our country because at a time when wre -- we were being torn apart, he held us together with his rectitude and his honor. >> he is more important for us in the 21st century as an example than he was perhaps at any time since he was alive. >> in eyes eulogy -- his eulogy, he

ron: hamilton is 22 when he meets washington. washington would have been 45. [begin video clip] [end video clip] this was the valley forge winter. the continental army was sitting there amidst -- the problem was the farmers were selling the food to the british forces in philadelphia. i remember lin had sent me very beautiful, mournful music for valley forge. he would hear the words of thomas payne over the music. that were the only words survived from that original draft of that scene. lin is extraordinary in terms of plucking out what he needs for racine. -- needs for a scene. he is a disciplined writer. it is hard for a writer to strike at a beautiful line. lin has the ability to do it -- i am not sure i do. brian: he is what age? ron: lin is 36. the firsting constitutional convention, the 30?ding fathers were thenhe would have been 32, 34 when he became treasury secretary. brian: so all of this had been done by young people. ron: this is an interesting point. so much of the attention about the show has concentrated on the latinoat this black and -- what has

washington can be a bubble. i do nothing that washington or boston necessarily represent the vast majority of americans. it is something we have to be aware of. we have to get out of washington and go to the rest of the country to hear what people have to say and give them a serious hearing. absolutely. host: i wonder if you have got any creditor for this recently. robert came from the national review to the washington post. did you hire him? marty baron: yes. >> ginsburg and baron want in-depth coverage. when you think about my hire and dave wiegel, this is an organization that prizes objectivity and wants to get more information. i do not consider us ideological in any way. host: why did you hire him? marty baron: he is an exceptionally good reporter and he has done an exceptionally good job covering the conservative movement in the united states. it is an important movements, we want to understand it well and impart that to our readers. that is why we hired him. host: you have charles krauthammer, george will

of "george washington, nationalist." if george washington were alive today and he saw the full run of this campaign, no matter who the victor is, what would he say? prof. larson: i think he would be appalled. he really did not believe in politics. he had this vision the people would run hard-fought campaigns. he worked on campaigns with others, hard-fought. but once you got there you were not supposed to be part of a party process. you were supposed to call each one as you saw them. if you look at the constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. at the constitutional convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. sure, some did not go along. there were people he broke with like george mason. he brought enough together to work across lines. it was always shifting alliances. but this was not the dream he had. it's what we got though. brian: how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years? prof.

to washington for answers. now is the time we need to look within. i stood firm and have not endorsed donald trump and i certainly have not endorsed hillary clinton. now is a time for us to make sure that we have a balance of to the administration, now is the time to make sure the nancy pelosi isn't the speaker of the house, that we do everything we can to make sure there is a check and balance in washington. it's time to restore utah's v oice back in. mean to be naive, but you seem to have injected none of the above as a box to check. does the candidate represent your values in 2016? hillary clinton doesn't represent my values. donald trump doesn't represent my values. i have been looking into the other candidates. i have not close the door on the other candidates. there is still some time left. i don't look for values to national politics. i look here at home. i know many people have struggled with this issue in the presidential. there's been too much focus there. i ran for congress not to play in the preside

right up the street in baltimore, the washington monument of baltimore, when we hear washington monument, we think of the one just one mile from us here. the 550 foot tower that exists here. but the one in baltimore is quite a bit more interesting. because -- what did he say? what is on the top? for those of you have been to the mount vernon neighborhood in baltimore. there is a 180 foot tower and a 15 foot george washington at the top. what is the artist trying to say with that piece of art? he has washington wearing a roman toga. and he is laying down his commission. it is the scene that happened in annapolis when washington resigned his commission in 1783 and he is handing back the scroll but he is wearing a roman toga. why? because they knew the story of cincinnatus. they knew the dangers of caesarism. they knew this guy whose term of counsel was over and he went back to growing cabbage and whatever forsaken vegetable it was, and they came to get him and they asked him if he would be dictator, the law allowed for a six-most dictator. this was a legitimate calling. he accepted the cal

they wanted to recruit washington. hamilton had talked to washington before about this democracy stuff will never work. you have to be king. washington believed republican government. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. say decembercials 4 is a day for the funeral of former cuban president fidel castro who died last night at the age of 90. let the castro revolutionary forces overthrew the government of president batista. at age 32 he became the youngest leader in latin america. here is a newsreel look at his rise to power. ♪ buildingllion machete peasants jammed the square before cuba's national capital for a celebration of the six anniversary of his 26th of july revolutionary movement. is perhaps the gratis mass rally in the western hemisphere. a demonstration of castro's's weight over the cuban masses. another aspect, the a predictable castro dons a baseball uniform to pitch a full inning in a game for his agrarian reform fund. newew president -- his president tosses the first ball. he strikes up a thr

it frustrated washington enormously. he sent out a letter to the states during this time, but the troops, the troops -- and this is the scary part -- probably working with the letters, certainly with the knowledge of alexander hamilton and governor going tore either mutiny -- they thought they were going to mutiny, some of them, led by a few of the lieutenant anderson and a few others, armstrong and a few others -- they were either going or get paid. once the peace treaty is signed, nobody is ever going to pay us. we're going to force congress to pay us. what they wanted to do was recruit washington and as part of the coup d'État. hamilton had already talked to washington. this democracy stuff is not going to work. washington was a true republican. he believed in republican government. brian: small are question mark prof. larson: -- brian: small r? prof. larson: small r. experience, a continental republican. something new under the sun. he believed in those enlightenment virtues. america could be a model. he wanted the

there are a number of washington state politicians that you can get at the university of washington. host: who would you say you might miss from congress? and the relationships that you had over the years that were special? rep. mcdermott: actually, three of us are going out at the same time who are good friends. lois capps from california, sam farr from california, and me. we were good friends. we had a very warm relationship. the other person i'm leaving behind who is also a good friend is -- when she came to congress, we became good friends. george miller, probably two handfuls of people i would spend some time with. host: what advice would you give to younger members of congress, the key to having a successful congressional career, and if they want to stay around for many terms like you did? rep. mcdermott: well, i think the advice i would give to anybody, given the situation we have today, you have to get back to listening to one another. even if i disagree with you intensely, i have got to listen to what you think. you might have an idea that i should incorporate in what i am d

the largest luxury ballroom in washington and in the washington area. it will be a very, very special job. we are proud of it. we are two years ahead of schedule. we will be opening in september. so that's much in advance of what it was supposed to be. it was supposed to be september two years from now. we are right on budget and increased the scope of the work quite a bit. we are still on budget and have gone to a higher agree of finishes and marbles and fixtures, bathroom fixtures,

. >> at washington post.com this is the headline. war on thep declares republican party for weeks before election day. john sullivan is meeting us from the washington post newsroom. is back to the tweets. what has he been saying. ton: he took to twitter unleash a barrage of attacks against paul ryan, john mccain, and allnst any republican elected officials who backed away from him. insaid that paul ryan is ineffective and weak leader providing zero support. he insulted mccain. he called himself-mouth to and said he begged him for his support. basically signaled he is going to go all out against these republican critics at a time when usually parties band together and start direct energy at opposing party nominees. pretty clear this will not be the case for the republicans. >> it isn't now the party of trump more than ever? sean: it is two different parties. the party ofch trump. e1 record numbers of votes. he continues to draw thousands people. he has a lot of enthusiasm between grassroots activists and people in key swing states. in

here in washington, d.c. interestingly, gracie's sister work inside the white house as well but as a free woman. to work inher sister the white house as well and she recommended to andrew jackson that he go purchase her and he did. gracie bradley -- he bought her as a cook. it turns out that she ends up being the best seamstress that anyone had seen in that area and she became the master seamstress in the hermitage in tennessee. she ended up living out her whole life with the jackson family because her sister wanted her closer to her in the white house. other presidents, like john tyler did not want people to know that they were buying slaves. when you get to tyler, you are getting closer and closer to the civil war. they did not want people to know what they were doing. aler would go out and hire bit -- a middleman who would go out and buy slaves and then transfer the slaves to tyler. tyler was so adamant that no one would know what he was doing, but he refused to use any of the being paid aswas president to

>> well, we always say we live in the best washington, washington state. i have to say that on camera. but i think that i have done that for quite some time because i worked with the federal government and with congress on immigration reform. this is going to be different. it's going to be every single week. i have an incredibly supportive family. my son is grown so i don't have to worry about that. he's in college. but it's really important for me to go back as much as i possibly can every weekend that i possibly can even if it's a long flight, because to me it is what allows me to stay connected to the district that elected me to make sure that i'm listening to constituents, to make sure that they have an opportunity to know what we're doing. i'm an organizer at heart. organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing. so i'm going to spend every minute that i can back in washington state, not only becauser were the most beautiful sta

not of washington. it's very important for him to see 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people and be reminded that he speaks for them and then he has a moral authority that nobody in the bureaucracy or congress has. it's very important if trumpism is going to succeed. the only rise comparable to trump is lincoln's rise. there is nobody else, because remember this is an almost , entirely trump-manufactured rise. it was not consultants, it was not pulling it was a continuous , application of intuition and energy. worked.rt of what the only other person i know who personally managed that kind of rise was lincoln. trump is now in an amazing place. it's astonishing to me as a historian how the elite media missed all of this. they are so rabid, they're so ideologically committed, so terrified of the future that they cannot stop and ask themselves what is this anomaly? what is it we should know about the next president? they just can't do it. you see it in today's stories. it is amazing to me how much the elite media an

brian: carlos lozada of "the washington post. a while back, you went through a whole bunch of books written by presidential candidates. why? carlos: it started with donald trump. when he launched his campaign this summer, he kept talking about his 1987 book "the art of the deal. he kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. it sort of embodied who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read "art of the deal. i thought i might write something about it for "the post." i learned he had written many books. three memoirs, business advice books, even a golf book. so i decided to pick a few of them. brian: why did he interest you, other than the obvious? carlos: a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be sort of formulaic. they are prescreened and scrubbed. they project sort of this bland wholesomeness and all americanness. trump wrote his before he intended to run for president ever. the first was when he was 41 years old. i thought they might tell me something about him. i thought he would be more interest

from the staff here in washington for members of congress? rep.-elect. krishnamoorthi: with regard to housing and so forth? informally. that is not really part of the formal program or orientation program. they are more focused on like, how to be a member of congress and you know, how to vote and where is the capital and all of that stuff. but, we get informal advice here and there regarding this. >> any plans to maybe bunk with another member of congress? rep.-elect. krishnamoorthi: i think i have passed the time of having roommates at this point. i think i am probably a little too, you know, insistent on the way i live. but, i have to think about what are the next steps there. >> what about committee assignments? where you interested in serving? rep.-elect. krishnamoorthi: as i said, the people in my district hired me for how do we build up the strength of the middle class so i will want to be on a committee where we will talk about economic things and jobs, primarily. so that is kind of the focus of my search for committee assignments right now. it is

washington? >> and who is taking on not just democrats but leaders of our own party? that is what we have to do, we have to stand with the american people against the bipartisan corruption of washington and the way that we win the general is very simple. we run a populist campaign of hard-working men and women. people who want to believe in the promise of america and we run it against the bipartisan corruption of washington that is embodied by hillary clinton. >> [inaudible] >> good question. how do i plan to demolish america's debt? i like your choice of verb. let me step back for a minute and tell a story. in 2012, i spoke at the republican national convention in tampa. i talked about our national debt and our two little girls caroline and catherine. when i got back to the hotel room at 1:30 a.m. and began looking at twitter, it turned out that paula poundstone the comedian was watching that night , i guess she had nothing better to do. she sent a tweet and said, ted cruz just said that when hi

here he is speaking at the annual cpac gathering in washington. [applause] >> thank you for that warm introduction. good evening to you all. it's an honor to be with you among such a large group of so many americans, men and women who represent the bulwark of the leadership of the conservative movement in the united states of america. i appreciate that kind introduction, but the introduction i prefer is a little bit shorter. i'm a christian, a conservative, and a republican. in that order. you know, there's an old saying when you see a box turtle on a fens post. you know one thing for sure. he didn't get there on his own. that's certainly true of my life. and other than my faith, my family, my beloved wife who is with me here tonight and my fellow hoosiers, i rise tonight to pay a gratitude to all of you. i owe so much to cpac, to this movement, to the namesake of this dinner, for the inspiration and opportunities i have been given. it is good to be back at cpac, the premier conservative gathering in the united states f america. we gather in 2015

so first on the defying washington. one of the central themes of obama's presidency, and in fact if you go back to when he started to run for president in 2007, one of the central themes of his candidacy was to try to buck the conventional wisdom of washington. one of the most important moments in his political rise was his speech in 2002 against the war in iraq. and that was something that, of course, in 2004 when he ran for senate, but then as a candidate for president in 2007 and 2008 was a distinguishing feature of hica

do you plan to live here in washington and if so, where? rep.-elect fernandez: we have an apartment nearby, my wife and i. we will be traveling back and forth and try to spend as much time in the district as possible to keep hearing people's problems and understand what we need to work for. we don't want to lose touch of our community and its needs. >> tell us about your wife and her influence on you. rep.-elect fernandez: well, she is a school teacher and a principal. she is my rock. she has been a great asset inshe has been a great asset during my campaign and even here, she is sitting right back there. she is a very positive influence. >> representative elect gonzales, we appreciate your time. thank you for talking to c-span. clicks june is tuesday, january 3, of the opening day of the new congress. watch this swearing-in of the house and senate, and the election of the speaker of the house. all the live coverage of the day's event from capitol hill -- at 7:00 on c-span and c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> this week, "washing

that in the "washington post" this morning. campaign 2016 gets under way monday with the first in the nation caucuses in iowa. also, the zika virus is threatening the united states, fronts page of usa tafmente the virus is lunged to an outbreak of birth deflects in brazil a mosquito-borne infections and expected to spread to the u.s. and every country in the western hemisphere. and officials the u.s. public health officials are saying that. the "wall street journal," the feds are weary, they are keeping its options opened for now. the u.s. central bank lifted short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point in december. penciled in four more increases this year, but the policy statement released wednesday after a two-day meeting raised questions about whether the fed would follow through with the rate move when it gathers again on march 15 through the 16th. that in the was was journal front page this morning about what the fed is doing. just a few headlines for you this morning. let's get back to our question with all of

washington's role in gratifying the first federal document in his new book "george washington: nationalist." andhey wanted to recruit washington had talked before about this democracy thing would never work, you would have to be arcane. washington believed in republican government. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> panelists from the googleton post, slate, and vice media talk about the latest technologies that serve their audiences and how that ultimately impacts the journalism business model. hosted by the aspen institute, this is about 90 minutes. >> ,welcome everybody. it is my pleasure as someone who is been a refugee from the world of journalism for 12 years to have a panel to find out what has been going on in the past 12 years. first, i want to thank bob hearst because this is a hearst lecture series. we are also doing it in conjunction with colorado mountain college. that is why we have a product placement deal with them. would you stand up? [applause] >> colorado mountain college as you all know has 11 campuses in a 12,000 square mile area. i will give you one

about washington. they had heard some of the lectures and wanted a small book that could reach, they thought, a broader and different audience. people can use it as a supplementary course book in college. butl enough for classes, also something you can take on an airplane and read. it captures the essence of the thesis that washington was a nationalist who brought the whole thing together. i make a solution at one point. they often say that james madison was the architect of the constitution. i reply, after doing all this vernon, that if james madison is the architect of the constitution, and he might be, then washington is the general contractor. if you are building a house are knowng in addition on, you you might like with the contractor has in mind and what the architect has in mind. washington had full support, and the funny thing is some of these great books on washington. like the four-part book by douglas friedman. skip this.em , they don't go into the nuts and bolts of what he did before the co

they want washington to be fiscally responsible. if we have to do it as individuals and families we should also do it in washington. they want washington to be e have passed such a budget on the house side and we hope we will get some action on it in the senate. what makes me a republican is the belief that the individual is best suited to make the decisions whether it is for education or fiscal responsibility. it goes back all the way to the debate between hamilton and jefferson. jefferson thought was more states rights driven. i am a great believer in federalism and the more you can localize government more accountable it can be. i would be remiss if i didn't catch myself walking the halls ondering how i got here. it is a great honor to serve in ongress. as big of a message that can be sometimes. i am thrilled to have this opportunity to serve. to serve and to be a voice for the people of the sixth district of north carolina i consider that to be a very high honor. i'm a big believer in term imits. we have captured as far as a 10

i come to washington and go to work. i must say when the congress is not in session, yes, i spent a considerable amount of time raising money. i have a self funded opponent worth hundreds of millions of dollars who says he will spend whatever it takes to win the election contest. my last two were among the two most expensive in the country. this looks like it will probably be the single most expensive race in the country and i feel strongly about the issues i have brought to the table. including the stop act with mr. jolly. i applaud tom. i have not taken the pledge. i am tying to make sure i have enough money to defend myself. i mean, they are spending thousands of dollars against me in television ads right now as we speak. they ran some ads last fall accusing me of voting to find fund terrorists. i mean, like, really? the guy runs a sawmill in a factory. he pedals newspapers. my staff did a poll and the staff came out and said only 3% of people believe the ad. i said really, that is a margin of victory in my district.

people do not trust the politicians in washington, because they go to washington and say one thing and do something else. it is a matter of trust with the american people. as far as classification, if it less classified information goes, if it is ever proven that she had classified information, and handled it inappropriately she should suffer the same , punishment that any of the rest of us would. blumenthal: private servers should never be used for classified material. fact, we get classified briefings and we see classified material, but only in a special buildinghe capital that is designated for the viewing of that material and we are barred from taking electronic devices into that. news kinds of precautions are all the more important in light of the potential of cyber -- for hacking into our system and several warfare and cyber attack are an increasing threat to our national security, and the united states should have before eluding stronger policies to deter those cyber attacks which are danger even to the classified systems that we have. the department affect -- defense is fending

if you want a washington deal maker who will go to washington and cut deals with the democrats and cut deals with harry reid and nancy pelosi j donald trump is your man. that's what he's promising to do. i stand with the millions of americans who are frustrated, who are fed up with washington deal makers, because the deals always benefit the rich and powerful and wall street, and they always benefit the giant corporations, and the people that get left in the cold are the washington deals are always the working men and women of this country. we need a president who stands with the working men and women in this country. if i'm elected president, we'll repeal every word of obama care. we'll pass a simple flat tax and abolish the irs. we'll stop amnesty and secure the boarders, and the result will be millions and millions of high paying jobs. wages going up for the first time in over a decade. young people coming out of stool with two, three, four, five job opportunities. we can do that, and this election is about a fundamental choice. >> senator, are you open to a unity ticket with senato

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you are talking about 20 inches in washington. in records going back to the 1890s, this could bring up to 20 plus inches in the region. look at the wind gusts from friday night into saturday morning. 45 to 55-mile-an-hour wind gusts. classic nor'easter and i want to show you how it plays out. you show the graphic down with a nor'easter. parallel the eastern seaboard. we have a storm surge that will be significant with coastal erosi erosion. you look at washington at this point with around 20 inches. new york, let's go with 6 inches. in boston, you get the point as far as traveling to the north. the significance of the snowfall diminishing quickly. john and christine, on saturday morning, we are talking about a full moon in place. you put this together and also plays a role with the storm surge and coastal erosion. that is another element with the full moon and 40 to 50-mile-an-hour winds. a lot of coastal damage. >> are your kids rooting for more than 2 or 6 inches? >> they are happy to go sledding. they want to make a jump. >> my

yet washington republicans still cannot convince washington republicans to simply do their jobs. they shut down the government in 2013, and they are trying to shut down the supreme court in 2016. think about that. they think barack obama was elected to a three-year term. hink about this. my guess is most of you have not thought about this before. barack obama is only the second democratic president since the civil war, only the second democratic president since the civil war to have won a majority of votes in this country twice. only franklin roosevelt and barack obama -- there is no question that he had a resounding mandate for a second four, not 3, not 3 1/2, 3/5 of a term if you get the history, but a second four-year term. now, watching the other side in these debates reminds me of a story. i have told it before but i want to repeat it because i think it is so poignant in thinking about donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio, the cast of walker and jindal and all these guys that have disappeared into the trash heap of history. january 21, 2009. the tradition is the president aft

you can find the second or third washington for what john boehner said about ted cruz. >> here's how ted cruz responded today. listen. >> when john boehner calls me lucifer, he's not directing that at me. he's directing that at you. what boehner is angry with me for is not anything i've said to him. i haven't said much of anything. what boehner is angry with me for is standing with the american people. >> barry, is that what ted cruz is doing, standing with the american people? >> well, so far he's stood with 25% of republican primary voters. i don't think he's standing with the american people. i mean, ted talks a good game about his washington experience but in his six years here, he really hasn't changed anything. but, you know, he made a lot of enemies, picked a lot of fights, some of them unnecessarily. and just very unpopular guy in the senate and in the house. >> ron, i can hear the big sighs there but let me get this question in before you respond. why is it that it seems, ron, that we hear over and over these sorts of insults about ted cruz? it's like ted cruz is applying fo

later, washington u.s. senate debate in washington state. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," author j.d. vance. mr. vance discusses his best-selling book "hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis." ♪ brian: j.d. vance, did you have any idea, when you wrote this book, that it would be a huge bestseller? "hillbilly elegy." j.d.: no, i didn't. i definitely did not expect it to have quite the response that it's had. brian: why do you think it has? j.d.: well, a couple of things. so one, i think, just the weird

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why george washington? mr. gingrich: she had been doing ellis the elephant for four to eight-year-olds, teaching american history, and one morning, she went to set up the discussion of american history, jesse waters up, and he was asking about key figures, and he sees a lady and says who is george washington? ae looks at him blankly for second and says, i think he was a president. didn't he come right after lincoln? i saidwe were leaving, we have to do a film about washington. he is so central, and a generation of americans are so lacking in knowledge that we have to find a way to bridge the gap. : in one sense, something you learned about george washington that you did not know. mr. gingrich: he wins the revolutionary war. he goes back home. he is the most famous man in america, and he decides for two weeks, he is going to go out west on you, and as an indian guide, he sends his guys off, and here is washington, riding along, and when he would see a settlor's cabin, he would not on the door and ask if he could

abramson: i was the washington bureau chief. requested the urgent that they cease all reporting on this story. i think any responsible editor wants more information. the reporters who cover intelligence tend to be very careful just on their own. reportingto stopping and then there was a request when we hadte house enough confirmation for a story that we not publish. the editor was the ultimate decision-maker, and he consulted with me, and a very difficult decision was made to hold the story. that decision was made literally days before the 2004 election. the story, when we get published and caused a huge rockets ckus and some uproar. mr. coll: if you could do it again, you would do it differently? ms. abramson: i certainly would not have held the story for a here. there were two occasions where i made the decision that we would .ithhold the information i regret them both. when i had a history as part of the balancing test, that is an important part of it. i felt that, in that case, the , but it weighs as a difficult question for

washington took showed it would be democratic. voiced ofo criticism martha washington. washington was criticized. there were those that thought washington's parties were too semi-royal. but no one criticized the first lady herself. finally, if she had done nothing else, martha washington said something that i often thought to be carved over the entrance of the white house for anyone that lives there. she said "the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." that is wisdom. and applicable assume any --applicable to so many clinical situations. susan: she built a very constrained by the position. or the quotes in the book is that she felt like a prisoner of the state, who could no longer live her life. much as she sacrifices he did, no doubt about it. people tend to overlook that she outlived all four of her children. she lost all of her children. she lost her first husband. there is a lot of tragedy in martha washington's life. in manycourse she was ways as much a face of the revolution, particularly to those fightin

[applause] allan holt: and the washington community. my home community. for this fantastic show of support for the museum and its campaign. i am the son of holocaust survivors. and i am also blessed. i just celebrated with my parents their 70th wedding anniversary. [applause] allan holt: i grew up in the 1950's and the 1960's. two events that i most remember from my early life were the legacy of the holocaust and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. in fact, one of the unforgettable moments of my new jersey childhood was witnessing first hand the horrible race riots in newark in so tonight these two strands of my life come together as we honor congressman john lewis. a very special american. [applause] holt: a very special human being. as my parents would say, a true mensch. my parents have been in this country less than 20 years when the civil rights movement began. they were probably unaware that the nazis often justified their anti-semitism as not much different from american racism. nor did they realize that american soldiers who liberated europe an

washington journalism mattered to me. my dream was a waste to work for the washington post. susan: there are lots of different answers to what was the conflict. i learned a lot. i was the national editor of the post at the time. papers were not where they are today in terms of figuring out the very uncomfortable digital transitions. our friends and colleagues had just left to found a little go. politico. we were trying to reinvent political coverage. it was a special challenge for me to manage such a large staff of many very accomplished .eterans very anxious about what this new era of transformation was going to be like. the longtime editor of the post was replaced right after that. leonard downie. bigpaper went through a series of changes that needed to happen. it has been great to see its recovery over the last couple of years. the new owner and an infusion of new blood and new ideas. brian: the two of you were selling a book in 2007. susan: very early on in vladimir putin's 10's tenure we met with one of his top political the goalts and he said was to and the revolution.

we have enough politics in washington. we fact of the matter is, have to learn from what we have done in our state. we are proud of what we have done. and we want to make sure that the perpetrators are prosecuted. that women have a safe place to go. so she just ought to check out the legislation, she could probably learn -- >> we have time for one more. >> with governor sandoval and governor pataki, are you concerned -- kasich: no, i am not concerned. we hope we have a good group in washington. you know, i am not really that worked up. i have been endorsed for a variety of things. and frankly, some of these endorsements really have no impact, no effect. sandoval, he is not the whole package. christine todd whitman, unbelievable lady. york,time governor of new we are getting the ones -- these are all fairly recent -- having d'amato here. i think most people thought there would be a convention. it is nothing more than, you know, a timing issue. and we are doing better and better every day. >> we have to go. thank you all. >>

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