a SPLIT SCREEN.. and it caused some havoc, as you can tell from the remarks, i.e. "This is UNPRECEDENTED"..
SHAW: Bob Hormats, you've served in the United States government before. You've been here on Inauguration Day. In the upper right- hand screen there we see former President Clinton and wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. If you -- well, I'll save that question, and let's go to this rostrum here where the Clintons are speaking.
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SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: Thank you all so much for coming out to welcome us.
And I want to thank the Freeport High School Band and the Beech Channel High School Band. Thank you both. Thanks everyone in the band for being here, both of the schools. We are so glad to see all of you, and happy to be here.
A lot of people made us feel very welcome, and I wish I could thank everybody in this crowd. I particularly want to thank the people who brought their signs, who reminded everybody that for eight years this president and administration put people first.
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CLINTON: I want to thank Judith Hope and the state committee members of the New York Democratic Party, and Congressman Jerry Nadler and Congressman Fred Meeks; Senator Marty Connor and all the state senators and members of the assembly; the New York City Council and other elected officials; former Mayor David Dinkins; County Chair Tom Manton; New York City Public Advocate Mark Green; Dennis Hughes; Randy Weingarten; I want to thank the carpenters and teamsters and SEIU, the machinists and the aerospace workers, the New York City Central Labor.
WOODRUFF: Hillary Clinton -- Senator Hillary Clinton with her husband, the just exited the White House president and their daughter Chelsea.
SHAW: Look at this picture. Here she is speaking and he doesn't appear to have any interest in what she is saying. It seems as if his mind is back here in Washington. Look at the former president's face. And notice how Chelsea's eyes are following what mother is saying.
WOODRUFF: It is hard to know what's going on because we don't know what they're looking at. We can't see what's behind the camera.
GREENFIELD: Well, I just remembered -- there may be an old friend there. But one of Clinton's most devoted aides, was a former journalist, Sid Blumenthal wrote a book called "The Permanent Campaign," analyzing the whole new way that politics -- it never stops. There's no governance.
And I'm looking at this, and as we picked up the brief comments from Senator Clinton, it sounded like election night. I want to thank the teamsters. I want to thank the carpenters. I want to thank the head of the Democratic Party.
WOODRUFF: Head of the Democratic Party.
GREENFIELD: And it almost seems as if the title of the book is very prescient. I mean, it feels like we are in a permanent campaign.
SHAW: Now, the Bushes are coming out of the White House to join their in-laws and relatives and friends and parents in the presidential reviewing stand. They went into the White House to freshen up, and now they're coming out to watch the parade like everybody else. And by the way, as the parade passes the White House, we can look over our shoulders from our studio atop the Labor Department roof, and there are still hundreds and hundreds of marchers way back here on Third Street.
WOODRUFF: There's a still a lot more to come of this parade. And Bernie before we get further, I want to give apologies to -- or at least explanation to Bob Hormats, our guest who was talking to us a moment ago about the economy. We were in the middle of hearing from him.
SHAW: I was in the middle of asking a question.
WOODRUFF: You were in the middle of asking him a question. We should apologize to you, too.
SHAW: No, that's all right.
WOODRUFF: We skipped up to New York to hear what Mrs. Clinton was -- Senator Clinton was saying. This is the picture in front of the White House as the Bushes walk on a blue cover...
SHAW: And this is the...
WOODRUFF: ... you see they're not on the mud.
SHAW: I just want to point out, remember I told you about the leather football, that's the president's military aide. That officer who just cleared the picture, that has the nuclear codes in that briefcase, and that's why he was walking a couple steps ahead of the president. His new military aide. I think they're waiting to be formally announced. Excuse me for interrupting.
WOODRUFF: Well, that's fine. You did the right thing.
DALLEK: Can I go back to Jeff at some point?
WOODRUFF: Please do, as we watch the new president and the new first lady join friends and family. Go ahead.
DALLEK: Jeff, I think your point is so well taken, and that's why people don't like politics. They're very disillusioned with it and that's why people get so far when they announce, I'm not a politician. I'm outside of Washington because they become very tired of this constant campaigning and the polemics and the divisive rhetoric. So, I think it serves people who are lower key, so to speak, in their political posturing. GREENFIELD: It's just going -- I think it's going to be very interesting to see whether or not -- what the reaction is to what the Clintons did today, because it is unprecedented. There are people who have gone home and thanked people for turning out. That's true. But the -- kind of the presence throughout the day, you know, the first day of the new president, I think is going to raise some questions.
DALLEK: Jeff, the greatest politician in the 20th century, Franklin Roosevelt, 1940-'41. They pressed him very hard to go on radio (UNINTELLIGIBLE). He said, "I don't want to become a redundancy." He understand overexposure was not a great idea for a politician.
WOODRUFF: Well, the news media also makes decisions to cover these people. I mean, CNN, other news organizations made the decision to cover the Clinton departure, extended departure and remarks at Andrews Air Force Base. We and other news organizations made the decision to cover Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton landing in New York and making those statements.
SHAW: Well, they're part of the story, the inaugural, although the top billing usually goes to the incoming president and vice president.
Vindication for a former president, George Herbert Walker Bush, directly behind his son. You remember once during the campaign he threatened to take off the gloves if Bill Clinton said some bad things about his son, if he continued it. He was really ready to go.
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