>> i don't know if you have taken your complaints to the office of special counsel yet, but in the past it has been not advisable. when we have had whistle-blowers come to us the first thing we say is stay anonymous if you can. you probably can't. then think about what you are risking. the office of special counsel will fulfil its role in feeding complaints and doing investigations in a way that has been not happening for a really long time. there's the office of special counsel, the inspectors general,

seeking legal counsel and help from organizations like government accountability project or coming to make disclosures. also meeting with members of congress and making them aware of the problem and members of congress, some committees even if they don't have on their web site hot lines, some committees and some members of congress in particular work very hard to -- with whistle-blowers on their disclosures and others not so much. so it depends on what your issue is, whether you are going to have luck with congress but congress needs to fix the ball so mr. sanchez has better protection. >> the second half of that question is the magic wand part. the way the law is now, what needs to be done to change it so

that it works better to protect whistle-blowers? with bad court rulings and other things going on what is necessary? where do changes need to be made? >> as i mentioned there was the protection enhancement act that -- a fair job addressing the current law, closing flu polls that have been created by expanding protection, providing access to court, providing additional authority and ability to participate and be careful, and inspectors general offices for whistleblowers. someone dedicated to working with whistle-blowers within each of those offices. >> if i may just add if my office is going to be effective, if congress wants to send

constituents to the office of special counsel and tell them that you are going to be able to get help, any resources when you can't cut the budget significantly and expect it to handle 4,000 complaints a year in the way in which they deserve to be treated, i would say we are going to work really hard to try to get congress aware that appropriations provided to this agency will be very well spent. >> with the overall appropriations -- >> for -- fiscal year 11 appropriation was 18.5. in the current appropriations bill, congress has recommended 17.9 to cut.

the recommended level the white house asked for was 19.5. we requested twenty million which is still a speck of dust on the federal budget. it is a tiny amount of money for the type of work we do and the payback the federal government can expect if we are doing our job correctly and the way it needs to be done. we are getting 300 more cases the year so a lot of resources have to go to helping veterans and members of the military and reserves which is important. but in terms of really being a robust effective agency we need the resources to do that work. >> stay on that subject if i could wave a magic wand what i would say is i would love to see the office of special counsel for same way you are using

electronic media like these microphones and the c-span cameras to make a strong case for the vital work you do, i would love to see the office and to the digital age and embrace the ability to have a two way conversation with the public through social media and also help educate the public about the value of what you do so that it becomes a little bit of a higher priority, as much as military bands in terms of the funding that you get. >> those are both priorities. getting a facebook page, revamping a website that is more interactive that provides more information to the stake holders of the office and all federal employees. it is high priority. doing education and outreach, very high priority and going out

to the agency, doing programs like this one. i am here today because i want to get the word out. it takes resources. it takes people. we have competing interests. how do we balance getting complaints investigated and robust representation and do our region and all the other things we need to do? they are all priorities. >> i totally agree. the idea that the work of government has to only be done by people paid by government is one of the changes, one of the culture changes i am arguing for that we have to get rid of that idea. certain things have to be done by the responsible people who are paid by the fact is i am sure people who are watching this, not just the people in

this room, instinctively think supporting whistle-blowers through the office of special counsel is a vital government function and they would be willing to help. so you are not stuck with only the resources you get through the formal appropriations. there are other public resources. that is the social media enabled. isn't just a tool for better communicating out but a way for taking in. it can be whether it is whistle-blower in, reports of problems that need to be investigated or other means of involving the public, it is we the people, not we the government. i just urge you and i am sure the sunlight foundation as part of its mission to help keep open up government would love to work with your office and other

offices in government on ways to tap into the civic surplus. the same people who post comments on blog and make comments on wikipedia pages would also be happy to donate time, ideas and attention to making government work better. >> also i know we have more questions, we have come to the end of our allotted time. i would like to thank our panelists, carolyn lerner, angela canterbury, christian sanchez and micah sifry, thank you for coming. we will have our next advisory committee event in late september and early october. thank you for coming and have a good day. [applause]

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[inaudible conversations] >> conservative commentator dennis prager on 2012 gop presidential candidates and health care legislation. his remarks were heard at the first annual webster conservative settlement in colorado christian university. it is about 50 minutes. >> intimidating when you get a standing ovation before you speak. i can spend a lot of time thinking everybody who has made this possible. i have a slightly hoarse voice. i don't know why but i do. this is annoying when you get anything in the summer. if you get it in the middle of winter -- nobody should get a cold in the summer. is wrong. it is morally wrong.

be that as it may the brain is functioning and that is what matters. i just want to say senators armstrong and andrews have done something wonderful with this institute and these weekends you have created. i want to thank you and salute you. it is an honor to be part of this all star cast. i often say on my radio show and make no judgments on this but i will be self revealing here. there are two types of people. here is one of the two types distinctions. there are those who want to be a star and there are those who want to be on an all-star team. you need them both. i have no judgment here. i prefer being part of an all-star team and that is what i am when i come here. thank you for having me and the rest of the all-star that you bring. it is a very big deal.

[applause] let me tell you that the great battle is a moral ideas that'll. the congressman who said those very kind things about me, and brian taylor, they have spoken that you heard about ronald reagan and you heard the congressman say he needs someone to translate this dennis prager speak liberal. i speak five languages. that is a very good point. it is actually a very good point and a very important one. i was raised speaking liberal e

liberalese. i am classic. i am the stereotypical liberal. brooklyn, new york, columbia university, jewish. what else is there? it is redundant. i speak liberalese fluently. if i am effective that is because i know their language. part of the language is to be liberal is to be kind. to be conservative is to be stingy. to be liberal is to be compassionate. to be conservative is not to be compassionate. the list goes on. the self-esteem of the left is enormous. that is why they founded the self-esteem movement, one of the

silliest movements they ever found it and there's competition for that title. silliest liberal movement is a very large group of nominees. but the self-esteem movement, got to raise kids with self-esteem, turned out the atlantic monthly which is a liberal thoughtful liberal magazine had a powerful article recently on how devastating it has been to children. to think highly of themselves without doing anything to marriage thinking highly of themselves. i always tell the story of my older boy when he was 10. he got a trophy for -- he got a trophy at the last game of his baseball season. his team came in last. a good dennis prager sports tradition. he came in last. i said what is the trophy for? and he thought and he thought.

it is for playing. you got a trophy for playing? does it say that? to david prager for playing. even the kid who didn't play got a trophy. i got no trophies as a kid. my older brother did because he was good. he was a real athlete. this is part of the idea of the left. they have very high self-esteem. our task is to win the moral rhetorical battle. to show the nanny state, the welfare state is not a compassionate and good thing. it is heartless. government ultimately is heartless because nobody is there. you knock on the door and a bureaucrat answers if you get

any answer. there was a time in america you knocked on the door and the church down the street dancer. the rotary club answered. the kiwanis club answered. there were more associations in america than in all other countries combined. the state has obliterated them. catholic charities does not any longer function in massachusetts and illinois. in the area that they had been the greatest activists in. that is adoption. because they have this odd belief that you give the child for adoption first to a healthy, married man and woman. if they are not married they didn't qualify for first choice. if it was two men they didn't qualify for first choice. it is not anti-gay.

more than if you are not married is anti heterosexual or if you are single it is not anti heterosexual. is not anti anybody. it is the odd belief that catholic charities had that if you have a child who needs a home your best chance, no guarantees in life but your best chance is with a married man and woman. but that is bigotry now. that is considered bigotry in an illinois by state law. it is bigotry. and in massachusetts. they are no longer in the business of adoption. that is what the state does. the larger the state -- we are here honoring ronald reagan. >> my life. i will never forget his inaugural address. he said in this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. i did not know that. i feel silly. i feel silly.

i wasn't a liberal but i didn't know that. which therefore made me liberal. the issue is the size of the state. the great moral dividing line is about the size of the state. i am here to make the case with ten arguments that the bigger the state, the smaller the citizen. it is a phrase i came up with. we have bumper stickers with that phrase. it summarizes the conservative position which is the american position. that doesn't mean we love america and they don't love america. has nothing to do with love. there is such a thing as normative american values. a big state is not a normative american value. it is the european value. the left in this country wishes to be sweden. the right in this country does not wish to be sweden.

that is it. in a nutshell that is the difference. we do not look to western europe as a model. just a little tiny example of the enormous moral battles that go on here, those of you who hear my show know that a model of my show is i prefer clarity to agreement. here is a clarifying difference between western europe and the united states for at least western europe and american values. this evil monster who murdered 77 people, most of them kids, do you know what his maximum sentence will be? 21 years in prison. that averages out to two months

per murder. that is a statement of how they look at murder in western europe. that is the contempt they have for human life. your death is worth two months in prison. it is vital. we who believe if you commit premeditated murder you did not deserve to live. value life more than they do. [applause] in t murdering 77

people in norway he never served a day in a prison. they understood his issues. that is the liberal mind. it is -- i have the time. it is called my radio show. i have three hours a day and sometimes it is not enough to speak about the moral defect of the liberal position. what must be understood is most of the time, for further left you go the mean of the spirit. many liberal people are utterly decent people. they can't say that about us. they can't. the moment liberals acknowledge that a conservative can be as kind and well-intentioned as they, they have cut the rug from

under them. they have removed it from under them. they must believe we mean poorly. i will never forget we play on my show clip after clip of liberals saying matter of factly how bad conservatives are. howard dean, former head of the democratic party said unlike conservatives, we liberals don't go to bed at night. we go to bed worried about kids who don't have enough food. we don't care about kids who don't have enough food. i am paraphrasing a larry king question. what is it about conservatives that they have such a problem with kindness? i like larry. i was on larry king dozen times. he means well. if they didn't believe we were mean-spirited they couldn't stay liberal. they have to believe they mean better than we but we don't have

to believe we mean better than them. we have to believe we do better than them. we measure morality by what happens. not what is intended. [applause] very big distinction between us. let me give you 10 -- i could give you 20. ten failings of the progressive policies on the character of the society. number one, the bigger the government the less citizens do for one another. makes perfect sense. you help your neighbor, you'll help you parents, you help your children. we do that and we always did. the question is who does it? if the state won't do it the church will, the synagogue will, volunteer club will, the free

loan society will. it is endless. the sisterhood will. the brotherhood will. they are all dying because the state destroys the alternative is. there are no such alternatives in western europe. if you want to help your parents you go to the state. not to mention we have this notion we take for granted that the state is educate our children. why is that superior? that was not the original american ideal. the bigger the state, the less we do for one another. that is why americans with the same exact socioeconomic status as western europeans give far more charity and volunteer far more time. because the european has been taught the state will take care

of everybody. number 2. the welfare state may be well intended but it is a ponzi scheme. lawrence kudlow made this point and i made it before him but i am happy an economist made a point. i am not an economist. it is a ponzi scheme. people are paying in to support the people who previously paid and but there isn't enough coming in so it will collapse like every ponzi scheme does. it is not meant to be a ponzi scheme. ponzi was a good guy. he just got messed up. he had to keep collecting money to pay the other people who paid in earlier. he didn't mean that. ponzi turns out to have been somewhat of a st.. i am not kidding.

he heard of a girl who was an of fire and he gave his own skin for her skin graft. a total stranger. ponzi is the quintessential liberal. he means well and create something destructive. that is what liberalism is. means well and destroys. doesn't mean to destroy. but remember, one of my modest means being left means never having to say you are sorry. number 3. one more word about number 2. california is broke. it is not only broke. it is broken. liberals broke it. nobody can argue. and no one with a fifth shred of commitment to honesty can argue conservatives broke calif..

liberal policies in a state where they can do whatever they want have broken the golden state. the state people went to to get rich. you now go there to get pork. you leave to get rich. it is very sad. it is a beautiful state. very sad. number 3. citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. you know what the big worry of the western european is? it certainly is and how do i protect countries like america worries about protecting countries. 37,000 americans died saving south korea from becoming like north korea. how many germans died in south korea? how many fringe? how many italians? how many spaniards?

we die for others. you know what the big concern of western europeans? all western europeans. vacation time. is a riot over vacation time. they riot over what age is the retirement age. riots take place over these issues. this is narcissism. it doesn't matter what is happening in cambodia or syria. i want my vacation time. that is it. that is the big concern. i want a four day work week. i want it all paid for. the european union has listed under human-rights, i could make this up, the right to travel on a vacation to a foreign country. it is now in the list of human-rights. it is not a privilege.

it is a human-rights. number 4. the liberal welfare state makes people distain work. they look at us americans as much too hard working. i know deer young woman about 30 who married a good american friend of ours and has fallen in love with the united states. she told me that in germany there is a simple law. if you own a store in berlin or anywhere and you want to keep it open an hour longer to make more money you cannot. it is not fair to the guy who is closing at 5:00 so you can stay open until 6:00. the idea that people should work hard and what has happened as a

result is no hard work is really venerated. not the hard work of producing children. western europe isn't replicating itself. the more liberal you get it is not a matter of wealth. that is only part of the story why people have fewer children. religious people have more children than secular people. why is that? you see a big family in the united states you assume they are mormon, catholic, evangelical or orthodox jewish. correct? did you ever see a family of nine kids and apparent democratic activists? i really wonder if there's one in the united states of america. any hard work is disdained by the left. only the hard work of having the government to expand. then they will work hard. they will lock on your door.

number 5. nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. to get something you didn't pay into. michele bachman was entirely right in saying every american must pay even a dollar in federal income-tax. it is corrosive. it is corrosive. to human character to pay nothing. 47% of americans do not pay a penny in federal income-tax. i have the bizarre notion that there's more wisdom in the bible that in the new york times. very big dividing line between me and others. the biblical notion is every

israelite gave half. if they were too pour they would bar with. there is no dignity and not paying. that is what the liberal doesn't understand because human dignity is not a big deal on the left. equality is big but not dignity. there is no dignity in having others pay for you. it is humiliating. in a jewish life is one of the ironies in life that jews are liberals. this is one of the battles of my life. you know what i tell jewish liberals? why don't you preach what you practice? jewish liberals live utterly conservative lot -- lives. emphasis on education and marriage. jews are so big on marriage. as to the jew sees a single human being i think i know somebody. i think i know somebody.

i took two young handsome catholic priests to a passover. everyone at the table was thinking betsy would be great. i kept kicking them. celibate, celibate. they didn't care. single, single. i am going celibate, celibate. it is a real irony. jews live and work hard and the for pleasure and emphasize education and when it comes to policy they get the opposite view. that is why i say to my fellow jews who are liberal free to what you practice. a lot of liberals would be like that. it is very bad to get something for nothing. 47% of our society determines what the other 53% will pay.

can you imagine a bowling club that ran that way? everybody is a member of the bowling club and those who don't pay a nickel towards do you describe what the others will pay. can you imagine that? it is inconceivable that a bowling club would run that way. we run the united states of america that way. getting something for nothing is a very bad thing. the bigger the government the more the corruption. this is almost never mentioned and might be the biggest of the ten principles i am speaking of. the bigger anything is. the bigger a business or anything of the more likelihood, the greater the likelihood of corruption. let me tell you one very major thing that no one likes to talk about. do you know who committed the greatest evils of history?

big government. big secular government. hitler, stalin leader pol pot. all big states. why would anybody trust the big state? it is amazing how many have imbibed the college message that more people have been killed by religion than anything else. more people have been killed by government than anything else in history. the twentieth century alone, none of them were religious. they don't learn that in college. i never thought of that. why doesn't the government have a bad reputation? not only that, they say big corporations are corrupt. i never argue.

we are not big corporation fans. we are economic freedom fans. we are not big corporations and. big corporations are not conservative. ge is not conservative. the head of ge is a big-time pro democrat liberal. this notion of, they invented the notion big business is conservative. it never was. they did so much business with land and there was a statement that lenin and his bolsheviks have, western companies will vie with one another to sell us the rope by which we will hang them. very famous phrase. when all is said and done no big company has a police force. the government does. no one has been arrested by coca-cola. you can be arrested by the big state which i will talk about as

an example later. the welfare state corrupt family life. that is the biggest part of the problem in the inner city. where women began to look to the state for a husband instead of to a man for a husband. the big state has a terrible impact. instead of two people to support a family i don't have to bunt with anybody. i go to the state and will support my children and not only that. the more children i have out-of-wedlock the more the state will pay. has a very corrupting impact on family life. number 8, the welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults. when i was a young man, when i was a boy, i didn't meditate on it, i knew my task is to mary,

support a wife and support a family. that was it. no longer. no longer. boys do not have that dream. ask women dating. they will tell you boys don't have that dream including boys -- the man boy. the man boy was produced by something in society. they didn't come out of nowhere. the idea of a boy dreaming of supporting a family. that is oh. that is john wayne. we don't want that. you got your wish. you don't have that. that is exactly what you don't have. i play on my show the longest, loudest sustained applause i ever heard. you know where it is from? a college in the washington area where president obama spoke and

announced now you can stay on your parents's health insurance policy until the age of 26. had he announced a cure for cancer are don't believe the applause would have been as great. it was hysterical applause. i just thought about myself, this is not bragging. i would not have applauded if i were in college. i wanted to be independent at 21. i wouldn't have applauded that i can now be dependent until 26. by the way, if it were until 36 they would have screamed and applause. the notion of being dependent is not negative. it is positive. the next time your daughter asks

where are all men, tell them the democratic party and its policies got rid of them. that is the truth. [applause] number 9. as a result of the left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military european countries rely on america to fight the world's people and even to dely on america to fight the world's people and even to defend them. they have no budget for defense. it is about people having more hours of work and vacation time and more benefits. who will fight evil? america. they deny there is evil. there really isn't the fall. evil is an american term. you have no idea how many french and german experts and scholars are have had on my radio show to

just say especially when president bush was president, you americans like to talk about good and evievi we europeans don't talk about good and evil. that is very american. they are right. it is very american. entirely right. we do talk about good and evievi that is we alone have tended to fight evil. not europeans. it is a very big deal. that is a phenomenon of the left. you don't fight evil. you fight carbon emissions. it is very important you know that. i always say -- i finally have a grandson. when my grandson and other grandchildren will say what did, but dennis fignd m? in his time -- i read there was a great divisioy h he thought they should fignd m

islamist terror and communist evil and others thought thon a should fignd m global warming. which did grandpa fight? i hope my grandchildren know which one i fought. i don't know how person on the left could differ from what i said. hall global warming we should redirect everything to africa and asia. finally which is about good and evil, world view of the left is

not to see the battle as between good and evil but between rich and poor and my phrase, e quality therefore trump's morality. i will give you an example. the united nations ranks the united states and cuba as essentially tied in health-care. we are 36, they are 37. in most hospitals in cuba from everything i read it is hard to -- why would someone be so foolish as to rank the united states and cuba as one apart in health care? because the left doesn't really care about good and evil. it cares about equality. since almost no one except the communists party leaders can get quality health care, health care

stinks' for all cubans because it is equal. equality trump's other values. better than everyone have lousy health care than some have great health care and some have less than grade health care. that is the mindset. it is a resentment of distinction. of any inequality. not good and evil. why has the left always been tempted by communism? the left doesn't like mass murder. why have they been tempted? why do they make trips to visit fidel castro? why do they make trips to visit venezuela? why do they make trips to visit the soviet union? because of equality. good and evil are not the primary concerns of the left. equality is the primary concern.

very different vision. they don't have the same vision for america that conservatives have. it is not a matter of difference in means. there's a difference in ends. finally let me give you three examples and i conclude about government intervention you may not know about. san francisco has been soda. no public place may sell soda. did you know that? did you know they are considering a ban on selling pets? including gold fish. the left considers the ownership of an animal to be immoral. san francisco is the most leftist city in the country outside of berkeley and that is

the type of law. they have more laws to control people's lives. maryland. high school graduates in maryland must now in order to get a high school diploma show proficiency in environmentalism. they still won't be able to write a sentence correctly. they will have no musical art in their curriculum. but they will have seen al gore's film and virtually memorized it. this is as i said about our education system especially universities, our universities are left wing seminaries. once you understand that you can send your kid there but understand where you are sending your child. christian seminary wishes to produce a christian. the university wishes to produce a committed secular leftist. the only difference the twin the christian seminary and the university is the seminary

admits its goal and a colleges don't. that is my only resentment of the university's. that they deny that that is their intention. maryland would deny that that is its intention that we must be proficient in environmentalism. do you think anyone who is skeptical about manmade carbon emissions bringing the world to catastrophe will be allowed to speak at a maryland high school? is a rhetorical question. finally california, being under the leadership of the left in its state legislature just passed a law signed by governor jerry brown that there must be in all california high school textbooks and elementary school textbooks, they must have dedicated pages, the

contributions of lesbians, days, bisexual and transgendered to america and california history. i will tell you what i resent. i resent tampering with history. i don't want any of affirmative-action in a textbook. the purpose of a textbook is to tell history and truth, not make people feel good about themselves. [applause] it would be like demanding a history of the nba have a special section on japanese players. or as i remember as a kid my funniest bar mitzvah gift, great jews in sports. there have been, but that is not

our first achievement. and i didn't care. i remember i was a conservative before i knew it. i didn't care. whatever jewish pride i have and i have the jewish pride it goes to abraham was the first monotheistic, gave the world 10 commandments, leonard was a boxer and hank greenberg had 58 home runs doesn't move me. what am i going to say? if anybody excluded benny leonard from boxing book because he was jewish that is despicable. if anybody is not discussing lesbian contributions to the revolution that is wrong. but they didn't give one example. show me a cross dresser we missed in american history.

that is transgendered. you should have an absolute right to cross dress. that is not my point and i am not making fun if that is your thing. your wife has to like it. that is the only -- it is hard for me to imagine but whatever works works. my point is only how absurd we have gotten. that is what it means. if there is nothing about transgendered that means two things. those who have undergone surgery to change sex and i have no issue with that or those who maintain their biological sex but dress as the other sex. where have they been missed in textbooks? that means they will make up stuff to show kids how important the transgendered and bisexual and -- i don't want this for

jews. you must have x amount of attention to jews in text books. there should be one governing principle, tell the truth! that is all the matters. that is all that matters. [applause] let me tell you how corrupting the left is of everything they touch. i am a big aficionado of classical music. i conduct orchestras periodically for a lot of people who hopefully love classical music. i know a lot about it. the new york times last year listed the ten greatest composers which is always a fun exercise. they didn't include heiden or hand handel. which was bizarre given included bartok too far fine but not

better. he said while. too many austrians. anthony tommasini, they have affirmative-action there. too many austrians. it is not really a list of the ten greatest composers. it is the ten greatest composers who are not only austrian. what do i care for all ten are austrian? what do i care q. don't i want to know who the ten best musicians are? why is there no tie on the list? no burmese? not one person from south america. they corrupt everything because there are right wing lyres and left-wing lawyers and truth tellers on both sides but truth is not a left-wing value.

feeling good is a left-wing value. we want to make and carry and that french feel good. that is what it is about. it is utterly corruptive. it is the daily, u.s. air could not kitimat of its plane. two months ago a man boarded a plane and was wearing only panties and a barrage --bra. you didn't have to sit next to him. lack of sympathy in this group. why didn't u.s. air kick him off? isn't there some concept of propriety left? no, there isn't. they would have been sued for

bigotry. for some sort of phobia. i don't know if the man was gay. if i had to bet, he isn't. it has nothing to do with sexual orientation. it has to do with propriety. but that is where we have come. u.s. air's spokeswoman was asked why didn't you remove the guy from the flight? she said we have no dress code on u.s. air. they probably don't. dress code is considered very conservative. dress code in high school -- even though grade and conduct improve when kids have to wear a school uniform. it is a great battle, my friends. the only place still battling it is the united states. western europe gave up.

select won. this is the last stand. this battle is taking place right this moment in washington d.c.. there is something immoral about spending more than you can afford to spend. isn't there? for only one -- for only one party is it considered an immoral issue. that is the difference and it is a huge difference and we have to know it because the fight is ultimately whodai som. amaro o cf1 o very much.

[applause] >> dennis prager inspiring as always. there's no time for questions but to continue the tribute to president reagan close as if you were close and radio show. send us off with a closing thought about president reagan. >> i want to tell you a funny story my wife brought to my attention in the biography of president reagan. it is classic, right up the theme of what i said. unless you heard this on my show i suspect you don't know. every conservative is called stupid by liberals. the more prominent you get the stupider you are described by everybody. they don't call me stupid.

they call me many names. if you google dennis prager and asshole you get many hits. stupid is pretty rare. i assume i am not prominent enough. but i am not running for office. ronald reagan was called a dummy. one of the most eloquent presidents we ever had who could speak spontaneously far better than our current president. no insult intended. it is just a fact. he was called stupid. so they had a dilemma. it turns out he wasn't a dummy. he was quite bright. what did the left do? a professor of history at stanford named sanford bernstein -- perfect. we have it. it is from a terrific new biography. the next speaker following me gave us this book. if you listen to him he is

terrific. and arthur brooks when we visited him. this is a biography by peter wallace and. left page. scholars still puzzled by this contradiction have reached for some highly unlikely explanations. historian barton bernstein, professor of history at stanford has speculated that perhaps reagan learned as a young man to hide his intelligence because it was not valued in the midwest world in which he grew up. is that amazing? that is how they can't deal with the idea that we might be as intelligent as they or as kind as the a