tomorrow january 20th marks the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of george herbert walker bush as the 44th president of the united states. that also means that it's been a quarter of a century since the end of 1988 of ronald reagan's two terms as the 40th president. on that day, george watson began a three part series looking back at the reagan years. and here's part one of that series. >>> upon rising to the leadership of their representative countries, winston churchill told the people of his country to expect blood, tears and sweat. when ronald reagan was first sworn in as president of the united states he said americans must stand tall once again. that was what the country apparently wanted to hear. historians will rightfully want to take their time before evaluating the legacy of the reagan years. but one thing is certain, the man brought supreme confidence to the presidency and transferred that confidence to the people. richard nixon was a pitiful giant. not exactly high praise from the nation's leaders. ronald reagan became president when the house needed a symbol. if the p

his son, george herbert walker bush wanted to be like his father, and so he pursued politics. and then george w. bush. >> host: in the family, you write for those who study the fault line, the campaign of 1980 is instructive. because to dynastic sons chose to challenge their party's front runners and those two presumptive heirs base their candidacies solely on their sense of entitlement. >> guest: i am fascinated, not just by the study of power, but i am fascinated by the class system in this country. it isn't quite what it is in the united kingdom. it is more unspoken here. we don't night people. we don't place the earls here, the barringer, the dukes. no, but we do. and that kind of upper class, middle class, lower class permeates our society and it fascinates me. it's a form of self entitlement and it's a form of discrimination. and i like to see -- not that i like what i'm fascinated to see how it plays out. >> host: in the family you write that the legacy of prescott alcoholism became his destructive to the dynasty as denying its existence was to his immediate failure. pre

or even i mean it was george herbert walker bush used as i recall he is cap and trade to stop sulfur dioxide the acid rain problem. you know george herbert walker bush couldn't i'm afraid when you. can crime or any place in this country right now i don't think come i don't think we're going to see big action from washington on a carbon tax anytime soon you are most in the world i don't see it this is an obvious no brainer there's no reason if she was shooting only people on earth we don't you know pay for the game which their product creates. but i don't think that's a problem with the current species or n t c will continue to be a question as hard as we can our friends at places like citizens climate lobby really great job talking up these team dividend schemes that would in essence make exxon pay us all rent from the right to pollute the atmosphere. we need these changes soon. but those things are you know they require the cooperation of republicans it's not like keystone and you can do it honestly what's your take bill on how the media has covered climate change this year. you know

the president does not come close to some of his predecessors including ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, and bill clinton. >> we may see that change over the next year. i do not see a lot of agislation -- legislative competence in his future. hear from those who go after the president on his executive orders as well. >> it is an interesting pinch that the president is in. he cannot get a lot of very important or difficult things through congress in the next year. remainst even in what of his time as president. at the same time he is going to face pushback from the republicans on the executive order. certainly in the spin and the statements that are flooding our inboxes at the moment, the republicans are outraged and pushing back hard against this sort of unilateralism. >> one of the residents fiercest critics is someone that you cover closely. centered ted cruz. -- senator ted cruz. >> he is no fan. i was watching him from the gallery during the speech and he was stoic throughout most of the speech except for the motherhood and apple pie things where the president was paying respects to

. >>> a milestone set by former president george herbert walker bush and his wife, barbara, today.s their 69th anniversary. making them the longest married first couple in american history. here's their wedding day album. and they are reportedly having a low-key celebration at home tonight, after mrs. bush was released from the hospital. and we congratulate them. >>> and coming up next right here, the skinny brothers from the american heartland, who inspired the beatles and simon and garfunkel and a rock 'n' roll generation. ♪ bye-bye love bye-bye sweet caress ♪ pressure points on my tired, achy feet. i had no clue i was putting this kind of stress on my feet. i have flat feet. i found this out at the free dr.scholl's foot mapping center at walmart. in less than two minutes, i got my foot map and my custom number. i'm a 440. i'm a 210. 340. that number matched the dr.scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with just the right support to help relieve stress on my feet. i'm a believer. find a walmart with a foot mapping center at drscholls.com i'm a believer. in controlling yournow over

trade and then reagan started talking about the wonders of globalization and free trade george herbert walker bush came along after that so that's a new world order members up and then bill clinton put it into law in ninety six with nafta calf or debt nafta and signing the general agreement on tariffs and trades the gap which created the world trade organization of b.t.o. and now we're working on shaft otherwise known as the t.t.p. so yeah that's that's what's going on and the consequence of that is that we're now having a trade deficit it's every year of hundreds of billions of dollars that alan grayson on the radio show today he said that our trade deficit it's our trade debt is so big and so now that it represents it represents over one hundred thousand dollars per man woman and child the united states it's not it's not the diff it's not the deficit that you have to worry about the budget deficit is the trade deficit that mark in washington d.c. a mark what's up. why ninety seven mark mark in washington d.c. . the reason that it's because. i don't or don't look here is this though the voter who

george herbert walker bush make sure that in digent women get it paid for because it was a health crisis. >> i think he was trying to use a strong man's argument. it was awkward and the thought was why would he write that even. let's stay with women in politics. the candidate in texas. wendy davis made her name launches a ton of positive press then. gets elected to the state senate and turns out her bio has a few holes in it. and her ex-husband paid for harvard a few other things that don't quite square. how much is this going to hurt her? >> right now, she used the language i have to tighten up my language. i think that was an admission that she wasn't as accurate that she should have been. if it comes into question with voters she has to find a whole set of issues make an agenda that people can rally around. her main set have come under fire. >> her bio is important there were some areas where she made mistakes but welcome to the nfl. and you are going to face a lot of got you politics. a good morning in the texas state house is going to be tough and this is going to make it tougher. g

i don't know where he got it from, probably george herbert walker bush and laura but they were the first family of graciousness. they modeled it for an entire generation. it's a wonderful thing. gratitude is the last thing i want to talk about. and tenderness and spouse and friends, they are easy to be grateful to. we ought to take a moment to think about that. i've been mentioning tonight david eisenhower and president nixon gave me jobs. they helped me a lot. they gave me a job at the department of justice. they gave me jobs coming out of university of michigan law school. and kony and libertarian employed me in the d.c. days. i caught out here. the they gave me a shot and anderson has been my big promoter and the hurntdz and hundreds of people in radio. i'm grateful to a bunch of people. make a list tonight or tomorrow of all the people -- send to the people so you have a genuine grievance and make a list of everything you ought to have sent thank you notes to. perhaps go about doing that. because i think doing that will empower you against anything bad happening down the road. you'll

. ♪ ♪ >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the officesident of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the offers of president of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> that was president h.w. bush at his inauguration 25 years ago. the anniversary was monday, and there's a celebration later today in washington at the u.s. chamber of commerce. 41 is now 89, and he tweeted that it's still hard for him to believe that he had the honor to serve as president. fox's brit hume was there on that day on january 20th, 1989. he spent a lot of time covering the president's campaign the year before, and here's what he remembers from it. >> it was a bright sunny day which was a great blessing for those of us who were outdoors. i was up on the stand in among the bush family, and i remember the speech -- the speech, if memory serves, is the one in which he said this would be the age of the outstretched hand. >> i'm putting out my hand to you, mr. speaker. i'm putting out my hand to you, mr. majority

the 88-year-old wife of president george herbert walker bush is being treated for a respiratory relatedsaid to be in great spirits. i'm john roberts in washington. now back to our o'reilly factor special. ♪arte >> actors and comedian jim and leachman make a living making us laugh. they stopped by the factor>> to talk about their careers separately their lives, their families. we begin with jim. >> so you got five kids in 10 years. >> five kids, there might be more. i haven't talked to my wife in an hour. >> after the third kid people stop congratulating my you. then they treat you like you are amish. >> what's the hard thing about being a dad for you? >> there are so many things about being a dad that i wasn't prepared for. dads are the vice president of the executive branch of the family, which surprised me. you know, the mom is the president. the mom is bill clinton feeling their pain. and we're al gore the nerd telling them to turn out the lights. >> my wifefe has instituted this open door policy where if one of our kids has a nightmare, they are welcome to come in our room and peets

the problem now we used cap and trade to get rid of sulfur dioxide acid rain during the george herbert walker bush administration and it seemed to have worked fairly well why not cap and trade. carbon taxes here yet actually cap and trade worked great with with sulfur dioxide and you know it has failed four times in the senate side i think you have to make a calculation both of something that is going to reduce the amount of c o two in the atmosphere but you have to make a political calculation. you know republicans that argued a lot against the cap because it adds government bureaucracy democrats have argued against a trade because the trading could cause energy costs to go up and down poor pay a disproportionately high part of their income for energy so could hurt poor people of cosco up now the opposite is actually happening with the largest cap and trade program in the world in the european union the cost of the permits is so low now that it's done nothing to reduce emissions so if you put a steadily raising fees business has predictability we know that fee is going to go up independent of mar

. >> when bill clinton took over from george herbert walker bush the white house regular press corpsir eyes. who is this guy. where is our republican president. >> that was a lot of yesterday. but, we were talking about this off camera. i think de blasio did well in his two press conferences. this was the first. >> his spanish is just as good as mayor bloomberg's. >> let's talk about that. the bloomberg inauguration for a second that you put in that framework. barely been out of office for a couple of days and already facing a lot of criticism here not from city op-ed pages. bloomberg watched on wednesday as people like singer harry bellafonte, the city's public advocate criticizes policies like stop-and-frisk and growing income in equality under his tenure. de blasio responded and said the tenure was too harsh. >> i made clear my real respect for mayor bloomberg. it's no secret i had disagreements with him on policy. i honored with whole heart what he did for this city and on many i agree with him and continue his policies. i've done so more beforehand. i appreciated president clint

how would you apply that phrase to george herbert walker and george w. bush >> intellectual curiosity. i don't think either of them has a lot of intellectual curiosity in the sense of trying to find out things out that. the advantage the father had with vast experience and a lot of things. he had been a businessman, an oilman. he had been director of the central intelligence. he had been heads of the republican national committee. so we did have a lot of theory geeks are your answers. he used that -- he didn't learn a lot in addition when he was president. also president bush the father did. the sun was less willing to learn about things. there was the discussion of president bush this time. as he frankly too to be president? you've heard all of this argument. i think he was perfectly the intellectual curiosity. if he didn't need to learn about someone, he wasn't going to learn about it. he didn't learn about terrorism. he just wasn't interested in didn't feel like he needed to learn. that's the problem. >> last caution on george w. bush. there's been specula

former president george herbert walker bush, bush 41, being spotted yesterday sitting front row at as coach for his work in leadership in cancer research. he also paid a visit to the players' locker room after the game. by the way, duke won over north carolina state. the final was 95-60. that's great. >> i believe it was 25 years since he was president. i think he tweeted that out. >> he did. >> i think it was 25 years ago yesterday he was inaugurated. he thanked people for the privilege of being our privilege. >> and a lucky charm at that. he might have to go to the rest of their games. >>> the law maker in colorado trying to prevent maui wowie from food stamps' shopping list. the cards you're able to use, ebt cards, apparently there aren't enough locations for them. so they put the actual transaction machine within a weed store. >> so colorado said, listen, we believe that you should not be buying beer with food stamps. they agreed on that. so you should not be buying pot with food stamps. they voted 3-2 last wednesday to allow atm's and ebt cards to be used at pot stores 'cause it

george w. bush. when i worked for senator kennedy, the leader here was newt gingrich. bush. herbert walkere labor secretary was elizabeth dole. she said one of her proudest was her role in raising the minimum wage. it is a long, proud tradition. minimum-wage workers come from all backgrounds. typically, she is, and you will hear from our speakers today, a provider and breadwinner. responsible for paying bills and running a household. how can we expect her to get by in a way that is not worth as much as it was during the truman administration? minimum wage has not kept up the cost of living, the cost of all essentials that a family needs to survive. orther a gallon of milk more. why do we expect to take home less and produce more? since 1979, productivity has increased more than 90%. real earnings have gone up by only 3.2%. this is a fairness issue. we should share in the prosperity and productivity. the minimum wage is 75 years old. it was signed by fdr. we just celebrated that anniversary at the department of labor. this is what fdr said. before he signed the fair labor standards act, exc

george herbert walker and george w.? >> well, the idea -- curiosity. i don't think either of them had a lot of intellectual curiosity in the sense of trying to find out things outside their orbit. the advantage president bushif father, had is he had vast experience in a lot of things. he had been a businessman, an oil man, he had been the director of central intelligence, he had been the head of the republican national committee, a member of congress from texas. so it did have a lot of varied experiences. and he used that to a good extent. now, he didn't have, he didn't learn a lot in addition when he was president as i said president kennedy did that, but i don't think president bush the father did. if anything, the son was less willing to learn about things. there's always this discussion of president bush, the son, was he, was he, frankly, too stupid to be president. you've heard all this argument. i never felt that way. i think he was perfectly, had perfect brain power to be president, it's just he did not have the intellectual curiosity. if he didn't need to learn about something, he wasn't going to learn it. now, he did learn about the middle east, he did learn about terrorism, he learned about the e