adlai stevenson, hubert humphrey, robert kennedy henry kissinger william f. buckley junior george h.w. bush bill clinton that all core jon kenneth galbraith forgets all -- gore vidal and naturally given arthur's sense of history groucho marx and savvy davis junior and bianca jagger. [laughter] alexander arthur's wife is not here. to detractors who refused arthur of being being a condescended sizer he wrote if your letter was the product of sincere misunderstanding the facts i have cited should relieve your mind. if not i can only commend you to the nearest psychiatrist. i should note too quickly that arthur had a keen appreciation for two tennessee exports, andrew jackson and jack daniels. as jon sig involve or tom appreciate arthur did not believe that white wine with sufficient given the difficulty

if you study the william f. buckley, conservative means are not as extreme as some of the things conservatives have been doing in recent years to win at all costs. so when our view, we think political leaders need to think about conservative means as well as an. yes, they may not win every round doing that, but it seems alone make their message more consistent in the long haul. secondly, it seems like the basic message of liberty that conservatives have to find a way to make that resonate with people. personal liberty is not an extreme message. at the end of the day, we knowledge that the message of progressivism is sometimes fred meyer, if you go, then the conservative message. there's a famous quote from william f. buckley. that is not as appealing. he was called senator gridlock. he didn't find that. there's a lot of bad ideas in washington and somebody needs to stop them. so that was his idea of conservatism. some college giving him an honorary doctorate degree. he said he said it was they have to call me dr. gridlo

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there's a famous quote from william f. buckley is that conservatives are the people who stand up at history yelling stop. that's not as appealing to i mentioned earlier i worked for senator bob dole when i was here, he was called senator gridlocked. he didn't really mind that. he would say there's a lot of bad ideas in washington and somebody needs to stop them. so that was his idea of conservatism. he had a good line, sometimes gave him an honorary doctorate degree, and he said knight had to come doctor gridlock. this is one of the problems of conservatism is when you hear a problem congress as a quick design a problem but we feel your pain and we would design something that will fix your pain. were as conservatives are in a more defensive posture and they're saying no, we don't want to grow the government. the next part of the message doesn't get hurt. we believe in individual freedom and helping people by individuals. we believe in churches and all of these associational approaches, kind of the older points. we believe in those

his letters include correspondence with the kennedy family lyndon johnson henry kissinger and william f. buckley. this is about an hour. [applause] >> welcome and thank you for that nice welcoming applause. i want to thank you all for joining us for what i know is going to be a very special evening. as many of you know this year vanderbilt welcomed jon meacham with wide arms and a very warm embrace as a distinguished visiting professor. [applause] and i think john has done well and i hope we can take to visiting off him pretty soon. i would say the political science students are thrilled to have such unique opportunity to learn from this accomplish historical scholar and celebrated author. john's most recent book thomas jefferson, the art of power, rose to the coveted number one spot on "the new york times" bestseller list and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the times book review in the "washington post." his best-selling biography of andrew jackson american lion earned john a pulitzer prize. his executive editor and executive vice president of random house john as you might

one is to do it the way that -- william buckley did in 1960. he basically wrote the john birch society out of the mainstream conservative movement. he basically said, these people are too crazy even for me. he marginalized than in the 1960s, right? that's one way to do a book. conservative intellectuals. there are some who are not aligned with the tea party. david rooks, george will, i don't know. that are really not supportive of the tea party. so that is one way to do it. another way to do it more institutionally is to try to institute the top two primary systems on a state by state. what happens is you're going to have to have democrats have to start winning more, number one. number two, when i'm kind of thinking about right now is to take people to support the tea party. not strong tea party supporters we discussed in the book. i'm talking about people that somewhat support the tea party and move them over so at least they are on the fence, right? one of the things i would like to do experimentally is to try to experimentally manipulate som

i am in good company there with william f buckley and milton freedman and george shultz, many conservatives who believe the current policy underminds the rule of law and makes kids in poor neighborhoods more vulnerable and doesn't do kneeing really to -- doing do anything to end real use. we need to change the policy. and i don't think we will ever get change coming from washington. that's not where changing comes from. it is always going to come from the grassroots. i agree with jason. the president has no right to go out there and say that marijuana is the same as alcohol. there is no medical evidence for that. in fact, there is a big debate about how dangerous it is, and it is more dangerous than when he used it because it has been -- >> so ped -- suped up. >> yes, suped up with more vibrant ingredients, and it can be dangerous for those whose brains are not totally formed. >> the grassroots colorado and washington legalizing, but what about the issue that jason zeroed in on. we have the laws on on the books, right? controlled substance act i talked about. if the president wants to chang

there's the famous quote from william f. buckley who said conservatives are the people who stand at history yelling stop. i mentioned earlier i worked for senator bob dole and he was called senator graham lot. he didn't mind and when asked about it he said there are a lot of bad ideas in washington and somebody needs to stop them. that was his idea of conservatism. he had a good line, some college gave him an honorary doctorate did duhcry and he said well at least now they have to call me dr. gridlock now. when you hear a problem progressives are quick to design a government solution for the problem. we feel your pain and we are going to design something that will fix your pain whereas conservatives are any more defensive posture saying no we don't want to go to the federal government. the next part of the conservative message doesn't get heard. we believe in individual freedom we believe in churches and all of these associational approaches kind of the older president bush's 1000 points of light. we believe in building a safety net

position on this should not be confused as somebody who is indifferent to drug use as i am not as william f. buckleyat. couple other stats as well. when it comes to the drug war some 80% of americans plus when polled about it find that it's a failure. we spend huge amounts of money on it it, 70-plus americans are pro-medical marijuana legalization and 70 plus% of even texans in a very conservative state are prolene genesee for nonviolent drug offenders. we spend hundreds of billions of dollars since the d.e.a. was formed on fighting this war. we incarcerate many many people. we arrest 1.5 million. some i think 48% of them marijuana convictions. the majority of those for possession only. and people look at it and go in is a cost benefit analysis is this working that's many many people disagree. >> you ran in the adult precincts very quickly. >> that matters when you are talking about legalization. but go ahead. >> it doesn't matter to me i will tell you why in a moment. 99.8% of federal prisoners sentenced for drug offenses were non-marijuana people. so that means only 0.2% in the federal system, oka

his letters include correspondence with the kennedy family lyndon johnson henry kissinger and william f. buckley. this is about an hour. [applause] >> welcome and thank you for that nice welcoming applause. i want to thank you all for joining us for what i know is going to be a very special evening.

will be conservative bloggers now who will write the 30 things he's done against the spirit of william f. buckley in blow staits. -- blue states. they' . >> i'm doing well, i'm doing well. >> didn't you just get a text to take the gummy now? >> yeah. >> do it. >> share with the class, share with the class. >> take the gummy. >> coming up on "morning joe," former defense secretary robert gates will be here on the set with his new book. plus senator john thune joins the conversation. and also the last president of amc. what's next for the award winning network. and bill karins with a check of the forecast. >> washington, d.c., shot of the white house looks like this. it's there but visibility down to about a tenth of a mile. so we have dense fog everywhere in agree from southern new england right down to south carolina. that's almost all of i-95. so be careful out there this morning with that. the other story continues to be what's happening out west. we need the rain. we continue with near record highs. even in san francisco yesterday -- near san francisco, a antioch i land. we could see a dry per