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woodworking on the 2nd floor, it just has a lot of charm to it"from the likes of presidents such as calvin coolidge and richard nixon...to charles lindbergh and boxer joe louis this downtown des moines hotel has stood the test of time since 1919... "it has a lot of character, it has a lot of history that backs it up"and recently past presidents and presidential hopefuls have both turned the hotel into their campaign headquarters... "i remember the last caucus hilary clinton was there in fact i had the opportunity to go over there and see hilary and bill as they headed out to shake hands with people in the community"but after nearly 100 years and new ownership from hawkeye hotels in january...a 40 million dollar renovation plan sought to close the historic landmark this fall until 20-17... leading many to think it was an end to any potential memories made during the upcoming iowa caucuses in february until this week... "the hotel will stay open until march and has plans to even stay open longer than that but right now it will be open until march and there are businesses utilizing rooms at while sign

kind of growth we saw in the 1960's under jfk, the kind of growth we saw in the 1920's under calvin coolidge. it means that young people come out of school and have two or three or four or five job opportunities. you have a brighter future. number two, obamacare. one of the easiest ways to understand obamacare. it is a massive wealth transfer from young, healthy people to everybody else. and young people, one of the reasons that obamacare has plummeted approval rating with young people, if they realize that holy cow, i have to pay for this thing? number three, our national debt. 6.5 years, it has gone from 10 trillion to $18 trillion. larger than our entire economy. who is going to pay for all of that? it is almost like our parents and grandparents went out to vegas, took a credit card in our name, party-ied it up and then stuck as with the bill. young people are the ones that if we do not stop that are doing, the next generation will not spend the coming decade working to meet the challenges of the future. the priorities of the next generation. our kids will spend the rest of their lives wo

we landed the middle of the 1920s and the next figures calvin coolidge and andrew mellon. i would summit that coolidge was the most successful conservative president in history. mellon was his key partner in that. let me explain why i would say that. coolidge and mellon record can boast several things. they vastly reduce taxes, they instituted significant tax reform and a marginal income tax rate from over 70% to below 25%. with federal regulation ignited an economic boom and finally, this is most critical, they reduce the size of the federal government. that last point is the point that the first points could've been said about reagan and the last point was one of reagan's objectives but because republicans do not control congress he was not able to reduce the size of the federal government. coolidge actually did all those things. he was a very successful president of the very popular president. one of the interesting concepts in the chapter and this was covered a good bit in the press during coolidge's time. coolidge not only believes in economy and government, he was ve

kind of growth we saw in the 1960's under jfk, the kind of growth we saw in the 1920's under calvin coolidge. it means that young people come out of school and have two or three or four or five job opportunities. you have a brighter future. number two, obamacare. one of the easiest ways to understand obamacare. it is a massive wealth transfer from young, healthy people to everybody else. and young people, one of the reasons that obamacare has plummeted approval rating with young people, if they realize that holy cow, i have to pay for this thing? number three, our national debt. 6.5 years, it has gone from 10 trillion to $18 trillion. larger than our entire economy. who is going to pay for all of that? our parents like and grandparents went out to vegas, took a credit card in our -ied it up and then stuck as with the bill. young people are the ones that if we do not stop that are doing, the next generation will not spend the coming decade working to meet the challenges of the future. the priorities of the next generation. our kids will spend the rest of their lives working to pay off the deb

some of the leaders we've had in the past and how they could never be president, whether it's calvin coolidgeherbert hoover, jimmy cart centre. >> they are leaders who couldn't be elected now. abe lincoln couldn't be elected now. >> you're only as good as your last tweet. >> donald trump won the debate. i know there's all the pundits and specialists are all saying well cruz and rubio, et cetera. you had the drudge survey, you had "time" magazine survey, cnbc's own post-debate survey. trump won it unbelievably, won it 2-1 over the nearest, he was in the high 40s. the nearest other candidate in the lower 20s. zlo. >> do you honestly think trump won the debate? >> i honestly think that trump and carson will set the rules -- >> do you think he won the debate? >> i think it was a nonevent for trump. from my point of view it was neither negative nor positive. >> ted cruz did a great job, did he not? >> i think ted cruz did a great job. >> there's still eight more debates. >> and rubio did well. >> are there eight? >> these were, these were magnificent numbers for a network that gets 200,000 people

calvin coolidge could build a wall.l more maybe not but close. >> i think you actually would give some specifics on how you were going to do it. >> use concrete and hire some construction firms and things like that. >> we need to talk about the wall or not. but the point is i just i don't see him being very substantive. >> you are looking at it from the weldway because you live with all the pinheads in washington. >> if you go out to the hinter lands and i will tell you j wherever you hang out, yeah. >> where i hang out. i was in st. louis and chicago. chicago is not the hinter lands, over the weekend talking to the regular folks. oktoberfest with the stein. singing the german songs. >> yeah. >> but what you -- what you failed to see is that this -- and i had to tell this to karl rove last night. this is a different time in history. the people are so angry. >> i think that's true. >> in the republican precincts, all right. that they believe their country is being not only is it a bad economy as we laid out. but the coun

some of the leaders we've had in the past and how they could never be president, whether it's calvin coolidge. >> herbert roofhoover, jimmy ca, they didn't lack charisma. >> but abe lincoln couldn't be elected now. >> donald trump won that debate and i know that all the pundits and specialists are saying, cruz and rubio. you had the drudge surveyed, cnbc's own post-debate survey, trump won it two to one. he was in the high 40s, and the nearest other candidate was in the low 20s. >> do you honestly think trump won that debate? >> i honestly think that trump and carson will set the rules -- >> do you think they won the debate? >> i think it was a non-event for trump and carson. from my point of view, it was neither negative nor positive. >> ted cruz did a great job, did he not? >> i think ted cruz did a great job. >> there are still eight more debates. >> are there really eight? >> these were giant ratings. these were magnificent numbers for a network that gets 200,000. >> and during the world series. >> it beat the world series. >> and because it is interesting, and as donald trump will tell y

he remembered calvin coolidge being photographed with one and looking ridiculous. in that respect, eisenhower is sort of a forgotten president. down touch more modest, earth, and did not have the kind ear for public relations that kennedy did. he did try to use television when he ran for president, but he did not fully master it. ladies and john, thank you. -- gentlemen, thank you. [applause] a very good book is for sale from our friends from barnes & noble in the hall. i'm sure you would be happy to sign copies. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> being ladylike does not require silence. why should my husband's job or present usnts us -- from being ourselves -- preevent us from being ourselves? i do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind with pro-choice and the supporter of the equal rights amendment. she and gerald ford openly discussed her battle with breast cancer. she stru

kind of growth we saw in the 1960's under jfk, the kind of growth we saw in the 1920's under calvin coolidge. it means that young people come out of school and have two or three or four or five job opportunities. you have a brighter future. number two, obamacare. one of the easiest ways to understand obamacare. it is a massive wealth transfer from young, healthy people to everybody else. and young people, one of the reasons that obamacare has plummeted approval rating with young people, if they realize that holy cow, i have to pay for this thing? number three, our national debt. 6.5 years, it has gone from 10 trillion to $18 trillion. larger than our entire economy. who is going to pay for all of that? our parents like and grandparents went out to vegas, took a credit card in our -ied it up and then stuck as with the bill. young people are the ones that if we do not stop that are doing, the next generation will not spend the coming decade working to meet the challenges of the future. the priorities of the next generation. our kids will spend the rest of their lives working to pay off the deb

the first eating radio, which hit the point of maturity in the 1924 race were calvin coolidge one election. radio is very interesting because suddenly candidates did not have bodies and they just spoke with their voice and they were not speaking at the fairgrounds. the came into people's houses through these radios. and suddenly you had to have to have this intimate conversation with voters. a lot of candidates cannot make this transition. franklin roosevelt with his fireside chats was ideally suited to it. and in 1916 you have the reduction of tv as a main media force. it was perfectly encapsulated in the debate between kennedy and nixon where he was totally oblivious to the fact that he was sweaty and looked horrible on tv. tv, in one sense it gave candidates revised back in front of everybody to affect internees everybody but turned them into two-dimensional images. it's really tidy and presented yourself -- it changed title presented yourself. social media is the new thing in the mix. it nothink in some ways longer emphasizes the image of a candidate. it will put much more evidence on

can a silent calvin coolidge win the presidency in this country or do you have to be meteor ready?republican said because i saw john kasich the governor of ohio, somebody of substance who understands, who is well-regarded and has done a great job both in congress with the budget. maria: great job on the budget. >> and at home in ohio, took a failing state, turned it around. sandra: is he still in the game? he hasn't-- >> he's got to break out in order to resonate, right? >> he has to break out and i think he has to be more aggressive and not be afraid. he's got to be more like donald. sandra: the dark horse when it started. maria: that's what i thought. he handled himself so well in the debates, but, still, i don't see the traction i was expecting, actually. >> number one, he needs money, all right, in order to project and get his message out there and move around, et cetera, he got in a little late. and number two, i think he has to be more aggressive and, you know, he's probably watching and saying, my god, you're supporting me. [laughter] >> part of the problem, senator, part of

coolidge was the first president in 1923. first time it had been outside on the white house lawn. >> thank you, calvin.ht, which president invited children to the white house for a christmas frolic complete with cotton snow balls. "a," bill clinton? >> he had many frolics at the white house. >> could have been that. >> "b," thomas jefferson. "c" john f. kennedy. or "d" andrew jackson. >> andrew jackson used cannon balls. >> "d." >> i chose kennedy, too. >> i'm going to go with kennedy. >> i'm a solid "d." >> elizabeth is right, "d." >> you know why i know that? i'd it in your book. >> you've done your research. >> and final question. >> final question, which animal did george washington have at his mount vernon home on christmas eve? >> okay. >> was it "a" a reindeer, "b" an elephant, "c" a donkey, or "d" a camel? >> camel. >> i'm going to go classic, reindeer. >> reindeer? >> i mean, i don't know, why not. christmas. >> "d" a camel and mount vernon still has a camel at christmastime today. >> i knew that. >> you didn't know that. >> you know what as it turns out we have two books here. callista's book

calvin coolidge was incredible at this kind of stuff, and in emily slays' book, she goes through a wonderful detail of how he ended up balancing the budget. in those days, the president was paid a pretty good amount for those days, it was about $100,000, but everything came out of their salary. so when the ambassador from france would come for dinner, the dinner came out of coolidge's salary. so coolidge would be down in the kitchen after dinner saying i noticed we cooked five hams. i think we could have done with four hams. that was the kind of handle he had on expenditures. he also had a handle on expenditures throughout government and he met every week with the treasury department, he met every week with the cabinet secretary to say this is how we're going to stop spending money. this is how we're going to stop wasting money. cut, cap and balance is an alternative to what we're putting forward here, and i think if we were a true and open and deliberative body, we would have a vote on that, but no vote has been scheduled for cut, cap and balance, so those of us -- and i think there were a