mrs. reagan turned around and grabbed helen and said come with me. they went in the door, and mrs. rlin, what do you think of that? we missed our last best chance to get rid of helen thomas! [laughter]. >> in terms of the president making his point, it was golden. bret: on day two, reagan went on another walk. this time through red square with gorbachev. >> there was a metaphor for the extraordinary journey that reagan had taken personally, and the journey that the u.s. and the soviet union had taken in terms of their relations. >> that turned out to be the high point of the summit because it wasn't scripted. there were people around there with kids and saying hello, and it was very informal and nice. bret: and not nearly as chaotic as the arbon, because perhaps as fitzwater whispered to reagan, many of the regular russians were kgb operatives. a reporter asked the big question reagan surely knew was coming. >> you still think you were in an evil empire, mr. president? >> no. >> he said that was another time and another era he put his arm around gorbachev. my gosh. as a news man, it

the last one, with mrs. reagan, we are sunday noon at the white house, we're going to have on tuesday the queen of the netherlands, and you know the netherlands is known for its tulip, the beautiful tulip over there. anyway, i had already shown nancy reagan two desserts which she said, roland, no. you know, nancy reagan, i studied her very early on. she's an interesting character. when she was going to give you the zinger, her head also booped to the right. and she even did that to the reporter on television. when the reporter would ask a question and i would see nancy going, oh, i said, man, you don't know what's coming. i am having a chill in my spine for you, man. i feel for you, man. and sure enough, nancy, boom. you know, she was good. she -- i loved her to death. i loved her to death. you know, i say that i became the pastry chef that i am because of nancy reagan. and i mean it. every time, i mean it. because she was sold on what she wanted it, and that was it. you better make your research -- anyway. that ti

i told mrs. reagan. i said madam, this is beautiful, but madam, there's only two days left before the dinner. here comes the challenge. roland, correction, you have two days and two nights. you know, i still have the chill in my back today, right now as we speak. and n i said, yes, madam, thank you very much. i went back to my kitchen and start cooking sugar. for some of you that don't know what a sugar basket is. it's all made of sugar, weaved like a basket and all. in my book dessert university, there is a sketch that shows you how to make sugar basket. and thenow you have to make fou tulip per basket, so times 15, you can count how many sugar tulips that is. plus i have to make cookies and many, many other things. the rest of the business don't stop because of that. so she said i have two days and two nights. now ladies and gentlemen, heren is when you know because of course it did happen and it happened well. and shewe got so many complimen, and when i -- on my way home that night, i did not know tha

i did get to know mrs. reagan a little bit. she's the only woman i know at lunch would eat a third of a cobb salad. you felt huge next to her. and i said -- it was always terrible because she knew more gossip about the obamas than i did. it was like, i don't know, ma'am, yes, it's terrible, whatever. so we're talking once and i said, you know, i just noticed president reagan coined -- has had such has had such an effect on our language. some people think jesus said. she looked up at me without effect, that's the thing

and so i never met president reagan and one of my great regrets, but i did have lunch with mrs. reagan and the only woman i know who ate one-third of a cobb salad. it was huge next to her. it is terrible because she knew more gossip about the obamas than i did, and i don't know, ma'am. and he had a terrible, whatever. and so we were talking about that and i said, i just noticed that president reagan coin and has had such an effect on the language and the national identity and i said people actually think that jesus said that we live on the shining city. and she looked up and said, that is just the thing that ronnie would do. >> what a great note to end on. >>> sunday on q&a. >> we're on the floor of the united states senate. this is unprecedented. and no one else has ever gotten an opportunity to do this. it's for a documentary on the u.s. senate on the floor an hour before they begin. we're going to ring around the chamber to get shots during the session and then afterwards we're coming back down to the the floor. truly special. >> c-span executive producer mark farkas talks about his

for many months i have said when i was a reagan cub scout mrs. reagan coined the phrase what should china do? and i would say tongue-in-chee tongue-in-cheek, try not to say yes because they never have any eight or nine months i've been involved in negotiations. i cannot say he will say yes but and then just say yes to a couple of them important things and that's why i am raising this. that is gracious in the meetings but you are asking them to do in the 90 days that has been accomplished but then they delay to hope the administration comes and goes and with that state owned enterprise and to hack companies to create unfair standards in the country. so in 90 days and to play the cynic it is hard to imagine that despite the relationship between mister xi and mister trump that they will move thisy time? . >> i had no assurances. i agree but others may disagree we have come further with the table of contents is larger of anything we have seen before. and the things that they are willing to talk about. and we have bob light heiser to be the negotiator. and t

mr. reagan. there is no trust fund. the democrats spent that money over 50 years ago. ,f it had not been for that medicare would not have a problem today. host: the house is coming in early. i want to get a response. ,uest: what i would say to you my colleagues in congress, my republican colleagues you should talk about the moral horror of passing on the debt and deficit to the next generation. , more debtave done and deficit in the history of the country. ist to me is something that egregious and something that we hope to turn around with investments in the growth of the american economy. last time we have budgetary surpluses, when we had growth at 4%. i don't quite understand the idea around previous administration's providing huge tax cut is that were never paid for. there is not a tax cut in human history that ever paid for itself. we talk about supply-side economics, trickle down and the new term, it is just a rebranding of that old discredited theory. here is what we know. it just does not work. it is not ideologi

many months i have said -- well, when i was a reagan cub scout and omb years and years ago and mrs. reagan coined the phrase just say no to drugs and so people asked me recently what should china do and i would say, tongue and cheek, but some seriousness, china oughta say yes to something. because they never have, in the eight or nine months that i've been involved in this negotiation. now they're not saying -- i can't sit here and say they're going to say yes to all of these things, it just struck me that president xi said yes to a couple of important things and that is the first time i've heard any senior official, much less the president, say yes. that is why i'm raising this anecdote. >> right. we know they could be -- that leaders in china could be charming and gracious in meetings but you're asking them to do in 90 days what has not been accomplished over the last two decades of asking. and the chinese have played rope-a-dope. and they delay in hope that the administration will come and go and then continue to subsidize on enterprise and do demand to get into the chinese market and t

mr. reagan, mr. goes, tear down this wall. now we are trying to build a wall.son we're building a wall, we don't want people not white coming across the southern border. that's what this is about. >> maybe sex he was losing the pr war, the they went on tv last fight after defending after a brutal day politically. almost him he has blanketed the airways non-stomt here is some of the show they put on. >> if democrats don't want the government to shut down, support border security. >> that simple. >> reporter: this is something the president has been clear on since day one. we need the democrats to come on board. if the democrats continue to put politics over country. politics over the safety of the american people, they're going to -- they'll ends up losing, they'll play a political price there i do think the democrats will own this. this lab second schumer shutdown. this president had compromised. democrats haven't taken one step towards the president. >> it's a sad day in america when the mexican government is doing more to protect the american people than sena

mrs. reagan's tombs are very much front and center. >> right there. >> and this will not be that way. what's much more front and center is the bush school which is much more of a living legacy. the burial ground is sort of behind the library and the school, behind a pond, and very peace. if it's almost kind of woodsy. it's open to the public, not right now obviously, but it's -- it's just very quiet, like had a little forest almost, and as i was saying don rhodes' ashes are there and mrs. bush and robin's and i was thinking about the final resting place and where he'll live on, i was also thinking of the uss "gueorge h.. bush" and when they attached the watch tower, before they attached it president bush put his navy likes and had a plaque that said cabu, ceiling and visibility unlimited and then the watch tower was loaded on top of it forever, so to me it shows that his spirit is there hand will travel all over the world doing good. when the ship got commissioned, they called it the largest instrument of diplomacy in the world, and -- and the sailors regularly get off in ports and ge

reagan right out of the blocks wanted to tackle social security reform. and mr. baker said mr. reagan that's the third rail of american politics. you touch it and you're electrocuted. >> there would be no rufrlgs with baker. the same true for trump. he needs somebody -- most presidents come in offers thinking they are the martest guy in the room. almost all of them get over it. donald trump has yet to get over that. and he needs to learn that there is a difference between campaigning and governing. >> will the issue of loyalty -- it's so important to donald trump. but i wonder if it's important to all presidents. but donald trump seems to place that higher than most other qualifications. and that's difficult because there are 330 million people. there is a good chief of staff out there for the president but he or she has to pass a difficult test, am i your first priority always? some of the chiefs of the staff think the country is the first priority. >> yeah, and loyalty should not be the prerequisite. . it's more important to have somebody grounded, who has been around the bloc

bush the letter to president-elect and mrs. reagan written november 10th, 1980.ou are vice president-elect. >> this will be all right for me, i think. >> this is just a quick thank you. thanks for making us feel so welcome. thanks for the joy of working with you. thanks for those little touches of grace and humor and affection that make life sing. please let us know that we both want to help in every way possible. i will never do anything to embarrass you politically. i have strong views on issues and people, but once you decide a matter, that's it for me, and you'll see no leaks in evans and novak bitching about life. at least you'll see none out of me. and he didn't. >> well, there you go. in the days to come, mary-kate, as the nation mourns and the leaders gather together, it's going to put a new focus on the values of president george h.w. bush, the service, the family, his service to country, his honor. that's what we need to focus on right now. >> boy, isn't that the truth? the values that he lived are in short supply these days. and like you said, i talk t

mr. meacham: i would like to close, if i may, by giving ronald reagan the last word. which is always safe. mr. obama: well, in this crowd anyway. mr. meacham: not far from here in secretary baker's office, there is a picture of that chief of staff -- secretary of treasury of the time, baker, sitting next to reagan. the picture was taken by david hume kennerly, the great political photographer in 1987. reagan looks a little puzzled and in reagan's wonderful handwriting, these fiction reads -- the inscription follows -- "dear jim, i look like i am lost, but not worried. you will straighten it out like you always do. ronald reagan." i think i speak for all of us when i think secretary baker and president obama, because they have strayed out a hell of a lot for us. thank you. mr. obama: thank you, very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [applause] >> coming up on c-span, a look at women in the workpl

mr. reagan would go, oh, sam, but it wasn't the same as it is with trump who sounds more e grieved. reagan sort of took it in strive. he understood what the game was that journalists were going to shout at him and they were going to try to get him to say something and in all likelihood take it out of context which is what we do for a living. we presented the entire context we'd be on 24 hours a day. i guess some of us are, actually, but not as individuals and so it's an interesting practice over the years. i could only cover four presidents including clinton and bush 43, and of course, you know, clinton had his problems and his detractors. they all do. someone is always needling and some take it better than others. trump, it should be pointed out, is not just a real estate developer, a former real estate developer, but a new york real estate developer where hyperbole and exaggeration are tools of the trade. he's certainly taken that into the white house, and i don't think he can stop himself, but on the other hand, he is at the center of the news, as a friend of mine said on the air

mr. johnson: reagan said that. huckabee was running for governor of arkansas. it was one of my animating principles. there was a hostile leftist media attacking him and they said you are too conservative and they said you are a southern baptist. he said i'm more narrowminded than that. i'm not sure the southern baptists are getting there. he said i'm a conservative but i'm not mad at anybody about that. that is how you do things. i'm not mad at anybody about this. i am a conservative because i know and believe our core principles are best for our country. i'm going to try and presented in every scenario, even when i'm with nancy. so we can convince the broader audience that our side is right. mr. brooks: over to the audience. you have to wait for the microphone so our friends on tv can hear you. i will start with you, the gentleman right here. the next question after that is right next to you. good evening. oriented look at the next congress, the rnc has always had an open door to coalitions, trade groups, professional societies, whether it is big-ticket items

ambassador to the united nations head of the cia and vice president under president ronald reagan mrbush also lived longer than any president in american history yes he did the most breathing of any other president a true hero of people everywhere who are alive and now he's gone at the young age of ninety four however as a not at all serious journalist i'm not afraid to criticize dead presidents because it's daylight and they're ghosts can taunt me the brutality of dictators have not been an issue when saddam hussein killed thirteen thousand of his own people and one hundred fifty thousand iranians none of that was a problem for us even knew hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history and still gave him a hand then iraq and axed great thinking that the u.s. would look the other way so the us needed a new story of brutality to mobilize the country and our allies against iraq a young kuwaiti girl testified in the rational human rights caucus the record coming to the hospital with guns. there's. going to be children to die in the cold war hero was in the query ro

the 16 minute interview comes to us courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library. >>> mr. vice president, at the time you are the youngest naval aviator in world war ii. how did you come to join the navy? >> i signed up on my 18th birthday as a seaman second- class. i waited until i graduated from boarding school until i was 18. sworn in, i was determined to become a pilot. right about that time they change the regulations so you could get without going through college. having had two years of college. i guess our country have been bombed, six months before, pearl harbor took place. december 7, 1941. so when jenna 42 rolled around and i became 18 everybody in this country wanted to go out and fight for freedom and fight against the imperialists and fight against the . so it wasn't a hard decision. it was one that i took earlier some others in my class for example. >> why aviator? why flying? >> i don't know i think the excitement of it. i have been intrigued by airplanes i have never flown one. there was a certain glamour and excitement to it. i had always had great respec

unifying germany when most of europe, as the soviet union fell and the berlin wall fell after reagan's famous, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, the wall doesn't actually come down at that moment. it came down during the bush administration as they led germany t out of that and then into unification even though most of europe did not want a unified germany, remembering still what a unified germany did during world i war ii. he led through that. he led as president for americans to start thinking about other americans in a new way. to stop the s saying so much tht the government should provide every issue, though the government has a role, but he pushed back onet something he called the thousand points of light. and challenged americans to take care of their north neighbors ad their neighborhoods and for us to not look towards washington, d.c.d. to solve each problem, bt for nonprofits and communities and churches and the engagement neighbor to neighbor to be able to turn around a nation. it's a remarkable calling for us to be able to be called to each other. in 1992 he lost his bid for re-elect

mr. reagan said mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall?ow come now all these republicans want a wall so bad. 76% of the people here illegally came by plane. they did not come over the border. these people are lunatics. exchangeterday's prompted a response from the house minority leader nancy quoted on abcs news saying it is like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. a piece in the washington post takes a larger look at nancy pelosi and the exchange that took place yesterday. office powerplay serves as a message, stands to help pelosi settle a nagging internal dispute over her own leadership. she has been nominated by her party to become the next done theshe has not votes she needs to reclaim the gavel. the oval office skirmish came as her internal critics have largely gone quiet, negotiating behind the scenes over an accommodation that could meet -- give her the votes she needs while winning progress toward their own goal of accelerating a generational turnover. under siege from key party constituencies

>> ronald reagan went into the study of communism with an open mind and it was not determined by his ideology, as i suspect mr. slessinger's was misguided by his own ideology. with ronald reagan, most people don't realize, ronald reagan was a voracious reader. he liked to study. he had studied the founding. he was well-versed in the constitution. he was well-versed in the bible. he had an enormous repertoire of information he used. that is why the discussion was given this morning about his speech writing. before he would do anything else, before the speech writers would get working, he would give the concept of the speech. he edited based upon all the things he knew. one of the things he knew was communism. because in the 1940's when he was president of the screen actors guild, as he called it, his union, the communist party usa was trying to take over the movie industry. they wanted to use it for propaganda. they were infiltrating the various unions. the cameramen's union, the grips union. they tried to also take over the screen actors guild. ronald reagan literally let all -- led all of those unions in def

mr. bush led a life of public service, as a world war ii pilot, the cia, congressman, and vice president under ronald reaganis inauguration, mr. bush spoke of new beginnings as the cold war was start to wind down. >> a new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. >> reporter: in 2011, president obama presented mr. bush with the medal of freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. as he is laid to rest, his life and legacy will once again be celebrated. >> president trump has declared a national day of mourning for wednesday, december 5th. mr. bush will lie in state at the capital rotunda starting monday evening, and continuing until wednesday night. we will have much more on the death of the 41st president and how he touched the bay area in his first few months in office. we'll have a look back at his trip to silicon valley at his coming up at 6:00. >>> well, the bad air from the camp fire postponed the cal and stanford game 2 weeks ago, and today they got to play before a special audience. andrea nacana wa

mr. president, reagan, you cannot do that. now, who was talking to him?he attorney general of the united states in whom he was well-pleased. he wasn't a campaign manager. bill smith was a very distinguished senior lawyer at my law firm at the time. he was an original member of the fabled kitchen cabinet. but when bill smith told, and he never called him ronnie once he was elected. but once he told the president you cannot do this and the specific issue was legislative veto which had been embraced. very important debate. can the legislature overcome or overturn regulation? anyway, without getting into the specifics the attorney general , said mr. president that is unconstitutional. here is an opinion from the office of legal counsel authored by ted olson. great lawyer. you know him or heard of him. and then this our view it's our constitutional. the president accepted it. guess what happened? your successer and certainly his name is escaping me. but my friend from stanford having a moment here goes absolutely bonkers. the senior domestic policy adviser to

mr. bush promised a continuation of t reagan years, his speech sought to link that prosperity with se." > means teaching troubled children through your present that there's no such, that there's such a thing as reliable love. meould say it's soft and insufficiently tough to care about these things. but where is it written thate must act as if we do not care, as if we are not moved? well, i am moved. i want a kinder, and gentler nation. >> woodruff: but that speech would be most remembered for another, fateful line... >> my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. but i will. and the congress will push me to raise taxes, and i'll say "no," and they'll push, and i'll say "no," and they'll push again, ani'll say, to them, "read my lips: no new taxes." >> woodruff: mr. bush went on to win easily in er... but but two years later, were new taxes, as part of a 1990 budget deal. in 2004,e ruefully recalled that broken promise in another interview with jim l >> i remember saying no taxes and then having had to in my view make a compromise to l spending and taxes, and that's just i remember that from

i think it was great that president reagan stood at the wall and said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall but didn't say, stand on the wall after it was torn down and gloat about it. if you think back to his childhood to president bush, george herbert walker bush's childhood and his upbringing and playing sports and little league and when they would win a game, his mother would say, well, george, did you congratulate the other team and say, you know, you played well and made sure that she taught him to always reach out to the other guy and congratulate the other guy, win or lose. and i kind of felt it was never spoken but i kind of felt it in my heart. i can hear him thinking about his mother and saying, you know, you know, yeah, we won the cold war, but we don't need to go and brag about it. we don't need to go stand on the wall and stick our thumb in somebody's eye. i kind of see that as the character of the man and i think all the years that i spent with him, i really had a real opportunity to watch that part of his personality and i was fortunate, you kn

bush and mrs. reagan, you know were, cordial with each other but never close.nterestingly enough they were both graduates of smith college but that never brought them together. that is just the reality of politics is that, you know, there is true, you know, friendships and more like working relationships. theirs was a very good working relationship. he was a very, very good vice president for ronald reagan. emily: craig, you ran the public affairs campaign supporting president bush in operation dessert storm. tell us about the restraint he exercised after securing kuwait. >> though were those that called for him to move on to baghdad. but at that time there was no authority for that from nato. >> that's right. >> he honored that share with the viewers your experience there. >> well, you bring back a lot of memories here. he believed in consensus. he wanted to get the world's consensus. he wasn't going to act unilaterally to oust kuwait even though by all rights he could have. he got the u.n. charter. he got many of these nations in the world as possible to supp

reagan. and at the time, sam donaldson was sort of the jim acosta of that. and was known for shouting out mr. president, mr. president and reagan would just come go, oh, sam. [ laughter ] but it wasn't the same as it is with trump sounds more aggrieved. reagan just sort of took it in stride, he understood with the game was. the journalists were going to shout at him they were going to try to get him to say something and then in all likelihood take it out of context which is what we do for living. when put in the context we would be on 24 hours a day. >> i guess some of us already are. but not as individuals. >> so it's an interesting practice over the years, i currently have only covered four presidents including clinton and bush 43 and of course clinton had his problems and his detractors. they all do. i mean somebody is always, you know needling. and some presidents take it better than others. trump, it should be pointed out is just not a real estate developer a former real estate developer but a new york developer. where hyperbole and exaggeration are tools of the trade. he certainly has

. >> although -- and if you remember when nancy reagan died, mrs. obama went, but president obama didn't. so i'm willing to give him a pass on that one. but i think that it's the small club of presidents that i think it's important. >> we have a picture from the time that i believe the last time all living presidents were together was in president obama's first year in office. >> that was right before. that was between the election and the inauguration. it was the transition period and george w. bush thought it would be a good idea to have the former presidents together. they had lunch in the dining room outside the oval office and had a really great visit. >> it looks like they did. my gosh, what a warm photo. >> that was a great transition. >> it strikes me, looking at this, too, how much bush 41 reveled at being president more than a political figure. that he had the relationships. he was a capable, experienced person on the world stage, valued the relationships that he had, really, around the globe were probably stronger than they were on capito

reagan died in 2004. this year his presidential library found a way to bring him back to life. here's a look. >> hello, mresident. >> hello. chris: ronald reagan greets visitors to his library, at least a three dimensional hologram of the president does, using remarks he made on a train tour during the 1984 campaign. >> we see america's best days ahead. chris: in the oval office. >> you don't just give speeches in the oval office, you also say prayers. chris: and at his california ranch. >> it truly is america the beautiful. chris: it took 18 months for a visual effects studio to bring the giffer back to life, using computer generated imagery, a silicon cast of reagan's head was photographed at various an gets. hiangles. his head was digitally placed on the body of an actor playing the president. >> we've got to do a better job of getting acros across that ama is freedom. chris: the exhibit is the first of its kind in a presidential library. >> we think we've made a good beginning but you ain't seen nothing yet. [ cheering and applause ] chris: and come see it because it is pretty cool. before we go, a sp

president reagan died in 2004, but this year's presidential library has found a way to bring him back to life. here's a look. >> hello, mro. >> chris: ronald reagan now greets visitors to his library, or at least a three dimensional hologram of the president dies using remarks he made on a whistle stop train tour during the 1984 campaign. >> we see america's best days ahead. >> chris: in the oval office. >> you don't just give speeches in the oval office, you also say prayers. it truly is america the beautiful. >> chris: it took 18 months for visual effect studio to bring him back to life. computer-generated imagery, a silicone cast was photographed by 300 cameras at various angles. his head was meant digitally placed on the body of an actor playing the president, complete with costumes and backdrops. >> we've got to do a better job. >> chris: the one and a half million dollar exhibit is the first of its kind in a presidential library. >> you ain't seen nothing yet. >> chris: and come see it, because it is critical. before we go, a special thanks to the reagan library an end the reagan national defense forum for inviting

because you and susan and i all covered reagan, and at the time tim donaldson was sort of the jim acosta of that time, and was known for shouting out, esther president, mr. president. and reagan which is go oh, sam. [laughing] but it wasn't the same as it is with trump who sounds more aggrieved. reagan just took it in strike. he understood what the game was. that generals were going to shout at him, try to get them to say something and that in all likelihood taken out of context, which is what we do for a living. if we present the entire context we would be on 24 hours a day. some of us are i guess. but not as individuals. it's an interesting practice over the years. i have only covered four president including clinton and bush 43, and, of course, clinton had his problems and his detractors. they all do. somebody is always, you know, digging and needling and some presidents take it better than others. i mean trump it should be pointed out is not just a real estate developer, a former real estate developer, but the new york real estate developer where hyperbole and exaggeration are tools of the trade. he certainly has taken that into the white house. i d

mr. bush led a life of public service, as a world war ii pilot, running the cia, as a congressman, and vice president under ronald reagan. at his inauguration, mr. bush spoke of new beginnings as the cold war was starting to wind down. >> a new breeze is blowing, and a nation, refreshed by freedom, stands ready to push on. there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. >> reporter: in 2011, president obama presented mr. bush with the medal of freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. as he is laid to rest, his life and legacy will once again be celebrated. the former president will have two funerals, one here in houston on thursday, but the first on wednesday at the national cathedral in washington, d.c. juliet? >> yeah. courtney, the bush family has been such a huge presence for decades. i can imagine it's very somber there. what is the mood like in houston tonight? >> reporter: like you said, very somber. people have been coming by, dropping off flowers, teddy bears. just saying what a loss this is. he just was seen out in public around here, very charitable. gave people hugs all the time the reall

mr. baker, yourampaign chairman, says that ronald reagan is the front runner in the republican stakes at mome. if it's important to get a republican elected last year, why don't you just throw your lot with him and help t nominated? >> because i think i'd be a better president. i've had more experience in business, more experience in the federal legislature, more experience in foreign affairs and i have a deep conviction about our country and i want to be the president. >> woodruff: mr. bush lost the early lead he had in that tough nomination race after showing open and infamous disdain for what soon be called "reaganomics." >> he's promising to cut taxes by 30% and balance the budget and increase defense spending and stop inflation all at the same time. it just isn't going to work, what i call a "voodoo economic policy." >> woodruff: but reagan made george bushis number-two, outraging the party's conservative wing. later that yr, the ticket won in a historic landslide over president jimmy caer and walter mondale. two months after they took office vice president bush was nearly thrust in

to be held gorbachev in the aftermath of glasnost and perestroika in the aftermath of ronald reagan saying mr gorbachev tear down this wall because what really happened was there was a coup boris yeltsin ended up in the top job as the russian president there were tanks on the streets of moscow literally one thousand nine hundred one one thousand nine hundred two and the aftermath of one nine hundred eighty nine in the events surrounding eastern europe and then the only guy moved in and they divvy it up they divided up russian industry for themselves so that the russian economy the problems of the russian economy you can surely lay that at the door of george bush sr. well there would the comic advisors from the us well actually did their best to convince the government to have foster liberalization of the economy and for the saudi and economy it was a disaster because it simply fell like a house of cards and people have to deal with the consequences debt was the problem because now people say that we should have followed the chinese example with griddled reforms and gradually first of all grad

mr. bush cen the race to succeed president reagan by a landslide, steering the ship of state as the berlinl came down, the soviet union dissolved, and the first gulf war broke out, only to be defeated in 1992 by a democratic governor from arkansas who tapped into the nation's growing economic anxiety. president clinton told "60 minutes" that the two developed a bond anyway. y it's been one of the great joys of my life, my friendship with him. our arguments were good-natured and open. and we continued to debate things all the way up until recently. >> reporter: this afternoon, members of the public began lining up outside the capitol to bid farewell to the man who famously called for a kinder, gentler nation. president trump, who has clashed with several members of the bush family, did not attend this evening's ceremony here at the u.s. capitol. but, jeff, he is expected to go to the national cathedral on wednesday for a memorial service for mr. bush. >> glor: okay, nancy. thank you very much. joining us now in our washington studio are bob schieffer and major garrett. bob, i was moved earl

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railroad railroad brought him in -- ronald reagan said i brought him here and president bush didn't have a response to that. i paid for this microphone, it was mr david broder turned to me and said this race is over. i will always remember that. >> did you know that in the minute? >> yes, of course. reagan said, i paid for that microphone, mr. green but the guy's name was breen. we knew it was over at that point, you bet. >> all right. secretary baker, it's always a pleasure to see you. i've got to talk to you twice in the last few days. i feel privileged. >> it's always a pleasure. >> good luck to you on thursday. it's not easy. >> not when you have been a close friend for 60 years. >> that's something else. >> i'm across all sides but it's been a great pleasure for me to get to know jim as well as i have. we differ about a lot of stuff but it's always, you know, it's always sensible and reasonable. but he has the best kind of i think cadence for public service that i have ever seen. >> i appreciate it how often he trusts your huntsing skills to me after he goes down with you every time. i'm sure he tells you otherwise, just so you know. tom b

mr. bush won the race to succeed president reagan by a land slide.e ship of state as the berlin wall came down, the soviet union dissolved, and the first gulf war broke out, only to be defeated in 1992 by a democratic governor from arkansas who tapped into the nation's growing economic anxiety. president clinton told "60 minutes" that the two developed a bond anyway. >> it's been one of the great joys of my life, my friendship with him. our arguments were good natured and open, and we continued to >> reporter: this afternoon, members of the public began lining up outside the capital to bid farewell to the man who famously called for a kinder, gentler nation. >>> president trump who has clashed with several members of the bush family, did not attend this evening's ceremony here at the u.s. capitol. but he is expected to go to the national cathedral on wednesday for a memorial service for mr. bush. >> jeff glor discussed the passing of mr. bush with the cbs chief white house correspondent major garrett and the long-time host of "face the nation," bob s

reagan. this is one hour. brian: mr.remember the first time you ever thought about being president of the united states? pres. bush: brian, i can't think i honestly can't. -- can. i remember when i started thinking seriously about it. i left the center of intelligence. jimmy carter was elected president. i went back to texas. somewhere in there after that i began to be serious about it. i didn't, i didn't make any permanent business connection or permanent university connection. i did a little teaching, a couple of boards of directors of business, but it was in there i