it was all about ronald reagan.her life for 55 years until his death. her interest -- i think you were going to bring this up, susan -- in stem cell research even when it wasn't a popular thing in the republican party was about the connection to lz alzheimer's. she had friends with children with juvenile diabetes and it was believed and scientists argued that we need to do much more with stem cell research than united states had been doing. she lobbied president george bush, george w. bush, in the early 2000s when this was an issue. again, went against the party, she called members of congress. she was a tiers advocate. she made speeches for it. you could trace, i think, almost everything she's done since then to something that either has to do with what her husband did or alzheimer's. >> in terms of party politics in 1996 she gave a speech to the republican convention in san diego, fast forward to 2008 she got involved in the kaine presidential effort by endorsing him. when she she chosen to be involved with republ

that was the coming out speech for ronald reagan. and all of those forces, those disparate forces came together while he was still on the governors. office and they jailed, more are, less and that year after, so that in 1976 when gerald ford was running for election, ronald reagan popped on the public consciousness as a very, appealing conservative potential challenger for gerald fareed. >> well, remember he already ran in 1968 for president. i have a story about nancy in the oral yeast presidential conversation. maureen reagan is writing her dad, letters and they communicated. they wrote all these letters back and forth, and she's trying to encourage him to run for governor. and she says she doesn't really know how far down the road he is with this political, thing because she says you could be governor. he writes, back well if we want to talk about what i, could be i could be president. this is 1960, five he hasn't run for anything. so they're gonna do an intervention, and nancy is on the side of the stepdaughter, they both are tel

we wouldn't have ronald ragan and nixon, i don't think we would have nixon either. plenty of speakers at the hospital going on to become president. the electoral college, everybody gets to vote and again, the big states and small states, small states are worried the big states will always elect the president so they swayed their concern, the deal was made that you could only cast one vote. one of the two was from your own state, the other had to be cast by somebody from another state which would give small states a better chance but then they started worrying and you all play this kind of game, you want that one vote for your own guy, your own state to be important. you throw away the second boat. they invented the vice presidency. the idea was the person with the second-highest vote would become vice president and that seems like a good idea but then they thought, what was he going to do? [laughter] it's interesting to see how this buildup, they decided he needed a job and they would make him president of the senate. there were two delegates who were so worried abo

next from real america, an all-star party for ronald dutch reagan, hosted by frank sinatra. ♪ >> welcomeo our all-star party for dutch reagan. speaking for variety club, bonnie hall. ♪ >> thank you very much and welcome to our 35th annual all-star party. please join me in welcoming a lady we love. who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. this is dutch reagan. ♪ and now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. a very special friend close to our hearts. mr. dutch reagan. ♪ >> hello. >> nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brother's keeper, frances albert sinatra. ♪ >> you may be seated. i'm delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. the first lady of the united states and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. you've already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. and emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella i've ever known in my life and my buddy, mr

c-span: here is more of ronald reagan actually speaking. ..applause] he is declaring victory talking about this is a platform a lot of great gorilla flight the on - - gorilla fighting and in fact when he says this is truly a platform gender language would not be acceptable say he is referring to the speech at the 1975 cpac that says we need party not of the democrats so it's him saying to his supporters you can say you have one but we have one the future that the other being here is him reaching out to democrats in the first we are familiar with the phrase reagan democrats that the working-class voters who were alienated within the civil rights movement and feminist movement to be pulled into the republican tent was another of his geniuses. and the fact that he seizes the moment to strike a new vision of the republican party for the future and that this shows. >> really had one other father-son president john adams and john quincy adams nearly quarter of a century , 24 years between the presidency of those two men. john adams is in the last 16

that ronald reagan used to tap. and the key is, as you'll see, ronald reagan was effectively telling the story on himself. it related to a time in his career when he didn't know sort what he was doing or where he was going. as you will know of ronald reagan, he had two careers primarily. he was a film actor. and then he became a politician. but there was an interregnum. a period between the time basically after he stopped getting calls from hollywood producers. he couldn't get any good roles. between when his career ended and his political career. film career and political career began. and he had, well, a rather unusual position. in fact, it was a job that was invented for him by the general electric corporation. general electric was at the time the behemoth of the american economy. and reagan was their spokesman. he was a television host for the ge theater. and the ge theater was, well, an experiment in television. this is in the 1950s. and nobody knows quite what to do with tv. so, they think, what you do with th

visit ncicap.org] >> in june of 1985, president ronald reagan talked in the oval office with reader'son with him. this sunday, watch both these interviews on the presidency. here's a preview. >> commentators and some former presidents have talked of the loneliness of the presidency. yet you seem to approach the job with great relish. do you find it lonely or burdensome? how would you describe it? >> no, i don't. peopleunded myself with i have confidence in, that i believe in. here allthink i sit alone and decide everything by myself. as i say, i want to hear everybody's viewpoint. and i do not give any indication of where eileen while i hear those viewpoints -- where i lean while i hear those viewpoints. i've had people in my cabinet who are cabinet officers under other presidents and tell me they have never been in cabinet meetings that were as fruitful before. evidently, a lot of presidents simply use their cabinet as a periodically,meet and different members would report what their department's were doing. the word i have gotten from these is that they never found, or were in cabin

we are proud to announce the ronald reagan weighing which will be dedicated in your honor, right hereversity of nebraska medical center in omaha. now, ladies and gentlemen, i give you, our friend, dutch. >> well. it is good to be dutch again, and it's wonderful to be surrounded by so many fine and talented friends. to paraphrase jack kennedy, there has not been so much talent assembled in one room since the last time that monte hall hosted let's make a deal. seriously, nancy and i have watched these parties over the years, and we are thrilled to be a part of the good work at the righty clubs international. i something lucy said last, year it's the way i feel right now. let's hope i can quote her accurately. to those of you who said such nice things about me tonight, i just wish you were all under of. i wish you were all members of congress. you know, when i first started my present job, i sometimes put together in my mind i own dream can. you know, john wayne a secretary of state. clint eastwood at the fence, jack benny as secretary of treasury, gaucho marks at education. but even pre

susan: let's listen to ronald reagan in his press inauguration address in 1981.nd hear how he described his goals. >> our government has no power except what is granted by the people. it is time to check the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. it is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal government and recognize the distinction of powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. [applause] susan: john burtka, how did ronald reagan govern versus his ideals when he got into office? mr. burtka: well, i think that he found out it is a lot harder to scale back the federal bureaucracy in washington than he may have thought. i do not think he was naive against the monumental challenge he was up against. he certainly cut taxes and used deregulation and other things to free and unleash the economy in a way that i think was quite successful. but i think in terms of taking a look at the federal government, the bureaucratic apparatus, and really making meani

and each one of those groups saw in ronald reagan a way of achieving their goal. and that is why he won. and when candidates now say, we are going to put the social issues or the moral issues in the deep freeze or on the back burner, they are making a terrible mistake because they are kicking away larger blocks of voters who are important to their victory. profamilyeel that the movement has played a tremendous role and there are so many people who came into the republican party through these social and moral issues. many otherust -- so issues they care about. we got into the issue of marriage which is another social issue. and i'm sure that this part of the conservative movement was very influential in passing about 30 constitutional amendments in support of traditional marriage. and passing the defense of marriage act like congress, a wonderful law that obama is not enforcing. you know, one of the principal duties of the president is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. he is not faithfully executing doma. now's since have then been in many other issues.

. >> you have an image like ronald reagan how do you describe donald trump? >> he comes from a little different cultural and social position that i have great respect for that. i think they are all unique based on our upbringing and background and experiences and family he's a very unique individual i had the privilege of sitting in his office on a lot of occasions the villages walk in and talk to him or he would take a phone call i cannot believe he would just let me sit there to have a birds eye view how he operated. but i got quite an education on what it was like to be in the real estate industry in manhattan just listening to him talk and be who he was. i do think he is a happy warrior and believes in the country, is a patriot, thinks the best is yet to come. he very much believes the things other people think don't happen can't happen and he dreams big and ask big. he is a counterpunch or. everybody knows that he looks for the best and believes the best. i have to say that i talk about this in the book that even though i didn't have a high opinion of hi

i quote ronald reagan in his address to the national association of evangelicals in 1983, he said you don't get to check out a citizenship and say both sides are flawed. you got to choose a side and he was talking about communism versus capitalism and it applies in our own context in the third thing we are called to do is resist evil and i believe abortion on demand is a moral evil and trump is offering to resist that. that is the argument. that is the christian case. not that he is perfect, none of us are perfect, not that he is without sin because all of us sin but on these aspects of a true understanding of citizenship, he is someone that we can work with, who offered to defend these things and advance the common good. >> host: as a long time political strategist and activist and insider do you see this president is suffering more slings and arrows than previous occupants of the white house? >> guest: it seems to come with the office. if you study and read american history as i have and you read the things that were said about thomas jefferson that he was an infotel and an agent of

from ronald reagan as richard norton smith suggested. a lot of work during the primary when president ford had the nomination, a hard-fought campaign against jimmy carter, the governor of georgia. and by the time election night came and the fords had lost, president ford had lost his speech. he asked the first lady to give his concession speech. we'll watch a little bit of that now. >> the president asked me to tell you that he telephoned president elect carter a short time ago and congratulated him on his victory. the president also wants to thank all of those thousands of people who worked so hard on his behalf and the millions who supported him with their votes. it's been the great honor of my husband's life to have served his fellow americans during two of the most difficult years in our history.the president urges

and i got really excited about ronald reagan and went out and worked my tail off for him and i was a reaganite and that was the beginning and i never really looked back. >> you have an image, as does ronald reagan, as kind of a happy warrior. would you describe donald trump in that way? >> yeah, i would say yes, with a heavy dollop of queens, new york. you know, he's coming from a little bit of a different social and cultural location than i am. and i have great respect for that. i think, i think we're all unique based on our upbringing, our experiences, our background, our family and he's a very unique individual. i had the privilege of sitting in his office on a lot of occasions and every now and again, you know, people would just walk in and talk to him or he'd take a phone call and i couldn't really believe that he would let me just sit there and have a bird's eye view to how he operated, but let me tell you, i got quite an education on what it was like to be in the real estate industry in manhattan just listening to him talk and be who he was, but i do think he's a happy warrior

i met ronald reagan as a newly minted 18-year-old.e herbert walker bush administration when i was just 29. i once had a seven-hour dinner with fidel castro at his house. i got to bring the former pakistani president to vote with me at my suburban philadelphia polling place. i confronted the members of the led zeppelin band with a demand they reunite. you can watch ittan you tube. i didn't go well. i worked for arlen specter. i drank champagne from the stanley cup and even had my portrait painted at a fund-raiser in front of a live audience by named artist nelson shanks. i twice better viewed president barack obama from the white house. if first was august 20, 2009. >> i'm live at the white house and i'm joined by the president of the united states. mr. president, what an honor for me. thank you, sir, for this privilege, and thank you for coming back to my radio program. >> michael, it is great to be on the show again. every time we have been on, it has been a great time. i appreciate the opportunity. >> so many great memories. many in

both videos are courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library. eastern, 1958 mccall's magazine interview with eleanor roosevelt through family photographs and telling the stories kind them. if you need a transcript, we are happy to provide one. william: i will need that. i am sure. [indiscernible] our editor-in-chief thought it might be more effective one-on-one. i remember an interview once i had -- have you ever seen their headquarters? it is kind of a beautiful country home, spacious lawns. william: it is indeed. president captivated our founder for four and a half hours and then had to leave to make a speech. it was a wonderful lunch. would like to do here, sir, is ask you some questions so that our readers have a better idea of president reagan, the man. i would like to start off by asking what has surprised you the most pleasantly and unpleasantly about being inside the government you have for so long observed from the outside? all. reagan: well, first of , one surprise, pleasant or how little i was surprised. years ashe eight governor of c

i think one of the questions i wrestled with, you knew this so well, how many times did you hear ronald reagan got together and solve social security. you hear it all the time, there is a breeze at starbucks and tells a story pre-there's a story about the towering people, not supposedly, it is this, to tiring representatives with two visions of government that got together and worked in a bipartisan fashion to keep social security around for a much longer time. that is true but the structure in which that took place was a structure in which there was a lot of conservative democrats who would work with ronald reagan and help them get reelected in the district, when he won he won 1980 with 144 democrats, and reagan also carry, what did the democrats do that they voted in the district that really liked ronald reagan. and there were 14 democratic districts who voted for donald trump and those not working with donald trump. unless you have a structure of a congress who has two work with the president of the opposite party, you are not going to have the fairytale story of leaders of the party

host: ok, ronald.n interesting one we like to share is our country invests a lot of money in health care and treating people after they become ill. $3.6 trillion. what people don't realize is only 3% of that is actually invested in public health. the very prevention activities that keep people from getting sick in the first place, that's -- that keeps them healthy. this is what our state and local and this gentleman is absolutely correct. we need to reinvest in our public health infrastructure, we need to do it now to ensure we can come through this. but also be ready for the next time. we need to do it because it will save us money in the long term. for every dollar of prevention , we will save far more dollars from people getting sick in the long term. host: the administration is -- has termed the development of vaccine and the distribution of the vaccine when it becomes available as operation warp speed. has your organization been informed about how the vaccine might be distributed and administered

ronald: first of all, thanks for having me.are taking a turn i did not expect, but not one i have not spoken to quite a bit over the last several months. first of all, the more important journey is not about which statues we replace what with. the baker journey is what is in our hearts and will we get to the systemic matters that have part, theor the most overwhelming majority of blacks and latinos and poor people in this country's to be locked out of the economic system? iile you mentioned that graduated from john reagan high schools, a school named for a confederate general, my concern is if we spend more attention on taking down the names of the statues, we do not address the systemic problem we have in some of our police communities over the fair treatment of blacks and poor people, if we do not address those underlying factors that hold people of color back economically, we will have only declaredw drapes and victory and move forward. i am much more interested in attacking the core issues that ,ave plagued this country whe

the ronald reagan presidential library provided this video. y: mr. president, can you recall your feelings when you took the oath of office for the first time? pres. reagan: it won't be

ronald reagan has his style, george bush had his. the presentation of intelligence to the president has to take that into account. what i am talking about here is not, does the president read lengthy briefing papers, does he get it via movies and that sort of thing. the question is whether he gets it at all. i think he is uninterested in learning. i think the facts that are inconvenient for him often do not stick despite repeated tellings. can he say that he was never briefed on its or he thinks it is fake and get away with it? we will see, maybe he will, but this is a serious problem for the united states. you can say what you want about joe biden in policy terms. i think he receives, processes, and retains information. i think with trump it is much more questionable. jonathan: something that is questionable for a lot of people listening and watching is what you chose to put in the book and what you choose not to talk about. on russia, no comment. but when it comes to leading on leaderaning on a foreign for help in an election, you

. >> so compare ronald reagan with donald trump. go back to thinking of the times when reagan was in the white house. but trump seems like it's mma gloves off. so what do you think of that quick. >> i haven't thought of it quite that way. i think that reagan had a remarkable sense of the role of the nice guy he had that instinctive belief. what the president should be like. and a good friend of mine just before he was sworn in had a very bold idea. that would have shaken the system up radically reagan turned and said paul that's a very interesting idea. but i wear the white hat. how somebody wears a black cat do something like that. so he had a sense of his limitations. but then reagan was almost always but where the real mistake that there was softness because actually he is very tough. that reagan really began moving to the right after the screen actors guild and 47 and also speaking as an anti-communist increasingly because of nancy's father with taxes and other issues. and then to always go by train. so reagan and it being very

you go back to jimmy carter with ronald reagan and gerald forward with jimmy carter. he hopes he will break on september 29. >> how are the negotiations with the commission on presidential debates? is the president committed to show up to all three debates? gov. christie: the president would like more debates. remember something, a lot of people are going to start voting before september 29. and there will not be one presidential debate before then to me seems ridiculous. we need to move them up or add additional debates between the president and vice president giving the phenomenon of early voting that occurs in many states. you will see the president and i'm sure he would love to have more of them. >> is that in discussion right now? is there a chance of that happening? e c.p.d. is pretty firm with its plan with three presidential and one vice presidential. >> that is up to the folks to do that. i'm a bystander. those are my views of what i know about the president and i think the president would want sooner more debates more than later. no shun -- one should cast a

at 8:00 p.m., on the presidency, ronald reagan, 1983 interview with reader's digest in his 1988 interviewith the bbc's godfrey hodgson. both were conducted from the oval office, with reagan discussing a variety of issues including his hollywood days, the 1983 bombing that killed marines, his vision for u.s.-soviet relations, and the assassination attempt left him wounded. exploring the american story. watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> coming up next, an oral history interview with thomas gaither. he talks about attending flatland college, taking part in the desegregation sit in movement, has worked for the congress of racial equality, and helping to organize the 1961 freedom rides. this interview as part of a project on the civil rights movement initiated by congress in 2009. conducted by this sicilian national museum of african-american history and culture, the american folklife center, and the sev

. >> up next on the presidency ronald reagan gives his first , press conference nine days after taking the oath of office on january 20, 1981. questions about the recently resolved iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath dominated the discussion, that ranged from domestic affairs, to the new administration's foreign policy priorities. president reagan met with the press in the old executive office building which is next door to the white house. this video is courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. pres. reagan: how do you do? i have a brief opening statement here before i take your questions. yesterday, secretary of the treasury, donald regan, sent to the congress a request to raise the debt ceiling to $985 billion. this represents a dramatic jump of $50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. the administration took this action with great regret because it is clear the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. and, for too many years, this process has come too easily for us. we have lived b

nobody treated ronald reagan worse. the "post" requested a comment but he declined.he program, daca, is going to be pending while they weigh whether they're going to try to end the program again. that friday announcement came despite a ruling from the supreme court last night that said the administration's attempt to terminate the program was, in fact, improper. the government has only been processing renewals for those who applied for daca before the administration halted the program in 2017, though, a federal judge in maryland ordered the program fully restored more than ten days ago. more than 60,000 require that, enabling them to legally work here in the united states and to not be deported. all right. let's switch gears and get a first look with your weather with nbc meteorologist janessa webb. good morning to you. >> hey, good morning, yasmin. it was a busy weekend. we've been watching the tropical storms. 've had the first hurricane of 2020 for the atlantic, making landfall across south texas. i want to show you a video right now of corpus chris it is where we

politics and strategy at the university. , their study is the presidency, she's written books on ronald reagan and the foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today, what we are going to do is jump into the meat of the book, we want to give you a little sense in one of the key points and i want you to hear her thoughts, we will have conversation and then will turn to you, i want to mention a couple other times, when i do see for questions you have a number of ways of getting in touch. one is to submit questions in the comment section and also with the youtube chat function and finally at twitter at # btc life. let's begin. this is a book that you have written extensively on the white house, when i like about the book is it's about personality and conflict of important geysers in the presidency and the white house itself. it says a lot about how the institution is grown. my first question, you point out over the period you're talking about starting after fdr, the white house has become a much bigger institution, more staff, more prominent and yet the advisors are younger than cabi

i'd hesitate to give my right honourable friend a history lesson but he'll recall that ronald reagan in his own right. members of northern ireland‘s assembly have debated a motion criticising sinn fein ministers over their attendance at the funeral of senior ira figure bobby storey. the motion drawn up by the dup, uup, alliance, and the sdlp called on deputy first minister michelle o‘neill and finance minister conor murphy to apologise amid claims they broke coronavirus guidelines. critics have suggested social distancing was not maintained in crowds that lined the streets, that dozens of people attended a requiem mass and that ms o‘neill posed for a photograph at milltown cemetery where a man put his arm around her shoulders. michelle o‘neill has already apologised "for grieving families experiencing more hurt" but insisted she did not break the rules. more than 30 in attendance. hundreds more behind them in a procession. widespread advertising of an event. installing a public address system in the cemetery, a mass rally in a cemetery. posing for selfies. and yet, the deputy first m

so i think ronald reagan was right. yoknow, governors still matter. they matter a lot. and we're the onesar whclosest to the problem. what the federal government can do, you know, is to be here to assist. you know, one of things that the public doesn't s or hear is, every week, at least onca week, the vice president gets on the phone with governors. i think we had 47 goveors on the call several days ago. and i think people would be delighted if they could listen in to thatr becauss no partisanship. it is just, "hey, let's just go fix the problem. what do you need? what are you seeing? what are you doing in your state?" about our federal ,t thing is, they are the 50 laboratories of democcy. and i'm on the phone a lot to my fellow governors and sayi, "hey. how are you handling this? how are you handling that?" and those exchange of ideas are just very, very, very positive and very good. >> we've heard you praise roe vice president, the white house virus task force, the cdc. from the federal government, governor? >> look, you never get everything you want in life,ou know?

there she studies presidency she's written books on ronald ragan in foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today what were going to do is jump into the meats of the book we want you to get a little sense of what's in the book part of the key points that i want to hear some of her thoughts will have conversation and then we will turn to you prudhomme mention it now and i'll mention a couple other times when i do come to you for questions there's a number of ways to getting in touch with this one is to submit questions in the comment section and also with youtube chat function and the hash tag live. will look for your questions but let's begin this is a book you've written extensively on the white house. what i like about this book is it's of course about personalities and conflicts of important advisors in the white house it's also a book about the presidency in the white house itself how that institution has grown. my first question is, you point out that over the. you are talking about starting after fdr the white house has become a much bigger institution, more sta

buckley jr., t who hosts program for 33 years, spoke to a newly inauguted ronald reagan, governor of califoia. let's take a look at what he said. >> do you think that 10, 20 years from now, the office of governor will be almost like the office of the lieutenant gove of the provinces in canada? pretty much a rituale? a handshaking office? >> well, they're gonna have a fight with some governors think, with a lot of people. >> governor, conservatives havee long a just like buckley and reagan did there, in favor of the principle of federali, letting states take control. and you even recently said that people turn to their governorscr in times ois. so what, then, is the role, governor, for the federal government in a pandemic? >> well, i think there's some lsons out of this. when we all have a chance to sit back and not worry about what's happening every single day, we can come up with the lessons. but, you know, certainly one that comes to mind is that, you know, we have to invest in public health. at the state level. we have to do at the federal level. ni have not historically done that

so they knew they had voters in their district to really liked ronald reagan. trump one and 14 democratic districts. and those democrats are not working with trump so much of the structure of congress to have incentive to work with the opposite party, you will not have a fairytale story working together. that has nothing to do with donald trump. he was elected because without even sounding that conciliatory tapes. how much does donald trump have to do with any of that? sorry wanted to make sure i didn't lose you. the nsa has control of my computer. so you could imagine all kinds of executive behavior done in the name we have to fix everything. just the same power grab trampling on the prerogative of congress to set the founders into a tailspin in terms of overstepping the powers of the office. essentially to their and. and the democratic candidates to use those tools that have been shown is that can be used. and finally it just depends on congress becoming a different kind of body if the presidency will turn into something else. >> we have some great questions

ford to run for vice president on a ticket headed by ronald reagan.of the republican party's biggest names are urging him to run on a theory it would be the best the party could offer. >> that was nbc's john chancellor 40 years ago tonight. that was night three of the republican national convention inside detroit's joe lewis arena. donald reagan was going to be the nominee for president. that much was known. but who was going to be his running mate. there were several names in the mix including a former president of the united states. but why? why would reagan ever want gerald ford as his vice president? and why would ford want to do it? it makes sense only when you remember that there was real doubt in 1980 about whether reagan could win the presidency. the fear was he was too conservative, too hawkish, too extreme. everyone remembered what happened 60 years earlier to barry goldwater. he didn't even get 40% of the vote. he lost one of the most lop side ed elections ever. would americans actually vote for ronald reagan. that's where the idea of ford

acting director ronald vitello. ronald, great to see you. conversations before and the democrats have fought the president every step much the way. it is all sort of been overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic right now this story is another example what continues to go on down there and why action is needed, correct? >> it is an example. the border can be a dangerous place. i'm grateful to the men and women of the coast guard, cpb, border patrol made this interdiction. you imagine how hard it is to do the job when they do have the support of the president. they face real dangers. they can't stay at homework their job from skype on a computer screen. so i'm grateful to them and the sacrifice they and their families make to keep us all safe. it is example of how important it is for them to be diligent in what they do. jackie: they're like health care workers in a way. first-responders in this particular situation. i'm wondering since the pandemic started have things possibly even escalated at the border? >> the border is a busy place. it al

i think joe biden is very much in the position ronald reagan was in 1980.t was a close race between jimmy cartga and ronald r voters have really decided they didn't want carterack for a second term, but they had doubts or reservations. that one debate ronald reagan put those doub to rest by showing that he was ,nonthreateni didn't want to start world war iii, and was a reasonable person. quite bluntly, that is what joe biden has to do. hein can win by not donald trump. he can win a realg ictory by becisive and effective in a debate. those debates are going to the only time that there is going to be really a major event involving the two candidates all year. we are not going to have the rallies and the bandwagons and the baoons. this is going to be at. joe biden ought to spend three hours every day just preparing an re-preparing and comparing and getting his story down. because that will be the test. amna: david, do you agree with that? the next few months and not going to look like any other last few mons leading up to a general election. do you think those

on the presidency, ronald reagan's 1983 interview with reader's digest, and his 1988 interview with the bbc. both conducted from the oval office with reagan discussing a variety of issues, including his hollywood days, the bombing that killed marines in beirut, lebanon, his vision for the-soviet relations, and assassination attempt that left him seriously wounded. watch american history tv today on c-span3. tv,ext on american history historian and leadership scholar jared peatman looks at lincoln's life and how he used humor to -- humor, optimism, and empathy to handle adversity. lincoln'sabraham intellectual and emotional makeup is well-suited to lead the nation through the crisis of the civil war. >> on behalf of all of us at president lincoln's college, we to welcome you to the program. abraham lincoln is a natural example to turn to in a time of crisis. having led the nation through a crisis that threatened its existence and touched everyone, that is so significant we are feeling its effects today. he is notable for his empathy and accountability and humanity. all of those character

you go back as far as jimmy carter with ronald reagan and gerald ford with jimmy carter. it has been a pattern in a pattern i am sure the president hopes he will be able to break on september 29. >> how are the negotiations with the commission on presidential debates? is the president committed to showing up to all three debates? gov. christie: the president would love to have more debate if they can work out the timing. remember something, a lot of people are going to start voting before september 29. they will not see one presidential debate by then, seems ridiculous. i think we need to move the date up or add additional debates between the president and vice president, given the phenomenon of early voting that occurs in so many states. you will absolutely see the president onstage stage for all three debates. i am sure he would love to have more of them. >> is that in discussion right now? having an earlier debate? is there actually a chance of that happening? usually the c.p.d. is pretty firm with its plan with three presidential and one vice presidential. gov. christ

ronald reagan, of course, had nearly won the republican nomination in '76 and was expected to win the nomination in '80. but george bush hits the ground running and takes iowa and really surprised a lot of people and make it seem as though this is going to be a competitive race. unfortunately for him, at that point, the reagan steamroll begins and he winds up winning the nomination handily. and george bush goes to the republican convention really thinking that was it. he had -- he was going to release his delegates. he had played his part. and reagan actually comes up with a very unusual plan that perhaps he's going to bring back gerald ford and they would be co-presidents, gerald ford take the nomination and essentially handle foreign affairs while reagan handled domestic affairs. and very quickly, it became apparent that was never going to work. so reagan then turned to george bush, the man who had finished second, and offered him the ticket, and george bush took it in a heartbeat. >> and what was her role during the 1980 campaign? >> she was certainly someone who listened to her hu

hear more from these ronald reagan interviews sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. >> you are watching american history tv, covering history c-span style with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures in college classrooms, and visits to museums and historic places, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> the korean war began 70 years ago on june 25, 1950. it ended with an armistice agreement in july of 1953. up next, an oral history with interview with u.s. army veteran baldwin myers, recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. he talked about his time in korea and how the experience shaped his life after the war. eventually, he was diagnosed with ptsd. the interview project was underwritten by south korea's ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. baldwin: i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b as in boy, a-l-d-w-i-n. in the army, i was known by my buddies as baldy. [laughter]

took place was a structure in which there was a lot of conservative democrats who would work with ronald because it helped them get reelected in their district. when he won he won 1980 with 144 democrats who won in districts that reagan also carried, those democrats knew that they had voters in their district who really like to ronald reagan. donald trump won in 2016 and there were 14 democratic districts who voted for donald trump. those working democrats are not working with donald trump. unless you have the structure of congress that has incentives to work with the president of the opposite party, you're not going to have this fairytale story of leaders of both parties working together. that has nothing to do with donald trump. on the other hand, he was elected because they come to a partisan time where you can win is a kind of full throated partisan without even sounding some of the normal conciliatory unifying teams. anyway, this goes to your question, what's abstract and what doesn't and how much does donald trump have to do with any of that? sorry, i want to make sure i didn't los

i'm so grateful you have dedicated to conveying the spirit of ronald reagan and i think in that sensete a real building block of our future that gives us hope that we will continue to Ãb >> thank you so much mr. speaker. take you again for being with us. our best and stay safe there. >> thank you. >> binge watch booktv the summer every saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern settle in and watch several hours of your favorite authors tonight we are featuring new york times best-selling author and journalist malcolm gladwell, author of several books including "talking to strangers " the tipping point, outliers and david and goliath. be sure to watch next saturday, july 25 with future books by presidents donald trump, barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton and george hw bush. binge watch booktv all summer on c-span two. recently msnbc legal and just à Ãincluding her time is one of the special prosecutors on the watergate case. here's a portion of her talk. >> in the first hearing where we were trying to figure out who had handled the tics, who might have been able to explain why they a

he is more like ronald reagan then he is like his father. so he was embraced by the republican party. since then, with the rise of donald trump, george w. bush is essentially an outlier once again. i remember seeing bush quoted at one time, on the issue of immigrants crossing the border without documentation. his comment was, if they are willing to cross the big bend, we want them. and can you imagine a republican saying anything like that today? bush is a president who often said, i'm not going to try to evaluate my performance in office. i will leave that to history. history is going to have an interesting time with this change in reputation within his own party. >> incidentally, perhaps one of the most eloquent writers if you are interested in the subject about reagan and the bushes and how george w. bush is trying to reconcile that, carl cannon wrote a terrific book reflecting on all of that. i will give a little shout out to carl. it is trying to come to grips with some of the things you just raised. i think it may be reagan and bush --

president must not be able to jolt the economy like franklin roosevelt, and lift the nation like ronald reagan. >> well, those are sort of the star presidents associated with each of those realms of presidential power. and each one, of course, people can debate. and study what historians have studied, interview historians and use presidents to illustrate portions of of the job. and when you look at fdr and the economy, for example, you know, the measures fdr took when he came into office in 1933, the general consensus is now those were useful and a lot of good was done, but really the economic repair was done by the second world war. america was brought back to prosperity by building the armaments and preparing and fighting in the second world war. that's obviously not a remedy for economic success available to all presidents, but fdr's bold persistent experimentation on behalf of a damaged economy kind of set the tone for what we expect from president ronald reagan's speech on the challenger does a similar thing. in a moment of challenge crisis being able to do sort of the component pa

i think that george bush and ronald reagan were certainly closer than nancy reagan and barbara bush. barbara bush definitely did not recommend her children go into politics. when george w. bush came to his parents and told them he was going to run for the governorship of texas i think barbara tried to talk him out of it. the same thing happened when he decided to make a run for the presidency. and as i think we're going to discuss towards the end of the program barbara has been not a particular fan of the idea of jeb running in the upcoming presidential election in 2016. >> so barbara bush became something of the public face of the bush administration. she spent a lot of time on the road. was that time mostly spent talking about literacy, sore was she involved in political aspects of the presidency? how did she use -- everything becomes political. >> and what was the source of her popularity? >> i think people looked at her and said, boy, that looks like somebody i know. and there's a wonderful advertisement actually that comes out to a furniture sale i think at this time where someo