but there was a feeling of america ascendence, whether it's the moon program or how much more prosperous country was becoming overtime. chris: and young. >> and i think on a personal basis a lot of people connect to that time and reminds them of someone in their lives. for me it's my grandparents and for a lot of people might be grandparents or parents. chris: i could do so many things. you could smoke, you could drink. >> this is the key, it's a period where you have kind of like acceptable decadence that's allowed. drinking at lunch, being able to smoke. all the health-related p.c. nonsense is off the table and looked great doing it. they have the great clothes, doing all the stuff you're not allowed to do anymore. chris: a cocktail glass, a cigarette at lunchtime, cigarette on an airplane. >> yes. chris: you start here, john. what would be a time capsule, don't tell me those also things we communicate on. >> god, i hope not. i think we're already doing that, right? the series to me captured this era best had been the ones with, you think about homeland and anxiety and paranoia and the

going on right now in this country, one that makes it feel like another era, the era when america was ascendenthe markets to go international. three months ago the company was negatively joined at the hip to europe. our financials were their financials, except our banks had to play with one hand tied behind their back because of heavy-handed regulation. now our banks are the ones that can take advantage of the near collapse of the european financial system. the fact that our banks are sitting on tons of capital while their banks have a drastic lack of capital means that we'll get the business, not them. a stronger dollar will lead to mergers and acquisitions. and that could be one more reason why besides the new buybacks bringing an end to the delusion and the dividend boost why this is so buoyant. i want you to walk jpmorgan and goldman sachs. for years i found out about our machinery companies and manufacturing enterprises were playing second fiddle to the japanese. i hated seeing komatsu instead of deere. japanese has been pushed aside, mostly by american industrial and technological might,

america's 40th president, ronald reagan. the objects were as president reagan's childhood of radio acting career and his political ascendancyrom governor of california to president of the united states. this is about 40 minutes. >> i surely appreciate all you people coming to see me on this dark and stormy night. it was just horrible. but it's a full moon here. i just saw driving and in the sunset is gorgeous and it's a wonderful town and i am glad to be here. somebody now owes me $100 for the commercial. but i tell you, you are guinea pigs because this is the first speech i've given on "ronald reagan". i've got four books that way all at the same time. i can't figure out from one date the next one i'm supposed to be doing. they did make some notes on the case for open my mouth and nothing comes out. at least i've got something here. you know, the reason i wrote this look -- i was approached to write it, but the reason i accepted the inquiry was because i've realized about two or three years ago my daughter, carolina that she was 10 or 11 or something at the time, if they weren't teaching contemporary politics at all in any