but in the military and following his military career of defending the country, and that this bud mcfarlane. bud, if you come out here, i would appreciate it. [applause] >> good morning. thank you to each of you for coming out. this is a great, very warm show of support for newt gingrich. i will be very brief. the two blessings in my life i treasure most are having served for 20 years in the u.s. marine corps, and secondly, working for -- [applause] and secondly, having had the good fortune to work for president reagan for five years. [cheers and applause] i mentioned that because that record of service to our country was service at a time when the conventional wisdom was that we were going to have to endure a soviet threat forever, that there was nothing we could do about that. president reagan came to office, and he said this idea that things always have to be the way they have been is nonsense. this is an evil empire. we can bring it down. we can reform our own government. we can make it smaller. these were heretical ideas, even in the republican party, at the time. but he did it. and, t

but in the military and following his military career of defending the country, and that this bud mcfarlanebud, if you come out here, i would appreciate it. [applause] >> good morning. thank you to each of you for coming out. this is a great, very warm show of support for newt gingrich. i will be very brief. the two blessings in my life i treasure most are having served for 20 years in the u.s. marine corps, and secondly, working for -- [applause] and secondly, having had the good fortune to work for president reagan for five years. [cheers and applause] i mentioned that because that record of service to our country was service at a time when the conventional wisdom was that we were going to have to endure a soviet threat forever, that there was nothing we could do about that. president reagan came to office, and he said this idea that things always have to be the way they have been is nonsense. this is an evil empire. we can bring it down. we can reform our own government. we can make it smaller. these were heretical ideas, even in the republican party, at the time. but he did it. and, tod

it will include former national security adviser bud mcfarlane. on c-span.org 3, passed new hampshire primary speeches. that is an 8:00 eastern. washington journal is in new hampshire this week. we talked about a recently released harvard study of young voters. host: joining us now is the director of the harvard institute for politics. we will show our viewers the front page of the study. it is a survey of power and politics. what is the headline that you discover in this survey? guest: young americans are pessimistic about the future of their country. that is having a big impact on their views of the president and congress and their willingness to participate in the upcoming election. host: when you say they are pessimistic, are they and tied the president or more -- anti the president? guest: these voters played a pivotal role and are given credit for supporting president obama. they support him over generic republican or specific republicans we polled. when we asked them if they think the president is going to win, a plurality says no. they are

i think if you talked to bud mcfarlane, who was the national security advisor for reagan, he will tellou how often i worked closely with them on a whole range of issues. this is another example of why governor romney has a problem. he does not know what he is talking about. some consultant gave him a clever line. they did not look at the larger truth. the larger truth is i first met with robert again for an hour in 1974. if he talk with me about how to meet speeches. -- how to make speeches. i was -- i introduced into the republican party dinner in georgia in 1979. i campaigned with him in 1980. i helped organize an event in september of 1980 which was written about as the first time ever that the presidential candidate was on the capitol steps with all the house. in 1981 i reached out to democrats to pass. if governor romney picked a fight to understand -- to see who understands reagan better, i mean, he should not get involved in a fight he does not understand and a president he did not support. host: newt gingrich, thank you for being with us here on c- span. and by the way, newsmak

second, i'm glad to have bud mcfarlane here. he was national security advisor and did a great job. ot of politicians who end up in washington bud came out of a military background and he thought his job was to help the president be effective not maneuver around the president. because he had in ronald reagan a president who knew what he intended to do, a president who was calmly and methodical ly determined to defeat the soviet empire, bud played a decisive role in one of the most important administrations we had because reagan had a clear vision. when i talk about being a reagan conservative, i first met him in 1974. i campaigned in 1979 and 1980 and helped develop supply side economics and worked with the reagan administration for eight years. he set out to accomplish three things. he understood something really important about leadership. lions can't afford to hunt chipmunks because even if they catch them they starve to death. so, lions have to hunt zebra and antelope. reagan got up every morning and said what are my antelope, and there were three. rebuild the american economy. a

i worked with bud mcfarlane when he was national security advisor. he politicians who ended up in washington, bud came out of a military background and he thought his job was to help the president be effective, not maneuver around the president. and because he had in ronald reagan a president who knew what he intended to do, a president who was calmly and methodically determined to defeat the soviet empire, bud really played a decisive role in one of the most important administrations we've had because reagan actually had a clear vision. when i talk about being a reagan conservative, it's based -- i first met reagan in 1974, i campaigned in 1979-1980 and helped develop supply-side with art kemp and ludlow and others and worked with the reagan administration for eight years. it's a simple model. reagan set out to accomplish three things. he understood something really important about leadership, lions cannot afford to own chipmunks. because even if they c567 them -- catch them, they starve to death. so lions have to hunt zebra and antelope. reagan got