the variety has been somebody like bush 41, but senior and bush 43, bush jr. very different form policies. the two of them each differ from richard nixon or ronald reagan as well. this. >> how were the different from ronald reagan? >> the first for example, his main emphasis was on stability, prudence, caution. he was trying to preside over a very dramatic changes. at think it was pretty successful. much more idealistic. the u.s. would try to undercut support for terrorism. very different. >> in your book you have chapters as well on barry goldwater and robert taft. does the senators to look particularly good indicators of republican opinion, conservative republican opinion. goldwater, of course, was the republican nominee for president. floridian taft. half represents the 30's and 40's where most republicans, especially midwest republicans, anti interventionist. one of the main stories in the book is so republicans eventually abandoned that tradition. you have the success of eisenhower and republicans by the 50's, but it took a long time. in some ways it is n

what you're saying is as bush w. became more aware of reality as he got toward the end of his term, as he fell less under the influence of cheney, he began to become much better as a president and a leader. obama's more like him. >> yeah. look, obama really has gone aggressively after al qaeda. no one can argue with that. if anything, you could say that this is overly aggressive. we're going after people with missile strikes. but i think what ron paul and i think some others have gotten wrong here is the idea that just because he's an american citizen, we shouldn't be firing missiles at him. this is someone who declared war against the united states of america, who openly broadcast -- >> wait a minute, ron paul, talk about being out to lunch. you mean if you go join the nazi army and you're fighting in the army against us with the ss and you get killed in action, that's somehow wrong? you need to be given a bill of particulars or whatever? miranda rights? >> yeah, there's no mystery here. >> miranda rights. what are

the variety has been somebody like what's a boesh xli and bush 43, jr. and two of them each with richard nixon and ronald reagan as well. >> roudebush's different from ronald reagan, etc.? >> the emphasis was on stability, prudence and caution he was trying to preside over the dramatic changes in the u.s. national interest which it is successful. bush 43 after mine alone and was convinced of an approach would that was much more idealistic the u.s. would try to undercut support for terrorism by winning iraq democratizing the middle east country different. >> in your book you have checkers as well on barry goldwater and robert. >> i choose the because their senators who are good indicators of the public opinion at crucial moments of course was the nominee for president, 64 he ran and he represents an era in the 30's and 40's where midwestern republicans were antiinterventionist and one of the stories in the book is how the eventually did in the end of that tradition and you had the success of eisenhower and the republicans but it took a long times and in s

obama than president bush.his is what boehner says, joan. maybe willard needs to talk to some people other than the bush croni cronies. >> he's waged a very, very strong, some would even say militaristic -- some of his supporters are disappointed, but one area he's been successful has been in the military area, so this is just -- it's really wrong for someone to say this president doesn't want us to be the strongest country in the world. he's also -- he told a flat-out lie. he said he would reverse the defense cuts. there haven't been defense cuts. defense spending has grown under president obama. so he's just starting with fiction and bringing back the bush team, bringing back the greatest hits. i think it's got to dare even republicans. >> well, if you think he's writing fiction, let me tell you, he's not by himself. >> some of let me tell you what the republicans are saying. >> the united states airpower could have shortened this dramatically, and unfortunately we chose not to. we led from behind. >> i appla

before the bush tax cuts or before the reagan tax cuts we could blame things on bush before the reagan tax cuts i was making enough money that i was hitting well. into the forty percent tax range and my c.p.a. set me down with my small business of eighty employees and said stop taking money out of your own company you know you need to reinvest that money in your company which i did and we grew that business and people and that's the time that was the time when c.e.o.'s took thirty times with their employees to now the taking five hundred times what their employees can take because they can gamble with that hot money because they can put that money in swiss banks it is not creating jobs it is doing the exact opposite and why is the money sitting in corporate treasuries right now waiting because they can make more money there than they can make hiring people because there's no do right because i poll don't have money because they're so greedy they'd rather years of reaganomics has brought us another great they're so greedy that they don't want to build a new factory. yes what you what we

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bush. i later asked him in that same interview post-debate interview should they be required part of the political process. he said no. should be up to the candidates. if it was up to a candidate, if they thought it would be helpful, yes. if they thought it would be harmful, tho. it should be up to the candidates alone. >> belva: a good line from president bush. you had one that rez nated with me. >> well, my comparison who is moderating one of those debates is like walking down blade of a very sharp knife. you take one false step and you get cut. you get hurt. i always felt that way. it's not just for moderators. it is for everybody involved. the steaks are really high for the candidates ander that handlers as well as the moderator obviously. >> belva: president bush, too, was criticized for looking at his watch. why was that such a big deal? >> well, it's an interesting question, belva because bill clinton in fact had a better answer than anybody to that. i asked him why did that matter.

bush. >> whether or not it's the right thing to do, i would consult with the commanders. the thing that i wouldn't do that the president is doing is telling the enemy how many troops you're going to bring out and when you're going to bring them out. i don't think that's a good strategy. i believe at the time it was worth it but i would not have announced this big drawdown. now they're going to basically position themselves. >> mitt romney did not rush to the microphones on this one. he simply released a written statement. "president obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of american men and women. the unavoidable question is whether this decision is the result of a naked political calculation or simply sheer ineptitude in negotiations with the iraqi government. the american people deserve to hear the recommendations that were made by our military." rick perry,

to be bush declared the capture of general noriega was the ultimate objective. in fact, they have deployed military force with the objective of killing or capturing an individual nearly one dozen times since 1885 this strategic history in the lessons they can learn. it is a reasonable question to ask with the monegan dead why should we care about geronimo of our looking for a vested sandino what applicability does that have? besides of cool story the reality is there will increasingly be attractive for several reasons. and from the joint chief of staff it was noted a president has to rally the country with the policy would that is where it is tough to get public opinion against political distractions. but iman and -- among the conflicts the sensitivity to, at and casualty's and the abilities of individuals to threaten with interest and magnified by the evolution of technology especially the growth of the international media and weapon of mass destruction and dual-use technology. up the same time the ability of forces to target individuals with finishes to make s

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all of these things we heard during bush with iraq cutting and running. of the vietnam war where republicans said we left, too weak, politicians meddled. and george bush said i'm going to defer all presidential decision-making to the commanders on the ground. so, it's the same thing you're hearing right now from the republicans. >> whenever i hear that, i always think -- i always think about a counterfactual world in which an american president said i'm going to defer all tax questions to people of the irs. we should leave it to the irs and they should recommend with how much taxes we collect. no other part of american political life when what is essentially the bureaucracy, the armed forces, within the executive branch, that political leaders proudly brey about the fact -- >> it's a powerful hot button. republican candidates know this. they know they're pushing that button from all the way back in the 1980s saying to voters, saying to the american electorate, the democrats are weak because they're getting us out of a war, which is what they've been sayin

you spoke with the bush 41, george h. w. bush. he said to you that the debates are ugly.on't like them. why? wanted to say that? >> he feels very strongly that it is also this. in other words, one debate, three-person debate with the oakland. ross perot. when he looked at his watch. >> famous moment. >> fan this moment. okay. elected watch. there are all over me. nothing to do with issues, nothing to do with whatever. he said the interview with me, well, why were you looking letter was direct he said, well, i was looking at my watch because this thing is boring me, yeah, i was looking to see when this thing was going to be over. those kinds of things to the audience, you know, it leaves an impression. the language impression, but it is a body language impression rather than a spoken word impression. and so george h. w. bush, he thinks it's ridiculous to have so much riding on these two with 390 minute exchanges in a presidential debate. >> his son, as you point out in the book, feels exactly the opposite. >> the things is terrific. he and bill clinton said exactly the sam

governor bush? >> consistently higher graduation rates.d to be college and career ready. >> i agree totally. that's why we work together so much on this. but also, with the ability for low-income students and any student to be able to truly

in the bush 43 presidency, like robert gates. first clip features gates, then director of cia, recalling the final planning stages for operation desert storm, the liberation of kuwait. it was an awkward moment when president bush asked him to review and report back on the planning of top officials, including dick cheney and then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, powell colin powell. >> the only time the president looked over powell and cheney's, particularly in bombing, again there, didn't sit terribly well at the pentagon. but the president sent me to the pentagon to review the target there's make sure there were no churches, mosques, hospitals -- are we going to bomb something next to a great historical treasure and so on and so forth. >> bush 41 was a transitionally presidency, with huge tectonic shifts in the world order, as the soviet union collapse and the persian gulf war upended the politics of the middle-east. dick cheney was vice-president of george w. bush, he marveled on at how man and moment were perfectly tailo

bush foreign policy apparatus.e's even picked the ones you would think could really never work in washington again. for example, do you remember the lie making into president bush's state of the union address? >> the british government has learned is-- >> the whole uranium from africa thing is traced back in the bush administration in terms of who they blame getting into the speech. traced back to a man named robert joseph, a specific guy in the white house who reportedly pushed the white house to include the year rain yaum from after hi -- it should not have been in the state of the union address or used as evidence for why she would go to war. if you were the guy responsible for that, we do not banish people in this country. you're not going to be exiled. you can't work on anymore talking about people getting uranium from africa. you can't be that guy. you can't work on proliferation anymore. it is the one thing you have not only discredited yourself but by your actions you basically discredited our entire countr

no lo ha podido hacer bush, obama, por quÉ lo podrÍa hacer rodney?ministraciÓn del presidente obama son cifras que no se han visto en mucho tiempo, y e regresarÁ a la Época de jimmy carter, a otras recesiones muy fuertes pero no se ha visto nada en la desgracia de bush, clinton, o bush padre, es una crisis de proporciones grandes y sobre todo una crisis que sigue vigente, que no se ha podido mejorar, incluve se ve que estÁ empeorando. no hay comparaciÓn ninguna con el presidente bush. >> usted tuvo la oportunidad de ver el debate de los abiertos presidenciales en las vegas sobre los abiertos republicanos parecÍan estarse peleando para ver cuÁl era el más duro en contra de los inmigrantes, usted ha tenido una posiciÓn favorable promoviendo la legalizaciÓn, usted cree que enos abiertos republicanos y partido republicano se estÁ haciendo mucho la derecha tanto que los momento dado podrÍan perder la elecciÓn federal por perder el voto hispano, cÓmo van a ganar el voto dispÓ con -hispano esta retÓrica? >> hay que hacer algo para reformar el sistema y que

bush's top career donor. when dick cheney was crafting the nation's energy policy behind closed doors in 2001, enron officials were in the room. at the height of enron's collapse, the white house was forced to acknowledge that president bush's senior adviser karl rove owned nearly a quarter of a million dollars in enron's stock. more than a dozen other bush administration officials also owned stock in the company as it went down. enron officials were personally calling bush administration officials as it was becoming clear that the company was in trouble. because of all those ties, the enron scandal was set to be a huge political scandal for the new president bush. it probably would have been the defining scandal of the first bush term had 9/11 not happened a month after enron started to fall apart. the fix for the enron problem came in the form of a new law passed by congress called the sarbanes-oxley act. that new law mostly changed the rules about how corporations kept their books and how accounting firms

bush" and joe madison action talk show host and sirius/xm radio., you have covered perry for a long time. he is a man who's never lost an election. i can't believe that some of it is not -- >> it's all calculated. this is a dog whistle to the right edge. i think it's interesting that rick perry is talking about comparing grades with people. this is a guy that got a "c" in gym class at texas a & m. it's not a comparison he should want to make, but the other part is there's a suggestion that, as you said, al, that barack obama got in because of affirmative action, preferential treatment, and the think about that -- that is so just insanely hypocritical about rick perry is everything that has happened for him has been preferential. his father and him, the federal government, which may or may not have leveled the playing field for barack obama or anybody else who comes from an ethnic background to level the playing field and get them into a university of quality, rick perry's been getting those favors all his life. $100,000 in crop supports from the fe

>> if something like this happened in the the bush administration, if you had the allegation. >> oh,h. >> come on, and true. >> this is a nonstory, unlike solyndra, a nonstory. >> you're not addressing my point. >> what am i not addressing? >> if the bush administration had had, do you think they'd do that maureen dowd would let it go because the white house denied it. >> there's nothing to verify. >> the usual formulation for the republican administration is dogged by allegations of scandals, allegations are good enough and let's talk to the-- >> the republicans-- >> it's a double standard we know on the show, fox news watch. >> and this whole auto industry thing, the way the chrysler bailout was handed one of the companies alluded to in the act and as michael barone coined the phrase, the way the obama administration handled paying off the chrysler debtors and put the united auto workers ahead of the chrysler bondholders, that's gangster government and a right to be suspicious the way this thing handled and should be more investigation. >> we heard alan dismissing the solyndra thin

i know you don't want to compare barack obama to bush.en, anwar al awlaki, can claim some success in libya, and now is saying he's ending a war and bringing troops home from iraq and yet, and yet, next november, just like george h.w. bush whohood a 90% approval rating after the first gulf war, come next november it will be worth diddley squat, right? >> exactly right, as you well remember we were at 91% approval after the first persian gulf. i do commend, as do other conservatives, that president's decision making and execution of everything from ubl to today's events in libya, all which were predicated on the policies that george bush, the son, put in place. but this is not going to be a cycle that is fought over anything other than the economy, the role of government, reducing our structural debt and all of those things. he has no record to run on. this is not going to supplant or make up for that negativity in this record. >> jamess, if we needed any prof, to borrow your line, it's the economy, stupid, extremely important on the econom

president bush replied and in his texas drawl which i won't imitate, i want justice.there is an old poster out west as i recall that said wanted dead or alive. for the president supporters which at the time seemingly are impossible now but at the time included a large majority of americans a statement was a symbol of american resilience and swagger on the face of unspeakable tragedy. for the president's critics as the war on terror drag on in afghanistan especially in iraq the remark would calm to epitomize bush's simplistic cowboy diplomacy. even president bush himself would eventually express regret over his choice of words that day. either way it was an iconic moment in the nascent war on terror. with those four words president bush inextricably linked the conflict in the public's mind with the fate of one man, osama bin laden. in reality the statement was mr. maddock as it seemed at the time. although president bush -- authorizing operations designed to capture and kill bin laden he was not the first u.s. president to do so. in response the august 1998 african emb

i worked in georgia roper bush's of ministration, briefly in the second president bush's administration. i worked in the house, the hill for five years. i was assistant secretary state of new jersey. so in between those stretches i have been teaching. i find it exceptionally rewarding. the students here are exceptionally able and motivated and wanting to learn. >> host: how many books have you written? >> guest: let's see. three. another one with two colleagues. >> host: what was your experience like on the september 11th commission? taking part in any activity. >> guest: on going to some of these. there are still some unfinished recommendations that the commission made. look how well that's going. i should say the one that has not been enacted, congress is to be more of a player and it's on oversight and how they handle their own intelligence committees. very low specialization. this is a problem of the hill or congress in the sense that there is no incentive structure for somebody to want to go on there. the head of the at community you're doing something for farmers, food in the worl

bush and his economic road map.you look at the 1990s under bill clinton where we had more progressive taxation, certainly the regulatory regime was, if anything, more emphatic than it was during the 2,00000s, jobs t grew four times as fast, middle class incomes that actually grew by about 10% in those years as opposed to fell 5%, 6% even during the bush recovery, and people remember that, reverend sharpton. if you poll people to this very day and remind them about the bush economy and the policies that got us into this mess, they don't have amnesia on that stuff, and so the road map that these guys are touting. romney in some ways is the best exam. his big plan is to take the corporate rate down ten percentage points. >> right. >> you mentioned herman cane's extremely regressive tax ideas. another thing from romney, by the way, haven't gotten enough attention. romney says in his plan as soon as he's elected he's going to cut spending to 20% of gdp. that might sound good to some people but it basically means a 5% of

bush proved it.the campaign trail is not binding and doesn't matter. george w. bush said in 2000, to jim lehrer in the debate that he wanted a humble foreign policy. that we didn't need to rebuild other countries. and now ten years later, we're still rebuilding afghanistan instead of america. >> okay. so we've gotten to the polls. herman cain is leading, he's a flavor. last walnut -- and also, i want to get to steve rattner's charts. we'll do that in a moment. and then i want to show you the vice president and ask you whether or not he is acting in the way we would like to see our president act. but first, occupy wall street. the protests sweeping across the country and the globe. those marching against economic inequities in america were given more rhetorical ammunition when one of the world's richest men, warren buffett, revealed how much money he made last year. in response to his fap famous "new york times" editorial where he says he pays less in taxes than his employees. there is a republican co

president bush worried that it will ruin your friendship. did it?s say it was a difficult moment. it put a real strain on the relationship. we worked together for eight years. he made me vice president of the united states. i'll always be very grateful for that. this is one issue where we had a fundamental difference. he got to make the decision an he did. i just basically disagreed with him. >> did it ruin your friendship? >> i can't say that. i wouldn't take it that far, by any means. but mr. libby i think was innocent, didn't deserve to be indicted. it is a long story. i'd urge people to read that chapter in the book. but it really -- i think it was a miscarriage of justice. >> heart transplant? >> don't know. i've got to decide. i'm on a heart pump now. i've got a piece of equipment inside me that supplements my heart. it works very well. i'm 14 months into the program, and it's been functioning perfectly. >> it's good to see you, former vice president dick cheney. liz cheney, thank you as well. >> good toeb to be back. >>> if you want to see th

c-span: president bush? >> guest: i'd maybe say the fall of the berlin wall because we'd worked very hard with kohl, we'd worked with our allies to try to bring them along and not try to stand in kohl's way; worked with the russians to be sure they understood what helmut wanted to go. we were determined germany should be free, be unified, be--stay in nato aligned with the west. but when the wall came down--this was before all that--that really started this final chapter, and i think it is such a strong symbol that that--that's one i'd remember. c-span: last question. you know, you write a lot about the oval office in the beginning of chapter two. if you could sit in that oval office with any other american president that you've never met over those... >> guest: abraham lincoln. c-span: why? >> guest: just because of such a--such a huge presence for preserving the union and, in the process, eliminating slavery. so i'd--i'd--i'd say--i'd say lincoln. c-span: general scowcroft, he gets the last word. you got th