[laughter] >> governor bush. governor bush. governor bush. governor bush. gov. bush: yeah. >> my mom said you can sign it. gov. bush: where is your mom? >> right there. [laughter] [applause] >> yay. gov. bush: your mom has a lot of children. you got a lot of children. [laughter] i am blaming it on you. he is a good man. thanks. >> back up a little. >> >> thank you. >> t-shirt, right? gov. bush: everybody in austin, texas. sweatshirts in new hampshire. >> [indiscernible] gov. bush: i sure will. >> you are very welcome. >> nancy created the whole idea. >> nancy. nancy. gov. bush: we got a great program in texas. yeah. >> we did not qualify because we were ahead of the game. we renovated our movie theater over here. to revitalize our downtown. gov. bush: it is a great community. thanks for having me. i show up with the entourage. it's kind of hard. i knew what i was getting into. as my wife said. no one else to blame. you are the guy. [laughter] anyways, nice to meet you. thanks. thanks very much. >> thanks very much. gov. bush: thank you. you are from there? >> no

[laughter] >> governor bush. governor bush. governor bush. governor bush. gov. bush: yeah. >> my mom said you can sign it. gov. bush: where is your mom? >> right there. [laughter] [applause] >> yay. gov. bush: boy, your mom has a lot of children. you got a lot of children. [laughter] i am blaming it on you. he is a good man. thanks. >> back up a little. >> thank you. >> thank you, governor bush. gov. bush: everybody in texas is wearing sweatshirts from keene, new hampshire. very welcome to have you here. gov. bush: goodbye, nancy. >> thank you, thank you. we didn't qualify because we were ahead of the game. we renovated our movie theater over here in downtown. it's a great community. gov. bush: it is a great community. thank you for having me too, showing up with my entourage. [inaudible] gov. bush: anyway, thanks. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. gov. bush: thank you. >> [inaudible] gov. bush: you're from the area -- from there? he is a great guy. he teaches at ut. i know him well. he is a good man. he married your niece? >> yes. gov. bush: good. he is a g

bush: i am ready to go. i know that being a governor of texas is not close to being president of the united states. it is a huge step. >> [laughter] gov. bush: but let me tell you something if texas were a , country, it would be the 11th largest economy in the world. >> [laughter] gov. bush: i have learned to lead. i have. i know where i want to lead america. i want to lead america to a better day. i know you cannot lead by dividing. a lot of politics are people trying to put people in groups and pit one against another. you cannot achieve what is right for america by dividing people up into camps. i am a uniter, not a divider. and i know people who want to o follow someone who sees a brighter day a sunnier day. , i do. i believe this country can do anything it puts its mind to. it is a huge honor for me to be here with you today. and i am excited to be involved on day one of what will be an incredible journey for laura and me. >> [indiscernible] gov. bush: i believe i am too. [applause] i would be glad to a

bush: the bush pumpkin. >> i'm here. gov. bush: he is a good fella. >> would you like to have your photo taken down here? thank you. >> never. i'm in politics a long time. gov. bush: you tell him thanks. >> thank you. >> can i get one quick one? medication. [laughter] gov. bush: i am not signing your shirt until your mother says yes. >> hey. gov. bush: going to. thank you very much. thanks for saying that. this? you sign gov. bush: how are you doing, buddy? boy. great mom. living in dallas? fabulous. been down to visit? live?does she >> governor bush. governor bush. governor bush. my mom said you can sign it. gov. bush: where is your mom? >> yay. gov. bush: your mom has a lot of children. you got a lot of children. i am blaming it on you. he is a good man. thanks. little.up a >> t-shirt, right? gov. bush: everybody in austin, texas. >> [indiscernible] gov. bush: i sure will. >> you are very welcome. >> nancy. nancy. gov. bush: we got a great program in texas. yeah. we did not qualify because we were ahead of the game. we reno

bush: i would be careful. you should go get your money back. >> there was an article in the "globe" that some of your supporters suggested you might not be spending enough time in new hampshire. i know you are here today. are you doing enough grassroots campaigning. can you respond to that? gov. bush: yes. i am doing a lot of grassroots campaigning. in order to win the state of new hampshire, one has to grassroots campaign. that is exactly what i'm doing. we have had huge crowds everywhere i have gone. i have shaken hands. i will continue to do so. and i intend to remain competitive as best as i can for the state of new hampshire. we are pleased with the progress we are making. we have a great organization. mrs. doyle got out and we signed up most of our team for the state of new hampshire so we are making good progress. >> governor, at least one of your former supporters has dropped his support, claiming you have not articulated well enough on the specific issues. how do you respond to that? gov. bush: i cann

bush: nice to meet you, paula. >> youtube. oo.>> you t gov. bush: thanks. diane. nice to see you again. >> hello. would you like to try your hand [cheering] [indiscernible] your dad did not get to do this when he came back in 1980. >> [laughter] [indiscernible] [laughter] gov. bush: actually in texas, i have signed a court reform on y2k. the federal government ought to follow suit. >> we make real good product. gov. bush: of course not. it is just quality control. that is the final step. >> that is right. we make sure all of the product we get to the customer is good. the fodder is good, all of the holes are the right size, dimensions. gov. bush: there you go. how are you doing in there? [laughter] >> i'm fine. gov. bush: who do you want me to make it to? >> pat. thank you. >> no problems. nice to meet you. gov. bush: i like to remind people that the most important job title we will ever have is not governor, or boss, or ship leader, it is being a good mom and dad. and i worry about america. i worry about whether i will be prosperous enough. we're prosperous now,

bush still hasn't declared.ving his campaign team to fend off calls from eager republican donors. >> we would convey the urgency that was being conveyed to us from the state and the donors and the supporters and such. and we were met with resistance from the white house. >> i think he really wanted to work you know, the presidential stuff. >> that's what he enjoyed, that's what he excelled at. he wanted to wait as long as possible. >> he is yesterday and we are tomorrow. >> we will put america first. >> his guard down, bush gets blindsided. >> so i am today declaring my candidacy for the republican nomination for president of the united states. >> when buchanan announced, we were caught down with our pants down completely. >> pat buchanan is a monolith of the republican party. a social conservative and key member of the reagan administration. >> i felt we could not allow the election of 1992 to go forward without having our different views from president bush represented in the primaries. >> and the first primar

bush, george bush, a little louder!n the road was one of lee atwater's sayings on how to diminish the other side. what can we do to throw some tacks on the road in the way of the dole bus and cause some confusion? >> there were a number of positions that we found in which bob dole appeared to be on both sides of an issue. i said, well, maybe we refer to him as senator straddle. >> george bush and bob dole on leadership. >> atwater falls on the line like a ravenous wolf. the team make an attack ad accusing dole of sitting on the fence over tax. >> we had a meeting with myself, lee atwater, the vice president, mrs. bush. bush was not totally convinced of the merits of the straddle ad. bush was a gentleman. you didn't call someone names. he thought very well of senator dole. i think lee and others ganged up on bush. >> the vice president sort of looked over at barbara and saw she wasn't objecting anymore and he agreed to have the ad run. >> bush says he won't raise taxes, period. dole straddles. he's been on both sides. th

bush.and when he looked me in the eye and said, florida's going to be bush/cheney country, i believe him. >> in texas, george w. bush, who was known as a bipartisan governor, at the time, the state house was run by democrats, and he had a very good working relationship with them. >> we poured our hearts and souls into this campaign, the organization, and the people are going to decide. >> indiana and kentucky, the polls now have closed in those two states. our projected winner is governor george w. bush, as expected. >> bush wins south carolina, vermont, up in the green mountain state, there for al gore. >> a big call to make, cnn announces that we call florida in the al gore column. >> about roughly quarter of 8:00, we and all the other networks call florida for gore. i remember saying, how is bush possibly going to -- you know, what's the path he can possibly take, because he's lost michigan, he's going to lose pennsylvania. if anybody wins all three, it's over. >> you can bet that govern

bush. i have to mention that, since jeff is here, not have come close to his reputation, stature, or the experience or political capital. and because of his military authority, i think there was no one class. that was very important. nevertheless, the fundamental pillars of his process are as applicable today as they were then. i'll just mention quickly a which of them, including, are engaging the right people at the right level at the right time, providing an environment conducing debate that cuts across agency line, into which the president is an eyewitness, ensuring they witness all options and scenarios, the success for which requires a custodial manager, advisor who walks a fine line between honest broker and policy entrepreneur. some sort of mechanism that ensures once a decision is made and implementation begun, monitors the progress to decide whether or not some sort of change is necessary. to repeat, i'm not claiming that process or architecture are models. i am historian, not a po

bush: yes, i know. unless you were. >> we need to get a picture here. >> mayor. >> thank you, mayor. gov. bush: i know it. thank you. >> thank you. gov. bush: appreciate you all. thanks a lot. thank you. >> and now, more of george w. bush on the campaign trail during the 2000 presidential race. he visits key, new hampshire, where he visits voters, takes questions from reporters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. my daughter is in lubbock. gov. bush: really? lubbock, texas? yes, i know. >> appreciate it.

bush takes office. at the beginning of 2000 while the election is undecided and then cheney has the fourth heart attack and will be in the hospital. somebody brings him and his family thanksgiving dinner. and that's cheney's wife but then to debunk another big myth which is commonly held and then cheney was transformed he was a nice guy and the ford administration and worked well and was a nice moderate guy with the george h.w. bush administration. from this isn't just street myth but it is propagated by people like brent scroll croft in the iraq war years said i just don't know cheney anymore. cheney has changed. and also the cardiology theory. everybody in this room must know someone at the dinner party who knows a cardiologist or who is a cardiologist who says that cheney's heart attacks he had three before at the beginning of the bush administration and four by the time he took office that somehow they changed him and transformed him from a moderate to a hawk. not true. and what i found really chene

bush.he went against public opinion. against his secretary of defense. .is secretary of state against condi rice, donald rumsfeld, all of them were initially against the surge. president bush orchestrated a decision that everybody eventually agreed upon. during the next 18 months, the ande did reduce violence sectarian killings. should these generalizations inspire a reinterpretation of president bush and the iraq war? i do not think so. mid-2006, the prevailing policy was failing. the choice was, double down the reposition, or carefully withdraw. president bush, even the opponents of the surge, could face a pullout and acknowledged feet. wledge defeat. the only option was the last card, the surge. science calls this prospect theory. all people are most inclined to be big risktakers when they face defeat. you don't need prospect theory to explain this decision. you only need to know the personality and character of george w. bush. confident,oud, wholligent, stubborn man believed his credibi

bush. he went against public opinion. he went against his secretary of defense. he went against his secretary of state. he went against the joint chiefs of staff. yes, he went against condi rice, donald rumsfeld, general pace. all of them were initially against the surge. with the talented assistance of steve hadley and his nsc staff, president bush orchestrated a decision that everybody eventually agreed upon. over the next 18 to 24 months, the surge did reduce violence and did reduce sectarian killings. my question should these , generalizations inspire a reinterpretation of president bush and the iraq war? i do not think so. by mid-2006, the prevailing policy was failing. the choice was double down with the surge, reposition, or carefully withdraw. nobody around president bush, even the opponents of the surge, could face a pullout and acknowledge feet. -- acknowledge defeat. whatever that might mean. the only option actually was the last card, the surge. bob jervis explains this in terms

and there's bush.said, hey, pat, i've got the big mo. and he meant the big momentum. >> it's a shocker to the world, and i mean a shocker to the world, george bush wins the iowa caucuses. >> because of what happened in iowa, we're going to go all the way to the white house. >> and he played into these fears, was reagan really up for this? maybe he wasn't the political heavy weight like people thought. >> i ran into a reporter in iowa and he told me, pat, he's a straw man. you punch him and straw comes out. >> how big is the wound to governor reagan? >> ronald reagan for president is effectively dead. where can a healthier heart lead you? for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects

bush was my favorite. i had to clear with some of his other friends, jennifer fitzgerald, i was flown to houston to do another interview at the house. i showed up at the bush mansion in my three-piece suit and the door opens on the side of the house and outcomes george bush in a t-shirt and he looks at me and said if you will get out of that silly vest, i will cook you breakfast. that was the kind of guy he was. magnificent. we he gets me a cup of coffee, i go he gets me a cup of coffee, i took my kitchen and coat off and my vest off and he is cooking eggs. comes barbara bush, she looks at me, she looks at george, she looks at me, she looks at george and says george, if that man spells a drop of that coffee on the floor i will never forgive you because the chinese delegation is coming into stay with us tonight for dinner. i do not know what came into me, but i looked at her and said, ma'am, i came to your door in a three-piece suit, i don't spill anything. [laughter] dr. smith: she laughed, he laughed, and

with bush, h.w. bush, when i started working with him, i realized he was a very kind man, a very gentle man. that was part of the narrative. he was sophisticated, very witty. in 1980, i wrote a speech for him, which he delivered in philadelphia during the presidential primary, and it was called a different kind of president. in there, there was a line about how he wanted to create a kinder, gentler nation. the speech got ruined because his press secretary snuck a line into the speech that reagan economics was voodoo economics. everybody remembered the voodoo economics side. when you are a speechwriter, it is very frustrating when people do that to your speeches. that was the tension and the line got forgotten. when we got to 1988, and he was accepting the nomination, i got that line back in, the kinder, gentler nation. that was one of the lines that was remembered. the other line that was remembered was peggy noonan, read my lips, no new taxes. you have the tough guy on the bush and the texan other s

bush is wary. >> george bush knows right now he's the frontrunner.ould he put up with other challengers in the party taking pot shots at him? >> hoping to sway his rival, reagan proposes a one-on-one debate, and offers to pick you want check. >> and now bush can just share the stage with the great actor ronald reagan and show how good he is on his feet. >> terms are agreed. but reagan has a trick up his sleeve. >> then at the last minute reagan decides instead of a one-on-one debate he wants all of the republicans who are running to be part of the debate. >> ronald reagan wants it opened up to the other challengers under the guise of fairness. >> but bush was very committed to the idea that he had given his word and this was the way it ought to be. >> he challenged me to a one on one. that's what i would like to do. >> so there's a fight brewing before this debate about who is actually going to be included. >> the debate is scheduled for 7:30. and by 8:15 there's still no candidates. it's hot in there. instamatics are flashing. the tension is just te

bush. he also evaluates the speaking styles of president trump and the democratic presidential candidate. the robert dold institute of politics hosted this 50 minute event at the university of kansas. >> tonight's guest was a full-time speechwriter for president gerald ford and a consulting writer to george h. w. bush. >> tonight' he served as founding president of the freedom of expression foundation in washington, d.c. he has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. it is with pleasure that i welcome dr. craig smith. would you please welcome dr. craig smith. [applause] >> you have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. can you tell us a little bit about your early life and how you got to be a presidential speechwriter? dr. smith: the way i became a presidential speechwriter could only happen in america. i was an undergraduate debater, where i got a lot of training in how to make cases, how to sift evidence and build argument

so you had the tough guy on the andside, the texan bush, the kinder, gentler bush. if you look at the speeches, you can see they have more than one writer and more than one tone. that should not happen. they should be consistent. ms. coleman: second to last, what did being a presidential speechwriter teach you about the presidency? mr. smith: it is a collaborative effort. it is a team effort. you are only as good as the staff around you. the president has to make a call at some point. the president has to say i'm going with this advice, and that then redounds on the president. that is why the president is responsible for the speech the speechwriters write because he has these choices he has to make. god help us if we ever have a president who does not surround himself with good people. [laughter] god help us if we ever have a president who fires the good people and keeps the bad people. that is something i learned a long time ago. and i think we may be learning it now. ms. coleman: looking back, you wrote for the bicentennial. we are coming up on our semiquincentini

incomes barbara bush. she looks at me and looks at george and looks at me and then looks at george and she says george, if that man still to drop a copy of the floor i will never forgive you because the chinese delegation is coming in to stay with us tonight for dinner. i don't know what got into me but i said i came to your door in a 3-piece suit. i won't spill anything. she laughed and he laughed and i spent the rest of the day with them. those were the kind of people they were. they were just, he was such a gentleman and so high-minded and wonderful to work with and she was so supportive of the staff, very protective of him. that is understandable. she was on the side of the better angels that were around george bush, around any president, there are darker angels you have to fight with and that is always fun but they were wonderful people. >> did you ever see what you thought was a good speech go bad so to speak? >> not -- none of mine because -- of course -- i can't think of one. there were glitches. t

bush if he would come over. i was at table and there was a dirty blond young man next to me and said i understand you were a speech writer for president ford. the man is obviously sincere and authentic but he needs organization and stylistic devices and so on and so forth he said my name is carl rove, and i work for him and i said my gosh i'm sorry. we heard from gerald ford you are a good writer and he would like to talk with you. so he was coincidental. >> he was my favorite client of all time. i had to clear this with other friends, jennifer fitzgerald and was flown to houston to do another interview at the house so i showed up at the three-piece suit and the door opens on the side of the house and out comes george bush in his t-shirt and he looks at me and says if you get out of that silly vest i will cook you breakfast and that's the kind of guy he was. so we would go into the kitchen, he gets a cup of coffee if he's cooking eggs and incomes barbara bush, she looks at me and looks at bush and looks at me an

bush. and, of course, bush talked about his big mo. new hampshire saved reagan in '80. of course, you know the rest of that story. 1988 when it was george h.w. bush supposed to sweep through iowa. he got beat there. came in third place behind pat robertson and bob dole. goes to new hampshire. everybody's saying this guy -- again, another vice president, this guy is beaten. he's battered. no way he can win. he wins in new hampshire and makes a vow that night, i will not forget what you have done for me here. i think dukakis came in third place, in the iowa caucuses as well, in '88.

the bush fires of 2003. black saturday in 2009. just saying these words brings back such chilling memories. this year we have faced and are still facing a terrible season of fire. national in scale. fires that reached our highest mountain range and our longest beaches. fires that consumed forests, grasslands, and farms, suburbs and villages. fires that jumped rivers and highways. fires where days became night. and the night sky turned red. fires that raged into the heavens as clouds of fire. with it all, a merciless smoke that lingered across our cities. fires that still burn. and the smoke from burned bush land that left an oppressive tightening in our chest told us that all was not right. this is the black summer of 2019-2020 that has proven our national character and our resolve. a national trauma best described by indigenous leaders who love our land so much as a grief for the victims, our wildlife and broken heart for the scouring of our land. these fires are yet to end and danger is still before us in many, many places. but t

it's as if bush ethar who respected falco in the d.c. and considered him a friend decided to carry on giving evidence. good luck 1st for the anti mafia commissions and then in various other trials to try and prove andreozzi his role the most it was not the only one. but he was the most important for. his colluding with the mafia. but after falconis death. there was week a. week he didn't really have sufficient evidence to have him convicted. he told the truth. but his truth was not enough. and so in the 2nd part of the film we see bush at this decline. the testimony with andrea often marks the beginning of his decline the italian spy francesco buzzy ends up he was convicted over the bologna trade bombing he claimed was heather was a cia agent when you were working on the film you didn't want to get in do not have and that will feed that question although even i have to say bush said to himself that there was a coup being planned in italy and because of russia in the mediterranean they called it off what do you think of all of them. said

it is bedeviling bush because he can't match it. came up with his own tax plan but it is more focused on business and not the individual where reagan was focused on the individual and less on business so bush unwisely starts attacking a popular plan of reagan's that reagan is scoring politically with and calls it voodoo economics. reagan was so furious over is he almost didn't pick bush for his running mate. in fact, it was a big sticking point with reagan why he didn't pick bush as his running mate. in detroit, in 1980. juan: we are about out of time and we want to ask the questions from the audience, have the test have your -- please have your questions prepared. but i want to come back to this because we started by talking about trump/reagan. reagan gets a tax reform plan done, and he is able to do business with democrats, with tip o'neil. he has success in terms of moving things forward, not only from democrats but from fellow republicans. -- despite criticism from democrats and fellow republicans. craig: and the washington esta

the street fight of his life to beat george bush to get that the nomination. juan: that fight is the source of the term voodoo economics. juan: that's right. pushing an issue he developed in 1978 and is doing radio commentaries about it, and kemp-roth tax cuts become a centerpiece for the 1980 campaign is really the devil and bush because he can't match it. came up with his own tax plan but it is more focused on business and not the individual where reagan was focused on the individual and less on business so bush unwisely starts attacking a popular plan of reagan's that reagan is scoring politically with and calls it voodoo economics. reagan was so furious over is that he almost didn't pick bush, for his running mate. it was a big sticking point with reagan why he didn't pick bush as his running mate. in detroit, in 1980. juan: we are about out of time and we want to ask the questions from the audience, have the questions prepared. but i want to come back to this because we started by talking about trump/reagan. reagan gets a tax reform plan and he is able to

bush and barack obama administration including in the bush white house senior director of afghanistan. mcgurk has led many diplomatic missions in the middle east of the last decade. he led talks with russia over the syria conflict. the discussion this afternoon will be moderated by professor hal brand. he is a columnist from bloomberg opinion and discolor at the american enterprise institute. is the author and editor of many books. he served as special assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic planning from 2015 to 2016. please join me in welcoming a distinguished panel of scholars, and practitioners, this afternoon. [applause] thank you very much and i would like to thank our host for putting on this event. it is a lot of fun to get together with the folks who work to bring this book to fruition and some any of the policymakers to share their insight. it is a pleasure for me to be up here with three gentlemen who are not only involved in decision-making that led to the search and the implementation -- surge and a plumbing presentation. show is that of each of them will have

we've got to remember that bush fires are hardly unknown in australia and while the current bush fires are probably the worst that new south wales has experienced and the current bush fire season has been very extensive, the duration may be unprecedented, in terms of burning out large parts of the country, no, not unprecedented. in terms of death, no, not unprecedented. the black saturday bush fires in victoria killed 173 people. the ash wednesday bush fires of '83 killed 75 people. in the '74 fire season, that burned out more than 100 million hectares compared to 6 million hectares so far this season. look, i'm not one of those people who sees the current bush fires as confirmation of all we've ever feared about the changing climate. i see the current bush fires as the sort of thing that we are always going to be prone to in a country such as ours, the land of droughts and flooding rains as the poet said all those years back. that said, obviously we do have to take sensible measures to reduce emissions and the great thing about australia is that while we're not perhaps the most enthus

bush were supposed to have a one-on-one debate in new hampshire and reagan, without telling bush, invitedf the other candidates, and they all turned up. and george bush was not at his best, in fact he looked like a deer that was caught in the headlights. george bush didn't react well and came out as petulant and petty and he had been tricked and reagan knew exactly what he was doing, and took advantage of this moment. and it changed everything. by the way, that is pretty much the end, that was the end of george herbert walker bush's campaign. >> because reagan didn't only win new hampshire, he went on to win 44 of the next -- >> 44 states. >> that's why new hampshire matters. >> it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to set the timetable for the rest, but it could. and it has in the past. >> i want to squeeze in one more, because there is that famous story of jimmy who. 1980, jimmy carter, saying he would run for president, and the man at the store said jimmy who, he was hard of hearing and didn't catch the whole name, jimmy who and it was a catch phrase. and now 45 years later, pete butt

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and so in the 2nd part of the film we see bush at this decline. the testimony with andrea often marks the beginning of his decline the italian spy francesco buzzy ends up he was convicted over the bologna trade bombing he claimed was heather was a cia agent when you were working on the film you didn't want to get in do not have that metal feel in that question although even i have to say bush said to himself said there was a coup being planned in italy and because of russia in the mediterranean they called it off what do you think of all of them. said that i won as well as bush at the spy with the cia did he collaborate know in a 2 and a half hour film we couldn't tell his whole story would have needed 5 or 6 hours but there was a side to bush in the states after collaborating in the maxi trial he went back to the states and collaborated with the f.b.i. . on all the trials the pizza connection and so on in which a whole series of other mobs does were involved and who had been arrested in those years. yes i don't know if he was collaborating with t

bush going to one. it seems to be a rare occasion and i was hoping that you could tell us a little bit what it is like for a first lady to do that, and did mrs. nixon get much press coverage at the time? i couldn't find much about it and also it was amazing that story about her being in open helicopter. >> that is one of the first things that i really learned and admired about mrs. nixon, the fact that she was the first first lady to go to an active combat zone. i tell you where i learned this, this was while i was working for mrs. bush and we went to the national constitution center and there was an exhibit about first ladies. what struck me is that i did not know that she, and still to this day is the most traveled first lady, 81 countries. no one has eclipsed that. and then, studying her more and peeling back the layers of bravery to go to an active combat zone. she was fearless. in terms of coverage at the time, i am not sure. i will say this. i think that i commend the nixon foundation, and the las

and bush was crushed because he thought he'd set it., was. >> simultaneous translation. >> music has a way of crossing all boundaries. one of the songs that i noticed when i sing, no matter what audience i'm singing to is when i do a song live like you were dying this is one of those songs that i feel very privileged and blessed to be a vessel for that song. i don't feel like that's my song i feel that is a song for everyone and they find a way to relate to that. that's what great music does. i am fortunate in my career that i am able to have songs like that is part of my repertoire. as an artist, that is ultimately what you want to do, is move people and bring people together that they may not have been brought together without a song like that, without a message like that. >> said you ever think about the difference between a political song and a cultural one? >> i don't. i think i just think about good songs and songs that move you. i don't think i would necessarily do a song if it was just meant to be political. i think i would do a

it was just reagan and bush, because that is all bush wanted, was him against reagan.ush sat there on his hands and didn't say a word during this back and forth between the national newspaper and candidate reagan, and reagan was said to have really -- he is not too old for the job. bernie sanders could be his grandfather, but reagan at the time was late 60's, early 70's. but it showed that he was more than a match for whatever was thrown at him. and a lot of people, including his new hampshire campaign guy, jerry carmen said that reagan , already had it won. so there is still talk about what really did it for him. i think reagan showed himself throughout that campaign to be a sharp guy and not too old for the job, and people underestimated him. but i think he watched that movie. and i asked marlon fitzwater once, in the white house he was his press secretary, if he had heard that story. and fitzwater said, yeah. i said has anyone asked the , president about it? i was about to interview him. fitzwater said, no. if i were you, i wouldn't. and i did not have the guts to a

it was just reagan and bush, because that is all bush wanted, was him against reagan. and bush sat there on his hands and didn't say a word during this back and forth between the national newspaper and candidate reagan, and reagan was said to have really -- he is not too old for the job. bernie sanders could be his grandfather, but reagan at the time was late 60's, early 70's. but it showed that he was more than a match for whatever was thrown at him. a lot of people, including his new hampshire campaign guy, said that reagan already had it won. so there is still talk about what really did it for him. i think reagan showed himself throughout that campaign to be a sharp guy and not too old for the job, and people underestimated him. but i think he watched that movie. i asked marlon fitzwater once, was his ite house, he press secretary, if he had heard that story. fitzwater said, yeah. i said, has anyone asked the president about it? i was about to interview him. fitzwater said, no. if i were you, i wouldn't. and i did not have the guts to ask him. but it is in a couple

you talked about bush versus reagan earlier.wed his tough side. this is a debate moderated by the national tell graph, they had paid for this event. the tell graph just really wanted reagan and bush, and when the moderator tried to shut off his microphone, this happened. >> is this on? mr. green, would you ask for me -- i have paid for this microphone -- >> ronald reagan was really good at using the phrase we are paying or i'm paying. in the 1976 primary, he used -- he took advantage of the fact that gerald ford was trying to negotiate a treaty regarding the panama canal. he made himself almost the nominee against a incumbent saying we paid for that. actually he did a bit of a dirty trick. he and george h.w. bush were supposed to have a one on one debate, and reagan invited all the other candidates. george bush was not at his best. he didn't react very well. but he had been tricked. so reagan knew exactly what he was doing, took advantage of this moment. that is pretty much the end of george herbert walker bush's campaign. >> he

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bush and obama on china. i think they counted on dialogue and trying to bring china into the community of nations as a way to respond to that threat. i think it is abundantly clear that did not work. china was going to do what china was going to do. while we are a country that tradees in rules-based and other mechanisms, it is not necessarily that way in china. we got it wrong for a long time. host: how involved with your group in the creation or negotiations, discussions the white house had leading up to this china trade deal? guest: from the early stages and during the campaigns we told all the candidates back in 2016, here is the challenges with china. here are possible ways to respond. we did find president trump and his team were very agreeable in terms of being aggressive to take action. we have seen that in a number of respects. the mechanisms they are using right now, the tariffs in the phase one china deal are a step in that process. i think our advantages to that. in some ways this phase when deal f