he needs a one-on-one debate with george bush to make his case of why he'd be a better nominee than george bush. as the debate negotiations are going on, reagan creeps in the polls and now this table is turned so bush wants the other candidates involved. then the federal election commission steps in and says, no, this newspaper cannot pay for the debate. it's an illegal corporate contribution so the reagan campaign steps up, okay, we'll pay the $3,000 for the debate. now you have again the tables have turned again so that this is now the new hampshire -- the nashua telegraph is only three days before the primary. and reagan is surging in the polls but he hasn't caught george bush yet but he wants the other candidates involved to dilute the anti-reagan vote. bush puts his feet in granite and says absolutely not. these other candidates are not going to be involved. reagan says i'm paying for this. i think they should be involved. so what happens is that you have this famous confrontation at nashua high school. there's 2500 people there. it's hotter than blazes inside. somebody described it -

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, so he calls george bush, and george bush is blown away, no idea. he was convinced like everybody in america gerald ford was coming on the ticket with reagan. >> let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions. it directly falls on that, and goes back to jack kemp. why did his start off rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice presidency? >> there was a lot of affection on the part of the delegates and governor reagan for jack kemp, and that comes through and all the people i talk to and material i went through. there were probably -- the biggest thing that kept jack kemp off the ticket with reagan is that the aides felt like it would be to match to ask the american people to swallow the ticket of a former movie actor and pro football player. it might have been too much to ask the american people in 1980 and that's probably as much as anything because really the delegates would say the vast majority of the delegates but a great number of the delegates really wanted -- really wanted

and he calls george bush is just blown away. had no idea. he was convinced like everybody else in america that gerald ford was going to go on the ticket with reagan. >> so let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions they may have and it directly follows on that and it goes back to jack kemp. why did his star not rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice president? >> there was a lot of affection

guys, wake up, george bush only spent one quarter of what obama has spent in nine months. we are going on $14 trillion in debt. everybody is still looking back at bush. guys, obama has been a disaster financially for this country. he's given our money away to the banks, wall street, car companies, the tarp money was a joke. we are in financial straits right now. host: president obama's nom any has withdrawn his name from the financial reform. a former goldman sachs executive host: back to the phone. win gate, new york carolina. caller: fot caller just called about all the money obama spent. obama's money is coming back in. i know you know better. this bombing thing, i think that was a joke. he tried keep them bringing detainees into new york. that's all that is. thank you. host: baltimore, marlede on the line for inds. go ahead. caller: this has been the perfect decade of reaping what you sew. bush, i don't blame him for being an idiot. i think he's a product of what the ivey league schools are teaching you. i really don't blame him. he's a paun in the whole system that has

guys, wake up, george bush only spent one quarter of what obama has spent in nine months. we are going on $14 trillion in debt. everybody is still looking back at bush. guys, obama has been a disaster financially for this country. he's given our money away to the banks, wall street, car companies, the tarp money was a joke. we are in financial straits right now. host: president obama's nom any has withdrawn his name from the financial reform. a former goldman sachs executive host: back to the phone. win gate, new york carolina. caller: fot caller just called about all the money obama spent. obama's money is coming back in. i know you know better. this bombing thing, i think that was a joke. he tried keep them bringing detainees into new york. that's all that is. thank you. host: baltimore, marlede on the line for inds. go ahead. caller: this has been the perfect decade of reaping what you sew. bush, i don't blame him for being an idiot. i think he's a product of what the ivey league schools are teaching you. i really don't blame him. he's a paun in the whole system that has

president obama and former president george bush talk about volunteer is a at the george bush presidential library. later, astronauts discuss the legacy of the apollo 11 moon mission. on tomorrow's "washington journal," we will speak with clark kent ervin, henry farrell, and a look at the president vacationing in hawaii with ken walsh. >> a rare clips into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversation with 10 supreme court justices about the accord, their work. five days of interviews with supreme court justices starting on monday on c-span. get your own copy of the supreme court on dvd as part of c-span's american icon program. one of the many items available as c-span do.org/store. >> the center section. it is the primary entrance. it is where presidents arrive and depart from. blair house is on the inside block. 1 we 109 room, 70,000 square feet. to put into perspective, we have 5000 square feet larger in the white house is. >> the primary mission is to be a guest home for world leaders to come here. it is used for that purpose. it has never failed. >> since 1942, just about

administrations of presidents carter, reagan, george h.w. bush, president clinton, and george w. bush. that is 33 years. 33 years. and all of a sudden my colleagues want to change our policy on federal funding of abortion. mr. president, we shouldn't be making this type of sweeping policy change in this health care legislation. and the nelson amendment is necessary -- is a necessary addition to the bill in order to protect our current policy and the unborn. i understand that not everyone in this country agrees with my position on abortion. and, again, i know that this issue deeply divides americans on ethical, moral, and religious grounds. while i have said that i don't agree with abortion and believe roe v. wade should be overturned, the nelson amendment -- and this is really important -- does not prevent anyone from seeking an abortion, it does not overturn roe v. wade and it does not place any new restrictions on access to

this didn't happen on george bush's watch, it happened on its watch. its behavior towards the afghan election was a little bit like the famous deer in the headlights, it could see the problem coming but seem mess merized until it was run over. here again, we don't have a time machine and go back and fix it.

reagan taking george bush because of these lingering issues being left unaddressed. this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket where, you know, he had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford it off serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

mcchrystal, petraeus, forget it. >> the were high casualtiein iraq in the summer o2007. >> thiwas george bush's abandoned wathat barack obama wants to picup and finish. there was a popar surge for the war of originallin iraq. there has never been t same as fars afghastanas concerned. if amecan casualtieto start to mountyou will watchhe president's numbers and the democratic suprt for this war, asells republican support, declined dramatilly. >> i wonder what will do in terms ofrones. the pakisnisn the one hand have protested in a token way. on the otherand, it has caused difficties. evan tls me that the cia is dog new things -- >> they are using guys with riflesnot just drones. it was receny reported that we went in and ot -- cia snipers got seven or eigh guys, i believe in paktan. th is really a difficult covert action tpull off. the capacity has increased so we can more of this. having sd that, i am always eptic about this, because presiden are always tempted -- we don't have to send in a whol armies, which does get w smart guys ino get it done. it is tempting for a predent to go for the optio

it does not spring from lloyd's of george w. bush. we were very worried that if the americans went gung-ho with the treaty and started dismantling some of the kyoto peace accord, this could unravel the relationship with russia and have all kinds of repercussions. then there was the anxiety that in developing the european defense initiative with the french that we had been seduced in some way by an incredibly fronting -- incredibly cunning friend that would run into a trap of undermining nato. we came up with a joint draft declaration to put these anxieties to bed, and that was finalized at camp david by the foreign policy adviser and by a rice herself. this was the top of the treaty. one of the things i would say, if i remember correctly from one of the briefings, this is something we need it to do to diffuse -- to defuse this well in advance. otherwise, the kinds of things that we need to talk about are the middle east, the middle east much more than an iraq at the time. >> sanctions were on the agenda, but not something that -- >> n

and i watched the debate and i would think george bush, really didn't do that you go or won that debate. he was very informative. so at the end of the debate i would wait for the postdebate coverage and sure enough they would say things like george bush was really funny. he did a good job on that debate. and i'm looking, going, did they just watch the same -- the media is telling people that you and i get calls of people saying i don't know, it looks like george bush won that debate. they're getting the information from the media. i got that idea then. but then once i saw obama at a convention give his speech back in 2004 i just thought, if you got a chance to run, i was to have the media try to parse what he says. the book just wrote itself. i mean, from the first democratic convention on. the first chapter in the book is called these people. because every network, i just kept hearing that theme, these people. so i said to myself it would be interesting to say if the republican convention they said who are these people, john ensign mccain, these people. and i never heard that. and i he

i was not present in the meeting with tony blair and george bush on january 31, 2003 when we know from weak record of that meeting -- a leaked record of that meeting that i believe to be authentic, the british team said, what about the aftermath? the response was, it is all in hand. and that was it. i am not giving any scoops here, but this is bad public domain for a least a couple of years. officials did try to engage, and the heart of the matter was that we did not insist enough. and on the american side, they did not get their act together. it turned out it was not good enough anyway. >> [inaudible] >> to go back to the question of british influence on the administration. do you feel that because of whatever commitment may have been made in the summer after crawford, that britain's ability to say -- to influence united states policy was -- or would you say that his security council speech was the maximum and central acceptance of the conditions? >> i thought the bush speech was a very good result for us in the united kingdom, as far as it went. it was positive on the u.n. as a whole

george bush said brown was doing a good job when people were drowning in katrina. we don't reduce people to a sound bite and their worst political moment. the system itself is broken. it's dysfunctional. you can't isolate that with napolitano. >> that is why we came out with the director of intelligence to coordinate all of this. and that's his responsibility. >> i'm going to have to have a quick show of hands from all of you. who believes that anyone on the top levels gets fired over this or is this just a big bureaucratic mess? anybody getting fired? >> i think -- >> nobody. >> some lower level person will be fired but the bureaucracy will still be just as incompetent and will run more of your lives every day. >> i hope it changes. >> they should staff these departments with what if not bureaucrats? political appointees? it is an odd statement. >> lively, energetic people who are motivated. >> i'm sure people would be heartened to hear you don't think they're lively or care about the security of the country. >> i don't care if they're heartened or not. they're cl

they have associated them with george bush.g on the republican line from doylesto doylestown, pennsylvania tkpwhrao i would like to say something about your guests. i believe they are the same that are on fox news and haveç spre the sail garbage about iran and said the same things about the war. basically those people have no idea that [inaudible] it was a [inaudible] building and it came down. tkpwhr first of all, we appreciate your joining us. we appreciate both jonathan broder and barbara slaven to be with us but there is the theory that the planes didn't bring down the world trade tower. guest: it is a little early on a sunday morning. i wanted to go back to the early question bucking about this issue of failed states because there is infrastructure out there. we have the i.m.f. and world bank and united nations with all of its many organizations. you have some very good organizations like unicef, world food program that provide all kinds of memb kinds of emergencyç help even places that are falling apart and sometimes at

he worked a while for george bush in the white house as chairman of the council of economic advisers. and i think you really are two very simple answers. one is simply a failure of imagination. a lot of people have likened this to 9/11, and it is a metaphor that makes me uncomfortable because a lot of people died in 9/11 and this hasn't been that kind of event. there were people who said maybe someday some terrorist will seize an airplane, but really the people who defended our country did not think it possible that someone could commandeered three or four airplanes and fly them into the pentagon and the world trade center. this was a similar thing. it simply didn't occur to the people who were responsible for managing the financial system that so much of the financial system could be built on a single premise, that turned out to be wrong. that housing prices across the united states will not fall everywhere. we might have the balls in one community or another but they wouldn't fall everywhere. and it turned out that we had a financial system that was a house of cards built on this ve

president obama and former president george bush talk about volunteer is a at the george bush presidential library. later, astronauts discuss the legacy of the apollo 11 moon mission. on tomorrow's "washington journal," we will speak with clark kent ervin, henry farrell, and a look at the president vacationing in hawaii with ken walsh. >> a rare clips into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversation with 10 supreme court justices about the accord, their work. five days of interviews with supreme court justices starting on monday on c-span. get your own copy of the supreme court on dvd as part of c-span's american icon program. one of the many items available as c-span do.org/store. >> the center section. it is the primary entrance. it is where presidents arrive and depart from. blair house is on the inside block. 1 we 109 room, 70,000 square feet. to put into perspective, we have 5000 square feet larger in the white house is. >> the primary mission is to be a guest home for world leaders to come here. it is used for that purpose. it has never failed. >> since 1942, just about

it does not spring from lloyd's of george w. bush.ricans went gung-ho with the treaty and started dismantling some of the kyoto peace accord, this could unravel the relationship with russia and have all kinds of repercussions. then there was the anxiety that in developing the european defense initiative with the french that we had been seduced in some way by an incredibly fronting -- incredibly cunning friend that would run into a trap of undermining nato. we came up with a joint draft declaration to put these anxieties to bed, and that was finalized at camp david by the foreign policy adviser and by a rice herself. this was the top of the treaty. one of the things i would say, if i remember correctly from one of the briefings, this is something we need it to do to diffuse -- to defuse this well in advance. otherwise, the kinds of things that we need to talk about are the middle east, the middle east much more than an iraq at the time. >> sanctions were on the agenda, but not something that -- >> no, it was not a huge item. it was a l

i said, if presidents are stocks, buy george w. bush. if it moves at all it is going to go up. it cannot go down. i said more seriously, look at grant. he was in the cellar for 100 years and he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by elite historians like henry adams to thought he used the wrong forks, he was put there by a completely converted racists who were the dunning school and they were southerners and it was "the birth of a nation" with footnotes. the insurgents one. i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama?

caller: good morning, george w. bushma.ç host: çthere is a drop to low levels by banks, and the çóbank that once had home loans freely, and many are effectively locked out. and the scarsity has not only hurt homeowners but brought repercussions at a time for improvement hinting at recovery after a recession. thank you for your comments and this the be available in "time magazine" on thursday. next we will look at how insurance for those 65 to 74 how it would work. and first we look back at the past events of the week from cartoonists. >> political commentary, michael frau -- fauntroy, our guest tonight on c-span's "q & a." >> this week on the communicators, more on the wireless industry and a perspective from at&t mobility. "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome maria freese, he's a policy director to conserve social security and medicare. good morning. guest: thank you for inviting us. host: what is where you are reaction from senator reid, to allow those age 64 to buy into medicare, those could poten

under president bush, george h.w., 2.5 million jobs. under bill clinton, 23.1 million jobs. under president bush, and my friend from texas' majority congress that at one point had the house, the senate and the presidency, under his administration, taking into consideration everything that he has talked about, three million jobs. one track record on record. now, what's needed here, heek, is some fair and -- mr. speaker, is some fair and straight forward accounting and not the offbudget stuff that i have heard here during the period of time that i'm here and that i heard from my colleague. what this bill will do and what this rule permits us to discuss is not offbudget kind of accounting, it's sort of like the same kind of offbudget accounting that wall street does, that my friends on the other side seem to think we should do, no, fair and straightforward accounting. my good friend from california that i served with him on the african subcommittee, when we were in the majority, we traveled together, an outstanding person and congress person, but when he came in here, he describ

address. >> lehr: which george bush? we're not in far of war yet wais here. this is a very american ing to do. in fact, the kd of peak moment for thesamerican tropes appeared in th interesting passage where he sd that he rejects the false choice bween realism at only looks at selfnterest and in idealism that would have us go road seeking to impose our valuesn others. he sd no, what i believe in... and then hlaunched into a laundry list of at everybody in the wld conceives of as american values. freedoof religion, freedom of speech, economic freom for financial development, democracy. these are the things that was sisting somehow transcend th division between idealm and realism. well, that's a pretty idealiic laundry list. but 's also very american. it's ectly what john f. kennedy said. it's exactlyhat george w. bush said. >> lehre do you agree with thatmichael? >> well, he quotedohn kennedy at arican university in '63, a speech that was lled a peace speech with an opening tthe soviets, so think that's righ but it also un

they have associated them with george bush.ke. so, it is a constant truck to try to maintain the coalition.ç host: sheila has been waiting on the republican line from doylesto doylestown, pennsylvania tkpwhrao i would like to say something about your guests. i believe they are the same that are on fox news and haveç spre the sail garbage about iran and said the same things about the war. basically those people have no idea that [inaudible] it was a [inaudible] building and it came down. tkpwhr first of all, we appreciate your joining us. we appreciate both jonathan broder and barbara slaven to be with us but there is the theory that the planes didn't bring down the world trade tower. guest: it is a little early on a sunday morning. i wanted to go back to the early question bucking about this issue of failed states because there is infrastructure out there. we have the i.m.f. and world bank and united nations with all of its many organizations. you have some very good organizations like unicef, world food program that provide

you can't say that you are fiscally responsible, criticize george bush for creating all of these problems when his highest level of spending of $455 billion is less than 1/3 of what we have just spent in this year at $1.4 trillion. and when we get the ratio of debts to gross domestic product higher than it has been since the second world war, you know something is wrong and it's not that complicated. this whole idea of employment and what makes job is very straightforward. . i hear democrats beating on the drum saying, we're going to tax that rich man, get his money away from him and give it to everybody. the trouble with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money. guess who you're going to tax? some of those rich men are the guys that own these companies. the men and women, the entrepreneurs that own the companies, many times, the amount of profit the company makes is like their profit. they plow it back into more jobs. now if you tax those people out of their hides, guess what's going to happen? they don't have any money to reinvest in their country -- in their co

of george bush made the decision that co-2 was a danger. and they sent an email over to the white house. an email. the bush e.p.a. saying we have found a danger. but vice president cheney found out that they had sent over an email, and the finding was not going to be finalized until the bush white house accepted that email. so what did they do? vice president cheney ordered that the email not be received in the white house. no email, which gives the consensus of the environmental protection agency of george bush that co-2 is a danger. we won't accept that email. there is a scandal. that's a scandal. the american environmental protection agency has made a finding that co-2 is a danger and vice president cheney says we won't accept it. send the email back. once we get it, we'll have to act on it. there is a scandal. that's the cheney-bush years. holding hands with the saudi prince, please send us more oil. denying the science that their own e.p.a. had developed saying that co-2 is a danger to the health and welfare of our country. that is what

ben bernanke was a high ranking george bush appointee. first on the council of economic advisers, then the chairman of the federal reserve. he's the one that initiated the whole intervention. it was his decision, not congress or the bush administration to give the money to aig. the whole question of the intervention or what was called bailouts began in september. so the description of his impact, yes. i think he made a mistake in the way he did the aig thing. on the whole, what he has done has been constructive. i guess i would say this. he gets partial blame for the fact that the crisis arose, although more went to alan greenspan. but he gets a lot of credit for the way he coped with it. >> larry: ron, what do you make of the selection? >> i think it's pretty neat. he is the most important guy in the world. and anybody who can create trillion of dollars behind the scenes and spend it with no oversight, i mean, that's pretty important. and he is a counterfeiter. he's the chief counterfeiter of all history. and i would say that's very good.

george w. bush, barack obama, newt gingrich, nancy pelosi, the republicans, the democrats, if the free contractors, the unions, michael more, rush limbaugh -- who's to blame? it is a natural question asked. but is it to the right question? all you need to do is visit a local bookstore and go into the current events section which is filled with them. -- filled with villains. i wanted us to appear on the cover of our book in short black many dresses. but my brother dave talk this out of it. there's always the paperback. instead of who is to win, we ask a different question. why do some issues fell and why do some succeed? we look for great successes and monumental failures. we wanted to look for patterns. we wanted to look at the success of the marshall plan to the integration reform and vietnam. we reviewed all of these initiatives. we realized that it would require a small army of individuals who understood the government and were willing to work for free. the answer was clear. we needed cred studen

george bush -- president george bush was a great champion of community health centers an bernie sand -- and bernie sanders in this bill is making sure that we get a very significant increase. thousands of new clinics. so are opportunities for democrats and republicans to work together. i'm going to talk about a way we can create a new marketplace in american health care through these exchanges and get more value for the health care dollar, again, focusing on the opportunity that we see with community health centers for democrats and republicans to team up. and i thank my colleague for his statement. mr. president, and i know because of our work together on health legislation, you share my view that we can continue this effort to bring the senate together, both sides, around key principles of health reform. and i want to do that again this morning by focusing on one of the most transformational and least understood parts of the health care debate. and that is the question of the health insurance exchanges. now, my guess is across the country people are trying to figure out what in the

and the tort bill, i believe that was passed under george of the bush. -- the torque bill, i believe s passed under george w. bush. the deficit, it is like $148,000 per person now. host: thanks for the input this morning. it is christmas morning. here are some photos of the gathering at the church of the nativity in bethlehem. also, soldiers in afghanistan. the pope benedict yesterday's celebrating christmas eve services at the vatican. he was knocked down by a woman in the crowd. you have probably seen some video of this by news programs. he was ok and help back to his feet. that woman is the same woman who tried to reach him at midnight mass last year. favored political story of the year, omaha, neb., here is julie. caller: it is it snowing blizzard in ahman. host: how much snow you have this morning? caller: i think about 11 or 12 inches on my driveway. host: still snowing? caller: oh, yes. i am a true democrat but i am very disappointed -- i know kay bailey hutcheson and the other gop have challenged the constitutional right of this health along -- of this health bill. the what i'

it happen on george bush's watch, but he put it on place. t was thrilling to be in jack kemp's presence. he was soaked abelian and energetic -- energetic. >> george w. bush. >> i'm going to see what i said at washington and lead just before he left. there was a dinner with contributors and i was giving a talk, and they were asking me as a historian, not a conservative, what about this guy? a very negative group of people. and i said if president our stocks, by george w. bush. if it moves at all, it is going to go up. he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by historians like henry adams, by in completely converted racists in the deming school at columbia here in new york city, reconstruction, all southerners, and it was "birth of a nation with footnotes." and we will see, but bush at least made it possible for insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama. >> i went down to the inauguration. i was doing that for the news hour, and i did that work the news hour, and there is an historic quality which never can be taken away. it is on

both of them sat in front of george bush.u are going to do something like that and make a decision like that, a few need to have a direction laid out when you made that decision in this particular case. he simply arrived, went to a meeting and declared it over and went to the debate and completely undercuts people's confidence in his ability to make economic decisions which is difficult anyway because of his statement that the economy wasn't a strong area. the other element when you look at assumptions, i will do this in contrast. the way people for example consume -- dramatically different. in 1980 when reagan got elected fifty-two million viewers watched network news. by the time you hit the 2006 elections when republicans lost the majority that dropped to 26.one million. there was a huge population growth. the way people got their news has structurally changed. i can't begin to tell you how many people are involved with campaigns, worry nightly about what the network news is going to cover. it is cable or the blogs or the

and the tort bill, i believe that was passed under george of the bush. -- the torque bill, i believe that was passed under george w. bush. the deficit, it is like $148,000 per person now. host: thanks for the input this morning. it is christmas morning. here are some photos of the gathering at the church of the nativity in bethlehem. also, soldiers in afghanistan. the pope benedict yesterday's celebrating christmas eve services at the vatican. he was knocked down by a woman in the crowd. you have probably seen some video of this by news programs. he was ok and help back to his feet. that woman is the same woman who tried to reach him at midnight mass last year. favored political story of the year, omaha, neb., here is julie. caller: it is it snowing blizzard in ahman. host: how much snow you have this morning? caller: i think about 11 or 12 inches on my driveway. host: still snowing? caller: oh, yes. i am a true democrat but i am very disappointed -- i know kay bailey hutcheson and the other gop have challenged the constitutional right of this health along -- of this health bill. the

george bush, president george bush was a great champion of community health centers and bernie sanders now in this bill is making sure that we get a very significant increase, thousands of new clinics. so there are opportunities for democrats and republicans to work together and i'm going to talk about a way we can create a new market place in american health care through these exchanges and get more value for the health care dollar, and focusing on the opportunity that we see with community health centers for democrats and republicans to team up, and i thank my colleague for his statement. mr. president, and i know because of our work together on health legislation, you share my view that we can continue this effort to bring the senate together on both sides around the key principles of health reform, and i want to do that again this morning by focusing on of one of the most transformational and least understood parts of the health care debate, and that is the question of the health insurance exchanges. my guess is across the country people are still trying to figure out what in the w

it went on under bill clinton and it went on under george bush.there is plenty of blame to go around. i don't think -- if you look, i don't think you would find too many innocent people in washington. one thing that i will say, and that's republicans in the house, during the clinton administration, we warned that these no-down payment loans, and extending loans to fannie and freddie and a lot of banks to people with bad credit without any money down and we did warn about that. we said that this was going to create a disaster. i don't think anybody knew the magnitude of that disaster. yeah, i think what's important, and this is where i think we can all come together is where do we go from here? ,and, you know, to the caller, i would say, ok, all these mistakes were made and there were bailouts made, but do you want to continue the bailouts? that's what i have to say to the caller and ask her -- i don't know if she is still on the line, but i would say do you want to continue to bail these companies out when they fail? one thing that i think is impo

with the leadership of former president george w. bush members of both parties in congress and the american public including many in our audience today we have made america the world's leader in fighting the global hiv/aids pandemic. the pepfar program and other international efforts have given millions of people access to treatment services were done previously existed. and it may president obama announces the administration will build on the successes bedevilling pepfar funding over the second six years, expanding support for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, ramping up assistance from internal chaliff khalfan importantly integrating these programs in order to better respond to the lives people live and the health challenges they face. holding the international aids conference in the united states in 2012 will give us an opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments in addressing hiv/aids but also give us an opportunity to learn from our global partners. the president is thrilled the international aids society will hold this

george w. bush declared a war on terrorism, lead us to a war in afghanistan, iraq, used very harsh measures against terrorism. in 2004 i think andy would agree with this, george bush was re-elected largely by people who may have been concerned about his other policies, but were worried about terrorism. 2080 t very unlikely that barack obama would have been nominated by the democrats if he were not so against the war in iraq, able to benefit from an anti-war sentiment. so if 2 2001, if those attacks had not happened, our decade would have been very different. >> andy, why not the economy, this is pocketbook, close to people's heart and we had an incredible crash at the end of the decade. >> yes, the economy t wasn't only 9/11, 9/11 was the defining moment. but this was a decade that started out bad, and then went to really worse in the 19 -- in 1999 64% said the country was -- the national economy was in good shape. by 2001 into was down to 36%. in 2009 it's down to 11%. we had a decade where the ame

the economy went into a tailspin under the administration of george w. bush. official rate of just around 10% right now does masked the deeper and wider unemployment. i would say that we are now looking at a situation where the stimulus package from the obama administration as has been ward by others to be inadequate. there has been a bailout of wall street, not relief for main street or for homeowners under water. what we need is a progressive populism that really can negate the charges coming from the right that some of the democratic party is elitist. guest: we have had progressive policies in this country since, actually before the new deal beginning with president wilson. particularly in the last 30 years when the federal government took over officially, responsibility for maintaining the initial growth, we have seen what happens with big government. you get big problems and is the ability to take care of them over time. now we see the fruits of too much government. guest: the real feel that trickle-down economics under president reagan during the 1980's

. >> george w. bush. >> i am going to say what i said at washington and lee shortly after -- just before he left office. i was giving a talk and there was a dinner with contributors. they were asking me not as a conservative but as a historian. what about this guy? very - group of people. i said, if presidents are stocks, buy george w. bush. if it moves at all it is going to go up. it cannot go down. i said more seriously, look at grant. he was in the cellar for 100 years and he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by elite historians like henry adams to thought he used the wrong forks, he was put there by a completely converted racists who were the dunning school and they were southerners and it was "the birth of a nation" with footnotes. the insurgents one. i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama? >> i went down to the inauguration. i was doing that for "the newshour." there was a historic quality to that which can never be taken aw

it was more of a rejection of republicans and george w. bush.these policy numbers. you have a tendency to overreach, people do. the over-interpret the results of an election and what it means to the next election. you have to ratchet it back a little bit and not push it to corporafar. >> since you have been through the 2006 and 2000 elections and to see the parallels between those previous elections and is one and the numbers look very similar now, what differences do you say? do you see this going down the same path as what happened to republicans will happen to democrats? >> i think it is different. it is different because you have 10 months before the election. we saw a lot going on in 1994. 2006 and 2008, we knew what would happen in 1994, we did not really know there was going to be that much of a sweep into the last couple of months of the election. there is much more time. democrats are in control of the government. things can happen that would make people believe the country is headed in the right direction. time is one thing, the amount

george w. bushbarack obama, newt gingrich, nancy pelosi, the republicans, the democrats, the greedy contractors, the unions, michael moore, rush limbaugh. who's to blame? it's a natural question to ask. but is it the right question to ask? whenever something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to find someone to blame. all you need to do is go visit a local book store and go into the current events section. it's filled with villains. >> i wanted to appear on the cover of the book in short mini-dresses. but there's always the paperback version. so instead of who's to blame, we asked the question why do some big initiatives fail and why do some succeed? to answer that question, we studied more than 75 major undertakings since world war ii to look for both great successes and monumental failures. we looked at everything from the success of the marshall plan to the struggles of immigration reform. we looked at the wars on poverty, the wars on inflation, to real wars in iraq and vietnam. now, when we beg

password 2004, the son of a president, a nephew, george p. bush son of the florida and governor, a hispanic, a biracial marrying a white woman in maine interestingly it is an interesting story because their race of george p. bush and his wife, so far i can tell is white, was never ever mentioned in any of the news reports. but the portland sunday telegram actually ran an editorial noticing that the state was 97 percent white and the children in the state because of that lack of demographic universe -- diversity was missing out on something important. four out of 10 teenagers have dated somebody of a different race. not irish boy dtv itoh younger. [laughter] three out of 10 say these are serious relationships. interracial marriage has exploded in the united states today. barack obama got it. he understood in 2008 that his race was not a liability but in assets in this new demographic and fire met. he said i think if you tell people we have a president in the white house on the shores of lake which iran and day sister half indonesian married to a ch

bush administration. at 9:00. henry tarel at george washington university discusses different and the obama's family vacation with ken walsh and previous presidents vacations all ahead on "washington journal". . . host: want to talk about who getsjñ on these watch lists on airplanes. we want to find out your opinions and your thoughts. you can also send an e-mail at journal@cspan.org. here is the headline in the newspaper. yesterday's airplane landed at the detroit metro airport after a nigerian men allegedly tried to ignite explosives. the suspects leg was burned and he was subdued by passengers and already it is being discussed by members of the administration as well as members of congress. this is the lead story in the detroit free press, nigerian man is accused of trying to blow airliner. -- blow up an airliner. they have identified the suspect. he is a 23-year-old nigerian national. it was unclear friday why he allegedly wanted to attack the flight already from amsterdam. passengers subdued him as he allegedly tried to detonate a

, george w. bush. what that means is if i join and i sign an average four-year contract, and i serve a tour or two tours or whatever and i come back, and i have got a work or two weeks left to my contract the military has the right to say, sorry, national emergency. your country needs you, you're going to afghanistan. right now the most recent pentagon figures are that 6% of the troops in iraq and afghanistan are stop-loss. more than 200,000 soldiers stop-loss since september 11, 2001. this is not exactly helping morale, and you can understand why. in addition we have had as of last year more than 43,000 troops already diagnosed with either severe ptsd or traumatic brain injuries or other debilitating medical conditions that have already listed them as technically unfit for d eployment. more than 43,000 of those troops have been deployed anyway. so then how does this translate into, what does this look like on the ground over in iraq and afghanistan? by october 2007 the army reported that approximatel

in 2004 karl rove said to president bush, if the question is terrorism the answer is george bush. that worked. it termed a viet nam war veteran into someone tough enough to take on the terrorists. the democrats have to find a way to turn this in a better direction by the midterm point. >> could i come back to you on something joe said, that somehow in this constantly changing battle the democrats moved ahead in terms of their use of technology. what can we expect from the republican party in the midterm? >> i think the best place to look is in virginia new jersey in the gubernatorial elections. i know in virginia wheat out surpassed -- we outsurpassed the vote -- it is coupled with a very disciplined campaign led by bob mcdonnell. cho is correct, the motivation of those out of party -- joe is correct. on also think that it has to do with real challenges. people have problems at home. when you look at unemployment and it is at a 10%. they say the unofficial rate, is working part-time jobs or giving up is probably closer to 20%. that is extraordinary. everybody who is not out of a j

. >> george w. bush. >> i am going to say what i said at washington and lee shortly after -- just before he left office. i was giving a talk and there was a dinner with contributors. they were asking me not as a conservative but as a historian. what about this guy? very - group of people. i said, if presidents are stocks, buy george w. bush. if it moves at all it is going to go up. it cannot go down. i said more seriously, look at grant. he was in the cellar for 100 years and he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by elite historians like henry adams to thought he used the wrong forks, he was put there by a completely converted racists who were the dunning school and they were southerners and it was "the birth of a nation" with footnotes. the insurgents one. i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama? >> i went down to the inauguration. i was doing that for "the newshour." there was a historic quality to that which can never be taken aw