i only had two living presidents when i was president, gerald ford and richard nixon, and they helped say like fraternity brothers having graduated from the same school. >> stephen: was there a hazing? >> i went through a hazing when i ran against gerald ford, but later, when i defeated him, subsequent to that, he and i became, according to the historians, the two closest friends that ever graduated from the white house. >> stephen: are they right about that? >> they're right. >> stephen: when president obama was inaugurated, there's a photo of all five living presidents standing with each other. >> yes. >> stephen: you're standing a little bit off from everybody. do you enjoy hanging out with the other presidents? >> yeah, i really do, yeah. >> stephen: do you guys get together and do things? >> in the south, we don't get all that close to other men, you know. [ laughter ] >> stephen: jimmy carter, thank you so much! president jimmy carter. his book is "a call to action." we'll be right back. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] it's built to be as fast as it is strongor advi

was filled with this excitement about the possibility of president reagan selecting gerald r. ford i was stunned at the thought it's like sticking four hands on the steering wheel you're going to end up putting the truck in the ditch my phone for it was governor reg he said don i want you to know that i decided to have george bush be my vice presidential nominee i said faith and asked i am so relieved that you decided not to have gerald ford he said oh no don gerry and i decided together that it wouldn't be a good idea. it seems to me that if that decision had gone a slightly different way you would have been vice president and future president of the united states that's possible. that's terrific stuff that's terrific stuff great so how long it take to put this together . you know thirty hours with him out well was it take to do it was a two hours yeah thanks of while. he was interviewed over a period of a year and then we were editing as we went along and then a period of time after that they're hard to make you know are i labor over them why do you do them. i'm an investigator w

prior to jimmy carter was gerald ford and never won a presidential election. prior to that year richard nixon resigned in disgrace, prior to that lbj whose presidency went so bad he declined to pursue his party's nomination for president, lbj replaced a president who was killed in office. if you go back before eisenhower, harry truman talked about the presidency, like the great white jail. a prisoner of the presidency. truman has highest disapproval rating of any president basically until george w. bush. go back to the 20s, woodrow wilson's presidency, two term end in despair, two or three strokes in the final 18 to 24 months of his presidency. he will go after reagan. george h. w. bush, elected 1988 largely because as anybody over 30 will remember largely because it was the best way to get a third term of reagan. he won one term, that was the. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote roughly because of the third-party candidacy of who? ross perot. clinton in '96 didn't get over 50% of the vote. 2000, george w. bush gets in without ev

now as you heard from my friend jeff lord, gerald ford went on to lose to a very weak democratic candidateer. reagan went on to win in 1980 and 1984 to the a distant landslide in american history. popular vote, i would remind karl rove and the electoral college. [applause] having campaigned personally for reagan and a 9076 and 1980, i want you to listen. i feel certain he would be enormously proud of you.

jimmy carter and gerald ford did the least )-right-paren of 1976. they all commonly cited the founders, nixon and clinton around 100 lbj was the highest. ronald reagan cited the founders 850 times. 850 times. president obama doesn'presidente founders very often. he gave a fourth of july statement where he referred to the founders as men of property and wealth. but he would prefer to founders in their schooling language. here is the 1964 time for speech. alexander hamilton warned us the nation that can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. choosing the high road cannot eliminate that risk. should they have told the children to live in slavery rather than the wilderness? should christ have refused the cost and should the patriots of the concorde bridge fire the shot heard around the world and are we to believe that all of the markers in history died in vain? you step up and expect the risk. tom paine said these are the times that try men's souls. we have the power to begin the world al over again. and he beat he could do

in 1975, to protect consumers from dramatic oil price hikes, president gerald ford put ceilings on allestic oil. this discouraged domestic production and left us more dependent on imports. then in december 1978, iran, racked by political upheaval, curtailed production of crude oil. cut off from this major source, oil prices to the united states again more than doubled. frustrated consumers were reacquainted with the energy crisis as long gas lines reappeared. oil suppliers put pressure on the government to decontrol gas and oil. mr. schlesinger, what turned this around and made decontrol acceptable? first, there was the opportunity created by the fall of the shah. public concern was rising when production ended in iran. governmental concern was rising even more rapidly. alarm ultimately became more than alarm-- almost panic in the industry-- to acquire additional supplies. some action had to be taken by the government. by june of 1979, president jimmy carter announced the gradual phaseout of controls on domestic oil. once controls were lifted, did the wildcatters jump out to start dril

now as you heard from my friend jeff lord, gerald ford went on to lose to a very weak democratic candidate named jimmy carter. reagan went on to win in 1980 and 1984 to the a distant landslide in american history. popular vote, i would remind karl rove and the electoral college. [applause] having campaigned personally for reagan and a 9076 and 1980, i want you to listen. i feel certain he would be enormously proud of you. in fact, i think he would've been thrilled to that in front of you right here and thank you for all you are doing and all you have done and congratulate you on this fifth anniversary of the tea party movement. and i think it is appropriate to end my comments with a truism from president reagan which is the last paragraph from my book which most of you have heard by now but i am going to repeat it anyway. for those of you who have not. reagan wrote and said this many freedom is never more than one generation away from not pass itwe did in the blood for and it must be for them to do the same or will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the un

he is in the oval office with gerald ford, henry kissinger. what did you learn? his answer -- some things work out. some things don't. that didn't. vietnam asook at unnecessary, a terrible mistake that cost the lives of 58,000 americans and millions of people in southeast asia. , i don't know how history is going to view any of us. my guess is that we will see this recent episode in american history, maybe not exactly the same but in a similar way. tavis: as hopelessly inarticulate as i have been tonight, -- >> you have been fine. tavis: as inarticulate as i have been, i do think that it is worth you seeing. you will determine whether or not you come away with the same blank stare that i did. "the unknown known" in theaters april 2 in los angeles and new york. then it rolls out across the country. i want to make sure i get a copy of this to put in my library. maybe in five years i will get what i didn't get the first time. >> by the way, i hate to contradict you but i think you did get it. tavis: if you say so. [laughter] good to see you. coming up, a conversatio

now as you heard from my friend jeff lord, gerald ford went on to lose to a very weak democratic candidaterter. reagan went on to win in 1980 and 1984, the biggest landslide in american history. popular vote, i would remind karl rove and the electoral college. [applause] having campaigned personally for reagan and in 1976 and 1980, i want you to listen. i feel certain he would be enormously proud of you. in fact, i think he would've been thrilled to that in front of you right here and thank you for all you are doing and all you have done and congratulate you on this fifth anniversary of the tea party movement. and i think it is appropriate to end my comments with a truism from president reagan which is the last paragraph from my book which most of you have heard by now but i am going to repeat it anyway. for those of you who have not. reagan wrote and said this many times, "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did not pass it in the blood flow and it must be fought for and protected for them to do the same or will spend our sunset years telling our children wh

in september, president gerald ford asked congress to join him in a battle against inflation.first priority is to work with you to bring inflation under control. inflation is domestic enemy number one. schoumacher: the federal reserve was also committed to fighting inflation and, under the chairmanship of arthur burns, held to a policy of keeping money tight. robert c. holland served on the fed's policy-making board of governors. when the federal reserve wants to fight inflation, what it does is provide funds -- basic funds we call reserves, funds to the banking system -- less fast than bank customers are asking for money and credit to finance the kind of spending they're trying to do in this inflationary period. that means banks have to hold back a bit in terms of the amount they lend, may have to sell some assets, sell some securities to adjust. that puts a little more restraint on borrowers, they don't get quite as much money. banks typically charge higher interest rates. those higher interest rates lead borrowers and investors of all sorts to think a bit more before they d

after nixon left and gerald ford became president, the joke was that secretary of state kissinger wouldegin his proofings to the new president by saying, mr. president as i'm sure you're aware, he would just blurt out you probably don't know this but -- what he lacked in finesse he more than made up for in character and courage. when nixon operatives told almost to remove batter gate files from the justice department and bury them at the cia, he told them in so many words "make me." in the final days of watergate he became so concerned with richard nixon's stability that he ordered safeguards to prevent the white house from issuing direct orders to the military. it was years before any of that became known but in one of the country's darkest hours he was one of those who held the government together. back in a minute. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the te

more than any other, jimmy carter and gerald ford did the least. which is odd because they were the bicentennial presidents. they were right around, right, 1976. presidents kennedy, nixon, lyndon johnson and bill clinton all commonly cited the founders, about 100-200 times. kennedy, 160, nixon and clinton around 100. lbj was the highest, 240. reagan cited the founders 850 times. 850 times. one of my favorite examples here, and by the way, president obama does not cite the founders very often. [laughter] he doesn't. i mean, i've checked this. and there was a -- he gave a -- of. [laughter] he gave a fourth of july statement just a few years ago where he referred to the founders as, quote, men of property and wealth, unquote. men of profit and wealth. but reagan would refer to the founders in this glowing language. here's the 1964 time for choosing speech. alexander hamilton warned us that a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. admittedly, there is a risk in any course that we follow. choosing the high

richard nixon and gerald ford. they were acquaintances of mine. kept them briefed until richard nixon said i don't need any more. i'm getting too many. i would say that is the relationship that president obama has had with his immediate predecessors. i have been out of office 35 years. i am ancient history. >> but you travel around the world. they talk to you. >> that's true. >> it is not like you are holdout in georgia. >> i wanted to talk about them abouti wanted to talk women tonight. >> [indiscernible] >> it has been aggressive since i left office to have an equal relationship with palestinians and arabs on the one side, and israel on the other. we have had some controversial things we have done. regularly with hamas. we have counseled with the palestinians. when i go to israel, i meet with the leaders of the israeli government. i also meet with palestinians. not politically popular in the united states. i wrote a book that was not very attractive. that may be one reason why we don't consult. [indiscernible] i regret it. i'll rather have a mor

gerald ford was president and the united states was celebrating its bicentennial.country was also going through what was widely regarded as a sexual revolution. that's when moore's troubles began. >> i was convicted of killing my wife in 1976 in the state of iowa. >> moore's wife, terri williams, was a dancer at a local club when their relationship began. >> i was just a customer. i just walked in off the street. we met, hit it off pretty decently, you know, and ended up -- well, we picked each other up actually, so we went to terri's apartment and made love and enjoyed each other's company, you know. we got married. then i began to have thoughts about terri. i thought maybe terri was a little bit different, you know. >> how so? >> i felt that the person was more like a man than like a woman, and i thought that the person maybe had been a man. >> why? >> from feeling into this area of their body, you know. i thought that's very similar to me, you know. it's like the person has had their sex organ removed. that's what i thought, you know, but i wasn't completely sur

ronald reagan challenged terrell ford, the establishment republican president -- chal lenged gerald ford, the establishment republican president. one of the republican establishment arguments at the time was only an establishment, moderate republican can win. we've heard this argument many times. and of course, president ford lost. about a month after that defeat, the "new york times" sat down with then governor reagan. "reagan urgesays, party to save itself by declaring its conservative beliefs." ardor --"a political party is not a -- let me begin with a reagan joke. about the greatlk baseball manager, frankie fish, who sent a rookie out to play centerfield. the rookie promptly dropped the first fly ball that was hit to him. on the next lake, he let a grounder go between his feet. then he threw the ball to the wrong base. frankie came out of the dugout, took the glove, and said, i'll show you how to play this position. he missed it completely, fell down when he tried to chase it, and told the rookie, you've got centerfield so screwed up, nobody can play it. [laughter] now, with that in

as you know, richard next even and gerald ford. i kept him briefed every month until richard nixon said i don't need anymore briefing i'm getting too many. and i would say that that's a relationship perhaps that president obama has had with his immediate predecessors both democratic and republican. i've been out of office 35 years so i'm ancient history. >> rose: but you travel around the world and people respect you and they talk to you and you're a member of the elders. >> that's true. >> rose: and so it's not like you're hold up in georgia. >> since we're being frank i wanted to talk about women tonight more. >> rose: we did. >> but the other thing is that when the carter center has been quite aggressive since i left office in trying to have an equal rationship with palestinians and arabs on the one side and israel and israel supporters on the other. so we have some controversial things we've done. we did meet quite regularly with hamas as well as fatah and we have can counseled with the palestinian and when i been go to israel

his response, remember ronald reagan primaried gerald ford. fighting is okay. we need to have a more principled person win. there's definitely that tension is playing out here. less on stage and more in the private discussions between how do we win and how do we make sure we have a -- people here want a pure candidate, but they want a purist principled candidate who also can win. >> well, that is interesting. so i wonder when we think back to that, the famous republican party autopsy after the 2012 election, and they -- immigration was one of the few issues they sing ld out. talked about gay marriage and gay rights being a gateway issue for younger voters, hey, if you're on the wrong side of this issue, they're not going to look at you when it come to any other issues. so when you're talking about thinking a little bit more strategically and talking a little bit more strategically, are there particular issues that you're hearing republicans -- you're hearing conservatives at this conference taking a different tone on than we have heard for the last few years? >

aside, theolitics uss gerald ford is a $13 billion product.that seem like an expensive price tag? it is a massive piece of equipment. >> the thing about $13 billion for a platform that will be sailing in 2065, if you start to think about the return on the investment and the missions that will do over the next 50 years, i am a business where i know in 2066, the ship is going to come back to our ship yard. for 50illion platform years, i think that is not a bad investment. most incredible technology? things in the ship. we have upgraded the platform -- the last time we did a design for the carriers was in the 1970's. tohink the ability distribute electricity through the ship is so much better than it was before and the ability to take people off the ship is the most important thing we have done. we will operate a platform that has our power density and more electricity than any form we have ever had with half the people that used to do it. >> can you make big advances to cruising speed? the time he can spend out on the open sea? >> these are nucl

she's like the new gerald ford. that's what she is. she's gerald ford. >> what else did you like? can you stick around? >> yeah, i'll do whatever you want. >> we'll have more with larry the cable guy. >> do you have shirts with sleeves? >> i was going to wear some today, but it's kind of cold out. there is three dogs outside stuck to hydrants. >> right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the oscar selfy that crashed the oscars or our selfy here? >> you've got to like that. we want to start on a russian invasion. the military forces of put *. deeply entrenched i entrenched e with more forces on the way. there is some drama yet on this as we start a fresh week here in america's newsroom. martha: good morning, everybody. ukraine calling it a declaration of war. the president of the ukraine says russia is trying to kill

host: under the gerald ford administration. i was asked to look at some immigration issues. host: it was just by happenstance or not your background? guest: i was a policy analyst. it stuck with me. host: you became the ins commissioner during the clinton administration? guest: yes. fw librarian tweets in -- what would be the policy implications of that? i think that is not going to happen. congress will not do that. a durable system for a long time. if people are here illegally for , they are eligible to apply for citizenship as long as they have not violated any laws, have learned to speak english, and are familiar with the civics and system of government of our country. that is a system that has proved very, very effective. people whoe putting are here as noncitizens into a legal framework where they can do that. right now, we have a very large population that is prevented from doing that. yes, they have violated the law. yes, they should be accountable for that. but at the end of the day, it is unrealistic to imagine that we can remove them all from the country and a lar

governor reagan was on his way to winning the republican nomination for president, former president gerald fordent to "new york times" to say the kinds of things that are said of the tea party today. ronald reagan said president ford was "too extreme," and "a sore loser." i am quoting, "a very conservative republican cannot win a national election." as you may recall, ford had lost to jimmy carter and reagan not only beat carter in a landslide in 1980 and he won reelection by 49 states. that was george bush -- sorry. [laughter] sorry. which lastly sent me to the great friend margaret thatcher. there was a reason ronald reagan won two landslides and margaret thatcher was the longest-serving british prime minister of the 20th century winning three times in a row. drawing a line in the sand that clearly separate right from left. that is not only the key to victory, they were right about this and the establishment was wrong. president reagan referred to establishment republicans of the type the tea party does battle with everyday as internal order republicans. mrs. thatcher summed up the term and c

gerald ford things yesterday and richard schweikert as his running mate, a liberal republican. damaged him with conservatives. you remember that sid. a stack of angry letters are like two feet tall. >> i went through them. spend what we did in 1980? george h. w. bush, a catastrophic mistake in my opinion but as david said, politics is a crapshoot but it's not possible to tell perspective of how things will work out. which leads to proposition number two. the old axiom, perfect is the enemy of the good. the new left as david can tell you completely ignore that in the 1960s and '70s as they were breaking the democratic party. it damaged that party given for decades to be learned to live better. which is why they're back on top today. the word -- i'm we were about to make that same mistake. not so much about issues. issues are not on the ballot. people are on the ballot. like david, you have to get people who can sell the ideas, the ideas don't sell themselves in a vacuum. thank you. [applause] >> i agree. this thing about the education department, i had a friend who is a democrat

security adviser to presidents carter and briscoe kroft that served in the same position for resident gerald ford and george h. w. bush take part in this event. the center for strategic and international studies hosted yesterday's event. >> thank you all for coming. and just to get this going, we are going to talk about russia obviously with two man i'm proud of today are not just longtime friends, but at various times over the 45 years that i've been in washington committee has been very good sources. [laughter] sometimes on the record, sometimes maybe not. general scowcroft and doctor brezinski, columnist and author i greatly admire roger of "the new york times." this audience is certainly going to need no introduction for any of them but in case there is a visitor from mars what they say doctor brezinski is a former u.s. national security adviser to president jimmy carter, counselor and trusty of csis at the johns hopkins served as the state department and many other prestigious foreign policy positions. general scowcroft also former national security adviser and served with president ford and

governor reagan was on his way to winning the republican nomination for president, former president gerald ford "the new york times" to save governor reagan -- to say of governor reagan the kinds of things that are said of tea party today. ronald reagan, said president ford, was too extreme. he was a sure loser. because a -- and i'm quoting here -- a very conservative republican can't win a national election, unquote. as you may recall, president ford had lost to jimmy carter four years earlier. ronald reagan not only beat jimmy carter in a 44-state landslide eight years later, four years later he won 49 states. that was george bush -- no, sorry. [laughter] which, lastly, brings me to president reagan and his great friend, margaret thatcher. there is a reason ronald reagan won two landslides and margaret thatcher was the longest serving british prime minister of the 20th century, winning three elections in a row. both believed with the tea party in drawing a line in the sand that clearly separates right from left. that is not only the key to victory, they were right about in the establishment -

if you'll recall in is the 76 -- in 1976, ronald reagan challenged gerald ford, the establishment republicansident, for renomination. he lost in a very close vote, took it all the way to the republican convention in kansas city. one of the republican establishment arguments at the time was that only an establishment, moderate republican can win. we've heard this argument many times. and, of course, president ford lost. about a month after that defeat, "the new york times" sat down with then-former governor reagan in his office in los angeles, and this article is headlined "reagan urges his party to save itself by declaring its conservative beliefs." and he says in here a political party is not a fraternal order. a party is something where people are bound together by a shared philosophy. so with that in mind, let me begin with a reagan joke. he liked to say -- he had a lot of them. he liked to talk about the great baseball manager frankie frisch who sent a rookie out to play center field. the rookie promptly dropped the first fly ball that was hit to him. on the next play, he let a grounder

what also didn't mention gerald ford delaying a major weapons ship additional in 1975?months when it refused to disengage from sinai land, and ford's concurrent threats to call in israel to return the 67 borders which aipac was able to stymie. later he tells readers that george bush senior who went on national tv to block israel's request for tender and in loan guarantees and didn't -- when vice president want to say judicial both after bombing iraq the reactor and after invading lebanon, that he was pro-israel. chomsky said he was pro israel, israelis would find it very ironic but as medevac -- i believe he's a circle errors and omissions on chomsky's part are not accidental any more than those of goodman or dennis the quick answer them with the truth, this conference is a way to begin. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up is allen brownfeld, he is a syndicated columnist and editor of the quarterly journal of the american council for judaism. [applause] >> thank you. it's a great pleasure to be here and to meet many of my longtime readers in the washington report

jimmy carter was perfect and as an american, i'm grateful, even though we have worked like hell for gerald fordan of him in the white house, historically, what a great anecdote for the nixon saga. >> plooolitically it's what you with what you got. he never been to washington and never been a lawyer and never knew anybody big. he was religious and played those cards against the liberals he beat. >> let's not talk about the christie report now. >>> first the diane sawyer interview. how did he perform? >> i was on the air. i didn't see it. >> mika is going to talk about obamacare and then we will talk about the report. >> okay! >> you can talk about your obamacare. go ahead. >> thank you. >>> the affordable care act -- >> i'm just going to sit here and stew. go ahead. >>> signaling that obamacare may be on the mend after the troubled rollout. >> who wrote this script? >> me! president obama announced yesterday that more than 6 million americans, 6 million enrolled for coverage. that exceeds the government's revised goal but falls short of the initial target of 7 million by monday's march 31st dead

elect conservatives ideologically, moderate temperamentally, and no coincidence moderates like gerald fordthe word conservative can mean many different things. what does it say about a group like cpac, the most popular speaker they had, is a moran, sarah palin. i mean, she -- she received a reception at that group that took the roof off the place, sophomoric, nearly libelist, not amusing. what does it say about that group? >> yeah. >> well, you're just not being nice. >> well, back on the ted cruz kerfuffle. in terms of saying something -- >> you owe her an apology for calling her that. >> no, something more -- when you talk about the people who are real players in this, ted cruz on the bob dole -- >> here's the -- he would be nice -- mike barnicle gets the bus and drives it right off the cliff. >> you should have let me talk, and the bus wouldn't have been driven off the street. >> go ahead. >> ted cruz should have cleaned that up immediately. it was a dumb thing to say. i say something, we talk off the cuff here on friday, that was ridiculous, and i insulted veterans. and first thing, i

now, as you heard from my friend, jeff lord, gerald ford to a very weak democratic candidate named jimmycarter. to win in 1980 and in 1984 to my two of the biggest landslides in modern history -- i would remind karl , the popular vote and the electoral college. [applause] having campaigned personally for reagan in 1976 and in 1980, i want you to listen to me. i feel certain he would be enormously proud of you. in fact, i bet he would have been thrilled to stand before you right here and thank you for all you are doing, and all you , and congratulate you on this fifth anniversary of the tea party. is appropriate to end my comments with a truism from president reagan, which is the last paragraph of my book, "liberty and tyranny," which most of you have heard by now, but i will repeat it anyway for those who have not. reagan wrote and said this many times. freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ourid not pass it to children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. or one day we will spend our sunset years telling o