one stray mentioned by me from gerald ford launched him into a 15 missed it-- of that ford aircraft carriersin the new suspension systems they have got he delved into the technical mechanics and i had to confess to be lost, but struck by how careless he was and how engaging he can be. you know, he does have a sense of humor, but again it's this clip western laconic dry wit and sometimes his eyes will to you as much as his mouth does. >> host: i always felt like he was looking out for me and i think-- people might not understand what, i mean, and maybe it is a westerner thing, but my grandfather-- i did not growing up-- grew up knowing the cheney's. my family is from the other side of the state in the black hills closer to mount rushmore in south dakota, but my grandfather who is very important to me in my life with a republican county commissioner. growing up in wyoming, like everyone is republican for the most part, so when you leave and for the first time if you go east of the mississippi your eyes are awakened to a different line of thinking and thought, so when i get to the white house a

one strain mention of me of gerard ford launched him into a 15 minute disposition on the new class of gerald r ford aircraft carriers, the the new suspension systems they have. he delved into the technicalities of it. but i was struck by how engaging he can be. he does have a sense of of humor. again is this clips, western, dry wit. sometimes his eyes will tell you as much as his mouth the. >> host: i was felt like he was looking out for me. people might not understand dining, maybe it is a western thing, but my grandfather, i didn't grow up knowing the cheney's, my families from the other side of the state in the black hills. my grandfather was who is very important to me in my life was a republican commissioner, growing up in wyoming like everyone is republican for the most part. when you leave them for the first time if you go east of the mississippi your eyes are awakened to a different line of thinking and thoughts. so when i get to the white house, i'm junior bird man, deputy press secretary, fairly intimidated, fairly intimidated but trying to put a brave face on it, i'll never forget

so lin cheney, gerald ford, and i asked mrs. cheney and i said, it's been suggested, ma'am, that of the two of you, you're the brains of the operation. is that true? she said, well, i am the more aside reduce academic, which was a linking reference to the vice president's undistinguished beginnings in terms of his schooling. he actually secured a full scholarship to yale university -- >> host: remarkable. >> guest: for a kid from wyoming. >> host: right, well, nbc -- nebraska originally. >> guest: he had never been further east than chicago. he had a brief sort of stay at northwestern in high school, and one of the things that disappointed yale was there was no big sky over his head. he felt ill at ease with the physical surround examination fell in with a high-spirited group of people as the dean said. he tells in the "cheny win ounce one how he and his college roommates has situation where all four of the bedroom doors opened up on a common area but a the used one bedroom as a bar, and the drank too much beer and his studied c

the last time this happened, 1976 when gerald ford lead in delegates with no majority. >>> and welcome to the middle of april -- january i mean. a high of 60 degrees today. and now that the sun has set, beautiful sunset again tonight. we are slowly falling but it's 51 right now. which is still above our average high. some amazingly warm weather today. and after really cold weather yesterday. and check out these 24 hour temperature changes. i mean, it is now 18 degrees warmer right now in durham than it was last night at 6:00. and we've got numbers like that all over central north carolina. 21 degrees warmer in roanoke rapids. this will be the warmest time we have out of the next seven days we've got rain, we've got a strong cold front. all coming up in just the next few days and tonight, will keep it dry of course. skies generally clear before they start to cloud up tomorrow morning. 45 at 8:00 and 42 at 10:00 and as we continue hour by hour overnight, your out the door tomorrow morning, 34 degrees. in the middle of july, that's cold right? i mean that's cold in the middle of january.

if you're looking at an image when gerald ford was president, it would probably be of jackie and bob hope but the classic, but pickup basketball i think was really one of the ways that obama was able to certify himself as one just one of the guys while political opponents were trying to frame him as being the other -- someone exotic. comfortable as a way to bond, no, you can't hatch deals in the mist of a pickup game where you can on the golf course but there's a reading of one another that takes place that i do think it's legitimate. this is the first time playing in shorts. i don't understand why. he always plays in sweat pants. he's very self-conscious about his skinny legs. the issue -- picture was taken in martha's vineyard. he talks about pickup basketball and how he learned playing with african men in honolulu. and it's the ability to kind of show armor, and i think that may be part of what's going on here. the -- i think the moment that i realized that barack obama was a basketball player even if i had never seen him play the game is when he was asked boxers or briefs and bil

what he announced when he would take on gerald ford, he announced that in no washington he specifically mentioned big corporations as part of the problem in washington. big labor, big government. he believed that all concentrations of power were inherently dangerous. they could lead to the repression of personal freedom. he was very much infused with a populist anti-washington, anti-concentration of power worldview. host: how did that work with republicans in congress? a lot of new ones were coming in. how did that relate to republicans? guest: most new republicans came in, newt gingrich is a great --mple, he and bob michael bob michael was less enthusiastic. he was a good guy. a good minority leader. o'neill. golf with tip and jackays, gingrich camp and bob walker and a couple other young firebrand members did the heavy lifting on capitol hill and got votes lined up for ronald reagan. he created a new republican party because with the republicans rising up in the late 70's and early 80's, they had a different worldview than the republicans of the new deal era. democrat line. go ahead.

38th president gerald ford was, of course, raised in grand rapids, and derek jeter grew up in kalamazoo. okay, are you ready for this? name the world-renowned meteorologist who got her start at a local television station in grand rapids. >> who is gingersie? >> you are correct. mark one for paula. >> we all raised our hands. we were waiting for you to call on us. >>> this one is a little bit harder. this cereal company based in battle creek, michigan, is famous for tony the tiger -- featured in its frosted flakes commercials. >> kellogg's. >>> and welcome back to "good morning america" on a sunday morning. the dangerous mississippi floodwaters now heading south, the flooding swal lose so much in its wake. more than a hundred homes in ruin. this, as the illinois river continues to raise. it couldeach historic crest later this week. >>> also right now, the office building in san bernardino, thth reopen tomorrow. it will welcome back its 600 employs amid heightened security. >>> also right now, rapper chris brown is facing new trouble this morning, he's at center of a criminal battery inve

he needed to make sure that the republican voice was heard as well so he joined with gerald ford and the planned for the 1966 annual message and the state of the union message to respond and they had an event in the old senate chamber in the capital building. there was an audience there might and it was a highly publicized event and it was recorded and televised. it did not air the same night, it aired for five days later and a different times in different markets but it did get on the television and that began the opposition response. each year, a member or members of the president's opposing party have given opposition responses. susan: over the 36 years that c-span has it around and televising these addresses they have experimented with the formats from year-to-year, some successfully and some not successfully. republicanch the response. joining us to talk about the gop responder from his post inside the capital and statuary hal l is james arkin. the republicans have chosen the ofian-american governor south carolina, nikki haley. i wanted to get some history. in 1985, bill clinton

38th president gerald ford was of course raised in grand rapids and derek jeter grew up in kalamazoo. name the world-renowned meteorologist who got her start at a local news station. >> ginger zee. >> you are correct. mark one for paula. >> we all raised our hands. >>> this one is a little bit harder. this cereal company based in battle creek, michigan is famous for tony the tiger. dan harris, what's the answer? >> general mills. >> they own kellogg's. >>> and welcome back to "good morning america" on a sunday morning. the dangerous mississippi floodwaters now heading south. swallowing so much in its wake. leaving 24 dead. more than a hundred homes in ruin. as the illinois river continues to rise. >>> also right now the office building in san bernardino, the site of last month's terror shooting, it's getting ready to reopen tomorrow. employees. 14 people were shot and killed in that attack. >>> also right now, rapper chris brown is facing new trouble this morning, he's at center of a criminal battery investigation in las vegas, police are looking into a woman's claim that the singer h

when gerald ford debated jimmy carter there was a technical glitch. >> the broadcasters from philadelphiave temporarily lost the audio. >> instead of leaving the stage to take a break, neither candidate moved. >> we don't know what's happened. we're as much surprised by what's going on as you are. >> since one wasn't going to budge, the other wouldn't budge. >> they stood there like for a half hour? >> they were frozen. >> the first president bush was criticized for looking at his watch too much during a debate. he looked at his watch. so what? >> it's a nonverbal clue that says i'm -- i want to get away from this situation as fast as possible. >> and that hurt him? >> he was widely viewed as losing that debate. it overran the message. >> al gore was criticized after this debate for sighing while george bush spoke. >> this is a major problem. social security -- >> he looked like a do yo dufus. >> he was kansas city gated. next debate, al gore went out of his way to be docile and agree with everything bush said. >> the governor and i agree. i agree with governor bush. i basically agree wit

there is the last one, lbj and gerald ford did give a state of the union just a few days before they left, but i think that's right. and one thing that barack obama has been very serious about, i don't think he is, he has particularly said this but i think he would be very grateful to woodrow will with son who knew this was a weapon of presidential power, woodrow wilson after all of those years, going to the time before jefferson was the president who said i am not going to send a report to congress, i am going to deliver it in person, and year after year, barack obama with some success and sometimes not has tried to use his oratorical skills to make the most of it. >> but you do get a sense, lara brown, of the president recognizing the limits of oratory, this was almost an hour long speech, but just by virtue of the fact he changed the nature of what he was doing tonight, it is as if he is saying, hey, i know i can't get a whole lot by telling you this is my laundry list, i will approach this and try to tackle this in a different way. >> and i think at that level, he was speaking to

the vikings hosted their first outdoor playoff game since the gerald ford administration and it was the third coldest playoff game in nfl history. minus 6. look at 88-year-old bud grant. no jacket needed. how about that? fourth quarter, minnesota leading 9-0, but russell wilson hits doug baldwin. the lead cut 9-7. next drive, bridge ws water, adrian peterson, but cam chancellor stripped him. seattle recoverers. they got a field goal and led 10-9 off that turnover. but minnesota could win it with a 27-yard kick. he missed this at the end of the game. seattle moves on to face carolina next week. >>> redskins in the foest season since 2012 taking on the packs. green bay down. james stark scores. they win 45-18. they face arizona next saturday. >>> 49ers interviewed hugh jackson. he's thought to be the favorite for the job but he did not get an offer from the 49ers. afterward, hugh jackson interviewed with the browns. no offers but that situation could change today. the other big story, the raiders, possible relocation and we could find that out as soon as tomorrow as the nerve meetings get

he ran the pentagon under both presidents gerald ford and recently, of course, george w. bush. mr.tary, thanks for being here. you're unveiling a new app that you've developed called churchill sole tear, which i want to get to in a minute and found addictive. a couple of questions about military matters. do you think isis can be defeated with the way the campaign is being waged right now by the u.s.? that is, air strikes, some special operations forces, 3,000 troops, largely in iraq, serving as trainers and guide? can isis be defeated with that u.s. force? >> i think the answer's probably no but certainly unlikely. think about it, terrorist can attack any place, any time, using any technique, and it's physically impossible to defend at every location, at every time of the day and night, and against every conceivable technique. now, only way it will be defeated is to recognize that it's going to be a long haul, manying many years, that the old principle of economics, if you want more of something, reward it. if you want less of it, penalize it. and that means, penalize it, only way

the vikings hosted their first outdoor playoff games since the gerald ford@min stration.s the third coldest playoff game in nfl history. my flus 6. look at 88-year-old bud. no jacket needed. how about that? 4th quarter, minnesota leading 9-0, but russell wilson hit baldwin. minnesota cut the lead to 7. bridge water, adrian exciterson out of the backfield. they got a field goal and led 10-9 off that turnover but minnesota could win it with a 27-yard kick. he missed it. missed it at the end of the game. seattle moves on to face carolina next week. >>> redskins in the postseason for the first time since 2012 taking on green bay. james stark. they win it 35-18 to the pack. they will face arizona next saturday. >>> 49ers interviewed hugh jackson for the head coach opening. he's thought to be the favorite for the job but he did not get an offer from the 49ers. afterwards, he interviewed with the cleveland browns. again, no offers but that situation could change today. the ear big story this week, the -- the other big story this week, the raiders relocation and we could find tha

when gerald ford debated jimmy carter there was a technical glitch. >> the broadcasters from philadelphianstead of leaving the stage to take a break, neither candidate moved. >> we don't know what's happened. we're as much surprised by what's going on as you are. >> since one wasn't going to budge, the other wouldn't budge. >> they stood there like for a half hour? >> they were frozen. >> the first president bush was criticized for looking at his watch too much during a debate. he looked at his watch. so what? >> it's a nonverbal clue that says i'm -- i want to get away from this situation as fast as possible. >> and that hurt him? >> he was widely viewed as losing that debate. it overran the message. >> al gore was criticized after this debate for sighing while george bush spoke. >> this is a major problem. social security -- >> he looked like a do yo dufus. >> he was kansas city gated. next debate, al gore went out of his way to be docile and agree with everything bush said. >> the governor and i agree. i agree with governor bush. i basically agree with dick cheney. >> embarrassing epis

washington theory were right that you win cross over votes by rushing to the middle, we would have gerald fordob dole democrats. we don't have that. you have to give people a reason. in 1980, millions of fdr democrats crossed over to vote for reagan because they said those are my values. you're fighting for what i care about. as we see the democratic party get more and more radicalized. wa wage a war on the second amendment, wage war on religious liberty, wage a war on our basic freedoms and then engage in this bizarre politically correct view of radical islamic terrorism where they won't even say the words. it's like their ostriches with the head in the sand. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. good luck in iowa. >> we're having a tremendous time. >>> the white house is promising an unconventional speech from president obama's final state of the union address. what is the president planning? that's next. >> i don't think i have ever been more optimistic than i am right now. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know win

he was senator mccain, governor romney, gerald ford. you can go back to the 1940s.o sound more like moderates and democrats to get elected and then they get their way and lose. ronald reagan was and posed to that. trump is opposed to that and i would say ted cruz is opposed to that. >> i would note bob dole said donald trump would be better than ted cruz who he described as an extremist but not an endorsement for donald trump. thanks to both of you. >>> "outfront" next, donald trump's problem with 2 corinthians. the man who trump says is behind the mistake. >>> and hillary clinton on whether republicans are really ready to vote for a socialist. >> i know a number of democrats, people who i highly respect are concerned and are expressing that concern. >> and sarah palin and the sweater. is that what it is? i didn't know what it was but it is a sweater and that's what everyone is talking about and buying it. try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the reli

suspicious of big corporations and big banks and when he announced for presidents when he would take on gerald ford in 1976, he specifically mentioned the corporations as part of the problem of washington, big labor, big government, big corporations because he believed in all concentrations of power were inherently dangerous. he was very much a-- infused with a populace anti- washington, anti- concentration power world view. >> host: how did that jive that with those republicans in congress. of gingrich was coming and playing everything else. how did that relate to republicans generally? >> guest: most of the new republicans that came in and newt gingrich is a great example because he came in as a reagan republican and as a matter of fact, bob michael was less enthusiastic-- he was a good guy, but minority leader, but, you know, he played colquitt tip o'neill in this and that, so in many ways gingrich and jack kemp and bob walker in a couple other young firebrand members did heavy lifting on capitol hill and got it lined up for reagan's policy initiatives. reagan in a way creates new publican-- a p

he and gerald ford because they weren't -- they were going for the same job.nt story. some of trump's style that puts off. >> if someone looks to the future i worry about q we need to attract hispanic voters in the future and need to attract young voters in the future and bring women back. so the things he said i think will drive some voters away. but, in this election cycle to say he doesn't have a chance is absurd. >> why is it absurd when he has a 57% unfavorable among all-american adults. >> she has high unfavorable too. >> about 50%. >> it doesn't matter comes down to one-on-one at the end of the day. campaign ahead of us. again guy back, if he wins the republican nomination a lot of republicans unhappy. can he unify the partyr. the plurality of americans today are independents and the states you rattled off. >> it's growing. >> it's going to grow more and more. don't understand. >> some republicans didn't like him. all right. they didn't stay home -- they didn't vote. if all the republicans would have coalesced around romney he would have won the electio

starting with gerald ford. going to bob dole, john mccain, to mitt romney. throw the bushes in there. because the first bush couldn't win re-election, and the second bush almost didn't win the first time. so the conservative argument goes, you know what, we've always settled, only one time has the conservative wing of the party been able to trump the establishment wing and that was reagan in '80. what do you say to that argument? >> i don't think it's a fair description of where we are. in the loss of 2012, afterwards, the republican party, the rnc did what was called the autopsy, the republican autopsy. they talked about the weaknesses of the party, with working class voters, with new americans, l e latinos and asians, with young people, with women. the attempt, everyone thought we're going to work on these issues in the run-up to this campaign, and it's not worked that way at all. in fact, all of those issues have gotten worse. as you've talked about. how could that possibly be an improvement? when you're losing ground with every group you need for the fut

congressman gerald ford went onto the white house. the republican rising star see who they picked. >> reporter: good morning, republican leaders chose someone who is widely viewed and has the added benefit of being outside washington. it is south carolina governor nikki haley, who has agreed to give an address sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: it's hard to compete with the pomp and circumstance of the state of the union. as many politicians have found out the hard way. >> good evening and happy mardi gras. >> false choice loo tick ones the president laid out tonight. >> it's no wonder haley the daughter of indian immigrants and the youngest governor in the countries took a weekend to think about it before accepting the task. >> i always go back to that just wondered what was out there and to be able to think that i will now have the ability to address the country is very humbling. but it's really an honor. >> it's a rol only doeld out to rising stars. paul ryan, before he was

congress in 1976 and this was the year after watergate and the election was between jimmy carter and gerald ford and i did not always have the nicest things to say about president ford, but the much they were not personal things about personal lives and trying to destroy them. both democrats and republicans are guilty of this on the other side of these ad hominem attacks on people which tend to become part of the culture of the country as well. to do the things we try at aspen and the bipartisan policy center's to bring people together of different perspectives and points of view. partisans who respect each other as human beings. and try to see what they can work out. sometimes they can and sometimes they cannot at the basic human respect, it tries to create a system of civil discourse which i think is important for our country to operate. we operate as a country, a system of checks and balances and separation of powers. our founding fathers did not want a strong central government so they created a government where they had equal branches. foot on was to have one the brake and one foot on the a

only one republican in the modern primary era has won both iowa and new hampshire, that's gerald ford, a sitting president in a contested race anyway. if trump wins both, that makes it very difficult for everyone else. and cruz really, most people think he's in the driver's seat in iowa but only narrowly, if trump can expand the electorate or cutaway at cruz's support, particularly where each of their support kind of overlaps, cruz could be in a vulnerable position. >> let's take a look at the front page of the new york daily news tomorrow. they're having a bit of fun, if you like, with this teaming up, i'm with stupid. in a general election campaign, an endorsement of sarah palin will be kind of radioactive. this is a primary. again, this begs the questions that the tactics of trump is getting is going to come back and hurt him if he gets the nomination to run in the general. >> pay lip does reflect the same kind of strategy of trump. she is a candidate focused at what has become the core of the republican base, blue collar, culturally conservative voters who feel the country is bein

sometimes it's like chevy chase, his gerald ford was so bad. >> he has a layer that ben carson doesn't even have. what is that? i don't know what that is. >> that's what i'm saying. he just makes it up. i'm sure if i were ben carson i wouldn't think it was funny. >> he's faded enough from, like, the spotlight, that you sort of go with it. oh, yeah, that's ben. >>> we've got a lot to talk about. we're getting more information about donald trump's event tonight at 9:00 from his campaign in iowa. i guess that's happening at drake university. it is thursday -- thursday. welcome to "morning joe," it's january 28. >> any day you wake up before 4:00 hurts. >> just hurts. >> and when you're still tweeting about rem after 11:00 at night, it's not bad choice. milk was a bad choice. >> you're not doing that. >> i was tweeting about rem. >>> with us on set we have veteran columnist in and msnbc contributor -- >> the vet: >> just legend. >> old and be done it with. >> legendary. >> mike, i'm saying it out of respect. you stop undermining me. >> guys, on the count of three, legendary, one, two, thre

the republican chosen to answer the rebuttal tradition dates back to 1966 when then congressman gerald ford, he went on to the white house. so did arkansas governor bill clinton who responded to president reagan in 1985. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with a look at the rising republican star picked for tonight's rebuttal. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. republican leaders chose someone who is widely viewed as a top vice presidential pick and who has the added benefit of being outside washington. it is south carolina governor nikki haley, who has agreed to give an address that has sometimes been a blessing, sometimes a curse. >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: it's hard to compete with the pomp and circumstance of the state of the union. as many politicians have found out the hard way. >> good evening and happy mardi gras. >> false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. >> reporter: it's no wonder haley, the daughter of indian immigrants and the youngest weekend to think about it before accepting the task. >> i always go back to that 5-year-ol

it dates back to 1966 when then congressman gerald ford went onto the white house. the republican rising star see who they picked. >> reporter: good morning, republican leaders chose someone who is widely viewed and has the added benefit of being outside washington. it is south carolina governor nikki haley, who has agreed to give an address sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: it's hard to compete with the pomp and circumstance of the state of the union. as many politicians have found out the hard way. >> good evening and happy mardi gras. >> false choice loo tick ones the president laid out tonight. >> it's no wonder haley the daughter of indian immigrants and the youngest governor in the countries took a weekend to think about it before accepting the task. >> i always go back to that five-year old indian girl that just wondered what was out there and to be able to think that i will now have the ability to address the country is very humbling. but it's really an honor. >> it's a role only doeld out to rising

he needed to make sure that the republican voice was heard as well so he joined with gerald ford and the planned for the 1966 annual message and the state of the union message to respond and they had an event in the old senate chamber in the capital building. there was an audience there might and it was a highly publicized event and it was recorded and televised. it did not air the same night, it aired for five days later and a different times in different markets but it did get on the television and that began the opposition response. each year, a member or members of the president's opposing party have given opposition responses. susan: over the 36 years that c-span has it around and televising these addresses they have experimented with the formats from year-to-year, some successfully and some not successfully. republicanch the response. joining us to talk about the gop responder from his post inside the capital and statuary hal l is james arkin. the republicans have chosen the ofian-american governor south carolina, nikki haley. i wanted to get some history. in 1985, bill clinton

participate as a party representing the government or the executive branch which would have been gerald ford at that time is present next had resigned and instead the department of justice filed an amicus brief in buckley, and on the amicus brief title page appeared at leaving the attorney general along with the solicitor general's office which would have been robert bork, ray randolph and frank easterbrook. all, youall, you know, recognizable names in the federal judiciary to this day. and then that was in october of 75 which was an interesting time not only because of the post- watergate environment that the scandal was associated with campaign finance, a lot of disagreement as to whether it really was the source of the scandal, but that is the way was characterized. congress undertook this over all of the campaign finance laws which was extensive and the 1976 presidential campaign was started in january 1 of 1976, the 1st disbursements of federal money under the public financing system for presidential campaigns which we're going to start that election for the 1st time. so when the court

one thing i would caution on, when ronald reagan ran against president gerald ford, the incumbent, ingan lost not only the iowa caucus, he lost the next five primaries. and yet, he won the north carolina primary. that went to the convention where he lost by 117 votes. four years later, he lost the iowa caucuses to george h.w. bush, won new hampshire, then they battled back and forth. it went on until may. and then reagan finally nailed it down. my suggestion is this is going to go on for a good long while here between donald trump and ted cruz and perhaps marco rubio and someone else, chris christie, et cetera. i think this will go on for a while. i think donald trump is very well positioned here. >> and what does that mean to the democratic field as far as they sit and wait to see how this shakes out? >> they do, although just tonight i was saying how much strength bernie sanders has in new hampshire. if he -- i think it's frankly unlikely, but boy, if he up-ends hillary clinton in new hampshire, this is not -- this does not bode well. and just in general, i have to say hillary clint

congress in 1976 and this was the year after watergate and the election was between jimmy carter and gerald ford and i did not always have the nicest things to say about president ford, but the much they were not personal things about personal lives and trying to destroy them. both democrats and republicans are guilty of this on the other side of these ad hominem attacks on people which tend to become part of the culture of the country as well. to do the things we try at aspen and the bipartisan policy center's to bring people together of different perspectives and points of view. partisans who respect each other as human beings. and try to see what they can work out. sometimes they can and sometimes they cannot at the basic human respect, it tries to create a system of civil discourse which i think is important for our country to operate. we operate as a country, a system of checks and balances and separation of powers. our founding fathers did not want a strong central government so they created a government where they had equal branches. foot on was to have one the brake and one foot on the a

congress in 1976 and this was the year after watergate and the election was between jimmy carter and gerald ford and i did not always have the nicest things to say about president ford, but the much they were not personal things about personal lives and trying to destroy them. both democrats and republicans are guilty of this on the other side of these ad hominem attacks on people which tend to become part of the culture of the country as well. one of the things we try to do at aspen and the bipartisan policy center's to bring people together of different perspectives and points of view. partisans who respect each other as human beings. and try to see what they can work out. sometimes they can and sometimes they cannot at the basic human respect, it tries to create a system of civil discourse which i think is important for our country to operate. we operate as a country, a system of checks and balances and separation of powers. our founding fathers did not want a strong central government so they created a government where they had equal branches. the goal was to have one foot on the brake and o

in 1976 and this was the year that after watergate and the election was between jimmy carter and gerald fordand i always didn't have the nicest thing to say about ford, it wasn't about their personal lives and trying to destroy them and both democrats and republicans are guilty on this on the other side of attacks on people, which -- which tend to become part of the culture of the country as well, and so one of the things we try to do in the bipartisan policy center is to bring people together of different perspectives, different point ofge views, partisans who respect each other as human beings and then try to see what they can work out and sometimes they can and sometimes they can't, but the basic human respect, tries to create a system of civil discourse which, i think, is important for our country to operate, remind you that we operate as a country on systems of checks and balances and separation of powers. our founding fathers did not want a central government so they created a government where they had equal branches and the goal was to have one foot on the brake and one foot on the ac