the gunman, 25-year-old john hinkley jr., subdued in a bristling pack of secret service agents. a crisis for a young, untested president. >> i, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: it was barely two months after his inauguration. the country was mired in a recession. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. raw hide is okay. >> reporter: inside the limousine, newly released secret service tapes show that agent barry parr using the code name. good news. he seems to be unhurt. 46 seconds later, he switches course to the hospital. >> we're going to george washington fast. >> reporter: that decision saved reagan's life. the country held its breath and learned something about ronald reagan. at the hospital, the stricken president, a bullet lodged an inch from his heart, in shock, with no discernible blood pressure faced the moment with grace and humor. >> he's on the operating room table. he said, i hope you're all republicans, with a big smile on his face. >> reporter: that night, after the three-hour surgery, nurse joann bell remembers she had to gently tell

john hinkley was a john lennon fan when he was stalking ronald reagan. and it almost destroyed him learning his great hero rock star had died. you know, we talked about -- i'm sorry, there was a second -- that was it, you answered it. i was going to say we talked about the mistakes that were made. the media made mistakes, there were mistakes made by others. we talked about the heros. who were the other heros? i want to leave the audience with these thoughts. >> i always say jerry was -- and i also talk about dan rugy, there's such a think of v.i.p. syndrome. wealthy people that are affected with medical problem that want to get out of the local system and get expert that come in and take care of them. that usually is not the best way to do it. and during the recessation of -- i looked up the very distinguished gentleman, i knew he wasn't secret service agent, because he was older and didn't have an ear piece. and he kept looking at me, and i kept looking at him. before you know it, he came over and said i'm dan ruby, i'm the president's physician. i'm he

although the shooter, 25-year-old john hinkley, jr., was in custody, not until late that evening were authorities certain that hinckley had acted alone. back at the hilton, press secretary jim brady was gravely wounded, as were secret service agents tim mccarthy and police officer thomas delahunt. at that point no one knew the president had also been shot. >> my job then was to see if he had really been hit. so what i did then, i ran my hands up under his coat around his belt line. i started working up in the armpit area. up in the back of his neck. through his hair and everything. i didn't see any blood at all. but about dupont circle or maybe just under dupont circle he started spitting up this blood, profuse amounts of red, bright red frosty blood. i thought, well what would have caused that? maybe landing on top of him cracked a rib. maybe i punctured a lung. >> schieffer: that was when par made the single most important decision of the day. >> roger. we want to go to the emergency room george washington. >> schieffer: forget the white house. get to a hospital. by chance, the clos

the "washington post" leads a panel discussion on john hinkley junior's failed assassination of president ronald reagan. on afterwards, on the sometimes dysfunctional world. and throughout the weekend from the virginia festival of the book, panels on medicine and science, the vietnam war the founding fathers and religion and more. find the complete schedule. and to have our schedules e-mails directly to you sign up for our boonch tv alert. host: paul sullivan is a securities studies adjufpkt professor at georgetown university and joins us to talk about the relations between the united states and libya both on diplomat and military fronts. take us through the evolution of the relationship between u.s. and libya say from the mid 60s up through the present. guest: i think it's important to start earlier than that if we look back at the time period when it wasn't libya yet it was actually part of the otoman empire. and if you listen to the marine anthem it says to the shores of trip oly and it has to do with the pirates going way back. and then the otoman empire lost its control over libya to

>> this weekend on booktv on c-span2, the washington post's wilbur leads a panel discussion on john hinkley jr.'s failed assassination of president ronald reagan. on "after words," the sometimes dysfunctional world of the mercantile exchange, and panels on medicine and science, the vietnam war, the founding fathers and religion and more. find a complete schedule at booktv.org, and to have our schedules e-mailed directly to you, sign up for our booktv alert. >> british chancellor of the excheck corps george osbourne proposed new measures this week including delaying a planned fuel tax for another year. in the his one-hour speech, he outlined the government's proposed budget citing additional incentives for first-time home buyers and promising no increase in personal income taxes. criticized the plan adding that the proposed cuts are hurtingne the british economy. this is just over two hours. >> can i now call the right honorable george osbourne. >> thank you, mr. deckty speaker. -- deputy speaker. last year's emergency budget was about rescuing finances and paying for the mistakes of thei pa