said he actually, he and mrs. reagan sat down with bill clark and asked if he would run the campaign. of course judge clark was then the chief justice of the california supreme court and had important cases coming up and so he diverted the three of them went through the list and can up with this fellow, bill casey who worked in the nixon administration so they reached out to bill casey and he ended up replacing john. but it was because freakin' had been pushed hard enough that he had -- he had to get rid of john. and as a matter of fact and charlie black one of the wisest takes on john's role in the campaign he said of ronald reagan never would have been president if he hadn't hired john sears in 1975 and fired him in 1980. >> well put. i don't know of any of you that have either read craig's book or have seen any number of the book reviews but it is getting great reviews and what i noticed, craig, one of the news items that is popping out in these reviews is the story about putting the finger on the individual you belie

[laughter] ladies and gentlemen, in the 1980s in the days of president reagan, mr. lou cannon started a running line in "the washington post" called reagan isn't of the week. the gipper was speaking frontier gibberish, and he offered once as a case in point an interview in which the president was asked how could you be supporting the contras in nicaragua when they're seeking to overthrow the legitimate government? and the president said, it's true that the contras are seeking to take power at the point of a gun, but, of course, the sandinistas hold power at the point of a gun, so i'm not clear on the difference between the contras and what you are pleased to call the legitimate goth of nicaragua. now, the gipper could not fill in the bibliography. he couldn't explain that his reflections here followed the paths of the past as writers, he probably could not have explained that his reflections here led him back to the difference between an international law based on positive law and an understanding of international law influenced more fully by the axioms of natural. a

mr. reagan wouldn't have passed? mnesty for immigrants into this country, with regard to taxes raised occasionally, with regard to negotiations with the enemy? >> oh, absolutely. i think ronald reagan, if he were a republican politician in 2010, he might very well have a tea party challenger. it's clear when reagan began his career was a dark figure who played on a lot of racial concerns in california in 1966. but by the time he ran for president, he was a sunny guy, a compromiser, worked with euro boss tip o'neill to save social security. raised taxes to pay for medicare. and also did something interesting, which is created reagan democrats. some of them were in my family. i don't see tea party democrats. the tea party movement and people like rubio are trying to narrow the base, not expand it. i think ronald reagan would have a hard time with this part of his party right now. >> there you are. you were in that room, weren't you, when -- >> many times. but look, i think it's false to say ronald reagan played on racia

mr. reagan decided not to make abortion central, but to his credit, he sought to teach people about thisuestion by raising questions. in those radio talk seagate, the first time it faced the question of abortion, he was strong but is curiosity. the same legislature in california trying to seek the right for abortion, made it murder to kill unborn child. he also noted that the child in the womb had standing to inherit property. he put this question to a staff. let's say a woman became aware that through her pregnancy, and had left the estate to the child in the womb. could she ordered the killing of the child in order to keep the state for herself? would that not the murder? was reagan not leading us back to the central question in the most engaging way? many dismiss reagan as simplistic, but the problem recognize that many may be tempted to absorber themselves in details while avoiding the moral questions. we often find ourselves hinging on certain rules of proof and technical issues. ronald reagan would produce one part of the conflict with conjecture. and regime of our control, who cou

mr. reagan decided not to make abortion central, but to his credit, he sought to teach people about this question by raising questions. in those radio talk seagate, the first time it faced the question of abortion, he was strong but is curiosity. the same legislature in california trying to seek the right for abortion, made it murder to kill unborn child. he also noted that the child in the womb had standing to inherit property. he put this question to a staff. let's say a woman became aware that through her pregnancy, and had left the estate to the child in the womb. could she ordered the killing of the child in order to keep the state for herself? would that not the murder? was reagan not leading us back to the central question in the most engaging way? many dismiss reagan as simplistic, but the problem recognize that many may be tempted to absorber themselves in details while avoiding the moral questions. we often find ourselves hinging on certain rules of proof and technical issues. ronald reagan would produce one part of the conflict with conjecture. and regime of our control, who c

mr. reagan going to tell mr. obama about iraq and iran and the possibilities there , on a similar parallel to vietnam. what lessons have we learned from the past that might come up in this conversation? [laughter] >> there is the answer. reagan is calling. [laughter] well, as a historian i like to think there are lessons in the past that we have learned but you know the german philosopher hagel said the only thing we have learned from history as we never learned so it is pretty cynical but i'm afraid there's an awful lot of truth to it. there was a wonderful book which i recommended to you by richard mate and earnest neustadt called lessons to pass, the use and abuse of history in the making of american foreign policy. it is really quite interesting because they use history but they abuse it probably more often than they used it effectively. >> i have got to questions. my question for professor dallek is, do you think there is any credence to the view that the united states government did not describe with enough

mr. reagan to a rift. that striking example of natural law seasoning, that lincoln gave news that fragment he wrote for himself on slavery when he mentioned himself to be engaged in the conversation put into question why he justified in making a slave a black man, is it because he's less intelligent than you? you might be rightly enslaved by the next man who comes along more intelligent than you. is it because he's darker than you? you may be rightly enslaved by the next white man who comes along with a complexion even lighter than yours. the upshot was that there's nothing one could cite that could not apply to many whites as well. and at no point in the chain of reasoning was there an appeal to revelation of faith. this was simply a model of principled reasoning. it was accessible to people across the religious divisions. he didn't need a clinl education in order to understand it. it could be understood by catholics, baptists, even aethists. it was a model of speaking in a manner that was commonly unders

editor of of "time" magazine recalls president ronald reagan's speech in west berlin on june 12, 1987 when he pronounced to a crowd of 20,000 people, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. romesh ratnesar explores the genesis of the speech and the relationship between reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. the kansas city public library hosts the event. >> i do want to thank you get a real privilege to speak to you on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, and it is particularly wonderful to be here in kansas city, which is such an appropriate setting because it was just a couple of blocks from this building at kemper arena, as many of you remember, that ronald reagan gave a speech at 33 years ago that in many ways i think helped catapult him to the white house. as you recall, reagan had just conceded defeat to gerald ford at the republican national convention here can maybe even some people in the room today remember that ford then summoned reagan down from the sky box to address the delegates on the floor. reagan initially said he didn't want to come down. he said it was someone else's night, but eventuall

mr. miller: the fact is the deficit came down. we raise the $300 billion annual deficits of the reagan administration. we did it over time. e left you $5 trillion you squandered. mr. sessions: i would like the gentleman to address why are 32 of the 56 pages -- we are going to blame it on ronald reagan now. i retain my time. i appreciate the gentleman for blaming this on ronald reagan. i tell you what, i would be very pleased to engage in a dialogue with the gentleman to answer one question. why are you down on the floor, your party, saying this is the real deal and yet 32 of the 56 pages exempt spending? i would enjoy the gentleman doing that. mr. andrews: here's what this say. as the gentleman knows the structure of this bill is that increases in mandatory spending or decreases in revenue must be offset. there are four exceptions. the so-called doctor fix, no class tax cuts, the estate tax fix, which i think both parties have tried to support, then -- mr. session: then why -- we did the same thing. but it's ok for you. mr. andrews: would the gentleman yield? mr. session: i am engaging with the gentleman. mr. andrews: the

reagan people did. but we should make no mistake about western western-- mr. bork and his fellow friends did with the current welfare frame. this was to passing essentially into law, efficiency argument that has been favored by monopolist for centuries. what do i mean? john d. rockefeller, jpmorgan, they all basically had a single message, competition is wasteful. centralization of control in my hand is efficient. but consider how the logic of the consumer welfare argument plays out over time. the logic goes like this. consumers want low prices, they are achieved through economies of scale, ergo monopoly is the best friend to the consumer. here we are one generation later, and it is proven effective again, we see the greatest concentration of power in this country and one century. in some cases, it is actually worse because the last time around they did not get their hand on to the farms and/or the retailers. if we view american history through the lens of our anti-monopoly law, we see for era is. first, the first half of the 19th century. with power and oppor

reagan people did. but we should make no mistake about what mr. bork and his fellow chicago schoolers did with their welfare frame and this was to pass a essentially into the law the efficiency argument that has been favored by monopolists for centuries and what do i mean by that? john d. rockefeller, jpmorgan, the all basically had a single message, competition is wasteful. centralization of control in my hand, that is efficient. but consider how the logic of the consumer welfare argument plays out over time. the logic kind of goes like this, consumers want the prices, low prices are chief best as a scale, ergo monopoly is the best friend of the consumer so here we are a generation later and it's proven effective again we actually see the greatest concentration of power in the country in a century and some cases it is actually worse because the last time around the finance use did not get their hands on a farm, they did not get their hands on to the retailers. if we view american history through the lens of the antimonopoly law, we sort of see th

reagan esque. he did not want to case on mr. the streets of washington.ou will, of family occasion. there are all sorts of personal touches added. instead of going of the main staircase of the capitol and into the rotunda, the went into the house side, reflecting the 25 years he had spent on the house. they brought a hearst through his old neighborhood. there were hundreds of people on a saturday night standing up on this street. of course, they stop at the world war ii memorial, reflecting his service in the war. the military district of washington gives you the basics. then it is up to the presidential families and friends to custom design which follows host: we're talking with richard norton smith, a contributor to the updated end republished book "who is buried in grant's tomb?" why should americans care about presidential websitegrave sites? guest: it is a wonderful way to humanize and personalize the past. to take even this and movements that otherwise might seem impossibly remote. there is something universal about the fact that we're all going to

mr. miller: the fact is the deficit came down. we raise the $300 billion annual deficits of the reagan administration. we did it over time. left you $5 trillion you squandered. mr. sessions: i would like the gentleman to address why are 32 of the 56 pages -- we are going to blame it on ronald reagan now. i retain my time. i appreciate the gentleman for blaming this on ronald reagan. i tell you what, i would be very pleased to engage in a dialogue with the gentleman to answer one question. why are you down on the floor, your party, saying this is the real deal and yet 32 of the 56 pages exempt spending? i would enjoy the gentleman doing that. mr. andrews: here's what this say. as the gentleman knows the structure of this bill is that increases in mandatory spending or decreases in revenue must be offset. there are four exceptions. the so-called doctor fix, no class tax cuts, the estate tax fix, which i think both parties have tried to support, then -- mr. session: then why -- we did the same thing. but it's ok for you. mr. andrews: would the gentleman yield? mr. session: i am engaging with the gentleman. mr. andrews: the j

mr. president, they all turned and i got this shot. [laughter] we went to -- that was the opening of the reagan library.the opening of the nixon library. on the left is the press secretary to president reagan and the only one to be press secretary to george bush. he uses this photo quite a bit to promote himself. [laughter] it was one of those neat little moments. working for vice-president bush was great and i had a chance to be around president reagan in the oval office a little bit. this was actually former president reagan leading the newly sworn-in president bush in the back with dan quayle. they are departing and leaving. here is nancy reagan gissing barbara bush goodbye -- kissing barbara bush goodbye and president reagan going out into history. when vice president bush was elected president, we were in houston. it was interesting for me. you have been with them for so many years. do not worry. you will become the president paused photographer. i said, -- president's photographer. i said, the offer has not come, and until it does, i have to assume that i am going to leave. this was in houston on

mr. campbell had to say, but also with what david stockman, the director of omb under the reagan administrationhad to say the other day. i'm pretty sure the local revelation when i agree with both mr. campbell and mr. stockman it is one of the signs of the apocalypse. stockman wrote the day before yesterday in the "new york times" the economy needs unproductive and increasingly parasitic banking system. make no mistake the banking system has been an agent of destruction for the gross domestic product and impositivishment for the middle class. -- impositivishment. how do we -- how do we stop the excess, the vulgar excess that is not rewarding productive conduct but is rewarding what economists call rent-seeking, what david stockman called parasitic that is taking money from the middle class and taking money from the real economy. it is certainly undermining all the that we need to be doing to build a sustainable economy that works for the middle class and works for ordinary americans. i have a couple of questions. is this part -- the focus on executive compensation, is this part of a bigger prob

reagan. so we have been there all along. host: mr. lafferty?t bush over his spending. we have not treated obama any differently than president bush in that respect. host: next phone call comes from ed in toledo, ohio. caller: the big lies from the opinion page is "promote." i'm a small "r" republican. article 4, section 4, constitution -- we are a republican with a republican form of government. how many editorialals do you promote. we are not a left and right nation. we are a vertical at the nation. anarchy at the bottom. our constitution a little above it. if you go to the top, you have king george. that can be king george or that can be king george of the republican party or president obama or [unintelligible] third thing we do not have money. since richard nixon, the trader, took us off the gold standard, and his father, f.d.r., started it in the 1940's, currency is not money. money is coins, it is silver backed by silver. host: anything on those comments? guest: i'm not quite sure what to say. we do believe in a representative form of gove

reagan in the 1980's. i believe if we were to implement those policies, mr.speaker, we would see the kind of job creation that the american people are seeking. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the -- report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 1109, resolution providing for consideration of the senate amendments to the bill h.r. 3961, to amend title 18 of the social security act to reform the medicare sgr payment system for physicians and reinstitute and update the pay-as-you-go requirement of budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending legislation enforced by the threat of annual automatic sequestration. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. for what purpose does the ge

comes in and it is called the reagan revolution because he is rolling back the great society and nixonism. host: michigan on independent line. caller: i would like to know what mris james bradley -- he was responsible for the film "flags of our fathers." he wrote some veryç shocking, i would say, even excoriating things about teddy roosevelt and the war in the pacific, thatt( basically --w3 host:ç 4 fdr? çcaller: in theçó 1900's in tes of letters that went back and forth between the governmentsçf japan and russia, and there was a whole lot of skulduggery, i guess, for lack of a battered -- better term that in my mind took teddy roosevelt than a few notches in terms of being an admiral historical figure. first of all, is mr. brinkley familiar with bradley's book and what are his thoughts on what bradley has to say about teddy roosevelt and the leading up to the world war ii. guest: mr. bradley's book is called "imperial cruz." and i don't think very highly of it. ççi am an admirer of mr. bra's previous work, particularly dealing with the second world war, but what i object to in this book is a thesis thatç hes insistent upon that somehow theodore rooseve

mr. arkes. this question is for you. >> i just came into read the meter and they asked me-- [laughter] stayed behind and offer a few words. >> my question is directed towards what you said about ronald reagann stating that he was able to take philosophical principles and make them understandable to a majority of people and my question to you is what is the secret behind taking judeo-christian principles, the philosophical abstract thoughts and helping the modern average individual help understand that? >> i don't know anyone i have seen at any age who, when hearing lincoln's line, the fragment he wrote imagining a conversation, doesn't get it. it is accessible. they get this. this is what apolitical person should be able to do. scott brown cut some of this when he said we shouldn't be taxing, we should be taxing the american taxpayers to buy guns, to fight enemies, not to by lawyers for our enemies. [laughter] he caught something. [applause] how did he do it? it is a question of how does a teacher do it? reagan said, that line i quoted, he did it so often you know. the line about, we are subsidizing people for losing their jobs as a result of-- he just pointed this out and as soon as he po

did, what ronald reagan did, what bush did, and that is, get off the spending, get off the taxing and give the american public a chance. mr. hoekstra: yeah. here's how we start our op ed, i like our title, of course, we helped write it, we call it storming the castle. on january 19 the people of massachusetts stormed the castle of the political elite and toppled it to the ground. after months of abuse and neglect and being shut out of the par pets of the u.s. senate, they took a stand and sent a strong undeniable message to the democrat-controlled castle of american politics. enough is enough. i think that sums it all and that's where the american people are today. that's where grassroots america is today. that's where they were in 1993 and 1994. in 1993 and 1994 they got involved and when i meet with these folks, i do ask them the question, how different would this country be today if the involvement that we saw in 1993 and 1994, the insightful, knowledgeable involvement, these people understand the issues, they know where they want to go, if that involvement had stayed, if the involvement we saw in 1993 and 1994 and the

mr. akin: did you know there was a report that was done on the department of education, i think it was during the days of ronald reagan and their conclusion of the report was that if a foreign country had done to america what the department of education had done to education, we would consider it an act of war. i thought it was an interesting report that we're paying money for a department what would be considered an act of war. mr. kingston: i'm from the government, i'm here to help, i haven't found a school board member back home or teacher in the classroom who can't spend the mr. moran: efficiently and effectively because there is an old loretta lynn song, one needs a spanking, one needs a hug and one is on his way. not some bureaucrat, three doors down at the department of education in washington, d.c. what about medicare? medicare is very important health care program for our seniors. my mom's on it. and i think your parentsr and yet it's going broke. $36 trillion in unfunded assets. what are we doing to senior citizens? the program is going broke and we have our head in the sand. mr. akin: what i was just talkin

comes in and it is called the reagan revolution because he is rolling back the great society and nixonism. host: michigan on independent line. caller: i would like to know what mr believe the author is james bradley -- he was responsible for the film "flags of our fathers." he wrote some veryç shocking, i would say, even excoriating things about teddy roosevelt and the war in the pacific, thatt( basically --w3 host:ç 4 fdr? çcaller: in theçó 1900's in tes of letters that went back and forth between the governmentsçf japan and russia, and there was a whole lot of skulduggery, i guess, for lack of a battered -- better term that in my mind took teddy roosevelt than a few notches in terms of being an admiral historical figure. first of all, is mr. brinkley familiar with bradley's book and what are his thoughts on what bradley has to say about teddy roosevelt and the leading up to the world war ii. guest: mr. bradley's book is called "imperial cruz." and i don't think very highly of it. ççi am an admirer of mr. bra's previous work, particularly dealing with the second world war, but what i object to in this book is a thesis thatç hes insistent upon that some

mr. mccain: i know we're running out of time. i'd like to say to my friend that history does repeat itself. there was a time during the cold where where president reagan spoke out and mentioned natan sharansky's name and people said shouldn't have done it. when ronald reagan said take down this wall, people said that was prosrabg taf of the soviet union. you know what sharansky said? he said those words gave hope for democracy and freedom. that is the same message we are sending to the iranian people with this legislation. i hope we'll enact it soon and we will not slack nor will we give up until the iranian people have their god-given rights restored to them. mr. president, i yield the balance of our time. mr. lieberman: i thank my friend from arizona. first, i'd ask unanimous consent that my full statement in support of the legislation be entered in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. and, secondly, this is a piece of legislation that has significance if it's adopted and effect, we hope, but really this is also our way, the ten of us who have sponsored this legislation -- and