and on the top it says, to the president and mrs. reagan in honor of their 38th anniversary from queen elizabeth and prince philip and gives the date. you know, the whole thing. you think, what in the world would that mean to anybody else but us? >> so you bought it. >> so we bought it. >> what did it cost you? >> i don't remember. i don't. >> we're going to go from, i guess, peace to war. >> oh, yes. >> you've got this big missile over here. >> yes. this ibm missile. >> let's walk over this way. stand over here. what is this doing here? >> well, this is the ibm missile that ronnie was so proud of that he got rid of, that he -- >> when you were in the white house, did you-all think much of -- talk much about the military side of things. >> he did. he did. >> you did? >> no. i was aware of it certainly. and when he signed this treaty, he was -- i was very proud of him, and he was very proud of it, too. >> we're going to go next to the first lady's exhibit. >> all right. >> mrs. reagan, this is your area, the first lady's area. what was your

>> okay. >> mrs. reagan, we're in the gifts part of mu let's start with the egg. >> the egg was from king faud. it's a beautiful, beautiful little egg. almost like a faberge egg. he gave very nice presents. >> what did you think -- i don't know if it was a requirement or not, but of the practice of gives gifts between heads of state? >> well, it was very nice. for us, it was a little embarrassing. you were limited as to what you could give financially. >> dollarwise? >> yeah. >> do you remember what the element was? >> i think it was -- gohi. and they gave us beautiful, beautiful things. you felt a little self-conscious. >> did you get involved in picking the gifts yourself? >> to give to them? >> uh-huh. >> oh sure, yes. >> do you remember a gift you gave somebody else that was fun? d to can't remembe keep within the limits. >> what's this big photograph over here. >> the big photograph. >> arrival of somebody -- >> did you go to those? >> yes. there i am. yes, i did. i weo >>id you enjoy those? >> yes, the

mr. reagan was shot. wouldn't land the helicopter as he was coming back from texas on the south lawn of the white house because as he put it only the president lands on the south lawn. george bush would not advance himself at the expense of the wounded president. >> george bush was as loyal and as sensitive to president reagan as he could possibly be. >> when george bush was vice president, he did for president reagan most of the protocol trips. he would go to funerals. he got to know the world leader intimately before he became president. >> it was at the funeral of soviet leader children neco that he met mek kyle gorbachev. >> he was different than any soviet that i had known. proved to be correct. >> when bush decide to do run for president he used television advertising to sharpen his image. >> i was responsible for doing the ads. he had a great sense of humor. he would say how are you going to help me be president? i am already vice president. you want to be president you can't do it without me. >> l

mr. gore. from my cold !! >> shep: president reagan's friend and movie star, charlton heston, was diagnosed in 2002. and as millions watched, abc's peter jennings interviewed heston and his wife on prime time tv. >> will you tell us how you greeted your husband's medical news? >> i was appalled. i was stunned. i never -- it never occurred to me that there was anything wrong. >> i don't mean for a second to impose my emotions on you, but i think i would really be afraid. >> i probably will be afraid, too, when it gets closer. but i don't feel those things. >> what was the family discussion like? >> teary. >> yeah. she got over it very quickly. it was a matter of moments almost before she said okay. we'll go ahead from there. >> he has always, i gathered, been extraordinarily reliant on you. >> reliant? are you? >> yes, of course i am. >> oh then you are. >> you're the center of my life. >> they say about alzheimer's, as you know, the problem is not for you. the problem is for all those around you. >> yes, i'm afraid that's true. >> so wha

here to explain is the author of the book "reagan's comeback, four weeks in texas that changed american politics forever". mr. at that point, jerry ford was running away with it, wasn't he? >> he's won eight of the first nine primaries. reagan and his campaign manager decided if we lose texas, we're getting out of the race. the argument that i make and many people in the texas republican party feel this way is that if reagan had dropped out of the race, having lost nine out of the first ten primaries, he would have had a much tougher time coming back in 1980 and making a credible case for himself. >> steve: so reagan wound up winning texas, turning it completely around and suddenly they were heading for the convention and it was finally a dual again. who was it in texas that said, hey, wait a minute. egg sun our guy. not that ford guy. >> the establishment was behind ford. john tower, the only statewide elected republican, was a u.s. senator, was very staunch ford supporter. but reagan just had the grassroots movement, particularly in the houston area. it was very similar to what we're seeing with the tea pa

mr. gore. from my cold dead hands. !! >> shep: president reagan's friend and movie star, charlton heston, was diagnosed in 2002. and as millions watched, abc's peter jennings interviewed heston and his wife on prime time tv. >> will you tell us how you greeted your husband's medical news? >> i was appalled. i was stunned. i never -- it never occurred to me that there was anything wrong. >> i don't mean for a second to impose my emotions on you, but i think i would really be afraid. >> i probably will be afraid, too, when it gets closer. but i don't feel those things. >> what was the family discussion like? >> teary. >> yeah. she got over it very quickly. it was a matter of moments almost before she said okay. we'll go ahead from there. >> he has always, i gathered, been extraordinarily reliant on you. >> reliant? are you? >> yes, of course i am. >> oh then you are. >> you're the center of my life. >> they say about alzheimer's, as you know, the problem is not for you. the problem is for all those around you. >> yes, i'm afraid that's true. >> so wha

between what came down in berland and will we all cheered about gwen president ronald reagan said to gorbachev, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. shortly thereafter the wall did in fact come down and what ronald reagan said of course. but we all cheered that internationally, getting rid of that symbol as we are building something that is not just the same kind of thing but it looks so similar to what i remember. a great difference. you have in east germany this attempt by the government are the most part successful in keeping its citizens from leaving and here we are trying to keep the mexicans and others from coming north. but let me read from the book, "calexico" true lies of the borderlands, and give you a sense for how that felt to me as i was walking along the border, checking out that wall. i followed the wall on the road for a couple of miles and it turned into first-rate but i got back to town. in places, the wall was okay to, a harsh blind spot making it impossible to see activity on the mexican side. it's more sophisticated components leave feeling spaces between upright posts that are

we ask the foam president's son, michael reagan, backing mr. gingrich.>guest: good to be with you. >>neil: your father won more than just the south but what do thing of this strategy? is it the right strategy? >>guest: well, it is a great strategy for the general election, the southern strategy. my dad lost five times in a row before he hit north carolina and helms was there. to lift him but newt gingrich needs to find who he is. he is allowing the campaign, mitt romney, the media, to find newt gingrich and if he is going to go into the southern states and try to turn the reagan states into newt gingrich states he has to build his own city on a hill, and how newt gingrich sees america, how he wants to take america forward, not ronald reagan's idea but newt gingrich so people know who he is. >>neil: do you regret backing him? >>guest: no, no, i don't regret backing him. not at all. i like the fact i am backing newt because i have known him a long period, it is getting him to move forward and understand if you going to use my father to an extent to move fo

policy was enacted in 1982 by the ultraliberal ronald reagan. mr. president, there's ads on radio and television where you see president reagan speaking as he did so well as one of his signature issues doing something about the transportation system in this country. maybe someone red something to him or told him about general eisenhower, how much he believed that the transportation system should keep moving forward. many house republicans don't support the plan to shortchange millions of americans. i just don't understand why seniors and people with disabilities who count on public transportation should be hurt by what the house has done in their bill by what they have over there. mr. president, the chamber of commerce, aarp, came out against the drastic approach taken by the house bill. on the other hand, the u.s. chamber and dozens of others -- not dozens -- hundreds of other organizations support the boxer inhofe bill. i'm disappointed house republicans once again chose this very partisan path. rebuilding a transportation system, our economy can r

between what came down in berlin and what we all cheered about, what president ronald reagan said to gorbachev, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, shortly thereafter the wall did, in fact, come down -- not directly because of what ronald reagan said, of course, but we all cheered that bear nationally. get -- internationally. getting rid of that symbol. and we're building something that is not just the same kind of thing, it looks so similar to what i remember from berlin. of course, there's a great difference. you have in east germany this attempt by the government for the most part successful keeping its citizens from leaving, and here we're trying to keep mexicans and others from coming north. but let me, let me read from the book, "calexico. true lives of the border lands." and give you a sense for how, how that felt to me as i was walking along the border, checking out that wall. i followed the wall west on anza road for a couple of miles. it turned into 1st street when i got back to town. in places the wall was opaque, a harsh blind spot making it impossible to see activity on the mexican si

mr. reagan's. >> thank you, mr. chairman.nk you for coming to el paso and covering a few of the issues that you have covered with the committee here this morning. i have two areas that i would like for both you and general dempsey to focus on. the first one deals with the reaction to the request for another possible thing from our allies abroad. i know you have had a chance, since first asking for depth of 40, to go out and talk to at least some of our allies. the administration is fixing to launch another set of troops in the mexico and arizona. i am concerned that not only is that very expensive but it puts our troops in a questionable position because they are not trained for law enforcement. they are trained for combat. i would appreciate it if you would comment on this latest effort to deploy troops in new mexico and arizona. as i understand it, from the information i have, it is against the ultralight vehicles that the cartels are losing, but there are certainly better ways to do that than a full-force presence in those

mr. rangel suggested, tax reform in 19860 cured after ronald reagan came in in 1981 and played golf with tip o'neill for five years. and it was before the global economy had really taken hold. so we're talking about a new world that we're trying to reform rather than the one they were reforming in 1980. give me your views of what we should do? what are the things that are most important that you're willing to give up or shift off on to somebody else. yes? >> congressman mcdermott, we looked at the joint committee on taxation's revenue estimate from october, and we looked at the provisions that they estimated and scored in terms of base broadening. they represented 2$209 billion out of the total tax expendit e expenditurexpenditur expenditures. so it was only 40% that they actually scored. there was another $185 billion of corporate tax expenditures that they had not yet estimated. so i'm actually relatively optimistic that when you really take a hard look, that you can get down to 28% and even possibly 25%. i look at the 1986 tax reform act, and i look at the base broadening that occurre

i'm not trying to return to reagan and bush. >> back then mr. romney promised the fight for full equality of the gay and lesbian citizens and that is from a letter to the law of cabinet of republicans. he wrote, i'm with you on this stuff and i'll be better than ted kennedy. so in 2002 he was a moderate with progressive views, and he also signed a ban on assault weapons in 2004, he also signed a health care reform law that is almost identical to president obama's. and later in his term he moved more to the right on the gun control and abortion. and more, but even then, the right didn't see him as all that conservative. in 2006, when the strongly conservative magazine "human events" put out their choice of the most conservative governors, romney didn't even make the list. his views have changed over the years. and you can agree that his views have changed over the years, but the issue is can he seemingly rewrite the past to look better now. a lot to talk with james carville and ralph reid founder of the faith and freedom coalition. james, when yo

i'm not trying to return to reagan and bush. >> back then mr. romney promised the fight for full equality of the gay and lesbian citizens and that is from the law republican he wrote. he wrote, i'm with you on this stuff and i'll be better than ted kennedy. so in 2002 he was a moderate with progressive views, and he also signed a ban on assault weapons and also signed a reform law that is similar to president obama's. and later in the ehis term he m more to the right on the gun control, and ash bortion. in 2006, when the strongly conservative magazine "republican events" put out the most conservative governors, romney did not make the list. and you can agree that his views have changed over the years, but the issue is can he seemingly rewrite the past to look better now. a lot to talk with james carville and ralph reid founder of the christian coalition, and president of the century strategy. james, when you hear mitt romney describe himself as having been a severely conservative governor, what do you think? >> well, it is not up to me, but i kn

i'm not trying to return to reagan and bush. >> back then mr. romney promised the fight for full equality of the gay and lesbian citizens and that is from a letter to the law of cabinet of republicans. he wrote, i'm with you on this stuff and i'll be better than ted kennedy. so in 2002 he was a moderate with progressive views, and he also signed a ban on assault weapons in 2004, he also signed a health care reform law that is almost identical to president obama's. and later in his term he moved more to the right on the gun control and abortion. and more, but even then, the right didn't see him as all that conservative. in 2006, when the strongly conservative magazine "human events" put out their choice of the most conservative governors, romney didn't even make the list. his views have changed over the years. and you can agree that his views have changed over the years, but the issue is can he seemingly rewrite the past to look better now. a lot to talk with james carville and ralph reid founder of the faith and freedom coalition. james, when yo

mr. mcclintock talked about in extolling the virtues and the record of former president reagan in helping to bring us out of a significant recession at the time, i want to just read a quote. we're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. some were understandable. but in practice, they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary and that's crazy. it's time we stopped it. now if i was going to quiz the members here on who might -- we might have attributed that quote to, i bet it wouldn't be at the much to anyone's mind that that was from a speech by ronald reagan at north side high school in atlanta, georgia, on june 6th, 1985. >> no one would have guessed that warren buffett would say the same thing. >> exactly. he said i would raise rates immediately on taxable income, including dividend and capital gains. and for those who made $10 million or more. i would suggest an additional increase in rate. and that was on august 14th, 2011. so that prefac

reagan. >> charlie: you hear that, mr. hunt. >> that's okay. al and i have known eac other for decades. >> charlie: he heard us. >> it's all right. quit lying about my record, al. i thought i would -- 1988 which some people thought -- the basic point -- >> i knew ronald reagan, he was a friend of mine. >> m point is a big chunk of the republican party that does not want mitt romney and they don't want mitt romney for reasons beyond mitt romney it's a whole notion of those guys telling us what to do. it's the same reason why the tea party should not be identified with the republican party. they sometimes despite the republicans as much as democrats. my only point if they see in annuity begin rich thnewt gingrr distance content would be a problem for newt. one more thing i'll put on the table what's standing between mitt romney and the nomination and he said mitt romney. there's always tha possibility of front runner. that's all i'm saying. >> charlie: so mitt romney's nomination to lose is what you're saying. >> sure. >> charlie: there's this al

. >> stephen: eventually reagan went up there and just punched a hole in that ice. said mr. gorbachev, tear down this glacier. now listen, is there an album, because you know albums sell great with songs associated with movies. is there an album of like, of like whaling songs that go with this. >> do you happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: oh, who ray and here ray and up she rises up she rises early in the morning. you sing that you get that, throw a little-- on it or something like that, mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a stephen colbert, you know, sing songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle in the theatres captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org now, robot, kick 'em in the knees. bears have weak knees. and you should vibrate, 'cause the robot's full of radiation. yeah, that's it. frank. how many bears did i say you could have? one.

. >> stephen: and eventually reagan went up there and just punched a hole in that ice. said mr. gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be right

. >> stephen: and eventually reagan went up there and just punched a hole in that ice. said mr. gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be rig we want to protect the house. right. but... home security systems can be really expensive. so to save money, we actually just adopted a rescue panther. i think i'm goin-... shhh! we find that we don't need to sleep that much. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> stephen: that's it for the report, everybody. the report, everybody. good night.