initially nancy reagan was seen as extra glamorous. she had all of these dresses she was getting.e turned it around with the don't ask don't tell, and i think became more popular. eleanor -- >> you mean just say no? >> just say no. >> who led ronald into astrology? >> she did. >> did that contribute to ronald reagan's. >> no, that was after. >> was there anything to is t.? >> done regan wrote all about it in his book. usually the first ladies are more popular. >> do you follow astrology at all? is your moon going into your house? >> but john -- >> we're not allowed to do into that? >> john, just remember how incredibly polarizing michelle obama was during the election. when she was caricatured by the opposition as this angry, black lady. and there were all these rumors about a tape that existed when she talked about whitey, and here she is now she has demonstrated she can balance being an amazing mother, taking on issues that are really important but not divisive and also the style element obviously appeals to people. >> on michelle. childhood obesity. last month, president obama

nancy reagan took a lot of ridicule for just say no campaign. just say no is the right message. >> what about a racial component? >> the racial thing that disturbs us most in the survey was that 12 and 13 year-olds hispanic and black kids are 3 times likelier, 12 and 13 year-olds, to be offered drugs than 12 and 13-year-old white kids. 20% of black and hispanic kids we surveyed said they had been offered drugs at age 12-13. nonly 7% of white kids said that. now that says those drugs are widely available, and it also says something about law enforcement. we tolerate here in washington in south central l.a., and in new york and harlem, and in california and california south central and here in washington in the southeast, drug czars that would be wiped out in 5 minu >>> did you get into the issue of who should prescribe antidepressants and other psychopharmacological medications for mood-altering drugs? should it be psychiatrists only or mds or -- what are you doing with regard to that? >> it should be mds but shay should be much better fland how

in 1985 club members presented a proclamation to first lady nancy reagan which brought the club national recognition and ultimately prompted thousands of schools, communities, and states to recognize red ribbon week now celebrated during the last week of october. in this anniversary of agent camerainea's -- camarena's death, let us take time to remember the public service of enrique "kiki" camarena on the 25th anniversary of his death. i'd like to offer my dee

nancy reagan was very grateful that a conservative group wanted to preserve that. the fellow that was going to buy it was going to teardown the house. clinton was president. he did not want to save it. ron robinson and the young americans foundation stepped up. they are groups that promote conservative ideas. we do this through women. we are not a women's group. we are a conservative group. >> give me some other conservative prime troubles -- conservative principles of your group. >> we believe that when a man or a woman earns money at their job, they should decide how most of it is spent. how many days of a five day week should you have to work to pay the government? our taxation rates are too high. people should decide how to spend their own money. taxation is certainly an incredibly important issue. allowing businesses to prosper. the government is huge and overbearing. big businesses make their peace with it and give their contribution. what americans prosper. did these regulators out of the way. -- let americans prosper. get these regulators out of the way. i

hangs in my study properly as it should but that is how i can to be wearing the stetson because of nancy reaganave you a copy of ronald reagan's hatch wouldn't you want to wear it? and i did. so than -- but i hope you like to have as much as i do. [applause] >> thank you for coming today. i would also like to thank the national press club stuff in putting the library joining the club and how to acquire a copy of today's program please go to the website, www.press.org. thank you. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible cversations] c-span or public affairs content is available on television, radio and online and you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook and youtube and synnott for our schedule alert e-mail at c-span.org. >>> at the closing news conference of the national people's congress, chinese premier responded to questions on china trade and currency policy and relations with the u.s. following the dalai lama's visit and arms sales to taiwan. this 35 minute portion is courtesy of the to watch the entire program go to c-span.org to read parts of the

ronald reagan and nancy reagan were the last visitors actually. james baker came in that same night. maybe he -- i think he came in after the -- the reagans. c-span: what was sally and lee's relationship at the end? >> guest: at the end they were together at the finish line. they had resolved a lot of their -- their problem areas and... c-span: you say there was a time that lee atwater wanted to go through a marriage ceremony with brooke vosberg there at the hospital. >> guest: they had a little wedding, a little marriage ceremony in the chapel at the hospital, yeah -- somewhat symbolic. and but eventually lee separated himself from brooke and she was not at the funeral. c-span: in the back you have this picture of the grave site. where is this, by the way? >> guest: that's in columbia, south carolina. c-span: and you can't see it here in the photograph, but we've transferred it to a picture so that people on the screen can see it. and that's what it looks like there and -- 1951 to '91, you say he was just a little bit over 40. and you say, 'teache

we've used some of those nancy reagan recent years certainly. and again, without really getting in to the details of the concepts. >> ok. let me ask one other question, if i might, having to do -- deal with afghanistan. it has to do with the gel tense operations, air-military intelligence and i would direct this to both you general and admiral as well. major general michael flynn, the top military intelligence officer in afghanistan, published what he tithe he would the blueprint for making intelligence relevant in afghanistan. the report notes and i quote, our intelligence apparatus still finds itself unable to hanes fundamental questions about the environment in which we operate and the people we're trying to protect and persuade, end quote. and i would pose this question to both of you. do you have agree with general flynn's overall assessment in this report, what actions have you -- are you taking, in response to that report, and have any of the initiatives that he directs in the report been carried out? >> in fact, senator, when i -- when w

and nancy reagan, at the time, was very grateful that a conservative group wanted to take it, wanted to preserve it. the fellow who was going to buy it was going to chop down the ranch house and build another house, so its history. clinton was president. he didn't want to save it. the california legislature was democrat. they didn't care. so, ron robinson and young america's foundation stepped up and saved that for the future and for history. it's a wonderful thing they did. and they also work on college campuses. ijÑand, i mean, we're groups tht promote conservative ideas. we do it through women. we're not a women's group. we're a conservative group that promotes conservative ideas through conservative women leaders. >> give me some other conservative principles of yours or of your groups, things that really matter to you. >> well, we believe in our hearts that when a man or woman earns money at their job, they should decide how most of it is spent. we have incredibly high taxation rates in this country, and now going higher with president obama. how many days of the five-day week s

have been blessed with many gifted and determined women such as dolly madison, eleanor roosevelt, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, and michelle obama. their lives are inspiring stories for all young women and men, such as a student from huntington -- such as the students from huntington high school who are with us today. the students are our future. it is the job of our generation to pass on the values and beliefs that make this country great. the smithsonian, with more than 107 million items in its collection, is ideally positioned to do that. our commitment is that we will. take for example what we celebrate today -- clothing. in our collections, we have a familiar earhart's jacket -- amelia earhart's jacket, marian anderson's." . this is just the starting corps for what we will be a journey of discovery. we are here to initiate, engage, and continue the dialogue. we do so thanks to the generous support of people on capitol hill and here in this room. we take our duty to the american people seriously. at the reopening of the museum in november, 2008, a historian and board member sa

if you remember, nancy reagan's "just say no" campaign came out back then and it was socially example for people, regular middle-class people to be using drugs. if you legalize drugs, how many people would start using it just because it is legal? not that monemany. take the billions of dollars and do educational campaigns, they work. you have prevention campaigns. we can go into rehabilitation areas. the main thing is that you put the drug dealers out of business. there is no argument there. you put them out of business. host: thank you for the call. "the wall street journal" has a story about the money from drug dealers. "wachovia is in talks over allegations from mexico. they are talking to the justice department to settle allegations they failure in bank controls allowed mexican exchange houses to launder drug money. they line the u.s.-mexican border and serve as a hub for the global remittance business allow u.s. and iran to send money back to lead america to help relatives. federal officials identified the money as a way for drug traffickers to move cash around ." larry, stockt

we came together with nancy reagan. in a nation with all of our well, how can it be that we have millions of children who wonder if the american dream is there for them. the wonder if they can get a quality education, where they are going in the future. we committed that ours -- we committed at that point to dedicate ourselves to the lives of these youngsters worrying about their future. we have been successful and expanded programs to the works of boys and girls club of america, the salvation army programs, and one program that you heard patrick described, many things that we accomplished. and the promises we made to ourselves and the young people of america are very simple. every young person should have responsible, caring adults in their lives. u-turn -- you heard patrick talk about the caring adults that helped bring him back on line. second, second -- safe places for children to learn. in patrick's case, it was youth ville. you want to make sure that every child has health care and a healthy start in life. and mak

with ronald reagan who my revered and i served both ronald reagan there was nancy, the inner circle and the world. >> host: maybe because it covered both of them and didn't know them as well as you but with ronald reagan there was a slight shield or a piece of plexiglas where he would lapse into a jack warner movie studio story for you but he put in to really engage, whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage intellectually. >> guest: there was always a distance. ronald reagan and i talked all the time because i asked about things and we had a tremendous interest in education. and he did use the story. he left to use the story. that is the week i indicated. but president bush had what is robert louis stevenson said the geniality of the great man and easy familiarity. president reagan was friendly and accessible. but there was always a distance. bush always parked on the distance. i remember sitting in the room we refer to it as off the oval office and another name during the clinton administration. but we were watching the today show and ross perot was on and was really about

that you had with ronald reagan, with ronald reagan who my revered and served both ronald reagan there was nancy, the inner circle and then there was the world. >> host: maybe because i covered both of them and i didn't know them as well as you but i got to observe with ronald reagan you always thought there was a slight shield or piece of plexiglas where he would lapse into a jack warner movie studio story for you but he wouldn't really engage, whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage. >> guest: there was always a distance. of ronald reagan and i talked all the time because i asked him about things and he had a tremendous interest and education. and he did use the story. he left to use the story. that was the way he communicated. but president bush had what does robert louis stevenson said the geniality of the great man and easy for familiarity. reagan was very friendly and accessible but there was always a distance. bush always broke on the distance. i remember sitting in the room, we will refer to it of the oval office. it got another name during the clinton administration but we

reagan was a really even religious. including a lot of conservatives because nancy consulted us closer. onald reagan didn't go to church on a regular basis. but as i read, as i went to the reagan library in a red speeches like the evil empire speech, and look at the actual document, i saw reagan's hand all over it. there was a big file in the reagan's library called the phf, presidential handwriting file, which is documented that has reagan's writing on it, not just signature. and that's where you can was a presidents role, input. and i saw this speech, at least half of it was written by reagan, including the very theological presents. and i realize right there that i was doing with somebody much more substantive than the character, character suggested when he was president. so i ended up with a couple of chapters on reagan's faith in three or four chapters and have the book on reagan's faith. and certainly the manuscript among my colleagues, and they said you need to split it is off and do just a book on reagan's faith. so that became god of ronald reagan. and then later about three yea

with ronald reagan who my revered there was nancy, the inner circle and then there was the world. >> st: maybe because i covered both of them and didn't know them nearly as well of you but got to observe, with reagan you always thought there was a slight shield or piece of plexiglas where he would lapse into a jack warner movie studio story you but george bush was always eager to engage. >> guest: there was always a distance. ronald reagan and i talked all the time because i asked him about things and he had a tremendous interest in education and he did use the story. he loved to use the story that was the way he communicated. but president bush had this what is robert louis stevenson say the national geniality of the world's great men and an easy familiarity. president reagan was very friendly and accessible, but there was always a distance. bush always worked on the distance. however, sitting in the room we will refer to it as off the oval office, it got another name during the clinton administration. we were watching the today show and ross perot was on and he was reeling about pre

nancy pelosi, hand it to her, really. she was like mrs. thatcher with reagan actually helped stiffen -- it was a good partnership in that sense. she really did help stiffen it all. i actually do think, it's a total fantasy of the republicans to believe that they can now really make this kind of ongoing, unpop layer jihad and roll it back. it seems to me that people like a winner. ultimately the attention span of america is small. in the end, you know, lady gaga will kill somebody or it will e be -- it will be the, you know, "american idol" finale and the whole attention span will move on. new shows are so board with it as well -- >> do you agree with maureen that he finally acted like a winner, a fighter in. >> yeah. i think it's something i can't understand about the white house because they're so smart. they let the insurance companies just sit out there for so long without punching at them. about three weeks ago the president takes to the country. what did he do when he took that stage? he started punching the insurance companies. you need an enemy. >> he d