they're wrapped up in one piece is dean martin, frank sinatra, and his wife arbor, nancy reagan, and ident reagan in california. how much do you think glamour played in getting him elected? >> an element for people of a certain age, there was a certain glamour. the glamour of ronald reagan though had less to do with the hollywood group, per se, like whether it was the glamour of hollywood, but it did have skills ando do with grace that he acquired as an actor, and so he looks like -- he made sort of being out there, fielding those questions, look effortless, which is an aspect of glamour, so people were more likely to support him sortically, you see in him of the ideal candidate, the ideal representation of their views, because he did not make them embarrassed in any way. they were not waiting for him to fail. that became more of an issue. this style, a word that comes from the 16th century about being a politician of the and this is this nonchalance of making difficult things look easy. it is hard, and they appreciate it all the more, and reagan had that quality of making it look eas

(laughter) like nancy reagan's war on drugs or laura bush's fight to end presidential illiteracy. (laughter) well-- (cheers and applause) lady and gentlemen, thanks to miss obama instead of care-free chubb sters, we are now breathing a again-- breeding a generation of body conscious cops doing tricycle spin classes desperately trying to get back to their birth weight. (laughter) worst of all this is bad news for the gop. they need to reach out to the preschool demo. and it won't be easy since the republicans are on record as trying to deport dora. and they condemn spongebob as a form of birth control. plus preschool itself is a left wing socialist training camp. sharing toys, snack handouts, premarital snapping, not to mention wasteful infrastructure projects. you're overbudget, sam. that thing's not even dinosaur proof. we can still win them over, folks. i think they'll really identify with the current conservative economic message, mine! now nation, did you hear something? it sounds like it came from outside. is your front door knock. i think so isn't good enough. is your front

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in the model along the lines of what betty ford and nancy reagan had done so bravely back in the day was simply not discussed. i thought i wanted to just put it out there and let people know what had happened to me because it might be helpful to other women. >> many of us have loved ones or gone through it themselves and know it's hard to come forward for families let alone the nation. i have a lot of respect for that. i wanted to drill down in the controversy what exactly to do on the prevention front. there is this new study, however, you really maintain that prescreening and mammograms specifically helped a lot. you talked to doctors who backed that up. you're not a medical doctor and made no claims to be a medical doctor but are a very informed advocate. tell us where you land on that. >> well, i am not a doctor. have no medical experience. i'm a patient. and so i went out of concern to night my own doctors and this is what i was told at memorial sloan kettering where i was treated. they were very concerned about the reporting on the study. they say the canadian study on which th

knowing lee iacocca's voice would sound the same way on paper and different than magic johnson or nancy reagan's voice. these are different voices and need to be true to the person throughout, and i think i observed that lesson from him and taking very seriously the way every character, no matter how small, would speak and think, i think i absorbed that lesson from him. >> charlie: do you continue to want to be an actor and act as much as possible? >> yeah, i do like it. when i am performing the stories, which i love to do on the book tour, i catch myself thinking, really, you're a little bit of an actor. because i'm so used to thinking of myself as a writer, sometimes i catch myself is being more performative. >> charlie: how much training did you have as an actor? [ laughter ] >> you might be shocked. >> charlie: don't tell me. not much training. >> charlie: because you just didn't need it or -- >> because i didn't need it. [ laughter ] no -- well, fortunately, the acting i have been asked to do is extremely naturalistic and subtle, so i don't think that i have been asked to do things that wou

this time they may do a nancy reagan and just say no. >> i think that is a real possibility.e give you some data. one thing we are seeing is some of the larger banks, the so-called community reinvestment ratings are going from superlative scores to just satisfactory. we are seeing contractions of inner-city branches. we are seeing the banks pulling back from some of the sort of political investments they made in the 1990's and the 2000's. of course, the government is reacting to that, too. was just appointed as the supervisor effectively a fannie and freddie, and he was -- is trying already to start doing things, pushing back in the direction of using that leverage to try to expand subsidization of housing credits. thes we head toward election, what will the banks want versus what washington wants? know whatw, i don't washington is going to want other than to continue. the obama administration, to continue the subsidization of housing finance, especially in an election year. obviously the banks are in a tough position, but at some point, you pressure them so much that it is n

and nancy reagan's people brought it to her, it was a great slogan.s anybody know where that slogan first came from? the great irony, it was a national poster, as i understand the story and friends in the arctic have told me this, there was a national poster contest. one of the winning posters was from a youth in arctic village alaska, and the poster said "just say no to drilling in the arctic refuge." it's very interesting because, again, it was right to the point. oil is our number one drug. and so it's really, this is a great challenge of our time to see -- why did we care about alaska? it's because deep in the child heart symbolically around the world, alaska is a remnant of eden. and all of us know we really can'tly without the rest of -- can't live without the rest of creation. it's who we are. so it's great test of our time to see if we're going to have the democracy of all beings and so thank you for your time. >> after the bp spill, congress talked about passing legislation, never did. is there any hope that congress will do anything? anyone?

nancy reagan's people brought it as the great slogan. do you know, there that first came from? it was a national poster as i a understand the story, one of the winning posters from the contest was from a youth in the arctic village alaska is said just say no to drugs in in the arctic refuge. oil is the number one drive. it is a great challenge of our time to see why did we care about alaska? deep in the child part symbolically a round of world it is the symbol of for revenant of eden and we know we cannot live without the rest of creation. it is who we are as a great test of our time. think you for your time. >> after the bp still congress talk about legislation but never did. >> i thank you know the answer. probably not. it is unfortunate in 2010 they had written a bipartisan response bill but the markup torpedoed over the issue of revenue sharing. is unfortunate. people remember 9089 so we thought the spill would motivate members of congress even one year removed but that did not happen and i don't think it will happen anytime soon the committee is not looking at oil spill re

. >> ronald reagan: well... ( laughter ) >> simon: he showed up with president reagan and nancy at theala in 1985, and met a whole bunch of presidents- - richard nixon, george h.w. bush, bill clinton. he wrote an impressive, picture- laden book, "the president's table." and was invited to the finest anchor desks in town. >> barry h. landau is presidential historian... >> the story of the ultimate inauguration collector... >> simon: but when we met up with him in june, 2012, he no longer wanted to tell his story. he'd been convicted of the single largest theft of historic artifacts in the united states. he stole thousands of items, including hundreds of documents, signed by some of the most famous names in history-- george washington, thomas jefferson, francis scott key, marie antoinette, and voltaire. he'd pilfered them from museums and libraries all over the country. u.s. attorney rod rosenstein was in charge of the prosecution. he was a con man? >> rod rosenstein: barry landau was a con artist. and he used his reputation as a presidential historian in order to gain the confidence of

13- year-old representing pennsylvania she received congratulations from president ronald reagan and his wife nancy are certain moments in your life that really stick out. >> reporter: today, she is a princeton university graduate and partner at a san francisco law firm that works with nonprofits. she said she originally entered the bee to fill a shortage of spellers and her dad promised she could pierce her ears if she made the top 20 nationwide. nearly three decades later she learned life lessons in determination and perseverance. >> first off, the discipline of learning to spell and taking a pursuit and developing it and taking a skill and becoming good at it. >> reporter: she also gained confidence in public speaking. >> you're a 13-year-old kid wearing your placard, what word are they giving me next? you're doing your best to hold it together and i think it's a great experience in pressure. >> just took on a life of its own [ indiscernible ] disagrees. as an 8th grader from the sacked area she became the first national spelling bee champion from california in 1988. today, she is a surgical pat

nancy regan era. >> way before his time. >> if you go to the ronald reagan library there is a just say no board gamehich is fun when you are drunk. >> buck, it is obvious looking at you you have a serious, serious drug problem. if you had seen more anti-drug ads growing up -- >> it would have turned out differently as to if i would ever get caught. all i can think about is you are keeping the weed stash in the cigar box. that is a jv move if i have ever seen one. >> it has an illegal or bizarre substance. >> what is in here? a scientific calculator? >> i expect a little more effort for the kid to hold it away from his dad. >> why couldn't it have been foreign. >> on a serious note, would these ads have been more successful if they were more honest? part of the problem was they were trying so hard to scare teens they would come up with these things like if you try cocaine once you could die. the whole this is your brain on drugs and it would be scrambled eggs. teens would find out you could do cocaine once and you would not die and you could smoke a joint and your brain wouldn't explode. >> they were