nancy reagan had been first lady for four years when she spoke at the republican national convention 984. she was a film actress when she first met ronald reagan. they married, and mrs. reagan became first lady of california when her husband was governor. and later, first lady of the united states when he was elected the 40th president. michael dever, an aide and friend of the reagan's, said without nancy, there would have been no governor reagan and no president reagan. here are nancy reagan's brief remarks to the delegates at the republican convention 36 years ago.

in nancy reagan had been for first lady four years when she spoke at the republican national convention in 1984. she was a film actress when she met ronald reagan. she became first lady of california when her husband was governor. later, she became first lady of the united states when he was elected the 40th president. michael dever, aide and friend of the reagan's, said without nancy, there would have been no governor reagan and no president reagan. here are nancy reagan's brief remarks to the delegates at the republican convention 36 years ago. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the first lady of the united states of america, nancy reagan. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. thank you. thank you. ♪ [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. i have to tell you that there is no experience like watching yourself on film that you had done 30 years ago. [laughter] it is an experience. but i know you have obviously heard a lot of political speeches. but i would like to shift gears with you for just a minute if i could, because it gives me t

reagan. she became first lady of california when her husband was governor. an aide and friend said without nancy, there would have been no governor or president reagan. here are her brief remarks to the delegates of the republican convention 36 years ago. >> ladies and gentlemen, the first lady of the united states of america, nancy reagan. ♪ ♪ >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. i have to tell you that there is no experience like watching yourself on film that you had done 30 years ago. [laughter] it is an experience. but i know you have obviously heard a lot of political speeches. but i would like to shift gears with you for just a minute if i could, because it gives me the chance to say something to you i have wanted to say for a long time. i would like to thank you very of the support in the hard work and the kindness overave extended to us years. it,ow you are not aware of but i drew on your strength many , particularly the first year in the white house. [applause] i am very grateful to you for that. it d

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but even nancy reagan said that her husband was no manager. and you really need the president to have both i think the ideological or policy direction with some ability not complete ability but some series the ability to manage. reagan was better at one than the other. >> that initial crisis of reagan being shot was very interesting and informative. you mentioned george h.w. bush and one of the things they did was he was effectively i think president but he refused to have his helicopter land on the white house lawn during that period mac and i thought was an important symbolic step the reagan saw that bush wasn't trying to give -- accrete how to sew. and also some other people may be didn't acquit themselves, david gergen was in a situation room and kept excusing himself come unclear why but richard outland was ashes could advisor didn't trust him about he was leaving the room to leaked to the press and that's why he was named professor of leaking. >> so were coming to the end of our our estimate i can ask kiron if you have a last thought you

done a lot of thinking on first ladies and i've spent the last four years writing a biography of nancy reagan. last night was a reminder that michelle obama really reinvented the role in a way that transcends politics. i mean, she emerged from the white house as a figure of pop culture -- as, i believe, her autobiography is on track to become the best-selling autobiography of anyone in history. so, she has this quality that, kind of, transcends partisanship, but because it is so special, so powerful, you have to use it sparingly. i thought she was right on target last night. i thought the -- tone of his speech was very, very different from what we saw know,ears ago where, you there was really still a lot of between thetterness clinton supporters and the sanders supporters. i don't think -- i mean, he was trying to smooth that over, i think, in part to remind people the top priority here is donald trump, but second, i do think there is a warmth that a personal chemistry between former vice president biden and bernie sanders that really did not exist for hillary clinton. jonathan: we shouldn't

but even nancy reagan said that her husband was no manager. and you really need the president to have both, i think, the ideological or policy direction with some ability -- not complete ability, but some serious ability -- to manage. reagan was better at one than the other. >> yeah, i think that, those are excellent points, and that initial crisis of reagan being shot was very interested and informative. you mentioned george h.w. bush, and one of the things he did was he was effective lu acting president, but he refused to have his helicopter land on the white house lawn during that period, and i thought that was an important symbolic step so reagan later saw that bush wasn't trying to acrete power to himself in the circumstance and also -- [inaudible] david gergen was in the situation room, he kept excusing himself, up clear why, but richard allen didn't structures him and -- trust him and thought he kept going out to leak to the press and that's why he had him named professor leaky. >> so we're coming to the end of our hour, and so maybe i

what was so special about the relationship between ronald and nancy reagan >> it was very genuine therer's best friend there's no question about it >> reporter: his pictures also reveal character obama's competitiveness and pride over a blocked shot against his much younger and taller aide reggie love. and the enormous responsibility of being commander in chief. souza was in the situation room capturing the tension during the bin laden operation that killed osama bin laden >> you've got the most powerful people in the executive branch of our government all jammed into this tiny little room and yet they were powerless. >> reporter: souza left the white house with obama, but since then has stepped back into the political fray taking to instagram to draw contrast between presidents obama and trump. what has inspired you to speak out politically? >> well, i think the office of the presidency should be respected. i like to think that this film will show how a president should behave how a president should be a leader how a president should deal with other people >> reporter: a photographer's

nancy reagan, who has so movingly represented ronald reagan here tonight.ause] president reagan, i know, is in our prayers. president reagan, the great communicator, who gave voice and image to the power of democracy as a way to a better future for all the people in the world. he will be remembered for many things, but for me, this soldier, the soldiers like scott oa brady you heard a few moments ago, the one thing that we will remember more than anything else is that it was president reagan who restored the fighting strength and spirit of america's armed forces. [cheering] i come before you this evening as a retired soldier. a fellow citizen who has lived the american dream to the fullest. as someone who believes in that dream and wants that dream to become reality for every american. my parents came to this country as immigrants over 70 years ago. they came here as have millions of others with nothing but hope, a willingness to work hard, and a desire to use the opportunities given them by their new land. a land which they came to love with all their hear

and it was such -- so much trust that nancy reagan, 15 years after the president had left and when hears later, she asked you to come back and accompany her and his casket back to california. >> yeah, that was a great honor. i mean, that was in 2004, and president bush, president george w. bush sent air force one out to pick up the casket and the entourage, and we flew back to d.c. where he lied in state at the capitol. this picture that's shown on the screen now was taken on the plane, which, you know, was just kind of a surreal experience in so many ways. >> the plane you had spent so many hours and years on. thank you so much, pete. thanks for sharing. we can't wait to see the full documentary which is "the way i see it." produced by msnbc and focus features. that does it for today for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> starting today, nbc news and msnbc are holding several key conversations with national security and defense experts and other newsmakers as part of the annual 2020, this year's 2020 aspen security forum. tune in to nbc news now online at 4:00 for my conversation with ch

the united states, this is the worst example pet by an executive branch member since the time nancy reaganthe antidrug speech tweaked. yeah, i said antidrug. i said antidrug, so what. she was tweaked! she was on old dr. isis toothlooseiner. you might recall before i want on break congress couldn't agree on anything, specifically how much supplemental unemployment pay out of work americans should get. democrats wanted to keep the amount, republicans proposed reducing the 600 weekly supplement to $200 but also proposing turning the food stamp program into actual stamps you lick for sus tenance. hmmm, kids, who's hungry for more glue. huffy. after weeks of dead lock negotiations donald trump fainl leigh had to step in. you know what they say, if you want something done right, you should not have elected me president. on saturday, in addition to other measures president trump signed an executive order providing $400 in supplemental unemployment. i can understand why he is in favor of providing that because come january everyone in his family might need it. trump also signed other executive ord

another 32 years later when pat nixon spoke in 1972 on behalf of her husband and since then, nancy reagan84, barbara bush in 1992, hillary clinton 1996 and michelle obama, both when running for president in 2000 eight and she also spoke in 2012 and 2016 print what tonight will we hear from mrs. trump? beso, the first lady will giving opening marks in the rose garden. from the white house grounds. newly renovated. her remarks i will say, her office is much more tightlipped than other white house officials. it is supposed to be a speech much more personal in nature. and very forward-looking. that is what her team has said. i know they are also, hoping she has a come back tonight. she does not do a lot of long speeches. one of the longest speeches she would has given as first lady. remember and 2016 during the republican national convention she had a speech with parts of it that were criticized as being plagiarized from other speeches, one of michelle obama's. they are trying to make sure she almost redeems herself in a way tonight with her speech. -- i will say she is also apparently using

today, speeches from first lady that conventions come with first lady nancy reagan at the 1984 republicanvention, first lady barbara bush at the 1992 republican convention the first lady hillary clinton at the 1996 democratic convention, and first lady michelle obama at the 2012 democratic convention. past convention speeches at 6:00 p.m. eastern on nancy's that, your unfiltered view--on c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. >> next, house democratic leaders hold a news conference on postal operations and mail-in voting. shortly before this briefing, u.s. postmaster general lewis to -- louis dejo issued a statementy announcing he was helping some changes to mail delivery until after the november elections. this briefing is 45 minutes. >> steny, how are you doing?

reagan: nancy and i will be forever grateful to the -- for the honor you have done us, for the opportunityd for your friendship and trust. i began political life as a democrat, casting my first vote in 1932 for franklin delano roosevelt. that year, the democrats called for a 25% reduction in the cost of government by abolishing useless commissions and offices and consolidating departments and bureaus. and, giving more authority to state governments. as the years went by and those promises were forgotten, did i leave the democratic party or did the leadership of that party leave not just me, but millions of patriotic democrats who believed in the principles and philosophies of our government? [cheers and applause] one of the first to declare this was a former democratic nominee for president, al smith, the happy warrior. who went before the nation in 1936 to say on radio that he could no longer follow his party's leadership and that he was taking a walk. as democratic leaders have taken their party further and further ,way from its first principle it is no surprise that so many responsible

the president's lives, and the woman behind the man, i always wanted my husband to be more like nancy reagan for in a sample, i'm interested in how these women, what so interested me, there are three women that i write about in the each made choices that they had to make even though they were narrow choices so women at that time came from a family where her father had been wealthy, lost to shipping business and became an alcoholic, she lived very near teddy when she was a young girl in a wealthy area and they had to move to a modest home and she drew a protective curtain around herself, she love teddy from the time she was young and he and she were boyfriend and girlfriend in college and they had a fight in his sophomore year in college, they broke up and he fell madly in love with this beautiful young girl from boston, alice, he married alice to the devastation and she died in childbirth a few years later and he went to the badlands, depressed and thought he would never love again, the light had gone out of his life but he went back and married edith and it was a strong joyous marriage, all

other thing i would say is that reagan really began moving to the right after his links with the stalinists in 1947 and focused with the congress increasingly because of nancy's father on taxes and other issues and reagan as your member wouldn't fly. he made three good 75 speeches and he would ayes by train. reagan didn't drink much and didn't play cards so reagan evolves to be very very thoughtful. trump is not just a real estate guy. he's a construction guy so trump is very comfortable hanging out and there's a great series. he must have made in the 90s. trump and his hotels did every job. the one point he was dressed up as a guy who -- and he walks the dog for the lady and he comes back and she said that's really great my dog is so happy. but he's cleaning rooms with the maids and checking people in and he was having the time of his life. there was a nonintellectual relaxed happiness about trump. he's very existential which reagan is not. reagan is very long-term and has a good sense of history. trump really is in the moment. he's really really smart guy and he's getting better pretty fast. it's not that these simplistic but that he tries to find core prin

the other thing i would say is reagan began moving to the right after his -- with the stalinists in 1947 in the 50s spoken with ian they come is increasingly because of nancy's father on taxes and other issues and the guy who hired him. reagan is your member wouldn't fly so he did. and 75. >> speeches. he was given conservative books to read. reagan evolved to become very thoughtful. trump is not just a real estate guy and is not a finance guy. he's a construction guy so trump is comfortable hanging out and there's a great series on youtube it must have been the 90s of trump in his hotel doing every job at one point he dressed up as the guy agreed to at the door and he walks the dog for the lady and he comes back and he says that's really great by dog is so happy. any system they get a tip? buddies cleaning rooms have been made and checking people in. he was having the time of his life but there was a non-intellectual relaxed happiness about trump. he's very existential in a way that reagan was not. reagan was very long-term and had a very good sense of history. trump really is in the moment. he's really smart and he's getting better pretty fast and it's not

the other thing i would say reagan began moving and all through the 50s the communist and increasingly because of nancy's father on tax and other issues in the guy who hired -- he did 375 speeches and he would always go and train he ways gave conservative economic books because he did not play cards so reagan was very, very thoughtf thoughtful, truth is he's not just a real estate guy, he's not a finance guy, he's a construction guy, trump is very comfortable hanging out and he must've made in the '90s and trump at one of his hotels doing every job so i'm dressed up as the guy and walks the dog for the lady and he comes back and she says that's really great, my dog is so happy, but he's cleaning rooms with the maiden checking people in and he was having the time of his life. but there was a nonintellectual relaxed happiness about trump who is very expert central way that reagan was not, but reagan was very long-term and had a very good sense of history, trump is really, really smart and getting better pretty fast and is not that he's simplistic but that he tries to find core principles and then operates

[applause] ronald reagan: this evening marks the last step -- save one -- of a campaign that has taken nancy and me from one end of this great nation to the other, over many months and thousands of miles. there are those who question the way we choose a president, who say that our process imposes difficult and exhausting burdens on those who seek the office. i have not found it so. [applause] ronald reagan: it is impossible to capture in words the splendor of this vast continent which god has granted as our portion of his creation. there are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call americans. [applause] ronald reagan: everywhere, we have met thousands of democrats, independents, and republicans from all economic conditions and walks of life bound together in that community of shared values of family, work, neighborhood, peace, and freedom. they are concerned, yes, but they are not frightened. they are disturbed, but not dismayed. they are the kind of men and women tom paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the american

nancy pelosi says she has rebuffed an overture from steve mnuchin over stimulus, as the white house hasn't changed its position. pelosi who refuses to compromise. the boston fed president, eric rosengren says, over reaganen the economy without containing covid-19 has backfired for the united states. we will hear from him this hour. nejra: welcome to "daybreak europe." the other comment eric rosengren made alongside his colleague, mary daly, caught our attention, was the fact that they talk to down guidance in bond markets right now. manus: but if you listen to td securities a great interview yesterday on bloomberg she talked about what is driving real yields. that is the fed. it is about the reassurance. she said september will be critically important. for her, this 30-year paper auction today is a liquidity not a supply event. fascinating take on the markets. nejra: yeah. definitely. when it comes to those real yields markets, there is a great piece on bloomberg talking about the fact that, it is not so much about inflation expectations, because we have talked a bit about the prospect of stagflation, it is much more about nominal yields staying anchored. we saw that shaken a little bit this week, but

when the republicans i'm going back to reagan and they have a legitimate proposed and right now were sent to the stuck place the how you solve is pretty simple, nancypelosi does not want to give donald trump a win right now. >> she did a lot of work with you in the labor provisions. but she did, he also didn't invite her to be an announcement, there's a little bit of prettiness on both sides but they did some work, they are politicians. >> i was in the white house during watergate. >> right. >> i think there is a difference now that we really are in it. where's the revolution, it's about way more than just trump, trump wants you to think about him and nancy pelosi the democratic but it is really not, is the establishment, status quo of the washington status and getting the job done. the american people and bernie sanders supporters for donald trump supporters said no we want a different direction, i think that is what's different, this is a war that nobody wins, a political war that there's no middle ground that somebody is good to be successful in the other side is going to critter away into the back room. despite the wall itself, to be the wall i

nancy reagan had been first lady for four years when she spoke at the republican national conventionn 1984. she was a film actress when she met ronald reagan. she became first lady of california when her husband was governor.

. >> let's turn to the women behind the man like i wanted my husband to be more like nancy reagan. [laughter] >> there are three women i'm writing about. and they each made choices they had to make even if there were narrower choices. edith roosevelt came from a family her father was wealthy and lost to shipping business and became an alcoholic. she lived very near teddy and then moved to a more modest home. she loved teddy from the time she was young. they were girlfriend and boyfriend through college. they had a fight they broke up and he fell in love with a girl from boston. he married alice and then she died in childbirth a few years later. he went to the badlands depressed the light had gone out of his life but he married edith and it was an extraordinarily strong and joyous marriage. all she wanted was to give companionship and strength and a sanctuary to her ever restless husband. she said she would not give her views on political opinions what mattered for a woman was only to be in the newspaper twice. when you are married and buried. she was little known by the public at l