and we're listening to nancy reagan in her own words. early in ronald reagan's presidency he was shot. by this asinine to tempt as he left a washington hotel speech. nancy reagan would later say the trauma of that day never left her. she talked with c-span's ryan lam about rushing to her husband side. >> he got downstairs, and he kept saying and he's like i'm going to the hospital. and he was saying it's not necessary. and i said george, you either get the car, or i will walk. and we got to the hospital, and mike deaver met me at the hospital. and he said, he has been shot. and there are police all around. a lot of noise, and they put me in a small room. there was one desk and one share. and that was it. and i kept -- wanting to see ronny. and they kept saying he is all right but you can't seem. and i kept saying well if he's all right, why can't i see him? and, finding or finally they let me see him. and he was lying there with that thing on his face, to help him breathe. and he lifted it up, that's when he said honey i forgot to duck. >

the way it must and will remain. >>> you're watching american history tv and we're listening to nancy reagans. early in ronald reagan's presidency he was shot in an assassination attempt as he left a washington hotel speech. nancy reagan would later say that the trauma of that day never left her. she talked with c-span's brian lamb about rushing to her husband's side. >> we got downstairs, and i said i'm going to the hospital. he said it's not necessary. he hasn't been hurt. i said, george, you either get the car or i'm going to walk. and weep got to the husband and mike dever met me at the hospital. he said he has been shot. and there were police all around and a lot of noise and they put me in a little small room. there was one desk and one chair and he kept wanting to see ronnie. and they kept saying he's all right, but you can't see him. i kept saying, well, if he's all right, why can't i see him? finally they let me see him. he was lying there with that thing on his face to help him breathe. they lifted it up and that's when he said, honey, i forgot to duck. >> the first lady was as gua

this is nancy reagan in her own words. second hand clothes secondhand closed they're all the rage at the spring fashion shows. even my two new trench coat with for color ronnie bought for 10 cents on the dollar. secondhand gowns old hand-me-downs. the china is the the only thing that's new. even though they tell me i'm no longer queen. did ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine. secondhand closed second-hand clothes, i sure sure hope ed me so i guess i came around. to thinking well, all right. we'll try. i mean it can't be worse than it was you know, and so she said originally they had thought that i would make fun of the press. and i said, no no that i'm not going to do that. the only the only way we could do this is if i make a fond of myself. i make fun of myself. then maybe i have a 50/50 chance here. as you well know. that first year was not. nobody was really crazy about me and i don't think i'd have been crazy about me reading what i did. about me press was rough. press was rough. i and i i and i really don't

reagan a little bit. [laughter] if ronnie married nancy the first time he would have won an academy award. aughter] s but i heard i would he and she wouldn't and i would say i just heard a minister say that president reagan improved on jesus. she said yes that's the kind of thing that ronnie did a lot. [laughter] may someday we all the loved das nancy davis loved reagan. [laughter] >> i don't believe that. >> is part of the shining city on the hill and the redeemer nation and it keeps us from confronting who we actuallyha are. so that binds us to the truth. and withh a streetcar named desire and then to evade what is looking back in the mirror it is the matter is that calls for. >> so my sense it is a good thing and then seeking justice that aspirational element that there is a gap. >> it out read the sentence in that way that motivation is that aspirational claim and baldwin is constantly saying at howard with many young activists there were these various clicks in the fifth national groups and then you have the dc folks. stokely carmichael. that people don't remember this. and so they are

bush, president bush just cited nancy reagan and the nancy reagan story which i don't believe.would i sit around and think i'm going to make up a nancy reagan? [laughter] because you are jon meacham. [laughter] >> you should hear my julia grant story. [laughter] so what does it mean? i want to understand you though. that is a journey from herbert walker bush, george herbert walker bush, reagan before the stuff you've written, to john lewis. to write about john lewis, to publish that after he goes on to glory, what do you see? i see it different i see a shift on the axis jon meacham. >> are we going to the 50 minute hour directed pay. you for therapy questionnaire. >> talk to me about j that joury from there to here. >> all right. can i slightly reorder the question? >> no. [laughter] so there is something, here's the commonality let's start there. the commonality is these are the only two living people i have ever written about. i did not fall in love with either one of them, but i came to love them which is different. they come from arguably it's hard to imagine two people beg

nancy reagan, of course ran into this. she was being people her loaned beautiful designer gowns for events at the white house and other events, and then there was a criticism of was she paying for those or not. and when it came out that she was not perhaps paying and having them loaned to her but keeping nem her closet. so you might remember at the white house correspondence center, she dressed up and came out into the tune of second hand rose and said i'm wearing second hand clothes. and she brought the house down. and if -- if you are being attacked and you can make fun of yourself or poke fun at yourself, that's a lesson, of course, to be learned. let's talk about some other tech any logical changes that would have changed the role of first lady and that is as travel became more of an opportunity or ease of travel. so the railroads come into being and also planes. talk about all of the first ladies that you know or have studied and what travel then actually contributed to their own work and to the work of their husbands

time when they were intimations that nancy reagan was was too powerful wore the pants in the reagan family too many times journalists at the time called upon edith wilson and suggested in nancy reagan that she was going to make a misstep akin to mrs. wilson's there are many other i mean many many many first ladies who are very powerful, but i think that the answer would probably start with edith wilson. all right, so i'm gonna make this case i knew she would i'm gonna do it. so it's the end of of the war of 1812. been in this war nothing this is the war that shouldn't have even ended before began. they conceded the british conceded don't made me explain it they conceited but we had the war anyway, and at the end of it loss of treasure lives. nothing gained capital burned to the ground. and yet the celebrations of this war this is right at the end of madison the madison presidency and james and dolly go off and a golden glow. in fact, they can't leave town after the inauguration because people just want to give them parties and everybody is celebrating this warm. it's making the amer

>> heard you talk about this before, but explain how you got to know nancy reagan and why she picked you to do the reagan diaries? >> i had been recommended to her -- well i wrote an article for the new yorker on ronald reagan's pen pal, a woman named lorrain wagner who ended up writing -- reagan wrote her hundreds of letters. >> did she keep them? did you meet her. >> i did, i got a random call from lorrain saying she got these letters from reagan, i immediately thought they were xeroxed letters, she lived in philadelphia, told me she worked for the irs all these years and more i interrogated her on the phone, i say, can you just fax me one of your letters so i can pick a winner and let me see the tone and tenor of it and she says no i won't fax it, i don't have a fax machine. i say is there a motel near you? she says i'm by a marriott i say one -- she wouldn't, she says you have to come and see them. >> what year was this? >> 2004, let's say -- >> and you went to see her? >> and yeah, so i went on a plane to philadelphia, wondering why am i doing this because it's probably going to

we know that nancy reagan so important on issues of personnel. never afraid to tell her husband. that person should go or that person is not good for you. so it clearly starts at the very beginning in that kind of advisory capacity. so before we come back to dolly, let me turn to stacey. and we did a panel some months a ago in the midst of the pandemic when we were always online and doing these great panels for the white house historical association and for flare. and stacey came up with a set of road maps or criteria just of how do we know if a first lady is being influential. how do we know that at the time, if we do know it. what are some of the side post wes might see, and afterwards, how do we know? what are some of the signals that a first lady is being influential. >> well, many of these go back to the earliest first ladies, as you two have discussed. some of it is common sense. did she achieve what she said she would achieve. we have the first ladies polls just like we take a sounding of what americans think about how well their president is succeeding and where it is the

he had written the rise of theodore roosevelt, um, both ronald reagan and nancy reagan read the book and liked it. he liked theodore rooseveltal and he didn't read a lot of heavy history or reagan read a lot but he would read his like he like like larry mcmurtry's western billy the kid and you know, like the western genre a little like eisenhower, but he read he read quite a few books and he didn't invite writers. we need to read a book reagan more than probably gets credit for but he did read the rest of theodore roosevelt and they picked him and he had alzheimer's and nancy felt burned and to get it fictionalized infuriated her. so when she was looking to get the diaries to me she wanted to make sure i'm not another you know, this was like her everything ronald reagan's diaries of the white house, and if i had some mentioned and men she was hesitant to release the diaries because she didn't want to get stung. where did you meet her first? um, so i and then the other thing i was told by people wilson if you get in a weird, you know gets if conversation goes sideways. you're not worki

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you wrote the biography of hw bush president bush you just cited nancy reagan the nancy reagan story, which i don't believe. why would i sit around and think art i'm gonna make up a nancy because you are john mitchell now, so you should hear my julia grant story. whatever that means right, so. what does what does it mean what i want to understand you? oh jesus. that's a journey. from herbert walker bush george herbert walker bush the reagan before the stuff you've written. yeah to john lewis. yeah. to write about john lewis to publish that and after he goes on to glory what do you what do you see because i see a difference. i see a shift. yeah accent john major. are we doing is we're gonna do a 50 minute hour to have to pay you. yeah for therapy. yeah. no talk to me about that journey from from there to here. all right. can i slightly reorder the question? no, okay. so there is something here's the commonality. let's start there. okay, the commonality is these are the only two living people i've ever written about. and i didn't fall in love with either one of them. but i came to love

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minister say-- it's amazing, president reagan improved on jesus and she said, well, yes, that's the kind of thing that ronnie did a lot. may some day we all be loved as nancy davis loved ronald reagan. back to baldwin. >> i don't believe that? do you all believe that? >> why would i make that up. >> some believe that we're the shining city on the hill, and to be achieved, and that that particular illusion and keeps us from confronting who we actually are. >> sure. >> so there's a kind of falseness that we live in that blinds us to who we are, and with the iceman cometh, and blanch in "street car named desire," what does it mean to imagine ones self in a way and evade looking back at you in the mirror. so there's a kind of madness, what has gotten into these young folk? well, the madness of america has gotten into them. it's a madness that calls forth in an interesting way the kind of madness. let me press you on that. my sense from baldwin, it's a good thing that they -- what was getting into them in protesting, in seeking justice, was the aspirational element which creates one pole as to which there was then-- there is this gap you talk about. >> i don't

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i mean, there's -- was an easy character tour of hillary clinton and nancy reagan and of barbara bush, of you, of all of the first ladies. how wide was the gap between the press perception of you and who you were, who you felt should be conveyed to the press? >> i remember after jimmy was elected there was a whole page cartoon in "the washington post" with an image of jimmy and his mother and me and hay stacks. we had on straw hats and there was straw between our teeth. and then i went from that to being steel magnolia. i thought that was pretty good. because steel is tough and magnolia is southern. then i was fuzzy. i was fuzzy for a while. and then i was most powerful. so i had a full range of images. i didn't think i was any of that. i was proud because i was from the south. i hope i was tough. i didn't think i was fuzzy. when we came to washington, i knew what i wanted to do. i had worked on mental health problems when he was governor. i had been the governor's wife. i had my projects, i had entertained heads of state and entertained georgia legislators instead of congress people.

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the contrast of that would be the assassination, the attempted assassination of ronald reagan, nancy reagan after-the-fact says agent saved him. she believed the system worked as it was supposed to do rather than recrimination, she felt had it not been for the agent, he might have succumbed to the. >> absolutely and that heroic moment, so many levels of heroism, the trigger reflexes on the part ofhe the secret servic, that the result of the rebuilding after the gut punch of kennedy's death. director puts everything he has into getting the moneyet and agents and the technology, all of the upgrade happened and choices and the choices of the director who follow are completely vindicated by the split-second decision of tim mccarthy to throw his arms up and take bullet work the split-second decision of reagan's detail leader on the square outside the hilton. as soon as he hears shots, there's no tap the break, he puts his hand on the shoulder and shoves o him -- >> a 70-year-old man lands on top of him and reagan thinks before he knows he's been shot thinks his rib is broken is having problems b

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mike: ronald and nancy reagan were celebrating the first christmas in the white house in paul volcker was in his second year of being the fed chair. we know what happened after that. this is probably not going to be the same. analysts are suggesting this is the peak for inflation. one because gasoline prices have started to come down this month and because we have base effects. inflation was so high in the four months we are in now last year that this year it will come in lower on a statistical basis. romaine: and we are trying to look for bright spots. we are talking about a report of energy prices rising. we have seen in moderation in some of those prices and we saw a car prices fall in the most recent month. mike: used car prices are interesting because they were one of the biggest contributors to the surprisingly strong supposedly transitory inflation last year. a lot of rent-a-car companies had sold their cars and when the pandemic started they had to buy back all the used cars they could find and then there were no used cars for anybody. and then we ran into the semiconductor sh