patty davis discusses her book "dear mom and dad" a boowr as a memoir to her late parents ron and nancy reagan. watch q&a this week or online at c-span.org. we are joined to ta about aviation safety by the former inspector general at the transportation department, currently an aviation lawyer, welcome's good to be with you. host: before we get into aviation safety, the■ftimore isf mind if you'd like to make a comment about that. >> sure, obviously, the national transportation safetyoathe coass jurisdiction to investigate. i am old enough tor the sunshine skyway collapse in florida and the comparisons, the similarities are quite be read. when you see the pictures, they look similar and the differences are, there but tbridge at the sy had big round cement support structures that act as buffers or islands around the port and that's one of the most poignant things tt' missing from the accident in baltimore. a few miles up the road, there is a bridgeshment program going on on another bridge where they are putting those offenders or dolphins around the bridge to protect the structure. i think that w

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yeah but so the one thing to remember about jim baker is how a man managed to get past nancy reagan. yes. having run two campaigns against ronnie. yeah. because he ran theord campaign in 76 when reagan him and the bush campaign in 80. and i've always had a that one of the reasons mrs. reagan said yes, that baker looked like her idea of a chief of staff. yes, right. and he was. yeah, they went to princeton. well, you know, we didn't have ything. but you're right. we call that the vanderbilt of new jersey. but and that was that troika, right? it was ed meese, right. is that correct? no brief story every every year in those g-8 meeting that was meeting of thtop people, the president and prime minister, a small number of countries, like eight tries. and every good thing switched to the another person had responsibility for hosting the meeting well. time, time, time and reagan. oh the breaking name came up and he decided he wanted to take people down to the shores of virginia and and hold something down and he was in charge then of trying to run a set of conversations about international e

our husbands could only do it at a certain time, but i've been thinking about strong women like nancy reagan when it comes to just taking care of ronald reagan, making sure that she was there. and i've been thinking about edith as well, particularly with president biden. and i just have an idea that you might write about the complex legacy of joe biden. i think there is somebody like edith hyde joe biden today making decisions. the very fact that you can write a book and add your own name to it, i think that is what women fought for. more than just the right to have or not to have children. i think women voted so that they could have an input, and they do have an impact on this world. because after age 50 there is a lot more than just having children. host: barbara, understood. guest: i agree with barbara. i'm not going to write about anyone contemporary because i only write about dead people, you can do the live interviews, i can do the other ones. but i do think that she makes a point, that a lot of conversation around women's equality seems to be coalescing around abortion rights this ele

we do have some people asking, you know, what about pat nixon, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan. so as you've noted, you know, so many people have had an impact and have done great work through their work as first ladies in the white house. but we don't have the time to address every detail or all of them this evening. already. our next question is from debbie in clarksville, tennessee. debbie's asking if eleanor roosevelt ever rejoined the djr after she resigned her membership. no, she didn't. and i really encourage everyone to go online to youtube and look at that. marian anderson and performance. i can't watch it. know how many times i've watched it without tears in my eyes. and there are several versions of it. it was just a phenomenal thing. and and it showed a lot about eleanor and the way she approached things as first lady, because her first idea was, we'll just invite her to the white house and then she said to herself, that wasn't enough. so she went behind the scenes with secretary of interior ickes and created this whole incredible event at the lincoln memorial. but,

patti davis, you tell the story for the first time, i believe, about your grandmother edith, nancy reagan's: so, my grandmother edith and i -- have never told this story before, really to anyone -- for the same reasons that people don't, shame, embarrassmentp# usually, and you just don't want to go there. but she had a habit of touching me inappropriately. i was one of those girls who pe early, which i was very self-conscious about, but she would grab my breasts. sometimesvdheounot when anybodys around. so she frightened me. i tried never be alone with her, but i uccessful about that. it went on for a while. and as i said, i neveranybody a. the reason i wrote about it in this book, it was not just of the salacious or anything like that, the reason i wrote about it i that when my grandmother died, i didn't go to her funeral. and i lied, i said i was going to be out of the country. and my mother never forgave me for it. even though i apologized to her several times, i think, over the years. her that i had lied and i really wasn't out of the country, but i did apologize. but the reason i didn'

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nancy reagan following suit. and president reagan under great scrutiny from all of us in the media covering him as the older, then, president, elected at 69 was diagnosed in cancer head of the national cancer institute dr. steve rosenberg at the time said "the president a has cancer." the first lady upset and called right away saying behind the scenes. he doesn't have cancer. ronny doesn't have cancer. they cut it out of him and was very angry at that news conference. but, again. cancer was never spoken of publicly until recent decades and now she -- the royals who never go on camera and talk about their illnesses is on video? talking to what has been a ferocious media whirl of all kinds of rumors and saying publicly, thank you for your understanding. there's a lot of irony in that, but she did it sweetly. so i just think she deserves a tremendous amount of gratitude. >> absolutely. >> going forward as well. >> it's interesting as you're talking, andrea, i think a lot about the responsibility, the public responsi

wednesday on q&a, patty davis discusses her book "dear mom and dad," memoir her parents, ronald and nancy reagan, or online at c-span.org. >> coming up tonight on c-span, the supreme court heard oral argument in a consolidated cas'l for expanded use for the abortion pill mess up her stone. eholders reprenting alliance for hippocratic medicine spoke to the press after the supreme court heard or in a case regarding access to the abortion pill, mifepristone. later, pete buttigieg, president biden, and national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy, spoke about the collapse of the bridge in baltimore after being rammed by a container ship. that and more tonight

plummeted into the water time magazine later reported the scutnik was unnerved when first lady nancy reagan sat down next to him in the house gallery for the state of the union address, that he hadn't expected to be called out by name, and that he was so stunned when he was that it took a shove in the back to get them to stand up. >> ronald reagan understood drama while reagan understood theater. and from that moment on presidents have invited guests and made that guests story part of the state of the union address. >> one of the most controversial presidential guests, the late conservative radio talk show host rush limbaugh, who then president donald trump had in the box for his 2020 state of the the union address. trump not only acknowledged limbaugh, rush limbaugh. >> thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our but he's the teary-eyed broadcast. are they having first lady melania trump put the presidential medal of freedom around limbaugh's neck, right then and there, a spectacle that led to some blowback because of limbaugh's previous often disparaging characterizations of mi

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our husbands could only do it at a certain time, but i've been thinking about strong women like nancy reagan when it comes to just taking care of ronald reagan, making sure that she was there. and i've been thinking about edith as well, particularly with president biden. and i just have an idea that you might write about the complex legacy of joe biden. i think there is somebody like edith hyde joe biden today making decisions. the very fact that you can write a book and add your own name to it, i think that is what women fought for. more than just the right to have or not to have children. i think women voted so that they could have an input, and they do have an impact on this world. because after age 50 there is a lot more than just having children. host: barbara, understood. guest: i agree with barbara. i'm not going to write about anyone contemporary because i only write about dead people, you can do the live interviews, i can do the other ones. but i do think that she makes a point, that a lot of conversation around women's equality seems to be coalescing around abortion rights this ele

about having als, 56-year-old craig reagan of college station, texas, says it may be a heightened sense of gratitude. gratitude for caregivers, like his wife, nancy like his '73 ford mustang, which, as we first reported last year, stopped running in 1999 and took up permanent residence at his house. >> it's a big paperweight. >> reporter: [laughs] a big paperweight. why did you keep it? >> i just had an attachment to it. >> reporter: he's had it since high school. >> he was proud of it. >> reporter: craig had hoped someday his boys might want to fix it up with him, but they showed no interest in cars. then he planned to do it himself, but als had other plans. so the car sat rotting. until some old high school friends caught wind. >> and everybody, as soon as i called these guys, they were like, yeah, let's do it. >> it's in your heart. you just got to help somebody like that. >> reporter: so, for the next year, they went to work. put in under hundreds of hours, while other classmates paid for parts. making this moment possible. >> three! [cheers] >> it was just almost like a piece of him. >> reporter: that came back to life? >> that came back to