. >> as the ragan library, in front of a jet, the republicans mentioned the former president more nan a dozen times. >> ronald ragan knew how to go big and bold. >> i am on the ragan side of this. >> i think i flew on this plane with ronald ragan when i was a congressman. >> the political world though is far different than 30 years ago. when ragan urged republicans not to attack each other. and this group, hit hard. >> first of all, rand paul shouldn't even be on this stage. >> donald trump and rand paul tangled from the start. >> is visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat, ugly, my goodness, that happened in junior high, are we not way above that. would we not all be worried to have someone like that in challenge of nuclear arms. >> mr. trump, i never attacked him on his look, and believe me there's plenty of subject matter right there. >> jeb bush tries to hit, the ties to democrats. >> you have hillary clinton to go to your wedding because you gave her money. >> that's true. >> jeff -- i was a businessman, i got along with clinton, that was my job t

library czar. they are interactive displays. they do not benefit from scholarly research because the records are not open and will not be open for decades. the ronald ragan open in 1991 and fewer records are open. it will take decades and decades. why i wrote a book about them is because so much about what i read is either celebratory, like like brochure language or incomplete, or downright inaccurate. i started out wanting to write a book, a brief simple history of the presidential i brace. get it all down and say this is what they are. while i was researching i came across some difficulties. for example, the national archives stop me from accessing 40 years years of their own records about presidential diapers. for two years they thought me, they first to me they were not available and then they told me they needed them for daily operations. these are records going back 40 years. but they needed them for every day. then they encourage me to file freedom of information. so i did i went through --dash i sent to my first request and it was denied because it was too big. so i narrowed it, and it was denied for being too narrow. there were not were not enou