ronald reagan, nancy reagan. we are honored by your presence. [applause] president reagan and mrs. reagan have one of the great love stories of all-time and the american people benefited from that. the support, the love that mrs. reagan gave the president were a source of joy to the american people and again of strength to the president of the us. mrs. reagan, with your presence here today i hope you know that we honor you, not only for your support of the president for turning that support and love into action. with your support stem cell research has made a significant difference in the lives of many american people. it has saved lives. it has found cures. it has given hope to people. it is appropriate that we hear from leaders from both sides of the aisle and both chambers of the house. i am privileged that my predecessor is here. thank you dennis for joining us. [applause] also joined by the former governor of california, thank you governor for joining us. president reagan understood that bipartisanship was important in all of our debates. i see bob michael. i could introduce e

ronald reagan. [applause] [applause] >> today we are gathered to honor president reagan with the unveiling of his statue in the capitol. please remain standing for the opening ceremonies. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the presentation of colors by the united states armed forces color guard. the singing of our national anthem and remain standing. @@@@@ rrh@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> please be seated. >> let us pray. lord the light of lights how majestic is your name in all the earth. we marvel that you care about humanity. and have crowned us with glory and honor. today accept our gratitude for this congressional tribute to president ronald reagan. whose love for freedom inspired our nation to embrace our best hopes. thank you f

because of what reagan said. so what i have tried to do in this is two go in and find out what reagan did. the reason why i feel very strongly about this is that if you talk a lot about what people tell you i think there are about 300 books written on reagan and it all have a different view of reagan why he is doing something but the only real way to find out what it is doing is to get something he has written or said. that is fine you find out what happened. and what we are doing we end up with pulling 87 of this classified documents that showed what he was doing and what was happening. and i think we can say now, i think we have the first letter and will show you. that is the first classified document. that is the first sign of it that shows of the various people , the vice president and so forth. and as i was reading through this i open up the second page to and that as you go down about halfway down it shows that reagan is doing and he is saying is very important with cia, and he tells people what is going to

reagan much credit. did he have a sense of how history would be written or how history would say it, there are a lot of complaints about his bellicose rhetoric in his first term and after the soviet leaders stopped dying on him he was able to deal with mr. gorbachev. was it something he just thought he had to do regardless of the historical interpretation? >> i think there are a lot of people who got wrong idea about reagan. what he was doing at the time, when people got upset in '83 and '84, was that he did something that was unusual. he started putting together a large cache of huge weapons, all kinds of weapons. the reason he was doing that was because the soviet union was trying to get ahead of us and they were ahead of us. they started getting ahead of us inecember 9th and by the time he took office, they were way ahead and they keep getting further ahead. some people wondered why he didn't sit down and talk with them. his attitude was i will sit down with themhen we have arms ready to go and that i

victory," reagan in his own hand in "reagan, a life in letters."elise anderson was a senior policy adviser to the reagan presidential campaign and a cizik director of president reagan's office of management and budget. she is currently a fellow at the hoover institution. the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california hosted this event. for more information visit reagan library.com. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> i and several books, that i am reading and i intend to read over the next several weeks. but, right now i am just about completed with with wings of eagles i michael korda, which is the battle of britain actually from both sides of the english channel, the raf on one hand and the german lufafa on the other en

they are a great resource on what reagan was actually saying. there are a lot of other stories in those minutes as well. what other people are saying. but what he has to say is very important. and, you can see that he is his own strategist and that he is following this over a long period of time, but i wanted to go back and read you something that he said in 1963. this document happens to be in the hoover institution archives and was quoted in an earlier book. and it is also quoted in this book, hurts annelise-- "reagan's secret war." he says in 1963 in a speech, the only sure way to avoid for is to surrender without fighting. the other way is based on the belief that in an all-out race, our system is stronger and eventually the enemy gives up the race as a hopeless cause. then ennoble nation, believing in peace, extends the hand of friendship and says, there is room in the world for both of us. now, i think that in 1963 is what happened and what he accomplished. he had the vision of how the world might be. way back, before he even ran for gover

like reagan, and calista and i did a movie some of you saw last night with "ronald reagan" like reagan i am for first principles. tonight i am going to apply first principles to three areas. one, strengthening our unique american civilization. two, strengthening our national and homeland security. three, building a productive america with the best jobs and the greatest prosperity in the world. first, we must strengthen our unique american civilization. mrs[applause] >> let me be clear. i am not a citizen of the world. [applause] >> i think the concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous. [applause] >> there is no world sovereignty, there is no world system of law. there is in fact no circumstance under which i would like to be a citizen of north korea, zimbabwe, venezuela, cuba or russia. i am a citizen -- [cheers and applause] >> i am a citizen of the united states of america. and the rest of this speech is about the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> america is an unique civilization. calista and i a couple of years ago did a movie called "rediscoverying

reagan was sitting there smiling. he said cat weinberger is accusing george shultz and they are screaming and yelling. reagan was sitting there smiling, looking over powell's shoulder wipeout was talking. so the general said he had to lean in more and he said mr. president, we cannot have the leaders, on and on. reagan finally stopped him and went like this, colin powell told me he stopped immediately because the president does this you stop talking. he said, hey colin. i put some acorns out in the garden last weekend looks like the squirrels are starting to pick them up. [laughter] >> and general powell said there and he turned to me and he said i immediately ran out of the room, picked up the phone, called my wife and said what have i gotten myself into? [laughter] >> what he figured out and what so many other people figured out about reagan was that, you know what, the screaming and yelling and the accusation, that was just a sidebar. in the end for reagan, he believed it was about giving his policies enacted in th

reagan knew we needed to talk tough, but reagan was a realist. he only send our troops into battle to times. >> host: talk about the evil empire and the whole revolution of candor he was speaking truth as american president for the first time in a generation about who the soviets were etc. but let us remember he does not invade eastern europe. you know what i mean? the use diplomacy, honesty, the force of going forward and explaining the way to go. >> guest: in usa realistic despite the fact that his rhetoric was pretty heated for the time. the foreign-policy establishment was shocked, but you look at everything and go over eight years, he wasn't a neocon, he wasn't a radical. he was down the middle. >> he came in the 1940's and 60's. >> guest: when you look and how he used diplomacy and barack obama on the other side who use rhetoric of the left while in all actuality his policies like reagan's are more realistic on foreign policy. we have are the established him as an unrepentant radical. >> host: let me cover everything is. what is the differe

ronald reagan is a right wing mats and the reagan was said there and smile and say there they go again appear in a barack obama. >> host: maybe this is -- was doing the same things. >> guest: he seems timberlake meant -- temperamentally coal. >> host: will we look back and think of his time as far left? >> guest: listen, this guy has moved aggressively to take up the auto industry. he fired the cdl of gm. he has passed a budget that iraq's up more data over the next eight years than all 43 of his predecessors combined. he has passed budgets that the director of the ceo has the lead democrat appointed, the director of the congressional budget office said that his budgets are unsustainable. in other words, they will wreck the economy, that the top democrat in the senate budget committee said in these deficits will destroy america. what does the president to? he passes these budgets, people like me say these are unsustainable and cripple the economy. everybody on the left calls me a right wing in not in any york times calls mean the leader of the republican attacks gone into this later pr

when is your new book coming out on reagan? september. he wrote a great book on the 76 reagan campaign and has a book coming out that i can't wait to read about 1980. reagan is a central figure to our book so i am a big fan. it is so funny you mention the issue about the trillion dollars because i was thinking about back in 1987 when i briefly worked for ronald reagan. remember win jim miller was the head of the budget office? we did something arthur in 1987. this was after, it wasn't in the first term or second term but we did something we were not very proud of. we actually pass the first trillion dollar budget under ronald reagan. that was a big thing back then and i remember the first time i appeared on national television was the today show when we came out with that budget in jim miller could not appear so somebody was working for him. they ask me to come in, and i was very nervous because it was one of the first times i had been on tv. you know, katie couric, 8 million people. i spent the entire weekend just cramming to know every

reagan wanted it out quickly. although i had been working on this roosevelt, i had to make a decision do i continue working on my roosevelt book or is this such an important thing to do. and my wife and i had endured katrina so we ended up saying let's bring our kids and let's go out to the reagan library, nearby, we moved to thousand occasion california. >> you were living in new orleans. >> yeah. we came back to new orleans. i was professor attu lane and even named my american studies center attu lane, the theodore roosevelt center and i was teaching classes attu lane on theodore roosevelt and conservation. at rice university now i teach a class on theodore roosevelt and conservation meaning when you say when you start writing a book, i have been informing myself on the research part of this story for a long, long time. it always was in my mind the main thing i wanted to do as a historian with my life is to write the history, of first off, t.r., but f.d.r. and the c.c.c., carson and the u.s. fish and wildlife, t

. >> the reagan diaries, when did you do that? >> that came out -- what happened with that is i was not expecting it. i had written one book about our u.s. army guys at d-day and reflected back to reagan's famous speeches that he gave. then i took an opportunity and offer to be the presidential historian to pete wilson i have to give credit to, the former governor of california. he came out and looked at the reagan dyer rate. so i agreed, i was happy to edit it. -- the reagan diaries. my wife and i had endorsed katrina. so we ended up saying let's bring our kids and go out to the reagan library. nearby we went to thousand oaks, california. >> you were in new orleans. >> then became back to new orleans. i was a professor at tulane university. mike american studies center, the theater roosevelt center -- my american studies center. i was teaching a class on conservation. at rice university now i teach a class on theater roosevelt and conservation again. i've been informing myself on the research part of this story for a long time. i

reagan, president reagan stated in front of the united nations that he was a citizen of the world. could you tie and the disconnect -- those who espouse reagan and yet strobel -- strobel in a plea at attempts to carry the banner of reagan -- struggle ineptly to carry the banner with shenanigans and over the top sound bites. guest: thank you for the assignment. i will look at it, and i appreciate your kind words about my work. i think the question you raised is a fascinating one, not just for the republicans in 2009 but any political group at any time looking back at certain leaders for inspiration, for solace. particularly, parties who are not having a particularly easy time of it are particularly prone to try to look back and find a plan and playbook and hope that that leads them out of the wilderness. it is completely understandable human and -- reaction. i'm a great admirer of president reagan. he was the president of my childhood and his examples in some ways got me interested in politics. i think he was, as president bush would say, consistently mis-underestimated throughout h

back when ronald reagan made those quotes? and is it -- mr. hoyer: would the gentleman yield on that question? mr. cantor: i will. let me finish, mr. speaker. that's number one. is it appropriate in the war spending bill for the taxpayers of this country to be guaranteeing $108 billion to the i.m.f. when we are only providing our troops $80-some billion? that's more than we are providing our troops for a global bailout. and that's the first line of questioning, mr. speaker, i'd ask the gentleman. secondly, does he expect to produce more than the 200 votes that the gentleman's side produced on the first go-round on this supplemental bill because if not, then he would need to have some support from this side of the aisle. mr. speaker, i'd say to the gentleman "the new york times" has pointed out, may 27, hezbollah, the shiite militant group, has talked with the i.m.f. and the european union european union about continued financial support. so is he aware that this money that we are affording the i.m.f. to extend to countries who are in need woul

that is ronald reagan. he went on to say, i have an unbreakable commitment to increase funding for the imf. that is not a democrat. that is a conservative leader. he led this country and was strongly supported by this country. i want you to know that i supported ronald reagan and emotion -- on most of his security initiatives because i believed that we needed to make america strong group. and tell our adversaries that we were prepared to invest in the security of our country. in doing so, they decided they could not compete. the first president bush said that the imf and world bank were crossroads of our cooperative efforts. remember the responsibility -- speaker gingrich said, we have an obligation to work with the international monetary fund. this is not a partisan issue. it but i suggest it has been made a part as a reason to try to embarrass democrats. to make it seem like we cannot pass funding. we can and we will. i urge you to join us. i urge you to forget the partisan rhetoric. i urge you think of r

one man who did do this was ronald reagan. i want you to listen to this contrast, because it is interesting. listen to the language. in 1987, 22 years ago this week, president reagan went to berlin and challenged our adversary, the soviet union, to take a step that would demonstrate that they were serious about peace. he challenged them to do more than just talk. he stood in front of the berlin wall that separated the free world from the communist bloc, and president reagan said, " general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, it d.c. prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall." last week in france, president obama took a different approach. he demanded nothing of our current adversary, iran. he challenged them to do nothing, saying instead, "we are ready for direct negotiations with the iranian, a whole range of issues without preconditions in an atmosphere of mutual respect." ronald reagan demonstr

reagan in his own hand and reagan a life in letters. annelise anderson was a reagan advisor to the presidential campaign and a director of president reagan's office of management and budget. she's currently a fellow at the hoover institution. the reagan presidential library in simi valley, california, hosted this event. for more information, visit reaganlibrary.com. ♪ >> this summer, book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> what are you reading this summer? >> well, elmore leonard has a new novel out and george pelecanos has a new novel out so i'm reading some new novels. i'm listening on recorded books driving over here and will listen going back to the history of jacksonion called waking giant. >> there's predictions books might go the way of news and that is all digital. >> well, the kindles are out there. i tend to like a great thump and a feel of a book in my hand but then i am a fossil. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. z is the author branding new york how a cit

that's ronald reagan. he went on to say, i have an unbreakable commitment to increased funding for i.m.f. that's not a democrat. that is a conservative leader that you revere. who led this country and was strongly supported by this country. and i want you to know that i and i want you to know that i supported ronald rageon on most

a lot of conservatives are saying where is the next reagan? there will not be a next reagan. there will be somebody else. where is the next buckley? not going to be one. there will be somebody else doing something differently. that is a very fruitful line of inquiry and i hope -- i pursued it in this book and i hope i did justice to it, but the way that his talents sit with his message and the opportunity, the resources that are out there, was an extraordinary thing. >> bill buckley edited a magazine, he wrote 56 books, nonfiction and fiction, he sailed the world. was there anything he wanted to do but never did? >> priscilla? he did say -- there is a questionnaire, frost wrote these questions. if you could come back, what would you want to be in your next life, one of the questions i remember, he answered, one of the questions was is there any challenge you wish that you had? he said he wished he had an excellent, comprehensive memory. i thought his memory was pretty good. it is interesting that he would say that. when you think about it, in terms of social class, he met eve

when did dot reagan diaries? >> what we have doing this year is bringing out the complete diary in a boxed set. i was working on this book for a long time. i picked one. when you go there. on my field-o notes you are the expert. help me. in the main office, we have the clippings. at that time when i'm writing it, it becomes chronological. in 1988, he wrote this whole book. i can't write about 80 of them >> before i forget it, your wife ann and your three kids. what are their names? >> so nice of you to ask. my oldest daughter is six named after the painter thomas heart benton. second i had an unkell that was killed before i met him. i'm going to call him johnny. ke make that decision when he gets older. >> he's four? >> yes. my youngest is two, cass eddie is her name. it's from a character from on the road. it's an irish sounding which i like a lot. cassidyy, johnny, benny and my wife is formerly ann goldman of new orleans. we met there and got married. i have become a family man. it's changed my life. more than

just the other day we heard people say what a great theater ronald reagan was.i want to quote him if i can find it for a quickly. he said this. the imf is the linchpin of the financial system. he said i have an unbreakable commitments to increased funding for imf. that is a conservative leader not a democrat. he led this country. i supported ronald reagan and most of as security initiatives because we needed to make america stocker. we had to tell our survey union adversaries that we are prepared to invest in this country. the first president bush said the imf is at a crossroads of our efforts. remember newt gingrich when he said we have an obligation to work with the imf. this is not a partisan issue. we can and we will pass funding. i urge you to join this. i urge you to forget the partisan rhetoric. think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush and newt gingrich, and so many other republican leaders who have said this is a critical component of of security. we know how the legislative system works. i believe it is good legislation and many

this is what happened with reagan in the cold war. he ignored those who told him not to be belligerent. we need to be belligerent to tyrants to speak positively and be on the side of those people that long for freedom. what happened? the cold war ended. we give that message to the tyrants and the people that were suffering behind the iron curtain. with a strong stand, we can encourage the people by letting them know the american people are on their side. maybe we can this may the dictatorship and it will also pass away just as common as an did. what a gift to the world that would be, simply for staying true to our principles as americans. >> sitting on the intelligence committee, recognize that this is a very complex world. foreign policy is very hard. how do we move, how we see change in the world towards freedom? even though foreign policy is complex and hard, this decision to speak out on behalf of the oppressed people in iran should not be. this should be a very easy decision for the leadership of america for the public in america

reagan won in 1980 by appealing to independent and unhappy democrats.ot a single reagan speech where he doesn't say, "my fellow republicans and those independents and democrats who are looking for a better future." there were not enough republicans to win in 1980. there were not enough republicans to wind during that time. it was about 21% of believe. inclusion does not mean lack of principles.

and ronald reagan, when he gave the evil empire speech, nathan -- said it spread through the gulag like wild fire. after the berlin wall came down, people behind the curtains said that you were our hope and are beaten. that is what america is. it is interesting, of course, to see the prime minister of england, the chancellor of germany and the president of france have been far stronger in their comments. . host: how is he doing? guest: well, i think he has succeeded in getting his agenda through. unfortunately, it is not a change in climate in washington. it has been done for a long time. it was done by republicans. you pick off two or three republicans and you get your legislation passed. that is an effective way, but it is not a changing climate. but most of all, i think he has mortgaged our children's futures. i think he has created generational that in laying this incredible deficit on the future generations. you cannot spend money like this without sooner or later to -- paying a heavy price for it. who five months ago about the automobile companies, largest insurance company, finan

trent lott for him to give a speech there and reagan says like to i believe been states' rights which means it could have meant any number of things but a certain message was carried fourth. >> host: what is a state in your view of today's new right or conservative movement? >> guest: we are in the "twilight" of the reagan revolution and in fact, many of the soldiers say the same thing. pat buchanan, a new gingrich and others. i think what happens in american political history certain ideas dominates and certain political imperatives shape the landscape and over time they start to wane as new political questions arise and new players come onto the scene to change political identity. but in some ways like democratic liberalism in the '70s the republican right has run at of gas were in the drug of splintering it with a major internal fight over the future direction of the party. it was interesting to see in the republican primary you had a whole range of candidates none of them who could fully credibly claim conservative credentials but yet all of them invoking reagan over and over. >>

reagan was interested in that dispute. i think the college originally got in touch with him because of that. >> i want to try to use some language, and you can correct me, but i want to ask about this. the last person we saw was george roche, the president of the college. he died in 2006? >> he did. >> you replace him? >> yes i did. >> hillsdale was in the national spotlight for a murder or suicide on the campus. >> i will explain it. his daughter-in-law, who was a college employee, committed suicide in 1999. she left a note saying that she had improper relations with him for 11 years. he denied that. no witness ever came forward to confirm it. a hard thing to confirm, and are yet to disprove. upon that breaking, he resigned, retired from the college, with the firmest and oft repeated assurances that he never did that. i myself to not much think he did. but there was trouble in his family, so it was right, in my opinion, for him to retire. that is that story. >> how hard was it for you to follow that, and did you have prob

capitol and all the guys that are really close the pros on reagan did not get that shot. so what then became a liability became probably my top-selling photograph. in so many respects maybe my favorite photograph is the one on the cover. >> you were talking about when you were in iowa with president obama back in the spring in. when you are following in individual and issued an individual are you able to feel -- how much of it goes into the camera and how much of it can you stay in touch with the person you're taking pictures of war is that impossible to do? >> in terms of picking of their personality? >> yes. >> well, certain personalities are completely comfortable having glass or lenses in front of them and senator obama is obviously one of those people. in fact, in the first four minutes of being at the fair this is my favorite story, i haven't spoken to a lot -- there is a protocol when you carry a camera. if you are in a room with three photographers and the president is not my job to speak with them. i would love to talk to them but actually president obama is one

i will reiterate what i said last week in quoting ronald reagan. no individual who wanted to give aid and comfort to the enemy, very forthright in his criticism of communism and despotism. he went on to say, the i.m.f. is the linchpin of the international financial system. the gentleman and his side of the aisle continue in my opinion to misrepresent what is intended by that funding. the president of the united states will, with ronald reagan, george bush the first, george bush the second or any other president that goes to an international meeting with 19 of the other large industrial nations of the world and they sit down together in an attempt to try to bring the global economy back to vie brancy, and agree that in part what is needed is some assistance to the poorest nations in this world who are themselves being dragged down and in the process adversely affecting the global markets generally, agree to make a substantial commitment of loan guarantees available as the gentleman knows the united states has about a 20% vote on this and this is abo

creating a lot of debt, much more than what was created during president bush ordering president reagan, it is astronomical come in many respects. host: you touched on this from there, but how you create bubblemania -- going back to troops in holland, credit cards, stock market? guest: you will not stop them completely, that is when markets are. but what the government can do is not helped create them. frequently we see government actions -- and we talked about that with respect to the federal reserve -- it is a very powerful instrument. imagine setting the interest rate for the entire economy, it is potentially very systemic. the first idea is, do no harm. and then figure out if you can create more transparency, describe what the government is doing, more transparency from the fed. it reduces the probability of bubbles. and more important, it prevents them from spilling over to the entire economy. a tulip bubble will not be a major problem if it stays to the tulip market. the task for the government is not to make it so big that it hurts the entire economy. host: something you lecture

i was honored to be ronald reagan's one of five speech writers serving ronald reagan. he was told, too, to tone down his rhetoric. he was told strong words would be interpreted as belligerence. with his strong words he ended the cold war. without the conflagration that hung over our heads for decades. he made it a better, a more peaceful, and a freer world with a strong message with no apologies. we should follow the lead of ronald reagan. it will make this a better world if we side with the people in tehran who oppose their mullah dictatorship. the speaker pro tempore: the time of they have -- the time of the gentleman has expire whosmed seeks recognition? ms. ros-lehtinen: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to mr. lincoln diaz-balart, a member of the powerful committee on rules. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. diaz-balart: the ia toe la khomeini, the so-call -- the ia toe la khomeini, the -- the aa toe la khomeini is the leader of iran. khomeini overstepped in this election. blatantly. the others in the dictatorship who aspired

. >> guest: i dare, i'm very scared because i will get in trouble on this but i think reagan brought qualities of leadership, you know, he was elected in 1980, if i were writing this from a conservative point of view it would be hard not to i think have reagan as one of the pieces in the 1980 election, the informative election. you know, when you look at the election, the primary, barack obama in the primary said, you know, ronald reagan had a different kind of election than did bill clinton. >> host: that is a good place to close. i don't want you to get in trouble but i want all republicans out there who are concerned about reagan, to hear it from the international polling strategist guru. thank you, and we can, get the book, whatever your party's. thank you for watching. of think event hosted by the 2009 epicenter conference in san diego lasts about an hour. >> thank you very much. that is the first excerpt that we've shown in the united states of the film "inside the revolution" that we will be releasing on september 11, 2009, to try to take people inside the most moral, try to u

the time and their hope was kept alive, even as reagan successfully negotiated. guest: i agree. it does it symbolically give hope to people in the streets, they think that maybe now is the time. some of the folks i have spoken to, they are pleas that the president is not coming down to hardly. host: speaking of regime change and elections, let's look at some of these headlines. when you were there last week, from "the daily telegraph." "the london times," "the guardian," "i could walk away from this tomorrow." that is available from "the guardian." guest: lots of fun. a few brits may not have been asked to join his cabinet as ministers. but that is shrinking under the campaign. there is a 2004 law for the additional cost allowance, and this was the downfall. they wanted to balance out between haves and have-nots. it is about two houses. 3,000 miles away from capitol hill, you could have to maintain two residences. it is the same in great britain. what happened was that they listed all of those improprieties and unfortunately , many folks, including the former def

. >> tell me about the reagan photograph. >> this -- i was convinced this was reagan. >> it was from that period. >> i meant this picture. i didn't mean this. tell me about this. >> this one? it was in a white house event. as you can see we're very close. >> you are. got all the paces covered. >> i never knew your politics. this is my first indication. >> i love this photograph, by the way. just a classic reagan photograph. gorgeous. okay. >> daniel patrick white. a woman in new york who ran a communist art center. >> i have seen this before and i love it. >> there are very few of these. >> i love that. >> destroyed the original. >> somehow his seems out of synch with reagan. i can see schwarzenegger. i love this. cindy crawford. >> and it's all indian poetry. each one of those is different. >> he died this year. a different one he did. and met him at a gallery about two years ago. we love it. how do you display it? and he said, hang it in the -- don't worry bit it. >> i love everything you have. >> oops. >> i'm following you. >> we have 5,000 square feet, and almost 6,000,. >> this

our first clip as with president ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan spoke to our students five times. we have amazing access and they're all televised on c-span. this one we will show you to start -- a student from miami as to my hypothetical question. the answer was memorable. it led to -- it lead on the cbs news that evening. >> mr. president, my name is robert pupo. i would like to commend you for getting america is strong and efficient administration. my question is, if the situation in central america worsens, would you consider sending in american troops? >> that is your question? >> if the situation in central mike: workmen's -- central america worsens, would you consider sending in american troops into central america? >> it would have to be very evident that it was a direct threat to the united states. the truth of the matter is, dating back to sunday's win the big colossus of the north, the united states, did leon practice gunboat diplomacy -- our own friends and neighbors down there do not want us to send that kind of military help. they do not want our troops down there. w

nixon did it, reagan did it, and bush did it. and the next one may do it and someone has to have the courage to stop the cycle. >> exactly, they're going to win again, is what i'm saying. they're weak, but they're going to come back again. >> i think it also undermines the public trust. there is a basic sense of integrity and accountability. we have this idea that we all respect the law. if there are these unwritten exceptions and there is a common practice around it, it is very dangerous. it causes people to be detached from government and not trust it. >> one more question, please. >> i work for a place called the high of leaders center. [applause] we work in the 13 southern states and i have to say a round the movement, that was not born of the king's assassination. i went around talking and i was in the land of the libertarians because i live with libertarians who are so excited that for the first time someone talked about their kids being in art -- incarcerated, for the first time about how horrible their education system is

a lot of consecutives are saying, where is the next reagan? not going to be a next reagan. where is the next buckley? not going to be one but there will be somebody else, doing it somehow differently. so, i mean, that's a very fruitful line of inquiry, and happy it's done were i purr cycle it in this book and i hope i did justice to it. the way that his talents sit with his message and with the opportunities and the resources that were out there was an extraordinary thing, and of course he had to seize it and make it happen, and he did. >> bill buckley edited a magazine, had a television show, wrote 56 books, nonfiction fiction, skied, has a cia agent, sailed the world. anything you know that he wanted to do that he in fact never did? >> priscilla? he did say -- there's a questionnaire, and it's like a parlor game, you know, if you could come back what would you want to be in your next life, and so on. and one of the questions i remember -- because he took it. he answered those. and one of the questions was, is there any talent you wish that you had? and he said he wished h

during the reagan presidency democrats were driven mad by the fact they would say what you think of reagan on this and this and the country was a little bit queasy about his policies and never the less like reagan so this is not a new phenomenon. >> host: our phones are ringing off the hook so rather than questions from me let you but the audience wants to ask. we will begin with wilmington north carolina and this is t. ai, is that correct? you're on the air,. you are going to hear the air unless you hit the mute button on your tv. what is your question for george will? >> caller: i'm one of your fans down here. a few years ago you wrote an article about what you essentially thought of colin powell, and you took him apart, and was so good to see that. it was everything he had done wrong and i would like you to comment on that, please. >> i don't frankly remember the particular column. i remember having a distinct difference on the subject of israel and the middle east. colin powell is just now engaged in a robust argument about the future of the republican party and i think colin powell is