and reagan could do it. the other thing i observed about him as a communicator and that i admire so much is, like i said, i'm the volume guy. i do six hours brady is a day. -- six hours of radio today. that's easy. what's hard is the time for choosing speech. to take 30 minutes and encapsulate -- if you were to count all the ideas in there, it numbers more than 100. to pack that into 30 minutes is very tough. to do it in a way that takes not only what we call the 30,000 view, but the macro also gets it down to specific example so you can understand why his social security broke? it's billions of dollars in the hole 50 years ago. it's also broke for the individual worker who will get to retirement and be cheated. reagan could work both of those ideas and make them seem very personal to the people he was speaking to. he was a master. i'm envious, and i feel blessed just a beater with young america's foundation to honor the 50 year anniversary every time for choosing. a "time for choosing." >> we have james ros

ronald reagan 13 times. and ronald reagan rejected containment. he pushed rollback. containment and it would have administration. a lot of good people will look up to rand paul. that point was missed. if you did not catch the 2011 rnc chairman debate. this is what made it a hard question. they asked them to name their favorite book. you cannot use the bible and you cannot use a book about ronald reagan. should have not been too hard. anyone was watching could tell that herman cain, mitt romney, and newt gingrich were different. you could tell that none of them were ronald reagan. when you come here, spend an hour at one of these conferences, it is apparent who the truest keepers of ronald reagan's legacy are. they have been the most faithful guardians. that is incredibly important because orwell was correct when he said who controls the past controls the future. here, five decades after he gave that speech, we need to make sure that we actually learn the serious ideas that he put forward and remember them. five decades after he made his political debut, is he still r

their reagan enigma. thank you. [applause] your turn. >> 25 minutes, like you said. we do have a microphone if you would please raise your hand and i will call on you and we would appreciate you at least giving your name and affiliation if you are comfortable and andrew i will start with you. with a known problem. >> tom thank you for being here. peter you see american foreign policy council. you have written two books about the threat of nuclear terrorism and i was wondering if you could give us a very brief update from where you ended up on those two books on whether we have made progress or lack thereof? >> the question is have we made progress for nuclear terrorism. god and away is a long way from "the reagan enigma" but its key because ronald reagan read revelations. he feared armageddon and therefore that was what drove him that we have to end the cold war. it was a driving force in the strategic defense initiative and so forth. i think we have made progress because as the introduction to these book

reagan. ear hoover paid >> he's not getting any money. >> no, no evidence that he was a paid informant or that he was under the control of the fbi. document suggests he was operating not out of pecuniary out of personal and political motives. >> for this, he got favors. favors were interested. ye, one favor occurred in 1960, his then former wife jane wyman were concerned about maureen.est daughter, in washington, d.c., she was 19 years old. they had heard she was living married policeman. but rather call her up and ask they turned to the bi through a mutual friend and hoover personally authorized an of her romantic life even though he acknowledged that this is rds beyond the bureau's jurisdiction. posed as an r, one insurance salesman and interviewed neighbors. he other interviewed the cleaning lady at the rooming house. a third agent talked to other olice officers about this officer. they confirmed that she was, in older iving with this married policeman and they furnished the information to

reagan to his war hero. reagan campaign on his behalf. he worked for the eisenhower designated successor, but always as a concerned democrat. a decade after his original connection with eisenhower he reregistered as a republican because his party had left him. interestingly enough as a result of that relationship he became a reagan mentor. at the end of 64 eisenhower began to pay attention. it stood in stark contrast. at years and reagan was seeking out, seeking to rebuild the republican party. they stayed in touch, exchanged letters, phone phone calls, and personal visits. they stayed in touch you make last visit. the concept of piece through strength was probably born during those conversations. we know of these because of the records that are at the eisenhower library. reagan had a hero but also of note. the archvillain in reagan's life was robert kennedy, his supreme nemesis. in 1961 upon becoming his brother's attorney general he pursued corruption with a vengeance. he also targeted political opponents. kennedy hold reagan before a g

the reagan worship and hate lives on. a friend of mine said that i best not send that she could not think straight about him for her rage. her beef was assembled and all that turbulence in the 60s and 70s had given the nation a chance to reflect upon the power to shut arrogance and become a more humble and better citizen of the world and to grow up. and for the citizens what he achieved foreclosed that imperative that americans might learn to question leaders ruthlessly and draw aside the silly notion that american power was always msn. they had been proposing new definition of patriotism. one built on questioning authority and the unsettling where i think some guys are in the audience today. and then ronald reagan came along trying to think like children in a way to rescue them and that this was a tragedy. the division was pleasant even among his own offspring. his eldest, marine wrote of the time they missed a train of important milestones in her life. and i think the data always regretted times like these were least li

[laughter] like the reagan worship the reagan hate lives on.i wanted to share this manuscript with a friend of mine who grew up in california in the '60s and '70s. she told me i best not sent it, she couldn't think straight ability ronald reagan for her -- about ronald reagan for her rage. her beef was simple: that all that turbulence in the '60s and '70s had given the nation a chance to shed its arrogance to become a more humble and better citizen of the world, to grow up. for these citizens what reagan achieved foreclosed that imperative, that americans might learn to question leaders ruthlessly, throw aside the silly notion that american power was always innocent, think like grown-ups. they had been proposing a new definition of patriotism. one built on questioning authority and unsettling ossified norms. i think some of those guys are in the audience today. then along came ronald reagan encouraging citizens in his estimation, to think like children waiting for a man on horseback to rescue them. and that this was a tragedy. the division was

ronald reagan said it best in 1982.jim brady was a major, now everybody knows about the depth of his courage. jim's close friends always knew of this strength of character." that was 32 years ago. thank you. [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> i'm mike mccurry. i am on the successors to jim brady. we like to refer to ourselves as the human piÑatas for the white house press corps. jim brady was a great role model. he knew when to growl like a bear at the press when he had to. he understood the value of the human and kinder touch. the relationship between the white house and the press corps which covers it must always be an adverserial one. jim brady proved that this adversarial relationship could be an amicable one. i'm going to collect up for distinguished people who can speak to that. first the me read a letter we have received for this occasion. "i wish i could be there to celebrate jim's courageous life of service. jim was blessed with a unique combination of wit intelligence, tenacity that made him an effectiv

i'm going to give it a name. >> he invented the reagan doctrine, not reagan. now, everyone has to have a doctrine. >> even after reagan's 49 state landslide, krauthammer was not sure of what to make of reagan the man, who he met at the white house in 1986. >> he invited me to lunch. all of a sudden, what i'm hearing from him is a story about when he and nancy were in the guest house of president demard demarcos in the philippines. i don't get it. this is the most accessible president in my lifetime, he seems to be out to lunch. what's going on. >> it was later what alluded him about reagan. >> he had no need to show how smart he was. he knew what i was asking, he didn't want to talk about it. he didn't care. >> it would be some time before krauthammer embraced a conservative domestic policy, taxes, welfare, small government and other reaganesque sins. >> it took me a decade. i was skeptical of tax cuts and smaller government. by the end of the '80s, i had a chance. as a doctor, i had been trained in evidence. if a treatment is killing your patients, you stop t

let him bloody reagan up a little bit. i've taken on ronald reagan before. i can do this instead of getting in the primaries, he was so good on the stump, i'll go right to the convention and steal it from them. i'll take it from the delegates. that's where the knowledge falls off, and there's rumor. whether betty talked him out of it. hedy sided not to do it whether reagan ambushed it took him out of it by offering the vice presidency? nobody knowles. ford walks away from it and that's the end of his public career. >> bob, thank you again. third time is the charm. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you all very, very much. i do want to remind you that bob's book on president ford and betty ford are available for sale and both of us would appreciate the tuition assistance programs. >> $150 apiece. . . .

>> i then say he knew how to speak reagan's language and i point out that reagan was from tampico, illinois. in the dixon, illinois area. not sure if crow picked the city for that reason. he picked the way of saying this because he knew it was the way to appeal to the president. the interesting point is for the president of the united states to take military action. it's a difficult thing to do. because he trusts his military advisors. >> why. >> because they are the ones who know the costs. they are the ones to know what's logistically possible. so to have secretary schultz and elliott abrams say these people aren't telling you the truth? well -- or these people are exaggerating the cost and the danger because the pentagon was saying if we take this action we're going have hostage taking 40,000 to 50,000 americans living in panama you would have massive hostage taking, they argued. hostage taking situation scares the president more than anything else. you see the problem we still have with hostage taking. i think the real change obviously the many changes in the reagan administration and t

reagan himself comes up with the idea, along with kissinger, who is in reagan's ear, about bringing ford in. there is nothing that prohibits gerald ford from coming in. he can be elected vice president as many times as he wants. the constitution does not say, so the negotiations go through between henry kissinger, brent scowcroft, i believe, and the reagan team, and they are this close. reagan is about to drop this bombshell, and ford goes on up into the skybox in detroit, and he talks to walter cronkite. cronkite has got pieces of the story, and he says, are you a candidate for the vice presidency, and ford goes on for about two minutes without saying the word no. reagan is looking at this on television and goes crazy. he feels he has been betrayed. when he really says is this just shows that a co-presidency will not work, that jerry ford is not going to be that kind of a team player, and reagan turns to another and says to bush. >> now, someone who was close to those people in those days said to me that ford actually knew what he was doing, that, in fact, i do not want to say committed

ronald reagan said it best in 1982.a major, now everybody knows about the depth of his courage. jim's close friends always knew of this strength of character." that was 32 years ago. thank you. ♪ [applause] >> i'm mike mccurry. i am on the successors to jim brady. we like to refer to ourselves as the human piñata's for the white house press corps. jim brady was a great role model. he knew when to growl like a bear at the press when he had to. he understood the value of the human and kinder touch. the relationship between the white house and the press corps which covers it must always be an and the serial one. jim brady proved that this adversarial relationship could be an amicable one. i'm going to collect up for distinguished people who can speak to that. first the me read a letter we have received for this occasion. " i wish i could be there to celebrate jim's courageous life of service. jim was blessed with a unique combination of wit intelligence, tenacity that made him an effective and often entertaining white hous

reagan sent into a funeral. they hit it off on the plane and spend the next 25 years doing about 25 projects together. they become such a good friends that ford and carter promised to give the eulogy of the other guy. this goes from being people -- we have a situation where two men who fought bitterly in 1976 promised to give the eulogy of the other. we see rosalind carter at gerald ford's funeral. that is amazing. these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. that bonds them in ways that all of them are writing about politics and policy that few of us can experience. >> i want to ask nancy about the hoover-truman relationship. what did you find specific examples of where those two worked together? >> initially it was a practical thing. truman found himself president. here he is facing a catastrophe. literally hundreds of millions of people are at risk of starting. -- starving. it was a mammoth undertaking to figure out how we're going to get europe on its feet. no one

he was hand-picked by ronald reagan to take that job during the reagan administration. know, powers we comes from his close relationship to george bush, not because he is secretary of state. because ofowerful his close relationship. ronald reagan trusted him enough not to distrust and when he said military action would be too dangerous. >> what are the lessons did you learn from watching or going back and getting both sides of the story? >> became more anxious once we discovered how much information. once you had information from the meeting it is easier to go to a participant who wouldn't talk to before. then he will say you've got this wrong, you've got this right. that's talk about it. one of the things one learns from writing a book like this is you revisit sources. you go back time and again to your better sources. i learned from this episode is what drives american foreign-policy is a very complex mixture of things. it isn't a neat process that you can draw on a chalkboard. it is a combination of bureaucratic momentum and bureaucratic imperatives. but the treasury

we should learn from the real reagan, not the theological reagan. when you look at the two-volume history of reagan in his time, reagan rarely made it a big selling point with the public at large that he had a program that conform to conservative philosophies, even though it largely did. he had a program that developed from conservative philosophy but he advertise the public on the practical advantages. lower crime rate, lower inflation, so on, so forth. i think a lot of today's reagan in volker's don't follow his example, they just drop his name. >> they are more concerned with ideological purity and maintaining the standard. >> reagan was an innovator. >> it also goes to the difference between the tea party and the establishment. so much of this is tactical and attitudinal. fortunately, we have gotten to this place where a lot of our conservative standardbearers the people who once came up with the ideas that we ran on, are much more concerned about these tactical fights than with developing policy anymore. it is an interesting -- >> and that is h

kennedy and ronald reagan.f you want to get something done, marry the two of them together, use them at your argument, you've might have a better shot. >> some cases poor ronald reagan must be rolling in this grave. reaching for the guy's throat. what are you doing? but leaving that aside, obviously the case of the hike in the gas tax and pushing republicans on amnesty, what they're saying is the last time of the raise was under ronald reagan and the last time we had immigration reform was under ronald reagan. now, certainly in the immigration thing, ronald reagan later regretted that because the enforcement stuff wasn't pushed enough at the time and people like you remind me, he had some doubts about that after the fact. but i'm just wondering, is that the message they're sending, that you republicans, who are stubborn to change, your god, your olympus, did just the things we're talking about now. >> well, that's the point they're trying to make. obviously reagan served at another time and another place. that

so we should mention -- we should mention the real reagan and not the mythological reagan. one of the points that steve hagan has written -- he's written a two volume history of his times is that reagan rarely made it a big selling point with the public at large that he had a program that conformed conservative philosophies. even though it largely did. he had a program that developed conservative philosophy but he advertised on the basis of its practicality. you're not going to face bracket and so on and so forth. reagan and boeingers don't follow his example. they just drop his name. >> they're much more concerned with ideological clarity and sort of -- i think maintaining you know, the standard. >> right. and it also goes to what? we're talking about whether, you know, this difference between the tea party and the establishment. i mean, so much of this is tactity cal and, you know, at tidtude -- attitudenal. the people who once came up with many of the ideas that we ran on are much more concerned with these tactical fights than they are developing policy anymore. it's an

on american history tv on 2:00, a panelat on howng david keene ronald reagan's career helped hone hisommunication skills to be a successful politician and president. sunday at 8:00, a former aide to president in shows clips of his 1983 interview with the former president about the anon, watergate, and his resignation. find the complete schedule at c-span.org know what you think t the program zero watching. send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> this year marks the 50th anniversary of ronald reagan's "time for choosing," speech. given on behalf of gary -- barry goldwater. up next, a look at president reagan's skill as a communicator and how it contributed to his success as president. panelists discusag

ronald reagan and the white house from 1981 to 1989.is is my least favorite fashion decade, i have to say. >> one thing you have to notice is how mrs. reagan i would think almost singlehandedly transformed red of communist revolution to the color of republican. all of these men wearing red ties owe a debt to mrs. reagan for transforming the symbol of this color. >> that's a powerful operation to have succeeded. >> very powerful. >> and a wonderful example of fashion really reshaping the image of the white house. you move from the carters who had this very, the white house is never going to be casual, but a much more casual, even the inaugural balls were parties, not balls. but a more casual entertaining style. a purposefully more casual look. and then when the reagans were elected, all of the pre-speculation is on the hollywood glamour that will come. mrs. reagan's designer clothes, and what will the style of the white house be? and that was a white tie inaugural ball; first since the eisenhowers. and just a much more formal white house

reagan came in with incredible crisis. but obamacare and entering great economic crisis no question. and as you know, they use diametrically opposite approaches he deregulated the economy and those private businesses with the stimulus plan with the multiplier effect. he has thrown the keynesian playbook at it. but look at the records and this is what drives people on the left crazy. that in the five and a half years of the start of the reagan recovery u.s. economy grew at 4.1% and at exactly 2% under obama. that may not seem like a big difference but it is enormous because of the compound in fact,. so with that growth deficit is a huge mantra of pro-growth republicans to face the economic growth deficit and that is $2 trillion out. and with the first five and a half years under ronald reagan we had to a trillion dollars more gdp imagine how better of the american people would be. if you took that amount to a program to every family that is $15,000 more. and this came through loud and clear with the midterm elections. the a

. >> a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. >> thank you. of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. >> ronald reagan was an actor, but it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes onto the national scene as a political figure because he gives the speech. >> in this vote-harvesting time they use terms like "the great society," or as we were told a few days ago by the president, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. barry goldwater has faith that you and i have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions. >> the campaign was always run optimistically. and when ronald reagan hit it out of the ballpark with his speech, we just knew we were going to win. >> according to a cbs vote profile analysis, lyndon baines johnson has been elected president of the united states. and the landslide has carried him in. >> we're going to devote our days and the years ahead to strengthening the republican party. >> after goldwater loses, all it did was to make the conserv

reagan ploy?that, you know, princess diana, one of her favorite actors was john travolta, so she made sure john travolta was invited to the dinner and made sure that the marine band you see on the right played a medley from "saturday night fever" which is what they were playing when travolta then went and asked her to dance. so you see him kind of whirling her around on the dance floor. >> al: and she was sure you were going to take a picture of that? >> well, the interesting thing, this picture was not released until the end of the administration. >> al: why is that? the thought was at the time this is not a state dinner because the prince of wales is not a prince of the state. add the end of the administration, "life magazine" made a big push to try to publish this photo in the '80s decade issue and they went to buckingham palace and asked if this photo could be released and that's when it was released, i think it was, like, in '89, so it was, like, three years later. >> you also have a couple o

i learned that from reagan and i will never forget it. jim demint carly fiorina, art laffer and james pethokoukis thank you. thank you to the heritage foundation. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next vice president joe biden attended the wedding ceremony at the national menorah on the south lawn of the white house. this is about 20 minutes. >> the word chanukah relates to public view to ceremonies and celebrations like this one but the word chanukah also has its roots in hebrew in the same word as education. they dedicate, we educate, we live, we celebrate. as part of the celebrations we in america have instituted a new rabbi's national menorah as a contest where we have children from across the country explain what chanukah means to them. so i would like to call semi semi-from pennsylvania to read her winning essay for us today. [applause] >> what chanukah means to me. hanukkah is a special meaningful holiday for me. it is a great way to remind us of the shams great miracles. hanukkah in english means dedication. i think the word

it was certainly so with reagan. and may have been that reagan's personality made that possible. >> clearly not everyone agreed on the original tax cut, budget cut, package. that was reviewed by dole himself. >> you are a kindly person for not recovering -- recalling that when we went to the white house, the president outlined his plan. he was asked about it. the press said, we hear it, we understand it. but it is a riverboat gamble. i caught all sorts of hell about the. the truth of the matter is that is it -- it was a gamble. but it worked. still on the list of things i should never have said. >> dole agreed with you? >> we talked about it. not before, but afterwards. in all fairness, i have to say a good hard about that evaluation of the message was based on what dole and i had talked about. but he was an important influential person, not only in the senate but to me. because -- there is one thing you should know. i had a meeting with the committee of chairman at the leader's office. all the chairman of the standi

bush under reagan, and he had a series of summit meetings with ronald reagan but they did not result in any agreement to open the wall, even though though there were agreements about arms control. i when president george h.w. bush took office in january 1989, it turns out that he had an entirely different attitude. that was one of the biggest surprises of my research, was discovering the way that the bush administration -- when i say bush today i'm talking about george h.w. bush, the 41st 41st president of the united states, not the son, not george w. bush, the 43rd president of the united states. when george h.w. bush took office, even though in public they said very kind things about the departing president reagan, internally the tone was very different. so internally, president bush, when he took office in 1989, essentially stepped on the brakes. he and his team thought that gorbachev might not be for real and might be trying to lull the united states into a false sense of security and they didn't want to be trapped by the ruse. there was a tiny chance he was for real but he could

when pat left to become ronald reagan's communications director -- i'm sorry, not ronald reagan's communications director. when he left to run for president, i decided we had to have some women on the show, and we brought mona charen, who is a conservative woman, and there were sparks immediately between her and al hunt. it was a very unhappy marriage. and she finally was eased out. >> how would you know there were sparks? >> oh, they were on the air. they never really attacked each other in private, but they really had embarrassing confrontations on the air. >> so, when people watch that, it's not always an act. >> no, not always, particularly with mona and al. and then she was replaced by kate o'beirne. >> but you say in the book that -- is kate o'beirne your godmother -- >> -- jeff bell is my godfather. she didn't stand up for me, and she didn't alert me. and she kind of took a neutral view between me and frum. and i thought he had really slandered me and libeled me as being unpatriotic and hoping that america loses the war. i mean, that is really a vile thing to say. >> do you have any relat

ronald reagan and the white house from 1981 to 1989. and this is my least favorite fashion decade, i have to say. >> well, one thing you have to notice with this is how mrs. reagan i would think almost single handedly transformed red from being the color of communist revolution to the color of republicans. so all these men wearing red ties owe a debt to mrs. reagan for transforming the symbolism of this color. >> that's a powerful operation. >> very powerful operation. >> to have succeeded. >> and a wonderful example of fashion really reshaning the image of the white house. you move from the cart whose had this -- the white house is never going to be casual but a much more -- even their inaugural balls were called parties, not balls, but a much more casual entertaining style, purposely more casual look and then when the reagans were elected, all of the prespeculation is on the hollywood glamour that will come and mrs. reagan's designer clothes and what will the new style of the white house be. and that was a white tie inaugural ball. wh

i don't believe and i still believe actually, that the actions of president bush and president reagan as president's obama's are constitutional suspect. the fact that you have a 30 or 40-year history doesn't get better with time. so i don't find -- i think it's important to point out that this is not -- this is the enforcement-free zone creation here. this is different from those cases. >> okay. i get your drift. let me ask you about whether this goes to you mr. dupree as well. can you tell me what new statute george h.w. bush was implements when he granted deferred enforcement departure and employment authorization to approximately 80,000 chinese nationals after the tiananmen square massacre. >> mr. conyers, the first president bush i think was doing two things in his grants of immigration relief. one, is he was following on certain actions taken by his predecessor, president reagan in interpreting the immigration and reform control act of 1986. i think that both presidents reagan and president bush were faithfully implementing the will of congress in issuing regulations pursuant to

office at the end of the reagan administration, in what i consider the third reagan term. he did not have a broad agenda. he wanted 1000 points of light. he wanted private sector and charitable efforts to be recognized. these were not big issues. what he will be remembered for is three things. he had been in office a few months when the berlin wall fell. an indoor miss opportunity to encourage mocker see in eastern europe. rmous opportunity to encourage mocker see in eastern europe. europe.racy in eastern he tried to walk around saying, i care. nobody believed him. >> did you cover the campaign? >> i did. >> did you know his son? >> i knew four of his sons. >> did you think that george walker bush would become president? was surprised when they both decided to run for governor. the suns are running. -- sons are running. there is marvin bush, one of the brothers. why are you not out campaigning? he said, i am the only smart brother. jeb did not win. george w. bush did when. -- did win. my greatest moment with george w. bush was when he was still the smart alec son. he was p

astonished ronald reagan kept that diary daily. i saw those diaries. he never let me read them except one case, but those diaries were written in longhand in leather bound books. they weren't loose-leaf books they were leather bound books and there were rows and rows and dozens of them. some day, they'll all be published. it must be the most important important and thorough contemporaneous record of a presidency that's ever existed. >> among other things, it does give the lie to the notion reagan was either lazy or undisciplined because he clearly , was the opposite of both. >> he was the most disciplined person i ever knew, he really was. he would show up every morning at 9:00 on the button in the oval office. when i was chief of staff, i used to be with him at 9:00. we would have a meeting that lasted no more than 30 minutes. he would start each meeting with a funny little story. and it was a meeting or two before i realized when he finished, he expected me to have a funny little story. that was his stock and trade. i treasured t

jimmy carter is as different from ronald reagan as anybody could have been. if i had to say which one i liked best, it had virtually nothing to do with their politics. that is george bush, sr. when they were all still with us, he would be the one i would pick. he is a wonderful, friendly, real man, a gentleman, and interesting, with many good stories to tell, which he tells extremely well. generous in the extreme. i was at his apartment at the university -- at college station, where the bush senior library is. the apartment above his couch, five photographs. one was of president bush and margaret thatcher, one with gorbachev, ronald reagan, the standard presidential political portraits. but in the middle, about twice as big, three times as big, was a picture of george h.w. bush was a picture of joe dimaggio and ted williams. there was a wonderful picture of each of them, and he explained that he awarded them some kind of presidential recognition, and they had taken the picture in the rose garden. each had signed it. i said, what a great picture. and i meant t

the big difference between what presidents reagan and bush sr. did versus what president obama has done, they are using existing statutes to provide -- however, both under irca the congress considered and rejected the fact that children and spou spouses who didn't meet certain criteria would not be eligible and after it was passed, there were a number of amendments that were introduced at different points. the family fairness act, that failed, one was with the closure failed. and on october 7th of '87 the late senator save key introduced an amendment specifically to amend the immigration. act to waive the residence requirement under the legalization program for spouses and children of qualified illegal aliens and that was defeated. despite the fact that those attempts by congress, to address this issue presidents reagan and bush sr. decided this was unfair to deport the children and spouses of people who were legalize ued under irca and they recognized they had legal authority to exercise that discretion and provide voluntary departure for those

i would make the argument that president reagan saw humanitarian crisis and decided to act.ustice roberts said that presidents have a right to humanitarian relief. so let me pursue this questioning regarding the daca and the issue that this may work to cause border crosses as a result of this announcement. could you just quickly point out the doca relief deals with existing persons here in the united states, and one other aspect is to expand the time frame from two to three years. could you quickly answer that. why don't i just give you this other question so that we won't be delayed with respect to the other question. i have always thought secure communities have had a legal and political issue, and you have streamlined secure communities. let me say that my law enforcement officers have said it is problematic. in your prioritization of terrorists and others, you have streamlined that. i would also like to indicate in your new facility that i'm very interested in dilly, texas, that it will be accommodating and with the righting kinds of resources for family and children. if

ronald reagan came in with a period of economic crisis. barack obama came into office during great economic crisis, no question. the amazing thing is you know they used diametrically opposite approaches to dealing with the crisis. as you just said, reagan cut tax rates and deregulated and got government spending under control and let the private businesses rebuild our economy. there was an $870 billion stimulus plan with this so-called multiplier effect and we had obamacare and tax increases on the rich. barack obama has party much thrown the entire keynesian playbook at the situation. if you compare the records of these two presidents, this dress -- drives people on the left crazy, they hate this comparison but is very apt -- in the five and a half years of the start of the reagan recovery versus the first 5.5 years of the obama recovery, the economy grew at just over 4% in the first 5.5 years under reagan and it grew just about 2% under obama. that may not seem like a big difference. it is enormous because of the compounding effect of th

reagan and mrs. obama. they have moved into the category as a national treasure because of their age and what they represent. that's my story. >> that is quite a story. >> and this is more from the nixons. >> she loved garland. >> where is that tree? >> it was in the grand foyer. there have been years where it was in the grand foyer. >> many years, it was in the blue room. >> last time the principal tree was in the kennedy administration. every year, it has been the principal tree with a theme on it has been in the blue room. there have been trees all over. >> there was a new tradition established under the nixons which is the gingerbread house. here are two of them. >> give you a little bit of background. the traditional gingerbread house is german and an american citizen and was born in germany and came to the white house in the johnson administration and when mrs. nixon came in, he went to her one day and said, the white house ought to have a tradition from around the world and i would like to create a g

reagan is in another adolfo suit. >> wasn't chanel suing at that point? >> as you know, here we can copy everybody and it's perfectly legal. it's true. i mean, all of this inspiration from europe, i spent a lot of time -- tracy, you probably did, too. capital hill advocacy, fashion designers do not own their intellectual property and it is largely because we were a nation of copiers. there was no incentive to have such laws in place. >> right. >> we could rip people off right and left and it's perfectly legal. >> many people would like to have intellectual rights, there are ten times more who don't want to go down that road. >> that's true. >> it would hurt their business. >> so we're moving on to mrs. clinton. and how would we describe mrs. clinton's style? >> famous pantsuit and the hair problems. >> and i think at the heart of it i just feel like it's not important to her. you know what i mean? i mean, i think public service is very important to her. >> yes. >> but her appearance is like, it's down on the list. >> i have to say -- >> i have a lot of th

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reagan ploy, in that princess diana, one of her favorite actors was john travolta.he made sure that john travolta was invited to this dinner, and she made sure that the marine band that you see on the right side there played a medley from "saturday night fever," which is what they were playing when travolta then went and asked her to dance. you see him whirling her around the dance floor. >> and she was sure you were going to take a picture of that? >> well, this picture was not released until the end of the administration. i think the thought was at the time that this was not a state dinner, because the prince of wales is not a head of state. it was a private dinner. there was some agreement with buckingham palace not to make any of these pictures public, and then at the end of the administration, "life" magazine made a big push to try to publish this photo in the 80's decade issue. they went to buckingham palace and asked if this photo could be released, and that's when it was released. i think it was in 1989, so it was like three years later. but you also have a