as historians, any kind of a full evaluation of the reagan administration, the reagan period, any period for that matter, needs the balance of structures and agents involved. i will try to let out. this graph presents one of those structural trends. in just a few minutes of economic language, this is the current account balance of the percentage of u.s. gdp. what it tracks is anything below the dark horizontal line, is a significant import of foreign capital from abroad into the united states. i hope what you can see from the graph is that, 1980, 19 81, 1982 marks a significant turning point. after 1980, the united states became significantly and increasingly dependent on the import of foreign capital. this is one of the most unexpected developments of the 1980's. ronald reagan who had risen to the presidency decrying deficit spending and promising to balance the budget by 1984, instead oversaw an explosion of the federal budget deficit during his eight years in office. the u.s. current account balance measured here went from a slight surplus of $8.5 billion in jimmy carter/year in offic

reagan preempted a war. and second, he is one of a presidents who was reelected twice and turned over the white house to his own party, which suggests not only that he was able to engineer outcomes, but he was able to bring the public along with him. he retired, of course come with a 68% approval rating. thoroughly three of those other eight, by the way, were founding fathers. jefferson, madison, and washington. five of them included lincoln, mckinley, roosevelt, of course, and now reagan. in the 21st century, reagan is one of the old only president other than roosevelt was reelected twice and turned the white house over to his own party. i think that says something about both of those things in terms of what he accomplished and how he was able to bring along public opinion. it is the extraordinarily leadership of this. i will leave it at that. and i will open it up to questions. exec. director inboden: let's turn it over to the audience for questions. mr. nau: but really quick, to set in context the role of

it was faced equally on the perception of reagan's policies and interaction with key reagan officials. the foreign ministry undertook an approximation with reagan's united states. they suggested reagan's conservative and pragmatic approach to foreign policy would approach carter's moralistic and discriminatory approach. this was good news for allies of the united states like chile. were told inials private meetings that reagan would oversee a profound change in u.s. foreign-policy that would make chile a vital ally of the united states in that new the oldle examining hegemonic ways of u.s. power. consciously referred to this new policy as quiet diplomacy or, tellingly, silent diplomacy. the meetings reveal how this diplomacy paid out. theirals would voice approval for the economic and political security policy in chile. human rights is addressed at all assurancessed with that reagan would not intervene in internal affairs. in 1981, under secretary of state sam eaton called a chilean official that permitting the return of political exiles with the ongoing assess -- investigation with c

they think the hard-line reagan is the real reagan. i think we share that this is a pivotal speech in the reagan administration. i kind of view it -- reagan launching a crusade for freedom launches the national endowment for democracy. i wrestle with this speech a lot and i wonder who is the audience. my sense is that this is very -- the audience is shoring up the western alliance on the eve, the start of negotiations in this broader period of the in f deployment. reagan's best and it's definitely worth digging into it, with the way it was put together, mark palmer and sent to george will to look over, really important moment. and it' [inaudible] josh, texas a&m university. [inaudible] the notion of a reagan reversal has been bandied over and over again on this panel so far. reading over james' book, for example -- [inaudible] our interest is to keep the russians well behind us. number one, going on to describe sdi. concluding with this how toion describing lock the soviets into our position and verify our advantages. if that's the cas

tell us about ronald reagan? word we come away thinking about ronald reagan? what should we say about reagan and oil, human rights? their answers that at the end of her paper, and what should we say about reagan and cyber security? we should say that reagan is one of those figures, like lincoln, who is invoked and never understood. he is caricatured and everyone claims to be the era of ronald -- heir ofrror ronald reagan. how can we draw a better portrait based on your pictures? i would be happy to say something. soldthird question kind of what i wanted to say about the first one, which is that i feel like reagan the person and administration are being treated too much of the same thing, because i felt too much like in the research that i the last person to agree to the plans that shows and others are putting forward to certaing the u.s. oppressive regimes, and one of the reasons that seems the relevant right now is debates that are going on about how much ides or secretaries of certain apartment can or cannot influence the president, and i if we look at the r

reagan's funeral. after closing the museum for four weeks so the public to pay their respects and canceling scheduled tours and events for a beautiful ceremony, the student leadership unit happened to be the only event that was allowed to go on that week. that was roughly one year ago. if you ask me, i would say someone was lookg out for us that day. in an effort to judge ourselves to buy new opportunities to support our program alumni allowed the leadership journey, today's event is different than the past. for those of you are all of us in the room who have ever wondered who was ronald reagan? not what did he accomplish or how did he change the world, but who was ronald reagan, the man. was the person away from the photos, dispatches, the interviews, and the many other dimensions that the public sees. reading it peggy grandy's book, the president will see you now, you cannot help but feel that you will be brought in closer to ronald reagan and the person he truly was. today we invite you to learn abo

reagan and the respect they had for each other. mother teresa came in to visit the office and this little tiny one and only recognizes nina giant on the world stage. he had an amazing respect for her. of course the first president to put a woman on the supreme court. sandra day o'connor was something he was very proud of. he respected by men. he respected their role. this is many to many many years ago. this wasn't even one of our riches back then, but it was important to show respect. as a young woman working for him, i always felt his utmost respect towards me an appreciation for the value that i had. a man of incredible patriotism and something you would expect from a president. from having been behind the scenes all the time, that was not something he did when the cameras were rolling. this man is pay reporter: to the core. how many times do you think is heard the star-spangled banner, nationally at them or any other songs he played. when we would have guessed them to the office, a lot of times they would perform for hammerstei

than reagan. i hope right now you are in a high bracket. jesse: we saw some of your returns. these people at msnbc news doing everything they to be take you down. >> what i have here is a copy of donald trump's tax returns. we have his returns for one year, 2005. jesse: i thought you leaked those returns yourself, it made you look good>> they are bad pe. there is something wrong with them. it's illegal to do what they did. i heard a tax return was a sacred kind of thing. you don't leak them. it's criminally offensive. they put them out -- not that they are good from that standpoint. my tax returns are good. all of my tax returns are good. jesse: are you going after these leakers hard? >> it's terrible what's going on in washington. we have a certain establishment out there that's leaking. if it gets down other things pen more important than that, but a tax return is a very important thing. and you are not suppose to be leaking them and you do. they don't respect the law. and we have to change that

reagan in. and mother to reset this little woman to was a giant on the world stage was the first president to put a woman on the supreme court. irrespective their role so that was not even the big issue back then but that was important first and to show respect i always felt his utmost respect for me in the appreciation that i added. of course, that is something you expect that isn't just something they did when the camera was rolling hominy times you think she has her the star spangled banner or the national anthem? test will come to the office to perform for him saying or perform so where will you perform? so year is this man you know, he has heard this song a thousand times before but as the song was start he will tap his toe and sing-along he knew every word and every now and then he would just hand at attention now respect put his hand over his heart summer just so beautifully performed in you concede the tears misting up in his eyes. he was patriotic to his core he felt the honor and privi

like reagan, president trump frightened the ruling class. like reagan president trump has taken his message over the heads and around the filters of the media directly to the american people. and americans seem to like this bold style. after all, they voted for change. this afternoon's panel brings together four outstanding speakers who each spotted this change in the political landscape long before the rest of us. rick santorum was first elected to congress in 1980 to represent the 19th congressional district of pennsylvania. 1990. he's not that old. '90. then in '94 at age 36 he was elected to the senate in ranks of gop leadership. during the time in congress, senator santorum distinguished himself for principle stance on life and marriage. many of you will recognize him as presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016 where he again brought very important issues to the debate. some of which nobody else was raising. so thank you, senator santorum. [ cheers and applause ] salena zito writes for cnn and the new york post. before joining the examin

he would either rendezvous with destiny reagan once said.we will preserve for our children this the last vessel of men on earth or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. if we fail, at least that i would children and our children's children save us. we justified our moment here. we did all that could be done. we the children of the cold war, the sons and daughters of the greatest generation. knew what it meant to stand up to foreign and lives under the seeming threat of annihilation. but those who ruled our nation as we wait our turn, at the head of the table never for inaction. so knowing this time in this generation under our leadership we must ask this question. what will our children say of us? ladies and gentlemen, today is our moment of truth. our point of no return. the choices we need make at this moment are opposed by entrenched interests. the resistance looms. they attack our motives. they assail our beliefs. they decry our notion of justice. they proclaim the high ground of virtue and frien

so as ronald reagan said, we have come fto a time for choosing.resident reagan challenged us either we accept the responsibility for our own destiny or we abandon the american revolution and confess that an intellectual belief in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan our own lives. how refreshing is that simple concept that we who run our lives know the course of our own destiny better than some congresswoman from california, some -- [ applause ] better than some judge from joplin may know it sitting in a mahogany panel office in washington, making the decisions that can undermine all of our great efforts. and how refreshing to see a return to that respectful thought of the importance of self-determination and a turn away from the conceit and arrogance that was its predecessor at 1600 pennsylvania avenue before january 20th, 2017. [ crowd chanting "usa" ] at the close of last year, we came together in one of the enduring shared moments in our modern american life. our nation made among the most profound choices th

a lot of confidence -- gave governor reagan a lot of confidence. it may his deal good. it talked about how much better a candidate he was then jimmy carter, and that his appearance would be much more important. took a realan self-confidence and strength during rest of the campaign. there is one element of that memo that it bother me. i was writing speeches for governor reagan at this time. i thought i was doing a pretty good job. and that memo, he says to reagan, and this period, use your best lines, even if you are tired of them. the time has passed for reading important but dull lines written by speechwriters. [applause] -- [laughter] >> this is only 1980. six years and do his retirement and he becomes the dominant counselor of the area. did he have a plan for all that? what is his contribution the decade and a half after reagan wins? >> i want to take one minute for an unsung hero of the comeback, and particularly that period, was ron zigler. he came out and stay with us and gave all his time and papers to us for the preparation of the memoirs.

i was writing speeches for governor reagan at this time.i thought i was doing a pretty darn good job. in that memo he says, in this period use your best chair lines even if you are tired of them. the time has passed for using important but dull lines preferred by speechwriters. [laughter] >> there's a great book to be written about that. six years into his retirement and he becomes the dominant counselor of the era. i'll start with you. what was his contribution after that decade and a half to the world? >> i want to take one minute. an unsung hero of the comeback in san clemente was ron ziegler. he came out and stayed with us all his time and all his papers to us for the preparation of the memoirs. he is gone but not forgotten. [applause] and his granddaughter who are keeping up the usc tradition are here. thatn't really involved in post after he moved back to new york. we had dinner in the house surrounded by packing crates with jimmy roosevelt and mary roosevelt about the week before he left. i only saw him occasionally other than the in

clark, ronald reagan's top hand. today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, "dupes however service have been manipulated -- how progressives have been manipulated for centuries." we are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. please help me welcome dr. paul kengor. [applause] >> thank you, heather. john and everybody here heritage, everybody for coming. lee edwards. i really struggled with how to organize this talk because i turned in the manuscript of two 250,000 words and about 1000 pages, and i think "god and ronald reagan" was around 100,000 words. it gives you an idea of how enormous the task was and how many dupes are out there. i am not joking when i say this could be volume one in a multi volume stat -- set. i did not know where to stop. there were a number of people i thought it would have full chapters on, but i had so much information, i would just have a box marked henry wallace. i could do the whole book on this guy.

he has served at the reagan foundation for 22 years. prior to his chairmanship, he started at the reagan lighthouse from 1982 to 1989. after that he served as president reagan's first post white house chief of staff. i know of no other person who has spent more time and effort working on behalf of ronald and nancy reagan over the years than fred ryan. fred would never brag about that fact but it is a fact so i will brag for him. ladies and gentlemen if you would please join me in welcoming to the state, mr. fred ryan. [applause] thank you, john. that was a kind introduction. our special guest has been to the reagan presidential library several times, the first was as an owner of a major-league baseball team, then as governor of texas, he was back as a candidate for president of united states, back as president of the united states to dedicate air force one at the reagan library, been here as a former president of the united states and is the author of a popular book decision points. tonight he's back is an accomplished painter. we can o

reagan: please be seated. on behalf of myself and the american people, i want to extend my thanks to senator tower, secretary muskie and mr. scowcraft. whatever this report may say, i have appointed, or i am proud to have appointed this distinguished board because it fulfills my commitment to get the facts and share them with the american people. this is why i asked the attorney general to conduct his review and why when that review uncovered on authorized actions, i ordered disclosure of what we knew. it is why i urged the appointment of an independent counsel and why i appointed david abshire as my special counselor on this matter. and it is also why i ordered full cooperation with congressional inquiries. and it is why i appointed this board, the tower board. the significance of this board's work is reflected in the size of the volume which i am going to carefully study over the next several days. senator tower, secretary muskie and general scowcroft, you have demonstrated a willingness, one you've shown al

reagan: my fellow americans, i've spoke to you

a reagan biographer is here with us, written another book called "reagan rising," just before reagan came back to become president. great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: you have written a lot on this president and this s period. many books. did you ever think you would grow old enough to see democrats pushing for a new cold war? >> no, i didn't. it's a new world order. >> tucker: the debate in the '80s, it was democrats are too soft on russia. that was reagan's position. >> o demonstrable. soft on the khmer rouge, arms control. soviet expansionism. always soft on the soviet union, going back to the excommunicate. >> tucker: reagan obviously hated soviet communism. >> there was no animosity toward the russian people. he really knew -- he abhorred the idea of nuclear war but he was obsessed with defeating the soviet union in the cold war but he knew to beat an idea with a better idea -- she was once -- he was once flying over the maryland suburbs on marine one on his way to andrews air force base. he was looking out the window and he said mr. president, what do you see down there

look at 1984 in the midst of the reagan revolution.d a high trade deficit but the same year, look at how much we grew. 7.3%. we grew the highest in decades. we haven't grown not high since, and that was during a high trade deficit year. >> trade deficits don't tell you anything for they don't call tell you about transfers and the like. going back to jamestown in 1607 we have a trade deficit. bmw plant south carolina, germany putting in billions of dollars, he created tens of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. they're producing 300 cars -- 300,000 cars including 200,000 cars for transport. >> is the trump administration wrong worrying about trade deficit. >> i don't like to worry about that. at the disease of americans living high off borrowers like china. >> john is shaking his head no. >> trade deficits are a mess. i run a trade surplus with my employers. my deficits are the rewards with restaurants, carmakers, you name it. we have a deficit because the u.s. is a magnet for global investment such that we export shares that don

[applause] and from the reagan family michael and reagan. [applause] of our state assembly man. [applause] and our former congressman and and senator. [applause] all of the elected officials from the county of interesting and senior valley. [applause]

conference titled ronald reagan and the transformation of global politics in the 1980's. it is about one hour 40 minutes. for therector inboden: cameras, name's will in bowden, one of your host for today -- hosts for today, and i am honored to be here for the panel discussion. if we honored on my view reagan administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president reagan and the atmosphere at the time. each of our panelists will offer about 15 minutes of comments and we will adjourn for a q&a. my fellow historians, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. introducing my

[applause] and from the reagan family michael and reagan. [applause] of our state assembly man. [applause] and our former congressman and and senator. [applause] all of the elected officials from the county of interesting and senior valley. [applause] president bush secretary of treasury. [applause] and lastly retired u.s. army officer and his wife. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not mention becoming paralyzed from the waist down when the helicopter crashed while conducting operations in iraq 2008 but thanks to the generosity of the foundation he can now walk through the assistance of the exoskeleton. [applause] if you would like to know what that is he will be at the reagan library for any event to share his story. we invite all of you to comeback tomorrow at the same time for what will be a very inspirational yvette. [applause] -- even to. [applause] to begin the conversation is another trustee. fred ryan he has served as the foundation's chairman 22yea. prior to the chairman jeff served in the reagan white house 82 through 89 then served as the first post white house c

a reagan biographer is here with us, written another book called reagan rising, just before reagan came back to become president. great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: you have written a lot on this president and this period. did you ever think you would grow old enough to see democrats pushing for a new world order? >> no, i didn't. it's a new world order. >> tucker: the debate in the '80s, it was democrats are too soft on russia. >> yes, on arms control. soviet expansionist. they are always soft on the soviets. going back to the famous -- >> tucker: reagan obviously hated soviet communism. >> there was no animosity toward the russian people. he really knew -- he abhorred the idea of nuclear war but he was obsessed with defeating the soviet union in the cold war but he knew to beat an idea with a better idea -- she was once flying over the suburbs on his way to an air force base. he was looking out the window and he said mr. president, what do you see down there? he says, i've got to get gorbachev to see what we have here. we have a better idea for governance, prosperity and freed

we can only imagine his next visit to the reagan library. [laughter] as we closely observe what our presidents do after serving in the most powerful and demanding job on the planet they deserve to do things in the post presidentially here's -- years. some take on old and new challenges like one of my former presidents became a skydiving and busiest and tell his wife put a stop to it to. [laughter] but there has been a few artists like grant and eisenhower and carter. but to our knowledge no president has ever attempted portraits. the 43rd president entered bravely into that territory because he was so moved of the sacrifices of the of wounded warriors to capture and demoralize their courage . i have to say i look at president bush's of the -- collection not only because of his talent and skill the subject matter and how he finds a way to take their strength and dignity and perseverance and patriotism to lift back up for all of us to see in a deep and intimate way. they feel the warrior spirit and hopefully this gives each of us of better und

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he said it's going to be the biggest since ronald reagan, maybe even bigger. he said, i know exactly what we're looking at. most of us know exactly the plan. my first question is really easy. tell us about the plan. >>. >> what the plan is? >> the tax cuts. >> i'm going to -- i appreciate the layout, dave. but i'll leave it to him to work with congress. when we're ready to roll it out, we'll do just that. we're not there yet. let's go on with the second. >> building on these jobs numbers today that were very positive, obviously, there's a lot of ceos out there who are excited about the possibility of a tax cut plan. and yet the president has also expressed a lot of concern about the national debt. if you're going to get a tax cut on the level of ronald reagan, historic sized tax cut, how are you going to do that, balance the needs for continued job

a reagan biographer is here with us, written another book called reagan rising, just before reagan camek to become president. great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: you have written a lot on this president and this period. did you ever think you would grow old enough to see democrats pushing for a new world order? >> no, i didn't. it's a new world order. >> tucker: the debate in the '80s, it was democrats are too soft on russia. >> yes, on arms control. soviet expansionist. they are always soft on the soviets. going back to the famous -- >> tucker: reagan obviously hated soviet communism. >> there was no animosity toward the russian people. he really knew -- he abhorred the idea of nuclear war but he was obsessed with defeating the soviet union in the cold war but he knew to beat an idea with a better idea -- she was once flying over the suburbs on his way to an air force base. he was looking out the window and he said mr. president, what do you see down there? he says, i've got to get gorbachev to see what we have here. we have a better idea for governance, prosperity and freedom a

that will put the main hall of reagan behind security. you'll no longer be able to walk in and hang out here. but space waiting for someone to get off of a flight is being built and new shops and restaurants will likely be added. at a board meeting today, the airport officials are all smiles about this $1 billion investment that's coming here to reagan. >>> as one project begins, another is wrapping up. it took more than two years to complete but this week all five of the underground escalators at the pa these da station are up and running. mark sea graves was there as the first passengers took a ride. >> reporter: over the past few years metro has been busy fixing and replacing escalators. >> we've installed 67 new year. another 153 have been rebuilt like new conditions. >> reporter: today marked the completion of all five under ground escalators at the bethesda station. but this escalator outof the station is old and appears worn and was not part to have $8 million renovation project. >> canopies over the escalators. we've working throu

when you get reagan type tax cuts good trump tax cuts american people better off more jobs created moreortunities are created, that is the key thing, i don't care about washington i care about american people vote for them not washington. >> i have a hit a that phrase you don't have to pay for tax cuts that is my money! >> it is your money, and i -- i totally agree, with staph that we've got to shrink the size of federal government, stop being a burden on individuals, but i think it is time for steve to give up voodoo economics says -- >> my good knows, we have proof we are going to show right here from, 83 when real estate tax cuts kicked in to 89 look at how the tax revenues money into the government from individual tax rates had been cut, it increased 55% we cut tax rates, from 70% was high down to 28%, and we had a 355% increase in tax revenue. >> same happened john f. kennedy tax revenue soared 54% between 1964 and 69 from tax cuts, yes, you know it common sense more money in more growth tax renz raised from growth we are coming out of this 8-year period you didn't build that kind

[applause] >> sebastian, you first mentioned ronald reagan.ald reagan taught us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. but today it looks even closer than that. yesterday in the panel we talked about domestic threats. now we hav just talked about fon ones. i think there is one conclusion i've heard today, and that is america must lead again. thank you very much. >> you bet. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> welcome to our next panel discussion.

whether you're republican or democrat, that's really not the reagan style.he reagan white house was much more evidence-based, at least by and large, not all the time. so the tweeting about accusations like that, that's not what we the people most need. >> one of the ways that you suggest and i want to get into other ways, one of the ways that you suggest that we can lessen and we can do better around this notion of divided democracy in the age of social media is to get outside of our own bubbles if i can put it that way, our own worlds and read the tweets of others, read the social media postings of others. if i'm reading the social media posts of others and they're saying the kinds of things that trump is sayinging whether breitbart or other outlets are saying, how is that helping me decrease the divisiveness in our democracy just by reading the social media posts of others? >> it is true, if you are for example, a democrat and you read something from republicans that strikes you as baseless or crazy, it's not exactly going to help you think of people disag

he says, in the future, ronald reagan will be president. the movie actor, that is crazy. that tells you how our policies have changed. we

including with reagan. because working men and women got left out when free trade or buchanan used to say globalony prevailed. it raised consumers prices but hurt american prices. it made america no longer a nation of manufacturing. this has already changed. how long it lasts will determine -- >> jump in here, panel. is this permanent realignment? >> there is not a permanent alignment in american politics. american politics are constantly shifting. i know that people, and this audience is very enthusiastic about the fact that the three blue wall states went for donald trump but they went for donald trump by a combined total of 107,000 votes. >> tiny. >> that's very small number. that said i think we see the two parties defined in new way answers the increasing party of the coasts of millennials, racial diversity, a lot of women, high number of college-educated voters. this is not like the past decades ago and the republican party is increasingly rural and suburban areas, whites, more male than female. and i

>> i think he would rival reagan.s is what people don't understand about trump versus normal politicians. trump is not a great oratory. reagan is a better speech delivery. but this was a speech that was a hammer blow after hammer blow after hammer appropriate talks about wanting to help the inner-city. everything with him is, what do we need to get done, how can we fix it, what is going to work. it is total common sense. this is the first pure entrepreneur we've ever had as a president. as you know, i am writing a book on understanding trump that will come out this summer. partly based on that he is so different than anything we've seen. including me. i find myself every day studying donald trump and trying to figure out, what is he doing, because he is so much more complicated than i would have thought possible. >> sean: in a good way? >> in a good way. a smart, senior guy, solve problems his whole life, practical his whole life, proved with his cabinet he can recruit a good team. >> sean: remember the commission bac

i get an exclusive to our other reagan rant. "watters world" begins right now. i'm much first president trump tweeted this. terrible it just found out obama had my wires tapped. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. all hell broke loose and on monday at the i director james comey was asked about the tweet. with respect to the president's tweets i have no information that supports those tweets and we've looked carefully inside the fbi. he was savaged by the media. he was essentially called the drunken liar. he clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gym bottle. check out the cover of this week's magazine. president trump made a wild claim on twitter. nor is there any credible source about intelligence who believes the charge. of the on the steps she did claims. the charge is untrue and he knows it's not true. lec should. they couldn't just keep their powder dry until all of the facts came out. so on thursday devon nunez dropped this bombshell. on numerous occasions intelligence needed he collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump trans

so, i covered nancy reagan. i did an interview with her where i failed to ask the most-- i asked her the most important question, but i failed to get the right answer which was pretty superstitious and she said a little and it knocked on wood, but it was really for micah and the plane we were in. then it turned out she was running the entire russia relationship with her astrologer deciding everything about whether we would have nuclear arms reduction, so i kind of miss the big story there, but i started there and then i was thought white house reporter for the first president bush and a year with president clinton and then i got a calm and 95, but i kept covering presidents. host: you suggest in "the year of voting dangerously" that un president hw senior should have couples counseling. guest: no, i think his aides suggested that. it is like a screwball comedy. i rode at essay in the book that i'm really proud of about my 30 years covering the bush family and the letters that the first president bush has written