dutch reagan.applause] ♪ monty: and now, will you kindly join me in welcoming a man whom we greet tonight as friend, a very special friend close to our hearts, mr. dutch reagan. ♪ [applause] ["hail to the chief" being played] ♪ [applause] pres. reagan: thank you. hello. how are you? [applause] ♪ monty: could you sit down? pres. reagan: [laughs] monty: nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his brother's keeper, francis albert sinatra. [applause] ♪ frank: you may be seated. [laughter] frank: i am delighted to be here with dutch and his bride, the first lady of the united states, and might i add, the first lady of geneva, too. [applause] frank: and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. you have already met monty. and here are charlton heston -- [applause] frank: eydie gorme -- [applause] frank: and steve lawrence, of course. [applause] frank: emmanuel lewis, the mightiest little fellow i have ever known in my life --

, ronald reagan. what goes on behind scenes the ? the press secretary? you know i think it's probably a little bit different than it is today. we had a lid on our press. we didn't have tweets going out in the middle of the night. we didn't have social media. but we had a great deal of respect for -- >> we didn't even have cell phones. [laughter] >> she is right. we didn't have cell phones. we had pagers. and they went off 24/7 but we with knew when we left the white house at the end of the day. that you probably weren't going to hear back from someone until the next morning unless there was an emergency, of course. it was a pager, yeah that pager was nasty. i was never so happy to get rid of that pager when i lefts . they wait and the radios that we used we literally called them bricks, they were that heavy. it was only way to communicate with each other so it was a different time back then, and i don't, i suppose we had fake news we didn't have fake love certainly in our white house. and so i thank a

in president reagan, i never met president reagan to my great regret but i did get to know mrs.reaganh, you all have scars from nancy . her, president reagan's transformative power is so amazing. as jimmy stewart once said if ronniehad married nancy the first time he would have won an academy award . which is probably true but reagan's visual imagination was so important . so he as you know, his great phrase was the shining cityon a hill . the only guy i know who can improve on jesus because city on a hill is from his sermon on the mount in the new testament but the addition of the word shining is so important in that that actually, not making this up. i've heard ministers from pulpits say as jesus said, america shall be as a shining city upon a hill. how that was rendered in the original aramaic i don'tknow . but i got to see nancy reagan late in life and as you all know, she always knew more gossip than you and sometimes it was evenaccurate . so i was always embarrassed because she knew far more about what was going on in washington that i so i had just heard a minister say this a c

reagan doesn't talk about homicide even reagan's critics said reagan got it wrong they don't mentionat it is totally forgotten and erased from her story. >> the critics got it wrong what do they say she did? >> there is a lot of fact checking done during the reagan campaign there is a story in the washington star to the new york times so i got a lot of play and the tone of the story is reagan's as a bunch of stuff in his speeches let's check and see if it's true. there is a whole succession of anecdotes but for the taylor one thing that is checked is the dollar amount reagan said she stole $150,000 and the reporter says actually she's being prosecuted for stealing $8000 so that's what he got wrong is he exaggerated the extent of her welfare fraud. he did. that's true the best estimate i could find to those in the relevant agencies said she stole 40000 over multiple years. so it wasn't an accurate to say he was exaggerating but it wasn't complete to make the point this is the only thing reagan got wrong about linda taylor that she stole more than she stole. >> and kidnapping? >> she w

even reagan's critics think reagan got it wrong, taylor sister of homicide.forgotten and erased from history. >> so the critics wrong, what did they say she did. >> there's not a lot of fact checking done during reagan campaign. there's a story in the washington star in the new york times. i got a lot of life. the tone of the story is, reagan says a lot of stuff the speeches, let's check to see if it's true. as a whole succession of anecdotes checked so the taylor one, the thing that gets checked dollar amount. reagan says she still $150,000 and the reporter says actually, she's being prosecuted for stealing $8000. that's the thing that reagan thought wrong. she exaggerated the extent of her buffer price. it's true. i think the best estimate i was able to find was that the folks in the relevant agencies she still $40000 over a period of multiple heroes. it wasn't inaccurate to say reagan was exaggerating but it was incomplete. to say this is the only thing greg has gone wrong about linda taylor she has said she stole more than she actually stole. >> did she t

other experts came out to the reagan library to share stories about president reagan and our air force one tail number 27000. stories we then used to make our visitors experience and our air force one pavilion that much more rich. since then he's come to other times to discuss and find copies of his book, prisoners of the white house in 2013, and ultimate insiders white house photographers and how they shape history in 2017. since he has been covering the white house since 1986 i am sure he is no lack of material for many more books, especially since today he continues to provide insight into the white house of donald trump in the world of presidential campaigns. perhaps, if we're lucky, he will share insight in the upcoming elections. but he is here tonight to discuss his latest book, presidential leadership in crisis: defining moments of the modern president from franklin roosevelt to donald trump. speaking of the book, presidential historian alvin wrote ken walsh, one of the nation's shrewdest observers of presidents and the presidency takes readers on a tour of how 14 presidents re

[applause] >> good evening, welcome to the reagan library. thank you for joining us for what we know will be a fascinating conversation. we are honored to have as our special guest this evening justice neil gorsuch, it is generally understood that after eagle to senate hearings to be confirmed to the serene court you never have to answer questions again that you don't want to. [laughter] instead, you get to ask the questions. but just discourse which we appreciate you making an exception for this evening's interview. [laughter] i promise i will do my best to make it a better experience in the senate judiciary committee. that's a low bar, i know. [applause] if you have seen a copy of justice scorches book you will note that he had two collaborators, his former clerks jane and david and we are pleased to have david in the audience with us tonight. david, where are you? and we are honored that david is joined by his grandmother who was very special to us, vera who is been a docent at the reagan library for more than 20 years. [applause] i would

so they push reagan into the limousine. he feels tremendous pain he thinks a secret service agent who pushed him into the limousine had broken one of his ribs so he cussed him. by this time he was bleeding from the mouth and frothing so the agent said were not taking you back to the white house were going to the emergency room. if not that he will surely would have died. >> you have the personal courage and grace under pressure of the individual person with this tremendous burden to be shot. so this happened by instinct because he was a movie actor he understood there was a role to play he gets out of the limousine and buttons up the jacket and walks under his own power and then collapses because he didn't want people to see vulnerability but he almost died. the doctors do their best to save them so it turns out the day he was at the hospital was the most prestigious specialist in many types of surgery and they were all there when he was shot so they could all help them they left the conference to deal with the surgery. so

the same thing happened under reagan and now trump is bailing out every corporation. he was already bailing out the farmers and doing things with corporate welfare. they are the socialism party but the democrats won't see it. host: let's talk to raul calling from texas on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning.

that gave out like the manhattan institute this actor, ronald reagan wasn't popular across ge eitheralking about western propaganda they complained about him but they could not stop bowl would send him all over around with the mimeographed pages with the future of industry and it might move west and so on and then they talk about the dangers of socialism and socialism the medicine is a bad idea maybe hydropower wasn't the only kind of power of the future of the united states and soon enough reagan the actor began to take the arguments seriously he even bought some ge stock so year in 1960 was a dark cloud over ge with the propaganda mill. the justice department was investigating the communist and the new attorney general robert kennedy pulled together a strong case ge was colluding like westinghouse to fix high prices the justice department went to court and the judge said the ge executive to jail so here was the propaganda department mouthing off about the free markets even as they cheated the american taxpayer. a terrible blow the company looks like the worst hypocrite in the world

ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. >> good evening.m here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the united states. i am sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where we've lived and what we have done, for me it

president reagan: today is a day for mourning and remembering. nancy and i are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle challenger. we share this pain with all of the people of our country. this is truly a national loss. 19 years ago almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. but we have never lost an astronaut in flight. we have never had a tragedy like this. and perhaps we have forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. they, the challenger seven, were aware of the dangers and overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. we mourn seven heroes -- michael smith, dick scobee, judith resnick, ronald mcnair, ellison onizuka, gregory jarvis, and christa mcauliffe. we mourn their loss as a nation together. robert: christa enjoyed teaching very much like i think most of us who were selected in the teacher in space program. we were all enthusiastic about educating our students and developing in them a real thirst for knowledge. christa was originally from framingham, massachusetts, and she

many wente of reagan ahead and resigned but many stayed. the presumption of firing is rare, it is more the presser -- the pressure. the thing that is more worrisome to me is that we want to make sure that we have this inspector general appointed who are in line with the qualities that were clarified in the act and have been perpetuated. that is nonpartisan, absolutely background,th legal public administration background, and so on. most of the inspector general's have had government background. up incessarily moving their own inspector general offices, sometimes that happened , but they have had experience many times in other inspector general offices and they will move to the top in another office. a perception of objectivity and integrity. host: we have a call lined up. kathleen from elizabeth, pennsylvania. line for democrats. you are on. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. have checks and balances here and we have inspectors general that are supposed to oversee certain things, how is it that they get fired when they do their

now we get to president reagan. this is him when he was shot, the case i use, the personal crisis, he almost died from this. he was doing a speech in washington a few weeks after he took office in 1981 and as he reached the limousine john hinckley junior, a starstruck deranged young man who wanted to impress the actress jodie foster shot the president and ended up hitting dc police and secret service agents and one of the rounds bounced off the side of the limousine and hit the reagan in the side. he was hit in the moment he was hit by the piece of the bullet. you can see the 8 and secret service guys looking over at the shooter. this picture won a pulitzer prize. what happens is they push reagan into the limousine and he feels tremendous pain and he thinks the secret service agent who pushed him into the limousine had broken one of his ribs so he cussed him. by this time he was bleeding from the mouth and frothing so the agent said we are not taking you back to the white house, we are taking you to the emergency ro

reagan." she spoke at the ronald reagan presidential library and pallet when you and april of 2018. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome misses sheila tate. [applause] ms. tate: oh, you want me to sit

ronald reagan won the 1980 presidential nomination with george h.w. bush finishing a distant second and went on to defeat democrat jimmy carter in the general election, carrying 44 states. >> ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. >> good evening. i'm here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the united states. i'm sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where we've lived and what we've done. for me, it's been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa, trying to get a start in the years of the "great depression" and later in california for most of my adult life. i've seen america from the stadium press box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, office holder and as both democrat and republican. i've lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered others. i've seen financial ruin in the "great depression" and also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself

ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. >> good evening. i am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the united states. i am sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where we've lived and what we have done, for me it has been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois as a young man in iowa trying to get a start in the years of the great depression, and later in california for most of my adult life. i have seen america from the stadium as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, officeholder, and as both democrat and republican. i have lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered those who had enough. there have been four wars in my lifetime and i have seen our country face financial ruin in the depression. i've also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself up from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world. to me, our country is a living, breathing present

everett coop, of course, becomes reagan's surgeon general. that really does kind of educate evangelicals about the abortion issue and how this is part of a pattern of moral decay in american society. but as i said, throughout the 70s, until 1979, it's not an evangelical issue. please. >> i'm curious on the last print of president carter openness about speaking about his faith and being very comfortable, another side of the president, bill clinton spoke about his faith freely and comfortably. our current president and there was an article in the "new york times" about a month ago that he kind of showcases he feels uncomfortable speaking about faith, the conversation of faith in america. he doesn't go to service publicly. he doesn't reference the literature or bible verses comfortably. do you think that's a legacy that carter was able to open and sustained or that door has kind of closed? >> what a wonderful question. actually, i address this issue, and i'm not trying to push another book, but i address this in "god and the white house." what i

you referred to ronald reagan being the only modern president in top ten. for somebody like me, eisenhower, lbj, fdr are still modern in my lifetime. i want to start off -- thank you, susan and this book wouldn't be here today without susan's editing. which has been tremendous. let me start with our three historians. would you all start off by telling us a little bit about why you even got into writing history. robert strauss? >> business? >> history. >> writing history. well, i was a journalist. i worked at the "daily news" and channel 3 here among other places. i was always interested in it. my father bought little statues of the presidents when i was a boy. so they were sort of my guys, instead of soldiers. he bought me a book called a "facts about the presidents". which is like money ball for the presidents, it told you when monroe's mother died. so baseball statistics. i was always involved with that. and i'm also a contrarian to write about the worst president was much more fun than figuring out who the best one was. >> that's a good question. i'm sti

ronald reagan was the only one that made it into the top 10. lou cannon, the terrific biographer is the chapter that he did. he had a lot to say about reagan's command of storytelling while he was in office. george h.w. bush in 20th place. it will be interesting to see now that he has passed and records are available. there is a bit of a halo effect when presidents leave office. he is also book ended by the two adams presidents. bill clinton came in at 15. david marinus'seminal biography, he writes about bill clinton's duality. he could be both good and bad at the same time and it impacted everything that happened throughout his public career. how about george w? just out of the bottom 10, his highest score was pursuing equal justice for all. that is his first entry, so it will be interesting to see how he will do as time progresses. but he has some difficult problems to overcome. hurricane katrina, the economic crisis, and ongoing wars. you'll see what historians say after time goes by. how did our most recent president do? historians rated hi

ronald reagan won the 1980 presidential nomination with george h.w.jimmy carter in the gal

i think president reagan gives us a great deal of insight. thr from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, the hallmark of american democracy, the single greatest feature that sets us apart from every other country in the world is the peaceful transition of power that occurs every four, or sometimes every eight, years on january 20. it's a legacy we inherited from our forefathers and one that generations of americans have fought throughout our history hard to protect. it's a remarkable moment, the most powerful person in the world bows to the will of the people and sits only a few yards away as the next president takes the oath of office. think about the wars that have been fought throughout history over who the next leader of a country would be. yet in america, dating back to 1787, the peaceful transition of power has defined the american presidency. but a growing body of evidence suggests that the january 20, 2017, inauguration of president donald trump was an exception to that hallowed tradition. since the f.b.i. launched its russia probe in july 2016, there's been no shortag

if it is can you talk about it does that originate with margaret thatcher and ronald reagan, with the idea that the government is not the solution to your problem but it is your problem. is that where we are today with the legacy of that dominant ideology? >> with the rise of socialism is very popular. i try in my book to ensure the popular dynamism so i want to stress the fact these ideologies of property and basically anything that is acceptable and with those attitudes if they were owners to slaves or they were opposition to slaves and then in a different context was slaves and then talk about private property from those natural resources and the property of public knowledge but our farms and i agree it is a little bit complicated maybe i will end up using but it is a very different meaning in different countries and those that are aware and that some people but in any case that is one of the tax reform of 1986 when the us was a huge decline. and that has been on - - not has been reversed and this is from the creation and that income tax was created and the estate tax. and inequali

ronald reagan was struck by lightning a few years back. but he has successfully been cleaned up since. probably the most difficult of all of the presidents to identify, is back here behind president reagan. no one has ever gotten this right. i had to really study him hard to figure out who was. that is warren hearting. behind him is john adams who is tough to see because of all of the overgrowth. the neatest fact that i have come across through a lot of my research is ronald reagan, when he was asked what his proudest accomplishment was in life, it had nothing to do with his presidency, nor his acting career. his proudest accomplish it was he claims to have saved 70 70 lives when he was a young man as a yet lifeguard. i thought that was very interesting. the question always comes up, will obama ever be here, or was he ever hear. the answer is, the goal for the original park is that every time a president was to come into office that a two foot tall prototype was going to be made as a sample, approved upon and then brought full scale. so wh

reagan floated above it.he didn't read -- you can't read all of the press or listen to cable news and every bad thing and respond to it because you start getting hatred in you and starting going after reporters by name and trying to dehumanize them. i'm afraid nixon and trump both do that, which puts them on a bottom ranking on how they are with press relations. theodore roosevelt would just invite you into the room. t.r.'s trick was to tell every reporter how great their recent article was. the best article i've ever read, you know, that was brilliant, and they all kind of floated up with him. then he'd invite cartoonists to the white house and get them all going to write a negative cartoon about his -- his opponents or the firesides chats of fdr. he would call reporters in and spin the globe around. it's better to interact and have respect for the first amendment and our great press, but trump and nixon aren't alone in hating, you know, certain journalists. it's just the way that both of them responded to i

ronald reagan won the 1980 republican presidential nomination with george h.w.ates. >>> ladies and gentlemen, ronald

because it could then do lobbying that reagan could not do under the government program. these cases seem to suggest to me, that at least in the first amendment context, let's put aside any other context, in the first amendment context we are less concerned with corporate formalities then we are with toutation or perception, and the extent that these corporations are closely affiliated -- i know you said before you don't think there is enough in the record and we can deal with that separately -- presuming the public does ,erceive these entities as one why wouldn't the first amendment applied to the inability of the domestic corporations to receive funds and partner with a closely iniliated foreign entity implementing the program? mr. michel: a couple of points. i think hurley and the other cases you cited depend on the predicate of a forced affiliation between the two groups. in hurley it was the parade organizers and the group that wanted to join the parade. ofesponse to the last part your question, nobody is forcing the domestic entity to affiliate with the foreign enti

reagan was drawing from the old free enterprise playbook. facing what they viewed as a dire threat, opponents of the new deal latched onto free enterprise as the phrase that best expressed opposition. an examination of republican presidential platforms provide s evidence that this was an invention of the long new deal era. the history of republican presidential platforms provides interesting insight into the transformation of this term. as i show in chapter two, when the phrase first appeared on the gop platform, it referred to the attribute of being enterprising which was what free enterprise meant through much of the 19th century. the spirit of enterprise. it was not a noun, it was a thing people possessed. the term "in the process of transforming" went unmentioned. this was in the 1932 platform of the presidential republicans. by 1936, however, after it had become familiar to millions of americans as the opposite of the new deal, it emerged front and center, appearing five times in that platform. two economic systems contending for the vo

this is really created through language there the very end you mentioned ronald reagan a word you did not use in your talk at least if you did it escaped me, is the word neo liberal or neo- liberalism. i wonder if in your view neoliberalism is an dominant political ideology today? if it is when you talk about a little bit and does it really originate in some sense with margaret thatcher, ronald reagan, as reagan said the government is not the solution to your problem, the government is your problem. that sort of where we are today with that legacy and that dominance ideology? >> guest: with dominoes and by which i want to have the ideology of the dependence in the productivity and any liberal i tried to show countries and ideology led to very extreme attitude, owners of slaves in opposition to slave. and you know it's in a different context when you see private productivity and natural resources which we know is wrong with productivity which he often was an investment. the business world which i agree it's you can make your way to discover. we've done things with the country it's very

a guy named lionel saucer who kind of organized soft reagan's media campaign for hispanics. he wrote a book called the america no dream. he was the chairman of the -- four spanish being speaking people. her mere is wrote a fascinating member of his time in the white house called (speaking spanish) in the white house. i spent time in my first remarks how he was a hispanic and it was fascinating that he chose to call his book (speaking spanish). he had interesting ideas of identity politics. if you want to assign something about conservatism among hispanics i might look at some of those memoirs rather than a scholarly taxed. >> i've been influenced a lot by the coalition literature. there is something about the book blue texas. and puerto ricans an african americans in new york city. i've done a handful of essays by george sunshades describing how multi racial politics worked in los angeles. these works were influential to me for two reasons. it introduces a world of urban multi-racial organizing post war american that is fascinating in its own right. particularly so because t

similarly, reagan's inaccessibility with his alcoholic father. each of us is complex in his own way. i have not really answered your question about whether you need to be a good person to be a good president. my instinct is no. i guess i would like to know -- brian: the other presidents that michael gerhardt writes about, martin van buren, millard fillmore, franklin pierce, chester arthur, grover cleveland, jimmy carter, benjamin harrison, how about this whole business of being tremendously good and decent? >> we had this -- if you studied history, you probably in high school went from jackson to lincoln, right? there are other guys in between, several of whom he mentioned. there is a fallow period of the presidency -- i do not know that historians would always say that, but it is pretty much that congress ruled. we had great congressman. even if you did not agree with jefferson davis or john calhoun's politics, they were prominent men. of course, henry clay and daniel webster. so, i wonder if they were sort of fellows well met. and not made for

the same thing happened under reagan and now trump is bailing out every corporation. he was already bailing out the farmers and doing things with corporate welfare. they are the socialism party but the democrats won't see it. host: let's talk to raul calling from texas on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. all this free money really does not help people. the lawmakers should be back at their seats. that is what they get paid for. comfortably in their houses getting paid while the government cannot solve everything. you have your states that should be helping the people of their states. they were not savvy in managing their money in the government should not bail them out. you just make wrong decisions. money does not solve everything. chairman ofs the the house rules committee responding to criticism of the bill that went through the house yesterday. [video clip] >> i was proud of the way we came together on prior bills, but i worry something is changing on the other side. it is deeply concerning to see the president throw up his hands and essent

that's the trajectory that reagan spells out in this sermon. what interested me about this and, of course, the history of that sermon is pretty mysterious and odd. by unfolding the particular dynamics of that history, of that one particular sermon that become so important to reagan, i could get at this larger way in which american exceptionalism creates the foundations that it needs to tell a tell a particuy of america. here is the cover page of john winthrop's 1637, a model of christian charity. this is at the new york historical society. they have this and this is the cover page. first and foremost it's not in winthrop's handwriting. the second thing to note about it is it's also not in handwriting of the sermon itself which is also not in winthrop's handwriting. there's one copy of the sermon that remains. it's written in a hand that isn't winthrop's and discusses additional cover page in a different hand. we have no idea when this cover page was added to the sermon itself. the other thing you can see about this cover page is kind of a mess.

the next is bill clinton and ronald reagan. from the moment he set out to run for president all the way through his eight years in the white house and until he died in 1969 eisenhower was consistently underrated as president. that's the presidential puzzle. senator robert taft scoffed at eisenhower's, get this, inexperience. taft said you would never hire such a green horn who didn't have experience to be president. governor stevenson from illinois mocked eisenhower as a light weight. he said he was a tool of the right wing cooperate figures. president harry truman campaigning for stevenson in 1952 said the voters should send ike back to the army where he belongs. basically he was a general and he should stay there. a book in 1958 that came out while ike was in office was given the label -- it was titled "a captive hero." eisenhower in that view had been captured and he was sort of a ventriloquist dummy mouthing words of other people. that was the view of eisenhower who were commenting on him while he was president. scholars ag

kennedy and ronald reagan and even though domestically ronald reagan and kennedy are opposite poles, they recognized the international danger and saving the country which all the other issues wouldn't matter. >> do you have an ideology, not a political party? >> i suppose. i'm a great believer in maximum freedom. >> libertarian? >> not in a sense which the american civil liberties union is. i don't believe that they should be kept in school because of strange reading in the constitution. people have to recognize that all people, all their lives surrounding society and they cannot simply demolish it because it's unjust. what you're going to do to make it better would have to be within that context so that my tendency is to want more freedom for the individual and less -- i don't want people making decisions who don't pay the price of their decisions and that's what politics is all about, you don't pay the price of the decision. one of the reasons we had a jim crow era in the country was because the politicians didn't pay the price of that. that was enormously costly, but the politicia

and of the modern people in different respects fdr, jfk and ronald reagan and reagan and fdr they recognize international danger and all the other issues wouldn't matter. >> it isn't a political party. >> i suppose i'm a great believer of freedom. >> a libertarian? >> not in the sense of the american civil liberties union is i believe they should be kept in school because a strange reading of the constitution people have to recognize that all people all over their lives in society cannot simply demolish it because it's on just and what you're going to do to make it better is in that context. so the tendency is to want more for individuals. i don't want people making decisions who don't pay the price to their decisions and that is what politics is about. you don't pay the price. early in the book one of the reasons in this country was politicians didn't pay the price that was enormously costly but those that put it in paid no cost they drew full salaries their respective i want someone who discriminates that has to lose money discriminating people tend to back off when they lose money. harle

this extraordinary deal between the united kingdom and saudi arabia in which ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment. stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared saudi would threaten israel so ronald reagan handed the deal with are effectively to his political soulmate margaret sacha un soon nothing yet. very effective. when we stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years. has been at the heart of many of the great people to vent. i was always fish to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me extraordinary. she informed us she considers. friends and would be willing to support the king their mother whatever the kingdom and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mrs thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 worth of weapons that was $6000000000.00. homes in commission. the fos majority of most people understand is

quickly on the modern president, ronald reagan is the only one of the top ten. george h. w. bush, he is in the 20th spot. i think it will be fascinating at the end of the trump presidency, because we just went through three days of national scene setting of his presidency. the we witnessed an awful lot of themes being presented during the three days of the bush funeral. so we will wait to see what happens next time. how he fares. so george w. bush isn't 33rd. spot we already mentioned bill clinton. so george bush he has some difficult things, and it will be difficult over the course of time to see what happens with this rating. and barack obama, in his debut he is in 12th position. a good start to his assessment. the idea with this is to get you interested, and to showcase the work of these wonderful historians. we have a rich website attached to this book for yours to peruse at your will every one of the interviews from which this is drawing is listed there. you can watch the video from it and all the chapter references. if there is a reference to sectionalism or to a certa

, the idea that as reagan said the government is not the solution to your problem, the government is your problem. is that sort of where we are today the fact the legacy and that dominance ideology? : : to be acceptable. in the management function is ideal and led to very extreme composition to the owners of slaves often in position to slave because people Ãbwe see it taking the form of national resources which we know from standings of armor of product of public knowledge. like public investment. it's not the choice that's why in my book i describe the popular idea which i agree is a bit complicated and may be a way to Ãb >> may be at the end we can see the big risk that as we know very different meaning in different countries and to refer to the people who are quite different from people managed to complete that with some people get Ãb these forms are very in many case i fully agree with you in one of the different industries. it was basically a huge decline in tax prep acidity. something that is never been completely the democrats until now. to reconsider this is what in a way was