and the way reagan has been mythologized, the way we think about reagan today, reagan the icon, reagan the symbol. marcus and i were at a philadelphia society meeting once, we were at a reception, and don divine, who was head of the civil service in the reagan administration made some comment about the reagan administration to marcus, and marcus came back and said actually reagan did not cut domestic spending and they kind of got into this argument about how much reagan actually cut, and it was a funny moment for those of you who have seen don divine on television, he's a very animated person, and a very adamant person. and marcus is as well. so it was a pretty robust argument and an exciting one to be standing next to. reagan's image was to a great degree self-made. he was very aware of his legacy and sought to frame narratives about his presidency. during his presidency the cold war united conservatives in a sort of fusionist way. some of you may have recalled the fusionist project as it was articulated by frank meyer. well, that united people as disparate as libertarians and neocons

reagan had different style. reagan had -- there's no comparison. except that both were outsiders and both were threats to the political system. but that's the only thing i would say to compare the two men. >> but when people inside the republican party -- >> right. >> -- say, oh, no, trump is the inheriter -- >> that's not true. >> no is the answer again? >> no, no. trump is not the inheriter. to the extent that any republican is the inheriter of the previous republican's base of support inside the party. he's the inheriter. but he's the inheriter of the bushes too. of h.w. and w. as far as the coalition they put together to win the nominations. >> i don't think that trump would say that he was comfortable being described as an inheriter of george w. >> there's a lot of things trump's not comfortable with. [ laughter ] but it's obvious. there's a certain type of republican primary voter. the issues may change. they may change somewhat their philosophy. but certainly the republican primary voter who voted for richard nixon in the republican primarie

, reagan flame, reagan legacy, in america today. frank worked on the '76 reagan campaign. he worked on the '80 campaign. he worked in the reagan white house. he worked on the '84 campaign. and he, also, has been longtime chairman of the reagan ranch, which is one of the three major vantage points, touchstones, in american politics today. if you know anything about ronald reagan, there is a library in simi valley, there is a ranch, and we learned about eureka college last week in illinois. so, frank, thank you for being here. let me get right into it. and then, the students, of course, are going to ask questions. you organized the very first conservative political action conference in 1973. >> '74. >> '74. and reagan spoke. >> right. >> was -- was -- was the keynote speaker was the star attraction. >> right. well, first of all, thanks very much for having me and it's great to be here with all of your students. you know, the -- there -- the -- the great baseball player used to play for the new york yankees. yogi berra had a tendency t

legacy, reagan flame, and reagan legacy in america today. so frank worked on the 76 reagan campaign, he worked in the reagan white house, he worked on the 84 campaign. and he is the longtime chairman of the reagan ranch. which is one of the three major vantage points, or touchstones in american politics today. if you want to visit the reagan library in simi valley, there's the ranch in santa barbara and frank thank you for being here. and then the students will ask some questions after. so you organized the very first conservative political action conference in 1973? >> 74 right? >> yes, and reagan spoke so he was the keynote speaker was the star traction. >> first of all, thank you for having me, it's great to be here with all of your students and the great baseball player, who used to play for the new york lanky's, yoga bera, he had a tendency to mangle his syntax, and he was once asked if he had read a new biography about himself, and he replied why should i? i was there. so we're going to be talking about things tonight, we are really i

i think also, look at reagan's speeches, look at reagan's commentaries, reagan's q&a.didn't come to washington to declare war on the media. he had attacked the bureaucracy, that's for sure. he realized he needed democrats to get his plan through. he needed them to be open to the idea -- i tease you about "the washington post." but "the washington post" editorial was often very supportive, they said after he got the nomination, they said, reagan has brought a new intellectual revolution to american politics and that's something to be thankful for. and reagan put that into practice. i think it was personal, i think it was philosophical. the parties have changed. we're at the end of jimmy carter and jimmy carter i will defend. i will always say who was a good man. he came to washington with the best of intentions. but jimmy carter failed as president because he didn't ultimately understand washington. but we had the recession. and so democrats knew they needed to do something. and so they were willing to take a chance on reaganomics, on kemp roth. >> but get back to trump

he's right here and he sees reagan right about there. >> so where is reagan?reagan is right about where you're standing right there. >> so this far away? >> that's about 15 feet. about -- they say 15 feet. they measured it and reagan was 15 feet from hinckley when the shots were fired. but if you go to a basketball court, any basketball court in the country and you get on the free-throw line and you look at it, you're -- you know, it's just the distance of a free throw. that's how close he was. that's 15 feet. i also got -- the secret service did -- there are a lot of great reports they did on this. they interviewed all the agents who were there and they had a lot of witnesses. and i foia'd those and got those. so i was able to know what everyone said they did. and that usually kind of matched up with what the video and the picture showed. and that was helpful. it was also helpful to get in their heads of what was happening. i interviewed them all too. and i also got the -- some fbi reports, for example, there's a great fbi report. no one has seen reagan's fbi

reagan >> reagan is about where you are standing. >> about 15 feet. they have measured. it reagan was 15 feet from him when he was fired. when you go to a basketball court in the country, you're at the free throw line, you look at, it it's like the free throw, that's how close he was, the secret service did, there are a lot of great reported on. this they interviewed a lot of agents. they're the photos. i was able to get what they said they did, that matched up with what's the video and picture showed. that was helpful. it was also to helpful to get into their heads, to see what's happening. i've got to interview them. i got fbi reports. there is a great fbi report. -- that was sealed. i got it unsealed through my foyer process. reagan was coming out. he said he was coming out here. he said he saw the reporters but he was not quick to talk to the press. you can infer from that the reason you don't want to talk to the press, he kind of made some stumbles, they want to keep him more on message in that period, before so he was not going to answer any impromptu questions, it

i mean the written by hand and the reagan library the reagan foundation. let me read these notes but 1991 the 10th anniversary the shooting, you know, reagan came here. for an anniversary event and to to support the brady bill for gun control. was a big deal for reagan to do that and they named the they named the emergency room the ronald reagan institute of emergency medicine. in the 70s the secret service is realizing that the world there are a lot of political assassinations, you know, we lost bobby kennedy in 68 martin luther king kennedy and 63 not a lot changed in their training culture and the 70s a bunch of agents out in la started training better like how to react when they're shot. you know, how to how to react in a split second and they adopt this kind of training to improve how quickly they react so the secret service agents like jerry part tim mccarthy react almost instantaneously the gunfire, but if you look at what happened to kennedy and george wallace in 72, they were debacles. i mean, you know ray kennedy shot in the neck and the driver j

that ronald reagan should run for president in 1976. and people liked ronald reagan.hey gravitated toward him. they knew who he was. because he was a national figure. he had been pretty popular as california's governor. they ran a good campaign. pundits did not think it was possible that he would stand a chance. they were right. he did not win. but his insurgency against the ford campaign is probably what contributed to gerald ford not winning for the republicans and probably attributed to jimmy carter winning for the democrats in 1976. paul laxalt served as the chairman of that campaign. they kind of realized that they had set the foundation for the upcoming election in 1980. they had established something. they had thrust ronald reagan into the spotlight. which consequently through paul -- threw paul laxalt into the national spotlight as well. they doubled down. in 1978, they started planning for their next campaign. i would say paul laxalt is really a giant of politics for nevada. he is kind of a powerhouse of nevada politics. paul laxalt had made the decision that

white house, nancy reagan, ronald reagan. what goes on behind the scenes, the press secretary. 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. >> we didn't even have cellphones. >> she's absolutely right. we did not have cellphones. we carry pagers and they went off 24/7. but we pretty much knew when we left the white house at the end of the day that you probably weren't going to hear back from someone into the next morning, unless there was an emergency of course. it was a pager, yeah, that pager was nasty. i was so happy to get rid of that pager. >> it must of way ten pounds! >> the radios that we use, we literally called them bricks. they were that heavy. it was the only way we could communicate with each other. it was a different time back then and i suppose we had fake news. we didn't have fake love, certainly in our white house. and, so i think all of you

>> well i guess a lot of people know why now, that reagan you know ronald reagan and nancy reagan, were a world under themselves. they loved each other so deeply, and cared about almost everything else was dwarfed in regards to how much they care about each other. and he wanted her not to worry. she was the warrior in that relationship. and it played out in many ways all through both terms. she was all trying to take care of him. so i can only imagine the shock and fear and anxiety that was in her and of course you would know about that. so to be able to come up with that as you're laying dying a trauma bed, you know it's really unbelievable. it's a testament to the love first of all, but in the second place, he is a very tough guy. a lot of his detractors, tried to paint him as just a hollywood type. and not very deep. he was extraordinary and and he was extremely thoughtful, handsome he had pride, and there were priorities etched in his heart. first of course was nancy, then it was the country. he loved america so much. and i believe the reason he wanted to walk is because he was a co

where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul laxalt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they worked together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and and that kind of created a friendship that lasted basically for the rest of their lives the rest of their careers. in 1976 the the presidential election was coming up. so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good idea. for ronald reagan, maybe to throw his hat in the ring and run for president. to run the primaries he

reagan that he hoped. it was okay with her, but there was another woman in his life and he would always talk about lady liberty as being the other woman in his life, which i thought was a special sweet and he would describe lady liberty as being this beautiful feminine lady. who was the beacon of freedom for the world. here's a man of incredible patriotism. he also was a man of extreme gratitude think of all, the things people did for the president all the time. he was aware. he was appreciative here. he is getting the presidential medal of freedom in the white house from his successor george bush who was president at the time. we went to the white house. he presented him with the medal of freedom. here's a man who's won every award got in every trophy every certificate, right? so on the home, what is he do? it takes off his jacket. it's a long six hour flight home. he left his medal on. he wore that metal all the way home. it meant something to him. it was very special what it represented and the people i

ronald reagan's way. and it's certainly not the type of leadership that you see on tv or in the movies, but i can tell you that this man had a spine of steel, he went toe to toe with the communists, and they would lockdown the soviet union a lot of ways, but he also had beautiful humanity behind him. so as you're thinking about your own leadership, moving forward realize that you can be tough, you can accomplish everything you want to, you can be hardworking and driven, but you can also incorporate these beautiful elements which ronald reagan embodied. so one of the things that i took away from my entire experience with him, is that your legacy is not something that is really written after you're gone. but it's something that you write with every single day of your life. so i challenge you to lead and live as if your legacy depends on it. because it does. every single day, you're writing your legacy. ronald reagan's legacy was not written after he left us, that he had already written his legacy every day

kennedy ronald reagan model. and is the model of getting the government restrained and modest in its two areas of economic policy, fiscal and monetary policy. both kennedy and reagan identified substitute can occur rutte getting the dollar strong and stable as the specific policy i would let the private sector, which is to say the real economy thrive. we need that. we need at. most of us are well aware that reagan was attacks governor, and he's the guy had to deal with her horrible stop for asian, we growth and high inflation of the 17 is an eighties, which came to end in the first years of his presidency. some of us are even aware that bill clinton used some of that model to foster prosperity in the decade after ronald reagan, with the republican congress. clinton cut capital gains tax rates and by the way was a component of free trade, which we think is part of the mix. however, what is generally not known or at least not remember it is about the subject of this book is about, that president kind of kennedy in

it was only two months after president ronald reagan's inauguration.arch , 1981 started off as an ordinary monday for the newly-elected republican president. >> welcome the 40th president of the united states, ronald wilson reagan. mr. president? >> reporter: reagan giving a speech before the afl-cio at the washington hilton. at 2:27, a small group of press and onlookers were gathered outside the hotel. six shots in less than two seconds. >> back up! back up! get him out! >> reporter: and in the chaos, three men down. the gunman, john hinckley jr. subdued by secret service agents. president reagan hustled back to the limo. >> back to the white house, back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> reporter: agents believing at the time that rawhide, a code name for the president, was uninjured. 46 seconds later, reagan coughing up a lot of blood in the back seat, so the limo switches course to the hospital. >> we are going toeo a bullet lodged an inch from his heart, in shock, with no discernible blood pressure, president reagan facing the moment with gra

that was reagan's logic. and the cost of the soviets recognize in the mid 1980s that they could not keep up and they decided to reform and surrender ultimately, there has built up a large narrative that it's all because the best analogy to understand this is reagan in this context is though the person who called for the sunrise, and might, rose to credit. or was given credit because reagan said, we will build up and they will collapse, they built up and weak lapsed. but what we now know, from the documents from behind the iron curtain, one of the things that we've been amazingly fun about this project has been to see all the reveal documents from all the major capitals of the world, our project was based on finding american documents, we have one point had more documents under review for this project than all the other presidential libraries combined with, which is a fact that action was told to be about archivist, one of the facts that i think should be true but you want to believe, it so you say without ver

phil hartman as ronald reagan, he plays ronald reagan as this befuddled guy, not knowing what is goinghe second the public leaves, he becomes this hardcharging business leader doing complex math and converting currencies and speaking foreign languages and telling everyone -- being barred and in charge. i thought that was a great depiction of reagan. sometimes, snl does not know what to do with candidates, for example, with obama, they did not want to make fun of him too much, so they got a guiding philosophy for how to mock him. we saw a recent piece in the washington post about how jim carrey's joe biden impersonation does not really sell as funny because he cannot figure out what to make fun of joe biden and he plays joe biden as this could decent -- clint eastwood-like cowboy. if it is not true to the person, that is not going to work. i will say, perhaps the best impersonation on a technical level was dana harvey of george h w bush. when george h to be a bush lost his reelection, as a gift to the staff, invites harvey to come to the party and to his impersonation, a nice farewell f

most famously, ronald reagan. i think one of the reasons that he was called the teflon man i, critics and criticism wouldn't stick to him is because the american people felt that they knew him from his decades on tv and his decades on movies. and all of the accusations that people would make against him. it didn't seem that the person from bond so, the lead the weekly shows that he hosted. having the popular culture behind you is a good way to introduce yourself to american people and make you like them. >> how is your story affected by innovations and technology? such as radio on television. how have they affected the presidents relationship with the popular culture. >> that is at the heart of the story. i have a copy of the book here. the title is very deliberate. it's what jefferson read. reading is a passive operation in the technology. you're opening a, book flipping through the pages, but you don't mentally interact with the book. the book is what it is. whether i read it or you read it doesn't change. on tv

so it's not like james baker in the reagan administration was telling reagan what movies to watch but but he had other friends who did and mike dever for example was closer to him and more app to give him those kind of suggestions. obviously, i mentioned carl rove and george w bush. they were always often keep it seeing about books and sometimes you have someone who's not necessarily high up on the orc chart but has a personal connection to the president. i remember george w bush had this co3 of aids who may not have been the most senior aids, but they would go bike riding with him and that was a way that he would find out from younger aids about what was going on in the popular culture and it's important to remember that the president's in a bit of a bubble, right? you don't really meet. your old friends and any new anyone knew you meet knows you as president. see there's always kind of a question of trust. so you would have in the obama administration obama would late at night. go tooling around on his ipad, which is then a new technology to kind of see what people were saying on th

the home of the reagan foundation and the nation's capital were coming to you live across the street with the white house and the auditorium i hope everyone enjoyed st. patrick's day and i hope you fully recover, 40th president love st. patrick's day it today to celebrate the irish roots and have some fun. of course the love of the irish is on display the reagan library as seaman valley and it's true that the pub was founded in ireland president reagan's homeland and remove piece-by-piece the california, a last issue we cannot host our guest today at the pub in the reagan library due to the pandemic but were bullish will be able to do so at the defense form this december. that's not why were here today were not talking yes irish relations or the reagan pub but we are talking defense policy and were very excited to welcome representative mike rogers in alabama he served in the congress since 2003 he takes keen interest in military issues and for good reason his district is home to the army depot and many of you may not know that runs along the border with georgia congressman rogers is

reagan was interesting too. reagan was closest to the libertarian and core aspects of the conservative movement but he reached out to evangelicals and others. he famously was an innocent neocon on his own. he had been on the left-wing of the democratic hardy in the 1940s and for various reasons of experiences and so forth in hollywood and he had the politicians sent that he could cultivate all of the branches of the coalition so all could see him as giving them a seat at the table very at i don't know that there is an ecumenical figure right now comparable to buckley and reagan but they managed to i thank be very effective diplomats. obviously the burke society and others and anti-semites in the light read i would agree with you that it wasn't peace love and harmony until 2016. there was that ecumenical sentiment and one reason that coalition was the cold war because that introduce an element of sobriety to the conservatives. they couldn't go off in all directions and fight their little agendas. that's the cemen

i'd rather zach and i'm director of the reagan institute, home of the reagan foundation . we're coming to you live across the street from the white house and the sudden family auditorium. i hopeeveryone is enjoying st. patrick's day and i hope you fully recover . our former president loved st. patrick's day, a day to celebrate his irish roots and have fun . of course, the love of the irish is on display at the reagan library in simi valley with the reagan, and it's true that the club was originally founded in ireland. president reagan's homeland and moved to california. alas, this year we cannot host our guest today at the pub in the reagan library due to the pandemic. but we're confident we will be able to do so at the reagan nationalevent forum this december. that's not why we're here today , talking us irish relations for the reagan, but we are talking defense policy and we are very excited to welcome representative mike rogers of alabama. congressman rogers has served in the congress since 2003. he takes a keen interest in military issues. and it's his own to anniston

ronald reagan and the illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. and japanese fishing boat that. was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini. the 2 were buried next to each other in the cemetery. but said again that we would. see. him and i came here i mean and. truly without him in. most of. the stuff he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. however he wasn't a

when carter said this thing about reagan because reagan was somebody who himself personally was one of those charming people that especially after he got shot using his sense of humor, that kind of thing that worked on tv whether you like his policies or not, he was popular at different times. but he did do something all kinds of politicians do which i thought puts the needle on when she made her comment and i want you to tell that story . >> i was doing i think one of the first interviews afterhe left the white house . and mike wallace was the correspondent and mike was friendly with the reagan's. and i knew this was not going to go very well. before we were doing the interview and i'm trying to prod him, to prod mike to ask the president about reagan. and i said you asked him about human rights under ronald reagan and mike said to me on not going to ask him about human rights under ronald reagan and i said will you ask him about human rights and i he said number i said mister president, will you tell him to ask you this and this is also a little bit about what reducing is right. a

developed president reagan's mission of making the reagan library dynamic intellectual form, our center public affairs programming offers lectures and forms presenting effective public policy issues of the day per each year we bring you 20 -- 30 events from politicians, authors, members of the media, visiting military leaders and more. sit march 2020 close it meant businesses our great country reagan foundation is now putting its events online to ensure were still delivering world-class content. even if you conduct get to our watch it in person. the public affairs virtual event we invite you to join us for conversation with congresswoman nancy mace. congress went nancy mace izzard ackley two of the most fiscally conservative members of the general assembly. she's also one of the most pro- conservation lawmakers in her state with one 100% rating with conservation voters of cathcart south carolina. the military college of south carolina sheet the first female to grass as a core cadet 1999. she later earned her mass communications from the university of georgia. she is also the author in t

i am director of the reagan institute, the home of the ronald reagan presidential institute. this is the 40th anniversary of president reagan's inaugural year and we are marking key moments from 1981 during our year-long 40 at 40 celebration. next week, we will mark president reagan's first foreign trip on march 10, 1981. he traveled north of the border to meet with prime minister trudeau of canada. last week, president biden held his first bilateral meeting with prime minister trudeau. which brings us to our conversation today. more broadly, america's role in the world, from foreign policy to national defense. we have three distinguished leaders, highly regarded public servants to break down the national security threat confronting a new administration. all three are fixtures at our reagan national defense forum. our plan is for the reagan national defense forum to be back in the reagan library in simi valley, california by the end of the year. in recognition of his distinguished career as secretary of defense, cia director, and a distinguished career in congress. one of his

people watching at the great reagan library love history. is there another period of history that you are interested in? i know this is a big project. >> i'm becoming more interested in the korean war. i'm just sort of beginning to learn a little bit more about that. it is a time that intrigues me as well and we are getting to the point we need to understand more about their sacrifice. it impacted myself living in this area and i think that's another time period one of my motivators was my kids and wanting them to document the story. that's one of the reasons i pull out some of the letters because i wanted to hear these amazing letters but 9/11 had an impact and i feel like it's getting far enough away that we need to be reminded of the sacrifice those people made with no intentions other than just going to work in the morning that day. >> you named your son harry. >> i did. >> i always loved the name. i wanted the name to carry on and i know it made my mother very happy and his sister who is still alive. it's nice to have that continue on a

. >> hello everyone i'm the director of the reagan institute, the home of the ronald reagan presidential foundation. and this is the 40th anniversary of president reagan's inaugural year. we're marking key moments from 1981, during our yearlong celebration. next we will mark president reagan's first foreign trip on march 10th, he married north of the border to meet with president trudeau. and last week president biden held his meeting with, you got it prime minister trudeau of canada. which brings us to our topic of conversation today. not the trudeau's no, but broadly america's role in the world. from foreign policy to national defense. to do that we have three distinguished leaders. highly regarded public servants, to break down the national security threats confronting the new administration. all three are fixtures at our annual reagan forum. by the way our plan is for the national reagan defense form, to be back in california this december. ten and a was a recipient at the 2014 defense form. in recognition of his distinguished career, secretary of defense, the eye director, the presi

ronald reagan and their illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s.detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. a japanese fishing boat. was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was it radiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini atoll. the 2 are buried next to each other in the cemetery. but as i said again. we will. see. what i mean and i really. don't need. to need any kind of letter with. only the right to do so as most of. the stuff he took his own life out at se

essentially, reagan had to deal with republican lawmakers all the time for his budget, for any action. this environmental agency was in charge of. he went out and he met with them, had phone calls with them, kept an open door. was very, very accessible. he also was very accessible to industry groups, agricultural groups, kind of the whole spectrum of people who were interested in environmental regulation and enforcement. and that got him a lot of friends. i talked to a number of republicans and business groups in north carolina, they had nothing but great things to say about him and they recognized that they were going to disagree with him on big things. maybe how aggressive he moved on climate. he is probably going to end up moving very aggressively on climate at epa, but he was willing to listen to the other side and i think that helped him a lot to win friends and also tamp down criticism if he did go very tough on a certain environmental issue. host: kevin is with the environment and energy if you want to check them out and talk to them. phone lines are open to do so. good morning

reagan met him halfway. reagan encouraged him.he use of the press. it is indeed the freedom to publish things and print things. it isn't what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> american history on c-span3 at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history are also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to pod casts.

i think my famous is of phil hartman as ronald reagan and he plays ronald reagan as is completely befuddled guy meeting with girl scouts and not knowing what's going on and then the second the public leaves he becomes this hard charging business leader doing complex math in his head and converting currencies and speaking foreign languages and telling everybody to do and being kind of large and in charge and i thought that was a great depiction of reagan. i think sometimes snl doesn't really know what to do with the candidates like for example with obama. i think, you know, they just didn't want to make fun of him too much so they never really got a kind of guiding philosophy for how to mock him and i think we saw that there was a recent piece in the washington post about how jim carrey's biden impersonation doesn't really sell it and isn't really funny because he can't really figure out what to make fun of invited and he kind of plays biden as this clinic east would ask cowboy which i mean, that's not the biden that i was seeing on the campaign trail. so if it's not true to the person then

all three are fixtures annual reagan national defense for a period by the way our plan is the reagan national defense for him to be at the library in simi valley this december . secretary panetta was atps the 2014 defense form, in recognition of his distinguished career as director, president clinton's chief of staff" in the director and his distinguished career in the congress. his successors mark asper is also with us. most after including his service as defense secretary. his most important distinction here at the rating institute is his perfect attendance record every reagan national defense forum. as of yesterday is john f mccain distinguished fellow at the mckay institute international leadership. rounding out our panel is, one of our colleaguesfrom the previous administration, general hr mcmaster . a story military hero in iraq , he is unparalleled and was now teaching at the institution. all three of these men have warmly uniform of our country and our mental perhaps, all have served with purpose and principle. all possess a key view, although perhaps not unanimous you all th