reagan. what a legacy. she has set an example for all first ladies to follow. i'm excited to be here at the reagan library be here to time commemorating such an important moment for such a wonderful person like nancy running ronald reg would not have been who he was of it weren't for nancy reagan. >> she supported ronald reagan to such a degree it gave him the optimism and confidence to carry out his program make americans proud to be americans. >> it's a real partnership for his career in the service of the nation. it's one from which be grateful just as i am grateful for the privilege and pleasure of having no nancy reagan. >> she is helping south of the president and first lady during the cold war to an end. that was good for everybody. >> she wanted her husband to go down in history as a great president, as a peacemaker. she does understand that with gorbachev, he potentially had a partner who could work with him on this. she is absolutely relentless in pushing for this cabinet. she was a

but to reagan's credit, when reagan met gorbachev, in part because of reagan's emphasis upon personal negotiations, and because of experience talking to so many audiences, he saw someone different in gorbachev. my lecture has been largely critical of reagan so far and there were many shortcomings he had, but there's no doubt reagan had one deep, deep insight, which was that individuals matter and he saw in gorbachev someone who was different. gorbachev wanted to make the a changes. gorbachev was the one willing to take more risks. but reagan was willing to meet him at those risks. and reagan also believed that all the pressure he was putting on the soviet union was designed not just to win but to reform the soviet union. he wanted the other country to improve. he actually wanted them to be better. he wanted to help them just as he was trying to bury them. he wanted to help them just as he was trying bury them and he came to believe, despite most of his advisers who warned him otherwise, that he could work with gorbachev. from 1985 to 1989, january '89 when reagan left office, he began

. >> reagan and i did talk about it.own where reagan worked, just be careful. apparently, i think everybody was pretty certain that it was one individual that was creating this havoc around town. >> now, in his fog of grief, reagan's father didn't make any connections between the attacks and his daughter's death. but one of the victims did. >> as soon as they announced that reagan tokes was missing and they found her body, you know, my friend called me and said, this is too coincidental, it's all within a 3-mile radius, i guarantee you that that individual that had murdered reagan tokes is somehow connected to your case. >> were they connected? the attacks happened miles away from where reagan's body was found, in a different police district, so maybe not. lieutenant davidson had been on reagan's case nonstop for more than 30 hours when he thought about getting some rest. he'd barely been home when his phone rang at 10:30. one of his detectives was on the line. >> he had received a phone call from the dna lab, and we had

if people who believe that say that they are like ronald reagan, then they imagine a ronald reagan whoas. and the final thing i might add is difference between reagan and those who are today his processed heirs is that ronald reagan had an immense and very effective sense of humor, which he used as a very effective tool against the opposition. today's issues are grim and serious and dreadful, they weren't so cheery back in the 1970s, either, but reagan was able to use humor in a way that today is somehow dismissed adds trivializing serious things. >> if i could just follow up on that last point. one of the striking things to me about reagan, and, jonathan, you can comment on this, too, is the fact that he gives conservatism a friendly approachable face. if you read reagan's message in the '60s it deviates hardly at all from barry goldwater's, but barry goldwater didn't have an observable sense of humor like that, didn't draw people in. and it strikes me that i don't know if it's a default setting for conservatives and it is neighbor just in the nature of conservatism in the united stat

this reagan took that away. it is reagan the anomaly among conservatives? is barry goldwater more like the conservative mind and maybe we're returning to that where, as jonathan suggested, there was blood on the floor at the convention of 64 among the republicans. it was, are we going to be conservative enough? so is it too much to ask the republicans, or conservatives, to come up with another reagan? is the reagan personality type just really rare? you can see hubert humphrey, he does find among liberals, but reagan is almost a v hubert humphrey of conservatives. what do you think? and jonathan you can try that one out to. >> i think the question is -- is a really interesting. one in many ways it is why haven't we seen conservatives, over the last 50 years, in spite of the fact that republicans had this long streak of winning the presidency, why have republicans not really been able to put forward whatever one thinks of the positive governing agenda under a conservative vision? the republicans are good at winning elections and a year where there is a stron

reagan believed reagan himself and that background. politics, reagan just pushed it aside. he wanted to do the right thing. that's extraordinary leadership position. >> i remember 82, so much pressure to exceed in this tax increase and thank god he didn't cancel. i think one of the things congress wanted to do was cancel, right? that would have been a disaster. we would not have gotten the full thrust of the tax debate. it took a lot of courage for reagan -- as i did pass a tax increase but thankfully much smaller and rate cuts. >> in the indexing and what they did and 86 was an incredible accomplishment. reagan comes in with 50% to get it down to 28%, he always thought about 15 and 28, how great would it be if we could go back? >> are stuck in the middle and he said i thought he was going to walk naked he was so excited because he said i did this column for newsweek and i think the early 70s to start an argument and reagan's right were three points higher than what i was trying to start and larry emphasized what you said, and started

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

on this, even ronald reagan and bill clinton agreed remember reagan said in the inauguration it isn't the solution, it is the problem. fifteen years later bill clinton declared a state of the union unionthe era of big government s over. well it is a major backsliding on that point in the last decade. we need republicans like ronald reagan again and we need more democrats that will recognize what bill clinton recognized rather than advocate for joe biden and the dangerous policies that only make the government bigger and more dominant in every aspect of our lives. we have to show big government not only the republicans can do this. we have to show the big government is the road to less freedom, less liberty and less prosperity. remember everybody, by definition, when government is bigger, you are less free. we don't have to change the policies to win again. the policies for the opportunity to capitalism will attract latino voters and even greater numbers if we cannot go directly to them. and the governorship i won 50% of the latino vote in a blue state in 2013. our support for law and

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

answer ronald reagan.ho, like goldwater, wrote a letter backing the sharp critique of the hearing in california. they'd been in arizona. unlike goldwater, they didn't mix words. by the time he was ready to announce his campaign for governor, he was mourning the republicans about a lunatic fringe, his words. that was gaining influence inside the party. as to whether he would embrace the group's philosophy, as is typical ronald reagan, he had a simple response. quote, it would be my intention, if i seek public office, to seek the support of individuals by persuading them of my philosophy, not of accepting theirs. everyone got the message. they aren't us. reagan would stand up for the truth, not bend to it for political benefit. almost instantly, his words were being echoed over washington. people got it. the house and senate called a press conference that reagan and buckley couldn't have scripted better themselves. they provided leadership through strength. ten years ago in this library, i told you that real

first lady, nancy reagan. i can still remember the incredible thrill i felt on my secretary walked into my governor's office and he said it looks like you have a note for reggie reagan and i said to her, there are machines that make it look like that and then she handed me the note and i realized it was a handwritten note from nancy reagan invited me to speak at the library of her husband, the man was my first vote for president when i was 18 years old november 4 of 1980. i spoke night on how american exceptionalism was and what was not. i don't intend to quote extensively from that speech, there would be cheating. get away what without writing a new won this time but what we need to stand for, what we mean to each other in the rest of the world, is, then first term pelvic and governor where america stood in the charge of where we are today did this and its american exceptionalism. our economy and our people for each other is for american exceptionalism and an example direct the world, it must be demonstrated,

reagan and buckley together staked out a vision for the future of the party that included ronald reagan and set the terms for the political debate in america for the next half century. not bad. that's what a couple leaders with the courage of their convictions can achieve. and in this critical moment for our party, when self-serving deceit is often in greater supply in some corners, then that kind of courage, it's worth a look back to this history to better understand how we can shape tomorrow. so let's go back there for a second. in 1962, the american political landscape was not unlike today's. democrats controlled the white house, the house and the senate. and like today, it was tough being a republican in washington. senator barry goldwater, conservative republican from arizona was thinking about running for president in 1964, but he hadn't made his mind up yet. naturally he went to see the editor of america's conservative magazine. buckley and the "national review" thought a newspaper like that would be crucial at that time. john kennedy's approval ratings had hit a high of 75% that

kennedy-ronald reagan model. if the model of getting the government restrained and mod nest its two areas of economic policy, fiscal monetary policy. both identified substantially cutting income tax rates and getting the dollar strong and stable as the specific policy that would let the private sector, which is to stay real economy, thrive. we need that. we need that. most us are well aware that reagan was a tax cutter. he is the guy who had to dwoo he will the horrible stagflation of the '70s and '80s which came to an end in the first years of his presidency. some of us are aware that bill clinton used some of that model to foster prosperity in the decade after ronald reagan with a republican congress, clinton cut capital gains tax rates and by the way was a proponent of free trade which we think is part of the mix. however, what is generally not known, at least not remembered, is what the subject of this book is about, that president john f. kennedy in the early '60s used and pine eerd the exact same model. ken

here's reagan. back when calvin coolidge had texas across the, board the government's revenues increased. when jack kennedy did it, his economic advisers, they were all telling him that the government would lose revenue and the government gained revenue. that is the reality. so they made quite a sizeable financial error. jack kennedy's line about it was, quote, a rising tide lifts all boats, and quote. this is what we believe the tax proposals that we have made our aimed at. that is reagan in almost the identical words of john f. kennedy. and finally, last quote from reagan, can you cut taxes and fight inflation by so doing this? i believe you can. let me just read you something. our true choices not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large budgets on the other. an economy stifled by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget. just as it will never produce enough jobs or even enough profits and here is reagan quoting, quote, john f. kennedy

at a certain point in the reagan era, the capitalist change.hey started looking more for the profits. what caused that or maybe the real question is why was it constrained before them but not constrained after words? >> you can definitely come up with a very logical, simple, material explanation for that. which is basically, partially because the rest of the world, europe and large parts of asia are britain smoking ruins after world war ii. and that america was able to achieve this remarkable prosperity that was able to be shared because it was so dynamic. another thing is the price of oil between 1945 in 1972 actually declined in real terms. world demand increase, civilization built themselves are on a commodity that not even think of it as a factor. by the middle of the 1970s, largely because the third world decided it would not act like a colony control their commodities for their societies own interests, a lot of that steady profitability for companies that did a great job of spreading prosperity was declining. a lot of it was just basicall

here is another reagan idea. you might recall that reagan's fundamental strategy for winning the cold war was "we win, they lose." this is by the way, the texas senator ted cruz's favorite strategy that he likes to pull out. i like to point out to my students that it is an aspiration, and not strategy. strategy is some form of implementation. so after they lost, what happens next? reagan said that we will consume them to the ash heaps of history. what does the ash heap look like? george bush gets the ashes before they happen. he comes to power in 1989 at a moment when most american security analysts and policy makers had come to the conclusion that ronald reagan had gone too far. looking at the republican presidential primaries in 1988, and it is 1987 to into '88, and to see how far everybody on stage is trying to distance themselves from the reagan legacy, because they felt that reagan had been too trusting. reagan had looked at gorbachev, and looked him in the eye, and thought that he was looking at the reforms

he did not know reagan that well. ronald reagan had come from california. ford on capitol hill did not mix that much with others. he did not know ronald reagan that well. reagan had run in 1968 and had come close and had considered himself next in line, it was his turn and ford was in way. ford had come to this in a way he needed to get out of the way and let reagan run. ford had hoped he could craft away to encourage reagan to not run against him. there in march of 1975 flew out to california met with with small talk in hopes of trying to end the software persuade him not to run. mrs. ford writes letter after they left that dinner they were both convinced ronald reagan was going to run. it was a testy relationship forged in that primary. but it was one there were strong indications ronald reagan might be vice president there's a headline a chicago newspaper touting that very thing. they talked about it and thought better of it. ford was supportive of a reagan during four years. i'm sorry it's eight years in the white house. >> great. couple more questions

here is another reagan idea. you might recall that reagan's fundamental strategy for winning the cold war was "we win, they lose." this is by the way, the texas senator ted cruz's favorite strategy for anything he likes to pull out. i like to point out to my students, that's called an aspiration, not a strategy. strategy requires some form of implementation. and in reagan's case, this is i think a really interesting question to ask ourselves about ronald reagan, after they lost, what happens next? reagan was very good to say we're going to consign the soviets to the ash sheep of history. george bush gets the ashes before they happen. he comes to power in 1989 at a moment when most american security analysts and policy makers had come to the conclusion that ronald reagan had gone too far. in fact, it's quite fascinating to go back and look at the republican presidential primaries in 1988. 87 into 88 and see just however everybody on the stage is trying to distance themselves from reagan's legacy, because they thou

[laughs] here is another reagan idea. you might recall that reagan's fundamental strategy for winning the cold war was we win, they lose. this, by the way, is texas senator ted cruz's strategy for anything, he likes to point out. i like to say that is an aspirational, not a strategy. a strategy requires a form of implementation. in reagan's case, this is an interesting question to ask ourselves. after they lost, what happens next? reagan was very good about saying we consign the soviets to the ash shape of history, but he didn't actually ask with the ash people would look like. george bush gets the ashes. he comes to power in 1989, at a moment when most american security analysts and policy analyst said come to the conclusion that ronald reagan had gone too far. it's quite fascinating to go back and look at the republican presidential primaries in 1988, 87 into 80, eight and see just how far every single person on the stage is trying to distance themselves from reagan's legacy, because they thought reagan had been too tru

he did not know reagan that well. ronald reagan had been governor of california.n capitol hill did not mix that much with governors reagan had read in 1968 and had come close andme considered himself next in line. it was his term. in ford was in the way. ford had come to this office in an odd sort of way. ford had hoped that he could persuade reagan to not run against him. in that same month mrs. ford later that month left to california later that, have dinner with them mrs. ford wrote later after they left that dinner there both convinced ronald reagan was going too run. there was in that primary. there are strong indications he might pick gerald ford as his vice president. news headline headline in thedl chicago newspaper telling that very thing ford was supportive of reagan more than his eight years in the white house. >> a couple more questions from a q&a here. can you talk a little bit more about his role and participation in the warren commission? if you tally up the amount of time each of the seven commissioners gave to the warren commission, no one is goin

ronald reagan was pretty ideological. i was just traders secretary. and so it's a question of balance. i think. you you the commitment to values that i mentioned earlier when james mcgregor burns a definition of leadership is a commitment to values and those values or ideological. usually to the most part and so you you have to have some ideological component in your policy and your worldview. but it's a question about i think if you're overly ideological you're going to be too strict and to wedded to the ultimate and governing and international negotiations even for that matter are a matter of balance. you need the ideological you need to be you know, there's a there's a conflict in american foreign policy for instance. well known between realists and idealists. you gotta have some realism in your foreign policy, but she also got to have some idealism now ideological fur. i don't know exactly what you mean by that but you better have some idealism and our foreign policy americans foreign policy is built on on idealistic principle. well, i heard you l

reagan did. reagan said, do whatever it takes to get rid of inflation. and volkerd. i don't believe the fed is politicized. the fed makes mistakes because they have lousy models. they see the world the wrong way. i don't know. brian is right, you cut tax rates, open the doors to trade, a lot of things get easier and better. in the back. >> if we got back to 5% to 6% growth, that would be the old normal? and today's normal is 25 fed funds. we are debating today whether we go in september or december and move it up to 50. if we had 5% to 6% growth, wouldn't we be going back to the old normal and we would talk about 350? higher rates will impact that outlook. how do you see that playing out? one is going to work against you. >> no, no, no. if we slash tax rates again -- i think the big issue today is business tax rates, which are the greatest obstacle we face. then interest rates will go up normally without any manipulation. the economy rises and real interest rates will go up and all the fed has to do is let that happen. follow the market. that's what i have always wan

no reagan without goldwater. goldwater's nomination took over the republican party and reordered it, reoriented it in a conservative direction. no goldwater without the national review, which took it upon itself shortly after being founded in 1955, to lure goldwater -- in fact, trap him -- into running for president. and no national review without a spark in the mind of a young yale graduate named bill buckley. therefore, buckley has won the cold war, and, therefore, is the most consequential journalist of the 20th century. qed. >> you're one of the remaining columnists that has both a direct personal and intellectual lineage to buckley. but the conservatism that you espouse is very different than the conservatism that is broadly understood, either by the public or, frankly, the political class today. and you write your previous book, quote... how is the current iteration of the conservative movement departed from the conservation of the founding principles? >> well, if you want to know what conservatism isn't, s

and the ronald reagan foundization saying, it's saddened by the court's plan.ope is that the justice department will file a motion with the court, leading to a reversal of this decision. according to his lawyer, hinckley has been volunteering at a church and selling he's selling his music on youtube. ♪ it's a long way where i'm going ♪ ♪ but i'm on my way ♪ >> reporter: after the judge's decision, hinckley's lawyer called it, quote, a great day for mental health. >> what i believe to be the important message in this case, that people that have disease. they can achieve mental stability and become productive members of society. >> hinckley's release could have come sooner. but the judge decided to wait until next year because his mother died and his therapist is retiring. >>> in sports, the cowboys put away the eagles, for returning an interception for a touchdown. dallas won 41-21. >> during the game, we learned that lebron james once considered jumping to the nfl. he confirmed during peyton and eli manning's "monday night football" broadcast, that the cowboys

s unconditional release, 40 years inio psint reagan.t guilty b and was committed to a mental hospital until five years ago. his release is now set for next june. late today, the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute issues a statement, saying they are, quote, saddened by the decision and that they will file a motion for reversal. >>> when we come back tonight, a major recall for some popular frozen pizza. >>> and the rolling stones and one very moving moment. to what's next. even with higher stroke risk due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin that's a trail i want to take. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk better than warfarin. and has less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis has both. don't stop taking eliquis without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking, you may bruise more easily or

hinkley shot ronald reagan, press secretary jim brady in 1981. a jury found him guilty by reason of insanity, but now a federal judge ruled the 66-year-old can be freed from all restrictions next year, after hinckley's attorney said his client no longer poses a threat. >> there have been a multitude of risk assessments, and the risk of danger is exceedingly low. >> in response, ronald reagan's daughter, patty davis writing i don't believe john hinckley feels remorse. narcissists rarely do. he and his attorney have worked the system from the beginning, and finding a judge who was sympathetic to them made this day inevitable. and the ronald reagan foundation saying, it's saddened by the court's plan, adding, our hope is that the justice department will file a motion to the court leading to a reversal of the decision. according to his lawyer, hinckley has been volunteering at a church and selling antiques at flea markets and sharing his music on youtube. ♪ it's a long way to where i'm goin' ♪ ♪ but i'm on my way ♪ >> after the judge's decision, hinc

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assassination of ronald reagan. over to eddie and i said eddie, the president has been shot so this is an fbi case. >> secret service agent told me that reagan was at the hospital and he had been shot. i said well, john, you accomplished your mission. the president has been shot. how do you feel? and he didn't show any remorse or response other than just sort of bow his head. >> bret: you can check that hour out on fox nation. up next the panel on the democrat tax and spend plans and how the progressives are flexing their political muscle. >> there is broad agreement on the goals and then there needs to be agreement on what the revenue pay fors are. >> paid for by putting a debt onto the next generation of americans. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ we believe everyone deserves to live better. and just being sustainable isn't enough. our future depends on regeneration. that's why we're working to not only protect our planet, but restore, renew, and replenish it. so we can all live better tomorrow. ♪♪ >> it only takes four democrats to say no

when we look at the reagan administration, we know in some areas, the reagan and missed ration indeed fought to cut back programs that historically benefited african-americans and other poor segments of american society. interestingly, during the reagan administration, the programs to assist lack business were maintained and in some instances, enhanced. it has been suggested that one of the motivations was the influence of elizabeth dole, who was a liaison during that period. that dole approached president reagan and said there is a sentiment out there that you are anti-african-american, and by continuing to support african-american entrepreneurship, that might help dispel the notion that you are totally against the aspirations of the african-american community. it also appears that reagan on a personal level believed in a free enterprise system, so it wasn't a problem in terms of promoting programs to support african-american entrepreneurship. but when we look at the reagan presidency, he had more than elizabeth dole in his ear, he had conservative advisors as well. this appear to ma