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

reagan believed reagan himself and that background. they were afraid of 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 yo

he's like reagan. reagan used to say leave the politics to me. he would always say that about a lot of debates. that was one of them. you do what tough -- you do what you have to do and i will take the political heat. i think that was fabulous in a lot of ways. tony has more reading to do on the economics side, but -- [laughter] but the benefit and the brilliance as a speechwriter and as a creative, intellectual, and ideas guy, what was reagan thinking? what was he thinking, especially in 81 and 82, tony dolan? >> i mean, i don't want to offend you but i will begin with some numbers that should appeal to you. >> really? >> we were facing 22% interest rates. we were facing 8% unemployment, back-to-back double digit inflation, two years in a row, the first time since world war i. we were also facing 18% increases in federal spending. ronald reagan came into office, said no, we're going to stop. o'neil said you're in the big leagues now. we will teach you a few lessons. he went on the air, and everything changed. ronald reagan -- sapphire came up wi

ronald reagan. wouldn't write it for anybody else and i can tell you that because i work for george hwbush and would never have written it for him . reagan alone would have insisted on delivering this speech. george bush, vice president bush and every foreign policy speech the first question he me when i would draft a speech is as the state approved of this? that was his first question. listen to this story all three of you but jamie next. we'll stay with ronald reagan for amoment . this story was told to me by dick allen who was ronald reagan's first national security advisor. the year is 1977. reagan is now a former governor. he has lost the presidential nomination to gerald for and so far there's no one who's going to run for president but paying close attention to world affairs and dick allen reese them on foreign affairs so reagan says would you like to hear my story of the cold war and dick allen says of course governor and ronald reagan puts this down in writing and i'm quoting from rick. thi

than ronald reagan did putr this down in writing and quoting from him, this is reagan speaking some peoplehink i'm simplistic but there is a difference between being simple and being simplistic might. about the cold war is that we went and they lose. how do you operationalize that? here is richard nixon and dÉtente and then warning against an ordinance fear of communism and then turned it upside down. now that i'm older field a little risky to me. >> i am a big fan of the approach obviously with radio free europe i think that moral clarity of reagan is incredibly essential upon hearing and ultimately they are fearful of their citizens. and when they realize that democracies are resilient and united and up to the task that strikes fear into the heart of every authoritarian leader and ultimately that is what reagan understood and why the speech in terms of letter president says in a setting like this, that is one thing with the moral clarity and the vision then you can debate tactic in the diplomacy and negotiation which obviously reagan engaged in extensively that one brief comment on the i

it is a great privilege to be back at the reagan library. this is truly an incredible place and a most fitting tribute for our 40th president. ronald reagan's life and leadership provides so many important lessons for our country. i wish every american could visit this library and learn from it, especially right now in this extremely challenging time. it has become fashionable in some circles, even in some conservative ones, to dismiss the relevance of ronald reagan. they say we must move beyond reaganism, the chimes have changed it is only right to change with them. it is true that every era has its unique challenges, no period in history provides an exact map for today, but dismissing the lessons of reagan makes no more sense than dismissing the lessons of lincoln or washington. we must not reject the profound wisdom of our past, because it would be a sure way to destroy our future. and it turns out there is a similarity between reagan's time and hours. history is not exactly repeating, -- think about it. growing inflation. runaway federal

reagan was trying to stop that.gan did not think this was a good idea because the soviets had nuclear superiority. as we know now, the soviet union was a he is this just about everything -- a mess in just about everything else. the economy was in terrible shape. people had a horrible standard of living. but they did have a pretty powerful nuclear force. that's one area where they had the advantage, and reagan didn't want them to have that advantage, so he was trying to stop the movement for a nuclear freeze. the reason i emphasize this in the past when i had sit-down exams and i'd ask about this speech, sometimes people would answer, oh or, this speech was designed to -- president reagan's proposal for a nuclear freeze which indicates people weren't quite clear on the concept. so he was fighting the idea of a nuclear freeze. and remember, it's 1983. the cold war is still on. now, in the speech he refers to the cold war in the past tense. sometimes that happened during the 1980s, they referred to the cold war specifi

they say we must move beyond reagan. times have changed, they said, and it'ss only right to change with them. of course it's true that every era has its unique challenges. no period in history provides an exact map for today. but dismissing the lessons of ronald reagan makes no more sense than dismissing the lessons of lincoln or washington. we must not reject the profound wisdom of our past because it would be a sure way to destroy our future. and it turns out there's a great deal of similarities between reagan and ours. history isn't exactly repeating but it is rhyming. think about it. growing inflation, runaway federal spending and debt. rampant crime in our cities. radical leftists running our universities. radical islamists holding americans hostage. and the evil communist empire aggressively spreading its influence in the world. am i talking about 1980 or am i talking about today? the answer is both. many of the biggest challenges of our time look and awful lot like the ones reagan faced. our president saw things c

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

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we are here at the ronald reagan library. tomorrow on "special report."lling on inflation and higher prices. the economy, and president biden's job approval. we want to thank everybody here at the ronald reagan presidential library. simi valley, california. if you haven't been here, come check it out. they have had wonderful hospitality today. i will be speaking here tonight as part of the book tour for my new book out this week "to rescue the republic" about ulysses s. grant. should be a good event and on to l.a. tomorrow. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for 'this "special report" fair balanced and still unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted this week by will cain starts right now. hey, will. >> will: thank you, bret. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime" i'm will cain. tonight we are living in a rerun of that 70s show. you know, i always thought the 70s would have been my favorite decade that's largely because i love whalen jennings and the old ford bronco not because i wanted to return to the failures of jimmy ca

[impersonating ronald reagan] hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. all right. david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we are here today at city college, a place that you graduated from a number of years ago. colin: thank you, david. david: why did you pick city college? colin: i was accepted at ccny. and i was accepted at nyu. and the reason i went to ccny is nyu was charging $750 a year. i couldn't handle that. family couldn't handle that, so i took ccny because it was free and because it was easy to get to and i had heard a lot about it. david: you grew up in the bronx? >> i was born in harlem about a mile from here. i grew up in the south bronx, the hunts point section. davi

in the reagan years. that is some important history, and i hope it has a lesson for the future of our country. host: how optimistic, if that is the right word for you, about this congress passing any sort of immigration legislation right now? caller: i am not very optimistic about it. i wish it would work like, the republicans would get together and say we want cheap labor, and the democrats was a, we want more votes. together, they could get some compromise which would help get inflation down. we are not going to get to that point. i am always hopeful, and after an election cycle, more interest will be in office. host: lawrence in north carolina, democrat. good morning. caller: two independents and republicans, i am a retired union worker making about $30 an hour. thank you very much. have a great day. host: ralph and washington, d.c.. independent. good morning to you as you get into your car. caller: how are you? where you headed? host: i am headed to pick up coffee and tea. we are running out of it at

in spring 2020 he was joining us at the reagan library for in-person event for his new book how to lead. with the covid event that was not able to happen. we reached out. during today's conversation he shares have the book is published some of our nation's greatest minds to explore the inspiring story of america including conversations madeleine albright on the american immigrant, ken burns anwr come walter isaacson on innovation just to name a few. we invite you to enjoy our virtual program with david rubenstein, two from our leadership academy of office during a conversation by reagan foundation institute executive director john heubusch. >> it is a real privilege to be with david rubenstein this morning, who has written some remarkable books. i think this is your third, david, "the american experiment" is outright? >> that's correct. >> a real, real terrific study of some americans have been successful across so many fields, and what i loved about the book first to say, david, is it seems a synopsis of a number of the interviews that you have done in the past years of these fine amer

. >> the 90 budget deal had to have been -- >> donald reagan? >> 90 -- year. donald reagan -- no, no. >> he wasn't meant the white house yet. >> nick brady, secretary of the treasury. it was bush going back on his word on the read my lips, gingrich shot down the first deal and there was a second deal which i heard described as worse than the first deal in terms of spending. if there ever had been a time you were entitled to say i told you so that would have been it. >> i was trying to tell the white house i was working with tom foley trying to work out something else, looks like a tax increase and it was about midnight as i remember and still talking to someone at the white house, we can make a better deal here. i don't remember what it was but bush said he had no choice, democrats ran the place and what are you going to do, got to have the money. he got it right too. never going to give it to him without a tax increase. but thought he never should have said that. read my lips. >> host: what are the challenges in passing the apa? >> guest: we had a lot of conv

could not have been ronald reagan without nancy reagan .ing up here after the generous comment that you've heard tonight she said you'll be hard to live with. and i said you mean i haven't been? he said at moments. i could not have achieved what i have done had it not been someone who i deeply love and cared about who was saying honey, you'll get it done. and i'm not worried. i know it's tough. i know people. i'll tell you one thing. we got married i said you have to promise me one thing and she's like what the hell is that going to be. i said this primitive life form i have chosen for self expression , politics is a tough game. and you're going to hear things. you're going to read things about me that are untrue and unfair and you've got to promise me one thing. what's that and i said don't ever let the master to hurt you. i can take it. and i'll give it back . don't worry about that. she said okay. i said you've really got to promise that because otherwise that's how they think they can get to me. she said can i pop them back? i said i th

ten for appearance of ronald reagan at the very boundary of greatness. and finally we have rotting house and ivanka conducted a survey in 2014 of 162 members of the american political science association. president and executive politics, that includes me. i participated in this survey. i cannot tell you that much about it unfortunately. i have not been published as far as i can tell where they've had some newspaper stories and the "washington post" and so forth about the research. they e-mailed all of the participants in the study for the final ranking. but i don't really remember what it was like put every member it took me a long time. it took me 45 minutes to an hour. i also never been kind of surprise but some of the decisions i made. for instance i found myself being a lot more positive toward barack obama than i thought i would be when i was chosen to think about him on individual dimensions instead of a global judgment of his performance. some of the attributes that were measured were diplomatic skill, integrity, military skill, legislative skill

margaret thatcher teamed up with ronald reagan and john paul ii and changed the world. when you have this conversation with ambassador haley about what is going on with china, the president needs to view china the way that reagan and pope john paul viewed the soviet union. we're at acrossroads with

i said pete can you please talk to us about what president reagan did? years left in the term and with the customary eloquence pete walked us through and walked us through the video earlier with the arm services committee and walked us through it and at the whole time when we got done with the meetings these are former senior officials and former senators and members of congress and they sat around to say hello and talk to him and all i could think about watching that was if his vocal cords were not given out in 1996 them what a president they could've had with pete wilson as president of the united states. [applause] so if you are up for another run in two.five years so even the brand-new first year congressman and then they got certificates and diplomas and momentous from back home and to see some pretty impressive roles in washington at the highest levels but there's one thing that always stuck with me a plaque that was hanging in the senators office and had a marine corps cover and the civilians that covered me with a drill sergeant hat. and then the

he was a reagan successor and people are always looking for deviations from reagan and he was a very populist pretty. >> people always forget regularly or record and how he was going to any blames on congress but believe that for every dollar we cut taxes were going to cut spending 1 dollar well it never happened it would be complaint congress. but along with this out there selling the budget. reagan had that you know, a scene most of it. >> one has a sense of bush was isolated in the gulf war. it took a long time for the white house to wake up to the political dangers they were in enemy - >> is up to 92 percent of approval rating and then went down to 30 and they got nothing for it. on the domestic front, political front, it just evaporated. and they didn't use it. he didn't do anything but is 92 percent it was up. his way of their and he had the world by the tail. congress was ready to respond to victory actually did something with very few casualties, 100 or so. i don't know, again if others were there and sort of it sitting in the lead. which you don't do predict. >> is also iron

reagan, as one of his first acts, appointed a guy named james watt. you brought a certain constituency to your office as secretary... oh, sure. i brought the american people in and i made people part of the environntal equation. we've got to p america first, create american jobs. watt believethat the bible, if not god, had told him that the land was to be drilled and blasted in god's name. james watt thought all conservationists were pagan. that it became more of a religious divide as well as a polical divide. the reagan administration used the sagebrush rebellion to turn the people against the federal government. ...an agency in washington can tell you exactly what you can or can't do with your land in the name of environmentalism, which is the greatest threat in 200 years. and people embraced it with incredible fervor. it's the bureaucrats forcing regulations down on us. we're not gonna back down, we're not gonna go away, and we will win this battle. well, it turned out the sagebrush rebellion, including the pitchforks which they all used to wave on

as a matter of fact, i was not in when reagan was president.id not come in until george bush 31 was president. if you look at my record since we are talking about me, i've had a very pro-worker record and support from labor unions over the 24 years and before that in connecticut government. you know, here's the thing i'm saying. both sides have become to the center -- have to come to the center to negotiate or nothing is going to happen. the left can be indignant, can say things are terrible, we've got to fix them and here's how. people in the center or right can say, that's not going to work. unless they come to the center and treat each other civilly, have good conversation, and then tried to get something done in which they both move. the old business, it takes two to tango. it takes two sides to break the deadlock. each has to move somewhat toward the other. host: on the democrat side, would you agree that at least it appears the progressive caucus, those who represent the progressive point of view, have a much larger share of that view , c