ronald reagan just said no.ricans. in that belief and strength he was an antidote to those days when america was feeling that perhaps it's days were behind he would put us up on a different road and oh how we soared. ronald reagan was an antidote because of his unfailing confidence in america. his unfailing belief in our values. his plan of action, his amazing ability to communicate a vision and his unforgettable sense of humor. , ronald reagan lifted america in those days. that is what we remember in the documents, and the way that this museum reflects back that moment when you can stand in the oval office and think about what it must've been like to walk into the day after the inauguration and say to yourself i have to lift america up and he did. remembering is one of the important reasons for a celebration today. the memories for a celebration today is the teaching and informing that this library does. when your university professor, you are forever aware of the passage of time in the passage of generations,

until ronald reagan as the presidential nominee in 1980. reagan was right wing. and he was a culture war kind of conservative. and sticking it to the feminists was exactly the kind of thing that he built his campaign around so inth 1980 the republin party dropped its decades long supportpe for the e.r.a. which bothered some women in the republican party. and also reagan has this terrible record on women's issues and hiring women and appointing women from the time that heme was governor of california. so some republican women who were elected officials, and members of congress, long time party activists, women who power in thes, republican party, they were notin happy about ronald reagan as the nominee. they were disgruntled with their party's choice ind 1980. by the time the 1980 presidential election rolled around, the reagan campaign had a clear lead. they were pretty sure their candidate was going to beat jimmy carter and win the presidency in november. but they did have this persistent worry about reagan's support among women and for good reason. he didsu hav

they hope that today they made a new reason to go with reagan. chris wallace, nbc news, with a regan campaign in idaho falls, idaho. >> ronald reagan in october 1980, less than a month before the election against jimmy carter, pledge that if you were elected, he would appoint a woman to the supreme court. when the conservative media and republicans today have been pounding their chests and screaming about how wrong, just how wrong it is that joe biden made a pledge during his campaign that if he were elected, he would put an african american woman on the supreme court, the conservative media figures who are making a big deal about that, they really ought to be asked if they were that mad about ronald reagan making that same promise in 1980. and i have to tell you, this is not an obscure thing. when reagan made that promise, ahead of the 1980 election, it did not come from nowhere. nbc -- i mean, it was big news. but you could see that it was coming. nbc had reported, during the republican national convention earlier that year, that reagan was alr

biden promised a black female justice, reagan made a similar prayer -- pledge. when news broke of justice breyer retiring, the post lamented that biden limited his options by pledging to pick a black woman for the job. they talked about ronald reagan and his announcement during the campaign that he would pick a female justice. they write about the equal rights commitment, passed in 1972. at the republican convention in 1980, support for the e.r.a. was removed from the party platform for the first time in 40 years. they wrote that at a meeting of republican women who supported the equal rights of women, it was suggested that reagan consider a woman for the supreme court, saying the single step that demonstrates his valid commitment -- vowed commitment. a few months later, at a news conference in los angeles, reagan made it official, saying i am announcing today that one of the first supreme court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman i can possibly find. it is time for a woman to sit among the highest jurists. let's hear from w

ronald reagan was pretty lucky. i mean ronald reagan. demonstrated put it this way. ronald reagan earned his locked runner ronald reagan demonstrated that look is is almost invariably part of a really successful presidency. that you could argue. he's very unlucky to be shot. you can actually he was lucky. to survive did you ever talk to him about being shot? i did it was. i'll never forget the the last time i saw him. it was early in 1996. this was over a year after the alzheimer's letter had been written in published. but he would continue to come up to the library. i was indirect at the reagan library in simi valley, california, and the president would come up from time to time. and and quite frankly, you know if you did not know. um, and i guess this is often true of patients particularly. they're always stages of the disease, you know, he seemed very much himself. a little hard of hearing um, and a little bit detached. but you know, very very you know very much involved in the conversation and and and very aware of people around him and i mean you can imagine peo

ronald reagan was pretty lucky. i mean ronald reagan. demonstrated put it this way. ronald reagan earned his locked runner ronald reagan demonstrated that look is is almost invariably part of a really successful presidency. that you could argue. he's very unlucky to be shot. you can actually he was lucky. to survive did you ever talk to him about being shot? i did it was. i'll never forget the the last time i saw him. it was early in 1996. this was over a year after the alzheimer's letter had been written in published. but he would continue to come up to the library. i was indirect at the reagan library in simi valley, california, and the president would come up from time to time. and and quite frankly, you know if you did not know. um, and i guess this is often true of patients particularly. they're always stages of the disease, you know, he seemed very much himself. a little hard of hearing um, and a little bit detached. but you know, very very you know very much involved in the conversation and and and very aware of people around him and i mean you can imagine peo

well, simultaneously ronald reagan was in geneva. having his historic meeting with mikhail gorbachev. and i was then on the hill working for pete wilson. and someone on the staff who work with it it's department. um, i be forever grateful. contact paul, you know while washington works pulled some strings. and got a journalist bumped. oh from this air reconnaissance flight eight of the storm. and i said you but you're going to be in mississippi and you know eight hours. they flew out of a key swore. i think it's keith's work air force base biloxi keesler keesler, okay. anyway but but it didn't end there so i got there. you saw in your life away you sign a document because i've been through training. so i was a nephite they they strapped you into plane. they converted c-130s. and the remarkable thing is you are literally strapped in. crosswise and the side of the plane is glass. they've been modified so you could sit there and literally watch watch the storm. you know. and and they make four passes. you're in the storm eight hours. in

where was ronald reagan at this stage in his first term? >> well, in 1982, times were tough. the country is in a major recession. unemployment will go to over 10% at one point. conservatives, many of them are not happy with ronald reagan despite who he was, that he's not going far enough on issues such as reproductive right it's. and many moderates and democrats for sure are upset with his efforts to gut the social safety net and his ramping up of cold war rhetoric. so, in '82, it culminates with midterms that are very good for the democrats and house of representatives which they control. and yet '83 and '84 will look very different. >> and in 1984, he wins a landslide election. i'm not even sure if landslide elections are even possible name, against walter mondale. are things as bad now as they were for biden? for now, none of the groups ma fueled biden's 2020 victory are happy. young people are frustrated that he hasn't followed through on vows to combat climate change and student debt. women are worried that plans to expand family leave, child care and universal pre-k are

this image on the right of reagan chopping wood.he got this other piece with what we talked about earlier in the twentieth century with teddy roosevelt getting out in the great outdoors celebrating your manly sports like chopping wood, when here he talks about horseback riding too. that was something to enjoy their but these two things here or 3 that really highlight that this is a different era. one is there is a joke in the caption where reagan says pumping fire what is what the president calls this activity of splitting walls, pumping fire was a joke about pumping iron. the 1970s bodybuilding for the cause starring arnold schwarzenegger, the first day of class, brought this weird subculture of muscle head bodybuilding to the center of american popular culture such that even the socially conservative president is making jokes about it. shutdown for moral charges in the 1950s, not a world that ronald reagan came from. he was around in california in those days. he was a democrat back then but that is a story for another day. the oth

reagan -- the gold standard of republican presidents, right? well, he used to be.not in this -- not in this current republican party. reagan's white house counsel at the time said in an interview with "the washington post" -- and i quote -- i think reagan felt that it would be great to put an italian american on the supreme court. he had all the usual american instincts. we don't have an italian american on the court so we ought to have one. he really felt good about doing that. it wasn't principle so much as the kind of emotional commitment. come on, people. don't be hypocrites. okay. let's go back a little bit further in history, right? same president during his campaign against jimmy carter. this was in 1980. reagan, again, promised to select a woman for the supreme court if he was elected. >> i am announcing today that one of the first supreme court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman i can possibly find. one who meets the high standards i will demand for all court appointments. it's time for a woman to sit among our highes

muscle beach was shut down in the late 1950s, but the world that ronald reagan came from.he was around in california even though in those days he was a democrat back then but that's a story for another day. the other thing i think is interesting, the main photo for the piece, an exercise machine in the gym, not in the traditional theater roosevelt imagery. by 1983, working out in a commercial gym, a man from a straight man, a leader working on his body in this particular way considered not at all a question of his masculinity but to uphold it, this is a puff piece that came out in a moment where it's clear to be somebody who goes to the gym is a positive, supposed to reflect positively on the present and it did because by 1983, fitness in general was becoming uncontroversial and kind of a celebrated virtue, such that somebody like ronald reagan can do it as he can bodybuilder figures who are still considered to be rather suspicious. let's keep going. talking about the founder of novelist, there he is. i'm not going to do so because you've read a lot about the pounding of a

hosted by the reagan national defense forum. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to panel 5. in the interests of all, please welcome admiral john aquilno, william inboden, laura richardson, leanne caret, and moderator david ignatius of "the washington post." >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your photogenic panel. i hope everybody had a good coffee break and are well-caffeinated for our discussion about advancing security through alliances and partnerships. i don't have to tell this audience this is a moment in which we have threats around the world that are concerning. we have in "the washington post" this morning a report that 175,000 russian troops may be prepared to line up along the ukraine border, posing an extraordinary threat to ukraine and indeed to the nato alliance. in vienna, talks to restore the jcpoa appear to have broken down. big concern for our allies and partners. and in asia, admiral aquilno's area of responsibility, severe and rising concerns about china. in this world of danger, the united states has a unique asset and that is this network of alliances

it is that it wasn't just reagan's deep personal commitment to the allies. although that was a big part of. it is the technology sharing that was going on with the strategic defense initiative. bringing japan and as an important partner in, that bringing a united kingdom in that as the important partner in, that president reagan realized it is not just about out spending the soviets, it is about a smarting. then we can outsmart them with better weapons if we are working with our allies and leveraging that joint -- those joint technology advantages. even with a difficult country like france, which you asked, about their obviously outliers and they have withdrawn from the nato military command by the time reagan came along, as david has agreed, someone in the intelligence committee will, no one of our best, most successful intelligent programs and the entire -- with france is the farewell dossier. again, a great book that can be written on. that, so even if there is going to be other functions of the service level, there can be some deep quiet, potent, joint c

this is during ronald reagan's first term, that's president ronald reagan there working out on i believe a nautilus machine. you read a lot about the history of nautilus in jonathan black's book for your reading for today. and here, if you take a little closer look at this slide, you can see the president's personal exercise program, how to stay fit. we're not going to do a close textual analysis of this slide, although you certainly can pause it at home. this image on the right of reagan chopping wood, that is totally of a piece with what we talked about earlier in the 20th century with teddy roosevelt getting out in the great outdoors, celebrating the strenuous life through manly sports like chopping wood or in here he talks about horseback riding too. that, there's a real continuity there. but two things here, possibly three, really highlight that this is a different era. one, there's a joke in the caption there, where reagan says, pumping firewood is what the president calls this activity of him splitting logs. so pumping firewood, of course that's a joke about pumping iron, remember

hosted by the reagan national defense form. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to panel five. and the interest of all, advancing international with allies and partners, please welcome john aquilino, moral richardson, dr. william -- miss land correct and moderator david ignatius of the washington post. do you want to picture first? >> i guess, yes. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your photogenic panel. i hope everybody had a good coffee break and as well caffeinated for our discussion of advancing security through alliances and partnerships. i don't have to tell this audience that this is a moment in which we have threats around the world that are concerning. we have in the washington post this morning report that 175,000 russian troops may be prepared to line up along the ukraine border posing an extraordinary threat to ukraine. and indeed to the nato alliance. in vienna, talks to restore the jcpoa just appeared to have broken down. a bacon stand for our allies and partners. and in asia, an area of responsibility severe and rising concerns about china. in this w

i think there's a great precedent in the reagan administration's playbook, right? it wasn't just reagan's deep personal commitment to the allies. although that was a big part of it. but it was the technology sharing that was going on, with the strategic defense initiative, bringing japan in as an important partner in that. bringing the united kingdom in as an important partner in that, bringing in west germany in, right? president reagan related not just about outspending the soviets but outsmarting them. and we can outsmart them with better weapons if we are working with our allies and leveraging that joint -- those joint technology advantages. even with a difficult country like france which you asked about, and there are always a little bit of the outlier and they had already -- withdrawn from the nato military command by the type reagan came along. as david -- and in some ways historian of the intelligence community, one of our best most successful intelligence programs in the entire cold war came from the great technology partnership with france over the farewe

though, reagan is considered the more successful president. measuring presidents in the moment is hard, says jill, because people focus only on what's right in front of them, like a protracted global pandemic. >> kind of puzzling over this, how do you measure a president? well, most of us are measuring day to day are the covid case numbers. >> does that basically mean the approval rating is a general thermometer of public feeling and if public's unhappy, the president as the best-known politician is the one that gets blamed? >> yeah, i mean i think it's sort of a proxy for the national mood, rather than an evaluation of efficacy of an administration. right? and most of us don't have the ability, day to day, to evaluate the efficacy of the admini administration. in a way, with trump, it was a little different because people did know what trump was doing every day because he was tweeting all day long. >> reporter: being president means sitting in the national complaint window. you are the target of public anger whether you caused a problem or no

he's a professional diver who's been running a diving business on reagan for 25 years. the boys in place, you can start getting ready yonder, you clarified the target below. the red boy is a big pile where a torn pulse controlling net net on his many dives, both gung frank always keeps an eye out for ghost nets. and these are stella? yeah, a few months ago at this spot. so i found bits of nets where things like chord can get cool off dorsal into light, a leak for fun, couldn't. ah, yob is a long steel cable hotter, and the net is caught on that. i thought we want to bring it up. pardon? won't da swaby, it's will, will i will. i end up with they locate the steel cable at a depth of around 10 meters. the net is wrapped tightly around it. it will be difficult to get it free. another problem is the poor visibility dotted disease. i as visibility here in the baltic makes things very, very difficult. the after i english there are a lot of al, he residues in the water heater. how could blooms caused by the warming of the baltic sea were dies in disease by when we die for a net

ronald reagan was settling into to first time as president. and et smashing box office records on the way to becoming the country's number one movie. michael jackson cementing himself movie icon with the release of his legendary album thriller and the san francisco 49ers were starting a football dynasty winning the first of their five super bowls. one trend we hoped to leave in the early 1980s was inflation. thanks to joe biden it has made its way back to the future because today, the labor department announced, quote: the consumer price index which measures what consumers paid for goods and services 7% in december from the same month earlier. that was the fastest since 182. this means that we're seeing the highest prices in four decades. inflation is surging under joe biden and it's your wallet that's feeling the pain. since december 2020, the price of beef, pork, chicken and ham are all up more than 10%. while fish and baked goods are also on the rise. and the american people have had enough. >> it's like a soviet store during 1981. >> it's

ronald reagan said that he was going to nominate a woman, and he did.a woman, i'm very grateful that he did. sandra day o'connor was a great justice. it's nice for me, my daughters and the future women to look at that court and see themselves. women of color see that in justice sotomayor. but african-american women don't see that. so what joe biden is doing is no different than what ronald reagan did and what politicians do. they look at the composite of our nation, of their voters, their constituency and of that court. this is the most important job that any president of the united states has. they take it very seriously, as does the nation. howard: right. >> i don't think that the media with, i don't think that the media misrepresented this. i think it's out there whether they're criticizing him doing this or applauding him. howard: all right. mollie, you co-authored on the ugliness of the kavanaugh battle, the unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct going back to high school. when we look at the media short list headed by ketanji brown jacks

in that case let's look at what president ronald reagan actually did, not what he said. oh, look, his first nominee to the court was sandra day o'connor in 1981. as is always the case for any president with any nominee, there was no guarantee that reagan would get another pick. in fact he did not name another nominee until his second term when he had the opportunity to appointing three, antonin scalia, william rehnquist and kennedy. jonathan turley accused president biden of confirmation bias. while georgetown law's elia shapiro said his pick would be a lesser black woman who would always have an asterisk attached to their name. if anyone should have an asterisk in front of their names, it should know every single one of the 95 white justices that came before thurgood marshall in 1967. talk about exclusionary criteria. white man, white man, white man, white man. conservatives want you to believe the supreme court is a meritocracy. people are chosen for their qualifications, not their issue with roe v. wade. if you were okay with trump and reagan saying he's going to nomi

in 1980 when jimmy carter ran against ronald reagan, ronald reagan made a promise that jimmy carter made, if i had the chance, i will nominate the first woman to the supreme court and he nominated sandra day o'connor and i want to say, i'm so pleased to be on with dean brown because i'm reading her book right now and it is such an extraordinary story about how different the world was in the '50s and '60s when constance baker motley was coming up and the obstacles that black women faced, even in the civil rights community. it just is a good example of why, you know, there have been 120 supreme court justices, only five women, only three people of color. so the idea that we're now dealing with some sort of quota for black women is really kind of crazy and offensive. >> crazy and offensive can be described in a lot of what we see coming out of washington. so i guess if it fits a lot of moments. dean, one of the women on the short list as mentioned by our correspondent is katangi brown jackson and biden nominated her to the dc circuit. you supported her for that nomination. and we hear often

we don't have a ronald reagan. we have to do is start cutting links with china's regime.ment. but extreme, they are trying to over throw our government. until we can handle this weaker to cut trade, and cut investment, technical cooperation if we don't we'll not going to have a country. >> gordon chang, when we come back, where do you see china in 5 years vis-a-vis the united states. we'll be right back. mark: welcome back, gordon chang. last century was viewed as american country before that the british century, what do you think about this century. >> i thought american, but we have to be concerned about china. as we talked about china has infiltrated american society and fomenting violence on american streets and trying on therefore throw our government. we have a couple pivotal events, one is november, we have an election, american people can take pack their back their kuhn. he take back their country, we have 2024, we need to do that. mark: is it your implication when you say 22 and 24 that democrat party is become the party of appeasement. is it your sense their i h

moreover, you go back to reagan, you don't have to go that far back. you could go as far back to bush the first went there are good marshall tragically died, went out of his way to find a black person to replace him and really quite frankly found a much more conservative person than you could've ever gotten confirmed if he had found a white person that had clarence thomas's views. you don't have to go back to bush 41, you could go to donald trump who said directly while brett kavanaugh was taking water and the republicans were saying you should nominate this other person, amy coney barrett. no, no, no. i'm saving her for ginsburg. and when ginsburg passed away he said he wanted a woman to replace ginsburg. and the national review wrote that they wanted a woman to replace ginsburg so that they would have eight women with them when they overturned roe v. wade. the mediocrity of these people literally knows no bounds. they're happy to play identity politics when it works in their favor and they get more conservative people than they could have otherwise g

i-95 snowstorm, thousands stranded and stuck amtrak also affected at the center of the bulls eye, reagan national airport. topping the listing of most affected airports 84% of departures canceled. >> i have been here since 7:00 i have been delayed three times and then cancelled. >> reporter: the latest blow to airlines and hundreds of thousands of holiday passengers. since christmas eve more than 18,000 flights cancelled hit by airlines and tsa staffers with covid then a series of winter storms here at reagan, they've closed the main row for plowing at 8:00 a.m. >>. >> reporter: thousands of passengers stuck >> my flight got changed twice. >> reporter: cancellations rippling from chicago-o'hare to ft. lauderdale, where andrea lynn and her kids were trying to get out thursday we had to stay in a home and they're outrageous new years eve. >> reporter: the airline industry has been under staffed for months, before this latest surge with covid going back to the summer >> reporter: so far this as i remember, we have 400-plus flights canceled nationwide. that is a vast improvement over monday,

and unfortunately, the democratic party has played political football with us since reagan. i was at that press conference where he promised in the first 100 days of his presidency, he was going to give immigration reform law. and you know what happened? use that political capital into obamacare. and that's fine. he's the president. he can use that political capital into anything he wants. but you know what? don't lie to us. now in 2020, president biden said the same thing. within the one -- first 100 days of my presidency, i'm going to give my immigration reform law. and he has abandoned us, as well. for what? for childcare care, for elderly care, for vision care. and that's fine. he's the president. he can do that. but do not lie to us. so i'm tired because i know the community very well. i speak the language perfectly. i cater to them for spanish television. from california to new york, what they are thinking. and it's time to vote for those who give us a solution, not those who want to play with us and use us as political chips in order to exchange us from one thing for

ah. 6 the ship gore leaves global harbor on the island of reagan. on this summer's day, the small salvage vessel is on a special mission in the baltic sea. it's being escorted by a boat full of divers aiming to recover ghosts net. the net, those nets are abandoned fishing gear and even though they're not being used anymore, they still very efficient at killing, which of course makes no sense because there's no purpose for it. if a dolphin or papa, good bye not in one drowns, and because it can't reach the surface on the hana plant works for g r d. a german dolphin rescue organisation. the environmental n g o regularly conducts ghost net recovery missions in the baltic sea that hannah platt organized today's ever met. i 1st had a scuba tank on my back at age 5. over the years i've seen how the marine world has changed and there's a decline in species. i'm in, and i used to see see horses. see bream all kinds of animals to day. it's getting harder and harder we go. ghost nets are among the causes of this decline and the baltic sea alone ups at $10000.

his opinion of ronald reagan was he came out and he met with reagan and was scathing. met with reagany is evil. _ scathing. the system of this country is evil. he _ scathing. the system of this country is evil. he said, - scathing. the system of this country is evil. he said, of l country is evil. he said, of apartheid. _ country is evil. he said, of apartheid, very _ country is evil. he said, of apartheid, very clearly, i country is evil. he said, of apartheid, very clearly, it| country is evil. he said, of. apartheid, very clearly, it is evil. it is evil without remainder. there is no redeeming feature about it. it stands with nazism in its, in its complete lack of respect for the value of what he called little people. in the made it very awkward for britain and america, countries that were trying to find a negotiated path through this. yes. i think, again, it was the strength of desmond and his leadership and his role was to be so clear—cut, to be so clear about what was right and what was wrong. and not to allow himself to be sucked into the ifs and the arts and the compromises to

story from this newspaper that reagan also said he was going to pick a woman for the supreme court. there is a big difference between the two. you are talking about biden. he mentioned a race. he will take a black woman. reagan is going to pick a woman. that could be a woman of any race. host: he mentioned gender. what's the difference? caller: he picked up black while at. post: -- host: he said the type of candidate specifically, a woman in the case of justice sandra day o'connor,'s first choice. caller: there is a big difference between taking a woman. it can be any nationality, any country, and picking a black woman. specifically hunting for one black woman. host: charles on the democrats line next. caller: good morning. after 400 years, white people have had their food on our neck. -- boot on our neck. now it's a problem because they pick a woman of color. you have to be kidding me. pres. biden: good afternoon. let me begin by recognizing both dr. breyer and dr. biden and being here. this is a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. all the way back to t