reagan staff. but i found through my interviews and through, you know, spending lots time in the archives upstairs that a careful look at the historical record shows that as national adviser, judge clark saw it as his mission to take president strategic ideas and implement them and get the american government to implement them. and even if you're the most powerful in the world is the united states, you can oftentimes powerless getting that massive bureaucracy of the u.s. government to do what you want. right. and and so, judge clark was, i think, very loyal to president reagan, very committed to carrying out that vision and very committed to cracking the whip, too, to get, you know, get the bureaucracy of the state department and, the pentagon, to implement president reagan's strategy. and then the other one is george shultz, the secretary of state. six and a half years, a very faithful lieutenant to president reagan, also really understood his vision for bringing pressure on the soviet union, but

i'm the director of the ronald reagan now, the reagan institute is the washington, d.c. office of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute. and here in d.c., we promote president reagan's ideals, vision and leadership example through substantive issue driven forums like one we have today. and we're. and honored to co-host this event and partner with the center for strategic and international studies, where we're going to have an opportunity now to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the strategic defense initiative sdi. what reagan said, quote, let me share with a vision of the future which offers hope. this, of course, was in the speech telling country and the world about sdi. he went on say, quote, it is that we embark a program to counter the awesome soviet missile threat with measures that are defensive. let us turn to the very and technology that spawned our great industrial base and that have given us the quality of life we enjoy today, end quote. reagan's words in 1983 inspired here at the reagan institute, our national innovation base report card th

so she in the reagan i worked in the reagan administration. that's why i got to know pete and know incredible work and i wanted to ask you the experi prince for you personally, for you were now with two presidents, not during their years, but the day they left and that experience was it almost final for you? was were you still focused on the history of transition of of that day and their final moments in the white house? if you can talk about the two president reagan and president. yeah, you know, anita, i have done a i mean, i don't i don't want to say hundreds, but dozens and dozens of talks that involve q&a. and no one has ever asked me that question. well, very good, because you are who you are. so i mean, i think that with reagan, it was very much. focus on the history of that day. i we were a transition transition to his vice who is going to become the new president. so that was very smooth and. and i was just focused on you know making the pictures matter of fact the the i did the same picture for both those days which was i got a ladde

now reagan had a view on this subject. he quipped, thomas jefferson once said, we should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. ever since he told me that, i stopped worrying about it. little reagan here was always a good way to get things started. our speaker today is at no risk of being judged by his age. no one can say his past as prime, nor can they say his index appearance. and with his new book, it's clear he's asking all americans to simply judge him by his works just as president jefferson advised the courage to be free is florida's blueprint for america's revival. and governor ron desantis is the leader who draft it and successfully implement it. that blueprint in the sunshine state, judging by the size of this enthusiastic crowd here on a sunday afternoon. and by how quickly this event sold out. i'd say most of you have already become familiar with governor desantis as florida blueprint and you like what you see. you know that he has accomplished a great deal in his first term and one really aucti

i wrote one on the reagan the idea of a reagan revolution, immigration and more as well as on the founders. our goal really with the book wasn't to myth bust so much as to put out smart arguments about these big issues by historians who really know their stuff, historians who are really well versed in these subjects, but again, who can write it and it really accessible way and finally on that, we did want to showcase what goes on in the academy. i mean, the two of us as professors feel the kind of intense heat and antagonism that often exists. unfortunately, in these days between the university and most of you live near one and the rest of the world. and there's historians, people don't hear from who are doing just great work and work. that's interesting. even if you don't agree with it, that's that's really sophisticated and engaging and we wanted to showcase some of the scholar, as you might not see so much on tv or hear on the radio, some of whom have come out in the last few years via social media, writing in different publications and and use this book as a vehicle to introduce reader

i came to washington as a young member of the reagan revolution. i met ronald reagan when i was 15 years old in 1980. i was in college. i worked in the reagan campaign in 1983. i graduated from the university of washington. i did all my belongings in the back of my mustang, and i drove to d.c. because i wanted nothing more than to be part of what was then called the reagan revolution. and so that was a wave election where a whole group of people came to washington intent on changing what was going on. since then, i was involved in 1994 running citizens united. that was the huge contract for america wave election. and then, of course, tea party when the tea party came and the 2010 election cycle, i traveled all over the country with andrew breitbart and joseph fair and other people speaking at tea party rallies. and then, of course, i was involved in the whole maga wave election. so that's four major republican wave elections that have happened in in my adult lifetime, i believe 2024 is going to be another one of those wave elections. is it going to

my daughter's name is reagan. all the conversation has been awesome about the big issues that are presidential. a lot of the other republican candidates are leaning into this. i am a school board member in the area. we are hearing a lot about book bands and curriculum crackdowns and diversity and inclusion policies. i would like to know what your thoughts are on this issue. >> thank you for what you do. the school board is the most thankless elected position in america. thankless. [applause] so let me thank you for doing that thankless job. i really believe in what you do. i believe that the people should be making decisions about what is taught in our schools. parents in consultation with their school boards, who are parents who volunteer their time to be on the school board and oversee the professionals. what i am worried about in this conversation is the idea that somehow the government can make these decisions for our kids better than their parents can. i think parents have a right to be involved and an obliga

his name was ronald reagan here is a memorable photograph of those times, the future president of the united states is next to the actor chaston hatston, that for his sake he left the democratic party and became a republican. this is reagan's second term as head of the screen actors guild from the battle of the seven movie studios. he emerged victorious. i think we have come to an agreement that we are in serious trouble. for both sides , the situation has become almost without a way out. there it is necessary to find ways for a fair solution . reagan then succeeded and investments in millions of dollars in hollywood were able to attract and problems with health and pension insurance to solve however, the current bigwigs. the actors and screenwriters hope to pass the backlog there is a schedule of premier overston. but if it doesn't work out, the studio owners have billions of losses ahead, but the new reagan is somehow not visible. hollywood is not only like the dream factory. well, as a forge of trade union cadres, valentin bogdanov ivan utkin evgeny samsonov has not been the same f

ronald reagan said to them at that time, how do you make vaccines safe? they are unavoidably unsafe which is true of most medicines. i am not anti-vaccine. we need to be honest. that is all i ever argued. lauren: 1 opera to f kennedy's message at the time was covid vaccines that were out there were medically unsafe, hadn't been tested enough, rushed on the markets, something he found in unison with many republicans on that committee asking questions today. i thought to get a politician about this, would get a genuine doctor and a very good one. st. joseph's art institute for auto immune diseases, a very calming presence not only before through covid and after covid. good to have you. part of what is coming now in the vaccine wave is we didn't need to get vaccinated. other issues came up with, didn't need to be locked down. may have been a separate day but robert f kennedy junior was among those who questioned the efficacy of these vaccines and their threat to the public. what do you think of that? >> the first thing is vaccines are not a threat to the pub

of that connection with president reagan.he youngest in the nation at the time, age 31. one of the response middle east i had was invest getting a terrorist group in northern arkansas in the hills. they had 280 acres of a compound. they were truly violent, they were armed to the teeth, they were committing murders, one pawn shop owner simply because they perceived that person was jewish, and they were treading upon rights and violence. and so, i had an arrest word for them. we had a search warrant for the property. the fbi, the hostage rescue team was there, surrounding the compound, the leader refused to come out. and the fbi said for me and said we need you to help with the negotiation. so i went up there and i got out of the vehicle, and as i was going to the forward operating negotiating center. for the hostage rescue team. they threw me a bullet-proof vest and said you might need this. and i said this is not why i went to law school. after three days of negotiation, they surrendered without a shot being fired. i prosecut

we saw president reagan bringing in mikhail gorbachev. this is mrs. reagan during mrs. gorbachev. so it's not just it's you know, atmospherics and christmas trees. sometimes first ladies are using this camera to convey real interest in policy and things. they have portfolios. mrs. bush was certainly about afghanistan and the literacy issues. each woman who has had that role has had an important policy agenda. and they have they have very important staff. people acknowledge me, right. who's here? i mean, the people who work with the first lady's staff are equal to the people in the west wing who work for the president. in many cases, because of exactly this, we don't have i've been binge watching the crown. you know, we don't have royalty, but we do have a family. and that conveys part of the story and the narrative of what a white house is about. and eleanor roosevelt was the president's eyes and ears. and so that she went and there was a wonderful new yorker cartoon where they miners down in the mine and they say, i think mrs. roosevelt is coming. and she then will report back an

ronald reagan.ll of this conversation has been awesome about the big issues that are presidential but i'm going to ask you about something more small because a lot of the other republican candidates are leaning into this. i am a school board member in this area and we are hearing a lot about book fans and curriculum crackdowns and diversity and inclusion policies and i would like to know what your thoughts are on those issues? >> first of all let me thank you for what you do. the school board is the most thankless elected position in america. [applause] let me thank you for doing that job. i really believe in what you do. i believe that the people should be making decisions about what is taught in our schools. a parent in consultation with their school board who by the way, her parents. who volunteer their time to be on the school board to oversee the people and professionals who run our schools every day. while i am worried about all this conversation is the idea that this government can make these

going the reagan way or social way. there are things with the 1970s and you and i remember them very, very well. extreme inflation and kind of out of his depth and the economy that wasn't performs and income with ronald reagan and i guess you're hoping for something similar today in 2024 and who's the conservative and more with the republicans. >> we'll get a good feel for it next month when there's the first debate and debate following and so far the candidate haves put forth a reagan escambia kind of flat form like in 1980 and forward looking and great to criticize what's been done and what will you do in the future and they've been concerned about foreign policy in the early 1980s and u.s. weakness and getting crisis around the world and who's got a foreign policy as well the way reagan did in 1980. stuart: donald trump really slammed bidenomics in his interview with maria. watch this interview. >> you know what bidenomics is, huge inflation, huge problems, lack of respect all over the world and china is eating our l

reagan spoket day, the climax of my fourth grade school year, we woo that day.e and the reagan thing was the highlight. that is when i got the patriotic bug right then and there. i didn't mean to get all serious on you -- >> jessica: coming from jimmy phelan. >> joey: reagan come '86, fourth of july, that doesn't count. >> dana: before you were born. i have a similar think i'm a little earlier, '78, i was six years old, my dad was going to a conference back when your parents, you could take your spouse with you to a conference and they paid for everything so i got to go to washington, as well, and my mom -- over the fourth of july, right before fourth of july and my mom had a friend they went to high school with, worked at the white house during the carter administration and she scheduled air force one flights, so we got to go do a tour of the white house and i remember when we left washington, it was the night of the fourth of july, and i saw the fireworks outside the window of the plane over the washington monument, and come again, it is one of my earliest mem

whose name you may know, his name was ronald reagan, here is a memorable photograph of those times, the future us president next to the actor chaston hatton, who left the democratic party and became a republican for him. this is reagan's second term as head of the screen actors guild from the battle of seven movie studios. he emerged victorious. i think we have come to an agreement that we are in serious trouble. for both sides , the situation has practically become hopeless; we have to find ways of a fair solution from reagan. then it turned out and investments in millions of dollars. hollywood was able to attract and solve problems with medical and pension insurance. however, the current bigwigs. the actors and screenwriters hope to pass on the backlog; there is a schedule for the premiere that has been completed. but if it doesn't work out, there are billions of losses ahead of the studio owners, and here is the new reagan. somehow hollywood is not seen not only as a dream factory. well, as a forge of trade union cadres, it has long been not the same valentin bogdanovsky on yevgeny s

that, he was serving with governor reagan and the reagan administration came to a close almost 35 years ago. general meese has been a constant presence in washington and he is a great legal scholar but also it means a lot to lawyers of my generation and younger to have somebody around who is a tangible link to the reagan administration and at the reagan revolution. so i am really tickled to have too received an award named after him. i feel a little bit that i'm getting this award largely because i can't keep a job. [laughter] i keep on leaving these large law firms. but in both instances, it has been a very clear choice because -- not lame but easy choice but a clear choice. it has been a clear choice because it was not a matter of not taking on a client. it was a matter of discontinuing an ongoing representation where there was already the attorney-client elation ship and in this most recent case, it was a long-standing relationship as the case moved its way throughout the legal system all the way to the supreme court. so, the choice was clear. it wasn't necessarily easy ended require

, it is obvious that ronald reagan was remembered for the fact that he knew how to take responsibility make decisions, and it was his determination , along with his obvious diplomatic talents, that made it possible to bring down soviet union to its objective end it would have collapsed anyway, but reagan's policy helped him without a doubt, that's why i think that uh , if uh, no, no, this is not about criticism of president biden, but if so, well if there were people like reagan at the head of the western countries of the leading western countries, it seems to me that the situation would be resolved much, much faster, and i repeat once again in favor of these countries. it seems that some western politicians simply deny themselves the pleasure of making profits at the same time, the dividends in all parameters are due to the fact that russia will collapse, well, this is already, as they say, their problems, really look at volodymyr today in the dutch gas and ah , such a significant event is happening there a center for the study of russian crimes and crimes of russian aggression in ukr

but i would not vote for donald trump, i voted for nixon, voted for the mayor, i voted for ronald reagan , i don't dislike republicans. i don't like the way former president trump's way of doing business. i think the indictment is appropriate and hope it happens. host: a couple programming notes for you this morning, there's a conversation on the importance of u.s. alliances in the end of pacific region with the defense and state of -- state department officials hosted by the brookings institution. you can watch that live at 10:30 a.m. eastern, on c-span now, our mobile video app, or on c-span.org. also at 12:00 today, a group of appellate attorneys looks at recent u.s. supreme court decisions including rulings on student loan forgiveness. -- forgiveness, affirmative action, and social media speech. it's hosted by the george mason and standing scalia law school -- anniston and scully a law school. you can watch that on c-span, c-span now and on c-span.org. taking your calls for the next 20 minutes until the end of the program, stephen is in kentucky, republican. caller: yes. thank you. y

talking about greg today, i grew up during the reagan era and believe it was the reagan doctrine thatviet union and i believe president reagan said there is no security, no safety orof evil and i think those wors are as important as during the cold war and we arew seeing evidence for what russia is doing to the neighbors so my question is, how do we keep conservative national security principal valued our platform said there is no limit between china and russia and because of his atrocities, china is and in this race, i heard all of this garbage spewed in iowa and every presidential candidate and subjectbj themselves to doctor carlson, how small does he think america is he says cities are crumbling yet sending money to ukraine. we can do both and we have done both in the past. leadership to do itt again. [applause] right now ukrainians have made it clear, they don't want us anywhere near, then what american men and women anywhere near. what they want is a fair chance to beat the russian, chinese and immediate which is who they are fighting. this was the territorial dispute. territoria

as recently as 1984, ronald reagan won 49 of 50 stat against walter mondale. mondale carried only his home state of minnesota. in 1972, richard nixon won 49 states. george mcgoverns had not even his home state of south dakota. our elections are decided by a half dozen swing states, everything else locked in and predetermined, not only that, we're increasingly living among the like minded. consider this, most people in america live in an area that was one handily by one presidential candidate in the last election. there are roughly 3,100 u.s. counties. in 1980, there were only 391 that were won by 20 or more points, a landslide. by 202 that number hadrown to 1,726. which this out. look at this map, you can see the dramatic differencfr 1992 to 2016. where you see color, there is a landslide county. relatively few in 92, but the va majority of the country by 2016. and the 2016 presidential election was much closer than the 1992 race, and yet there were more blow out counties in 2016 with landslide victories. presidential approvals are emblematic of the divide i'm

it was not thatcher and reagan or blair and bush and as your correspondent hasjust reagan or blair ands just said, joe biden king charles meeting is important for both of them because do not underestimate given the enduring american public fascination with the british royalfamily enduring american public fascination with the british royal family how well the photographs of this meeting will play back in america, so it is not completely one—sided, the president will get something out of it as well but in terms of the views on issues, especially on climate change, they will be a lot closer than prince charles who then was found in his meetings with donald trump. found in his meetings with donald trum. ., ., found in his meetings with donald trum, ., ., ., found in his meetings with donald trum. ., ., ., ,. ., trump. you do not expect to get an hinu trump. you do not expect to get anything out — trump. you do not expect to get anything out of _ trump. you do not expect to get anything out of these _ trump. you do not expect to get anything out of these meetings, | trump. you do not expect

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have something forward-looking like ronald reagan did in 1980 #.idate, came with a lot of fresh ideas and won. jackie: yeah. no, that's a great point. looking forward saying here's where we are, here's how i'm going to pick it -- fix it, whoever that person is. great to see you, steve. >> great to see you, jackie, thank you. jackie: the biden administration calling tech executives to the white house to address artificial intelligence, and coming up we have congressman dan bishop from house judiciary on democrats under fire for trying to censor 2024 presidential candidate rfk jr. during a censorship hearing. stay with us. ♪ the numbers, we see the people. when i first started the company i was excited to empower people of all abilities. you've made something that people find invaluable. it fuels you to keep making a better impact with your business. i don't have to think about the pathway to the ocean, i just know i'm going to be able to surf again. that's why we're here... to help make it happen. (man) what if my type 2 diabetes takes over? (woman)

ronald reagan was governor. i knew growing up with a certainty to the core of my soul, i could do and be whatever i wanted to be. so far, i have had a chance to do that, but not everybody does. i hire young lawyers, they work for me at my law firm. they will have $200,000 in debt. they start life with bills around her neck. that is not what it is supposed to be. i think we can come back. what made america great is not completely dead. i think there is a beating heart there, i think we can do it but it is not for sure and it is going to be hard work. what happened between your childhood, ronald reagan's governorship and today in your view? >> what i talk about in the fall and rise of america, i was there at the pinnacle of american power, both in time and place. the time and place was a place called hopper up a teeny outside of saudi arabia at the end of the gulf war. i was a lieutenant. i was assigned there at the headquarters that destroyed be republican guard. i mean at 100 hours, we did a job that hannibal --

his name was ronald reagan. to charlton houston. reagan was serving his second stint of as president of the screen actors guild, and he had helped spearhead a strike with the writers guild of america against seven major film studios. that is correct. two decades before he ushered in the modern era of conservatism, rooted in the idea of small government and slashing the social safety net and diminishing the power of organized labor, two decades before that, ronald reagan led the actor union, actor's union, through bitter negotiations, once that ultimately secured investment dollars for a new union health insurance plan, a pension plan, and residuals for films produced after 1960. that was ronald reagan's handiwork. and today, residuals are once again at the core of the demands of the actor's union. they are asking to be compensated for their work appearing on streaming services, and they're also demanding safeguards from artificial intelligence, as well as better composition and better working conditions and bett

the election of ronald reagan in 1980.ms - which now confront us. and, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? we are americans. applause. god bless you, and thank you. at which there was a big pushback against what the �*70s had been doing, particularly in the expansion of — of women's rights. so, �*70s quite expansionist. you could have your own credit card. chuckles. stuff like that. and then, you get this pushback, and that was when they started activating the evangelical religious right as a political force. significant also is the fact that i had studied 17th century american puritanism as a graduate student in the early �*60s, and i get to say bad things about those people because they are my ancestors. so, the family... literally. literally, yes, literally, they were puritan new englanders. but it's interesting that you witness what's happening in germany, ronald reagan is elected, so you start imagining the possibilities of a future totalitarian american regime but then, you reach back. well, these regimes are n

reagan 1980, are you off now than you were four years ago? and so you went that that tune people can whistle that's in a tagline mr. do you have to use have you found it effective to use strong language against your opponents at ak you know negative ads work well on tv even though everybody says they hate them. the it's not necessarily words. i read something for the umpteenth time recently about truman. the people you say, give him hell, harry. he says, i don't give them hell. i just tell him the truth and they think it's hell. so i think it's just important. differentiate yourself from your your competition, whether it's in a primary, the general election or even if it's in an hour, get your a nonprofit your support you want separate yourself from all your competition out there and you want to explain in a few words what it is you're doing. it used to be people were exposed to a thousand, maybe 2000 messages a day. now it's in five, 10,000 with the internet. we're just inundated. so you've got to be able to succinctly, in a few words, ident