ronald reagan. i can tell you that because i hadan worked for then vice president george hwb. would have never written it to him. reagan alone and reagan alone would have insisted over other objections. vice president bush and every foreign policy speech, the first question has approved of this. jamie, listen to this story. all three of you. staying with ronald reagan for a moment. it was told to me who was your predecessor. the first national security advisor. now a former governor. he has just lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald for. there is no inkling he will run for president. he is paying close attention to world affairs. he briefed him on world affairs. and then reagan said, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war. and then ronald reagan, he puts us down in writing for me, this is reagan speaking. some people think that i am simplistic. there's a difference between being simple and simplistic. we when and they lose. richard nixon and henry kissinger and jimmy carter

carter and reagan. carter started out like reagan ended up. and in the middle they were about the same. so carter carter started off a dove, ended up hard line, somewhat reactionary. reagan comes in, he's hard line reactionary, and then ends up a dove. and the justifications for this and this is in the foreign policy, there's also in some domestic affairs when you consider faith issues and whatnot. but the line is this, you know, carter's the one who essentially launches the tried in program b-1 bomber, some of the other defense buildup initiatives reagan says this himself to it says carter started on some of these things. but one reagan accelerates. i mean, he really pumps a lot into it. but what reagan has that carter doesn't really have is kind of a well thought out approach to how am i going to take this defense buildup and apply it to strategic engagement with the soviet union? it's a proactive yeah. you make that approach to to the defense buildup that suggests that agency, personal agency matters, which appeals to americans rather than

ronald reagan. and that is why reagan knew that from his countless hours and gorbachev. the summit with her letters and phone calls they had a really intuitive sense that this guy gorbachev put them further and demand them to tear down that wall would cause a complete rupture in the entire the cold war turning heart it would really have an intuitive stance from gorbachev and more than all the kremlin to the state department or cia out that balance, pushing the sky but also expecting a handout. i think the gorbachev's role into the cold war, what if it was facilitated and causing the right balance of pressure and it helps create the circumstances and november of 89, the german people -- >> excuse me, well. i don't do this in a zoom call but i would like to lean forward and kiss you write on the forehead. i am worried about this for 34 years. of course you are right we knew that gorbachev could take it let me tell you but meeting mikael gorbachev this is a long time ago in this might be 15 years ago now but one of the things is the former leaders of the great communist pow

ronald reagan. i would not have written that for anybody else. and i can tell you that, because i had worked for then vice president george h. w. bush. we have never written it for him. reagan, and reagan alone, would have insisted on delivering the speech, once he had seen it, over other objections. george bush, vice president bush, and every foreign policy speech, the first question he would always ask me when i drafted a foreign policy speech is, did the state approve of? this that was his first question. so jamie, you listen to this story. all three of you, but jamie next. we will stay with ronald reagan here for a moment. this is a story, i think it's a famous story. it was told me by -- who was your predecessor, who was ronald reagan's first national security adviser. so, the year's 1977. reagan is now a former governor, he has just lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald ford. and so far, there is no inkling that he is going to run for president. still, he is playing close atten

staying with ronald reagan for a moment.his is a story told to me by your predecessor the first national security advisor the year is 1977 now reagan is a former governor he just lost the nomination to gerald ford. he is playing close it tension and take our breaks him on world affairs and reagan said would you like to hear mike. the cold war? he said of course, governor than ronald reagan did put this down in writing and quoting from him, this is reagan speaking some people think 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

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

reagan's brother.mething that ragan did better than anything then all the presidents i worked for he listened. he loved to have discussion of different viewpoints. >> i wonder whether you got a sense of those extremely firm unbreakable moral ÃÃwhich was an insurance policy and non-killing way protecting and reducing arms it was easy for you to start seeing those kind of things remembered this coaster books. persons or policy. >> your files were absolutely essential. i'm sure anyone who researched in the ragan administration anything to do with nuclear policy has to look at the files. part of that comes to talking to people who interacted with ragan and i will say this, i got it from two sources not just two sources but two sources very different ends of the spectrum. said the same thing. first george phillips the last week of his life and was remarkable that here i am at my age i get grumpy when i have to give five minutes my time so i don't really want to give any time to and he's hundred euros all gi

i was a young n man in the reagan years and it was no picnic for ronald reagan. i get it. i don't know if it was the advent of the internet or social media or cable television amplifies it but it was like nothing i had ever seen in my life. but nevertheless, we accomplished things conservatives have been talking about for generations and we did it all in 4 short years . [applause] somebody asked me the other day if i have any regrets and i speak about that at the close of the book . the only regret i have is being virtually all the progress we made this mental over the last two years. a military that was more robust than at any time since the reagan years now is facing flatlining of their budgets. shortages once again. and a political correctness that seems to be echoing down the halls of the pentagon. economy ready to rebound after the worst pandemic in 100 years saddled with unwanted range of spending and ignited the worst inflationin 40 years . a war on energy waged against an america that had achieved energy independence that caused gap gasolineprices to go through the

i was a young man in the reagan years. and it was no picnic for ronald reagan. i get it.not know if was the advent of the internet or at social media or cable-television amplified it. but men and women i meant to tell you it's nothing i've ever seen in my life. but nevertheless we accomplish things thatel conservatives have been talking about for generations. we did it all in four short years. [applause] somebody asked me the other day if i have any regrets for a speak about that at the close of the book. the only regret i have is seeing virtually all of the progress that we made it dismantled over the last two years. a military that was more robust than any time since the reagan years. now is facing flatlining of their budgets. and shortages once again. in a political correctness is echoing down the halls of the pentagon. an economy ready to rebound for the worst pandemic and 100 years saddled with the mountain range of spending. the debt that has ignited the worst inflation 40 years. i wore on energy waged against an america that achieved energy independence that caused

ronald reagan rejected that. what america was founded on deeply , they could get the government out of the way and let people innovate in the best the economy would give better and rejected the idea communism was something we had to coexist with. no, his policy was simple, we went, they lose them fighting for one of the famous quotes was freedom is only one generation away from extinction, it's not in the bloodstream, and needs to be fought for and i admit going back ten or 15 years, i thought it was hyperbole. freedom in american dna, we just lose it but the experience of the last five or six years show how fragile freedoms are. you have places in the country that shutter churches allowing liquor stores and strip clubs to operate so light we must to preserve this reading, we must embrace the greed of our country all rights not from the courtesy of the state but the hand of the almighty. we reject -- [applause] we must reject as president reagan did, the idea self-government can be subcontracted out to atechnocra

now, reagan had a view on the subject. thomas jefferson once said we should never judge a president by his age, only by his work. ever since he told me that, i stopped worrying about it. [laughter] our speaker today is at no risk of being judged by his age. with hisea new book it is clear he's asking all americans to judge him just as president jefferson had. the courage to be free is florida's blueprint for america's revival and governor ron desantis is the leader that drafted and implemented that a blueprint in the sunshine state. judging by the size of the enthusiastic sunday afternoon and by how quickly this would allow most of you have already become familiar with the florida blueprint and you like what you see. you know that he has accomplished a great deal in his first term. there is no consensus on what percentage makes for a landslide. politico says it's when you beat your opponent by at least ten percentage points. if you were wondering what happened to that landslide. it grew to a tsunami and reelected the gover

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

there's a recent biography of reagan that hits at it, i think we'll see it full-blown in reagan biographies after enough time. what they did is they said the republican campaign, william casey, ed meese, they said they went to paris to meet with representatives of the ayatollah to the deal was, if the ayatollah would hold the hostages until after the election and let reagan get elected, then reagan, of course, was going to give him all the money that they wanted, that they needed in their war against iran-- against iraq. that's a bit simplistic because there was going on, too. so we know that casey was there. i think that the witnesses that george h.w. bush, who was then candidate for vice-president to reagan, was also there. the secret service record of where he was on that day is missing. you know, and we've seen some recent examples of how secret service records can be missing. and all the proof he and his friends come up to prove that he was not there, it didn't work. the proof that he was there is still not set in concrete. i think credited witnesses that-- i was hoping for a death bed

but the last one i mentioned is the reagan library and the reagan library. when it first opened, it didn't much information about carter, but for some reason that i know not what someone convinced and nancy reagan to open the papers on the 1980 election the election where when carter was defeated by reagan and where the october surprise took place the time it took place. i don't think nancy reagan knew was in those papers. i think somebody's food, because that was a vast collection of papers and of them weren't very complimentary of ronnie. and so it was he had there was a lot of have which had said that i'd like the reagan people not been i had not been totally honest about jeannie went with me as she often did but have friends in dallas that we were we had lived for a while. we had friends who wanted to go to we sometimes travel together. one of them was an attorney. the other one was i was a medical doctor. they were people who knew a lot research and i never forget it. the archivist on duty was a young woman named amanda. i don't remember the rest of her

the reagan centennial. and he was a great friend a great leader and certainly has been extraordinary in transforming the work of the reagan foundation and preserving and continuing to advance the legacy of our 40th president of the united states. so congratulations john for your great achievement. joining john on stage or my friend jean becker former chief of staff to president george hw bush and first lady barbara bush lewis picone historian and board trustee for the groveland cleveland birthplace memorial association and author of grant's tomb the epic death of ulysses s grant and the making of an american pantheon. and nicola longford executive director of the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, nicola. thank you for welcoming. so many of our guests the other day to your wonderful museum, please welcome us. and our panel as we continue the mornings program. thank you so much stewart as stuart mentioned he and i've had the chance to work. in the past both at the red cross and stuart was just an absolutely

but he's all in reagan's face. you know, you criticize the mistakes, the past of democrats for our big deficits. do you take any of the blame for the deficit? and reagan is not his says, well, yes, sam, i do, because for a long time i was a democrat. but told me i asked about that since that my i had many humiliations at the hands of ronald reagan but that was my biggest one. so it takes some art and deliberate. you know craftiness to think how to do that and sadly say a lot of politician just don't think about that in practice and then think it through a little thing. but not. but i'll make a perhaps slightly contrarian, which is i think we need more, not less politics. and i think perhaps one of the things we should be looking at more is less about coolidge's presidency and more about his governorship, which is say that what strikes that we need today, which coolidge understood at the federal level, where you have a more limited constitution at the state level, where you actually have powers at the constitutional

reagan's was just as thick. can i just add quickly that after president reagan died after president ford died after nancy reagan died. all joanne wrote long memos to me president ford who the man in charge of his funeral a man named greg will wrote me along memo. they became my bible of how to do a funeral it saved my life. and and i did the same for the chiefs of staff of president bush 43 obama. clinton and carter i wrote this long memo. what went right what went wrong and we can talk about later some of those big challenges, but those memos saved my life. yeah in a moment. we'll talk about the sharing of those memos, but this is one of those the best laid plans of men, and i want to put a photo up for and ask gene to comment. here we go. gene best laid plans. sometimes there are surprises big surprises that might occur unexcted moments in presidential funerals. and here's just one. this is one of the best unexpected moments. of president bush's funeral if many of you will remember that president bush and bob

i joined the reagan revolution and never looked back.his vision of vision for strong national defense limited government under the constitution traditional moral values but also it was a heart and of gentleness and the way he spoke deep conviction the gentleness and respect that will always inspire me as long as i live the life and the work and the example of ronald reagan. [applause] >> you just mentioned and talking about the vision of ronald reagan, smaller government. whatever happened to republicans in the smaller government and less spending. [laughter] >> i try to capture that a little bit i ran for congress the first time in 1988 when president ragan was still in the white house. and i lost. i ran again in 1990 and i lost by more. and i really thought my political career was over we would spend 10 years in radio and a little bit of television in the state of indiana but when the opportunity came back to run for office i dusted off that ragan vision the ragan agenda karen and i loaded up the kids in the minivan we went to the coun

reagan's was just as thick. >> could i just added quickly after president reagan died,an after presidentord died, after nancy reagan died, all joanne wrote long memos too me. president fort greg willard wrote me a long memo. they became my bible of how to do a funeral. it saved my life. and i did the same for the staff and president bush 43, obama, clinton and carter. i wrote a long memo what went right, what went wrong and we can talk about later some of those big challenges. >> in a moment we'll talk about the sharing of those. but this is one of the best laid plans of mice and. i want to put a photo up and ask jean to comment, here we go. the unexpected moments in here is just one. >> on the bt unexpected moments. many of you will remember presidt bob dole or bit rivals they had a nasty 81988 republican primary contest. both said some things that prably wish they had not said. they became huge frien. and when senatorhi dole this isn president bush was lying in state in the rotunda. he insisted on standing. and saluting the casket. he is in a wheelchair now. i had an opportunity to ask

i had the privilegele of working for andnd with john for several years and planning the reagan, the reagan centennial, and he was a great friend, a great leader, and certainly has been extraordinary in transforming the work of the reagan foundation and preserving and continuing to advance the legacy of our 40th president of the united states. so congratulations, john, under great achievement. [applause] joining john onstage are my friend jean becker former chief of staff to president george h.w. bush and first lady barbara bush, louis picone historian and board trustee for the grover cleveland birthplace memorial association and author of grants to come for epic death of ulysses s. grant in the making of an american pantheon. and nicola longford executive director of the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza. nicola thank you for welcoming so many of our guests the other day to your wonderful museum. please welcome us and our panel as we continue the program. [applause] >> thank you so much, stuart. as stuart mentioned, he and i had the chance to work in the past both at the red cross and ste

that's not the ronald reagan i negotiated with.ss i will consider it because serious people every state but i don't think that's a priority and he looked around at the two of us that were there and he said if you think otherwise let me know. we went on about her business and a year later they had access to that transition report and we had a three or four-day --hiding important information from the american people and/or that we were spying on the president. two decades later bill o'reilly writes the same story, the same document and again we , howard and i more time, we days refuting that there was a coup or a cover-up or anything else than the 10 minutes we being briefed about a potential 25th amendment issue. the point i'm trying to make is the president's help is the third rail and that probably frustrates ath considered organized thoughtful process in some respects. clearly it did. clearly it did in the hinckley assassination attempt. on the other hand he shared with me materials i hadn't seen in years from the quentin library

by reagan. and supposedly when the october surprise toplace . i thought that nancy reagan saw those newspapers, somebody folder because it was a vast collection and not a very complimentary volume so there was a lot of evidence that the reagan people had not been totally honest but jeannie went with me, she often did but we had friends who wanted to go to some time and travel together. one of them was a medical doctor. there were people when you arrived and i'll never forget it, they was a woman named mandy. i don't remember the rest of her name. and she saw brought someone from texas and she upbraided me at thetime for bringing posse . >> .. even though there are still some things we like. click so i have been around the country to a lot of different presidential libraries. >> let's talk about some the themes of the book. the most important was is a relationship between rosalynn carter. have it changed over thers years from the first volume into your second volume? and did you see much change w

that's not the ronald reagan. i negotiated with i i yes will consider it because serious people have raised it, but i don't think that is a priority and if and he looked around at the two of us that were there and if either of you say think otherwise, let me know. we went on a matter of business a year later jane mayor donald mcmanus wrote landslide. they had access to that transition report and we had a three or four day firestone. of we had were hiding important information for the from the american people and and/or that we were spying on the president two decades later bill o'reilly. and killing reagan writes the same story. the same document and and again we i when we spent howard and spent more time. we spent days refuting that there was a coup or a cover-up or anything else than then the 10 minutes. we spent being briefed about potential 25th amendment issue. so it's a third the point i'm trying to make is the president's health is the third rail for white house staff. it is the third rail and that is and t

not the ronald reagan i negotiated with.we will consider it because serious people have raised it. but i don't think that is a priority. and he looked around at the two of us were there and see if either of you think otherwise let me know. we went on about our business. a year later jane mayer they wrote landside that access to the transition report. we had or three or 40 firestorm we were hiding important information from the american people. and or that we were spying on the presidents. two decades later, bill o'reilly writes the same story, same document. and again -- we had re- spent howard and i spent more time -- we spent days refuting there is a coup, a cover up or anything else than the 10 minutes we spent being briefed about a potential 25th minute issue. the point i'm trying to make is the presidents health is the third rail of the white house staff it is the third rail. that probably frustrates a considerate organized thoughtful process in some respects. clearly it did. clearly it did in the hinckley assassination

ronald reagan in 1987 july was about to have a surgery and it was on his face and reagan had no poems about transferring power. the white house staff imposes supporters her weary of it so transfers of power are rare, highly scripted and brief. we've all seen photos waiting for the doctor to say he's conscious of the president will assign the resuming power. the one surgery i had a should have been exercising this. and it is with american people and it is studious and discouraging every saturday american history tv documents american stories and sunday's book tv brings the latest nonfiction books and authors. funny for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more including comcast. >> you think is just a community center? it's way more than that

reagan was better. reagan had a better vision of what america would be.the stock market under reagan was phenomenal moving forward, don't know if you remember, january 1, '83 to june 1984, increase gdp by 12. neil: i used to talk, you are very dismissive of me but that was understood. >> it is not biden, just not biden. we aren't better off than we were four years ago. neil: there you go again. art laffer on all that. in the mean point. watch it closely, the big debate is tonight at 9:00 pm eastern, kicks off on fox news, don't forget to watch it. stocks running up fast and furious. can fisher was predicting things would get bumpy. they got little bumpy but he's as bullish as ever saying that is what happens in the early days of a market. where are we in this market? ♪ new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. businesses need 5g solutio

we are watching pictures from reagan national airport. not a very long journey from reagan national airport, about a 10 minute ride. he is due there at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, and security is extremely tight around the airport and on the journey downtown. security is very tight, in fact, there was a secret service sweep of the courthouse last night. strangely, these pictures we are watching are all very familiar now, because it looked something like this when he first appeared for the first indictment in manhattan. the fact that he is using these political appearances in court for political capital, you will see tonight perhaps a camera following him on the journeys, it is all carefully documented and relayed on the campaign videos, part of the broader fundraising effort. none of these cases have yet come to court. let's go to our correspondent, outside of the courthouse. carl, you are standing outside the courthouse, very close to the western entrance of capitol hill, where all of these events unfolded january 6. carl: you would know ver

the reagan library didn't have much information but they convinced nancy reagan for the 19th election defeated supposedly by the time it took place. it was a vast collection and they had a complementary piece. jamie went with me and she often did and we came together. there is a medical doctor and they had done research. i don't remember the rest of her name but she saw all the helpers and she teased me the rest of the time. it was good research, they didn't try to add anything. the true squad of the election was available and in used to slay as a professional historian they were surprised this did take place there were still some things they would like to know about. >> let's talk about the themes of the book. the most important one is the relationship and how it changed over the years. did you see much change? >> the first for his governorship they would go out so they had similar backgrounds with the carter's were there background but the smiths were not. jimmy went off tool college and the naval academy and they got married. he had been on the church steps in they had announced th

reagan for the honor if a vote had been taken among the floor traders.hey gave him round after round of cheer. we're going to turn the bull loose. auletta: the whole world from reagan's white house on was basically saying wall street is the engine of our economy. it represents growth, it represents opportunity, it represents the american dream. and so these guys were basically saying "we're gonna go do it." brokaw: this is the big draw on wall street -- the smell of money. this is where the action is. this is the over-the-counter trading floor of shearson/lehman. more than 17,000 daily transactions involving millions of shares and millions of dollars made and lost here every day. and it's a game for young people. when you get home at the end of the week and you look back on what you've done sitting in this desk, what gives you a sense of satisfaction? i guess, uh... making a lot of money. for yourself or for the company? myself and for the firm, yeah. when the economy started to recover and become more vibrant, i think there was a great sense of exhilara

it drove up particularly in the reagan years. in the 70's there was this malaise, this belief that the military was hollow itself. the attempt to rescue the hostages in iran went poorly. reagan buildup and from the victory in the cold war helped propped up public confidence in the military. as the chart indicates it goes up and down with perceived performance and perceived need. there have not been those dramatic successes are dramatic urgent threats that would create that war frame. host: what about factors like how much we spend on the military, or you mentioned the withdrawal from afghanistan or things like sexual harassment cases in the military, how much does that play into confidence in the military? guest: americans have a high expectation of high ethical behavior by the military. that is one of the props that supports public confidence. when there are reports of scandals, when it looks like the military is struggling to control the problem of sexual harassment, that is also going to drive down public confidence in the mil

i want to see how ronald reagan characterized him.video clip] job scalia is a brilliant judge, he had had a career as a lawyer and a judge. there he became known for his integrity and independence with the force of his intellect. she jumped -- justice rehnquist and justice scalia, congratulations to both of you. with these two outstanding men taking their new positions, i consider this a time of renewal in the great system that our forefathers gave us. [end video clip] >> that was the swearing-in, which was three months after he was nominated by president reagan. talk about those three months and what it was like. you referenced earlier, two at the same time, and the real lightning was rehnquist. how did the administration prepare? >> the book publishers for the first time a lot of the documents that were generated at the reagan white house and the department of justice to support this twin nomination, and it shows that the white house devised an elaborate campaign on behalf of scalia, probably more elaborate than any supreme court no

reagan came in and it was a revolution that went to trump. it was more of a suspicion of the federal government, not to waste, balance the budget. and now we are in a time of neo-civil war. the age of reagan is over. they are morphing with biden people. you have a new world order going on with donald trump and how he has consumed so much of the oxygen of our country. we do not know where we are at. this divide, al gore and george w bush down the middle. the florida recount, hillary clinton won the popular vote but trump came president. we have not been able to get out of that feud. i think the republicans are winning in the sense that they were able to get recent supreme court justices in. that has fueled an unraveling of the programs, roe v. wade, clean air and clean water act. we are now in an aero where americans think less government is more. libertarianism is going on right now. on the other hand, if biden wins, we may be living in the age of biden. trump is eating all of the media up, but trump -- but biden might be a two timer. >> what