from the reagan family, president reagan's son, michael.sident reagan's granddaughter ashley and her husband joe. conn gallegly and his wife, janice. esswoman mimi walters. the mayor of simi valley, fred thomas. members of the simi valley city council, mike judge and alain lister. we also have with us today the following members of the board of trustees of the ronald reagan presidential hold your applause. we have kathy bush and her daughter charlotte, former labor secretary and transportation secretary elaine chao, former president assistance to ronald reagan, peggy noonan, former u.s. solicitorlson and pete wilson and the former first lady of california, mrs. gail wilson. i am so pleased to introduce our chairman of the board of trustees of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute, fred ryan. fred has served president and mrs. reagan since 1980 in a variety of roles, including director of presidential appointments and scheduling in the white house and as president reagan's first post presidency chief of staff. today in addi

so not only that, he denied governor reagan or challenge governor reagan. he also challenged governor carter when. he was working as a deputy at right with cash weinberger. give us a little feel of perhaps his political instincts. things were slightly off. they were wrong then. yes. and any mid-set. so, yeah. and i believe it was. i think you have it in front of me. yeah, it was a it was a head start program. yes. and so i read the sense. you go ahead. yes. i was great. so. so they were going to tell carter that, we're going to override your, veto and put push the program in and you weinberger's hesitating and this is what frank carlucci says when he we hung up, i turned to kevin. you're quoting from the memoir, really nice device in this book, you know, when it's coming straight the memoir and said cap he's a lame duck governor, you'll never hear from him again. override the veto. yeah. yeah. he was wrong. but what's remarkable about that is our politics today and this is a throughout if you would have overrun, you know, a governor who then became presiden

time, time, time and reagan. oh the breaking name came up and he decided he wanted to take people down to the shores of virginia and and hold something down there and he was in charge then of trying to run a set of conversations about international economics and where the country was going, where the world going. reagan had that on his and he had to have a meeting with every not only with the g8 group as a whole, but he had to have individual meetings with each member of the g8. and so there was a stack of stuff that he had to get a hold of. we had to write briefing papers. and this briefing book thicker and thicker and thicker. it was like this when we finally had it done and baker took it to reagan and said, mr. president, here's the briefing book for tomorrow. that's a lot longer than it usually is. so, sir, could you simply could you scan it? don't you don't have to go. don't have to read it very close to the place. got and he said no, no i'd be glad to. well, our other fear at that point was we had reagan's

but i think reagan, if you look at the year since reagan stacks up veryoh, my god. he looks like cicero. yeah i'm with general hair. yeah but so the one thing to remember about jim baker is how a man managed to get past nancy reagan. yes. having run two campaigns against ronnie. yeah. because he ran theord campaign in 76 when reagan him and the bush campaign in 80. and i've always had a that one of the reasons mrs. reagan said yes, that baker looked like her idea of a chief of staff. yes, right. and he was. yeah, they went to princeton. well, you know, we didn't have ything. but you're right. we call that the vanderbilt of new jersey. but and that was that troika, right? it was ed meese, right. is that correct? no brief story every every year in those g-8 meeting that was meeting of thtop people, the president and prime minister, a small number of countries, like eight tries. and every good thing switched to the another person had responsibility for hosting the meeting well. time, time, time and reagan. oh the breaking name came up and he decided he wanted to take p

my career inhe senate began amidst the reagan revolution.the truth is, when i got here i was just happy if anybody remembered my name. president reagan me mitch o'donald. close enough, i thought. my wife elaine got married on president reagan's birthday, february 6. it's probably hot the -- not the most romantic thing to admit, but reagan meant a lot to both of for 31 years elaine has been the love of my life and i'm eternally grateful to have her i think back to my first days in the senate with deep appreciation for time that helped shape my view of the world. i'm unconflicted about the goodwyn o■)ush■ -- the good with isin -- country -- with in our country. that's why i worked so hard to get the national security package passed earlier this month. believe me, know the politics within my party at this particular moment in time. i hav many faults. m misunderstanding politics is not one of them. thatsaid, i believe more strongly than ever that america's global leadership is essential to preserving the shinning city on a hill that ronald reaga

reagan did reagan did reagan cooperate with iran behind the scenes to make sure the hostages weren't released right before. the election, which would have given a boost to carter. again, the evidence, i would say pretty thin, the election result, it was a close election. nixon won by about a half million votes in 1968. the electoral college was a little more decisive, not a landslide but a little more decisive, especially when you factor in wallace's 46 electoral votes that he got that year. so in effect, if you kind of add nixon plus wallace and interpret that to be kind of the anti incumbent vote it's a much more decisive election that year. but what i leave you with is one final thought nixon might be the winner, but nixon, millions of people voted for nixon, not they loved him, but because go back to what i said before, because he was acceptable. he was the bad of the alternatives. he was a way to kind of rewind the clock and choose someone who whose political office and career was before vietnam, before the unrest and chaos of the country and. so nixon was really the best of the

um on the global solidarity aspect and reagan, i have not forgotten about you. i will go back to you. but on the global solidarity issue, many aspects of this crisis are being talked about online as we mentioned. here's another casualty. all the conflict and the mining the d. r. c that had deja has mentioned the environment. the one thing you can do right now in regards to speaking up is talk about the congo bass, get the environment on the line because a lot of smaller tech and other companies are trying to get in because what they want our resources, they get the congo basis is the largest or is the continent of after a bunch of companies are buying different plots of the land to do oil extract. as far as we have a repairable climate repercussion, i'm going to do a deep dive tomorrow, but make sure you are talking about the congo base and right now. um reagan, do you agree that environmental activist could be a good source of support here for you guys? yes, i think i think yes it end up being is one of the issue that needs to be uh, uh, push because i of cours

um reagan. do you agree that environmental activist could be a good source of support here for you guys? yes, i think i think yes. right. and nothing is one of the issue that needs to be uh, a push because uh, of course it, it gives the whole and also it shows dot com. well, it's not only up from the complex of it towards the solution. so i think that's right steve of seeing face and know that's going to so useful. but for that to be able to do to happen, we need to support people from google to make sure that they cannot stay. that's good for thanksgiving. this far because it's in the interest of everyone. how does your taking, how can the world help the congo right now in the congo these people, like reagan just mentioned, is definitely making sure that we are supporting local companies, institutions supported people, human attainment efforts on the ground. and congo, for example, if you have it raising funds, make sure that all of it, or most of it is going into the hands of the companies peo

and taft is tr sr and reagan were brilliant communicators. they were unbelievable salesmen. and i think that that often a quality that we overvalue you as american people, as as scholars, and so sometimes as the people that after them that maybe get some of the stuff done. for bush 41 actually ending cold war peacefully, that credit often goes to reagan, even though he so far from office. and so i think that we we also need to definitely consider as we're evaluating legacies to what extent is showmanship something that be valued? is early. always everything. i would just out that but i think there's no as a store a historian you emphasize change in continuity right so i think it's difficult to like pull bush away reagan in some ways there are things that define the bush presidency and certainly the end of the cold war, the epitome of that and that was completely his doing. and it demonstrated considerable skill. but certainly the context for his presidency is set by by reagan massive budget deficits. i mean one of the reasons why bush lost in

and taft is tr sr and reagan were brilliant communicators. they were unbelievable salesmen. and i think that that often a quality that we overvalue you as american people, as as scholars, and so sometimes as the people that after them that maybe get some of the stuff done. for bush 41 actually ending cold war peacefully, that credit often goes to reagan, even though he so far from office. and so i think that we we also need to definitely consider as we're evaluating legacies to what extent is showmanship something that be valued? is early. always everything. i would just out that but i think there's no as a store a historian you emphasize change in continuity right so i think it's difficult to like pull bush away reagan in some ways there are things that define the bush presidency and certainly the end of the cold war, the epitome of that and that was completely his doing. and it demonstrated considerable skill. but certainly the context for his presidency is set by by reagan massive budget deficits. i mean one of the reasons why bush lost in

let me remind you, this is actually the coming to power and the election of ronald reagan. probably, those who remember, or those who read, know that on november 4, 1979 in tehran, the embassy was captured as a result of the seizure. 60 hostages of american diplomats, they were released, released to america on november 4, a few minutes after reagan accepted i swear, for a long time everyone broke their spears, what happened that on november 4, exactly one year later, they were captured. life will take us through a famous military operation, which was called a plate of rice, it was also called an eagle claw, it had many names, where the carter administration simply failed, and inside this operation , the military asked it to be canceled, although 10, i think 10 soldiers died , a lot of equipment was lost, but... a few minutes later, as soon as reagan was inaugurated, the hostages were released, what happened when the newly elected president ronald reagan was asked what you did that you managed to achieve the result so quickly, he said: i didn't do it, my people worked, after

after a few years, it will become known that the so-called people of reagan needed 40 million dollarsbribe the leadership of iran, including this money that went to ayatala, not khoman, well , they gave it to carter, as the president of the predecessor of the current one, in order to they are not a moment, these hostages. the situation is developing just now in this scenario, pay attention to when mike johnson was elected, the speaker of the house of representatives, you have to remember that the election this time will be held, well, as it should be, on the second... tuesday, that is, it will be the fifth tuesday, the first tuesday after the first, the first weekend of november, it will be the fifth, on the fifth the americans will go to the polls, they will vote, depending on what, and from my point of view , few people here can say, depending on what because it doesn't matter in principle, there's going to be some kind of vote if decisions like the ones last week by the supreme court that were made in favor of trump don't preempt the problem because that vote is included, pay atten

becausev we we are the children of the reagan revolution. we believe in free enterprise.eve in a strong national defense. we believe in limited government. we believe in the concept. the tution of the united states. we believe the world is a strong a better place when america is the strongest country on earth. and we know that america is strongest when it stands with its allies, allies like israel. we side. we stand for freedom in cuba and venezuela and nicaragua. they things are not negotiable. these things are not negotiable. but there are some people in this race that aren't strong on these issues. the other day, donaldas asked, will you take sides? will you take side with israel in face of its enemies? and he said he's not taking ■!sides. donald trump says he's not taking sides. he wants to be impartial. i want you to know something. when i'm president of the united states, we are taking sides. we are on israel's side. ■éand the world will know we'ren israel's side. because on my first day in office, we will cancel barack obama's deal w iran. when i'm president of the

let me remind you, this is actually the coming to power and the election of ronald reagan.erhaps those who remember, or those who read, know that on november 4... 1979, in tehran, as a result of the seizure of the embassy, ​​60 american diplomats were taken hostage, they were released, they were released to america on november 4, a few minutes later, when reagan took the oath, for a long time everyone broke their spears, what is a hundred... that november 4 exactly in a year, they were captured, life will take us through a famous military operation, which was called... it was called rice plate, it was also called eagle's claw, it had many names, where the carter administration simply failed, and within this operation, the military asked it to be canceled , although 10, i think 10 soldiers died, a lot of equipment was lost, but a few minutes later, as soon as reagan's inauguration took place. were released as hostages, what happened when they asked the newly elected president, roynald reagan, what did you do that you managed to achieve the result so quickly, he said: i did n

let me remind you, this is actually the coming to power and the election of ronald reagan. probably those who remembers, or those who read it, know that on november 4, 1979, 60 hostages were taken in tehran as a result of the seizure of the embassy. american diplomats, they were released, released to america on november 4, a few minutes later. when reagan took the oath, everyone broke their spears for a long time, what happened that on november 4, exactly a year later, they were captured, life will lead us through a famous military operation, which was called the rice plate, it was also called the eagle's claw, it had many names , where the carter administration... simply failed and within this operation , the military asked it to be canceled, although 10, i think 10 soldiers died, a lot of equipment was lost, but after a few minutes, as soon as reagan was inaugurated, the hostages were released, what happened when they asked the newly elected president royld reagan, what what did you do to make you so successful? achieve results quickly , he said, i did not do it, my peopl