and that was reagan's essentially reagan wanted to build up.he wanted to support democracy and oppose the soviet union rhetorically. but was extremely careful about putting u.s. forces into into conflict in general, and especially only with the soviet union, because he was well aware of the dangers of, nuclear conflict and in today's world, vladimir has threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons on a number occasions. i think being extreme cautious is something that reagan would advise republicans and democrats, but he would also speak up for defending democratic values. and he would speak, i think, quite strongly to members what have his political about the importance of defending democracy and call out russian tyranny. in some ways, the situation is less stable today than it was then because the soviet at least had a collective leadership. there were some and balances within the soviet. there is no leadership in russia today. there's only. there's only. and so i think that's would suggest that reagan's policy. but being extremely careful abou

smith: governor reagan? mr. reagan: yes. mr. president, once again, i happen to be against the amendment, because i think the amendment will take this problem out of the hands of elected legislators and put it in the hands of unelected judges. i am for equal rights, and while you have been in office for four years, and not one single state, and most of them have a majority of democratic legislators, has added to the ratification or voted to ratify the equal rights amendment. while i was governor, more than eight years ago, i found 14 separate instances where women were discriminated against in the body of california law, and i had passed and signed into law 14 statutes that eliminated those discriminations, including the economic ones that you have just mentioned, equal pay and so forth. i believe that if in all these years that we have spent trying to get the amendment, that we had spent as much time correcting these laws, as we did in california and we were the first to do it. if i were president, i would also now take a look

smith: governor reagan? gov. reagan: yes. mr.be against the amendment, because i think the amendment will take this problem out of the hands of elected legislators and put it in the hands f unelected judges. i am for equal rights, and while you have been in office for four ears and not one single state “" and most f them have a majority of democratic legislators a“ has added to the ratification r voted to ratify the equal rights amendment. while i was governor, more than eight years ago, i found 14 separate instances where women were discriminated against in the body of california law, and i had passed and signed into law 14 statutes that eliminated those discriminations, including the economic ones that you have just mentioned a“ equal pay and so forth. i believe that if in all these years that we have spent trying to get the amendment, that we had spent as much time correcting these laws, as we did in california a“ and we were the first to do it. if i were president, i would also now take a look at the hundreds of federal regul

i was nine years old when reagan was elected. [laughter] i read of reagan's genuine sorrow. i didn't know what it felt like until i became governor. and as you know ronald reagan was also 33rd governor. the world is a very different place today. i came across a speech in the reflected so many. i feel his words resonate with us all now. too every person trapped in tierney's, we send our love and support. the struggle is real, your dreams are our dreams. you will be free. what's happening in ukraine is tragic. the reagan freedom award. fight for freedom for the ukrainian people. may god bless the people of ukraine. [applause] it may seem ironic the first award was presented by reagan himself. what a horrible time that was. the successor is attempting to destroy his legacy. make no mistake putin is an evil man. other dictators throughout freedom the sizes freedom. clear watching daily on democracy and the reminder of reagan's famous words. freedom is never one generation away from freedom. they must be fought for, protected and handed on. one day we will tell our years telling

so the reagan administration, some senior officials in the reagan administration went about a an enterprise to raise private funds and channel those funds to the contras to support their effort to overthrow the nicaraguan government and the way they raised those monies was to sell arms to iran and also raise money and get money from other countries and private sources. this was in contradiction to the reagan administration stated policy of not negotiating with terrorist regimes or regimes that supported terrorism. and in the case of iran, of course, in the early eighties, iran had been, as it still does, sponsoring terrorist organizations in the middle east. and one of them was called in is called hezbollah. and it had taken hostage --, american hostages in beirut. so this complex scheme where the reagan administration officials were negotiating with iran, agreeing to sell them arms in exchange for the release of these hostages, some of the funds from those sales and other fundraising activities would then translate to the support of the contras. so this that's that's that's what the iran c

and the way to reagan is clear. and right here the bullet hits right there and gets through that little gap. troy roberts: through the tiny gap created by the open door of the bulletproof car, hitting the president. an incredible fluke. it was hinckley's sixth and final shot. secret service agents raced him to george washington university hospital where doctors found the bullet dangerously close to president reagan's heart. reporter: judy, i'm sorry to interrupt. troy roberts: nbc cut into woodruff's report with the news. reporter: in front of me now are two bulletins that both say president reagan was shot in the chest. troy roberts: the president was rushed into surgery. meanwhile, the fbi was desperately trying to find out what happened. retired fbi agent thomas baker. we didn't know was this part of a conspiracy? was there going to be other people shot? troy roberts: the answers would be much stranger and more chilling than they could possibly imagine. and it turned out the clues were hiding in plain sight. a na

tonight, i want to welcome you to the reagan library for the latest element of the reagan foundation speaker series, "take time for choosing". it has been my honor to manage this important program behind-the-scenes from the beginning. given john high bush's departure as art director soon i am excited to introduce our guest for this year's. the presidential library is one of the way we honor and remember american leaders of the past. tonight, though, because of our speakers home state i have thought of other ways we have immortalized four of our greatest presidents, mount rushmore. it is a symbol so powerful. not just in america, but around the world. ukrainian president zelenskyy invoked it during his recent address to congress. two of the presidents gazing out of the mountain side, abraham lincoln and theodore roosevelt, famously, were republicans. over time, the party, founded by lincoln, shaped by roosevelt, was revolutionized by reagan. today, we wonder who will take up the mantle and a lead at the party forward in the next decade. as we wonder, south dakota has captured the part

the reagan administration, the birth of the reagan. and it's added found nation was what call a treasonous cover or operation. that sabotage urged american presidential. that sabotaged our foreign policy and sabotage the election. and if let that go, if we don't push back at that, it's going to happen again and again and again. and that's why i think the book is so important today. you know, we hear a lot the october surprise when bob woodward says that that trump has had seven contact with vladimir putin. what's going on there? is he making foreign policy without us? he's also doing it with bibi netanyahu. i don't know. we have one president at a time. and if we let that slide, really, i think our democracy is lost. i think that's what's happening now in a much more way. it was extraordinarily covert back then, it was, you. i finally got in touch with one of bill casey, had a secret network, a secret intelligence network. and i finally sort of got people to talk to me from it. there was a guy named robert sensi, and i tried to get him

even reagan hadn't been able to do that. and then gingrich takes him and immediately moves to start cutting the budget, which is not what those former democrats who we're willing to give them a chance wanted. by the end of the democrats have 1995 their partisan advantage again, clinton wins reelection and a chance for a mid 1990's realignment thrown away by recklessness. host: do realignments happen more often these days, or the possibility of realignments, than in the past? i'm thinking back to a very long period in which democrats controlled both the house and senate. guest: typically realignments for whatever reason tended to happen on a 40-year cycle. it used to be almost exactly 36 years. and what we have been overdue for another realignment for quite some time, meaning that the old questions that drove the old party allegiances have faded. the new questions that drive new party allegiance become more crucial, and neither party has taken advantage of it. and what we've seen is growing numbers of people who say they are

jaclyn reagan: uh-huh -- jonathan hoagland: oh yeah. jaclyn reagan: exactly. josh mankiewicz: the patriarch of the hoagland family, larry, was a leader in their church and a professional photographer who can be heard off-camera, gently directing his children through these precious kodak moments. young girl: dad jonathan: that was good. keep goin.. jaclyn reagan: i always remember gettin' sick of it. 'cause i just wanted to have fun. and we had to always pause and take a picture, which kinda got annoying after a while. but-- looking back, it's nice to see the pictures, i guess. josh mankiewicz: the mom, connie, loved being with her kids so much so that as grew older, she found a job taking care of toddlers at this day care home. but on september the 23rd, 2010--as connie was leaving her job for the day... her life and family were quite literally blown apart. news report: a thunderous explosion rocks an east county neighborhood. teddy williams: the first thing i said to myself when i heard the explosion was oh my goodness what was that? josh mankiewicz: teddy wi

and yet despite reagan's crusade, the panama canal treaty remained in place throughout reagan's presidencyapparently it wasn't a major priority for president reagan once he was actually in office, but that idea live on in the minds of other popular conservatives. we are now relitigating one of the most cynical debates in american foreign policy. and because this is donald trump we are dealing with, the foolish and ill conceived imperial ambitions go way beyond just panama. >> well, we need greenland for national security purposes. people really don't even know if denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. >> donald trump wants to take greenland. you may recall trump toyed with the idea of buying greenland during his first presidential administration even though the nation of denmark says it has less than zero interest in handing it over to the united states. remember greenland has been under danish control since 1814, since is well before the period of 1980s where trump's brain has apparently stopped. nevertheless the

ronald reagan came as the presidency.irst two things he did was eliminate the regulation on the production of natural gas. and then oil. so, what did trump do? ending climate extremism reviewing for rescission all regulations and impose undue burdens on any and use including a mining and processing of non- float materials. energy actions have power consumer choice in vehicles. no more of the government meddling in your bathroom, your bedroom, your home and your cars. used all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure. whether it's the electrical grid. whether it is pipelines, whatever it is leasing to windfarms or degrade national landscape and consumers this is like its all-time tunes and other things these people but yet people sticking out of the ocean a killing burn some of the killing of whales, they make noise and they do not a thing on that withdrawing of the so-called climate accord. what else? donald trump is the most pro-life president in american history. and he is the most pro- american culture pres

i, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear. >> hi, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the night stays. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> [applause] ♪ >> the president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. senator hatfield, mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president bush, vice president mondale, senator baker, speaker o'neill, reverend, and my fellow citizens. to a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion. and yet, in the history of our nation, it's a commonplace occurrence. the orderly transfer of authority as called for in the constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. in the eyes of many i

i happen to like reagan. i understand many callers don't like reagan. the fact that he is so agitated about it demonstrates again reagan's impact. no one is agitated about gerald ford, with all due respect to a decent man. when you look at obama, no one would say obamacare -- at the time he said health care is economic care -- the collapse of the economy, the financial problems and so forth were addressed by obamacare. none of them. that was the american recovery act. that was things like dodd frank. that was things like the implicit or explicit bailouts through loose monetary policy of a financial institution. obama stuck to that, he might have gotten his realignment. but he didn't. that is the point and wanted to make. he had to adopt a number of policies to help stabilize the global economy. there's an article that i quoted in my reagan book that timothy geithner, the treasury secretary said. that he will be judged by avoiding a second great depression. obama supposedly said that is not good enough. well, he got what he wanted but he threw away the d

reagan was bringing something more radical than carter envisioned. reagan was a visionary. he was more of a good government technocrat. reagan brought his revolution to washington. that did not mean he accomplished everything he wanted to do. think of the governing philosophy that reagan brought to washington. that odd -- that attitude still dominates the attitude which is a distrust in institutions and a to federal government. here we are with trump. there is instability in our politics. for democrats looking at the results in november like it is with many parties when they lose an election, doom and gloom and we will never get the white house back. we have lost the judiciary for a generation and that is probably true. what will we do with congress, it is one party rule. we are seeing a lot of instability, not unlike the 1960's but with a different set of circumstances where we are seeing donald trump and joe biden was a one term president. control of congress shifts every back in -- continues to shift back and forth every few years and we will see that instability because

i to quote in a much less passage from ronald reagan's farewell address. he said that ours was the first revolution in the history mankind that truly reversed the course of government. it with three little words. we the people. we the people tell the government what to do. it doesn't tell. we the people are the driver. the government is the car. and we decide where it should go. and what route and how fast. reagan's words lack the inspiration of canada's, but it asks the government to serve people was a way that kennedy of could have called for inspiration, but avoided the danger that others use similar ideas. to to create support our government not for the people. yes there is a way. the way to talk about what we as a community, as all americans can do together. baraka obama famously said that he believed in the view that says in america, in a speech in kansas, he said, we are greater together whenever want engages and fair play and everybody gets a fair shot. everybody does their fair share. obama called people to work hard, but to government to do for t

he found reagan's argument about the country very appealing. or it's morning in america, reagan, this vision of america sparked to conservative revolution. it's motto, government is not the solution to our problems. government is the problem. nearly reagan asserted that prosperity could be just around the corner. and if it's billed with pays and family and freed from tax burdens this afternoon. $6500.00 young men and what will be there in the situation of less than half of what it was just 4 years ago. they can look forward with confidence to the future. still, the promised revolution didn't go far enough for the likes of newt gingrich years ago, feeling that the states still held too much power. the pro, with reagan, i optimism plane with fear is essential from the start of this republic and revolution in and gingrich does this all the time. he's not playing always to the hopes of the country as ronald reagan liked it, that he's trying to paint a much leak or a picture we read today. ready about hairs. we would not have tolerated a generation

neither did ronald reagan.nalizing the agreement fell in president carter's lap and reagan laid the foundation for his next presidential run by challenging president carter at every step. reagan gave public speeches and he testified before congress. he even held a public debate with fellow conservative william f. buckley over the merits of keeping the panama canal, but in 1977 president carter signed the treaty and that handed over control of the panama canal. >> we're here to participate in the signing of treaties which will assure a peaceful and prosperous and secure future for an international waterway of great importance to us all, but the treaties do more than that. they mark the commitment of the united states to the belief that fairness and not force should lie at the heart of our dealings with the nations of the world. >> fairness not force. it was a powerful statement by president carter, but by that point the issue had gone from a matter of diplomacy to a full blown wedge issue. there were even protes

i remember with president reagan in june of 2004.as standing on constitution avenue and it was a hot day. some of the members of the honour guard passed out. i remember some but he passed out because they were standing there for so long waiting for the caisson to come up capitol hill. that was a striking moment because here came the caisson and there were all these people gathered and there was a spontaneous applause honouring president reagan. there was no q, it was the national -- natural thing to do. we will have some moments like that but right now it's a moment of solemnity as they take is casket. we see some of the family members coming down the steps and that's why think we're getting closer to that 21-gun salute and then they will take the casket in. the other thing that's happening, it's starting to get dark in washington. i don't really remember these happening this late in the afternoon. we're going to lose a lot of sunlight here in washington, d.c., soon. this is a very... we honour these leaders in the capital. remember

reagan and bush got -- h.w. 50% of the vote and over 400 electoral college votes, peaking with ronald reagan getting almost 60% of the vote in 49 states in 1984. trump, obviously, hasn't built a coalition anywhere near that expansive, has never won a majority of the popular vote, though he did win a plurality this time. what he has done, though, to a greater extent than was possible for weigh reagan and bush is solidify the republican hold. 54% of the vote in all of them except north carolina. if you look at the vote cast, he reached 60% of the vote among men in all of them, except for two. republicans now hold 22 of their 25 governorships. republicans hold every state legislature if you count nebraska, which is officially non-partisan but republican controlled. maybe most controlled and striking, republicans now hold all 50 senate seats in these 25 states, whereas democrats held eight of them as recently as late 2017. so what trump has done is really tighten the grip on these republican states. they cut a commo

president reagan held his public inauguration ceremony inside the capitol rotunda. outdoor temperatures at 7 degrees fahrenheit. this is courtesy of the ronald reagan library. >> the chief justice will now administer the oath to the president. >> mr. president, are you ready to take the oath? >> i am. >> raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, ronald reagan, solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> the office of president of the united states. >> and will, to the best of my ability -- >> and will, to the best of my ability -- >> preserve, protect and defend -- >> preserve, protect, and defend -- >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> senator mathias, chief justice berger, vice president bush, senator dole, reverend , clergy, and members of my family and friends and my fellow citizens, this day has been made brighter with the presence here of one who for a time has been absent, senator john stamos, g

reagan was bringing something more radical than carter envisioned. reagan was a visionary.e was more of a good government technocrat. reagan brought his revolution to washington. that did not mean he accomplished everything he wanted to do. think of the governing philosophy that reagan brought to washington. that odd -- that attitude still dominates the attitude which is a distrust in institutions and a to federal government. here we are with trump. there is instability in our politics. for democrats looking at the results in november like it is with many parties when they lose an election, doom and gloom and we will never get the white house back. we have lost the judiciary for a generation and that is probably true. what will we do with congress, it is one party rule. we are seeing a lot of instability, not unlike the 1960's but with a different set of circumstances where we are seeing donald trump and joe biden was a one term president. control of congress shifts every back in -- continues to shift back and forth every few years and we will see that instability because o

reagan won 44 states in large part because there was so many reagan democrats who left the democraticicket to vote in 1980 because they were dissatisfied with carter's presidency and reagan could bring them that was much of the forefront of carter presidency. i agree with the caller that if someone brought him in to help their campaign and announced she is supporting carter's opponent is not being straightforward in dealing with people. there are a lot of democrats who were not happy with carter's presidential performance. host: the presidential h emp arse is on its way to washington to the u.s. navy memorial, marking the beginning of his public service in the navy for 10 years. went on to serve in the georgia assembly, state senator who ran for governor, twice he won, served one term as governor. and as we have been talking about, ran for president and served from 1977 to 1981. linda in st. paul, minnesota, democratic caller. linda. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say president carter was the first president i got to vote for out of high school. i was excited about

reagan won 44 states in large part because there was so many reagan democrats who left the democraticicket to vote in 1980 because they were dissatisfied with carter's presidency and reagan could bring them that was much of the forefront of carter presidency. someone to be the president. i was straight out of high school and learning about that and congress and what they did. and it seems to me in following him, he was teaching me as i was watching his presidency and even his campaign and i was excited to hear about this regular person who was running for president and that's what attracted me voting for him. he appeared to be again inly cared about people. he wasn't in it for not right or anything like that, he was a genuine caring person. as i followed his presidency, i was learning about what it meant to be a normal, a regular person who was running the country. and even after he left office and following his life -- his life of service after he left office, it touched me and helped me to think about how am i living my life. if i am doing acts of service. >> interest. host: interes

let's throw this one to you for us. reagan? yes. on the ground its uh, every time we see an of the cd to can we ask ourselves what it needs to be? uh, but guess for, for myself its me, its people are print preoccupied people are we are. oh uh, a few things about uh, what can happen to bob. but so of final close, we can save that to peoples i received answering your mom. but we know that the situation has led a not the economy prices, as we can say, or the gauge to go my heart or was there was so was to have access through the leg and through a and to run out. but the, the that gets adult, so that's a big suggestion and it's that these are a lot of for young people here. you can go, ma as the cd. what does happening around them? yeah, david, anything you want to add to that? yeah, it says if you were to go around to the caps, the many camps that go all the way towards my cc up to the journal, there's an increased pressure. there is a m pots which exists in these cabs. it's really all ready at a crisis level for us to see this conflic

from roosevelt to reagan. this it's a just i think, one of the best national security biographies ever read. and just an extraordinary sort of intertwining the life of this fascinating person who's so much more interesting than you might know, from the outside. and then the seminal moment in american strategic history where, you know, the document that many regard as the sort of opening bookend to the long cold war, the genesis of, containment, and ultimately something that even saw essential when he finally put the game to rest in the in the late eighties one of one of the great lives in american national security. and i did want to read one thing just because it's it's so interesting but to give you a sense of of this individual, just to make sure this is conveyed, this is an it's a in during the second world war, he goes on an expedition to brazil and it's and here obtaining the right materials could determine the difference between victory and defeat. at the battle of kasserine pass in february 1943, germa

we have seen for presidents reagan and ford. one today that is sadly sparsely attended both because of the weather and the incredible security precautions that have been taken across the city given the recent events in new orleans and las vegas and the preparations for the presidential inauguration. >> norah: ed o'keefe at the u.s. navy memorial. the caisson detachment as part of the u.s. army's third u.s. infantry regiment. you heard ed mention the lead horse, remington, not to leave out the full eight horses that will be there as well as five soldiers. the other horses are bullet, rocket, burns, scout, regal, guenther. we will see this beautiful tradition. look how gorgeous that caisson and the midshipmen from the u.s. navy memorial that are flanking that as they will pay tribute. i think we should talk about now his service in the u.s. navy. seven years, and my right, from my memory that he served in the u.s. navy after graduating from the naval academy? >> it's important to remember that in 1943, we are in the middle of worl

reagan yeah. know that's that's reagan's big idea. and i think it's going to become a very important idea and and we have done stoker here today who in his book on grand in the revolutionary war he mentioned that we began the sort of enduring american tradition of being unprepared for conflicts that eventually came to us. so i just thought that meeting this to me was one of the reasons why he's so relevant, was, you know, you're talking about somebody who's worldview as you wrote here, was about preserving american strategic superiority. and that that basically means in the nuclear domain at that time. but concept, i think, can apply very broadly where if we're talking about the question of preparing the question of peace through strength, the question of strategic superiority in a time where you have aggressive adversary, i think he becomes an even more important guide to the moment we're in today than than than maybe any of any time other than his own time. so but that view, i think, is something that we haven't experienced in a lon

and so i thought today was a beautiful, optimistic, very reagan us, but very trump in as well. address today. eric a or was it. busy a beautiful speech of unity. no, not at all, but it never was. i think it was a signature. donald trump speech, and i think it was a speech that donald trump, supporters was could certainly get behind. we certainly get a sense of what he looks to do with many of these executive orders that he's planning on sign in today. and i think what we are saying here is this is a continuation of the campaign where he is going to focus on immigration. and while he certainly talk to in expansion, his terms about canada, greenland, and the panama canal, he's certainly going to continue that with his discussions today about the panama canal. again, i think we are, my supporters were changing in panama, panama. yeah, right. i mean we, we see the ideas and now it's about the implementation. and what does that look like? and more importantly, what will the course actually say about some of these executive orders that we're going to see from the president today? are

the perfect metaphor, he puts a lot, reagan takes them down.he late 1970s. geothermal start to get really developed and deployed. this idea that we just get you going on like this. we cannot let these salaries and the cartel just boss around the largest, most powerful nation on earth, and all that dissipates with oil prices come down. >> yeah, but what he did, and this is something i interviewed not just jimmy carter many times, but i interviewed george h.w. bush, barack obama, and one of the things obama told me is that what carter did was he took things like solar power out of the kind of crunchy world, where a lot of liberals would write about it in the whole earth catalog, that kind of thing. and he made it mainstream. and even though reagan set things back, carter had bought clean energy into the mainstream. and there was a lot of that plumbing of government that he did that nobody remembers. so it was under carter the public utilities for the first time were incentivized to use clean energy. that took national legislation that he signed.

bush delivered reagan's eulogy.was interesting about that state funeral was he and his father delivered eulogies because bush 41 was reagan's vice president. the difference was interesting. bush 41 talked about their personal relationship. some of the funnier stories about reagan. the current president at that time president george w. bush gave more of the biographical approach. it's customary as long as the relationship is somewhat pleasant. host: let's talk about the age jimmy carter lived to. 100. the longest living president. as we watch the presidents club come together today, what if these others were to live to 100? guest: interesting. interesting tradition in american history were typically presidents don't have that long post presidential lives. partly modern rumson -- partly modern medicine is. we have younger presidents. there was a great series of stats about what would have happened if former president had as long a post presidential life as carter. sometimes that's not possible if they are older in off

so that's what reagan hold on to the very clear you're saying that you enforce has failed. you're saying the east african forces failed and you're saying it's too early to tell whether the south african, the, the southern african forces are having any impact. yes, that's what i'm saying. and again, they, they are here, but they, they, they are not very, not the number, you know. so i don't know, we need to see the rest of that's a after, but i'm not even sure that they, we do the got involved on the ground does what? that okay, this is solomon. there has been multiple attempts at a piece deal, or at least at cease fire has multiple cease fires, have been announced over the years. and they've all broken down the latest, serious, robust attempt at securing peace for the region and finding some kind of political settlement between congo and rolanda was in december. but that broke down before the presidents of both countries even met. why is this particular conflict? why does it seem impervious to any and all attempts at, at making peace 1st, it's important to understand that t

last time was 1985 with none other than ronald reagan. they're dangerously cold temperatures moving into the region. inauguration in 40 years. i'm kayleigh mcenany here is my cohost and look upon you. joining us lisa boothe, kayleigh mcghee white, and todd piro. this is "outnumbered." senior white house correspondent peter doocy is here from the south lawn with a pretty big this hour. i see you in a jacket. about to get colder. >> it's cold here, but just know that when you see the white house position, we have a space heater. it is never too cold. however, way too cold for everybody that's going to be attending the inauguration. just off the phone with somebody who -- the president-elect. confirms that the swearing in and inaugural address will happen inside the u.s. capitol dome. president-elect trump is confirming untrue social that everything else will move into capital one arena. we know that -- donald trump speaking, the village people performing. there will be a viewing party. that seats about 20,000 or fewer of the attendees. that

one of the more modern ones began in 1989, when ronald reagan left a note for george h.w.h on stationery with a whimsical bit of advice. since then, the messages have often been heartfelt and written on more staid white house stationery, like the one bush himself left for bill clinton, wishing him great happiness. john: lindsay chervinsky is the executive director of the george washington presidential library. lindsay, since reagan left that note in 1989, by my count, there've been five of those notes? has there been a common theme? lindsay: well, i think the theme in general is about patriotism, service, the importance of the office being bigger than one person and sort of an inspirational encouragement for the next person in office. john: how are they usually left? are they handed to them or how does it work? lindsay: they're usually left on the desk. it's usually one of the last things the president does. they'll usually write their successor's name and then leave it on the desk for them to find when they come into the office for the first time. john: if they come into