but marcus has spent the last five years writing his book on ronald reagan, and ronald reagan has become a symbol he's become an icon for conservatives and we have presidential primary debates within the republican party, held at the reagan library. and it is a de facto prerequisite for these candidates to air their opinions and play homage to ronald reagan. but as marcus likes to point out, there is a disconnect between the ways that conservatives thought about ronald reagan's ronald reagan in the 19 eighties. in his own time and space, and the way reagan has been mythologized. the way we think about reagan today. reagan the icon, reagan the symbol. marcus and i were at a philadelphia society meeting once, and we are at a reception and don divine, who was the head of this he made some comment about the reagan administration to marcus, and marcus came back and said actually marcus a said he did not cut domestic spending. and they got into this argument about how much reagan actually cut, and it was a funny moment for those who have seen don divine he is know how television he is a very a

but marcus has spent the last five years writing this book on ronald reagan, and ronald reagan has become a symbol. he's become an icon for conservatives. we have presidential primary debates within the republican party held at the reagan library. and it's a de facto prerequisite for these candidates to air their opinions, to pay homage to ronald reagan. buttish as marcus likes to point out, there's a disconnect between the way conservatives thought about ronald reagan in the 1980s, in his own time and space. and the way reagan has been mythologized, the way we think about reagan today, reagan the icon, reagan the symbol. we were at a reception and don divine who's head of the civil service in the reagan administration made some comment about the reagan administration to marcus, and marcus came back and said actually reagan did not cut domestic spending and they kind of got into this argument about how much reagan actually cut, and it was a funny moment for those of you who have seen don divine on television, he's a very adamant person. and marcus is as well, so it was a pretty robust arg

ronald is out. that's it.ive weeks later, he scores an enormous comeback in new hampshire primary. we all remember the debate. famous national debate. i am paying for this microphone, mr. green, even though that wasn't his name. that starts the beginning of his come back against bush. but he goes to detroit, the party is still divided, and so he needs to pick bush to unify the country's -- party, nixon picks add new in order to unify the party. it was a splitting that both parties practiced perfection in the forties, fifties, sixties, into the seventies. it unifies the party. but it goes through 30 primaries in the state convention. the nomination is not just rains for the asking. he has got to fight. he's got a street fight of his life to beat george bush to get the nomination. >> that fight is the source of the term, voodoo economics. >> that's right. reagan was pushing -- he had developed this issue in 1978. then tax cuts become the centerpiece of his 80s campaign. it is really the devil in bush, because he

and he singles out for criticism private citizen ronald reagan. the president of the united states singles out one person, goes out one out of 240 million people, he singles out reagan. he's just a private citizen. and so, the next day cbs news calls private citizen ronald reagan, and they say, would you like a half hour of national broadcast time to respond to the president of the united states? i mean, it would never happen today, right? >> no. >> so reagan, of course, jumps at the chance. he goes on and gives a half hour speech responding to the president of the united states attacking him over the panama canal treaties. >> let's shift from him attacking the president to his fight then again with the republican establishment of the time embodied in george h.w. bush. >> right. well, is that the party is split. it has been split since the '50s. in '52, eisenhower or robert taft. eisenhower represented the establishment. senator taft, mr. republican, represented the conservative outsiders. then nixon and lodge, goldwater and rockefeller, and then

metropolitan police officer now a university lecturer and criminal justice ronald hampton ronald to sunny of this data surprise you who know what i was amazed about was to the extent to talk about. some of the crimes are crimes of opportunity so people are going to participate in consequence if if you can go to the still of you if you're not going out if you. how slow and extended did you write some of those. things are going to we're going to see a decrease but police have never in my opinion been in in a developed in a way. homicide how much as a thing that happened added out of that out of the out of the view and out of the contact the police so without days that as a society we can do some town to to address some of the systemic issues of us happen but i wasn't surprised that homicides and to some degree some violent crime thank rob were not saints when up because of the stress that existed not started since this cult. been in existence yeah it's a good point cause and effect with stress and nobody's been hit harder by this virus than the big city police departments officers are overw

we will move on to ronald reagan's first.ou talk about this being the first inaugural address yard in -- the first inaugural address that you heard in person. set the stage for us. what was the country going through as he was beginning to take the oath of office? mr. mcconnell: the first one i heard in person was carter in 1977 on the east front of the capitol and four years later as carter was leaving and ronald reagan was coming in the inauguration had been moved to the west front of the capitol for the first time. reagan is given credit for that, but in truth that was done by congress. carter trivia second inauguration would have been on the west front of the capitol. i just remember it as a very unusual day, having seen the carter event four years before and having read about other inaugurations. it is january 20. it tends to be mighty cold going through the years. ronald reagan's inauguration, it was 55°. people were bundled up but it was a beautiful day, a little bit overcast. it got sunny around noon time. it was also

so that is classic ronald reagan.so if you go to the next slide, it will show a close-up of the resolute desk. and many people know about the resolute desk, but after the presentation were going to ask a bit of a trivia question, and there are two modifications that have been happened to the desk. okay so next slide priests please. so throughout the museum, we have a number of interactive's. and this is one, about dining in the white house. in the background, that's actually near, you can see there is red cases, that is where we house some of the many presidential gifts. and they're quite spectacular, a and if we go to the next slide, one of my personal favorite displays in the museum is the president's personal diary. what i find interesting about this, is that almost every day of his presidency, he actually wrote in this diary. there are five volumes. the reason they did that is that when they left the gubernatorial mansion, they did not remember a lot of the stuff. so they say were going to write this down. and it

that ronald reagan used to tap. the key is, as you'll see, ronald reagan was effectively telling the story on himself. it related to a time in his career when he didn't know sort what he was doing or where he was going. as you will know of ronald reagan, he had two careers primarily. he was a film actor. and then he became a politician. but there was an interregnum. a period between the time basically after he stopped getting calls from hollywood producers. he couldn't get any good roles. between when his career ended and his political career. film career and political career began. and he had, well, a rather unusual position. in fact, it was a job that was invented for him by the general electric corporation. general electric was at the time the behemoth of the american economy. and reagan was their spokesman. he was a television host for the ge theater. and the ge theater was, well, an experiment in television. this is in the 1950s. and nobody knows quite what to do with tv. so, they think, what you do with the te

one of the things i had forgotten about was the fact one to ronald reagan's first president campaigned against the selective service act passed by jimmy carter and those putting in ground troops in the future were in campaigned against that was a libertarian with that mobilization for like that and then we flip-flopped. so in some ways both as an entertainer and something there is honestly mean about and in those wider discussion reagan has now become a saint for conservatives and we forget and ending the with gorbachev go this misses the first stages of the presidency and how mean"the politics were as well as being wrapped up in the entertainment with everything he paid attention to. >> not only that, if anybody has binge watched anything on we had seen the call will do the videogame that actually turns reagan into a cartoon character and i haven't played that version of call of duty but essentially he has become a wise leader in call of duty : but as you have said he has become the hero who ended the cold war which really didn't and at that point but it's an amazing he has managed to

bush, dwightizen haur and ronald reagan. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> ronald reagan was sworn in on january 20th, 1981. ed a being administered the oath of office, president reagan gave his inaugural address. it was the first inauguration on the west front of the u.s. capitol. >> are you prepared to take the constitutional oath? >> i am. >> i 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 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 you god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. ♪♪ [ applause ] >>> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> thank you.y((4jge$xzu senator hatfield, mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president bush, vice president mondale,

bush, dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan.american history tv this weekend on c span 3. >>> each week american history tv's american artifacts visits historic places and museums. the national building museum in washington, d.c. was known as the pension building in 1885 when grover cleveland's inaugural ball was held in the still unfinished building. composed of over 15 million red bricks, the building contains a great hall that's 316 feet long and 160 feet high. american history tv vis

i, ronald reagan do solemnly swear -- president-elect reagan: i, ronald reagan do solemnly swear -- chief justice burger: that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states -- president-elect reagan: that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states -- chief justice burger: and will to the best of my ability... president-elect reagan: and will to the best of my ability -- chief justice burger: preserve, protect, and defend -- president-elect reagan: preserve, protect, and defend... chief justice burger: the constitution of the united states. president-elect reagan: the constitution of the united states. chief justice burger: so help you god. president-elect reagan: so help me god. ♪ >> the president of the united states. [applause] pres. reagan: thank you. thank you. senator hatfield, mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president bush, vice president mondale, senator baker, speaker o'neill, reverend moomaw, 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

miteron had really ended up in a bad place with ronald reagan.hat george bush was doing was rebuilding the relationship. when he left, he had miteron's support, as well. the proposals went great. the european, our european allies bought into them. and two or three things happened in the process over that year which were extremely significant. number one, we went to poland right after the pols had an election to change their legislative body and elected virtually all reformers. the polls had actually been allowed to have this election by gorbachev and it was an odd situation. the legislative body was now the new freedom group under wolensa and the president was geraluski who was, at that time, perceived to be the puppet of the soviet union. and we flew there and to me this is a classic george herbert walker bush. we had no idea how we were going to deal with this slight conflict in governance in poland. and george bush's answer was, let's have a lunch. and he directed the ambassador to have a lunch. and seated around a room about this size with ab

we in this country have a notion that ronald reagan won the cold war. that is usually the word we use, he won, he won the cold war by calling up the soviets, recognizing the flaws and inherent difficulties of their economic system and straining them by launching an arms race that would show the soviets they could not keep up and because they could not keep up they will surrender, that was reagan's logic. because the soviets recognized in the mid-1980's that they could not keep up and because they decided to reform and surrender ultimately, there has built up a large american narrative that this is all because of reagan. the best analogy to understand this is that reagan in this context was the person who called for the sun to rise and when it rose, took credit or was given credit because reagan said we will build up and they will collapse, we built up and they collapsed. what we now know from the documents from behind the iron curtain, one of the things that has been amazingly fun about this project has been seeing all the newly revealed documents from

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look at, ronald reagan and tip o'neil had very different views, very different styles. communicated well with each other. they told jokes and they laughed. they argued and they came to agreements, and they celebrated democracy. >> by the way, on george w. bush, am i correct, didn't the democratic lieutenant governor actually endorse him for president? >> did. he was very fortunate that he had earned the respect of the democrats in texas when he ran for president, and it made a big difference. >> so in our last ten minutes i want to turn it to the audience, if any members of the audience have a question. >> good work. >> it sounded like both of you -- it sounded like both of you were saying that you need to get along, and it almost sounded like this was exactly what you are saying that donald trump does not do. i think that you might want to comment, at least if that's the purpose of what you are saying, you might want to comment as to how the current president is different from the two that you have described. >> i would say in fairness there's different strokes for dif

ronald was ruthlessly gunned down while standing in his driveway. birthday's next week, would have been 48 years old. agnes, when the president of the united states makes it one of his top priorities in the first 24 hours and office to halted deportation, how does that make you feel? >> i feel illegal immigrants come up that this government is spitting on the faces of every legal immigrants in this country. they are contributing this nation. as of january 20th, the united states officially became the socialist, on united states of america. it were no longer citizens, were second-class citizens and it's a disgrace. we have a covid issue in this country, we need money to help our country but no, let's bring thousands more into our country who are not going to be able to contribute. in 1986, we had a president reagan gave an amnesty. why don't we investigate those 3 million people, see how much they contributed to the economy of this country, see how many are in prison, see how many returned to the country of origin, and then decide this is going to op

our lineup includes inaugural ceremonies with franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. watch tonight beginning at 8 cyclic p.m. eastern and enjoy american history television every weekend on cspan3. >>> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on cspan3, explore our nation's past. american history tv on cspan3 created by america's cable television companies. today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >>> next, a look back at george w. bush's farewale address from the white house. he served two terms from 2001 to 2009. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. fellow citizens, for eight years it has been my honor to serve as your president. the first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence, a time set apart. tonight, with a thankful heart, i have asked for a final opportunity to share some thoughts on the journey that we have traveled together and the future of our nation. five days from now, the world will witness the vitality of american democracy. in a tradition dat

our lineup also includes inaugural ceremonies with franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3 explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3, created by america's cable television companies. and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. ♪♪ >>> up next, president dwight eisenhower delivers his farewell address from the oval office on january 17th, 1961. the speech is best remembered for the president's warning about the influence of what he called the military industrial complex. dwight eisenhower served 2 terms as president from 1953 to 1961. >> three days from now after half a century and the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office as in traditional and solemn ceremony the authority of the president presidenty is vested in my successor. this evening, i've come to you with a message of lead taking

our lineup also includes inaugural ceremonies with franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3, explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3 created by america's cable we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >>> on the morning of august 9th, 1974, president richard nixon delivered a farewell address to his cabinet and staff in the east room of the white house. with impeachment proceedings looming because of the watergate scandal, he had announced his resignation the year before binging the first president in u.s. history to voluntarily leave his post before the end of his term. the richard nixon presidential library and museum provided this video.ó'dizñb3 [ applause ] >> thank you. well, members of the cabinet, members of the white house staff, all of our friends here, i think the record should show that this is one of those spontaneous

visited the building to learn about the inaugural balls of several presidents, including jimmy carter, ronald reagan, and barack obama. gene: thank you for joining us today and welcome to the national building museum. i am a volunteer tour guide for the museum. we are here to go through what we call the presidential inaugural tours. we do this every four years at inauguration time. because this building, which was built as a federal office building over 120 years ago turned out to be a wonderful , place to have an inaugural ball. what we want to do is to explain to you how this building got built, its history, and how it ended up being so representative of the inaugural notion and how it is being used. we will show you pictures of inaugural balls and the history of them. then sort of put the two together and show the pictures of how this space looks when an inaugurational ball is occurring in it. we will show you where most of the presidents have had a ball within this space. we are here in a space that is unusual in terms of washington, d.c. the city now mainly has monuments of marble and wh

our lineup also includes inaugural ceremonies with franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3 explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3 created by america's television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span to you as a public service. >>> good evening. in a few days i will lay down my official responsibilities in this office to take up once more the only title in our democracy superior to that of president, the title of citizen. the vice president mondale, my cabinet and the hundreds of others who have served with me during the last four years, i wish to say now publicly what i have said in private. i thank them for the dedication and confidence they have brought to the service of our country, but i owe my deepest thanks to you, to the american people, because you gave me this extraordinary opportunity to serve. we faced great challenges together, and we k

ronald reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the united states, after being administered the oath of office by warren burger, president reagan gave his not girl address. it was the first inauguration on the west front of the u.s. capital. [applause] >> governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional oath? play sure left hand on the bible and raise your right hand to repeat after me. i, ronald reagan, do you solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. i congratulate you, sir. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> the president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. senator hadfield, mr. chief justice, mister president, vice president bush, vice president mondale, senator baker, speaker o'neill, reverend moma 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 is a commonplace occurrence. the orderly transfer of authority

you should remind yourself that ronald reagan didn't come into power until 1981.s apparent in the 1970s. during that period the soviets didn't do anything about it. they brought to power a series of geriatric leaders. brezhnev had been an impressive leader in his day but he was, well, far gone, if you will. then a man named andropov and a series of individuals who were a geriatric leadership and schlerotic mind-set. the soviets knew something was wrong but refused to do anything about it is revealed in the following joke which you would have heard in moscow in the '80s but if you heard it you probably would be in trouble with the kgb. we have it nonetheless. the joke goes as follows. stalin and khrushchev and brezhnev are riding on a train together and the train stops. and they look at each other and say how can we possibly get this train moving again? they discuss it for a while and stalin comes up with the first idea. it's very simple. we gather all the peasants. we shoot half of them and the other half will be really incentivized to move the train. and they dis

and that was ronald reagan. so, the idea was to give him a national forum to introduce him to the american people and conservatives. remember, this was way before talk radio and cable television. and a big deal used to be getting an article about your candidate in "the new york times" or "the washington post." and then, send it around to people. it was -- >> right. right. >> -- it was a much bigger job to get the word out about your candidate. so, those were the two main purposes of the conference. >> how many people attended? >> well, we put it together in about two months. and it really wasn't a bad attendance. you know, i would say several hundred attended. and again, you don't have the modern-communication mechanisms that you had now. so, you know, we put ads in some of the conservative newspapers and we did a lot of mailings to donors. and so, the irony was we didn't really know who was going to show up because, again, you didn't have instant registration. people might have gotten it in the mail and said, w

bush, dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan. watch american history tv this weekend on c span 3. >>> each week american history tv's american artifacts visits historic places and museums. the national building museum in washington, d.c. was known as the pension building in 1885 when grover cleveland's inaugural ball was held in the still unfinished building. composed of over 15 million red bricks, the building contains a great hall that's 316 feet long and 160 feet high. american history tv visited the building to learn about the inaugural balls of several presidents, including william mckinley, jimmy carter, ronald reagan and barack obama. >> thanks very much for joining us today and welcome to the national building museum. my name is gene and i'm a volunteer tour guide for the museum and we're here today to go through what we call the presidential inaugural tours. we do this every four years at inauguration time, because this building, which was built as a federal office building over 120 years ago, turned out to be a wonderfu

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some presidents like ronald reagan have chosen a farewell address.nce carter formally had a state of the union in january in their final couple of weeks in office. note the wilsonian conception. not only is he moving it into prime time so millions of americans can watch. while he acknowledges it can never get together perfectly, total respect is important. what that means respect for the presidency and its policy initiatives. in 1969, we are coming off of pretty significant legislative enactments by johnson. this is the height of an activist federal government. the state of the union was designed, in part, to harness the power of the executive. the opposition party was not going to allow an increase in viewership to happen without a response. in 1966, republican congressional leaders gave the first official response to a state of the union address. it was a 30 minute televised address by everett dirksen and gerald ford. the republican leaders of the house and senate. this tradition takes off. in fits and starts they did not always do in the early yea

. >> ronald reagan, a republican and former california governor, , was sworn in as the 40th presidentf the united states on january 20, 1981. next, we will see him take the oath of office, administered by supreme court chief justice warner burger, and hear president reagan's inaugural address. 1981 was the first time the inauguration took place on the west front of the u.s. capitol, which faces the national mall. our coverage is courtesy of the u.s. senate recording studio. [applause] >> governor, are you prepared to take the constitutional of? >> i am. >> repeat after me, i, robert brady, do solemnly swear. >> i, ronald ragan -- reagan do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend, the constitution of the united states. so help you god. >> so help me, god. >> may i congratulate you, sir. [applause] ♪ [military band playing "hail to the chief"] [applause] >> the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] president reagan: thank you. thank you. [applaus

the ronald reagan presidential foundation and library hosted the event. in one hour, we will talk about dorie miller. in two hours, scholars discussed though -- the role of the western press during the civil role. joanne: it is a real treat for us to have not one but two former white house secretaries with us today. and i am sure they are grateful they did not have to plan and execute this white house luncheon. one of our guests today is a democrat, one a republican. they are not afraid to be friends. they support one another. and they even show up in public together. imagine that. originally from a small town in ohio, lea berman served as white house social secretary 2004 to 2007 under president and mrs. george w. bush. prior to that, she was chief of staff to second lady lynn cheney and before that served as social secretary to vice president cheney. when asked how she landed those jobs, i believe she will tell you she was in the right place at the right time. and having known of her for many years, i can tell you that she was most assuredly qualified f

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dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, and ronald reagan. exploring the american story. watch "american history tv" this weekend on c-span 3. >>> next on "american history tv" abraham lincoln scholar revisits the 16th president's éjg. just six weeks before his assassination.mj considered one ofa#ir(t&h the m iconic speeches in american history. >>> we are honored to welcome harold back to new york historical. he is the director of the roosevelt house of policy and institute at hunter college. he previously served as chairman of the abraham lincoln. and the united states lincoln bicentennial commission. he is the author of numerous books. his most recent "the monument man: the life and art of daniel chester french." he was part of the chief historicals 2009 and 2010 exhibition. please turn off your electronic devices and join me in welcoming our guests. thank you. good evening. happy lincoln's birthday. i'm so proud and grateful to be asked to do another lincoln's birthday talk here at the new york historical society. last year it was sleeting with ice, so i think lincoln

we in this country have a notion that ronald reagan won the cold war.n fact, that is usually the word that we use. he won. he won the cold war by calling out the soviets, recognizing the inherent flaws in their economic and social system, and straining them. by launching in arms race that would show the soviets they could not keep up. if they can't keep up, then they will surrender. that was reagan's logic. and the cost, the soviets recognized they could not keep up. the cost, they decided to reform and surrender. there has built up a large american narrative that this is all because of reagan. this i think, this analogy to understand this is that reagan in this context, as though the person called for the sunrise, and when it rose, to credit. or was given credit. because reagan said we will build up and they will collapse. we built up and they collapsed. what we now know from the documents behind the iron curtain, and one thing that has been amazingly fun about this project is to see all the newly-revealed documents from all of the major capitals of th

you go back to ronald ragan and calling for dan rather to be fired.'s not a new phenomenon. it's taken a new level remember how it outrage the left and the media were when president trumps that i'm in a send in the national guard and then all of a sudden during the riots and capitol hill he's like he didn't send the national guard fast enough. there's no depth of hypocrisy that they're not capable of. >> charlie, i don't want take on the line of work you chose, but how do we get a certain fairness back into the media. we need that referee. it ought to be the media. how do we get them to do the job fairly. >> are you one of those guys who has the bumper sticker on his car that says blame the media? it sounds like it, maybe. there's a lot of forces going on here. i think one is social media that you take newspaper reporters were already sort of narcissus because they can't get into politics, i guess they get into media which is the second landing place for narcissists and then you blow it up so they can spend all their time talking about themselves and

bush, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy and ronald reagan. watch american history tb, this weekend on c-span three. >> house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly briefing with reporters of the capitol earlier today. this is 25 minutes. >> would morning everyone. a difference a day makes. wasn't that just the most beautiful inauguration. the theme america united. it was so perfect in my view. only four the let's say peaceful transfer of power but the manner in which it happened. america united. i've said again and again the arts will bring us together, will be left together, we cried together, we are inspired together. we find a common ground more easily. that was certainly given proof yesterday. when amanda gorman recited her beautiful, optimism, and of course the theme of the inauguration but also of the vice -- excuse me the now president, he was president when he made his beautiful inaugural address about unity. the day began, the inauguration began, at the end of the day i loved what was on tv at the end of one of the celebrations. you kn

dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, and ronald reagan. exploring the american story.eekend on c-span 3. >>> next on "american history tv" abraham lincoln scholar revisits the 16th president's éjg. just six weeks before his assassination.mj considered one ofa#ir(t&h the m iconic speeches in american history. >>> we are honored to welcome harold back to new york historical. he is the director of the roosevelt house of policy and institute at hunter college. he previously served as chairman of the abraham lincoln. and the united states lincoln bicentennial commission. he is the author of numerous books. his most recent "the monument man: the life and art of daniel chester

we see some of that for ronald reagan. but generally speaking, the republicans, you know, if you go to republican national conventions -- and i've attended in one way, shape or for m, 11 of those going back to 1968 -- they don't celebrate, write hymns to celebrate its philosopher kings, their previous republican presidents. one reason for that was president nixon left office in unhappy circumstances. but basically, they simply don't do that very much. with donald trump, what you saw was a stronger tendency on his part to repudiate past republican presidents. he called president george w. bush a liar about the iraq war. that may explain why neither president, second president bush nor his father was supporting mr. trump for president in 2016. kind of understandable in those circumstances. but for republican voters, once he was in office, donald trump got 90% support even though he had gotten less than half the primary popular votes in primaries and caucuses in the 2016. nobody ran against him in the republican primaries in