because the legacy of nancy and ronald reagan lives on. ere at this wonderful museum and library and presidential center, in patriots such as you, and i hope a little bit in books such as "movie nights with the reagans." your being here today is indicative of your respect for an interesting and extraordinary man and woman who literally change the world. many of you today here in the reagans well, and know that at the end of the day, despite the great discomfort despite what they achieved, they were just people. and they never pretended to be otherwise. great people, yes, but just people who, like many, many others, like nothing more on a friday or saturday night to sit on a couch in their living room, put their feet up on an ottoman and watch a movie, first with popcorn and then later as joanne told you come with candy. and i hope that this book takes you there with them. i thank you for the opportunity to comment and share these memories with you, , and now i would be delighted to answer any questions or respond to anything that may be on

how did you get to know ronald reagan and when did you get to begin serving ronald reagan? >> well, it all began right after he was elected as governor of california in 1966. at that time, i was in the district attorney's office in alameda county. that's the county in california that has both oakland and berkeley. both rather significant cities for various reasons, and i enjoyed my work there, i enjoyed working with the police. i enjoyed trying criminal cases, and i'm going to say reasonably successful, so i was not looking for a job. but one day out of the blue, i got a call, would i come up and meet the new governor or the governor-elect at that time? december of 1966. i guess i really didn't learn until much later how he had gotten my name, but actually, when i was in the district attorney's office, our boss, the district attorney of alameda county was the chairman of what was called the law and legislative committee of law enforcement in the state. the chiefs of police, the sheriffs, the district attorney's all had one committee that represented them in the state legisl

let me ask you about ronald reagan. he was in the race in 1968, but primarily as a favorite in california. can you explain what his role was in the primary process, if any? guest: yes. first of all, he had just won the governorship of california, this is his first political campaign. so in november 1966, he did was richard nixon could not do and he beat pat brown in california. so he just stepped into the governor's chair, and then there let among his supporters in the west coast and that this is the rising star of the conservative movement. this is goldwater, but a much more electable goldwater. reagan had just gotten into office and what one of his aides aides didhat the much more work than reagan did in those primaries. they tried to draft him. reagan declared himself as a candidate at the convention itself in the hopes that they could deprive richard nixon of nomination on the first ballot. so while i think nixon's forces were somewhat concerned that reagan could be a credible threat, nixon had -- before reagan even

ronald reagan ran against experience. he ran as a citizen politician. , ion was able to say, look have the wherewithal. andve the metal -- mettle toughness to restore the order that has been lost. seen as it is widely perhaps the most divisive year in the nation's history, since the end of the civil war. nixon confronted that. he mentioned vietnam. reallyioned -- it was vietnam that destroyed lyndon johnson's presidency. nixon and other is a major opening. nixon handled that issue very deftly and that he did not talk much about it. he said he would bring a peaceful and come an honorable peaceful endr -- a an honorable end to the war. projecting that kind of andidence to restore order restore the country's sanity, in a sense. series, 1968, america in turmoil. is the editor of the american conservative. rachel is next. texas, independent line. caller: good morning. 1964, 1970. i am 62 years old. in school, they claimed they separated church and state. legal abortions. those who voted, supreme court justice -- it was made up

his two most recent books are about newt gingrich and ron reagan -- ronald reagan. craig shirley, is there anything different in the conversation the republican party is having about itself today than when reagan was president or george w. bush was president? >> guest: interesting. i think it was more intellectual then. there was really great debates in the 1970s and 1980s about what american conservatives stood for and what the republican party stood for. they seem to be more personality-driven today and less about, you know, what is our policy on taxation, what is our policy vis-a-vis the soviet union. do we support the mx missile, do we oppose the mx missile? abortion was only beginning to coalesce with a consistent republican or conservative position on it. so t the debates of the '70s and '80s were great intellectual debates which, ironically, came 200 years after the great debate of the founding of this country. this is said to remain a british colonies, or do we reject the elitism of london and strike out op our own as a new -- on our own as a new, independent

and look, ronald reagan ran against experience.e ran as a citizen politician in 1966ment but nixon was able o say that, look, i have the whether with all, the mettle, the toughness, to restore the order that's been lost. i mean, you talked about the civil war potentially erupting at home. in 1968, it's widely seen, and i think rightly so, as perhaps the most divisive year in the nation's history since the end of the civil war. nixon confronted that. the other thing i hear is he mentioned vietnam. he mentioned the -- and it was really vietnam, of course, that destroyed lyndon johnson's presidency that gave nixon and others a major opening. nixon handled that issue very definitely in the sense that he didn't really talk much about it. he implied that he had a secret plan to win the peace in vietnam. he said that he would bring a peaceful end, an honorable end to the war there. and so he was able to kind of offer himself as an answer, a solution to this horrible war which had already taken tens of thousands of american lives, without

what was ronald reagan doing in those years when he lost the first presidential nomination?> guest: he never stopped giving. it is interesting is i that he gave the last speech at the kansas city convention in 1976 and he just lost the nomination of gerald ford by a scant 70 delegate votes out of [inaudible] and he is supposed to be better and angry and deep down he was but he gives a remarkable off-the-cuff speech live on national television for 70000 cheering republicans and give this masterful address and a woman in the crowd exclaims to reagan supporter says and she's a fourth quarter and says oh my god, we've operated the wrong man. reagan is out on the hustle that ball campaigning for republican candidates in the fall of 76. every place he goes cabdrivers, maids, please officers, airport attendance and every place he goes people said to her, run one more time into it one more time. i'm convinced that the reaction to his impromptu speech in kansas city and the subsequent outpouring of people urging him to run is what impelled him to run in 1980. he was 65 years old in 1

a reagan biographer is presenting two books ronald reagan and every authorized biography the making of a reagan conservative. [applause] i will start asking the authors and the impact they hope it would have. >> it is a joy to be with you all. i am a scholar of public opinion with the conversations that i have liar people getting things wrong or making the choices that they are? in my mind if you take that to the extreme we are not capable to have that democracy so instead of asking what are they getting wrong how are they understanding their world? so the book is focused on wisconsin but people in rural small towns research was in wisconsin and to listen to people so i wrote the book so look at what the small places in my state to understand the feeling that many people have about not being respected and overlooked how that comes from real experience hoping for something better i hope the impact it would have to understand this concern of feeling like you deserve more wanting better for yourself people would understand not from people deserved to be treated this so i want to have a br

one of the fascinating things about ronald reagan and neshoba county, in 1980, thing that people oftentimes forget, is that reagan went in -- reagan went to neshoba county as his first campaign stop. do you know where he was the very next day? he left neshoba county and went to harlem. he met with officials from the urban league to talk about conservative strategies for urban renewal. and, those were very carefully twinned. those were paired. he would go to neshoba county and talk about states rights. the next day, he would go to harlem and talk with urban league officials. public, afton -- african- american urban league officials. they were careful. you don't want to go too far in trying to appeal to the george wallace voters and lose those white suburban moderate voters across the country.>> this was true of reagan's politicians on race throughout his career. is that, he would end up taking strong stances against strong conservative -- against certain civil rights issues. but he oftentimes would end up reverting to the center on a lot of those issues. and what it reminds you, importantly,

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a great question about ronald reagan, let's start over here. >> how much did ronald reagan's dementia or alzheimer's impact the second term in the white house, and do we have the proper safeguards today to prevent a situation in the future? they went to the clinic every year for a battery of tests. he passed every year for eight years and it wasn't diagnosed until five years after he left the presidency. and if you go back and look at the letter to gorbachev in 87, the three-page letter which is filled with detail, policy analysis or go online and look at the speech to the university of virginia law school students who went down to charlottesville and gave a speech and interacted for a good hour and a half, there's no sign of alzheimer's or dementia. he was with dozens of aides, cabinet officials, reporters, nobody saw any evidence whatsoever. he was tired, no doubt about it from after the seven long years. so we had missiles pointed at each other. any mistake or misunderstanding could lead to. john foster dulles o were in sorry, harry truman wrongfully said south korea wasn't a part

because that's what ronald reagan had to do in 1980. mississippi goes republican in 1980 for the first time since reconstruction. the first time since you had those republican governments in mississippi after the civil war. and it's not an easy -- it's not -- now reagan, if i put up the 1980 electoral map it would be a sea of red because reagan won in a landslide. but it wasn't clear at all that reagan, a divorced hollywood actor, is going to be able to win states of the south that he needs to win if he's going to defeat this southern governor, a former southern governor, jimmy carter. so going to a place like nashoba county allows the republican candidate reagan to connect with those voters and you see how republicans in that 1980 election are mobilizing not just white working class voters in the south but also those old dixiecrats. those old dixiecrats who bolted the party back in 1948 but had not joined the party because they thought the republican part y party was too moderate. so one of the famous things that happens in 1980 in tha

me ask you about ronald reagan. he was in the race in 1968, but primarily as the favorite son in california. what was his role in a primary process, if any? guest: had just won the governorship of california, his first political campaign. in november of 1966 he did with richard nixon could not do, he be pat brown in california. a boom among some of his aides and supporters on the west coast that this was the rising star of the conservative movement. this is a more electable goldwater. he had just gotten into office. aides said was that the aides did much more work than reagan did in the primaries. they try to draft him. reagan really only declared a candidate at the convention itself in the hopes that they could deprive richard nixon of nomination on a first ballot. while nixon's forces were somewhat concerned that reagan could be a credible threat, nixon had, before reagan even announced at the convention, nixon had wrapped up endorsements from very goldwater, strom thurman, many of the southern conservatives that

ronald reagan knew the cold war was hot, the conflict in afghanistan in nicaragua, ronald reagan reachedut to find the compromises necessary to end the cold war. we should not go back to the cold war. and send us back in the right direction with cooperation, rather than confrontation. david: thank you for your time. dana rohrabacher of california. shery: major averages paring back some earlier losses. there is taylor riggs with the latest. >> you stole my thunder, paring back losses, we were sharply red and coming back a little bit and this week has been characterized by the same volatility, losses, gains, losses, gains, losses again. the nasdaq down as much as 6/10 of 1% and trying to crawl back. terminal, we have a cool earnings chart. or 20he past 20 quarters earnings seasons i should say, the s&p posted gains, this until february when we had the big equity volatility moment that happened. the real question is -- today, we talk about the bank earnings and kicking off earnings season, does that continue? trying to get back to games today but i like this chart as we look at earnings sea

so reagan -- so ronald reagan wins the republican nomination in 1980. the convention that year is in detroit. the first campaign stop he makes is at the county fair. you read the speech in preparation for class today. you know that in that speech he gave he talked about that he's a supporter of states rights. we know what that's about. it goes back to succession itself, right? that when alexander stevens said we're succeeding because we want to preserve white supremacy he said i don't know about that. let's talk about states rights. and segregation and civil rights still exist for many white voters in the south so you can talk about states rights. that's the language of the segregationist, you know, to talk about states rights and so, reagan goes there and reporters who were following him, this was not his standard stump speech. this was a speech that was given for this crowd. and the archives at mississippi state university and i read the memos written by the state officials. in fact, one of the things yesterday, one of the officials in the reagan camp

he was not a big fan of ronald reagan. are moderate conservative sensibilities, the way the parents brought it up was to take care. he has to look out for the little guy. what he saw with ronald reagan was somebody who was turning a blind eye to the poverty and hunger and other issues in the united states in the 1980's. as ronald reagan drives by in his limousine. thinking those people haven't made a bad choice in their lives by not choosing to be rich. and that really good -- that really underscores his opinions that you had to help the poor and you had to understand the properties and institutions and not make assumptions about why people are poor. he do a lot of cartoons about the need to support the poor by providing better housing, better nutrition , better ventricle care -- better medical care. we can see that herb block have some great ideas. the line is not as steady. pencil has a tendency to smear in a way that whacks crammed is not. here we have george herbert walker bush. denying that he was involved in the iran

that's what ronald reagan had to do in 1980. the first time since you had the republican governments in mississippi after the civil war. and it's not an easy -- now reagan, if i put up the 1980 electoral map, you will see red. he won in a landslide. it wasn't clear that reagan, as we said, a divorced hollywood actor is going to be able to win states in the south that he needs if he's going to beat this southern governor, jimmy carter. so going to a place like the county, allows the republican candidate, reagan to connect with those voters. and you see how republicans in that 1980 election are mobilizing not just kind of white working-class voters in the south but the old ddixicrat. thought the republican party was too moderate. so one of the famous things that happens in 1980 in that campaign is that there's an event in jackson, mississippi, where the young congressman, trent introduces the main speaker rs speaking on behalf of the reagan campaign and who was it, strom thurmond. he sbichs twitches the allegian. the strongest to j

this is ronald reagan. exsm xx >> would you fix your tie please? david: people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed. ust leave it this way. i don't consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interview though i have day job of running a private equity firm. ow do you define leadership?

george washington university professor and author of "the right moment: ronald reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in american politics." watch "1968: america in turmoil," live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on "washington journal" and on "american history tv" on c-span3. announcer: the un security council held an emergency meeting last saturday at russia's request to consider a resolution condemning the airstrikes in syria. the resolution was rejected 8-3, with four countries abstaining. the three countries voting to condemn the airstrikes, russia, china, and bolivia. here's the debate from human headquarters in new york city. it's just over two and a half hours. >> mr. president, excellencies, i've been following the reports of airstrikes in syria conducted by the united states, france,

together one bill that would come down to the floor, we need that dealing with our debt because, when ronald reagan was president, the discretionary spending appropriations 5% mandatory 25 now that is 66%, so here you are, member of congress vote for all 12 appropriations bills you put it in direction. that is a small element of

a spontaneous interview with governor ronald reagan of california. you will be questioned by paul hope of the washington star and cbs correspondents martin. we will resume the interview in a moment. >> governor, why don't we get back to that question. do you still maintain your not a possible contender? >> i am certainly not a contender for the vice presidential office. technically you would have to recognize anyone who is a favorite son candidate, even though he is a favored son candidate only in the sense of directing a delegation are hoping to, that technically a the convention he is a candidate, he is centered in nomination and would be a candidate if the party chose. >> technically, you are candidate you? >> do mean that the convention? >> i mean now, at the convention. >> certainly not now. i have not injected myself into the race nor would i. but at the convention i use the word technically, because it is true that you are actually placed in nomination. that is true of me as well as a number of other favorite son candidates. i have said for so

trying to prove her objectivity by saying she was appointed to the bench by republican president ronald reagan, which is technically true, but only technically true. she was actually chosen for the federal judgeship by the late democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan, whose name is now on the building she works in. presidents usually learn the selection of federal judges to the senators from the state

ronald reagan made his debut as a presidential candidate, foreshadowing the conservative revolution to come. an editor and the author of where they stand, a book on presidents and voters. and the author of the right moment, ronald reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in american politics. a -- american turmoil. live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern and un-american eased -- and on american history tv on c-span3. monday, on landmark cases, brandenburg v. ohio. clue clucks clan leader brendan baron berg was convicted of hate speech but the supreme court ruled in the state law violated his first minute rights. our guests are the former head of the american civil liberties , senior attorney at columbia university's -- on the university. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. c-span.s at we have resources on our website for background on each case. a companion

ronald reagan discussing his richard nixon, nelson rockefeller, and george wallace. he discusses liberalism and conservatism, the assassination of robert kennedy, and what he argues are the weaknesses of democrats in the white house. republican governors congress in tulsa, the consensus was that for two days, you conducted yourself like a candidate for your party's president or vice presidential nomination. you still maintain that you are not a possible contender for either office? and i don't know how anyone would have gotten the idea. i attended all of the meetings. i don't know what i did at the outset except attend -- except agree to a press conference, which was asked of me. and i was at a meeting where the press was. in tulsa, oklahoma, the republican conference in color. governor reagan will be questioned by cbs news correspondents. we shall resume the interview with governor reagan in a moment. >> governor, why don't we go back to that question? do you still maintain that you are not a possible contender for the presidential or vice presidential nomination? -

he was not a big fan of ronald reagan. his moderate conservative chicago sensibility as a child, the way his parents brought him up, was to take care of the poor. you had to look out for the little guy. what he saw in ronald reagan was somebody who was turning a blind eye to the poverty and hunger and other issues in the united states in the 1980's. so we have a depiction of a homeless person asleep on a ate in washington dc as ronald reagan drives by in his limousine, thinking that those people made a bad choice in their lives by not choosing to be rich. and that really underscores his opinions that you had to help the poor and you had to understand poverty as an institution and not make assumptions about why people are poor. he drew a lot of cartoons about the need to support the poor by providing better housing, better nutrition, better medical care. we can see by the end of his career that herblock had great ideas, but his drawing is getting a little weaker. the line is not as steady. he's relying a lot more on on penc

his two most recent books are about newt gingrich and ron reagan -- ronald reagan. craig shirley, is there anything different in the conversation the republican party is having about itself today than when reagan was president or george w. bush was president? >> guest: interesting. i think it was more

i didn't think it was ronald reagan because he a renamed jim brady. so i got there and i was so nervous that i had to sit on the hands like this because they were like shaking. i mean, i never met a first lady before, and she was very kind to me. she asked me a few questions but mainly she want to talk about what she's interested in doing. she kept telling me how concerned she was about the whole problem of youth drug abuse. and i remember thinking, but what are your qualifications for the issue? i wasn't sure from a a pr standpoint that that would be viable option, but i forgot about how powerful a first lady can be. and what a platform she has. so anyway, the next day i got a call and they set me up with a series of meetings with, like dever and ending with my personal hero jim brady. he said can you do, it's down to two people. i said, in that case, i'm your girl. i want the job. [laughing] he said well, i'm voting for you. and two hours later she called and offered me the job. that was a friday night, and on saturday night i was awakened by my pho

is the example of the ronald reagan missile site and e.p.i. next to it. well the ronald reagan missile site is a vivid example of the united states golf courses and. swimming pools and all kinds of manatees. right next to it is what was called the slum of the pacific and said it's a challenge a by. is in great need right now we talked about infrastructure one of the projects the u.s. is working with our australian colleagues and with the asian development bank is a sewer and water project desperately needed pretty by he buys overcrowded schools need repair actually the u.s. military did a survey back in the seventy's and found that the service didn't work and the water didn't run them they like tricity wasn't there and only happened nor all that long ago they found almost exactly the same thing why why hasn't that been fix we've there's complete agreement that eba should be a priority and not only because of the current activities of the ronald reagan space and missile defense side but there's also now an additional component that is providing for global

this is ronald reagan. yes, sir? i really, really want you to come back reading the talking points frank gave him. i really want you to come back here and be do you know the of the national security adviser. yes, sir. be right there. david: so you came back? mr. powell: nine months later frank got assigned to bing secretary of defense. i said good. i can go back to the army. one day was chairing a national security meeting and the door opens and the president comes in and gets to the head of the table and frank comes around to the side. while the meeting is going on frank rips off a piece of paper and scribbles something on it and he sends it down the table to me. and i open up the little piece of paper and it says you are now the national security adviser. no interview. no nothing. so the last year and a half of my time in the white house was ith president reagan, became extremely close and strong relationship. david: when the administration ended you went back into a military position. but not that long afterwards

known as the ronald reagan test site it's a missile. the pacific ocean all the way to asia and china. here the people of the mushroom islands of once again being subjected to the testing of weapons of mass destruction designed for a coming war on. the basis part of a remarkable. knownas vision twenty twenty devised in the nine hundred ninety s. it's amos described officially as full spectrum dominance. this means control and sea. cyber space and space five four three two one. from california almost five. the u.s. air force tests its intercontinental missile by firing them at the. imagine a missile coming screaming out of the sky it's absolutely terrifying there i think that there is there's really nothing that i can imagine that that would be more terror. dying than this and we're talking about. devices that any one of them could go off course. none of this disturbs life on the base where small town america has been recreated a wonderland of the suburban good. and. fabulous but there's nothing better than living on a tropical island i'm

i say in the book he will be seen as one of the greatest american presidents just like ronald reagan. she boosted the economy into the thing with trump the accomplishment if you look at them without a bias on the economy, the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history, booming stock market and then on the affair aside side by gettind of excess, about to meet with the north korean leader, getting them to go after radical islamic ideology, just some remarkable for any president, but certainly for the first year and at the same time he has all of these quarks and strange things that makes everyone cringe i think every reporter cringes that some of the remarks that he makes. >> host: unlike any president we've had. you have met him. talk about writing a book about a man that you know as a friend and who is president and you are an independent journalist with your own credibility how do you balance that? >> guest: i made up my mind when i wrote the book i'm going to be a journalist first and i always have been and i don't care what he thinks and that is the only way to pursue a book hone

me ask you about ronald reagan.e was in the race in 1968, but primarily as the favorite son in california. what was his role in a primary process, if any? guest: had just won the governorship of california, his first political campaign. in november of 1966 he did with richard nixon could not do, he be pat brown in california. a boom among some of his aides and supporters on the west coast that this was the rising star of the conservative movement. this is a more electable goldwater. he had just gotten into office. aides said was that the aides did much more work than reagan did in the primaries. they try to draft him. reagan really only declared a candidate at the convention itself in the hopes that they could deprive richard nixon of nomination on a first ballot. while nixon's forces were somewhat concerned that reagan could be a credible threat, nixon had, before reagan even announced at the convention, nixon had wrapped up endorsements from very goldwater, strom thurman, many of the southern conservatives that re

ronald reagan was an outlier. reagan probably did not line up with our publication during that cycle. one of bill's favorite sayings , put not your faith in princes. bill.ot original to but bill had a definite sense of politicians being very imperfect vessels. rich: run us through the history. what do you make of this? jonah: that's right. there was this moment under george w. bush were the perception was that we were house organs for the republican party. some writers may have gone too far in defending bush. part of that had to do with the fact we were at war in the wake of 9/11. without the opposition -- i don't want to speak editorially. but the opposition to george w. for a wartimefair president. even though we wrote stuff about how we opposed the department home and security -- of homeland security, it got washed out. the reality is that was an aberration from the norm. richard nixon famously said he wereht the buckley-ites more dangerous than the left. they were more persuasive. eisenhower had a problem with

ronald reagan made his debut. our guests are the editor of the american conservative rea. , the author ofica ronald reagan's first victory. watch 1968: america in terminal in turmoil. >> earlier this evening, president trump announced the u.s. was launching airstrikes

just manage three days after ronald reagan's funeral there was a rumor started that ronald reagan haden in the dead, and ascended into heaven. who was going to believe that? it's so easily disproved, people with go to the valley and see that the grey wa gave was just t was. but within days of the death of jesus christ, the word spread he was riz frn th risen from the d. two months later, the apostle peter preached the message about the resurrection and 2,000 years later millions embrace the relief. the early acceptance of the message and then of course the empty tomb. that's outside of the bible. it's verifiable that christ's body has not been found for 2,000 years. some say that the disciples stole it. they were cowards. they deserted christ before the youcrucifix. others say the religious leaders did it. they wanted to keep it there so as not to validate the christian message. the only logical argument is that jesus arose from the dead just as he said he would. arthel: i'm catholic. the bible is my guide. >> yes. arthel: i talked to jesus this morning, god too. however, not everybod

in the mix of this i was welcomed into the press and i have never seen ronald reagan's peak. i went on the plane to tallahassee florida and he was giving a speech just for the day to the high schools in tallahassee and all of a sudden i'm there in the audience watching this guy speak like my god he is good. he was wonderful with those kids and the kids loved him. wait a minute, there's something wrong here. is this the monster upset when you've seen it you've seen it all? i realized he was making a deal and the wall was coming down and i got confused. what's interesting about my life story, i am willing to change a and i'm willing to change back if i'm wrong again. it would be harder still what i could do it. >> host: frederick in port charlotte florida you are on with roger simon. >> caller: yes, i wanted to know what you think about the problem they are having right now and whether he is the insurance policy they were talking about in their text messages. >> guest: i've been following that closely and writinthis clot the politics as well and it's one of the interesting stor

ronald reagan taught me 35 years ago, the key to politics is growth. the state of the economy. we are improving by leaps and bounds. therefore, i would suggest you that the pundits leverett not the gop -- who have written off the gop -- the economy is growing at 3%. [inaudible] the gop is going to be much stronger than a lot of people think. >> what about the chinese tariffs hurting trump county? >> [inaudible] >> have you advise the president not to weigh in on the stock market? i think the stock market is a good metric. >> is a governmental weigh in on -- is it good for him to weigh in on it? >> [inaudible] [inaudible] >> thank you. "washington morning, thursday steven brill discusses journalism and fake news. conservative radio and tv show host talks about journalism today and trust in the news media. be sure to watch live at 7:00 eastern on thursday morning. during the discussion. at discussion. secretaryursday, army mark esper on force readiness. trump is in west virginia for a roundtable on tax policy. 6:00, former mexican president and british lawmaker and member of the

ronald reagan got a big breakthrough because he was willing to walk away from a bad deal and that led to the intermediate nuclear forces agreement which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. feeling willing to have this go to multiple phases, hopefully the summit sets up a phrase work but it could go sideways. >> harris: this president has said it could go forward, he did not describe it as sideways but i know what you mean, are we in a position to say this is part of the legacy of this president? this is a big deal even if it doesn't maybe yield anything in that first meeting. >> it is and his willingness to engage in personal diplomacy is a hallmark of donald trump. it's different than the past where you had bureaucrats assembling these deals and the president just showed up to coordinate an agreement. donald trump is not deferring the bureaucracy, he's doing it himself which is good. >> harris: transactional is a word that comes into my mind which is so much a part of how this president does things differently. your last thoughts? >> i think this is a big deal, it's gettin

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ronald reagan was an outlier. in fact, i think there was a cycle when we did not endorse reagan. probably did not line up with our publication schedule during that cycle. no, the sort of -- one of bill's favorite sayings from bill himer, a great influence on , was put not your faith in princes. not original to bill. but bill had a definite sense of the permanent things, and of politicians being very imperfect vessels. >> you have been going through the history. what do you make of this? jonah: that's right. there was this moment under george w. bush where the perception was that we were a house organ for the republican party. some writers may have gone too far in defending bush. part of that had to do with the fact we were at war in the wake of 9/11. we saw the opposition -- i don't want to speak editorially. the opposition to george w. bush was so unfair for a wartime president. even though we wrote stuff about how we opposed the department of homeland security, the immigration stuff, that kind of got washed out. the reality is that was an aberration from the norm. richard nixon