i think it's fair to say that ronald reagan deserved credit but it is not due to ronald reagan that georgeush got elected. brian: between the reagan presidency and bush presidency, something happened that soured nancy reagan's relationship with mrs. bush. namely the invitation to the white house to see the quarters nine days before inauguration. susan: you mean in 1980. when george herbert walker bush became president. mrs. bush was not invited to tour the white house before they took over nine days before the inauguration. susan: this became a big issue between them. nancy reagan i think was not enthusiastic about leaving the white house. i think nancy reagan liked the white house. she was slow to invite mrs. bush to take the traditional tour so she could take a close look at where her furniture was going to go and who was going to sleep in what bedroom, and all the things you manage when you move into a new house, even if it is not the white house. nancy reagan was very slow to come through with the invitation, and it was enormously annoying to barbara bush. so that was a point of conten

i think it's fair to say that ronald reagan deserved credit but it is not due to ronald reagan georgeush got elected. brian: between the reagan presidency and bush presidency, something soured nancy reagan's information -- nancy reagan's relationship with barbara bush. 1980. you mean in brian: when george h.w. bush became president. to. bush was not invited tour the white house before they took over nine days before the inauguration. susan: this became a big issue between them. nancy reagan i think was not enthusiastic about leaving the white house. i think she liked the white house. bushas slow to invite mrs. to take the traditional tour so she could take a close look at where her furniture was going to go and who was going to sleep in one bedroom, and all the things you manage when you move into a new house, even if it is not the white house. tocy reagan was very slow come through with the invitation, and it was enormously annoying to barbara bush. so that was a point of at keyion that recurs moments later, including when the bushes are moving out of the white house. george bush has

ronald reagan did it to a certain degree, even after four years as president. reagan tried to run as the antiestablishment candidate. if you can pull it off, it's great but it's hard to pull it off after you've been at the center of the establishment as president. so i don't know if this is a new model. so president trump has been able to accomplish what he's accomplished, with no observable sense of humor. now again, i don't know if he's a funny guy and tells jokes to family or other things. other people. but he seems to make at least so far, little or no effort to do it as president. now, is this something new or is this an aberration? i get asked questions about the meaning of the trump presidency fairly often. and my answer is, to take the historians' dodge and say that it's too early to tell. and as i like to say, historians, can really run without a long way. so edward given who wrote six volume history of the decline and fall of roman empire which was published in the late 1700s and it was describing events that happened a thousand years before. and he wa

thathad been trying to get approved since ronald reagan. ronald reagan tried it.n a plan, i was close to getting it done, then i did not like somebody or something that somebody did. i said let's take it out of the plan. why should we do it? a friend of mine who is in the oil business called, unrelated. he asked if i was going to get it. don't know if i'm going to a, they don't appreciate it. he said that is too bad. everybody from ronald reagan all the way up to you could not get it done. i said, really? i said put that back into plan. that was just a competitive thing. [applause] we put it back and it is one of the biggest in the world. a lot of you folks will be there. than 450 oil more and gas rigs nationwide. that number is going up substantially and rapidly. here in texas, we have nearly doubled the amount of land rigs and crude oil production has reached a record high, the highest in history of texas. if i get you the pipelines, which i will, have been trying to get these pipelines -- how many years, governor? 10, 12, 15? >> too long. pres. trump: we will t

ronald reagan nearly won the primary in 1976. bob dole was the vp nominee in 1976. john conley, the former governor of texas, secretary of the treasury. two respected illinois congressman. nobody really gave us a shot. he was the last man standing. won some big primaries, michigan, pennsylvania, connecticut, the iowa caucus. we went to the convention in 1980. it will be the last convention where i'm sure -- the last time where the nominee went to the convention without having chosen a vp nominee. and had not settled in his own mind whom he was going to pick. we thought president bush was probably a logical choice. he had foreign policy expertise. president reagan had the domestic expertise. i remember the wednesday of the convention, president bush was scheduled to speak that night. he had done so well as a candidate. about 5:00 at night getting ready to go to the auditorium, that's the first we heard of the gerald ford thing. it looked like ford was going to be the nominee. by the time we got to the convention hall he was getting ready to speak. jim wooton was ther

that was something that they have been trying to get approve since ronald reagan.ose to getting it done then i didn't like somebody. or something that somebody did and i said let's take it out of the plan. why should we do it, then a friend of mine who is in the oil business called, unrelated didn't have anything to do, and he said is it true you gonna get and more, i said yeah i can get it, i don't think of going to though, they don't appreciate it. they don't appreciate it. he said that's too bad, everybody from ronald reagan all the way up to you couldn't get it done. and i said really? i called it up and said put it back in the plan. it was just a competitive thing. so we put it back and that is one of the biggest in the world. that is going to be something very special. a lot of you folks will be there. we have added more than 450 oil and gas rig nationwide. that is going up rapidly. here in texas we nearly doubled then land rigs and cruel oil has reached a record high, highest in the history of texas. if i get to the pipelines, which i will, they been trying

and when george bush was chosen as ronald reagan's running mate, he made a commitment to support the republican platform, which opposed abortion. so he did, he changed his view on abortion. she never did, but she stopped talking about it. in her diaries i found something quite extraordinary, which is, in her diaries in early 1980, there were four pages of loose paper folded over and tucked in. it was essentially a letter she wrote herself trying to figure out what did she think about abortion. she knew she would be asked in the 1980 presidential campaign and she wanted to know what she thought. it is a very thoughtful, poignant letter. and she concludes that she supports abortion rights, and she concludes that for an interesting reason. it's because of her experience with the death of her daughter, robin. robin died in 1953 of leukemia.

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was voted for mondale and i working on a fancy show and i got to meet ronald reagan because in 1991 he was in his office in century city, the fox tower, did anybody see "diehard ?" that's the tower. and he had the top floor. my boss said, go meet reagan, "cheers" jacket and ask him to be on the show. 26 and by then i realized he had was right, and been right all along and i was the idiot. so i go with the appropriate amount of contrition and respect for the man who ended the cold in, it is very quiet, you walk past nancy's office, she wasn't there thank god, but you look in there and you say, this is nancy's office, something about it, it is spooky, and then you go into the room and there is ronald reagan. and he comes around from behind his desk and he shakes her hand, and when i shook his hand, i thought, i am a writer, i should have had something prepared to say. but i didn't have anything prepared, so we made awkward and then for a minute i said, this is for you, mr. president, we took a picture, show cans, all that stuff, thank you, and i say, we would love the to be on the show,

ronald reagan himself didn't speak about aids, didn't say the word aids until i think 1987. and there was a real lack of quick reaction in terms of funding and providing assistance to people who had aids. i think it was -- it was all part of, it was also happening at the time of recession. it was happening at the time the reagan administration was trying to pull back some of the programs for healthcare. so altogether, that resulted in a very slow uptake of what can we do to help people with aids and what we can do about this virus. >> and yet one of the ironies, one of his good friends, rock hudson, died from aids. did that impact his thinking? >> i don't personally know if it impacted his thinking. i know nancy reagan became very involved with, like in the later 1980's and befriended ryan white, who was a teenager who got aids, so i don't think he ever came out in strong support of let's increase funding and a public voice, but, you know, as his second term was coming to an end, he was more outspoken about it. >> when did we begin to turn the tide in terms of public awarene

when you're working on a fancy show you get to meet people and one of the people i cut it was ronald reagan because in 1991 he was in his office in center city, a fox tower. did anybodynt see diehard? it's the first diehard. that's the tower. yet the top floor. my boss said go meet reagan and bring in a cheers jacket and asking to be on the show. all right, easy. i met reagan and sort of like i had my cheers jacket. ii was 26 and by then i realized that he was right and he had been right all along, and i was the idiot. i i go with appropriate amount f contrition and respect the man who ended thehe cold war. go in, it's very quiet. you walk past nancy's office. she wasn't there, they got, but you looked in there, this is nancy's office. it was spooky and thenth you gon and suddenly you're in a room and there's ronald reagan. he's like, hey, any comes from behind his desk and he shakes your hand. i shook his head and i thought i'm a writer, i should that something prepared, to say thati didn't have anything prepared. we made awkward chitchat for a minute and i said this is for you, mr. presid

and went to the sweet ronald reagan open the door with a big smile on his face and both arms out. immediately that he had them at ease. they had a nice breakfast, the four of them, nobody else. i am going along but on the way down, they had a press conference after breakfast. that was on thursday morning. down in theing service elevator. i was fortunate enough to be on it. somehow, a conversation kayla about the address and president bush said something about i wish i had been dressed like this or that. reagan said that reminded me of this joke and he told a very funny joke. they both love jokes. androke up president bush to this day i think president have been anmay old hollywood trick to get him to loosen up, knowing president bush would want to make a good first impression. method to that joke. he did great, they both did great in the press conference. from that point on, it was just a great relationship all the way through the presidency. are about five minutes over on that one. [laughter] you to sleep better tonight. tim wasn't perfect. did you leave something behind once? ,

you heard the ronald reagan tithing thing. he didn't tithe, right? >> no.ut one of the things that i were a strategist on the d side, if i were advising these candidates once they're hit with this, one of the things i would have looked at and said, i would have been like depending on what they gave politically, i would have been like i may not have been charitable, but i'm trying to help with my message by supporting xyz candidates. i believe in the cause and i believe in being a democrat and being a liberal or whatever, so i've given to abcdefg candidates. so i'm still -- >> neil: and the ronald reagan view -- others have been very generous but they didn't get the tax write off. quite a few billionaires have done that. but i'm wondering where it slips up on them. if you're making this a cause, you have to be really vigilant about making it show up on your tax returns. >> this isn't the cause. they're not saying everybody needs to donate more money to charity. they think the government -- >> neil: those in their league who we all have to pony up more to the

we walked in and president bush said, ronald reagan just called and asked me to be the vp nominee. it was an incredible story. i remember the next morning, havingnt and mrs. bush breakfast with president and missus reagan, and they really did not know him. they had heard rumors that they did not want him to be on the ticket. i think it was his nervousness. i had seen both of them. you all know the look. he was grinding those molars. [laughter] they were both quite nervous, but they walked up and went to suite -- suite and ronald reagan open the door and had his arms out, and i could tell he put them at ease. they had a nice breakfast just the four of them. on the way down -- they had a press conference after the --akfast on thursday morning and they were going down in the service elevator, and i was fortunate enough to be on it. somehow a conversation came up about their dress and president bush said, i wish i would have been dressed like this or that. reagan said, that reminds me of this joke, and he told a very funny joke. they both loved jokes and it broke up president bush. to

and when ronald reagan agreed to improve and expand the program. we do it by way of introducing legislation and then by doing the time-honored thing of increasing the contribution. this is an insurance payment. an insurance payment. and americans in poll after poll after poll are saying, my god, we're willing to pay more so that we can reap the benefit. why don't -- or why doesn't congress make it actuarial sound so that we're able to do this? o by increasing the payment by 1.2%, but then phasing that in over 25 years, we're able to come up with an incremental adjustment that takes place of what should have happened in 1983, which would have been the gradual indexing and payment of the program. this way we make the program actuarially sound and we make sure that it's sustainably solvent and that people can have the benefits that they need. how do we know this? how does any senior, how can anyone rely on it? they can because we have the corresponding actuarial report that goes through every line of it's ll and certifies how paid for and that it is s

i just refer you to ronald reagan's last speech as president of the u.s. about the value of newcomers to our country. once we close that door, america will fail to be preeminent in the world. >> you talk about the accomplishments, but only two of these bills on the list that are highlighted have been enacted into law, and only 12 bill since the beginning of this congress have been signed by the president. you have 170 bills that are collecting dust in the senate. >> they are not collecting dust. government was closed the first few weeks, we had to address that challenge. let me say this -- the reason we are optimistic and hopeful is not that we can pass bills in the house, we intend to do that. to stay our purpose and honor our commitment to american people, and make advances on their behalf. but i am a big believer in public sentiment. abraham lincoln, with that you can accomplish almost anything, without it, you practically can accomplish nothing. public sentiment will weigh in, and the senate will see it is important to have legislation passing for equa

forre is some a populist candidate, but it has been voting for democrats pretty frequently since ronald reagan. barack obama was particularly popular. the fact that donald trump wno it -- won it tells you how much the state swings. host: we would like to thank craig gilbert of the "milwaukee journal >> both the president's's rall and the dinner are live tonight on c-span. the president will be in green bay, wisconsin, live at 8:00 p.m. it will be the 18th rally has held in that state, the third in green bay since he first began his race for president in 2015. the historian and author headlines white house correspondents' dinner. it is also online and you can listen on our free radio app. the white house did not release a weekly address from the president. senator martin heinrich gave the democratic address discussing the mueller report and its impact. >> president donald trump has lost the trust of the nation he swore to protect and defend. as the special counsel robert mueller's report lays out in painstaking detail, there is rampant criminality surrounding president trump's campaign administ

youth might you know count against him and youth and inexperience as we know is something that ronald reagan i was able to make quite a good joke about the other thing about mr putin judge is that he's a mayor of a relatively small you know mid sized town one hundred thousand people that's actually known for having quite a high crime rate so i think you know once we get past you know selling selling the man the personality and in seven languages in the rhodes scholarship and so forth when it gets down into policy what he's accomplished as mayor that he could be vulnerable we don't know right now we're in the honeymoon period but we know how even periods are short and there's certainly going to be a next democratic candidate to come along i mean the field just keeps getting bigger and bigger chunks is holding a campaign rally in wisconsin on the same nights and you will white house carles funds dinner in washington. that cleavage is not ending is. what can we say here larry you know i i as much as i criticize this president i would like to find some kind words to say about him but the man is

youth might you know count against him and youth and inexperience as we know is something that ronald reagan i was able to make quite a good joke about the other thing about mr putin judge is that he's a mayor of a relatively small you know mid sized town one hundred thousand people that's actually known for having quite a high crime rate so i think you know once we get past you know selling selling the man the personality and in seven languages in the rhodes scholarship and so forth when it gets down into policy what he's accomplished as mayor that he could be vulnerable we don't know right now we're in the honeymoon period but we know how even periods are short and there's certainly going to be a next democratic candidate to come along i mean the field just keeps getting bigger and bigger chunks is holding a campaign rally in wisconsin on the same night z. and you will white house correspondents' dinner in washington. that cleavage is not ending is. what can we say here larry you know i i as much as i criticize this president i would like to find some kind words to say about him but the ma

the only one close to him was ronald reagan and the question any historian has to ask is why is this the case after all? he was there only a thousand days the seventh briefest presidency in american history. and the answer i think is that on the one hand, people don't much like his successyears. johnson with vietnam, nixon with watergate. ford's truncated presidency. jimmy carter's presidency which people see as essentially failure. the only one is reagan the two bushes don't register that powerful by. c-span: what about bill clinton. >> yes, but he that the monica affair torches president to have been impeached. a black mark against his record. kennedy, of course, dying so young at the age of 46, having only been there for a thousand days, it's a blank slate on which you can write anything, and he was so young, and the country identifies with that. and they have a sense of loss over -- to to this day, i think, over his assassination, but bute gives people hope and what they remember are his words. ask not what your country can do for you, and what you can do for your country. his fa

guest: fdr, like andrew jackson and ronald reagan, is a transformational president. he arrived at a time of great crisis, great testing. he famously said to a friend -- if i fail, i will be the last president of the united states. not an extreme statement at the time. he not only succeeded in the contemporary context, but the sack -- the fact that 60, 70 years later there are people that still feel this bond tells you how profound the change was in the prevailing political consensus. people's attitude in the 20's was to let egg business sort of run government. well that obviously changed with the depression. but nothing's permanent. in 1980, is that ronald reagan, who voted four ,imes for fdr as a young man and who never quite accepted that he was reversing the roosevelt revolution, he just said he was as pragmatic as fdr was. but arguably, and as they said, there was a reagan revolution, there was a transformation in our attitudes towards government . to we keep waiting for that reverse itself. we thought maybe it would happen with barack obama. it hasn't happened y

every president ronald reagan on in terms of modern times has been recognized the value of newcomerso america, that we're a nation of immigrants unless you're blessed to be born. >> on that, us a point out. ronald reagan said thanks to each wave, a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier this. quality is vital to our future as a nation. if we ever close the door to new americans hour leadership in the world would soon be lost. >> beautiful. i quote him all through this campaign. >> how did america lose that spirit? >> well, america different. i think that the last presidential election there were some fearmongering going on about it and -- and i do think that the american people -- we're all immigrants, and so the spirit of ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, all of those presidents recognized that newcomers bring vie dalt and courage and optimism and determination to make the future better. those are american traits. these newcomer

campaignback at the that ended with george bush as ronald reagan's vice presidential choice. bushr president george w. introduces the program, which was hosted by his presidential center in dallas. to this is almost 40 minutes. >> please welcome ken hirsch. [applause] and welcome so much to the bush center, the only place where the president outranks the ceo. it is an honor for me to serve in this capacity and be with you all tonight to engage in the bush center series presented by island capital. tos an honor tonight celebrate the life of the 41st president of the united states. that's something unique to this place, and i am excited you are all here to share in the experience. thankcially want to highland capital, which has been a wonderful supporter, and their chief investment officer is with us tonight. thank you for all you do for us. without further ado, it is my honor to introduce the 43rd president of the united states. president bush: thank you. sit down. thank you all for coming. remembering 41, i remember him fondly. as do our panelists. first, i want to thank the

even ronald reagan with all of his great breakthroughs with gorbachev and diplomacy started trailing off, people had their reagan quota. brian: do we have cards? do you know where we -- where they are? we want to make sure you have a chance to ask questions. you can pass them down the road. let me go to people that are here in the audience and also watching at home. maybe some young people. what would you advise them to do if they get interested in history? i know it sounds simple, but we be doing, we would not history if it was not for these terrific historians. 44 of them in this book. and over the years, all of the interviews i have given a spirit what would you advise a younger person to do or someone that is not so young if they want to get started and all of this? richard: edna: other than -- edna: other than come talk to me? enter my class. [laughter] edna: i would tell them to read, read, read. read everything. not just the kind of history is that you are personally interested in. that all history. if i lived long enough, some day i'm going to write a book. because i am fascin

larry speaks who served ronald reagan for a while made up quotes on occasion. 4th of july and speaks would say to us the president said this is a manifestation of the american spirit and shows the fundamental values of our country. ronald reagan never said that, larry speaks attributed to the president and when he left the white house he lost his job when he admitted that he made up quotes. but making up hundreds or many fbi agents called here complaining about comey, saying they were so happy he was gone. that's a different kind of lie. that's a different kind of quote. speaks was innocuous but should never have done it. her lies are more than innocuous. they fester and they serve the public's -- not interest, but disinterest in learning the truth. >> lastly, you hear the rumblings about the age of biden should factor into the race. when you covered reagan he was at that time the oldest person to take office. should age matter. >> well, i'm 85, of course it shouldn't matter. by the way, biden makes it 21, i'm thinking about making it 2022. but maybe i'm a litt

he is a person who hires and when he goes to work for ronald reagan.en starr is the one who hired ronald reagan on a recommendation from william rehnquist. ken starr is solicitor general when roberts is a deputy general. they lost interaction throughout. ken starr, he was on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge same way john roberts was. he had a reputation for being a conservative, a moderate conservative. as solicitor general, he did not have a far right reputation. he had urged the overturning of roe v. wade. he followed through with a conservative republican agenda. he did not have a firebrand reputation. he easily could have been positioned for the supreme court. his arguments on roe v. wade did not help him. interdepartmental rivalries also hurt him. when you see the monica linsky thing, and how that unfolded in the name -- in the late 1990's, it is different than the ken starr we had in the late 1990's. wouldn't you think? brian: let's go back to john roberts. this is from an interview, and you quoted, february 3, 2016, react to

ronald reagan people remember him for his as president -- anti- environmental actions as governor wasa very strong fireman list and because came out of the west and understood that world. a lot of ways in which the environment has changed over time for pat and jerry for something that allow them even most recently were jerry brown publican votes for one of the cap and trade provision that was a key climate change. >> and talk about some very good things that governor schwarzenegger had done. >> yes. [laughter] >> but under the reagan administration had the energy commission and intervened [inaudible] >> one other quick question about jerry and his father, moment ago you said he climbed half dome because his father had but there were some things generated that definitely were not things as father would've done and definitely in that direction and i had impact on his first governorship. >> yeah, personality and telepathically their aligned but personalities cannot be more different in one of the lines i use the book is that pat brownff hugged strangers and jerry brown shook hands with h

ronald reagan was not challenged in republican primaries and was re-elected easily, winning 49 states. when his republican successor george h.w. bush ran for re-election in 1992, he was challenged in the republican primaries by pat buchanan. pat buchanan scored a gene mccarthy-like upset in the new hampshire primary by coming in a shockingly strong second to the incumbent president of the united states. but even though pat buchanan did not win a single primary, he weakened president bush's re-election campaign and his grip on republican voters to the point where president bush lost the white house to democratic challenger bill clinton. democratic president bill clinton was not challenged by a democrat in his re-election campaign, and his re-election victory over republican bob dole was never really in doubt. the next president, george w. bush, was not challenged in his re-election campaign by a republican in his party, and so was able to hang on for a narrow win over democrat john kerry. and president bush's re-election campaign. then came the obama presidency with president obama fac

defended our freedom when he signed the largest increase in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. thanks to the president leadership we are giving our agreeing --rmen, marines for support they need to accomplish her mission and come home safe. this president has stood with those who defend our freedom here at home, who protect and serve on the in a blue line. under the president's leadership, we are given all the men and women law enforcement at every level the resources and the respect that they deserve every single day as they protect our families. i know there is a lot of law enforcement members here today, why don't you show them how much we appreciate the men and women who serve on the thin blue line and protect our families every day? god bless you all. this president has stood for freedom and the american economy. the president has cut more federal red tape in the last two years than any president in history. the president signed the largest hot reform -- tax reform in history. the results are in. small havelarge and created 5.5 million new jobs, more americans are working

you talk about actors, but think about ronald reagan, who is better known as a politician than an actorraine, if you look at their economy, it has taken a dive. in terms of inflation, cost of living, people on the breadline. clearly they have said, we have had enough of the professional political classes, but clearly — the most popular man in the world who won by a democratic election happened to previously have been selling tea at railway stations, the prime minister of india. the largest electoral victory in their history of the world, he was a tea seller. it is a move towards populism that meant clinton and bush didn't win last time in the american elections, for instance, because this idea of some kind of, you sort of have a political legacy going from generation to generation, and great, you and i could go into politics! it looks like anybody can! and that is the point of it, we are supposed to be able to, it is meant to be for the people and this has proved it. i hope many more people will be inspired. goes to show anyone can be president, but when it comes to the finance sector —

s, barry goldwater, the arizona conservative, john tower, a republican senator from texas, and ronald reagan, made strong it feels to mexican-americans on the basis of his sense of racial victimization. they had been taking a backseat. they had legitimate concerns around discrimination and inclusion in the democratic party and they offered, republicans did, a chance to hold out the prospect of a better deal from republicans. more attention. to some degree putting , african-americans in their place. by the time of richard nixon, republicans were in office when nixon was sworn in and nixon had to figure out what am i going to do for these people that we spent the 1960's saying we would do much better for you. republicans maintained a certain element of racial polarization, that is they pitted mexican-americans, especially, and african-americans in context with one another. they also added more positive programs for the initiation of affirmative-action programs in the federal civil service to provide new levels of access to white-collar employment. primarily for mexican-americans. they also art

and then also ronald reagan was making a little run at it from the colts. >> there has been some movement today with two southern delegations. >> i think mr. nixon can be stopped and i think if he does not get it on the first ballot, he's through. >> anybody in politics must have great competitive instinct. he must want to win. he must not like to news. above everything else, he must have the ability to keep fighting more and more strongly when it seem that the odds are the greatest. >> the most important developments have centered mostly on a conference that richard nixon held last night. and he seemed to be trying desperately to win the south to his side. >> as a result of his statements to the southern caucus, black voters are aware that richard nixon is opposed to busing to help eliminate racial imbalance in the nation's schools. but he has a deep and basic opposition to open housing and he will try to capitalize on the political and racial issues of law and order and violence. >> i am going to cast my vote for that world statesman and that great american, richard m. nixon. let us loo

and clear message to washington that they .eard, across the country as a young man i worked for ronald reagan. who once said that there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. if that kind of commonsense pragmatism has guided our past. we found a way to disagree without being disagreeable. we stood side-by-side with our democratic legislator, our clearlyt views acknowledge, but not obstructing our path forward. we spent four years working together to unshackle the and potentialise of our state. we debated, discussed, and reasoned together. honestly and productively, with integrity and sincere purpose. we argued without acrimony. negotiated without hidden agendas. withoutromised political posturing. we did not demand republican solutions are democratic solutions, we sought out bipartisan commonsense solutions that worked for the people of our state. we did not surrender our principles, we simply practiced the art of the possible. we trusted the voters to appreciate the distinction. rather than engaging in mere rhetoric, we delivered real results

forre is some a populist candidate, but it has been voting for democrats pretty frequently since ronald reagan. barack obama was particularly popular. the fact that donald trump wno it -- won it tells you how much the state swings. host: we would like to thank craig gilbert of the "milwaukee journal rallyh the president's and the white house correspondents dinner will be live on c-span. it will be the 18th rally that president trump has held in wisconsin. chernow headlines the white house correspondents dinner. you can listen on our free radio app. a forum on efforts to prevent violent extremism in countries with weak governments. madeleine albright joins a panel about the importance of governments maintaining their social contracts with citizens. looking panel followed at prioritizing prevention across the federal government. the u.s. institute of peace hosted the event. >> good