four years later, date did -- they did just that by nominating goldwater himself after vanquishing the new york governor nelson rockefeller who was then the icon of the old republican establishment. goldwater lost that election, but his candidacy changed american politics. if the eisenhower election produced phyllis schlafly, the cold water election produced ronald reagan. while it is tempting to say that the rest is history, the political successes that followed produced a better world that created new problems, with which a new generation of conservatives must contend today. ronald reagan brought an optimism to the conservative political movement, born both of his own amiability but more importantly, from his deep believe that the values that motivated him and us were not only worth fighting for but were true. he knew that we were right and they were wrong. that is something most politicians do not know when they get up to deliver a policy speech. ronald reagan knew. he knew that our ideas work and that there is to knock -- there's -- theirs do not. that was and remains today a solid

the enemy is never one who must be vanquished at all cost. it is not so easy to kill from the inside, a shifting corridor of blame. not so easy to trace an intricate blame of betrayals and broken treaties. the enemy is not you, the enemy is not me. the enemy is muslim, christian, atheist, hindu, jew. he is our collective face, our evolution, the devolution, the ripening of long injustices. thank you. the next poet is michael palmer. >> what of that wolf hound at full stride. what of the woman that serves as fairl guide and witness to the snowy hive? what of the singer robed in red and frozen at mid-song? and the stone, its brokenness, or the voice oft seen that says note the dragon seen but asking no questions of flight, no questions of irridescence, what of that century, did you see it pass? what of that wolf hound at your back? and then a poem that is for mahmud darlish called the dream of narcissus. the dream of narcissus, that there would be a silence loud as time. the dream of the writer that there could be a silence loud as time, the dr

the american belligerents had clearly not vanquished this, the war of 1812 did believe the nation's confidence. and the war has given the americans what they so essentially lack. national character found on a glory, and to wall. in ensuing decades with policies such as the monroe doctrine the united states would begin to demonstrate new-found confidence and a belief that the united states had an essentials role to play in a larger world. that, i think is the most significant legacy of mr. and mrs. madison's war. thank you. [applause] >> if we have any questions, we have a microphone that i think needs to be delivered to the questioner and it is on its way. bear with us just a second. please. >> very interesting. you called this "mr. and mrs. madison's war". to what extent do you think it was madison's initiative to go to war? there's a promise to my question. that war was fought 25 years after the constitution. was a last big event done by the constitutional generation before folks who were not there at the founding took over and was the first and last time congress actually followed the rules