but krauthammer tells me he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> but i hadin 1980. i liked him and had respect for him. and as a personal matter, there's a kind of a matter of honor. i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote -- reagan or mondale. >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank? >> but if i had been, you know, the swing vote, i would have obviously have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> and just a few months after the election, i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column, and it was provocative. for awhile krauthammer had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized that what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what, at the time, was called the brezhnev doctrine, and that was "whenever

already being the oldest serving president in his 70's -- compared to his democratic challenger -- walter mondale younger. "i will not exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." in 2012 -- americans saw an exchange with much less humor -- but a similar effect for the sitting president at the time. time.president obama and his republican challenger -- mitt romney -- were asked about the recent attack on the u-s compound in benghazi that killed an american ambassador and three other americans. while the president defended the way he handled the situation in the days after -- he also attacked the way romney responded. and the suggestion that anybody on my team, whether the secretary of state, our u-n ambassador, anybody on my team, would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is do. that's not what i do as president, that's not what i do as commander in chief. even earlier in this campaign -- the two republican hopefulls from florida had a testy exchange... exchange......when former florida governor jeb bush tried to lecture senator marco rub

law school, law review, make a.g., make -- we're not looking for walter mondale anymore or bill clinton. >> trump and carson, the outsiders, each has a core issue. trump's core issue is immigration. >> it's not the resume. >> he made a big bang with what he said about immigration. a lot of people in the republican party agree with him. ben carson's is gun rights. he wants everybody to have more guns. and there are a lot of people in the republican party who agree with that. so i think it's unrealistic for the establishment to expect this support to evaporate when it's based on something. >> so well said. a chunk of reality behind their appeal. what is the appeal of marco rubio? what chunk of policy does he bring to the table? some sort of youthful hawkishness sought neocons will like him, they'll wag their tails at him? >> that is his argument, that he has strongest stool of anybody, the three-legged stool. of any candidate he's acceptable to the defense hawks, he's acceptable to the fiscal conservatives, he's acceptable to the social conservatives. he's not exciting on any of the issue

so if he had killed carter walter mondale would have become president and maybe hard to know, maybe thepathy of the death of carter maybe ronald reagan wouldn't have won in 1980. who knows? that is certainly possible. i don't think there is any question. barack obama in 2008 had two conspiracies against him by young people, young men, in denver, colorado. the plan was to try to kill them at the convention as he accepted the nomination for president. so when i hear that i say, the candidate syndrome, and also in tennessee and there's been constant death threats against them. and of course the omar gonzalez thing wasn't directly against him. he wasn't in the building but there have been so many death threats. >> the omar gonzalez thing was what? >> he is the man who, you know, leaped over the fence and got in the white house a year ago and the only person who went into the white house and that is alarming but indicates the security broke down and apparently one be of the secret service agents inside the building was asleep. >> if you had more time and a bigger book what would you have dev

the thing is, john ably was stalking jimmy carter so if he had killed carter, walter mondale would haveome if heent and maybe, it had come in -- maybe ronald reagan would not have one. who knows? that is possible. in 2008 had to conspiracies against him by young people, young men, in denver, colorado. the plan was to try to kill him at the convention as he accepted the nomination. candidate idea, from the film. also, in tennessee. they have been constant threats against him. the omar gonzalez thing wasn't directly against him, but he was in the building. brian: the gonzalez thing was what? prof. feinman: he is the man who leapt over the fence and got into the white house one year ago and the only person to get into the white house and that is alarming but that indicates the security broke down and apparently one of the secret service agents was asleep. brian: if you had more time and a bigger book, what would you devoted to? prof. feinman: a different topic? brian: no, on this topic. is there more? prof. feinman: an interesting the would be possibly might-have-beens, which included a fe

when ronald reagan debated walter mondale, rollins and beckel were the opposing campaign managers. >>o you remember how high the podiums would be? >> days. >> we had days negotiating. >> the color of the room. >> what difference would it make to the candidate what color the room was? >> because in certain conditions, certain colors work for certain candidates. >> because mondale was shorter than reagan -- >> we wanted more distance between the two podiums. we debated between 7 1/2 feet and 9 feet for a day and a half. >> the first debate came, and reagan struggled. >> 2/3 of the defense budget pays for pay and salary -- or pay and passengers. >> he looked tired and ragged. the general observation was they just spent too much time with a 70-year-old guy trying to beat every factoid into his brain. >> people said ronald reagan is too old for the office. >> you're already the oldest in history. >> in the next debate, reagan was ready for that. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> he deli

when ronald reagan debated walter mondale the opposing campaign managers. >> do remember high how the podiums were going to be and how far apart? ctiic days. we had teams negotiating. stossel: like how many times or where they are? >> the color of the room. stossel: what difference would it make to the candidate will cover the room is? >> certain colors work for certain candidates. reporter: stossel: because mondale was shorter than reagan. >> we debated between 7.5 and 9 feet per day nap. stossel: the first debate came and reagan's struggle. >> two-thirds of the defense budget pays for pay and salary or pay and pension. >> he looked a little tired and old ragged and the general observation was he spent too much time with the 70 some-year-old guy that tried to -- stossel: some said reagan is too old for the office. >> in the very next debate reagan was ready for that. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign could i'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. [laughter] >> he delivers this line and there isn't sense of humor that comes o

congresswoman geraldine ferraro as the vice presidential running mate for their presidential nominee walter mondaleat was a landmark decision by the democrats and strategically, it was interesting. presented some totally novel challenges for the republican side. nobody had ever run against a female presidential or vice presidential contender before and the republicans were pretty confident about their chances in that 1984 race overall but did worry about the ferraro factor. they worried specifically if there might be hidden risks in going up against her. and famously, that year, 1984, the advice to george h.w. bush, ronald reagan's vice president, the advice to him getting ready for the vice presidential debate that year against geraldine ferraro was he should be very careful to not talk down to her as a woman. whatever you do, don't be patronizing. women can see it a mile away. it's not a good look. famously george h.w. bush was warned about that in advance of the debate. and then the debate happened. >> i think i just heard mrs. ferraro say that she would do away with all covert action. and if so

think of walter mondale in 19 4 where you had the outsider challenge from gary hart. or think about 2000 with al gore where he had the challenge coming from bill bradley. and that each got interesting briefly and then sort of got a interesting. obviously in 2000, things were a little different. with the democratic party a whole lot more, i think we're forgetting that my left is your left. getting so much farther to the left and to the left where hillary clinton had been and then this anger at politicians, career politicians, anger at washington, or at least the established order of things, that's created sort of more of an edge to it. but the real story, i think, with hillary clinton is when you think about, when she left office in january of 2013. when she left the job of secretary of state, she had terrific numbers overall. i mean, yes, republicans and conservatives all hated her but they, you know, hated her as long as they've known anything about her. that doesn't change. but if you look at her numbers among democrats, liberals, among moderates and independents, h

think of walter mondale in 1984, where he had the outsider challenge from gary hart.out 2000 with al gore where he had the challenge coming from bill bradley. and each got interesting briefly as that sort of got -- and it sort of got less interesting. with the democratic party in 2000 a whole lot more -- i keep on forgetting that my left in your left -- getting so much brother to the left and to the left of where hillary clinton had been, then this anger at politicians, anger at washington, or at least the established order of thing, that has crated more of a net to it. but the real story a think with hillary clinton is when you think about when she left office in january 2013, when she left the job of secretary of state, she had terrific numbers overall. yes, republicans all hated her, but they have hated her as long as they have known anything about her. but if you look at her numbers among democrats, liberals, independents, hillary clinton's numbers back in january of 2013 were really pretty good. they were probably unsustainably high, but since she was not seen as

three times before rising up to make it a contest between the inevitable front runner that year, walter mondale, and the voice of a new generation. our party always looks to the future, and i need you guys. i don't have a ton of money, i can't pay you a salary, but by golly, i can give you a ranking commission no other campaign can offer. [laughter] it begins with you signing up on one of these so we can stay in touch. we're going out knocking on doors every weekend, we will be phone banking. and one thing you don't know about sam, i can tell you this because he used to work in the baltimore headquarters, he's a great guy, but if he doesn't sign up at least 20 new people every day, he goes home at night and cries. i really need you for sam's sleep to, please,sign up. thank you guys for being here today. thanks a lot. [applause] >> all campaign long c-span takes you on the road to the white house. unfiltered access to the candidates at town hall meetings, news conferences, rallies and speeches. we're taking your comments on twitter, facebook and by phone. and always, every campaign event we cove

but then the challenger comes out and makes it a little interesting for some time. 1984,of walter mondale in where he had the outsider challenge from gary hart. with think about 2000 with al gore where he had the challenge coming from bill bradley. and each got interesting briefly as that sort of got -- and it sort of got less interesting. with the democratic party in 2000 a whole lot more -- i keep on forgetting that my left in your left -- getting so much brother to the left and to the left of where hillary clinton had been, then this anger at politicians, anger at washington, or at least the established order of thing, that has crated more of a net to it. but the real story a think with hillary clinton is when you think about when she left office in january 2013, when she left the job of secretary of state, she had terrific numbers overall. yes, republicans all hated her, but they have hated her as long as they have known anything about her. but if you look at her numbers among democrats, liberals, independents, hillary clinton's numbers back in january of 2013 were really pretty good.

i think of walter mondale in 1984, where you had the outside every challenge from gary hart.bout 2000 with al gore where he had the challenge coming from bill bradley. that each got interesting briefly and then sort of got a lot less interesting. now obviously in 2000 things are hail different. with the democratic party a whole lot more, i keep forgetting that my left and your left, getting so much far to the left and to the left of where hillary clinton had been and then this anger at politicians, career politicians, anger at washington or at least established order of things, that created more of an edge to it. but the real story i think with hillary clinton is, when you think about, when she left office in january of 2013, when she left the job as secretary of state, she had terrific numbers overall. yes, republicans and conservatives all hated her but they hated her as long as they have known anything about her. that doesn't change. but if you look at her numbers among democrats, liberals, moderates, independents, hillary clinton's numbers back in january 2013 were really

coming from the state of walter mondale and we won't forget the moment when he put gerald being referredgeraldine ferrero on the ticket and coming from the state of hubert humphrey who once said if we don't write our own history, someone else will write it for us. well my friends we are not going to let those guys on the other side of the aisle right are history forests. our history is hillary clinton and she will be our next president. [applause] so speaking of churck writ, i had the great privilege to introduce a woman who knows a little bit about churck writ and that is my great friend, clare mccaskill of missouri. [applause] now i think you all know clare is one tough cookie and she had two tough races. if you don't believe me that she is tough you just talked to a guy named todd akin. but clare has also fought for military families. she has taken on government accountability issues. she is taken on what it is to the state of missouri and for our country and could i add the title of her book to end this, she is plenty ladylike. my friend clare mccaskill. [applause] >> with that was t

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think of walter man mondale with the challenge from heart. or al gore and the challenge from bradley. each got interesting briefly and then got a little less interesting. in 2000 things were different with the left getting further to the left and to the left of where hillary clinton had been. and then this anger at politicians, career politicians, anger at washington or the established order of things created more edge to it. the real story with hillary clinton is when you think about when she left office as secretary of state she had terrific numbers overall. republicans and conservatives all hated her but hated her as long as they have known anything about her. but if you look at her numbers along democrats, liberals, moderates, independents, hillary clinton's numbers in january of 2013 were good. the truth is they were probably unsustainably high because there was a period of time where she was not seen as a politician or a presidential candidate. she was above politics. so her numbers among non-conservative and non-republicans road up to