reagan. >> and involved first, lady she was active in key staff decision and policymaking and in campaigning. >> good evening and welcome to suspend series first ladies influence and image. tonight what type of the story of any frances robins. notice as nancy reagan. let me introduce our two guests will be with us for the next 90 minutes. judy is come alleging editor and co-anchor of pbs is news hour. in her earlier years she covered the reagan white house from bc and later on reduced a documentary with the first lady. a californian has been covering the national politics and start any, for and he co-wrote a book about the regan presidency with his father, lieutenant, the regan biographer. we looked at hundreds of hours a video about the reagan presidency in the suspend library and decided to start with the closing chapter. this is footage from the region funeral, when mrs. reagan said goodbye to her husband of many years, and we thought that it was symbolized very well. let's watch and talk

reagan's initials and mr. reagan's initials. but on his key, right above his initials, in her handwriting engraved, it says, "our first." >> what were their early married years like? >> well, susan, as we said, they married in 1952. and actually, their daughter, patti, was born in 1952. and she pretty much gave up her movie career. she had been getting some roles fairly steadily. and his career was actually the one that was stalling out at that point, and then the ge offer came along. but it became -- she became the homemaker. she essentially gave up -- she did do a few television roles i think over that first decade of their marriage. but mainly she devoted herself to being his wife, the mother of patti, who was their daughter who was born in 1952, and then i think about six years later, ron, jr., was born. but her family was her life. and she devoted all her time to that. and there's a great little story -- i don't know if you're going to show it later -- where once he went to work for ge, ge had this all-electric house built

reagan: no. tor.c reporter: how important has misses reagan's advice been? fmr. pres. reagan: this has helped me such as i think every man dreams of having. a relationship that sort of matches your dreams of marriage when you were an adolescent. but she does not have the -- so many people in the media have tried to intimate -- she does not come down and get involved in affairs like disarmament or anything else. she does what she thinks is good to me and i feel free confide in her on the things that are going on, and then at the same time, she is i think one of the finest unpaid employees of the government because as a first lady, she has been employed but with regards to the drug program nationwide, and how she continues to work with that and a few other interests of hers, she is a tremendous help. as a matter of fact, she is helped just by my knowing she is up there when i go to meet her at the end of the day. been dogginghave your footsteps. we went to dixon and founded a lovely place. talked t

reagan: no. ex-actor. reporter: how important has mrs. reagan's advice been? fmr. pres. reagan: this has helped me such as i think every man dreams of having. a relationship that sort of matches your dreams of marriage when you were an adolescent. but she does not have the -- so many people in the media have tried to intimate -- she does not come down and get involved in affairs like disarmament or anything else. she does what she thinks is good for me and i feel free to confide in her on the things that are going on, and then at the same time, she is i think one of the finest unpaid employees of the government because as a first lady, she has been employed but with regards to the drug program nationwide, and how she continues to work with that and a few other interests of hers, she is a tremendous help. as a matter of fact, she is helped just by my knowing she is up there when i go to meet her at the end of the day. >> we have been dogging your footsteps. we went to dixon and founded a lovely pl

the reagan image was so, so important making reagan look good. the other staffers knew they could get a lot done without those three people bothering them because nobody won to have a meeting with reagan without one of the three members because in ragged could say something that is detrimental to the missing member. first reagan in the hospital and three of them have to visit him at the hospital seo they cannot visit individually reagan joked when they showed up and said i didn't know we are to have a staff meeting. that was one of the instances in which the tension worked in part because of reagan's management style and because of reagan's clear ideological guidance. each had specific goals. >> to help organize the president so what made the critical distance of the first couple of months of the administration? was at the fact reagan was shot? and how they performed during that presidential crisis. remember al ended up being outside of the community surrounding the president because of his performance especially before the press when he said i a

reagan for example, peggy noonan said even though was fight neglect reagan white house, the idea of reagan rules, meaning that people knew generally where reagan wants to good and so even though people might have fought over titles or stature, the fact that where they were going in a general policy direction was well -- i think the process one is extremely important. the administration which i worked was the george w. bush administration and process was extremely important and anyone that committed what was called a process -- that went round the process and circumvented. then presidential powers set the tone. if you force me to rank them i would put the process first, and i think -- with respect to your second question but the press, i think the press plays an important role. i think we need to have a press that lets us know what is going on, and i think we know more about fighting in the white house today than we did in previous eras because in part there's the press and you mentioned evans and novak. with each fight i look at in the book i went and looked up to see if evans and novak wr

i can visualize reagan as a boxer, reagan as a prize fighter when boxing was popular in america. trump, on the other hand, seems to me to be mma. this is gloves off. this is really, really tough stuff. what do you think of that? do you buy that comparison? [laughter] >> i wouldn't have have thought of it quite that way. i think that reagan had a remarkable sense of playing a role. i think it was the role of a lifetime. and i think that he had an instinctive belief really grown out of sort of an eisenhower type tradition of what the president should be like. it's why i present he'd never take his coat off in the oval office. a good friend of mine had a very bold idea which was shaking the. up radically. and -- [inaudible] reagan turned around and said, paul, that's really a very interesting idea, but i wear the white hat. you know, you have to have a guy who wears the black hat to do something like that. so i think reagan had, in a way, he had a real sense of his limitations. and then he knew how to build constraints while minimizing his limitations. he was, he also had acquired,

and knew where reagan wants to go. and that where we are going in general policy directions the process is extremely important somebody with respect to your second question and it plays an important role the let us know what's going on. and what looked up to see novak and in that particular fight that was a great source for me. that he liked the fact and then they would leak in the press against their colleagues. in a survey approach in a say that because the reporters are complaining room cooperating better so can we talk about the trump administration and then to cover as much but tell me your thoughts and when reagan was in charge but that ideological and have numerous national security advisors. every 14 months over an eight-year period there was a new national security advisor. and that attention between the ideology he was committed to and his ability i studied reagan and found that fascinating and often wondered a president who has that national security advisor and as a defender 1987 the washington summit led t

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at the reagan library. plan to view a live and in person once the pandemic is behind us and you are able to travel again we would still love to have you out to the reagan library. thank you so much for joining us today. >> i am a huge fan of the reagan library. and i cannot remember a time that we just did not have a wonderful experience. i can assure you as soon as i get back to the west coast i will be dropping in to see you. >> terrific we love to have you. >> i have known you for years. you are an intellectual. you are and imaginative guy, mr. could you ever have imagined the way the united states finds itself today in the middle of the pandemic literally to stop in its tracks? >> no. when i first started writing trump and the american future, future, everything was going well, lowest unemployment, and then you start with with the chinese virus now is being given a different name for political reasons and then the first time i have ever seen countries deliberately create a depression. them politicians d

reagan: that is a tough question. i have been a voracious reader, whether it has been nonfiction or fiction. that and articles, publications and so forth. i had to try to pick out someone in particular, i don't the guy can. -- i just don't think i can. i have opened myself up to just about all of the viewpoints there are in that sense. my greatest dread, my nightmare, is that sometime i might be caught in a hotel room someplace with nothing to read. i don't think i could go to sleep or shut my eyes if i did not read myself to sleep at night. william: you mentioned before in passing your role as president of the screen actors guild. i read that that period in your life perhaps more than any other shaped your attitudes and policies. what did your experiences as a labor leader teach you? pres. reagan: i was very proud of the screen actors guild at that time. when i went into the job, i found that it existed on some very firm principles. for one thing, the screen actors guild said the guild would not be engaged in politic

reagan: at this point, no. >> mr. president, do you intend to follow through with your campaign pledges to abolish the departments of energy and education? pres. reagan: i have not retreated from that at all. yes. the process, however, that i have asked for, is for both the secretary of education and the secretary of energy to reorganize, to produce the most effective streamlining of the department -- of their departments that they can. in education, to look at the appropriate role of the federal government in education, if there is one. and to report back, and then, we will decide on making our recommendations. much the same thing holds true with the department of energy. the reason for this being, that while they were new cabinet level agencies, they incorporated government functions and programs that had been going on in them when they came under that umbrella. and we have to find out which of those functions that have been a federal government function continue, and where they would best fit. but, yes, i am determ

reagan: at this point, no. >> mr. president, do you intend to follow through with your campaign pledges to abolish the departments of energy and education? pres. reagan: i have not retreated from that at all. yes. the process, however, that i have asked for, is for both the secretary of education and the secretary of energy to reorganize, to produce the most effective streamlining of the department -- of their departments that they can. in education, to look at the appropriate role of the federal government in education, if there is one. and to report back, and then, we will decide on making our recommendations. much the same thing holds true with the department of energy. the reason for this being, that while they were new cabinet level agencies, they incorporated government functions and programs that had been going on in them when they came under that umbrella. and we have to find out which of those functions that have been a federal government function continue, and where they would best fit. but yes, i am determi

reagan: not at all. at the beginning of this administration, when questions were asked of me in press conferences about the soviet union, i spoke bluntly about what i felt i knew about them and the fact they are expansionist, they are neversive, they have withdrawn or retracted the lenin statement that their mission is a one world communist state. at the same time, we have to live together. i believe the only way there will be world war iii is the soviet union once a war. if they want peace, there will be peace, because no one else wants a war. we certainly don't. of a war in known my lifetime that we started. that it is necessary that we face each other. ournow they don't like system and we don't like their system. cannothave to see if we get along in the world. they are the only ones that can cause a war. william: do you expect to be meeting with mr. gorbachev? pres. reagan: i am hopeful that will come about. we have had expressions that yes, they are willing. the ball is in their court. we are ready w

white house, the idea of reagan roles meaning people knew generally where reagan was to go and even the people might have thought of titles or the stature, the fact of where they were going in a policy direction. i think the process was extremely important in the administration with the bush administration in the process was extremely important and anybody who committed a process and somebody went around the process, the presidential powers also set the tone, let me guess you force me too rank him and i would put the process first but there was a section about the press, i think the press plays an important role, we need to have a press that lets us know what's going on and i think we know about the white house today than previous errors because you forgot to mention novak, each guy i looked at in the white house, i went and looked if novak wrote any columns on a particular fight, and he did in addition to all the other legal scholars. and indeed the publisher of this book a guy named alex novak and he liked the fact that i was looking at his father's column to the book. i think the

reagan was very thoughtful. trump is a, not just a real estate guy not a finance guy his construction guy. trump is very comfortable hanging out, there's a great series on youtube it must made it in the 90s trump at one of his own hotels doing every job. one point he is dressed up as the guy agreed to at the door he walks the dog for the lady he comes back and she says, that's really great, my dog is so happy. he says, do i get a tip? his cleaning rooms with the maid. his checking people in. he was having the time of his life. there was a non-intellectual relaxed happiness about trump commit he is a very existential weather reagan was not. reagan was long-term and had a good sense of history. trump is in the moment. he's really smart and he's getting better pretty fast. it's not that he's simplistic but that he tries to find core principles and then who operates off of those principles over and over and over again. sometimes you can't figure out one. i always figured out with every president, it's my job to unde

i visualize reagan as a fox, reagan as a prizefighter when boxing was popular in america. trump, on the other hand, seems to me that he is mma. this is gloves off. this is really, really tough stuff what do you think of that court to you by that comparison? >> i wouldn't have thought of it quite that way. i think that reagan had a remarkable sense of playing a a role. i think it was the role of a lifetime and i think that he had an instinctive belief really grown out of sort of as an eisenhower type tradition of what the president should be like. for example, he would never take his coat off in the oval office. a good friend might have been with him just before he was sworn in, had a very bold idea. which would would've shaken thm up radically. after the dinner, paul was a man, after dinner break and turned demented paul, it's really a very interesting idea, but i wear the white hat. you know, just to have a guy who wears a black hat do something like that. i think reagan had come in a way to get a real sense of limitation any new how to build his strengths while minimizin

. >> in 1985, they honored reagan. next from real america, an all-star party for ronald dutch reagan, hosted by frank sinatra. ♪ >> welcome to our all-star party for dutch reagan. speaking for variety club, bonnie hall. ♪ >> thank you very much and welcome to our 35th annual all-star party. please join me in welcoming a lady we love. who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. this is dutch reagan. ♪ and now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. a very special friend close to our hearts. mr. dutch reagan. ♪ >> hello. >> nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brother's keeper, frances albert sinatra. ♪ >> you may be seated. i'm delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. the first lady of the united states and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. you've already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet an

i think that george bush and ronald reagan were certainly closer than nancy reagan and barbara bush. barbara bush definitely did not recommend her children go into politics. when george w. bush came to his parents and told them he was going to run for the governorship of texas i think barbara tried to talk him out of it. the same thing happened when he decided to make a run for the presidency. and as i think we're going to discuss towards the end of the program barbara has been not a particular fan of the idea of jeb running in the upcoming presidential election in 2016. >> so barbara bush became something of the public face of the bush administration. she spent a lot of time on the road. was that time mostly spent talking about literacy, sore was she involved in political aspects of the presidency? how did she use -- everything becomes political. >> and what was the source of her popularity? >> i think people looked at her and said, boy, that looks like somebody i know. and there's a wonderful advertisement actually that comes out to a furniture sale i think at this time where someo

two but path that it would be wise to run against reagan as an actor. he would, say he's an actor, the way it would say you know, he's an idiot. and people figured well why doesn't this is what he strategy? well my dad, like so many of these, things figured out because his people were off from northern california and 60% of the voters were then in southern california, and they were proud of the movie industry. and there was a telethon that the democrats ran in which they were criticizing reagan for being an actor, and jack plants was there, and he stormed. off he's one of, us they were proud of him. >> we're going to take a few phone, calls and then will learn how meghan partnership took them from hollywood to the

. >> and he starts walking back and repeats to himself, reagan, reagan, reagan. as he's walking back, he trips over the dog. and he looks and says that's a cute dog. what kind of dog is it? a bagel. [ laughter ] so this is ronald reagan's approach. and it characterizes a large part of where i'm going to be going with my talk. by the time reagan was president, humor was considered a necessary part of the political arsenal of a president, of a candidate. and this, because, well, you know, i told you this story and no one would say it's an enormously clever story. it's enough to get a ha ha ha. reagan recognized for those years on the rubber chicken circuit, if there's an audience that doesn't know you, might be skeptical about your message that you're conveying, if you can get them to laugh, it loosens them up. it makes them feel that you're a real person and not simply this flak at ge. and it represents something of a culmination of a trend that had been going on for a long period of time. so i'm going to cover some of that trend. now, while i was -- after i told

. >> he obviously doesn't have ateleprompter again . >> ronald reagan was an amazing speaker. he had amazing gifts and during the goldwater campaign people were amazed at how he could give a half-hour commercial and stop exactly 30 seconds with this internal clock in his head and he had this ability to see him and deliver what would create the greatest emotional energy . >>. >> are distinguished against your ladies and gentlemen. i'm going to say fellow republicans here but if those who are watching from a distance, all those millions of democrats and independents i know are looking for a cost around which to rally and which i believe we can give them . [applause] >> this confidence in the face of a party that seems on the ropes, this is around the time when 18 percent of americans are identifying themselves as republicans this political genius as we can bring in democrats. >> what's the reaction on the part of the republicans in versus jerry ford at that point. >> if you continue to watch this, basically the people in the audience look like there a religious reliable. people

lady nancy reagan? and did she have any of the living first ladies back to the white house while she was in the white house? >> okay, thanks very much. well, they were on the ticket together, but most of your reading of history suggests that it was not the warmest of relations, but... >> no. in fact, your caller asked if they stayed friends after the white house. that suggested they ever were friends. i think the bushes were very adamant that they wanted to be friends with the reagans. that was how they lived their entire lives, was making friends and social connections and moving up through political circles by melding politics and friendship. >> the reagans were a very isolated couple, self-isolated. they liked each others'company and, frankly, not a lot of other people. and so consequently, they really never reciprocated the overtures and the friendship and the warmth that the bushes put towards them, especially nancy and mrs. reagan -- and mrs. bush. >> in fact, they were only invited to the white h

reagan -- and mrs. bush. >> in fact, they were only invited to the white house a few times during the -- is that right? >> well, they were only invited to the family quarters a few times. they were certainly at the white house many times for ceremonial occasions. but there was a level of tension between the two of them. and -- >> and what about between the two -- the first and second ladies. how did they get along? >> i think they worked pretty well together. they had the sense that they were working towards the same goal. of course, they also had very divergent interests. nancy reagan was talking about anti-drug measures, and barbara bush was focusing on literacy. so their paths diverged. >> gary robinson wants to know, besides family, what confidants did barbara have? and did she rely on anyone special to help guide her through political life? >> she did count on lee atwater, who had been the head of the republican national committee for a while and was the chairman of the republican national committe

>> one reason he disliked reagan very much. john wayne dead and also he had been to panama several times and he knew the leader. so john wayne knew me quite early he would be in favor of the treaty and wrote a letter accordingly which i used with maximum advantage with the opposition against ronald reaga reagan. >>host: did you talk to talmage that it burned him out? do you feel you pushed the canal issue to quickly? >> during the early stages of dwight eisenhower's term. with the unfair treaty back in the early 19 hundreds and when johnson was in office they had a big altercation and a group of people were killed. and they wrote diplomatic relations with the united states and they organize the third world powers because the panama canal treaty was signed in the middle of the night i think john haywood was secretary of state and they never saw the treaty was negotiated by a frenchman who had been to panama in 18 years but it was a treaty from the very beginning. >> you went back to panama as the ex-president to call noriega out

c-span: here is more of ronald reagan actually speaking. .. [applause] he is declaring victory talking about this is a platform a lot of great gorilla flight the on - - gorilla fighting and in fact when he says this is truly a platform gender language would not be acceptable say he is referring to the speech at the 1975 cpac that says we need party not of the democrats so it's him saying to his supporters you can say you have one but we have one the future that the other being here is him reaching out to democrats in the first we are familiar with the phrase reagan democrats that the working-class voters who were alienated within the civil rights movement and feminist movement to be pulled into the republican tent was another of his geniuses. and the fact that he seizes the moment to strike a new vision of the republican party for the future and that this shows. >> really had one other father-son president john adams and john quincy adams nearly quarter of a century , 24 years between the presidency of those two men. john adams is in the last

dutch reagan. speaking for variety clubs, monty hall. >> thank you very much. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. and welcome to our tent then you'll variety all-star club party. please join me in welcoming a lady that we love, formerly and actress in motion pictures who is now appearing in a very supporting role in a major production back east. this is the trick -- mrs. dutch reagan. and now, will you kindly join me in welcoming a man who would be tonight as friend, a very special friend close to our hearts, mr. dutch reagan. ("hail to the chief") >> hello. how do you do? should we sit down? >> your host for the evening, 1983 variety club henry, truly his brother's keeper, francis albert sinatra. >> you may be seated. (laughs) >> i'm delighted to be here with dutch and his bride, the first lady of the united states, and might i add, the first lady of geneva too. (applause) and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. you've already met monte. and here are

then: it became known as reagan revolution. you write in the decades after the reagan administration, american conservatism became unmoored from its intellectual forebears. mr. burtka: it lost the glue that held it together. as i mentioned before, you have the different coalitions. the foreign policy hawks, the social conservatives, and the economic libertarians. and i think political coalitions form primarily on account of external threats. so you have people banding together who find themselves more like each other than the people that are opposing them. so they come together, they work on a joint project, and they succeeded. but after that success happened, i think they lost the villain that really kept them all in the same camp together. so i think you saw after that a search, essentially, for a new bogeyman to hold the conservative coalition together, which i think was a mistake. because i think it is perfectly fine for disparate groups to come together to achieve a specific purpose and then go separate ways and form new c

and reagan's house things are more traditional. got the national holidays just around the corner one on 2 and that's where the traditional dress for the 1st time . seems absolutely beautiful wearing that i've always felt that we swim and look better than the federalist men but especially the foreign women see you my wife wearing the skull sorry. i think a fall fell in love or again when i thought that for antonette the national dress is more than just a garment i feel so proud to wear. every my beauty and to think that all for you so i thought for in there i feel regulates the way national costume. so you feel included. it's very important for me. feeling you belong and are part of society. that was much tougher for the 1st filipinos who came to the pharaohs some 2 decades ago. i think paris people they are used to hearing the far we're not invincible anymore because we are growing. around 200 filipinas now live on the pharaohs. they form the largest group of newcomers many have also brought relatives or female friends to the islan

and with that a reagan/bush era was born. we have had two different bushes who served as president since then. but if reagan had gone with gerald ford that night, there likely would not have been any bush presidencies. it had genuine unscripted drama. it is easy to forget that's how it once was. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes is up next. >>> tonight on "all in." it's not just trump. shocking new levels of denial from the governors doing their best impersonation of the president as the white house tries to force kids back into school, the alarming figure that nearly one-third of children tested for covid in florida came back positive. >>> then senator kamala harris on her new plan to save americans from financial ruin. >>> plus, nate cohen on the incredible shrinking party of trump. and donald trump's niece on

. >> gorbachev did most of the work but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> i should mention that medicine originally called it the use of the craft, it is the freedom to print things and publish things. it is not for what we are doing nowadays? every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is available as a podcast. historians talk about recent debates over historical monuments, discussing decision on how to move and contextualize them. of the herbert hoover and frank wendy roosevelt presidential libraries talk about the 1930's two campaign for the white house in the midst of the great depression. eastern, 5:30 p.m. pacific, a discussion about the political relationships between members of the roosevelt and kennedy families. in particular, the alliance between eleanor roosevelt and jfk. >> good afternoon. i say that with some trepidation because our audience is national and international. morning to some of you and good to some of you. i am the executive director of

the 1st time reagan told her where he lived until it had absolutely no idea what to expect. she'd never even heard of the barrow islands. i don't fire i don't know if they're fire or part of so i was thinking oh you're. thinking of. all the stuff. but he said this part of denmark and i need to google. denmark. and looking very sparse i love it kind of quiet. and then i go far i learn. denmark at the end and i guess you know mark and i tried to go off there are away from demarco. and even farther away from antonette home city of manila. the capital of the philippines boasts some 13000000 residents barely 20000 live and her new hometown. the pharaohs comprise 18 islands made of fall cannick rock. some pity 1000 people call this european outpost home. but living on an island surrounded by a unspoiled nature can get lonely at times. especially for the men who far outnumber women on the faroes for years young women have been leaving the pharaohs to study and start a new life abroad the men left behind practice traditional professions and abide by traditional gender roles. at the

the 1st time reagan told her where he lived until it had absolutely no idea what to expect. she'd never even heard of the barrow islands. i thought fire island their fire part of so i was thinking oh you're leaving. all this stuff. but he said this part of denmark and i need to google. denmark. and looking very spyro i like my kind of crying. then i go far i learned. in denmark at the end i guess there's no mark and i tried to go off to very far away from denmark i probably. and even farther away from internet home city of manila. the capital of the philippines boasts some 13000000 residents barely 20000 live and her new hometown. the pharaohs comprise 18 islands made of fall cannick rock. some 50000 people call this european outpost home. but living on an island surrounded by unspoiled nature can get lonely at times. especially for the men who far outnumber women on the faroes for years young women have been leaving the pharaohs to study and start a new life abroad the men left behind practiced traditional professions and abide by traditional gender roles. at the port of to

reagan has a lot of strength in our delegation. >> many of them really wanted to go with reagan and that's where strom thurmond turns out to be so important. >> senator thurmond, i'm told there was some slipping toward reagan last night in the south and specifically in your own south carolina delegation and that you personally stopped it. is that correct? >> there's no slippage in the south carolina delegation. we all are standing for nixon. >> nixon persuading strom thurmond, he's the best candidate who can win, that we went with our hearts in '64 with goldwater, he took us down to a horrible defeat, so let's go with a moderate now and once we get in, i can slow down the federal government's efforts at desegregating schools in the south, but the number one reason was it looked like nixon could win. >> a candidate needs 667 delegates to win the nomination, but with nixon's estimated total at above 600 now, that air of victory is obvious. >> governor, may we ask you what you might have done differently thinking back now? >> nothing. there isn't anything i could have done differently. >> it

and reagan's house things are more traditional. soak up the national holidays just around the corner when antonette where the traditional dress for the 1st time. means a lot seems absolutely beautiful wearing that i've always felt that tireless women look better than the federalist men but especially the foreign women see you my wife wearing those skull so. i think of for fell in love again when i thought that for antonette the national dress is more than just a garment. i feel so proud because everybody. in the. so i thought for in there i feel regulates the way national costume. you feel included in this and i think if you're wearing it. it's very important for me. feeling you belong and are part of society. that was much tougher for the 1st filipinos who came to the pharaohs some 2 decades ago. i think. they are used now we. were not invincible anymore because we are growing. around 200 filipinos now live on the pharaohs. they form the largest group of newcomers many have also brought relatives or female friends to the islands.

because the reagan foundation and the reagan library and anything associated with reagan defined modern day conservatism. he's bastardized it, he's made it a punchline for even the worst comedians out there, getting a good laugh at the republican party at this point gib the way donald trump has taken it. so i understand completely why the foundation is going, dude, you're not going to raise money off of our -- the good name of this president. because that is not consistent with who we are and what we believe and what he stood for. it makes sense to me. >> and elise, to michael's point, it does appear at least with today's polls as a snapshot, the republican senate majority will at this rate suffer a similar fate as donald trump's. >> who would have thought that even at the beginning of the year that democrats would be on such seeming glide path to taking back the senate in states, so many states that you just didn't think would be close competition at all. like up for grabs in iowa, you could even look at georgia. georgia. it is mind blowing just how low of a hole donald trump has been

the reagan foundation? they told him to stop and desist your view? >> i don't know what the reagan foundation is. i don't know who the people are there. i think trump should be able to raise money to run this campaign and win this race, period. i will support president trump in that regard, end of story. i don't know why the reagan foundation, i don't know who they are. it is not the reagan ranch, not for sure. it is not the reagan library either. i don't know which group it is but i personally support trump running for president. i was as close to reagan as many people were. i loved him as much as anyone. i want trump, i think he should be the next president as well. do i like this bill? absolutely not. do i like the cares act? there was some much it in there medical that was good, just a giveaway of money we don't have. it shouldn't be done. president trump knows that. and instructs his people not to do that. yet they go out and do it. i mean i think they're bullying the president. i hope he runs on vetoi

the 1st time reagan told her where he lived until it had absolutely no idea what to expect. she'd never even heard of the pharaoh islands. i thought fire island it's there fire part of it so i was thinking oh you're leaving. all the stuff. but he said this part of denmark and i need to google. denmark. and looking very spiral i love it kind of crying. and then i go far i learn. in denmark at the end and i guess you know my grandmother tried to go off the very far away from go mark . and even farther away from internet home city of manila. the capital of the philippines boasts some 13000000 residents barely 20000 live and her new hometown. the pharaohs comprise 18 islands made of volcanic rock. some pity 1000 people call this european outpost home. but living on an island surrounded by unspoiled nature can get lonely at times. especially for the men who far outnumber women on the faroes for years young women have been leaving the pharaohs to study and start a new life abroad the men left behind practice traditional professions and abide by traditional gender roles. at the por

susan: let's listen to ronald reagan in his press inauguration address in 1981. he described -- how he described his goals. >> our government has no power except what is granted by the people. it is time to check the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. it is my intention to surb the size -- curb the size and influence of the federal government and recognize the distinction of powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. [applause] , how didhn burtka ronnie reagan governed versus his ideals when he got into office? mr. burtka: well, i think that he found out it is a lot harder to scale back the federal bureaucracy in washington then he may have thought -- than he they have thought. i do not think he was naive against the monumental challenge he was up against. he certainly cut taxes and used deregulation and other things to free and unleash the economy in a way that i think was quite successful. but i think in terms of taking a look at the federal government, the

using president ronald reagan's image for fundraising purposes. it was a response to a fund- raising email that offered trump, reagan commemorative coin sets featuring the likeness of both presidents. as folks person for the rnc says the objection came as a surprise, given that the reagan foundation recently hosted the trump family to raise money for its organization. the time right now is 4:26. california coronavirus hospitalizations continue to trend up. next, the unsettling data about covid-19 deaths in contra costa county. and a couple was caught on camera wearing masks, and they had swastikas on them. it stirred up confrontations with other shoppers. we will tell you why they say they were wearing those masks and walmart's response. >> she was such a fighter. we really thought she was going to beat this. >>> of family grieving is a 61- year-old grandmother dies from covid-19 just one day after a fellow employee also died from the virus. and a mural outside of a home in berkeley honoring african americans killed by police. how the artist has h

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susan: let's listen to ronald reagan in his press inauguration address in 1981. and hear how he described his goals. >> our government has no power except what is granted by the people. it is time to check the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. it is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal government and recognize the distinction of powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. [applause] susan: john burtka, how did ronnie reagan governed versus his ideals when he got into office? mr. burtka: well, i think that he found out it is a lot harder to scale back the federal bureaucracy in washington than he may have thought. i do not think he was naive against the monumental challenge he was up against. he certainly cut taxes and used deregulation and other things to free and unleash the economy in a way that i think was quite successful. but i think in terms of taking a look at the federal government, the bureaucratic apparatus, and really making m

reagan encouraged him. reagan supported him. >> freedom of the use of the press. >> lectures and history on american history tv on c-span3, every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. it is also available as a podcast. announcer: up next, thomas jefferson, portrayed by bill barker, discusses his love of gardening from the west lawn of monticello. he talks about his planting methods, experiments, and the enslaved people who tended and maintained his gardens. he also recounts how he learned about new plants in his travels in europe and from lewis and clark's travels across the west, and how he introduced those plants to american society. this video is courtesy of thomas jefferson's monticello in charlottesville, virginia. thomas jefferson: well, good afternoon, my friends, my fellow citizens. what a pleasure to greet you once more here on our mountain here at monticello. and what a pleasure to be out of doors here amongst the wonders of nature, particularly that we can stand together underneath this live oak, one of

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and each one of those groups saw in ronald reagan a way of achieving their goal. and that is why he won. and when candidates now say, we are going to put the social issues or the moral issues in the deep freeze or on the back burner, they are making a terrible mistake because they are kicking away larger blocks of voters who are important to their victory. profamilyeel that the movement has played a tremendous role and there are so many people who came into the republican party through these social and moral issues. many otherust -- so issues they care about. we got into the issue of marriage which is another social issue. and i'm sure that this part of the conservative movement was very influential in passing about 30 constitutional amendments in support of traditional marriage. and passing the defense of marriage act like congress, a wonderful law that obama is not enforcing. you know, one of the principal duties of the president is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. he is not faithfully executing doma. now's since have then been in many other issues.

he is more like ronald reagan then he is like his father. so he was embraced by the republican party. since then, with the rise of donald trump, george w. bush is essentially an outlier once again. i remember seeing bush quoted at one time, on the issue of immigrants crossing the border without documentation. his comment was, if they are willing to cross the big bend, we want them. and can you imagine a republican saying anything like that today? bush is a president who often said, i'm not going to try to evaluate my performance in office. i will leave that to history. history is going to have an interesting time with this change in reputation within his own party. >> incidentally, perhaps one of the most eloquent writers if you are interested in the subject about reagan and the bushes and how george w. bush is trying to reconcile that, carl cannon wrote a terrific book reflecting on all of that. i will give a little shout out to carl. it is trying to come to grips with some of the things you just raised. i think it may be reagan and bush --

., on the presidency, ronald reagan, 1983 interview with reader's digest in his 1988 interview with the bbc's godfrey hodgson. both were conducted from the oval office, with reagan discussing a variety of issues including his hollywood days, the 1983 bombing that killed marines, his vision for u.s.-soviet relations, and the assassination attempt left him wounded. exploring the american story. watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> coming up next, an oral history interview with thomas gaither. he talks about attending flatland college, taking part in the desegregation sit in movement, has worked for the congress of racial equality, and helping to organize the 1961 freedom rides. this interview as part of a project on the civil rights movement initiated by congress in 2009. conducted by this sicilian national museum of african-american history and culture, the american folklife center, and the sev

was when he won when reagan left office. she should go to the villages. he can play cards and stuff. >> laura: don't even use biden in the same breath as reagan unless it's a pejorative. all right, i'm laura ingraham. this is another hot flying ingram angle for you tonight. is new york city about to fall victim to an autonomous zone like in seattle, a reporter has infiltrated their encampment and will bring us up to the minute exclusive reporting on the ground. joe biden as hannity mention answered questions from the press for the first time in, what, 90 days. raymond arroyo has a complete breakdown of all of it. it's hilarious on seen and unseen. speaking of biden, what does fauci have to do with biden's campaign? we have a great explanation. but first, a time for action. that's the focus of tonight's angle. even i was shocked to hear that the g.o.p.-controlled senate are going to leave town on thursday for an 18 day recess in the middle of this current crisis. we still have 21 million people unemployed, covid still lingeri

i met ronald reagan as a newly minted 18-year-old. i worked this the george herbert walker bush administration when i was just 29. i once had a seven-hour dinner with fidel castro at his house. i got to bring the former pakistani president to vote with me at my suburban philadelphia polling place. i confronted the members of the led zeppelin band with a demand they reunite. you can watch ittan you tube. i didn't go well. i worked for arlen specter. i drank champagne from the stanley cup and even had my portrait painted at a fund-raiser in front of a live audience by named artist nelson shanks. i twice better viewed president barack obama from the white house. if first was august 20, 2009. >> i'm live at the white house and i'm joined by the president of the united states. mr. president, what an honor for me. thank you, sir, for this privilege, and thank you for coming back to my radio program. >> michael, it is great to be on the show again. every time we have been on, it has been a great time. i appreciate the opportunity. >> so many

visit ncicap.org] >> in june of 1985, president ronald reagan talked in the oval office with reader's digest washington bureau chief. three years later, the bbc's godfrey hodgson sat on with him. this sunday, watch both these interviews on the presidency. here's a preview. >> commentators and some former presidents have talked of the loneliness of the presidency. yet you seem to approach the job with great relish. do you find it lonely or burdensome? how would you describe it? >> no, i don't. peopleunded myself with i have confidence in, that i believe in. here allthink i sit alone and decide everything by myself. as i say, i want to hear everybody's viewpoint. and i do not give any indication of where eileen while i hear those viewpoints -- where i lean while i hear those viewpoints. i've had people in my cabinet who are cabinet officers under other presidents and tell me they have never been in cabinet meetings that were as fruitful before. evidently, a lot of presidents simply use their cabinet as a periodically,meet and different members would report what their department's were d