opposed to ronald reagan. >> interested in sight. okay i get a question. we have a number of friends in common that have done polling for the republican party for many years. my sense of the results from the 1980 race with that reagan was one of those rare individuals who found a way at that time to stitch together these emerging coalitions within the party, the set of economic conservatives who were quite different than those who might be foreign policy conservatives who again were different than a whole circle of people that might be social conservatives and think that his success in a great part was he found a way to drive the issue that would pull all those constituencies together to create a majority coalition. do you see that as being possible in today's modern day republican party? [laughter] >> john, not only is it possible, it has to happen for the republican party to survive the triet what reagan salles, his organizing philosophy was freedom. the democratic party from the time of the new deal up until today the organizing.

ronald reagan did sign it back in the '80s, right? which was supposed to solve the problem by allowing for legalization, et cetera, et cetera. but it didn't -- >> i was in the white house. >> it didn't really get into effect very well. >> it was a complex bill, that simpson could stay but mizzoli's got to go back. but let me say this. we signed that bill -- >> what does that mean? >> a funny line by mark russell. we signed that bill and we did it not realizing how many would be amnestied and believing that they would stop illegal immigration, that we had solved the problem. the truth was we had not solved the problem. and by 1991, this was apparent in california when i ran against george bush. and it's been an enormous problem, what, you've got 20 million or 12 million. nobody knows how many illegals in the country there are. that's why it's an enormous problem. but let me tell you, joan, they're taking thousands -- rather 7 million illegals employed. those are jobs, working class americans, white, hispanic and black get as soon as th

ronald reagan gave that great speech. he was a goldwater right. a lion in our defeat in those years. he won a victory in california. stood up against the demonstrators, fought for the panama canal, came out and debated bobby kennedy on television. he challenged gerald r. ford. denounced detente. all of these things he did to make himself a leader of a movement at the same time he is an experienced, practical governor of california who raised taxes in kaf. and he raised them three times as president. but however, he cut the top rates from 70 to 28%. and he stood up to the soviets, and he won the cold war. what reagan has going for him, chris, is, he was an astounding success, the most successful i think we've ever had. >> here's another policy position from the failed rnc resolution. we support legal immigration by opposing amnesty. ronald reagan did sign some back in the '80s which was supposed to solve the problem by allowing for legalization, et cetera. but it didn't -- >> i was in the white house. >> it didn't really get into effect very well.

ronald reagan gave that great speech. he was a goldwater right. he was a lion in our defeat in those years. he won his great victory in california. stood up against the demonstrators, fought for the panama canal, he came out and debated bobby kennedy on television. he challenged gerald r. ford. he denounced detente. all of these things he had done, chris, to make himself a leader of a movement at the same time he is an experienced, practical governor of california who raised taxes in california. and he raised them three times as president. but however, he cut the top rates from 70 to 28%. and he stood up to the soviets, and he won the cold war. what reagan has going for him, chris, is he was an astounding success, the most successful i think almost we've ever had. >> here's another policy position from the failed rnc resolution. we support legal immigration by opposing amnesty. ronald reagan did sign some back in the '80s, which was supposed to solve the problem by allowing for legalization, et cetera. but it didn't -- >> i was in the white house.

ronald reagan challenged that. if you went to berlin and you look at that wall come and look like it would be there forever. but to go there and say, tear down this wall, was a statement that things could change. reagan's speech also identified berlin as the proving ground of gorbachev intention to open up the commonest block, and in the conflict of the west. if gorbachev sought peace and liberalization and truly want to bring the cold war to an end, than simply signing arms control agreement was not enough. he had to let the berlin wall come down. and in the fall of 1989, as communist powers crumbled and country after country across europe, that is exactly what gorbachev did. i think his great achievement and his great breakthrough was, rather than intervene with military force, as his predecessors did in hungary in 1956 and czechoslovakia in 1958, gorbachev allowed democracy to take its course. four that he won the nobel peace prize in 1990, and though he never intended it this way, by letting eastern europe go,

ronald reagan understood that this was at stake. in a speech given in chicago, in 1988, he said the family is the bedrock of our nation, but it is also the engine that gives our country live. it is for our families that we work, so we conjoined around the dinner table, bring children up the right way for those less fortunate. it is the power of the family that draws the nation together and gives america her conscience, serving as the cradle of our nation's soul. even the swedish couple would agree. [applause] >> colorado, population 85. she began a community paper at age 10. she has risen to international prominence, writing and editing over 20 books and 500 essays. designing several hundred lectures around the world, earning 900 degrees, with positions at princeton, oberlin, georgetown, and chicago, receiving awards from the guggenheim and rockefeller foundations,çó the institute for advanced study at princeton and the humanities center, and the university of edinburg. she holds a lot fellowship at the university of chicago, and

for conservatives ronald reagan's foreign policy has produced much surprise but little delight. at the same time, there is unhappiness in washington, really from a foreign policy establishment because reagan is, it begins to talk to gorbachev about dramatic reductions in nuclear weapons. this is in particular at the summit in reykjavik in 1986, and there is great uneasiness within the military. there is uneasiness in the intelligence community about whether reagan is becoming too romantic about gorbachev. and, in fact, and this is also lost to history, contrary to the way we think about things now, vice president bush in 1988, running for president, bush is the only republican candidates among six or seven that year, who formally supports reagan's diplomacy with gorbachev. gorbachev comes to a summit at the end of 87 and there's a whole wave of republican criticism. bush formally support simm but as 1988 goes on, bush begins to run to the right of ronald reagan, again contrary to the way we imaginist now. but, says in a couple of interviews, that maybe the reagan administration

[laughter] because the independent spirit allowed me to go for a man named ronald reagan and it was his voice i heard that sounded like the way my mother raised me. when he talked about an america that would be better, when he talked about opportunities in the power that comes from individuals, not from government, i have decided to become a republican. [laughter] the jt's of going out but the actual doing of it however. [laughter] was a whole nother conversation. why did you want to go do that? [laughter] even to this day there are moments where she is trying to recover from that and get me back. but she understands and she still understands why i did what i did, because of how she raised me and what she passed on, that legacy per car movie appreciate that legacy more than anything else. there is a great moment in 2006 when i was running for the united states senate election night sitting on the edge of my bed with my wife and it starts off great we have been there you're looking at the numbers and you are 5248, but then the rest of the precincts come in and you think that is a little

." >>> well, if i'm a rhino, so is ronald reagan. i mean, i'm a less taxing, less spending, more freedom kind of guy. i just take a pragmatic, common-sense approach to government. and if that's not what the people want, they'll let me know. i'm confident. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was charlie crist, fighting a big fight on the right out in florida.

a live look at ronald reagan washington national airport. tracee wilkins said the lines inside and outside very long as people try to scramble to get out of town pap lot of delays and cancellations already. we'll have the latest for you throughout our newscast. another quick note st. mary's county schools are closed. >>> we do have a number of closings and early dismissals in anticipation of the storm. federal government will operate under an unschedule leave policy today with a four hour early dismissal in effect. dulles south public schools will close at noon today. >> in maryland, montgomery county schools are closing 2 1/2 hours early and anne arundel schools will close two hours early. carroll county schools will close two hours and 45 minutes early and charles county schools are closed. >> in virginia many schools are already closed. they include linebackers city, arlington, fix, prince william and loudoun county schools closed. clark, culpeper, fauquier, frederick and king george county schools all closed. >> manassas city, manassas p

ronald reagan turns out to be a closet liberal, and that is a problem. >> as he said about people on the right who were upset with him, where are they going to go? let me ask you about something in "the wall street journal," about the president's tax on big banks, executive pay, risky practices on wall street but republicans have been talking to wall street executives, according to "the journal," to convince them that they are the bank's best hope to keep the democrats and the president from putting the hammer down. how do we feel about that? >> reporting -- republican leader john boehner had drinks with jamie dimon of jpmorgan, saying "we stood up for you against obama, on the pay bonuses, and yet you are giving the money to the democrats --" almost 2-1 to obama over mccain. but that is switching. wall street is wonderful. deep conviction, the principal. who is ahead? he was in power? that is what -- who is in power? that is where the bucks go. >> this is a win-win for republicans, because they will vote against everything democrats want to do on financial regulation, so why not get

ronald reagan understood what was at stake. the speech given in chicago in 1988, he said, "the family is the bedrock of our nation. it is also the engine that gives our country life. it is for our families that we work so that we can join around the dinner table, bring our children up the right way, care for our parents, and reach out to those less fortunate. it is the power of the family that holds the nation to get their and get america her conscious and serves as the cradle of our nation's sole." it is so true. and they are better moments, they would agree. [applause] >> population 185. she began a community paper at the age of tamp10. she is risen to international prominence, editing over 20 books and 500 scholarly essays but the she presented several hundred lectures around the world. , earning nine on a very decrease, holding positions of princeton, harvard, overland, a georgetown, and chicago. to receive two words and the guggenheim and rockefeller foundations. sitting on the boards of the institute for advanced a the at

[laughter] that independence allowed me to go and discover a man named ronald reagan. and it was his voice i heard matt campana sounded so much like the way my mother raised me. when he talked about an america that would be better, when he talked about opportunities, when he talked about the power that comes from individuals, not from government. so i go to my mother and i say hey mom, i decided to be a republican. while -- the idea of going out and doing that was great. the actual doing of it however was the home of the conversation. which began something like lord of the beat, why would you want to do that? [laughter] so even to this day there still moments where i think she's trying to recover from that and get me back. as she understands and still understands why i did what i did because of how she raised me and what she passed on. that legacy. and i really appreciate that legacy more than anything else. there was a great moment in 2006, when i was running for the united states senate, election night and sitting on the edge of the bed with my wife and watching the

i think he would agree with me, as ronald reagan used to talk about that. in that respect, i applaud the president for following at least a part of the recommendations made by our commanders on the ground in sending reinforcements to afghanistan. we must spend less time according our adversaries, more time working with our allies. we must build effective coalitions capable of confronting dangerous regimes like iran and north korea. it is time for more than just tough talk. you probably get tired of hearing that talk. [applause] tired of hearing the talk. it is time for some tough action like sanctions on iran. in places of the world where people are struggling in the press, america must stand with them. we need a clear foreign policy that stands with people for democracy, that reflects our values and interests. it is in our best interest because democracies do not go to war with each other. they can settle their differences peacefully. the lesson of the last year is this. foreign policy cannot be managed through the politics of personality. our president wo

and it's one of the gifts ronald reagan i believe left us. when he described the nation the way he did as a shining city on the hill because one of the aspects of that is that the light that emanates from the hill is a powerful light and the question is where does the light come from? it shines not because of government but because of her people, that light emanates from that hill from its people. the difference between prosperity and poverty is not the government. it is people. the difference between ownership and control by government is people, not government. and ronald reagan i think understood and put that in its precise context as he possibly could. some, like reagan, when i was 17 and today, i put my faith in people, not government. his spirit reminds us the promise of america is of in the responsibility and there was that spirit that truth me into the party i now chair. it is the spirit that recognizes individuals as the catalyst, the action point, not the government think when the future fights over the flow and control of governmen

i just wanted to be with ronald reagan. she said, i cannot tell you what ronald reagan is. here is "the washington post." go figure it out. she made me sit down in the office there and i read "the washington post" and found that he was a republican and i put that in the box. >> he has maneuvered his way around a number of political circles. he made himself known as the vice presidential candidate in the bob dole campaign. there was an added a toll-free number [unintelligible] his biggest claim to fame is that he helped in the production of the famous willie horton commercial. is that true? xd>> i think i was 21 when thatd came out. the answer is no. but if i did have anything to do it, i would be the best ad man in the world. a group of people that i knew made at the ad. i was 21. i was a kid. i did not even get them coffee. i literally did not have anything to do with it. tony foia brees jill m. lloyd brown. -- tony fabrezio and lloyd brown. i knew several people assembled in the dole campaign. that is kind of where i cut my teeth in 1987 and 1988. i had an opportunity to

i just wanted to be with ronald reagan. she said, i cannot tell you what ronald reagan is. here is "the washington post." go figure it out. she made me sit down in the office there and i read "the washington post" and found that he was a republican and i put that in the box. >> he has maneuvered his way around a number of political circles. he made himself known as the vice presidential candidate in the bob dole campaign. there was an added a toll-free number [unintelligible] his biggest claim to fame is that he helped in the production of the famous willie horton commercial. is that true? >> i think i was 21 when that ad came out. the answer is no. but if i did have anything to do it, i would be the best ad man in the world. a group of people that i knew made at the ad. i was 21. i was a kid. i did not even get them coffee. i literally did not have anything to do with it. tony fabrezio and lloyd brown. i knew several people assembled in the dole campaign. that is kind of where i cut my teeth in 1987 and 1988. i had an opportunity to work for senators bob and elizabeth dole

that's where he said ronald reagan and tip o'neil, the speaker, dropped the ball? >> i don't think it was exactly that. to be really fair he didn't believe in the supply side response that the tax cuts would have on the economy. he thought back then in the greiter article it was a gift to the rich. >> neil: you talk about the famous atlantic story -- >> the "atlantic monthly" story. >> neil: why did reagan keep him on for years after that? >> reagan is a nice, nice man. his one comment p if you can believe this, is that where will he ever get a job? i can't do that to him and throw him in the street. that was reagan. fe felt sorry -- yeah, really was a softy! felt sorry for david and worried about his future. >> neil: he did quite well on wall street and beyond. to the basic point and you'd agree to this, neither party showed resolve to control the spending. now we're so deep in this between the democrat and republican administration -- i know you're not a fan of raising taxes but it is kind of limiting a lot of options. >> i'm not against raising taxes. i'm agains

i wrote some of the best things ronald reagan never said. [laughter] still, i had a certain franchise to stay in touch from the outside. not long after i'd written my piece, tony invited me in for lunch with the invitation to pour my heart out, and i cited a passage that the president delivered in the state of the union speech. he noted there was a policy of giving subsidies to people who lose their jobs as a result of competition with international firms. but he said, we don't give that subsidy to people who lose their jobs as a result of competition with domestic firms. out of equity we should do both, if we do one. but we cannot do one, i suggest we do neither and repeal it. i told tony, look, that's perfectly reaganesque, it's a question of principle. it was utterly indifferent to the question of where interest rates were going to be next fall. i said, get the guy who wrote that one and tell him to serve up a dozen more. by the way, who did write that one? oh, the president threw that in while we were working on the speech. well, there w

gerald ford and ronald reagan were discussing -- welcome a presidency, ronald would have called it a ticket. [laughter] the fact that these two unlikely twins were discussing it and it fell apart and in the 11th hour they had to find a vice presidential nominee, and push of course had been second to reagan in the primaries that year. reagan didn't like bush, reagan didn't want bush. you have to be persuaded to take bush so it was unlikely in the first part that ronald reagan's party and that is what the republican party had become by 1980, ronald reagan's party would nominee this man but did because he was vice president and served as vice president some 1988 it was his turn but if you look carefully at the primaries of 88, he almost lost. now it's true to go back to your guy, we have to go back to even before him, martin van buren to find a vice president who actually succeeds at the presidency but the fact was everyone assumed given reagan's popularity even with the iran contra, that a republican could be elected and george bush, the servant of ronald racket to the coverage and wil

ronald reagan spoke those words in 1967. they reflect his understanding of liberty and security and privacy of -- security comes. but if you allow our government to trump liberty and freedom would security, then we are not being true to our founding fathers were the greatest president in modern history. let us remember him and not be seduced by security over freedom. freedom always prevails. >> thank you congressman. >> your opening comments. >> during my years in public service, i have attempted to try to understand how we preserve our freedom and at the same time how do we give our sessoms -- citizens and a modicum of security. i recall when i was in congress i carried ronald reagan's crime control act. the democrats refused to consider it. there i believe that the democratic leadership misunderstood the proper role of government in protecting people from those who would do them harm. in that case it was dealing with domestic crime. now we are confronted by a new enemy, in a trance national organization not to find a the b

happy birthday, ronald reagan. well, a special hello to the c-span viewers. you may not be welcome in those health care negotiations but you have an invitation to the tea party. very good to be here in tennessee, the volunteer state. the home of good country music and good southern barbecue and great to be at the tea party convention. i guess down here that's some southern sweet tea. in alaska we have a smaller version of tea party up there. we call it's iced tea. i have friends and family in the lower 48 attending these events. this is the movement and america is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this. i look forward to attending more tea party events in the near future. it is so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, not inside the beltway professionals come out and stand up and speak out for commonsense, conservative principles. and today i want to start off with a special shout out to america's newest senator, thanks to you, scott brown. now in many ways scott brown represents what this beautiful movement is all about. he was a guy

this would have been ronald reagan's 99th birthday. i never met him, but i have some -- i have met sarah palin. on behalf of tea party nation, i want to thank everyone who came to the convention and dinner tonight. i want to thank those who will go back out into the communities with what they have learned to help take back america. this is our year, 2010. we will take the congress. 2012, we will take back the white house. we are going to take america back. [cheers and applause] if you are not doing anything on march 27, -- governor palin is leaving the building. if you are not doing anything on march 27 in nevada, tea party express will kick off their torpor. i will have the privilege of being there along with governor palin. for those of you who have not heard, this is not fit for the national tea party convention. july 15 through july 17, we will do this again. we will announce details in the very near future. one final thing. i forgot to think somebody very special who helped make this event really great tonight. he will come up and

ronald reagan said "the rule in washington is, if it moves taxes,, regulated. subsidize it to get it moving again. that summarizes our policy. we have done with our passion to make more sectors of american society, more dependent on this town is too short circuit milton friedman's fundamental insight. we have a profit and loss system. the profit is to incentivize risk-taking. the loss side is to punish reckless risk. when you break that -- [applause] whedetroit is the largest and most lurid and garish example of the dependency agenda. let me go down the list. very soon, the two most important decisions a family makes will be conducted with a government monopoly. from cradle to grave, aspirations of the welfare state, the marches on. one of the first things done in january 2009 is to expand schip. created by republicans and a small program. republicans thought it would stay small. it was for the working poor. now it has been expanded. families with incomes up to $125,000 a year are eligible for schip. there is no reason to expanded as much other than to raise a

also all flights in and out of ronald reagan, washington, dulles, bwi, marshall, have been canceled for the entire day today. >> let's look at what the storm is doing right now. meteorologist tom kierein is in the storm center tracking it all. >> it started with light snow yesterday afternoon and overnight last night. it changed to a brief period of sleet and freezing rain throughout much of the region. in the last several hours it's gone right back to snow. you can see looking at the radar over the last three hours, it has now filled in with snow across much of virginia and maryland and the district of columbia. local view of the radar over the last hour showing to snow coming in out of the south and southeast. the moisture coming in off the atlantic. that will feed more moisture into the storm and we'll see the snowfall rates increase. right now wherever you see the green, right now in montgomery county, they are getting an area of moderate to heavy snow right now in central montgomery county. that batch of green right there showing it's snowing pretty hard from near ulney through gai

senator dole is the most my mind as a republican after ronald reagan. host: of looking for a bipartisan peptalk? caller: absolutely. host: like a panel discussion? we have so much of that. how would stand out? caller: i'm from india. i migrated to this country in 1986. i'm in indian-american. i have been part of the proud fabric of america. as a community i have paid a lot of taxes, contributed a lot. but today the middle class in america is in the biggest limbo. the middle-class of this country drove the country where it was in the clinton administration and before that in the reagan administration. today the middle class is completely out of business. president bush helped the 10% rich people, president obama g-8 support from union but he figured out belfast it did not work so he -- president obama got support from the union but a figure out it did not work and now he is going to the center. the fact of the matter remains that republicans need to understand it is a live and let live policy, that is what condi said, live but let other people live. -- t

[applause] >> we have mentioned that it would be ronald reagan's 99th birthday. one of the amazing things he did when he was in the white house, he created this great majority that was based not on republicans and democrats body had a conservative majority in congress. what do you think we can do to get conservative democrats, conservative libertarian conservative independence on board with the tea party movement so that in 2011, when a new congress and senate is sworn in, its conservative? >> they all -- they are already creeping in. they are finding out what this movement is all about and they might be scared if they are not a part of it. the nice thing about the tea party movement is that it is not just a bunch of hard core registered republicans. i will make a confession now. my husband is not a registered republican. he is independent but probably more conservative than i am. i think he is kind of an example of so many americans who do not choose to be a part of a registered party because they see the problems within the machine. basie some of the idiosyncra

our third symposium in 2008, the legacy of ronald reagan, came out as a book titled the enduring reagan, which prompted credit reduced to say, it is hands-down the fighters fighters compilation on ronald reagan. and no compilation comes close to matching it inside and credibility. our for symposium in 2009, the future the american presidency will come out as a university press book later this year. so it is that what we have said and done here reaches an audience around the world. but not just in books. each year, c-span televises our reagan symposia nationwide. and this year, is no exception. let's welcome c-span and c-span television crew with a hearty round of applause. [applause] >> thirty years ago when america struggled from the decade-long malaise of the 1970s, ronald reagan rejected the notion that the sun had set on a once great country. he countered, it's morning in america. what better time than now, 30 years later with america's once again facing forceful challenges to our identity at home and abroad, to re-examine the character of american culture. can a traditional view of

it is one of the gifts that ronald reagan, i believe, left us. when he described this nation the way he had as a shining city on a hill. because one of the aspects of that is that the light that emanates from that hill is a powerful light. and the question is where does that light come from? it shines not because of government. but because of our people. that light emanates from that ill from its people. the difference between prosperity and poverty is not government. it's people. the difference between ownership and control by government is people. not government. and ronald reagan, i think, understood and put that in its precise a context as he possibly could. so like reagan, when i was 17, and today, i put my faith in people. not government. his spirit reminds us that the promise of america is the promise of endless possibilities. and it was that spirit that drew me in to the party that i now chair. it is that spirit that recognizes individuals as the catalyst, the action point, not government. that i think what future fights over the role and

president ronald reagan personally dedicated the center in 1993 -- 1983. today it has taken the lead in providing civic education programs that emphasize the study of america's founding principles and limit constitutional government. it goes events and lectures, and urging citizens to develop a deeper understanding of the principles on which our nation was founded. offers educational programs for students, teachers, and citizens. a select group of undergraduates participate in the ashbrook scholar program. ñrhistory and social studies teachers from all 50 states steady in the master of american history and government program, the only program of its kind in the nation. this graduate program was created to address the lack of proper history and civics education in our schools. focuses on the use of original historical documents in the classroom. the ash for center is poised to continue to grow in ways that will shape the way history and civics are taught nationwide, renewing america's purpose and promise. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, to present the

ronald reagan understood what was at stake. in a speech given in chicago in 1988, he said, the family is the bedrock of our nation, but it is also the engine that gives our country life. it's for our families that we work and labor, so that we can join around the dinner table, bring our children up the right way, care for our parents, and reach out to those less fortunate. it is the power of the family that holds the nation together, that gives america her conscience, and that serves as the cradle of our nation's soul. so true. and in their better moments, even ole and lena would agree. [applause] >> from modest origins in colorado, population 185, where she began a community paper at the age of 10, jean eishtain has risen to international prominence, writing and editing over 20 books and 500 scholarly essays, presenting several hundred lectures around the world, earning nine honorary degrees, holding positions at princeton, harvard, vanderbilt, georgetown and chicago, receiving awards from the gag i'm and rockefeller foundatio

i love to speak at conferences where ronald reagan has been quoted. i worked for ronald reagan. i was his counsel when i was -- when he was in the white house. i was also in the treasury department. one of the wonderful things about ronald reagan is that he governed according to a set of principles that were his, that were all of yours to and certainly were mine. because he governed according to a set of principles, he always looked as though he was in charge and in control. things seemed to work perfectly well. people understood, all of us in the rest of the demonstration -- we knew what we had to do. we knew what reagan would do when faced with the decisions we were facing. one day, with reagan was asked at a press conference was asked, "before you became president, we were told the presidency was a killing job. people who took the presidency visibly aged in front of us. we look at you. you look exactly as you did when you came into office -- maybe even better. what is the secret?" reagan said, "well, they say hard work never hurt anyone, but i say why take a chance?" the prin

and the ronald reagan building on pennsylvania avenue. so i think that might be another urban legend hos. host: does this book and address so-called urban legends? guest: there are conspiracy theories, but that is the first i have heard that one. host: san antonio, democratic line. caller: good morning. have you ever read a book called "b hold a pale white horse"? it is about government guest: conspiracies it is not ring a bell. hoscaller: it brings to the poit of all the different presidential -- what you think of it deferred conspiracy theories throughout the years, especially since kennedy was assassinated, and now you think of the current president will have any conspiracy swansea is done? if you look at bush, at their summit conspiracy theories about 911 against him. guest: is an interesting field. i'd think it tells us much more about us than it does about any of these individual presidents. i think it does you a lot about parts of the media which allows sensationalizing. and to exploit rather than explain things. host: which state

. >> the new c-span video library is an archive of programming from barack obama to ronald reagan and everyone in between. over 700,000 hours available to you, fast and free at cspan.org. >> this week, president obama spoke briefly about the earthquake in chile, saying the u.s. is ready to assist should the chilean government ask for such help. >> good morning, everybody. earlier today, a devastating earthquake struck the nation of chula, affecting millions of people. this catastrophic event was followed by multiple aftershocks and has prompted tsunami warnings across the pacific ocean. earlier today, i was briefed by my national security team on the steps we are taking to protect our own people and to stand with our chilean friends. indications are that 100 lives have been lost in chile and that the damage is severe. michele and i send our deepest condolences. the united states stands ready to assist with the rescue and recovery efforts. we are ready to deploy, should the chilean government asked for our help. they are a close friend and partner of the united states, and i have reach

>>happy birthday, ronald reagan. a special hello to the c-span viewers. you may not be welcome in those ^ negotiations, but you have an indication to the two-party. an indication to the two-party. [applause] -- an invitation to the tea party barbecue. it is great to be here. it is some southern sweet tea. in alaska, we have ice-t -- iced tea. i am a big supporter of this movement. i believe in it. i have a lot of friends and family in the lower 48 that attendees immense. america is ready for another revolution and you are a part of it . i look forward to attending more tea party events in the future. it is so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, not inside the beltway professionals -- it is great to see you speak out for common- sense conservative principles. i want to start off with a special shout out to america's newest senator, scott brown. [applause] in many ways, scott brown represents what is beautiful movement is about. he was just a guy with the truck and a passion to serve our country. he saw that things were not quite right in washingto

. >> rose: and ronald reagan. >> and ronald reagan. >> rose: but has barack obama done that or failed to do that? >> well, i think he has not done that in part because he's historically had trouble getting independents, and especially white independents in places like indiana. and you began to see a huge shift in april. it was april to june that his ratings among independents dropped 15%. the number who said he was a liberal rose 18%. so he lost them then. then another shift in december. so there were these two big shifts and he sort of lost what he'd had was the connection that i am something new and he lost that. >> rose: even though he says the same people... the people who elected scott brown were voting for change in the same way that the people who elected him... >> that's not credible. scott brown was running against barack obama. and... >> rose: health care and barack obama. >> i mean, it's... to the extent that there is a free floating desire to have something new and it floated to barack obama thinking it was this and it floated to scott brown, there's some continuity there.

the man said, ronald reagan could get a standing ovation in a grave error. [laughter] had not been for that speech in kansas city that night, which really health reconcile with a losing campaign, there might not have been a reagan campaign in 1980 and might not have been a reagan presidency and there might not have been a tear down this wall speech which is the subject of my book and my remarks here tonight. and what i want to do tonight is briefly if i can talk about some of the factors that contributed to the fall of the berlin wall and the end of the cold war which i think stan today as i watermarks of u.s. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th-century. so i'm going to sketch out a little bit some background of his speech, the context in which it was given in the want to explain why reagan's speech was such a pivotal events and then i'd like to suggest ways in which the end of the cold war has relevance to the challenges that face today. and before i begin i do want to just make a couple of points, personal privilege, and from new york and as a ne

this is really -- i mean one of the phrases that really comes to mind lately is ronald reagan. and ronald reagan saying if we lose freedom here, this is the last bastian of freedom, where is the world going to go? i had a guy in my office from new zealand. he was doing research. i said you're from new zealand, why do you care about this? he looked at me and said because if you fall, everything falls. if the united states is gone, china rushes in and they take the south pacific. it totally changes if we fall. so we're looking at a brief period of time. every time we give up some of our rights and look at that and say we give them a little bit, what are you are doing weighing in the balance do i believe our freedom is going to last? do i believe it's secure? we've all grown up feeling secure, didn't we? how many of us believed five years ago the things about our freedom that we believe now. how many said five years ago we could lose our freedom in a heartbeat? john did. why, john? >> i've been talking about some of the stuff you talk on your show since 1992. i used to read a pape

as a young man i was struck by ronald reagan's optimism and sense of hope. for me that sense of our best days lie before us was captured in the phrase morning machen america. now, that was 1984. but i think by now a lot of people feel and have come to believe that it's more like lunchtime in america. or even dinnertime. in other words, our best days are behind us. in the sun is setting. the day is done. as a young african-american male growing at the nation's capital, such optimism moved me to understand the power of perseverance of the power of perseverance. and to be able to put into focus that we are often touched and indeed moved to action not to buy the great figures of history but by those whose names are not written in the history books, the names that don't appear on the nightly news but the names of individuals who live in our neighborhoods and communities indeed in our very homes. such is the life of mabel. mabel is one of many faces of america who struggled to raise a family and believed she could provide for her kids more than she herself had rec

on ronald reagan, nothing matching its inside and credibility. our fourth symposium in 2009, the future of the american presidency, will, as a university press book later this year. so it is that we have said and done here reaches an audience around the world but not just in books. each year c-span televises our reagan symposium nation wise and this year is no exception. let's welcome c-span and the c- span television group with a hearty round of applause.

ronald reagan understood what was at stake and a speech given in chicago in 1988 he said the family is the bedrock of our nation but it is also the engine that gives our country life. it is for our families we work and labour so that we can join around the dinner table and bring our shoulder not the right way, care for our parents and reach out to those less fortunate. it is the power of the family that holds the nation together that gives america her conscience and serves as the cradle of the nation's soul. so true. and in their bitter moments even ole and lena would agree. [applause] >> from a modest origins in colorado population 185 where she began a community paper at the age of ten machine has written to prominence writing and editing over 20 books and 500 scholarly essays presenting several hundred lectures are around the world earning nine on larry degrees, holding positions of princeton, harvard vanderbilt, georgetown and chicago receiving awards from the guggenheim and rockefeller foundations. serving on the boards of the institute for advanced study of princeton and national

let's turn to lawrence core, senior secretary of defense under ronald reagan. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> nice to be with you. >> is changing don't ask don't tell something we ought to be giving serious consideration too? or is that something that should only happen when a republican is president? >> well, it's something that should have happened quite a while ago. and the interesting thing is, that even the majority of conservatives now support changing the policy. and senator mccain three years ago had a chairman who basically did not want to change the policy, in fact did not want to have gays in the military at all. so i think he thought he had political cover, and i think admiral mullen's statement took everybody by surprise today, especially senator mccain. >> we were told time and time again during the bush administration, we need to listen to the generals, particularly the generals on the ground. does that apply only to iraq, or when broad policy decisions are being made about the military, the general is somehow uninformed? >> i think what

they would be bill clinton and ronald reagan. the different parties, of course, but they were both able to work together in a way that is called bipartisan, which we do not have any more. and obama, thrall of the non- bipartisanship, as it maybe -- through all of the non- bipartisanship, as it may be, has done a great job. we have a very bad problem right now. host: until 10:00 a.m. eastern, taking your calls on your favorite president, and reading a bit of trivia here from the "philadelphia inquirer,"samples of trivia. next up, napa, calif. on the democrats line. go ahead. caller: franklin roosevelt. host: tell us why. caller: he brought us out of the depression '30s and brought us through one of the worst wars we've ever been part of in the united states. host: citrus heights, calif., randy on the republican line. your favorite president, go ahead. caller: of all time, it would definitely have to be george washington like you were just saying, probably no other president make greater sacrifices for this country and was more of

ronald reagan was my inspiration. >> sean: mine too. >> that's what we try to do here. >> sean: great film, i appreciated it. thanks for being with us. that is all the time we have left this evening. for more information o

the way ronald reagan did. and i think the president pretty much said that he would support across the board tax cuts, as long as they weren't across the boards. [laughter] >> this whole thing about not wanting to do tax cuts for the rich, it's a phobia on that side of the aisle. and reminds me the time someone came up to ronald reagan when he was running for president. he had been criticized for the very same thing. this pipefitter came up and said governor reagan, i heard you're being criticized for those tax cuts for the rich. but i want you to go ahead and pass those tax cuts for the rich because i ain't never been hired by a poor man. [applause] >> law, the american people know what works and what doesn't. the reverse economic decline we need fiscal discipline in washington, d.c., and fast acting across the board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms. get government under control, get government out of the way, and america will come roaring back. i promise you. [cheers and appl