always actor ronald reagan, actor ronald reagan. after the 1961 speech, it is just ronald reagan, or gubernatorial candidate. there is a draft movement. salvatori, what becomes known as the kitchen cabinet. he said no. he did not think politics was in his future. he traded letters. maureen said one time, we ought to run for office. he said, if i did, i would run for president. he was closer to a father than anything else. a draft movement, and he says no. they said, you have got to think about it. he says, you guys go out. this is after goldwater's lost, late 1964, early 1965. everybody in california think the governor is going to be george christopher, the mayor of san francisco, who is handsome, a moderate republican. can you imagine that? the mayors of new york city, baltimore, maryland, los angeles, and san francisco were all republicans. and a lot of people thought christopher was a very attractive candidate, articulate, and was going to be the nominee. the people invoice -- involved with the draft of reagan were shunted aside

in ronald reagan 13 times. ronald reagan rejected containment. he pushed rollback. a lot of good people will look up to rand paul. that point was missed. if you did not catch the 2011 rnc chairman debate. this is what made it a hard question. you cannot use the bible and you cannot use a book about ronald reagan. should have not been too hard. anyone was watching could tell that herman cain, mitt romney, and newt gingrich were different. you could tell that none of them were ronald reagan. ann you come here, spend hour at one of these conferences, it is apparent who the truest keepers of ronald reagan's legacy are. they have been the most faithful guardians. who controls the past controls the future. -- here, five decades after he gave that speech, we need to make sure that we do not wear -- that we actually learn the serious ideas that he put forward and remember them. five decades after he made his political debut, is he still relevant? beenn could have reagan could been talking about romney. i think it is time we ask ourselves if we had the freedoms that were int

>> next, the discussion of barry goldwater and ronald reagan. the young america's foundation hosted a conference marking the 50th anniversary of ronald reagan's time for choosing speech, which he delivered during 1964 on behalf of barry goldwater. the event was held at the reagan ranch center in santa barbara, california. it is a little over an hour. [applause] much.nk you very and welcome to all of you, students and supporters of young america's foundation. as ron mentioned, today we are really here to celebrate young america's foundation commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ronald reagan's seminole time for choosing speech. in that speech, the 53-year-old ronald reagan outlined his case for leaner government and greater freedom. in so doing, he did launches career in public service. but he also built a movement that would follow him for

reagan and covered ronald reagan , was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. how did that start? how did you determine that? >> that begin in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946, fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan door and told him that there were communists and some of the liberal groups he was involved in. ,s reagan wrote in his memoir these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan proceeded to become an active informer in hollywood. he provided information about fellow actors and about his opponents in the screen actors guild. in subsequent years, j edgar hoover repaid those favors by giving reagan personal and political help, even though it was beyond the fbi statistics and to do so. jurisdiction to do so. --ut reagan and the fbi out there?readout >> no. >> i will summarize it for you. this is a document from august 4, 1947. it is a report on the fbi's investigation into alleged communism in hollywood. one of the areas the fbi was looking at was alleged communism infiltrat

like ronald reagan. what i mean by that is any number of practicing politicians today will tell you with sincerity that ronald reagan is there idol, absolute model in terms of politics. except insofar as what they do and say is not the least bit like ronald reagan. let me identify just some of those qualities that i am talking about. one, ronald reagan did have a positive vision for the future. it was positive, for creating prosperity through a reduced government footprint in the lives and businesses of people. there was not recrimination against the enemy. far too many of today's politicians are highly negative. is sufficient just to be against barack obama and his policies. i believe that might help of republicans were in the midterm elections this year, but the republican party had better start having a very positive agenda, like ronald reagan, or it will find itself with not much to say as people recognize that perhaps obama is going to be out the door in january january 2017. another thing that reag

>> in ways that is from the -- "the reagan enigma" because ronald reagan read revelations and feared armageddon so that is what drove him to the cold war. it was a driving force in the strategic defense initiative. we made progress because of the introduction of these books that you write about those humble size that fought the cold war but at no time was a nuclear weapon and fired. there were safe and under control but there is always a possibility of a screwball to get a hand on a weapon vet not really. the real problem is there is one muslim state pakistan that has nuclear weapons even to the run-up of 9/11 the al qaeda people tried to make the deal with of pakistan the types but the problem of nuclear materials getting into bad guys hands is real. those that control the nuclear weapons the soviets really got serial numbers they are so locked up. the problem is materials in the hands of people to build a low-tech weapons and of problem remains. >> did you ever have the opportunity to talk to ronald reagan about his divorce from jane wyman? he was accused of extreme mental cruelty

ronald reagan signed that in 1986. then the catholic bishops started lobbying president reagan to make a change. tweak enforcement of that law so families wouldn't be separated. if immigrant parents could get legal status, their kids could, too, and their families wouldn't have to be broken apart. it was a powerful case, a powerful argument about that. and the year after ronald reagan signed this law in 1986, congress did try to vote on a change to that law that would have made the adjustment the catholic bishops were asking for. they tried but it ended up not getting all the way through congress. ronald reagan took administrative action to expand on that existing policy. in 1987, the reagan administration announced even though congress hadn't changed the law, president reagan would do it himself. he'd make a change himself so that kids couldn't be deported if their parents had obtained legal status. but the bishops kept pushing and advocates kept pushing because even under the tweaked interpretation of the law, even a

it's also a biography of ronald reagan. he had been a sullen kid from a chaotic alcoholic home whose for his mother's passion for saving fallen souls could never save her own husband. it also seemed to have kept her out of the house constantly. by the time of ronald reagan's adolescence deployed told his friends to call him dutch have cultivated an extraordinary gift in the active rescuing himself. ability to radiate life optimism in the face of what others called chaos. to reimagine the morass of a tableau of central moral clarity. he did the same thing decades later as a politician. skillfully reframing situations that those of the more critical tempers as irresolvable models such as the vietnam war as crystalline black-and-white melodramas. this was the key to what made us feel so good about him what made them so eager and willing to follow him what made him a leader. but it was also simultaneously what made him such a controversial leader. others witnessing precisely this quality saw him as a phony and a hustler. in thi

ronald reagan said well it's not really a problem. people should turn off the lights in their house when they are on their way from room to room to watch tv. he literally said that. we had in 1975 after this extraordinary process, this extraordinary movement of civic engagement and which the ratings for these day after day watergate hearings were just astronomical through the roof, people sitting and watching for hours and hours as the most abstruse and basic questions of constitutional governance were being debated by senators in an extremely serious way. people really beginning to reckon with the fact that our leaders might have feet of clay and that they were leading us astray and the next year in 1974 this extraordinary act of bipartisan political will that lead to the impeachment of richard nixon there really wouldn't have happened unless people were really willing to look hairy stringently at things that they were willing to look the other way at previously. the next year you have this extraordinary investigation of the cia and

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that when someone like ronald reagan was a contract actor gets script how quickly? how good is he taking the scripts and absorbing it anyway a professional actor doesn't? >> you never heard complaints about ronald reagan professionalism. i think he was very good at it. he is frustrated in his career because he thinks his career is constantly being mismanaged in relation to this force he reveres, which is publicly. he thinks the studio bosses taken out of the limelight and they put them back when the country's tastes have changed. that's so important for reagan as he's looking at this rapidly changing political landscape of the 1960s. he doesn't just put himself forward and say, these are my ideas about limiting government and this is what the country should follow me right now. he waits for the right moment wayne johnson and the democrats in washington have essentially overpromised for government and loss of credibility. and that's the moment you see reagan finally willing to enter the arena as a politician himself. that's not an accident. reagan is incredibly pract

what's your attitude on ronald reagan's involvement? >> so, the belief that the berlin wall came down because of ronald reagan? and the pope, we could say, but ronald reagan specifically? >> they were all players, and they all kept the pressure on. the enduring legacy of ronald reagan is he came in a real hawk about how to take down the soviet union with star wars and all that, and then was persuaded seeing what was going on over there by among others, nancy, by the way, and soviet analysts, that the system was crumbling from within, and it couldn't be sustained, and we could continue to put economic pressure on them and make them spend money on sdi, and that was what that was all about. and it was clear that they couldn't pull that off. now, gorbachev, who i admire, was a guy who didn't give up on communism. that was the one flaw, that's why he -- you know, he lost a lot of his inner circle because he wanted to keep the system in place that he knew they would have to change. you couldn't have both. but he was the best guy to be dealing

. >> host: ronald reagan, charming guy. he was a great president. he did not, i have to say his letters and diaries and documents are very well written. the book that we published by him, his autobiography on american life he regarded as something being done by others. he went over it. he was a pleasure to be around. very good relationship. she is a great horsewoman and lover of horses and of course i would see. they both shared a great interest. at one time we had another pics of our farm and it turned out that ronald reagan has been very interested in pigs and never failed going to state fairs that the iowa state fair to visit the. he sent a lovely picture. he was a charming man. >> host: the episode in another life where he came to the simon & schuster offices, when his autobiography was finished and turned to the photographers and cameras and they said i hear is a good book. i'll have to read it sometime. >> guest: absolutely. unfortunately it was true. he was not deeply connected. nixon was. mixing started out writing every bookends of. he's a

ronald reagan. but before ronald reagan, you have to go back to eisenhower to get to a president who served two whole terms. so if you look at these four, the only presidents in the last 30 -- actually eisenhower should be obama there. you look at these presidents over the last 30 years to have served two terms, obviously, they are pretty wildly different as presidents. they served in different times and have been viewed differently in terms of how they'll go down in history. in this rather elite club, these few people who have had two terms, all of them so far have had the same thing happen to them at the end of their presidency. they all in their last two years in office had to deal with the house and the senate being in control of the opposite party. ronald reagan's second midterms were in 1986. he was a republican. in his second midterm, the democrats held on to the house and his republican party lost the senate. george w. bush. his second midterm in 2006. his republican party lost the house and

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he said it was ronald reagan. so where does the republican party look in 2016? i mean, you've made a very strong point and i think some of our questioners have, too, that much of the message, at least as it's been espoused and embraced, seem outmoded or irrelevant or maybe injuries in some way. so how do we get a republican party of lincoln? if such a thing even, or of dwight eisenhower. spent the last truly popular president. is it possible thing you or does republican party have to find a new set of heroes, a new set of ideas? >> you know, we hear a lot this notion that ronald reagan couldn't get elected if he ran in today's republican party. which is the speed you mean he wouldn't get the nomination from republican? >> because he's not conservative enough is the implication, and that's an appealing idea. to me i don't really believe that because gets back to the idea of reagan have strong principles that he believed in on big issues, and then he was really infinitely adaptable on everything else. sso breaking if he were running in today's republican party i t

secondly, ronald reagan expanded medicaid. ronald reagan expanded medicaid. ok? because he said there were people that were left out. when people cannot get health care, they get sicker and they end up in the emergency room and guess who pays for it? we do. the people who currently pay the bills when they go into the hospital and have the insurance. >> are you making the case for the affordable care act? >> no. let me tell you why that doesn't work. medicare expansion allows us to do something, at reason the affordable care act is bad is because it is top-down and has nothing to do with costs. and it has frozen jobs. we have got a program in ohio -- i think bobby is working on this. let me tell you -- we want higher quality and lower prices. in insurance companies -- and insurance companies and providers will share. i will give you a perfect example. we're working on reducing the number of visits for children into the hospitals who have asthma. because of that, the hospitals , they get less money. the insurance companies get more money. guess what? they come toge

now everybody talks about it as ronald reagan's greatest speech. time, pundits and foreign-policy analysts thought it was inflammatory, it was just going to anger the soviet union. instead, reagan gets a lot of hard marks. as margaret thatcher famously said, you won the cold war without firing a single shot. there is a little hyperbole with that, but that speech being delivered in 1986, and in 1989 the wall coming down is often seen as cause and effect, reagan's great moment. bush was the. president when the wall actually came down. how did he respond to the end of the iron curtain? >> there is the unsung hero of it all. 41, as he is called now. he showed such grace and diplomacy, caution. remember, we did not know what was going to happen. it did not just come tumbling down. it was getting chipped away, bit by bit. it was a fear the soviet army might come in and stop the wall from being ripped down. what he did was handhold ,hancellor kohl and gorbachev and took an adult approach to things. do not brag. do not call it a victory. do not say we won

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ronald reagan went here when a man could make a difference. here and was accepted as a conservative democrat or as a republican, because he had been a democrat like all of the rest of us. so he was in between. somehow we just felt like you could trust him. for the first 30 days when he was here. when he hit here, he hit with a plan to increase the pay for the military, and he did not cut the budget. that was his goal. he had enough folks to do it. but when he got here, about 19 or 20 of his fellow republicans came to him and said if you don't change the way you are voting on guns and on abortion, we are not going to support your bill. of course, nobody told him to go jump. but that he had helped out of the democratic party. i was a democrat then, stenholm was a democrat, so we had some strength over there. jim baker could not tell the -- could tell the president to call one of those guys. so he could pick up those votes that he lost. he needed about 10 votes. he told me he was going to call me. so i was ready for him when he called. when he ca

secret white house takes -- tapes reveal conversations between ronald president -- president ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. why the president has some serious explaining to do. welcome to our viewers on public television and around the globe. a suicide bomber dressed as a student attacked a secondary school in southeast nigeria today, killing nearly 50 people, most of them teenage students. the town has been targeted by ,he islamist group boko haram whose members oppose western-style education. lagosreport from legos -- includes upsetting images. >> some survivors of the attack that killed 46 students. the suicide bomber clearly intended to cause as many deaths as possible. he wore a school uniform to blend in during the packed morning assembly, and then blew himself up. one relatives spoke of his personal loss. brother, a student in the school, died in the blast. he was about 16 years old. his left leg had separated from the rest of the body. we buried him at about 11:00 a.m. today. >> no group has claimed the bombing, but boko haram has often targeted schools, making northeast nige

he is the greatest builder of the republican party since ronald reagan. today, there are many fewer house democrats, many fewer democratic senators. many fewer governors. the republican party controls more state legislative chambers than at any time in its history. there are 149 southern congressional districts. understanding the south is the 11 stafts the confederacy plus oklahoma and kentucky. of the 149, 110 of them are republican. i mean, they are just -- the numbers are appalling what has happened under this man. now, this is the guy who said on the eve of the 2010 she lacking he took. don't worry, you've got me. in 2014, their problem was they had him. as an enormous weight in their saddles. >> so, who does this potentially help? who does it hurt? does it empower the elizabeth warrens for a party that may strive to go to the heart, its core? >> it does empower her. she doesn't have a shot at the nomination as long as hillary is there. but, it means if hillary runs and loses, as i think she likely will, that's when you are going to see a left wing ta

bill clinton, of course, ronald reagan. but, before ronald reagan, you have to go all the way back to eisenhower, to get to a president who serves two whole terms. so if you look at these four, the only presidents in the last 30 -- actually, eisenhower should be obama there. if you look at these presidents over the last 30 years to have served two terms, obviously, they're pretty wildly different as presidents. they served in different times. they've been viewed very differently in terms of how they go down in history. but in this rather elite club, these few people who have had two terms, all of them, so far, have had the same thing happen to them at the end of their presidency: they all had to deal with the house and the senate being in control of the opposite party: bill clinton was a democrat in his second term election, he did not lose the senate majority because it was not theirs to lose, but they stayed in the minority in both the senate and the house. every two-term president of the modern era has had to serve the l

. >> i would say look to ronald reagan, your hero. look what he did to keep families united and to protect people in our country. >> let's talk about that, shall we? tony is a fox news contributor. bernard is a former bill clinton pollster and the ceo of witsman insight strategies. did ronald reagan do the same thing that the president is going to do tonight? >> absolutely not. this shows you one of two things. either, again, nancy pelosi leading the deception machine we saw with obama care and now the immigration reform, or she doesn't fundamentally understand governoring. they hasn't been in congress for so long. ronald reagan basically fixed a law congress passed. he made statutory fixes because at that time the am nest where i passed in 1986 did not include spouses and children, and he thought if going to have this law and grant amnesty, we should include spouses and children. george h.w. bush did the same thing. he is now bypassing congress, and that is where the real problem is. >> is he completely wrong. >> how is he wrong? >>

did this surprise you to learn that ronald reagan was recording some of these phone calls? secret? and these were done through the situation room switchboard and we're told that it's for maintain some sort of accuracy or report. but were you surprised by that? >> it is a surprise. we have recordings of john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson and rich arrested nixon, but we thought after nixon we wouldn't have any. so this was fresh material. and to hear inside the white house is something we don't have post richard nix until now. >> i want to listen to ronald reagan and margaret thatchering on the october of 1983. he didn't say he ordered troops. let's listen. >> we want to put them kind of out ahead in helping in the restoration so there will be no taint of uncle sam trying to impose the government on them. we think the military part of it is going to end shortly. but as i say, i'm sorry for any embarrassment we caused you. it was just fear of or own weakness over here in regard to secre secrecy.y ow weakness over here in regard to secrecy. own weakness over here in regard to secrecy.u

i also like a book about ronald reagan and the 1976 campaign. gerald ford almost won. he got some very deep information. >> was that a presidential memoir that you think got beyond the obvious? the robert ly, currie ones. at us in they came 2012, read that on a trip to time e where had a lot of on the trains. reading about american politics, that redefines what political biographies should be. he could spend years, he would leicester texas and to discover where lbj lived. >> there is one more to go. >> yes. is amazing he spent over 40 years researching these books, and he barely got to the presidency. tragic death assassination. not recount the events which have been told he spoke times, about the jeff k legacy and how it affected governments. >> we have 11 seconds. >> i don't offend everybody. want to personally offend. >> it as a way to prevent yourself from looking mean. go out and really stick the knife in the back. >> what is astroturfing? >> when somebody speaks about the same specific issue and are supposed to be spontaneous, you know it is artificial. like the

which ronald reagan shows up tonight about 9:00 p.m.? >> the one that is very commit her he happy with a victory, the one that will be responsible for the kind of ideological path of the agenda of the next two years. you will hearsay, ronald reagan stayman every single republican victory speech tonight for however many hundreds of lawmakers that includes. >> with a bunch of morning must reads. scarlet has like six today. reagan , this is before your time,phil -- i really thought that captured the moment, whatever anybody's political persuasion is. which reagan to they want? they don't want up with a ronald reagan of iowa who paid great homage to fdr, do they? >> absolutely not. they want to be the ronald reagan who was able to be viewed upon throughout the country as a rhetorical leader, as somebody who wasn't necessarily -- look, ideologically, they line up with him no matter what. how he was able to conduct himself while he was revered by the party 20, 30 years from now is whatever republican you talk to things is missing from the oval

they to hope that back to your days of ronald reagan they can get the reverse of ronald reagan's southern democrat coalition with republicans -- to get a lot of concerned democrats onboard with this because a lot of those concerned democrats see what happened to their colleagues this election year and they might go onboard with repeal. i still think that's a stretch. >> i don't think it's -- it may be a stretch to get 67. but i sure a lot of them would love to do the reverse their vote. these guys are facing elections in 2016. they saw what happened to them here. why would you want to keep doing it. now, if i were the republicans i would repeal it and let him veto and watch the democrats -- >> they're going to probably do that but more likely the very thing that keep it financed. maybe getting rid of the medical device tax, something democrats agree on, too. so they seem to be giving this a thousand cuts. >> they are. but i think for political reasons they should make sure democrats keep voting for it because it really hurts them. >> i see what you mean. >> that's what we should have done

a version of it is often ascribed to president ronald reagan, who said something along the lines of, i'd rather have 80% of what i want than go for 100% and get nothing. it is a shorthanded way of saying, you are not going to get everything you want. you have to pick your fights and know when to push forward and when to accept compromise. >> we were talking about washington earlier. san francisco values, that is one of your terms. >> that is something you often hear from republican candidates, talking about estranged liberals. those on the far left of the spectrum. it is often used as code for, those who use illicit drugs, or hippies who are dancing around in golden gate park. something of that nature. i find it is not all that representative of san francisco. you get nancy pelosi, the democratic minority leader, former house speaker, who is often viewed as the emblem of this. she is actually a fairly traditional, conservative individual who has been married to the same man for decades and has a large family. much about politics isn't really fair. >> overton window? >> this is one te

. >> a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. >> thank you. i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. >> ronald reagan was an actor, but it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes on to the national scene as a political figure because he gives the speech. >> in this vote harvesting time they use terms like "the great society," or as we were told a few days ago by the president, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. barry goldwater has faith that you and have i the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions. >> the campaign was always run optimistically. and when ronald reagan hit it out of the ballpark with his speech, we just knew we were going to win. >> according to a cbs vote profile analysis, lyndon baines johnson has been elected president of the united states. and the landslide has carried him in. >> we're going to devote our days and the years ahead to strengthening the republican party. >> after goldwater loses, all it did was

you know, ak actions that were taken by presidents since eisenhower, like ronald reagan, george h.w. bush who took action to keep families together. bush's action kept 40% of those who were undocumented together. what the president laid out was a very clear plan. it's going to be bold, but it's going to be tough. accountability, paying taxes, contrary to what republicans are saying, i think marco rubio said it best when he said that the environment that we have today is de facto amnesty. what the president is doing is not amnesty. it's accountability. >> in terms of what the white house and what you guys are expecting from the republicans, does the white house and do you guys in congress on the democratic side have any expectation of what republicans are going to try to do to stop this and what the sort of counterstrategy is going to be from the democratic side? >> well, this is the first step. and the president's taken an important step, but it's the first step. i hope that house republicans use the rest of this year to move comprehensive immigration reform because it's house republ

and i covered ronald reagan for six years. and if you want to discuss it some more, i can tell you what i learned in those six years of covering the presidency because it was a lot different than what i thought it was going to be. but it became clear to me that, to a large degree, it is a test of the president's will and purpose, to believe in a few big things, to stand steady against the swirl of political controversy, opinion -- nowadays -- that's certainly not true for the -- all the presidents in this book -- polls, advice from counselors, all kinds of things that would drive a president away from his core convictions to not necessarily do what he believed in or what he really believed to be best for the country. this is a book about character, about 16 presidents, from george washington to george w. bush, who all, in a moment of national crisis, did what they in their hearts believed was the right thing for the country, who showed character -- not necessarily what turned out to be right -- i think there's some of the deci

i choose to identify jack kennedy, the new johnson and ronald reagan as exhibiting traces of greatness real or perceived. but that's 11 presidents out of 44 but 43 different presidents because grover cleveland was president twice in nonconsecutive terms. we don't count them twice. we have had 43 different presidents 11 of them in my judgment have been truly consequential. the point of the book is in its provocative, we don't want another great president because the founders create a political system which was designed to disaggregate power. they fear the royal government. they fear the king. they may have feared the mob as well so they created a system of an energetic executive but an accountable one but highly constrained. the only thing that liberates presidents and liberates the political system is a nation encumbering crisis and again when i talk about in nation encumbering crisis and not even talking about 9/11 which frankly might've been a moment to encourage the nation but it turned quite the other way. i'm talking about a crisis that is relentless, inescapable, hot in which eve

he's doing what ronald reagan and what president bush, the father, did. and that is just provide a reprieve from deportation, to, hopefully, give congress a time to pass immigration reform. >> yes. certainly, this president has seen many deportations under his watch. do you have faith that this will play out with congress? >> well, you know, this is the most do-nothing congress in modern history. but i am an optimist. i'm hoping that eventually, our friends on both sides of the aisle will sit down in a bipartisan way and will pass immigration reform. but if you take a look at our track record, it hasn't been successful. but i'm hopeful. >> we appreciate his time. we'll continue, of course, to break it all down, right here on cnn. but also, we have complete coverage, of course, on immigration at cnn.com, including a full transcript of the president's speech. plus, we have debunked five common immigration myths to help you sort through the accusations from both sides. >>> an important announcement on the fate of ferguson police officer, darren wilson. we're

he said i got it we won't name it after ronald reagan's death is a little footnote for you. in any case, you are entitled to your own opinion and not your own facts. it's been readers to the marketplace because now you can find your own facts and shop around for what kind of facts you're looking for and at the same time i ran i did at the old declaration that there isn't over simplification declared in 1945 so its either pictured it's either pictured by the conservatives that are happening or by the so-called liberals. the wife is neither of these. rather it is in between and the movies pictures. i think that that it does. the types they still lived here in the news coverage today and not just with african-americans. i think that despite the decline in the polls that show there is a decline in the number of people that think that it's gotten better since obama became president as few as 8% say that it's gotten better and most state that either have stayed the same or have gotten worse. most whites, blacks and hispanics get along very well or about the same and also is true i

at the same time we were publishing ronald reagan. and the reagans felt about kitty kelley as one might feel about a hand grenade with a pin removed. but when it was explained to the president that we had a contract for kitty kelley's book and, therefore, would have to publish it and that it was just as it was in the movie studios, a contract is something you have to respect, he totally understood and forgave. i'm not sure that mrs. reagan did, but he did. >> host: want to read one more quote from one of your books and then we'll get into phone calls and some of the e-mails that we're getting. but this is from 2006, "journey to a revolution: a personal memoir and history of the hungarian revolution of 1956." when things get bad enough, men will give a gold watch for a loaf of bread and women their virtue. war and revolution teach you the relativity of values pretty quickly. >> guest: i think that's true, don't you? there's nothing like the ec tricepty of hard -- extremity of hardship and danger to bring out just how far people will go

ronald reagan, i think, was not essentially interested in that. but i remember visiting his office in california after he had ended his presidency, and he had this magnificent glass cabinet that stretched forever containing every single saddle that he had been presented with during his gubernatorial, his acting and his presidential career. this wonderful row of western and english saddles, all beautifully -- [inaudible] and he was so proud. he took one down and showed each one and described what it was and where it had come from and who had presented it to him. it was quite, quite extraordinary. i describe, i think, in the book the fact that when you visited his office, what you got was a photograph of yourself with the president. which is he what you got was a photograph of yourself with the president, which he signed. a polaroid camera. it could be signed and put in a frame for you. and. and when he did that, i realized that there was a mark on the floor of his office, this beautiful carpet, two pieces of duct tape crossed so that you and he wou

ronald reagan came here when a man, one person could make a difference. i doubt that they can today. >> why so ? >> i don't know. he came here accepted as a conservative democrat or republican, but he'd been a democrat like all the rest of us, so he was in between -- he was a in-between deal there. somehow we felt like you could trust him. i got called the first 30 days he was here, because when he hit here, he hit here with a plan to increase pay for the military and yet cut the budget. that was his goal, and he had enough folks to get it, do it. when he got here about 19 or 20 of his fellow republicans came to him and said, if you don't hang the way you're voting on funs and on abortion, we're not going to support your bill. of course, you know what they told them, to go jump. but then he had to have some help out of the adamic party i was a democrat there. democrat.ousend was a we had some strength over there. jim baker could tell the president, call one of those guys and they'll help you. they said, well, i know ralph hall better an i know any of them

the new law grants am mes i necessity. >> the reason the catholic bishops got mad at ronald reagan in the '80s about that policy is not because they disagreed with the orr all rolls of what he was trying to do. in order to qualify to get legal stay tusz, you had to have been here for a certain amount of years. you had to have lived here before 19le e 82. and the problem that that worked out is not everybody's been here or alive for all of the same amount of time, right? sometimes the parent would have been here for the right number of years to qualify, but their child would not qualify. there was a strict determination for those time limits. eventuality wasn't the way that plan was. and then the catholic bishops started lob being to make a clang to it. to tweak enforcement to that wall so families wouldn't be sprated. so if imgrant pashltss could get status, their kids could, too. it was a powerful case. and the year after romd e ronald reagan had signed this law, congress did try to vote on a change to that law that would have made the kient of adjustment that the catholic bishops we