where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul laxalt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they worked together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and and that kind of created a friendship that lasted basically for the rest of their lives the rest of their careers. in 1976 the the presidential election was coming up. so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good idea. for ronald reagan, maybe to throw his hat in the ring and run for president. to run the primaries he

that ronald reagan should run for president in 1976. and people liked ronald reagan. they gravitated toward him. they knew who he was. because he was a national figure. he had been pretty popular as california's governor. they ran a good campaign. pundits did not think it was possible that he would stand a chance. they were right. he did not win. but his insurgency against the ford campaign is probably what contributed to gerald ford not winning for the republicans and probably attributed to jimmy carter winning for the democrats in 1976. paul laxalt served as the chairman of that campaign. they kind of realized that they had set the foundation for the upcoming election in 1980. they had established something. they had thrust ronald reagan into the spotlight. which consequently through paul -- threw paul laxalt into the national spotlight as well. they doubled down. in 1978, they started planning for their next campaign. i would say paul laxalt is really a giant of politics for nevada. he is kind of a powerhouse of nevada politics. paul laxalt had made the decision th

but marcus spent the last five years writing this book on ronald reagan, and ronald reagan has become a symbol, and icon for conservatives. we have presidential primary debates within the republican party held at the reagan library, and awe it's a de facto prerequisite for these candidates to share their opinions, to pay homage to ronald reagan. but as marcus likes to point out, there is a disconnect between the way conservatives thought about ronald reagan in the 19 eighties in his own time and space, and the way reagan has been mythologized, the way we think about reagan today, reagan the icon, reagan the symbol. marcus and i were at a philadelphia society meeting once and we are at a reception, and don divine who was head of the civil service of the reagan administration made a comment about the reagan administration to marcus and marcus came back and said reagan did not cut domestic spending, and they got into this argument about how much reagan actually cut, and it was a funny moment for those of you who have seen don divine until the vision. he's a very animated person, and very

but marcus has spent the last five years writing this book on ronald reagan, and ronald reagan has become a symbol. he's become an icon for conservatives. we have presidential primary debates within the republican party held at the reagan library. and it's a de facto prerequisite for these candidates to air their opinions, to pay homage to ronald reagan. but as marcus likes to point out, there's a disconnect between the way conservatives thought about ronald reagan in the 1980s, in his own time and space. and the way reagan has been mythologized, the way we think about reagan today, reagan the icon, reagan the symbol. marcus and i were at a philadelphia society meeting once, we were at a reception, and don divine, who was head of the civil service in the reagan administration made some comment about the reagan administration to marcus, and marcus came back and said actually reagan did not cut domestic spending and they kind of got into this argument about how much reagan actually cut, and it was a funny moment for those of you who have seen don divine on television, he's a very animated p

that ronald reagan should run for president in 1976. and people liked ronald reagan. they gravitated toward him. they knew who he was. because he was a national figure. he had been pretty popular as california's governor. they ran a good campaign. pundits did not think it was possible that he would stand a chance. they were right. he did not win. but his insurgency against the ford campaign is probably what contributed to gerald ford not winning for the republicans and probably attributed to jimmy carter winning for the democrats in 1976. paul laxalt served as the chairman of that campaign. they kind of realized that they had set the foundation for the upcoming election in 1980. they had established something. they had thrust ronald reagan into the spotlight. which consequently through paul laxalt into the national spotlight as well. they doubled down. in 1978, they started planning for their next campaign. i would say paul laxalt is really a giant of politics for nevada. he is kind of a powerhouse of nevada politics. paul laxalt had made the decision that he wanted t

ronald reagan is driving when ronald reagan was behind the wheel of his jeep you wanted to get off the road because this man had not driven in eight years, so you just didn't trust his driving really ahead of his secret service detail looks a little nervous in the backseat, but the president looks like a little kid got the steering wheel so excited to be behind the wheel the car. and when gorbachev was going to be coming up to the ranch president reagan asked me if i would get a gift for him and decided he wanted to give him a stetson cowboy hat. now he kind of joked tongue and cheeks saying it may be tough to find one in his size since he has such a big head. gorbachev had just been named time magazine man of the year. so i didn't know whether i meant that figuratively or literally but it turned into this worldwide quest to figure out what size cowboy hat does gorbachev even wear couldn't exactly google it back in the day. i know now i sound really old couldn't google it so i had to stay late into the night to call his offices in moscow the next morning and through several series of p

ronald reagan's way. and it's certainly not the type of leadership that you see on tv or in the movies, but i can tell you that this man had a spine of steel, he went toe to toe with the communists, and they would lockdown the soviet union a lot of ways, but he also had beautiful humanity behind him. so as you're thinking about your own leadership, moving forward realize that you can be tough, you can accomplish everything you want to, you can be hardworking and driven, but you can also incorporate these beautiful elements which ronald reagan embodied. so one of the things that i took away from my entire experience with him, is that your legacy is not something that is really written after you're gone. but it's something that you write with every single day of your life. so i challenge you to lead and live as if your legacy depends on it. because it does. every single day, you're writing your legacy. ronald reagan's legacy was not written after he left us, that he had already written his legacy every day

political funeral of ronald reagan. reagan is out. that's it. five weeks later he scores an enormous comeback in the new hampshire primary and we all remember the debate and the famous national debate. i'm paying for this microphone, mr. green even though his name was green, but that starts the beginning of his comeback against bush, but he goes to detroit and the party is still divided and so he needs to pick bush to unify the party as they always have and nixon picks lodge and eisenhower picks nixon and nixon picks agnew and that was the ticket splitting that both parties are practicing perfection in the '40s, '50s, and '70s and it unifies the party and it goes through 30 primaries and state conventions is that the primary or the nomination is not just reagan's for the asking. he's got to fight, the street fight of his life to beat george bush to get the nomination. >> and that fight is the source of the term voodoo economics. >> yes. that's right. reagan was pushing camp rock and it was developed as an issue in '78 a

at one point, 55 million people every week are listening to ronald reagan. plus, he's got twice a week column which is being carried by hundreds of newspapers. so in the mid to late '70s, you have to be under a rock and not know about ronald reagan. >> did it work? >> sure, sure. he becomes -- after ford loses, reagan becomes -- in fact, that's a good question. he becomes the de facto leader of the republican party. one of his big issues, as many of us remember, is the panama canal treaty. he developed it as an issue in '76. the panama canal was considered one of the seven wonders of the world. my grandmother -- i remember she was so furious that carter was going to give away the canal to the republic of panama. and i didn't realize it until later how important it was to her because she grew up with the canal, this is one -- this is a great example of american exceptionalism. we failed -- we succeeded where the french failed. and it's very important psychically, my grandmother and millions of americans like her. the idea that carter is going to turn over con

phil hartman as ronald reagan, he plays ronald reagan as this befuddled guy, not knowing what is going on. the second the public leaves, he becomes this hardcharging business leader doing complex math and converting currencies and speaking foreign languages and telling everyone -- being barred and in charge. i thought that was a great depiction of reagan. sometimes, snl does not know what to do with candidates, for example, with obama, they did not want to make fun of him too much, so they got a guiding philosophy for how to mock him. we saw a recent piece in the washington post about how jim carrey's joe biden impersonation does not really sell as funny because he cannot figure out what to make fun of joe biden and he plays joe biden as this could decent -- clint eastwood-like cowboy. if it is not true to the person, that is not going to work. i will say, perhaps the best impersonation on a technical level was dana harvey of george h w bush. when george h to be a bush lost his reelection, as a gift to the staff, invites harvey to come to the party and to his impersonation, a nice fare

ronald reagan and the illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. and japanese fishing boat that. was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini. the 2 were buried next to each other in the cemetery. but said again that we would. see. him and i came here i mean and. truly without him in. most of. the stuff he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. however he wasn't a

on march 30th 1981 a would-be assassin fired six shots at president ronald reagan outside the washington hilton hotel two miles from the white house. on march 30th, 1981, it would be assassin fired six shots a president ronald reagan outside the washington hilton hotel two miles from the white house. washington post reporter del wilbur, author of rawhide down, the near assassination of ronald reagan met us on the sidewalk with the shooting took place to tell his story of that day. >> ronald reagan was leaving that hotel after delivering a speech at the afl cio, reagan, a longtime union man himself, was kind of excited to give the speech. -- the emergence from the entrance in this area, this is, new they built it after the shelter, this is the bunker, if you look here at this is a steel door where the president emerged and left, they built this entrance especially for the president, they built this wonderful grand ballroom and they knew for via peace they would need their own secure special interests, ease of access for limousine. now it is interesting about this is if you look at here an

ronald reagan and their illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. a japanese fishing boat. was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was it radiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini atoll. the 2 are buried next to each other in the cemetery. but as i said again. we will. see. what i mean and i really. don't need. to need any kind of letter with. only the right to do so as most of. the stuff he took his own life out at s

rawhide is ronald reagan's code name. that's where i got the title of the book from. >> rawhide is okay. follow-up. rawhide is okay. you want to go to the hospital or back to the white house? we're going right -- we're going to crown. [ inaudible ] >> back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> and so they're heading back now towards the white house. and drew unrue is flying, the driver, just hurdling down connecticut avenue. it's closed to traffic. there wouldn't be traffic here in 1981 on march 30th because they closed the streets for the limousine's ride, expected ride back. now, at about -- as they're driving along and now, remember, the limousine is alone. they have no support. they've left the motorcade behind. the follow-up car, the armored follow up car with two guys brandishing uzis on it, finally catches up behind them. and the spare limousine which has the president's physician in it and another agent finally gets up near them too. they're going along and the police cars are starting t

kennedy ronald reagan model. and is the model of getting the government restrained and modest in its two areas of economic policy, fiscal and monetary policy. both kennedy and reagan identified substitute can occur rutte getting the dollar strong and stable as the specific policy i would let the private sector, which is to say the real economy thrive. we need that. we need at. most of us are well aware that reagan was attacks governor, and he's the guy had to deal with her horrible stop for asian, we growth and high inflation of the 17 is an eighties, which came to end in the first years of his presidency. some of us are even aware that bill clinton used some of that model to foster prosperity in the decade after ronald reagan, with the republican congress. clinton cut capital gains tax rates and by the way was a component of free trade, which we think is part of the mix. however, what is generally not known or at least not remember it is about the subject of this book is about, that president kind of kennedy in

the near assassination of ronald reagan. it is by all who have studied it the best written account of that fateful day. let's get the conversation started. >> let's go. thanks very much. it's great to be here. i've been doing a lot of talks about the, day people reach out to me to discuss that in and outs. it's extraordinary that i got to interview all four of participants for the book. and also how much detail one they can have in it that i can't keep it in my head ten years later. the things that i forget left and right. there's so much that can happen. people perceive this to be he got shot, he lived, and they moved on. but there was so much drama and behind the scenes life and death struggle that day, that i am hoping we get to explore. i think i would like to kick off if it is okay with you guys, i would like to know you wrote this speech. i went to the archives to research and i found that reagan wrote the top of it with his own hand that week. it's a speech to a labor union. could you talk a little bit about reagan's

i think my famous is of phil hartman as ronald reagan and he plays ronald reagan as is completely befuddled guy meeting with girl scouts and not knowing what's going on and then the second the public leaves he becomes this hard charging business leader doing complex math in his head and converting currencies and speaking foreign languages and telling everybody to do and being kind of large and in charge and i thought that was a great depiction of reagan. i think sometimes snl doesn't really know what to do with the candidates like for example with obama. i think, you know, they just didn't want to make fun of him too much so they never really got a kind of guiding philosophy for how to mock him and i think we saw that there was a recent piece in the washington post about how jim carrey's biden impersonation doesn't really sell it and isn't really funny because he can't really figure out what to make fun of invited and he kind of plays biden as this clinic eastwood asked cowboy which you know, that's not the biden that i was seeing on the campaign trail. so if it's not true to the person the

ronald reagan and their illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the us detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. japanese fishing boat videographer who was at work in the nuclear fallout. the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men on board exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 980 s. sociology professor. got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the us detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was a radio a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini atoll. the 2 are buried next to each other in this cemetery. but it's a sort of a game bridge to. see people sitting in that lucky my game in an ivy league and i'm telling this it could mean a new covenant w

ronald reagan and their illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. a japanese fishing boat. who was at work in the nuclear fallout the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini. the 2 are buried next to each other in this cemetery. but it's sort of their deeds. but. you know like i mean they may have. to make this a clean a new kind of bed with him. most of. the stuff he took his own life out at sea he was 27 yea

most famously, ronald reagan. i think one of the reasons that he was called the teflon man i, critics and criticism wouldn't stick to him is because the american people felt that they knew him from his decades on tv and his decades on movies. and all of the accusations that people would make against him. it didn't seem that the person from bond so, the lead the weekly shows that he hosted. having the popular culture behind you is a good way to introduce yourself to american people and make you like them. >> how is your story affected by innovations and technology? such as radio on television. how have they affected the presidents relationship with the popular culture. >> that is at the heart of the story. i have a copy of the book here. the title is very deliberate. it's what jefferson read. reading is a passive operation in the technology. you're opening a, book flipping through the pages, but you don't mentally interact with the book. the book is what it is. whether i read it or you read it doesn't change. on tv

was a big deal for reagan to do that and they named the they named the emergency room the ronald reagan institute of emergency medicine. in the 70s the secret service is realizing that the world there are a lot of political assassinations, you know, we lost bobby kennedy in 68 martin luther king kennedy and 63 not a lot changed in their training culture and the 70s a bunch of agents out in la started training better like how to react when they're shot. you know, how to how to react in a split second and they adopt this kind of training to improve how quickly they react so the secret service agents like jerry part tim mccarthy react almost instantaneously the gunfire, but if you look at what happened to kennedy and george wallace in 72, they were debacles. i mean, you know ray kennedy shot in the neck and the driver just keeps driving straight no invasive maneuvers at all because they weren't trained. they weren't trained to react without thinking all right, that's interesting, right? they're prepared. but yet they let him walk out like this inside. meanwhile, they checked everybody who

ronald reagan and the illness. on march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. and japanese fishing boat. who was at work in the nuclear fallout the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men on board exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power. in the early 980 s. sociology professor. got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini atoll. the 2 are buried next to each other in the cemetery. but they're sort of again the. seat you might like i mean i mean yeah i mean you. could name a new couple that with. most of. he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. howe

washington post reporter del wilber author of rawhide down the near assassination of ronald reagan met us on the sidewalk with a shooting took place to h

reagan followed our live coverage we will show interview of ronald reagan taped outside the -- the motorcade route to george washington university hospital who watch tonight beginning at seven eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 >> the korean war began nearly 71 years ago on june 25th, 1950. it ended with a armistice agreement about three years later in july, 1953. next an oral history interview with u.s. army veteran,

we in this country have a notion that ronald reagan won the cold war. that's usually the word that we use, he won. he won the cold war by calling out the soviets by, recognizing the fundamental flaws an inherent difficulties of their economic and social system and straining them. but if we are launching an arms race that would show the soviets that they could not keep up and because they could not keep up, they will surrender. that was reagan's logic. and the cost of the soviets recognize in the mid 1980s that they could not keep up and they decided to reform and surrender ultimately, there has built up a large narrative that it's all because the best analogy to understand this is reagan in this context is though the person who called for the sunrise, and might, rose to credit. or was given credit because reagan said, we will build up and they will collapse, they built up and weak lapsed. but what we now know, from the documents from behind the iron curtain, one of the things that we've been amazingly fun about this project has been to see all the revea

the assassination attempt on ronald reagan. an incredible special coming up on fox nation that details the trouble behind the scenes that you only thought you knew after this. >> that instant when he was just about to the armored car, all of a sudden somebody started firing rounds from the public viewing area. went bang bang, bang bang bang. e for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa if you have... ...moderate to severe psoriasis, ... ...little things... ...can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea,... ...nausea or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts... ...or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla

what do you think when i say ronald reagan, leadership? i know what historians say. john patrick, how they rank reagan in the presidents. he's rated one of the four greatest presidents. >> i would certainly put him there. i think -- leadership is the ability to make people see things your way. i don't mean with strong-arm tactics or anything like that. i mean sitting down and having a conversation with you. except he talked to the whole country and he would say, here's the problem. you know, here's what we got to do. this is -- these are my reasons for it. i'm asking for your support. if you support me, please let your representative know. that's leadership. and more often than not, you know, he was successful. not always, but most of the time he was successful. again, i just don't think i see that that much anymore. the last president preferred to governor with executive orders and i don't see that -- i don't see that kind of taking the american people into your confidence and telling them honestly, you know, what needs to be done, why you believe this. again, i'm g

40 years ago, today ron junior fired shot that president ronald reagan outside the washington hilton, including one that ricocheted off the limousine and struck the president. next from our c-span video archive, president ronald reagan speaks at the normandy cliffs overlooking omaha beach on the 40th anniversary of d-day. we are here to mark that day in history, when the allied armies joint in battle to retain this continent to liberty. for four long years much of europe had been under a terrible shadow. free nations had fallen. jews cried out in the camps. millions credit for liberation. europe was enslaved, the world prayed for his rescue. here in normandy, the rescue began. here the allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. we stand on a lonely wind swept point on the northern shore of france. there it is soft, but 40 years ago this moment the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of fire from the roaring cannon. at dawn on the morning of the 6th of june, 1944, 225 rangers jumped up t

the near assassination of ronald reagan. following our live coverage we will show a interview with doctor wilbur tipped outside the hotel. watch tuesday beginning at 7 pm eastern. and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. >> next on american history tv. korean war veteran james sharp talking about his experience as one of the few african american soldiers and his company while serving as a machine gun or in the u.s. marine corps. >> my name's james sharp. when i was in korea i was plc. i'm happy to be doing this interview with you on

white house, nancy reagan, ronald reagan. what goes on behind the scenes, the press secretary. i think it's probably a little bit different than it is today. we had a lid on our press. we didn't have tweets going out in the middle of the night. we didn't have social media, but we had a great deal of respect. >> we didn't even have cellphones. >> she's absolutely right. we did not have cellphones. we carry pagers and they went off 24/7. but we pretty much knew when we left the white house at the end of the day that you probably weren't going to hear back from someone into the next morning, unless there was an emergency of course. it was a pager, yeah, that pager was nasty. i was so happy to get rid of that pager. >> it must of way ten pounds! >> the radios that we use, we literally called them bricks. they were that heavy. it was the only way we could communicate with each other. it was a different time back then and i suppose we had fake news. we didn't have fake love, certainly in our white house. and, so i think all of you

up next on american history tv, that interview, courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library. this video is curt si of the ronald reagan presidential library. >> if you need a transcript, we would be happy to provide one. >> i will need that. >> the head of voa is the head of "reader's digest." >> and then our editor in chief thought it might be more effective just one on one. you can defer to me. >> i remember an interview once -- have you ever seen their headquarters? >> no, i haven't. >> it's a beautiful country home. spacious lawns and so forth. >> it is indeed. the president captivated our founder and he had to leave to make a speech. but it was a memorable lunch. what we would like to do here, sir, is to ask you some questions so that our readers here and abroad, about 100 million of them, can have a better idea of president reagan the man. i would like to start off by asking what has surprised you the most pleasantly and unpleasantly about being inside the government that you've had for so long observed from the outside? >> well, first of all, one surprise, whether plea

human rights under ronald reagan . carter almost was like set up and he did it and ran with it . he said the first thing this president did was send jean kirkpatrick down to snuggle down to pinochet and that sent a message that human rights is no longeroperative in the ronald reagan administration and mike says pretty good and he says to me like that ? mike called me a name. front-page new york times the day after it appears . later in the day i go up to rosalynn carter and i say he's really friendly with nancy reagan. i want you to come out with your guns blazing and he says i'll do my best and he sits down and says the line which you referred to which stayed with me which is this president makes us comfortable with our prejudices. and it kind of blew me away. mike didn't always know how to react. he basically said that's not a very nice thing to say. and it was a fantastic line, it was one of i think for most quoted lines she's ever spoken. and in the car ride back to atlanta when we were flying back home mike was all worried about what nancy reagan and ronald reagan would say

of ronald reagan. following our coverage we'll show an interview taped outside the hotel and on the motorcade route to george washington hospital. enjoy american history tv every weekend on cspan3. >>> the korean war began nearly 71 years ago on june 25, 1950. it ended with an armistice agreement about three years later in july, 1953. next, an hour history interview with u.s. army veteran harold christenson, that was recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. he discusses his service as a platoon sergeant and the loss of two friends in the war within a few months of arriving in korea. the project was underwritten by south korea's ministry of patriot and veterans affairs. >> harold christenson, i worked for the american legion for over 50 years there. i, before that, worked with a railroad for ten years. and i was in military for two years active and two years with the guard. i came back and went back to railroad until 1958, i guess it was. and i went into legion here in '62 and i worked here

if all the times you hear them quote reagan racing, ronald reagan couldn't get elected dog catcher in today's republican party. there's no place for someone like that in "n" today's republican party. it shows how fringeworthy they are, they indicator to the bottom dwellers of their party. as britney just said, they know if we all show up, they will lose, we will win. that is driving every single decision they're making right now, and that's why they're leading this race war on america. >> all right. britney cunningham and kurt bardella, thanks for being with us. >>> the white house touts success in meeting an ambitious vaccine goal, but some communities of color are feeling left behind. that conversation is next. d ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. here you go, let me help you. hi mr. charles, we made you dinner. ahh, thank you! ready to eat? yes i am! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what is humana doing sending me a diy test kit? old health i

it was only two months after president ronald reagan's inauguration. march , 1981 started off as an ordinary monday for the newly-elected republican president. >> welcome the 40th president of the united states, ronald wilson reagan. mr. president? >> reporter: reagan giving a speech before the afl-cio at the washington hilton. at 2:27, a small group of press and onlookers were gathered outside the hotel. six shots in less than two seconds. >> back up! back up! get him out! >> reporter: and in the chaos, three men down. the gunman, john hinckley jr. subdued by secret service agents. president reagan hustled back to the limo. >> back to the white house, back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> reporter: agents believing at the time that rawhide, a code name for the president, was uninjured. 46 seconds later, reagan coughing up a lot of blood in the back seat, so the limo switches course to the hospital. >> we are going toeo a bullet lodged an inch from his heart, in shock, with no discernible blood pressure, president reagan facing the moment with g

i think we are experiencing this time problem because of ronald reagan and others that really eviscerated the union movement so that cannot be the check on that corporate power. >> i will push back on that a little bit. at least in the context in which i have been thinking on the questions i think about the household of the two people working 60 hour work week jobs it doesn't tend to beeh the working middle-class household but more likely to be the household with the two postgraduate degrees and when you look at families with children and how folks choose to arrange their lives we were doing some serving work on this and working in middle-class households they are less likely to say that they prefer and in fact, have one parent working part-time or one burn out of the workforce entirely where those with the highest levels of education of income, we could debate our use of the word choice in this context but when a sense at least from a constrained perspective choosing to mostly commit their time and resources to their professional lives and so while i think it is certainly a mistake to ta

in his last speech as president of the united states, president ronald reagan said i have an important message to communicate to the community i love. he went on to say, thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, where nations forever young, forever bursting with new ideas and always on cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. this quality is vital to our future as a nation. president reagan went on to say, if we ever close the door to new americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost. >> our country's doing great. unemployment is very low. we just came out with 224,000 new jobs. the numbers are unbelievable. and that's bringing people up like they've never come up. border patrol and i.c.e. have done a great job. now, people are being removed from the country. we're removing them. we're starting with the ms 13, we've taken out thousands of ms 13 gang. but we've never had an onslaught, and the reason they come up -- they come because the country's doing well, they want jobs. >> much the discussion that we've been hearing in this coun

well, >> >> >> well, let's move to 1986 when ronald reagan and the congress try to create legislation that would address some of the issues surrounding that. this was the so-called simpson -- alan simpson of wyoming and ms. ole, a congressman from kentucky, so let's watch. >> this bill, the immigration reform and control act of 1986 that i will sign in a few minutes is the most comprehensive reform of our immigration clause since 1952. it is the product of one of the longest and most difficult legislative undertakings of the last three congress is. further, it's an excellent example of a truly successful bipartisan effort. the administration and the allies of immigration reform on both sides of the capital on both sides of the aisle work together to accomplish these critically important reforms to control illegal immigration. in 1981, this administration asked the congress to pass a comprehensive legislation package including employer sanctions, other measures to increase enforcement of the immigration laws and legalization. the act provides these three essential components. distance

say they are focused on one group you say so then you agree with ronald reagan's worldview. we are all workers. anybody who earns a living that they are not earning their money because they had so much wealth they cannot live off the interest and once we see we are all workers and unite to gather that is the winning political strategy but if we keep dividing them then we can get that majority to articulate the next safety net and then the biggest problem is like climate change or racial equity. that is one of the biggest problems today that we have separated the working-class to articulate those solutions. >> so what is an example of a solution that both the google engineer and the home health aide have that requires the same kind of solution? >> anxiety about retirement. anxiety about healthcare. worrying about their children. worrying about the climate. worry what will happen to the people in texas with the weather pattern and to feel they are worried their grandchildren can have the same that they have. i really feel we're in a place we have to get to healing. it's not ni

i think my famous is of phil hartman as ronald reagan and he plays ronald reagan as is completely befuddled guy meeting with girl scouts and not knowing what's going on and then the second the public leaves he becomes this hard charging business leader doing complex math in his head and converting currencies and speaking foreign languages and telling everybody to do and being kind of large and in charge and i thought that was a great depiction of reagan. i think sometimes snl doesn't really know what to do with the candidates like for example with obama. i think, you know, they just didn't want to make fun of him too much so they never really got a kind of guiding philosophy for how to mock him and i think we saw that there was a recent piece in the washington post about how jim carrey's biden impersonation doesn't really sell it and isn't really funny because he can't really figure out what to make fun of invited and he kind of plays biden as this clinic east would ask cowboy which i mean, that's not the biden that i was seeing on the campaign trail. so if it's not true to the person then