it there's another theory, remember they made the switch, ronald reagan a lot of people believe that jim baker was still chief of staff instead of ronald reagan. >> well that is another possibility and i don't know why he would want to be chief of staff so that. i know nancy did not like it. >> will i think her judgment was pretty correct printed. >> while he would say things like will not here into leaders or whatever countries, it would be right in the middle. but we always well she always like ronald ragan for some reason he doublecrossed us on the budget and i remember i think i told you this before that he came up with an exit with was champagne and chocolates and all of the stuff into the office. >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house printed because a stories about you going down there more the story says that about the donuts. it. >> as first meeting coming in donuts at his place. it's always the donuts. the next meeting we had donuts in every meeting after that we had donuts grade at fatty very charming guy. i helped him out on nafta which i'm n

ronald reagan covered california. one of the most strongest pro-choice legislation to the country. george h. w. bush, the first bush strongly pro-choice. and the candidate is the same. by the 1980s some people that will become passionately a postabortion, what happened in awakening? , something very simple. chief republican strategist they recognize that they pretend, i stress pretend, to be antiabortion they pick up the evangelical, huge that to the united states. and furthermore it can be a cover for racism. a lot of this started because southern racist, when schools had to be opened up they started segregating religious groups with government funding. the court stepped in and said that's in violation of the law. here is a way to get your segregated racist schools without further leading the law. schools that took christian values like abortion. we are not racist. except we are of course. the change from the 70s to the 80s. one aspect of the liberal program. an essential aspect. if you are going to get people to accept to a liberal assault, you have to shift attention away from e

ronald reagan had a different view. he said that if we invested in our military, if we essentially martial the power of our economy to defend freedom and strengthen the arsenal of democracy, that the soviet union would collapse. while it would happen a few years after he left office, ronald reagan essentially set into motion an american posture that ended the cold war. we won it and the soviet union is on the ash heap of history. i think that standing up to soviet communism, calling out the soviet union as the evil empire, as he did, was a contribution that will be remembered for the ages. i think it also echoes a bit for our time now. i couldn't be more proud that under our administration we change the national consensus on china. people now know that the chinese communist party repressors its own people, subjugate minority populations, particularly muslim uyghurs and christians. and engages in the kind of action that in terms of intellectual property, theft and trade abuses, that america had looked the other way on. w

ronald reagan amended it, another republican. and george dukmejian, another republican, started the vehicles program which i have been intimately involved with, with regulations on heavy duty manufacturers. i've been at funerals of constituents of mine who died while working in these refineries. i don't know if any of you have ever been at one of those. five of them died. one of them died because the company, not yours, but somebody who is still -- a company that competes with you, was appealing a citation from cal osha to replace walkie-talkies that cost less than a thousand dollars. michael landsman was trying to use those to tell folks to shut down the firecracker, they couldn't hear him, so he was eviscerated. that's a long way of saying there's a long history in this field. you provide value. but it's time to change. and we don't have time from an economic standpoint or environmental standpoint. but we've got to remember history and we've got to rebuild trust. mr. sommers, the viewpoint that all of this innovation and our re

my kids, you work for ronald reagan. that is so cool. but his stature keeps going up. you notice that? overtime,'s keeps going up. and i think the last thing i'll say is i went out to south dakota 3 weeks ago, rapid city, brown mount rushmore. there is room for one more. [laughs] wouldn't it be amazing if we could put ronald reagan on that? [applause] >> judy shelton, last word? >> i think he proved you really can change the world. you can change the destiny of the world for the good. for me, the 80s started with the privilege of getting to hear about the reagan program from martin anderson and the people who created it. then see that, the consequences of that. juxtapose against my study of the internal monetary and economic systems of the soviet union. who of course still had the capacity for thermal nuclear exchange to destroy everything. what you everything. what you saw was the combination of vision and fortitude was able to bring down that nation. i remember when i see john sitting there i don't know if he remembers

reagan. but at the heart of this was the senses a moralism outside new traditions outside as jimmy carter might have put it in during american values. the unfortunate outcome as i think many moderate analysts of nixon's presidency might say is the throw into deep disrepute any reasonable sense of limits and interests might have served the united states well at many points across american history. the real tragedy to put it differently of the hate surrounding nixon may be the sheer difficult sense of resurrecting fundamentally sound policy ideas that sat at core of nixon's presidency. so encrusted those ideas have become and the reputation of the 22nd president. i'll stop there there and turn it back to you. needless to say we never have as much time for discussion as we want. going to start us out with what i call a semi- speed around. feel free to answer if you think it's pertinent after that i've got a couple present questions for speed around. this first section is a volunteer if you will.

we continue our look back at the reagan administration with a conversation about president ronald reagan's tax cuts and economic plan. >> it's my pleasure to welcome everyone to today's event. a celebration of the 40 year anniversary of reagan tax cuts. we're very excited to be hosting this event, this celebration. the economic recovery tax act is a positive change in tax policy, yes. but it represented much more than that. it was a change in the mind-set. the 1970s were a time of high inflation, high unemployment, low on opportunity. our nation's leaders rejected the idea of american greatness and thought the american dream was behind us. 30 years ago the heritage foundation hosted a celebration for the 10th anniversary of the tax cuts. it was entitled the importance of america's victory over washington. think about that for a second. america's victory over washington. as the tax cuts were being debated in congress, president reagan gave voice to this sentiment in his televised address reassuring the american people, quote, all the lobbying, the organized demonstrations and the cries of p

reagan. he was obviously a two-term president. he passed a lot of legislation and did things like tax cuts and amnesty, which may not be wh popular with some of our republican callers today..k he did social security reform. but when you look at what are the most important things that reagan did, there were things like winning the cold war and d restoring faith and optimism in america. they required legislation, sort of, but they're not legislative bills, per se. these are things that encompass a lot of things, including rhetoric. joe biden right now is abroad. and that is -- what he does, for example, with his upcoming meeting with putin, is a big deal. and that is not going to require congress to make that a victory for him, if he ends up having a goodug showing and something go comes from it. i am not suggesting that joe biden should give up legislation. i'm not suggesting he should revert to the pen and phone and startr. doing a whole bunch of things t via executive order. but i think it's

then august marks the 40th anniversary of ronald reagan's legislation passing into law. a look back at each economic agenda. book tv features leading authors discussing their latest books. michelle easton and her book "how to raise a conservative daughter." then chicago will feature interviews of miles harvey on his book "the king of confidence," ellie fisher and her book. watch american history tv and book tv every weekend on c-span 2 and find a full schedule on your program guide. or visit cspan.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're brought to you by these companies and more, including sparklight. special assistant on climate change. >> welcome to the bipartisan policy center. we are hosting this event >>> next, offshore wind energy on climate change. >>> we are hosting this with a very distinguished panel of guests. we're very glad for the opportunity to talk about offshore wind.

remember, as ronald reagan said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, and history's proven reagan was right. joe biden and the democrats who wanted the nuclear freeze were demonstrably wrong. where would we be if their argument prevailed? that's a hard truth well told. it's republicans, not democrats, who've spoken up reliably and for freedom at home and abroad, freedom to travel and trade, freedom from oppression of high taxes, union abuses, and excessive government regulation. the freedom to worship and the freedom to believe. the freedom of opportunity with so many of these other freedoms depend on. those freedoms have helped america become what it is at its best, a strong, compassionate nation where individuals are allowed to make their own decisions and to succeed like they could nowhere else in the world. over and over it's been republicans who've spoken up for our essential freedoms. a hard truth well told. it's republicans who have told the truth about fiscal responsibility, not always a cheery topic. while democr

he did is ronald reagan imitating doing ronald reagan. [laughter] will yes, tear down the wall. that is how it happened folks. i will tell you everybody in the foreign policy committee try to get that line out. we thought like hell for it. we went through a lot of revisions that came out a bunch of times and we got it back in. >> it was the best moment. >> is an ugly memo about me in the file to saying we have had five impassioned conversations he refuses to step back et cetera. but the wonderful part about it, and reagan worked it over as he would it was very much him. in the final analysis that was the nature of ronald reagan. everyone wanted out hotel i wrote this in the wall street journal if anyone is interested for little words it tells the story the morning of the speech got a cable from the state department, tom and risk and gave it to me as director of communication. it's a tom is out i think it is? said yes to pay any attention to its another last-minute plea the walls going to be their last another 20 years. everyone brought it to regulars ultimately his decision. as

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

we see a camp david interview with president ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan from 1985. this is the second in a wonderful series of panels co-sponsored by the cultural services of the french embassy which compare us and french approaches to the constitution. i want to share that yesterday. i was hiking in rock creek park in the us and i came across a monument to the french ambassador juicero, and it was right by a cliff where he used to hike with theodore roosevelt and there's a wonderful inscription right by it, which i want to read because it reminds us of the central fraternity of the us and france in defending values like free speech and liberty. this is what franklin roosevelt said in dedicating this juicero memorial in 1936. he said we shall link mr. joseph hall's name forever with the names of lafayette and the whole shambo and degrass and the other valiant frenchman who service to this country entitles them for all. to the grateful remembrance of all americans it is an inspiring dedication and it reminds us of the central. enlightenment values that we share in th

i mean, i am going to follow ronald reagan on that and say, i don't answer what if questions. i'm not in the room with these people right now.m with t >> okay. >> so, you're muted, patricia. r you're still muted. >> i got it. thank you so much.oberts we're going to go right to kathleen roberts and then kay. my question is how to reach these people who feel likn they've been disenfranchised by the left and have left that party long ago. it seems like they vote againstt their own best interests, and if social safety nets are something that republicans won't get behind, and that's what actually will perhaps help them make it into new, different types of industries, how do you reach them? because i also think that both sides do have some propaganda at work. i know i'm biased, but the right seems pretty effective at it and destructive. >> who wants to take that? >> sorry. maybe it's a convoluted question and too much information. >> well, i mean, i'll just say , that the democrats, when you yu talk to tal -- and senator webb speak to this --- when you talk to democrats who run in r

president ronald reagan, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. we'll start with president reagan in 1981 talking about inflation and interest rates. two important economic issues 40 years ago. weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3. wednesday, eighth evening of gardens, parks, and landscapes. every spring thousands of people visit the washington d.c. tidal basin to visit the cherry blossoms. memorials to -- and martin luther king junior stand on its banks. the tidal basin started as the engineering project but has also served as a swimming hole. a protest ground and the scene of a political scandal. mike, memorial park's communications chief met us on site to talk about the area's historyus will be an otter. mr. speaker the chief justice of the united states the associate justice of the supreme court admit the chief justice and the associate's justice of the supreme court

presidents ronald reagan, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. starting with president reagan on inflation and interest rates to economic issues at that time. watch tonight starting at 8:00 eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. >> as he approaches his 100th day in office president biden will give his first address to a joint session of congress wednesday night. our live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the president's address 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. or listen live on the c-span radio app. >> sunday night on q&a, investigative journalist lawrence roberts talks about his book mayday 1971, when tens of thousands of anti-vietnam war protesters including vietnam veterans came to washington, d.c. in an effort to shutdown

reagan, and another republican, and a conservative republican governor of california started the zev program, the zero emissions vehicle program which i have been intimately involved with auto manufacturers and also to a degree with other regulations with the heavy duty manufacturers. i have been in at funerals of constituents of mine who have died while working in these refineries. i don't know if you have been in any of those. five of them died. one of them died because the company, not yours, but somebody who's still -- a company that competes with you was appealing a citation from cal osha to replace walky talkies that cost less than a thousand dollars. michael landsman who was trying to use that to tell the folks back in the command unit that they should shut down the hydro cracker, they couldn't hear him in time because so he was eviscerated. that's a long way of saying i have a long history in this field. you provide value, but it's time to change. and we don't have time from an economic standpoint or an environmental standpoint to haggle over this, but we've got to remember h

he is chairman of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and trustee of the university of southern california as well as many organizations that have all benefited from his strategic vision and his depth of experience in the public and private and nonprofit sectors. he also recently became a first-time author the much acclaimed book wine and the white house a history combines fred's passion for history and wine and was published by the white house historical association in 2020. please join me in warmly welcoming fred ryan. thank you everyone for joining us today. and thank you anita for that very kind introduction. i appreciate the great leadership anita that you provide to the white house historical association and this very important symposium. we would normally hold this symposium at decatur house, but today for the most part. we're in our own houses. and all this is a disappointment to many of us. in fact, it is enabled us through our digital reach to include a much broader national and global audience. we appreciate all of you making time to join us today. 2021 marks the 60th

the voting rights act was a gem of american legislation, as president ronald reagan said and as other presidents on both sides of the aisle have said. a key part of that provision was section 5, as you said. this was a pre clearance provision, which required specified states where there had been discriminatory practices that provisions for changes in patterns or practices of voting should be submitted to the department for pre clearance to determine whether they violated the act. there was another alternative, if state did not like the result from the justice department it could go to a court and get a resolution there. but the great idea of pre clearance was to allow advanced review for those things went into effect rather than require the justice department on a one by one basis after the fact. makes it extremely difficult to attack unlawful prescriptions on voting practice. >> thank you, assistant attorney general clark testified number two is no substitute for the important preemptive review provided by the process. the full impact of the supreme court's recent decision in bernvic

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 had a different view. he said if we invested in our military, if we marshaled the power of our economy to defend freedom and strengthen the arsenal of democracy, the soviet union would collapse. ronald reagan essentially set into motion and american posture that ended the cold war. we won it and the soviet union is on the ash heap of history. i think standing up to soviet communism and calling it out as the evil empire as you did was a contribution that will be remembered for the ages. i could not be more proud under our administration. we changed the national consensus on china. people know that the communist chinese party represses its own people, subjugates minorities, particularly muslim and christian. it's a precious -- it suppresses free speech and engages in the action that interns of -- in terms of intellectual property theft and abuses, america has looked the other way on. we took a strong stand against china. the current administration has not changed that posture. president trump knew what he wa

answer, ronald reagan. who, like goldwater wrote a letter with sharp critique. unlike goldwater, reagan did not mince words. by the time he was ready to announce his campaign for governor he was still warning republicans of what he called a lunatic fringe. his words. it was gaining influence inside the party. he would embrace the groups philosophy as was typical, ronald reagan had a deceptively simple response. quote, it would be my intention if i would see public office to seek the support individuals by persuading them of my philosophy, not accepting there's. everyone got the message. they are not us. reagan would stand up for the truth, not bend to it for political benefit. almost instantly his words were being echoed all over washington. people got it. the top republicans and house and senate called a press conference that reagan and buckley could not have scripted better themselves. they provided leadership for strength. ten years ago in this library, i told you that real leaders do not follow polls. a change them. reagan's rejection of extremism was an exa

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

i don't know why ronald reagan wanted to be chief of staff so badly. he was always kind of leaning over the president like i'm right here. two leaders of whatever countries and he's right in the middle. he double crossed us on the budget. i remember we came up the next day with champagne and chocolates and all this stuff -- >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house because these stories about you going down there, and one of the stories is what? about doughnuts? >> yeah, first meeting i was like you don't even have doughnuts in this place. i thought he was a very charming guy. and i helped him out on nafta. a lot of our companies get out of this w.h.o. stuff and adverse bias rulings. anyway, and i remember talking to him about monica lewinsky. and i told him what i thought he should do to get a letter signed by 34 senators saying there's no way we're going to convict, to have it in your pocket. then i wrote the op-ed piece, which i think he would have accepted kind of i did something wrong and maybe a rebuke and that would ha

reagan. and i've enjoyed doing that work. china is the country together with the united states that's developing capabilities for journeys into deep space and there's clearly a rivalry, a competition, i don't think it's a race, because there's no finish line, to develop the capabilities to return to the moon and eventually journey to mars. the united states is ahead in that competition with the ardemus program, but it depends on whether we maintain that current lead, competitive lead over the time. it takes many years and sustained support from the u.s. public through the government to do these sort of undertakings. now, that being said elon musk and spacex are developing a new spaceship called star liner which is supposedly going to fly soon in the next few months and eventually be able to carry a large number of people like tens or maybe 100 people to the moon and eventually to mars and the united states is -- you know, it's not competing with -- the government is not competing with spacex,

and this debt started back during the ronald reagan administration. in this belief in a trickle-down theory that by cutting taxes for the higher income people, you would get an extraordinary growth. we did get a good growth during his years, but that's quite a bit to do with the baby boom generation getting into their peak spending years. bill clinton balanced that budget. but in january 2001, we did have a balanced budget. but because of the trickle-down tax breaks that george w. bush put into place in 2001 and 2003, which created the annual deficit that we see today, add in trump's tax breaks, and we have the debt you see that we're arguing about today. we're not bankrupt. it's time to start raising the taxes. and somebody has to pay. >> all right, let's take that argument. congressman. >> look, what we have got is a spending problem. what we need to do is to cut up the credit cards here in washington, d.c. it's been proven time and time again that the tax cuts and jobs act, and any time you cut taxes, it does stimulate the economy. i would much rat

. >> hello everyone i'm the director of the reagan institute, the home of the ronald reagan presidential foundation. and this is the 40th anniversary of president reagan's inaugural year. we're marking key moments from 1981, during our yearlong celebration. next we will mark president reagan's first foreign trip on march 10th, he married north of the border to meet with president trudeau. and last week president biden held his meeting with, you got it prime minister trudeau of canada. which brings us to our topic of conversation today. not the trudeau's no, but broadly america's role in the world. from foreign policy to national defense. to do that we have three distinguished leaders. highly regarded public servants, to break down the national security threats confronting the new administration. all three are fixtures at our annual reagan forum. by the way our plan is for the national reagan defense form, to be back in california this december. ten and a was a recipient at the 2014 defense form. in recognition of his distinguished career, secretary of defense, the eye director, the presi

bush was elected to succeed ronald reagan, no vice president was -- no sitting vice president was ever elected to the presidency. and other than john brechin bridge in 1856, none was nominated to seek the presidency by major party until richard nixon was in 1960. and so, at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a common a joke that was told about the parents who had two sons, one went off to see, the other became vice president. neither was ever or heard from again. but, at the beginning of the 20th century, the vice presidency began to take some sort of baby steps forward in toward the executive branch. president harding evaded his vice president, calvin coolidge to meet with the cabinet. the move was a controversial at the time but vice president coolidge did meet with harding's cabinet and that became something of a tradition. franklin roosevelt used john gardner as a legislative liaison and sent him on some foreign trips before they had a falling out during the second term. president roosevelt used his second vice president, henry wallace, made him the head of board of econo

in conclusion let me say ronald reagan advanced a foreign policy predicated on u.s. global leadership, military strength and moral claurty. we bolsters our ties to democratic allies, challenged regimes hostile to our interest and values and promoted political and economic freedom abroad. this strategic approach advance both u.s. interests and global freedom, it was successful then and can be successful today. thank you. >> well, thank you very much to both of you for your testimony. let me start a series of five-minute rounds here for this first panel. secretary albright, china was one of our biggest challenges in the context of democracy and human rights. what do you think are some of the most effective ways for the united states to push back on china's efforts to erase the tenants, principles and international organizations that have enabled so much human progress? >> mr. chairman, i do think that there is no question that china is our biggest problem. and that they are out there hustling in every single way and i have made very clear that with the belt and road po

ronald reagan said we can have peace, we can have tomorrow. we may not have peace anymore. gentleman faster, i did read your book. i recommend it. but first i want to ask you a couple of things. you discuss the area of corruption. i want to ask you about the taliban but particularly the former afghan government, where a lot of our endless war friends come down to say corrupt, not worth it. can you talk about the role of corruption and how we could have done better? >> thank you for this opportunity. i commanded an anti corruption unit task force for two years. once we realized it was a fatal threat to the state it was too little, too late. and many recommendations did not make it past washington d.c., because we continue to try to turn a blind eye. but it's also poorly understood, where the corruption came from. it came from a short term approach to long term problems in afghanistan. we kept telling the afghans, we are leaving, okay we are leaving, now we are really leaving. so the afghans were like, who has our back, nobody. what did we do about the civil war? we fill up o

answer ronald reagan. who, like goldwater, wrote a letter backing the sharp critique of the hearing in california. they'd been in arizona. unlike goldwater, they didn't mix words. by the time he was ready to announce his campaign for governor, he was mourning the republicans about a lunatic fringe, his words. that was gaining influence inside the party. as to whether he would embrace the group's philosophy, as is typical ronald reagan, he had a simple response. quote, it would be my intention, if i seek public office, to seek the support of individuals by persuading them of my philosophy, not of accepting theirs. everyone got the message. they aren't us. reagan would stand up for the truth, not bend to it for political benefit. almost instantly, his words were being echoed over washington. people got it. the house and senate called a press conference that reagan and buckley couldn't have scripted better themselves. they provided leadership through strength. ten years ago in this library, i told you that re

ronald reagan. that's why regan knew that from his countless hours with gorbachev at the geneva summit, the reykjavik summit, letters, phone calls, he had a sense of this guy gorbachev. that i can push him further. i can put that demand into tear down that wall. and it wasn't going to cause a complete rupture in the entire relationship. it was going to cause the cold war to turn violent. so he had a sense from spending so much time gorbachev, more than all of the people at the state department rcep, of that balance of pushing this guy but also stretching a hand out. so, i think when you look at gorbachev's role in the peaceful ending of the cold war, a lot of it was facilitated by regan knowing him while. and that helped create the circumstances of november of 1989 for the german people to raise. up >> will, i don't know how to do this in a zoom call, but i'd like to lean forward and kiss right on the forehead. i'm worried about this for 34 years. >> i'll give you a hug back. >> of course, you're ri

ronald reagan. i would not have written that for anybody else. i can tell you that because i had worked for then vice president george h.w. bush. would never have written it for him. reagan alone and reagan alone would have insisted on delivering the speech, once he had seen it over other objections. george bush in every foreign policy speech, the first question he would always ask me when i drafted a foreign policy speech, has state approved of this? that was the first question. listen to this story, all three of you. jamie, next. stay with ronald reagan here for a moment. this is a story -- it was told to me by dick allen, your predecessor, ronald reagan's first national security advisor. 1977. reagan is a former governor. he has lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald ford. there's no inkling he will run for president. he is paying attention to world affairs. dick stops by his house and briefs him on world affairs. then reagan said, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war?

ronald reagan. i would not have written that for anybody else and i can tell you that because i had worked for then vice president george h.w. bush. would never have written it for him. reagan alone with his insistence on delivering the speech once he had seen it over other objections, george bush in every foreign policy speech, the first question he would always ask me when i drafted a foreign policy speech, has state approved of this? so listen to this story. all three of you but jamie next. we'll stay with ronald reagan for a moment. this is a story, i think quite a famous story told to me by dig allen who was your predecessor, ronald reagan's first national security adviser. the year is 1977. reagan is now a former governor and has just lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald ford. there is no inkling he is going to run for president. he is paying close attention to world affairs and dig allen stops by his house in pacific palisades and briefs him on world affairs. then reagan said

ronald reagan was one of them. and yet he put, he approached it with a smile and long into his presidency people like his style. it was far more conservative. it was still true to some of the foundational matters like free trade and immigration. in internationalism that is now missing from the republican party. when gingrich came along there was a desire to be more militant still. in many ways sought ronald reagan as to pragmatic and they were much more doctrinaire. it was not even about ideas as much as newt gingrich would like to say i think, it was more stylistic. it was more geared toward culture war issues as opposed to economic. for instance ronald reagan antiabortion politics was a big part of his campaign, he never did anything about it. he talked a good game. by that 90s newt gingrich again they were more willing to do it. mainly it was about society. and just a sense it was a beginning of what we came to for russian with donald trump as they were picking on the grievances of the whites even more than it e

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>> i think that ronald reagan honored the independent judgment. it's true that volker had come in under carter in '79. he was there until august '87. but we had the 1981 goal commissisisisisi i think that volker understood that people were so concerned about the lax policies of his predecessor and arthur burns and whether there was some kind of acquiescence to what the white house might want that president reagan was very respectful. but it turned out that it's what he thought he had to do to wrench out inflation, and it happened to be exactly what mundell said we ought to be doing in order to have the tax policies expand economic output. >> and the combination of low tax rates and sound money, to me, is the most important lesson to be learned. so, look, i was a young kid there in omb. i did sit in on one of those volker meetings -- thank you to mr. meese, by the way, who would include me. reagan and volker had something in common. goals. goals. volker was defeated when nixon went through what he went through in the early '70s. volker was secretar