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the principles of ronald reagan, the values of ronald reagan are timeless. but the policies changed because, as rich said, politics changed in the world changed. you have to adapt to it. i think there are some things that were not completed during the reagan years. i think there were some things that he might of tackled but for higher priorities like the soviet and a disastrous economy. i think that you take those things aside and he might have looked at things like the culture in america. ron reagan would have been an extraordinary speaking out about the devastation of the popular culture. he never did. looking back at the anthology of ronald reagan and looking forward into the future to find the next great ronald reagan where every might be. many years. an admirer. he is gone in different ways. not your father's gop anymore. and he said, my father is 91 years old. the very high if the gop. miles from here, almost 3,000 a yorkers were murdered. and september 2001. and that is a whole new ball game. you know, i can say was that day, but that we can realize t
the principles of ronald reagan, the values of ronald reagan are timeless. but the policies changed because, as rich said, politics changed in the world changed. you have to adapt to it. i think there are some things that were not completed during the reagan years. i think there were some things that he might of tackled but for higher priorities like the soviet and a disastrous economy. i think that you take those things aside and he might have looked at things like the culture in america. ron...
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helped elect ronald reagan. this class is an hour and 10 minutes. >> today we're going to continue our saga through conservatism and the republican party and specifically what we're going to look at today is the revival of the republican party after the debacle of the nixon administration and watergate. you recall from previous lectures that republicans were down, many thought the republican party was going the way of the wiig party. only 20% of the electorate considered themselves republicans. but within the next five years, the republican party was going to revive and ronald reagan was going to be elected. so we'll begin today's class with a video clip. unfortunately we're not going to have the music we usually have and the dancing that we do before class. there was a problem perhaps with copyright so we didn't want somebody suing congress and bankrupting congress. oh, congress is already bankrupt. well, anyway, we don't -- they couldn't afford the lawyers perhaps. oh, they do have a lot of lawyers. anyway, le
helped elect ronald reagan. this class is an hour and 10 minutes. >> today we're going to continue our saga through conservatism and the republican party and specifically what we're going to look at today is the revival of the republican party after the debacle of the nixon administration and watergate. you recall from previous lectures that republicans were down, many thought the republican party was going the way of the wiig party. only 20% of the electorate considered themselves...
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i mean, both sides were going to enter in 1980 with ronald reagan as our man. so you need adept politicians that are going to be able to appeal to both sides. i think the tensions within the republican party are -- whether you should promote as kind of your what you really stand for, abortion and anti-abortion and anti-gay rights, whether that's the prominent issue that you're going to win over the electorate or opposition to gay marriage. but politicians such as the libertarian-minded ron paul, basically is anti-abortion. so he's very economic free market, but also stands against abortion. so you have a lot of social conservatives >> just wait a moment. >> i'm a junior here at a.s.u. we know that evangelicals a fairly strong voting bloc of the conservative republican party. you mentioned that schlafley was first able to mobilize them for stop e.r.a. were evangelicals not politically active before that a coalesced voting bloc as we think of them today? >> yes. many in the south would have been evangelical christians were democrats. but many of the -- and the ha
i mean, both sides were going to enter in 1980 with ronald reagan as our man. so you need adept politicians that are going to be able to appeal to both sides. i think the tensions within the republican party are -- whether you should promote as kind of your what you really stand for, abortion and anti-abortion and anti-gay rights, whether that's the prominent issue that you're going to win over the electorate or opposition to gay marriage. but politicians such as the libertarian-minded ron...
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ronald reagan is the man. they will appeal to both sides. the tensions within the republican party are, you know, whether you should promote what you really stand for -- abortion and anti-abortion and anti-gay rights. whether that's the issue you will win over the electorate. or opposition to gay marriage. so ron paul basically is anti-abortion. so he's very economic, free market. but also stands against abortion. so you have a lot of social conservatives who are supporting him. not a lot. only a small percentage of the vote. he seems to be able to reconcile them. running in the primaries. on the national level as we approach midterms and -- we are already thinking about the presidential election. neverending cycle. >> last thing i was thinking about. >> yeah. any other questions? let's get a new one. >> i'm a junior here at asu. we know evangelicals are a strong voting block of the conservative republican party and you mentioned that shlafley mobilized them for stop era. were evangelicals not politically active before that? were they not a
ronald reagan is the man. they will appeal to both sides. the tensions within the republican party are, you know, whether you should promote what you really stand for -- abortion and anti-abortion and anti-gay rights. whether that's the issue you will win over the electorate. or opposition to gay marriage. so ron paul basically is anti-abortion. so he's very economic, free market. but also stands against abortion. so you have a lot of social conservatives who are supporting him. not a lot. only...
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reagan, you can also says like chris christie, i am not saying chris christie is ronald reagan but if you have that vision and you are not scared to say exactly what you mean, and you go about it in a smart, tough pragmatic way, you will win. >> rose: who do you think the race for the republican nomination will include in 2016? >> marco rubio? >> no. >> rose: george bush i mean jeb -- >> jeb? you probably heard the same things i have heard. i would love jeb to run. jeb was a tough strong pragmatic leader in florida, i don't know that he is going to do it. >> rose: he did it in 2012. would he have gotten the nomination? >> yes here is the ironic thing. we were all saying in 1994 when jeb first ran, if he last name wasn't bush he would never be there. >> rose: right. >> we were saying in 2012, if his last name wasn't bush, he would be president of the united states right now. >> rose: that's true. >> i mean, history, you talk about, you talk about a cruel fate, je jeb bush if the last wk of his campaign against walk childs in 1994 had gone differently, and pummelled jeb the last week, j
reagan, you can also says like chris christie, i am not saying chris christie is ronald reagan but if you have that vision and you are not scared to say exactly what you mean, and you go about it in a smart, tough pragmatic way, you will win. >> rose: who do you think the race for the republican nomination will include in 2016? >> marco rubio? >> no. >> rose: george bush i mean jeb -- >> jeb? you probably heard the same things i have heard. i would love jeb to run....
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ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible. to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself by myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's advocate as i explained from the front row seat that i had throughout these entire last three decades what it looked like seeing this national security state coming descend upon our country that's why the book is so important not because it's all about me because it's not it's
ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible. to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself by myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people...
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allegedly independent judicial branch but since since the election of ronald reagan seventy three percent of all of the federal judges that appointed have been appointed by ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself find myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's advocate as i explained from a front row seat that i had throughout these entire last three decades what it l
allegedly independent judicial branch but since since the election of ronald reagan seventy three percent of all of the federal judges that appointed have been appointed by ronald reagan or george bush or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation...
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there is no ronald reagan on the scene today. if he were on the scene, that's who i would put my faith in. new jersey, a blue state, has a republican governor, right on. beats the alternative. >> while that representative says chris christie beats the alternative, another representative is not so sure. >> is chris christie a true conservative governor? >> he was a successful governor in new jersey. does that transcend to the country? we will see in later years and months to come. >> is that code for he's a moderate? >> it's code for the truth is listen, we're all different states. is a conservative in nj nblg a conservative in the rest of the country? >> sounds like you're skeptical that it may not be. >> we will have that discussion at the appropriate time. >> a former republican now running for the u.s. senate as a democrat. politics editor for a business insider. john, what has made you leave the republican party? >> well, lawrence, my place in the republican party began to disappear when the moderates began to disappear. i fo
there is no ronald reagan on the scene today. if he were on the scene, that's who i would put my faith in. new jersey, a blue state, has a republican governor, right on. beats the alternative. >> while that representative says chris christie beats the alternative, another representative is not so sure. >> is chris christie a true conservative governor? >> he was a successful governor in new jersey. does that transcend to the country? we will see in later years and months to...
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that's ronald reagan. presidential contest comes about. ronald reagan says the following. if i become president of the united states, i promise to appoint the first woman to the supreme court. i'm going to get the best woman i can find, and i tell you, if i'm president of the united states, the best woman jurist i can find will be put on the supreme court of the united states. i tossed my hat to ronald reagan. he becomes president of the united states, what does he do you? he makes good on his promise. sandra day o'connor breaks the gender line on the supreme court of united states. there's some people by the way, if you go back and take look, let's take a look at what the people writing. some people said, hey, hey, this is affirmative action big time. and ronald reagan did not back down. sandra day o'connor goes to the supreme court. now, in part because ronald reagan basically, he didn't put in so many words but he basically said we can have a supreme court in the united states all mail, yeah, half the country is women. i mean, the institution issues going to lack legiti
that's ronald reagan. presidential contest comes about. ronald reagan says the following. if i become president of the united states, i promise to appoint the first woman to the supreme court. i'm going to get the best woman i can find, and i tell you, if i'm president of the united states, the best woman jurist i can find will be put on the supreme court of the united states. i tossed my hat to ronald reagan. he becomes president of the united states, what does he do you? he makes good on his...
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it features jimmy carter and ronald reagan. ronald reagan, i'm against this affirmative action stuff. i believe, you know, individualism. let's just treat everybody, you know, on their -- an individual, an individual, an individual. i don't want to hear about, you know, gender affirmative action, i don't want to hear about racial affirmative action, i don't want to hear all about this group stuff. let's just handle people on their individual merits. that's ronald reagan. presidential contest comes about. ronald reagan says the following: if i become president of the united states, i promise to appoint the first woman to the supreme court. i'm going to get the best woman i can find, and i tell you, if i'm president of the united states, the best woman jurist i can find will be put on the supreme court of the united states. i doff my hat to ronald reagan. he becomes president of the united states, and what does he do? he makes good on his promise. sandra day o'connor breaks the gender line at the supreme court of the united state
it features jimmy carter and ronald reagan. ronald reagan, i'm against this affirmative action stuff. i believe, you know, individualism. let's just treat everybody, you know, on their -- an individual, an individual, an individual. i don't want to hear about, you know, gender affirmative action, i don't want to hear about racial affirmative action, i don't want to hear all about this group stuff. let's just handle people on their individual merits. that's ronald reagan. presidential contest...
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you were key aide to ronald reagan too. i wonder, if you saw him come back today, and looked at the land scape today what do you think he would say. >> i was political director of white house for a couple years under president reagan, heavy stuff from a boy from mississippi, i have no out the he would say, we have to get things done, we can't sit here and not have budgets, not dial deal with fiscal problems, president reagan is most idealogical president of my life, most conservative, he was committed to getting things done, he compromid. the smallest democrat majority they had in the house, was about 50. but high made it his business to go out, get the democratic votes he needed to get, unlike president obama, president obama refused to lead, he does not really try to do that reagan of so successful, because he understood that to get things done, he had to get democratic votes in the house, that meant he had to compromise on the reagan economic plan, social security. neil: that is a dirty word to a lot of republicans, wher
you were key aide to ronald reagan too. i wonder, if you saw him come back today, and looked at the land scape today what do you think he would say. >> i was political director of white house for a couple years under president reagan, heavy stuff from a boy from mississippi, i have no out the he would say, we have to get things done, we can't sit here and not have budgets, not dial deal with fiscal problems, president reagan is most idealogical president of my life, most conservative, he...
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and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything. but once he got into office, it's great talking to you about this because you were there and saw it up close. ronald reagan was extraordinarily conservative. tip o'neill and he couldn't be further apart. yet reagan figured day in and day out how to either fight tip o'neill and the democratic congress or strike deals when he knew he could get his 80% but had to give the 20% to the other side. he was pragmatic and he always found the middle of the political system. there was this great line from "the triumph of politics" from way back in the early '80s where reagan turned to his adv
and then i see ronald reagan walking down the path. so he's on the right path. how do you find another reagan? how do you find someone who can win and not only win but win really big the second term and lead the country with a positive legacy for having been president? >> you know, reagan wasn't reagan as you remember very well even in the summer of 1980. a lot of people inside the carter white house and most people in the media didn't think reagan had a shot of being elected anything....
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>> guest: ronald reagan knew himself. he had a center to himself. he wasn't in the democratic party or the republican party. he didn't have to pretend to be the next jfk. each democratic president have to pretend to be the next jfk running for office and then serving in office. so there was a great difference there. as you know, ronald reagan was so true it about his cultivation of the entire family they probably spent more time in his oval office and they had then anybody else since kennedy's's assassination. >> host: and he was presented to the congressional gold matter posthumously to bobby kennedy, robert kennedy that carter himself refused to present. that was brought i was told working on the 1980 book by several sources that the entire kennedy family in 1980 voted for ronald reagan. >> guest: that was the rumor. [laughter] >> host: with the exception of andersen. anderson. that's interesting. president carter told me a story about his speech at the dedication of the jfk library and jackie kennedy was very cold to him according to president ca
>> guest: ronald reagan knew himself. he had a center to himself. he wasn't in the democratic party or the republican party. he didn't have to pretend to be the next jfk. each democratic president have to pretend to be the next jfk running for office and then serving in office. so there was a great difference there. as you know, ronald reagan was so true it about his cultivation of the entire family they probably spent more time in his oval office and they had then anybody else since...
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ronald reagan stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act and big ag companies started buying up farms across america it devastated the american rural landscape you had willie nelson try to raise money for for poor farmers who had been driven off their homes in other cases wealthy people bought farms just so they could get federal subsidies the result is this farm bill now that has a giant welfare program for big business is rich people attached to the food stamp program according to a new york times analysis of data collected by the environmental working group the federal government paid one paid eleven point three million dollars in taxpayer funded farm subsidies nine hundred ninety five to twenty twelve to fifteen billionaires or businesses in which billionaires had some form of ownership at a list of fifty billionaires includes people like microsoft co-founder paul allen and investment titan. charles schwab it s. true it half the owner of chick fil a to have a collective net worth of three hundred sixteen billion dollars if that doesn't sound bad enough consider this those billiona
ronald reagan stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act and big ag companies started buying up farms across america it devastated the american rural landscape you had willie nelson try to raise money for for poor farmers who had been driven off their homes in other cases wealthy people bought farms just so they could get federal subsidies the result is this farm bill now that has a giant welfare program for big business is rich people attached to the food stamp program according to a new...
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you heard my rant i'm frankly of the opinion that chris christie is the next ronald reagan ronald reagan you know we all knew that his positions were far right but he ran as this nice affable guy who really could work with democrats and did so back in california although he really didn't but everybody kind of thought he did and then he got in and he just a literally transformed this country i mean it put it largely put an end to the new deal thirty two years of reaganomics down i think chris christie has the potential to do that same thing curious your thoughts on this i read this is a little more curious well i think now at the point of anyone but christie as far as the republican party is concerned so you said he chris christie's got these fire ideas like ronald reagan and i would disagree with that but we disagree chris christie. vito know you're all you know he doesn't he actually he vetoed the creation of the obamacare exchange so he's kind of split the baby and have he supports vouchers to private schools he pulled new jersey out of the regional compact reduce climate change the on
you heard my rant i'm frankly of the opinion that chris christie is the next ronald reagan ronald reagan you know we all knew that his positions were far right but he ran as this nice affable guy who really could work with democrats and did so back in california although he really didn't but everybody kind of thought he did and then he got in and he just a literally transformed this country i mean it put it largely put an end to the new deal thirty two years of reaganomics down i think chris...
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i mean you remember ronald reagan and the old days had to save the union he used to say trust that our time. you've got a case where it's been discussed but tiring time there's so much mistrust between the two sides to get back to descend on said it's
i mean you remember ronald reagan and the old days had to save the union he used to say trust that our time. you've got a case where it's been discussed but tiring time there's so much mistrust between the two sides to get back to descend on said it's
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the republican party was going to revive and ronald reagan was going to be elected. so we'll begin today's class with a video clip. unfortunately we're not going to have the music we usually have and the dancing that we do before class. there was a problem perhaps with copyright so we didn't want somebody suing congress and bankrupting congress. oh, congress is already bankrupt. well, anyway, we don't -- they couldn't afford the lawyers perhaps. oh, they do have a lot of lawyers. anyway, let's get on with the clip. what we're going to see today is a debate by phyllis schlafly and pat schroeder congresswoman from the state of colorado. she was a feminist and pr pro-e.r.a. supporter. so we could turn down the lights and we'll start the clip.
the republican party was going to revive and ronald reagan was going to be elected. so we'll begin today's class with a video clip. unfortunately we're not going to have the music we usually have and the dancing that we do before class. there was a problem perhaps with copyright so we didn't want somebody suing congress and bankrupting congress. oh, congress is already bankrupt. well, anyway, we don't -- they couldn't afford the lawyers perhaps. oh, they do have a lot of lawyers. anyway, let's...
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vividly, 33 years ago today, ronald reagan was elected in a landslide. fourt40th president of the unitd states. >> i'm not frightened about what lies ahead, i don't believe that the american people are frightened by what lies ahead, i aim to try to tap that great american pier that the opened up -- spirit that opened up this undeveloped content from coast-to-coast, made it a great nation, suc survived several wa, and a great depression,. neil: you know that was such a landslide. the polls had not closed out west, and jimmy cartser just -- president reagan promising to tackle issues head on then. that was then. this is now. haley barber on lessons we have forgotten.
vividly, 33 years ago today, ronald reagan was elected in a landslide. fourt40th president of the unitd states. >> i'm not frightened about what lies ahead, i don't believe that the american people are frightened by what lies ahead, i aim to try to tap that great american pier that the opened up -- spirit that opened up this undeveloped content from coast-to-coast, made it a great nation, suc survived several wa, and a great depression,. neil: you know that was such a landslide. the polls...
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ronald reagan famously said, i'm from the government, i'm here to help. people read the owe becabama ca nightmare stories and it perpetuates a belief that the government, given its control of something, will inevitably screw it up. >> there is something about, like, a bureaucracy in general, does screw things up. whether it is government bureaucracy or big private companies, because i worked in enough big private companies where it takes three weeks to get somebody to say, yeah, we're working on that, the memo will be out next week. but i wonder how -- if the issues were -- you're describing there with the website get resolved and i believe they can be resolved, i don't know if they will, i think they can be resolved and can get the kind of enrollment numbers they need to make this thing work, what does that do to that old reagan line, though, about government is not the solution. it is the problem. this will have proven that government actually did solve a problem. >> you may have proved it bitterly. i'm not sure if it will necessarily change people's in
ronald reagan famously said, i'm from the government, i'm here to help. people read the owe becabama ca nightmare stories and it perpetuates a belief that the government, given its control of something, will inevitably screw it up. >> there is something about, like, a bureaucracy in general, does screw things up. whether it is government bureaucracy or big private companies, because i worked in enough big private companies where it takes three weeks to get somebody to say, yeah, we're...
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ronald reagan won in california. ronald reagan, hell, won in massachusetts. it seems to me, larry, chris christie is a republican who understands that you've got to parachute behind enemy lines and take back some of the blue states or the gop just ain't going to win another presidential election. your take. >> of course that's correct. i mean, they have to do something to win blue states. maybe they start with the purple ones. frankly, larry, like virginia, which is, after all, the closest to the national average presidentially now for both 2008 and 2012. hey, if you can't win virginia back, you're not going to win the white house back. so, the republicans really do have to follow the christie model, even if they don't agree with all of christie's positions. they have to find people who talk blue. you know, there are other people out there, like scott walker, governor of wisconsin, he's won in a blue state and he talks blue. >> john kasich knows how to talk blue. there's a whole bunch of them. in this respect, i think christie is a path-breaker. karen finney,
ronald reagan won in california. ronald reagan, hell, won in massachusetts. it seems to me, larry, chris christie is a republican who understands that you've got to parachute behind enemy lines and take back some of the blue states or the gop just ain't going to win another presidential election. your take. >> of course that's correct. i mean, they have to do something to win blue states. maybe they start with the purple ones. frankly, larry, like virginia, which is, after all, the...
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chris christie the latest politician to compare himself to ronald reagan. vince vaughan talks about what it is like to be a conservative in hollywood. george clooney takes a shot at any one who doesn't believe . the white house is in crisis mode. the president's poll numbers are way down and the roll out of the healthcare law is a disaster. it has gotten so bad since his reelection he is being compared to richard nixon. >> one thing for bill clinton to say i feel your pain, it's another thing for barack obama is caused by a situation that's the word he used in the operative sentence. we mark the one year anniversary of his reelection. has there ever been with the exception of richard nixon been a first year of a second term? >> democratic strategist james carville had amusing advice for the president. >> i think the best thing he can do is take a tobing on the mayor of toronto's crack pipe. his numbers were 48. there you go. >> we are going to get to all of those stories. one of the reasons the president's poll numbers are bad across the board which we will
chris christie the latest politician to compare himself to ronald reagan. vince vaughan talks about what it is like to be a conservative in hollywood. george clooney takes a shot at any one who doesn't believe . the white house is in crisis mode. the president's poll numbers are way down and the roll out of the healthcare law is a disaster. it has gotten so bad since his reelection he is being compared to richard nixon. >> one thing for bill clinton to say i feel your pain, it's another...
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the reagans, ronald and nancy reagan thought, that's history. that's not anything like that, let's help them be a repositives for refor history. very graciously the president and first lady went over to ted kennedy's house and spoke about the nature and personality and character of this man, ronald rage began had politically opposed on a personal level was appreciating very deeply. it was very touching. it was nice. like the old days where you can be nice to the other side. >> schieffer: there is one kind of bipartisan thing in recent history, isn't there, david, that is that every president wants to be like jack kennedy in a way. >> absolutely. after lincoln died historians wrote that everybody want to get write with lincoln, walk in his footsteps that happened after john f. kennedy, in a book is very much about every president drool upon kennedy. especially bill clinton. remember the scene when kennedy was young, came to the white house he sort of reached out touched the hand of god. he was always influenced by it and drew heavily upon it in h
the reagans, ronald and nancy reagan thought, that's history. that's not anything like that, let's help them be a repositives for refor history. very graciously the president and first lady went over to ted kennedy's house and spoke about the nature and personality and character of this man, ronald rage began had politically opposed on a personal level was appreciating very deeply. it was very touching. it was nice. like the old days where you can be nice to the other side. >> schieffer:...
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reagan ronald reagan is the only we're the only president in the history of the united states and frankly i think probably going. over use the phrase trickle down economics to describe his own policies and the pope says and i quote some people continue to defend trickle down theories which assume that economic growth encouraged by a free market will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world this opinion which has never been confirmed by the facts expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those we get will be an economic power we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor this culture of prosperity deadens us and then goes on to say while the earnings of the minority are growing exponentially so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few this imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the war of the marketplace i mean this is he's taken on reagan had on how are you guys going to deal with this. well i'll start i'll start off by saying
reagan ronald reagan is the only we're the only president in the history of the united states and frankly i think probably going. over use the phrase trickle down economics to describe his own policies and the pope says and i quote some people continue to defend trickle down theories which assume that economic growth encouraged by a free market will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world this opinion which has never been confirmed by the facts...
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reagan ronald reagan is the only we're the only president in the history of the united states and frankly i think probably going. over use the phrase trickle down economics to describe his own policies and the pope says and i quote some people continue to defend trickle down theories which assume that economic growth encouraged by a free market will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world this opinion which has never been confirmed by the facts expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those we get will be an economic power we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor this culture of prosperity deadens us and then goes on to say while the earnings of the minority are growing exponentially so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few this imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the war of the marketplace i mean this is he's taken on reagan had on how are you guys going to deal with this. well i'll start i'll start off by saying
reagan ronald reagan is the only we're the only president in the history of the united states and frankly i think probably going. over use the phrase trickle down economics to describe his own policies and the pope says and i quote some people continue to defend trickle down theories which assume that economic growth encouraged by a free market will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world this opinion which has never been confirmed by the facts...
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>> ronald reagan was funny. you would think having been in show business, having been in politics for a long time, that he would talk that way, i nailed it, i owned that room, stuff like that. >> yeah, a little bit. >> no, he never did. or not that i ever saw. reagan was amazingly modest. he had a lot of humility. and he didn't brag about his ability to get people. when people listened to him and they felt as he did, he felt it was because he felt like they did. he felt like there was a kind of communion going on. but he didn't brag. he was a fellow who had an ego who didn't brag. >> he is very missed by many people today, peggy. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> peggy noonan, everybody. president reagan may have brought the greatest generation to tears, but coming up we'll take a look at why some of the vets from that incredible era say they are more concerned about what our troops are facing today. as our special saluting the greatest generation continues. >> there are hidden treasures through
>> ronald reagan was funny. you would think having been in show business, having been in politics for a long time, that he would talk that way, i nailed it, i owned that room, stuff like that. >> yeah, a little bit. >> no, he never did. or not that i ever saw. reagan was amazingly modest. he had a lot of humility. and he didn't brag about his ability to get people. when people listened to him and they felt as he did, he felt it was because he felt like they did. he felt like...
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ronald reagan figured out -- hold on. ronald reagan figured out -- >> you're reasonable. i could work with you. okay? >> hypothetically. >> i'm serious. you may be difficult to listen to sometimes. but i will say that you are reasonable in a deal. okay? and if he can get a deal with these people, that's a freak of nature. i'm sorry. >> james wanted to get in. james, go ahead. >> i'm just saying, joe, it's all the difference between you and that guy, what, ted yoho in the florida 3rd. you're not going to talk to this guy. you're not going to talk to john fleming in the louisiana 4th. we've got to understand this. these guys up there right now are not the kind of republicans when you were there. it is a different world. you really can't -- i don't know if you can blame obama or if you can. obama's problem, he's a man in politics that doesn't like politics. >> that is a serious problem. and if that is the case, by the way, i don't want a brain surgeon operating on my brain if he'd rather be out golfing. >> the president said all i want to do is get stuff done. i'm willing to
ronald reagan figured out -- hold on. ronald reagan figured out -- >> you're reasonable. i could work with you. okay? >> hypothetically. >> i'm serious. you may be difficult to listen to sometimes. but i will say that you are reasonable in a deal. okay? and if he can get a deal with these people, that's a freak of nature. i'm sorry. >> james wanted to get in. james, go ahead. >> i'm just saying, joe, it's all the difference between you and that guy, what, ted yoho...
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the couldn't stop talking about ronald reagan. a lot of their ideas were 1980 eraa reagan ideas -- 1980 reagan ideas. their idea was to cut taxes. if your car breaks down, cut taxes. if you're houses on fire, cut taxes. if your lawn needs mowing, cut taxes. that was the only idea that they presented to voters. americans thought that they had very old ideas. >> daily felt that way because it was true. -- they only felt that way because it was true. >> how many years have you seen the same commercial where a guy stands up and says i am for less taxes, less regulation and more freedom? we've been doing that since 1980 and, yes, we are all for that. but if that is the only message and we don't connect that to working-class voters -- by the way, in 1994 when we took over, we owned as a party working- class voters making like 30,000 dollars to $60,000. we dominated that area. >> your point about ronald reagan speaks to that. reagan was a child the goldwater. that is what inspired me to get into politics. the reagan could have echoed gol
the couldn't stop talking about ronald reagan. a lot of their ideas were 1980 eraa reagan ideas -- 1980 reagan ideas. their idea was to cut taxes. if your car breaks down, cut taxes. if you're houses on fire, cut taxes. if your lawn needs mowing, cut taxes. that was the only idea that they presented to voters. americans thought that they had very old ideas. >> daily felt that way because it was true. -- they only felt that way because it was true. >> how many years have you seen the...
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. >> the only figure who's comparable to margaret thatcher is ronald reagan. >> her great friend. >> absolutely. margaret thatche was a great communicator and she told highly complicated policy issues and tranatedhem into simple terms so voters could understand. >> as you point out, you look at lessons for leadership for conservatives here, there's all this talk, the sub text on nearly every issue in washington, d.c.n my opinion, we're a nation that both parties are saying, we're in decline, china is rising, things are tough, the new normal, we're not going to grow the economy and 20 million people can just write themselves off, because we don't have faith in the government and we don't have time to really worry about our fellow citizens having opportunity. we'll just write a check and make this welfare society something broad, deep and lasting. she brought great optimism, you talked about reagan, she could match him in spirit. could she not? >> absolutely. i do think that, you know, margaret thatcher and ronald reagan were both politicians who projected tremendous hope and optimism,
. >> the only figure who's comparable to margaret thatcher is ronald reagan. >> her great friend. >> absolutely. margaret thatche was a great communicator and she told highly complicated policy issues and tranatedhem into simple terms so voters could understand. >> as you point out, you look at lessons for leadership for conservatives here, there's all this talk, the sub text on nearly every issue in washington, d.c.n my opinion, we're a nation that both parties are...
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although having written about ronald reagan i came across the phrase that said that he was the first residents not to be haunted by the ghost of john kennedy. do you agree with that? >> guest: you know this better than i do he wasn't in the democratic party, the republican party. he didn't have to pretend to be the next jfk. each new democratic president had to pretend to be the next jfk running for office and then serving in office. so i think there was a great difference there. as you know well, ronald reagan was so shrewd about his cultivation of the entire year kennedy family they probably spent more time in his oval office than they had in anyone else since kennedy's assassination. >> host: he presented the congressional gold medal posthumously to be kennedy, to robert kennedy that carver himself had refused to present and i was told when i was working on the 1980 book by several sources that the entire family voted for him. >> guest: that's interesting. president carter actually told me a story about his speech at the dedication of the john f. kennedy library, and jackie kenned
although having written about ronald reagan i came across the phrase that said that he was the first residents not to be haunted by the ghost of john kennedy. do you agree with that? >> guest: you know this better than i do he wasn't in the democratic party, the republican party. he didn't have to pretend to be the next jfk. each new democratic president had to pretend to be the next jfk running for office and then serving in office. so i think there was a great difference there. as you...
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. >> ben stein, we always try to put labels on politicians, ronald reagan ended up being more pragmatic than we thoug, the same with jfk, but the arment back then against those tax cuts was that, mr. president, we have deficits, they are bad to do. what did you think of what he was trying to do then? >> i think he was considered to be a conservative democrat, even for those eras. he was nolike the southern democrats, but for that era he was a fairly conservative democrat. the guy i was working for, hubert humphrey, he was fiercely pro-defense and very much in favor of lowering taxe so a different world. a world that was both sides being much more careful and much more conservative, much more limited in the government than they are now. the whole world has turned upside down. everyone is a socialist now. >> you never know with the way that kennedy has been portrayed since, you would think that he was politically social, but he was actually a pragmatic kind of player, moved the ball forward, this might work, and something that would appeal to both sides. >> not only that, but appeal to th
. >> ben stein, we always try to put labels on politicians, ronald reagan ended up being more pragmatic than we thoug, the same with jfk, but the arment back then against those tax cuts was that, mr. president, we have deficits, they are bad to do. what did you think of what he was trying to do then? >> i think he was considered to be a conservative democrat, even for those eras. he was nolike the southern democrats, but for that era he was a fairly conservative democrat. the guy i...
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reagan and ronald reagan. that was really a symbiotic relationship. jack kennedy would have been president with or without his wife. that was a different situation. that was driven by the father. the bushes, i really felt conflicted, because i found myself almost taken in by the grandmotherly image of barbara bush, and the statesmanlike position of george herbert walker bush, who i will still say on foreign policy he was pretty good, terrible on domestic policy. and so i, too, had to fight that public image. and i came out of it quite conflicted. >> host: nicole is in michigan city indiana and nicole, your are on booktv with kitty kelley. >> caller: thank you, ms. kelly. i'm really enjoying the program and i just admire you and i love your approach to writing unauthorized biographies. i'm an aspiring writer myself and i would like to know, how do you start your day, the whole process and starting her books. are you a morning ride, evening writer, what is your process? >> host: what kind of books are you writing? >> caller: well, it's a book on how to
reagan and ronald reagan. that was really a symbiotic relationship. jack kennedy would have been president with or without his wife. that was a different situation. that was driven by the father. the bushes, i really felt conflicted, because i found myself almost taken in by the grandmotherly image of barbara bush, and the statesmanlike position of george herbert walker bush, who i will still say on foreign policy he was pretty good, terrible on domestic policy. and so i, too, had to fight that...