when the american people heard this, you know, they ronald reagan almost immediately. researching the book and didn't realize that he had the lowest approval rating of any president at that time in his first term. it was in fact the to influential columnists have written a column that day that said the honeymoon is over. after the american people hear this remember we had a long string of unsuccessful presidents. we had a jfk was killed, lyndon johnson didn't seek a second term because to get mom, richard nixon resigned under watergate, carter, we turn to the former actor that the inauguration to lead the country and here he is shot on the 70 a day in office, the last four shot have died and here he is cracking jokes in the face of death, and with that it did was it allowed him and the country to separate the man from his politics and a form of this bond his approval ratings would did in the course like every president he had his troubles, but i do think it allowed them and allowed him to sustain a lot of problems later and kind of also made him a mythical figure. the

[applause] >> when i think of ronald reagan i think of someone who was larger than life. a powerful figure who was proud to be an american. i did my small part. yeah, you can clap on that, it is true. it is true. and i'd like you did my part in supporting him, and in the working-class neighborhoods where i lived that put me in the majority. to this day in american politics we speak of the reagan republicans and reagan democrats, and that's the legacy of a man who respected everyone. and spoke to everyone. now, a lot of old political assumptions fell away in his time because his convictions were so clear and his integrity was so obvious, people of every background, even many who would never consider voting for republicans sized of ronald reagan. in fact, you know what? this is my kind of guy. he understands the country. he wants everyone to have a chance. he knows that in this world the united states of america is a force for good. the american people, reagan said, are hopeful, big hearted, idealistic, daring, decent and fair. he was all of these things himself, and everyo

>> ever president in modern times, going i think in model reagan -- ronald reagan -- george w. bush, we're going to make a switch grass into oil. this was not much better and i stopped paying attention. >> the gas tax -- you have to have a big revenue jump on energy or nothing good happens. >> charles has been talking about this or as long as i have known him. >> 1983, my first piece on that i have given up. >> i guess i've been around longer. richard nixon was the first on this. >> you are right. >> it might have been the same teleprompter. [laughter] energy independence, nationalism has become some of the underlying premise -- >> i would make two points. it looks as if the president's policy on oil is a drill in brazil. second, he said that we would cut oil imports by one/league starting from the day of my swearing in. why did he take that day? today we import 9.7 million barrels because of recession. he has not lifted a finger. the man is hope and change. [laughter] >> no comment. >> they want to shut the government down and turn you into their scapegoat and to say is that t

to honor and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of ronald reagan. the commission is composed of senators, members of congress and other government officials, including the archivists of the united states. importantly, in these challenging fiscal times, no federal funds may expended by the commission to carry out its duties. mr. speaker, the commission has been functioning only nine months and their important international and domestic events planned for this summer and for commemorating president reagan in which the commission's participating would be beneficial. as such i have no objection to the bill which extends the termination date of the commission from may 31, 2011, to the end of the year. and i would urge members to vote for this measure. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. kelly: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you to my colleague from illinois. i appreciate that. the chair recognizes me and i want to go forward and say i wa

up next on booktv from the museum here in washington, we recall the near assassination of ronald reagan. the president code name raw hide was fired on after delivering a lunchtime speech. he's joined by the agent who hushed him into awaiting limo and the surgeon who operated on the president. >> i'm delighted to be here. i'm a trustee of the museum and of the freedom forum, and it just gives me great pleasure to be part of this remarkable program. as everybody knows, there's a lot going on now. it's not as if the world is quiet. it would take something pretty extraordinary to pull together a crowd like you to come to an event, and i can tell you knowing what these gentlemen have to share with us tonight, you're in for an extraordinary hour to come. as everybody knows, we are nearing the 30th anniversary, as hard as it is to believe on that assassination attempt on ronald reagan. i'll begin with the gentleman in the middle here who is the former united states secret service agent jerry parr. he protected four vice presidents and special agent in charge for two presidents, jimmy carter an

at least ronald reagan did one thing right with taxes and raise them on corporations back in one thousand nine hundred six pretty much forced to but nonetheless that's right reagan raised corporate taxes believing take a look. we're going to make it economical to raise children to get. better rates will need more reward for that extra effort and vanishing loopholes in the minimum tax will mean that everybody and every corporation pay their fair share reagan raised corporate taxes by a one hundred twenty billion dollars and close three hundred billion dollars for the loopholes what a socialist if but since then thanks to a legion of lobbyists corporations have managed to wriggle the tax code more loopholes and you can count making the thirty five percent corporate tax rate the rate the republicans claim is the highest of the more old a bad joke the real tax rate that corporations pay in america today is closer to twelve percent one of the lowest in the developed world and that doesn't include insanely profitable corporations like g.e. boeing bank of america citigroup wells fargo who paid n

it's a secret that every republican president since ronald reagan and even to a certain extent bill clinton didn't want us to know about and that secret is that supply side economics that we sometimes call trickle down economics or reaganomics doesn't work in fact it only works to do one thing create a massive wealth inequality this screws over ninety eight percent of us and rains down money on the other two percent we use that extra cash to speculate on wall street and crash our economy supply side economics has never ever worked anywhere it's ever been tried anywhere in the world it's never worked trickle down economics only produces a nation of it's yet here republicans are trying to pass a budget that will embrace an even more radical version of reaganomics further slashing the tax rates for america's oligarchy and leaving the rest of us to pick up the tab by dropping our health insurance taking food off our tables and letting us retire in poverty but for the first time in more than thirty years we now have an american president who is actually refusing to embrace reaganomics perhaps th

from ronald reagan on birds every president as third funding for missile defense under different guises various funds costing at least two hundred billion dollars. are u.s. taxpayers getting what they pay for. it's a con it's a con missile defense is the greatest fraud in the department of france and believe me it's had a lot of competitors i really i really believe this i'd. missile defense is the longest running fraud in the in the history of the u.s. department of defense. if ballistic strikes are so improbable why seek to repel them such cots and from space. what if missile defense is a disguise for ambitions beyond simply destroying the sun. there's going to be an inherent in the satellite capability with any ballistic missile defense system regardless of whether it's located in space or elsewhere. and i think that that's effectively zero voidable. you know ballistic missile in some senses is more difficult than targeting a satellite and therefore targeting a satellite is almost always ok filippi that's associated with missile defense system. in february two thousand and eight the

reagan's own budget director said there's nothing serious or courageous about this point hit that ronald reagan in there and this the president pointed out is fundamentally on an anti american. thought a vision of the america i know the america i know is generous and compassionate the land of opportunity and optimism yes we take responsibility for ourselves but we also take responsibility for each other. for the country we want in the future that we share were nation that built a railroad across a continent and brought light to community shrouded in darkness we sent a generation to college on the g.i. bill and we saved millions of seniors from poverty with social security and medicare we have led the world in scientific research and technological breakthroughs that have transformed millions of lives that's who we are this is the america that i know but the president said even most rich people in america realize how twisted and sick my words not his the republican vision is being poor and right now is he said that he and warren buffet and most of the rich people frankly don't need more ta

taxing social security benefits again to pay for his massive tax cuts to america's oliver that's why ronald reagan owns the dubious distinction literally of being the only president in american history to drop taxes for the rich while raising taxes for the poor he was our first reverse robin hood president. at least ron reagan did one thing right with taxes he raised them on corporations back in one thousand nine hundred six pretty much forced to but nonetheless that's right reagan raised corporate taxes don't believe me take a look. we're going to make it economical to raise children again. fred a race will need more reward for that extra effort and vanishing lupo's of the minimum tax will mean that everybody and every corporation pay their fair share reagan raised corporate taxes by a one hundred twenty billion dollars and close three hundred billion dollars for the loopholes what a socialist but since then thanks to a legion of lobbyists corporations have managed to wriggle a tax code of more loopholes and you can count making the thirty five percent corporate tax rate the rate the repub

reagan friedman iran iran author of the novels the fountain head an atlas shrugged. yes it was certain writers that just had this vision of the future over the past year the economist and others have reported sharply rising sales in france booksellers that it was out so you got to get a scene from that new monetary like you said you know if you got a piece of. music obviously it was essentially free i am a big fan of iran and read all over novels it's with the rain we're here today i think she would do a great job in showing us just how the government is doing. so who was i and rand by the way a great montage put together there by the folks over at the center for american progress and think progress dot org iran and believe. that it in its essence that the ultimate human good was total selfishness total selfishness i realize it may sound a little bizarre but along with me in one thousand nine hundred seven there was a guy by the name of william hickman. he went to a school and. asked for a young woman to come out her name was mary and parker and you know the the said

i notice you have ronald reagan's picture up there. i will tell you a few things you probably do not know. you have a totally different education than me. i was a toolmaker apprentice before going to the vietnam war. they had world war ii veterans serving in the atlantic and the pacific. he was all over indonesia and the philippines. there is going to be no nominal -- no domino. here you have regin's picture back there, who helped -- ronald reagan's picture, who helps to topple the unions. >> hang on. alcoa remains one of the foremost union manufacturers in the world. this is the world headquarters of the john deere union. you are talking to the hotbed. >> talk to a lot of people around here and drive around and look at some of the plants that have been closed. the strong arm of the union demanded more and more and the company shut down. >> if you are talking about middle america, you land in a union hotbed. >> thomasina in florida. >> i have no doubt the republicans are going to let this burglar -- birther eshissue die down. senator o

and of course the the peak there is world war two and then we paid off our debt and then ronald reagan came into office and put into place about halfway through his presidency is notorious tax cut on the rich and clinton then raised taxes on the rich the debt went down bush cut taxes on the rich the debt went back up obama continued bush's taxes on the rich tax cut on the rich and the and it continues to go up doesn't this suggest something like really kind of fundamental and basic like cutting taxes on the rich is stupid and it leads to god no it says nothing of the sword now actually if you had revenue as a percent of g.d.p. across this period you would see that even when rates go up and down the. top marginal tax rate has no meant almost no impact on the revenue that's collected which is a flat line of about eighteen to twenty percent of g.d.p. no matter what the tax rates are the big variance here were changes in spending levels particularly the military buildup on or under ronald reagan in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the big surge in security spending post nine eleven under

reagan put to death just a few years later and we need to understand that rights have only one guarantor government no corporation will ever protect your rights it's not their job well today's republican party is once again in power thanks to this big government lie tomorrow's political leaders will be the men and women who have the courage to stand up to the plutocrats who created that law the first political party it's willing to take on these corporate special interests address our nation's dangerous wealth inequality recognize the importance of labor unions reform our global trade strategy make health care a right and not a privilege and kick big oil out of our national energy strategy that party will be the party that wins hearts and minds in the next american election let's start telling the truth and put an end to this lie for good. that's and that's the big picture now for more information on the stories we covered please visit our website at thom hartmann dot com and our theme dot com and this entire show is also available as a free podcast on i tunes therefore check out our you

when ronald reagan the regular the cells in eighty two and then they melted down in eighty six as a consequence he put two thousand people in jail and you know one of the s. the nobels in this situation is very similar and they were both backed by government when these things melted i'll never know who the president is or has and i wish he had put some people in jail ennio to tuesday mark equal pay day that recognizes that women still don't earn as much as men for the same job in fact looking at this chart the earnings of women compared to men actually went down last year they were going backwards so nearly a half century after the equal pay act was passed in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and mandating that women was to receive equal pay for equal work we still haven't closed the gap should we resort to more drastic measures my proposal was for a ten year moratorium on voting by men. i'm dead serious. anybody want to. i don't think we should have the federal government trying to solve these problems big government looking at different different corporations and saying you have to pay a

ronald reagan in the recession and he wanted to cut taxes we had an economic boom george bush nearly two thousand the taxes and we had another boom we got us out of the early two thousand recession this is standard milton friedman adam smith type economics and that's what we need to get us out of this more spending which is the left in this is the nature of this morning there were there this is morning the breasts are raised her credit and the sun came up those two are not necessarily correlated and you and i both know that under ronald reagan taxes on people who make more than a million dollars a year were higher than they are right now and you and i both know that those that those tax cuts are not what led to that expansion and so you're just you're trying to create a cause that he that's time actually true and so go back and check your facts because this is we actually have important choices and front of us that we need to make as a country and it's important to keep those facts straight out chris well if eric is right and i think i'd be on the wrong or on the right track excuse m

reagan's own budget director said there is nothing serious or courageous about this point nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. and i don't think there's any great just about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on capitol hill that's not a vision of the america i know. because what he's referring to obviously was not his plan but the republican plan with these words president obama became the first american president since one thousand nine hundred eighty to tell the truth about reaganomics that it doesn't work so this is the beginning of the end of the thirty year reign of reaganomics in america obama nominates doesn't work i mean president obama when he did as. it's been tried for the last couple years and you commies not doing well unemployment is very well president obama's been president for quite a while now i mean he's at some point he's going to take responsibility over his failed stimulus plan the fact that his ideas just aren't worki

ronald reagan would have 100 on february 6, 2011. ron reagan remembers his father at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. this is just under an hour. >> thank you, mike. is this on. can you hear me okay? all right. thank you, mike. pleased to be here on the very unlikely event. not that they don't do readings and things as they call them all the time. i'm the unlikely part of this. because i never really intended to do anything like this. i'm 52. i managed to get through at least half a century without ever considering to do something like this. but a little less than a year ago, it was february 6 last year, i was talking to my mother on the occasion of my father's 99th birthday when, of course, the 100 00th birthday came up. can you believe daddy is going to be 100. she calls him daddy of course to her kids still. i'm saying to her, yeah, boy, isn't that something? that's just incredible. inside i'm thinking please not another aircraft carrier. don't make me go to the dedication of a bridge or something like that. then i

i worked with ronald reagan in 1985, 86. and bush sr., yeah, yeah. thanks for coming. >> great fun. >> good, good. and i love mississippi. i used to date a guy in mississippi. >> we're allretty cool. >> i know it. i know it. >> you have a different hat for every single day of the year. >> i have 700 hats this was my great grandmother's. >> it has a little pizaz. >> i'm known as the hat lady. they never interview me but they pan the hat. >> i can't get in the frame at all. >> thank you for being a part of this. >> thank you for coming. >> i hope it was food for thought. >> it is. very good. >> we will. we will. >> if we don't, i think we're cooked. >> going to come back often. >> thank you very much. >> if you -- have been trying to for ten years i have been a state rep to get the civil services healthier. >> that would be mad at you. >> you know what i'm going to suggt? maybe in front of the u.s. flag here? >> yes. >> i'll be the center piece. funny. >> we're going to go the airport. got time to stop along the way? we'll get in a little visit away fr

how many times. >> reagan -- >> [ overtalk >> i don't see any ronald reagan. >> what did you think then? >> ronald reagan had run against gerald ford. >> what did you. >> did you think he would be elected -- [ overtalk >> chris: we're going to continue the conversation, but not what juan was thinking in 1979. i'm sure he doesn't remember what he was thinking in 1979. let me switch to the budget, which is the more immediate, i, mara. the president has been out on the west coast swing. pushing a budget plan. some spending cuts. but really hammering the republicans for one they want to -- they got medicare, his words. or his paraphrase. two, they want to protect wealthy and not raise taxes. interestingly enough, some of the republicans going home to their districts during the recess, and going to heat for constituency. paul ryan, architect of the plan, getting heat from republican constituents in the town hall. >> the polling that we have seen shows specifics of the president's plan, to preserve medicare and raise taxes on the rich, versus specifics of the republican plan, radically transf

ronald reagan used to use an example. it is about $1 million if you stack it. in giving it to $1 trillion, it would be 67 miles high. we are no longer talking about billions. billions are passe. we are talking about trillions. here is the rubble of the whole debate out there. we are talking trillions in deficits, but we are talking billions in cuts, ok? the democrats have offered up $6 billion in cuts for the rest of the year. what does that mean? nothing, absolutely nothing. we borrow $4 billion per day. we spend $10 billion per day, so probably what we are going to get is a compromise, $33 billion, and that is three day'' worth of spending, and it is about 2% of one year's problem. there is a disconnect. what i got home, or if i could 28 tea party, the you know what ice a?" when i go home, they say, "that is a good start." [applause] but in washington, when i talk about $500 million in a penalty, -- there is a disconnect. we all want to balance a budget, but guess what? to balance the budget, we will have to cut spending. people tug at your heart strings. the

reagan's attention when he was in office. and really her 1984 blame america first republican national convention i think you could take that speech today and put in new places and new names, that speech is just as relevant today as it was then because it very clearly lays out a country cannot plame of it and be able to live at the same time. i think this whole judgment we have to think about as a country because where we don't not have right or wrong, i think clearly in the forefront we must have truth and must understand that when we -- when we say two plus two as my dad says equals four it really does equal four and there has to be a standard of truth but we have to think of moving forward with having truths without judgment. if you look in our history we have a cycle of victims and oppressors and as the next group cycles over and the victims become oppressors you have the same cycle and it reverses. the way to fix it and possibly fixing that is to have truth, not necessarily without judgment but with an open mind that was

we can talk about abraham lincoln and why ronald reagan -- what words are important to talk about jfk. has -- ask not what your country can do for you. but what you can do for your country. are we really doing what we should? that is the hardest thing i do every day. if you really understand what that means, they see everything we did. when you asked to do things and see how you react to people around you and to them. we all need to understand that every one of us has an incredible network in that we can be a good example. how do we do this? it is to learn every day. i don't know if you learn every day. i try to learn most days. i learn about failing and getting better at learning from failing. one of the things we have to learn is what resonates. and build a movement began of -- -- what does resonate? you can hear the notes they play. we were at lunch last fall, what i was talking about and telling a story about the greatest problems in the world. the story was, the response of the greatest filing in the world was to correct the notes. what they did was went back and listened to the

ronald reagan never apologize for jimmy carter or bill -- or george bush or bill clinton. each present set their own agenda but they each did so base and a view that our power and our greatness was what was most important. , not our own domestic political victories and recriminations. each understood this because each understood the long term virtue and value of america, both here at home and abroad. now we have caused "various stages things on the world stage, confusion and doubt. we now have a confused foreign policy in the hottest spots of the world especially in the middle east. we have allies and freedom fighters all over the world who doubt our time tested and time- honored commitment to them. of the past four years, i focused my time and attention on national security matters through the ethics and public policy center's program to promote and protect america's freedom. it is a program i found it to write and talk about the great threats that continue to face our country. and from the world around. my work has been focused on two countries, iran and venezuela and pe

ronald reagan came up with this industry index and he hung this thing around his neck? well we're going to have to hang this industry index around president obama's neck. families are having a hard time to make ends meet. we have to talk about that and bankruptcies and housing foreclosures and hang him with that, so to speak. met forkly -- you have to be careful these days. i learned that. with the obama misery index. he'd like to find a escape get to. by the time -- by the way, anytime the president has an concern, he points to someone else. he says energy prices are high, we're going to start an investigation into price gouging. if you want to see gasoline prices brought down, you have to increase supply. some say that would take years to come about, but you know something about how pricing works. when prices are set they look not only at supply and demand today but expectations. if we start drilling and use our oil and coal as well as our other available resources we can change the equation long-term and finally begin to bring that balance into a point where prices c

oddly enough, not everyone on the right was happy with ronald reagan. i mean, they hated the panama canal treaty, some of them didn't like the concern. concern -- [inaudible] they were upset about sandra day o'connor's appointment to the supreme court. but i guess partly because of roe v. wade really got organized so that there was more of a, you know, mobilization on to the right of the reagan administration. >> um, that's one of those things that, as they say, is outside the scope of the book. but will say that in one review that's out already that the reviewer says that's the story that really needs to be told is the, you know, the organization on the right during that era as well. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. could be, could be. okay. thanks. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this event was hosted by books on the square in providence, rhode island. find out more at booksq.com. >> we're here talking with lindsay boyd of the independent institute about the upcoming books they have coming out. >> yes. we've got a number of exciting new books coming ou

the state legislature passed a joint resolution to replace the star king statute with one of ronald reagan. star king's admirers say they didn't even have a chance to comment. >> star king was not only a minister but an activist and a naturalist. he wrote wonderful stories back east about taking trips around the bay and seeing the muster flowers in bloom. and about the sierra and he was an activist who really cared about holding california in the union during the civil war and preventing the importation of slaves into the central valley where the growers wanted to bring them to raise their cotton. king raised over half the money that was raised in this country to establish the united states senatary commission which is the beginning of the red cross. >>> when we come back on a second look. raising the war submarine that made history. >>> a bit later, how the civil war played a role in the naming of a san francisco landmark. >>> in august 1863 a confederate vessel made history. the problem was the submarine sank with its crew aboard. for 137 years the humley and its crew layed at the bottom

once again, woc, we see a picture of ronald reagan that is because ronald reagan, this is his first radio home just down the road over in dixon, illinois. this is where he got his start. we would like calls for warm weather. we're supposed to be at 65 degrees here in the quad cities. we're struggling to get to 52, 53, plenty of rain. welcome back here to "the jim fisher show," 1420 woc. the local listeners, i'm not gym fisher, i'm dan kennedy. i normally do the morning show, we're pulling double duty as jim is under the weather. we expect him back tomorrow, his bright chipper self, let's go back to the phone, 344-1420. let's go to anthony in new york. anthony, good afternoon. >> hey, mr. kennedy, thank you so much and i commend woc for having such a kind rapport with the callers. you're very patient. i do appreciate this opportunity to speak. as far as president obama not having being a citizen potentially, when you consider the heavy footprint that the united states has throughout the world, what would be so bad as to have a leader of the world. i'm pretty certain and a caller had called

the other thing for those that are, i spend a friday night listening to ronald reagan, the speech on his goldwater speech. i have also watched the brandenburg gate speech on tv so the ones that are on video, think is best way to see them. clearly not all of them are. even rummy looked at at the book itself, the book of patrick henry, the first entry is very interesting but not only is there no written transcript of that speech that literally what there is someone else's recollection of being at the speech. that is all the record there isn't as where we get the phrase give me liberty or give me death. i think it is fun and also i know that a couple of them especially the documents, the northwest ordinance is pretty long. look of the parts that are interesting to you and matt time. introductions are about 700,000 words. this are easy to get there and to figure out what other parts might be. the good news is you can pick it up, you can rewind and you can read the rest later because it is easy to use. >> i have a question. how did you go about picking the 25 documents? >> that is a great

ronald reagan and tip o'neill came together to save social security for future generations. the first president bush and democratic congress came together to reduce the deficit. president clinton and a republican congress handled each other ferociously, disagree on just about everything but they still found a way to balance the budget. in the last few months, both parties have come together to pass a historic tax relief and spending cuts. i know there are republicans and democrats in congress who want to see a balanced approach to deficit reduction. even those republicans i disagree with most strongly, i believe are sincere about wanting to do right by their country. we may disagree on our visions, but i truly believe they want to do the right thing. i believe we can and must come together again. this morning, i met with democratic and republican leaders in congress to discuss the approach i laid out today and an early may, the vice president will begin regular meetings with leaders in both parties with the aim of reaching a final agreement on a plan to reduce the deficit an

the king of the shutdowns, none other than president ronald reagan. let's take a look, almost every year of his presidency there was a shutdown. in 1981 he vetoed an emergency spending bill, in 1982 he was in a deadlock with congress. a minor one in 83, 84 democrats and republicans could make a deal. another minor one in '86 and '87 dealing with nicaragua did it. the shutdowns of york a much longer in 1990 conservative republicans refused to patch uto pass a budt when he bush, didn't stay with what he said, no new taxes. that shut down delayed benefit checks for millions of americans. clinton at the time slam republicans for refusing to compromise and it sounded similar to the criticism beginning today. listen to this. >> let me repeat, holding the government and federal police and the millions of americans who depend upon them hostage to the congressional republican budget, is not the way to do this work. it's been >>jonathan: about 15 years since we've had a shut down and if there's no deal tonight there's really no telling when the shutdown will be

by the time ronald reagan left office, individuals and households paid four times what corporations paid. so it's a shift in tax burden that's a story we almost never hear. i hear all the time, all the time about high tax rates or low tax rates. but i never hear enough about the details of this shifting tax burden. so those people do have reason to feel that they are taxed enough already even if we as a society are not. our federal government last year collected the lowest amount of revenue since 1950. 1950. this is primarily a result of the financial crash. not even the tax cuts that have been given away. you know, revenues are now. now that's not exactly the whole story when i talk about our tax burden and spending. if you look at the countries we're compared to. a lot of them send in the tax checks like we do and we get free health care and education. if you think about another narrative that is just as true as the structural economic problem, it's that if we had the same -- if we spend the same on health care cost per person as any one of the 35 countries, any single one of them with

ronald reagan did both. there's no reason that obama wouldn't have done both as well. beginning in tucson, he started that man return, the one that brought tears to our eyes in denver and other places is back. i think it'll be a terrible mistake for him to return to the style of the first two years of the presidency. ma'am? >> three things. i'll take them short. can you talk about the thinking about about the title of the book? >> yeah. >> second one, are you saying that they should not have shown michelle michele bachmann at all, or analysis and framed it in some way? because i might be curious to show it. one more. >> i don't have any problem with them reporting on michele bachmann's crazy speech. look at this crazy lady. about the slavery ending the constitution. anyone ever mention the civil war to you? but just to show it as if it were the equivalent of an act of state deserving respect without context or criticism, that was deeply inresponsible. the book is called "kabuki democracy" it might be wrong, a couple people have told me i'm unfair to kabuki theater with

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in the 1980s when ronald reagan had a huge budget deficit, there was a widespread belief in the decline. that is when i wrote bound to lead. my friend paul kennedy at yale, great british historian wrote a book called the rise of all the great powers. he said we were going to go the way of philip the second in spain. paul got all the royalties because people believed in decline. and now we are going through another bout of decline, which is set off by the 2008 recession. i suspect as the economy recovers we will outgrow this one as well. but the point is that i don't see this proof of absolute decay. problem is in the country, yes. lots of problems. there are a couple that particularly bother me, the deficits and secondary education but if you look at the innovativeness of the american economy we are the world economic forum ranks us as number four and the first three are small states and china is number 27, or if you look at new technologies like nanotechnology, biotechnology or if you look at demographic factors like the fact that we will keep our position demographically because we ar