it is ronald reagan's america. it's that special city on a hill, and i believe it is in that shining city where we might meet ronald reagan again one day. and be able to take his hand and thank him for the nation he preserved for us. as a western governor, let me close with this famous prophecy of an english poet, one that margaret thatcher quoted to ronald reagan as he headed to his california ranch in his retirement. and not by the eastern windows only, when daylight comes, comes in the light and the sun climbs slowly, how slowly, but westward look. the land is bright. thank you and may god bless you and your families and may god always bless the united states united states of america. [applause] thank you. thank you so very very much. [applause] >> we have time just for a few questions and then the governor will be signing books for those of you who would like to get one. you still can get one. if i can ask one favor before you ask your question. if you would raise your hand. you see we have staff in each of the

it is ronald reagan's america up. it is that a special city on a hill. i believe within that shining city where we may be to ronald reagan again one day. to be able to take his hand and take him for the nation that he preserved for us because the western governor i will use the same philosophy as a english call with one quoted to ronald reagan as he headed to the california ranch in his retirement not by the eastern windows only when daylight comes, since it comes slowly, how slowly but westward the land is a bright for coughing keogh and may god bless you and your family and may god always plus united states of america. [laughter] clap. [applause] [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] >> we have time for just a few questions then the governor will be signing books. before you ask your question if you could raise your hand for the stooges hold up the hand to give you a microphone to introduce yourself. >> i am from burbank and i am wondering if there is any possibility of using the resources to prosecute some of the people involved and "fast & furious"? [app

i didn't talk about ronald reagan. >> we have the tape. you said i complemented the republican ideas. that is not true. what i said and i will provide you with the quote. what i said was ronald reagan was a transform tive political figure because he was able to get democrats to vote against their economic interests to form a majority to push through their agenda an agenda i objected to. while i was working on the streets watching those folks seeing their jobs shipped overseas you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of wal-mart. >> wasn't exactly in the old terms jane you ignorant slut but the battle in 2008 was long and sometimes very bitter. here are the iowa caucus results. mr. obama beating the now disgraced former senator john he had wartsds and senator from ne york secretary of state hillary clinton by about 8 points. when he dropped out of the race the ambassador congressman governor of new mexico bill richardson through his support not to the old friend hillary but to the junior senator to illinois who became our 44th presi

he did not mention the fact that he was a constant critic of ronald reagan, and when ronald reagan and his historic summit meeting with mattel jordan did gorbachev, congressman newt gingrich -- mattel gorbachev, congress nicking -- , newt gingrich says this is the most dangerous summit since adolf hitler. >> this week, it was written that gingrich has compare themselves to lincoln, margaret thatcher, ronald reagan, and for sheer perseverance, co-chairmen. >> his note and tivo. .tim tebowno >> let's look at the last debate before iowa. >> it is laughable to say someone who is a 30-year record of conservative as some is not a conservative. >> the evidence is speaker gingrich took $1.6 million. you do not need to be within the technical definition of being a lobbyist to the influence peddling. >> i know what it takes to get this economy going. qwikster you have a brief sense of the first in a debate >> there you have a quick sense of the thursday night to break -- debate the debate. >> newt gingrich look a little hesitant. >> mitt romney did not have the target on his back. newt gingrich

in the executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and it is my pleasure to well, all of you here this evening. in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world i would like to ask you to please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag, of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. before we get started, i would like to recognize and special guest that we have with us this evening and i will start with the ventura county clerk, mark lund. mark, there you are. [applause] michael brewer, the son of governor brewer. michael. [applause] and of course our library director. [applause] okay. i would like to take you all back in time to just under three years ago in january of 2009, and play a little game with you. i want you to imagine waking up on the morning of january 21 that year to learn that you were about to become the governor of one of our 50 states. now, we are going t

thought ronald reagan was too old, ronald reagan was an actor, ronald reagan was too right wing, and this would be kind of interesting, ronald reagan had a tendency to say incendiary things. these happened when he was president but all throughout. calling the soviets the evil empire, demanding that gorbachev bring down the wall, being against the panama canal treaty, that was before he ran for president. then the white house got what they wished for. they got ronald reagan and he won in a virtual landslide. he won by 8, 10%. if i were the white house i would take both of them very seriously. they both have substantial strengths that can play against obama's weaknesses. by the same token, there are negatives about both men that the white house can exploit. they're just different. my gut tells me right now as i look at it that gingrich might actually be the stronger candidate because i think he can make a broader connection than mitt romney, as i said, to the -- to those reagan democrats where you won't have this barrier of possible elitism that i think obama could exploit pretty effec

-- ronald reagan. you could reinstate that by executive order. there are things you can do within the law that are pretty powerful. >> do you think that the president -- using their orders to go around congress, aren't you doing the same thing? if it is not good for him, why would be good for you? >> any president uses executive order. it goes back to george washington. president obama was doing things at the margin. to be serious about it, congress should cut off the funding. they could say that no money would be spent on the czars. the constitution is designed for that kind of checks and balances. if you think that the wagon is in the ditch, the president will do some strong things. otherwise the wagon will stay in the ditch. that is a decision the american people have to make. if they want a timid president who operates in a way that avoids the fights in washington, that is fine. nothing much will be changed. if you want someone who says there will -- and fix these things -- i would move on the firs

and ronald reagan and pivotal decisions that she may well in office. this is about an hour. .. >> mrs. thatcher, can you tell us how you wrote this book? >> yes. i had to decide first whether i wanted to do it in one volume or two. i had already thought that the first thing i must do is to tell the story of the years when i was in number 10 downing street. they were exciting years, purposeful years. we changed the entire economy. we had a war to fight. we had the libyan raid, the end of the cold war, we had the gulf. how should i do it? and so, i thought, instead of telling it in enormous detail, as some people do almost a diary of every day, i would take the main themes and follow them through and try to but them in a tiny frame of the three elections which i fought. the first thing i had to do was to get the whole structure of the chapters right. then i sat down and wrote as much as i could remember about each without, in fact, referring to documents, major leaguing a note of what i needed to look up. and then for accuracy, there are masses and masse

it was at precisely this moment that ronald reagan entered their lives and entered the picture. as their determination to improve their situation grew, then came the election between jimmy carter and ronald reagan. by this point the controllers were so disaffected with the carter administration's faa that they didn't consider really endorsing carter's reelection. they thought it would be more of the same. they begin negotiating with reagan's campaign, and ultimately arrived at an agreement. they would endorse reagan, and then returned reagan would promise to help them if he was elected president. the book goes deeply into this, and i'll be happy to answer more questions about it if you have them, but out of simply say that that bargain created expectations on each side that were unrealistic and couldn't be fulfilled, and each side misread the other. the reagan people believed that they were bringing in to the republican fold the reagan democrats. most patco members were democrats though they endorsed reagan. but they were socially conservative very often, and they were sympathet

newt gingrich wraps himself in the cloak of ronald reagan. in an interview with the reagan library he says he helped break and create millions of jobs, and we helped to defeat the soviet empire. he did not mention the fact that he was a constant critic of reagan, and when ronald reagan and his historic summit meeting with mikhail gorbachev, congressman newt gingrich, republican from georgia, said this is the most dangerous summon to the west since adolf hitler met with chamberlain in 1938. >> that is what i'm talking about. >> in this week's "new yorker" it is written been good and which has compare themselves to lincoln, ronald reagan. tebow.s no tim >> house republicans did not want to carry that baggage. >> let's look the last debate before iowa. >> it is laughable but someone who campaigned with ronald reagan and jack kemp and has a 30-year record of conservatism is not a conservative? >> the evidence says that speaker gingrich took $1.6 million. if you do not need to be under the technical definition of being a lobbyist to the influence

he likes to align himself with ronald reagan. he's talking about it a lot. first of all, who is that going to appeal to when you break out exactly where the advantage financially is going to go if we were to implement newt gingrich's idea of tax policy, would go all the way to the top 1%? would it not? >> yeah. the numbers look sort of bad for newt gingrich. of cain, perry and gingrich. if you take current policy, you assume we extend the bush tax cuts which are regressive tax cuts forever. newt gingrich would give the to 1% a $340 tax cut per year. the middle income, folks between 40% and 60% on the income distribution would get $1,000 per year. >> there's nothing there for the middle class. >> it's not paid for. i do want to say one thing. perry, cain, gingrich, all tax plans like that. mitt romney doesn't. mitt romney's plan is to extend the bush tax cuts. looking to the general election, he actually had something that was a tax cut for the middle class. he didn't give anything more to the rich and said, middle class, you get a capital gains tax cut. not

ronald reagan did it. that was the beginning of a reagan ending up as president was that speech which was written for barry goldwater. >> it also led another -- a number of california executives to coach according to governor in 1966. >> he had given similar speeches the early '60s. the people who had been in charge of basically handling the money for. goldwater's television account were so fed up with the terrible commercials, that basically said if you let us spend it the whole way, will spend it the way we want to. we are going to basically sequester this money. they played hard ball. that is how they got ronald reagan on the air. after he gave that speech, telegrams poured into the campaign. money poured into the campaign. people started talking about ronald reagan as a gubernatorial possibility. david said it was the best political debut he had ever heard of since the speech by william jennings bryant. >> the relationship, was it a close relationship or was it more of an acquaintance? >> ronald reagan

[laughter] this strikes me as classics ronald reagan prose. some people have said he must give written this in response to being told about the alarm over the exercise in moscow about the war scare. i don't think that is necessarily the case. tensions were very high. it could be just a response to the more general situation. this is, i don't thinks a conversion on the road to damascus. already in 1983 he had been seeking ways to build a channels to the soviet leadership to discuss how to deal with difficulties and move forward to a better relationship. but i think what is very striking to my mind is that his response to reports, however they came or whatever their substance, about fear and paranoia in moscow was to seek to provide reassurance as the basis for moving forward. it is a critical turning a in his policy towards the soviet union and ultimately paid off in the greatest way when he formed his relationship with mchale gorbachev. -- it is a critical turning point. thank you. -- mikhail gorbachev. [applause] >> now to our final speaker,

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our keynote was there on the front lines with ronald reagan. we're quite fortunate to have him with us today because he graciously agreed to modify his gavel so he could be here. unfortunately, all -- modify his schedule so he could be here. unfortunately, he has to break because he has to check the red right -- take the ride back home this evening. ken adelman is a senior government official as well as ambassador. there are a few other things you might not know about him. in a program that he called "movers and shakespeare's.com" he uses the lessons learned from shakespeare to teach the top executives. in 1974, traveling down the congo river on the 100th anniversary of the legendary expedition, he was there. he been transferred -- translated for mohammad ali and a fight with george foreman. all of this provides a unique perspective for our symposium today. ladies and chairman, please give a warm welcome to ambassador ken adelman. [applause] >> thank you, do. that was a wonderful introduction. it was so much nicer than the introduction i had in

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it is ronald reagan's america. it is that special city on a hell. i believe that it is in that shining city where we might meet reagan again monday. peel to take his hand and thank him for the nation that he preserved for us. as a western governor let me close with the famous prophecy of an english poet, one that margaret thatcher quoted to ronald reagan as he headed to his california ranch in his retirement. and not by the eastern windows only when they let comes in the light. end the some climb slowly, but the land is bright. thank you, and may god bless you and your families and make up all is bless the united states of america. [applause] [applause] thank you. they accuse of very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> we have time just for a few questions. then the governor will be signing books for those of you would like to get one. if i could just ask one favor before you ask for question, raise your hand. we have stephanie to the aisles. all the pier hand and it will give you a microphone. >> and john from burbank. i was wondering if ther

you can't see the expression on ronald reagan's face. you are deprived of the body language that accompanies these words. often a person's body language and facial expression will be not what the writing in a pen. so there's again, is a biography based on transcripts? or do we miss a large part of what the truth really is? what is the truth? oliver wendell holmes, our greatest jurists, once the find the truth as a supreme court justice, the truth as what i can't help but believe. what we believe is true to us. as any interviewer will discover, when they ask questions of a person that contradict that person's fantasies, you can get no more violent reaction then when you question a long-held fantastic believe. ronald reagan, one of his favorite stories, which never failed to make him tear up, a story of world war ii bomber flying over germany being struck by anti-aircraft fire and beginning to plummet toward the ground. reagan would tell this story time and again, always in exactly the same inflection and pacing about how all the crew bail

>> i actually worked for ronald reagan. i think he would have been the first to stand up and say debate is good. it must be respectful. it must be rig louse. rig -- ri. rigorous debate leads to more trust. one thing that the nation needs is heightened trust. in institution, in the tax code, in the wars abroad. in congress. toward wall street. i am here to tell you that this kind of debate over time will elevate the trust level in whomever makes it out as the nominee. that will allow us to beat barack obama. thank you. >> bret: well, that is it. for our debate tonight. thank you all very much. thanks to the candidates, their staffs and the iowa republican party and to all the great people here in sioux city. of course, in iowa. they could not have been more hospitable. our next debate is in south carolina. january 16. but after the holidays we'll be right back here in iowa for extensive coverage of the caucuses and then in new hampshire for the primary. stay with fox news channel, america's election headquarters all the way

ronald reagan espoused the 11th commandment, thou shalt not speak ill of another republican. but you have all broken that, one way or another, broken that vow. so the question is, how do you balance on the one hand, trying to win the nomination with on the other hand, not weakening the eventual nominee to the point where he or she is less electable than president obama? down the road? senator santorum? >> we have a responsibility to vet the candidates. i have been at 350 town hall meetings, i have been kicked pretty hard by iowans and let's find out who can stand up and who has the best record, the person who can have that consistency of going out there and fighting for the principles that we believe in because let me assure you, the other side's going to kick very, very hard. we have to have someone who can stand up, fight and hold the convictions deep to fight the good fight in the pall and win this presidency. >> bret: governor perry? >> yeah. there is a -- as a matter of fact, i think that was the republican chairman, not ronald reagan that said that-- >>> he espoused it.

reagan. >> ronald reagan i-- . >> stephen: are you, by the way, this is a serious question i asked before, are you an african-american because as i said, i took king's lesson to heart and i don't see the color of everyone's skin. i only see the content of their character. >> really? >> stephen: yeah. >> awesome. unfortunately, i don't have that luxury. >> stephen: really? >> no, no i'm not a racist but i see race because i want to identify what's going on and cultural background is very important. >> stephen: we talk about race. we make it, we make racism worse. >> well, i means that's like saying-- what? (laughter) >> i like the way you bind yourself to that. >> stephen: well, i have to. because racism is so tempting. >> really? >> stephen: oh, absolutely, racive. is so tempting because if i get to say here is me and my group and we're great and your group isn't as good as my group, that is a very seductive feeling, that i don't have to do anything to be better, i can just say i am better by the virtue of my race. it's a very lazy way of thinking. >> really. >> stephen: so i have to blin

reagan but he claims to essentially that he did all these things more or less on his own he did not. he was part of the coalition between clinton and the republican congress they got a lot done welfare reform free trade balancing the budget. yes he did work with bill clinton and then he led the move to impeach bill clinton the problem with newt gingrich is from the very beginning when he burst on the national scene in the early one nine hundred ninety s. the public hasn't liked him they don't like him i looked at thirty five polls of how people think feel about newt gingrich and in thirty two of those thirty five poll polls taken in the last fifteen years people have a negative impression he is going to be a very very difficult candidate to elect a retiring democratic congressman barney frank said you know when he is a press conference where he departed from congress he said i never thought i lived a good enough life to see the republicans nominate newt gingrich for president he has more baggage than united airlines ok. if i go to one to say they don't like it i want to expand i jump

ronald reagan and then war and. i mean this is really more of like a wars i mean we've got the drug war you got the war in afghanistan you get the war in iraq we have the war on morals in america war on poverty long gone but that was said one hundred one hundred and five times for war. i think we all know what that means right early so think you know which one i was drinking for all right so based.

i helped ronald reagan and others develop supply-side economics. i led the effort to defeat communism in the congress. i helped the speaker of the house to balance the federal budget for four straight years, reform welfare as an entitlement. take whatever your list of conservatism is, there are places in my career where i have done that stuff. and i have been consistent about it. i was for ronald reagan long before people began to quote him. so that part is no contest. elect ability thing is how you think elections work. i think in the reagan tradition and 1984 and the contract, if you get a real contrast in a way that is two to one conservative, the liberal loses but you have to have the courage to fight through the new york times , cbs news and nbs, but you have to be steady. the person who is able to debate eobama and draw a defined contrast has an enormous advantage. young go to the middle, you bring the middle to you. american energy is a 79% issue. the new york times thinks the middle is between 79 and the 16% who aren't for it. i think the m