reagan. >> they needed each other. they made each other possible. and they played on the world stage together very well. >> almost 30 years later nancy holds the bible as her husband is sworn in. it's the first inauguration to be held on the west side of the capitol, closer to california. >> i think something like 700 corporate and private jets landed over the weekend. >> she wanted him in a morning su suit, and then she was in a very expensive dress. so, yeah, it might have been a little overdone, but nancy did it her way. >> watching the new first lady so comfortable and elegant on the world stage few could imagine just how far she had traveled to get here. >> nancy was born in 1921 in flushing, queens. >> her mother was an actress named edith luckette. her father was kenneth robins. a sort of aimless car salesman. >> they divorced when she was quite small. the mother struggled for two years. nancy would be in a bassinet backstage and finally she realized, this wasn't working. >> so she lea

strategy and reagan's doctrine. and and the us economic situation, in the 19 eighties, for the reagan administration to carry out--. >> thank you and finally we go to the last question. please and the itself. >> yes, i and american foreign policy council, and diplomacy george shots in his memo, said the day that purging twos arrived in germany, was the equivalent of d-day for the reagan administration. one of reagan's iconic moments, was when he said in berlin, mr. gore which have tell down tear down this wall. this was really not a message to mr. gore which have, but it was to influence many other audiences so i would like to see any comments you have during the diplomacy issue to make the diplomacy issued compatible for resolution giving the fact that the german government said signed on to this decision in 1979, but they had a great deal of domestic opposition. so any comments on the rule of public diplomacy on that issue? >> thank you very much, we are already past our time, so simon a quick response. you probab

reagan that he hoped. it was okay with her, but there was another woman in his life and he would always talk about lady liberty as being the other woman in his life, which i thought was a special sweet and he would describe lady liberty as being this beautiful feminine lady. who was the beacon of freedom for the world. here's a man of incredible patriotism. he also was a man of extreme gratitude think of all, the things people did for the president all the time. he was aware. he was appreciative here. he is getting the presidential medal of freedom in the white house from his successor george bush who was president at the time. we went to the white house. he presented him with the medal of freedom. here's a man who's won every award got in every trophy every certificate, right? so on the home, what is he do? it takes off his jacket. it's a long six hour flight home. he left his medal on. he wore that metal all the way home. it meant something to him. it was very special what it represented and the people i

when reagan was elected in 1980 s. opposed to be this this moment of optimism and a lot of the conservatives the foundations the individual financiers and business interests felt that they could attach themselves to reagan in this moment and as it happens in 1901 the council for national policy is founded one of the founders is paul why write. this in a logical architect of the right in the united states will. do this thank you mr president we appreciate. played a role in founding a number of different organizations including the heritage foundation think tank. search he really wanted to ignite a hyper conservative counterrevolution. really wants this. goal. station. says it's not enough to just elect people to office the left and the liberals have taken over the entire culture. entertainment education domestic life everything we've got to take it back. i want to describe the council for national policy as a group that exerts influence not exerts power and it's part of a constellation of organizations that work in conc

reagan's popularity is starting to increase threefold among conservative groups later reagan blasted federal bureaucracy in a speech to chicago's executives club a call for a transfer of power to state and local governments the mayor saying whoa wait we have the next person who could take the movement forward. i. thank you very much. what is it that we as americans really want we want to worship god in our own way to lead our own lives take care of our families live in our own style in our own community without hurting anyone or anyone hurting us. for those of abandoned hope. will restore hope and will welcome them into a. a national crusade to make america great again. so there's resources that reagan starts to get from these foundations to put together a presidential candidacy committee and so all of this foundation money starts to poor in to prop up reagan's presidency by the time he gets to $1800.00 to run for president it is time for a change. it's our waiting for him accept from. my fellow countryman the president of the united states. thank you. i'm told that tens of thousands

kennedy and ronald reagan. five minutes, we'll hear about the transitions and inaugurations of ronald reagan and barack obama from officials in their administrations the white house historical association hosted both of these events and provided the video. today we'll be joined by dr. colleen shogan who joined the white house historical association in the winter of 2020 after almost 15 years of federal government service. she previously worked in the united states senate and as a senior executive at the library of congress. colleen is the vice chair of the women's suffered centennial commission and teaches at georgetown university in the government department. she is the previous president of the national capital area political science association and served on the american political science association council the governing body of the organization. her research focuses on the american presidency presidential rhetoric women in politics and congress a native of pittsburgh. she holds a ba in political science fr

and that was reagan, and that was trump too. mark: we're going to miss rush enormously it is hard to believe he's gone like a family member -- tens of millions of us, and what he did with his life was really quite fabulous spectacular and rush, i think would appreciate the fact that you're on this program talking with me about him. sean i want to thank you very much my friend and god bless you too. be well. >> great one thank you for doing this show. thank you for having me. mark: thank you for being our friend. we'll be right back. we made usaa insurance for members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, .. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. a lot of people think dealing with copd is usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. a walk in the park. if i have something to help me breathe better, everything will be fun and nice. but

you know, rush, really admired ronald reagan. enormously, he admired bill buckley, they became friends, and he admired donald trump, i think he came to love donald trump they got to know each other personally, we don't have a long segment. but i want to suggest this to you, what do you think. i think they had some characteristics in common, they were outsiders. they were both underestimated. they were both confident and independent. they played by their own rules. and they were successful beyond anyone's imagination. and donald trump becoming president, and rush limbaugh what he accomplished. one thing that attracted rush to donald trump, what do you think? sean: interesting, in last segment, i gave the list of what we as conservatives believe when you break it down, we're fighting for well, reagan fought for, that rush fought for that every day of his life he never changed. i talk about three -- you could add a fourth one, the foundational conservatism or modern conservatism. you could look at bill buckley, no doubt, one of the

for example, taft in 1909 and ronald reagan in 1985 both gave their address and took the oath inside at the capitol and that was due to weather conditions that were not hospitable for an outdoor occasion. in 1865 lincoln reverses the tradition back taking the oath first and then giving the speech what we're accustomed to seeing today and what we will likely see tomorrow. and then the inauguration moves to the west front of the capitol in 1981 with ronald reagan as depicted here in this picture. next we're going to talk about how technology has transformed the delivery of the speech. so presidents have always given inaugural addresses starting with george washington that are designed once again to be read or heard by american citizens by all american citizens, but of course technology changed how that address has been transmitted and of course the amount of time in which it took to be transmitted in 1845. we see under the presidency of polk the use of the telegraph which greatly sped up the amount of time it took to actually get the address into the hands of citizens who wanted to rea

the contract of america is pure reaganism. rush and i learned about how to explain conservative from reagan. so when reagan left office, rush was the one that was standing there because the truth was that the bushes were not particularly active conservatives. they didn't see that as their mission in life. so rush filled the vacuum that reagan had left and rush continued to do that during the last 20 years. frankly, just as clinton went to the left and they lost 54 seats, obama went to the left. rush explained what he was doing and they lost 53 seats in the first election afterwards, which is why i think kevin mccarthy will become speaker next year. rush would have loved to have been part of that. he was remarkable. i will say one brief thing. my son-in-law, paul everett won a chance to do off with rush and stanley gains. he hit a hole and one. he has the crowd displayed by rush limbaugh. >> martha: i hope your son-in-law bought a round of drinks for everybody. >> but he was that kind of a guy. he was very much a normal america

look how reagan and george h.w. bush talked about -- >> reagan was the first presidential election that i voted in. and listen -- >> you went for the hair, didn't you? >> i'm just saying people hold him up to be -- reagan was not perfect. >> he gave us one of the biggest deficits we've ever seen and absolutely fed the divide. >> i'm saying he hold him up to a gold standard. he was horrible when it came to the aids crisis. he was horrible at uniting the country. he was a divider. they hold him up as a gold standard. i think it's degrees but i think the republican party has been moving in this direction forever. again, they are the party of everything that they're trying to pretend that they're not. the people in the capitol, that's not us. yes, it is you. the people in charlottesville, that's not us. yes, it is you. they're not marching for democrats. this whole weird thing that they keep saying, what about the riots and demonstration that happened this summer? that's haapples and oranges. first of all, the demonstra

and president reagan's long—term secretary of state george shultz has died aged 100. he spent most of the 19805 aged 100. he spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the soviet union and attempting to forge peace in the middle east. he was also one of the main figures to republican oppose donald trump. now on bbc news, can you train for a 55—mile race

the impact on the world was the opposite. >> are you still in touch with missus reagan? >> yes the other day i gave a report on the thatcher funeral. >> i thought you said earlier you had a two final questions. >> that was on issues, this is in general. you mentioned your father. who were they and where did you grow up? >> i was born in new york city and my parents moved us to new jersey. my father grew up on a farm in indiana and somehow god himself to the university and then he was interested in history and got a scholarship to columbia it's quite a fine institution and nobody works on saturdays anymore and afterwards he would take me to all these things my mother was just a wonderful person she set high standards and wanted things to be so she had great taste so it's fortunate to have loving talented wonderful parents. >> here at the hoover institution another located your colleague condoleezza rice. what would you think if secretary rice ran for president? >> she's a very capable person and i've never talked directly about that, but i know that she understands the po

same with you john and the reagan administration. yeah, and you know, it's very similar, you know at the time and i don't really know the degree the staffing of the white house today, but there were people who are careers certainly the residents 90 some people that are there and continue on and then there were at that time operating units that worked and the mailroom that worked in the records office that worked in the travel office that worked in a series of different. places that had a they served to the pleasure of any president, but they had been there for years. so you have to rely on the continuity? of a lot of these people to do it, you know when the 20th amendment was approved in 33 and we collapsed the transition period from march till january. it becomes even more critical of what chris is speaking about. you have to be able to immediately start that transition and i think you know, the history books will prove out those presidents that had the best transitions and and that is to chris's point the furtherance of our continu

reagan encouraged him. reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later i should just mention, madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3, every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span3, explore our nation's past, american history tv on c-span3 created by america's cable television companies that today were brought to you by these it was companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >> the senate arms services committee holds a confirmation hearing for deputy of defense secretary nominee kathleen hicks. watch live on c-span3, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> we're standing

anniversary with three osha released in 1980 by the carter administration which were recalled by the reagan administration in 1981. we begin with -- watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> sam, like the american people on board to win the war special? >> well, all but a few wreckers. you see that switch, joe? you've got to side track. >> i'm just the guy that can do it, sam. >> look, joe, you can. if you don't fall asleep at the switch like you did in november of 1942. >> don't worry about me. he'll have to knock me out first. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> what happened? who are you? >> not at all. glad you dropped in my boy. glad you dropped in. high production and over working. how is that? let's talk this over, my boy. according to the papers you're on the wrong track. it said here the win the war special isn't going through. all of them are on strike. >> that is a lie. we're out to win the war. >> win the war. ♪♪ ♪♪ [ singing ] >> what we stand for. i'll tell you, it is perfectly clear to everybody. highe

degrees matter, don, you don't have to tell me about ronaldo reagan, ronald reagan, my father, was in contrast to reagan, i get it, believe me, but degrees matter. and compared to this guy that they just voted out, those guys would have been a step in the right direction. >> let's just say, listen, the republican party, again, my point has been moving in this direction for a long time. >> and now they're about to take the biggest one we've ever seen. this is the biggest. >> yeah. >> they will be sending a bull horn to, you and i are going to have to move in together and have a moat with some of the alligators from his administration. >> well it is valentines. >> i love you d-lemon i'll get you something for valentine's. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. democrats rest their case. >> it's pretty simple. he said it and they did it. and we know this because they told us. they told us in real time during the attack. you saw the affidavits. the interviews. on social media. on live tv. they were doing this for him because he asked them to. >> officials telling cnn, quote, if this isn't

what they want unless they appeal to reagan voters. we have got to stamp this out within this movement, because it will tear us apart. it will guarantee we lose elections. [applause] we have to. you see, to me it's a no-brainer. it's not even something to me, how do you get rid of reagan from conservatism? the blueprint -- the blueprint for landslide conservative victory is right there. why in the hell do the so-called smartest people in our room want to chuck it? i know why. i know exactly why. it's because they're embarrassed of some of the people who call themselves conservatives. these people in new york and washington, cocktail elitists, they get made fun of when the next nascar race is on tv and their cocktail party buds come up to them, those people are in your party? how do you put up with this? it would be easy to throw them overboard, so as to maintain these cocktail party/beltway/new york city/inside-the-beltway media relationships. but i tell you, this notion that reaganism is dead, that conservatism needs to be refined, le

reagan in red red was the color she was most known for. we have a photograph and we have a watercolor drawing in red and it's a color that was known as reagan read and it's the republican party, is red red states and blue states. some political theorists, traces back to nancy reagan's choice. and then we have, it's actually more like a sundress, you can call it a gown, but it's made out of cotton. and is the dress that mrs. obama is wearing, and our portrait of her. you can see that in the background, it's a portrait by amy cheryl. this portrait was designed by michelle smith. i am in a conversation with michelle next week. if you're interested i encourage you to check that out on our website, we will talk about the gown and how she designed it. but we thought it would be wonderful, for you to be able to see the gown. so many of you are used to seeing the portraits now, and sony girls had these gowns made for like halloween costume. so we thought it would be fun to share this garment with you. we try not to repeat to compete, with the amer

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years, reagan was a conservative president and that cpac was to the right. but now, it is the conservative movement. mr. trump: he is the one that sent you should run. matt said, like five years ago, six years ago, i made a speech and then they duked some kind of a straw poll. who made the best speech. they voted, by far the best speech was trumpeted he said you should run for politics. i said what i know about politics? but you know what, we learn quickly and are country has never done better. so thank you matt. >> a couple of years ago when a whole new team of people started leaving, we thought would happen in the before days -- in the four days at cpac were important. it had to occur every moment of every day of the calendar year. we are kind of stuck in the swamp. most people obviously live very far away from the swamp. for good reasons. >> people all over the world say it is now our time. we have about 28 different us to put on cpac's of our own. >> we are going to go to australia. we are going to have the first cpac. ♪ >> they have a combination of h

boomers also fought in vietnam and voted for ronald reagan. boomers like any group are not a monolith. how these other boomers enter the picture. >> i really wanted to write about individuals in this book. precisely for the reason that the question identifies because so much writing about generation in general ends up being very staid and insubstantial. so i wanted to anchor things in the complete and it's true that there were boomers who did not share the characteristics of their generation. but i hope that the stick that i picked will be obviously recognizable as typical boomers in some way. >> in the way if i can answer a little bit for. in some ways the boomers being who they are and having this kind of gravitational effect on all of american life, it means in a sense reagan, boomers elicited the most boomer-ish results from a reagan presidency that you could have gotten. conservatives even at the time often imagine a more conservative reagan presidency and they got and what boomers got was what they wanted at the time if you can speak of

anniversary with three osha films released by the carter administration that were later recalled by the reagan administration. we start with mark caplin that helped preserve the films. watch tonight and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> look at today's time table. only one of these trains can get through to washington. 44 is a single track, you know. >> yeah, but sam, aren't the people on board the win the war special. >> all but a few wreckers. >> you see that switch, joe? you have to side track it. >> joe, you can, if you don't fall asleep at the switch like you did in november of 194 2. >> don't worry about me, they'd have no knock me out. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> lies, all lies. >> who are you? >> glad you dropped, in my boy. glad you dropped in. >> they say that sam is overworking, rundown and high production. overworking. >> let's talk this over, my boy. according to the papers you're on the wrong track. this says here the win the war special isn't going through. all the workers are on strike. >> that's a lie. we're out to win the war. >>

president reagan and i had a great relationship. as i did with vice president bush. so i came to him. frank has gone off. i was free to go back to the army. not so fast. and so, i would stay for a while longer. finally i was able to break free of the white house and go back to the army. i told everyone, i am not retiring out of the army. you've got to retire from the army to get out of the army. and that is what i told bush when he became president. he did something about two days after his election. we had offices right next to each other. and so, he called me in. i said, what's he calling me? he said, we want to offer you a couple jobs. three jobs in the highest positions of the government. i said, thank you, let me go home and talk to my wife. i went home, barely spoke to her, because i did not want any of this. i wanted to go back to the army. i went and spoke to the chief of staff. will you have me in the army if i come back? he said, no, we've got a place for you. the next morning i went to the oval office. the president was there. i said, mr. president, mr. vi

the statesman, economist, and business executive served as america's top diplomat under ronald reagan, and as nick schifrin tells us, that is where his lasting legacy was formed. >> schifrin: in 1985, president ronald reagan shook hands with the man leading what he'd called the evil empire. at his side: the man behind the strategy: secretary of state george shultz, who explained his belief in diplomacy, to judy woodruff in 1987. >> it's a form of direct communication. by and large, good things happen in connection with such meetings, and have historically. >> schifrin: shultz called u.s.- soviet diplomacy the “highest stakes poker game ever played.” that first meeting between cold war foes in a decade kickstarted u.s./soviet detente that helped bring down the soviet union four years later, and a u.s. victory n in the near-50-year cold war. >> i will well and faithfully discharge. >> schifrin: shultz became secretary of state in july 1982, holding the office until ronald reagan left in 1989: the longest serving chief diplomat of the last half century. the idea that reagan should ta

. >> reagan came along and they came in on record with those commentaries there were lps, everyone's law all of us should make a point to have a conversation with one whose american by choice. it can do a lot to strengthen our resolve to be free for another 200 years. >> i listened to a couple of them now nine and i was just struck by how persuasive, forceful but unthreatening reagan was. i wanted to find out if i could be the reason people would listen to the radio. not authors or singers or other people, reporting artist, i wanted to find out if i could do it. i got lucky that i found a radio station that would let me examine from cisco. >> he had a different approach to the show. unlike other talkshow host, he didn't want just didn't want experts, if you really wanted to be the substance of the show. he brought all his old material to the shop. >> i've been a dj for most of my career. i have dabbled in some talk but i had never done a real talkshow until 1984 in sacramento, and the fairness doctrine was in play. >> the fairness doctrine is what prevails in one form or another in m

clear, articulators, when reagan left, nobody in the republican party understood what reagan had achieved, they didn't understand how to talk about it, they did not understand conservatism, and rush filled the vacuum and enabled a generation to learn how to think about these things and to learn how to stand up to the left. and to learn how to use language that was effective. and i think that historians will look back and realize that he is one of the great cultural figures in american political history, and that his total impact is almost beyond measure. but beyond that, sean, because you and i both knew him and loved him, and knew him as a person, not just as an icon or a national figure. i found rush to be very personal. i've always said, you know, he left cape girardeau, but he never left cape girardeau in his heart. the rush who is still here, just a few days ago, was somebody who is hard to come whose patriotism, whose core values, came out of cape girardeau, and he knew it. he was never affected when he lived in new york. he never became a new yorker. he always thought people up the

his philosophy essentially laid the groundwork of gold water and reagan that went all the way through for decades, and near the time of his death he was wa reagan that went all the way through for decades, and near the time of his death he was asked why he had overcome his critics. you want to talk about that story and end with a famous quote? >> i think you're referring to his quote that he outlived the bastards, which allowed him -- allowed him to get the last word in. there are two kinds of quotes that sum up hoover's understanding of what happened. the first where he said that a foolish individual only hurts themselves where a foolish government hurts both the wise and the foolish. and the other is blessed are the children for they shall inherit the national debt. >> well, tom, you do a fantastic job at the hoover presidential library at the west branch iowa and you do a fantastic job protecting that legacy and the records. presidential libraries, we may have presidents who have different political philosophies but we all support each other in our efforts, so thank you for joining

and then they get this 54-year-old breath of fresh air, and reagan, margaret thatcher told reagan i think this is a man you can do business with. that led to this summit a year after reagan gets reelection in 1984. >> because i was in there with him, they could have staged the whole meeting. there was no one other than the interpreters just going on their way. >> that might have made the cold war last longer. >> it could have. the way reagan handled the media, he was prepared for it. it was pretty incredible. >> the reason reagan could make that stuff work is because his central job before coming president was not so much governor, not so much being an actor, but being the head of the screen actors guild. for eight years, he had negotiated with all the studio heads. people said what's it like dealing with gorbachev and he would say you never met jack warner. [laughs] >> and he was a democrat at the time. >> i didn't know president and mrs. obama, but i was one of the photographers for the inauguration, putting out this book. the photograph of them in the elevator, the big freight elevator

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press which we get to later, i should mention, madison originally called the freedom of the use of the press and it is, indeed, freedom to print things and publish things, it is not a freedom for what we now refer to

the one thing i do want to say and i touched on with you just as ronald reagan put a warmer happy as a conservative movement just opposed to mary goldwater many years before, i think rush limbaugh was able to do the same in a way the other media tried but reached a limited audience with the wall street journal and the national observer where they would at least experiments for other points of view, he was able to find a way to package that an appealing way and now of course it's a polarized view of the world, he got what ronald reagan did to do this and palatable bites and a sunny, upbeat disposition even down to the way that he handled his dying days and there was an upbeat to him against all odds, here i am but it's been a hell of a ride, helluva life and a lot of people could relate to many disagreed loudly and strongly on all these other points. what do you think? >> my reaction rush was fact-based, that was the other thing, he did not shoot from the hip, he knew what he was talking about he had the facts and that made him not just a delightful person and a very knowledgeable per

a little worse than ronald reagan in the area of poor. that was a gallup poll done january 14, just before the inauguration. your choice for the best and worst u.s. presidents, broken by party. (202) 748-8001 for republicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats. others, (202) 748-8002. we will look at other news as well and some of the aftermath of the acquittal of the impeachment. this is the headline this morning and usa today. america after acquittal, damaged, not defeated. trump survives. she writes that, since election day, former president trump has been defeated for reelection, presided over his party's loss of the senate, and gained the distinction of facing the constitution's most serious rebuke for a second time. though he has been damaged, in a year in which she can be disregarded by the political world from fellow republicans to the new democratic president, has not yet arrived. she says as the senate vote was concluding he issued a written statement that signaled he had no plans to leave the public scene. our historic and beautiful

in 1981, he became chief economic adviser to president ronald reagan. >> oh, he was my favorite. he was comfortable with himself. and he had deep convictions. and he carried them out. and he had fun. >> reporter: a year later, schultz accepted his most famous job, secretary of state, america's top diplomat. supporters credit schultz and the reagan administration with winning the cold war on the is not so successful side, talks with the soviets failed to produce arms control treaties. and in 1986, the director bombing of u.s. marines in beirut, lebanon. >> being a marine, that was the worst day of my life when i was awakened about 2:00 in the morning and told that those barracks had been suicide bombed and i think it's 243 marines were killed. >> reporter: the administration later withdrew the marine piece keepers. both sides of the political aisle admired him. >> a completely ethical, moral man who served under three presidents loyally. >> in a civil way, we would both come to a conclusion what is the right path for the country, and we would shake hands. >> reporter: in later yea

, boomers elicited the most boomer ash results from a reagan presidency that you could have gotten. conservatives at the time often imagined the more conservative reagan presidency than they got and what boomers got was what they wanted at the time if you can speak of them as a collective which is economic growth and -- >> that is what you are saying. >> a little stability after the 70s maybe things got too out of hand. >> i had people ask if this book was inspired by christopher caldwell's book last year and the answer is no. i thought his book age of entitlement is great, the best book i read last year. when i opened it up and read it, i was on the right track with this volume but before i read caldwell's book. he makes an argument in his book about the 60s and america since, about the baby boomers. there wasn't a lot of essential difference between the liberals of the 1960s and conservatives of the 1980s that they were both about liberating the individual culturally and economically but they were both about tearing down things that stood in the way of the individual so there's so

exceptionalism -- bring about the reagan institution and bring american exceptionalism back. you can be bold, you can show up, bought -- voice your ideas and persuade your neighbors. this man has a totally different version of government than what the founders laid out. it affects the rights of other people. they want to be our shepherd, but that requires is to be she. let it be heard loud -- loud and clear from us right now. we will not be sheep. [applause] >> i would like to close today with a story. my dad was a cowboy. he was the toughest person i had ever known. ever since i was a little girl, i wanted to grow up and like him. he died -- by an accident on our farm when i was 22 years old. i finally got the courage to go out and clean up his pickup. you often know they live out of their pickups. everything important can be found in there cap, their wallet, bills to pay, you name it. every single one of -- if you need to find something important, every single one of us farmer kids no the pickup is the first place look. a new -- i knew where the pickup was, what i needed to

when reagan left they didn't understand what he left. they didn't know how to talk about it and talk about conservatism. are you sure filled the vacuum and enabled a generation to learn how to think about these things and to learn how to stand up to the left and to learn how it use language that was effective. and i think that historians will look back and realize that he is one of the great cultural figures in american political history and that his total impact is almost beyond measure. but, beyond that, if i might, sean, because you and i both knew him and loved him and knew him as a person not just as an icon or a national figure. i found are you sure to be very personal. i have always said, you know, he left cape girardeau but never left in his heart. the are you sure who is still here just a few days ago was somebody whose heart, whose patriotism, whose core values came out of cape girardeau and he knew it. he was never affected when he lived in new york. he never became a new yorker. he always thought people up there were weird. t

. >>> the sanctions vote was an unprecedented foreign policy defeat for president reagan. he pulled out all the stops in an effort to win, but congress believes it is on the right side of what it considers an issue of civil rights, morals and values. >> nearly 35 years ago in 1986 the republican-controlled senate dealt president ronald reagan an embarrassing loss. 31 members of reagan's own party joined 47 democrats to overwhelmingly override his veto of legislation that placed sweeping sanctions on south africa with the goal of ending that apartheid regime. at the time reagan and his allies argued the sanctions wouldn't work or could lead to a communist government taking power, but politicians from both parties made it clear taking a stand against apartheid was a clear-cut moral issue. senator alan cranston, a california democrat, said the senate must decide whether we stand with the oppressed or the oppressors. here's what was happening on the republican side in the weeks leading up to the vote. >> but a senate republican says it won't be easy heading off congress. >> i

reagan encouraged him reagan supported him freedom of the press, which we'll get through later. i should just mention madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press lectures in history on american history tv on c-span 3 every saturday at 8pm eastern lectures in history is also available as a podcast find it where you listen to podcasts. abraham lincoln won the 1860 presidential election over three challengers with less than 40% of the popular vote and without a single electoral vote from a slave state. his transition to the presidency was beset by protests over the elections legitimacy assassination threats and the secession of several states in the deep south. next ted widmer author of lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington talks about this tumultuous period in us history with harold holzer of the lincoln forum which hosted this conversation and provided the video. in one hour and 10 minutes world war ii veteran ira rigger wher