nancy reagan was the only human being in the will to whom ronald reagan was close. she was also just a fierce guardian of his image, his personal care and safety. she was fearless, i think. as a result, she was the one, truly disinterested observer of all the drama that goes on in a white house. she had one agenda, ronald reagan's well-being and success. she had better instincts about people than he did. a better nose for trouble than he did. the people in the administration who understood all of this, who recognized her power, george schultz or white house chief of staff, james baker. they really understood that she was a very important, a crucial ally to have if you were trying to get ronald reagan on board something. she always said she was never involved in policy but that is really not true. she would say that i just get involved in people issues. but for anybody who has been in washington more than five minutes, they know that people issues are policy. if you can have an influence on who is in the room when there is a decision to be made or a policy to discuss

where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul ax salt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they work together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and and that kind of created a friendship that lasted basically for the rest of their lives the rest of their careers. in 1976 the the presidential election was coming up. so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good idea. for ronald reagan, maybe to throw his hat in the ring and run for president. to run the primaries he t

the ronald reagan institute hosted this event and provided the video. reagan adjust -- addresses a joint session of congress on the economic health of the country shortly after his first inauguration. later, president bill clinton speaks to a joint session of congress nearly a month after his first inauguration. >> i want to start by thanking our guests for joining us today. it is an honor to be with this group, men and women who witnessed history up close. who fortunately live to talk about it and to join me in thanking god and very talented and doctors for saving the life of president ronald reagan and as lives of some with him almost 40 years ago today. we have come together today because the reagan foundation and institute is committed parading -- commemorating several significant anniversaries in 2021. 40 years have passed since ronald reagan became america's 40th president. we have the opportunity to introduce him as the remarkably important icon he was to a new generation of americans. we are calling this year 40 at 40, the 40th anniversary in --

i focused on the tile ceiling and prayed. " ronald reagan leaned on his face. he woke -- wrote "whatever happens now, i own my life to god and will serve him in any way i can." we are joined by four extraordinary witnesses to this history. former united states secret service agent ray shaddick who risked his life and shoved reagan into the limousine. former united states secret service agent timothy mccarthy who risked his life as well and dove directly into the path of a bullet aim for president reagan. former white house advanced staffer rick ahearn who helped save jane brady's life with his creek -- quick reaction that day. and former white house speech writer mari maseng who, having drafted the speech the president delivered that day, was walking just in front of the president when shots rang out. our conversation will be moderated by del quentin wilber, investigative reporter at the l.a. times washington bureau and best-selling author -- author of "rawhide down: the near assassination of ronald reagan." by all who have studied it, it is the best written ac

ronald reagan was going to win in a landslide against anyone. their campaign also generated one of my favourite lines. when run of regal —— when ronald reagan stumbled he came back in the second debate and looked at mondale and said you know, as far as the age issue is concerned, i'm not going to exploit the use and it inexperience of my opponent, who was of course in his 50s. mondale would have been a fundamentally different president than ronald reagan. he would have been, obviously much more in the mould. not so much more in the mould. not so much bill clinton who was on the conservative side would very much in the mould of barack 0bama civil rights, healthcare, women's rights. healthca re, women's rights. really healthcare, women's rights. really interesting to talk to you. take you so much for sharing your thoughts on walter mondale. staying in the us. tens of thousands of unaccompanied children are currently being held in us government custody — and the number continues to grow. president biden promised change at the border — but h

amazing for scarborough to say that, reagan was a hero of mine, joe biden is no ronald reagan. >> reagan cut against the culture, everyone against him. biden a transitional presidency, third term of obama, it is amazing. the media carries water for the left's cause, this headline, companies fight the restrictive new voting law, they even chablis still edited the headline to say activists are calling on companies to challenge new voting laws but they kept the thrust of the article, didn't even change it three ways in it. what is strange is cbs pushing to punish georgia it doesn't want to boycott a major sporting event, listen to this. >> viacom cbs is one of the companies opposing the voting law. cbssports will broadcast, got history there. pete: cbs will broadcast from georgia. >> i like for once they were honest. we see this all the time in media. these people pretend to be journalists but are really activists and they admit it. when they put it back up they said it is not us saying this. it is activists saying this. there is a difference between the two. the left realizes they can't ge

. >> as government expands, as ronald reagan says, our freedoms decrease. that's what is really going on people need to wake up. that's why we developed american cornerstone institute so we can bring back those principles, remind people of who we are as americans. we -- you know, a godly principle is to love your neighbor. a woke principle is to cancel your neighbor. is that really where we want to go? when you look down the road on those two pathways, they lead to very different places. we now still have a chance to change the direction of this country, to save it for our children and for our grandchildren. we need to stop being selfish. that means also not massive raising the debt, because who is going to have to pay that? not us older people. we're going to be dead and gone. it's going to be our children and our grandchildren. we're ruining their lives! that's not fair! thomas jefferson said it was immoral. >> pete: amen when we forget we're all sinners redeemed by grace then we start pointing fingers in ways we never should and then we can't walk back f

he was not a big fan of ronald reagan. his moderate conservative chicago sensibility as a child, the way his parents brought him up, was to take care of the poor. you had to look out for the little guy. and what he saw in ronald reagan was somebody who was turning a blind eye to the poverty and hunger and other issues that were happening in the united states in the 1980s. and so we have a depiction of a homeless person asleep on a grate in washington, d.c., as ronald reagan drives by in his limousine thinking that those people had to have made a bad choice in their lives by not choosing to be rich. and that really underscores mr. block's opinions that you really had to help the poor. and you had to understand the poverty is an institution and not make assumptions about why people were poor. he drew a lot of cartoons about the need to support the poor by providing better housing, better nutrition, better medical care. we can see by the end of his career that herblock had some great ideas but his drawing is getting a little

reagan i mean time remember when ronald reagan brought the republican revolution the reagan revolution to washington he remade washington in a conservative in which and he affected generations of presidencies after that such that when bill clinton was president he famously stood before that same congress where bing was last night on new day and it was full and he said the era of big government is over a democrat bill clinton said last night joe biden said the opposite 6 trillion dollars of federal spending in his various packages that either get passed the $1.00 trillion passed or envisioned a role for the federal government that no democrat has really dared speak certainly from that has since the time of lyndon johnson and so this is a very very dramatically different time and though joe biden is speaking softly he's carrying a very big government stick and i think everybody is still coming to terms with this yeah and you know he's being compared a lot with l.b.j. and with f.d.r. but based on what you're saying it sounds like maybe he's becoming i mean he may not want to get this labe

ronald reagan used to tell this joke. the key, as you see, is that reagan was effectively telling this story on himself. it related to a time in his career when he didn't know what he was doing or where he was going. as you will know of ronald reagan, he had two careers, primarily. he was a film actor and then he became a politician. but there was a period in between, the time after he stopped getting calls from hollywood producers, he couldn't get any good roles, between when his career ended and his political career began. he had a rather unusual position. in fact, it was a job that was invented for him by the general electric corporation. general electric was the great industrial behemoths of the american economy. reagan was there paid spokesman. he was a host, a television host, for the g.e. theater. and the g.e. theater was an experiment in television. this was in the 19 fifties. no one knows what to do with tv and they think we can do filmed plays, and people watch plays 1lays, and people watch plays reagan was the

he went on to run as a presidential candidate in 198a — but lost to ronald reagan. earlier i spoke to our north america correspondent, peter bowes, and asked him about the politician's legacy. he is and will be remembered as a statesman who was high principled, who had a very long career in american politics before becoming vice president. he served in the us senate, representing his home state of minnesota, he had been a lawyer in minneapolis, a city which of course is very much in the news today because of the trial of derek chauvin. and he served in that role, in the senate, for i think 12 years and probably his biggest achievement was the passing of the fair housing act. he campaigned for an act and was really essential to getting it passed through the senate that and discrimination on the basis of race and religion and sex. but then he was, as you say, elected to the white house withjimmy carter. the election in 1976. and as vice president, that is really where he made his mark. he elevated that role like no other vice president. i think it is quite well known

reagan i mean time remember when ronald reagan brought the republican revolution the reagan revolution to washington he remade washington in a conservative in which and he affected generations of presidencies after that such that when bill clinton was president he famously stood before that same congress where bryden was last night on new day and it was full and he said the era of big government is over a democrat bill clinton said last night joe biden said the opposite 6 trillion dollars of federal spending in his various packages that have either been passed $1.00 trillion passed or invision a role for the federal government that no democrat has really dared speak certainly from that since the time of lyndon johnson and so this is a very very dramatically different time and though joe biden is speaking softly he's carrying a very big government stick and i think everybody is still coming to terms with us yeah and you know he's being compared to what will be jay and with f.d.r. but based on what you're saying it sounds like maybe he's becoming i mean he may not want to get this label

a bagel. [ laughter ] so this is ronald reagan's approach. it characterizes a large part of where i'll be going with my talk. because by the time reagan was president, humor was considered a necessary part of the political arsenal of a president, of a candidate. and this because, well, i told you this story, and no one would say it's an enormously clever story but it's enough to get a ha ha ha a little bit. reagan recognized from those years on the rubber chicken circuit that if there's an audience that doesn't know you, if there's an audience that might be a little skeptical about the message you're conveying, if you can get them to laugh, it loosens them up. it makes them feel that you're a real person and not simply this flack for ge. it worked for reagan as president of the united states. it represented something of a culmination of a trend that had been going on for a long period of time. so i'm going to cover some of that trend. after i said what the topic was going to be tonight, i got to thinking about it a little more. i happen to be

he served for his party, challenged ronald reagan and did not do very well and in very badly with ronald reagan sweeping back into power and he only managed to win a single state, minnesota. he did one thing that are still being remembered today and that is that he had a woman as his running mate, geraldine ferraro. he chose a congresswoman at the time and that was a decision that are still being talked about today. thank you very much, peter. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a forgotten coffee species rediscovered in sierra leone brews promise for the industry's future. the stars and stripes at half—mast outside columbine high. the school sealed off, the bodies of the dead still inside. i never thought that they would actually go through with it. one of the most successful singer—song writers of all time, the american pop star prince has died at the age of 57. i was — it's hard to believe it. i didn't believe it. we just — he was just here saturday. for millions of americans, j the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has i meant conflicting emotions. a national

the relations between the countries began to deteriorate again in the eighty's after ronald reagan who had been actively anticommunist even when he was a hollywood actor became president of the. united states even legendary movie boxer rocky billboard played by sylvester stallone entered the fray by taking on the daunting doped up soviet fighter ivan drago and they. have to follow the capital with capital mobility that are both it's seen that on the test with. someone with a boy who sort of mr mason with the wife on the 2nd big will say this to say this because there's been you know people are just. not as numerous still to come there's. a mysterious. number just aren't suitable to. follow the policies of the state department the pentagon well they get a lot of money from the state department and the pentagon the best they found the pentagon to have a lot of say in in works of hollywood ya know. somewhere drew scrooge i'm sure. i mean years ago i do. in fact go in with your desired should you. should die or should you. got sort of here's very emotional issues you're not bored you. meet

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reagan the future u.s. president was already actively participating in civic life even in those days. the north star a film about soviet collective farmers that was hailed by the academy just a couple of years earlier was now deemed anime propaganda and it screenplay writer lillian hellman was accused of being a communist sympathizer and damning label in those years suddenly all of those. film the propaganda films that were made during world war 2 well brought into question and hollywood got scared. the north star was eventually released under the name armored attack in the new version the title comrade was removed and narration comparing the nazis to the soviet soldiers who suppressed the hungaroring uprising in 1956 was at it i. how what is considered to be an independent private sector of economy a group of private companies and yet it seems like the government finds ways to influence the movie make an industry and i just can wrap my head around how they actually pull this off by these publicity trials i

, president ronald reagan. washington post columnist karen tumulty is out with a new book about her and her influence, titled, "the triumph of nancy reagan." i spoke with karen yesterday. welcome to the newshour. you paint such a vivid portrait of nancy reagan. the reader almost feels as if we are living alongside her. give us a view of the research that goes on in this book. >> i started out thinking i would be writing about a first lady, about a marriage, obviously a love story. the deeper i got into the research, the more i realized that nancy reagan is a different window into the entire reagan presidency and actually, an entire entry point in history. judy: you spend a lot of time talking about her family, her mother, her relationship with her stepfather. how did all of that shape who she became? >> nancy reagan was born nancy robbins company product of an unsuccessful marriage. her parents essentially split up as soon as she was born. her mother decides that she is going to continue to pursue her active ca

sunday, former staffers and secret service agents present for the attempted assassination of ronald reagan on march 30, 1980 one talk with dale quentin wilber author of "rawhide down, the near assassination of ronald reagan." here's a preview. >> the average person today, looking back with hindsight, would be shocked that there was a rope line with people behind into it not been screened by the secret service, a mix of press, and just spectators. the reason it was there was because that was always where it went. it became so routine that people were not thinking about, we need to reevaluate this in the climate today that we cannot have people near the president without going through magnetometers. obama approached rope lines, but to get into that area took me a good hour. when i was approved, i had a badge and all that stuff. do you think that played a role in why that rope line was there? >> let me start out that the protocols that were in place 40 years ago, of course, are not in place now. i recall, prior to that taking place, that the prior administrations had been lobbying to allow us

reagan i mean i remember when ronald reagan brought the republican revolution the reagan revolution to washington he remade washington in a conservative in and he affected generations of presidencies after that such that when bill clinton was president he famously stood before that same congress where bryden was last night on new day and it was full and he said the era of big government is over. a democrat bill clinton said last night joe biden said the opposite 6 trillion dollars of federal spending in his various packages that have either been passed $1.00 trillion passed or envisioned a role for the federal government that no democrat has really dared speak certainly from that has since the time of lyndon johnson and so this is a very very dramatically different time and though joe biden is speaking softly he's carrying a very big government stick and i think everybody is still coming to terms with us yeah and you know he's being compared a lot with they'll be jay and with f.d.r. but based on what you're saying it sounds like maybe he's becoming i mean he may not want to get this

reagan i mean time remember when ronald reagan brought the republican revolution and the reagan revolution to washington he remade washington in a conservative in which and he affected generations of presidencies after that such that when bill clinton was president he famously stood before that same congress for bing was last night on new day when it was full and he said the era of big government is over a democrat bill clinton said last night joe biden said the opposite 6 trillion dollars of federal spending in his various packages that have either been passed $1.00 trillion passed or envisioned a role for the federal government that no democrat has really dared speak certainly from that since the time of lyndon johnson and so this is a very very dramatically different time and though joe biden is speaking softly he's carrying a very big government stick and i think everybody is still coming to terms with this yeah and you know he's being compared to what they'll be jay and with f.d.r. but based on what you're saying it sounds like maybe he's becoming i mean he may not want to get this la

the ronald reagan institute hosted this event and provided the video. reagan adjust -- addresses a joint session of congress on the economic health of the country shortly after his first inauguration.

president ronald reagan. "washington post" columnist karen tumulty is out with a new book about her influence, called "the triumph of nancy reagan." i spoke with karen yesterday. karen tumulty, welcome to the newshour. you paint such a vivid portrait of nancy reagan, the reader almost feels as if we are living alongside her. give us a sense of the research, the work that went into this book. >> i've been working on this book for four and a half years. and, you know, i started out thinking i'd be writing about a first lady, about a marriage, you know, obviously a love story. but the deeper i got into the research, the more i realized that that nancy reagan is actually a different window into the entire reagan presidency and actually an entire hinge point in our history. was, you spend a good amount of time telling us about her family, her mother, her relationship with her stepfather. how did all that shape who she became? >> nancy reagan was born anne frances robbins and the product of a failed marriage betwee

ronald reagan was pretty ideological. i was just tragic secretary. and so it's a question of balance. i think. you you the commitment to values that i mentioned earlier when james mcgregor burns a definition of leadership is a commitment to values and those values are ideological. usually to the most part and so you you have to have some ideological component in your policy and your worldview. but it's a question about i think if you're overly ideological you're going to be too strict and to wedded to the ultimate and governing and international negotiations even for that matter are a matter of balance. you need the ideological you need to be you know, there's a there's a conflict in american foreign policy for instance. well known between realists and idealists. you got to have some realism in your foreign policy, but she also got to have some idealism the ideological fur. i don't know exactly what you mean by that but you better have some idealists and our foreign policy america is foreign policy is billed on on idealistic principle. well, i heard

but we are not. >> jon: does not remind me of ronald reagan. instead of hiding in his basement, he's hiding in the white house. it's embarrassing for him to utter the words of ronald reagan. joe scarborough a former republic canes on the left-wing media and he has no other choice. when you look at our national reputation. joe biden doesn't give you strength or energy. that's what ronald reagan did. and the world respected this country. nobody respects this country because joe biden is weak. jean require want you to take a listen to a social worker talking about what should have been done in columbus, ohio. >> i can't help but think what would happen if we had social workers present. if we had community-based intervention present. judge jeanine: what she is talking about is the shooting of the young girl who had a knife pretty much at the neck of the victims pinned up against the car. >> if i was in a situation where somebody was trying to brutally stab me and potentially take my life. i would rather a police officer show up rather than a social

ronald reagan celebrated one of his wedding anniversaries right here. and at this table here, as you can see, there's no -- there are no two seats at the other end because the queen and prince philip sat in between and among their guests. and to set a table like this would take something like three hours. a tape measurer would be used to make sure there's the right amount of space between each chair. and when it wasn't being used as a state dining, those doors would open, a projector would come down, and prince philip and the queen would pick a movie. they would make this a cinema room. it was also used sunday services for mass, and princess anne's birthday party. they rolled up the carpet and underneath would be wooden floors to celebrate her birthday. it means so much to prince philip and the queen. this table is a copy. the real table is at windsor, frogmore cottage, because prince philip love the britannia, and he made a room called the brt britan room. this was everything that prince philip loved. he gave up one of those loves, which was his career

that's what ronald reagan did, and the world respected this country. no one respects this country because joe biden is weak and everyone knows he's taking marching orders from the left, the extreme left. no one believe that whatsoever. judge jeanine: i want to you listen to a social worker who is talking about what should have been done in columbus, ohio. >> i can't help but think what would happen if we had social workers present. community based interventions present. judge jeanine: what she is talking about is the shooting of the young girl who had a knife pretty much at the neck of a victim pinned up against the car. >> if i were in a situation where somebody is trying to brutally stab me, i'm hoping a police officer shows up at that situation and not a social worker. the fact that they are trying to ask say that replacing police with social workers could solve the problem shows how they don't understand the problem. let's bring up parenting. they want to blow up the nuclear family. we have a parenting problem, a community problem. we don't have a

four years later, mondale sought the top job for himself but he faced a popular president in ronald reagan who was running for re-election. >> mr. reagan will raise taxes, and so will i. he won't tell you, i just did. >> rteondalere defeats in u.s. historal >>onald reagan still has a chance, has a chance, for a historic 50-state sweep. >> reporter: president reagan beat mondale in 49 states leaving mondale with only the electoral votes from his home state of minnesota and washington, d.c. after that defeat, mondale moved back and forth between public and private sector, he served as ambassador to japan under president clinton. in 2002, he lost his attempt to reclaim his old minnesota senate seat, but he was gracious in defeat. >> and what is obviously the end of my last campaign, i want to say to minnesotans, you always treated me decently. you always listened to me. >> reporter: and that made western humility endeared mondale to his home state and a generation of his foam democrats. natalie brand, cbs news washington. >>> well, in a statement, the mondale family said plans for memorials w