ronald reagan. i would not have written that for anybody else. i can tell you that because i had worked for then vice president george h.w. bush. would never have written it for him. reagan alone and reagan alone would have insisted on delivering the speech, once he had seen it over other objections. george bush in every foreign policy speech, the first question he would always ask me when i drafted a foreign policy speech, has state approved of this? that was the first question. listen to this story, all three of you. jamie, next. stay with ronald reagan here for a moment. this is a story -- it was told to me by dick allen, your predecessor, ronald reagan's first national security advisor. 1977. reagan is a former governor. he has lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald ford. there's no inkling he will run for president. he is paying attention to world affairs. dick stops by his house and briefs him on world affairs. then reagan said, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war?

ronald reagan. that's why regan knew that from his countless hours with gorbachev at the geneva summit, the reykjavik summit, letters, phone calls, he had a sense of this guy gorbachev. that i can push him further. i can put that demand into tear down that wall. and it wasn't going to cause a complete rupture in the entire relationship. it was going to cause the cold war to turn violent. so he had a sense from spending so much time gorbachev, more than all of the people at the state department rcep, of that balance of pushing this guy but also stretching a hand out. so, i think when you look at gorbachev's role in the peaceful ending of the cold war, a lot of it was facilitated by regan knowing him while. and that helped create the circumstances of november of 1989 for the german people to raise. up >> will, i don't know how to do this in a zoom call, but i'd like to lean forward and kiss right on the forehead. i'm worried about this for 34 years. >> i'll give you a hug back. >> of course, you're ri

we continue our look back at the reagan administration with a conversation about president ronald reagan's tax cuts and economic plan. >> it's my pleasure to welcome everyone to today's event. a celebration of the 40 year anniversary of reagan tax cuts. we're very excited to be hosting this event, this celebration. the economic recovery tax act is a positive change in tax policy, yes. but it represented much more than that. it was a change in the mind-set. the 1970s were a time of high inflation, high unemployment, low on opportunity. our nation's leaders rejected the idea of american greatness and thought the american dream was behind us. 30 years ago the heritage foundation hosted a celebration for the 10th anniversary of the tax cuts. it was entitled the importance of america's victory over washington. think about that for a second. america's victory over washington. as the tax cuts were being debated in congress, president reagan gave voice to this sentiment in his televised address reassuring the american people, quote, all the lobbying, the organized demonstrations and the cries of p

and explain through his translator this was just a piece of theater and he knew ronald reagan and ronald reagan could not resist a good line but it made no difference to them in moscow at all read jamie, hr, speak up for him will you please read the speech did not make a darn bit of difference predict. >> it doesn't matter maybe it matters to him or moscow would've made a heck of a lot of difference to germans and east germans in particular i was at that united states calvary on the border and of east germany in west germany in november 1989. and on that day, near germany, the town where martin luther translated the bible into german and the birthplace of hans morgan, that is where our soldiers and her troopers went one moment staring down the east german or unreported cars to the next moment seeing gates thrown open and intense and thousands and then tens of thousands of east germans pouring across the border very bouquets of flowers and bottles of wine and there were hugs and tears of joy and i saw a direct correlation only back to the speech but to the resolve the president reagan dem

my kids, you work for ronald reagan. that is so cool. but his stature keeps going up. you notice that? overtime,'s keeps going up. and i think the last thing i'll say is i went out to south dakota 3 weeks ago, rapid city, brown mount rushmore. there is room for one more. [laughs] wouldn't it be amazing if we could put ronald reagan on that? [applause] >> judy shelton, last word? >> i think he proved you really can change the world. you can change the destiny of the world for the good. for me, the 80s started with the privilege of getting to hear about the reagan program from martin anderson and the people who created it. then see that, the consequences of that. juxtapose against my study of the internal monetary and economic systems of the soviet union. who of course still had the capacity for thermal nuclear exchange to destroy everything. what you everything. what you saw was the combination of vision and fortitude was able to bring down that nation. i remember when i see john sitting there i don't know if he remembers

he did is ronald reagan imitating doing ronald reagan. [laughter] will yes, tear down the wall. that is how it happened folks. i will tell you everybody in the foreign policy committee try to get that line out. we thought like hell for it. we went through a lot of revisions that came out a bunch of times and we got it back in. >> it was the best moment. >> is an ugly memo about me in the file to saying we have had five impassioned conversations he refuses to step back et cetera. but the wonderful part about it, and reagan worked it over as he would it was very much him. in the final analysis that was the nature of ronald reagan. everyone wanted out hotel i wrote this in the wall street journal if anyone is interested for little words it tells the story the morning of the speech got a cable from the state department, tom and risk and gave it to me as director of communication. it's a tom is out i think it is? said yes to pay any attention to its another last-minute plea the walls going to be their last another 20 years. everyone brought it to regulars ultimately his decision. as

>> i think that ronald reagan honored the independent judgment. it's true that volker had come in under carter in '79. he was there until august '87. but we had the 1981 goal commissisisisisi i think that volker understood that people were so concerned about the lax policies of his predecessor and arthur burns and whether there was some kind of acquiescence to what the white house might want that president reagan was very respectful. but it turned out that it's what he thought he had to do to wrench out inflation, and it happened to be exactly what mundell said we ought to be doing in order to have the tax policies expand economic output. >> and the combination of low tax rates and sound money, to me, is the most important lesson to be learned. so, look, i was a young kid there in omb. i did sit in on one of those volker meetings -- thank you to mr. meese, by the way, who would include me. reagan and volker had something in common. goals. goals. volker was defeated when nixon went through what he went through in the early '70s. volker was secretar

staying with ronald reagan for a moment. this is a story told to me by your predecessor the first national security advisor the year is 1977 now reagan is a former governor he just lost the nomination to gerald ford. he is playing close it tension and take our breaks him on world affairs and reagan said would you like to hear mike. the cold war? he said of course, governor than ronald reagan did put this down in writing and quoting from him, this is reagan speaking some people think i'm simplistic but there is a difference between being simple and being simplistic might. about the cold war is that we went and they lose. how do you operationalize that? here is richard nixon and dÉtente and then warning against an ordinance fear of communism and then turned it upside down. now that i'm older field a little risky to me. >> i am a big fan of the approach obviously with radio free europe i think that moral clarity of reagan is incredibly essential upon hearing and ultimately they are fearful of their citizens. and when they real

ronald reagan. i would not have written that for anybody else and i can tell you that because i had worked for then vice president george h.w. bush. would never have written it for him. reagan alone with his insistence on delivering the speech once he had seen it over other objections, george bush in every foreign policy speech, the first question he would always ask me when i drafted a foreign policy speech, has state approved of this? so listen to this story. all three of you but jamie next. we'll stay with ronald reagan for a moment. this is a story, i think quite a famous story told to me by dig allen who was your predecessor, ronald reagan's first national security adviser. the year is 1977. reagan is now a former governor and has just lost the republican presidential nomination to gerald ford. there is no inkling he is going to run for president. he is paying close attention to world affairs and dig allen stops by his house in pacific palisades and briefs him on world affairs. then reagan said

you've made remarks about president ronald reagan tonight. during his administration, the administration supported routines guatemala and el salvador in iran, crucial information knowing full well would use chemical weapons and in nicaragua, if ministration was so egregious international court of justice for terrorism so my questionte is, why are you glorifying for an? [applause] >> i think i'd like to head to the library with youe and see f i could give you some different facts. [applause] but i want to be respectful of you for a thoughtful question, thoughtfully recited. when ronald reagan came into office, it was a time of great national challenge. i remember in those days, there is generally a thought the soviet union was on track to dominate the world. most of the intelligence in this country thought the soviet union was unstoppable. ronald reagan had a different view, he said if we invested in our military, if we essentially commercial the power of our economy to defend freedom and strengthen democracy the soviet union would collapse. w

ronald reagan had a different view. he said, if we invested in our military, if we marshaled the power of our economy to the friend freedom and strength. the soviet union would collapse. while it would happen a few years after he left office, ronald reagan essentially set into motion an american posture that ended the cold war. we won it and the serbian union is on the ashes of history. i think that standing up to the soviet communism, and calling out the soviet union as the evil empire as he did, was a contribution that will be remembered for the ages. it echoes a bit for our time right now, i couldn't be more proud that under our administration we change the national consensus on china. people now know that the communist chinese party rep presses its own people, subjugate minorities, particularly muslim uyghurs and christians. it's a precious free speech and engages in the action that in terms of intellectual property, theft and trade abuses, that america had looked the other way on. we didn't. we took a strong stand

you've made remarks about president ronald reagan denied. during his administration, the reagan administration supported genocidal regimes in guatemala and el salvador. in iran, he gave crucial information to saddam hussein knowing full well he would use chemical weapons against iran and in nicaragua the reagan aradministration atrocities were so egregious he was condemned by the court of justice for terrorism so my question is why are you glorifying this man? [applause] i think i'd like to head to the library with you and see if i can give you some different facts. [applause] i want to be respectful for a thoughtful question but when ronald reagan came into office, it was a time of great national challenge. i remember in those days there was generally the thought that the soviet union was on track to dominate the world. most of the intelligence in this country thought that the soviet union was unstoppable both ronald reagan had a different view and said if we invested in our military and essentially marshaled the power of our economy to def

ronald reagan had a different view. he said if we invested in our military, if we marshaled the power of our economy to defend freedom and strengthen the arsenal of democracy, the soviet union would collapse. ronald reagan essentially set into motion and american posture that ended the cold war. we won it and the soviet union is on the ash heap of history. i think standing up to soviet communism and calling it out as the evil empire as you did was a contribution that will be remembered for the ages. i could not be more proud under our administration. we changed the national consensus on china. people know that the communist chinese party represses its own people, subjugates minorities, particularly muslim and christian. it's a precious -- it suppresses free speech and engages in the action that interns of -- in terms of intellectual property theft and abuses, america has looked the other way on. we took a strong stand against china. the current administration has not changed that posture. president trump knew what he wa

it just took them 16 years to count the votes. >> ronald reagan took the goldwater message, but he put a sunnier face on it. >> some lights seem eternal. america's is. >> he had a sense of real triumph, a breakthrough that american society was going to change in some very fundamental ways. >> he was and is a republican icon for defeating the soviet union. but once again, a conservative darling shocked the base with his domestic policy. >> he didn't cut spending, and he ended up, as you know, exploding the debt and the deficit. >> here he is. >> the reagan revolution turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. the great society state, reagan even expanded medicaid. >> when reagan left office not having radically transformed america, conservatives became more ready for a story of betrayal. >> the right longed for a fighter, and reagan's successor, the elite, yale-educated george w. bush, did not fit the bill. conservatives felt betrayed one more time. now they found their new hero in the man who helped wreck bush's presidency, the fiery congressman newt gingrich. >> he wins control of c

ronald reagan laid out clearly for us. about the way he saw this country is a shining city on a hill. we heard it before but we need to be reminded. we don't have to be a country that's pessimistic. we better be a country that's optimistic. we don't need to be yelling and screaming at each other all the time although we will yell and scream when we need to. but we need to be providing hope for the future. the democrats are the party of despondency. everything is bad and you need us to get you out of it. the republican party is the party of hope. and aspirations and the american dream. if you all are willing to join with leaders all across this country to do that, then we are going to see a greater day not only for our republican party, not only for each other and our children and grandchildren, but everyone around the world who is dying once again to stand within america that stout -- that tells the truth and we can believe in. when we give them that we will once again be that shining city on a hill. thank you very much. [

ronald reagan. allpr conferences, most of the state of the union dresses takeoff and landing at air force one pretty good job, everyone. congrats to you for looking up the questions in the rundown getting them right. [laughter] gary and olivia, welcome to the show. >> thank you so much. kennedy: thank you. cards don't lie. so fun. ♪♪ podcast 70 save the world fox podcast 70 save the world fox news podcast.com, can't watch [wind] [music] radio check. > go ahead. > yeah, we're gonna see if we can get up that raise to number five. > looks like about 130, 140 feet. > copy that. > deep in the mines of bear gulch, montana, brothers john and tad dale are the first men

if ronald reagan. lot of people who believe if jim baker was still chief of staff instead of ronald reagan. the iran con ra never happened. >> oh, that's a possibility. -- >> he was always kind of leaning over the president like i'm right here. two leaders of the -- whatever countries, he's right in the middle. but, you know, we always got -- shiela always liked ronald reagan some reason. and he double crossed us on the budget. i think i told you this before. came up the next day with champagne and chocolates and all this stuff. >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house? because these stories about you going down there and one of the stories is what? about the doughnuts? or. >> yeah. first meeting. you don't even have doughnuts in this place. always doughnuts republican. next meeting we had doughnuts. had'em every meeting after that. i thought he was a very charming guy. and i helped him out on nafta. which i'm not sure i look back on it and they were supposed to help me out

what do joe biden and ronald reagan have in common? at first blush, neil, you say that's idiotic. nothing in common. what did i told you at this time in his presidency ronald reagan was close to a little nervous, not he himself, but the people around him, the inflation thing was going on. federal reserve was raising interest rates and job losses were mounting. a lot of people thought he was a one-termer, and republicans lost a lot of seats. now, flash to today, and joe biden, and even before the developments in virginia and in new jersey this week, there was a separate poll out that showed close to half of democrats were thinking, you know, maybe we need someone other than joe to lead the charge in 2024. to historical dr. eddie lee, winthrop university, history professor there, darned good one. doctor, thank you for joining us. we forget that. i see similar polls that thought it was naive of a young senator from massachusetts, john kennedy to run for the democratic nomination because he was too young and didn't have the gravitas or the background of bigger bench players and i'm he

the hoover institution and the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute hosts a look back at the evolution of president reagan's "tear down this wall" speech and its importance more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address participated in the event. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >> next, we visit plimoth patuxet and plymouth, massachusetts, to explore the re-created 17th century colonial village and talk to

so this draws a contrast between the way barack obama talks about religion and the way ronald reagan does. so point of contrast. i know from talking to you before class, some of you were a bit surprised by the evil empire speech. what reaction did you have when you looked at that. >> i just really expected -- but then all of a sudden -- abortion and talking about abortion relationship to god. so i feel that that idea that -- because i think reagan had other intentions with that speech. >> yeah. that's right. other reasons and reaction? yeah. >> i actually thought -- that way. like he starts off by going off on abortion. i thought part of the reason could be because when he talked about the evil empire he is directly setting up a scenario which he's not saving lives. and so i feel like the way he put in the abortion into the conversation made it that he's appealing to this religious group by going oh yes, save the unborn child. insert religion into politics and that is the only way to save the unborn child so he goes off on this rhetoric around abortion of saving lives and that was so

this is that your and ronald reagan were steadfast and united in their believe in freedom-- misses thatcher and ronald reagan were steadfast in their believe in freedom as they confronted the evil empire of communism and socialism. we can never forget that that rock that underpins those freedoms must also we defended and that it will come but if we do not work together to preserve it--crumble if we do not work together to preserve it. in 1989, the berlin wall fell. freedom seemed to have won so conference of the that he was even suggested that history had ended. 32 years later can we know that that is not true. there is nothing inevitable about the future. if we want a future where we are prosperous, happy, and free, we will have to continue to work for it. that means cooperation amongst allies on shared security threats and holding a clear understanding that if we don't have security, we will have none of the things that we want or even take for granted. of course, many of the things that we cannot want. today i will speak about the global picture and the various threats that we face as al

ronald reagan passes away today. again, much of europe had been under a terrible fear, to mark that day in history, when the allied army joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. for four young long years, europe had been under a terrible shadow. free nations had fallen, jews cried out in the camps, millions cried our liberation. you are poisoned slave in the world prayed for its rescue. here in normandy, the rescue began. here the allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. we stand on a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of france. there is soft about 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of man and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn, on the morning of the 6th of june, 1944, 225 rangers jumped off the british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these shear and desolate

it there's another theory, remember they made the switch, ronald reagan a lot of people believe that jim baker was still chief of staff instead of ronald reagan. >> well that is another possibility and i don't know why he would want to be chief of staff so that. i know nancy did not like it. >> will i think her judgment was pretty correct printed. >> while he would say things like will not here into leaders or whatever countries, it would be right in the middle. but we always well she always like ronald ragan for some reason he doublecrossed us on the budget and i remember i think i told you this before that he came up with an exit with was champagne and chocolates and all of the stuff into the office. >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house printed because a stories about you going down there more the story says that about the donuts. it. >> as first meeting coming in donuts at his place. it's always the donuts. the next meeting we had donuts in every meeting after that we had donuts grade at fatty very charming guy. i helped him out on nafta which i'm n

i don't know why ronald reagan wanted to be chief of staff so badly. he was always kind of leaning over the president like i'm right here. two leaders of whatever countries and he's right in the middle. he double crossed us on the budget. i remember we came up the next day with champagne and chocolates and all this stuff -- >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house because these stories about you going down there, and one of the stories is what? about doughnuts? >> yeah, first meeting i was like you don't even have doughnuts in this place. i thought he was a very charming guy. and i helped him out on nafta. a lot of our companies get out of this w.h.o. stuff and adverse bias rulings. anyway, and i remember talking to him about monica lewinsky. and i told him what i thought he should do to get a letter signed by 34 senators saying there's no way we're going to convict, to have it in your pocket. then i wrote the op-ed piece, which i think he would have accepted kind of i did something wrong and maybe a rebuke and that would ha

. >> possibility. >> i don't know why ronald reagan wanted to be chief of staff so badly. i know nancy didn't like it. >> i think her judgment was proven pretty correct. >> he was always kind of leaning over the president like, i am right here. printed. >> while he would say things like will not here into leaders or whatever countries, it would be right in two leaders of whatever country, and she always like don reagan for some reason. he double crossed us on the budget. i remember, i think i told you this before. she came up the next day was champagne, chocolates, all that stuff. >> what was your first impression of bill clinton in the white house? >> there are stories about you going down there. one of the stories is, what? about the government? >> yeah, first meeting. >> i would say, you didn't even have donuts in your place. donuts for the republicans. next meeting we had donuts. and every meeting after that. i thought he was a very charming guy. i helped him out on nafta, which i know would not like to look back on. anytime a tried to get something done, it didn't hap

reagan, bush y como la muerte de fidel castro o las protestas es lugar de reunión >> versailles es ícono para cualquier persona que sale de su tierra llega a versailles es un regalito para cada uno >> donde nos reunimos año tras año >> mientras que su sazón es imán para turistas >> hay que venir a miami para un cortado cubano >> no se pueden venir a tomar un cafecito cubano >> no es solo nuestro es de toda la comunidad latina >> en miami florida noticias telemundo >> cuántas historias en miami así nos vamos gracias por acompañarnos los dejamos en casa de los famosos buenas noches ♪♪ ♪♪ >> hoy en casa de los famosos a pocos días de la gran final >> anoche tuve un sueño de esos sueños locos que tengo soñé con roberto >> alicia tuvo un sueño particular los sueños, sueños son >> dejaron esas flores güera >> pero en la casa de los famosos se hacen realidad, robe

., the hoover institution and the ronald reagan presidential foundation and stult look back at the evolution of president reagan's tear down this wall speech, it's important more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address peter robinson participated in the event. it forms the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span 2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime hat c-span.org/history. ♪ >> sunday night on queuing day, in his latest book, edward, professor of philosophy at the university of british columbia looks at the purpose of intoxication and the role that drinking has played throughout history. >> alcohol makes it harder to lie. it also makes us better at detecting lies. humans are not over focusing consciously on detecting lies. we do not do a good job of it. we relax and take in the cues that are put out. are hall -- alcohol, in the same way that we meet and shake hands, cultures use intoxicants at meetings where you have to find a way to cooperate. it is a kind of cognitive disarmament. you can listen to

then she really expected that ronald reagan would award her with some sort of high government position and there would be a miniseries. with her on the phone taking the calls from reagan who tells her, sorry, you have done a great job and i am not offering you anything. you see her crushing disappointment. as i watch the rise of amy barrett, much in common. i mean, a mother of many children. i think that it was maybe five. >> you know, living in a very traditional family structure. most lawyers, you know, obviously with ambitions far beyond the confines of the traditional household. they have chosen to live their adult life. all of those kinds of things. glamorous in her way. very well dressed and so on. it just occurred to me, that in a way, amy comey barrett in 2020 was the fulfillment of what she wanted so much and failed to do back in the early 1980s. that is why i do that comparison >> let me ask you a question about religion and also, i would like you to weave into how much of a back story you want to tell. you are focused on these 12 months. you had to develop a scaffolding for

ronald reagan was true to his word. he appointed people to enforcement positions who did not believe in enforcing the law. the federal trade commission did not bring a single false advertising case in six years. the head of the antitrust division did not believe in the sherman clayton act. in fact, wanted to repeal a cornerstone, fundamental legislative enactment to enforce antitrust laws. the environmental protection agency administrator did not believe in the enforcement of environmental laws. he put the watchdog to sleep. that created the opportunity for state attorneys general to step into the breach, and we did that, and for the first time -- probably in history -- there was this extraordinary cooperation of joint investigation and joint prosecution in challenging the reagan government when it was not doing his job, and you came along in the trump era in the same way, because donald trump came to office in a likewise fashion, appointed people who were diminishing the rights of individuals, diminishing the rights of

even ronald reagan said you can be kind and it does not make you soft. i learned -- i talked about that in my book. i learned a lot about kindness from my children. we can still be principled. both were african-american democrats, one from a funeral home, another was raised in the foster homes. we had respectable conversations. they did not vote for many of my bills and i did not vote for theirs. we can laugh about it and joke about it. we were trying to understand each other. so that there is some human capacity to understand each other prayed i think that is important. host: we go next to mark in ben salem, pennsylvania. caller: good morning. the question i have was on your recount, you did 15,000 votes. you found 450 in initial three party judges that said 450 did not vote. you went back and adjudicated them. if you push that for 50 with 1.5 million, -- 450 with 1.5 million, 45,000 signatures do not match. 45,000 signatures do not match, hypothetically. how could you prove these people voted for whoever they did and adjudicate it? you couldn't. the an