party official in arizona. so first roberts clerked for rehnquist, then he joins the reagan justice department. and just to give a little history lesson for those who may have forgotten, ronald reagan opposed the civil rights act of 1964, the voting rights act of 1965 and the fair housing act of 1968. so reagan opposed all of the greatest pieces of civil rights legislation in the 1960s. and roberts went to work for reagan, and one of his chief aseenments was -- assignments was working on the voting rights act when it was coming before congress. he wrote memo after memo saying if you drew a district that would allow an african-american or hispanic or asian-american to be elected, that that would lead to quota systems in electoral politics. what we see is that you can draw a straight line from the activism that john roberts had in opposition to the voting rights act as a young lawyer in the reagan justice department and then him being elevated as chief justice and gutting the voting rights act. so i don't think that he was based this decision just necessarily on data or current things

very basic questions. one of the questions is what ronald reagan aston 1980. how are you better off today than we are four years ago. >> very simple question. >> the answer to that for all of you out there who are millionaires and billionaires, if you're not concerned about the future of this country and you're not worried about the kids and grandkids, i can understand your voting for george bush. it's a rational decision, bad one but rational. but if you are an ordinary working person, you have a president of the united states whose trans- federalral standards with throat 6 million workers off of your over time. and you're going to vote for george ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and tom hartman, who is jack vance and what is shy. guest: he is a science-fiction writer for large part. he wrote a lot of other things but his science fiction is spectacular. from the time i was able to read i've been a science-fiction junkie. jack vance just recently passed away, his writing is of such an extraordinary caliber that i consider it literature, not just science-fiction. it is bril

futuristic feel. it could be revived but in a different way. ronald reagan was a big tent republican. he held for everybody and that was a big thing, too and he was a big staunch anti-communist as well but what happened in the interim is we had a rise of two factions first religious right and again this was written in the majority of activists started to mobilize the religious people who were not bringing in just the limited government and the limited government philosophy they were bringing and we want a social agenda that we want to push. another group came in as well starting in the 70s into the 80s and those were the neoconservatives. these were basically disillusioned liberals and leftists that we are social engineers from the right but the point is this changed the conversation of the republican party compared to the days of barry goldwater whose rhetoric with was the government is the problem not the solution into the whole american enterprise was to allow people to live their lives as they see fit and pursue their own dreams with the government protecting life, liberty, prope

weapons. it shows how we can act and how we can face challenges. ronald reagan was almost killed by an assassin's bullet, a would-be asassen's bullet in 19 -- a would-be assassin's bullet. he wrote in "the new york times" that if the bill, the brady handgun prevention reduced by 10% it would be "well worth making it the law of the land because there will there would be a lot fewer families facing anniversaries such as the bradies and the reagans face every march 30." that bill, the brady handgun violence prevention act, became law in 1993 with his support, 12 years after that near assassination. and both stockton and the reagan assassination -- near-assassination -- show that these measures are possible. it may look like a marathon. it is never a sprint. it is not only possible, it is obligatory. i look forward to a number of my colleagues and myself -- and i note that a partner in this effort has been my colleague, senator murphy, who will follow me shortly, all of us coming together and spearheading and championing again a set of reforms that will help make america safer and better.

is john heubusch. i the only thing the executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation, i want to thank each and every one of you for coming out of this evening. if you would end on of our men and women in uniform who serve our cause around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thanks. please be seated. now play ball. before we get started tonight i'd like to recognize one person in particular in the audience. his name is ben sutton and he is one of our board of trustees members at the foundation. thanks for coming. [applause] no matter how practiced one might feel they are at introducing a famous or important person, it's often not easy, at least not for me. i think one is called on to do their very best and to go beyond the simple reading of an impressive resume. win against has gone out of their way and spent their lifetime in the realm of public service an

honor perhaps not directly but certainly with great honor and without hesitation was ronald reagan. first as a foot soldier during his time in congress and then as a member of the intelligence committee and deputy minority leader of the house representative cheney was a respected player on capitol hill who helps make president reagan's presidential program a reality. okay not bad. [laughter] i want to say every word of that introduction remains timely and true but what's new and what's exciting about their visit today is that they are here with a new book entitled exceptional -- "exceptional" why the world needs a powerful america. now i don't know the if they idea for the book had its origin and in the striking opinion piece they work for "the wall street journal" that was published last year but to me it certainly seems. they wrote then that the obama form and policy document trying to leave the world from behind was in a state of collapse and the ramifications for america word dire. her book just published expands on that theme in great detail and it is a must read not only for those f

. ronald reagan, but also wrote for george h. w. bush when he became president and of course kennedy's ghost writers and franklin roosevelt, great speeches. words are much more important than many people realize. i remember when hillary clinton was running of the last time and she accused her competition just using words, using words is a huge part of leadership. the great presidents have all had that power of communication, lincoln, theodore roosevelt, jack kennedy, words matter, words in dur and they carry on in the following generations. we still quote. martin luther king without the power of his words. that is why it is so important we learn to use the english language. one of the startling marvelous aspects of the right brothers was the quality of the letters they wrote, not just that they were correct grammatically, they were powerful, they were effective, they were clear, they could be very funny, they could be very touching. they were incapable as the collection at the library of congress proves, they were incapable of writing a short letter or a boring one. if you wa

washington administration to the ronald reagan administration, those two numbers climbed in concert with each other. as workers were more productive, as they made more money for their employers, they made more money for themselves. in 1981 you see these lines diverge. productivity goes up and wages flatten out. wages right now are below right now when a like reagan was elected to office. this is the natural consequence of that. in response, and large part to ralph nader they talk about unsafe at any speed. these books have created consumer movements and these are trying to regulate our businesses and trying to politicize our businesses. we need to fight back. traditionally business has not been political and they need to become political, set up a think tanks and an organization that will take over congress, control the political parties, gain control of the media to the extent possible. he went through through this list, in my book, the crash of 16 there's a chapter on lewis palm in there. with the deregulation of the banking industry that fdr put in place, along with a bunch of others.

american side, ronald reagan and george schultz. on the soviet side, mikael gorbachev and his foreign minister. one of the questions one has to ask about the process and of ending the cold war is what was it that made the ussr jump? why did they resist western pressure to the 50s, 60s and 70s and yet they started to make massive concussions in the second half of the 1980s. when i found is that contrary to what they kill gorbachev likes to suggest the change of attitude to the soviet internal crisis that did not occur only when he came to power in 1985. the material showed the public bureau repeatedly looked at the fundamental social, religious and imperial problems with relation to eastern europe. problems that couldn't afford to solve in the old way because the soviet economy was going through it was draining away resources particularly after the invasion of afghanistan at the end of 1979 so that repeatedly in the first half of the 1980s they were looking at matters that it had inched away from an earlier decades but what but what they did is look at the symptoms and it didn't sink u

boat trip? president ronald reagan decided he would campaign% until the vacancy came open that warren burger played a very big role to get that appointment he jump swept over her in a houseboat but this is of the material. to be sitting at a corner chatting away. and in 1933 ruth bader ginsburg was born to a family of black busher father was a russian immigrant the day before she graduated from high school her mother died she was an only child her sister died of managing it - - meningitis years earlier. she went to cornell to have the habit of treating women like people. and she found a mentor a very famous anti-mccarty voice she met and married ginsberg and they had two children. and then left harvard law school going to columbia linda classmates many of them with it were in the class at columbia law school. and coming to finish up to know that each class rank would now come down in the they did. she graduated first in her class at columbia. for teachers tried to get her supreme court clerkship. but there was not a supreme court justice would take a woman into his chambers she wound

. if you you look at the productivity and workers wages to the ronald reagan administration. as workers were more productive they may more money for their employers, and more money for themselves. 1981 uc it go up and wages flatten up there actually lower than when reagan came into office. this is the natural conference consequence of that. in response to the large part of ralph nader and richard carlson. ralph nader and richard carlson. and they're trying to regulate our businesses. and we need to fight back. traditional is that we have to set up think tanks we need to take away over the congress and political party, we need to gain control over the media he went control over the media he went list and there's a whole chapter and i see this as a starting point as the deregulation of the banking administration. >> along with a whole bunch of other. host: between that and free trade where we are basically the only country in the developed world that no longer protects our workers. used to be everybody did it with tariffs. with alexander hamilton and 1781. he was adopted in large

president bush followed ronald reagan, when there were vacancies coming up at the end of the administration, because a lot of cabinet people leave -- and two important positions were treasury and attorney general, and then also the education secretary. the three of them left, and so you had vacancies there, and so reagan appointed nicholas brady for treasury, a very good friend of george h.w. bush, and richard thorneberg for attorney general, and then laura for education, and he kept all of them and two of them went for the whole hoff the administration. >> host: now, you write that a positive transition, a seamless transition, benefits a sitting pratt as well as the incoming president, and i think you make -- i think it's fair to say you make the point, burnishes his reputation you. talked to a lot of people within the white house. so, was that part of president bush's motivation and thinking? >> guest: you know what, it certainly could have been. it's hard to get to motivation of people. i think republicans tend to focus on management, and bush in particular had focused on

editor, sitting for someone who went on to engage in the issue. 1984, president ronald reagan wrote the daughter in law harold bell wright his best selling religious novel reagan read as an adolescent, wright was no favorite of contemporary literary critics. he called him a liberated yoga will. another critic was equally harsh. harold bell writes supplies, more negative data on the literary quality of a piece of fiction than any other. no matter to younger reagan. after reading the book, he declared himself saved and was baptized. the novel's protagonist, he writes 60 years later served as a role model that changes like jefferson's. is highly likely the copy of that came from the dixon public library which he visited twice a week, checking out sherlock holmes's stories and books by horatio alger. i am a sucker for hero worship, he said. oprah winfrey, reading, and play stories was an open door for freedom and allowed me to see there was a world beyond my grandmother's porche in mississippi that everybody didn't have an out house, everybody wasn't surrounded by poverty, there was a whole

benjamin franklin. with the publication of his biography of ronald reagan which brings us here today he has now completed a six volume history of america as told through biography. maybe the first of its kind. finally, i am almost certain this is the first of its kind, he is in the middle of tweeting a history of the united states in haiku form. [laughter] and as of thursday when i last checked the has gone up to 1948 with this week on truman's executive order to desegregate the military. truman pushed the cause ordering the pentagon to retire jim crow. so my first question for you is whether you are looking forward to or dreading the 1960s and dealing with this in haiku form. >> i'm looking forward to it. i will get there in relatively short order. one thing i discovered when you write histories this way, you can choose how much time you want to spend on any particular we're or topic. sometimes when i write these things i actually lose ground to history. the battle of gettysburg took three days to fight. it took me three weeks to tweet it out. there was a time during the civil war w

as ronald reagan said and very eloquently -- i don't have his exact quote. he said something like, even the thought of not paying our bills, even the thought of not raising the debt ceiling should be avoided. but we face that made-up crisis. and the third one is december 11, where all of our budgets have to be looked at and we have to come to some agreement on a fair level of spending for both defense and non-defense, and all the things that we do. now, i'm here really to talk about the first deadline, this deadline, because i'm intimately involved with this, as the ranking member on the environment and public works committee. i want to start off by praising my chairman, jim inhofe, on this. he and i don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but we sure do when it comes to transportation. and 100 days ago -- and my colleague knows this -- the senate environment and public works committee unanimously approved the drive act. 68 day, the senate passed the bill by a vote of 65-34. that's an overwhelming vote, in a bipartisan way. and now we're down to 22 days before we shut down. now,

eisenhower and ronald reagan. we must teach them what it took to prevail over evil in the 20th century and what it will take in the 21st. we want to make sure they understand it is the brave men and women of united states armed forces to defend our freedom and secure millions of others as well. our children need to know that they are citizens of the most powerful good in honorable nation in the history of mankind , the exceptional nation. ordinary americans have done things to guarantee her survival. america's future and the future of freedom for all the world now depend on us. speaking at omaha beach on the 40th anniversary of the d-day landings president reagan put it this way. we will always remember. we will always be proud. we will always be prepared so we may always be free. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you.

largely with and reported. that slow crash played to us until ronald reagan and paul volcker came to the scene and broke down the garbled mouth full. and they had no idea to fix it. the inflation was run away and jobs and the economy and growth were going nowhere. the prime rate went up 21%. think about that today. 2% of month for most borrowers. our economy was crushed. the only way to bring the fever under control was to nearly bankrupt the country. they raised the prime rate higher and higher, crushing manufacturing. crushing automobiles, chrysler went bankrupt, crushing the building trades, crushing everything that required borrowing in order to grow. by 1983 the fever had broken. the fever had broken in the form of structural redistribution. what had basically happened was inflation dropped to 3%. the problem is for the middle class that relevant inflation. for all the moderation of inflation did not go down. what does it have to do with the middle-class? middle-class life meant a new house, new car, healthcare, a college for your kids, retirement and the belief that your childr

but think about it. it does allow the dead hand of a president long gone like ronald reagan who are still to some extent reflecting his views and you may ask the question in the obama era why do we have the influence of justices from another cultural and political entirety making decisions about the fate of the nation. >> host: scalia's kennedy appointed by reagan and clarence thomas appointed by bush 41, ginsburg and breyer appointed by bill clinton, roberts and alito appointed by george w. bush and of course center -- mayor and -- appointed by president obama. i want to get back to where preview of this term. fischer v. university of texas at austin race-based affirmative action. >> guest: it asked the questions whether public universities can take account of race in deciding who to admit and this is an issue or the roberts court has been making gains. it's generally hostile to any kind of racial classification by the government and public universities are of course the government. this case is on his second trip to the supreme court and there some reason to think affirmative acti

progress. the murder rate in america dropped by over 50% in the last -- since 1980, when ronald reagan said, "just say no." and start add war on came. -- and started a war on crime and he appointed me as united states attorney in alabama. i no he what we did. an-- i know what we dthe federae way, tough sentencing, eliminating parole -, targeting that states and local governments followed. it's just tranli tragic to me tt we're making the same mistakes that we made in the 1960's and 1970's. according to new data, 4.3 million people abuse or are dependent on marijuana. marijuana is stronger today, several times stronger than the marijuana of the 1960's and it does impact people adversely. the american medical association has issued a report unequiv fiscal -- unequivocal on this about the danger and ramifications of the use of marijuana. according to the 2014 monitoring the future study, since 2007 lifetime, past year, past month, and daily drug use among eighth, tenth, and 12th graders have all increased. meanwhile, the congress, the president, the supreme court and the united sta

directly, but surly with great honor, without hesitation, was ronald reagan. first is a foot soldier during his time in congress, then then as a member of the intelligence committee and represented of dick cheney of wyoming was a critical player on capitol hill who help make president reagan's legislative program, indeed a reality. okay, not bad. he has lost a few pounds, that is good to see. but i want to say that every word of that introduction remains both timely and true. what is new, what is exciting about their visit today is that they are here, with a new book entitled, exceptional, why the, why the world needs a powerful america. i don't know if the idea for their book had its origin in the striking opinion piece they vote for the wall street journal that was published last year, to me it seems. they wrote them that the obama form policy doctrine, that is trying to lead the world from behind was in a state of collapse and ramification for america were dire. their book just published, expands on that theme in great detail. it is a must-read not only for those following

men like george marshall and white eisenhower and ronald reagan. we must teach them what it took to prevail over evil in the 20th century and what it will take in the 21st. we want to make sure they understand it is the brave men and women of united states armed forces to defend our freedom and secure millions of others as well. our children need to know that they are citizens of the most powerful good in honorable nation in the history of mankind , the exceptional nation. ordinary americans have done things to guarantee her survival. america's future and the future of freedom for all the world now depend on us. speaking at omaha beach on the 40th anniversary of the d-day landings president reagan put it this way. we will always remember. we will always be proud. we will always be prepared so we may always be free. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you. [applause] >> with congress out of session we thought we'd take this opportunity and bring you up to be in primetime during the week. so tonight we are focusing on books and authors for bestsellers. here'

. cardin: mr. president, to paraphrase ronald reagan, here we go again. treasury secretary jack lew has warned us that the federal government will bump up against the statutory debt ceiling on tuesday, november 3. shortly after that, on december 11, the fiscal year 2016 continuing resolution will expire, bringing the prospects of yet another government shutdown. absent a budget deal to suspend sequestration and lift spending caps, we face draconian spending cuts that will harm both our economic recovery and our national security. meanwhile, authority for the export-import bank has expired already, and authority to spend surface transportation funding will expire at the end of the this month. this is no way to run a government. it is time to end this mindless fiscal brinksmanship and negotiate a comprehensive budget deal that resolves all these issues. the american people demand and deserve no less. but, first, we must act on the debt ceiling. with respect to the debt ceiling, treasury secretary lew wrote to house speaker john boehner on october 15 warning that extraordinary measures

, ideological leaning, you still have to get engaged. you have to connect. ronald reagan said it best, you know, freedom doesn't pass on through the blood, it passes on from one generation to the next. so you have a civic and political responsibility to engage with all constituent is is which they failed to do so, the conservative movement. >> host: what have the presidential candidates been saying that you agree with when it comes to some issues of concern to latino voters, what are some of the positions that have turned off latino voters? >> guest: well, contrary to popular belief, all issues are latino issues. it is not just the issue of immigration. obviously, on the issue of immigration there's a diverse field of thought when it comes to that on the republican conservative side. and they're much more unified on the left, democrat side, if i will. so it's easier for one to know the position of one side or the other. or, i i should say on the left than on the right. so it complicates things when it comes to immigration with latinos, to say the least. but on poll after poll we know that

house positions in the administration's of ronald reagan, george h. w. bush, and president bill clinton. and then, of course, in the administration of president barack obama. it's been the president's envoy for middle east peace. use been the coordinator of american foreign policy in the broader middle east, what was known in the obama administration as the central region, especially focusing on iran policy. he has seen the ins and outs, especially of the u.s.-israel relationship, and republicans presidencies and and democratic presidencies. there really is no other american who has a deep insight, personal background, expertise and experience to bring to bear on a history of america's relationship with israel going back all the way to the founding of the jewish state in 1948. and that's what this book is all about. so today we are going to have a deep in depth look at what lies behind "doomed to succeed," why is it doomed to succeed, what can we learn about this relationship as we look forward to the arrival in two weeks time of the current israeli prime minister to meet with t

ronald reagan for insight. but in this case, he had it absolutely right. ronald reagan said fiscal responsibility is paying your bills on time, and he had a number of times he spoke to congress and said, don't do a dumb and dumber tax. or to put it in his own words when he was at a radio address in 1987, he said, "this brinksmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on social security and veterans benefits. interest markets would skyrocket instability would occur in financial markets, and the federal deficit would soar." and he continued, he said, "the united states has a special responsibility to itself and to the world to meet its obligations." or at another time, he wrote this to the majority leader of the u.s. senate. he said, "the full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of a default by the united states are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate." and he continued, "denigration of the full faith and credit of the united states would have substantial effects," as we note here. "substantial effects." and he said on the dom

common sense says about this we're not a fan of this new agreement. kato writes the gipper, ronald reagan's ghost, is probably to go down from heaven at the new budget deal between congressional leaders and the obama administration and saying there they go again. so let's rephrase the question. what do advocates of fiscal restraint get in exchange for raising these spending caps? well, if you peruse this agreement, it's apparent they don't get anything. so what we have traded is an increase in the debt ceiling -- not just an increase, an unspecified increase in the debt ceiling. we have said to president obama, you can spend as much money as you want throughout the rest of your presidency, no limits. the national taxpayers union writes, "if the question on the budget and debt ceiling package is deal or no deal, taxpayers should clearly opt for the latter." while the agreement contains a few meritorious provisions, it fails other savings and reforms necessary to address our nation's $18.1 trillion debt problem. the debt is, without question, the number-one problem in the country. we

wonderful writers for their writpts. ronald reagan had peggy noonan as one of his writers who also wrote for george hw bush when he became president. of course, kennedy's ghost writers and print the roosevelt

old you are here people. william buckley and ronald reagan. i think it is very interesting the extent to which the lies of these three men were very intertwined. i would suggest that it suggests with buckley when he literally burst onto the national scene in the early 1950s. conservative is conservativism was a dead philosophy. it was hard to find anybody who is willing to say they were conservative. the consensus was the new deal liberalism had one, there wasn't much of a dialogue, the only choice was between democratic party that was a little more to the left, and a republican party that would maybe slow things down a bit. not really any intellectual force behind any of what you call conservativism. directly perceived the american public was more conservative then maybe it really realized or the public realize. he was determined to become the individual voice of what he called responsible conservativism. he pulled together and founded the national review and one around the country speaking, debating, he pull together some of the district's views on conservatism. it pulled him into a

for tax cuts. not this weeping, deep tax cuts of ronald reagan, but tax cuts when he came in. they passed in some ways bipartisan and then they were , iried up a little later think, in 2003. and they worked. they kept the country in a reasonably prosperous situation. one we don't see now. guest: i think they think the election of 19 -- 2000 should have been thrown into the house of representatives. the supreme court majority basically ripped the election out of the constitution and cited it. i think it should have been thrown to the house paid host: what chapter -- house. host: what chapter would you recommend republicans read from this book on jack kemp? guest: that is a good question. really all you need to do is read the introduction. it is pretty long for an introduction to a book, but it really outlines what kemp did, why he did it, and what his career was like. and if you read another one called supply-side, it will help you. but there are so many others. jack camp had this really -- kemp had this really interesting and exciting career. guest: i completely agree with fred. if

with the race on the republican side if you don't mind. ronald reagan has his 11th commandment thou shall not speak ill about a republican candidate and i will ask in your capacity as a party elder what do you make of this and the amount of name calling much of it emanating from donald trump. >> i think mr. trump's entry into the race and yesterday he said some of the things he said about other candidates have been childish. that's a fair characterization coming from him and for a long time the other candidates that i'm just going to ignore it and not respond and i think that they found that did not help them. carly fiorina did that well in the last debate. i think that is help them so it's unfortunate to have had the kind of personal attacks that we have seen in the process but i think the 11th commandment was quickly lost in this race and that makes it harder for us in general. >> one of the unusual things we are seeing right now is the three top candidates on the republican side have zero government experience whatsoever in utah a great deal about how valuable it would be to have

i'm not going to say it too much because tip o'neill and ronald reagan he probably here with every speaker but i look at that as fales. two people different views, different everything and they like each other and they get along. and they get things done and they had a leader in ronald reagan. ultimately it is about the person. much more about the present than you can imagine. the president is a leader. he or she is a real leader they will get things done but you need the leadership to come from the very pentacles from the very top and if it doesn't it's not going to happen and that's not happening now. it's not happening now. people are getting together and i see it. i have been actually doing this for a long time. a lot of people say i was very establishment. i would use so much money. when i decided to run i was anti-establishment. can you believe this? we can't take a chance on a loss. i watched previously to in particular and the last time i was seriously thinking about doing it i decided not to because i thought it was a race that could have been won, should have been won and

with the state of the race on the republican side if you don't find. ronald reagan had his 11th commandment thou shalt not speak ill of another. and i'm asking you now in your capacity if i may, what do you make of the tone of the campaign and the amount of name-calling much of it emanating originally from donald trump? >> i think that the entry to the race, and he is -- if you will some of the things he said have been childish and if it is a characterization coming from him and they said we are going to ignore it and not respond and they found that did not help them and so they are coming back strong and standing up for themselves. carley did very well in the last debate and that has helped them. so i think that it's unfortunate to have the kind of personal attack that we have seen in the process. but i think that at the 11th commandment was quickly lost in this race and that i think makes it harder for us in the general. >> one of the really unusual things we are seeing right now in the top three candidates have zero government experience whatsoever and you talked in the past

president bush followed ronald reagan when there were vacancies coming up at the and of the administration as a lot of cabinet people lead to important positions were treasury and attorney general and also of the education secretary, the three of them left so you have vacancies there. reagan appointed brady for treasury was a very good friend of george h. w. bush and thornburgh for attorney general and he kept all of them. >> host: professor kumar you write the policy transition was seamless it benefits a sitting president and i think it is fair to say to burn issues reputation you did your homework talking to people in the white house so was that part of president bush's motivation? >> it could have spent. it is hard to get the motivation of people but republicans tend to focus on management and bush in particular had to manage that transition early and i think it was natural for him to do that in particular with the war but in the last part of your administration administration, you don't have lot of persuasion of an ability to do something you may want them to do. you spe