Text Timeline
  • Text Timeline
  • Graphical Timeline
00:00:13
Unidentified Speaker
THANK YOU. I'M GLAD THE INTRODUCTION WAS SHORT. IT'S BEGINNING TO SOUND LIKE MY OBITUARY. THE SHORTER THE BETTER. I WANT TO THANK DAVE ARNOLD AND JOHN...
00:21:23
Unidentified Speaker
YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING. THE SPONSOR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED, BUT UNLIKE MOST TELEVISION PROGRAMS, THE PERFORMER HASN'T BEEN...
00:27:09
Unidentified Speaker
THAT AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET YOUR OBSERVATIONS ABOUT IT. IN 1965 MY FATHER CAME HOME WITH A RECORD ALBUM AND HE AND MY MOTHER HAD BEEN CHARTER MEMBERS...
00:28:47
Unidentified Speaker
WELL, I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THAT. I THINK MAYBE THE BIG CHALLENGE WOULD BE TO SUM IT UP IN ONE WORD. I THINK I CAN DO THAT. WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF STUDYING...
00:31:06
Unidentified Speaker
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION. YOU SAID DEFEAT COMMUNISM. A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE THE CASE THAT HE ENDED THE COLD WAR WITH GORBACHEV'S COOPERATION....
00:31:21
Unidentified Speaker
HE? >> YEAH. EVEN MANY OF REAGAN'S OWN ADVISERS CAUTIONED AND COUNSELED HIM TO NOT VEER OFF IN TERMS OF RELATIONS WITH THE COMMUNISTS AND THE SOVIET...
00:32:28
Unidentified Speaker
BACK FROM BERLIN, DIDN'T YOU? >>
00:32:30
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. A FEW DAYS AGO. >> WHAT WAS GOING ON OUT
00:32:34
Unidentified Speaker
THERE? >> A MARVELOUS
00:32:40
Unidentified Speaker
TIME. THIS PAST FEW QUEERYEARS WE SPENT TIME GLOBE TROTTING AND GOING TO ANY NUMBER OF CITIES AROUND THE WORLD. MANY IN EASTERN EUROPE. WE COMMEMORATED...
00:33:08
Unidentified Speaker
IT. >> AWFUL THOSE? >>
00:33:11
Unidentified Speaker
YES. >> I HAD THE HONOR
00:33:14
Unidentified Speaker
OF JUST -- A LITTLE WHILE AGO OF WORKING WITH THE MAYOR OF BERLIN AND THE AMBASSADOR THERE TO UNVEIL THIS HUGE FLAG WITH THE IMAGE ON IT. THIS QUOTATION...
00:33:45
Unidentified Speaker
DOING SPECIFICALLY ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS THAT WILL PRESERVE AND EXTEND THE REAGAN LEGACY. >> ONE THING WE DO WHEN WE
00:33:56
Unidentified Speaker
OPEN OUR DOORS EVERY MORNING, WE ARE THE DESTINATION LOCATION. WE ARE THE SPOT WHERE IT'S ESSENTIALLY THE MECCA FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO LEARN INDEPTH ABOUT...
00:35:30
Unidentified Speaker
WAY, DR. DAVID ARNOLD IS HERE AND SENDS HIS BEST. >> GREAT TO HEAR AND
00:35:35
Unidentified Speaker
TALK TO YOU, DR. ARNOLD. >> LISTEN, THANK
00:35:39
Unidentified Speaker
YOU SO MUCH. LET ME CHECK WITH THE AUDIENCE. DOES ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION? >> AS YOU GO AROUND THE WORLD
00:36:01
Unidentified Speaker
IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, WHAT IS THE IMPRESSION YOU GET OF PEOPLE IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD'S OPINION OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS LEGACY TO THOSE...
00:36:19
Unidentified Speaker
THIS DAY. NO QUESTION THAT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, HE NOW HELD AS THE MODEL. WHETHER IT'S OBAMA READING HIS BOOK OR ANY OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL...
00:37:37
Unidentified Speaker
THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE WENT WAY OVERTIME, BUT THIS HAS BEEN TERRIFIC. THANK YOU FOR JOINING
00:37:42
Unidentified Speaker
US. >> THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THERE. >> WE HAVE ANOTHER VIDEO
00:37:54
Unidentified Speaker
AND ALREADY RUNNING BEHIND SCHEDULE. I LIKE TO GET A CONVERSATION GOING. I HAVE MEMORIES OF THAT SPEECH, 1965 MY FATHER CAME HOME WITH A RECORD ALBUM...
00:39:09
Unidentified Speaker
HERE. >> [INAUDIBLE]. GROWING UP IN A DEMOCRATIC HOUSEHOLD, I PUT MY REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT SIGNS UP ALL OVER THE HOUSE. I FOLLOWED HIM EVER SINCE AND ...
00:39:37
Unidentified Speaker
TO USE THE MICROPHONE. I LOOKED AT THAT SPEECH AND OBVIOUSLY WHAT HE HAS TO SAY IS INTERESTING, BUT HE IS ALSO VERY ANGRY. THAT IS AN EARLY RONALD REAGAN....
00:40:27
Unidentified Speaker
THAT HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PROGRESSIVISM AND EVEN TODAY IT'S A POPULAR ISSUE TODAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK IT'S POPULAR AND CONSERVATISM LOOKS TOWARDS...
00:40:51
Unidentified Speaker
RIGHT. IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TOO AND YOU HIT UPON AN IMPORTANT POINT. IT'S E IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE POWER AND WHO DOESN'T. THAT PART OF PHYSICS I DIDN'T...
00:46:13
Unidentified Speaker
OF THINGS WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. INCLUDING THESE TWO CONTESTANTS APPEARING TOGETHER. INCLUDING ONE WHO WITH THE SWITCH OF 59 VOTES IS STANDING ...
00:46:39
Unidentified Speaker
THAT A PARTY PLATFORM IS SOMETHING THAT NO ONE BOTHERS TO READ AND DOESN'T VERY OFTEN AMOUNT TO MUCH. WHETHER IT IS DIFFERENT THIS TIME THAN IT HAS...
00:47:47
Unidentified Speaker
GOING TO PAUSE THERE TO TRY TO GET BACK ON SCHEDULE. I DIDN'T PROPERLY INTRODUCE THAT SPEECH AND I APOLOGIZE. REAGAN RUNS IN 68 ALTHOUGH HE NEVER REALLY...
00:50:41
Unidentified Speaker
57 DELEGATE VOTES OUT OF 2,259 VOTES CAST, COMES WITH 57 VOTES OF DISLODGING THE INCUMBENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR...
00:52:10
Unidentified Speaker
CANNON? >> LOU,
00:52:13
Unidentified Speaker
CRAIG. >> CRAIG? >>
00:52:14
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. >> HI, CRAIG,
00:52:15
Unidentified Speaker
HOW ARE YOU? >>
00:52:16
Unidentified Speaker
GOOD. HOW ARE
00:52:17
Unidentified Speaker
YOU? >> GOOD. THANK YOU. DOES THIS PHONE SOUND ALL RIGHT? I HAVE ANOTHER PHONE OPTION IF IT'S NOT CLEAR MR. NO, IT SOUNDS PERFECT. SAY HELLO TO EUREKA,...
00:52:31
Unidentified Speaker
EUREKA. I -- IT'S -- LAST TIME I WAS AT EUREKA I WAS THERE WITH RONALD REAGAN. >> TELL US ABOUT
00:52:40
Unidentified Speaker
THAT. >> IT WAS
00:52:41
Unidentified Speaker
A NIGHT -- I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NIGHT, I HAVE DATE RIGHT IN MY BOOK, IT WAS REAGAN HADN'T BEEN BACK FOR A LONG TIME. AND IT WAS A VERY, VERY SENTIMENTAL...
00:53:40
Unidentified Speaker
FASCINATING. LISTEN, LET ME DIVE RIGHT INTO THIS. I APPRECIATE AND THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS AND EVERYBODY HERE IS APPRECIATIVE THAT YOU DO THIS, ...
00:53:56
Unidentified Speaker
HIM, YES. >>
00:53:57
Unidentified Speaker
STIRRING. AND THERE'S GOING TO BE QUESTIONS HERE SO WE'LL MOVE IT ALONG. I WANTED TO ASK YOU, HOW DOES CALIFORNIA, HOW DOES TRANSFORM FROM LOCAL CALIFORNIA...
00:54:33
Unidentified Speaker
ARE AREARE MULTIPLE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION. LET ME TRY TWO. THE FIRST ISSEN WHEN REAGAN WAS A HOLLYWOOD STAR AND HE WAS A STAR, JUST BELOW THE VERY...
00:57:19
Unidentified Speaker
AT A -- SOME SNIPPETS OF THE '64 SPEECH AND THEN I PROMPTLY FORGOT TO EXPLAIN THE MEANING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE '64 SPEECH FOR GOLDWATER, THE...
00:57:36
Unidentified Speaker
AGAIN, TALKING ABOUT TWO THINGS. THE SPEECH AS WE ALL OF US, CRAIG AND I AND EVERYBODY WHO WROTE ABOUT REAGAN AND EVERYBODY WHO WORKED FOR HIM CAME...
01:00:05
Unidentified Speaker
DO YOU THINK IT WAS -- THAT HE HAD ALREADY BEEN THINKING ABOUT RUNNING FOR POLITICAL OFFICE OR WAS IT THE -- WAS IT THE KITCHEN CABINET, WERE THEY THE...
01:02:08
Unidentified Speaker
RIGHT. >> BUT THEY DID NOT --
01:02:11
Unidentified Speaker
THEY DIDN'T CREATE RONALD REAGAN. RONALD REAGAN CREATED THEM. IT WAS INSIDE OF RONALD REAGAN ALL THE TIME. AND IT TOOK GOOD PEOPLE TO BRING IT OUT....
01:02:36
Unidentified Speaker
WE'RE WAITING FOR OM PEOPLE TO GET UP TO THE MICROPHONE TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS, LET'S TALK ABOUT '68 A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE IT'S OFTEN OVERLOOKED. I THINK...
01:02:53
Unidentified Speaker
TO HAVE -- TO HAVE YOU THERE, CRAIG, BECAUSE I FELT LONELY OVER THE YEARS IN ARGUING THE IMPORTANCE OF '68. OF TOM REID, WHO WORKED FOR REAGAN IN...
01:05:18
Unidentified Speaker
THAT HAPPENED -- >> REAGAN WAS KIND
01:05:20
Unidentified Speaker
OF NAIVE AND THAT WAS APPEALING. HE LEARNED ABOUT THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE OF PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE COULD LOOK AT YOU IN THE...
01:06:17
Unidentified Speaker
LOU, THAT WAS TERRIFIC -- WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF FOLKS WHO HAVE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. GO AHEAD. >> MR. CANNON -- SORRY TO
01:06:24
Unidentified Speaker
BE SO LOUD -- MR. SHIRLEY, AN HONOR AND PLEASURE TO SPEAK TO YOU BOTH, MEET YOU HERE. MR. SHIRLEY I'VE ENJOYED BOTH OF YOUR BOOKS. I'M A RETURNING ADULT...
01:09:04
Unidentified Speaker
WHAT I REMEMBER, AND, CRAIG, I HAVE TO SAY, I CAN'T BE WITH YOU FOR THE WHOLE PERIOD HERE BECAUSE I GOT TO GET READY FOR THIS DEBATE. >>
01:09:15
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. >> LET ME JUMP IN TO
01:09:17
Unidentified Speaker
REFRESH -- >> WHAT I WILL SAY IN
01:09:20
Unidentified Speaker
VERY SHORT FORM WAS, WAS THAT I THINK -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DID FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. I KNOW WHAT IT DID FOR THEIR PARENTS. IN THE '60s. >> DON'T...
01:09:32
Unidentified Speaker
HAD THAT WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE WITH -- >>
01:09:34
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. HE HAD A WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE. I WAS GOING TO SAY IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THIS -- TO THE COMMENT HERE IS THAT, PEOPLE REALLY WERE MIDDLE CLASS...
01:12:32
Unidentified Speaker
ABOUT IT A NUMBER OF TIMES IN THE DEPTHS OF THE '80 CAMPAIGN WAS THAT THE ONE WAY TO DESCRIBE REAGAN WAS MANLY. HE DIDN'T DUCK THE PRESS. HE DIDN'T...
01:13:13
Unidentified Speaker
SURE. >> MR. CANNON, BECAUSE
01:13:15
Unidentified Speaker
OF YOUR EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND STUDY OF RONALD REAGAN DO YOU SEE ANY CURRENT POLITICAL CANDIDATES ON THE NATIONAL STAGE YOU BELIEVE EEM U LATE EMULATE...
01:13:31
Unidentified Speaker
QUESTION. I WISH I HAD A TERRIFIC ANSWER. I GUESS -- I GUESS THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO. BUT WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT I THINK THAT PEOPLE IN BOTH PARTIES,...
01:16:00
Unidentified Speaker
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I KNOW YOU'VE GOT TO GET TO THE DEBATE. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING AND DOING THIS. >> I JUST WANT TO SAY, IT'S
01:16:07
Unidentified Speaker
A REAL PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU, CRAIG, AND WITH STUDENTS FROM EUREKA COLLEGE. I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD
01:16:15
Unidentified Speaker
YEAR. >> THANK YOU. [ APPLAUSE ] EARLIER I TOLD YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE JOYS OF WORK ON BOOKS AND MEETING PEOPLE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I WANTED TO GET...
01:17:57
Unidentified Speaker
TO EUREKA COLLEGE. WHEN YOU WERE HERE BEFORE, DID YOU SAY IN 1976 SPEECH THAT THAT WAS KIND OF A SPONTANEOUS, IMPROPER TU, HE WASN'T PLANNING ON...
01:18:09
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. IT WAS -- AT THE END OF THE CONVENTION HE GOES THROUGH THE PRIMARY PROCESS, THEY GO THROUGH 33, 36 PRIMARIES THAT YEAR, AND STATE CONVENTIONS...
01:23:05
Unidentified Speaker
PAT. >> CRAIG. >> HOW ARE
01:23:06
Unidentified Speaker
YOU? SORRY I'M
01:23:08
Unidentified Speaker
LATE. >> THAT'S ALL RIGHT. >> SAY HELLO
01:23:13
Unidentified Speaker
TO EUREKA COLLEGE. >> CAN YOU HEAR
01:23:16
Unidentified Speaker
ME? >> I'M GLAD
01:23:17
Unidentified Speaker
TO BE WITH YOU. >>
01:23:18
Unidentified Speaker
ALL RIGHT. ARE YOU TALKING TO A ROOMFUL OF -- >>
01:23:22
Unidentified Speaker
SURE CAN. >> STUDENTS HERE
01:23:24
Unidentified Speaker
AT EUREKA COLLEGE. AND I JUST INTRODUCED YOU TO THEM AND TOLD YOU ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND TELL US ABOUT HOW YOU FIRST FOUND...
01:23:40
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. I WAS 14 YEARS OLD AND A VOLUNTEER FOR BARRY GOLDWATER AND LIKE CONSERVATIVES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WAS ELECTRIFIED WITH THE SPEECH. A TIME...
01:25:19
Unidentified Speaker
TALK ABOUT MIAMI BEACH IN '68. >>
01:25:25
Unidentified Speaker
UH-HUH. >> DO YOU
01:25:26
Unidentified Speaker
HEAR ME? >> YEAH. >> I WANT TO
01:25:29
Unidentified Speaker
TALK ABOUT -- >>
01:25:31
Unidentified Speaker
MIAMI 'N. '68. THAT WAS A WONDERFUL TIME. I WAS PART OF YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM THEN, A CONSERVATIVE YOUTH GROUP NATIONALLY. AND AFTER THE GOVERNOR...
01:29:34
Unidentified Speaker
TOO OLD. >>
01:29:36
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. >> SO, THAT
01:29:38
Unidentified Speaker
LEADS US INTO -- INTO A DISCUSSION A LITTLE BIT OF '76 AND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BEFORE WE GOT YOU ON THE PHONE HERE. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT....
01:29:59
Unidentified Speaker
YEAH. ACTUALLY, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. EACH TIME REAGAN RAN AND HAD A CONTESTED PRIMARY, ALL THE HANGERS-ON DROPPED OFF. ONLY THE SAME HARD CORE PEOPLE...
01:31:35
Unidentified Speaker
ME? >> RIGHT HERE. WE'RE LISTENING. >>
01:31:39
Unidentified Speaker
OKAY. THE TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA DELEGATIONS INSTANTLY HIT IT OFF. WE HAD A JOINT BARBECUE AND PARTY THAT LASTED ALL NIGHT AND WE CONTINUED TO WORK...
01:32:27
Unidentified Speaker
ONE FINAL QUESTION AND THAT LEADS US NICELY INTO 1980. HOW -- WHAT WAS THE ESTABLISHMENT, THE WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL...
01:32:54
Unidentified Speaker
ESTABLISHMENT STILL DISMISSED REAGAN AS A LIGHTWEIGHT, AS A FLASH IN THE PAN. YOU KNOW THEY MISSED THE FACT THAT HE HAD BEEN -- HE'D FOUGHT THE COMMUNISTS...
01:34:10
Unidentified Speaker
JOHN CONLEY. >> JOHN
01:34:12
Unidentified Speaker
CONLEY. I THINK CHUCK PERCY. >>
01:34:15
Unidentified Speaker
HOWARD BAKER. >> NOSING AROUND ABOUT
01:34:17
Unidentified Speaker
IT. WHEN GEORGE BUSH CAME OUT, A LOT OF THE ASSEMBLY PEOPLE FAWNED ALL OVER HIM. HE WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE FACE OF THE FUTURE. AND THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT...
01:35:23
Unidentified Speaker
HOW DOES THAT PLAY OUT IN 1980? AND THEN I'LL LET YOU GO. THIS FIGHT INSIDE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. >>
01:35:32
Unidentified Speaker
OKAY. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY, I'M SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE THIS CHANCE. EUREKA COLLEGE, LITERALLY SINCE IS AND A KID, WE ALL KNEW REAGAN GRADUATED FROM...
01:37:37
Unidentified Speaker
I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO. I MENTIONED EARLIER TO THE CLASS ABOUT HOW IT HAD COME FULL CIRCLE, THAT THE PARTY HAD BEEN AN INSIDER ESTABLISHMENT AND WENT...
01:37:51
Unidentified Speaker
AND IT'S SAD. THANK YOU, CRAIG, FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. >> THANK
01:37:54
Unidentified Speaker
YOU, PAT, VERY, VERY MUCH. TAKE CARE. APPLAUSE AN [ APPLAUSE ] >> AS I MENTIONED AGAIN, AS
01:38:06
Unidentified Speaker
I'LL MENTION AGAIN, THIS IS -- PHIL WARNED ME -- I DO NOT MANAGE THE TIME WELL ENOUGH. WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES LEFT. ANY DISCUSSIONS, OBSERVATIONS, ...
01:38:34
Unidentified Speaker
OR EVEN A STRONG ARTICLE ON WHAT GENIUS RONALD REAGAN WAS? I MEAN, CAN YOU GET CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER TO WRITE SOMETHING, A FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT BOOK?...
01:38:47
Unidentified Speaker
IT'S INTERESTING, PEOPLE -- YOU GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR CHANGING. BUT YOU KNOW, KRAUTHAMMER DID NOT START OUT AS A REAGAN ADMIRER. HE WAS A SPEECHWRITER...
01:41:31
Unidentified Speaker
WE LISTENED TO PAT TALK, AND SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS KIND OF GONE AWAY, DIVERGING FROM SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES THAT...
01:42:13
Unidentified Speaker
TIME. I WAS -- WORKED ON THE '80 CAMPAIGN, RAN INDEPENDENT EXPENSE TURE AND WORKED AT THE INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE, MY WIFE -- THE RNC WAS THE POLITICAL...
01:44:03
Unidentified Speaker
EXCEPT THAT HE WAS IN OFFICE FOR EIGHT YEARS AND NEAR THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY HE HAD RECORD POPULARITY. PEOPLE LOVED HIM. HE HAD EVERYBODY BEHIND...
01:44:22
Unidentified Speaker
LOT OF CONSERVATIVES AT THE TIME GOING BACK TO WHO MADE THOSE VERY POINTS THAT REAGAN WASN'T DOING ENOUGH TO CUT GOVERNMENT AND CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING....
01:45:35
Unidentified Speaker
TIME. I WANTED TO ASK YOU IF YOU COULD JUST SAY WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BE TALKING WITH IN TOMORROW NIGHT'S CLASS? >> I DON'T HAVE THE AGENDA
01:45:44
Unidentified Speaker
FOR TOMORROW NIGHT. I CAN TELL YOU WHO WE'RE TALKING TO THE NEXT THREE NIGHTS. NEWT GINGRICH, JOE SCARBOROUGH, FRANK DONATELLI, POLITICAL DIRECTOR...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

Loading...