Meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion, and at the same time, a great prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. They said that your great strength was you had an agenda of the things you wanted to change. What were your goals . The country was in the economic doldrums. Doubledigit inflation, great unemployment. The economy stagnating. People in the country seemed to have lost belief in themselves and in the country. There was the matter of National Security, of on any given day, half of our military planes could not take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels could not leave port for that or lack of crew. I determined we had to restore the economy and i had been asked many times campaigning if i went into the deficit problem, because we had been running we had been deficit spending for almost half a century with only a few years scattered here and there where there was not an annual deficit. I would be asked questions
Recall your feelings when you took office for the first time . Pres. Reagan i recall that day with great clarity. All of it, the coming to the white house, the being taken thoseappearing before thousands of people stretched wason the mall, there unreality to all of it. Awareness of what it meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion, and at the same prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. Godfrey people have told us one of your great strengths is that you had an agenda with just a few big things that you wants to change you wanted to change. Pres. Reagan the country was in the economic doldrums. Doubledigit inflation, great unemployment. The economy stagnating. People in the country seemed to have lost belief in themselves and in the country. There was the matter of National Security, of on any given day, half of our military planes could not take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels cannot leave port for that were lac
But it was an awareness of what it meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion. And at the same time, a great prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. Godfrey a lot of people have told us that one of your greatest strengths was that you had an agenda of just a few big things that you wanted to change. Can you tell me what your goals were . Pres. Reagan yes, the country was in the economic doldrums. It doubled inflation, great unemployment, the economy stagnating, the people of the country seems to have lost a belief in themselves and in the country. Also, there was a matter of National Security. On any given day, half of our military planes couldnt take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels had that or lack of crew. So i was determined that we had to restore the economy, and i have been asked many times, and campaigning if i ran into the deficit problem because we have been deficit spending for almost half a century, wit
Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large
Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large pa