[applause]. [applause]. Please be seated. Good evening to all. I have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan executive director and i want to thank everyone for coming this evening. In honor 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 i would like to recognize one person in particular in the audience. His name is ben sutton. He he is one of our board of trustee embers of the foundation. Thanks thanks for coming, ben. [applause]. No matter how practiced one might feel they are at introducing a famous or important person, its its also not easy, at least not for me. I think one of called on to do their very best and go beyond the reading of a simple impre
Please be seated. Well, good evening to all. My name is john heubusch. I the only thing the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial 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 id 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, its often not easy, at least not for me. I think one is called on to do their very best and to go beyon
So you need to do both but it would be a big mistake not to also go to the biggest capital but commands the most respect. I think the capitals are of importance right now i think the Commission Wants to get this agreement when they get bogged down to solve the problems and that is how it works but being a leader since the very beginning, that is the Angela Merkel project to have 40 percent of gdp from trade. But the thing i would caution it is very hard for american institutions to argue in berlin because those arguments that are made are very much american in the nsa with the increase of the migration a rack to dig up of remarks about the iraq war and to we need to be careful of american institutions to go over a and a lobby this is what they said to look to the European Companies to take on a major role in the european debate to. But in each of those is a little bit different. That reminds me with the debate of trade promotion and authority as a great as activist got together as a ho
When they needed her, to keep their spirits up when they often needed that and she was very bright and funny and can be very sharp if she thought somebody wasnt the hitting and somebody should be a. The father was inspiration of their lives, never lost faith in them. Didnt really understand the technology they were working with. Very few people did. It wasnt just that they were bicycle mechanics. They were brilliant business, and aeronautical engineers solving problems, intellectual problems that nobody at Polytechnic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of technology or the smithsonian had gotten anywhere near as far as they did and yet they had never been to college, never finished high school but that never held them back. Wilder was a genius. I dont think there is any question about it and that is important to understand. Host andrew in virginia, are you surprised Teddy Roosevelt did not embrace the right brother is directly . He did and he didnt. He had the nerve, the courage to
And that means she reads it may be three, four times because i one draft after another. And always always i hear things, she hears things. Host you enjoy the book tour . Guest it is very gratifying. No writer could survive without readers. I am dependent upon readers, not caring to meet your customers, i love to hear what they think and what they like about what i have done or what they feel might have been better or what they would like me to write about the next time. Host next call from tom in dublin, indiana. You are on with David Mccullough on booktv. Caller i love your books. I live in indiana and the vision in my little town, wilder was born a few miles from here. Surprised to learn all the support the father and sister gave the brother. I was a little saddened at the end that orville and his sister had a falling out. I was wondering if that was never resolved or not. Host who was the bishop . Guest their father was a bishop in the church. The sister was catherine, the youngest