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The president encouraged all of us to spend time with the press because even on an offtherecord, if we couldnt answer their questions, we better go back and do more homework. The last thing ill say, one of my fondest vignettes of the press and reagan was Sam Donaldson, lou cannon of the Washington Post, Andrea Mitchell of nbc news were all fighting about who was going to do the last pool report on air force one or 26,000 as we headed back to california at the end of the reagan presidency. And my lasting memory on a portable typewriter was Sam Donaldson on the floor of air force one typing the final pool report and reagan came back to say thank you. Thats the kind of relationship, even though it gets tough, iran contra, my job in the aftermath of iran contra was to remind reagan before he went within shouting distance of sam or andrea or anybody else, remember if you answer the question on iran contra, you might as well not give the speech youre giving today because nobody is going to c
We wooel weel well look at challenges of the presidency. Four top aides, all of usveat sd president s of the tooits United States and weve seen the ities qualities of what takes for a r president to be able to govern. Weve seen qualities both good and bad. And i guess thats what i want to begin with. Is looking at president s that each of these individuals serve. What was their greatest strengtt and what was their greatest weakness . And how do you think history is going to look at them . We are talking about president reagan, president clent kbron, president bush and president le obama. Lets start with president reagan. Ken . Leon, thank you very much. Leave it to leon and sylvia to put together an alpha bet panbe. David axle rod, a. Ber skin boels, b. Rod, andy card, c. And duber steen, d. M aep p for pa netta. All of it is an absolutely joying to here with leon and ray and all of you. Ronald reagans greasest strengths. He knew why he ran for the presidency. And he knew what he would
Thank you, thank you all very much. And i welcome all of you to our final forum of our lecture series this year. Our theme as you all know is looking at 100 years since world war 1, 2014, 1914, an awful lot of history has occurred during that time. And to onanalyze the changes th have been made, we looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena, we have looked at government and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security. Tonight were going to look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions. And president s very frankly influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of the United States has today assumed incredible responsibilities in facing incredible pressures in that position. Since 1914, we have had 17 president s. Of the United States, all of whom will have various places in history. We have gone from wilson to harding, truman to roosevelt, kennedy to carter and reagan, johnson to bush and obama. Wha
Hi, john, i am Gillian Turner in the Nations Capital tonight, continuing live coverage of wednesdays astonishing events here in washington. The images frightening and shocking. The results, deadly and destructive. Now, four people are confirmed dead, including a woman fatally shot inside the capital. All of these events triggering a locked on capitol hill and causing lawmakers to fear for their lives. The extent of the mob violence also overshadowing two elections in georgia, flipping control to thtoin the senate democrats. One winner will be the first black senator to ever represent the peach state. John at this hour, washington is under curfew orders come under the watch of National Guard and d. C. Police. Congress has reconvened, and is in the process of certifying joe biden as the next president of the United States. In the coming days, troubling questions remain to be answered. Could it happen again . Who is responsible . And why was the u. S. Government caught unprepared . Gillia