next, ron reagan, the son of former president, ronald reagan, recounting his father s personal life and political career. ronald reagan would have 100 on february 6, 2011. ron reagan remembers his father at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. this is just under an hour. thank you, mike. is this on. can you hear me okay? all right. thank you, mike. pleased to be here on the very unlikely event. not that they don t do readings and things as they call them all the time. i m the unlikely part of this. because i never really intended to do anything like this. i m 52. i managed to get through at least half a century without ever considering to do something like this. but a little less than a year ago, it was february 6 last year, i was talking to my mother on the occasion of my father s 99th birthday when, of course, the 100 00th birthday came up. can you believe daddy is going to be 100. she calls him daddy of course to her kids still. i m saying to her, yeah, boy
governments and a big debt to deal with. would the prime minister will come the association of pension funds at his work place, the retirement income commission, which is designed to propose proposals so that people can live with dignity and with enough money in retirement? we want to see strong private-sector pension provisions. i think that history, over the last 13 years, has been depressing when so much money was taken out of the pension system, not least by the pension tax that happened a year after year, proposed probably by the two people who are running the labor party. we want to see a stronger private pension provision. . 200 years ago, when this country managed to steal the english, from the english why does he returned to that type of activity by taking away the forests of our people? this government is taking a completely different approach to the last government. the last government sold off forestry with no guarantees on access, no guarantees that it was
the tae pack conference gets under way thursday, friday, saturday all week throughout the week on c-span. we ll focus on the next battle facing congress, the budget battle. wandering how deep should the cuts go? host: the easy cuts are behind us it has been said. the president s budget is a comprehensive and responsibly plan that will put us on the path of sis cal responsibility over the next few years in terms of numbers, a five-year freeze on spending on all areas except national security. mike from ohio on the democrat line. good morning and welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. the first thing they should cut is their pay and their benefits. second is lobbyists these people don t care about the average working man at all. leif: host: good morning. caller: i ve written to both parties. i think they need to vote one to one. if all democrats vote to decrease this debt limit, they will get crashed by the republicans. why are they assuming that the democrats are
especially we you consider the fact that morris was the author of a failed byingy. he could never do it after spending 14 years. it was an authorized biography, the only within authorized by the president. he did this the only one authorized by the president. i read it call dutch. it was awful. i wonder if this is edwin morris excuse trying to portray ronald reagan as cue with us? we spoke to people who new him well, all of them echoed what mr. morris said in terms of sensing there was a part of reagan they could never reach. there was a place inside him that was like a private place. that even though he was such a public figure and could touch you warmly himself as a person who really examine you ded affection. there was miss exuded affect shupbl. there were mysteries to reagan. not even his personal
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