Washingtons bureau chief. Up next on the presidency, we will see that interview and hear president reagan talk about his hollywood days as the Screen Actors Guild president. The challenges he faced including the 1983 bombing that killed u. S. Marines in beirut lebanon. This video is courtesy of the Ronald Reagan president ial library. We would be via her i will need that. Ahead of you a was now the Readers Digest yes. And then the head of chief without it would be more effective one on one. So he deferred to me. I remember once have you ever seen them headquarters . Its kind of a beautiful country, how spacious the president absolutely captivated the founder for that four and a half hours, and he finally had to leave to go make a speech that was a memorable lunch. We would like to do here is to ask you some questions so that our readers here and abroad and a bottom million of them could have a better idea of president reagan, the man. I would like to start off by asking what has surpri
Of the Newyork Historical Society top of the articles in the joint publication. A civil war in 50. Objects they risks they discuss objects civil war technicality, includings will secret war codes. The new york Historical Society provided the video. So harold, weve been talking in the series about the power of objects being touchstones and historical event, being conduits to understanding the past. Its a thrill and extort a experience being historian in new york historian and working along these treasures and using them in my exhibitions. Lets talk about a second for the inspiration for this program a civil war in 50 objects. I can 50 objects tells such a sweeping . Story we so after cells that question often when we were whittling down the list and it was so much to choose from. I guess the way we did it as i recall, his first we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted, photographs paintings, objects, relics and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war. First year
They said mr. President , what do you think, and he said, well, it reminds me of the story of the young woman who put on her stockings and she looked up and said, i think theres something in it. I dont know if they got this, you know, theres something in it, but they went to work immediately. They took that to be a yes. Yeah, thats a go, but its a good thing because the confederates are, you know, building this ship, so they rushed back to new york with a model, and they get to work on the actual ship. The image that sort of shows the launch of the monitor . Yeah. And its, you know, i feel a certain kinship to the monitor because it was built in my mothers ancestral home of green point. Theres still an Erickson Park there, my mother went to the monitor school when she was in 1921, its still there. Built in the 1890s, so its very much their town, but there was a big shed where ships were made, and it all converted today and night, 24 7 production of this ship with a very crew of workers
William it is indeed. President captivated our founder for four and a half hours and then had to leave to make a speech. It was a wonderful lunch. Would like to do here, sir, is ask you some questions so that our readers have a better idea of president reagan, the man. I would like to start off by asking what has surprised you the most pleasantly and unpleasantly about being inside the government you have for so long observed from the outside . All. Reagan well, first of , one surprise, pleasant or how little i was surprised. Years ashe eight governor of california, i realize when i came in here, suddenly it wasnt the great shock that becoming governor had been. The routine and all of that. While there was the international situation, the rest was, as i say, not too shocking. There was, however, there was a surprise having to do with being the commanderinchief and things of that kind one part that shocked me a little bit was week after we had been here, we were invited to lunch. The he
Their proposal for more on that proposal we want to turn now to kron fours Justine Waldman who has the latest for us now from the newsroom justine will cain today white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin met to put the final touches on that 1 trillion dollars relief bill Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to bring it forward monday afternoon. Both newton and meadow say they want a less ambitious plan that includes stopgap measures like Unemployment Insurance and education funding. But Senate Republicans are poised to pose more way of doing direct payments war Small Business loans and tax incentives for rehiring mission will now share with us. What his focus is for this new proposal. The bill will be introduced monday and were prepared to act quickly this is all about kids in jobs. This is our focus and we want to make sure something gets passed quickly so that we deal with the unemployment and all the other issues paycheck protection