At cspan. Org, or listen on our free cspan radio app. History tvcan exclusive, pew area, illinois, to learn more about pe oria, illinois. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Most people know they may not know the details but they know it was king in the 1800s and early 1900s. 18801920. Was the distilleries lined the Illinois River from where the post office is just south of downtown all the way down to the southern suburb called barton bill. Barton bill, 73 different distilleries. Currently in the riverfront museum, located in downtown in this particular portion is called the street. It represents the history from its founding back in 1890. Variousthrough the. Tages brewing inted with 1837, distilleries came in 1943 1843. It was because of the quality of the water. It is filtered through limestone and that was perfect for brewing and distilling. Havecame a good place to breweries and distilleries. Transportation was critical. Back when they were first built, the
The Richard Nixon Library Museum thisosteds hourlong event. Before we start the discussion, i would like to introduce someone will introduce our speaker. Ken served in both the nixon and Reagan White House is. He joined president nixons campaign in 1968, in the midst of going to law school at columbia university, and served as a Deputy Assistant to president in. He then joined san clemente after he retired and helped research and write his best selling memoirs. He returned to politics in the reagan administration, where he served as a speechwriter and senior adviser. Since then, he has been active in many state and national campaigns. Hes a supportive member of the Nixon Foundation board. [applause] thank you, jonathan. First id like to add a note relative to this setting. Having worked so closely with both president s, i think you would like to know first how much they respected each other, i worked very closely with president nixon and president reagan, and president reagan had an ex
There are very few people and very few books written by people that had real actual close personal exposure to the president. Jim rosebush has written one of those books. One of the few that could say he was there to observe the president personally. I thought my strongest insights came from mrs. Reagan. She taught me a lot about how to deal with president reagan and how to communicate with him and help him to be a better communicator and help me be a better bern to work with him. So when he worked with her, i think it was better to help with president reagan. He assisted in negotiating trips with china, japan, korea, france, england and germany. He was very privileged to be in at the very historic bilateral meeting between reagan and gorbachev. He is very insightful in his communicating skills. Jim will have to wait for my book for another view. I really can endorse many of his insights into how the president prepared for his speeches and what techniques he used to become the great co
Served the president and mrs. Reagan n the trip of 198420 to beijing, china, there was a very important state dinner given. And it was president reagan was its host for the premier. Enit was one of the brand new american hotels. May have been the hyatt. It was called the great wall hotel. The reagans were hosting the dinner. They wanted to have an orchestra play American Music for the chinese to show that there were western hosts. But the orchestra was all chinese and the conductor was chinese. And it turns out that the chinese only knew three songs. That was it. After they played threatt songs, they stopped. Jim being partly in charge of all the arrangementes for the dinner knew this was not very good. So he went over to the conductor who spoke only chinese, jim did not speak chinese. It turns out that jim spoke a Little German and the chinese conductor spoke a Little German. They communicated somehow in german. Jim communicated to them and said, look, i know you only know three songs
Thank you for your bipartisanship, which is very important to our country. Congratulations and thank you, governor herbert for your leadership. Congratulations and good luck to you, terry mcauliffe. Now as i end my remarks, im leaving. Lets give a round of applause and thank her for her leadership. [ applause ] the Democratic National convention is live from philadelphia this week. Watch every minute on cspan. Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Its easy to download from the apple store or google play. Watch live or on demand any time at cspan. Org, on your desktop, phone or tablet, where youll find all of our Convention Coverage and the full convention schedule. Follow us at cspan on twitter and like us on facebook to see video of newsworthy moments. The Democratic National Convention Live from philadelphia, all that week from cspan, the cspan radio app and cspan. Org. This weekend on the presidency, james rosebush, former Deputy Assistant to president reagan talks about the pres