unemployment, whether it s our national debt, whether it s maintaining the strongest military in the world to protect our national security, with growth, we can do all of that. without growth, we can t do any of it. the problems are insoluble without economic growth. so how do you get growth? it s not that complicated. cause and effect is a principle that those in washington have a difficult time understanding. but president obama s fond of saying he inherited the worst economy in the history of the universe. seems when he says that, he doesn t have a whole lot of historical memory. any of y all in this room remember the late 1970s? texas senator ted cruz in lamars, iowa, talking to a friendly crowd of supporters there, spending some time talking about what he thinks will help growth in this country, spent some time talking
they weren t exactly close buddies. reagan, i think, was fonder of tip than the other way around. tip was a tougher customer. i know. i worked for him. reagan, according to someone i worked with, would say around the house he s fond of tip. in the book you talk about how these guys were so much the same and so much different. how were they the same? they re irish. tip always accepted the fact reagan was a fellow irishman even though he wasn t raised catholic. they had the whole history, the jokes, the love of notre dame. they talked about pat o brien. that was the first they got together on. it s the st. patrick s day lunches every year, the birthday parties for tip at the white house, the irish toast, all the blarney. i wrote in the book about it. the first time i met reagan, i said, welcome to the room where
ridiculous the list is? what say you? well, i think he has to do it for a very practical reason. he needs to include all those things, particularly keystone and the regulatory reforms to get to the 218, to get to 218 votes. now, he may not get there even with what they call this christmas tree. i think as a rhetorical matter, it s not helpful. it s much better, i think, for republicans to focus on two things where they can make a strong, concerted, united public argument. one of them would be suspension of the individual mandate after the administration has already unilaterally suspended the employer mandate which would make a president who won re-election basically by complaining about preferential treatment that business gets, it would make that president defend that preference. martha: good point. and then the other one would be this exemption for congress. president obama s fond of saying that congress is terrible, washington doesn t do its job. well, make the president defend
and i just put up a flyer one more time so people understand, it was a march on washington that also includes the word jobs and it got the uaw involved. the uaw got involved and that gave it a black/white coalition which i assume was pretty necessary at the time. it was necessary. it was needed. it was welcomed. it made a real statement. i mean, it had always been jewish support of the march and jewish support of the civil rights movement. in fact, the naacp was forred with the coalition of blacks and jews. to have organized labor make a statement and come forward the way they did was significant. it took the black piece of it away. it became a march of people for people. and, you know, it s interesting. we claim it as our march, as our history. nelson mandela s always been fond of reminding me that while it was america s march, everybody claimed it. he had been arrested exactly one year earlier. in august of 1962 and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
this, former in laws of a british sniper wrote a letter to the british military, ministry of defense, and london police saying their former son-in-law, who clearly there is a bad relationship, that boasted to his former wife that he was involved with the murd enand arranging of princess diana and dodi al fayed. they wrote a letter to the ministry of defense saying this is what happened. this came to light a couple years aago. now we are hearing there was a whole conspiracy theory about it. but the ministry of defense is saying this is not a reinvestigation and this is for the london police to look into. they don t want all of these conspiracy theorys to come out. but dodi al fayed s dad has been fond of these conspiracy theories. he says, let s take a look at this. scotland yard says we are not formally reopening anything. we are aware of the evidence and