After marrying, they had 3 children liza, charley and sam. he has one common belief he tried to instill. gen and i tell liza, charley and sam that america is a place where if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead. greta: congressman shot up through the ranks. and when it came to the economy, everyone had his eyes on the congressman from wisconsin. his master plan, in 2010, ryan unveiled his road map to economic recovery, including a revamp of the tax code n. 2011, he took over as chairman of the house budget committee and proposed huge controversial changes in medicare. despite being in a seventh term, ryan has not norgotten his home town of janesville, refusing to settle down, using his office couch nplace of an apartment. traveling back weekly to see his family and the people of his
Call. just gotten off the phone, speaking with my mother and told me the news. i didn t know what to tell him, but i didn t sleep a wink that night. greta: how many years older are you than your brother? five years,. greta: we have a great picture of you when you were young. i take it you were close. very close. there are four of us. 10-year span. he and i are number 3 and number 4. we shared a bedroom growing up. and so, we have certainly been thru a lot together. and now we are raising our family together in janesville. we are about a three-wood away from each other. greta: i met your wife. she is not a native cheesehead. but she is from out of state. will you accept her into the cheesehead family. we have. greta: his wife is from oklahoma. we have two southern gals who have embraced janesville as their own. greta: we have a picture of
Here, paul ryan is here. his brother toby here. tell me, when the ryans come in, this is a congressman, does he get bothered? is heaise celebrity? does he like to keep hotohis own? absolutely. paul ryan and his family are very, very much loved in janesville. it s a small community. so everybody knows everybody. and so when paul comes in to eat in here, for example, we would tell our staff, don t bother him. don t ask him any questions, let the man enjoy a peaceful dinner. with his family. fortunately, everybody s just adoring him. so when he is there eating with his family, they want to come up and say a quick hello to him. and he gets interrupted all the time. every time he tries to put a fork in his mouth, member s coming, hey, paul, how are you? and paul stops and says a few words to this person. reporter: saat this moment,
What does she think of her brother-in-law, congressman paul ryan running for president? and what is the ryan family really like? reporter: tell me. you are a closely knit family. we are. it is the ryan is a big family. i remember the first time i was introduced, we went out to dinner in janesville in the 90s and it took us a half hour to get to the table because he was introduce me to all the cousins. really? there is a lot of ryans. there are and they live in the old neighborhoods and they like older houses. they re a wonderful, warm, fun family. reporter: you know, i happen to know you are from memphis. i m a memphis guy, full disclosure. i think tobin made a wise choice. what it was like, integrating into the family and learning their values and the way they do things. toby and i spent the most time in wisconsin together, helping paul in his first campaign. we had just had our baby girl
He knows when to when to be light hearted. greta: when he came to washington, he did a number of thins. he worked with jack kemp. yes. you know, i would jack kemp was an enormous influence on him. there is no doubt about it. i recognize that in our first campaign. where jack ith come into janesville and helped stump for paul. he pulled me aside and said, look, your brother s going to make a difference in this world. and he was so sincere. i could tell that there was a unique bond of mentorship and it s been really warm seeing some of the kemp children coming out and making comments about a little bit of their father that they see in paul now. that s very touching for us. greta: you can tell how proud the community is, whether you are for him politically or not. we are in the high school gym. you played basketball. he didn t, right? that s right. greta: he played socker and