questions, there s not that much there. you have a new book out things that matter, three decades of passion, past times, and politics. in 1989 you wrote about reagan choose you said this. the combination of intermedia rang nuclear forces which is strategic defense initiative, the reagan doctrine made it clear to the soviets that they were facing a future that they could only lose. american resilience in this decade came as a shock to the soviets. their new foreign policy is the residue of that shock. you indicate the golden age. how are we different today with regard to foreign policy? well, i think in many ways we ve lost the self confidence . what reagan did i listed the actual policies where he held fast and tough against the soef y soviets led by gorbachev, liberals, democratic party was advocating, accommodation, compromise concessions.
examined what happened with all the republican-induced shutdowns over the years, you re telling me that none of these things would have happened in past times, grover? well, okay, when you go back, carter had five shutdowns with only democrats in the house and senate and they lasted ten days each, 58 days total under carter. he didn t these things. do you remember him shutting down mt. rushmore and stuff like that? no, because he was trying to make things work, not trying to make political points against the american people. and with reagan, they lasted one, two and three days, okay. there were seven or eight of them, they lasted a day or two, no more than three. we now have a president, he pulled this same stunt with the sequester, claiming he didn t have enough money to do an easter egg hunt. they closed down the white house tours. the capitol does tours, the white house doesn t do tours. same sequester in both cases. he s just being petty and mean and trying to punish the american
examined what happened with all the republican-induced shutdowns over the years, you re telling me that none of these things would have happened in past times, grover? well, okay, when you go back, carter had five shutdowns with only democrats in the house and senate and they lasted ten days each, 58 days total under carter. he didn t these things. do you remember him shutting down mt. rushmore and stuff like that? no, because he was trying to make things work, not trying to make political points against the american people. and with reagan, they lasted one, two and three days, okay. there were seven or eight of them, they lasted a day or two, no more than three. we now have a president, he pulled this same stunt with the sequester, claiming he didn t have enough money to do an easter egg hunt. they closed down the white house tours. the capitol does tours, the white house doesn t do tours. same sequester in both cases. he s just being petty and mean and trying to punish the american
to function. in the neighborhoods on capitol hill, they re putting up fences around the parks like they did to the guys in wheelchairs, the world war ii vets, not letting them into the world war ii monument. that s the memory everyone has. that s a cheap, really awful thing that the president and his people did. that s an open park. that s not something that has locks on it. they put locks around a turtle park on capitol hill and wouldn t let kids in today. if we went back in time and examined what happened with all the republican-induced shutdowns over the years, you re telling me that none of these things would have happened in past times, grover? well, okay, when you go back each, 58 days total under carter. he didn t these things. do you remember him shutting down mt. rushmore and stuff like that? no, because he was trying to make things work, not trying to make political points against
it s fascinating to watch. freezing cold weather. everybody could have said this is going to be black smoke. there was a sense of interest. it s not just catholics and which i say chans in the crowd. there s a joyousness. in past times a funeral. there was a sadness, obviously. i was here eight years ago. there s a real joy here. there was not a funeral. there s excitement over what direction this moves for the church. i talked to many, many people in the past month that i have been here. one thing that is constant from the beginning of the resignation, there s a desire, a hope for something new. what that is, i m not sure. there s really an excitement. i link this, a bit, to the excitement and desire 50 years ago when the second vatican