reason and basic decency are on the ballot. plus, an important cnn exclusive. an interview with the man in line to replace nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy outlining the house republican agenda. i think the first thing you ll see is a a bill to control the border. first thing we re going to do is make sure an economy that s strong. and donald trump reminds mccarthy and every other republican who s on first in the gop. trump stops in ohio, pennsylvania, florida, in the final days to make clear he sees the midterm closed as his 2024 opening act. we re winning big, big, big in the republican party for the nomination like nobody s ever seen before. there it is, thank yorump at 71. ron desanktimonious. at first, election eve and a crossroads for the presidency. already had 1 million ballots cast 41 million ballots cast. the final count will determine which party controls the house. which party controls the senate. also which controls the governor
tour visits. polack salt i guess in the most basic sense was was the son of a basque sheep herder who came over to the united states at the earliest part of the 20th century. 1906 his father dominic lack salt left the pyrenees region of europe in hopes of making a better life for himself and like a lot of young basketball at the time. he found himself in the far western portion of the united states and began working as a sheep herder. and so paul laxalt was born in 1922 here in reno, nevada at the saint mary s hospital. he grew up in carson city attended carson high school got his law degree and then for a short period of time in the early 50s served as the district attorney of ormsby county, which is now carson city. that was his first kind of instance of being in political office. from there. he kind of worked his way through the rungs of the political system in nevada becoming the lieutenant in 1962. became the governor in 1967. and that s kind of an important point in 196
instance of being in political office. from there. he kind of worked his way through the rungs of the political system in nevada becoming the lieutenant in 1962. became the governor in 1967. and that s kind of an important point in 1967 when he was running for governor. ronald reagan was also running for governor of california. two men had met in 1964 at a barry goldwater rally in california. where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul laxalt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they worked together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and
really looking forward to this conversation. so we re gonna have a brief back and forth and then we ll go to plenty of questions from our audience. at the beginning of your book you discussed the role of the early first ladies and how they set important precedents. can you elaborate on those early first? ladies women such as martha washington abigail adams and dolly madison and how they influenced the role. yes, as we know there was nothing in the constitution about what the wife of the president should do. so those decisions made at the very beginning were extremely important and i think the most important one probably was they decision. i don t think any of those three women you named had anything to do with that, but the decision was made that the president s home would also be his office. so when george washington was inaugurated here in new york city within walking distance really of where i m sitting martha was not there. she was still in virginia, but she came up a cou
Panama canal would be subject to attacks from panama. They felt the United States use of the canal would be far muir secure if panama owned the canal. Carter agreed, but he added one additional element. He explained it to me in an interview. I felt like the canal issue was a key test of my overall human rights policy, to start treating other people as worthy of respect and not try to dominate small countries. I wanted to treat panama fairly. I had studied the issue fairly thoroughly and i was convinced it was an unfair original agreement that was forced upon the panamanian people against their will. That was one difference that set carter apart. The other difference was that he did something about his judgment. He fought and won the battle to get the treaties approved. Fascinated byen the canal as child when reading richard halliburtons book of marvels, in which the adventurer described the history of the canal and then told of swimming its length. He paid a total of . 36 because he wa