Over the past two centuries, Europe has become increasingly secular. Scholars in fact no longer talk of the Christian West when they speak of Modern Europe and North America, but of the Secular West.
eggs and cruelty to chickens. brian: cruelty to chickens? steve: instead use plastic or wooden eggs. brian: making scrambled eggs is good for chickens. lisa: apparently people are turning to potatoes because eggs are too expensive. in joe biden s america can t die easter eggs. brian: and can t get baby formula. steve: as a lovely parting gift you can get a wooden egg started in the 1980s with the reagans. brian: we have that footage. steve: i have flashback family photos of the doocy family actually there in the 80 s and i posted it on my instagram. lisa: that s cute. steve: that s right peter screen left about 9 months old chewing on my press pass. brian: the exact spot. steve: there i am at the white house this weekend and there he is. he loved mine better. and there is my wife and i
and then he walks right out and that s it a hit album. i think he is add good as any christmas crooner in history. steve: you know what, brian, i agree with you, a one take guy. i m going to name drop, back in the 1980s when i was working in washington, i was in the tent before they lit up the national christmas tree rather the white house christmas tree out on the ellipse with ronald reagan and nancy reagan and he was the singer. i wound up spending an hour talking to him and he is fantastic. he was a charming guy. and he went out there and he belted out a song like this and it just gave everybody goose bumps. brian: did he sound like he did on the recording. steve: just like that better because he is live johnny mathis. ainsley: were you excited to see them on the reagans. steve: i saw the reagans all the time. it was a fun night. bitterly cold night. ainsley: who was better mariah carey at christmas songs or johnnie mathis.
the time, ronald reagan, was absolutely silent. so talk a little bit about elizabeth taylor s activism there. let me read you a piece here, from your book, it says most of the time this was about aids patients. most of the time they would say the patients at hospice just needed someone to touch them. she decided to do unpublicized hospice vists. she wanted them to know they were loved. she was the first major excellent activist to take on hiv and aids. i think she was actually one of the first celebrity activists, period, to really devote her life to a cause. because the second half of her life was all about hiv and aids. so she used her relationship with the reagans and i got this rare look into these private letters and diaries where she s writing to nancy reagan and pleading with her to have the president speak about aids because it was years. the first cases, you re talking