Ladies. This is about 90 minutes. Mrs. Reagan so, all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. Thank you. [screaming] [cheering] mrs. Reagan my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever paths their talents and their Natures Point to. I think they thought that the white house was so glamorous and your role was so what you did was so glamorous, your life was so glamorous, and all they saw were the parties and the meeting people and, you know and ive got to tell you, i never worked harder in my life. Ms. Swain nancy reagan served as longtime political partner, fiercest protector, and ultimately as the caretaker for president Ronald Reagan. An involved first lady, she was active in key staff decisions and policymaking and in campaigning. She made drug use her signature white house issue with her just say no campaign. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight, were going to tell you th
One has written eight book about reagans post presidency, so it seemed appropriate in the idea came when one of my sons, mitchell, was sitting in the kitchen highlighting these big binders of material i got from the Reagan Library in every time reagans name is here he would highlight it for me and he said to me one night, has ended has anyone ever done a book about reagan after his presidency and that was the beginning of last act. Host what do you focus on specifically as far as post presidency . Guest i use the funeral is kind of the baseline and then i do flashbacks and flashforwards, so its really the seven days each chapter represents pretty much one day although, there are other chapters as well of the funeral, but i do a lot of flashbacks over the last several years of his presidency, his retirement and obviously that alzheimer. Host if there is a main message you want the folks to get as far as his post presidency and his legacy what would you wanted to be . Guest i dont know i
Carson at 12 , with all the others on one hand. Three times the number of voters who said they would vote for trump fan in march. Great news. One topic that would come up between the front runners tonight is a New York Times story that says cruz did not disclose two loans from big banks, one from Goldman Sachs. After a rally in pensacola, we asked trump about this new issue. Mark there is a story in the New York Times about ted cruz not properly reporting a loan from Goldman Sachs. Are you concerned about that . Do you think voters should be . Mr. Trump its a big thing. I know nothing about it, but i hear it is a big thing. I hope he solves it. I think he is a nice guy. John we have not seen cruz respond yet, but a spokesperson said that goldmans sugar daddy issue would not be a problem, and then she used the opportunity to slam trump from being a birther. One thing that is getting under Donald Trumps skin, the attacks against ted cruz are not working. It has been questioned by donald
He is the highestranking officer of the opposite party and therefore the spokesman for the other party, visavis the president. The speakers also have at various times had great power to bring legislation to the floor. That is handled by other committees, but with the speakers sayso. They control the agenda. The Majority Party controls the agenda and the speaker has the final authority. What qualities do you think make for a successful speaker . The best speakers through history have been those who have tried to find a way to be problem solvers, to be compromisers, to work with president s of their own party and opposite party. Those who understand the relationship with the chairman of the committees of the house. That is a tough job, to balance all those forces. Speakers do not always have complete control of their own caucus. There are divisions in the system. The house runs by the numbers for the most part. If you have the majority, you can push the legislation of the Majority Party.
Chuse. They even spelled it 18th century style. Choose its speaker and other offices. There were no other duties mentioned. It was assumed since the founders knew all about speakers from colonial ledge islators that what the speaker was. A presiding officer, but in our congress the speaker was not only a presiding officer, he quickly became the powerful person because he appointed committees. And that evolved as Party Systems evolved, First Congress didnt have organized parties the twoparty system developed the speaker became the leader of the majority party. And took on political ramifications. The constitution is very silent on this of the powers. The power of the speaker are what the speaker can make of them and thats the unique part of it and some have exercised great power where they even rivalled the presidency in terms of setting the National Agenda. Most of those in recent times, but also 100 years ago, two powerful republican speakers, thomas bracket reed and joe cannon of ill