Security adviser brent scowcroft. This program from the Video Library is about one hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Pres. Reagan please be seated. On behalf of myself and the American People, i want to extend my thanks to senator tower, secretary muskie and mr. Scowcraft. Whatever this report may say, i have appointed, or i am proud to have appointed this distinguished board because it fulfills my commitment to get the facts and share them with the American People. This is why i asked the attorney general to conduct his review and why when that review uncovered on authorized actions, i ordered disclosure of what we knew. It is why i urged the appointment of an independent counsel and why i appointed David Abshire as my special counselor on this matter. And it is also why i ordered full cooperation with congressional inquiries. And it is why i appointed this board, the tower board. The significance of this boards work is reflected in the size of the volume
Lord, infuse our senators with a spirit of humility. Enabling them to refuse to become legends in their own minds. May they ultimate v8 they cultivate esteem for others, seeking opportunities to practice the golden rule due unto others as you would have them do unto you. As they work to find common ground, give them your wisdom and peace. We pray in your strong name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the democratic leader. Mr. Reid i was disappointed last night to learn the Supreme Court temporarily halted the implementation of president obamas coal power plant program. This was an especially stunning move by the Supreme Court, given that just weeks ago the d. C. Circuit court of appeals categorically reje
Fact is that i write these history books often, many of the characters in the history book are political wives. There is a political wife who starred this book festival, it was laura bush who went to the fabulous library of congress and said i did it taxes a book festival, can we do one in washington. It shows you what a fabulous legacy political lie wives have left here in washington. That makes it more delightful for me to be able to participate in it. Also, we should just say the volunteers of this festival are the heroes. [applause]. By and large the heroes because there is no way this could go on without these wonderful hundreds of volunteers. Thank you all very much for what you do. I have written history books about women in history and i never was going to write about the civil war. First of all all of my ancestors fought on the losing side. So i didnt really have any interest in its. Secondly, its an awful war. It is a horrible, horrible time in our history, we lost more than
The kept going back to wages are going to decrease if you become right to work, youll hurt the worker. We said, no, thats not true at all. We showed that wages increase at a higher rate when youre in a right to work state. The other thing we ran into was, Companies Want to move to right to work states because they want to pay people less. So that was interesting. So they were saying that, you know, Site Selectors, we know who they are, what they do, this is one of almost their standard questions is, are you a right to work state, are you not. And theres plenty of companies who have moved to states that they have specifically said were going here because this is a key component to it. So what we did is, we said businesses dont go to right to work states because they want to pay less, because again, the statistics dont back that up. Companies go to right to work states because theres more flexibility in the workplace, and because their workers can be more efficient. And again, we brought
Of our republican forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids it. The law i will sign tonight forbids it. That law is the product of months of the most careful debate and discussion. It was proposed more than one year ago by our late and beloved president , john f. Kennedy. It received the bipartisan support of more than 2 3 of the members and the house and senate. An overwhelming majority of republicans as well as democrats voted for it. It has received the thoughtful support of 10s of thousands of civic and religious leaders in all parts of this nation and it is supported by the great majority of the american people. The purpose of this law is simple. It does not restrict the freedom of any american so long as he restricts the rights of others. It does not give special treatment to any citizen. It does say the only limit to a mans hope for happiness and for the future of his children shall be his own ability. It does say that there are those who are equal be