and get the scholars and see a major part of our history and the good and the bad and the fact that the challenge around slavery. that s what we have been the last 30 years and that has been brought and the true part of american history has been back. we have been slow on that history with them. there is this evan wants to be uncomfortable about it. you want to feel patriotic. you cannot ignore the issues. you can t. i think it s patriotic that if you look at washington and jefferson s best men, they were not perfect. we got better. there is something patriotic that you can do better tomorrow than today. even the leaders were better today than we were in the past. tomorrow you can hope for that.
now brought to bear upon political candidates? do you think he could cope with this? i think he would have dealt with the reality around him. i think he was able to operate in much more liberty when presidents weren t under the spotlight. i ll tell you one thing. if you ask me why the people were recently asked who should be on mount rushmore with washington and jefferson and lincoln, of course, the great hero, teddy roosevelt. they say jack kennedy. over fd are not. over reagan. do you know why? because at the time he was president, for those brief three years, this country believed co-do things. because we had a gutsy president who did things. and he put the man on the moon. we can beat the russians, let s get to the saturn rocket which he loved. he sent young people around the world because he fwleed united states could win the cold war because we could show how to develop ourselves. he took on jim crow and the horrors of racism. he said we ll have a civil rights bill and he web t
maybe you should tell your colleagues, that you are in the tradition of republican conservatism, noninvolvement in areas that shouldn t involve us. pat, that is the position. sure is. goldwater, bob taft. generally that s been the position. it goes back to washington and jefferson, we say out of quarrels where our interests are not imperilled. we did so all the way up to the war against spain, you could say, in which the united states grew into the greatest country on earth while the europeans were tearing themselves apart. let s take a look at a couple questioning congressman, while we have you, it seems to me you heard these stories about the intramurals and obama administration that led to us getting involved in libya. what do you think about the case that was made that if we didn t go in there there would be a slaughter of humanity and blamed like we were blamed in rwanda
so this is not some johnny come lately position for me. i ve had a long history of opposing what i think are failed policies. maybe you should tell your colleagues, that you are in the tradition of republican conservatism, noninvolvement in areas that shouldn t involve us. pat, that is the position. sure is. goldwater, bob taft. generally that s been the position. it goes back to washington and jefferson, we say out of quarrels where our interests are not imperilled. we did so all the way up to the war against spain, you could say, in which the united states grew into the greatest country on earth while the europeans were tearing themselves apart. let s take a look at a couple questioning congressman, while we have you, it seems to me you heard these stories about the intramurals and obama administration that led to us getting involved in libya.
i ve had a long history of opposing what i think are failed policies. maybe you should tell your colleagues, that you are in the tradition of republican conservatism, noninvolvement in areas that shouldn t involve us. pat, that is the position. sure is. goldwater, bob taft. generally that s been the position. it goes back to washington and jefferson, we say out of quarrels where our interests are not imperilled. we did so all the way up to the war against spain, you could say, in which the united states grew into the greatest country on earth while the europeans were tearing themselves apart. let s take a look at a couple questioning congressman, while we have you, it seems to me you heard these stories about the intramurals and obama administration that led to us getting involved in libya. what do you think about the case that was made that if we didn t go in there there would be a slaughter of humanity and blamed