Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. You can watch this and of the programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everyone. Im Karlyn Bowman and it is a great pleasure for me and my cohost today bill galston of the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to the sentiments event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of bluecollar conservatism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, four aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aei selection. Henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. People with the technical vocational or Community College education this group was large, about onethird of voters and had a nearperfect track record of voting for the winter in president ial elections. This loosely defined group, roughly synonymous with the
The passion of the voters and so forth. When you talk about a symbol of state, how important is that . Very important to. Having the presidency is all from the kingship and its a twopronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think its the characteristic of the office. They have to be both, really. In your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didnt, you write that if great or near great president s were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. Thats correct and if you look at some of my failures, James Buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. He waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. He conspired behind his wifes back to run for president. She did not even know he was one of the candidates an
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Photographed celebrities and politicians, but this morning, see why Annie Leibovitz new project honors women from inside a former prison. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. This is a break with u. S. Policy. This is unchartered waters. President elect trump is fully briefed and knowledgeable about these issues. Reporter president elect trump risks a showdown with china after talking with taiwan. A tenminute chat was a shenanigan by taiwan. Donald trump has given new meaning to a own phrase, a bull in a china shop. No charges filed following the shooting death of nfl player joe mcknight. A dare devil has surrendered to police after video show him dangling from other new york city skyscrapers. A close call. Pedestrian in poland. A winter storm warning in effect through saturday on hawaii. Forecasters say two feet of snow could fall on the big mountains. New addition to the Milwaukee County zoo . Three tiger cubs made their public debut. Ah.