Great pleasure for me at the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to this afternoons event to celebrate the publication of the new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of blue collar conservativism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aeis election watch team. 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 a technical, vocational or Community College education. This group was large, about a third of voters, and had near perfect track record of voting for the winner in president ial elections. This looselydefined group, roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in our politics. In the book henry shows how reagans preferences matched those of working class americans, transcending left and
Great pleasure for me at the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to this afternoons event to celebrate the publication of the new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of blue collar conservativism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aeis election watch team. 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 a technical, vocational or Community College education. This group was large, about a third of voters, and had near perfect track record of voting for the winner in president ial elections. This looselydefined group, roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in our politics. In the book henry shows how reagans preferences matched those of working class americans, transcending left and
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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
Wall. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, welcome. Im delighted you chose to join us for this the 10th annual Ronald Reagan symposium here at Regent University in virginia beach, virginia, on this cold late winter morning. My name is eric patterson. I serve as the dean of the school of government. I would like to introduce to you one of our senior leaders. To kick off this conference. He is a distinct scholar in academic. He has served as the dean of our college of arts and sciences. He is the author, editor of five books and he currently serves as the executive Vice President for academic affairs. Help me in welcoming to the podium, dr. Morano. Dr. Morano good morning. On behalf of the board of trustees i want to welcome you to the 10th annual Ronald Reagan symposium. This symposium brings together thought leaders to discuss issues around the theme derived from president reagans political career. This years theme the challenges of fostering global freedom, connects to