I did not get a chance to email out his bio. Maybe, thebably, important critical , ther of the reagan legacy reagan flame, in america today. Frank work on the 1976 Reagan Campaign, he worked on the 1980 campaign. He worked in the reagan white house, he worked in the 1984 campaign, and he has also been longtime chairman of the reagan ranch, one of the three major touchstones in american politics today. If you know anything about the Ronald Reagan library, there is a reagan ranch. And we learned about Eureka College last week in illinois. So thank you for being here. Let me get right into it, and then the students, of course, will ask questions. You organized the very first conservative clinical action political 1973 action conference in 1973. Frank 1974. Craig right. And reagan spoke. Frank first of all, thank you very much for having me. It is great to be here with all of your students. Baseball player who used to play for the Union New York yankees, yogi bear y ogi barra, had a tenden
Have red arrows pretty much across the board and wti crude, right about now you can trade it for 48. 49 here are the big stories were watching Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway was outbid for oncor. Senpra will buy it for 9. 5 billion in cash. Hedge fund Elliott Management which is the biggest creditor to oncor had opposed the sale to berkshire and arguing that it undervalued the company. Berkshire said it would not raise its offer. In another deal, maersk agreed to sell its oil unit to total for nearly 5 billion. The transaction is the latest sign of consolidation in the oil and gas industry which has been dealing with a do you know t. U. R. Tur downturn the deal is still subject to rely laer to approval. And jeff immelt has become the frontrunner to take the helm as ceo of uber the report says ubers board is expected to vote in the next two weeks. I immelt has the report of several directors. Developing story, ten sailors are missing, five injured after a u. S. Warship collided with
Big a mess this is, and how much the personal hostility is a part of this. Schieffer i was very struck this morning, john mccain and Chuck Schumer sitting here across the table, two people who are very different ideologically, but theyre both smart people. Theyre people of good will. And you sit here and wonder how is it that these two people, people like this, cannot be the ones to get this thing done . And yet, somehow or another, there seem to be all these pressures, dee dee, on the leaders on both sides that is keeping this from happening. Well, you have all these processes that begin, and then they die, and it throws it back to leadership. But it hasnt just been that reid and mcconnell havent met in the last 17 days. They havent immediate mt. Since july. You have leadership not talking to each other. And you have members that arent controlled by the leadership, particularly in the Republican Party and the house. Now its back to reid and mcconnell, being the last gasp between a dea
That more than economics. If you ruffled the feathers is someone powerful, that gets you the running and to complain to the publisher of the stories about those things happening. We were fortunate through the 70s and almost all our careers to work for people who are strong and upright in that area and just let the chips fall where they may, where the work way you. Coming up, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest host of interview authors. This economical journalist, john jenkins and his book, the partisan the life of William Rehnquist. And i. , the publisher of cq press details the early career and a 33 year Supreme Court tenure at the former chief justice. He talks the Supreme Court reporter and a biographer for Justice Oconnor and scalia, Joan Biskupic you. Welcome, john jenkins. Were here to talk about your new book, the partisan the life of William Rehnquist. Im going to start with one general question, just to give our viewers a sense of who the ch
Revived republican fortunes and helped elect Ronald Reagan. This class is an hour and 10 minutes. Today were going to continue our saga through conservatism and the Republican Party and specifically what were going to look at today is the revival of the Republican Party after the debacle of the Nixon Administration and watergate. You recall from previous lectures that republicans were down, many thought the Republican Party was going the way of the wiig party. Only 20 of the electorate considered themselves republicans. But within the next five years, the Republican Party was going to revive and Ronald Reagan was going to be elected. So well begin todays class with a video clip. Unfortunately were not going to have the music we usually have and the dancing that we do before class. There was a problem perhaps with copyright so we didnt want somebody suing congress and bankrupting congress. Oh, congress is already bankrupt. Well, anyway, we dont they couldnt afford the lawyers perhaps. O