The reagan institute. The d. C. Office of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and the Ronald Reagan institute. In 1980, the 20something son of a former congressman and Prince Georges County executive was named the chair of the youth for reagan. He is looking quite youthful today, i might add. He supported then governor reagan during the 1976 president ial primary. And now, young larry hogan would serve as a delegate to the 1980 republican convention. And you know, we have a lot of reagan devotees join us at the institute. But i think Governor Hogan may rank above them all. You see, he didnt just support Ronald Reagan in 1976, in 1980, in 1984. He managed to support him in 2020 as well. [laughter] now, i know you consider president reagan your political hero, governor, but that, sir, thats real dedication. And by the way, you didnt have to do that just to be invited here today. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank you for joining us. Were honored to welcome you virtua
Journalists peter baker and Susan Glasser on the brandnew book on james baker, the life and times of james baker. Iner baker, no relation come Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off bal
Can you describe the scene . Susie sherbet personal thank you for having me. There is no sense of this one you have to remember is trump did not come as a bolt out of the blue. Even taking for years is running for president. He was not quite sure how it he did not have an identity sometimes he was a democrat sometimes he was a republican sometimes he is an independent. By 2012 he was getting serious about it. And david is a conservative activist, hardline conservative activists was a friend of donald trump and he decided to talk to him about running for president. They took his friend steve bannon who did not know donald trump at that point to new york to eat meeting at trump tower to talk about the possibility of donald trump running as an outsider how would he do it . David bossi sits down with steve bannon and donald trump that heres the way you run it the traditional reagan republican. Which is the way almost all republicans ran at that point. Steve bannon speaks up and says someth
Named the chair of youth for reagan. He is looking quite youthful today, i might add. [laughter] he supported then governor reagan during the 1976 president ial primary. And now, young larry hogan would serve as a delegate to the 1980 republican convention. And you know, we have a lot of reagan devotees join us at the institute. But i think Governor Hogan may rank above them all. You see, he didnt just support Ronald Reagan in 1976, in 1980, in 1984. He managed to support him in 2020 as well. [laughter] now, i know you consider president reagan your political hero, governor, but that, sir, thats real dedication. And by the way, you didnt have to do that just to be invited here today. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank you for joining us. Were honored to welcome you virtually to the reagan institute, through our center for civics, education, opportunity led by our own dr. Janet tran. We work at the nexus of these three pillars, answering president reagans call for an infor
Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n