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think. broken can the senate save itself and the country? and i m just curious what is your conclusion to that question? guest: tom first of all i m thrilled to have a conversation with you. when c-span told me that you were going to do it i felt like i had won the lottery, to see an old friend but also a great senator and senate leader and an author too on this subject. they can get much better than that. host: thank you. i m flattered. guest: the easy answer is that the jury is still out on how it s going to go. what i tried to convey in the book was first the senate has declined over long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades and the senate has declined in a way, the decline goes like that and then it s deepens over the last nine or 10 years. what we are facing now i believe it s a very diminished diminished and weakened we didn t senate at precisely the time that we need a strong one. all of a sudden we are facing the possibili ....
and as always i d like to thank pearl for putting together this terrific program so lees enjoy. thank you. thank you very much robyn. i want to make a couple of announcements before we start. if you would please turn off your cell phones so that not to disturb the presentation tonight. and during q and a-line up behind extending mic in the center row, and please make all the your questions only to be directed to our author shirley, thank you. we re privileged tonight to have two extraordinary people as our guests analyst craigly and woman who chose to be the interviewser of the evening monica crowley. monica crowley is a well respected journalist, best selling author, radio tack show host. tv analyst, with and brilliant woman for the american people. yeah, thank you. [applause] she s a true believer in our constitution and it is incredible founders. monica is a great patriot. who speaks to those of us who have no voice. and we her for that and now introduce to you someo ....
do not tend not rate in from the note, wiki with this one thing to tell you about reagan s self-confidence. in 1980s come is giving an interview to the reporter at the new york times. this is in the process of gaining the nomination. he said something interesting. the fact that maybe one can be president, but more importantly that one should be president and said he had that type of self-confidence he should be president to carter is in the 70s. in the back. and kevin brown word. thank you for your hard work today. i like both of them have the highest regard for president reagan but a couple things he did confuse me particularly in the middle east [inaudible] he put on a big show in a couple days later the nike wrote in his diaries that the greatest regret in the greatest failure of his presidency was babe ruth. he regretted the position and not providing them with enough material to defend himself. he was ....
personal charge of his forces and today has been perhaps the most important for him with the key battles of his nomination fight coming to a head. bob schieffer reports. bob: the president spent a lot of time visiting various state allegations. he went to some of the headquarters hotels and had other dollar legation to headquarters on the 18th floor of this hotel. one of the things you come away with after talking to people here, members of the white house staff is this the ford people seem a lot more comfortable about their vote count. on the other hand, they are 16c thingout this coming up tonight to force the president to name his running mate early. the organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. the ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. somehowo know that if the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. ford some vot ....
eagleton, andor my fellow citizens, i am happy to join you for this benediction service.iday sunrise [applause] i assume that everyone here is impressed with my control of this convention in that my choice for vice president was challenged by only 39 other nominees. [applause] but i think we learned from watching the republicans four years ago as they selected their less presidential nominee their vice presidential nominee that it pays to take a little more time. [applause] i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon delegation at least cap her in the race with martha mitchell. you on yourulate respects and i pay my to those two superb presiding officers of this convention, larry o brien and yvonne braithwaite burke. [applause] tonight, i accept your nomination with a full and grateful heart. [applause] afternoon, i crossed the wide missouri to recommend a running mate of wide vision and deep compassion, senator tom eagleton. [applause] i am proud to ....