Recall your feelings when you took office for the first time . Pres. Reagan i recall that day with great clarity. All of it, the coming to the white house, the being taken thoseappearing before thousands of people stretched wason the mall, there unreality to all of it. Awareness of what it meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion, and at the same prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. Godfrey people have told us one of your great strengths is that you had an agenda with just a few big things that you wants to change you wanted to change. Pres. Reagan the country was in the economic doldrums. Doubledigit inflation, great unemployment. The economy stagnating. People in the country seemed to have lost belief in themselves and in the country. There was the matter of National Security, of on any given day, half of our military planes could not take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels cannot leave port for that were lac
But it was an awareness of what it meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion. And at the same time, a great prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. Godfrey a lot of people have told us that one of your greatest strengths was that you had an agenda of just a few big things that you wanted to change. Can you tell me what your goals were . Pres. Reagan yes, the country was in the economic doldrums. It doubled inflation, great unemployment, the economy stagnating, the people of the country seems to have lost a belief in themselves and in the country. Also, there was a matter of National Security. On any given day, half of our military planes couldnt take off for lack of spare parts. Half of our naval vessels had that or lack of crew. So i was determined that we had to restore the economy, and i have been asked many times, and campaigning if i ran into the deficit problem because we have been deficit spending for almost half a century, wit
A feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of words will get out but also i think generally in south korea there is a feeling of we have been here before people here are very philosophical about these kind of cycles of crisis and then reconciliation theyve been through this kind of thing before whats different this time possibly is that there was really a feeling of a potentially that this was going to lead to some kind of breakthrough that we havent seen in the past and that will obviously leave many people here disappointed where we are now this is its about as close as you can get in south korea to the d. M. Z. Its another few kilometers further on from here but it is also one of the crossing points for the main rail links between north and south that gives you an idea of the legacy of the conflict and also hopes of future coexistence hopes that
We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
To be left alone, but now to attach that belief, not simply to escape but to a sense of greater selfrighteousness, a greater sense of american purpose. Overturned in this sense. Rights andof states they return in this sense to local control. S was we will talk about reagan and the new right, a new american right. Then we will talk about the new cold war, the changes in the cold war. Then we will talk about the end of the cold war. We will talk about that in our lecture next week as well. We will talk about early in the cold war and Ronald Reagans role in that as well as mikal gorbachev. Lets start with reagan and the new right. Reagan atave ronald his first job. Really, his second job. His first job was as a lifeguard. His second job, as a radio announcer in des moines, iowa. In des moines, iowa. His career was largely a career in entertainment, not in policy. In entertainment and in radio in and in movies as well. He was born in dixon, illinois, which was a rural town in illinois, a F