washington correspondent of the star ledger and a past president of the club. columnist george will once said that the late senator daniel patrick moynihan of new york wrote more books than most senators had read. today s guest, former house speaker newt gingrich, has written even more books than senator moynihan. but remember, there are four times more house members than there are senators. speaker ing given is gingrich is here to talk about his latest book, understanding trump. we ll speak for about 20 minutes and then take audience. if you have not previously purchased a book, please do so now. proceeds benefit the national press club journalism institute that does journalism trading and helps the club. before we begin, please turn off or silence your cell phones. i d first like to acknowledge the members of the headliners team responsible for organizing the event x. if you re in the audience, please stand and be recognized. betsy fisher martin. lisa matthews, lori rus
serious readers. good afternoon, everyone. i m karlyn bowman and it s a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to the saponins event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book the working class republican: ronald reagan & the return of bue-collar conservatism. henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in good standing of apis election launch team. henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic with the pollsters called some college come people with the technical vocational or committee college education pick this group was a large, but one-third of voters and had a near-perfect track record of voting for the winter in presidential elections. this loosely defined group, roughly synonymous with the working-class, wasn t it is especially important in our politics. in the book and ray shows how reagan s p
i m sure this is not a wake-up call. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, president lee, honorable guests and distinguished speaker. on behalf of the taiwan benevolent association of america, thank you heritage foundation for this opportunity to be the cosponsor of this forum. this forum we hope through this forum we are not only reinforce relationship between united states of america and republic of china but also we can have the people of the two countries to understand to build better relationship than ever. so this is my very short speech, and i thank you for your comment and thank you for your support. enjoy this afternoon. thank you. [applause] and also like to introduce another cohost, organizer, in ita institute of taiwan and american studies. [applause] now we re going to start the panel and talking about the economy issue, policies interesting but it comes fundamental. everything is fundamental. we are going to go by the order on the program so we will start
blue-collar conservatism . henry is a senior fellow at the ethics of public s health policy center a former colleague and a member in good standing of the election watch team. henry arrived at aia in 2006 and was soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscured demographics with what they call some college, people with a technical vocational or community college education. this group was large. about one third of voters and had a near perfect track record of voting for the winner in presidential elections. the loosely defined group roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in politics. in the book henry shows how reagan s preferences match those of working-class americans transcending left and right and providing the key to his success. henry s book is basically divided into two parts. one on understanding the beliefs of the true reagan. getting reagan right in henry s words. and the other appointed critique of how co