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Stopped thinking and researching. he liked that level of truth but never wanted to go any further. >> i got the feeling thats what president reagan what he read. if he read a whittaker chambers book he found something that he could put into his own persona. hed read a thomas wolf novel. he would pick something that he thought he could use in his speech. >> dont you do that? >> you do. we had watergate with people with tapes and electronic devices were smart. note cards that you could keep in you...

Now with newly discovered note cards collected by the ronald reagan foundation we get a look into the process of his. he kept index cards with famous sayings, inspirational sayings and even jokes and turned to those for material when traveling with the presidential event or traveling the rubber chicken circuit when going to political events, aç young politician. doug brinkley, the best historian around, has reagans private collection of stories and wisdom, the editor and also joined by politic...

Lost different things. reagan was one of two presidents that actually kept his own diary. and of course now the note cards where he gets sayings and information from a variety of sources, i think that reinforces that. >>clayton: jefferson had a writing desk with multiple pens so he could transcribe everything. and now your take on this quote about churchill. >> he set the deputy difficult any is not measured by material, when great forces are on the move we learn we are spirits not animals. >>cl...

Have chairman of go pack frank. so, what do you make of note cards? why did he have them? >>guest: this is really interesting, clayton, this is discovery of more reagan primary source material. earlier we saw the discovery of letters that he has written to his friends and colleagues over 50 years and then the discovery of the long hand radio scripts that he wrote when he had the radio program and now the reagan diaries and now the note cards. it tells us this man had a lively mind, and he was ve...

San franciscos status as a sanctuary city prohibits local officials from helping out immigration agents unless it involves a felony. gretch? >> this might be how president ronald reagan earned the nickname the great communicator. staffers at his presidential foundation recently found an old book and containing the favorite quotes from the founding fathers. heres what he said about his address on nicaragua. >> history had caused this generation of americans to be watchmen on the walls of world fr...

And now a fascinating look into who inspired the man who came to be known as the great communicator. he is, of course, the nations 40th president, ronald reagan. >> we learned about his inspiration actually from a set of newly unveiled note cards that reagan meticulously worked on. check it out. >> we went on a hunt and we were looking for artifacts of president reagan that have never been seen before. and we found several boxes, including what we called a rosetta stone. many, many dozens of car...

That it can appear that, you know, i was starting to gain weight. >> the 17-year-old revealed her baby was fake at a school assembly this week. she is holding the padding there. and she has also passed out note cards with some of the negative comments that she says people made about her. rodriguez says she plans to go to college next year to study social work and she does not want kids until after she graduates. the nfl commissioner roger gold speaking out about the labor dispute thats on for mo...

Was off. >> reporter: ron reagan says he became so convinced his father was showing early signs of alzheimers, he decided to shadow him for a day in the white house. you say that he was sitting at the phone making phone calls and he was reading note cards like he had prompts. >> yeah, and that bothered me. >> reporter: but now his half brother michael writes on twitter that ron is an embarrassment and accuses him of selling out his father to sell books. so we asked two of the countrys leading al...

Cards to do that. and arlington still uses note cards. theyre lock in an environment 60, 70 years ago. it doesnt have to be this way. and we spent good money to fix it and it has yet to be fixed. i think this hearing yesterday was the first step. >> amen to that. i want to ask you before i let you go about whats happening in montana because everyone is concerned about the bear attack. whats the latest on that? they think that they found the grizzly? i guess it was a female grizzly that they thin...

And they like to kick her when shes down. theres an element of that with sarah palin. >> let me pick up on that. lets put up a "washington post" abc poll that showed 71% dont believe sarah palin is qualified to be president. that includes a majority of republicans, by the way. you see shes not a serious political figure. the media certainly treat her as a huge political figure. why? >> its like they treat britney spears like shes a big talent. they like her because they like to make fun of her. ...