Countries. Were losing jobs. Were losing our competitive advantage. To do that it requires a number of things. A an adjustment to the tax code to reinstill the incentive to save for the average citizen. To invest, to install new plant and equipment to create new jobs. You have to reduce the burden of paperwork of regulation in this nation. Id like to see us make a distinction between reporting requirements to the agencies o of the federal government for Small Business versus big business. Small business being suffocated. All of these things are Component Parts of a complex question that is how do you control inflation, how do you reduce the cost of living or the increase in the nation. I will not stand here, i will not sit here and say as president theres a magic wand that you can waved. It will take all of these things plus much more to get our house back in order. Thank you for being with us on election 80. I think were going through or were on the cusp of a progressive revolution. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton both of them are progressives. One of them is going to be the next president , i believe. And so now its a good time to take stock and see how did this guy do that we thought was a real progressive. How did he do and what can e we learn from that experience as we move to the next administration. Sunday night on q a, radio talk show host bill press talks about his book buyers remorse, which takes a critical look at the obama presidency. Bernie sanders recently spoke out in favor of the book. The blurb does not endorse the book. It repeats a point he made, which is twofold. We need a Political Revolution and thats his phrase and that Political Revolution means that the progressives have to really keep the pressure on the next president whom we hope will be a democrat and progressive to really stick u to the Progressive Agenda and follow it through and not compromise it away. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Each week until the 2016 president ial election American History tv brings you coverage of past president ial races. Next on road to the white house rewind, we look back to the 1996 campaign and republican bob dole in New Hampshire. The kansas senator visits three towns and makes stops in a diner, general store and private home. At this point in electoral history, no republican candidate since 1952 had gone on to win the white house without first taking the New Hampshire primary. A streak broken by george w. Bush in 2000. Senator dole went on to win New Hampshire and his partys president ial nod, but lost to incumbent bill clinton in the general election. This is about 50 minutes. It started. Nice to have you here. Thanks so much. Nice to see you. Welcome. Nice to meet you. Isnt it a great breakfast. How are you doing this morning . I hope i get some. Nice to see you. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning. How are you . Nice to see you. Cdf nice to see you this morning. A great place to start the day. Welcome to New Hampshire. Come to vermont and talk to us. How far are you from here . Thanks for letting us here. Is she running for governor . Good morning. Nice to e see you. Beans for breakfast . Were done. Good morning. Very good, thank you. Thats a nice area. Nice to meet you. How you doing . Bob dole, how are you . Doesnt that look good . Bis u kit and sausage. Are you excited for me . Were number one in the country. Thats right. The were not doing very well. Thank you very much. They are doing good. They beat rice by 30 points. Youre new. Thats good. Good morning, sir. We dont belong over there, sir u. Support the boys over there. Good morning, senator. I went back. Hes doing a good job over there. Alife and well funded. Is that right . Very much so. Some of the restrictions being talked about would hamstring what needs to be done on behalf of that society. Being talked about of the representation as people from other segments of society who can pay for it out of their pockets. I just think a level Playing Field is called for. Whatever you can do to please support it. As ardently as you can. I think they have some directive. Then that big sacrifice. I dont think they would have that going on. Here in this state. Take one quick picture. Right here. Good luck in the campaign. Were you down r for the dedication of the memorial . I wasnt. This is a great place. We went back. Do you all live right here in the area . Were all neighbors. Have a good day. You too. Take it easy. Were working on it. Im going to need tons. We do get to sit down. Are you going to get a muffin . Look at this. He works for the American Red Cross here. I work for the blood services. Were 80 there with the new system. Got 20 to go. Thats great. Thanks for all you do. Hold the fort until you get back. This is my faufvorite. You cant get patties anymore. They are all links. We close at 2 00 on sundays. By the time the line is ready it has to be 6 00. This is typical mom and pop operation. In a line. You have the same busy lunch. Yeah. We have a lot of repeats. Thats the basis of the business. We got our feet on the ground. Youre in louden. Long before the racetrack. You have lost somewhere else. Youll be around the state all day and boston tonight. You have a great team you split them up. She does the work and he counts the money. We had the senator with a white apron. And a spatula in his hand flipping over a couple eggs. Did you lose anybody . How many did you drop on the floor. He did a great job. We have better ideas for you. Actually everybody wanted the eggs he turned over. That is funny. A couple eggs. Which is good news for us. I did too. Breakfast is my favorite. I had an egg beeter omelet. Other things to catch up. Did you do the treadmill last night . No, i went to bed at 10 00. Days get long. We have been up real late the night before. We didnt get out of session until after 11 00. To be honest, i was there last night. I dont know how many good days you have every day. Would you like breakfast . Im fine. That was wonderful. Thanks so much. I love the patties. I really do. They are good. We have so many. Im not sure what the difference is. But in my mind theres a difference. Following his visit to the egg shell restaurant, senator dole traveled ten miles west making two stops in the area. You know how to dress up here. Youre ready for this. This white stuff is beautiful. Thank you, senator dole, for helping our ski season. I make it to boston and im all right. Going to raise a little money. Do you have a camera . You were in the army together right here. Well make sure youekj get. Ill remember that. I think so. Thanks a lot. Were going to hang tough. Its warm in here. Thank you very much. Nice to see you. How is is business . Pretty great. Well tell everybody to buy something. That would be nice. E he brought the snow. Youre back there making your own stuff. Fantastic. She makes everything back here. What are you making back there . Breads and rolls. Nice to see you. You make all your own stuff . Yep. Donuts too . Yes, they are right up front. Who is this young man . This is robert. Thats my name. They call me bob. They call you bob or robert. They will call you bob later on. I was bobby jo. But our parents always call me. You have a big store. You know bill. Anything they knock over you have to buy. Well give you a little push into the wine cellar. You can buy enough for a couple days. Sure. Good to see you. How you doing . Good, how are you doing . This is my home. This is your day off today . We never get a day off. Really . Farmers work sundays. Even in an orchard . Weve got Christmas Trees and winterizing equipment. You do any of this kind of thing . No, this we fly in from the ottoman society. Wheres mike. I think i heard that already. Its all very nice. Theyre all different. How are you . Is this the neighborhood here . Your neighborhood . Nice to see you. Whats your name . Tony. Hi, how are you . Im a neighbor, too. I live up the street. Well, nice to see you. Do a little shopping in here from time to time . Sure. I dont buy my cider anywhere else. Its the best there is. It reminds me when i was a kid and they used to press it by hand. Great cider. Got enough money . Good to see you. Thanks for coming out. Oh, yeah. Tim took one last night. Thats great, i appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming last night, too. We appreciate it. Is this your son . This is congressman dole. Saw your mom and dad last night. Hes very interested and tuned into the issue. How old are you . Youre about the right age then. We were talking about you last night. You know that . You got to vote in school one of these days, too. Got to give you my campaign pitch. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Going to hit the slopes this year . Are we this way . Youre watching road to the white house. I would like that. Can we get a picture with all these guys . Oh, sure. I would like to introduce you to our congressman bill zelif. Hes been working long and hard on senator doles campaign. Hes there every monday and sometimes cantankerous meetings getting the job done for senator dole. You are our future and thats what this fight is all about. I just want to say were very lucky in the Republican Party to have so many wonderful candidates running for president , willing to put their lives on the line for the future of their country, do what they believe is right. I pick the person that represents you the best. Our kids, my grandchildren, we have a christening horm in pittsburgh. Im excited, our third grandchild, thats what were all doing this for. And i would just like to say with bob and elizabeth dole, i find two of the most outstanding people i have ever met. Bob dole in terms of his experience, i have seen him in terms of crisis, in terms of situations that are facing our country. Doing his homework, his hand on the wheel. The guy i have tremendous respect for, bob dole. Thank you. Just introduced you. Im glad senator dole is here. Really glad. A lot of my friends here from 1988, i appreciate that very much. And a lot of people who i have said, probably some uncommitted, some came to the wrong meeting. They always want to show up at the wrong meeting, but were happy to have anybody here today. Ive only met one person that didnt like the snow up here this morning earlier who didnt care much for snow. But she accepts it. She lived here 45 years she told me. So i want to say very quickly that i think we have an opportunity in 96 to send bill clinton back to arkansas. I say that charitably, i dont mean to be critical. This is what this is all about. Its about competition. Its all about ideas. Its all about your children, your family, your business. I heard the presence say a time or to and also mrs. Clinton a time or two on television. You never knew it could be like this in washington. They come from a oneparty environment where arkansas, they tolerate republicans thats about the limit. They have four or five in the senate, eight or ten in the house. But its much, much different in the congress of the United States. I think president clinton has found out certainly it must have been a shock after the 94 election when he never had an opportunity to work with an Opposition Congress or legislative body to wake up after the election and find out we had taken house and the senate back. Theres only one thing missing that makes all these changes happen, and that is to change the white house. Somebody who will sign welfare reform, somebody who will sign tax cuts for families with children. Somebody who believes in a balanced budget, a real balanced budget using what we call congressional numbers, not white house numbers. Because theres about a 500 billion difference there if you use different numbers. And above all to balance the budget in seven year, preserve medicare and do all these things. To get more power back to the states, back to the legislature here, back to the people. If you take out the tenth amendment of the constitution, its only 28 words in length. What it says in essence is the power is not reserved to the federal government. It belongs to the states and to the people. Thats what this campaign is all about. Its not about bob dole, its not able bill clon ton, its about america, about you, about your future, about these young people right here. Better than weve had because of technology and all the good things that are happening. I think shes over. So a lot of people, i dont want them to succeed obviously. Were not friends. Well be friends after its over. I said jokingly ill try to find a place for most of them in my administration. Phil graham says ive got a running mate in every state. I dont have one in texas, dont worry about that. But in any event New Hampshire is very important. Youve got a big saying what happened because a lot of later states are never going to get to vote in the primary. Its going to be over in my view in late march or early april. States like nebraska and new jersey andle lgtsz r7b8gnew mex kansas. I may be wrong, but i dont think so. It doubles your responsibility or triples or quadruples your responsibility as voters in New Hampshire. I would say finally before i submit to questions, you just have to ask yourself, who do you want making decisions for you that affect your lives or your childrens lives, your parents, your grandparents, whatever. Who do you want providing the leadership from the white house . Who do you want making those decisions . And i would say as modestly as i can, i believe ive been able to make the tough decisions. I know i have the experience. Im not intimidated about what im set out to do in running for the presidency. I believe i would do an outstanding job for america and thats what its all about. The pressure on the budget, balance the budget,s balance the budget in seven years. My first act when i become president of the United States will be to support the sevenyear path, send a budget that will continue the seven year balanced budget path republicans responded on. A week from friday will be almost near the end. So thank you for your support. If you havent made up your minds. Anyone have any questions . Any questions . Im not in New Hampshire. Youve got a question . Bosnia was different from the folks on the republican side running against you. And i wondered if you could explain how you came to that decision and what motivated you to do that, the support that youre giving to the troops. I knew when they started having meetings in dayton when the president finally got active in the bosnian policy, which we had criticized him for being inactive for about 30 months. We voted in overwhelming numbers, democrats and republicans, to lift the arms embargo and let these people defend themselves. Had that happened we wouldnt be talking about american troops. The president rejected that repeatedly. I led the effort with joe lieberman, a democrat from connecticut. We had up to 69 votes was the High Water Mark and the house had overwhelming votes. We should have done it a year ago or two years ago. Ive also followed the Bush Administration and their bosnian policy. Yugoslav didnt have any policy. We sort of got dragged into this. The president promised if we had a piece, he would send 25,000 americans. He made that commitment for america, then you bring the leaders over here in these Different Countries and they go to dayton and they put together what i think is a flawed agreement. But they all initially are going to sign it next week in paris. The president again says, its by implication, in fact, its direct. The secretary of the state and secretary holbrooke that if you sign on to this agreement, americans will participate, otherwise they wouldnt have signed the agreement. Now, the agreement has been made, the decision has been made. The troops are on the way. We have one choice. If youre going to support the American Forces and i said yes, and i said yes early because i knew they were going to go. Once the agreement is signed next thursday, i guess it will be, a week from thursday, there will be thousands. Theyre will be poised to go into bosnia. And i have a very strong and long held feeling about supporting americans in uniform, particularly when theyre on foreign soil and in harms way. Do i agree with president clinton . No. I dont agree with his policy or his decision. But he made the decision hrk hes a commanderinchief, a president of the United States. Americas credibility is on the line. We are part of nato. We have a responsibility to nato. And on tuesday or wednesday of this next week well have three votes. Well first vote on cutting off funds, which is a bill coming over to the house. That will fail. It should fail because we have troops on the ground. We dont want to cut off funding for those americans who are there. Second, there will be a vote in essence that says we do not agree with the president s decision to deploy troops, a. B, we support the troops who are going to be there. That will be passed. And then my version would be to in effect support the troops and have an exit policy to indicate that we need to take the lead to training the bosnians, arming the bosnians so a year from now we can get out of there because i think well be stuck there for a long time. As the policy develops, hopefully people will understand my position. I must say, ive listened to a lot of television and listened to a lot of these young men and women saying, you know, this is were in the army, this is our duty. Weve been called. I think they need our support. The last thing they need is division. Partisan division. We had that in the gulf crisis and i think it was a mistake. I didnt mean that make that such a long answer there. I didnt want to leave anything out. Its serious because there are 20,000 americans involved. Nebraska else . Senator, you took a position yesterday about arming the muslims. If were going to be there, do you think that might be a dangerous thing to do now that the troops are on the way . There are a number of places you can do it. I think we have to provide the leadership. Had we provided the leadership the last 30 months, we wouldnt be going over there. And now if were going to go over there and say were going to remain you know, keep the status quo, a year from now, bosnia is still not going to be able to stand up primarily, who knows, maybe even the croats. If we have we made a pledge to these peopl