Taking control of the oil of the middle east. 100 of european oil came from the middle east. We wanted to make a shirt we had friendly arab regimes that were, if not aligned with the United States, at least keeping the soviet union out. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Next week the u. S. Senate will decide whether to confirm Appeals Court judge neil gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia on the supreme court. The Judiciary Committee will vote on his nomination monday. If the Committee Votes in favor gorsuch, the mobile move to the full senate. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says he plans to hold the final photo week from today. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate is on cspan2. Met with trump manufacturing executives this morning and talked about 2 executive orders he plans to sign that would identify trade abuses by other countries and step up collection of fees levied against foreign governments that subsidize products that can be sold at a low cost next on cspan, President Trum
We wooel weel well look at challenges of the presidency. Four top aides, all of usveat sd president s of the tooits United States and weve seen the ities qualities of what takes for a r president to be able to govern. Weve seen qualities both good and bad. And i guess thats what i want to begin with. Is looking at president s that each of these individuals serve. What was their greatest strengtt and what was their greatest weakness . And how do you think history is going to look at them . We are talking about president reagan, president clent kbron, president bush and president le obama. Lets start with president reagan. Ken . Leon, thank you very much. Leave it to leon and sylvia to put together an alpha bet panbe. David axle rod, a. Ber skin boels, b. Rod, andy card, c. And duber steen, d. M aep p for pa netta. All of it is an absolutely joying to here with leon and ray and all of you. Ronald reagans greasest strengths. He knew why he ran for the presidency. And he knew what he would
Thank you, thank you all very much. And i welcome all of you to our final forum of our lecture series this year. Our theme as you all know is looking at 100 years since world war 1, 2014, 1914, an awful lot of history has occurred during that time. And to onanalyze the changes th have been made, we looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena, we have looked at government and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security. Tonight were going to look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions. And president s very frankly influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of the United States has today assumed incredible responsibilities in facing incredible pressures in that position. Since 1914, we have had 17 president s. Of the United States, all of whom will have various places in history. We have gone from wilson to harding, truman to roosevelt, kennedy to carter and reagan, johnson to bush and obama. Wha