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'80s, in that psa, basically playing robin to first lady nancy reagan's batman. mrs. reagan's crime-fighting, drug demonizing just say no campaign studded with celebrities and all the rest, was one of the crucial cogs of the '80s-era war on drugs, a war that is still causing casualties on all-sized today. today the u.s. government decided to take that war in a radically new direction, and really, no one knows how this generation of republicans is going to react to this change. it is the rarest of all things. a legitimately open question in our national politics, and that story is ahead. stay w...

Points higher than ronald reagan's were. in the '90s, things were not trending well for how reagan was going to be remembered in the history books. so in the '90s, they created this legacy project to try to basically goose the history. to try to make people remember the good stuff about him and not so much remember the bad stuff and so now, tuscaloosa county, alabama, has a bust of ronald reagan in their mcdonald's. and new hampshire has their mountain and maybe nevada will get their mountain too. take that, frenchman! and in today's big national politics story, there is an object lesson in th...

Kind of old, tired brand of republicanism that's lost the last two presidential elections. but, then, you know, you see the statement this afternoon and i guess breaking up is hard to do with reagan. >> well, and to me that's what made this a much more interesting story. so see somebody who knows hard truths about the reagan legacy. things that are true about what happened in that era and will be willing to tell them until he wants to move up. and then it's just, you've got to get in line on this issue or you're really not allowed to be taken seriously in republican politics. it makes me wonde...

But. >> it has a few scraps on the table and it's not a big idea. don't forget, barack obama got elected on big ideas about himself, his story about health care, about turning the economy rarnd, really big things. and i think he's gifted in that way, so he needs to. . . a big idea, a big decision, you made the rule? sfouchlt why didn't he do it again? >> ahe had a sense of vision evn through the debt ceiling when he talked about shared sacrifice, investments. he's done this time and time

The b.p. chairperson, can't do that one. why? >> why all of a sudden -- what was the change of heart where all of a sudden, now, i heard on the way here and i heard him talking about well, we're going to get together, we're going to chat. we're going to have some things ready. >> there was outrage. people realized wait a minute, are you telling me the president has not spoken directly with the guy, our partner in this operation? >> he makes his decisions before -- and we have a long history of it. he made his decisions on cambridge before speaking, getting any of the evidence. he did it with a...