CSPAN3 Representative Christopher Smith Inaugural Recollections January 16, 2017
Tell us about the inaugurations you have attended. They are uplifting. There is hope and optimism is a new president. Its nothing compared to Ronald Reagans 1981 and four years later, which was actually the second one was so cold outside, we were a few feet away from where we are speaking now. He gave it and the rotunda, to the group assembled. He spoke then in 1991 and again in 1984. In 1981 about the soviet union, the fact it was absolutely unacceptable are operating procedures with the soviet union was mutual assured destruction, mad. Nuclear weapons needed be brought down a number. He long...