Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110221:18:38:00
Well as a two-front war. that was a big situation. but i think ronald reagan would be an interesting comparison. he had the recession of '81 and '82. he also had the cold war. it was at its coldest in the early '80s and he took on soviet communism. i write about it in my book "the evil empire" aspeech. obama is being distracted by all these situations overseas, it reminds me of reagan during the '81, '82, '83 years. >> and your book, it isn't just to remind us of the tough decisions that these presidents had to make. there are actually examples here we can sort of ply whether it's to our own p...