Ronald Reagan - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Ronald Reagan Index / People Transcripts Tommy Vietor ...If you look back on the [Ronald W.] Reagan era, and all the ways he denigrated th... Paul Ryan ...classics, and in the beginning of the Reagan era, it was a conservative movement... ...Representatives. And he brought that to Reagan . Reagan didn't really have this unti... ...And he brought that to Reagan. Reagan didn't really have this until he reall... ...Barnes wrote this good book about the Reagan era, goes into that prett... ...or less extended what I would call the Reagan era. I see the Reagan era as Reaga... ...I would call the Reagan era. I see the Reagan era as Reagan through the end o... ...the Reagan era. I see the Reagan era as Reagan through the end of Bush. Mitt [Romney... ...era. That is not a continuation of the Reagan era. So, the Reagan era, during tha... ...continuation of the Reagan era. So, the Reagan era, during that time, particularl... ...during that time, particularly after Reagan , you saw the firmament of differen... ...It wasn't like Bush forty-one following Reagan , who was still really popular. Ther... ...fervent, consistent true- Reagan conservatism movement, and thos... ...And look, I'm a Jack Kemp guy. I'm a Ronald Reagan guy. I believe in aspirational... ...Like I said it before, I'm a Kemp, Reagan guy. I believe in inclusive... ...movement, into what I would call a Reagan -like inspirational, inclusive... Show more... Chris Lu ...I went back to [George H. W.] Bush and [Ronald] Reagan , and I talked to those people too. ... Michael Kassen ...some truth to that myth. [Ronald W.] Reagan made a lot of strides in changing that... ...how when [Menachem] Begin first met Reagan in Washington, that Reagan actually ha... ...first met Reagan in Washington, that Reagan actually had note cards in front of hi... ...[James “Jimmy” E.] Carter and then Reagan , so different parties obviously, bot... Harry Reid ...to work with presidents going back to Ronald Reagan , Jimmy Carter, I dealt with him. I... ...let me tell you a little story about Ronald Reagan . I was a member of the House o... ...three or four other House members. President Reagan wanted us there; Vice President Bus... ...you're going to invade Nicaragua.” Reagan didn't wait a second to respond t... ...good at all. So I enjoyed working with President Reagan . President Bush, I have indicated, a... Dennis Ross ...presidential administrations: Carter's, Reagan 's, H. W. Bush's, and Clinton's. H... ...I worked closely with—knew Presidents Reagan and Bush. I won't exaggerate how well ... ...I won't exaggerate how well I knew President Reagan , but I was probably in at least twent... Gabriele Grossman ...father was a Republican. I grew up with Ronald Reagan as my president. I remember in fourt... ...in fourth grade, I wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking him to help with the poo... ...curious, since you wrote that letter to Ronald Reagan : Did he respond? No. Did you eve... ...or was it really just growing up with Reagan was a powerful figure? I remember, i... Lori Wallach ...years, [sighs] as I paid attention to Reagan building up all of these nukes all ove... ...going to die if we didn't get rid of Reagan , which, of course, was a faile... ...at that point was very blue, voted for Reagan , and he was reelected handily. But ... ...then seeing the overwhelming vote for Reagan , and seeing basically how the sort o... ...between the policies, but the way that Reagan was framing what his vision was versu... ...H.] Thatcher was—this was, like, Reagan , Thatcher, Helmut Kohl period. How di... Show more... Michael McFaul ...was the former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan . And I want to be candid. I was not ... ...I want to be candid. I was not a Reagan fan when I was an undergraduate. ... ...approach to the Soviet Union. And Ronald Reagan —he was president after all. But thei... ...thing that I mentioned earlier. Ronald Reagan —when he went to the Soviet Union i... ...my mind. I took three cases from the Reagan era—Chile, South Korea, and th... ...complicated different cases, but the Reagan administration engaged with the regime... ...memoir from a historic figure from the Reagan administration—that was not by acciden... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism