President Reagan's Interview With Television Network Broadcasters on December 3, 1987
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- Full Title: President Reagan's Interview With Television Network Broadcasters in the Oval Office on December 3, 1987
Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent)
Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
Collection: Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration), 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
Transcript: www.reaganlibrary.gov/researc...
Production Date: 12/3/1987
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Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600
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National Archives Identifier:77443678
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This is how a leader should be. Calm, collected, yet unintimidated by the media or anybody else. The U.S. desperately needs another President like this.
These days will never return, the country’s going right down the tube fast
I am the best president
@@TOCC50
Not much more damage can be done.
Well he had a lot of practice by this point you see.
No fear in having the four majors in journalism come into the Oval Office & ask the tough questions. What a President, best in the modern age IMO!!
Unlike Trump who gets offended with every damn question.
@@metalmacabre9991Correction, if Trump were shown the respect and intelligence illustrated by these professional journalists, there would be no problem... To quote the late Rush Limbaugh "Trump does not attack, he reacts." Unfortunately, today, many of the journalists are without depth perception or critical thinking skills and have a mentality and maturity level comparable to a child in the third grade... This is a direct result of a press that has abrogated its responsibility as a check on government for the benefit of the citizenry as mandated by the constitution but instead turned political activists and climbed in bed with one corrupt political party... No longer reporting the news but making it. The press has no agenda but to report the truth to the people.
@@metalmacabre9991: Democrats questions however aren't genuine though and are designed to take Trump out, which is a big difference and it's because Democrats have become morally bankrupt child predators and reprobates like Romans 1:18-32 describes.
And people said he already had alzheimers in office...BS. Here he is 76 years old vibrant, active, engaged, in command. He had such a love of country and such tremendous faith...truly understood the greatness of this country and how privileged we are to have her. God Bless President Reagan
A true time capsule. Journalists respectful of the president, but asking tough questions in a courteous manner.
Tough and relevant questions. Not ignorant gotcha bullshit to get Twitter clicks. The people deserve to see their President answer difficult questions. Not empty sensationalist garbage.
Good point, but to tell you the truth --- these weren't even TOUGH questions. They were just normal questions. How far we've fallen.
The media we have now is just shameful.
forget respectful, they were actual journalists not propagandists or activists. we have no more journalism...how can a democracy survive without real journalism?
Each of those "journalists" looked like they were sitting on a cactus. If looks could kill, the lefties would not have needed John Hinckley, Jr.
This is the age of journalism that we will never see again!!
These journalists weren't fans of Reagan and all likely voted against him, but they behaved as civilized, mature professionals. They were willing to give Reagan a chance without open disrespect and taunts. They asked tough questions without badgering him. They were congenial without being obsequious. There were no ad hominens, no raised voices, no unfounded claims, or assaults on character made to Reagan's face.
In 30 years things have deteriorated to such a level, I'm embarrassed by the current state of this country. We went from a country with problems to looking like a an asylum from stem to stern. Standards matter, and just because someone else lowers their's doesn't make it reasonable to lower ours. It might feel good to insult or accuse, but you end up compromising yourself. Imagine interviewers behaving crazier than Charles Manson while interviewing Manson? That would be so pathetic to see, but this is what passes as public discourse today. Credibility like respect is difficult to acquire, but easily and permanently lost when you lower the bar for attention or ratings.
I agree 110%
Jennings was conservative.
Yeah Faux News should take note on the behavior of these journalists.
yeah because none of them are from Fox
@@PoliticallyIncorrect90 and Canadian.
Bernard Shaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw. If only we had news anchors like them today.
Dan Rather’s voice
Dan Rather is the king of fake news, still trying to push his Bolshevik propaganda
God help us if we did, the lying bastards.
Yeah, especially Dan Rather. "well, the documents may be false but we know the thrust of the story is true...because you're a Bush! And we know you rode your daddy's coat tails and messed around the whole time you were in the Guard!"
Oh please they hated him & all of em scumbag.
God I miss the 80's
Yeah, you were still above ground back then. RIP.
That escalated quickly lol
It is going to make another round buddy
Yeah I was a kid- so yeah lets go back-
Amen brother! TRUMP 2020!
You can tell he actually knows whats going on, not just going off a script.
Exactly
This is the first thing I noticed too
sure 🤣🤣
Can’t imagine President Biden handling an interview and discussion like this.
Sometimes we dont know how good we had it til we lose it. President Reagan was all class and all of the journalist in this video new how to demonstrate that journalism had a purpose. The 80's were pretty cool and I wish our countrymen today new what kind of results carrying themselves to high regard could produce. God bless America !
I'm a liberal millennial but Ronald Reagan is my all time favorite president. I agree with everything you say.
Well said, sir.
I'd hate to disagree, but Dan Rather never had an objective bone in his body and, along with Mike Wallace, is the one who introduced forcing his 2 cents into news stories and politics when people weren't really asking for it. Bad guy and bad thumbnail if "objective journalism" is what is trying to be portrayed...
Professional journalists with integrity interviewing a President that exuded leadership and class, with respect and dignity on both sides, all around this room.
Kids today have no idea how great America was.
Great point ☝️
I'm a Liberal from Los Angeles. Ronald Reagan's home and burial place. I was in the U.S. Navy from 1989-2003. Nobody has done more to boost the moral of all of our branches of the armed forces than Ronald Reagan. Our pay-checks doubled. He brought back all the WWII battle ships, it was the best time ever to serve in the military. We were respected every port we pulled into. He never started any new wars. But he sure flexed our American muscle. But he never through a punch....he was so respected, he just told people what to do, and they did it.
Liberal here too. He was someone who could make you say you were proud to be American. He cared for his country, and was loved for it.
He was phenomenal, and a great communicator, but no saint. I lived through this period and the desire lionize him is strong. However due to the Cold War he greatly aligned with dictators in Latin America, was late to act if at all in the AIDS crisis, and relatively non-existent on inner city poverty. Given that however, I would take him over Bush Jr., and Donald Drumpf any day.
Reagan was liberal once also
Reagan was respected world-wide; so was George Schultz. When he spoke it was as if RR was in the room. They knew that too.
@@natepeace1737 AIDS wasn't a crisis...it's was 100 percent avoidable and cities aren't governed by the Feds.
Such a soothing voice Reagan had
His voice was like honey. Smooth and sweet.
I get you. Comforting , maybe he had a good voice. You are right. Sweet not so much.
@@jonchaney I guess you're saying he was sweet but he had balls....
Soothingly racist -- especially when speaking to the even more racist Richard Nixon. Shame on both prez's...glad didn't vote for either.
Best President ever
Reagan sitting in front of a portrait of Washington. That's the image in my mind when I think the word "President"
I miss when the office of the Presidency was respected and we had reason to do so. I love the professionalism in this interview. Reagan wasn't perfect but I miss his leadership!
I miss when people didn't think deranged, treasonous, criminal toddlers deserved to run for the office of the Presidency, let alone be elected to it and allowed to attempt a coup overthrow their own government as an act of "patriotism" and go completely unpunished.
@@NJerseyBoy Yeah tell us more about how all those BLM "protests" (the ones that had things being burned/broken/beaten up) were "largely peaceful".
No one is perfect but dont be sad because its over be happpy it happened
This is sublimely delightful: The _Great Communicator_ President and these four icons of journalism having a ‘living room’ conversation with utter candor but an air of mutual respect. Days and memories to cherish. 🇺🇸🙏🏽
Yea, he sure had respect for the bottom half of Americans as he took their wealth and gave it to the people at the top.
@@michaeljones1802 While defeating your beloved Soviet Union.
@@Brandon-lw1wx Actually, my socialism is Canadian where it's working amazingly well, but you guys go with the Pakistani route, useful idiot.
Truth
Forgiven, Unforgiven or Gran Turino Protector Mom Lover? NO IRISH NEED APPLY
The unedited conversation at the beginning was really telling.
A very different time in our lives. There is no hatred present. Was it perfect? Far, far, far from, but the diplomacy is staggering. Reagan had such a grace and way about him, even if you disliked him you just got along with him when you were in his presence.
The Eighties were a time we will never see again. Ever.
I sure miss the 80s
Lol there was. They just hid it very well back then.
Everyday of my life, at least one person in their 40s or 50s says to me: "Man, I sure do miss the 80s. I wish I could go back." That's not "nostalgia" either. Things WERE better back then, a lot better.
@@brianleetch7415 Yes, they were and I have many fond memories of that decade. The 90's were fun too.
A masterclass in professionalism, respect and dignity. Notice how Brokaw opens the interview not by introducing himself, but cutting to the chase and immediately asking the president a question. These were serious, serious men who knew courteousness did not mean weakness. This should be shown to every journalist and political science major in every college in the world.
The anchors names were stated and preempted the interview. So as not to need repeating
Brokaw is a loser
Look at how polluted our country and media is now
How lazy our youth is
How ignorant our administration is
It's crazy how different things are
@@Highlander1432 it’s the end of this great experiment in democracy. Nothing good lasts forever. And too many people want to tear it down.
@@Highlander1432you’re a moron
A great and honest man . Much respect 👍🇬🇧
Do you really know what those words mean
I became a Republican in a family of Democrats because of Ronald Reagan. I was 20. I am now 62 and still a Republican. More now than ever before, I wish he was here. RIP Mr. President.
I was a squishy SF bleeding heart, but my 'overseas' family tree were all Communists, safe in Western Nations (except for a couple who got to experience the 'wonder of it all' behind the iron curtain) and they all ridiculed and hated Carter for his weakness and his general evilness and incompetence..when Reagan got elected, my relatives did a complete about face--suddenly Carter was the master statesman and compromiser and Reagan was the enemy of humanity. At that point I realized leftism and Communism was 'totally full of it' and I did an about face too; my politics have not changed since them, except being a bit right wingy-er than before.
It’s not the same Republican now as respectable Ronald Reagan’s time.
@@TheRoseChunsa True! My family very liberal & all about entitlements but after Reagan then Bush, I was in my 20's, working, & picked a different side, always voting conservative but now after 2020 election, I changed my party affiliation to independent because both sides are really just one, working for the richest donors & lobbyists.
@@TheRoseChunsa dems have run way left
Exactly the same here ,my dad was a Kennedy democrat guy and he voted that way my first vote was for Reagan and couldn't be prouder! He of course voted Carter and mondel🤷
When I was younger used to think Reagan was an airhead actor, also didn’t care for his economic policies but have gained much more respect for him over the years and this clip shows why he was the best communicator president there was!
U didnt care for his economic policies???!? Dear lord, he brought us out of depression after the 4 disastorous Carter years! What the fk are u talking about?! Guess u like depression and inflation n lines at the gas pumps
Great news anchors! The good old days. The 80's were great! 🇺🇸
Stan McKinney yep and we didn’t have a orange sycophant aka trump who flush the presidency and proper decorum down the toilet!
And that Voice of Prez, Wow Nancy’ couldnt be bored how lucky she with a singsing voice of another half living till grapeturned wine ages
@Fred Mudge you’re delusional! But that is ok, a fool is someone who despite the facts believe the world is flat!
Not really. They hated President Reagan but at least in those days, they kept it quiet. You can be sure they would not have been this tough with a President Mondale or a President Dukakis (perish the thought).
They were democrat boot-lickers and it was obvious but not as unadulterated as it is now.
CNN goes from a consummate professional like Bernard Shaw to someone like Jim Acosta. How far we’ve fallen.
Kenny Baker Because Acosta is such a clown is why Trump decided to make an example of him so the American people could judge Acosta. The verdict: Acosta is a clown ass punk.
And we went from Reagan to Trump. How far we’ve fallen indeed
Eric Barnard And we went from adults to man-boys like Eric.
@@towns316 No from Reagan to Obama was how far we had fallen. Trump is like a courser version of Reagan. Reagan without a filter. The left has become so extreme and intolerant of any differing point of view that it takes someone like Trump to call them out. No more mister nice guy.
How far THEY have fallen.
If you need to relax and fall asleep at night just listen to that voice for 15 mins. Reagan had that everything’s going to be alright voice. Very even tempered, measured and assured.
great idea. I often look for something to listen to for bedtime.. Ur right, this is a good one to fall asleep to
Like him or hate him, Reagan was very intelligent, well read, had integrity, class and could tell a joke. He was also tough on Russia and all threats to the U.S..
This like him or hate him comment is indicative of the misplaced mindset that pervades our society. Being elected may in part be a popularity contest but legacy is predicated on accomplishment. Biden supporters are cringing at the thought.
Believe it or not, the left in those days hated Reagan and ESPECIALLY Dubya Bush just as much if not more than Trump.
How could anyone hate this man, tremendous President and Leader
@@ImmaWright The same reason anyone would hate any President (at least in the political sense); if their political views are the opposite of Reagan's. Just like Larry Bird/Magic Johnson in the 80s, Reagan and his political rival Tip O'Neill (Speaker of the House at the time) were the fiercest of opponents "on the court" (so to speak) but the best of pals "off the court" or "we're only friends after 5 o'clock" as Tip liked to say.
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp I don't hate those with opposing views of mine, that's the difference. Even if someone is a bad President, see current guy, I don't hate him. I just fear for our Country
The way he sits, his eloquence, his demeanor…true President. I heard that he refused to take his jacket off while in the Oval Office because of his respect for the position he held. We could use him right about now. He used to have a Scotch with Tip O’Neill. The right and left still being friends although they disagreed on issues.
Yep, just like how Magic/Bird were. Pals off the court but on the court, oooooh boy it's show no mercy!!
Reagan was genuine in his beliefs . But he was a good man in heart and believe in freedom and the American People happiness
I was in the Navy from 78-98. It was great during his tinure as President. My favorite President.
We Hungarians can thank our freedom to this man, who brought the destruction of the USSR. Now we degenerating ourselfes back to slavery. We had sometimes nostalgic feelings the times when the US leaders was eager to fight for freedom worldwide.
Lord, how I miss Ronald Reagan.
He's in hell if there is one. Horrible president that fucked over the poor for 8 years.
The world could do with a Ronald right now. What a wonderful man.
@Jared Thompson You're a tool of the right and a fool.
A m e n !!
Hinkley didnt.
Reagan answered every question without cue cards, teleprompter or earpiece. Imagine that!
Unlike a certain someone else who said "uh uh uh uh uh uh uh..." without his teleprompter!! You know the one they called the Rock Star, the Chosen One?
So ironic 4 years later Soviet Union collapsed. Reagan knew this internal struggle during this narration.
Collapse? Appearances are deceiving. The evil empire 9:18 still exists. The leaders that President Reagan is referring to have not broken the Marxist pledge.
Theodore Cleaver I’ve been thinking about this same thing. Bringing down that wall allowed those that wanted freedom out but it also freed the Marxists to spread out.... maybe that wall was protecting us
Less than 2 years later (11/89) the Berlin Wall fell. I believe that it was due to Reagan's speech in 6/1987.
The USSR did not collapse. It was dissolved by the leaders of the three largest republics; against the wishes of the majority of its citizens, according to the results of referendums across the USSR.
@@KK-qc5ct To whom do you refer?
Great Man and Great President. ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Yeah👍
That did nothing to raise the poor
God Bless President Reagan's soul. Can you imagine such a forum like this one today? Reagan was one of the very great ones.
A True American patriot like Washington and Jefferson
@Britain Burnette Keep Dreaming . You really should seek help for your obvious narcissist personality disorder. Ps. Your birth certificate doesn't have the word's United States of America anyway so you're a waste of time
Awesome!! Jack Kennedy was the only other President to have a interview with the network journalists .
Interesting comment. F. D.r., Regan and Jack Kennedy were good at conversations.
It’s amazing to watch.
@@Patton7790 and Lyndon Johnson
He certainly knew his talking points and could express them clearly. He was unflinching in dealing with tough questions. A great man and a President who made his mark on America.
Yea like busting Unions and taxing social security
Liberal idiot
@@sureshot776
He didn't tolerate socialism that's for sure
reagan is the most eloquent, charismatic president amerca ever had
And he is composed and sits with legs crossed, not like the man spreading practice we see today.
This was when journalist had respect for people and reported news. This was a real president!!! I miss Reagan so much!!!!
His library is an amazing place!!
For those who talked about Reagan losing a step, watch him here answering rapid fire questions from the best anchors of the time. Unlike Biden who couldn't handle a sympathetic Anderson Cooper. Reagan is the greatest President of my lifetime.
Biden could have done a similar interview in 2012 but no way in 2022! Yet all the mainstream media around the World only show 20 second clips of Biden when he is reasonably lucid.
@@brentsummers7377 Even 2016. Biden handled the electoral count with vigor. The deterioration is obvious.
@@brentsummers7377 Not a chance Biden could have answered in a such a way at any time in his career.
I agree fully. I miss this President.
@@Voyager23B Well Reagan is as dead as fried chicken and Biden isn't. So you are just going to have to get out of your nostalgia bubble and get into reality.
Right president for the time.
President Reagan gave his assessment of this in his diary: "Upstairs to Nancy. We saw the interview on NBC. It was OK."
Lol,
Dan Rather's story about the Chicago mayor reminds me of the one about the legendary coach of Liverpool Soccer team, Bill Shankley. One of his players asked him for complimentary tickets for his family for the next game. His reply "Son if your own mother and father won't pay to come and see you how can you expect the fans to?"
Wow, the contrast. And they said Ronald Reagan was too old. I miss him. A true lion of freedom.
True, Reagan was 77 years old at the END of his 2nd term.
Biden was 78 at the START of his Presidency
Wow. Now there's a room of class acts. 4 Americans and 1 Canadian (Jennings) showing respect and civility to one another.
RIP. YOU ARE SORLEY MISSED AND NEEDED TODAY.
You would never see the top TV anchors from each network in one room questioning the president. Their egos are too big.
Ikr, like they are the most important persons in the room
No human in history has bigger egos then these reporters in this video
Most of these reporters were very liberal but look at the respect they show President Reagan. They knew he was a great man even if they disagreed with him. Brokaw and Rather are retired today and they have shown their true colors since this interview.
Brokaw no, Rather since 2001
The difference between Liberal and Conservative back then was tongue and cheek. Today the difference is, Destruction or Survival of the country. The Fact these Clowns are expressing their Liberal views at a time when the country is on its knees only magnifies what Human Sewage Scum they really Are. They're Old now. At least the few remaining. And they sit in their mansions on their millions which they have earned by reading a screen. They made their money by the same Rapacious capitalism their ideology apposes. Worst hypocrites that have no regard for anyone else's suffering!
What a great politician and what a sympathetic human being.
When ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC had REAL reporters.
Don’t be fooled they had massive agendas and still want to pull ratings.
Back when men were men and had respect for one another and a man was a man's man
We need a real President again.
Seeing this confirms the notion that by in large things have gone completely off the rails in this century. Was never a fan of politics back then, but at the very least it appears to be grounded in sanity. Today politics, the media and society in general has gone beyond anything acceptable
When we had a President we respected. 🥺❤️
Peter Jennings is my favorite news anchorman of all-time.
After watching a few videos like this of Reagan recently, I am more convinced than ever that, as the instructors at Hillsdale have said many times over, "we get the government we deserve".
Reagan was a product of my grandparents' generation; he talks like them, acts like them, and reminds me of them in everyway. And I remember the 80s fondly because of the time I spent with them.
Trump represents who we are today, just as Joe Biden does. Both were/are perfect representatives of where we are at as a nation. I don't care if you love or hate who is in office, they are an accurate representation of this nation as a whole.
This is what we've created, this is what we deserve.
We've been a country in moral and intellectual decline for some time. Like you, I believe in a 'law of reality' that our leaders our reflective of our people: When we were moral, righteous, and dignified, decades ago -- we had such leaders. We now have stupid leaders reflective of our stupid nation and stupid populace. Most people in this country have no moral or intellectual clarity, knowledge of right and wrong -- so we inherit leaders who also don't...
Reagan's contemporaries fought and won WWII. Reagan sat out and later lied about it.
Reagan's contemporaries elected FDR four times and Truman once, ratifying the New Deal vision of an activist federal government along with barring white supremacist hiring practices and desegregating the military and other federal agencies. Reagan made a career out of opposing all that, first on the corporate payroll then at the taxpayers' expense. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and famed white supremacist Nancy Reagan brilliantly insisted that we just say no to drugs. She also said, "Look at all these beautiful white people!" live on television from Claremont, Illinois but the hateful liberals in the media choose to remember her and the white supremacist reactionary she married after his divorce as classy. LOL!
Just wow! This is the respect and way that I remember our country being governed. I don't have to agree with everything being said, but I do respect the candor and truth from both the President and the Journalists in this piece. Can we please go back to this? It is respect on all sides.
What an amazing interview and video. Thank you
It's cool to see the Big 3 anchors go on a Joint Interview with The President.
A classic of journalism and decency
The entire country needs to watch this. This is respected journalism with integrity and accuracy and most importantly honesty. Today's news anchors are mere entertainers.
Journalists weren't the stars here.
Ronald was.
The greatest President of my lifetime and 4 icons and first class newsmen. We didn't know how great we really had it then.
I agree with you completely
You do know he is responsible for taxing SS benefits? Screw him
For some reason I find their small talk in the beginning of their interview the most interesting, it shows their authenticity.
There was no "golden age" of objectivity in the media. It's always been left-wing. However, there was a time when the media conducted themselves professionally.
No, media used to have mandated standards by law.
Exactly
The media doesn't treat politicians seriously anymore because politicians don't act like serious people. You can thank Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, etc. for that.
This is a close to gold as it ever was. You say it was always left while every major network at this time sat and interviewed a Republican with dignity and respect and awe. I miss these days. Before the media was outright infected with Politics. I miss Profressional level reporters. Days when if the reporter did feel a certain way you didn’t know it.
The American media has never been left-wing in any way…..American mainstream politics and mainstream media, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, are all to the right of the centre
This is why he was the Best of our time
Peter jennings the only real non partisan news anchor
Sheesh, you don’t realize how horrible we’ve been behaving until you see how the adults used to behave.
Truly hard to fathom today that there was a time when real journalists and presidents could have civil conversation and respectful question and answer sessions.
It would be fantastic to have just one network take that approach today. They can still ask hard questions but just lay of the desire to argue to the point of always having the last word.
Can anyone picture Biden getting through something like this?
Fat chance.
Lol no
agreed, and Trump would never make it through either
When things were done in a classy way, sure miss those times
A great president... RIP Mr President Reagan 🙏
and Peter Jennings 1938-2005
Definitely one of the greatest Presidents this Beautiful Country has ever seen!
He did as much damage any other president has done, don’t be fooled by his calm demeanor
President Reagan was the second President I ever voted for, Carter was the first. Never went back. I’m great full I got to see President Reagan in 1988 during a refueling stop over at Andersen AFB, Guam, of Air Force One. MAGA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Bernard Shaw, such legends.
I think Peter Jennings was the best of them, unless something comes out about him... Dan Rather later forged documents (OR knew they were forged) regarding George W. Bush concerning his enlistment in the National Guard ...they determined that they were forged because a keystroke concerning a date did not even exist on any any typewriters that existed at the time.... Brokaw has sexual harassment complaints against him...( rather rediculous from 50 years ago, but anyway ...
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.
Rather was a piece of crap. He just hadn't shown it yet
@@bmbutler2 Because he shits all over Trump?
Gunga Dan Rather is the king of fake news, pushing that made up story in 04 w the fake letter about Dubyas air national guard service.
What makes America great is the manner and decorum in which these broadcasters observe in asking the person of the highest office. The way Peter Jennings sits and asks his question down right unacceptable in some countries.
Pete Yoon do you mean like how the Republicans yelled at Obama during the State of the Union and of course Trump who continuously calls people Sons of Bitches like he did the NFL players who just exercised their 1st amendment rights?!
Ya Trump is and was no Obama much less can Trump hold a candle to Reagan and any POTUS before him!
Jennings was fine, your wrong.
With 20 20 hind site the man new exactly what he was talking about.
With 20 20 hind site the man new exactly what he was talking about.
sight
So much different than it is in 2022. Different in a way downhill kind of way.
All aspects, the journalists, and the president.
I love how this is a video of the event and not a broadcast. The opening few minutes before the broadcast were great to see.
When politicians talked like adults and didn't bend their knees to thugs and criminals.
The best part about this to me is that Reagan knew he was talking to the news anchors who in no way shape or form voted for him in 1980 or 1984. That would be very, very hard for me to do.
Seeing Peter Jennings and Ronald Reagan put a smile on my face :-)
if Jennings were around today, he would have been cancelled. one way to describe his behavior......they say.....skirt chasing.
So professional those journalists were back in the days, unbelievable.
I was 14 when Reagan was elected. Nobody has worn the mantle of the presidency with as much ease as he did.
You will never see anything like this in modern day or the future. This level of mutual respect is gone. And for one President to sit with four top anchors at once, is just not going to happen again. He was the GREAT COMMUNICATOR for a reason.
They were all joking before it started too
Very cool
What a class these gentlemen had .What happened to Journalism? What happened to Presidency?
Key difference, no social media in the 80s.
And yet in Networks Journalism would be praised because they never showed their left or right side, especially Brokaw and Jennings. They criticized and elogoated Reagan and Bush (both) when they deserved it. They always showed the 2 sides of everything, for example Iraq
Simple yet powerful logic on point with questions that make journalists never ask that question again or look like idiots vs evading questions and giving irrelevant answers such as is done today.
How much of this made it on air? Does that Evil Empire still exist? How could I have loved the eighties so much while when the dark cloud of nuclear weapons hung on the horizon? Because of Reagan. No coincidence that him and the Duke shared the same moral fiber.
I always loved what he said about Jimmy Carter when he was told Carter could no longer believe anything the Soviets aka Communists said and Reagan replied "I wish someone would have told him a few years earlier"
I met peter Jennings when i was younger, he was actually an awesome person in person
Imagine Biden sitting down with four GOP journalist like this.
We live in a world where the press, actually, pretends that Biden is not suffering from dementia. So, no, what you say is a far fetched fantasy.
@@tristanmullen8015 Good Lord Man, you are just trolling or suffering from cognitive dissonance. Biden's handlers do not even allow him to answer questions from his friendly backers in the press.
Also, "50 years in politics". That, by itself, is an abomination.
@@tristanmullen8015 As I said, cognitive dissonance. You believe that those who disagree with you are stupid (or maybe, evil?). Doesn't' matter. I read all sides and come to my own conclusions based on evidence. The fact that you can actually, really, inexplicably believe that Biden is in full possession of his mental faculties paints you as an unserious man, not worthy to debate.
So long and good luck in that echo chamber of yours.
@@tristanmullen8015 Such an infantile response. Fitting for a demonstrably insecure, immature young man (person?).
Hoping for an "Ivy league" education? 50 years ago that meant something. Today? Today those institutions are just tax-free investments funds with a side business. Communities of group-thinkers with a leftist ideology. Ignorant in the basic applications of the lessons of history, economics and constitutional democratic government. You'll fit right in.
I did wish you good luck in your echo chamber. I was more correct than I even imagined.
This was extraordinary! I am missing the good old days!
Watching Reagan answer these questions so thoughtfully toward the end of his term - then turning on the news to see a POTUS shuffling away from the press in fear and refusing to take questions. Ouch.
Or seeing the POTUS shouting at and insulting them on a daily basis...
What happened to our country? To go from this, to how it is now. It is truly sad to see.
I wonder what that question about Iran Contra from Rather was, that the Reagan Library felt compelled to cut out. Speaks volumes.
People nowadays may not understand the significance of having Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and Bernard Shaw in the same room at the same time interviewing Reagan. All networks working together didn't happen often, and the networks' anchors were the most viewed newsmen in America since there were less networks.
Wow...I just found out tonight that the media has always been on the left. Damn...all of these 51 years that I have lived, I thought these guys like Dan and Tom were neutral. Glad I found this.
I was the same way at one time very naive. They've always been on the left and as you can see nothing has changed in 45 years. These are smear Merchants trying to get a gotcha moment with President Reagan. Dan rather's nothing but a lying smear Merchant. His career was ended from lying...
MAGA2020
They were, and remain, the "never neutral newsies".
The left used to be ALOT different though
One of the greatest Presidents.
His class and his voice are a gift 🤗 and his wit was unmatched
Real anchormen; a real President. Not woke, nor PC, nor a pandering lightweight.
Dan Rather raising up in his seat in a brief effort to get the pole out of his keester, but without success. It obviously remains in place to this day.