Presidents' Day speech about Ronald Reagan Presidential speechwriter Peter Robinson speaks to the Commonwealth Club about our 40th president and the subject of his book, "How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life."11:00 a.m.
Guests
Peter Robinson: Research fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Speechwriter for President Reagan 1983-89. Author, "How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life."
Presidents' Day: Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, speaking about President Abraham Lincoln and her award-winning book "Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Her remarks are from the 2006 Abraham Lincoln Association symposium in Springfield, Illinois...and in 2005 at the JFK Library in Boston, Massachusetts.12:00 p.m.
Guests
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in WWII," "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream," and "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys."