top rate to I think Ronald Reagan was twenty eight percent is article back in the very early nineteen and that was pretty good but I go lower and

in nineteen eighty one released our hostages that day Ronald Reagan was sworn in that's

position and i think also that ronald reagan was a master at understanding

four consecutive years of less than one percent growth that was nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty two I was coming out of the Jimmy Carter administration it was the same failed

know under president Obama the top one percent earning a higher share of our national income than any time since nineteen twenty eight but

I I tell you conventional wisdom in Washington was this was unstoppable early on in those first few weeks Chuck and I both sat in those lunches and

what all the Washington strategists say in twenty fourteen let's go back to the model of %HESITATION six %HESITATION eight and twelve you

fear itself and that Janet nineteen seventy nine and you and I were listening to Ronald Reagan nnj

look at the model I turn to over and over again is the model of Ronald Reagan does anyone remember in nineteen eighty Ronald Reagan saying I

is twenty eight percent yes and sixty eight percent now now do you think there may be some reason to

%HESITATION it was a controversial convention Jerry Ford was incumbent and I had five states that I worked for Ronald Reagan got

was right after the nineteen sixty five civil rights law and stuff I like to remember farther back and I nineteen twenty eight when two

was very young and lightning struck and I found myself really in the command center for

go outside and fire with a double barreled shotgun and fired both barrels in the air which is very very good advice if

of what to do the answer we saw in nineteen eighty was a grassroots revolution it was the Reagan revolution it was millions of Americans many of the men and women in

told each of you we're going to take the top marginal tax rate of seventy percent we're going to cut it to twenty eight percent and