Inside the Nixon and Reagan White Houses with Ken Khachigian
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Guests: Kathleen O'Toole, Ken Khachigian, & Clay Travis
Host Scot Bertram talks with Kathleen O'Toole, assistant provost for K-12 Education, about why classical education can reverse the damage done to learning achievement during the pandemic. Ken Khachigian, director emeritus of the Richard Nixon Foundation board of directors and chief speechwriter and senior political advisor for President Ronald Reagan, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Nixon and Reagan White Houses as detailed in his new book Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon. And we play excerpts from a recent lecture from co-host of The Clay & Buck Show and founder of OutKick Clay Travis titled "Wokeness in Sports," delivered at a Hillsdale College event in Bellevue, Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | from the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, |
| 0:13.4 | and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored. This is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, |
| 0:20.4 | bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.6 | I knew that if I insisted on putting the language in an agreement with them, that I would be caught afoul of Mrs. Reagan, which was not a very pleasant situation. |
| 0:41.9 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:50.9 | That was Ken Kachigian, author of Behind Closed Doors in the Room with Reagan and Nixon. |
| 0:57.2 | And for this election week, we spend time later on in today's program with a man who has spent |
| 1:01.9 | lots of time behind closed doors with both Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. |
| 1:08.0 | First, we're joined by Dr. Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education |
| 1:13.2 | at Hillsdale College. Dr. O'Toole, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:18.5 | Discussing today an op-ed you wrote a while ago in the Detroit News, classical charter schools |
| 1:24.3 | can help reverse COVID learning losses and can be found at Detroit News.com. |
| 1:31.0 | Start with the basics, I guess. Are we, what does the data say? Are we still catching up from this |
| 1:37.4 | learning loss that was suffered during the COVID pandemic and then the subsequent school |
| 1:42.2 | shutdowns? Unsurprisingly, the fact that children were not attending school regularly for the better |
| 1:49.2 | part of a year, in some cases longer than a year, depending on the state, on the state, |
| 1:54.8 | and that we relied on virtual instruction and sending home packets and things as a substitute for in-person learning |
| 2:02.1 | did not go very well. And especially for young students who are at the very beginning of their |
| 2:07.7 | education, kindergarten through third grade, when they're learning to read, learning basic math |
| 2:13.0 | skills, learning the habits that will enable them to be students and continue learning for the rest of |
| 2:20.0 | their years, especially for those students, the effects continue to, the effects continue to persist. |
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