Trump: If you say "illegal alien" or "migrant" they criticise you. "They want to take all the words away so you can't talk about the subject any more."

Trump says he wanted to name Ivanka United Nations Secretary

Trump on 13 service members killed during Afghanistan withdrawal: "Those people were essentially killed by a stupid administration that didn't know what it was doing." I got to know their families and they viewed me as "their president, frankly".

Trump: "We have a great military and our real military is not going to be woke." The guys on top are woke and they're going to be gone pretty quick.

Trump claims grieving families asked to take pictures with him at graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Man in audience shouts: "Thank you for respecting our veterans, Mr President!"

Trump: "These people were killed by Biden, as far as I'm concerned." Then I get a call saying I was using the graves for publicity purposes.

Trump: I get a lot of publicity. "I want to hire a PR person to get half the publicity."

“Of course people get motivated about voting against somebody. But when they’re as motivated or more motivated about voting for somebody, there’s magic there.”—Harris advisor David Plouffe

At CSIS. Pollster John Zogby on Kamala Harris v Donald Trump debate: “She has to be the tough prosecutor without being overbearing. He cannot be obnoxious and dismissive of a woman and it’s going to be very hard for him to do that.”

At Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas. Rep Ro Khanna: “I'm not, in candour, a fan of calling each other ‘weird’ or names. I don't think that advances American democracy… I know it’s not fashionable any more to have that Michelle Obama when they go low, we go high.”

Biographer Max Boot on former president Ronald Reagan: “One of my biggest takeaways was the huge disparity between who he was as a campaigner and what he did in government. That’s one of the things that distinguishes him from Donald Trump today.”

Boot on Reagan: "Even when he was the head of the government he always acted like he was an outside anti-government agitator.... The only government workers he praised were soldiers and astronatus." He fed off and accelerated the anti-government mood and that has been corrosive.

Boot on Reagan: "He called out human rights abuses in the Soviet Union but largely turned a blind eye to human rights abuses in South Africa... I would say he had a very troubling record on civil rights but he had a very positive record on immigration."

Boot: Reagan didn't have the negativity of Richard Nixon or Donald Trump. People looked down on him but "his superpower was he was oblivious to all that... he wasn't disfigured by resentment".

Boot: "Reagan was a Nixon loyalist to the end... He was shocked in '74 when Nixon had to resign."

Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin on removing books from schools: The progressive left is trying to change the narrative. “It’s not about book banning. This is about empowering parents.” (Audience members heckle.)

Youngkin: “I have consistently said we must teach all of our history, the good and the bad… and we can make sure we’re not penalising or trying to blame people today for what happened a long time ago.”

Youngkin on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: “They unleashed unfettered spending and drove 40-year inflation and the only choice was for the Federal Reserve to slam the brakes on.”

Ford pardoned Nixon fifty years ago today:

Great to be at the Texas Tribune festival speaking with fellow historians Douglas Brinkley & HW Brands. Various ways to order my new book “Reagan: His Life and Legend,” out on Tuesday: wwnorton.com/books/97808714…