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but richard nixon bold and richard nixon was confident. and richard nixon took them on. and richard nixon beat them. and richard nixon beat them. and jerry voorhees own hometown, a diamond bar. richard nixon was then in 1948. he was elected in 1950 to the united states senate in the largest landslide of any any senate candidate in the country. and two years later, he was elected vice president, united states. all this in just six years. that's a meteoric rise in american politics. i call it mr. hustle. now, i realize that many detractors about richard, that would listen to what i have to say. would say, well, you know, he must have changed. but the reality is they have to say something like that. because if you really look his life is incredibly successful and truly all-american. but as to the question as to whether or not nixon changed, i say the best judge of a man is a. so let's look at what the women had to say about richard nixon, the woman that knew him best. the women that worked with him evelyn dorn was richard nixon's first legal secretary back in 1937. she was
but richard nixon bold and richard nixon was confident. and richard nixon took them on. and richard nixon beat them. and richard nixon beat them. and jerry voorhees own hometown, a diamond bar. richard nixon was then in 1948. he was elected in 1950 to the united states senate in the largest landslide of any any senate candidate in the country. and two years later, he was elected vice president, united states. all this in just six years. that's a meteoric rise in american politics. i call it mr....
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richard nixon never used teleprompters when he campaigned. you see the candidates say they all rely on teleprompters. it's really stupid. it really richard nixon, when he campaign and rallies, he never used teleprompters. he he addressed informal assemblies or, campaign rallies without teleprompter at all. he prepared studying. we gave him fact sheets and suggested remarks. he'd study them and then prepare his own nose. then he put everything aside and he spoke. he only teleprompters for formal or state of the union or. something like that, but not for campaign rallies. now, reagan didn't use teleprompters either for rallies he used spoke from the house sheets like this like i'm using only he did a better job. but he he he and by the way, if he ever look at reagan's inaugural address, he didn't use a teleprompter he used he used these have sheets like this. so he never used a teleprompter. but he used to love to tell stories and his loves tell stories and illustrating to make his point and one of my favorite was when was trying to sell his ec
richard nixon never used teleprompters when he campaigned. you see the candidates say they all rely on teleprompters. it's really stupid. it really richard nixon, when he campaign and rallies, he never used teleprompters. he he addressed informal assemblies or, campaign rallies without teleprompter at all. he prepared studying. we gave him fact sheets and suggested remarks. he'd study them and then prepare his own nose. then he put everything aside and he spoke. he only teleprompters for formal...
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we share a campus with our wonderful partners, the richard nixon foundation. and our primary mission is to educate and inform, assisting those who search for knowledge and understand the 37th president of the united states. his administration and his ongoing impact on the world. today's program is being a life stream today on the richard nixon foundation in the national archives and records administration, the nixon presidential library's youtube channels and will be available after the program for you. view again enjoy and share with friends. since this is our inaugural women's history symposium, we are thrilled to have such a robust program and so many accomplished individuals who are participating today beginning with the 1968 presidential campaign, richard nixon announced his support the passage of the equal rights amendment as president. he to support women's equality through his support and signing of the education amendments act 1972, which included title nine and the creation the presidential task force on women's rights responsibilities, as well as ma
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so, thank you richard nixon. so, um let me unpack all of those questions and answer one of them the decision to name richard nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator is an interesting story and involves some inside baseball. we were the first to listen to the first tranche of tapes. produced after the saturday night massacre incidentally the event that i think was the most responsible for the change in america's opinion about richard nixon, i think even after the spectacular hearings in this room by the irving committee, most americans who still prepared to give richard nixon the benefit of the doubt all of his aides contradicted what john dean was saying it was he said he said times three and so without the tapes, i don't think uh, richard nixon would remotely have been forced to resign his office in the way. he was but we listened to the so-called cancer on the presidency speech in which john dean to his great credit. attempted to get nixon to realize that the cover-up couldn't last. and that he nixon ought to cal
so, thank you richard nixon. so, um let me unpack all of those questions and answer one of them the decision to name richard nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator is an interesting story and involves some inside baseball. we were the first to listen to the first tranche of tapes. produced after the saturday night massacre incidentally the event that i think was the most responsible for the change in america's opinion about richard nixon, i think even after the spectacular hearings in this room...
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and was experiencing perhaps the apex of his more than 11 year career working with richard nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university ofa southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability which take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the extort 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20, 1969. dwight has dwight has written a terrific new memoir, "the president's man" which can see it to my left, but you would use with his work with president nixon. "the president's man" is without a doubt one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency andn. president nixon as a person that is yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank gannon. frank joined the nixon white house and the sum of 1971 as a white house fellow assigned to counselors to the president, donald rumsfeld and bob finch. he did d work for john ehrlichmn on the domestic council staff, along with colonel brennan and handful of other stuff e
and was experiencing perhaps the apex of his more than 11 year career working with richard nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university ofa southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability which take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the extort 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20, 1969. dwight has dwight has written a terrific new memoir, "the...
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frank was a great friend of richard nixon's.n fact we brought frank in on the moonwalk and several other things. he was kind of our conduit with nasa. >> i'm going to pass over this because we don't have time. this was my introduction to dwight chapin. i was the white house fellow who gave peripheral a new meeting . i was just an outsider whereas dwight was the insider so when the trip to china was announced i tried to finagle a place on the plane so i wrote a memo so this was my first contact with dwight chapin and he says unfortunately even though your arguments are e meritorious there isn't a chance in hell you're going to be on this plane . more diplomatically and having never met him but received his memo we met in the mess and you said to me words that i will always treasure . nice try. [applause] >> all of us were involved in this. the idea of going on a trip to china, there was no one on the white house that did not want to go to that trip to china so it was very dicey kind of picking the right people to go and so forth.
frank was a great friend of richard nixon's.n fact we brought frank in on the moonwalk and several other things. he was kind of our conduit with nasa. >> i'm going to pass over this because we don't have time. this was my introduction to dwight chapin. i was the white house fellow who gave peripheral a new meeting . i was just an outsider whereas dwight was the insider so when the trip to china was announced i tried to finagle a place on the plane so i wrote a memo so this was my first...
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me to working on richard nixon at the nixon library. so it's so interesting it was all based on primary research and world history. so the trail led me twice so that's been interesting. i guess for me it's kind of a whirlwind i started with another student in texas wondering about i really loved women's history classes and in thosen classes i would question what is the role in politics, not just community organizing but also as elected officials and those questions kind of derived towards my other passion of taking political science classes where i would learn about women's history over there so i would start asking those questions. what role did women have. soat another graduate student tt drove my questions teseah and wi entered the graduate school i didn't know much more than the questions i had to. i started reading a little bit more through literature and then my questions involved. what about mexican-american, how did mexican-american women shape the politics and government and representation? and i started finding there's not ver
me to working on richard nixon at the nixon library. so it's so interesting it was all based on primary research and world history. so the trail led me twice so that's been interesting. i guess for me it's kind of a whirlwind i started with another student in texas wondering about i really loved women's history classes and in thosen classes i would question what is the role in politics, not just community organizing but also as elected officials and those questions kind of derived towards my...
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the first were the world war ii letters between pat nixon and richard nixon which will blow your mind. so in love, so smitten and they were amusing things in there too between the differences between the president and mrs. nixon. the president much more emotional and much more a smitten schoolboy than pat nixon who bye the way made him drive her with other men for while her while which he gladly did just to have the chance to be around her. it kind of blew away a lot of media perceptions you may have heard about the marriage and in my book i found they had a very loving marriage and were just smitten with each other. that was mind-blowing to read these letters. i did get to see some letters people had not gotten to view before that really made just the whole interpretation of their relationship, it helps me understand that. so that was one piece and the other piece that struck me equally and is equally as interesting to me perhaps even a little more so had to do with secretary franklin when she was the assistant to the president. i got into a course the white house central files were
the first were the world war ii letters between pat nixon and richard nixon which will blow your mind. so in love, so smitten and they were amusing things in there too between the differences between the president and mrs. nixon. the president much more emotional and much more a smitten schoolboy than pat nixon who bye the way made him drive her with other men for while her while which he gladly did just to have the chance to be around her. it kind of blew away a lot of media perceptions you...
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and i'm the president ceo of the richard nixon foundation, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here this evening. we have a truly terrific evening in store for you and let me begin by welcoming some special guests starting with larry higby who's a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. in sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the nixon foundation colonel jack brennan. the marine military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san clemente years judge, jim rogan. thank you for being here, sir. jean hernandez the mayor pro tem of the great city of yorba linda. thank you for being here gene. i want to welcome dr. lori cox hahn, who is the doybee henley chair of presidential studies at chapman university and her colleague dr. luke nichter, who is the james? kavanaugh chair in presidential studies, which is a new program at chapman university and we're joined by the dean of students, dr. jerry price as well at a new program at chapman that the foundation has helped to put together and we're really excited about so thank you all for bei
and i'm the president ceo of the richard nixon foundation, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here this evening. we have a truly terrific evening in store for you and let me begin by welcoming some special guests starting with larry higby who's a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. in sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the nixon foundation colonel jack brennan. the marine military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san...
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these are sides of richard nixon we never hear about. and it's one of the reasons i wanted to write the book. >> we come to election night and we are really jumping forward so this was early in the campaign. election night you are in the nixon candidate suite and the waldorf story a hotel a small group of people and the candidate nixon had a suite that family has a sweet down the hall you are keeping watch and it went verynd late into the night and you make some notes and one of them if i can find were transcribed this is at 4:30 in the morning and essentially you say, what he says is nixon kept at 4:30 nixon had an open door. whatever staff was stilli a vey big a comment and hang out and watch the television and wait for the final word. he mentions a price and now it's haldeman and you. he says the people poured in and out and you say he had a beer which a nurse for about an hour. >> the suite was very small. the president was in a bedroom andas he was in there with haldeman, mitchell andrl ehrlichman and the main part of the suite was
these are sides of richard nixon we never hear about. and it's one of the reasons i wanted to write the book. >> we come to election night and we are really jumping forward so this was early in the campaign. election night you are in the nixon candidate suite and the waldorf story a hotel a small group of people and the candidate nixon had a suite that family has a sweet down the hall you are keeping watch and it went verynd late into the night and you make some notes and one of them if i...
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so the democrats control board had the majority in the senate in 1973, and of course, richard nixon was a republican president. and so mcmahon's field, the majority leader of the senate, looked around very carefully in making his selection to the special watergate committee, and he settled on a chairman who he thought was had unimpeachable credentials. sam ervin, democratic conserva tive from north carolina, had been in the senate since the 1950s. he was at that point in his seventies. he had no desire to become president later on. he was just content to be a united states senator. and importantly, he had a couple of interesting credentials that made him really perfect for this role in this politically sensitive position. he was the senate's constitutional law expert recognized by his colleagues as such, and he was incredibly interested in some of the issues that the watergate scandal had exposed, issues of surveillance, issues of breaking and entering, issues of invasions, of privacy. he'd been investigating some of these issues, actually, for about ten years prior to the break in at w
so the democrats control board had the majority in the senate in 1973, and of course, richard nixon was a republican president. and so mcmahon's field, the majority leader of the senate, looked around very carefully in making his selection to the special watergate committee, and he settled on a chairman who he thought was had unimpeachable credentials. sam ervin, democratic conserva tive from north carolina, had been in the senate since the 1950s. he was at that point in his seventies. he had...
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host: we are joined by john farrell, author of “richard nixon: the life." the significance of president nixon's resignation 50 years later? guest: i think he is with us always or at least will be because he was the only president to resig >> he was the only president to resign in disgrace. his life was so shakespearean. he came from nowhere. he had this meteor christ a vice president -- he had this meteoric rise to president. comeback, claimed the white house again and then was brought down by his own flaws. it is an irresistible story, along with the way that he was a polarizing figure, so half the country hated him, have loved him. each portion of the country -- a huge portion of the country loved him right up until the end, so as long as a couple of generations are around, he will be a magnetic figure. host: what was president nixon doing 50 years ago this morning? guest: he varied from his usual routine. usually eight a very simple breakfast of skim milk, cereal or yogurt from his favorite famous southern california dairy. he was down in the kitchen thi
host: we are joined by john farrell, author of “richard nixon: the life." the significance of president nixon's resignation 50 years later? guest: i think he is with us always or at least will be because he was the only president to resig >> he was the only president to resign in disgrace. his life was so shakespearean. he came from nowhere. he had this meteor christ a vice president -- he had this meteoric rise to president. comeback, claimed the white house again and then was...
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i mean more than a year's worth of magazines feature richard nixon on the cover. he's convinced they are out to get it. yeah, and they do he tricks all the time and it's like you wouldn't be being true to yourself if you resp. it's like it's like a legitimate self-defense. yes. it seems to be the cycle and that's exactly right and it's similar in some ways to i think some of the paranoia and conspiracy that we see in donald trump's way of politics and donald trump's presidency where you have this man just convinced that his enemies are out there doing evil to him all the time and that he's got to give his good as he's good. he's getting everyone is a dirty gay and don't use dirty taxes yourself that you'll get. it's all corrupt, and i just need to be as corrupt as everyone else when in most cases richard nixon is the only corrupt figure in the conversation. yeah. but to me, that's the the i want to say about this book by the way that the i think in an extraordinarily. clever and kind of convincing way. there are all the way through brilliant character studies. we
i mean more than a year's worth of magazines feature richard nixon on the cover. he's convinced they are out to get it. yeah, and they do he tricks all the time and it's like you wouldn't be being true to yourself if you resp. it's like it's like a legitimate self-defense. yes. it seems to be the cycle and that's exactly right and it's similar in some ways to i think some of the paranoia and conspiracy that we see in donald trump's way of politics and donald trump's presidency where you have...
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richard nixon has no chance at all.neuver. - nixon tells his team to use a woman named anna chennault to monkey-wrench the negotiations in paris. - anna chennault, a republican fundraiser and a member of nixon's campaign, is telling saigon, "stay away from paris. "stay away from the peace talks, and you'll get a better deal if nixon is elected." - as a presidential candidate-- and my vice presidential running mate joins me in this-- neither he nor i will say anything that might destroy the chance to have peace. we want peace above politics in america. [johnson speaking] - lbj feels confident to move forward. the condition that north vietnam had always asked for has now been met, and so four-party peace talks are imminent. they will happen. well, in saigon, on november 1st, president thieu stands up on the dais and drops this major bombshell. - [speaking vietnamese] - south vietnam, with deep personal regrets, cannot participate in the negotiations. - i think that's enough. i have no more things to tell with you. - embar
richard nixon has no chance at all.neuver. - nixon tells his team to use a woman named anna chennault to monkey-wrench the negotiations in paris. - anna chennault, a republican fundraiser and a member of nixon's campaign, is telling saigon, "stay away from paris. "stay away from the peace talks, and you'll get a better deal if nixon is elected." - as a presidential candidate-- and my vice presidential running mate joins me in this-- neither he nor i will say anything that might...
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nixon was not the lead for civil rights, lyndon johnson did way more than richard nixon never did but nixon is relegated to being considered a racist and the bad guy nixon made racist comments on the states, he did and nixon was not blameless in hothis area. >> host: so was lbj. >> guest: so was lbj. my point was nixon did more than we realize in the cause of civil rights. >> host: and you went back to his vice presidency. >> guest: in the 50s he did. >> ... that has been overlooked. and so i think nixon deserves some creditve for that. i mean, that there's a streak in american politics where people naturally want to be part of their own gang, their own group and they look at their tribe as their group and they look down or scan at the other capital t, capital o, capital t, it can be whatever color you want, it can be this relying on or that religion. when i use the word travel, that's what i'm referring to. it's the fear ofth the other, looking down on the other and building up your own group. we had hoped after the end of the cold war that we were going to go to a new era that was b
nixon was not the lead for civil rights, lyndon johnson did way more than richard nixon never did but nixon is relegated to being considered a racist and the bad guy nixon made racist comments on the states, he did and nixon was not blameless in hothis area. >> host: so was lbj. >> guest: so was lbj. my point was nixon did more than we realize in the cause of civil rights. >> host: and you went back to his vice presidency. >> guest: in the 50s he did. >> ... that...
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and his book, "richard nixon: the life." "washington journal" is. -- "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning, friday, august 9. former president trump held a news conference yesterday at mar-a-lago for just over an hour. vice president harris wielded a few questions after her rally in michigan. both have agreed to a debate on september 10. we are getting your reaction and thoughts on campaign 2024. here are the numbers. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. include your first name, city, and state. and we are on social media. facebook.com/cspan. and x at @cspanwj. we start with an article from the hill that says trump says the honeymoon will end. he held an hour-long press conference thursday when he lambasted vice president harris as incompetent and appeared exasperated at questions about democrats newfound momentum after elevating harris to the top of their ticket. here is a portion of that news conference from yesterday. [video c
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and things are looking pretty good for richard nixon. only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, xfinity internet customers can buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. get the fastest connection to paris with xfinity. - [laughing] what? - is it your purpose here to disrupt this convention? - life is disruptive in america, let's face it. if you believe in life, you're disruptive. you know? i don't want to go and fight in that damn war. you know, that's a disruptive attitude. they're gonna have to pull me by my hair. right? [chuckles] - the activist part of my generation is divided into two parts: those who decide that they can change the world by supporting a viable anti-war candidate, and those who think that the entire system has to be torn down. - political pigs, your days are numbered. we are the second american revolutio
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i think richard nixon did quite well.. >> he confronted kirchhoff, the head of the soviet union and the debate of the cold war and helped nixon's political position so americans can see him as a forceful guy that stand up to kindness. it was an important moment for him and that only charged area of the cold war. 1959. the two leaders actually talked to each other. that didn't happen in the 1950s. we were in our separate camps. at least they were talking. >> your father at harpercollins, or at harper at the time. did something very unusual for the day. he gave somebody a million-dollar advance for a book. >> i'd forgotten that. who got the advance? >> stones book. >> my dad was the number two guy point i don't think he wrote that check. he was the editor of the book. i forgot that. believe it or not, i was the first american boy stalin's daughter ever met. she had just got off the plane and i was a 16-year-old boy my way back to boarding school and i went to patricia mcmillan's house on longisland . stalin's daughter pinch
i think richard nixon did quite well.. >> he confronted kirchhoff, the head of the soviet union and the debate of the cold war and helped nixon's political position so americans can see him as a forceful guy that stand up to kindness. it was an important moment for him and that only charged area of the cold war. 1959. the two leaders actually talked to each other. that didn't happen in the 1950s. we were in our separate camps. at least they were talking. >> your father at...
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richard nixon would be, i think it was same 30, 40 years later that richard nixon would be seen as a left-wing radical by most current day republicans. >> oh, my lord, absolutely. one of the questions people ask is, how did we survive 1968? when you think about the tumultuous year, president johnson gets out, mccarthy and rfk challenge him, dr. king is killed, senator kennedy is killed, the chicago democratic convention is chaotic, george wallace gets 13.5% of the vote in november. incredibly fraught time. i would argue that it's worthy to think about, nixon is part of the reason the republic endured. again, complicated, counterintuitive argument. 212 area code people wouldn't agree with this. but the epa, he proposed a health care plan to the left of president obama's. he proposed a guaranteed family income. remember, the influence of daniel patrick moynihan, a domestic policy adviser, on the one hand wanted to take nixon into this kind of progressive tori-ism. again, the complications of life, the complexities of life, daniel patrick moynihan arguing that on this side, and then you
richard nixon would be, i think it was same 30, 40 years later that richard nixon would be seen as a left-wing radical by most current day republicans. >> oh, my lord, absolutely. one of the questions people ask is, how did we survive 1968? when you think about the tumultuous year, president johnson gets out, mccarthy and rfk challenge him, dr. king is killed, senator kennedy is killed, the chicago democratic convention is chaotic, george wallace gets 13.5% of the vote in november....