>> and the nixon white house wasn't happy with you. >> the nixon white house, imagined i could use this word about a president, a presidency, sneakily, prepped the guy, young guy who was a right-winger to oppose kerry, left winger, called t.v. booking. as they saw it. kerry was effecti. so was the other fellow but the white house wasn't thrilled. they thought i didn't let him -- i am just sorry nixon is not with us.

let me take that back instantly. what i mean is, i'm sorry he didn't live long enough to see my dick cavett's watergate which was on pbs and you can find it online, and you must see it. dick cavett's water graduate. you can find the whole show. somebody found that i had tons of watergate stuff on my show. i had mitchell. i had g gordon liddy. and you can see him ask if i am a jew, ask somebody. and if you want to just a sample, youtube has the moment where nixon says to his lickspeetle, hr that woulderman, what can we do to screw him? have you ever seen your name mentioned by the president of the most powerful man in the country who wants to screw you? context? >> the son of a -- or the indicted co-conspirator found a way. one of my staff told a friend

who had been on my staff years, i was audited. he said, so was i. when were you? and it was right after that. and he -- one of nixon's favorite hobbies of his illegal ones was punishing people with the irs, as you know. >> that's no secret. and he, you know, it hurt the smaller people on the staff who didn't make much money. i had been audited every year without nixon, and to be without nixon is a blessing. >> they went after all your staff as a result? >> they went after the staff. the vial filth from his mouth on the tapes is simply record-breaking. and on the special, on dick cavett's watergate, carl bernstein points out -- new interviews with him, can and with woodward. the first day of the administration, we had for the first time, we know, a criminal administration in the white house. and instead of celebrating, he is like how we have to get this

guy and ruin this guy's business by screwing him this way and so on. and at one point, he wants to know if i am a jew. isn't that fascinateing? >> clive james wrote an he is aabout you and he said for television accurately appalled him but born for television, was. >> what add wonderful man. clive james, british columnist, great wit. i had him on several shows. >> were you appalled, though, by being born for television? because it seems to me that you loved television. entertainment? >> i did. >> in general. >> you are right, not to say clive is wrong if he is watching. i don't know. i think you are right, i belong in it. >> still ahead, on "talk to al jazeera" dick cavett on the guests he loved andthose he loathed.

>> i'm joie chen i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> this is talk to al jazeera. i am antonio mora. my guest this week, author and talk show host, dick cavett. >> i want to ask you some of those questions jack parr told you not to ask? >> shoot. >> who do you like the most? who have you liked the most of all of the people? >> betty davis, brando, arson wells and 100 more.

one of them is a favorite but if you persist in your folly in pressing me with this, i would have to confess that groucho meant the most to me. >> who did you dislike the most? >> spiro agnew was a piece of nothing. it kills me i had him on, they put him on the show. this is before we had two criminals in the white house, the president and the vice president, a great moment in our history they put him on. said he has a good since of humor. we have a lot of cartoons. they cartoon him a lot. he will say funny things about them. he would look at one and say, the way they did your eyes in this one, interesting. >> that's 1 you don't want on your talk show. i have the anagram curse. i see them everywhere. i don't think about them. they just

come. spiro agnew, grow a penis. and that's what spiro spells. >> how about phonies, people great when they were sitting with the cameras and were terrible when you left? >> i didn't like bufrt parks come to think of it. you prodded that out. he was gooey and insulting and boring. a wonderful man in private life, somewhere. >> a favorite interviewer or entry. i know you had a close relationship with mohammed ali? >> i think i said in the piece again? >> the piece in the book? i am going to look. being just about my best friend for years. he stayed at my house one night out in the country. my wife was in new york. she called.

i had gone to get his wife and bring her over. they were in a motel and they wanted to stay at my house. phone rang. ali picked it up and heard, "darling? and he said, this ain't darling this is only 3-time heavy weight champion in the world and i am lying in your bed and i am watching your t.v. lady. and she said to her credit, i am going to put a black on that bed, mr. ali. more than she ever did for me. >> we won't go there. >> the book again, you know, got the essay on ali, a bunch of other essays. i loved the blurb from mel brooks, since we are talking about those kinds of things, the best bathroom reading ever written, each story takes just the right amount of time? >> that's genius >> one of the stories? >> genius is

genius. >> we went into this,s the guy from the ad agency and steve jobs and i entered this elegant restaurant. i don't remember which one it was. steve was dressed in jeans and beat-up loafers and the elegant austrian major doma looked disproving but decided to let us in. steve jobs says, how does it feel to be dick cavett? >> about the only question that's ever floored me. >> you had a long relationship with him. he kept sending you apple products. >> each computer as it came out. i am afraid i have lost some of them. it would have been nice retain them he got sick of sending them to me and said, the next one is

coming out. will you finally, learn to use one? i did. it was the white one that sat up like this, you know. >> macintosh. you have an ability to write very, very emotional obituaries i would love for you to write mine although i think i would rather hang out longer than that? >> give me some time. clive james wrote there will be no dick calfat of the future and we should contents ours there is one of the past. i think we are lucky there is one of the present and that you are always so generous with your time and you come and join us and talk to us because it's such a pleasure? >> i like you as much as i did stan >>. oil obit wary.

>> hello i'm del walters live in new york, new york city just lifts its travel ban but early other states have a ban in place. that big snowstorm continues to slam parts of the northeast. we are trackingle developments and have the latest. >> good morning. it's huddled up and staying warm and inside from all the wind and the cold ultimately for parts of the new york city area, even parts of long island, we're still concerned about how cold it is and the wind chills. it's dangerous to be outside where you get these powerful gusts. what you see is all snow. i want to show you how snow bands across manhattan have weakened save across long island. the intense snow is through connecticut and massachusetts. winds are increasing quickly and the gusts are 45-55 miles an

hour today so still cold and dangerous to be outside. del. >> welcome to the news hour from doha. these are the top stories. gunman attack a hotel with tourists in tripoli. eight people of killed. >> adjustment president barack obama arrives in saudi arabia to pay his respects to the new king. >> argentina disbands the intelligence agency, accusing rogue spies of trying to undermine them. >> a snowstorm blows through the northeastern coast of the united states.