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go back to 1947 where he is going off to europe and he and jackie kennedy both supported the marshall plan, supported nato, supported containment of the soviet union. politics, richard nixon, i think, is fair to say, in his strategies, political strategies and tactics, he was anti-elitist, partly populist, middle american, representing those who were unrepresented in his own way. the combination of those things

were the things that gave -- in 1972, socially and culturally he was a traditionalist and there are idiosyncrasies. one story in my book, i did the briefing books after agnes walter when i went to work for him in 65-66, nixon soon had me doing the briefing books in new york and during the campaign of 68 and during the presidency he would go to his office and i want my briefing book by such and such a date, i would go through the papers out, go through ziegler's briefings, call around the major departments, pushing the secretary, is there anything you are after, give me a call, after

a while it got so i could predict almost every question asked at the press conference and sometimes i predicted every single one. after one of those press conferences in 1973, i had gotten every question, it was obvious i predicted every one. you did your usual excellent job. i noticed you predicted every question the press asked. i believe we did. he said there are other questions we did not ask. i paused and he said next time leave those out. one other time, one of my

various -- i decided to take a leave from crossfire, can diminish ten weeks before the new hampshire primary so my sister and i put together an organization, went to new hampshire, nixon, president bush added 70% and i was at 15 and david duke was at 5. i went up there and worked and campaigned, cut it down to where president bush vetoed, 51-37 so i went to george and we did as well and then came supertuesday, eight primaries and i was wiped out in all eight. we were feeling down as i called up president nixon and he came on the line, said mister president, 10 for 10, not bad.

he said buchanan, you are the only extremist i know with a sense of humor. thank you very much, appreciate it. [applause] >> thank you. pat has agreed to answer some of your questions but before he does i want to plug the book. they are available for order in the colonnade. first question. >> the first four months over here, on the right. >> go ahead. >> in the first four months of the administration, nixon's final speech when he resigned,

said things like people you hate don't win unless you hate them and destroy yourself and never be petty and he was telling people like monica crowley, he was asking why did i go through and others won't learn from my mistakes. are you afraid the current president is doing things like that, stick it in and twist it with relish. >> i think donald trump has gotten the worst media i have seen of any candidate or president of the last 18 months of his campaign and first four months of his presidency.

no question about it, things that have broken so far in terms of substance this is no watergate. didn't have a single crime yet that has been alleged against the president or his white house staff and yet the mood and the hostility and animosity on cable tv and the rest of them, i was quoted in the press, i don't know how you sustain this kind of intensity and hostility. it has only been four months, 44 to go in his first term. i don't know all this is going to end but i don't know that it is going to end well for the country. i do think the president is in some danger of losing the critical margins that he has got in the house, people moving away in congress so he is not able to do what he wants to do. i supported donald trump, one

reason was frankly came down and the issues i raised, border security, staying out of foreign wars, new trade arrangements, a trade deficit, over factories, and supported them. i do think he has a problem. and quite frankly there -- how he has handled it, we didn't call the press names. we had a speech, major speech, two speeches and move on. president nixon no doubt felt he was getting terrible press but he contained in the self and very disciplined. i don't think self-discipline is the first phrase, yes? >> question in the back row.

>> i was a young individual, concerned about the massive immigration, i just want to make sure what we can do to modify and repeal the 1965 immigration law that has drastically changed this country and had a huge impact in california and what are your thoughts about wall street? >> i worked in mister nixon's office for three years, 1965, an editorial writer in st. louis, i don't recollect taking a position on it, lyndon johnson's memoirs, that was enacted, i

don't think he mentions it in his memoirs. i looked it up one time, i agree with you, this is one of the issues i ran on in 1990 which was a moratorium, cut the numbers down, to assimilate and americanize, and many millions. eastern and southern europe to 1920 and had a period of low immigration so when you get to 1960, 97% of us spoke english and we all had the same culture, traditions and holidays. to your point, to your point, i don't know that you could get that through, repeal of the 65 act, that you could get through the congress of the united states right now. i don't know that all the republicans will go with it.

i am not sure donald trump could go with it but i do believe immigration, read and write a great deal. a great problem of western civilization. [applause] >> tell us to your recollection what mister nixon thought about george wallace, how much he was inspired by wallace in getting democrats to work for him. >> talking about governor wallace, nixon, wallace, wallace in 1964 had come out of alabama and toward of the democratic primaries. and in indiana and maryland, a majority of the white vote in

maryland, and the civil rights laws impose from the south. wallace in 68, which ran as a democrat, as a third-party candidate. there was no doubt about it, he had an enormous appeal nixon recognized. the longer wallace was around from 1964-68 the more his repertoire, talking about audiences, i know some four letter words too, wor k, soap. wallace was moving people on those lines and no doubt the votes wallace got were the votes we wanted to get. nixon had a position on civil rights, he wasn't going to

abandon. what was best was to get wallace out of the race or lose the democratic nomination. been in 68, governor wallace in maryland, 72, he was leading the democratic party in votes, all the primaries, won michigan and maryland the next day, wallace was a powerful force but my own view is that wallace could not run the democratic nomination and he could not win a general election and if he got into a general election as he did in 68, he siphoned off votes that would otherwise go to nixon. i did look after the 72 election, wallace in one precinct where wallace had gotten 173 votes nixon got 172 of them. they didn't go to george mcgovern, they came to us.

this with the idea of the southern protestant strategy, bring in the votes. you needed to get wallace not to run to do that as a third-party candidate but if he were to rise any higher he couldn't do it but in a way nixon couldn't compete in 68, census bureau wagner to the upper south and went down with him because he competed very well getting those votes and frankly there is a quote in my book from mister next and, lyndon johnson told mister nixon on the ride to the inaugural where everyone was praising what a wonderful job he did and johnson didn't think anything of it, but agnew had done away with the job and won states like helped us in north carolina, tennessee and states like that. >> question?

>> you speak about what nixon inherited in vietnam. next monday is memorial day and i lost my dad in vietnam. and hindsight either a couple things president kennedy or president nixon might have done to change the outcome of the war or speed up departure from the vietnam? >> since i was supporting the war from the beginning when i was in journalism school and jack kennedy put 16,000 green berets my view, george wallace is not all wrong when he said his slogan was when or get out. it wasn't all wrong. i think the united states of america which reduced the japanese empire to rubble, greatest empire agent seen could have won that war but what

happened was the american establishment was broken, lost the will, would not take the measures necessary to win the war and therefore president nixon came in and decided we have to get out and the consequences, he had to know the consequences could be bad. my view, president nixon talked to me after he left office, says he should have done in 69 will be needed in 72, unleash full power of the united states to win the war or break the north vietnamese and i don't know why he didn't do that and i don't know why -- you can't blame president kennedy. he did what 16,000 -- lyndon johnson raise that to 500,000

troops. the new national security adviser mcmaster, i just read his book in which he blames the johnson -- president johnson and others as having behaved dishonorably during that war, and not realizing what the outcome was going to be. that is something i would almost if you are over there like to hear your view. >> what is your comment?

>> i will say the cambodia thing was a success, it costs a lot of people, american casualties straight down from can stay to the end of the war. when we came in they were losing guys at 300 a week. yes? >> time for one more question. it is available for purchase in the bookstore and pat will sign your books for you. our final question. >> in honor to ask this question. you have been my isil since i was a kid. how do we go about bringing younger millennials? >> as you say on tv, i need time

to think of it. i think the 60s was the time when a significant slice, it animated the country, all through generations previous to that, on culture, morality, issues of race. that ideology has spread to the point we could win 49 states, 84, 72, we can't do that. the country is so changed and the academic community is so changed and the school system so changed and the values are so changed, winning over to the

republican party, i am a believer, i am a believer, and the blue wall. it went democratic, all the previous six elections. that is growing. demographically it is very difficult for me to see how republican party at the national level has any great longevity especially to the gentleman's question. mass immigration from third world folks who depend heavily on government don't understand many ideas of republicans about smaller government, less government programs.

when i was running in 1992 i was in a gym working out with a hispanic american who said what are you going to do for education? education is a local/state responsibility and the federal government only spends a few cents of every education dollars so you need to focus on state and local. what are you going to do for education? i think republicans have a difficult time reaching these folks, no question about it. fox has got some problems these days. i mean, look at.

in 62, columbia university journalism school, 65 americans, 15 foreign folks. i knew which way the media were going, contemporaries and friends, wanted the goldwater books. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> a coalition of organizations is holding a news conference in washington dc to discuss the us

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boogie man back then. i spent more time in the white house responding to foia requests. i remember those foias going through every document trying to find what kenneth starr wanted that week. coming in now, to do my job. >> the white house office of public liaisons friday at 8:00 eastern on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> c-span on the road meeting with winners of the student cam video documentary competition. at laramie high school in laramie, wyoming, gathering with families and officials to accept the first prize of $3000 for the documentary on wyoming's

dependence on fossil fuels. a classical academy accepted a second-place prize of $1500 for a documentary on cybersecurity, the third-place award, 7 $50, and there documentary of digital theft and hacking. st. thomas moore high school in south dakota where andre cope, and caroline anchorage with a price of 7 $50 for the documentary on racial inequality in america. about five hours in south dakota's seventh grader caleb miller and patrick henry middle school received a third-place prize of 7 $50 for his documentary on the national debt and one honorable mention, a prize of $250 for his

documentary on marijuana. sarah bomb half won for her documentary, and sean baker won for the documentary on heroism and haley colwell also received honorable mention for the documentary on global warming. thank you to all the students who took part in our 2017 student cam documentary competition, to watch any of the videos go to studentcam.org and 2018 in september for the constitution and you. asking students to choose any provision of the u.s. constitution and create a video illustrating why it is important. >> next, a look at efforts to combat violent extremism. this discussion with islamic religious leaders and scholars focused on how people become radicaze