the new nixon library as president of the richard nixon foundation we're honored to have several members here today with the very special council member who is joining us today, a kelly buchanan. [applause] shelley actually started to work for nixon before pat did has never been pointed out? they give for the support that enables us to promulgate encourage civic citizenship in our community

however one today to consider becoming a president's council member this is almost a family reunion you can tell how many alumni from the administration people close to the president during his career are here today first we have larry member of the board of directors from the richard nixon foundation and reef key focuses on the dancing the legacy of richard nixon said the plan former board member and foundation president we have one individual who is very special to the foundation as

a vietnam veteran jack was the first three military aid to the president of united states and served as nixon's chief of staff 1975 through 1980 he was played by kevin bacon and was a mainstay of the nixon foundation next to the superior court of california before ascending to the bench following the

27 districts in the house of representatives under george to be bush serving as undersecretary of commerce as the director of u.s. patent trademark office over nine ben stein became the ability to repeat one word with inflexions with the word buhler while he is so often noted a popular at but economists rand attorney serving as a speechwriter for president nixon many was writing that health care message to congress in 1974.

as a white house fellow special assistant to the president had design and construction of the library that has received two national awards already currently accept a special advisor to the richard nixon foundation. [applause] when making a reference to reunion there are two rather special individuals and when you to meet the both joined the staff of nixon 1951 working with his personal secretary since then mainstays of every campaign in close president to the family clearly was with the foundation from 1990 until

she retired remaining the assistant treasurer. with their combined loyalty and dedication guided and inspired generations we're delighted they are with us today. and now the reason we are here to welcome pat buchanan in his new book "nixon's white house wars" "new york times" is already recommended the book that we should purchase san read to describe pat as one of the conservatives of the past half century we call on his

longtime friend a native of california dirty the campaign and then joining nixon has a staff assistant and speech writer and a special assistant to do the president. and was the chief researcher in ronald reagan's presidential campaign he traveled with a campaign to enhance the speeches and then became the chief speech writer among many writing from president reagan with the republican national convention in 1988 today as a veteran of nine presidential campaigns as an advisor and strategist many

of california's many distinguished public servants serving for many years on the board of directors continues to contribute to that current narrative he still lives in the area and remains active in politics we're glad he and his wife for here today. please join me to welcome a great friend to the nixon family and foundation. >> 50 years ago i was a student at columbia law school i saw an article in

"the new york times" about this schedule a candidate of nixon and members of the staff concluded pat buchanan. so i had wrote a letter to nixon asking if i could help with the 68 campaign imaging if i can work for one of these fellows i did not get a letter back the first time meredith worked on wall street about three blocks from the office said she said she and carried it in their so a few weeks later i gotta letter back from the assistant that was pat buchanan.

file will give you a copy later. so i met him in his cubicle there on fifth avenue and told him i would like to do some research i was a law student raised on a farm in california so i knew those farm issues and get a first taste of his brainpower when he asked this secure agricultural concept called the brinnin plan and what i knew about it and i knew nothing. i so i thought i messed up my interview not only that i

later found out he thought i was a spy from the rockefeller campaign. [laughter] to this day he still thinks that so you mustn't taken pity on me and put me to work to answer correspondence and the rest is history that began the fifth year friendship and started working in the communication shop that now to give you some insight from the nixon white house i have a title and worked for pat that emanated from our friend the be who worked for

bar out -- bob altman so the number to people that worked for anybody in the white house was a supporter so it he became a noun. so then he was called higby and diane sawyer even higby had the higby so i was buchanan higby in that began that 50 year adventure that was part of the white house that was very unique part of murderers' row of speech writers that they haven't had since that you can believe the pulitzer prize

is sent coming to the nixon staff from the tribune and bad editorial that endorsed johnson over goldwater as the most spark - - remarkable speechwriting staff ever we were in all of their talents. but pat began his remarkable career with nixon in 1965 when he became the writer and researcher and campaign aide and along with his current book that i know you all have purchased to have to buy his other book which is called the greatest comeback that chronicles this period the 1965 through

68 working one on one with his comeback period where richard nixon rose from the political that to become president of the united states it is remarkable so with a lighthouse he was a premier political strategists for the president no other single person in my judgment had such a creative insight and could capture those unique forces in the '60s and '70s as pat did that more importantly he knew president nixon better than anyone else because kids spend that time with them in such close contact city will

find in this book a road map to the great battles of the american laughed and the media as they were fought it if you were there at the same time it is insight into those years all within the social unrest of the vietnam war and those records that were left behind with the great society. the year before the computer keypad. that took away one the fun of writing speeches it has known always we had i am typewriters those made a lot of ways so some of the speech writers could make them saying that when pat was working he could make a

the typewriter smoke. [laughter] i can remember, as i share the office within the last year-and-a-half and i can remember when he was working on the speech because his role ways the ones that were on the attack side and when he was wielding the strongest weapon in the world and i was always trying to emulate that but to hear that typewriter boom boom boom you know pat was pounding a something important. he left his mark of royalty to the man whose name is on the building he leaves loyalty fidelity and ideas and personal conviction the old man joined pact they would visit in the old man would be so happy that the

room was full of laughter over political gossip stories of the great battles in they would share stories it was a and to watch the interaction so make it to the west coast especially glad to have you back in the house maybe we can turn this country around part-time? [applause] ♪

>> faq very much i can still remember coming down columbia university after the interview with me i did say check this guy out a degree of our rockefellers' by he went on to be a strategist for the greatest political mind of the 20th century richard nixon and a speech writer of one of the greatest communicators of all time. [applause] i have just been on a tour the really fix it up that was the first time that i have seen it so those in the

c-span audience i worked with the old man the you cannot watch that film without having your heart torn out i barely got through it. but you want to see it. so talk about nixon and was in the book the basically divided america forever and what was going on back on the '60s the year before richard nixon took office we took off january 31st romney was in the race a couple of months not doing well and went to new hampshire i remember being

asked about us than offensive. and of course, that cost 1,000 american lives i was the first walter cronkite said the war is lost making a tremendous opening month campaign to make sure he is rested but then governor romney dropped out of the race and nixon was alone then followed by rockefeller kid got out of the race gene mccarthy won 42 percent of the vote but lbj was the right in.

i don't know what political intellect however record take-home -- record they got 42 read after that happened going to do the same senate to be declared for the nomination and richard nixon had me waiting in the airport in the korea -- will korea for the speech for vietnam's and i am listening to lbj he said he would not run again. the '04 misheard -- four days later dr. king was shot

to death i got calls from friends the 14th street was burning up in those since the nation's capital this is what is going on knicks in 16 straight nobody would contest. so as long as you have those goldwater conservatives nobody could beat us except did or did over a month there was a film but only got 22 percent nixon got a 70% that night was made 28

because we won big and burly the first time a kennedy was beaten in any political race bobby kennedy was coming up from california he had the dog with him and then watch him give a beautiful consent -- concession speech saying we're going to california one week later was back in new york colony from the headquarters so i called of president so then ask the president the senior if i went to the democratic

convention so i had this week on the 19th floor of the conrad hilton hotel i went across the street i was born raised catholic jesuit school everybody would always yell fbi. [laughter] i am up on the 19th floor the who walks in and from norman mailer? we heard a racket down in front of us so the police came down and

they headed into the park and wailing on these people 15 minutes i remained silent because i was praying for the police. but there we saw the democratic party, part in the streets of chicago i did feel sorry for hubert humphrey and then attacking him and then to give the salt lake city speech and he started moving and we could remember that. now beginning of october 287 points behind country by the end of october it was 43 /

43. people don't recall humphry had a remarkable comeback so that we're in the white house america was coming apart with 31,000 dead americans in vietnam no end your victory in sight in to take office he had a hostile press corps the supreme court and that bureaucracy was built up with the new society so it was met with house styles. but if you take a look back

it is conciliatory he held out his hand to foreign powers and said let's listen and hear each other and that is what he wanted to do in the whole first nine months were positive he space the great society which i did not agree with that went on in early tour through europe with the first launch into space in the middle of july. all i can remember is rape price saying it was just magnificent and he said the noise alone was worth the

23 billion but then going out and welcome the astronauts and then talked about a new foreign policy so the speeches far ahead of its time but also right on the money. then october now these massive demonstrations were the kahn before the storm and i know the leading liberal columnist for the "washington post" wrote on eight october to say it is becoming more obvious the man in the movement that broke chances and -- johnson

brings to 68 will bring him in 1969 and they will succeed again. at that point looking at the demonstrations there was a significant memo and we were asked to name those eight successes i read the president back like it was asking louis this 16 her. they are in the eye of a hurricane in he would have been a great king if not for the revolution in one day or two later he said what you think the president should say for the speech we have the two biggest coming up we

don't want to be spooked so midway between the two of october 15 demonstration in the one coming to make a great silent majority speech so there is a lot of people who claimed credit but the entire credit belongs to richard nixon. this karzai know and i looked in my files of i contributed a wrote something the president wrote that himself and stood up in this storm he realized the presidency was in real danger so he deliver that on the great silent majority to stand behind him for peace in vietnam and they did the

response was phenomenal like 70 percent of the american people support the policy even the congress members of the house they endorsed the president's speech it was a real making a the president but that night something else happened after the speech was over the three networks trash that with the instant analysis and a trash with the president had done as well so we got messages to say called them and write letters so i said that memo to the president that it is now time to go public with

the hostility to do with the hostility on these networks two-thirds of the american people was the primary source about the nation and there were three networks with 12 men in new york and washington decided what people saw and heard about their country and what they should think