republicans are the ones that put us into this mess. can among has not worked with this president. t throughout both of his terms and i'd like you to come back on after the midterm election and see who's going to be running because these republicans are going down the tubes.he trust me. i midterm election and i'd like d you too come back and listen t my comment, okay? i i would like nothing better to come back to c-span and if they invite me i will be here ev midterm elections. >> mr. client, a comment from twitter, this is about . presidential advisors, which i think goes to so of the on i cans of your books. "do you believe the advisors of president obama and president clinton came from the same exclusive think tank pool?" >> no, i don't.

i think president clinton's advisors came from what was called the democratic leadership council which was a center left group that tried to bring the democratic party away from its radical base to more of a centrist position. the obama administration has geu been by andnn large -- not entirely, but by and large run e in its policy decisions by political people. i'm talking about david chod who helped him get elected, i'm talking about valerie jarrett.ia i'll give you a concrete example of this.ary in my book "blood feud" i discuss a meeting that took place between bill and hillary clinton and caroline kennedy. at caroline kennedy's apartment on park avenue in new york. caroline kennedy was about to take up her post as ambassador

to tokyo in japan and she wanted advice from hillary, the formerr secretary of state about what ls she should expect and hillary told her, according to sources that hillary spoke to later, hig that don't o be surprised if yo marching orders as ambassador in tokyo come not from the state department but from valerie jarrett in the white house. who is essentially a political advisor, not a policy person. i think that says volumes about how this administration has been run. >> mr. klein, the covereen of y. book features the couple bill and hillary clinton and michelle and barack obama. talk about how they worked toge together as a couple, tical political y in the sense. >> how each of the couples worki together? >> yeah. >> well, that would take us a y, long time, but basically i would

say that as quickly as i can sat this that the s clintons have as marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. hav it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone do their separa ways in many ways. they don't live together often.s but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy, as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side -- we have a first lady in michelle obama wht is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes advisor to her husband in a way that's quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves s toward her husband as though she knows better.

he has set in public that she's the boss. he often sounds like a henpecked guy, i must say. i know that's very radical to say that. but i think there's a lot of truth to that. these women, both michelle and e valerie, have enormous influence over his policy decisions. another concrete example, when bill daley was the chief of staff of the obama white house, he said after he resigned that he and obama would come to an pr agreement and then valerie nigt jarrett would go, upstairs to e residence that night, spend the evening up there talking to esin barack and michellet and the nt morning the president would come down and contravene and throw out the agreement that daley had. and daley resigned because he said he couldn't function with e that kind of white house. >> we talked about a variety of

topics. other topics are explored in the book "blood feud: the clintons versus the obamas." the author, edward klein who joins us for this discussion. mr. klein, thank you. >> it's been a great pleasure. thank you very much for having me on. president obama is at martha's vineyard for vacation this week off the massachusetts coast but he is still working from there. he issued a directive this morning for $10 million in emergency pentagon spending to help fight terrorists in northwest africa. he wrote to the secretaries defense and state that he's determined an unforeseen emergency exists in africa. he says it requires immediate military assistance to france in its efforts to secure mali, niger and chad from violent extremists.

members of congress are on recess through september. here's a look at what some of them are doing this week. new jersey representative frank low bee i don't know doe tweets he's meeting anthony fox and fax administrator michael huerta in south jersey for a visit at the faa tech center. tennessee marcia black burn says she talked health it, han cook -- a south korean tire maker -- and tennessee with south korean president park today. and indiana representative tweets she's in day one of the vet tour. she's headed to the goshin v.a. outpatient center to meet patients and to talk about the new v.a. law that helps gets get

care. find more tweets from members of congress. join our list at twitter.com/c-span. coming up here on c-span 3, a look at the resignation of president nixon 40 years ago this month. starting with president nixon's television address to the nation, followed by a "washington post" discussion with some of the reporters who covered the story. then we'll turn to pulitzer prize winning reporter joe becker, the author of "forcing the spring -- inside the fight for marriage equality" talking about the gay marriage movement. this week while congress is in recess, watch american history tv in prime time. each weeknight at 8:00 eastern, american history tv will feature a variety of topics on the early american republic, jewish history, world war ii and sports history. and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation.

like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. this month marks the 40th anniversary of president nixon's resignation. on august 8, 1974, president nixon addressed the nation from the oval office. during this special presentation of american history tv, the president's speech. first we go behind the scenes in the oval office as the president prepares to deliver his remarks. this is about 20 minutes. >> okay, somehow that? is that hitting anywhere that you can see? i don't think i don't think it is. >> okay. >> hey, you're better looking than i am, why don't you stay here?

blonds they say photograph better than brunettes. is that true or not? you're a blond, aren't you? redhead? we're the same. i know. have you gotten a extra camera in case the lights go out? is that nbc? and that's an nbc camera? standard joke. did we get these lights properly? my eyes always have -- when you

get past 60 -- that's enough. my friend ollie always wants to take a lot of picture of me. i'm afraid he'll catch me picking my nose. he wouldn't print that would you though, ollie? you can take a long shot but that's enough. i guess i can see it. oh, you want a level, don't you? yes, yes. good evening, this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office. there are so many decisions that have been made that shape the history of our nation. need any more? each time i have done so to discuss with you some matter that i believe affected the national interests. okay.

ollie? only the cbs crew now can be in this room during this. only the crew. no. there will be no picture. no. after the broadcast. you've taken your picture? didn't you take one just now? that's it. because, you know, we don't want to -- we didn't let the -- the press is going to take one so you've taken it. just take it right now, this is right after the broadcast. you got it. come on. okay fine. fine. i'm not going to make the other photographers by giving you too many. that's enough, okay? all secret service -- is there any secret service in the room?

out. you don't have to stay, do you? you're required to? i'm just kidding. >> 2:15 to air, please.

[ inaudible dialogue ] >> i better get in position. what? well, if i can. i'll try to. you mean move them like this? would that help you? am i straight in the back? would you mind checking my collar? it's not ruffled up. good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office

where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation. each time i have done so to discus with you some matter that i believe affected the national interest. and all of the decisions i have made in my public life i have always tried to do what was best for the nation. throughout the long and difficult period of watergate i have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. in the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that i no longer have a strong enough political base in the congress to justify continuing that effort. as long as there was such a base i felt strongly that it was necessary to see the

constitutional process through to its conclusion. that to do otherwise would be unfaith to feel the spirit of that deliberately difficult process. and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future. but with the disappearance of that base i now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served and there is no-x@ need for the process to be prolonged. i would have preferred to carry through to the finish, whatever the personal agony it would have involved. and my family unanimously urged me to do so. but the interests of the nation must always come before any personal considerations. from the discussions i have had with congressional and other leaders, i have concluded that because of the watergate matter,

i might not have the support of the congress that i would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require. i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president i must put the interests of america first. america needs a full-time president and a full-time congress. particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. to continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the president and the

congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. therefore, i shall restein -- resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. as i recall the high hopes for america with which we began this second term, i feel a great sadness that i will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a half years. but in turning over direction of the government to vice president ford, i know as i told the nation when i nominated him for that office ten months ago that the leadership of america will be in good hands.

in passing the office to the vice president, i also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow. and therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all americans. as he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. as we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this nation, to put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free

people. by taking this action i hope that i will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in america. i regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. i would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong -- and some were wrong -- they were made in what i believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation. to those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, the many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, i will be eternally grateful for your support.

and to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say i leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me because all of us in the final analysis have been concerned with the good of the country however our judgments might differ. so let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in help iing our new president succeed for the benefit of all americans. i shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term, but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your president for the past five and a half years. these years have been a momentous time in the history of

our nation's world. they have been a time of achievement of which we can all be proud. achievements that represent the shared efforts of the administration, the congress, and the people. but the challenges ah9eggoó[÷@ng ended one war but that we prevented future wars. we have unlocked the door that

for a quarter of a century stood between the united states and the people's republic of china. we must now ensure that the one quarter of the world's people who live in the people's republic of china will be and remain not our enemies but our friends. in the middle east, 100 million people in the arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years now look on us as their friends. we must continue to build on that friend shship so that peac can settle at last over the middle east and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave. together with the soviet union we have made the crucial

breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms. but we must set as our goal not just limiting but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons so that they cannot destroy civilization and so that the thread of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people. we have opened the new relation with the soviet union. we must continue to develop and expand that new relationship so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation. around the world, in asia, africa, latin america, the middle east, there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty. even starvation.

we must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward in their children's time if not in our own time to having the necessities for a decent life. here in america we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good and by the world's standards even abundant lives. we must press on, however, toward a goal not only of more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every american. and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve -- prosperity withoutf;í inflation.

for more than a quarter of a century in public life, i have shared a turbulent history. i have fought for what i believed in. i have tried to the best of my ability to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me. sometimes i have succeeded, sometimes i have failed, but always i have taken heart from what theodore roosevelt once said about the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who

does actually strive to do the deed. who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions. who spends himself in af worth cause. who, at the best, knows in the end the triumphs of higher achievements and with the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatness. i pledge to you tonight that as long as i have a breath of life in my body i shall continue in that spirit. i shall continue to work for the great causes to which i have been dedicated throughout my years as a congressman, a senator, vice president and president, the cause of peace not just for america but among all nations, prosperity, justice, and opportunity for all

of our people. there is one cause above all to which i have been devoted and to which i shall always be devoted for as long as i live. when i first took the oath of office as president five and a half years ago, i made this sacred commitment -- to consecrate my office, my energies, and all thezrñ'cím can summon to the cause of peace among nations. i've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. as a result of these efforts i am confident that the sworld a safer place today not only for the people of america but for

the people of all nations. and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war. this, more than anything, is what i hoped to achieve when i sought the presidency. this, more than anything, is what i hope will be my legacy to you, to our country as i leave the presidency. to have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every american in leaf leaving it i do so with this prayer --

may god's grace be with you in all the day's ahead. . president nixon resigned 40 years ago on august 9, 1974. the "washington post" recently hosted a discussion about watergate, the secret white house tapes and the 37th president's fall from power. their conversation was about two hours. welcome, everybody, my name is marty baron, i'm the executive editor of the "washington post" and it is a rel