history tv on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> sunday on q&a -- last pressxon's conference. he would win a 49 state landslide -- it all came apart. pat buchanan served as a speechwriter and senior adviser for president nixon. he discusses his book. saying ie him a memo think you want to testify -- you

will have to keep the five tapes dean --ersations with b you really should take. and shut down this special prosecutor's office now before it grows into a monster. fred and called in entertained this idea that he should burn the tapes. he said it would be obstruction of justice. i did and recommend burning subpoenaed tapes. there was executive privilege. myrecently got rid of them think he would have moved right through it. president nick's and said in his memoirs if he had burned the

tapes, he would have survived. i think that is right. -- president nixon said in his memoirs. war,night on the civil historians discuss new york city during the civil war from divided political loyalties in the union state to its southern economic ties. there is a preview. -- here is a preview. >> when they finally start doing the draft, that is the last straw. not just for the irish. it is for white workingmen in new york city. by the summer of 1863. wages had stayed steady or gone down but wartime inflation had doubled. they were not happy about the emancipation proclamation.

--y shifted the point of war they were told they were going to fight to preserve the union. now, they were fighting to preserve the union and free the slaves. then the draft comes along. if they don't have a year's wages set aside to buy their substitute, they are going to go. that was the final spark that caused it. you could really look at it more as a citywide workers revolt than a draft riot. grievances had been building up in this class for several years. can watch the entire program on new york city during the civil war tonight at 6:00 eastern. this is american history tv, only on c-span3.

president james monroe invited the marquee -- marquis de lafayette to return from france for a heroes tour. talkst, brian howard about the preservation of a nearly 200-year-old carriage used by general lafayette during that tour. the studebaker national museum hosted this program. it is about one hour. >> our feature presenter today has been a friend of the iseum's for 25 years when first came to the museum in 1999, there was a report on my the first drawn vehicle -- the horse-drawn vehicle collection. companyrian howard's that undertook the conservation of our national treasures