europe and the united states, but think you will see that in your head. >> i need to ask you, stephen hadley, we were talking more generally about america's declining influence in the world -- marginal, of course. israel and palestine. what you think president obama's attitude should be? >> i think he will remain engaged. they have to stop talking about the issue of settlements and start talking about the terms of the peace. i think that is what the administration has undertaken. i think it is positive that the secretary of state clinton has -- is going to be more actively engaged. i am encouraged they will make progress. >> briefly -- to you think there will be a crisis in the year rose zone. -- do you think there will be a crisis in the euro zone? >> i think there will be more tensions. but not a real crisis. >> angela merkel said "making noises about the future of the euro." >> they should have made noise about it earlier. >> what area of countries will come into the euro zone this year? >> possibly italy, places like belgium. but angela merkel will not let it collapse. >> thank you very

nixon raising general eisenhower, and going after hadley stephens, and calling on everyone to release -- ike breaks his headphone. he knows exactly, ike, the instinctive politician, who spent a life time denying he was a politician, knew exactly what was being done to him. this is an amazing moment. >> guest: that's his brilliance, his genius that he could turn that defeat into victory by being able to see other people's weaknesses. >> host: would you by the fact that nixon was the last new deal president? >> guest: to some extent, i would. he did believe in health care reform. he did believe in many public -- major public initiatives. >> host: and was some of that accommodating himself to the prevailing political consensus? in other words, 20 years later, 25 years later, there's still -- america was still a new deal nation. george wilk said in 1980, they want to conserve the new deal. specifically social security. is nixon in effect like any good politicians accommodating himself to the prevailing consensus? >> guest: richard i would say it goes deeper than that. again what moved me