. >> with that vote, mr. nixont president in more than a century and only the second in all of our history to confront removal from office through the only means provided in the constitution, impeachment. >> i stood by nixon and felt he should remain in office, but then we discovered the tape of june 23rd. this was fatal. >> good evening. president nixon stunned the country today by admitting he held back evidence from the house judiciary committee, keeping it a secret from his lawyers and not disclosing it in public statements. mr. nixon issued transcripts of three recorded conversations he had with h.r. halderman on june 23rd, 1972, six days after the burglars were caught in the watergate. >> you open that scab and there's a hell of a lot of things that we just feel that this would be detrimental to have this thing go any further. >> the facts came out. yes, the president himself, not only was he involved in this but he directed this criminal operation. >> they should call the fbi and n. and say that we wish for

and mrs. nixonow richard and pat nixon felt this couple can do sophisticated people to be treated like that and adjust left a bad taste and it got worse after he was elected president. nixon sent henry kissinger to be his ambassador to this world to mrs. graham and to the georgetown crowd and kissinger did great. charming and funny but pretty soon he was making jokes about the president pretty much on a weekly basis joking about the fearless leader and talking about the drinking habits. of course this bothered fixing, how could it not be he tried to be philosophical about it. he said he's insecure comedian needs this kind of support. and he would tease kissinger and when he was leaving for the evening he would take there goes henry off to talk to his georgetown friends were the "washington post." but of course it will give him and he couldn't help he wanted to get even with kissinger and the georgetown crowd and that resentment was building. and the famous white house tapes interestingly he installe

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at 12:33, senator kennedy clenched minnesota in the election. 13 minutes later mr. nixon made a formal compassion. after nixon conceded, my dad celebrated his groundbreaking story with moses and johnson. maverick doing the story. i almost died twice and barely missed a hernia at the party was briefed. my dad went to lunch at a nearby swedish cafÉ to return to the office. he was given his next assignment three pigs stuck in a mud pit airfare about minnesota. he died in a murder story. that was the year i borne. a year of endless possibilities of new houses and cars and refrigerators. you hear when a kid from of minutes out of it rather started calling the presidential election. they took a risk and elected a new vigorous leader in catholic thought. it was a good year to be born in. >> they did and that getting it right. >> did i spell retired as of the old writings to help confirm that. it was time to go back and remember those times. >> host: when you were little girls and your dad was covering politics, sports and other things, do you think he thought tucker would be a u

i don't think we could get mr. nixon to stand still for a sock it to me. >> sock it to me? love hearing him say that. in more recent history, george w. bush delivered a top ten list with dade letterman as the candidate in 2000. here's one thing he said he would do if he became president. >> number six. just for fun, issue executive order commanding my brother jeb to wash my car. >> past cycles are any indication, 2016 holds a lot in store for late night. politicians logged more than 100 appearances on late night television in the 2008 cycle which was the last time the nomination of both parties was up for grabs. so jonathan, i always think back to bob dole at the end of the '96 campaign, oceans letterman's show. the race is over, he is lost and he is hilarious. everybody says if we had seen this bob dole for the last year and a half, i don't know if the result would be different but it might have been a more interesting campaign i always wondered who out there in this field has the potential like dole to shine on late night television? is there anyone? >> with the dole situ

at 12:33, he wrote, senator kennedy clinched minnesota in the election. 13 minutes later mr. nixon made his formal concession. after he conceded my dad celebrated a groundbreaking story with losers and johnson. nice work doing the story. i almost died twice and barely missed a hernia that the party was brief. my dad went to lunch at a nearby cafÉ and returned to the office and was given his next assignment. three papers were stuck in a mud pit. he went in and wrote his story so that's when i was born in the list possibilities, when that kid from the iron range of minnesota could write a story calling the presidential election and win the country took a risk and eat like that a vigorous leader of the catholic dot. it was a good year to be born. >> host: they did end up getting it right. >> guest: he found some of the old writings to help confirm that. so, it was fun to go back and remove or those times. >> so your dad was covering everything politics, sports and other things. did he think that girl is going to be a u.s. senator? >> guest: my dad always had ambitions for me i think t

being nixon admin divided. mr. thomas.chardn al was richard nixon alwaysing to n fascinated to theew news media. he liked it. it was an extremely shy, awkward lonely figure who likes being at the center of events.wkward, i don't know how crazy he was,. i'm not a shrink, that he needed something, he wanted something in the public escape him what he wanted. >> hope and fear waves the constant battle at the end of the presidency. nixon accomplished a great deal. he was an obsession with his enemies. he just couldn't need to loan his enemies. don't call this number but send a text message to (202)465-6842. we are going to be talking about richard nixon, adding comments who has written many books and we will talk about those as well. as a historical figure is a fascinating and important? >> he was one of the most successful politicians. he accomplished a great deal and is the only president to be driven from office. that alone would keep them in the history books. he stands for something sad and that is the legacy after

was it mr. nixon -- >> sal, go ahead. >> sal has left us.o as far as taking a look at -- you say if the idea for china's government is to put more of the burden in trying the new plan on the domestic side of china is the average chinese citizens ready to take on the spending and things of that line? >> it's a large country, and more than four times the size of the u.s. population, and it's the most populist country in the world so it's hard to generalize a country of that size, and different parts of the country are affected by the economic transition, but i think the emerging chinese middle class in the big cities which has become large in the meantime is already beginning to consume at a much higher rate than in the past, consumption gross in china is higher than the gdp gross, so if this trend continues, the economy will rebalance in the direction of trade to domestic consumption. that process is already happening. >> you talk about an emerging middle class, then. what is causing that? >> high income gross. wages in china have been growin

and mrs. nixon, how richard and pat nixon felt this couple can do sophisticated people to be treated like that and adjust left a bad taste and it got worse after he was elected president. nixon sent henry kissinger to be his ambassador to this world to mrs. graham and to the georgetown crowd and kissinger did great. charming and funny but pretty soon he was making jokes about the president pretty much on a weekly basis joking about the fearless leader and talking about the drinking habits. of course this bothered fixing, how could it not be he tried to be philosophical about it. he said he's insecure comedian needs this kind of support. and he would tease kissinger and when he was leaving for the evening he would take there goes henry off to talk to his georgetown friends were the "washington post." but of course it will give him and he couldn't help he wanted to get even with kissinger and the georgetown crowd and that resentment was building. and the famous white house tapes interestingly he insta

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mr. nixon earned his moniker tricky. law degree from duke university. he knew the impact from the tapes. my question to you is, in your research did you figure out any reason emotionally, emotionally, psychologically, or regionally why he did not burn the tapes? >> he should have and he knew it. when he heard that the tapes are going to be exposed publicly and he was sick, pneumonia and did get some advice one is he did not think you would ever have to turn over the tapes. obviously that was a mistake in a miscalculation. he thought that the tapes might vindicate him. he thought that he could rebut some of the charges against him. what he failed to anticipate how salty he was. being roughened; profane. he just did not foresee this burningburning the tapes, you run the risk of being illegal trouble. >> city have a political philosophy? was the conservative, moderate? >> it was hard to grasp. he was a moderate republican that does not really exist today. his rhetoric was very conservative, but he often -- people of said he was liberal. he was an activist,

kissinger told nixon that shows that you are a link weakling mr. president. so crimes lead to more crimes than he was involved in the early plotting including the wiretaps and and associates, surveillances and meetings where the nation's highest officers were smearing antiwar dissidents on both treasonous allegiance is where they were plotting to block mail former presidents and throw up. couple of states and the institute and give orders to run the paramilitary operations that led to watergate. even as vietnam and watergate were beginning to break up the old national security state, kissinger who had survived and we can talk later on in the questions about how we manage to survive watergate and continue on under the successor gerald ford was helping with the reconstruction of the national security state and a new form, kind of a restored imperial presidency capable of moving forward into the post-vietnam world and many different elements of this restored national security state. i will touch on a few of them but i try to go in detail in the book one is the i

nixon. was it mr. makes -- -- was it mr. nix -- host: go ahead. sal has left us. if the idea you say for china's government is to put more of the burden on the is thec side of china, average chinese citizen ready to take on this responsibility? guest: it is a pretty large country more than four times the size of the u.s. population so it is hard to generalize about a country that size. different parts of the society and the country are affected in different ways, but i think the emerging chinese middle class in alreadycities is beginning to consume at a much higher rate. consumption growth is higher than gdp growth so eventually the economy will rebalance in the direction of trade consumption. that process is already happening. about an emerging middle class -- what is causing that? guest: income growth. wages in china have been growing is fairly significantly since the beginning of the country and in spite of the slowdown this is still going on today even though the real wage increase is less than it was 4-5 years ago but it is still pretty significant. in what s

mrs. clinton opens the "new york times" she sees "the queen" and gets aggravate. because the nixon library doesn't sponsor political speeches. this is not a political speech. but if you act like a queen you tooth be expected to be talk to like a queen and be advised like a queen, and thus far former secretary of state clip top is indeed acting like a queen. here's the platform in rough that i have given her. and i thought, really, give her what would win. the 70%, not the primary. right now she is running a primary campaign flanked by senator sanders of vermont and only mildly curbed by james webb, dismissive of vice president biden and casting a wary grant at john kerry in switzerland who is preparing to have an accomplishment to contrast with her accomplishment-free tenure at the department of state. she is in fact a dreadful candidate, and? fact had a cass struggle tenure at the department of state. if you're a dreadful candidate with difficulty connecting, with people raising issues as karl rove raised about her health, if you cannot brunt into the age issue as ronald reagan ra

richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. texas labor day weekend, three days of politics, books, and american history. here are a few of the features for a labor day monday, beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. discussing the pros and cons of big data and civil liberties. later that evening at 6:30, a debate on how to reduce poverty between president obama and the president of the american enterprise institute, arthur brooks. at 8:00, former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush on leadership skills. beginning saturday 10:00 on c-span2's book tv, live all day the nation's's capital for the 15th annual national book festival with programs for ink -- as well as your opportunity to to speak with a political prize-winning historian and others, sunday at noon. a live, three-hour conversation with the former second lady and american enter rise is it to senior fellow lynn cheney, who would take your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets. later at 9:00, catherine eden toss about how families from chicago to the mississippi delta are sur

mr. trump, take your hands off the keys? >> look,i eat tweet and i'll have fun with it. i have more than 4 million on twitter. they're comparing you to richard nixonve an enemy's list. >> i have many in your profegsz who i know are very dishonest people. so what twitter allows me to reveal when somebody is dishonest. ewe do have dishonest people. when we called them on it, they actually practically admitted that they knew what they did was wrong. so you have a lot of very dishonest people. i would say this with twitter, with facebook, with all of that stuff. it gives you, not just me, it gives people a voice. and it's something i think very reassuring. >> there's been a situation in illinois with the police officers. >> what do you make of that? do you believe that is true? >> i believe the police are in a terrible pox. they're such great people and, yes, you do have your bad apples. what's happening with the police, a place i knew well and know well. you doffered it very brilliantly. the police stood back. what's hamming now is the flis are some amazing people, so they're afraid to act and they're afraid to do what's right. and people want protec

richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. >> and a gallon will de role of progressiveness in the 2016 presidential campaign. we will talk to adam the city, trade reporter with politico about the status of the transpacific trade deal. "washington journal," live each morning on c-span. >> the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was enormously popular as first lady and influence the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. she never spoke to the press, but used her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies, influence and image." from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. this sunday night on "q&a," we talk about the book "the trouble with lawyers." it talks about the high cost of law schools and the like of diversity in the profession. >> we need a different model of legal education that includes one-year programs fo

richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. >> with the sudden death of president harding, vice president coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was an enormously popular first lady. although she married a man known as silent cal she never spoke to the press but used her office to bring attention to the issues she cared about. >> i think we need a different model of education that includes one-year programs for people doing routine work, two-year programs is an option for people who want to do something specialized in the third year, and three full years for people who want a full general practice legal education that we now have. but it's crazy to train in the same way somebody who is doing routine divorces in a small town in the midwest and somebody whose doing mergers and acquisitions on wall street. we have this one size fits all model of legal education that is extremely expensive. the average debt level is $100,000. and that assumed that you can train everybody to do everything in the same way. i'm licensed to practice in

richard nixon gave me myt politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. stone, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. guest: great to be here. host: we will have live coverage of donald trump's news conference from new york city at 2:00 eastern time on c-span television. the washington post with wrenching photos driving home the tragedy of the syrian refugee crisis. coming up, bill frelick will be with us. on, what the iran nuclear deal means now that the president has 34 democratic votes. lawmakers return next week. this is c-span's washington journal for this thursday morning september 3. we are back in a moment. >> with a sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was a very enormously popular first lady. she became a style icon. she noticed a man known as silent cal. she use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge the sunday night on c-span's original series first ladies, influence an image, examining the public and private lives of first ladies and the influen

nixon, ford, reagan and clinton. let's take a walk back through memory lane, why don't we? >> sure. >> please turn mr. microphone! >> he is funneling money to his wife's law firm for state money. i don't care what you think about me, you should be ashamed yourself for jumping on my wife. >> i tell you, mr. clinton -- >> it says, paid for by john mccain. >> that is not by my campaign. >> george w. bush comeback was the best ever. but let's talk about just the staging of the debates through the years because even in recent years past, the staging is nothing like it is today. >> well, we haven't had the spectacle we've had this year. we've never had 24 million people tune into a debate before. and we're going to have a huge amount tune into cnn tomorrow night. there are none in our memory banks but i do remember an odd night, i think it was new hampshire, when one of the candidates threw a rat -- a dead rat across the stage. that got our attention. >> what? >> go ahead, please. >> no, seriously, they threw a dead rat across the stage? >> yeah. i remember that. it was pretty hideous. but there was a large

richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. stone, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. guest: great to be here. host: we will have live coverage of donald trump's news conference from new york city at 2:00 eastern time on c-span television. the washington post with wrenching photos driving home the tragedy of the syrian refugee crisis. coming up, bill frelick will be with us. on, what the iran nuclear deal means now that the president has 34 democratic votes. lawmakers return next week. this is c-span's washington journal for this thursday morning september 3. we are back in a moment. >> with a sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was a very enormously popular first lady. she became a style icon. she noticed a man known as silent cal. she use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. grace coolidge the sunday night on c-span's original series first ladies, influence an image, examining the public and private lives of first ladies and the influen