former speechwriters for richard nixon at gerald ford reflects on the past time in the white house, his energy policies, and initiatives in israel and southeast asia. nixon left israel defense in a way that no other president has. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. all weekend american history tv is featuring san jose, california. recentlyities or staff visited many sites showcasing its history. san jose is california cost third-largest city and the 10th largest city in america. learn more about san jose all weekend here on american history tv. good morning. i'm bill worthington, it onto here at the computer history museum in mountain view, california. i was a programmer for the 1401. back in the timeframe we are looking at, in the 1930's, 19 is 1950's, -- 1940's, each hole representing a piece of information whether a 01, 2, -- 0, 1, 2, 3. or it could be alphabetic information. this is the means of storing information, it was the key for every business in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's. when i started working for a bank on the east coast where they were in need of programmers, but their business ran on punch cards, 1401's were installed. what only go

former speechwriters for richard nixon at gerald ford reflects on the past time in the white house, his energy policies, and initiatives in israel and southeast asia. nixon left israel defense in a way that no other president has. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. all weekend american history tv is featuring san jose, california. recentlyities or staff visited many sites showcasing its history. san jose is california cost third-largest city and the 10th largest city in america. learn more about san jose all weekend here on american

. >> richard nixon accused of being anti-semite left israel's defense in a way no president ever had. >> for our complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> the governors of kentucky, kansas, arizona, and wisconsin talked about their experience as conservative executives during the annual cpa

. >> richard nixon accused of being anti-semite left israel's defense in a way no president ever had. >> for our complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> the governors of kentucky, kansas, arizona, and wisconsin talked about their experience as conservative executives during the annual cpac conference. this is about 40 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our next session. the states versus the state. how governors are reclaiming america's promise. please welcome governor matt bevin of kentucky, senator brownback of kansas, governor deucy of arizona, and governor scott walker of wisconsin. or moderator, richard grabber. [ applause ] >> thanks, guys. good morning, everyone. my name is nick, i'm president of the brantley foundation. it's great to be here. our topic today is federalism. and certainly over our lifetimes, we've witnessed a frightening and really disturbing expansion of federal government. far beyond what our founders ever anticipated, and they truly did work hard to work against and to prevent. and that expansion of federal government has only gotten worse over the

richard nixon, some confused minds accused of being an anti-semi, left -- left to israel's defense in a way that no president ever had, acting with the help of dr. kissinger, and lifted the blackbox and rockets were jamming the soviet supplied samson radars. israel cannot lose or be forced to use the nuclear option jury became very close to nuclear war in the mideast. we were about to surround cairo, and the russians hinted they were about to send paratroops into fight the israelis. nixon saw their bluff and went to devcon two, a state of military readiness, and told the russians would use every means -- we would use every means to stop in. a cease-fire was signed among each of the countries, and soon after, the treaty between israel -- the sun. lives in did not lift a finger for israel. john f. kennedy did not lift a finger to help israel. only richard nixon. his help to israel was on a biblical scale. i do not care if use every and that is -- every anti-semitic term in the book, i would not care if he walked out around and make about so uniform. if he saved israel, he is the best fr

israel without .r. nixon they still love him in israel, and they should. as i have said, he saved their lives. underof water has passed the bridge since he left office in the record of his work as a peacemaker is astounding, incredible. , am an economist by training and economics, as we know it, really no one misses. [laughter] but i am interested in the use of numbers. in the 43 years before mr. nixon became president, about 96 million -- million human beings were killed in wars and revolutions, civil wars, genocides all over the year. if you count the years from rn's birth in 1913 up until his inauguration in 1969, 126 million people were killed by violence. i do not think any of them wanted to die. in the 43 years since he left office, roughly 11 million have died, obviously way too many, mostly civil wars in the third world. that is a very large number. the difference between the hundred million killed in the 43 years before nixon took office and the 43 years since then when 1/10 of that number have been killed, that is a glorious achievement. how did he do it? he was incredible in forming new history. he did not just learn about the worl

speechwriter for nixon and ford reflects on nixon's time in the white house, his energy policies, initiatives in israel. >> accused of being an anti-semmite, left in the way no other president had. >> for a complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. >> over the next few hours we will watch some of the political action conference held at national harbor just sought sou washington. you can see more at c-span.org by typing cpac in the search bar. right now analysts discuss what president trump's election means in the alignment of both republican and democratic parties. buyon york, chief political swoernt for the washington times and susan bathe, bureau chief of usa today. this is 35 minutes.pbathe, bure of usa today. this is 35 minutes.abathe, bure of usa today. this is 35 minutes.gbathe, buref of usa today. this is 35 minutes.ebathe, bure chief of usa today. this is 35 minutes.athe, bureauf of usa today. this is 35 minutes.the, bureau of usa today. this is 35 minutes.he, bureau c of usa today. this is 35 minutes.e, bureau chf usa today. this is 35 minutes., bureau chi usa today. this is 35 minutes. >> that proves you can't tell anyth

-- reflectsord, let on nixon's time in the white house, his energy policies, initiatives in israel and southeast asia. richard's in, who many accused of being an anti-semite, left israel defense and a way no other president had. >> for a full schedule, go to c-span.org. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring san jose, california, c-span cities tour staff recently visited showcases about the city's history, in 1943, the international business machines corporation, or ibm, opened its first west coast manufacturing's -- facility in san jose and later the city was dubbed the capital of silicon valley, learn more about san jose all weekend here on american history tv. >> james was a wealthy businessman in the san francisco

nixon's time in the white house. his energy policies. initiatives in israel and southeast asia. >> richard nixon, accused of being anti-semmite, left defenselete schedule good to c-span.org.d to c-span.org. to c-span.org. >> joan book tv live on saturday. from books and books bookstore in coral gables florida. for a panel discussion on books and joys of reading. books and books owner mitchell kaplan will join us along with the director of the creative writing program at university of miami florida. also miami based author and column nust anna menendez whose books include in cuba i was a german shepherd, loving shea, and the last war. we are also taking comments on twitter,

speechwriter for nixon and ford reflects on nixon's time in the white house, his energy policies, initiatives in israel. >> accused of being an anti-semmite, left in the way no other president had. >> for a complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. >> over the next few hours we will watch some of the political action conference held at national

israel, they wanted to know, without nixon? theystill loved him, and should. as i have said, they say -- he saved their lives. a lot of time has passed since nixon left office, and the record of this peacekeeping is astounding. economics, as we know it, really , but i amexists interested in the use of numbers , and here are some interesting numbers. the 43 years before mr. nixon became president, about 96 -- million human beings were killed in wars and revolutions, civil wars, genocides all over the year. the years from rn's birth in 1913 up until his inauguration and 69, 100 26 were killed by violence. i do not think any of them wanted to die. in the 43 years and mr. nick's and left office, roughly 11 million have died, obviously way too many, mostly civil wars in the third world. that is a very large number. the difference between the hundred million killed in the 43 years before nixon took office and the 43 years since then when 1/10 of that number have been killed, that is a glorious achievement. how does he do it? about the just learn world by watching tv talk shows -- not that i am knocking anyone who does it. he read books and talked to world

speech writer for presidents reflects on nixon's time in the white house, his energy policies and initiatives in israel and southeast asia. >> richard nixon left israel's defense in a way no other president ever had. >> for the complete american history tv schedule, go to cspan.org. >>> this weekend the cspan city's tour and cable partners will explore the literary life of google, facebook and apple. ethan barren talks about the success and challenges silicon valley has had on san jose and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it's rampant and that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. >> then author larry gersten talks about his book "not so california". >> i've studied this state 50 years or more, you realize this state is like a roller coaster gone bad. it can be a boom state economically one year. it can be in the hole $30 billion the next. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we'll take you to the beginnings of san jose. >> it was moved from its original location to this location here in proper downtown san jose. the adobe we see behind us is the last remaining