nixon and mrs. nixon and as you say in the book, it was him getting to know you and to trust you because the jobs you did were well done that made him at ease with you and it was that ease that sort of characterized the relationship and and the closeness of it. yes as the clock goes ahead here and you'll find this in the book. after in 1967 as i after i become his personal aid, it's just the two of us traveling all over the country. no, no other aids or anything occasionally pat buchanan might go if there is a big speech or ray price one of the other speech writers, but for the most part it was just the two of us criss crossing the nation doing political events and so forth and for a young man, like myself who at this time is 26 years old at that juncture, you know, it was just one phenomenal education. today that role is sort of known white and well known as a body man. i think in those days when the media was just travel was becoming easier and politics was picking up into a media enterprise the r

between those who were for nixon and against nixon.g changed once really john dean went up and testified. >> i sincerely wish i could say it's my pleasure to be here today, but i think you can understand why it's not. >> it was just unbelievable that you could hear a pin drop when he testified. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it. >> i did watch every single second of john dean's testimony. he's doing it as dryly as though he is reading the telephone book. and he is saying these awful things he is uncovering at the white house. >> liddy was in effect making a sales pitch. he said that the operation he developed would be totally removed from the campaign and carried out by professionals. plans call for mugging squads, kidnapping teams, prostitutes to compromise the opposition, and electronic surveillance. i recall he is saying the girls could be high class and the best in the business. >> i knew my senate tes

so we issued a trial subpoena for 64 tapes to use at the trial of nixon's aides. >> nixon himself hadut his team said to him, mr. president, the american people need you to cooperate because if you don't cooperate, it's admission of guilt. >> good evening. i have asked for this time tonight in order to announce my answer to the subpoena for additional watergate tapes. in these folders are more than 1200 pages of transcripts of private conversations i participated in with regard to watergate. >> what nixon tried to do was to queue a line where he would give just enough to make people think that he was cooperating without giving away the goods. >> they dumped these poorly done transcripts of dozens and dozens of tapes into the public domain. they weren't that accurate, some of them. but this is the first time the public had seen much of anything about the nixon tapes, and people were reading this and saying, you know, holy shit, look at this stuff. >> that's one of the most fascinating things that's just about ever happened. nobody has ever gotten an inside look at how big politics is,

he said that the post didn't get nixon nixon got nixon. he was referring to secret tapes audio tapes that richard nixon had made of many of his conversations at the white house. and we'll take a look at that in a moment. but the important thing is is that bradley's saying the post didn't get nixon. woodward himself had this to say if perhaps an earlier terms but emphatic. the press did not bring down nixon. and michael gattler the ombudsman whom i mentioned a moment ago had this to say in 2005. that ultimately it was not the post. but the fbi a congress acting in bipartisan fashion and the courts that brought down. the nixon administration indeed to roll up a scandal the complexity and dimension of watergate required the concerted if not coordinated efforts of special prosecutors. federal judges fbi both houses of congress the supreme court the justice and even then even then. nixon would have survived the scandal he would have walked. if not for the secret tapes that he had made of many of his conversations from 1971 to 1973. inside the w

it is the style of richard nixon. >> the key to understanding richard nixon is that nixon was never self

liddy and nixon? they could have dumped on gordon living in john dean. that has changed dramatically. nixon and trump both thin skinned, but dramatically different people. guest: i agree they were both thin-skinned. both seem to be socially awkward and always feeling like they weren't part of the in group and fighting for that. i am not a psychiatrist, but this is based on readings i have and you would probably agree. guest: a were outsiders. guest: they were outsiders and that motivated them. i give nixon cut it for opening china and passing title ix which the anniversary is this week also for starting the epa. so i think there were some things that nixon accomplished. in terms of the media landscape, that is one of the crucial difference between then and now. back then we had three networks and they all had the same facts. everybody agreed on the facts. the other difference is we had bipartisanship. not only was the urban committee and the judiciary committee both completely bipartisan, but the coun

and nixon ask dean. well, how much will it cost to keep it going and dean said well a million a million dollars over the next two years. and they said so i'll suppose i could get the million dollars and you could find a way to deliver it to. continue to keep the watergate burglars quiet. paying them hush money. uh, don't you think that makes sense and dean? oh, well, uh and all of a sudden nixon asked the rhetorical question. don't you think you ought to get hunt paid the amount? he's demanding. and get it done fast. and that was it. we looked at each other and we said nixon cannot survive this he has in his own words through his own mouth, irrefutably provided evidence that he has joined the conspiracy if he wasn't a member before he sure as hell is now an overt act has now been committed immediately after telling dean to go forward hunt was paid and off to the races. so we said to leon. we know you don't want to name nixon as a defendant. we understand the constitutional process of impeachment is prefe

it is the style of richard nixon. >> the key to understanding richard nixon is that nixon was never self confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. >> it is about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. >> when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. >> i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. >> there will not be an abuse of power in this office. >> he develops weapons of mass destruction. >> we are in trouble. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes. >> and that's really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. >> that's how dictators come to power. >> within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share i

nixon, that's fine. we're going to find a date between the time she was delivered and when we could get the date she lived in the closet in my office. third floor of the eisenhower office building and in the dead of night, sometimes she would steal out of that office. out of that closet and go and land in the office of someone in the white house who had set or done something detrimental to women. love it. so great. and in the morning i had to go pick her back up and she was happy and put her back in the closet. i can ask you to name names, but we don't name. we don't need your imagination, but it was known that the spirit of susan b anthony wandered about the white house at night. up in early tonight story 1973. she was presented to mrs. nixon and stood after that at the entrance of the east wing, which is the first lady's wing of the white house on a pedestal for a good decade and then she disappeared they you know, they put her into storage in the white house and i have to give heath credit here. i tol

why would nixon who was president. who you know, he worked to attain a loss to john kennedy in 60 and lost a run for governor of california and then rehabilitated himself. reengineer himself and one in 1968 and he had you know, the brass ring. he found it. and so what is that psychology which i think we never cracked really somebody who is attained their goal and fails to ask the question which i think is the question presidents need to ask is what did the people need? what's the next stage of the goodfor the majority of people in the country . it's not hard to get an answer to that. but for nixon, it really didn't come up. it was always, i mean, can i read a thing? he loves it when i get paper out to read. but this is so relevant. this is from nixon's tapes after six weeks after the one that reelection and stuck it to everyone. to the democrats, to the washington post, to the press so he's in the oval office with his eight. remember, we're going to be around and outlive our enemies nixon said also never forget the pre

, delivered by nixon white house counsel john dean, and others who worked in the nixon white house, including our next guest, who delivered the testimony, the crucial testimony that ultimately forced richard mixed into resign the presidency. what was it like for cassidy hutchinson to receive that subpoena? and, to then turn to the trump team for legal help, and no doubt been advised, as italy lawyers always, due to answer questions in a few words as possible. yes, no, i don't know, i don't recall. and never, never offer information that has not been specifically requested. that is standard advice lawyers give clients in any under oath proceeding. as a white house employee, cassidy hutchinson took the same oath of office is that liz chilly need took as a member of congress. and, no doubt, as cassidy hutchinson watched liz cheney publicly and privately, in her interviews with her committee, live up to her oath of office, that oath, as well as the oath to tell the truth to the committee may have changed cast hutchinson's feelings about what she should be telling the committee. about what's the w

what was that like with nixon?rid of him? >> they were respectful of him. most republicans followed his policies, liked his policies, supported him pretty wholeheartedly. the difference here-- you know, i did a story for cnn, both in print and on the air, that said that 21 republican members of the senate despise trump, disdain him. and then i got a call the next day from a former republican senator who called me and said, "carl, the number is really closer to 40." and here you have-- and only two of the ones i named-- named all 21 of them-- only two did anything like denying what i had written. but i had gotten this from members of the staff of each of these senators. and then you look at how craven these people in the senate are, to go along with trumpism, to go along with authoritarianism, to go along with what trump has done to undermine democracy. one of our two political parties has been captured-- captured by these forces. >> yeah, and they're just not coming clean. >> that's right. >> and part of the proble

president nixon, hen resigned and then nixon first family. we love so dearly. we're leaving the white house. here's the day. i will never forget. but today has provided me an opportunity to reflect on our many years in washington and all the wonderful times we experience which led to the privilege of our serving in the white house. before my husband and i ever started our journey to that wonderfully historic house. everything's where everything was quite different. jerry's goaling. congress had always been to become speaker of the house of representatives. but a solid and continuing democratic majority seem to be just as distancing him from that goal. in 1973 jerry who had then be in serving for nine years as minority leader. began talking about in just one more turn and then retiring. that sounded like the most wonderful idea to me. but as we began our planning it never dawned on us that outside influences. might rearrange our plans and not just slightly. when president nixon was considering his selection for a new vice president following mr. agnes resignatio

i remember in the nixon impeachment it was very important. john d testified about rate eating money to pay off the water, the burglars. then he would say that at nixon said, oh yeah, well, we could do it, but that would be wrong. and you know, that would be wrong. there was a famous phrase that was used woodward birds day in watergate because it adds a very personal dimension giving you insight into the state of mind the president. and that's why i think the committee is going to be darrell. it talks about dereliction of duty. if they do not insist on getting mr. pence is testimony and having mr. chip alone back and others and tell me you need to tell us. what did the president tell you? you have no privilege your duty as a government lawyer is to the constitution. this is not nazi germany or you take an oath to dare your you take a note up, hold the constitution of the united states. i remember when, when warranty at the justice department, when there was a lawsuit over presidential nixon's, president nixon takes, there was an argument initi

richard nixon and patricia ryan nixon. i want to say it is a proud grandson of richard nixon. thank you so much for being here for what i know will be a fascinating discussion. we are delighted to have you here again in person, not in front of a zoom camera or computer. [applause] >> over the years we have had the honor to host many distinguished guests, we have never, however, had the opportunity to welcome someone who has served as attorney general of the united states not once but twice, not of one presidential administration but two presidential administrations separated by 25 years. that is a unique distinction in american history and says a great deal about william barr's patriotism and commitment to public service. and perhaps is two tours of duty as attorney general under two very different presidents where the inspiration of his book "1 damn thing after another". our guest of honor tonight has had a very distinguished career in the private and public sectors. he began government service in the administration of pr

top nixon aides had stepped out.appointed a special prosecutor to investigate, and the senate was collecting evidence of its own. one day in june, john dean the third, richard nixon's former white house aide, testified before the senate committee that mr. nixon had essentially kept a political hit list. dean revealed nixon's now infamous enemies list. this was not just some list of foes that nixon kept in his head or scribbled on a napkin. the list was legitimized, and as an official memorandum, written by nixon's special assistant george t bell. and the first paragraph here says it all. quote, this memorandum addresses a matter of how we can maximize the fact of our intimates incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our administration. stated a bit more bluntly, how can we use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. someone actually wrote that in a real metal. well class, are there any more questions about this? the list included members of congress, journa

i mean, he was defending richard nixon long after nixon was -- resigned and disgraced, that he could have this very close aide who he knew was gay. yet simultaneously, we can listen to the tapes, the white house tapes, where nixon is just engaging in the most gratuitous and vulgar homophobia. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think it tells us something about richard nixon, the man, in the same way that he could engage in theost vulgar anti-semitism and yet have a series of aides, very close aides who were jews. and it's a recurring theme in the book, right, is that these presidents, almost all the presidents i write about have close aides who they know are gay, but it doesn't reflect -- i mean, the humanity that they recognize in these men and some women is not reflected in their public policies. and i think that's -- i think that justified it in my mind. >> your book ends with the clinton administration at the end of the 20th century and the gay '90s, as it's been written about, in which there was really an expansion and acceptance of gayness in government and really throughout the country. and

nixon. want to would be a fascinating discussion we are delighted to i have you here again in person not in front of his new camera or computer. [applause] over the years we have had the honor to host many distinguished guest here in your belinda. we have never however had the opportunity to welcome someone who are served as attorney general of the united states not once but twice and not one presidential administrations but two of them separated by 25 years. pretty unique. and then his commitment to public service. and has two tours of attorney general under two very different presidents, were the inspiration ofon this book one damn thing after another. [laughter] and then the distinguished crib the public and private sector to began government service in the administration of president reagan as a member of the white house domestic policy staff from 1982 through 1983. after several years of private practice, he returned to government and president george h.w. bush administration serving as

and had that been everything about nixon. we needed to know he would have been one of the better presidents but in fact as you well know john he had demons inside him that he had never learned to control and they derailed him, you know in the end of the day. he was the author of his own failures and it's harsh to say, but it other is kind of learn from that if you don't develop your your values and have some sense of the difference between right and wrong and be thinking in those terms you can get yourself in deep trouble pretty quickly in the in a game of politics, which is a it's it's ain't bean bag. it's not you know, i don't think this is a contact sport and you have to be tough. you have to have tough skin. you got to grow into it, but you got you gotta have that inner strength. think about this we're bringing again when he came to washington as president to be president, you know, he was well formed by that there was not a lot of growth it was coming because that's one of the reasons he was so successful is he he was we

i look at nixon a lot. i look at -- i did the reagan series. when you talk about the southern strategy, what do you meet -- what he means is a lot of people will point out about democrats that this was a racist party, why would you want to be part of a racist party? you have to go really far back, for that is a significant chunk of the party and it changes dramatically during the time of the new deal. there's a time in the 19th century with a democrat parties associated with people and ideas the most americans now one not want to be -- would not want to be and that is true. their part -- not just in 1960 by 1928, they were -- there was something to say about it. the republican origin stories a beautiful one. it is an idealistic party that started in wisconsin in a schoolhouse on noble ideas. but it has associations, directly or indirectly with people like know nothings and anti-catholic groups. everyone has their political origin stories that have issues. that is a long way around the question. nixon engages in a southern strategy when he runs

that is what nixon said, and that is what trump believes.epartment has the onerous task of indicting donald trump because we have to drive home to the people that nobody is above the law, including the president of the united states. that is as fundamental to our democracy as any principle. >> joe brinkley, thank you so much, great to talk to you. jake, i know you have some thoughts to talk about why you saw today. >> that's right. some difficult revelations today about events in our nations past, with only one common theme that the need for government transparency and the reluctance of government officials to allow it to those of you, all of us, who paid their salaries. first of all, of course, shocking testimony from former trump white house officials, including then white house counsel pat cipollone, who describe to the house committee a screaming match between him and other white house lawyers, with trump super fans mike flynn, rudy julianna, and pattern former ceo of overstocked accomplished, allegedly in a meeting to undermine your, ou

it passed -- and yes, nixon had a plan. it passed through. nixon was the one that got us to where laurence has been criticizing, which as he said, let's create a system where employers pay their part of it, medicare pays their part of it, and he cut the system up into different pieces but wanted everyone covered each in their own track. and ever since then, whether it was the clinton plan or obama plan, we have had a very divided mosaic of health insurance, which makes it a very complicated system. so that really comes as the caller rightly implies out of the era. kennedy did impose it. he was working secretly with nixon. his union backers and said, no, we do not like this plan. we want something much closer to what laurence has been advocating for, so kennedy backed off but later lamented the fact that he backed off. but nixon really pushed us further down this road of each segment of the country employed into their own health care piece. that is part of why we have such troubles with the health-care system today. host: mr. kotlikoff, the ce

nixon didn't watch my testimony.act, he couldn't even listen to his recorded conversations with me, had others do that, and they misreported to him what i had actually told him. but that's another issue. i can understand why trump is upset. this is exactly the sort of thing that terrifies him because he's getting the worst side of his image out. he's unable to control what's being put out there. and it's not a pretty picture that's going out there. >> there were a lot of bizarre days and late nights in the white house during watergate. was there anything ever to compare with the oval office meeting that cipollone was in trying to head off sydney powell, the power chugger of dr. pepper and mike flynn's efforts to among other things have the president order the military to seize voting machines? >> anderson, i assure you there wasn't anything in the time i was at the white house or did i learn about anything after i left the white house. in fact, i'm something of a student of the presidency, and have been trying to thi

that pat buchanan who was invisor to richard nixon. he gives nixon a memo. nixon had said, you know what i'm in favor of of subsidizing abortions at military hospitals but buchanan says, you know what there are votes to be one among left-leaning catholics. so you need to bite your lip and say you've had a moral about face on this and abortion is sort of horrible to you and now he does exactly what he's told and they start to sort of siphon off some of these votes into their party. so as you see it's complicated as with everything else with row, but it does absolutely then become little by little incredibly polarized and polarizing and politicize as you know, brings us right to where we are. so just to give you a few of the sort of points of how we got it got so politicized 1976 the woman who brought ronald reagan into the pro-life fold was a woman named mildred jefferson. you mentioned her a remarkable woman the first black woman to graduate from harvard medical school. absolutely brilliant. every one of my book by the way is from texas. she's also from texa

thank nixon. and now on the 50th anniversary. i saw a column that said june 23 1972 was one of the most important days in the history of sports. i really agree with that. titles nine had only 37 words, but those 37 words changed the history of sports in america and even the history of america itself. and those 37 words have changed and are still changing. today on our panel. you're about to meet three extraordinary women. three olympians who made history representing america three champions who acknowledge and honor the part that title nine has played in their careers and in their lives. the first one is janet evans. who? who won four? four gold medals in three olympic games. she broke seven world records and won 17 international titles five us national titles five world championship titles and seven ncaa titles. oh and as a headline in the la times put it. janet evans didn't just set swimming records. she obliterated them. she's in the us olympic hall of fame and the international swimming hall of fame. and currently she's a key