nixon arrived in saigon. were among the first the welcome them. ♪ ♪ >> also gathered to greet the personal representatives of president eisenhower were important chinese government officials and members of the diplomatic corps. ♪ ♪ >> the vice president's visit was tremendously heartening to the capital of nationalist china. the next day he conferred with president chang kai-shek after giving him a letter from president eisenhower that strongly reassured china's leader and its people. the two statesmen posed for news cameramen. ♪♪ >> mr. nixon summed up the content of their talks in a brief statement. >> i just had a conference with the president with regard to the relations between the government of the united states and the government of the republic of china, and in this conference we discussed the mutual problems and the mutual dangers which we confront in the world. the government of the united states and the people of the united states stand firmly with the government of the republic of china and the pe

nixon to review a mammoth parade.uberant climax of the nationwide celebration of this tenth year of independents. in a two hour long procession, more than 50 huge floats rolled by. they departed filipino progress in the last decade, and, they pointed to the future goals of this country. a country that not so long ago was left crushed and shattered by war. overhead, plain spelled out philippine independents, ten years. and, on the ground, military units marched smartly. every branch of the iron republic's armed services took part in this giant demonstration of patriotic spirit. my permission of the president, the huge crowd was allowed to surge forward at the parades and. the better to hear the address of vice president nixon. >> i have witnessed many fourth of july parades. i have seen parades with many floats and many banners. but, in all my life i have never seen a parade equal to one of the philippines put on today. e still we in the united states in early years had the problem of our tories, who were still loyal t

nixon and president nixon had that vision and modeling growing up. i wanted to talk a little bit about also his two daughters trish and julie who represented the younger generation of republican women who strongly believed that women should be able to do whatever they wanted to just like both of their parents did. women could be in the workplace and also at home to do it all. they supported like her mother's , to elevate women in the government and working world. here we have president nixon with barbara hackman franklin and her job was to get more women into higher-level government positions. when barbara franklin comes into the nixon administration into the west wing to do her work, i will tell you more about that, context between barbara's move into the nixon administration as staff assistant to the president this assignment to get more women in government, keep in mind we had the advent of the birth control pill in 1960 freeing women up we have the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, the feminist movement. we have all of these things swirling

the nixon era. our moderator is frank gannon, who served as special assistant to donald rumsfeld. he was chief -- editorial assistant to nixon on the writing of his memoirs during the presidents years insane clementa. and he has the we're distinction of having interviewed the president on tape in 1983. those materials now reside at the university of georgia in the p body archive. we also have john roy price, a harvard educated attorney who cofounded the rippon society. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 1969, working with daniel patrick moynahan on the council, like to working with domestic adviser, as special assistant to the president for urban affairs. john later went into banking later becoming chief of regulations for chase bank. special note, john is joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and his son phil. welcome to both of you. john's new book, the last liberal republican, a insiders perspective on nixon surprising social policy, reveals the influence of moynahan and a

in the nixon era. her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jona

nixon. vita was representative gerald ford who of course within a year would become a little over a year will become nixon's vice president 1992. also the epa banned the use of ddt the pesticide ddt, which was having such a terrible effect on the environment. it's one of those chemicals that is persistent. it doesn't really go away it gets into the food chain. that makes it very difficult heard a lot of birds because when they would ingest fish or whatever the ddt would get into their systems had a terrible impact on bird eggs made the shells very very fragile and we were seeing a reduction in birds such as the american eagle because of the dttt, so in 1990s in 1972 rather administrator ruckel's house announced that he ddt was going to be banned and indeed it was banned and that had a huge impact. on the environment the following year 1973. we saw the passage of the endangered species act. that bill was introduced by senator harrison williams from new jersey on june 12th of 1973. it passed t

here is nixon's statement. president nixon: i have asked for this time to announce my answer to the house judiciary committee subpoena for additional watergate tapes and to tell you something about actions i shall be taking tomorrow. these actions will, once and for all, show that what i knew and what i did with regard to the watergate break in and cover-up were just as i have described them to you from the very beginning. the full resources of the fbi and justice department were used investigate the incident. for nine months until march 1973, i was assured by those charged with conducting in my doctoring -- conducting and monitoring the investigations that no one in the white house was involved. as far as what the president personally new and did with regard to watergate in the cover-up is concerned, these materials together with those already available will tell it all. ever since the existence of the white house taping system was made known last summer, i have tried vigorously to guard the privacy of tapes.

nixon has sneakers on.i've seen plenty of pictures of them at the beach where he's not wearing shoes, you know. but for some reason, you know, for some reason this sticks in some people's mind. they like to say -- didn't like the way she was on the beach. in fact eaten, but given the weather and given the long walk down this pebbled path, i would have worn shoes to get down down there as well. >> absolutely. and if it makes it if, it makes it any better, i do have distinct memories of a photo of truman on the beach wearing wingtips. so -- >> and jfk on the beach wearing loafers so there we go! so there's a grand tradition -- for sure. speaking of grand traditions and speaking of, you know, legacies of multiple presidents here, we have this great image. could you tell us a little bit about what's going on here? >> yeah, this is great. because it speaks, i think, to the bipartisan nature of environmental policy making and interest in the 1970s. this is the president dedicating a grove of trees in northern cal

nixon has sneakers on.i've seen plenty of pictures pictures of him at the beach where he's not wearing shoes. but for some reason, it's one that sticks in people's mind. they like to say, oh, he didn't like to wear shoes on the beach. -- in fact, the weather, and given this long, down pebbled path, i would have worn shoes to get there as well. >> absolutely. and then if it makes it any better, and you have distinct memories of a photo of truman on the beach wearing wingtips. so -- >> and jfk on the beach wearing loafers, so -- >> there we go. there's a grand tradition, for sure. speaking of grand traditions and speaking of legacies of multiple presidents here, we have this great image. could you tell us a little bit about what is going on. >> yeah this is great. it speaks to the bipartisan nature of environmental policy making and interest in the 1970s. this is the president dedicating a grove of sequoias in northern california to lady bird johnson. so you can see this picture that on either side of the pla

the nixon's loved the water. they had a house down in florida, on the water in key biscayne, when he retired to new jersey. he would frequently drive down to the jersey shore, to go for a swim. fascinating. he gave up a secret service protection in the early 19 80s, and just had one former secret service agent who has his driver. he had very little, if no security. despite how controversial he was, he never had a unpleasant encounter with anybody in all of the time that he spent, out whether swimming on the beach, or whatever. there was nixon's really loved being on the water. used the presidential yacht, which he named sequoia, after the magnificent trees in california. more than any other president during the entire time that they had presidential yachts. he really liked being on the water. >> do you think that his passion for -- his enjoyment of being out on the water, do you think that shaped, as somebody that knew him, do you think that could've shaped some of his interest in the water specific, the marine m

so, nixon knew something had to be done.sense, the post world war ii era had ended, we needed a new system to replace it, at the heart of this decision was, we have to de-link the dollar from gold, we have to allow the dollar to -- that was why they did it, even though there was so much prosperity around. there was so much prosperity left. >> what you had, jeffrey, you had a fierce nationalist in john connally. you had a delicate internationalist in paul volker. you had an advocate for total free floating currency in george schultz. there were all these different views and i wonder if you could just give us a little insight into how these personalities came to this decision? >> that's a really good way to put it because nixon knew something had to be done. he didn't really have a grasp of the international financial situation. in fact, only one person there did, and that was paul volker. let me take one step back. what was remarkable about the people around nixon was that most people had never heard of them. if they had hear

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

nixon. he is the general editor of the presidential recordings digital addition, the primary online portal for transcripts of the tapes published by the university of virginia press. mark earned a ba degree in philosophy from trinity college, a masters degree in international affairs from columbia university, and a ph. d. in history from ohio university. a historian of the cold war, he is an offer of the kennedy withdrawal, kamala it and the american commitment to vietnam, published by harvard, forthcoming in 2022, and constructing the monolith united states, great britain, and international communism 1945 to 1950, also harvard 2009, which one of the stewart book prize from society of american foreign relations. first time, marc will answer your questions at the close, would you can submit on the q&a tab at the bottom of your screen. so without, i will pass this over to him. welcome, marc. thank you again for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me, and thanks your whole team for setting

nixon surround himself with great diversity. the difference between conley and burns, and peterson it was really quite something to get them in the room and basically make decisions everyone sort of agreed to. i don't of that biden has this kind of diversity. i hope he does but i don't follow it so closely. when you're making it really big decisions the most dangerous thing is to have everyone feel exactly the same way and not present any challenges. and third, kissinger was acutely aware there was a relationship between international economic policy and our foreign policy. and in the end, they were really emerged. i hope biden is able to do that too. there is no kissinger in this administration. and there is no connolly who basically brought the opposite viewpoint. and so i hope this whole question of interlinking foreign policy and economic policy is taken very seriously by biden. i think that's one of the lessons of the camp david meeting. >> going to hold up the book here as a show. not just because i am a monetary policy ne

nixon. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> thank you to our featured speaker, mark silver stone for taking the time out of his busy schedule to be here with us tonight. marc is an associate professor, presidential studies at the mueller center, and chair of the centers recording program, and hails from west port, connecticut, and a graduate of staples high school there. so, there may be others from westport and staples graduates. so, we are in good company tonight. mark is going to provide us with an overview of the recordings program established by the center in 1998, with highlights of secretly taped meetings and phone conversations from various presidents. he will also tell us what he and his team are now working on, as well as his current projects on president kennedy and vietnam. as chair of the recordings program, mark edits the secret white house tapes of presidents john f. kennedy, lyndon b. johnson, and richard m. nixon. he is the general editor of the presidential recordings

i'm nixon. he's the general editor of the presidential recordings digital edition the primary online portal for transcripts of the tapes published by the university of virginia press. mark earned a ba degree in philosophy from trinity college a master's degree in international affairs from columbia university and a phd in history from ohio university a historian of the cold war. he's author of the kennedy withdrawal camelot and the american commitment to vietnam published by harvard forthcoming in 2022 and constructing the monolith the united states great britain and international communism 1945 to 1950. also harvard 2009 which won the stuart l burnath book prize from the society for historians of american foreign relations. there's time mark will answer your questions at the close, which you can submit on the q&a tab at the bottom of your screen. so with that i'll pass this over to him welcome mark. thank you again for joining us tonight. thanks, ron, and thanks to your whole team for setting t

it must be remembered that the post didn't get nixon, nixon got nixon. he was referring to secret tapes, audiotapes, that work should nixon had made of many of his conversations in the white house. we'll take a look at that in a moment the important thing is that the. post didn't get the post. woodward himself had this to say. if perhaps, an earthier terms, but emphatic.ane ombudsman whom i mentioned a moment ago had this to say in 2005. that ultimately it was not the post. the press did not bring down nixon,. michael getler, the holmes men had this to say about this in thousand and five. 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 with the complexity and demensions of watergate requires the coordinated efforts of special prosecutors, federal judges, fbi, both houses of congress, the supreme court, the justice department. even then, even then, nixon would've survived the scandal. he would've walked. if not for the secret tapes

nixon had just won this enormous victory. part of what the nixon strategy was to make the conduct of the press the issue in watergate, particularly hours at the washington post, bradley, catherine graham, woodward, myself -- that added to the pressure because almost daily out of the white house would come these attacks on us. one of the things -- again, it is so good to have two of us doing this. the danger of trying to overreach and desperately thinking, i have to get something in the paper. we didn't do that. we waited. i would take to scenes together. that first scene that you played of us going to bradley's house in the middle of the night. we tell bradley he has to come outside. we are under surveillance. deep throat has said we are under surveillance. come outside at three in the morning in your bathroom. a little bit of hyperbole, but bradley outlines the stakes. at the end, he says, no one gives a. you saw what happened in the elections. i want to go to today. i want to go to this. i want to go to the most important s

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

is any going to marry mayor of the board of directors nixon nation and former president of the nixon .oundation >> ,. [applause] >> peasant woman it then 90 of the city of yorba linda, california and councilman jean hernando. >> back climax and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, 20 is why, thank you for joining jus. [applause] [applause] and emma and jesse left her four -month-old baby to be with us here tonight so we know that it is tough on them and we're doubly appreciative to them for being here tonight and i many of you are members of the nixon library and i want to see everybody's had shoot up and that is pretty good, that is pretty good now many of you renewed your membership since covid-19. it is actually better than i expected and if you're not a member, i would encourage you to look at it because you will receive all kindss of special advance ticket sales and events like this one and you can sign up at nixon foundation .org. are the pleasure this evening welcoming back to the nixon heartbreak among our moderator, nice conversation, o jennifer moore most of the mornin

nixon was very private, did not like the spotlight. i think mrs. ford perhaps enjoyed the spotlight more. an interesting contrast because they were dear friends even though they were quite different. >> i think -- we could go on. we may do this again in a non-problematic way. i would like to thank linda and the first rose garden wedding. the naval photographic center produced this film. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> one of the most important days in tricia nixon's life was drawing to a close. the wedding was over but a w life and career as mrs. edward finch cox was just commencing. at a press conference tricia once said speedy the most important thing is love but love -- you can't really define it. you can say i i love this aboa person, i love this -- intelligent -- [inaudible] that you just can't quite decide. ♪ >> the events leading up to this memorable day all regarded back on the night of march 16. the father of the bride to be announced his daughters engagement. the occasion was an evening at the white house a celebration in honor of the visit

the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda. where is she? there she is. [applause] and councilman gene hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jesse his wife. thank you for joining us. [applause] emma and jesse left the four month old baby to be here with us tonight,y so we know it's tough on them and we're doubly appreciative to them for being here tonight. how many of you are members of the nixon foundation and library? i want to see everybody's hands shoot up. that's pretty good, that's pretty good. how many of you have renewed your membership sincece covid? that's actually better than i was expecting. if you're not a member i would encourage you to look at it because you will receive all kinds of special benefits including advance ticket sales to events like this one, and you can sign up at nixonfoundation.org. i have the pleasure of the cd about coming back to the nixon library our moderator for tonight conversation, jennifer horn, t