but richard nixon bold and richard nixon was confident. and richard nixon took them on. and richard nixon beat them. and richard nixon beat them. and jerry voorhees own hometown, a diamond bar. richard nixon was then in 1948. he was elected in 1950 to the united states senate in the largest landslide of any any senate candidate in the country. and two years later, he was elected vice president, united states. all this in just six years. that's a meteoric rise in american politics. i call it mr. hustle. now, i realize that many detractors about richard, that would listen to what i have to say. would say, well, you know, he must have changed. but the reality is they have to say something like that. because if you really look his life is incredibly successful and truly all-american. but as to the question as to whether or not nixon changed, i say the best judge of a man is a. so let's look at what the women had to say about richard nixon, the woman that knew him best. the women that worked with him evelyn dorn was richard nixon's first legal secretary back in 1937. she was

my name is jim byron and preside richard nixon foundation. d i'd like to acknowledge a few special guestsh martin, dird nixon presidential library and museum with the national archives. tamara, thank you for bein'd ale mayor of the great of whittier, joe venturi. thank you for being here, mr. mayor. and i want to thank all of the president's council members and associates club members of the richard nixon foundation, who are in ten support allows us to put on educational programs like the one that you are seeing tonight. so thank you for your support of the nixon foundation. this evening, going to hear from paul carter, who has written a terrific new book, richard nixon, california's native son. this is one of the most important books on richard nixon to have been written in a very long, maybe ever. like paul carter is a native southern california, a veteran, the united states navy and, a trial lawyer. they is stirred in mr. carter, an and a desire to dive into nixon history. he joined the all volunteer nixon library docent guild. it was a mem

richard nixon is well known to the american people. s not scared of the russians, as soviet premier nikita khruschev finds out at a moscow trade fair. [man] it wasn't supposed to be much. it was supposed to be just a meeting. but it turned into a confrontation. there must be a free exchange of ideas. capitalism versus communism. [indistinct] back and forth and back and forth, jabbing with the fingers. the words didn't matter. it was the images that mattered. [naftali] 'he was presidential.' he seemed ready for the white house. meanwhile, traveling through the bleak wisconsin landscape, there is another man who believes he's destined for the white house. he's young, he's inexperienced, and he's almost unknown. [man on loudspeaker] senator kennedy... [indistinct] his name is john f. kennedy, and he aims to win the wisconsin democratic primary. [man] 'you would go to a plant gate... 'and would stand right there.' my job was to shake hands with jack kennedy. shake hands with teddy. bobby. we worked hard. i come here today as a candidate in

since richard nixon. it's pretty clear. this whole business about immunity is really total nonsense. you go back to the 1974 opinion where the supreme court unanimously ordered richard nixon to produce his tapes. it's pretty clear throughout that the supreme court is basing that ruling on the notion that the president is not above the law. that the president has to answer the same in the criminal system as any other citizen. in fact, recently, the 11th 6t in the case overruling the judge in florida on the classified documents case made it quite clear that donald trump has to be treated just like any other defendant in the criminal system facing charges in federal court. so it seems to me that we have a whole different situation with respect to a criminal charge. and when you come right down to it, this case has one and only one purpose for donald trump, and that is to try and delay his day of reckoning. and try to keep from having a jury decide if he's guilty. he knows darn well once a jury is selected an

president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. i want to welcome jim and luke up to the stage now. take it away. good evening, ladd >> good evening. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the nixon library. welcome back. i want to start tonight by reading from the same wall street journal review that my colleague joe lopez just did. this was reviewed august 16th in the pages of the wall street journal. the book, the year that brooke politics. the book stands out for clear, direct prose and scrupulous research on which it is based. the endnotes frequently cite archive letters and other primary sources. i can tell that you wrote this book, that it is based in the documents and in the research. it is hard to top that. that's a terrific review in the pages of the wall street journal. before we jump into many of your key findings that you found from the archival research, you are very familiar with the nixon white house tapes. you wrote two volumes with douglas brinkley called the nixon tapes. you have written a biography of henry. why jump t

he's the president, ceo of the richard nixon foundation. i want to welcome jim and luke up to the now. take it away. good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the nixon luke. welcome back. thanks. i want to start tonight by reading from the same wall street journal review that my colleague joe lopez just did. barton swain. this was reviewed on august 16th in the pages of the wall street. the book, of course, is the year that broke politics. he writes, mr. nixon's book stands out its clear, direct prose in the scrupulous research on which it is based. the end notes frequently cite archive letters and other primary sources, and that really is how you wrote this book, that it is based in the documents and and the in the research. and it's i mean, hard to top that. that was a terrific review in the pages of the wall street journal. so luke, we jump into many of your key that you found from the from the archival research you're very familiar with. the nixon white house tapes. you wrote two volumes with douglas brinkley called the nixon t

thing that he's known for uh is the secret bombing of cambodia uh, which he accomplished with richard nixon, and there's a famous song in bristol uh which refers to this and talks about how nixon and kissinger should be tried for war crimes for the secret bombing of cambodia, that was attempt to to directly bomb a country which wasn't involved in the conflict in vietnam uh in order that uh they could try and uh defeat the vietnamese communist party and of course they failed in that effort, but that was huge crime against humanity, the use of the defoliants of agent orange, the chemical after effects that the war and vietnamese people for generations still to this day is a is key war crime of the century. let's also remember of course as was referred to in the film there, the role uh he played in the coup. in chile in 1973 when the democratically elected socialist president salvador ande was removed from power by a military coup now that was a coup which was not planned by the state department, the state department had a strategy for undermining the government of ayende, but there was a secr

other key difference is that, you know, we lose sight of the fact that people actually thought of richard nixonderate. remember in 1968, when he gets the nomination, the previous person was barry goldwater. >> right. right. >> and so, actually could pass nixon off as a kind of moderating figure in republican politics. that's not the case with donald trump. >> yeah wchx and so, you know, huge polarizing figure. i would say nixon and trump have in common having lost the presidential election prior to this. >> and the crimemyness is similar. >> the other piece dean phillips has no shot. not on the ballots anywhere. he has promised in a phillips administration he would hire elon musk and bill ackman, the guy who chased claudine gay out of the harvard presidency. he's setting a tone which i don't think will help with democrats. >> yeah. i don't think that will win him any votes, necessarily. >> not at all. but for biden, though, talk about sort of where he stands. i mean, he has this war. he has a passionate affiliation and love for israel. he will stick with it. he will not change his policy. he ha

the main thing that he's known for is the secret bombing of cambodia, which he accomplished with richard nixon, and as famous song in bristol, which refers to this and talks about how nixon and kissinger should be tried. for war crimes for the secret bombing of cambodia, that was attempt to to directly bomb a country which wasn't involved in the conflict in vietnam, in order that they could try and uh defeat the vietnamese communist party, and of course they failed in that effort, but that was huge crime against humanity, the use of the defoliance of agent orange, the chemical after effects that the war on vietnamese people. narration still to this day is is key war crime of the century, let's also remember, of course, as was referred to in the film there, the role uh he played in the coup in chile in 1973 when the democratically elected socialist president salvador and was removed from power by a military coup now that was a coup which was not planned by the state department, the state department had a strategy for undermining the government. of ayenda, but there was a secret strategy run by

my name is jim byron and i am the president, ceo of the richard nixon foundation. and i'd like to acknowledge a few special guests with this evening, beginning with tamara martin, director of the richard nixon presidential library and museum with the national archives. tamara, thank you for being here. i'd also like

gerald ford for any and all crimes richard nixon committed while he was president. richard nixon, who was a lawyer, knew that he needed that pardon because he knew there was no such thing as the immunity donald trump's imagining. and president ford, who lost the next presidential campaign in part because he delivered that pardon knew that richard nixon would face criminal prosecution if president ford didn't immediately pardon him. two weeks ago tomorrow, the federal appeals court in washington, d.c., heard oral arguments from donald trump's lawyer and special prosecutor jack smith's team on the claim of immunity asserted by donald trump's lawyers. the appeals court is probably aware of the presidential campaign calendar in new hampshire and could be waiting until the day after the voting in the new hampshire primary to issue the court's opinion. each of the three judges in the appeals court panel seemed unable to find any constitutional justification where donald trump's lawyers claim that all presidents are completely immune from criminal prosecution in less they

he was every bit richard nixon's match on the democratic side of the aisle. if he had run in 1960 against nixon that would've been the battle of the titans. these were unparallel, the leaders of their parties who had similar political careers. they leap frog each other at times. nixon made it first to the vice presidency. johnson made it first to the presidency. they were very competitive because they often faced each other on the ballot. they came to realize in 1968, not facing each other on the ballot anymore, they had a lot in common. lucy johnson said, johnson's youngest daughter, very different people. politically different approaches the policy and management. call it rivals or shared enemies, and brought them together by the end of their careers. each were aware they did not go to school. they did not go to the best colleges. johnson went to texas state. they both felt looked down upon by the elite, the establishment in both parties, they had certain under curtains between them that drew them together as human beings. i think that johnson understood tha

frank and hannah particularly were behind richard nixon on that. next up, have a question from carol. carol asks, did -- meet ellen or roosevelt on her trip to the south pacific? and if so, is there any correspondence it? you know, i don't believe. so i can't say 100%, except that i have not across that or any correspondence. but i am really focused on pat nixon and not -- as much. so that is possible. i'm not entirely sure, but i myself have not run any any of that correspondence. next year we have sara asking a poignant question. did dictate anyone else seriously? oh, yes. let me tell you about that. well, she was first love and get this, her dad was the police chief in whittier. i mean, that's like pretty daring. i would be really scared if i were him. but apparently, you know, that it went fairly well. they started dating and i believe the end of high school and then into college age. and then all had dumped him when he was at duke law school for various reasons and it's interesting i think all -- like all had dramatic scenes that she made and

that was three years after he left the presidency in 1977, when richard nixon did those iconic interviewsh journalist david frost, when he seemed to imply that he was above the law at that time. here's a clip of an exchange between nixon and frost in 1977. >> in a sense, you are saying that there are certain situations, the houston plan for that part of it was one of them, where the president can decide that it's in the best interest of the nation or something, and do something illegal. >> well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal. >> reporter: i spoke to our historian who's used to run the nixon library about the comment from richard nixon to david frost in 1977. he pointed out something very important here. he said that nixon at the time was referring to just a narrow band of national security and domestic security operations, which for a period of time in the united states could be done by a president and not be illegal. he pointed out that later on after that, the courts and congress swept away that type of immunity. he also pointed out that nixon was not refe

remember gerald ford pardoned richard nixon in 1974 for his crimes in watergate. if he could not be prosecuted, there would be no need for a pardon. >> coates: as a former president, conduct while in office. >> exactly, that was exactly what it was for. because everyone assumed, without the pardon, he could be prosecuted. once you are out of office you are an ordinary citizen, like everyone else. >> coates: interestingly enough, people think that this will be decided based on conservative viewpoints, or liberal viewpoints. this is kind of like a reading of a constitution, and thinking about the text, which is not their first of all. but just the legal comments sense of it. i don't see this being decided on whether one is reportedly a liberal justice, or liberal judge, or conservative wing of the judges. this is really the question. can a president enjoy absolute immunity for things in office, do you see it that way? >> the point you made about the text is very important. conservatives say that they believe the constitution should be interpreted only based on what

the same issue i dealt with 50 years ago in the watergate case with richard nixon. a second that he had to first be impeached in order for us to prosecute him. the only reason we didn't prosecute him prior to the impeachment proceedings where that [inaudible] made a decision that congress should do its thing, not interfere, and then after the impeachment proceeding, we would pick it up. now, the only reason that richard nixon was not indicted was because he was pardoned by gerald ford. nobody ever thought that nixon would be scot-free and not be able to be prosecuted for criminal acts. and if anyone even thought that, why would president ford have ever pardoned him in the first place if this crazy theory was even in effect? >> well nick, to that point, that came up. during the oral arguments, one of the three appellate judges asked john sour, what was the purpose of having a pardon, a criminal pardon for richard nixon if presidents are not allowed, or not subject to prosecution, criminal prosecution. to be clear for our viewers, there is no law, there is no preceden

gerald ford pardoned richard nixon for his crimes in watergate. if he couldn't be prosecuted, there would be no need for a po pardon. >> for a former president, for conduct while in office. >> that's what the pardon was for. everyone assumed without the pardon, he could be prosecuted. once you are out of office, you are an order citizen like everyone else. >> interestingly enough, people think about, this is decided on conservative viewpoints or liberal viewpoints. thinking of the constitution and the text, which is not there, first of all. also, the legal common sense of it. i don't see this being decided on if this is a liberal judge, versus a conservative wing of the judges. this is the question -- can a president enjoy absolute immunity for things in office? do you see it that way? >> the point you made about the text is important. conservatives say, they believe that the constitution should be interpreted only on what's in the text. there's nothing in the constitution about abortion. so, there is no constitutional right to abortion. say conse

you dealt with richard nixon, and richard nixon was a danger to democracy in his own right. where does trump stack against nixon in that regard? >> jim, i have written several books about authoritarian presidents, and andrew jackson was the first, and andrew johnson was the second, and woodrow wilson was the third and nixon was the fourth, and trump has been the fifth. we are really comparing authoritarian personalities, and i have to tell you trump is the poster boy. he's the worst we ever had and the most dangerous we ever had, and nixon had a conscience, and that's something donald trump does not have, and that makes it easier for trump to do what he wants to do, and nixon had lines he would not cross. while there are comparisons and similarities, the differences and the bouttom line is significant. >> all right, molly, s.c. and john, thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, breaking news, and new details about secretary of defense lloyd austin's hospitalization is next. >>> breaking news just into cnn. we are getting new details on secretary of defense lloyd austin b

the letter that sigismund english: states of america wrote to bill clinton from former president richard nixonmpressions with them after a trip to russia to ukraine. the situation in ukraine is extremely explosive. if it gets out of control, bosnia will seem like a child's play. in view of the importance of ukraine, i immediately ask you to uxi. it all started, that’s when they began to come to ukraine enormous amounts of money were invested, billions, new textbooks began to be printed in which absolutely... plan, historically, linguistically , that is, look how subtle it is, not to deny nationality in them, but to instill in them a feeling of some kind of national separateness from russia, that is, even then the seeds of hostility were being laid within one people, they say that the governor of galitsa and count golukhovsky wrote the words: let rusin in. sides is proved by the annual allowance of the galitian sejm, that is, from the poles 50,100 crowns, while russian societies do not they receive not a penny, they even planned to become the king of ukraine, they wanted to make him archduke wi

we've seen i think some similar things around richard nixon. he would probably be the closest in any event. but nothing on the scale of what donald trump is offering today. what his lawyers are arguing. essentially saying that anything that he did under the rubric of the presidency he is immune from prosecution. with richard nixon, it was something different, it was about a very specific standard and be forced to turn over things to the independent investigation surrounding the case of watergate. so what trump is trying to do is something radically different and his lawyers are trying to do. and in fact it would actually change because what it would mean going forward is take any president can be held to any kind of criminal standard or investigation or kind of consequences outside of impeachment if we say the presidents have immunity for anything that is done in office. now, on the one hand, i think perhaps it is a question that we need to investigate. it is one that his lawyers are trying because it is a relatively good legal question that ne

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and there are veterans here who stood up to richard nixon and his war in vietnam.e veterans here who stood up to the illegal war that ronald reagan was conducting secretly in central america. i am a lifelong democrat and i have fought for. 34 years. i haveve fought for 35 years for the values and priority of our nation and our party and gingrich's attempt tot medicare. so that the wealthy could have more tax cuts. we stopped george w bush from drilling in therctic wildlife refuge, and we. one week from tonight, one week from tonight, new hampshire can set the country on the course of beating george bush. one year from today, a new president raises his hand and keof office. as president of the united states. one week, one year, one chance to change america. you i ask. ■ ■che next seven days, in the next seven days here in new hampshire, we together can start an so if you will stand with me, we will put america back to work. if you'll stand with me, we will have energy independence and a future that is more secure. if you'll stand with me. we'll have health care in o

now the host of channel one, unofficially in the past. foreign policy adviser to us president richard nixonssian award. in the usa, where he emigrated in his youth, symes lived for half a century, and now gives his asymmetrical response to the american kencel culture. i canceled it myself now. i moved to moscow, i haven't been to the united states for over a year. they tell me if you know donald trump, then they will not only make a precedent out of you, but will say: missar putin has arrived too. among the awarded are journalists from radio arfey, authors of children's magazines and regional media, soviet sakhalin and satkinsky worker are preparing to celebrate their centuries; they have been trusted by several generations of readers. true, such a word seems simple. little knowledge gives rise to confidence, on the contrary, much knowledge gives rise to doubts, and to dispel this doubt we need professionals, i also want to thank the heads of channels and media information for. the fact that in such difficult times , interest in your profession, in what is happening today, is only growing,

the presidency without being impeached, because richard nixon believed he needed a pardon or they werehim. >> mitch mcconnell said the same thing and actually gave a speech during the second impeachment, where he said the same thing. and who else said the same thing? donald trump's lawyers in the second impeachment. because their argument was, don't impeach him, don't worry if you think that he's going to escape scot-free, the department of can deal with this. there is no such thing. this was their words, there's no such thing as a january exception. in other words you can commit a crime in january but because there's not enough time to have an impeachment and trial or conviction that he gets off scot-free. so everyone has been operating under that. this real claim here is not about the claim. it is about delay. this is not a serious argument. >> professor rakove thank you for joining us tonight. i have to apologize for dragging you into this madness. andrew weissmann is grant's lifetime in courtrooms dealing with the worst kind of human behavior all the time. but for me to drag in suc

no former president has been charged, but former president richard nixon did accept a pardon from gerald acknowledges some women liability on his behalf and concern about potential criminal action. one of the judges in this case also asked trump's lawyer why the impeachment -- conceded that he should not be impeached there but that there should be a role for judges in a criminal complaint thereafter. the judge could not get the lawyer to understand the distinction or acknowledge it. so there is a real contradiction the judges were grappling with today over the sweeping nature of trump's arguments, versus the reality on the ground. geoff: you mentioned earlier that trump's lawyers argue that prosecuting mr. trump would open a pandora's box of indicting former president's for actions they took while in office. how did this esha counsels team respond to that argument in particular? >> the spencer own cancer lawyer -- special counsel lawyer said the reason it's happened now is because of the unprecedented actions of former president donald trump, who now faces two federal indictments. this o

for all offenses against the united states which he, richard nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from july 20, 1969, through august 9, 1974. >> there it was. a pardon for someone who wasn't immune so he would need a pardon. more recently, top republicans have operated on the obvious premise that the criminal justice system could potentially put trump on trial after he left the white house. take the most powerful republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, emphasizing that exact point during trump's senate trial after impeachment. >> trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office. as an ordinary citizen. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one. >> and to be clear, i'm showing you that not just to say oh, look, that's what they said. but that was so rudimentary, so obvious, so plain that mcconnell wasn't making waves by saying it. it was just the state of play. if you want to check the justice department, long

president richard nixon, who shared his impressions with them after a trip to russia and ukraine.tion in ukraine is extremely explosive. if it gets out of control, bosnia will seem like a child's play. in view of the importance of ukraine, i immediately ask you to strengthen our diplomatic presence in kiev. you will be persuaded to split the package. assistance between all countries of the former soviet union, this would be a mistake. funds are very limited, all the countries closest to russia are very important, but ukraine is on a different level, it is irreplaceable. from this we can conclude that it was then that everything began, it was then that people began to enter ukraine huge amounts of money are invested. and billions , new textbooks began to be published, in which the entire history of the country is viewed in a completely different way, from kindergarten children begin to... develop hatred for muscovites, for you and me, and if your friend is called marichka, then don’t call march, because if masha is there, then this uniform is not ours, let them go there, where mash

all of that, the pardon of richard nixon, the justice department policy saying you can indict a presidentirmed again by the clinton administration, has opened the door to somebody, a bad actor like donald trump, and we should have dealt with this 50 years ago, and we didn't do it, and now it's coming to root, it's coming home to us that we have to fundamentally deal with this question. >> all right, guess what, i'm not letting any of you leave. there is too much news to cover. when we come back, choosing a trial over the campaign trail. that's what he did today. how the former president is prioritizing a d.c. courtroom appearance over his ground game in iowa, living what he has told us for years, there is no bad press. not as long as it relates to trump. or so he thinks. and later, a spike in swatting calls that has lead to serious harm, including death. the 11th hour just getting underway on an important tuesday night. stick around. oooh! refill? help yourself man. dude? dog food in the fridge? it's not dog food. it's freshpet. real meat. real veggies. real weird. he was bad luck anyway.

i thought of the republican party as the clean alternative even though we went through richard nixon and the republican party. nothing has been worse than donald trump and the willingness of republican politicians to sign off on corruption. say this is just okay to have a president of the united states receiving unconstitutional, millions of dollars from foreign governments. and then of course, we have the insurrection of january 6th and 2021. and we have many brave republicans including liz cheney, the daughter of the vice president, who stood up to donald trump. so we have many excellent republicans. i wish we could be back to the old republican party where we had independents willing to stand up to corruption, including the republicans such as barry goldwater stood up to richard nixon. that's not what we're seeing in the house and the senate today. all they want to do is investigate hunter biden. hunter biden wasn't given a job in the white house. i want to here more about jared kushner when he was at the white house and worked a $110 billion deal to sell weapons to the saudi arab

later, many european monarchs became american presidents, from napoleon and george washington. to richard nixonhas a symbol of freemasonry - the all-seeing eye. it is believed that it symbolizes control over the world economy. but the main thing that the masons are accused of is the so-called masonic conspiracy. its goal is to establish a new world order with a single world currency, erasing national and religious differences between peoples. another frightening goal is the creation of a shadow government, which at a certain point in time. will take power from the official ones. another fashionable theory is that the world is ruled by two famous banking families - the rothschilds of great britain and the rockefellers of the usa. according to some experts, scientists or simply conspiracy theorists, these two houses are behind almost everything that has happened and is happening on earth since the middle of the 19th century. this is their secret influence on european politicians of the first half of the 20th century, including hitler and stalin. not a secret. that largely thanks to the rockefelle