agnew was a agnew. was governor of maryland he was tough on a law and order issues. he appealed to a lot of the governors and he was kind of a neutral. i mean there were nothing really pro about him, but there was nothing negative and that decision. i think i think was made in montauk the week before the convention and it was made with nixon and john mitchell and bob haldeman and and bob finch all advisors and so that i that's what i know. i you i'm not an expert on that and you might want to dig in with somebody else on that. who? yes. perfect. thanks to wait center albert. we have a question right over here. hi dwight. you mentioned early on that the nixon administration was known for two things, but they accomplished so much. both domestically and with regard to foreign policy what was left on the table that was not accomplished because the second term was so inundated with watergate. well, i'm standing up here. and very honestly the person to answer that is in the first row, and that's larry higbee, but i me try. nixon had a plan underway to completely reorganize

and do they want agnew? of course, the answer was no, but then eventually as we know agni was forced to resign and so that kind of cleared the decks for getting rid of nixon. so i mentioned agnew in passing in response to your now thank you, michael couple of comments on technology in about tape recorders in our homes. they are in our homes and her name is alexa. so right and curious about when you're developing this project. how are you able to work with or collaborate with with carl bernstein and bob woodward on that project and at all if you did well, i knew both of them from the washington post particularly bob woodward. and you know as interested in i i didn't. actually, i asked woodward for a blub and he agreed and then he said he had his own book to write and focus on so he didn't even give me a blur. but anyway, no hard feelings, but i wasn't really didn't. feel the need to do a lot of interviews. i mean, i've talked to woodward particularly woodward often about watergate and i investigated this whol

and do they want agnew? of course, the answer was no, but then eventually as we know agni was forced to resign and so that kind of cleared the decks for getting rid of nixon. so i mentioned agnew in passing in response to your now thank you, michael couple of comments on technology in about tape recorders in our homes. they are in our homes and her name is alexa. so right and curious about when you're developing this project. how are you able to work with or collaborate with with carl bernstein and bob woodward on that project and at all if you did well, i knew both of them from the washington post particularly bob woodward. and you know as interested in i i didn't. actually, i asked woodward for a blub and he agreed and then he said he had his own book to write and focus on so he didn't even give me a blur. but anyway, no hard feelings, but i wasn't really didn't. feel the need to do a lot of interviews. i mean, i've talked to woodward particularly woodward often about watergate and i investigated this whol

and so agnew was enough of an unknown that he really didn't add to the ticket. he also wasn't seen to really subtract from it either, you know, lodge added. but lodge also subtracted and the of the top of the ticket so i think that's probably why nixon won for agnew another another reason i would say to is agnew was a major booster of rockefeller. and rockefeller kept threatening to come back in the race. agnew was on kind of that moderate to liberal, really even more like liberal side. but was tough on crime because he was he was from baltimore. baltimore was one of the cities after the king assassination that had a lot of unrest and so agnew was kind of a liberal republican who was tough on crime and looting and arson and unrest and. that's what nixon he was sort of the whole package. he just was still kind of a political unknown. but again, that wasn't bad in the in the eyes of nixon. so that was the republican side of the aisle. and then you get into the fall campaign. what's going on on the democratic side, the convention in chicago, which is largely oversh

agnew. agnew just stayed on floor right. and the if you want to be hardened you could look at the part in the how the good finally one where he writes about watergate verdict guilty guilty guilty and he just recreates that moment and. if you read it, you can say to yourself, well, maybe maybe we're going to be okay. you also he was just funny. i mean, he just, you know, i mean, and trump you talking about the trump's book is expected but it had to be edited with fleet powder. where does that even come from? but it it's like perfect. i mean, imagine walking around with that in your head like you could like. oh, yeah. okay. oh oh, anyway, in in the late 1990s, i was the city hall bureau chief for the new york times. thank you. thank you. and and i was covering a guy named what the hell was his name? giuliani. that's a giuliani. and during that time there was there was a a construction accident in brooklyn. and and. an undocumented worker died. the collapse of the side of a building, williamsburg. now i think i might have writt

joining me to talk about that is my friend, phil agnew, the codirector black men build, civil rights who is the founder of dream defenders. given your history and space of organizing and movement, what was it that drove you to start this organization? >>, cofounder, you can't give me all the credit. i work with a collective people and we started the organization based on the realization that black men needed a political home, a place where we could come and learn, talk and be educated, where we could organize ourselves into a powerful political force that was there the organization because we realized in 2020 as the world was burning, black men, brothers, myself, needed spaces where we could come and talk. we are on a tour right now around the country engaging in men's circles, we believe it is important part of the political process to talk about how the issues of the day are affecting us, how we move, move with our partners and immunity. we started the organization with twofold purpose, to be of political home and home of deep personal transformation. we think that is the way to ge

it fit and he took him away from rockefeller, who was a key rival, nixon's he'd agnew and was putting agnew on the ticket was a little bit like taking a wallace lite anti-establishment type and bringing him onto an otherwise establishment campaign. and so even nixon kind of captured a piece of wallace's magic by putting him on the ticket because agnew, you know, during the presidency went on to really talk make he almost always gave tough anti-elite anti-media speeches and the nattering nabobs of negativism. all these phrases that have entered our political lexicon because the nixon years. so i think i think nixon recognize that. wallace while he turned a lot of people off he, also really struck a nerve with his followers as and while the national media a sign of the wallace campaign we're always talking about race and segregation things that wallace said much earlier in political career. by late, i would argue that wallace, the political message was much more sophisticated, much more class based than race and race was there, but it was really folded into a broader set of grievances t

but events ruled otherwise in 1973 vice president spiro agnew resigned in disgrace. once more ford's life took an unexpected turn my fellow americans. i proudly present to you. the man whose name i will submit to the congress of the united states. for confirmation as the vice president of the united states congressman gerald ford of michigan as president was during figure whose obvious integrity aided republican candidates and a beleaguered president. but each day brought new revelations of wrongdoing in the nixon administration. the watergate scandal was coming to a climax. by the summer of 1974 nixon's impeachment was before the house. all those in favor please signify by saying i all those pose no miss holtzman. i mr. mezvinski. i mr. hutchins. it was a time of anxiety for the american people. to the vice president. it was a time of anguish. he didn't know if the president would dig in and fight or resign. on august 9th 1974. it was settled. on the south lawn of the white house a painful ceremony unfolded returning to their new home nixon successor reassured his w

agnew was governor of maryland. he was tough on law and order issues.e appealed to all of the governors and he was kind of a neutral. there was nothing really pro about him but there was nothing negative. and that decision i think was made in montauk the week before the convention. and it was made with nixon and john mitchell and bob haldeman and bob pentz, all advisors and so that's what i know. i'm not an expert on that t . you might want to dig in with somebody else on that. >> thank you dwight. >> hello dwight. you mentioned early on that the nixon administration was known for two things accomplished so much . both domestically and with regard to foreign policy . what was left on the table that was not accomplished because the second term was so inundated with watergate? >> i'm standing up here and very honestly the person to answer that is in the first row and that's lori higbee. but let me try. nixon had a plan to completely reorganize the federal government. he had a commission call the ash commission. there were going to come in and take that go

really developed a rapport that you can't get by throwing money in september and october. >> phillip agnewyou being here. thank you as always for your work. keep it up. >> thank you. >> check on my documentary with pulitzer prize-winning and emmy award-winning correspondent trymaine lee. it is called black men in america and it is streaming now on peacock, nbc and the nbc app. coming up, time for the worst of the week and the only nominee this time is j.d. vance because he had a really weird week. we will talk about it on the other side of the break with more ayman. stay tuned. uned. powers tractor supply stores nationwide with reliable 5g business internet. and helps red bull revolutionize coverage of live events. this is how business goes further with t-mobile for business. why do couples choose a sleep number smart bed? i need help with her snoring. sleep number does that. this is how business goes further thank you. during our biggest sale of the year, save 50% on the sleep number® limited edition smart bed. shop now at a sleep number store near you. if you have chronic kidney disease,

we show you how old photo booths are attract agnew generation. >> oh, my god! >>> this is the cbs weekend news. from new york. with jericka duncan. >>> good evening and thank you so much for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with the vice president, kamala harris, the democratic nominee, riding a whirlwind. her short four-week-old campaign setting fund raising records and attracting large crowds. on the eve of the party's convention, our new cbs poll show as very tight race. vice president harris is three points ahead of former president donald trump nationwide. but in the certain key battleground states, the race is a dead heat. pennsylvania is the biggest battleground. cbs is there tonight and leads us off. >> reporter: good evening, former president trump won the state back in fw2016 and presidt biden in 2020. the new poll shows vice president harris and trump each have 50% of the vote right now, exactly why they are spending so much time here. from pittsburgh, vice president harris and her run mate, tim walz took off for a campaign blitz by bus th

over time people became to appreciate about him 4 >> and when i see halderman and ehrlich man and agnewmed he didn't know how to pick the people around him to give him great support and advice. guest: nixon accomplishments includes the integration of the southern schools and includes affirmative action and includes the volunteer army and includes social security and for the first time -- he did all of this with the democratic congresses he never had a republican congress to work with. he knew that edmund musk yes was going to run against him and could steal his thunder by by signing the clean water act. many of these were counter moves to combat what was going on in the congress. but in his heart, this is a man who supported -- reagan didn't but he supported every civil rights bill. he drew the line at forced busing says that wasn't a bad place to draw the line. not only was he awful, but he failed to supervise and he wore his closest aids down to the point tay they failed to supervise and they recruited the biggest bunch of knuckle heads and spy, f.b.i. world, underworld of washington,

i talked to vice president agnew in palm springs three weeks ago and expressed concern to the country. why elvis is coming in, he really wants to be deputized as a federal law enforcement officer to deal with the drug problem. there is the letter. they agree he should come in and elvis, this is the greeting -- and elvis starts showing him pictures. much of the meeting was recorded that is bud kroger in the picture. is one of the most requested pictures of the nixon adminion. you will noticehis belt which is solid gold, he was also showing the president his gold cufflinks. bud kroger was not the normal notetaker of meetings and prepared a fairly detailed account of what had happened after the meeting. this actually runs several pages. i clipped just one paragraph here that notes that presley indicated he thought the beatles had been the real force for any american spirit. this sa little bit like competition. he said that the beatles came to e country, made their money they promoted an anti-american theme. the president nodded in agreement and expressed some surprise. this is a good pos

i v talked to vice vice presidet agnew in palm springs three weeks ago and expressed concern for the country. this is why elvis is coming in but what he really wants to do is to be deputized as a law enforcement, federal law enforcement officer to deal with a drugl problem. if there is the letter. bud takes him into the oval office and they agree he should come in and elvis, this this is degrading and alpha starts showing them pictures and much of the meeting was recorded. that's bud in the picture there. this is one of the most requested pictures of the nixon administration . you'll notice here this bell whicholid gold. he was ahowing the president his goal cufflinks. bud crow was not the normal notetaker in meetings and prepared a fairly detailed account of what had happened. this actually run several pages. i clipped just one paragraph here that notes that presley indicated he he thought the beatles had been a real source fornti-erican. said a little bit might be competition he said the beatles came to the country and made their money and returned to england where romoted an anti-

of american presidency and yet our sort of random side notes and sidelines of this, you know spiro agnew the vice president, you know taking bribes in the white house from contractors from his old gig as you know, baltimore county executive. i don't really realizing that the secret service keep meticulous record great of every coming and going so the the investigation of his corruption was incredibly easy because they could just read it. yes, what time specifically did the person delivering the bribe arrive and what time specifically did the person leave i can tell you and then you know that all unfolds in in some of you maybe old enough to remember this in this single month in october 19. 73 which begins with spearowag do resigning continues with the saturday night massacre this showdown over just explained. yeah, the showdown over the nixon tapes and the special prosecutor. where nixon sort of becomes fed up with the special prosecutor orders his firing the attorney general resigns the nixon orders the deputy attorney general william russell's house to fire the special prosecutor. he r

vance is the single strangest republican candidate for vice president in history, including spiro agnew, who pleaded guilty for tax evasion for all the pipes he took and had to resign from the vice presidency. j.d. vance has said that single women who do not have, or any women, married women, who do not have biological children "disorient and really disturbing," and he does not want them to be teachers. all of my elementary school teachers were women who did not have children. they were all in the catholic order of the sisters of st. joseph. they taught me to read and write. j.d. vance has been a catholic for about five years. he may never have met a catholic nun. he is willing to condemn them because he is so profoundly weird. as tim walz would put it. the republican candidates for president and vice president used to both be named donald. now only one of them is. james donald bowman is the name on j.d. vance's birth certificate. his mother changed his name when she remarried and it didn't just change his last name, she changed his middle name. to david. he then went through life as ja

richard nixon picked spiro agnew thinking that, you know, that was a guarantee for him. but obviously he underestimated president for he picked president ford thinking that that wouldn't be, you know, that would discourage against impeachment. it was quite the opposite. arguably because what he didn't realize just how much people on the respected and admired ford and thought that he would actually be a perfectly good president. i think trump picked pence because he thought pence wouldn't outshine him. you know, the pence was a stolid, quiet, you know, not very flashy kind of guy. trump wants one star on the show. he doesn't want to write in the in the apprentice. there was really only one star and he wasn't going to pick somebody who was going to be, you know, get a lot of attention. and and that's important. me so when you think about who he's going to pick this year, keep that in mind, right? there are two factors. i think, for trump this year in picking his running mate. one, he's got to find somebody he thinks is more loyal than mike pence was, which is hard because