caspar weinberger gave me a great service by giving me access to his formerly restricted papers and one of the best sources was a retired admiral i stumbled onto who had really detailed presidential and secretary of defense level meeting notes in some notebooks he had in a basement. they were really insightful. then i traveled a lot. i went to south beirut and some back alley safehouses when i was on a sabbatical from the government to talk to hezbollah and hamas to try to get as much of their side -- interviewed hundreds of people for this book. and i plowed through a lot of records so it really was -- and it wasn't related to anything i was doing as a government service at the time, which is -- >> host: helpful. >> guest: yeah because otherwise there would have been an overlap. >> host: because you are writing about a contemporary. not the u.s. official documents only the earliest. not that you're covering is declassified so did you have to request a lot? >> guest: i requested documents and work through the normal means that you try to get material release. >> host: i thought it might

caspar weinberger gave me access to his formulae restricted papers. and one of the best sources is a retired at my wife stumbled in to labor the detailed presidential and secretary of defense level of your notes in the looksee at macro space in the basement and do a really insightful. i traveled a lot. i went to south to route -- beirut when i was on sabbatical from the government to check to hezbollah and in the. i interviewed hundreds of people for this book and plow through a lot of records. supposedly to anything it was doing on the government service at the time. because otherwise it would have been an overlap and that was not even the case. >> host: because you write about a contemporary. commit the u.s. official documents, only the earliest. you're covering has been declassified. should you have to request a lot of documents? >> guest: i requested documents and works you will need to it to real release. >> host: i thought it may be useful to reflect an minute on the role of the historian's perspective this third two a political scientist or som

ran for governor nixon did a california sixty two and they did try to they did commit crimes there caspar weinberger was the head of the california republican party and nixon had a lot of his other people h.r. haldeman his later chief of staff who was a mad man a wall street i'm sorry madison avenue type advertising executive you know they put together a fake democratic party organization and you know some sort of middle of the road democrats and and hey maybe we should vote for nixon and they were sending out these postcards under these you know using the u.s. mails to defraud california democrats they were caught but you know there was really no criminal penalty there were some small fine but i mean and that's just the tip of the iceberg i mean nixon later on. launcher was when it any cost and he committed so many crimes to win elections both in sixty eight and seventy two here's what b.j. called treason where nixon torpedoed personally torpedoed the peace deal for vietnam it was supposed to take effect right before the nine hundred sixty eight election and if that peace deal had taken

to outside of their own computer networks and within foreign countries now this comes a day after caspar risky allows identified another apparent state sponsored virus with links to stuxnet at and flame so as heavy speculation swirls around the future of the internet we here at r.t. sat down with someone who had a clear hand in creating our current cyber climate she was the at co-founder of apple speaks to our abby martin about net neutrality his fear that freedom on the internet could become a thing of the past he also weighs in on the kim dot com case against him. as co-founder of one of the largest companies in the world do you think that you have a responsibility to speak out about issues like internet regulation i don't think anyone comes with a responsibility just because their company is really big especially since i'm not the one who wanted to run a company just be a great engineer that helped start it so i don't feel that anybody has a responsibility however i do like it when well known people that are in the public eye speak out on social issues and give their opinion what do t

themselves that passionate attachments to powerful men and janet herself is said to have done with casparer. [laughter] by one washington account making the critical difference in keeping the falcons occupy by the british. gets approach can be hilariously fatal. thank you. [applause] >> it i am some six and this is from the vietnam syndrome. how many times can one pretend to interview the parents of a child or an with bright yellow skin? the cleft palates, the deafness, the muteness, the pretzel limbs and lowing heads in the terrible expressions on the faces of the parents, who believes that this horror can can sometimes skip a generation? there's just enough knowledge for agony and remorse. in other words, but not enough for any healing process. no answer above all did the inescapable question, when will it stop? a rain from hell began falling from about 40 years ago and to how many unborn generations flex a school full of children who made sign language to one another or who could not sit still or who could not move much at all or who could not see or who could not hear. i took the tour