dick nixon to be on any particular day. he wants the support of the tea party crowd. he needs them, john and mark, but he would never be a tea party person. he wouldn't show up at a yahoo kindf politics we don't like government. he's not been a life long foreign policy hawk, b he nts e suort heeoco community out there. he wants people who are hawkish. he's not a member ofhe religious right. he doesn't run around liberty university or hang around with jerry falwell, but he wants their support. he's not really a ryan republican ideologue conction politici, buhe p himn thck isn't that the fundamental problem with the guy? he wants to date these people through the election. he wants their support, but he doesn't want to be one of them. he doesn't want to marry them. is that true? >> yes. look, chris, thi he'a person who is fundamentally ill suited to being the republican nominee given what the republican party currently is. and you could say that on a bunch of different levels. it's an evangelical party and it's a southern and

nixon was trying to save his skin. it became a standard for candidates from then on. >> jeff frank, author of a book, "ike and dick" saying was gambling his political future and shaping political races for years to come. accused of benefiting from a slush fund set up by wealthy california backers, nixon opted to tell everything about his finances on national tv. even his wife's wardrobe. >> i should say this. pat doesn't have a mink coat. but she does have a respectable republican cloth coat. >> and the little dog checkers. a gift from a man in texas. >> you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog. i just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep him. >> nixon also shrewdly turned the issue of financial disclosure on his democratic opponents. >> both should come before the american people as i have and make a complete financial statement as to their financial history and if they don't, it will be an admission that they have something to hide. >> it's a challenge that reverberates in american politics to this day. it's mitt romney not living up to richard nixon standards

nixon say we all should put out. michael isikoff is reporting on this anniversary and jeff riff franks the author of "ike and dick, portraite political marriage." i remember when nixon was making the demand all politicians should release the facts about tax returns and everything else. nixon was saying to ike you phony s.o.b., you wouldn't put out the information, i'm out on the cooker having to explain all my finances. >> he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that eisenhower had a great tax deal himself. his memoir earned him $650,000 and he paid a capital gains tax on it, not an income tax. he was under amazing pressure. here's this 39-year-old junior senator from california, the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the man who had led the allied expeditionary force, the five-star general, the legendary dwight d. eisenhower, and he was really, really trying to survive. >> i agree with everything you say, jeff. i have very interesting feels about richard nixon, he's a complicated guy, we all studied the guy. not to meet his father's standards, the 12 years he put out is one thing bu

nixon say we all should put out. michael isikoff is reporting on this anniversary and jeff riff franks the author of "ike and dick, portraitrange political marriage." i remember when nixon was making the demand all politicians should release the facts about tax returns and everything else. nixon was saying to ike you phony s.o.b., you wouldn't put out the information, i'm out on the cooker having to explain all my finances. >> he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that eisenhower had a great tax deal himself. his memoir earned him $650,000 and he paid a capital gains tax on it, not an income tax. he was under amazing pressure. here's this 39-year-old junior senator from california, the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the man who had led the allied expeditionary force, the five-star general, the legendary dwight d. eisenhower, and he was really, really trying to survive. >> i agree with everything you say, jeff. i have very interesting feels about richard nixon, he's a complicated guy, we all studied the guy. not to meet his father's standards, the 12 years he put out is one thin

nixon said we all should put out. chief investigative national reporter and also he reported on this anniversary. jeffrey franks, the author of the upcoming book, "ike and dicks remember the interesting point that, when nixon was making that demand that all the politicians should release the facts about their tax returns and everything else, eisenhower broke his pencil point listening to it. he was so angry because nixon was saying to ike, you phony s.o.b., you won't put out all this information, and i'm out here on the cooker having to explain my finances. >> nixon knew just what he was doing. he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that namely eisenhower had gotten a great tax deal himself. his memoir "crusading europe" had earned him $50,000, and he paid the capital gains tax, not income tax. so ike didn't want the whole world to know about that. watching nixon right now, you realize how extraordinarily -- what an extraordinary speech it was. he was under such amazing pressure. here's this 39-year-old junior senator from california ask, and he's the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the five-star general, the legen

nixon. we listened to eight years of a vice-president, dick cheney, telling us that deficits don't matter.llion in debt spending that was not put on the books that this president inherited. he had one year of working with the last president's budget, which was insane. he was handed a nation losing 800,000 jobs per month. he had a mountain and a shovel. the republicans say you did not shovels fast enough. guest: ok. i think that's a fair point. i point out that the president was handed a floundering economy and a very recalcitrant republican majority in the house, at least for the last two years. at the same time, step back. speaker john boehner in one of the clips of their ran here talks about stepping back and looking at the forest. step back and look at the forest. this country has an economy which is in trouble and his bald, but compared to the other economies in the world, including china, we have got a lot of things going for us. if this were able to be fixed in a way -- you cannot do it all at once. you're quite right. you cannot put it all on the backs of the workers alone. you have

nixon. we listened to eight years of a vice-president, dick cheney, telling us that deficits don't matter.e had $3 trillion in debt spending that was not put on the books that this president inherited. he had one year of working with the last president's budget, which was insane. he was handed a nation losing 800,000 jobs per month. he had a mountain and a shovel. the republicans say you did not shovels fast enough. guest: ok. i think that's a fair point. i point out that the president was handed a floundering economy and a very recalcitrant republican majority in the house, at least for the last two years. at the same time, step back. speaker john boehner in one of the clips of their ran here talks about stepping back and looking at the forest step back and look at the forest. this country has an economy which is in trouble and his bald, but compared to the other economies in the world, including china, we have got a lot of things going for us. if this were able to be fixed in a way -- you cannot do it all at once. you're quite right. you cannot put it all on the backs of the workers alon

nixon. we listened to eight years of dick cheney telling us that deficits did not matter. trillion that was debt spending that was not put on the books that this president inherited. he had one year of working with the last president's budget, which was insane. it was a mountain of bleeding jobs every month. a mountain and a shovel. republicans told him that he did not shovel fast enough. host: we get your point. guest: a fair point. i point out that the president was handed a faltering economy and very recalcitrant republican majority in the house, at least for the last two years. at the same time, step back. speaker boehner, even in the clips they ran, it is all about stepping back from the tree and looking at the forest. this country has an economy which is in trouble and stalled. compared to the other economies of the world and in china, we have got a lot of things going for us. if this were able to be fixed in a way -- you cannot do it all at once, and you're quite right, you cannot put it on the backs of workers alone. you have got to spread out the pain in a way tha

nixon. we listened to eight years of a vice-president, dick cheney, telling us that deficits don't matter. we had $3 trillion in debt spending that was not put on the books that this president inherited. he had one year of working with the last president's budget, which s insane. he was handed a nation losing 800,000 jobs per month. he had a mountain and a shovel. the republicans say you did not shovels fast enough. guest: ok. i think that's a fair point. i point out that the president was handed a floundering economy and a very recalcitrant republican majority in the house, at least for the last two years. at the same time, step back. speaker john boehner in one of the clips of their ran here talks about stepping back and looking at the forest. step back and look at the forest. this country has an economy which is in trouble and his bald, but compared to the other economies in the world, including china, we have got a lot of things going for us. if this were able to be fixed in a way -- you cannot do it all at once. you're quite right. you cannot put it all on the backs of the workers alo