also joining us from washington this evening is douglas brinkley. he is cbs news' presidential historian. doug, always good to see you. the president now the fourth straight u.s. president to order military intervention in iraq. what kind of spot is he in? >> well, he's trying to minimize what we're doing. he's not going into a full-boor war by sending in our ground troops. but the president is very much like eisenhower. ike said we're getting out of korea. barack obama said we're getting out of iraq. so it's a bit of a conundrum for him that now we're getting engaged bit we're getting engaged with drones and airstrikes, not with soldiers on the ground. >> glor: doug, the president was asked today about the notion that he pulled troops out of iraq and whether that happened to early. he really pushed back on that calling that notion bogus and he had to follow the will of the iraqi government and a plan put in place even before his administration. were you surprised he used those words in that way? >> i was surprised that he used the word "bogus" but

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douglas brinkley is a co-editor of the book. he is a cbs news contributor. i am pleased to have him back at this table. >> thank you, charlie. >> tell me how this came about, the nixon tapes with you and luke nichtor. >> i was doing a book on tour of duty and john kerry. i was curious, did nixon ever talk about kerry, because kerry was starting to make news, protesting vietnam. and sure enough, luke was starting to do a book, and he gave me some of the kerry-nixon exchange. later i was working on walter cronkite. luke helped me find hot nixon wanted to squash cronkite. we both are from the town of perriesberg, ohio. we live in the austin, texas area. so we bonded together. we decided, let's go through the tapes, tribe them, see what's relevant. >> what do we see? >> you're looking at a real- time fly on the wall of what it was like to be in the nixon white house from february '71 into early '73 when finally alexander haig pulled the taping system due to watergate. you are seeing this hon clough, he didn't talk a lot about domestic affairs. so some of nixon's

then historian douglas brinkley will discuss richard nixon's resignation. we will also take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> incumbent tennessee senator lamar alexander won his party's primary thursday night. after his victory, senator alexander spoke to supporters. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very, very much. thanks for being here tonight, everything. about a half-hour ago, associated press called this race, said we were winning, and i'm here to thank you emmy voters of tennessee for giving me an opportunity. [cheers and applause] this is one of the largest republican primaries that we have had in our state's history. there are seven candidates in this primary. they all ran very well, and we are glad that it is over. why there are so many voters in our primary this year. on the one hand, tennesseans wanted to express to governor haslam how proud they are of the way he has led our state, and i want to congratulate him o

. >> caller: what an honor to talk to douglas brinkley. i just have a question. he focus looking at the blue collar worker. did mr. brinkley find anything in the tapes to vote for nixon if we focus on the blue collar working class worker to get the worker to think of their cultural values or their material needs in order to break them away from the new deal coalition. i thank you very much. bye. >> it's a good question. yes. i mean what you have with nixon is appealing directly to blue collar workers to the point where he would embrace people like johnny cash and marylle hag fwr art because he thought he represented the blue collar worker. nixon had pretty good read of middle class america although he didn't hang out with them a lot. he kind of was a loner but remember his idea of the silent majority that nixon was saying that most americans want to win in vietnam. they want peace with honor. they care about american values. main street values. this anti-war movement in media, liberal elite based out of new york and washington were skewing what was really going on

douglas brinkley is a cbs news contributor. i am pleased to have him. tell me how this came about.the nixon tapes." >> i was doing a book about john kerry in the vietnam war and i was curios if nixon ever talked about kerry. sure enough, there was a project on the nixon tapes. he was doing transcriptions. later i was working on a walter cronkite project -- i found how nixon wanted to squash cronkite. we are both from the town of perrysburg, ohio. i am at rice. he is at a&m. we went through the tapes and thought we should transcribe them. >> what do we see? >> it is real-time, fly on the wall of what it was like to be in the nixon white house from 1971 to 1973. then the system was pulled due to watergate. you are seeing the foreign policy on show. he deeded domestic affairs to john ehrlichman. some of his domestic achievements like the environmental protection agency, ehrlichman was all over that. >> and his role? >> he is the henchman. the one person that nixon could do business with, even if it is devious. the trust between nixon and haldeman. they say he had no friends except a l

he is teamed with douglas brinkley, our second panelists, to produce the new book, "nixon tachs." it's from 1971-'73 in the critical vietnam war years and also aufrs astonishing glimpses of the man in the oval office, often at war with himself. douglas, now a professor at rice university, is well-known here at the museum for miz many books including the recent big ra fill of walter cronkite. our third panel is the world famous bernstein. as you saw in the video, they worked on the water gate stories from the first days and helped win the pulitzer prize for the paper. i got to know carl when we were young reporters. his hair was dark as night, so was mine. it was an interesting picture to watch him go from a bright, young writer with a flamboyant writing style to a historic figure in american journalism and political lure. and, later, the author of well-reviewed books on pope john paul, ii and hillary clinton, who is now writing a book on his early years, his teen years, at the washington star for long time washingtonians. he is now the professor at stonybrook university, in long i

1972 sheds light on many of the taped conversations in the days before the watergate scandal. s douglas brinkley joins us in new york. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> israel dominating the headlines. one of the tapes you've transcribed, brings up an interesting conversation that nixon was having with bob haldiman. take a listen. ... they had no problems. it's wrong for the policy in the middle east to be made by a jew. >> talking about henry kissinger, whether he should be involved in mideast policies. >> keep in mind, kissinger has this voice activated system. so everything gets recorded. they're worried that kissinger may be pro-israel. henry is trying to prove he's not. nixon tells h haldiman, because of world war ii, to emotionism and everything like that, an ugly way that nixon describes that. >> you say the guard was being down, it was voice activated. very few knew it existed. the few who knew it existed probably let their guards down. >> nobody knew, kissinger particularly was a young guy back then, smart guy from harvard, he is now one of our great states craft people

douglas brinkley was there and he personally witnessed a lot of the ecological damage. obama was completely unmoved. he took it as a procedural issue, something that could be solved by discussion, process, and meetings. it was an issue. a political phenomenon. it was not an environmental catastrophe. he was very, very cool. >> in one of your essays in the book that i mentioned, you write, "barack obama" -- this is april 2009 -- >> have you changed your mind at all since? it was five years ago. >> oh, absolutely not. i love to hear him think aloud. the clarity of the sequences and the thought. do i think he's in love with the sound of his own voice. he expresses himself so well that he indulges himself rhetorically. >> what are some of the differences in the way he was and when president reagan was around? what was the difference in the way people treated them? >> people always tend to be obsequious in the presence of the president. there is a lot of laughter that's not really laughter. the strange smile that spreads over the faces of people. it's half joy and half fear.

and luke nichter, co-author, with douglas brinkley, of the "the nixon tapes," a compilation of key conversations recorded by the president's secret white house taping system. and we welcome you all to the "newshour". pat buchanan as someone who knew richard nixon very well, why do you think it's important that we look back at him and his presidency? >> well, certainly, when you mention the watergate scandal, it was the biggest scandal in the american political history that brought down his presidency. bill clinton was impeached but he survived that. nixon's presidency is extraordinary because when you look at his first term and second term, i think you would find him most consequential of presidents. arms control of the soviet union, ended the draft, desegregated the south, had enacted 18-year-old vote, e.p.a., osha, the cancer institute. so he was an enormously consequential president and it's my and others' view that he stood down and i think in his second term he would have been a near greatest +*79 but i think his second term was a failure. >> pat buchanan raises the point. we're still tryin

we'll hear from the story and douglas brinkley on his book "the nixon tapes." supporters his resignation. >> to carry through to the finish, whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. but the interest of the nation must always come before any personal considerations. from the discussions i have had with congressional and other leaders, i have concluded that because of the watergate matter, i might not have the support of the congress that i would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office and the way the interest of the nation would require. i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president, i must put the interest of america first. america needs a full-time president and a full-time congress, particularly at this time, with problems we face at home and abroad. to continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and

then historian douglas brinkley will discuss the 48th anniversary of president nixon's resignation. recently mr. brinkley co-edited the book "the nixon tapes." we'll take your phone calls and follow the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live each morning 7:00 eastern on c-span. >>> friday night on "american history tv," president richard nixon's resignation, 1974. at 8:00 eastern, that night's cbs news special report. at 8:30, president nixon's address to the nation announcing his resignation. a panel of journalists, including the "washington post" bob woodward and carl bernstein discuss watergate and president nix nixon's resignation, 8:00 eastern right here on c-span3. >>> charles colson was a special counsel in the nixon white house. he talked about the final days of richard nixon's presidency, and the watergate break-in, as part of the nixon library's oral history project. this is 1 hour and 20 minutes. >> people today, the high-tech media world, gets stereo typical pictures of particular characters on the public stage. and they then conclude that that's

. >> caller: what an honor to talk to douglas brinkley. i just have a question. he focus looking at the blue collar worker. did mr. brinkley find anything in the tapes to vote for nixon if we focus on the blue collar working class worker to get the worker to think of their cultural values or their material needs in order to break them away from the new deal coalition. i thank you very much. bye. >> it's a good question. yes. i mean what you have with nixon is appealing directly to blue collar workers to the point where he would embrace people like johnny cash and marylle hag fwr art because he thought he represented the blue collar worker. nixon had pretty good read of middle class america although he didn't hang out with them a lot. he kind of was a loner but remember his idea of the silent majority that nixon was saying that most americans want to win in vietnam. they want peace with honor. they care about american values. main street values. this anti-war movement in media, liberal elite based out of new york and washington were skewing what was really going on

brinkley is our guest. topic, the 40th anniversary of the resignation of president nixon. in new york, democrats line. ralph, you're on the air. caller: what an honor and pleasure to talk to douglas brink lee. i'm a proud worker from upstate new york, and i just have a question, the focus for the blue-collar, working-class worker, did doug brinkley find anything in the tapes to -- for nixon to vote for nixon, if we focus on the blue-collar, working-class worker, to get the worker to think of their cultural values over their material needs, nor to break them away from the new deal coalition, and i thank you very much, bye. guest: good question. yes, what you have with nixon is he's appealing directly to blue-collar workers, to the point where he embraces people like johnny cash and merle haggard, country sirnings, because he thought they represented the blue-collar worker. he wanted to help destroy unions to a degree, or at least limit their power in politics, and he made appeals to the flag, to patriotism, that we're not going to cut and run from vietnam. nixon had a pretty good read of middle class america, although he didn't hang out with them a lot. he was a loner, as i said.

he'll be joined i by historians douglas brinkley and luke nikter who co-authored the book "the nixon tapes." that's live beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and tonight we'll be looking at senate races in hawaii, tennessee and virginia. we'll begin at 8:00 with hawaii senator brian shotts debating. plus we'll open up our phone lines for this year's upcoming midterm elections. that all gets under way tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> while congress is in recess this month, c-span's primetime programming continues on friday with the western conservative summit in denver. saturday robert gates, condoleezza rice and madeleine albright on the situation in ukraine. sunday on q&a, edmund morris. >>> the house energy and subcommittee on oversight recently held a hearing examining the implementation of the health care law. the next open enrollment starts on november 15th, ending next year, february 15th. the centers for medicare and medicaid services testified on whether the government's website will be ready and available during the open enrollment process and how the administration is handl

he'll be joined by historians douglas brinkley and luke nicter who co-authored the book "nixon tapes: 1971 to 197 2." live beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> and tonight, we'll be looking at senate races in hawaii, tennessee, and virginia. we'll begin at 8:00 with hawaii senator debating challenger and current congresswoman hanabusa. we'll open up phone lines for your thoughts on the upcoming midterm election and expect candidate speeches following today's tennessee primary. that gets under way tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> the 9/11 commission released a new report last month on the growing threats from terrorist groups to cyber attacks. this new report comes ten years after the commission issued its recommendations for reforming the u.s. intelligence community in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. tom kean and lee hamilton shared their reflections on the commission, why it was such a success, and the report's recommendations adopted. >> good afternoon, everybody. it is my pleasure to interrupt your conversations for the last conversation of the day

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also with us in washington, professor of history at rice university, douglas brinkley, co-ed tore of rick, first of all, huge fan of your first two books, "nixon land and the invisible bridge." pat buchanan, bill kristol. if you want to understand american conservatism, it's a great place to start. this book is controversial. craig shirley, a good friend of moin and of this show, there have been charges about plagiarism, i guess the times talked about it. so there's passages that look like they're lifted directly from some of craig's reagan books. what do you say? >> that's nonsense. we both used the word fess tune. i'm calling it fess tune gates. what kind of plajist links source notes to the pages he's supposedly plagiarizing. >> a lot of the passages are the same. >> they're not the same. >> you're saying that -- >> put up the second passage. he thinks i got that from him. but actually i got it from an african-american paper, "the atlanta world" from 1976. and the thing that i write is completely richer. it's -- the second passage i think that your producer showed me was the one i

then historian douglas brnkley will discuss the 40th anniversary of president nixon's resignation. recently mr. brinkley co-edited the book "the nixon tapes." we'll also take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >>> friday night on american history tv, president richard nixon's resignation in 1974. at 8:00 eastern, that night's "cbs news special report." at 8:30, president nixon's address to the nation announcing his resignation. and at 8:50, a panel of journalists, including "the washington post's" bob woodward and carl bernstein discuss watergate and president nixon's resignation. watch it friday night beginning at 8:00 eastern here an c-span3. judge robert bourque was solicitor general in the nixon administration. in this oral history interview for the nixon presidential library, he talks about the saturday night massacre when president nixon ordered him to fire watergate special prosecutor cox after the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest. this is an hour and a half.

then historian douglas brnkley will discuss the 40th anniversary of president nixon's resignation. recently mr. brinkley co-edited the book "the nixon tapes." we'll also take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >>> friday night on american history tv, president richard nixon's resignation in 1974. at 8:00 eastern, that night's "cbs news special report." at 8:30, president nixon's address to the nation announcing his resignation. and at 8:50, a panel of journalists, including "the washington post's" bob woodward and carl bernstein discuss watergate and president nixon's resignation. watch it friday night beginning at 8:00 eastern here an c-span3. judge robert bourque was solicitor general in the nixon administration. in this oral history interview for the nixon presidential library, he talks about the saturday night massacre when president nixon ordered him to fire watergate special prosecutor cox after the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest. this is an hour and a half.

brinkley is our guest. topic, the 40th anniversary of the resignation of president nixon. in new york, democrats line. ralph, you're on the air. caller: what an honor and pleasure to talk to douglasnk lee. i'm a proud worker from upstate new york, and i just have a question, the focus for the blue-collar, working-class worker, did doug brinkley find anything in the tapes to -- for nixon to vote for nixon, if we focus on the blue-collar, working-class worker, to get the worker to think of their cultural values over their material needs, nor to break them away from the new deal coalition, and i thank you very much, bye. guest: good question. yes, what you have with nixon is he's appealing directly to blue-collar workers, to the point where he embraces people like johnny cash and merle haggard, country sirnings, because he thought they represented the blue-collar worker. he wanted to help destroy unions to a degree, or at least limit their power in politics, and he made appeals to the flag, to patriotism, that we're not going to cut and run from vietnam. nixon had a pretty good read of middle class america, although he didn't hang out with them a lot. he was a loner, as i said. but