if you don'twas -- know anything about elliott richardson, one of the great century. in the 20th so you brought to the administration a lot of people who had reputations and records really quite distinctive. and it gave it a character and a think helped restore people's faith in government. >> mark, tell us more of some of levy's specific reforms. he proposed guidelines for the fbi. about intelligence and surveillance reforms. he had an ambitious record. tell us about it. attorney general levy, this is a ime that the power of the president was under great attack. and the attorney general, edward believed that substantial executive power existed. michael said t as climate where each branch perhaps including be asserting s to the maximum authority and you know let the courts decide what limits are or the political process decide what the limits ford and edward idea of dward's government by discussion, he that the ieve executive branch should secretly toticularly press its powers the limits because this had led o abuses and secret abuses covered up under the rueb ri -- r

clean, i think, but if you do not know anything about elliott richardson, you should read up on him. he brought the administration a lot of people who had reputations and records that really were quite distinctive. this gave it a character and cast that i think helped restore people's faith in government. 's tell us more about leavy specific reforms. he proposed guidelines for the fbi and talked about surveillance reforms. he had quite a record. tell us about it. >> attorney general leavy -- this was a time when executive power, the power of the president, was under great attack. general, edward leavy, believed that substantial but inve power exists, contrast, as michael said, to the current climate where each branch -- perhaps even including the court -- seems to be asserting its maximum authority in either let the courts decide what the limits are, let political process decide what the limits are, president ford shared with edward leavy the idea of government by discussion . he did not believe that the executive branch should secretly, particularly, press its powers to the limits b

this was a group that was cheered by elliott richardson, the former attorney general of the united states, very prominent statesman as well, and by someone else who has finished his term of president of costa nobel had won the prize. i remember talking to a group of staff in the smaller conference room that we had then and telling people what a great success this trip had been, the press conferences that we had in washington and miami. the number of people we talked to in cuba, we met will almost everybody in cuba except for the come dant, i can't tell youly we didn't meet with him. then we had dinners in congress with 25 congressmen and senators. and i was explaining well this staff. hen a new staff member was sitting next to me and she pulled my suit and she said but peter i thought the interim american dialogue its purpose was to change policy. and i don't see any policy changes on the horizon. and i went through a long explanation of why this was going to be the case and i've been explaining it now for 20 years, and finally we do have a policy change, and i like to think that we had a

richardson at that time. the ball started rolling but i was right there and spent 45 minutes that day. i went out and saw my old friend elliottalking and to get his head chopped off. >> pat come over here to your right. a professor from beijing and he wants to ask a question about the future of u.s.-china relations. >> thank you mr. buchanan. i am a professor at a university in china and i know that you were there from the very beginning of their relationships with china. if nixon were alive today what do you think he would say about where the future relationship of china and the u.s. are going? >> president nixon again and some of these things i got by going back into my files. i hadn't realized what was in there from things i wrote to nixon. one of them i got out that said nixon -- run down what rockefeller has said in china and 67 i believe. so what, you know. when we ran it down he wanted to know if rockefeller was recognized in china. richard nixon believed very much in the united states and the soviet union and the united states and china had to manage this relationship. who is going to be troublesome and have a lot of

richardson at that time. the ball started rolling but i was right there and spent 45 minutes that day. i went out and saw my old friend elliott walking and to get his head chopped off. >> pat come over here to your right. a professor from beijing and he wants to ask a question about the future of u.s.-china relations. >> thank you mr. buchanan. i am a professor at a university in china and i know that you were there from the very beginning of their relationships with china. if nixon were alive today what do you think he would say about where the future relationship of china and the u.s. are going? >> president nixon again and some of these things i got by going back into my files. i hadn't realized what was in there from things i wrote to nixon. one of them i got out that said nixon -- run down what rockefeller has said in china and 67 i believe. so what, you know. when we ran it down he wanted to know if rockefeller was recognized in china. richard nixon believed very much in the united states and the soviet union and the united states and china had to manage this relationship. who is going to be troublesome and have a lot o