over 30 points ahead of gerald ford. ford had a weak position in the national race. challenged jimmy carter to a debate. >> mr. president, i would look to explore a little more deeply our relationship with the russians. max frankle asked ford a question about whether the united states was accepting of soviet domination of eastern europe. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. i'm sorry, could i just follow. did i understand-up to say that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own spirit of influence. >> everybody's jaw just dropped. are you alive? are you aware? what he meant to say is i will not accept any soviet domination of eastern europe. >> governor carter, have-up a response? >> charitably that was a momentary slip. uncharitably it was a loss of touch with reality. >> clearly a huge moment where the country makes the judgment, you know what, maybe we do need to go in a different direction and replace the president. [ indiscernible ] >> ford had never lost an election in his life. won

. >> caller: i wonder did you find anything new about whether gerald ford and richard nixon had some sort of a deal with the the pardon and number two, i should c-span with credit laura bush for starting the national book festival. have you done that much? >> i think there was a wink and a nod. but it is true that he was the president of the chief of staff for vice president ford and layout options one of which was pardoning the president. he was communicating give us us the pardon and you get to become president. it was never explicit in fact, he denied it. but my own impression is that there was a bit of a wink and a nod. >> next: is richard in boca raton. >> it is a pleasure listening to you speak. i read the book the sixth widespread and i thought it was excellent. i have two questions. is it possible that we could have six wise men today and do you think that hillary clinton and the rest respect realized what she was doing in his e-mail is an area. in 1945 after world war ii there was no national security adviser. there was much more informal and presidents could call it as was

at that point there was some press about this, and as i recall it was a cbs reporter went to gerald ford and said, what do you have to say about this history? and ford said, i didn't do any of this. i didn't authorize any of this. [laughter] mr. kornbluh: what can you say? the truth is, well he did and he did not. but it happened, very consistently, during his presidency. >> thank you. >> i am particularly interested in the guantanamo problem, as exacerbated by the presence of our present in guantanamo -- our prison in guantanamo. i'm wondering what would happen if we gave guantanamo back to the cubans, complete with the prison, and the occupants thereof. [laughter] >> what with the cubans likely do? with a have any use for the occupants? mr. kornbluh: i think they would close that based like this and take credit for advancing the cause of human rights. >> what would they do with the base? mr. leogrande: when it was opened castro was asked about what do you think about what the united states is doing with these prisoners. and we said, we want -- he we said -- he said we wanted back, but

richard nixon in 1971 and gerald ford dealt with inflation. i think we have come a long way since that. >> i would like to thank jim again [applause]. i would not be doing my duty as a publisher, that you can acquire a copy of this book for a very modest consideration, tax-free at the table at the back. thank you also much. [applause]. combo [inaudible conversation] >> you are watching tv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at book tv.org. >> when you look at the world of the supreme court has played in our society now, our history series has to has relevance. as we thought about what we can do to give relevance to our current program, a series on the court made all the sense in the world. >> the court is an equal branch of government, it is the third branch of government. it still has fundamental impact on america's lives. >> inside this elegant building is a court where cases are heard, decisions are made, that impact all of our lives. there are so many incredibly interesting cases in the court hist

. >> about the same time gerald ford becomes president, charlie in prison writes to squeaky that he'ses. they want to do one big thing that's going to get the nation's attention back on charlie. so squeaky, wearing a red robe, comes up to the president of the united states with a big gun, points the gun in his face. the secret servicemen wrestle her to the ground, and squeaky's first words were, can you believe the gun didn't go off? >> following your own close brush with death a few weeks ago in sacramento, i wonder if this has convinced you at all that we need tough gun control legislation in this country? >> i prefer to go after the person who uses the gun for an illegal or criminal purpose. that to me is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual or the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked into the street and heard the sound of gunfire. >> my god, there's been a shot! there's been a shot. we're being pushed back by the police. somebody has fired a shot here. we don't know if anybody has been hit. my god! so

the holy father would go on to meet with president richard nixon twice and then gerald ford once.the late '70's there was a new leader of the church. john paul ii. in the fall of '79, he made history becoming the first pontiff to go to the white house. the invitation extended by jimmy carter. a devout christian. in 1981, the oval office changed hands. during his eight years in office, president ronald reagan huddled with his holiness four times. their friendship widely viewed as a force in the fight against communism. the wildly popular pope continued his warm relationship with america's presidents meeting twice with george h.w. bush four times with bill clinton and three times with george w. bush. john paul ii's death in 2005 pave the way for benedict xvith. bush 43 traveled to italy to see him. and when the pope came to the us in 2008, he was celebrated on the white house south lawn. less than six months into his first term, president barack obama entered the walls of the vatican to meet benedict. he made his second trip there last year. this time meeting with a new leader of th

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people in general would help, but when you meet future , --idents like gerald ford you can figure out who i met but on the floor one day, i had not in there very long and another page comes to me and says he see me and he was pointing to the speaker. i was working for the republicans and he was a democrat. why would he want to see me? big giantthe podium, desk -- you have all seen it on tv, and he motions for me to mccormick just shakes my hand and says welcome to washington. everything ok mark you treating me ok? when i came down and went back into the cloak room, everyone .as in all -- was in awe i was a celebrity in that circle for about two minutes. [laughter] michael: i understand you are still a bit of celebrity that you got to meet some kids in chicago yesterday. mr. mitchell: the urban prep academy, they were supposed to come to this event and there was something they couldn't make it, so they said i'm going to be in to stop i'm going there. it's an all-black academy. 100% of their graduates in the last five years have gone on to college. school wasn't in this week that about

meeting people in general would help, but when you meet future presidents, like gerald ford, when you meet -- let me -- you know, you can figure out who i met. but one day on the floor i hadn't been there very long and another page comes up to me and says he wants to see you. and he was pointing to the speaker. and i'm like me? yep, i was working for the republicans, i was a democrat. why would he want to see me? so anyway, i walked up to the podium, to this big, giant desk. you've all seen it on tv, the state of the union, and he motions for me to step up or whatever. and he just shakes -- john mccormick, he just shakes my hand and says welcome to washington. everything okay? are they treating you okay? and that was that. and then when i came down and i went back into the cloakroom, everybody was kind of in awe, you know. so i was a celebrity in that circle for a few -- for about two minutes. >> well, i also understand you're a bit of a celebrity. you got to meet some kids in chicago yesterday. is that -- >> yeah. thursday, i guess it was. the urban prep academy called and they were

he had a longer public career from fdr to being gerald ford's vice-president. and he was regarded by insiders as an unguided missile and not subject to institutional constrants. he was elected governor and served until trump was 27 and about the jump to manhattan. is that an example that works as well? >> they do work in some way, but in another way they don't. you can't discount the media influence on trump's biggest and his reality tv and twitter. he seems omnipresent and his celebrity and fame sealed his rise in the polls. he had 100 percent name id by the time he got in the race. you can't discount the modern trappings that donald trump took advantage of in the race. he is truly unique in a lot of ways. >> i wonder if we talk about the media if there is a double standard. he didn't have a plan or policy details and comes out with the details and tax plan he did yesterday and pundits jumping on on him for not liking the details. is there a double standard when it comes to donald trump and fame and name recognition. is he held to a higher standard than other

and would meet with president nixon twice and gerald ford once. paul two and he was the first pontiff to go to the white house. and it was extened by jimmy carter, a devout christian. and the oval office changed hands and during the eight years in office. president reagan huddled with him four times and it was a fight against communism and the wildly popular pope continued a warm relationship and met twice with george. bush and four types with bill clinton and three times with george w. bush. and the death of john paul 2nd paid the way for papase. and bush traveled to so him and when the pope came, he was feeted on the white house south lawn. president obama went to the vatican to meet benedict and this year, he met pope francis. and the white house said they will meet the pope. and the holy father's official welcoming ceremony will be here on pennsylvania avenue. we asked if companies should quit advertising on the view after the criticism of the after the criticism of the nurse's ♪ the 306 horsepower lexus gs. experience the next level of perfor

on in the questions about how we manage to survive watergate and continue on under the successor gerald ford was helping with the reconstruction of the national security state and a new form, kind of a restored imperial presidency capable of moving forward into the post-vietnam world and many different elements of this restored national security state. i will touch on a few of them but i try to go in detail in the book one is the increased dependency on secrecy and covert action. there will be the support of insurgencies and third-party mercenaries in southern africa particularly in angola they provided a template for the expansion of similar covert operations throughout the third world would lead to the iran contra and there's a connection. the second element that is central to the restoration of the imperial stages but increased by militarism to leverage the domestic polarization as the domestic consensus unraveled the war or threat of war or just the violence and brutality was used to leverage the polarization and division for the domestic advantage and this is not new. every president pr

if you notice most of the attacks such as they were were against henry kissinger and not against gerald ford. so he went out at around a day. and when he did he cannot president ford, it was never personal. it was never mean-spirited. it was never vicious and never ungentlemanly. their differences he pointed out. that is what you're supposed to do in the campaign of how policies. not personalities. neil: at the reagan library no less than these guys are ripping each other a new one. donald trump not less most of the attention and questioning. donald trump is singing ian ronald reagan shared a great deal. do you know these guys and their relationship with the former president? i've heard different accounts. what is the real story? >> they knew each other. i wouldn't dare close relationship at all. i never heard ronald reagan mentioned donald trump name. they knew each other. they were not closed or tied to one another in any way. >> some white house staff at the time were dismissive, that he was an egomaniac and all of that reagan was shrewd enough to work within on some common business inter

. >> kennedy, along side other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan and twoll clinton, people, they don't remember what they did, but they remember their rhetoric. and they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them. who gives them hope. for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy standing hold on the public i think will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. ♪ >>> hello, i'm linda kinkaid. welcome to our viewers in the us and around the world. here's the top stories this hour -- hungary says croatia is illegally helping migrants to cross borders after it seized a croatian train packed with migrants. there were officers on board, but croatia reportedly denies that. this comes after croatia crossed its border to -- closed its border to migrants flowing in from syria saying they couldn't handle anymore. some migrants in croati

the nation awaiting the swearing in at noon eastern time of our 38th president, gerald ford, and thepolitical life of richard m. nixon. he and his family are expected to leave by air to their home in california later morning, and we expect to see their departure from the white house. >> in departing the presidency, richard nixon is leaving us with one notable legacy -- proof that the american system does work. that there is equal justice under the law and that public office must always be regarded as a public trust. ♪ >> i walked out to the helicopter where the old man gave the double v, putting the best face on the worst moment of his life. trying to show he was not broken. and so i'm going in the helicopter and take off for the last time. it was over. >> we think that when we suffer a defeat that all has ended. not true. because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. so i say to you on this occasion, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. p

gerald ford was president and the united states was celebrating its bicentennial. country was also going through what was widely regarded as a sexual revolution. that's when moore's troubles began. >> i was convicted of killing my wife in 1976 in the state of iowa. >> moore's wife, terri williams, was a dancer at a local club when their relationship began. >> i was just a customer. i just walked in off the street. we met, hit it off pretty decently, you know, and ended up -- well, we picked each other up actually, so we went to terri's apartment and made love and enjoyed each other's company, you know. we got married. then i began to have thoughts about terri. i thought maybe terri was a little bit different, you know. >> how so? >> i felt that the person was more like a man than like a woman, and i thought that the person maybe had been a man. >> why? >> from feeling into this area of their body, you know. i thought that's very similar to me, you know. it's like the person has had their sex organ removed. that's what i thought, you know, but i wasn't completely su

take the case of earl butts, the agriculture secretary under nixon and gerald ford. the most consequential since secretary of this century, he was on a campaign in 1976, some of you remember it this or your parents told you about it more likely, your grandparents, h likely, your grandparents, he told a relatively innocuous racial jokes to pat boone, sitting next to him and it could have been told about red necks or whenever, told about coloreds, professionals and is sitting right behind the monoplane, recorded every word, rushed to rolling stone magazine known for its reporting. within hours his career was over. he was fired or forced out immediately in disgrace. what you don't know is earl butts live for 32 more years and the new york times, the ultimate arbiter of who gets the scarlet letter and who doesn't have landed obituary this way. earl butts, secretary, felled by racial remark, dies at 98. everything he had done otherwise in his life was irrelevant, what mattered he had told a racial jokes 32 years ago. that is how -- we might as well have had it tattooed on

when you come in the white house after watergate, betty and gerald ford opened the white house up andt becomes the home of the american people again. it is no longer the siege or the bunker. the same thing is true during the roosevelt white house in the sense it is not the hoover bunker. it was very clear who was coming and going especially when my day started getting published. eleanor says who was there as was spending the night at what they talked about and what they had for dinner. she would also have our own press conferences where she would tell people who the guests were and who was living there. yes, people know. >> it was a different time with the media and press. people would not take photographs of fdr and his wheelchair. we'll have a couple. can you imagine in our youtube area -- era? they did not cover people's affairs and dalliances. things will percolate but they do not take on a cast of somebody watching like the clintons had to deal with during their presidency when the media was reading all of this and gossip columns. people left them somewhat alone. >> and dennis. a

ford who succeeded and then romly pardoned richard nixon, and jimmy carter who was elected after gerald ford's short and accidental presidency. and a couple years later during the reagan era senator bob dole saw at a state event carter, ford and nixon all gathered together. and he says, well, there they are. speak no evil, hear no evil and evil. [laughter] and on that note, i would like to go to the way back machine about 45 years, and i think many of you will remember this passage in our history. richard nixon had been for 14 months. the war in vietnam was not ending as he had promised during his campaign. and he decided to take some extremely drastic measures which led to a series of disasters unlike any, really, our country had experienced probably since the civil war. all right. it's the spring of 1970. nixon was sleepless, soul searching, his demonic insomnia returned. i don't think he ever slept, general alexander haig, his military aide, recalled. he dealt with it at night by drinking. the president by day fell into a dark state of por tense and omens, talking about past presidents' aur

of richard nixon's resignation, bob was here to give a presentation about the administration of gerald ford. held three programs were in conjunction with our good libraryat the institute. we have another presidential library in the neighborhood in abilene, kansas. this year, which happens to be the 125th anniversary of eisenhower's birth, we have launched a series to examine the eisenhower era. thanks to the tremendous support from the foundation and commerce bank trustee. tonight, which marks the midpoint of that series -- there is a brochure in the corridor. bob greene, and someone who has become my good friend, is back. a review of the 19th 52 -- 1952 presidential election. it is no exaggeration to say that this talk has been in the making for more than 35 years. doctoral his dissertation, which was shortly published thereafter as his first book. a seriously revised version of the first book, the dissertation on the 1952 campaign is forthcoming. it will not be available tonight, but you will be able to order it on amazon soon enough. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome bob greene. [appl

anniversary of richard , bob wasesignation here to give a presentation about the administration of gerald ford. these three programs, part of our beyond the gamut series were held in conjunction with our good friend at the truman library institute. but of course, we have another presidential library in the neighborhood, more or less just down i-70 in abilene, kansas. this year, which happens to be 125th anniversary year of eisenhower's birth, we have launched a series with the dwight eisenhower presidential library museum and boyhood home to examine the eisenhower era. thanks to the tremendous support from the foundation, commerzbank trustees. tonight, which marks the , bobint of that series greene, the library's good friend and someone who is become my good friend over the last four years is back. he's back to give us a review of presidential election pitting republican party nominee eisenhower against democratic candidate idly stephenson. it's no exaggeration to say that this talk has been in the making for more than 35 years. wrote his doctoral dissertation about it, which was shortly publi

also jimmy carter who was elected after gerald ford's shorts accidental presidency. a few years later during the reagan era, senator bob dole saw at a state event, carter, ford, and nixon all gathered together. he. he said look there they are. speak no evil, hear no evil and the evil. [laughter] and on that note, i would like to go to the way back about 45 years. many of you of you will remember this passage in our history, richard nixon had been president for 14 months, the war in vietnam was not ending as he had promised during his campaign , and he decided to take some extremely drastic measures which led to a series of disasters on like any other country had experienced, probably since the civil war. it's the spring of 1970. nixon was sleepless, soul-searching his somnambulant. i don't think he ever slept, general alexander haig recalled. he dealt with it at night by drinking. the president by day fell into a dark state of moments. talking talking with the chief of staff about past presidents he started planning the precise details of his own funeral. he had predi

weak fed will end up with all of us wearing whip inflation now buttons like we had to do under the gerald ford administration. these people have been wrong every step of the way. inflation never roared. deflation is a more powerful trend at the very moment we're in. eight years ago, some people thought i went off my meds when this happened. my people have been in this game for 25 years, and they are losing their jobs and these firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts. they're nuts. they know nothing. >> these guys know something. the downturn that followed that rant could have been avoided or softened if the fed had made the right decisions but instead they literally laughed off my comments and did the wrong thing. at the time the fed had racheted rates up 17 times nonstop, and it needed to start cutting them aggressively to avoid the financial crisis. instead what did they do? they waited too long to cut, they didn't cut fast enough, we got the great recession. they made things a lot worse. people, guess what? they don't want to do that again. these days a bunch of boneheads keep s

in jakarta, indonesia kissinger , and president gerald ford met with indonesia's dictator general suhartoakarta to give the go ahead to invade east timor. which indonesia did on december 7, 1975. the indonesians killed of the one third timorese population. kissinger also drew up plans to attack cuba in the mid 1970's after fidel castro sent cuban forces into angola to fight forces linked to apartheid south africa. while human rights activists have long called for kissinger to be tried for war crimes, he remains a celebrated figure in washington and beyond. ,oining us now is greg grandin author of the new book "kissinger's shadow: the long , reach of america's most controversial statesman." he's a professor of latin american history at new york university. his previous books include, "fordlandia: the rise and fall of henry ford's forgotten jungle city," "the empire of necessity: slavery, freedom and deception in the new world," and "empire's workshop." we welcome you back to democracy now! ong, why did you take he isger? >> i felt like 92 years old, there's been a really location of henry

bush looked like somebody hoping to become president the way gerald ford won the job, by appointment.e bridge scandal trials were not looming ahead, which unfortunately they are. those darn facts. like carly fiorina, he has to deal with those darn facts, which include the one that those gruesome images she recounted seeing of planned parenthood behavior were not in fact images from planned parenthood. there was a lot of sound and fury wednesday night, but i wonder if it signifies anything but for the relentless race to prove who was the angriest, who hates hillary clinton the most, who is most apock liptic, most biblical in their fears for this country. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. be sure to catch me tonight on bill maher's show. it's at 10:00 eastern on hbo. and "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> we have a problem in this country. it's called muslims. we know our current president is one. >> reporter: donald trump cancels at least one appearance as the firestorm from last night rages on. >> when can we get rid of the

take the case of robots, the agriculture secretary under nixon and gerald ford. consequential ask the secretary of the century, i campaign plane in 1976. some of you remember, or your your parents told you more likely, grandparents. and he told a relatively innocuous racial joke. and in the joke, it could have just as easily been told about any rural group. john dean, professional snatch, sitting right behind them on the plane and recorded every word, rushed to rolling stone magazine, a magazine known for its probity and reporting. [laughter] , and within hours that part of his career was over. he was fired or forced out immediately and disgrace. what you do not know is that he lived for 32 more years. the new york times, the ultimate ultimate arbiter of who gets the scarlet letter and who does not, headlined his obituary this way, secretary felled by racial remark dies at 98. right? everything he had done otherwise in his life was irrelevant. what mattered was that he had told the racial joke 32 years ago. that -- he might his well have had it tattooed on his he

he ran as an insurgents against gerald ford. i see reagan's essential midwest goodness.and paul i see his libertarian philosophy. for a time reagan described himself as a libertarian conservative. donald trump i see the insurgency which made him always challenge the establishmen. ronald reagan always challenged conventional wisdom. >> so do you think you see it more in trump than you see it in the others and you don't feel comfortable saying it? you know you do. >> i don't know. i think it's interesting. this is certainly one for the history books. we've never seen probably a candidate like donald trump before. you know, you have to go back to went disciple wilky a business executive who came out of nowhere that won the 1940 nomination. he was a populace insurgent. so was andrew jackson. in a way trump is a continuation of outsider populace outrage that's had a long history in this country. >> by the way, if you're at home and you're near a computer google craig shirley, newt gingrich, andrew jackson. i want traces back the populism of andrew jackson to donald trump. >>

swain: and two modern presidents lived longer than he, gerald ford and ronald reagan, who both lived into their early '90s, surpassing herbert hoover's record until that time. so tell us about lou hoover's death. dunlap: well, lou hoover had continued to be very physically active, as we talked about earlier in the show. she was still riding a horse and camping and sleeping on the ground up until her late '60s. she had wanted to continue to live in palo alto, but herbert had found that he enjoyed the intellectual stimulation of new york city, so they sort of had this east coast-west coast kind of marriage until about 1940, when he convinced her to make her base with him there in new york city, and they lived in an apartment in the waldorf astoria. and she had gone out to dinner with a friend, january of 1944, and started to say, "let's walk back, it's such a lovely evening," and then changed her mind and said, "no, let's take a cab." she said goodbye to her friend, went upstairs to her apartment. bert was getting ready to go out to dinner with a friend of his, and he said, "well, let

the president had just been in 1976.gerald ford, what challenges do you have as young people now as foretting to the polls and playing a vital role in the political process? at your age now. >> i don't think there is too much of anything he here -- keeping us from getting to the polls. i know in birmingham, our local elementary schools, they use the voting facilities. local churches, community centers, you have a lot of places located all throughout the community that you can go to to place your vote. i think they are designed, for the most part, to be accessible to everyone. for me, from where i live, it would be a three or four block walk to the elementary school to be able to vote. mucht is really not so anything restraining us physically from getting to these places if we are willing to get up and actually go to them. but more so our stance or whether or not we feel like we should or would want to vote. >> and most elections -- [indiscernible] -- now -- what do think that amount is causing you are to be so absent? realize whatt effect this is where you have mmr might have come when

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that president that just got elected, gerald ford in 1976.what challenges do you have as young people now as far as getting to the polls and playing a vital role in the political process at your age now? >> i don't think there's too much of anything keeping us in getting to the polls. i know in birmingham our local elementary schools, they use as voting facilities. local churches, community centers. you have a lot of places located all throughout the community that you can go to to place your vote. i see that they are designed for the most part to be accessible to everyone. for me, from where i live it would be three or four block walk to the elementary to be able to vote. so it should not so much anything restraining us physically from getting to these places if we are willing to get up and actually go to them. but more so our stance or whether or not we feel like we should or we want to vote. [inaudible] most amazing, what do you think as of now what is calling you all to be so active? >> i think we realize what's at stake by going to these

you know, gerald ford's big mistake in his debate in the moment, the focus groups didn't actually see it as a huge mistake. but later on as the media narrative went around, you know, that's how the coverage can kind of sway the way people think about these candidates. >> also we'll talk to dan pfeiffer about this, the first 20 minutes an social media really sets the tone. to you, katy, who is your wild ca card? >> well, i think there is a real opportunity for carly tonight. you know, she was somebody that was in the second-tier debate last time. this is an opportunity for her to speak to the prime-time audience, many of whom have never seen or heard from her before. she's really going to be looking to make her mark. donald trump has said some disparaging things to her, some things that i would call very sexist. >> yeah. >> i think she's going to have an opportunity to respond and in some ways really speak for women and push back on him. she'll make a move tonight. >> this is an opportunity for her. >> she's been entirely classy, but ladies sometimes when we bang our fists on a table w

in 1976 went after ronald reagan for saying he had once been a democrat when he was challenging gerald ford he was extremely liberal in the day. so, you know, the question is where are these people now. winston churchhill, not only as they said in the trade, ratted. he reratted. he left the conservative party in britain and came back. i don't question that donald trump is a conservative. he is where he is. he says what he says. and he'll be on that stage ready to go. >> i guess there's no such thing as a rino anymore? a republican in name only? >> that definition has been scrambled, mainly by donald trump. hypocrisy is the life blood of politics. politicians turn on a dime. we all know that. i can't think of a politician who hasn't flip-flopped on at least some major issues. that is not what's concerning republicans about donald trump or for that matter jeb bush. i don't think they're concerned about donald trump being a germophobe either. >> no, probably not. i'll have to leave it there. thanks for both of you. be sure to watch wednesday september 16th as condition hosts our first republic

he was, as you know, national security advisor to presidents gerald ford and george h.w. bush. i quote briefly from his op-ed. congress again faces a momentous decision regarding u.s. policy toward the middle east. the forthcoming vote on the nuclear deal between p-5 plus one and iran will show the world whether the united states has the will and sense of responsibility to help stabilize the middle east or whether it will contribute to further turmoil including the possible spread of nuclear weapons. n my view, the jcpoa meets the key objective shared by cre cent -- recent administrations of both parties that iran limit itself to a strictly civilian nuclear program with unprecedented verification and the monitoring by the iaea and the u.n. security council. if the u.s. could have handed iran a take it or leave it agreement, the terms doubtless would have been more onerous on iran. but negotiated agreements, the only ones that get signed in times of peace, are compromised by definition. it is what president reagan did with the soviet union on arms control. it is what president n

he was, as we know, the national security advisor to presidents gerald ford and george h.w. bush. and i quote briefly from his op-ed. congress again faces a momentus decision regarding u.s. policy toward the middle east. before coming forward on the nuclear deal between p-5 plus 1 iran will show the world whether the united states has the will and sense of responsibility to help stabilize the middle east or whether it will contribute to further turmoil, including the possible spread of nuclear weapons. in my view, the jcpoa meets the key objective shared by recent administrations of both parties that iran limit itself to a strictly civilian nuclear program with unprecedented verification and the monitoring by the iaea and the u.n. security council. if the u.s. could have handed iran a take-it-or-leave-it agreement, the term dealtless would be more onerous on iran. but negotiated agreements, the only ones that get signed in times of peace, are compromised by definition. it is what president reagan did with the soviet union on arms control. it is what president nixon did with china.

analogy -- but with the fords, okay, when you come into the white house after watergate, betty and gerald fordpened the white house up and it becomes the home of the american people again, you know? it's no longer the siege. it's no longer the nixonian bunker. well, the same thing is true of the roosevelt white house in the sense that it's not the hoover bunker. and so it was very clear who was coming and going, especially when my day starts getting published, because eleanor says who's there, who's spending the night, what they talked about and what they had for dinner. so -- and you also would have her own press conferences where she would tell people who the guests were and who was living there. so, yes, people knew. doug: but, also, i mean, it was a different era with the press and the media. i mean, we don't -- people wouldn't even take photographs of fdr in his wheelchair. we only have a couple of him incapacitated because it was considered -- could you imagine in our youtube era today? and people would -- didn't start covering people's affairs or dalliances in the way -- they would be r

and my family were big supporters of him when he ran against gerald ford. it was a big deal because he was the grassroots running against the establishment. and i'll never forget that. and how we stood up and said, you know what, this is something new that our country needs and our party needs. if i were president, i would try to be one who says, you any what, i'm a reagan conservative. i'm someone who believes in peace through strength and i would try to lead the country in that way. knowing that our goal is peace, and that war is the last resort, not the first resort, and that when we go to war, we go to war in a constitutional way, which means we have to vote on it, war is initiated by congress, not by the president, and that we go to war reluctantly, but then when we go to war, we don't fight with one arm tied behind our back, we fight all out to win, but then we come home. >> at the end of my presidency, i would like to believe the world would be a safe place and there wouldn't be the threats not only to the u.s., but to israel and our allies because w

maybe sort of like gerald ford falling on the sword for your party this idea the tea party wing of thety can now claim his scalp. the funding go through for planned parenthood and others and sit there for the next month and lame duck speaker while this all goes through. >> after you see a big move like this and all the presidential candidates sort of wait and then they give what would be their opinion. we heard from john kasich yesterday who said really this is a casualty of the g.o.p. establishment versus the tea party. listen. >> john has been a great patriot, a great speaker, and, you know, i think the party better get its act together and we better be if i can figuring out what we are for instead of tearing ourselves apart which seems to be increasingly happens. >> i always feel scolded every time i hear john kasich talk for some reason. >> you don't want to be torn apart before an election year. >> he is also speaking from a place bipartisanship, kasich. was in washington when they were able to get a bipartisanship budget through and now they can't get anything through. >> this po

. >> i'm wondering in your research did you find anything new about whether gerald ford and richard nixon had some sort of deal. number two, i wish c-span recredit laura bush for starting the national book festival. have you done that much? >> i know about laura bush. i think there was a weekend and not. the evidence is slender, but it is true how hage went to see vice president ford and laid out options, one of which was pardoning the president. you get theyou get the sense as you read about that that hage was communicated. you get to become president, but it was never denied, but my own discretion was that there was a bit of a wink and a nod. >> next call is richard in boca raton. >> it is a pleasure listening to you speak. i read your 1st book, the six wise men, and i thought it was excellent. two excellent. two questions. is it possible we can have six wiseman today? and the 2nd question, do you think that hillary clinton in retrospect realized what she was doing with this e-mail scenario? i will hang up listened to your comments. >> could we have the wiseman today? >> it was informal