they tell the final mistake nixon made with henry kissinger. before he announced his resignation, he spent time with him. when kissinger returned to his office, the phone rang. it was the president. lawrence egleburger picked up the extension to listen. that was the custom. eagleburger was shocked. the president was slurring his words. he was drunk, out of control. eagleburger could barely make out what he said. he felt ill and hung up. the president had one last request, henry, please don't ever tell anyone that i cried and that i was not strong. there is the drunk president of the united states begging henry kissinger not to tell anyone on a phone line, where kissinger always made sure he was already telling someone else, because someone else was always listening. and then kissinger, and eagleburger made sure that their boss's final confidential request was printed word for word in a best-selling book for all the world to see. richard nixon got exactly what he deserved in henry kissinger. and america got what it deserved on this night 39 year

everyone these days knows who henry kissinger is.ant for domestic affairs, but h.r.haldeman's job is not an easy tidy one to describe and of the three men he has been by his own choice the least visible by the public. he is the only one of the three never to have given a television interview until now. his friends talk of his brilliance his efficiency his total dedication to the president and his lack of personal egotism or jealousy. he is said to be hostile to the press, inaccessible. this interview was filmed a week ago in mr. haldeman's office at the white house. >> you have no calendar of your own. you really follow the president's day. you're available, as i understand it from 7:00 in the morning on. what does it do to you personally? >> well it poses some problems in it sometimes, but i have fortunately, a very understanding wife and four very interested and understanding children. >> do your sons want you to grow your hair longer? >> i was afraid you would probably ask that. you probably have seen the picture of my sons that w

not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger and it's broken china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history of the second i mean the latest in the british empire is really i mean but the united states and wired i mean listen as neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite out of the little way the second. or second you know you look at china to look at china in the fifteenth century and say that somehow that's a good indicator of china today is completely wrong it's like saying let's you know forget abo

everyone these days know who henry kissinger is but h.r.ot an easy, tidy one to describe and of the three he's been by his own choice the least visible to the public. he's one of the three to never give an television interview until now. his friends talk of his brilliance, efficiency, telephone dedication to the president and his lack of personal ego or jealousy. people call him cold, arrogant. this interview was filmed a week ago in mr. haldeman's office at the white house. you have no calendar? you really follow the president's day. you're available, as i understand it, from 7:00 in the morning and on and on and on. what does this do to your personal life? >> well, it poses some problems in it sometimes, but i have fortunately, a very understanding wife and four very interested and understanding children. >> do your sons want you to grow your hair longer? >> i was afraid you would probably ask that. you've probably seen the picture of my sons that we sent out for christmas, but -- because my older son has what i would call very long hair

everyone these days know who henry kissinger is but h.r.b is not an easy, tidy one to describe, and of the three he's been by his own choice the least visible to the public. he's the only one of the three never to have given a television interview until now. his friends talk of his brilliance, efficiency, his dedication to the president and his lack of personal ego or jealousy. his critics call him cold, arrogant, inaccessible. this interview was filmed a week ago in mr. haldeman's office at the white house. you have no calendar? you really follow the president's day. you're available, as i understand it, from 7:00 in the morning and on and on and on. what does this do to your personal life? >> well, it poses some problems in it sometimes, but i have fortunately, a very understanding wife and four very interested and understanding children. >> do your sons want you to grow your hair longer? >> i was afraid you would probably ask that. you've probably seen the picture of my sons that we sent out for christmas, but -- because my older son has

kissinger had the right. though he abused it. somebody announcing it or taking it. -- [inaudible] he could walk in when he wanted to. he would do it for trivial thing. one day nixon was really good ticked off at henry for a variety of things. nixon didn't appear to look we but i know he knew it was henry. it's time that we use -- [inaudible] and kissinger stood in the doorway absolutely paralyzed. somebody is going to hear that on the tape. but colson brought up the dark side. they say it was true. it was pure -- nixon loved it. and did that often. that sort of thing often. >> host: he died in 2012 at age 80. how many hours did you interview him. >> guest: a fantastic experience. >> host: was he honest with you? >> guest: i interviewed him twice. the first time, that's from the first interview, ilet people talk. a number of people interview often had -- [inaudible] the first interview is basically -- the second interview was the followup. i knew more i could ask it was different. he's much less comfortable the second interview. i

kissinger was furious. it was very intense. it was a little like walking on egg shells.agon papers is they were not critical of nixon. they were very critical of the johnson administration. but nixon was committed to the proposition that classified documents, secret documents ought not to be stolen and given away. some of these documents did get into the hands of foreign governments, as well as part of them getting into the papers, and the president and kissinger were very upset that this map would be doing these kinds of things. >> you were so mad at elsberg, this dirty guy. i don't have to tell you or anyone else that the anger and the resentment toward elsberg was near hysterical levels in the white house. >> this didn't develop into any pathological hatred of elsberg, but a rather cold blooded and in my view, a misguided attempt to discredit him in the public eye. because at the time, he was being made a public hero and there was an effort to try to show that this man was not necessarily the great savior of the nation that many were portraying him as. >> i think i ch

henry kissinger on behalf of the united states and the republic of vietnam.g together to make the peace we have achieved a peace that will last. thank you. and good evening. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? >> i thought you would be amused to hear that marvin and dan, they were just green with sick. they were all just sick about the fact that the peace had come. yes, we're pissing on it all over. >> in a sense, it was so masterfully underplayed. you dropped this huge bomb in your first sentence, and there it was, it just sits there. i think it was just like a thunder clap. it was great. >> that's right. okay. >> very good. what are you doing back there? ow! that hurt! no, no, no, no. you can't go to school like this, c'mon. don't do it! no! (mom vo) you never know what life's gonna throw at you. if i gotta wear clothes, you gotta wear clothes. (mom vo) that's why i got a subaru. i just pulled up. he did what now? no he's never done that before! oh really? i might have some clothes in the car. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. a quarter million t

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i mean, kissinger had also read my the buck. so it's just lovely when people like that like to work. it's a dream come true. >> host: this is book tv on c-span2. we are in london currently talking with author and historian simon sebag montefiore we have been talking about his most recent nonfiction book "the jerusalem: the biography." but you did mention your writings on russia. what influence does your family have on your russian history books? >> guest: i think my father's family are jews from italy. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: in the arab world from the mediterranean as opposed to lead germany and russia. and you have lots above and america. but my mother's family the from the ukraine, from russia. always been fascinated by russia for that reason. as the origin of my obsession with russia, the soviets have premise of. >> host: young stalin, what can we learn about the future dictator stalin from his use? >> guest: everything. it was such fun. trusty said that young stalin missed the revolution. in fact, this book

henry kissinger on behalf of the united states and the republic of vietnam.gether to make the peace we have achieved a peace that will last. thank you. and good evening. >> mr. haldeman, please. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? >> i thought you would be amused to hear that marvin and dan, they were just green with sick. >> it was a bad night for eric. >> they were all just sick about the fact that the peace had come. yes, we're pissing on it all over. >> in a sense, it was so masterfully underplayed. you dropped this huge bomb in your first sentence, and there it was, it just sits there. i think it was just like a thunder clap. it was great. >> that's right. okay. >> very good. 20? new purina one true instinct has 30. active dogs crave nutrient-dense food. so we made purina one true instinct. learn more at purinaone.com over 20 million drivers are insured with geico. so get a free rate quote today. i love it! how much do you love it? animation is hot...and i think it makes geico's 20 million drivers message very compelling, very compelling. this is some really stro

henry kissinger said yes. but the world is not so simple. but that said, i would like to take some questions. hello in turn. >> let's go to the lady in the back. >> hello, i would like to talk about how we do business with china but we will not do business with cuba. how does that come about? >> okay members of congress have to get reelected so that they can get appointed to do that. they give freely to both parties to get what it is that they want to get. what they want to get is to exploit the chinese labor market and the lack of any regulation in the environment with workers to drive short-term profits which they believe is a responsibility to their shareholders and undermine the long-term prospects for the country and nation and that can be achieved in china. so it's a matter of convenience. so there is a total double standard when it comes to cuba and syria and any bad behaving country except for china. >> i have a question. so what you're saying is trade with china is not free trade? >> that's right, it is doing business with criminals

nixon, recorded 40 years ago by a hidden tape system, here he talks to secretary of state henry kissinger of coming to the white house. >> i had already stented a conversation at your suggestion a few months ago. >> i know. >> i repeated it and said we could do it of one of two ways, to go either to the u.n. or come to washington. >> what purpose is it to go to the u.n. and then drop down here without the head of state thing and it will be everything except the grill. >> two men from iran have been jailed in teheran after a failed bomb plot. he was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to a term in prison about. >>> won the disputed election with 61% of the vote against 34% for the opposition. the ceremony was delayed after his opponent gan changarai. >> the united states has placed sanctions on a ridges school in northwest pakistan. , traveled to northwest prak stan where he gained exclusive access to the medrasa. >> this according to the u.s. government, is a terrorist training sister -- center where terrorists are convinced to carry out attacks. also accused of providing finan

. >> that's kissinger.classic. >> i had no idea kissinger was so alive, let alone culturally relevant. >> i have to be honest, that was one of my reactions when i saw that video on line. i can't believe henry kissinger is still around. thanks for being here in the war room. i want to thank everybody for having me guest here. the staff of the war room that ha made it easier than it should be and it was not an easy job. thank you all for watching the war room, thanks for joining us here in the war room. have a great night. turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out w

kissinger convinced nixon not to let it escalate. babel ready -- they were ready.re would have been an escalation. kissinger said that it could be generated into something extremely ugly and dangerous. do we have reasonable people behind our leaders today? >> we will have to go to our break now. our first task is over. we will talk about the escalation. we will get back to the chemical weapons issue. >> welcome back to the bait -- to the debate. middle east peace talks on ice. the latest round canceled as three palestinians are killed during west bank clashes. the state department says the talks will continue. in china, the trial of disgraced politician wraps up with prosecutors demanding no leniency. japan's government might step up its involvement in combating the leak at the fukushima nuclear power plant. welcome back to the second part of the "france 24" debate. a lot of questions about syria. the coalition of the willing marching towards a military intervention? hours before inspectors finally headed towards the attack, only to come under sniper fire. the gene

he had some conversations with kissinger and kissinger came to a friend using his cane and he said i have known ex-presidents in my life but being president is about two things, courage and character. he said you have both in your country needs you. i said what did you say? he said he was as close to speechless as chris christie ever is. [laughter] so he wasn't speechless. as he said i said to the group i don't think i'm going to run but i owe to all of you to think about it and he then laid out for me to process which he went through and it is a really interesting moment in the campaign. because he is going to be around we will hear more from him. the rick perry interview is interesting in part because when we talked about that iconic moment if you will fit dupes moment. he was very funny about it. he said i went into that debate feeling more confident and relaxed than any debate up to that point. he said you know i was doing good and then i have this brain lapse. that is not a word he used but if you read the book you will see what he said. but he said you know i thought okay this

how could she not be just as henry kissinger. >> with drones, kissinger was involved with anything thates and breathes, that's genocidal. hillary never said that. but she's making the decision of drones dropping bombs on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people. >> diplomat i can decisions. it's the department of defense-- >> she's in the room with the president making decisions with regard to a killer list. >> reporter: in addition to that exchange we had a lively discussion with dr. west about president obama, foreign policies, domestic issues, racism and even dr. martin luther king. our full interview airs tonight on "talk to ajoy. i hope every will join in. >> a lively discussion. thank you. >>> just ahead its championship sunday at the little league world series. we'll have a live report from williamsport, pennsylvania, in just a bit. standards in journalism. >> a new voice of journalism in the u.s., al jazeera america. america. >> we tell the human store ri from around the block, across the country. >> if joe can't find work, his family will go from living in a hotel to living

henry kissinger on behalf of the united states and the republic of vietnam.ther to make the peace we have achieved a peace that will last. thank you. and good evening. >> mr. haldeman, please. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? >> i thought you would be amused to hear that marvin and dan, they were just green with sick. >> it was a bad night for eric. >> they were all just sick about the fact that the peace had come. yes, we're pissing on it all over. >> in a sense, it was so masterfully underplayed. you dropped this huge bomb in your first sentence, and there it was, it just sits there. i think it was just like a thunder clap. it was great. >> that's right. okay. >> very good. >>> senate democrats have chosen north carolina sam ervin to investigate the watergate bugging case. the committee will have full subpoena power and a $500,000 budget. >> when it was learned today that some of the watergate conspirators had been involved in illegal actions relating to the pentagon papers case, the whole affair took on a new and more sinister air. two of the convicted watergate

henry kissinger once said that power is the greatest aphrodisiac. is that really at the heart of this story? is that two people have marital weirdness going on, it's this guy is running for mayor of new york and could have possibly won a couple months ago. i don't think he will probably win. who knows with new york? but i think that's what is interesting to us, power. what's interesting, power. >> gosh, i don't know. i'm hear to talk about sort of our incredible reporting about why they are together and the timeline of what he told his wife and what he told the public. and i don't think this is a relationship about power. they have a very small child together. you know, i think that genuinely they love each other and they are working on their marriage, and she, huma, is an incredibly powerful person in her own right. she is not running for office, but she is incredibly accomplished, and, you know, is hillary clinton's right-hand person. and to say that -- if you were saying that she's in it for power, that's not what our reporting shows. >> i think

in the end, all of these show, everybody leaving ship and nixon having to soldier on with kissinger inffairs in the last years of his life. i thought the brezhnev thing is interesting. he's plotting all the great things they'll do. the listeners know watergate dooms all that. >> there's a great story i have to share about nixon and dealing with drunks. he was out with joe mccarthy in the early '50s when mccarthy was in his heyday and he got completely drunk and he had to get him to his car near dupont circle, because mccarthy couldn't find his car. near the end, he had brezhnev out at he got completely drunk and nixon had to carry him upstairs to his bedroom. he took the meanest angry communist and he got brezhnev to his car, got him to bedouin he was drunk. what a career nixon had. nothing like it. >> and these tapes show a real intimacy with mao tse-tung, a warmth nixon had. it's remarkable. >> i think he liked the summit. >> he loved it and wanted another one. the tapes show he was desperate to get him to visit america during watergate, tour the country and nixon was planning a seco

you write in your book that republican power brokers including people like henry kissinger and davidmade a push to get chris christie to run in 2012. why did it not work then and why will it necessarily work say in 2016? >> i don't think governor christie ever thought 2012 was the right time for him to run for president. he was only elected governor in 2009. it was just way too early for him 0 jump out of that. when it first came up as speculation, he swatted it aside. and i don't think ever really changed his mind about that. but in the summer of 2011, as you say, there was a push on the part of some very wealthy republican contributors to get him into the race. i this i they felt that he would be a stronger candidate to make the case against president obama than mitt romney at the time. and they tried. henry kissinger was at a breakfast and said to the governor, according to christie's recollection of it, he said the presidency's about two things, about courage and character. he said you have both and the country needs you. and that forced christie to think about it in a more serio

kissinger national security during his recent world tour for having talks.he united states. on behalf of the government of the people's republic of china extended an invitation to president nixon to visit china at an appropriate date before may 1972. president nixon has accepted the invitation with pleasure. ♪ ♪ >> in two decades, every american president has been presented to the chinese people and the arch enemy with hate l capitalism and imperil list m. most recognize it as a momentum step that can change the whole complexion of this world. >> i found out i was going to china from bob haldeman. i was the acting chief of political for that trip, and it was one of the great mountain top experiences. the thing about the flight to china was one of the things was that it was just kind of surreal. the plane is taking off to go to china and we got a television set there watching us take off. i mean, it -- everything about that trip was televised. i mean, it was a production from start to finish. >> the president will journey in the dead of winter, severe in the

. >> the very best people that he could, kissinger, perry, himself and if you're a member be the discussion with them. they're doing a good job of it. we are closer to getting rid of it clear weapons that we'll probably ever been. >> and white -- [applause] it is nice to think so, anyway. >> and through the you in foundation so many initiatives center around women, education, health costs so many aspects, why the focus -- this is a rhetorical question, why the focus on women? or maybe we should not ask that question. >> they look better on tv than men. no, it is -- it is high time that we get women more involved and all of the 80's. we are doing at. right here in the united states there are more women in college now than there are meant to. more women in graduate school. >> do you recall the story about political office? would you like to tell them what you said a few years ago i advocated having men be barred from serving in public office. in the elected job, and the elected body for 100 years. i think at the end of that time a long before it we had had the military budget be slashed drama

here he talks to henry kissinger. >>> i know but at least -- >> i repeated it and i said we can do it in one or two ways. either go to the u.n. or come to us. >> what he should do is come to the u.n. and then drop down here and we'll give him a nice dinner you know without the heads of state thing but it will be you know everything except the girl. >> we thought we would return to hirari's national stadium here because we have quite a nice viewpoint of robert mogabe as he prepares to be inaugurated. hari what do we see? >> all things from presidents to former presidents. in a few minutes he will get up be sworn in he will then sign in the book and address the nation. people are really keen to see what he plans to say. is he going to get zimbabwe is not a colony speech that zimbabwens are not colonial, will he say to morgan sangurai, let's move on as one zimbabwe and to make this country great. people wonder what he will say. >> let's move from the political to the personal. what do we know about his health? >> we don't know much. i think his health is being kept a secret. we have a fe

. >> well, deft punk canceled at the last minute and even secretary of state henry kissinger made a cameo not dance. >> no moves by him. that does it for this edition of abc7 news. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. stay connected on twitter and all of your mobile devices. have a good night. "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- jason sudeikis. from "paranoia", amber heard. and music from mayer hawthorne. with cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: hi, everybody, i'm jimmy kimmel, thank you

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. >> well, deft punk canceled at the last minute and even secretary of state henry kissinger made a cameo not dance. >> no moves by him. that does it for this edition of abc7 news. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. stay connected on twitter and all of your mobile devices. have a good night.

his national security advisor, henry kissinger, assured him no one would remember. >> you have savedcountry, mr. president. the history books will show that and when, no one will know what watergate means. >> reporter: white house counsel john dean had been called before a committee. nixon was ready to let his two top aids resign. he spoke to alderman as he prepared to speak. you and john have made the decision, let's just say it's been made. >> reporter: following the speech the president spent the night taking calls of support. this one from governor ronald regan. >> had to say it. >> yup. i know how difficult it was and i know what it must be with the fellas having to do what they did. >> that's right. they had to get out. >> reporter: a call from the reverend billy graham, nixon asked about coverage of the speech. >> what did cbs do, did they knock it? >> i felt like slashing their throats. >> reporter: in the midst of all of this, nixon was advising his envoy to china, david bruce. they're very subtle. they're not like the russians who, of course, slobber and flattery. >> report

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forward had a clause that they could not accept in the words of former secretary of state henry kissinger the text which called on serbia to admit need to troops throughout yugoslavia was a provocation an excuse to start bombing runway is not a document that an angelic could have accepted years later we see diplomacy brushed off again in syria even as the u.n. team is working on the ground at every turn the syrian regime has failed to cooperate with the u.n. investigation washington has bypassed the u.n. both in the case of the former yugoslavia and that of iraq in libya the u.s. and its allies have effectively carried out a regime change although the u.n. mandate was to protect civilians we came we saw he died. because we acted quickly a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided but for many libyans a humanitarian catastrophe has just started as the nation plunges deeper into chaos and tear like in iraq where the intervention was followed by a decade of terror for those wondering what awaits american politicians found to have light no weapons over there. to be under here. to check on r.t