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initially clinton was kind of a snob to mixon actually. dismissive of him. bit the end of clinton's presidency he was -- nixon truced -- president clinton trusted nixons a advice, nixon was smart about the populist forces going on in the soviet union and read it pretty well as pro yeltsin and clinton listed en. clinton has an amazing ability to bond with almost anybody. i'm not sure bond is the word but there was some warmth there. >> host: how many u.s. presidents have you met and interviewed? >> guest: well, count them. i met nixon, of course, i met him at a brief conversation with him. i met clinton, met reagan and interviewed him. george h.w. bush, pretty much all of. the through obama. never midwest donald trump. but the rest i have. >> host: evonne thomas is our guest here on booktv. he is the author of self books. we'll show those to you right now so you can get a sense of what we have been talking about. the wise men was his first, that came out in 1986. the man to see, the life of edward bennett williams, 1992. the very best men, the early years of

the under one morning show and he a can core if a football play by play guy and i wanted to he the mixon sports stories and he intent 15 minutes running through the post-presidency and i send him an e-mail and said appreciate you have michigan on and he wrote back and said nixon is one of the most fascinating people. i've always been a fan of nixon. so it's amazing how there are nixon people all over the world, and we don't even realize that sometimes. an amazing command an amazing career. my story as historian has been to try to tell at the stories this are untold bud knee to be told, and to focus on stories we know something about but we need to know more about. and so for me the road less traveled in historical scholarship led me to the story of eisenhower and civil rights in a book called, ike's final battle, which came out in 2007 in con justification with the inch anniversary over the little rock central high school crisis, and of course, the road less travel has also led me to the nixon post presidency. this is a story that needs to be told and it's a story that need thursday be i

they paid the mixon estate $20 million. so, when you see pretty buildings out at the nixon library, that's how they paid for hem. shortly thereafter, peace broke out, you've got the nixon museum in loma linda with no presidential papers. you've got the archives holding the papers in washington, d.c. and julie nixon and gerry ford negotiated a deal where they amended a budget resolution to no longer require the nixon papers to be held within ten miles of the capitol. everybody knew what was going to happen. the nixon foundation gave the use of the nixon library to the national archive. and the national archives agreed they'd put the papers out there. so while the laws that govern it are slightly different. it's now a real presidential library. and if you want to listen to the tapes onsite, you go there to lob yorba linda. and if you want to listen to it, you go there, to the prosecutor, because they weren't working on the white house staff. so you could do it there. or two sites online. and we'll come back to them in a few m