mr. brinkley on his hard work, and i just wanted to say one thing, that nixon was the beginning of party against party. according to george washington in his farewell address as he was leaving office, our founder said that the spirit of our nature is rooted in the strongest passions of the human mind, but the alternate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge had perpetrated the and without looking forward to an extremity of his time, what should never be entirely out of sight, the spirit of party are sufficient to make the interest and duty f a wise people.

mr. brinkley on his hard work in putting out his book. i wanted to say one thing.nixon was the beginning of party against party. according to george washington in his fair well addresses when he was leaving office. our founder said that the spirit although inacceseneinaccepterab nature that without looking forward to an extremity of this kind which would never be entirely out-of-sight, the spirit of this party is sufficient to make the interested duty of wise people discouraged. it serves to distract the public counsel in favor of the public administration. agitate the community. >> all right robby. i think we got the point. president nixon was a source of party to party conflict. >> we've had party to party conflict since 1800 when thomas jefferson and john adams rip at each other. i think one of the important things is to always remind us that modern times aren't as uniquely oppressive as we think. look at the civil war in this country where we lost over 600,000 people dead. lincoln getting snuck into washington d.c. and the battle of bull run outside of washingt

mr. brinkley's books. i'm really afraid of the phenomenon where, if if you have a hope, your brain fills it in with what it thinks should be there, and i'm afraid that the tapes, after such superficial readings, that history is now painting a picture of nixon that's dwoud of this. having dealt with him, having known him, i think it's a big mistake to say that haldeman was his friend. the fact is he had ideas in policies, and he trusted no one within or outside of his camp. there may have been a lot of things wrong with him, but he did have a multitude of policies and ideas that i would say really looked to the betterment of this country. unfortunately, as you pointed so long as they have the dynamite quotes and the connections, so that in the end, the depth of nixon and part of it may have been his madness, so it would have to be very deep, unless that's there, and these tapes do not represent that. they represent the sliding over the ice on to which a very deep pool. host: dan, thank you. guest: you make

mr. brinkley it's a pleasure to talk to you. i'd like to talk about how nixon ended the vietnam war and my question is why do all of the democratic presidents since world war i have no vision of foreign policy? what's go on today with obama, with the chinese wanting to take south china sea and nor coth ko shooting missiles across what's going on in ukraine and iraq all around the world. it seems like ef democratic president doesn't have democratic policy when it comes to vision. fdr, wilson, harry truman the only man to use an atomic weapon -- >> jake i think we understand where you're going with that. >> the cold war if it was won it was won by democrats and republicans. even carter and ford contributed to it. carter by demanding that soviet jews by released and pushing for human rights and freedom of religion in the soviet unions. reagan gets a lot of that credit because of the tough policy and the way that he very astutelyas. but to make a broad statement that democrats weren't good at it since world war ii. truman created th

mr. brinkley it's a pleasure to talk to you.i'd like to talk about how nixon ended the vietnam war and my question is why do all of the democratic presidents since world war i have no vision of foreign policy? what's go on today with obama, with the chinese wanting to take south china sea and nor coth ko shooting missiles across what's going on in ukraine and iraq all around the world. it seems like ef democratic president doesn't have democratic policy when it comes to vision. fdr, wilson, harry truman the only man to use an atomic weapon -- >> jake i think we understand where you're going with that. >> the cold war if it was won it was won by democrats and republicans. even carter and ford contributed to it. carter by demanding that soviet jews by released and pushing for human rights and freedom of religion in the soviet unions. reagan gets a lot of that credit because of the tough policy and the way that he very astutelyas. but to make a broad statement that democrats weren't good at it since world war ii. truman created the

mr. brinkley's books. i'm really afraid of the phenomenon where, if if you have a hope, your brain fills it in with what it thinks should be there, and i'm afraid that the tapes, after such superficial readings, that history is now painting a picture of nixon that's dwoud of this. having dealt with him, having known him, i think it's a big mistake to say that haldeman was his friend. the fact is he had ideas in policies, and he trusted no one within or outside of his camp. there may have been a lot of things wrong with him, but he did have a multitude of policies and ideas that i would say really looked to the betterment of this country. unfortunately, as you pointed so long as they have the dynamite quotes and the connections, so that in the end, the depth of nixon and part of it may have been his madness, so it would have to be very deep, unless that's there, and these tapes do not represent that. they represent the sliding over the ice on to which a very deep pool. host: dan, thank you. guest: you make

mr. brinkley's books. really afraid of the phenomenon where, if if you have a hope, your brain fills it in with what it thinks should be there, and i'm afraid that the tapes, after such superficial readings, that history is now painting a picture of nixon that's dwoud of this. having dealt with him, having known him, i think it's a big mistake to say that haldeman was his friend. the fact is he had ideas in policies, and he trusted no one within or outside of his camp. there may have been a lot of things wrong with him, but he did have a multitude of policies and ideas that i would say really looked to the betterment of this country. unfortunately, as you pointed so long as they have the dynamite quotes and the connections, so that in the end, the depth of nixon and part of it may have been his madness, so it would have to be very deep, unless that's there, and these tapes do not represent that. they represent the sliding over the ice on to which a very deep pool. host: dan, thank you. guest: you make a nu

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. >> i was sitting in my office with the

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 all there is to that person. nixon was a very complicated p

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. >> i was sitting in my office with the

mr. brands from texas or doug brinkley, evan morris and become as historians and give him advice. it's really been fun to watch and absorb those pass lessons of history. so i think is a person, i have read obviously his autobiography which was extraordinary and i suspect when he writes his own memoir about the something but it will have to be some younger historians looking back 20 years from now i think i will capture him fully. maybe you. >> john is going from san diego. john you are on the air. cocco good afternoon ms. goodwin. you grew up in brooklyn and you love the brooklyn dodgers that the personality of that whole brooklyn dodger team was the great jackie robinson. i am wondering if you would think of that subject but i think you would be the person to do that. >> no question he was like you are on the brooklyn dodgers. i would like to believe it was because i was a young civil rights advocate but i think it was more when i was five or six years old that he would get on race and steal second and then he would steal third and steal home and completely rattled the other pitc