mr. nixon southern indiana where there's a historical marker about your mother being born here. i know president nixon visited jennings county once. she moved from there as a child; correct. >> guest: yes. i visited several times. in fact, three years ago i think. my wife and i toured from paducah, kentucky, all the way up the ohio valley and stopped by in jennings county. the little town is called butlerville and it's right across the fence from indiana. the house is gone. it burned down several years ago. it had many sentimental memories. >> host: how did your parents meet? >> guest: my dad was a single man driving as a motorman on the pacific electric line in whittier. los angeles to whittier was a big line back when we had public transportation. and he wanted to find as young men will do, find a suitable partner for life. so he went to churches. where do you find a decent woman at least in a church. at least they're taught something of value and he spotted in the choir at the whittier frien

for instance, the time i called former president nixon president reagan. >> mr. to practice their law with women across this country. >> reporter: and living forever on the web there's that from the beauty queen. >> south africa and iraq and everywhere such as. >> reporter: america's a free country where everyone's free to act -- >> stupidly. >> reporter: jeannie moos, cnn, new york. >> we really are in no position to laugh, are we? >> no, are you kidding? but i was there that president bush said too many obgyns aren't able to practice their love with women across america. and we all said what? what did he just say? >> wow, he was misunderestimated there. >>> president obama, by the way, hoping a little drink diplomacy will clear the air. hosting gates and crowley for a beer at the white house this thursday evening. already the drink orders are in. it was even a hot topic during yesterday's white house briefing. >> officer crowley's drinking blue moon, we hear gates drinking -- what's the president drinking? >> the president had a budweiser at the all-star game -

mr. klein accompanied vice president nixon to moscow in 1959 for the historic meeting with premier nikita khrushchev. the next year he represented nixon in setting the terms for his debates with john kennedy. he was his press secretary in 1960 when he ran for governor of california in 1962. when he ran for the presidency again in 1968. he resigned in 1973, when year before the watergate scandal forced president nixon to st ep down. next is diane from laguna, california. good morning. caller: how can this economy get better, i think, is as soon as president obama gets more focused on fixing it. he is absolutely obsessed with this health care and his cap and trade. i think he has lost his desire to make the economy is priority. i think that was a way to get him elected. i think it is how he got elected, and i think he is now so obsessed he has this feeling that he wants to be president and walk away -- i do not think he cares if he gets reelected in four years. he wants to say that he passed this health care and his cap and trade -- and i voted for him, so you are aware of that -- and i am

and yet again, despite that recognition, dating back to nixon, despite the fact as mr. boccieri has correctedly pointed out that every major republican presidential candidate acknowledged the need for reducing our deimportant on foreign oil and was mentioned -- our dependence orn foreign oil, and senator mccain promoting cap and trade, yet, when we take the vote in the house we only have a few brave republicans that are willing to cross party line. now why is that? the answer is, in my view, is that despite arguments that are made in terms of process, despite arguments that are made somewhat substantive related to the bills, the bottom line is, ultimately the votes that are being taken on major issues facing this country are still predominantly based on politics and not what is in the bes interest of this country. and i am, as we talked about after this vote, were we to have the vote tomorrow, i would make it again, it is a -- it was a vote that was very important to this country, it is a vote that will move this country forward and we need to do what we're doing tonigh

reasonable chap whose sole aberration was his fondness for richard nixon, and boston globe chief wrote in the "washington post" in 1980 "mr. kline was intensely loyal to his fellow californian and later criticized the nixon administration for its obsession with public relations but never turned his back on the president. herbert chine is dead at 91. next up is wes tersefield, new jersey, and beth on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: i think it is the classic battle between good and evil, and i think sarah palin represents the good and the hopefulness. believe it or not, there is wholesome conservatives left in the northeast that were really looking to her, so i certainly hope that she stays in the public eye, but i think evil is winning in this world, the george soroses, the acorn, the michael jackson pornographic society that we have become. good is losing, unfortunately. host: beth, in the sub headline in the baltimore sun this morning, they say that she has been silent on a presidential bid, but she is taking her fight in a new direction. what kind of a direction would you like to see her take that fight? cal

. >> reporter: right up to president nixon's departure from office on august 9 of 1974. >> our long national nightmare is over, mraid. >> reporter: in retrospect the addition of the "cbs evening news" walter cronkite anchored 35 years ago today was nothing extraordinary. just typical of the job he did in the anchor chair every day for 19 years. >> and that's the way it is. friday july 19, 1974. this is walter cronkite cbs news reporting from washington. iggo nod.ht >> beautiful, just beautiful. >> mason: just ahead the men on the moon. >> there it is. a u.s. flag on the surface of the moon. onas m: and the man over the moon. i felt this deep lingering pain that was a complete mystery to me. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia muscle pain and then he recommended lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of over-active nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is fda-approved to help relieve the unique pain of fibromyalgia. and with less pain, i can do more during my day. how sweet is that? lyrica is not for everyone. tell you doctor about any serious allergic reaction that causes swelling or aff

mr. speaker. today, july 24 marks the 50th anniversary of an important incident in the history of the cold war famous kitchen debate in moscow between then vice president richard nixonnd soviet premier khrushchev. at the debate in 1959, mr. khrushchev predicted wrongly that the soviet union would overtake america in economic prosperity. the "time" magazine reported vice president nixon managed in a unique way to personify a national character proud of peaceful accomplishment. such as its way of life, confident of its power under threat. today, i pay tribute to president nixon for his diplomacy and years of service to the nation, including at the kitchen debate 50 years ago today. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objeion, so ordered. mr. poe: mr. speaker, american taxpayers spend millions of year screening people who board an airplane. we check i.d.'s, pes, pockets and computers and take off our shoes and check everything. the next attack on our country is not going to be because someone is

nixon resignation. but your experience personally that night but let's roll a clip and bring some memories for you. go ahead and roll it. >> the vice president, mrbecome president at noon as we have said. he has already hard at work in putting his new government together. >> you were there that night when he delivered that script which he wrote himself. he got off the air, he threw it in the trash can and what did you do? >> i was the production secretary, soon to be researcher and working for kron kite in washington. don't you want this pieces of history. he said it's not necessary. so i took it out of the trash so i can hold it up so you can see it. it's a walter's script. he definitive writer, it was written by charlie russ, but the 37th president of united states died today. this is what cronkite embodied. we have a special tomorrow night that's the way it was, remembering walter cronkite. what he was and what we tried to do, it wasn't just a great journalist. but he took the country through its history. it was very comforting fact. if i can, i would like to read the last couple of lines of this. >> julie: please, do. >> he said, i'm eve of

mr. peabody, the attorney general was fired by the president back in the nixon days because he wouldn't givem the judgment that he wanted. i am not saying it was right to do it here nor was it right to do it there, so this is really a complicated situation and i hope we can come up with a solution, but once again in the african union when a country is taken over by the military, that country is suspended from the african union. they do not tolerate because once that happens here it will happen there and have been at the next place and you will have that way to take the president's. >> thank you. mr. bilirakis. >> thank you mr. chairman. this hits home with me because my hundred american constituents are particularly concerned that president zelaya was slowly stripping away the rule of law in honduras. they feared that hondurans would turn away from its democratically elected and constitutionally based institutions and evolved into hugo chavez type of autocratic state. hi think what is particularly disconcerting for me is the fact that no american official at the u.s. embassy in honduras or t

mr. siemens. they had given their lives to do in which they had been sort of -- had to leave over the terrible fire of apollo 1. and you'll see that president nixon who was president did not attend because he feared a disaster would happen and it would taint his presidency so he spent agnew instead. here's the firing room at kennedy watching as well. i guess you can't really see it in the projector but if you look closely at every single one of those faces you can see there's like this half-calm, half-fear, half-nervousness in almost every single expressions of these men's faces. one of the astounding things to me they were racing so hard to get to the moon that they would change plans at the last minute. and here are the post-it notes. it says flight plan written in pencil and this is stuck into the dashboard of the apollo 11 command module. now, what happened that i thought was incredible about this moment is that the astronauts didn't seem to be worried about things technically going wrong. they were worried about that they would screw up and embarrass the united states on this global stage. and they were so worried about this that at liftoff

mr. peabody, the attorney general was fired by the president back in the nixon days because he wouldn't give the judgment that he wanted. i am not saying it was right to do it here nor was it right to do it there, so this is really a complicated situation and i hope we can come up with a solution, but once again in the african union when a country is taken over by the military, that country is suspended from the african union. they do not tolerate because once that happens here it will happen there and have been at the next place and you will have that way to take the president's. >> thank you. mr. bilirakis. >> thank you mr. chairman. this hits home with me because my hundred american constituents are particularly concerned that president zelaya was slowly stripping away the rule of law in honduras. they feared that hondurans would turn away from its democratically elected and constitutionally based institutions and evolved into hugo chavez type of autocratic state. hi think what is particularly disconcerting for me is the fact that no american official at the u.s. embassy in honduras or th

nixon, when he first proposed -- that all employers have that kind of responsibility. >> steven moore -- is it a job killer?? >> it's a debatable proposition. >> 20 seconds, mr.s a job killer? >> that was a short answer for mr. reich.h. there is no question, you put an % payroll tax on the backs of small employers, some will be driven out of business. bob, you were the department of labor secretary, you know these are terrible taxes for businesses trying to hire workers. >> wow, he did that in 15 seconds, mr. reich.. >> and steve, you made very sense.e. my point was small business -- any business is going to put these costs ultimately on to consumers, but the real issue is a tradeoff. either the business and consumer pays, or, you know, you're going to have a lot of people who don't have health insurance who are going to go emergency rooms. somebody has to pay.y. this seems to be a very good compromise. why not? >> because businesses can't pass on these costs. we're living in a global economy right now. what happens is, that the costs of producing things in the united states becomes more expensive relative to things that are produced in other countries. you'r

situion since richard nixon and we have the republicans who a largely quiescg if not endorsing that lecturing how we should be subscribing to the roux o law rule of law. i think mr the hring. >> her nomionspk to the opportunities today that americans provide of men and women of different backgrounds and heritage. e liberty we enjoy here in america makes these opportunities poible and requires our best efforts to protect that liberty our libey rests on the foundation of a written constution,he limits and separategovernment power and self-government by th people and the rule of law. those princs define the k of judge our liberty requires. they define the role on judges and they play in ourystem of vernme. i've described my basic approach to the judicialonfirmation process in more detail elsewher i ask the unanimous consent to publish to have the constitution as a plbook be placed in the record, mr. chairman, if i can. >> without objection. >> my approach includes three elents. firs the senate owes some deference to the pridt's qualified nominees. send, a judicial nominee's qualifications include not only legal experience, but, more importantlily, judial philosophy

mr. peabody, the attorney general was fired by the president back in the nixon days because he wouldn't givem the judgment that he wanted. not saying that it was right to do it here, nor was it right to do it there. so this isn't really a complicated situation. and i hope we can come up with a solution, but once again, in the african union when a country is taken over by the military, that country is suspended from the african union. they do not tolerate. because once it happens here it will happen there and it will happen at the next place and you will have that way to take up residence. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> this hits home with me because my honduran american constituents are particularly concerned that president is alive was slowly stripping away the rule of law in honduras. they fear that honduras was going to turn away from its democratic elected and constitutionally based institutions and evolve into a hugo chavez type of otto track. i think what is particularly disconcerting for me is the fact that no american official at the u.s. embassy in honduras or the stat