have you ever seen mr. nixon without a suit? the answer was no. i spoke with a secret service agent who served with mr. nixon in san clemente. he said that even when they went to visit his mother, he was wearing a suit. what was it about wearing formal attire was so important to the president and his manner? >> i don't think it was important to him. i think it was just -- i mean, i think it was generational. it was lots of things. but it was just what people did. a lot of people did. i can remember as an undergraduate of late '50s and early '60s, everybody wore coat and tie, jacket and tie. so it wasn't that unusual. he did have -- there was a very fine -- an artist, i guess, this infinite degrees within a single color and a palette, and there were infinite degrees of nixon' sartorial formality and informality. again, i think it's generational. i don't think there's anything weird about it. he would have smoking jackets that were for relaxation. and he would have sports jackets. but that would be -- when he'd go out and golf, he'd wear slacks and

and it was drizzling, and so mrs. nixon had on a raincoat and a--and a scarf, and--and they had this umbrella. and it was very warm--very warm view of the president and the first lady's relationship that most people, obviously, were not aware happened. c-span: where was this taken? >> guest: this was also at san clemente. when i had finished the beach shot and i had done some pictures inside the house, and then he asked me if i would do a photograph of him and the first lady on this bench that overlooked the pacific ocean, because he said it was their favorite bench and they spent a lot of time there together, so it had a lot of meaning to them. it had a lot of meaning to them. and now, to me, it also has a lot of meaning. c-span: what did you think of both of them? >> guest: i liked them both. i--i did not see the--the negative president that--that others continually reported on when i was covering him. he was always polite when i was around. he never, ever got angry with me and--as i had with johnson. i mean, whenever i p

mrs. nixon's life opening march 16. and the national archives in washington will host a forum for her work in april. thelma kathryn ryan was born on the eve of st. patrick's day on march 16, 1912 in nevada, a mining town. her father, william ryan, called her his st. patrick's babe in the morn, so she was called pat within hours of her birth. the ryans moved to southern california for a better life and settled on a small truck farm in arteeshia -- artesia. a young person of tremendous courage and determination, mrs. nixon had her heart set on higher education and work continually to secure the necessary funds. she drove an elderly couple to the east coast and worked as an x-ray technician in new york. returning, she graduated magna cum laude. she held part-time jobs on campus and was a department store salesclerk and a hollywood extra, appearing in several motion pictures, including the 1935 film "becky sharp." mrs. nixon taught at at a high school in the late 1930's where she met her husband who

. >> when i worked with mr. nixon and mr. ford when dinosaur roamed earth. remember my father says, why are you saying inflation is low when we go to the grocery store and see how expensive a pot roast is and my father said that was anecdotal. with respect to my sainted father, waste wrong. the anecdotal put together makes this statistical and any american who shops, buys gasoline, buys almost anything sees prices are up, up, up, and it's extremely discouraging and going to take a toll and by the way, unless all previous economic history is wrong, enormous amount of money the fed has been pumping into the economy will result in inflationary selloff at some point. >> and the dangers to your ben bernanke and deflation and home values and-- >> they're in their own world because they say that-- it's fomenting more of it. >> charles, i think they've made a tact here with keeping rates low for two years, they're doing this now and i think they're regretting it. >> there's no way you can keep interest rates at zero and not have commodity inflation, just on the very

i called vice president nixon mr. nixon, and david and julie were over there and they'd been watching and nad already told him. and so from there i went to the convention in chicago for nixon after our convention. and i was p in chicago in the 19th floor of what we call the comrade hilton hotel after we'd been gassed down the street watching out the window. i was by myself comes after that. we all went to the windows and i saw the police come down balboa, michigan and balboa. they were coming down in a large number, and all of a sudden they fanned out and went through the pa park. and wallace, governor wallace was at 23, but we were only at 42. so humphrey had had a horrible time all during september, the dump the hump and all these horrible things they were saying to him at the convention continued until that salt lake city speech you talked about. and then they said if you mean it, we're with you. i was really alarmed because i said if the democratic party which is twice as large, p if they come together we can't win. wha

mr. nixon's behavior as president. i remember the question of john ehrlich, have you ever seen him without a suit? i spoke to mr. nugson and he said that even when they went to visit his mother he was wearing a suit. what was it about wearing a formal attire, i think it was generational and it was lots of thicks and it was just what people did. a lot of people did, and i can remember as an undergraduate like 50s and early '60s. everyone wore a jacket and tie so it wasn't that unusual and he did have this infinite degrees within a single color and a palette and there were infinite degrees of formality and informality and it's generational which i don't think is weird about it. he would have smoking jackets that were for relaxation and he would have sports jackets, when he'd go out and golf he'd wear slacks and a polo shirt. the image was nailed down by the unfortunate walk on the beach in wing 10s, so it can be overdone, and on the weekends, we did work, and i can remember one of my favorite phone calls was frank. i kno

fossil fuel but i am older than you, i worked on the very presidential address to the congress by mr. nixon, long time ago, almost 40 years ago, providing a national energy policy and we were going to use wind. western states and the market has decided. the market likes fossil fuels. >>neil: i thought that was under president fillmore. >>guest: i wrote it. on a typewriter, not electric, and we did not know what computers were. >>neil: i remember that part. thank you. >>guest: you don't remember, you are way too young. >>neil: if that were true. but thank you anyway, newt gingrich has been going off on gas prices, as well, could that pump up his poll numbers? um... [ sighs ] [ man ] so, i got a car i can love a really, really long time. [ malannouncer ] for the road ahead, the a-new subaru impreza. ♪ experience love that lasts. ♪ online dating services can get kind of expensive. so to save-money, i found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my spinach dip. 5 foot ten. still doing a little exploring... on it. my sign

nixon. now, in his auto biography, the one in the 1970s that mr. gannon wrote about, nixon was pretty solidly said that everybody was against me in the 1960 race. once again, he also, by the way, points back to the elger hiss case. when you look at six crises which he wrote in 1962, he didn't seem at that point to be so hard edged. he quotes a letter from a "chicago tribune" correspondent, willis edwards saying, look, mr. vice president, i'm really embarrassed to be a reporter at this point because these guys are trying to nail you. nixon doesn't quite sign on to this. i think the big turning point for him was the 1962 gubernatorial race here in california. this is where a couple things happened. the nature of the "l.a. times" which helped create him in the late 1940s and 1950s had undergone a total transformation. brand-new publisher, otis chandler of the chandler family takes over. in 1960 chandler thought at this point we are not going to be a mouthpiece for the republican party. we're not automatically going to nail democrats. we're going to cov

where milton says, and my brother wanted to get rid of nixon as vice president and he could do it in a new york heartbeat and obviously, he never did. >> mr. mayor? >> my name is dr. richard arena, former professor of whittier college. i'm the one that did the richard nixon oral history project which was a two-year assignment. i was put on leave to do that. it took me all over the country. it took me away from my family. i'm referring to the comments in particularly of the last speaker, but also the third speaker nixon's life is very complex and that i found out. i worked under historians like thomas c. cochran who was president of the american historical association and i worked under him the -- i'm going along with this comment, but it will come to an end, we historians love to talk. i'm retired. i don't get enough practice, and thomas cochran was for the wharton school of business, and he was leftist and socially oriented and when i interviewed the some 400 persons who are located now in yorba linda museum and whittier college with the professor, let me say, one person who did publish some of the things i said, quote, you're too wordy.

i've had the distinct pleasure of travelling with all of you, most recently with mr. nixon, to iraq. i hope more governors can visit their soldiers in theater. it is a historic time for the national guard, and many of the former chiefs have said that. i'm the 26th. during our watched from the attack on 9/11, and the subsequent wars, thrust the national guard to the front line of our nation's defense. over 667,000 guardsmen have been deployed in support of operation enduring freedom, iraqi freedom, and a new dawn. in 2005, the army national guard accounted for 51% of the total ground combat force in iraq. the other officers will tell you that this is the component that protect the skies over the united states of america and we have also been flying in record numbers, all as a volunteer. we are grateful for the chairman and soldiers in your national guard. we now have the most experienced, battle tested guardsmen in the history of our nation. although the united states military has ended their mission in iraq and is transitioning its mission in afghanistan, the national guard

mr. ales, former consultant for richard nixon and george w. bush brought an agenda to fox news when hired in 1996. the author will speak at politics and pros book store in washington, d.c. and we'll have that live streaming on our website. booktv.org. here on c-span 3, rick santorum wraps up come paining in michigan ahead of the state's requirement tomorrow. he will be at the heritage christian academy at kalamazoo and you can watch live coverage >>> governor bobby jindal is scheduled to reveal he's proposal for balancing the state budget today. a budget $900 million in the red. in shreveport now, 73 degrees at the airport. 38 in menden. you're listening to shreveport news and weather station news radio 710. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on book tv, author gary joyner on the union army's failure of louisiana "from one damn blunder from beginning to end." and then a look at the over 200,000 books of john smith nobel collection

nixon was trying to be mr. nice guy, and he was getting clobbered. and as he came out of that session in the television studio, he realized that that's what is going to be shown back home and showed him being pushed around trying to be mr. nice guy. and so, i signalled to major don humes, who was leading him through the u.s. exhibition, to come to the american exhibit, the housing exhibit. and there was a fence in between where he was walking and the typical american house. and so i got a jeep and we pulled up the fence, and nixon was signalled to come on in here. he immediately saw the opportunity. and went into the kitchen with khrushchev, and engaged in a debate. that debate in the kitchen i was a press agent and i thought to myself here's harrison salisbury sitting outside, for "the new york times" who will believe me what happened in that kitchen? but he was a great reporter, and so i said to the russian guards, i want him in. they said what is he? i said he's the refrigerator demonstrator. so we slipped him in. and then the ap photographer want

mr. buchanan. i'd like to know how you think nixon's election changed the course of presidential elections to come. >> i think the richard nixon certainly one thing he did, richard nixon created the new majority coalition. it was one of the things we had worked on from 1966. fdr had this magnificent coalition that he had taken out of the republican party and put it together that governed the country and the democratic party by 1964. it was about twice as large as the republican paerlt. what nixon did straight politically was take the socially conservative catholic ethnic southern bloc and move it into the republican coalition so that in the next five elections -- the next four after 1968 republicans won three landslides of 49 states, 49 states, and 44 states and george h.w. bush won 40 states. so i think richard nixon is the most important political figure he and fdr in terms of putting together ruling coalitions, governing coalitions in america. we see that gradually disintegrate for reason i described in other books we're not talking about today. >> we should point out this month marks the 40th a

mr. gelman. your research indicates that the eisenhower/nixon relationship was an "a" minus. why is the more common public perception that it's "c" minus," d" plus, how did that come about? was it on purpose or just lack of research? >> well, since i already need a visa to get to harvard to let me inhe

mr. gelman. your research indicates that the eisenhower/nixon relationship was an "a" minus. why is the more common public perception that it's "c" minus," d" plus, how did that come about? was it on purpose or just lack of research? >> well, since i already need a visa to get to harvard to let me into the boston area, what i think happened was this. that the academics who and arthur schlessinger jr. was a wonderful friend of mine. but the academics who were in the ivy leagues and great graduate scholars all supported almost to a man, richard ho hoffstetler, john kenneth galbreith, couldn't get a life. every time they worked and worked and worked, there was never a prayer for adlai stevenson to defeat dwight eisenhower. i mean, the first time in '52, stevenson lost by 3.5 million votes. the second time he only lost by 9.7 million votes. when these folks went back to their graduate programs, either consciously or subconsciously, they taught graduate seminars on what a twit eisenhower was and what a rat fink nixon was. and it

mr. chairman, because of the quality and the character of our candidate. if one looks back over the political history of this country, there is only one other man other than richard nixondent five times. that is franklin roosevelt. >> that's pat testifying before the senate watergate committee in the fall of 1973 defending nixon in his hour of peril. using a sharp mind and whit to stand up for someone who placed his trust in him, young pat buchanan as a young man. name another public figure who has built his public career on being a stalwart loyalist to richard nixon. loyalty is the heart of pat's being. he is loyal to country, to church, to neighborhood to heritage to pat, the world can never be better than the one he grew up in as a young boy. blessed sacrament church and grade school, gonzaga high school, georgetown university. no country will ever be better than the united states of america of the early 1950s. it's his deep loyalty t

mr. president, what has surprised you the most about this job? this is just a couple weeks after he had replaced nixon said what surprises me most is that every woman that comes through that door wants to sleep with me. and that was sort of reminiscent of kissinger when he said, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. >> famous quote. >> i think women actually become victims. >> listen, i can't let you go, i have to get this question in to you. we're running on to our next segment, i have to ask you this question. you have said over and over again, you are looking for people to come to you with sexual exploits and information, hypocrisy information about the 2012 candidates. and co-author of your book intimated you may have something coming up. >> we have investigations going on all the time. we are running a full-page ad in the "washington post" where we're seeking additional information. it's not as powerful as it used to be. we were the ones who exposed a senator. he got re-elected, of course. we've done our part over the last 30 years. >> i believe the senator you're referring to is senator vitter. it'

nixon and john kennedy. i think the kennedy spot may be the first one. >> this is the sills' family. >> mr. and mrs.one of the great problems that all american families are now facing and that is the great increase in the cost of living. >> our rent has gone up, our food, our cleaning of our clothing, buying of the clothing, our gas and electric and our telephone bills have gone up. >> what's been your experience, mr. sills? >> well with, keeping those two daughters of yours -- >> we're very concerned with their future, we would like both of them to go to college. >> have you been able to put much aside? >> no, unfortunately, not now. >> one of the things which i think has increased the cost of living has been this administration's reline on a high interest rate policy. we're going to have to try to do a better job in this field. >> yes, we can do better. but to do so, we must elect the man who cares about america's problems. we must elect john f. kennedy president. >> and next is a nixon spot from 1960. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, richard m. nixon. >> i want to

mr. chairman. is a pleasure to serve on this committee and leading it, jay nixon of missouri was the vice chair ofit, did a excellent job. got a hearing on it saturday, and in a pretty extensive discussion yesterday. what we have done with this is gone into three key policy areas, hearing on commerce, infrastructure, and public finance. committee recommended option but in g8 membership by three policies. focus on commerce and economic development, general on to finish up and innovation, trade and investment, tax and radio toward matters. number two addresses transportation and infrastructure, and a neutral manner, major issue on the transportation funding that is coming up in front of the congress and so that we as a group come in g8 can speak out on this and edc three, affirmed the importance of public finance state authority and financial services regulation, consumer investor protection and financial regulation. this is making sure that we don't get moved out of this area, no our ability to do public financing harmed by federal laws. so man up of the committee, i moved the adoption of our polic

mr. chairman. it is of pleasure to serve on this committee, and jay nixon, who chairs it, does a fine job.e have the three areas, commerce, transportation and infrastructure, and public finance. the committee recommends adoption of the three policies. edc-1 focuses on congress and entrepreneurship, tax and regulatory matters. edc-2 addresses transportation and infrastructure in 8 modal- neutral manner. we as a group can speak out on this. edc-3 confirms the importance of public finance, the state authority, a financial-services regulation, consumer protection and financial regulation. this is making sure that we don't get moved out of this area, nor our ability to do public financing harmed by federal laws. on behalf of the committee, i move the adoption of our policy recommendations. we would be happy to answer any questions. >> is there a second? >> i second-rat. >> any discussion. all those in favor, please say aye. ayes have it. it has been adopted. we go to the chair of the egyptian, childhood, and work- force committee, governor beebe. >> in an effort to keep this on time, i'd move f

nixon and you will not want to miss his unique take. >>> plus. ♪ >> nice. the first lady doing the robot. you're going to see what inspired mrs.ma to get on stage with dozens of kids. >>> good morning, everyone! welcome to "weekends with alex witt." the maine caucuses and stories unfolding at this hour. this morning, both mitt romney and ron paul spoke at the same caucus site an hour apart and report today suggests a very tight race between those two candidates. romney held a town hall in portland last night and faced a number of hucklers. >> do you think it's patriotic of you to stash your money away in the caiman islands? >> that's okay. that's a good question. come on. i got to take some shots now and then or it won't be interesting. >> let's go to nbc's ron allen who is live for us in portland, maine. a good saturday morning to you. how important of a day is it for romney today, ron? >> reporter: it's a really, really important day. it was a day that romney was going to take off and have some down time but he has two events in maine and you saw that town hall was an effort to get him out in front of voters to give him a ch

carter is going to blame nixon, why don't you all just blame george washington and get it all over with instead of keep going back to somebody else? but with these two bills, mr. speaker, my friends want to, on the other side, drastically reduce essential government programs and then, second, to en shrine tax cuts -- and i don't like talking about the rich as it were. my ultimate plan would call for all of us that are better off to try and do everything we can to help those who are vulnerable in our society and those who are the neediest in our society. but there are those who are in the supercategory that have not been paying the kind of taxes that many of us pay. you know, you have to put this stuff in real terms. last year i paid $41,000 in income taxes. people don't believe that. i'll bring my taxes down here and show it to them sometime. now, i don't have investments, i don't have offshore bank accounts, i don't have any stock in any bond, but the simple fact of the matter is most americans are in the same cot goir as myself. but they're going to give tax cuts to those who are wealthy who paid less than i did and less than people making $50,000 did and t

nixon and john kennedy. i think, kennedy spot may be the first one. >> this is the phils family. recently john f. kennedy visited the sills. >> mr. and mrs.re facing one of the big problems all americans are facing great increase in cost of living. >> our rent has gone up. our food. our cleaning of our clothing. buying of the clothing. gas and electric and telephone bills have gone up. >> what has been your experience, mr. sill, keeping those two daughters fed? >> we're very concerned with the future. we would like both of them to go to college. >> have you been able to put much aside? >> no, unfortunately, not right now. >> one of the things i think increased the cost of living this administration reliance on high interest rate policy. my own judgement is we're going to have to try to do a better job in this field. >> yes, we can do better, but to do so we must e -- elect the man who cares about america's problems. we must elect john f. kennedy president. >> next is a nixon spot from 1960. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, richard m nixon. >> i want to talk to you for a moment about civil rights, equal rig