and if he were to nash mr. nixon if he were to resign and i were to become president. mr. chairman, i am turning out to house resolution 1367, and asks resolution 1367 whether i or my representatives had any knowledge of formal criminal charges against richard m. nixon, and the answer is no. i had no idea that the grand jury investigating the watergate break-in and cover-up had wanted to charge mr. and send as a as anspirator -- mr. nixon co-conspirator. i believe that it serve the staff and the members of the committee in the development of its report on the proposed articles of impeachment. beyond what was disclosed in the publications of the judiciary committee on the subject, and additional evidence released by 5,sident nixon on it august after september 6, , a copy ofy -- 1974 a memorandum. this was furnished to my counsel and later made public during a press briefing at the white house on september 10, 1974. i have supplied the subcommittee with a copy of this memorandum. mattersrandum lists still under investigation, have someuote,, "may direct connection to activiti

mr. nixon's health. so they were not a controlling so they were not a controlling factor, in my decision. however, i believe and still believe that prosecution and trial of the former president would have proved a serious threat to his health. as i stated in my message on september 8, 1974. house resolution 1370 is the other resolution of inquiry before this subcommittee. it presents no questions but asks for the full and complete facts upon which was based my decision to grant a pardon to richard m. nixon. i know of no such facts that are not covered by my answer to the question in house resolution 1367, also, subparagraphs one and four, there were no representations made by my or for me and none by mr. nixon or for him on which my pardon decision was based. subpair gaffe two, the health issue is dealt with by me in answer to questions 10 of the previous resolution. subparagraph three. information available to me about possible offenses in which mr. nixon might have been involved is covered in my answer

mr. rockefeller more portly, alexander haig, who was nixon's chief of staff. precipitatinge agent back on august 1, when in two conversations that day with gerald ford, he had first hinted at and then made explicit the likelihood -- the imminent likelihood -- that ford would in fact become president and then tacked on almost as a footnote, a series of options, including a pardon, affecting his predecessor. >> our viewers will see all of that as the president mentioned that. do you think the president was successful in front of the committee? >> i think he was successful. you will see this in the short term, but it must also be said that his colleagues who knew him mostwere perhaps predisposed to believe him when he said that there was no deal. the action of going before congress, which is really the muster mattock thing about all of this -- had a reinforcing quality to it. now, since the years, the debate has moved on as to what the specifics were, what the motives were, who intended what, what signals percent, and to the larger issue of whether this was good

they even wanted to know if he had had contact with mr. nixon during that month. they were specifically interested in henry kissinger as a nixon agent. they asked if he had discussed it with nelson rockefeller, his vice president designate. alexander haig was nixon's chief of staff and still chief of staff of the white house and had onn the precipitating agent august 1 when in two conversations that day with gerald ford, he first hinted at made it seem imminent that ward would become president and tacked on almost as a footnote a series of obstacles including the pardon. >> the viewers will see that in the testimony. do you think the president was successful before the committee? >> i think he was successful. i think you'll see in the short term in terms of the reassurances he offered his colleagues. but it must also be said his colleagues who knew him best were perhaps most are disposed to believe him when he said it was no deal. the action of going before congress, which is really the most rheumatic thing about all of this -- dramatic think about all of this, had

we had some trouble of course mr. nixon had trouble with the rockefellers. ixon got up and had a press conference and did an event for john paul who eventually was the one guy that beat bill clinton for congress and i think bill clinton. nixon has this hearing and says i do not want to be disturbed i have a big speech tonight and i don't want anybody to disturb me. i said you've got it and i went down to my own room and i saw this huge fellow marching straight across the motel straight to mix in store and he was yelling hey, dick to mr. nixon who was sleeping. so i started running and he was pounding on the door and i thought that's the end of pat buchanan. this was the brother of nelson and david rockefeller that he was a great war hero. he was the youngest of the brothers that had been involved in the 50s that i'd been reading about the great fellow. >>> next on booktv a critical look at private military contractors and argues americans should be concerned about her dependence on them. this is a little over an hour. >> good evening. thank you so much for co

he retorted, "yes, you can if it's frozen," which is the best joke i remember mr. nixon making.need action that will stop the rise in meat prices. i have ordered the cost of living council to impose a ceiling on prices of beef, pork, and lamb. the price control gamble was based on the hope that the underlying price factors would hold still. the odds almost always favor change. this time, the change was wheat. huge shipments were going overseas because of the surpluses but then a drought in the southwest destroyed much of the winter wheat crop. cattlemen saw their feed prices, which were not controlled, push higher and higher while their beef prices remained locked in a vise. farmers are a pretty independent group and the first thing they tried to do was withhold their animals from markets. that had the effect of tightening up on supplies and putting real pressure on the whole system. here was the government trying to hold down prices at a time when farmers were withholding marketings. well, we gonna hold our cattle on the farm. rather than sell hold 'em. the price should come ba

for nixon, the damage had been done. if the present trend continues mr. edy, senator kennedy will be the next president of the united states. schoumacher: kennedy won with a margin so narrow that people still argue over what tipped the balance. but nixon had no doubt. he blamed the recession of 1960 for costing him the election. historians still argue over the significance of the recession of 1960 but economists at the time were convinced that the budget surplus cost the economy jobs and growth by keeping dollars in the hands of the government rather than consumers. had eisenhower been willing to end his presidency with a deficit he might have presented his successor with more growth and the prospect of even larger surpluses in the future. we asked economic analyst richard gill to explain why economists might be opposed to budget surpluses. i've already pointed out that the federal interest payments and the national debt itself were falling all through the 1950s as a percentage of our national income. thus there seemed no urgent reason to try for a budget

years of perspective, how do you view the president nixon pardon of -- or president ford's pardon of mr. nixon? and as a historian i see a lot of political figures as gray rather than black and white. presidentvements of nixon still resonates today? >> oh, god, i hate to answer that question, because i don't really know. i think what was right in the thing probably was to -- you know, give him a second -- pardon him. >> can i tell a story about the pardon? >> go-ahead that ahead. >> the day that ford went on television about 30 days after he assumed the presidency, early on a sunday morning to announce the pardon, hoping no one would notice. it was noticed. and -- but not by me. i was asleep. and carl bernstein called me up and woke me up. now, carl, who has the ability to say what occurred in the fewest words with the most drama said -- "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch." [laughter] i am just quoting. and quite honestly, i thought and carl thought and i think -- and i know ben thought for a long time that there's something the dirty about the pardon, evidence and an aroma of a d

kenne kennedys inside the rooms were replaced by museum collections, assembled by president and mrs. nixon. the nixon white house is really the white house today in the sense of the furnishings. the -- what they did was they put history back. that truman had torn away. as a presidentiol complex, the white house served the purpose well as an office adjacent to the residence. it's very crowded. and the office staff of some 3,000 people spills over into the historical state, war and navy building. that booufl second empire building to the right of it or west of it. and across the street from there to the new executive office building, a large office -- modern office building. crowded office conditions for nearly everyone are tolerated because they have to be. being in the complex is paramount for one who works there. when one says, i work at the white house, it can mean a lot of places. a big fancy office or a broom closet. but sounds good. but the residents always remains the central focus, the defining place. here the president lives. here we imagine here every day. the closest point of hum

mr. nixon's overwhelming position was rose beyond early expectations. >> so you see that and think what? >> first of all, it is a remarkable fact that as late as 1960, richard nixon, the overwhelming favorite and unchallenged for the nomination, was in hiss felt it political interest in the middle of the night without telling anyone on his staff to fly to new york for a secret -- turnout to be a six or eight hour meeting -- at nelson rockefeller's apartment. tried to convince rockefeller to get on the ticket as vice president, and when that failed, he tried to meet rockefeller's objections on the platform, which involved -- revolves overwhelmingly around two issues, seemingly opposing one, a stronger civil rights plank. that was an issue that always mattered to his family and to nelson. we will hopefully talk about that later. but secondly, he wanted a stronger military defense plank. he wanted the party, in effect, to repudiate the policy of fiscal restraint on the budget, it including the military budget. in a terribly awkward position, yet it was believed that nelson rockefeller and t

the president was richard nixon and the author, mr. panetta written his original memoir after serving as nixon civil rights chief. if president obama feels a little raw about the book published tuesday, at least he has some company. peter baker's piece this morning about the ritual of criticizing a sitting president going back to panetta's original memoir as the civil rights leader for the next on administration. david ignatius, his column, white house shake-up? he wonders if the president needs new aids for the last two years. presidents need new energy and talent to refishish second terms. george bush opted for that in 2006. arguably saved his press dean. barack obama facing a similar moment and looking to make personnel changes after the november congressional elections. presidents value loyalty to be sure and owe must be grateful for team players after a publication this week of the memoir. a better irony that after assembling the team of rivals, strong independent personalities, panetta, gates and clinton, obama found himself secon

nixon. the detailed how the story of folded and reflected on the role of the anonymous source known as deep throat. this program is just under two hours. mr. woodwarde and were visiting with our other guests in the overthrow -- overflow area. my name is timothy naftali, director of the nixon presidential library and museum. i want to welcome all of you tonight. [applause] thank you. and now please join me and welcoming mr. ben bradlee and mr. bob woodward. [applause] [cheers and applause] right over there. right there. thank you. we are going to have a conversation tonight, but before i first of all thought i would introduce people who do not need an introduction. i will tell you something about them you might not know. he doeslee, although not look it, is a world war ii veteran. he serves -- [applause] >> atta boy. theaterrved in pacific on the uss essex. >> philip. >> it is important to keep in mind he was in the navy. that will matter in a moment. covered the 1960 campaign. he worked for "newsweek" and got to know a young senator named john f. kennedy. he produced one of the more interesting books about president kennedy called "conver

mrs. graham's. tell the desk it's okay he said. a top official of the nixonas been been a cabinet member and so forth. he doesn't want to show up in the paper like that. the official then called bradlee at home to repeat the appeal. bradlee recalled saying it just boils down to this question mr. moore of whether mitchell said it or not and whether the "washington post" reporter identified himself as a reporter and if he did that, all my requisites have been satisfied. mitchell's comments stayed in the paper. to be honest, i was frightened. bob and i were 28 and 29 years old. a raw threat from the former attorney general probably the official closest to nixon was not normal in the course of business as we knew it. the statement about doing a little story on all of us was chilling. we knew a lot about how they operated, dirty tricks, sabotage, espionage but ben did not miss a beat. this is a great story, get it in a paper fast. he couldn't wait to tell katharine graham to stop by my desk the next morning and asked with a smile and did i have any more messages f

islittle bit factual, this happened -- i have often said this and often but if richard nixon had had one strong lawyer mr. president knocked this crap off. you can't think and act like hand, there other are so much, such a mentality that drove them that maybe it was unstoppable and maybe the person who might say that would for the ovalwed office to communicate that message. think always an watergate in your chronology and the exhibit shows that if one thing did not happen, everything after at least in terms of being disclosed, disclosure hangs on the most fragile, thinnest of threads. repeatedly by myself, withholding judgment, and case it turned up the other one. i asked that -- how is history going to judge the iraq war? officeding in the oval has his hands in his pocketsj and unthinking i'm finally going to get this sob out of here and i asked how do you think history will judge the iraq war? history, we won't know, we will all be dead. >> he is ducking the question, but we don't know how -- >> that begs the question. in your work on the president, have you changed your mind about a president over the

mr. panetta's first literary effort. he started out as a republican in the nixon administration, got fired, wrote an attack book and became. one of the quite bits often passed around d.c. is that the former cia chief reads in italian. that may be true that except privately mr. panetta is more likely to be credited with in sight. a fine hand of one who advises to review, wrote in the 16th century against the backdrop of a corrupt florentine republic princes but when they sent a general into the field, leave the wisest order they can give him never risk a battle and avoid a general action. the affable mr. panetta is setting himself up as mr. washington's gray eminence. a post that has been vacant for some time now. like a weather vain for power, mr. panetta follows the winds of change. and now with an exhausted president who has all but given up, he disparages everyone except hillary, who was a presumed presidential candidate for 2016. her buddy, mr. panetta, is not retiring from the field, just clearing it for the next. >> wrigley field is getting a $575 million facelift. commissioner bud selig and chicago mayor rahm emanu

mr. yoo since you seem to think the president presidents restricted when it goes too far as with nixon andwatergate how do secrecy and other power surrounding war is to know when one has gone too far? >> you might want to help explain the question. >> the power of the person the power to declare war. john marshall explained you don't read the constitution of the united states text like the internal revenue code. you need to read it with an understanding of what its broad purposes were because they understood technology would change. the world wasn't going to be a petrified forest and all i can say is it is unmistakable to anybody grounded in the debates of the constitution, ratification process and although worries about too many wars clogs in the arteries of war, that all those who vote to ratify believe that congress alone has the authority to initiate and the president could compel immediate attacks. i don't think we have to quibble about semantical jug way that you could do if you wanted to get really refined references to the dictionary but just go to the major point. the reason why w

mr. yoo since you seem to think the president presidents restricted when it goes too far as with nixon andwatergate how do secrecy and other power surrounding war is to know when one has gone too far? >> you might want to help explain the question. >> the power of the person the power to declare war. john marshall explained you don't read the constitution of the united states text like the internal revenue code. you need to read it with an understanding of what its broad purposes were because they understood technology would change. the world wasn't going to be a petrified forest and all i can say is it is unmistakable to anybody grounded in the debates of the constitution, ratification process and although worries about too many wars clogs in the arteries of war, that all those who vote to ratify believe that congress alone has the authority to initiate and the president could compel immediate attacks. i don't think we have to quibble about semantical jug way that you could do if you wanted to get really refined references to the dictionary but just go to the major point. the reason why w

nixon lost to jfk. the orchestra did voter fraud and it was exactly this, the machines were rigged. david: they were lovers. >> every voter who entered those machines went back for mr. kennedy. >> that was the jimmy hoffa deal. david: mayor daley was the one. >> you are right, that doctors getting amazing hair at bellevue. david: appreciate it. americans out of work looking for jobs. after the break, to businesses looking to hire. stay tuned for that. can you start tomorrow? yes sir. alright. let's share the news tomorrow. today we failrly busy. tomorrow we're booked solid. we close on the house tomorrow. i want one of these opened up. because tomorow we go live... it's a day full of promise. and often, that day arrives by train. big day today? even bigger one tomorrow. when csx trains move forward, so does the rest of the economy. csx. how tomorrow moves. an unprecedented program arting busithat partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo... start

nixon's council to be a federal prison. upon his release from prison, his work actually started in 1979. that is where the justice fellowship was founded and i'm grateful to you, mr. chairman and for your support as has been mentioned for the cosponsoring of the smarter sentencing act. i believe that we would applaud your work in that area. solitary confinement in theory is for the worst of the worst of the prisoners. case and point is in illinois where a study was conducted and found 85% were sent to disciplinary segregation for a minor rule violation and prisoners to these circumstances do not have their cases individually reviewed and looked at from oversight. there was an analogy over police officers and when they are struck or other things, but the justice system does a greater job on the outside of the walls of having accountability and individual review than segregation had historically. when it comes to the discussion about mental illness, our families suffering from those that are too often punished rather than treated, i would like to share the story of a man named kevin that i am privileged to know in michigan who is diagnosed at 11 years old. at 14 he