that's the nation mr. nixonerited but if you take a look back at the inaugural it is immensely conciliatory. in other words he held out his hand to foreign powers and others at home and said let's listen to each other and stop shouting at each other. he went on a very successful early to her, apollo 11 the first launch of astronauts into space came in the middle of july and all i can remember is it was magnificent this gigantic rocket and i remember ray price saying the noise alone was worth the 23 billion when nothing rose o off. he gave a speech and talked about a new foreign policy where we help our friend. i think that it was far ahead of its time and frankly right on the money. then came october and all the demonstrations were forming. it was the calm before the sto storm. and i know david was the leading liberal columnist of the day at the "washington post." he wrote on the eighth of october and said we are about to see the making of the president. it'president. it's becoming more obvious with every passin

various have done a lot, but this two who did the most are jacqueline kennedy and mrs. nixon. two minutes left. caller: good morning. who select the contractor? does donald trump have his hand in any of that? can you tell me how long this might take before the president have to ber will we paying for extra time? guest: president trump had nothing to do with the contractor or this job. --s is usually done with the through the general services administration. is a federal government organization that handles these kinds of things. not just white house upkeep, but federal buildings everywhere. they are the ones that picked the contractor i think. know there are folks who do not like president trump and can read into this, but i am pretty sure he is absolutely nothing to do with the selection of the contractor or this. again, the approval of this job dates back to the obama era. president trump happens to be the president right now, but he had nothing to do with it. lee, republican. go ahead. many weeksre are so coming out of the white house that i am wondering whether anything an

since mr. nixon was president of the united states and opened relations again with china rather infamously, we have had the collapse of communism in eastern europe, we have had uprisings in tiananmen square of course. we have had the collapse of the soviet union in 1991. we have had a. o period of weak russia in the 1990's as it was struggling after 70 years of communism and the sudden collapse of communism. we have 15 successive states as a result come including russia. forging global relationships and partnerships. began a rather dramatic recovery economically. came into office and has proclaimed that russia is once again a great power, a power to be reckoned with. russia seized -- from their perspective, took back crimea. it had been sanctioned as a , thet by the united states european union but not by china. in the intervening period, 2014 and 2016, china and russia signed agreement on russian oils to china. counterbalance to american power. states beganunited europe too asia from counter chinese

the first thing, jonathan and the other organizers, thank mr. nixon for coming and for your interesting program. we approached the question that kathryn asked by posing one for all of us to think about. the extent to which the strategic insight that president nixon had enacted on in the late 1960's was essentially a one-shot, a tremendous advantage from complicating moscow's by opening upulus the relationship with china, or as one that had continuing consequences for the way in which the countries interacted. it was mostly a front-end loaded, the u.s. reaped very, very substantial benefits from that relationship. in my answer to china, it was useful to china's leaders to be able to pretend that they could use the strategic relationship to counterbalance the u.s. as china entered its reform program and accepted a high degree of dependence on the u.s. and the u.s.-led liberal national order. -- international order. it was useful for domestic political reasons to say we can counterbalance the americans with first the soviets and now the russians. i think

>> thanks to jonathan and the nixon library and thank you, mr. nixon, for being with us this evening. going back to the tape from talkdent nixon, as we tonight about this triangle or relationship between russia and u.s., important to look back in history even as we talk about partnerships and alliances today and remember that we can often get it quite wrong and we have gotten it quite wrong. ixon in 1972 had the strategic courage to go to beijing but it was evident to many scholars and many in the intelligence committee in the 1950's that there was an opportunity at that point as china and the soviet union at that time were having very sharp differences which were just missed until the 1960's. relationship with china through the 1980's, there a kind of romantic notion of this relationship with china which the united states has had for its history through the 1700s when we began to trade with china, in the world war ii and these wild swings from world war ii to communism to the korean war. china, aopening of more romantic view of china, which was not su

. >> now, mr. nixonily and he wasn't even campaigning which shows you how well a politician can do if he keeps his mouth shut. >> here we are. reagan and carter. ♪ what kind of choice is this >> mark russell would get out his piano and make gentle fun at politicians, but so gentle that he could then go hang out with them afterwards. ♪ can it be true no matter which one wins ♪ >> i would get criticized more often for being too gentle than for being too harsh. i was not a bomb thrower. i was not an anarchist. i was too safe. >> i kept seeing pictures of kennedy and krushov together, they needed a caption, like, dad, can i have keys to the car? >> mort sahl was over political, partisan, a comedian taking a stand, having a point of view. this is something new. >> when kennedy was president, mort sahl was taking hits at kennedy, and many hard-hitting. many were surprised. he saw his job to go after whoever was in power, be they republican, democrat. >> do you have an agent now? >> no, and i can't get one. >>

thanks to me add my jonathan for inviting us here this evening and to mr. nixon for being here and all of you for coming to the panel. point pick up exactly the that tom finished. use of the u.s. shouldn't be too worried if russia and china had good relations. i think the first point to make is russia and china probably have better relations now than at any point since 1972, when president nixon made that remark . in fact, in 1969, the soviet union and china had very nearly disputesar over border but also rather deeper divisions. i spent the morning here working in the archives and looking at documents relating to the u.s. sino-sovietd conflict. it was difficult to know how dangerous the situation was. from subsequent testimony that, in fact, the chinese leadership was very worried about the possibility of the soviet attack. movenk president nixon's in the short term to use relations with china as an instrument of pressure on the tom,t union, i agree with that works. and the longer term, it was a very wise decision because his when china is a very powerful countr

. >> now mr. nixon won easily and he wouldn't even campaigning, which can show you how well a politician and do it if he keeps his mouth shut. >> here we are, reagan and carter -- ♪ >> mark russell would get on his piano and make gentle fun of politicians, so gentle he could hang out with them afterwards. ♪ >> i would get criticized more often for being too gentle and than for being too hash. i have not a bom thrower, i was too safe. >> i kept seeing pictures of kennedy and crew shift together, they look like they needed a new capture. looked like, dad may i have the keys to the car. >> mort saw saul was overtly political. a comedian taking a stand having a point of view. this was something new. >> when john kennedy became president, mort's always doing bits ab kennedy. many of them hart hitting and people were surprised. he saw himself as whose job it was to go after whoever was in power, be it republican and democrat. >> do you have an agent now? >> no, and i can't get one. the last one i had was fred

. >> and there's still no evidence that mr. nixon himself committedded illegalities.retired because he didn't want to embarrass the country -- neil: well, he was actively involved in the cover-up -- >> we can debate that. that's not contemporary news. neil: i mean, you did listen to the tapes, right? >> yeah. neil: okay, all right. >> you can debate it. neil: okay, all right. >> but what i was going to refer to in the president's remarks in west virginia was, all right, if you want to do this, then let's -- if we're into this, let's be fair here. let's deal with the democrats too. there's a great deal more evidence -- or at least apparent evidence -- of possible wrongdoing, serious wrongdoing in the clinton foundation, the clinton campaign, the e-mails, the wasserman schultz fiasco, the unmasking of these people in the trump campaign with spurious surveillance in trump tower. i'm not saying anybody's guilty with, but there's a great deal of smoke there than there is in this foolishness about collusion with russia. there's never been any evidence of that at all. neil:

mrs. warren. it's nice to meet you, i say. is your husband part of the nixon white house? no, dear. he's the chief justice of the supreme court. mrs. warren smiles pleasantly and drifts away. the next selection takes place in november of 1969. at that time demonstrations against the vietnam war were growing in size and becoming a nationwide movement. the scene begins with the launch of the apollo 12 mission to the moon at cape canaveral florida with our family attended as guests of nasa. this chapter is called "shades of gray." the rocket moved slowly, struggling to gain the tremendous force it needs to break free. when the sound catches up with us, the powerful roar causes the grand stand to tremble. little puddles of rainwater dance and jiggle on the asphalt below. on the launchpad the scaffolding collapses and apollo 12 climbs steadily upward. its mightily roar turns into a deep rumble when it is swallowed up by the low storm clouds. soon only a dull glow is left in the sky. as soon as the launch is over bob and john ir lickman leave to join the president on air force one for the

most of them demanded impeaching mr. nixon. few congressmen were in town because of the holiday.ng those here and impressed by his telegram was democrat morris udall. >> they come from republicans and businessmen and people most of whom begin their statement by saying, i've supported the president. i've never believed in impeachment, but he's now gone too far, and we're going to have to -- we want the congress to take strong action. there's a real wave out there in the country today, ray, on impeachment, and it's got support it never had before. >> telegrams. a year and a half into the watergate scandal, richard nixon discovered the limits of what the public was willing to put up with. americans would not sit still for the president of the united states trying to kill off the investigation into his administration. for voters, that was a bridge too far. well, we're now a year into the investigation of a different president with a special counsel and a grand jury in d.c. plus lots of white house staffers lawyering up. there's no way to know yet how all this ends, but we can try to

they are all part of a pattern that resulted from mr. nixon in obstruction of justice being the strongest charge in the impeachment it bill against him. where it will end up in the greater picture with trump, we don't know the. but it's going to be a factor. >> why would it be a factor? to ray's point, the idea that just because something that could be i guess misfeasance, doing something the wrong thing, not necessarily malfeasance in the law which would put you into the criminal territory. why would this ever wind up putting you on the road to impeachment what is the theory that would get you there? >> it wouldn't put you on the road. it would be a weigh station along the road. it shows state of mind. here he clearly made a deliberate misstatement of the facts. he's trying to cover up. in fact, the remarkable thing is, everything that this white house has done since they've assumed office and it actually predates that, has been to show a cover-up mode. if they wanted to solve this, they could. there are many ways you could end this. they don

mr. comey, he's obstructing justice. nixon obstructed justice but there is an underlying crime. there was knowledge. so, can there be obstruction with underlying crime? >> caller: good morning. i'm afraid your guest poetic is a bridge too far. we have to go back to andrew jackson, obviously mr. trump has been friendly with american nazis, with the kkk, he doesn't know david duke but he seems to be unaware of the other trends in our society and what have you. i think you have to recognize that in all of his dealings which historically he doesn't pay subcontractors, he doesn't recognize certain realities, there's nothing there with russia. will let them see if there's anything there with russia. yet paul manafort, all of these individuals who are lobbyists, you have flynn who is an unannounced lobbyist for turkey. all of these people who served on his cabinet are essentially millionaires and billionaires who have absolutely no experience in any of the areas i think mister. the energy when he was nominated didn't even know he was responsible for nuclear weapons. >> we got your poin

mr. bush: i got a break in a way. the democrats did well in 1974 because president nixon resigned. against a congressman who was one of his father's best friends. he had an 85% approval rating, and 99% name recognition. mr. bush: that is called suicide. >> [laughter] mr. clinton: i was zero and he beat me. about three points. it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. we wound up being friends too. but this district we ran in had the highest amount of gasoline use per registered vehicle in america, because it was all on hilly roads. and you had to do stuff people don't do anymore. your television ads did not amount to anything if you did not do retail campaigning. and i learned 75% of what i know about politics in that first race. david: at the time hillary came down to help you with the campaign. did you think she was going to stay down in arkansas and marry you? arkansas was not considered, in her world, the center of the universe exactly. mr. clinton: i did not, no. i already asked her choice to -- asked her twice to marry me and she said no both times. smart girl. s

mr. clinton: no. i got a break, in a way. the democrats did well in 1974 because president nixon resigned. nst a congressman who was one of his father's best friends. he had an 85% approval rating, and 99% name recognition. mr. bush: that is called suicide. [laughter] mr. clinton: i was zero and he beat me 51-48. about three points. it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. we wound up being friends too. but this district we ran in had the highest amount of gasoline use per registered vehicle in america, because it was all on hilly roads. and you had to do stuff people don't do anymore. your television ads did not amount to anything if you did not do retail campaigning. and i learned 75% of what i know about politics in that first race. david: at the time hillary came down to help you with the campaign. did you think she was going to stay down in arkansas and marry you? arkansas was not considered, in her world, the center of the universe exactly. [laughter] mr. clinton: i did not, no. i already asked her twice to marry me and she said no both times. smart girl. [laughter] so

mr. bush: i got a break in a way. 1974emocrats did well in because president nixon resigned. inst a congressman was one of his father's best friends. he had an 85% approval rating, and 99% name recognition. mr. bush: that is called suicide. and henton: i was zero beat me. it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. we wound up being friends too. this district had the highest amount of gasoline use in america, because it was all on hilly roads. you are television ads did not amount to anything if you did not do retail campaigning. i've learned 75% of what i know about politics in that first race. david: at the time hillary came down to help you with the campaign. did you think she was going to stay down in arkansas and mary you? center ofas not her the universe exactly. mr. clinton: i did not, no. i already asked her choice to marry me and she said no. . both times. smart girl. they liked her so much at the law school they offered her a job teaching. she didn't have anything else to do. she was working with the house judiciary committee. when that whole thing was ov

nixon there was culpable knowledge. host: boko raton, florida. caller: i am afraid, mr. d'souza , you're making this a bridge too far. you have to go back to andrew jackson. obviously mr. trump has been friendly with the american nazis, with the kkk, david duke. of theomehow unaware other trends in our society, and what have you. i think you have to recognize dealings,n all of his historically, he does not pay subcontractors. he doesn't recognize certain realities. there is nothing there with russia, well let us see if there is nothing there with russia. you have paul manafort, all of the individuals who are lobbyists. you have the unannounced lobbyist for turkey. cabinet.turk in his essentially millionaires and billionaires who have no experience in any of the areas. , when he was nominated for energy secretary, didn't even know he was responsible for nuclear weapons. tost: outright to zoom in one or two of the key points. with regard to the business about racism, the clue clucks clan, david duke is a persona republicann the party. he is an outlier. robert byrd was the conscience of the senate, the mentor to hillary

mrs. reagan actually worked together to stop richard nixon.hey were both concerned about nixon as president of the united states. here is the reagan discovery that i'm so excited about, but i wanted to share with the rest of the world. on page 218, we read reagan believe you deserve a certain minimal standard of living so long as you contributed according to your ability. on page 267, we read reagan believed that benefits should go to people who need them. >> from each according to his ability to each according to their need. [laughter] >> at 7:00. i have to bring this to a close. it's always a pleasure to host things with bill. i would like to thank all of our panelists and finally to offer my congratulations to henry olsen. a good friend of henry olsen for this new book. please buy books for sale. they will all be here to autograph books if you'd like to do so. thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we are exceptionally excited to welcome steve early here tonight. the last time was done in a smaller space where

mrs. reagan really liked him. they work together 1968 to stop richard nixon there that concerned about next and as president of the united states. >> here is the reagan discovery that i'm so excited about that i wanted to share with the rest of the world. thank you c-span. on page 218, we read that reagan believed that you deserved a minimal standard of living so long as you contributed according to ability. of page 267 we read that reagan believed that benefits should go to people who need them. each according to the ability. where have we heard that before? >> sadly i have to bring this to a close. i want to begin by thanking bill, always a pleasure to host things with you. and i think our hot panelist and finally to offer my congratulations to henry olson, good friend for this new book and please, buy books there for sale and they will all be here to autograph their books if you'd like to have them do so. thank you. [applause] [inaudible]listen using the fren radio out. >> in this final battle, joseph writes about the last days of franklin d roosevelt's life. he talked about the book at the fdr library in hyde

and the nixon people remained quiet and john kennedy placed a phone call to mrs. king, coretta scott king to express his great concern and support for her. and it made a differece. it sent a clear signal. i think the president's team ought to be devising a series of steps that would be healing. and show a recognition and acceptance on his part that we're dealing with terrorists. he has been -- you know, he's gone way over board to condemn islamic terrorism, but there are studies that have shown in the last decade or so, the number of domestic cases of terrorism have been double that of islamic related terrorism in this country. so -- and this administration is proposing to cut the funding for the programs that deal with domestic terrorism. >> that fight domestic terrorists and some of these hate groups. exactly. this morning on "state of the union." the mayor of charlottesville accused the president of emboldening some of these hate groups. >> look at the campaign he ran, look at the intentional courting both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white

mrs. reagan really liked nelson rockefeller. they worked together in 1968, stopped richard nixon from getting the nomination, they were concernedabout nixon as president of the united states. >> here is -- here is the reagan discovery, so excited about, but i want to share with rest of the world, thank you, c-span. on page 218, we read reagan believed that you deserved a certain minimal standard of living so long as you contributed according to your ability. on page 267 of henry's book we read that reagan believed benefits should go to people who need them. from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. where have we heard that before? >> 7:00, let's move it to a close, i want to thank henry olsen, and bill galston and all of our panelists, jonah goldberg, karlyn bowman and craig shirley and congratulations to henry olsen. ..

out, they will like the people who surrounded richard nixon, live with that for the rest of their lives. >> which brings us to one last question, mr argue that having mass resignations or people of influence leaving him puts him in isolation, operationally, logistically, informationally, and that has consequences on the country as well. you're willing to live with those, i assume? >> no. that's part of the calculus that an individual has to make. and certainly some of the people in the most responsible national security positions, i can understand a feeling on their part that their presence is needed to prevent hugely and temperate and dangerous acts at times of hatred or intervention in the world but for those who work in the political staff n t, in the communication staff, in the legislative staff, in the range of cabinet departments, i think it's hard to invoke that calculus in a serious way. i think the experience over time is that people maintain their desire to remain in power and to not rock the boat. and that's how evil things happen there's always evil in the world. there's always wrong in the world. but the question is w

nixon when you had him running ads about violent anti-vietnam war protesters. there's a long history here and a very resonant chord that it strikes with voters. >> mr. sykes, where are the republicans? >> well, the worst are full of passionate intensity and the best lack all conviction. you know, jeremy is absolutely right. you know, this has been a theme we've seen for a long time. look, how many times have we sat and asked, have we crossed a line. think about how many times you have had republican leaders rationalize, enable, look the other way whether it's "access hollywood," whether it's the birther conspiracy, whether it's the attacks on the mexican-american judge and the reality is that for a lot of them, this is an insoluble problem. a year and a half ago, some of us were warning the republican party, if you embrace donald trump, you're going to embrace every slur, every gaffe. you're going to embrace all of this character. i know the people like paul ryan are hope forth time when they'll be able to come back to women, minorities, young people say that wasn't us. that's not who we are. but the reality is, if you support donald trump, if you d

mr. preside. >> the town is not known for its courage. that is why if you gets a big victory -- look. bill clinton put aside ha he did, he survived because he had a booming economy, nixonousy economy. if you get an economy where people pea peal feel -- feel it president trump can do what ni needs to do on almost anything. people don't care if they feel their lives are getting better bottom line. lou: people do sense that, woo over 4 trillion in market cap, been added since this president of the elected over a million jobs created. we watch plants come back to the country, just as this president, sing -- said would happen, we're watching the jobs come back from overseas. yet he is not getting the credit he deserves from any quarter, including and really, especially from the republican party that are looking to be really a gathering of jackals on capitol hill. >> have you a problem of the establishment, you out flank the establishment, they have to do a real effort on outside group, they have all these instrument. you create your own new rules. in, you do it in politics, i hope that change in white house will get a real communication effort where they get their message o

what happened to richard nixon 40 years ago when it was the most classic conservative, bare gold water when he walked across the street to 1600 pennsylvania avenue mr. president it's time for you to go. who are the conservatives who have that level of gravitas and can do that. i think it may be someone that's already on white house grounds. mike pence. so i think we've got a long way to go is what i'm saying before the president is really fundamentally shaken. >> when it comes to republicans, who remain silent, how complicit are they in kind of approving of this type of poor leadership, this bad behavior? >> you know, there's two two ways that they are. it's getting harder. i think for tim scott, he's the loan black republican right now, from south carolina. very religious man. he's been stopped a half-dozen times in the last 18 months alone. i think bob corker, you've got to be worried about the safety of the country, right, while that chaos happens internally, what kind of things happen externally. by the way, what bannon said publicly about north korea was not helpfulment that actually put a lot of people at risk. so who am i waiting to hear fro

nixon look like a calm, sane individual. >> i'm sure you've heard the criticisms from the president's supporters who say it's the media telling falsehoods about trump's ratings on race. since mrhas said words condemning neo-nazis. why do you feel his response was -- >> it's tried to put blame on both sides. even if -- they were there because of the nazis and confederates. when they marched the night before with those tiki torches it was a reminder of crystal in 1938 german terrorism on jewish people in berlin, and it also looked like klan rallies where they used to have big bonfires and burn crosses. so, the whole idea of the fire, i mean, it was so well staged to remind people of that and say, jews will not take our place, blood and soil. these were the most bone chilling sounds and chant and they were in lockstep. there were very fine people there in the march. the president was not willing to disengage them from his political team and that's wrong. we should not have somebody who depends on white supremacists and kkk. they're part of his 32%. i don't know how he can go lower. those people have drunk the kool-aid. he's the harold hill of this generation, the music man of th

nixon. he keeps going back to the seasonable of the crime. two weeks ago, he said it was also about russian adoptions. trump can't double down on a story that mrll well isn't true. it smacks hard of cover-up. richard mullhouse trump. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >> he weighed in. offered a suggestion like any father would do. >> the white house caught red handed. >> the president weigh in the as any father would. >> president trump helped his son mislead the country with attempted campaign collusion with russians. >> it is called opposition ref. >> as i sight, they talked about adoption. >> and the incredible new charges. claiming the president and the fox news channel coordinated a conspiracy theory to distract from russian election interference. plus about, those sanctions. >> has the president

mr. president respectfully if you cross these lines i will be compelled to resign. every white house chief of staff has to be repaired to resign. when gerald ford was in freefall after pardoning richard nixon in 1974, his chief of staff don rumsfeld, he decide dhd that he would start grooming a successor. he picked a young guy named dick cheney who ultimately turned out to be a good chief of staff. john kelly has to be prepared to resign if donald trump crosses one of these lines again. >> all right, chris whipple, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> we are expecting at any moment a grieving from texas governor greg abbot for the latest information on the efforts to save countless people trapped in the vast flooding in the lone star state. in the meantime, neighbors are doing everything they can to help their fellow citizens in houston. >> i've seen the water come up a lot and i've seen a lot of people that doesn't want to leave their home but we managed to get them out and got them to a dry area. the last time we flooded i bought the boat in case people needed my help so i keep it around and when it floods i pull it out and if anybody needs anything i help them. >>> getting a look at