mrs. nixon's posse. they love mrs. nixon and they have all been so wonderful to me and so without the women, since, you know, i'm really focused on mrs. nixon and women's history, they really know going on they were watching. they observed relationships that is crucial. and i in person is always the best but when that failed due to covid telephone calls emails texts you know whatever takes to get the story while second that it's better talking to somebody in person than over the phone or you know some other venue so indeed indeed well he you know,

so what were mrs. nixon and richard nixon's relationship like while he was in the white house? and did their love letters continue? he was traveling in and out. and as was serving as first lady. right. well know things change. and i think particularly when you are busy, remember or at that point we've been through elections, we have two beautiful daughters. everyone is spinning plates, you know, trying to keep up with everything. so love letters, of course, know, diminish. i haven't seen any from that time piod, but though i'm not quite up to that noi can't say for sure there aren't any because i'm working my way through all of them. but at that point i think what haens is he is consumed with politics and she trying to take care of the chilen and be a political wife. but at is evident is the pat an-- team. sohere are many references to this all through the time, running up through the vice president c into the first the election of 1960 and in 68. they are a team. they are together going on all over the world. in fact, president eisenhower actually told --, bring pat with you o

kennedy and the children and she was so grateful to president mrs. nixon and the nixon daughters for making it just a very happy occasion for mrs. and her children to return to the home, that they remembered living in with their father and obviously mrs. kennedy was very nervous leading up to it, but was just so grateful at how warm the nixon family was and how what a great tour guide president nixon was showing john the oval office. and i think the desk where, y know, john used to hide hide. ando the only way you haven't seen it, what i would suggest you seek out at the nixon library are the beautiful letters that jacqueline kennedy and both caroline john wrote to president and mrs. nixon following that visit and what it meant to them to be there the white house. really, mrs. kennedy's letters is beautiful. she was a beautiful writer. she wrote a letter like. no one else could. but john and caroline's notes are are also particularly sweet and think those letters are available in the nixon library archives. sorry. and then barbara from saint paul ask did f

and in the was especially since the director given by mr. nixon was not suggesting us go off of vietnam. but to, as i said, withdrawal was on a meeting to say that they wanted to withdraw on the south region collapse immediately. so under those conditions, you know, the, you know, the strong couldn't be immediate the end of the walk in the media. but i think, what is, what makes us it makes us guessing the effort to withdraw with all the men also, bombing allows bombing. okay, and bodya and vision, camber, yes, a. and the dc relies ation or presumes into lawson can bodya. another component is allowing for the rise of the committee, which and it's dennis. i just have one final question for you. i prefer as a drawing up. how would you say us views on the world have changed since henry kissinger's time? well us, i think when you began, i mean. ready you escalation has transformed very significantly from, from the cold war. and there seem to be as we do on the and the p. c, which was seen as the ticket. oh, oh, see it now. and it means to put pressure on the soviet union to create. they tal

it's hard to say that people have done things and in the was especially since the director given by mr. nixon was not to just have to us go off of vietnam. but to, as i said, withdrawal was on a meeting to say that they wanted to withdraw on the south region collapse immediately. so under those conditions, you know, the, you know, the strong couldn't be immediate the end of the walk in the media. but i think what is, what makes us it makes us guessing the effort to withdraw with on a meant also, bombing allows farming. ok. bodya and vision, cambodia a under the stabilize ation of regions into boston kimberlia. another component is allowing for the rise between a huge and instead of just one final question for you, i prefer as a strong how would you say us views on the world have changed since henry kissinger's time? well, so i think when you began, i mean the us, the nation has transformed very significantly from, from the cold war. and there seem to be as we do on the and the p i. c, which was seen as the ticket. oh, i'll see it now. and it means to put pressure on the soviet union to create

president, mr. nixon in the presidency.g from the plains spokenness of plains, georgia, to the white house. and of course, the controversies dealing with the iranian hostage crisis that he endured for 444 days. she also participated in many of the charitable attributes habitat for humanity, building homes for the less fortunate, traveling the world, for the carter center. mr. carter is known for the camp david accords as well as for his participation in the human rights chip carter, one of their sons. others jacques involved in politics, elected to local politics in georgia. and what is shocking to a lot of people, i think, is that she was just the carter center announced a couple of days ago that she was suffering from dementia, entered into hospice at this all the time while her husband has been in hospice care since earlier this year. he is right now 98 years old. she was 96. and even after serving in the white house, they returned to their home in plains, georgia, which they bought in 1961 for $167,000. he was $1 millio

mr. nixon's book stands out its clear, direct prose in the scrupulous research on which it is based. the end notes frequently cite archive letters and other primary sources, and that really is how you wrote this book, that it is based in the documents and and the in the research. and it's i mean, hard to top that. that was a terrific review in the pages of the wall street journal. so luke, we jump into many of your key that you found from the from the archival research you're very familiar with. the nixon white house tapes. you wrote two volumes with douglas brinkley called the nixon tapes. you've written a biography of henry lodge junior. why now jump to 1968 and why write this book? well, i first of all, thanks to the library and the and the foundation for hosting the event, it's such a great from chapman. i have my colleagues are sitting here in the front and especially to the students. you football to compete with here tonight as as tennis so you have as if were a student i have other distractions probably and especially it's special for me because. my wife jennifer and daughter

nixon, i know. who else, kissinger. mccarthy, similar questions. and then you say i treated and mr. president, you are prepared to put forth and way before you knew what was going to happen. nixon, good, al told me you slaughtered the bastards, keep it up. [laughter] >> kissinger, that is what i am here for. keep it up nixon said, no question. what -- i mean, i'm shocked, absolutely shocked. there's gambling at the white house. why were you so upset that a reporter would ask you a question about this and why were you feeding nixon with these lines that you have to treat the bastards with contempt, why? >> you have to remember we had been through two weeks, three weeks of nonstop crisis. that was the week that had started in moscow as i had described. we had barely come back when the new crisis started where we were practically every night israelis having army after the ceasefire had been made and we were pretty convinced that the soviet union could not tolerate destruction of egyptian army after ceasefire that it be negotiated in moscow and signed by the soviet leaders and wednesday

mr. ailes is here, and he might like to-- - roger ailes actually advised nixon in the white house, on communicationsh sought to make fox's studios the replacement for the smoke-filled backrooms that the old party bosses used to have. [crowd cheering] the thing about trump-- like murdoch, like ailes--he was willing to steamroll a convention. - the united states is run by stupid people. we have stupid leadership. - he was willing to steamroll norms. - he's not a war hero. - he's a war hero. - he's a war hero 'cause he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, okay? i hate to-- - he didn't really care about playing by anybody else's rules, and many of the figures that trump was attacking were the figures that fox had been attacking. - i think it's very important that it wasn't just trump. it was trump and one of our two major political parties, and it was a whole media echo system that surrounds that party. - this defines reality. - we're in cold spring, which is part of philipstown. i was the supervisor of philipstown, so i generally call it philipstown, although i grew up calling it cold spr

mr. president, kennedy sent them back to the farm. and a year before richard nixon his daughter chose to gift his turkey to a local petting zoo. it was ronald reagan who carved out a spot in history as the first to use the word "pardon" when talking turkey in 1987. the tradition became formalized two years later by president george h.w. bush. >> let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table, not this guy. laura: the event is now an annual white house ritual. and for the last decade, the turkeys have received a treat that's as sweet as pie -- a stay at the 4-star willard hotel. instead of moving to the dinner table, liberty and bell will live out the rest of their lives trotting around the university of minnesota's campus farm in st. paul. for the "pbs newshour," i'm laura barron-lopez. geoff: so these two turkeys will head to the university of minnesota college of food and agriculture to rest their feathers. amna: this is one of the favorite pieces i do every year. it just is. geoff: as always, there is more coverage o

nixon spoke of. >> yes. thank you, sean. first of all, my deepest sympathies to mrs. kissinger and the rest of the kissinger family. lived such a long and substantial life and it's never easyhe to lose someone. and i considered henry kissinger a friend. so i am very saddened by thisis news. yeah. you know, sean, my very firsty s job out of college was with the former president, richard nixoti . and during that period of time, i got to know a whole arra got yun of heads of state around the world and other diplomats otn. orld and other diplomats and the one, of course, that stood out apart from nin was dr.ean,apart from kissinger. and so i will tell you i,e the very first time i spoke to him, i was, you know early 20th and first out of college. and i rememberw, sittingdent with president nixon in his study in his office, and the phone rang and it was dr. kissinger. and over the interco m, nixon's assistant said, i have dr. kissinger on the post for you.vy and so i went to get up to give him some privacy to take the call, and he waved mehe back down into my chair. so he

nixon, ford and carter. and that's where they really bonded. and and the same thing happened with the first lady's, mrs. carter spoke at a betty ford's funeral. the family asked her to speak. susan ford is on the advisory committee that rosalynn has at the carter center on mental illness. so there's a very close bond between the family and maybe part of it was they both went through the the trauma of of failing to be reelected. now, the white house was a busy spot because two of the sons and their wives and children moved in for part of the time. and amy was there. and and then the national so got introduced to miss lillian and to president carter's brother, billy. yeah. this little thing was really the celebrity. when the democratic national convention was held in the summer of 1976. most of the delegates had already met the carter family, except for miss lulling, because shhastayed home to take care ofmy. so when sheashe carter family member that people hadn't already met. t big push at the convention was because i can i get to meet lillian carter? well, it was exciting to be in elementary school at t

from the oval office without any reason. mediators, for example, nixon and a soviet diplomat are discussing the end of the vietnam war. mrflew to russia as an informal negotiator. commenting on the current russian-american relations, or rather their actual absence, kisinger spoke with pragmatist position. washington simply cannot imagine a break with moscow. in the long term, russian-american relations, like russia's relations with europe, will pose a huge challenge to diplomacy for both russia and the united states, nuclear powers with advanced technologies. constant tension between us will lead to consequences for all humanity and will give china the opportunity to make a breakthrough. his main rule is that confrontation should not upset the balance. a zero-sum game where the winner takes all and the loser goes broke kissenger considered it dangerous because the higher the stakes, the higher the escalation. he spoke about the crisis of the existing world order 15 years ago, but even he, the eminence grise henry kissinger, did not become a prophet in his fatherland. all over the world, many hot spots of unrest are simul

nixon, to the obama administration. his most recent book the fight of hi' life inside joe biden's white house examines internal power struggles and policymaking in the first years the biden presidency. welcome mr. whipple. they are joined on the stage which jesus. professor james from the more steam school of law. needs no introduction. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> think your present opposed everything to everyone for joining us today. this plenary discussion in my distant was colleague. we have spent a lot of time over the last day and a half examinepresident obama's electi. his media coverage but his communication strategy. we have just had two fantastic sessions this morning on foreign policy, u.s. transatlantic relations, all the panels on healthcare policy and foreign policy leadership and military intervention. this is a session where we get to talk a little bit about the decision-making behind the scenes. it is essential for those in political science and so many colleagues in the audience and presidential studies to understand how white house management influences the policy making process and shapes the agenda and the policy breed that's what we are looking forward to discussin

mr. baker. chris whipple is author, political commentator and documentary filmmaker, one of his books, the president's explores the evolution of the white house chief of staff's responsibilities. in the past 50 years. from nixon to the obama administration's to his most recent book, the fight of his life inside joe biden's white house examines eternal internal power struggles and policy making. in the first two years of the biden presidency. and welcome mr. whipple, they are joined on the stage by rich hayes, the zagreb school of business, and professor james sample from the morris dean school of law. and of course, by bose at this point needs no introduction. so i will now hand it over dr. bose to to begin this afternoon's conversation. thank you. thank you. president posner. and thank you, everyone, for us today. we is very exciting to host this panel, this plenary discussion. so many distinguished speakers and my distinguished colleagues, we've spent a lot of time over the last day and a half examining president obama's election his media coverage, his communication strategies. we've just had two fantastic sessions this morning foreign policy, u.s. transatlantic relations. we've had scholarly panels on hea

mrs. nixon's posse. they love mrs. nixon and they have all been so wonderful to me and so without the women, since, you know, i'm really focused on mrs. nixon and women's history, they really know going on they were watching. they observed relationships that is crucial. and i in person is always the best but when that failed due to covid telephone calls emails texts you know whatever takes to get the story while second that it's better talking to somebody in person than over the phone or you know some other venue so indeed indeed well he you know, i have to close it out here are wonderful questions that are that had put forth and i want thank you so much for sharing about this remarkable between the nixons with all of us here this evening. i loved being herei. nestled among the skyscrapers of midtown manhattan stands a little white country a symbol calm and peaceful country life on one of new york's busiest thoroughfare. this pick me among giants is not the whim of an eccentric millionaire. it is placed in this unusual