, you're to blame ♪ ♪ mr. nixon, you're to blame ♪ mr. e one-time white house aide to former president nixon has ended his brief career as an ice cream pitchman on television. by all accounts the ad campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. it's unbelievable. and believe me, an i'm an expert on that subject. >> the california ice cream company said the response was so negative, the commercials were being taken off the air immediately. >>> we interrupt this late-development -- >> we don't know what happened. >> oh, my good. he's been shot. >> the president of the united states has been shot. >> i could see it through the viewfinder. even now. >> an inch from his heart. >> he was minutes away from not making it. >> who is the shooter? >> he said, you know about that, you know about everything. >> a bizarre motive. >> he thought the relationship was real. >> he was a really disturbed person. >> and his crime changed history. the shooting of ronald reagan. next.

, you're to blame ♪ ♪ mr. nixon, you're to blame ♪ mr. out of a job. the one-time white house aide to former president nixon has ended his brief career as an ice cream pitchman on television. by all accounts the $campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. it's unbelievable. and believe me, an i'm an expert on that subject. >> the california ice cream company said the response was so negative, the commercials were being taken off the air immediately. >>> good evening. tonight the unbelievable words of a man who says he's not a monster. and the proud, brave words of one of the three women to whom he was precisely that. a captor, a torturer, a rapist, a killer, in short, a monster. the three endured all of that year after year, held captive by ariel castro in his torture chamber in cleveland, ohio. they were victimized but they're not victims. amanda, gina and michelle are survivors. calling them a monster's victim gives far too much credit to the monster. he needs to be forgotten, but there's plenty of time for that. he got a live se

, you're to blame ♪ ♪ mr. nixon, you're to blame ♪ mr. t of a job. the one-time white house aide to former president nixon has ended his brief career as an ice cream pitchman on television. by all accounts the ad campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. believe me i put extra -- >> the california ice cream company that ran the ad said consumer response was so negative the commercials were being taken off the air immediately. >>> u.s. embassy is shutting down a terror threat, closing the doors to more than a dozen embassies and consulates around the world. >> i spent 11 years in hell. now your hell is just beginning. >> locked up for life. a man who kidnapped, tortured and inprisoned three women, faced one of the heroic survivors in court. he tries to explain why he is not a monster. >>> a record day on wall street. this as we're just hours away from a new jobs report. what all this means to your money. >> only good things. i'm john

, you're to blame ♪ ♪ mr. nixon, you're to blame ♪ mr. on television. by all accounts the ad campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. it's unbelievable. and believe me, an i'm an expert on that subject. >> the california ice cream company said the response was so negative, the commercials were being taken off the air immediately.

, you're to blame, mr. nixon, you're to blame, mr. ent richard nixon has ended his brief career as an ice cream pitchman on television. by all accounts, the ad campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. it's unbelievable. and believe me, i'm an expert on that subject. >> the california ice cream company that ran the ad said consumer response was so negative, the ehrlichman commercials were being taken off the air immediately. >>> american embassies closed and al qaeda threats shutting down 19 u.s. embassies and posts for the entire week. what do we know about it? we are live. >>> one women killed and 11 injured when a driver barrels through a crowd of people. >>> game over for a-rod today. one of baseball's biggest stars could be banned for hundreds of games. alex rodriguez goes down for using performance enhancing drugs. he's going to go down swinging. >> nice list. good morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. >>

, you're to blame, mr. nixon, you're to blame, mr. counts the ad campaign was simply a meltdown. >> try this stuff. it's unbelievable. and believe me, i'm an expert on that subject. >> the california ice cream company that ran the ad said consumer response was so negative, the ehrlichman commercials were being taken off the air immediately. . >>> we interrupt -- >> we have a late development. >> we don't know precisely what happened. >> oh my god, he's been shot. >> the president of the united states has been shot. >> i could see it through the viewfinder. even now -- >> an inch from his heart. >> he was minutes away from not making it. >> who is the shooter? >> then he says, if you know about that, you know about everything. >> a bizarre motive. >> he felt the relationship was real. >> he was a really severely disturbed person. >> and his crime changed history. the shooting of ronald reagan, next.

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but nixon was also a very fair man, and when mrs. clinton did things right, and when she was good and strong and effective, he said so. but when she was wrong, which was most of the time for nixon, he said so. and an illustration of this, which i think this puts it in great light is when mrs. clinton did go to testify about the health care reform package she had put together. and he watched her testify, as you see from that quote, and he was dazzled by her -- said, "she's just great." and then he took a look at the package and he said, "well, it's totally wrong for america." c-span: how many times did bill clinton telephone richard nixon at his office or at his home? >> guest: he called him on a very regular basis, perhaps once every three or four weeks, for advice, particularly about foreign policy, but also about american policy and how to deal with the congress. c-span: how long would they talk? >> guest: it depended. the shortest conversation, i think, was 15 to 20 minutes. most of their conversations lasted about 40. c-span: and

have leaked out, until i say it, it's not official. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> and so tonight, mrs. nixonhter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ i don'without goingcisions to angie's list first. with angie's list, i know who to call, and i know the results will be fantastic! find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> now to commemorate this event, we have as our special guest the ray conniff singers. most of you have heard them. and if the music is square, it's because i like it square. [ applause ] >> president nixon, stop bombing human beings, animals and vegetation. you go to church on sundays and pray to jesus christ. if jesus christ were here tonight, you would not dare drop another bomb. bless daniel elsberg. ♪ >> a partial text of a prepared study in the pentagon relating to the origins of american involvement in vietnam. five days later, the washington post began publishing excerpts from the same pentagon report. on june 22, "the boston globe" published additional material from the study. the d

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. >> mrs. nixon. two weeks before he resigned. >> what was that like? >> she was very charming. she wanted a movie done about the white house. she said that we need to start with the information. she was all for it. she was very lively and interesting. >> how many other first ladies have you met since then? >> all of them. i do not know mrs. obama very well. the other ones i have known well enough. talk to you to about the white house. toeither that, or they want do a talk. there is no intimacy. i was never and have never been --and it ministration administration. going in as a person doing research. >> you are associated with the white house officially? >> the white house historical association is independent. publications and assumes the responsibility of interpreting the white house to the american people. jefferson opened the white house and it has to be shown as the people's house. there are a lot that people want to know. especially, about the kde association. that is when the association was founded. with the association does is interpret the white house to the american p

media and the political establishment had unjustly destroyed a distinguished administration, which mr. nixonhad in his first term, and had scuttled the effort in vietnam and never ceased to congratulate themselves for doing it. and the country is uneasy about that. i think that's why rush limbaugh has 30 million listeners and the network newscasts have declined. >> at the end of the day, though, you balance this with an overall sunny optimism about america. how? >> it's fundamentally a very powerful country. it's a rich country. there's nothing wrong with it in my opinion that some leadership won't deal with. and the habit of american history is when it needs leadership, it gets it. very few people expected great things of abraham lincoln or either of the roosevelts, let alone a less glamorous personality like harry truman. many people disparaged ronald reagan as a rather limited -- intellectually limited actor but they were all very distinguished presidents and led effectively. we'll get back to that. all that's needed, it's conceptually simple and the playbook is well known. is for the ele

national media and political establishment had unjustly destroyed a distinguished administration mr. nixonhad in his first term and scuttled the effort in vietnam and never ceased to congratulate themselves for doing it and the country is uneasy about doing that and why rushbaugh has 30 million listeners. >> at the end of all this you have a sunny optimism about america. >> it's fundamentally a powerful country, a rich country, nothing wrong with it in my opinion leadership won't get it and in the habit of history a country that neither leadership gets it. few people expected great things of abraham lincoln or either of the roosevelts, let alone a less glamorous personality like harold truman. many people disparage d ronald reagan as a rather intellectually limited actor and were all very distinguished presidents and led effectively. we'll get back to that. all that's needed is conceptually needed the playbook is well-known for the leader of the country say we have a serious crisis and this is proportion and this is the plan of action we need and i ask for your support. as long as it is pl

lady that you >> mrs. nixon. two weeks before he resigned. >> what was that like? >> she was charming. she was interested in having a done about the white house and i was supposed to develop it and get all of the information make it to be accurate. e need to start with the long story. anyhow, she was all for it. in a's what she liked. she was lively and interesting. >> how many others have you met then. >> all of them. i don't know mrs. obama very well. newell other ones i enough, i guess. >> and the reason would be that want to talk about the white house? >> either that or they asked me event a talk to some that they were having or that kind of thing. intimacy. have never been "of" an administration. i'm with the white house historical association or on my of coming in ort as a person helping where i can. historical association associated with the white house officially? -- no, no. the white house historical independent.is it does publications. it assumes the interpreting to american house to the people who is a long -- has a long history. jefferson first opened t

you tell connie, don't tell mrs. nixon because she'll approve it. no reporter from "the washington post" is ever to be in the white house again. and no photographer either. no photographers. is that clear? >> yes, sir. >> none ever to be in. now that is a total order and if necessary i'll fire you. do you understand? >> i do understand. >> okay. all right. good. >> okay. >> thank you. >> there's this great moment from that period where one of nixon's aides tells karl bernstein that katie graham, the publisher of "the post" is going to get caught in a big fat wringer if that story is published. we published that quote or most of it anyway. >> he was talking to a reporter? >> i think i woke him up. >> good notes? >> verbatim. >> you really said that about mrs. graham? print it. it's a family newspaper. >> this was a business model. we were taking money from the most mundane local transactions from being the way a city's commerce communicated with itself and using it to fund this incredible, dangerous, high-flying history changing journalism. the money

in the speech, mr. nixon said richardson would have full authority to name a special prosecutor to investigate the watergate affair, but on the phone, there was a different message. >> woodruff: a few weeks later, richardson appointed law professor archibald cox to be special prosecutor. here now to help us understand some of the historical context, we turn to veteran journalist and author marvin kalb who covered the watergate scandal. he is a senior adviser at the pulitzer center. and ken hughes. he studies recordings from the nixon presidency at the university of virginia's miller center. gentlemen, welcome to you both. marvin kalb, let me start with you. this is a tough day for president nixon. he had just asked his two top aides in the white house to leave-- h.r. halder man, and john ehrlichman. he had fired john dean, his legal counsel, send the resignation of his attorney general, and then he went on television. set the scene for us. >> the amazing thing to me is that he finally at this point recognized

and mrs. nixon great.ice an anti-semite is nonsense, and i'm not sure there would be an israel today if not for richard nixon. he was there to save them. lyndon johnson didn't lift a finger for israel during the '67 war. the united states had complete neutrality during the war of independence for israel. only nixon -- all u.s. presidents have stepped in to save israel, he's the only one. >> he also made racially insensitive remarks to say the least, on the tapes. what do you think his reaction would be today if he knew there was an american in the white house? >> i think he would be happy about it. people seem to forget, richard nixon was the president who inaugurated affirmative action in federal hiring. he's the one who eliminated the last vestiges of the southern school segregation in many hundreds of districts. he had high black advisers and many black friends. it was just -- i mean, i agree, the comments are extremely unfortunate, but standard comments, and you hear them even now at country clubs all

think we could get mr. nixon to stand still for "sock it to me." >> sock it to me? >> from 1968, richard nixon running for president and excerpts from other past nine .ercent -- appearances your reaction to this president's appearance last night on "the tonight show" and what he said. patricia, republican line, miami, florida. caller: good morning. go ahead, patricia. yes, i was watching the program and the president going on television, i really don't care about that. what i care about is congress get to working to the country moving. host: ok, thank you for the call. from our twitter page -- thomas is joining us next from new york, independent line. caller: i think the president going on jay leno is a joke. he is the president of the united states. he should've held a press conference and talk to the united states. he should be a man. a story from "the new york daily news" focusing on some of the topics from last nights program including the president talking about his lunch with hillary rodham clinton and is titled the bromance with john mccain. keep in mind, she'

. >> reporter: a night richard nixon needed friends and then. >> hello, mr. president. >> reporter: a call from a future president, ronald reagan. the secret phone recording system kicks in. >> how are you. >> fine. >> reporter: nixon had announced the regular nation of close aides implicated in watergate, sacrificed to save him. reagan says. >> for what it's worth, we're still behind you out here and i wanted you to know you're in our prayers. >> give our comment plimts to nancy. how did you marry such a pretty girl? >> i was lucky. >> reporter: then another future president calls. >> george bush is on the phone. >> hello? >> mr. president? >> that's h.w. bush. he had seen the speech, too. >> i really was proud of you. i know it was tough. i just wanted to tell you that. >> reporter: this time nixon sounds anxious to wrap up. >> this is going to come through good and a lot of people rooting for you. >> all right boy, good of you to call. >> reporter: the tapes themselves would spell the ends of nixon in office despite what bush said at the end of the call. >>

. >> reporter: a night richard nixon needed friends. >> hello. mr. president? reporter: a call from a future president, ronald reagan. >> how are you? >> reporter: not so good. 16 months before the end. nixon had announced the resignations of aides implicated in watergate. sacrificed to save him. reagan says -- >> for whatever it's worth we're still behind you out here. i want you to know you're in our prayers. nixon comes back with a compliment. >> i so appreciate your calling and give my greatest love to farcy. >> you're lucky, lucky. >> that's right. i am lucky. >> reporter: then another future president calls. >> george bush is on the phone. >> hello? hello. >> mr. president? >> reporter: that's h.w. bush. he had seen the speech too. >> i really was proud of you. my golly, i know it was tough. i just wanted to tell you that. >> reporter: this time nixon sounds anxious to wrap up. >> this is going to come through good. >> okay. >> a lot of people are rooting for you. >> all right, boy. good of you to call. >> reporter: the tapes would spell the end of nixon

sometimes i channel mr. nixon want people in, rather to know i certainly never expected andrews to get this far. [laughter] mcfarland, she had greatness from the beginning. another question from here. if you have the microphone sing out your name and question and make it concise to an estimate a continuation of that last question how what you handicap the situation with the nuclear weapon? is it going to happen and the world is going to deal with it or what? >> they've been saying for the last two years iran is a year away. they've been pushing it out in part because they develop a lot of fiber technology and the cyber attacks that have done we now know so they've been kind of ad war with iran for awhile. they've pushed back the program but netanyahu can to the program in the fall and i don't know if any of you saw this but he had a poster of a bomb that was really kind of hokey but it said there is a red line here and israel isn't going to let iran go past this red line. he said they need three things. they need

mr. haldeman? what's this mean? screw it! >> nixon is caught in the web he created, and half of him knows that he broke the law, abused his power, and the other half of him is the defense lawyer trying to deny it. >> reporter: but the tapes also capture the richard nixon who built the bridge to china. >> we've got to get along with them. or -- it's no problem for the next five years or the next 20 year, but it's the critical problem for our age. >> reporter: the tapes end july 12th, when the system is publicly revealed. richard nixon hangs on 13 months more. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> when we come back here tonight, the fix is in. a do it yourself movement to save money. >>> finally tonight, a story for anyone who's ever had a broken toaster or a busted lamp. tossing those items in the trash or paying someone else a lot of money to fix them aren't the only options. turns out fixing them yourself may be easier you think. in fact, the idea has sparked an entire movement. as we hear now from nbc's kevin tibbles in chicago.

in the oval office the nixon maximum accents of committee southerners. >> now what does this mean, mrweb he created. and half of him knows that he broke the law, abused his power and the other half of him is the defense lawyer trying to deny it. >> reporter: but the tapes capture the richard nixon who built a bridge to china. >> we've got to get along with them. or it's no problem for the next 10 years xx years. >> reporter: the tape ends july 12th when the system is publicly revealed. richard nixon holds on for 13 mont months more. >> cokie, what are we learning? >> we learn something more every time the tapes are released. we're seeing both sides of richard nixon. really insightful, intelligent side where he's thinking about china and the world and then just mean spirited and criminal side, frankly, where he is trying to cover up from watergate and it's just remarkable that we can keep hearing these tapes and learning new thing. here we are 40 years later. i think it will keep happening. this is a huge traunch of tapes that have come out and a lot of things we learn for the better a

mr. haldeman? what's this mean? screw it! >> nixons caught in the web he created, and half of him knows that he broke the law, abused his power, and the other half of him is the defense lawyer trying to deny it. >> reporter: but the tapes also capture the richard nixon who built the bridge to china. >> we've got to get along with them. or it's no problem for the next five years or the next 20 year, but it's the critical problem for our age. >> reporter: the tapes end july 12th, when the system is publicly revealed. richard nixon hangs on 13 months more. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> when we come back here tonight, the fix is in. a do it yourself movement to save money. on my shoulder.ke up to a blistg the blisters were oozing, and painful to touch. i spent 23 years as a deputy united states marshal and i've been pretty well banged up but the worst pain i've experienced was when i had shingles. when i went to the clinic, the nurse told me that it was a result of having had chickenpox. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. di