. >> mr. nixonsays nothing about how he would attain it. >> at this point, the war is continuing at as hot a pace as it has ever been. more troops are being killed every week than at any time in the course of the war. >> we knew that we would not be able to influence the republicans on vietnam. so, we wanted to put massive pressure on the democrats. i didn't think anything could happen with vietnam without that challenge. ♪ >> this is a cbs news campaign '68 convention special. what's going to happen in chicago? on this eve of the beginning of the 35th democratic national convention, chicago is nearly security-tight. perhaps the heaviest security ever provided for a political gathering in the free world. >> the police, several thousand of them, are now deployed. soldiers have arrived in chicago and are standing by. >> for the convention, the plan was to have a mass anti-war demonstrate and a mass counterculture festival. we gathered in the parks. >> we're going to march because we have a right to, b

. >> i think mr. nixon is an effective leader of his party. i hope he would grant me the same. question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the united states. >> mr. nixon do you have a comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you are live on television and there is a camera right here there is no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you? >> that the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want this country to be and what you want to do with the future. i think we're ready to move. >> if you saw it on television, clearly kennedy won that debate. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you were in and if you couldn't, you were toast. >> please give a warm hand to mr. john kennedy. >> may i ask you a tough question right off the bat? >> whether i'm democrat or republican? >> television was now the medium that mattered. it wasn't before 1960 and it was ever

. >> mr. nixon is leaving the white house as a president of the united states.r leaders do extraordinary things and do illegal and criminal things. how do you frame that? >> i was thinking about this the other day. everybody gets worked up over something that happens. democrats are talking about what happened to them with good reason. we failed to think about the achievements we made. look, silicon valley alone is transformative in history's curve. there never has been anything like it before. it's homegrown and changing the way we do almost everything. i have been ill with cancer and getting to the end of it, i hope. it looks good. i have gotten to know the people in the laboratory. that's homegrown. >> here with the leader of the soviet union, nbc news correspondent, tom brocaw. >> you interviewed all the presidents and great leaders. you had the first interview with mickael gorbachev. >> wouldn't it be time to reduce that with places like nicaragua and they begin to stand on their. >> since you keep talking about the new thinking. let me teach you a little le

mr. nixon's administration charged him with being an overstay by making up the rules as they went along. status. they had just given him two weeks to leave. and they cut off his time within the two weeks and charged him with being an overstay for about half a week. it was an outrageous violation of his constitutional rights. anticipate he reacted very well to it. he seemed to accept what the government was doing as what governments do. he saw the approach that he had. he only wanted to be able to live here peacefully and travel. >> and michael, one of the extraordinary things about it that we all saw when we were watching you and john lennon on the courthouse steps in these cases was, this was someone who loved america, loved new york city sfeskically. really could live anywhere in the world, really wanted to live here. >> john had goped an extraordinary love for this nation. and i have to say, through my dad's scholarship in this case, he taught for 33 years in law school an immigration law class. and i had the bridge of meet middleweight wife in the class and i'm teaching the class now

here is mr. nixon.rehearsed, exit stage right him and he did exit stage right to do much better six years on. i want you to think about how much you will you missing. nixon to kickve around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference. " nixon, could that happen today? >> yes, it could happen today. it is a lot harder. the entire machinery of politics has evolved and put a pressure on dampening that kind of spontaneity. that is absolutely true. john heilemann and mark halperin kick that around. >> he campaigned and worked so hard for republican candidates -- why don't we see obama doing that? wyeth's rhetoric not playing right now and the rest of america? >> he has been campaigning aggressively on behalf of candidates -- >> governors. >> where did he go? >> not to keep races in the senate. >> look, there is no question this is a tough climate. the issues that president obama -- his popularity, we know were that is, but the reality if you look at the economist with over the past number of

mr. dotson and the comments by governor nixon, they should have come from -- they should have been swapped. i thought mr. dotson's comments were broader, more soothing in recognizing that the people of ferguson had legitimate beefs and concerns and they should be taken into account. and governor nixon, on the other hand, took this sort of hard line, to my view, hard line sort of we're going to protect businesses and we're going to protect people and people come here to protest and incite violence, we'll take care of you. we're waiting for you. not the right message to send, sp especially after what we've seen in august. >> we heard from governor jay nixon and he said it was a top priority to make sure the business community, residential community, are safe. those are words they to want hear. you've spent a lot of time on the ground in ferguson. you're going back tomorrow. is that how people feel, do people feel safe? >> certainly not. going back to what jonathan said, the message that could have been said to ease the concerns of those trying to exercise their first amendment rights, jonath

he is the last living person who played a key role in the nixon white house. mr. becker was planning on being here until a couple of days ago when a serious health issue affected him, so our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. he wanted so much to be here, and he wanted me to help tell his story. you are going to hear directly from him by video in a little it , because i think his story is one that must be preserved. so let's begin with a little background because we have a lot of students here. in the summer of 1970 four, richard nixon is literally fighting for his life because of the watergate scandal. during the 1972 reelection campaign, white house operatives had been arrested in a burglary in the democratic national committee headquarters in washington. now that than is implicated -- now nixon is implicated in covering it up. let's begin with jill wine-banks , you are the special prosecutor, and among other things, you made history when you questioned richard nixon 's personal secretary when you asked her to explain this mysterious missing 18 an

nixon we got carter. after carter we got reagan. mr. optimism. then we get -- you know, george h.w. bush. that's the case, what kind of president do you think would be the polar opposite of barack obama? i mean, who fills that role, taking your argument to the next level? >> i think there's different -- i think on personality, you would immediately say chris christie. that is, you know, even down to -- you have the skinny guy versus the heavyset guy, number one. you have the guy that sees everything in nuance, everything is not black and white, it's gray areas versus -- and who rarely loses his temper versus a guy who probably loses his temper too much. in temperament you would say the polar opposite is chris christie. then i would say ideologically you would also say a scott walker. i don't -- that's what we know -- if walker had more of christie's personality, i think we would say he is the -- he would be the perfect package of polar opposite. >> what review do you think the president would give this book? >> i think he would say, "you were writing it from too much of a washington persp

mr. kinder's opinion is speculation but certainly governor nixon who held a press conference today must explain why the businesses were left unprotected and explain not only in words but must see what his policy was. because, by not putting the guard in ferguson last night. the looters ran wild. this afternoon, the mayor of ferguson blamed nixon for not deploying the guard and if that is found to be true, nixon should resign his office. the lang of proper protection by the national guard put responders, firefighters and police officers in physical jeopardy. the property loss was inexcusable if it could have been prevented. most americans despise these looters have dishonored the brown family. then again, michael brown's own stepfather was captured on tape soon after the decision was announced doing. this. [shouting] >> extremely disturbing. again, people who loot and burn after an 18-year-old american has been killed and dishonored the man's legacy. if you want to protest peacefully, final. if you sincerely believe there sin justice in our system, let your feelings be known. these looters could

mrs. graham's t's ok, he said. a top official of the nixongn called me a few minutes later to make an appeal that mitchell had been caught in an unguarded moment. he had been a cabinet member and so forth. he doesn't want to show up in the paper like that. the official then called brad lee at home to repeat the appeal. abradlee recalled saying it just boils down to this question, mr. moore, or whether mr. 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, abotage, espionage but ben didn't miss a beat. he was not just cruel but, hey, this is a great sorry. get it in the pa

mr. kinder's opinion is speculation but certainly governor nixon who held a press conference today must explain the businesses were left unprotected and explain not only in words but must see what his policy was. because, by not putting the guard in ferguson last night. the looters ran wild. this afternoon, the mayor of ferguson blamed nixon for not deploying the guard and if that is found to be true, nixon should resign his office. the lang of proper protection by the national guard put responders, firefighters and police officers in physical jeopardy. the property loss was inexcusable if it could have been prevented. most americans despise these looters have dishonored the brown family. then again, michael brown's own stepfather was captured on tape soon after the decision was announced doing. this. [shouting] >> extremely disturbing. again, people who loot and burn after an 18-year-old american has been killed and dishonored the man's legacy. if you want to protest peacefully, final. if you sincerely believe there sin justice in our system, let your feelings be known. these looters could not

mrs. nolde's visit to washington for her husband's burial at washington's arlington national cemetery. >>> just declassified audio diary from nixon's later wrote in his memoirs that he never hated the veet nap war more than he did in that moment, in that single enkoubt e counter with the family of the man who was the last reported combat casualty of vietnam. >>> on friday, this past friday, the current commander in chief, announced that he is doubling the number of u.s. service members in iraq. today, though, the pentagon said those additional troops will not be sent until congress votes to send them. president orb is apparently determined now that this decision will not remain his alone. it is never supposed to be a president's decision alone. it's supposed to be congress's call when we go to war. now, the additional troops, this bubbling deployment back in iraq, that's now an open question. the military says that's what they want. that's what the president saez he wants as commander in chief. but it's on hold while congress decides while they can actually summon the courage to vote on it. to vote on whether or not to do it. congr

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bus where we're joined by john dean whose most recent book is called "the nixon defense: what he knew and when he knew it." mr. dean, how and when kid you become richard -- did you become richard nixon's counsel? >> guest: peter, john please. [laughter] anyway, july of 1970 when i was 31 years of age, i became white house counsel. i wasn't a part of the nixon entourage, i hadn't been in the campaign. i had been in washington quite a while, i'd worked as the chief minority counsel of the house judiciary committee, i'd gone on from there, i'd been an associate deputy attorney general. that's where i joined the nixon administration. while at justice i had a lot of dealings with the white house staff, and so when john ehrlichman became assistant to the president for domestic affairs, that chair sat empty for a little while, and then the president invited me to come over and serve as white house counsel. >> host: what is the role of the counsel? how often would you meet with the president? >> guest: very seldom, actually. the best description i've ever had of my job, i actually put in the early part of this book -

mr. president," kennedy sent the bird back to the farm. richard nixono gave the birds a reprieve, sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo. ronald reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" when he was talking turkey in 1987. the turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989, with 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. >> reporter: the virginia farm where that turkey was sent was the ironically named frying pan park. that became the home of future presidential turkeys for the next fifteen years. but after that, it was out of the frying pan and into disney. because hey, you just won a presidential turkey pardon, where are you going next? after the five-year stint with mickey, the turkeys' next move was to the more sedate confines of george washington's mount vernon estate. this year, the spared birds will be plucked from the white house and sent to a park in nearby leesburg, virginia. the property is a well known turkey haven. it was owned by former virg

did president ford cut a deal with richard nixon in advance to pardon him, can you answer that question directly, mr. president? was there a deal of any sort? >> i testified before the house committee on judiciary that there was no deal period. i think those were my exact words. i can assure you some 25 years later that there is absolutely no credibility to that allegation. the truth is i was going to be president without any question of a doubt because president nixon was either going to be impeached and forced to resign or he was going to resign on his own, as he did. so i was going to become president regardless of any comments between him and myself. lookw that you are able to back on your presidency with the benefit of 25 years hindsight, would you pardon richard m nixon again if you had it to do over? >> based on additional observations, testimony, etc. i think today if i had to go through the same process with certainlynce, i would have executed a pardon on his behalf. there was no doubt when i did it 1974 that i was doing the right thing, regardless of what the press said, regardless of what

mrs. graham's. -- tell the desk it is ok, he said. a top official at the nixonlled me a few minutes later to make an appeal that mitchell had been caught in a moment. he has been a cabinet member and so forth. he does not want to show up in the paper like that. bradlee is home to repeat the appeal. bradlee recalled, saying it just boiled down to this question and whether mitchell said it or not. if he identified himself as a reporter, all my requisites would be satisfied. his comments state in the paper. -- stayed in the paper. to be honest, i was frightened. we were 28. an official closest to nixon. not normal in the course of business as we knew it. a statement about doing the story was chilling. we know a lot about how they operated. dirty tricks, sabotage, espionage. ben did not miss a beat. he was not just cool, but hey, this is a great story. get it in the paper fast. he could not could not wait to tell katherin graham, who stopped by my desk to ask if i had any more messages for her. [laughter] let's think about this for a minute. we now live in an era wh

. >> a few questions to mr eric peristein, compare how conservative reagan was compared to nixon. >> reagan was around now, the moderate republican out of the republican party for being too liberal. this question is of little sharp rise think actually. i would be interested to know if john agrees, politicians can only be according to the context given to them. they don't take policies of the shelf. if you go to the nixon library or a museum exhibit they set up, he was a great supporter of the environment, he founded the hearts and flowers and clean air and water act, that passed the house from 410-5, it doesn't show much of what he believes in his heart. the question was how conservative was he really? the best piece of evidence was the budget he pripet for 1974 which seems a big deal at the time. newsweek's cause -- called a the most important political document since the new deal and it was a reagan budget that sought to defund all the agencies of the war on poverty and the great society and at that point he appointed activist howard phillips to the head of the economic opportunity

nixon says he'll bring the national guard back to the streets of ferguson to coordinate with st. louis county police. joining me now is anthony gray, the attorney for michael brown's family. good evening, mray. thanks for being on. >> thank you for having me, sir. >> missouri governor jay nixon declared a state of emergency, activated the national guard today ahead of the expected grand jury decision. do you think that's necessary? >> i don't know if it's necessary or not. i could tell you that the reaction is that it has generated a lot of fear. in the general community and public. i would go so far as to say the entire region is gripped by fear from the announcement of the national guard, police, grenades, helmets, shields. it's like they're preparing for war instead of peace. they expect some kind of hand-to-hand combat. i can tell you the consequences of this announcement has really got a lot of people, like you said, on edge and very fearful at this time. >> so what would happen, tho, mr. gray, if something did pop off or happen there and police -- the mayor, i'm sorry, and the governor weren't prepared for it. wouldn't people be criticizing them for it, saying you had all the time i

nixon. we're going to hear later from other key personnel as well. and at the moment that, the center of all this ask clayton in mrs -- is clayton outside st. louis itself. and presumably this weekend the focus will probably shift outside here ferguson itself. all police leave in ferguson has been cancelled. officers are working 12 hour shifts. tony. >> john pu woul if you would taa moment and talk about the efforts that are underway siegely for weeks around longer than that, the training sessions that the police have been involved in and protesters have been involved in learning how to deescalate potentially violent clashes and confrontations. >> well, that's right. there's an awful lot of anger in ferguson. we don't know what the decision is going to be. we don't know what's going to happen next. but one thing we do know is that people here particularly members of the african american community are particularly angry. they are fighting for a change in the way that they are dealt with by the police. they are fighting for justice, for michael brown, and for all the other african american young men who they say have

mr. president,fy vote for you any more, i'll never get re-elected. have i to be pretty cautious. but, yeah i had full support from the republicans and democrats, including former president nixonpresident ford. >> so, as you look at this sort of turning point where democrats have been routed around the country, looking for the next generation of leadership, would you perform to see that next generation of democratic leadership in sort of populist fire brands as in elizabeth warren or the more establishment candidates like a hillary clinton? >> i'm not going to choose between those two. i have a great admiration for elizabeth warren. i'm glad she's going to be elevated to top democratian. i would say i want the future of democrats to be represented, perhaps, by my grandson, jason carter, who run for governor unsuccessfully in georgia. >> what was that experience like? what experience did you give him before and after that loss? >> just tell the truth. get to know the people you hope to represent as best you can. and he did quite well, you know, considering the republican sweep of america. so, he's he's a future democrat that i hope will prevail. >> thank you to president carter

governor jay nixon of missouri has declared a state of emergency in ferguson and activated the national guard in advance of that decision. >>> just president barack obama is in las vegas this weekend. mr. obama signed the executive orders above air force one on friday. they could provide temporary legal status for nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants. he told a crowd he had to take action because republicans in congress would not. >>> there is no short damage of krit critics of the president's plan. republican leaders say he overstepped his constitutional authority. but some immigrants say the measure doesn't go far enough. susan malveaux reports. >> reporter: a lot of people who attended the speech of the president also attended the one in 2013 and 2008 where 11,000 people showed up to hear the president's vision. it's controversial for a number of reasons. a lot of people very happy that the president did something happen they feel this is somewhat a relief for older people who are undocumented workers in this country. but there's also a great deal of frustration larly from some young folks who do not believe that their parents are included, swept up in the order to allow them t

mr. presidl: there's a lot more, on those tapes. it's been widely believed that white house recordings stopped after president nixon, but now we knowesident reagan had some of his phone calls recorded for historical purposes. martha: so some sweeping pushback from some lawmakers on capitol hill over new calls from president obama for the sec to regulate the internet. the plan would reclassify internet service providers as utilities. however, opponents like texas senator ted cruz and others say government control of the internet would be a very bad idea. here's what senator cruz tweeted about this, quote: martha: a sarcastic reference to how slowly the government can operate at times. now joining us, fox business network's lou dobbs. it should be said that senator cruz and others are very much against this net neutrality idea, the cable companies and internet companies have been spreading money around capitol hill as well because, obviously, this is something they would be lobbying very hard against. senator cruz and others on both sides of the aisle have accepted that money, and that's where we are. what do you think? >> i think th

nixon. step up. barack obama. step up. it's time. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we are now joined by daryl parx, he's one of the attorneys for the michael brown family. mr parx, has the brown family been informed in either way about what they will be hearing in the next 15 minutes when bob mcculloch makes this announcement? >> they have nonbeen formed what they plan to do with this indictment. obviously, they have serious concerns. we'll all have to wait and see what the prosecutor does. there have been opinions that there have been some serious, serious, serious concerns in the process that that's been used in this grand jury situation. it certainly hadn't been the typical grand jury process that you would see typically. so hopefully, we pray that it goes right. >> is it your belief that bob mcculloch essentially went into this not wanting an diemt and essentially constructing a process that would yield that result. is that your belief? is that the family's bheef? >> yeah, i mean, they have strong concerns about, one, for example, his decision to just dump all the information from the grand jury. that's not the process you use when you want to make sur

mr. brooks, once again, thanks very much for joining us. you were critical of the governor of missouri, governor jay nixon, for declaring a state of r emergenemergency in advanc decision, suggesting it was presumption to assume there would be violence. what do you think of his decision now? >> i still believe it's presumptuous with respect to any violence. what we've seen is 99% of the protesters have been nonviolent. the family has appealed for nonviolence. so where we have seen militarization and a pervasive presence of the police force escalating precipitating unconstructive behavior, i think it's important to treat this not as a security crisis but a social justice crisis. in other words, to the extent the governor can talk about reforms, making sure that no more tragedies like this happen in the future, those things are calming, those things speak to the needs of this community and people across the country. >> tell us what you meant, mr. brooks, when you called the shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, a generational assault? >> absolutely. where we've seen one out of every three african-american men expect to spend some time in pri

missouri, jay nixon, boosted the number of guardsmen from 700 to 2,200, as a top law enforcement officer apologized for the rioting last night. >> early on, i apologized to mike brown sr. and mrs. mcfadden for the loss of their son. and i said that i was sorry. well, today i stand here and say i'm sorry to the community of ferguson. it was their community that was ripped and torn last night. and that cannot happen. that was not fair to this community. >> also tonight, officer darren wilson breaks his silence, telling abc news' george stephanopoulos, his version of what happened when he first stopped michael brown. >> i had gone to open the door and get out of the car. and as i did so, when i opened the door, i said, hey, come here for a minute. and then he turned and said, what the [ bleep ] are you going to do about it? and slammed the door shut on me. >> slammed the door shut? >> yes. i used my door to try to push him back and again he pushed the door shut and just stares at me. >> we'll play more of that in a moment. but just moments ago, the president of the united states appealed for calm, condemning last night's rioting. >> and to those who think that what happened in fe

mr. obama has failed. this president's only conceivable victory lies in his hope that like a would-be modern richard nixon opening the doors to china, the history will somehow consider mr. obama a hero for blazing new trails into iran and for his mindless refusal to take the iranian regime at its word no matter how many times they have expressed that their real goal is the destruction of america and israel. mr. speaker, very simply, the bama foreign policy is a gutless political correctness on the global stage. it is the cynical pursuit of legacy without regard for the cause of human freedom. it is the belief that tepid appeals to some hollow concept of tolerance are all that are necessary to tame the most savage of beasts. the entire obama legacy, mr. speaker, rests on the desperate hope that history will hand out an award for blind trust in the promises of jihadists. mr. speaker, former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, once said, quote, diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance u.s. interests. this president's take on that principle seems to be, quote, u.s. interests be damne

beginning the governor out there, jay nixon, he called michael brown a victim, even though you've got the officer who said he was the guy who was roughed up by mr got the attorney general, he was on tv yesterday talking about how even though the grand jury did not indict mr. wilson, it looks like they're going to go forward with their investigation. how do they do that? >> well, these types of parallel investigations occur occasionally particularly in high-profile cases like this one. what was a little odd in this case was that it seemed quite premature that attorney general holder ordered a federal agent before the state investigation had gotten through its even initial stages. usually these civil rights investigations occur after state proceedings, certainly after state investigations. the actual claim, the charge that would come out of a civil rights investigation is more difficult than what the grand jury looked at. it's very unlikely that they would find evidence based on the record released by the grand jury to support this type of charge. this occurred in less than 90 seconds, and this grand jury found there wasn't even enough evidence t

mr. coster things he will be. and they haven't turned their pressure to coster yet. i think they ought to. as for governor nixon.sterday and he had thanksgiving dinner with the national guardsman. which i think was a classy act. if i was his adviser i would have had him also try to have some dinner with a protester group. there are plenty of peaceful protesters that would have sat down and broken some turkey and stuffing with the governor. >> one last question to that end. there have been people that have wondered why the president, why president obama hasn't made his way to ferguson. what are your thoughts on that? should he be there? >> yes. i mean he's at the point in his presidency where he's got a legacy issue here. i understand that everyone always advised him that if he's the black president, or god forbid the black male president that that's going to be difficult for him since he has to govern a nation of people who mostly as you may have noticed, are not black or black men. but hey, you know, it's time. he should show up in ferguson. it would be an amazing moment to see president obama get off the plane

mr. obama loses. but it will be substantial. neil: o elections combined. it is a record, close to our record. i think nixon holds the record.he does. but one thing we have to see . neil: post world war ii. david: what this senate brings to the table. lou: at think it is eisenhower actually. you remember fell more. neil: i do. joining us riiht now. jerry brown. you know, you were there at a time when the voters overwhelmingly tossed you out in favor of an actor, and you had remarked to me that he was someone who could bring the state back. apparently voters concurred. the most successful democrat of the evening. steve you think he has higher aspirations? >> i cannot speak for him. he inherited a $26 million deficit. he is focused on a water bond issue. neil: this sevennand a half billion dollar initiative. >> 3 billion, nearly 3 billion for storage capacity, mostly reservoirs above ground, something we have not had before, a good start on making sure water does not run off to the sea, melts too quickly to send south. all of that kids wasted. with reservoirs' it gets saved. neil: he is, at least headlines here. >> i can't spe