mrs. nixon's many fun and festive holiday traditions that continue to this day. she's been featured on fox news and on media outlets around the country. she was actively involved in the texas historical records advisory board and southern methodist university, now home to the george w bush presidential library. and we are very pleased to have her with us tonight. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jennifer pickens. well, thank you for having me. it's such an honor to be here at this wonderful presidential library. and i'm just so glad to be here today. so, christmas at the white house and a lot of people have asked why would one write a book on christmas at the white house? and i have to say, it's pretty personal. i feel very lucky. and i was a pretty spoiled little girl at christmas time. and the fact that my mom would put up nine christmas trees every year. and so in 2004, i was lucky enough to be a guest at the white house. and at a holiday party. and i was just absolutely blown away by how

mr. nixon's house that it also gives me great pleasure. i cannot fail to note this.are conducting very useful necessary important negotiations and have managed to sign a number of very large and important agreements establishing good relations between our states between our peoples and of particular importance we convey the documents that we wrote yesterday nuclear weapons against each other with china brezhnev builds baikal-amur railway, the last big project of the ussr suppresses the color revolution in czechoslovakia in 1968 on the planet dear leonid ilyich encourages nationally -liberation movements and fraternal parties, preventing the emergence of american bases, missiles of the soviet borders introduce troops into afghanistan in 1977 destroy the ussr in belarus brezhnev hosts the first olympic games in our country, i would like to welcome here today all the athletes and judges, especially those who have demonstrated their complete independence by deciding to come to the competitions, despite the strong knives that turned out to be on them, i declare the 1980 o

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mr. nixon over organize the voters lead, and became a member.ssed by his potential leadership, and he explained to me very fully the necessity of getting registered to vote in order to elect those officials that would be beneficial to us. they would increase our ability and opportunity to become first class citizens. the segregationists, very difficult for black people to register to vote. >> very few of us were registered in the 1940s. it was practically impossible -- to become register, except for a few selected by the white community. >> african americans were largely being shut out of the ballot box. this was a period where one would have to encounter unrelenting violence, simply for wanting to vote. >> rosa parks, for all of her life was fighting on issues that are still very much at the forefront of national discussion, and debate. >> these battles are ongoing. today, you look at the rampant voter suppression being taken place across the country. state houses at the local level are introducing voter suppression laws that are meant to keep

. >> i read that you proposed to mrs. nixon the first time you met and mrs. ter: then, barbara made it personal. >> your life is insulate. >> reporter: no matter who she was talking to. >> it has been said that your wife is one of your closest advisers and influences. >> reporter: asking henry kissinger about his reputation and ladies man. >> you are called a swinger. >> reporter: or lady bird johnson about her husband's same reputation. >> he was a ladies man. a flirt. i wonder how mrs. johnson felt about that. how did you feel? >> reporter: she found a way to broach the most difficult subjects. here with president kennedy's mother rose on the fifth anniversary of his assassination. >> the question most people want to know is what sustains you? what gives you the courage to keep going? >> reporter: and with martin luther king's widow. she could ask tough questions of politicians. >> could you run and win? >> reporter: but barbara walters was just as comfortable talking to celebrities, lauren bacall. >> is there anything you like to get off your chest besides

those financial transactions and there's accounting for the income tax returns and mrs. nixon i have filed from 19 69 to 72. i hereby request that the taxation whether it's judgment that items had been correctly reported to the eternal service i will pay whatever tax maybe do and they also want to assure you that the committee will have for access to the document pertaining to the matter. to the office. the extensive reporting and the author of the big cheat. and he enrich himself and his. family they submitted it here, hear their taxes. the first president to do that. tell me what we should do. here we have donald trump complaining this was a man i had to have wide, it's a pearl harbor memorial. over the arizona. is explain to him. nothing happened to, him but his tax lawyer went to prison. it was a tax criminal. >> that was what was discovered in all of that. in what ways and means in the committee report about the trump taxes. >> whether that we have so far shows that most of the six years in question, donald reported negative income and pay little or no income tax. in 2019

accounting of those financial transactions and there's accounting for the income tax returns and mrs. nixonnd i have filed from the years 1969 to 72. hereby request the joint committee on internal revenue taxation to examine both of these transactions and to inform me, whether, in its judgment, the items have been correctly reported to the internal revenue service in the event that the committee determines the items were incorrectly determined, i will pay whatever tax may be due. i also want to assure you that the committee will have full access to all relevant documents pertaining to these matters and we'll have the full cooperation of my office. joining us now is david cay johnston. he's a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and has done extensive reporting on donald trump's taxes and finances. he is the author of the big cheat, how donald trump fleeced himself and enriched himself and his family. david, i begin with richard nixon, because, prior to donald trump, he was the most corrupt, most criminal president in our history. and even he submitted to the joint tax committee, to

senators, sinema manchin, collins effectively all carving out middle of the road area while i think mr. nixon was probably right you can get hit from both sides the world has become so partisan so far to two extremes admittedly someone a middle of the road person i am glad to see this i think we've become so -- so pushed out to the edges that we in ways for got how to meet in the middle i think an important part of the in dmak process. dagen: one more thing according to chad's reporting sinema has not been a reliable vote for democrats, on many issues to start with, so, if she starts voting with the republicans, she waited until after the runoff in georgia to announce this decision. so let's say she started to caucus with republicans, 50-50 senate, then tiebreaker is vice president kamala harris. f. she caucuses with republicans if glat it is still 51-49. >> look divided government back that is for sure, gridlock seems to be the order of the day, and that will maintain likely no tax increases a stopping reckless spending maybe one piece of good news we are watching explosive revelations at tw

mr. nixon's religion. after all, i thought that matter was all settled in the constitution, when it said, provided for separation of church and state, when it provided that there shall be no religious test for office. so, i would hope we could move on. >> there will be a large and vocal minority who will be very critical of you, who are very critical of you now. how would you go about reconciling these if you were president of the united states? >> the problem will not be easy because we are confronted with a generation gap. we're confronted also with a racial gap. i believe i'm a pretty good listener. >> my objective is to bring about a change of national policy, both with reference to the war and also with reference to national priorities. >> by talking, as i will, about what i think can be done positively as far as the future is concerned, what can be done in the 1970s, what this country needs to stand for, and the idealism and the feeling of unselfishness, which i think exists in our country, that it s

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discuss the significance of all of this, john dean, served as white house counsel for president nixon. mr. dean, good to have you on this morning. thank you so much. >> a pleasure. also a former committee counsel at the house judiciary committee. >> indeed. and also a former star witness in another investigation of a president. if we could begin first on the news about the white house counsel, given your own past, the pat cipollone and pit rick philbin will have to testify to the d.c. grand jury. they are rejected the former president's wide claim of executive privilege and attorney/client privilege. they were in the room at the key moments, how significant could they testimony be. >> it could be very significant. they have a lot of knowledge. they have been before the grand jury before. the grand jury that they are returning to. they invoked some sort of privilege. it is suspected it was executive privilege. grand jury proceedings are not spread on the record but that is what the assumption is. and they've been told executive privilege is not going to apply here. the current president is

was it that nixon and kissinger thought that they really needed to sufficiently convey that kind of credibility? because they do, their numbers going down into the subsequent agreements as mr. to build on forces. but there is this moment in the book in which nixon i think it isn't a tape, kind of off guardedly says, what's the? what do we need those things for? and that was a pretty arresting moment because we have heard that from other american presidents. and i was thinking we were talking earlier about how much they were building up because there was a one point in 1962 and mcnamara and kennedy were talking about the size of the arson and mcnamara said let's figure out what we need and simply double it. once it twice as many because the battle certainly would suffice. but does nixon have a floor here? does he have a real sense of their utility? or is all part of the grant game? >> that's a hard one to answer. i don't think he had a magical number. i think he did leave those kinds of details to kissinger to work out what was going to be acceptable with the group and the soviets through the back channel. opponents of who has represented dod did weigh in on the count. but

mr. ailes is here, and he might like to-- - roger ailes actually advised nixon in the white house, on communicationssought 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. - but i'm glad to have you. - 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 g

mr trump's statement is facetious. every president except himself has had their tax returns publicised. it's been voluntary, not compelled under a century—old statute. and i was in washington when president richard nixon'sy hundreds of thousands of extra dollars and had been audited, actually, by thejoint committee on internal revenue rather than the irs in order to ensure neutrality. we don't know for certain, because the documentation that should support the entries and the tax have not been completely evaluated. part of that is because, although there are 400—some entities that poured revenues or losses into the tax returns, there was only one irs agent assigned to investigate. and moreover, it was two years late in starting, which also looks suspicious. moreover, two things: we had one of two entities that was convicted of fraud with regard to the books only a few weeks ago. so if we look at the circumstantial evidence and the pattern and practice of mr trump to be deceptive with regard to finances, it looks like when there is greater examination — and as we speak now, the irs is looking at the tax returns with greater intensity — i think it'll either be petty larceny or grand larceny. but there's c

deputy assistant to president richard nixon, and as the surprise witness during the watergate hearings in 1973, he changed the course of history with this moment. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes sir. >> it was alexander butterfield, who told watergate investigators, and the world, about the existence of secret white house tapes that would, ultimately, expose nixon's involvement in the watergate plot, leading to his resignation. if there is a modern equivalent to what alexander butterfield did that day, it is this person. cassidy hutchison. the white house aide who testified to the january 6th committee about what she saw happen, inside of the lighthouse, before, during, and after, january 6th. today, we learned that the similarities between butterfield, and hutchison is the accident. we see the release transcript of her closed-door testimony, before the january six committee. this is what she said about how she ultimately, made the decision to testify before the public. quote, i start to google watergate. there must be somebody

the answer can be traced back to 1971 when president nixon took the united states off the gold standard. mr. mooney: the gold stand means tying the dollar directly to the value of gold. under the gold stand any -- standard any american would be able to trade their dollars by a fixed amount of gold. by linking the value to gold the money supply could only be increased if the supply of gold increases. this connection protects the purchasing power of your dollars that. is why i introduced legislation to return the united states to the gold standard. had we been on the gold standard or other fixed standard, we would nobt in the inflation crisis today. i look forward to working with the republican majority to make sure this gets attention. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. ross: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the remarkable life

mr. updegrove, in your book, "incomparable grace," you mentioned an election count discrepancy in texas and that nixon ceded the presidential race in 1960. how is this different than what we experienced in the 2020 election with possible election fraud? guest: well, i think there was alleged to be fraud, not only here in texas, but in illinois as well. john f. kennedy won the presidency by a scant .2 percentage of a points, just 118,000 votes meant the difference between president kennedy or a president nixon. and there were many who urged nixon to contest the election, including even dwight eisenhower said he might want to consider doing that. and offered to raise money to pay for legal aid. that's a remarkable thing. nixon, however, was a statesman. he was deeply concerned, as john f. kennedy was, about our foreign policy. this, as i mentioned before, peter, was at a time when we were at the height of a cold war, when soviet aggression was very real. and nixon didn't want to throw the nation off balance in the eyes of the world by showing that our election system didn't have integrity. that we shoul

it's not required by law but mr trump became the first major—party presidential nominee since richard nixonforced may lead to unwelcome scrutiny as the former president runs again for the white house in 2024. david waddell, bbc news. some news just some newsjust coming into us some news just coming into us from the courts. a man admitted the murder of a woman and three children, having previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter. today, he changed his plea to murder at derby county court. damien bendall admitted murdering terry harris, her daughter lacey and sonjohn paul, who were 11 and 13, as well as lacey's friend, also aged 11. that was in killamarsh in derbyshire last year. the 33—year—old had previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but today changed his plea to murder, the murder of terry harris, her daughter lacey and sonjohn paul, were aged 11 and 13, as well as the murder of lacey's friend, who was also 11, carney gent. damien bendall also 11, carney gent. damien bendall also admitted the rape of lacey. that news is just coming to us from our bbc midlands correspondent phil mackie

mr. farrell, you've written. four biographies, one about clarence darrow, a man that you obviously never met. weren't alive when he was alive. you've also written one about richard nixon, a man whom i presume you never but have memories of a as a person growing up. you've also written about tip o'neill a man. i presume that you did know personally and professionally, and also now most recently your book about ted kennedy, a man. i also presume with your work with the globe new personally and professionally and i was wondering what challenges there or how is it different when? you're writing about someone that you knew personally versus when you're writing about someone you've never met and alive. when that person was alive and writing about someone that you didn't know and never met. but you were alive when they were alive. if there is any difference. no. first off, it's much easier to do a book when everybody's dead dead. and i'm going to make a confession. and i've got some editors from former editors here in the audience tonight and and my sister, who might challenge this. but i am basically very shy person and hardest thing for me as a newspaper reporter was to as