we also wanted an opportunity to highlight the vast resources of the national archives. after all, the nixon library is the custodian of the famous nixon tapes. and those really lay out a lot of the detail of watergate in addition to other important activities of the nixon administration. and, of course, we have documents, lots and lots of documents. it's estimated that the nixon library has 42 million documents. plus we have the documents of the watergate special prosecution force at one of our facilities in washington, d.c., the national archives facility in washington, d.c. so we wanted all of that material where relevant to be accessible to you as you make up your mind about watergate and its implications. so let's start with the time line. it's divided up into five sections. as i thought about -- and i'm directed, but i was also curator of this exhibit. i had to conceptualize how it would be. if you think about the evolution of what would become watergate, you have to understand why the president would make the decision to cover up a break-in that occurred at the de

four researchers have been looking through these documents at national archives and they finally came across this. in the surgeon general's personal correspondence back in 1865. the doctor we are talking about never wrote or spoke about this for an additional 44 years

and finally, a law creates the national archives and records administration, the agency that runs all of the modern presidential libraries, the national archives until watergate actually was part of something called the general services administration, gsa, and congress and many people in the united states were very upset when they learned president nixon, at the end of his administration, had tried to regain control over his papers and the tapes by a secret agreement with the head of the general services administration, who was then overseeing the national archives. and this agreement would have allowed the president within five years of his leaving office to destroy the tapes. so congress intervened. the president's recording preservation act was passed in 1974 and signed by president gerald ford governs how we operate this library. and i am, as the representative

and finally, a law creates the national archives and records administration, the agency that runs all of the modern presidential libraries, the national archives until watergate actually was part of something called the general services administration, gsa, and congress and many people in the united states were very upset when they learned president nixon, at the end of his administration, had tried to regain control over his papers and the tapes by a secret agreement with the head of the general services administration, who was then overseeing the national archives.

looking at the national archives and don and i are planning a trip right now to new orleans. so as we gather our list, we're going to go down there and see what we can find. i was told a lot of the manifests would potentially have names there. so we are hopeful. >> just as a suggestion, it's something that i have actually initiated. my folks come from norfolk, virginia. what i discovered was, and this is something that's been reemphasized throughout many of the presentations, is that a lot of the traders had private sales. and so where you would normally look in the deed records for evidence of these transactions, they are not there. one thing about new orleans is that they have these inward slave manifests. so you may not find them leaving, but you may find them arriving there. i've been to the notarial archives in louisiana. they are phenomenal. the staff is top notch. they will go out of their way to help you. so i will suggest that you spend about a week or so going through those records. it's just volume after volume after volume. i just wanted to mention that simply bec

in his replay, thornberry said billie was still listed as missing in action in the national archives.t feel it was right that he just went off to war and didn't come back. end of story. >> reporter: billie's cousin alton harvey grew up with this mystery. >> you need to know what's happened to him. >> reporter: so a few years ago he decided to try to get to the bottom of it for peggy. he started by requesting billie's military records. and that's all it took. >> i said that can't be. never dawned on me he was there. >> reporter: few missing soldiers have ever been easier to find than billie harris-- here in more to -r mandy, france, at the world's most famous cemetery along its most well-traveled path the answer has been lying all along clear and sobering as a white marble cross. so why, then, as late as 2005 was peggy's congressman still telling her her husband was missing in action? turns out there are no records of representative thornberry ever even checking with the national archives and if he had-- as we did-- he would have scene it says right there "k.i.a.," killed in action. on

. >> i've got a put a plug in for the national archives. you can access these tapes. they're on the web. you can get them from the nixon library. they belong to the american people. and they are an extraordinary record of presidential abuses of power, and some good presidential things, too. in resttro speck, does this hol any lessons today? anything to learn from it today? >> oh, gosh. that's a broad one. a cover up in general of any kind. i guess what keeps repeating itself, i suppose and my private work and this, magnified about ten million times, is the adages about human nature. the nature of power and how it does tend to corrupt. you're not surprised at much you hear in you've been in the courtroom a while or if you've lived a good while, you know that people are capable of lots of things. even pretty good people are capable of bad things especially if they have some kind of a justification for it. if they feel like there is a higher good. and what we see here, i think, and watergate, it's taken literally to the presidential level. i was taken by something a hist

was it in the national archives? >> the ones we really liked to scan and make available are the originals and many of those were in the basements of people. they have the full set of newspapers from the camp and there would be a year's worth and they're yellow, and i just love them. they were four times a week or so and somewhere -- some were weekly and dependent and the supplements. >> you mentioned tv footage, and i know in the notes that you use the archives from the news film from wtmj in milwaukee. when you went to look at that footage was that in good shape? was it well organized and how easy was it to get access to that from the great tv station? >> so the tv stations donated it to the archives. >> and the original footage? >> yes. the original footage had to be digitized, too, and it was analog to digital transfer, and it was decades and decades, so it was covering all sorts of local milwaukee history, and it was complicated to work with, but once it was processed and digitized and logged, i have to say in te

reports are coming in that nicholas cage has broken into the national archives and has stolen the constitution of the united states. look into that camera, and convince nicholas cage to give that constitution back. >> nicholas, bring back our constitution. i respect you, cage, but get a grip. i have instructed the united states military, the fbi, the cia to do everything in their power to bring that constitution back. >> okay, sir, i have an update. good news and bad news. which do you want first. >> let's start with the good news. >> good news is you got him. congratulations, sir. >> we got him. >> dow want the bad news it? >> yes. >> he didn't have the constitution, sir. >> he didn't have it. >> he didn't have the constitution? >> no, he didn't have it. >> so you now have to address nicholas cage fans all over the world and explain to them why you killed their favorite actor, three, two, one, go. >> my bad. (laughter) >> next time on herman cain, an american presidency, a different crisis. >> america will not negotiate with moon nazis. (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back. my guest ton

tell you in any one grid ham much was sprayed him many direct hits we also got files from the national archives of where people lived where the hamlets where that i could actually put him many people lived in each of those squares of ground and we calculated that probably four million the in these were directly sprayed by by the herbicides in the late one nine hundred sixty s. there were some tests done chemical tests done on the on the toxicity of two four five t. and when it was observed that the two for five t. could lead to birth defects in the laboratory in laboratory tests a ban came down in the united states and. the military was forced to stop using it shortly thereafter in in vietnam because one of the arguments that was made about why this was ok to use in vietnam was that it was safe at home the. agent orange is t c d d to true for koreans these are the koreans. this is the most toxic and it can stay in the environment for decades to hundreds of years and it can accumulate in the food chain we found it and in fish and turtles and snakes in vietnam for example we're concerned about th

. >>> the national archives is remembering two former first ladies. rarely seen photographs and other objects from the lives of pat nixon and lady bird johnson are on display. this design is to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday. an original issue of the newspaper that johnson worked on and pages from nixon farm account book. >>> ron likes topper's new weather alert system so much, he was inspired to write a poem about it. want to hear it? if you see green, we are clean. and yellow is somewhat mellow and red, don't be dead. got it. great idea. ron, it is a good idea. i'm glad you like it. on the other hand, our friend, bruce, not happy with the weird news story on that pig village in china. at the end of that story, i joked that the residents are doing just fine. in fact, they are delicious. bruce says that's not funny. it is ironic that mr. mcginty, a descendent of slaves should laugh about animals raised for food. there is nothing funny about slavery. sadly, the striking parallels between animal slavery and human slavery are complet

reports are coming in that nicolas cage has broken in to the national archives and has stolen the constitution united states. look into that camera and convince nicolas cage to give that constitution back. >> nicholas, bring back our constitution! i respect you, cage, but get a grip. i've instructed the united states military, the fbi, the cia, to do everything in their power to bring that constitution back. >> okay, sir. i have an update. good news and bad news. which do you want first? >> let's start with the good news. >> good news is, you got him, congratulations, sir. >> we've got him. >> do you want the bad news? >> yes. >> he didn't have the constitution, sir. >> he didn't have it? he didn't have the constitution? >> no, he didn't have it. so you now have to address nicolas cage fans all over the world and explain to him why you killed their favorite actor, three, two, one, go.ç >> my bad. >> herman cain us on fire on "the daily show" interviews. >>> still ahead on "way too early," tweets, texts, and e-mails next and "morning joe" moments away. ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch

then late last month, the remarkable document was rediscovered at the national archives by a researcher for the lincoln library and museum in illinois. >> this is unique because of its immediacy. it appeared right after or was written right after lincoln was shot. >> the document ends with dr. leal saying all in that bedroom bowed their heads for the family and what he called our afflicted country. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> after a break, still ahead for us tonight, sheryl crow disclosed she has a brain tumor and what he have learned about how common these tumors are, especially in women, especially by age group. >>> and after life threw her a curve, she changed her life, started a school, now she's making a difference for a lot of students. >>> we told you last night, sheryl crow has revealed she has a benign brain tumor. the popular singer is a breast cancer survivor, a mother of two who has raised a lot of money for various cancer related causes and charities. we learn more about her specific condition. turns out it's not all that uncommon. our report from our chief me

so in places like the national archives are photographs, documents. many of these we've scanned and put them on our website also. perhaps the hardest part was to, especially initially, was to convince japanese-americans to be interviewed for this. there was a reluctance to share their story because, you know, some still felt shame. even know they did nothing wrong, they felt something must have been wrong for them to be put in camps. so it took a while to encourage them to actually be interviewed. that was probably the toughest part. >> why are oral histories becoming more popular? we see them more often these days. we certainly on american history tv air a number oif

to know that so many of you havegaterd in boston on president's day under the auspices of the national archives and the presidential library system to examine the presidency and our nation's struggle to expand civil rights for all its citizens. i great that i cannot join you in person. i have fond memories of officially dedicating the kennedy library when it opened in 1979 and returning to speak there. i understand that ray swaurz is participating in this dedication. i salute them. and all the distinguished panelists and thank them for participating in this historic event. as i stated at the kennedy library and dedication ceremony, quote, as a southerner, as a georgiian, i saw firsthand how the moral leadership of the kennedy administration helped to undo the wrongs that grew out of our nation's history, unquote. and i suggested that the struggle to promote equal rights and opportunities for all is ongoing and it must be shaped by the following principals. we're all americans. we're all children of the same god. racial violence and racial hatred can have no place among us. and that the moral im

long lost report by the first doctor to reach lincoln after he was shot was found in a box at national archives. he was sitting about 40 feet from president clinic con when john wilkes booth fired the fatal shot. the doctor was able to resuscitate lincoln but he ultimately died from his wounds. >>> a four day celebration of queen elizabeth's ended. >> reporter: a horse-drawn carriage took queen elizabeth on a majestic procession through the streets of london. >> we love the queen! >> reporter: the 86-year-old monarch smiled and waved on the final day of celebrations to mark her 60-year reign. >> congratulations! >> reporter: the queen's husband, prince philip, is in the hospital with a bladder infection, so her majesty's son, prince charles, stood in for him. >> we hope philip gets well soon. god bless you, queen. >> reporter: prince william and kate took a separate carriage with prince harry, making their way through screaming crowds to buckingham palace. then came the grand finale. massive crowds cheered as the queen stepped onto the palace balcony with members of the royal family. and the ro

now thanks to a collection of recordings donated from the national archives we are seeing those superstarsmuch different light. jim axelrod introduces us to the man who got rock's biggest icon to go on the record. >> reporter: after four decades in the music business, joe smith, the man who signed jimi hendrix, van morrison, and the eagles, among others, wanted to have some conversations. >> the idea was to put on tape the voices and the feelings of some of the greatest musicians and music figures over the years. as many as i could get to. >> reporter: as president of capital records, he got 200 of the biggest names such as paul mccartney, to talk to him. really talk. >> and sergeant pepper owes a lot to drugs, to pot and stuff. that was us kind of getting into that. it was rather innocent compared to what you talk about these days, it was very innocent. and it was never, never seriously heavy stuff. >> reporter: how hard was it to get them to talk? >> i was an insider. i was part of the business. >> reporter: smith got candor from rock 'n' roll pioneers like bo diddley talking about his o

but there is a marvelous picture in the national archives of her being sworn in on the house floor.here is not another male other than the ones that had to perform the ceremony on the floor. but the entire gallery is ringed in women in white dresses, the suffragettes. it's really a very exciting time. and four years later, finally, the rest of america got to vote. so those are all kind of exciting things, i think, that happened. but it also kind of shos that colorado would have these massive progressive spurts, and then we would have a real swing back. there was a while, as you know, even the klan was very strong in colorado in parts. but throughout all of this, we always had that western thing of people being able to do what they possibly -- what they wanted to do. we weren't nearly as sexigrated, shall i say, or there wasn't quite the class war. i was just looking at a few things that colorado had here for women that were firsts. mary illitch long was the first woman that ran an amusement park in america for ages. anna lee alvridge, the first women's professional jockey. dr. saban

of war, up would not be able to see the declaration of independence, the constitution and the national archives today. >> is it true that james madison carried the entire contents of the u.s. treasury with him? >> no, that's not true. at one of the banks, the bank of the metropolis, a block from the white house, they got word at 2:00 p.m., that's about eight hours before, seven hours before the british arrived at the capitol, and alexander kerr, who was a cashier there, he grabbed a lot of the printed money, and escaped with it to maryland. the bank survived. they mistook it again for private property, but, no. that's not true. >> some of the images we're seeing on-screen from the national portrait gallery. the smithsonian the national portrait gallery and we thank them for that and the american historical society. also next for anthony pitch, nancy go ahead with your comment. >> caller: yes. i have an ancestor, his name was john burns and he lived in akron, new york, and he fought in the war of 1812. and i requested his war records and received a lot of documentation for where he tried to get,

that's the focus after new exhibit at the national archives.ady bird johnson are being celebrated on what would have been hair 100th birthdays. the items include an original issue of the high school up in johnson worked on and pages from next come's family farm account book. >>> if you've never been to the historic cork ran gallery of art downtown you might want to get there soon. >> after more than a hundred years in its current location and apparently facing sizable financial problems, corcoran is moving possibly. >> reporter: the gallery of art has been located at 17th street and new york avenue where it houses one of the country's most impressive collections of american art. >> there are a lot of legitimate reasons to move. >> reporter: but there are strong signs that the corcoran's days and its long- time architecturally significant home could very well be numbered. >> it's maybe time for the institution to look for different space. >> reporter: in a statement the corcoran's director said, quote, our needs are made especially challenging b

he talks about it at an event hosted by the national archives in oblgt 2011. the berlin crisis of 1961 is considered a mile stoep of the cold war by many historians. built in august 1961, can wall straited the city in two parts east and west. two months later in october 1961 soviet and u.s. tanks faced off at the border. >> i want to express my appreciation to the gentleman who introduced me because i've never before been called competent and dedicated. edid do some work on the declassification process and i'm glad to know that people appreciate it. i was in this building in the 1950's way down many the basement when i was working on a thesis for georgetown university for an m.a. which in these days required a thesis. and there was stuff in those archives that was just incredible. i really advise any of you who have any historical research to do at least part of it in this building. i'm going to start with the berlin wall and what berlin was like in 1960 when i went there. you can see there west berlin is pale white. check point charlie and then of course the

the market was down at the end of the streets where the national archives is now. the big market for town. this street was full of businesses on the first floor, was really kind of considered a business district. that's how it's described by her friends and colleagues when they talk about living space here. that, you know, it was in the business section. not exactly the most family atmosphere. one of the reasons i believe she took this space, took a room here was because her office, the patent office, is right down the street, just a block away. and so it was easy for her to walk down the stairs, out the building, and just go over one block, cross the street, and she was at her office. she got involved here because she moved to washington after a bad experience in public schooling. she founded a public school in new jersey, grew it from three students to over 600, and then when the town decided they wanted this to be a permanent fixture in their community, they hired a man to become the principal. back in those days, women weren't considered competent to do things

in places like the national archives, there are photographs, documents. and many we have scanned and put on our website also. perhaps the hardest part, especially initially was to convince japanese-americans to be interviewed for this. there was a reluctance to share their story. some felt shame. even though they did nothing wrong, they felt something must have been wrong for them to be put in camps. so it took a while to encourage the interview. that was probably the toughest part. >> why are oral histories becoming so popular? you see them more often these days. we certainly on american history tv air a number of different oral histories. why are they becoming more and more popular, and why are they more important these days? >> i think one reason is if you wablt to get the experiences of every day people, those are often not recorded in more traditional sources that end up in archives. if you want to do a history of the japanese-american incarceration from the perspective of someone incarcerated. or if you want to do the history of milwaukee civil righ

in hisfully, thornberry said billy was still listed as missing in action in the national archives >>and didn't come back. end of story. >> reporter: billy's cousin, grew up with this mystery >> you need to know what happened to him >> reporter: so a few years ago he decided to try and get to the bottom of it for peggy. he started by requesting billy's military records. and that's all it took >> i said that can't be? never dawned on me he was there. >> reporter: a few missing soldiers have ever been easier to find than billy harris. here in normandy france at the world's most famous cemetery along its most well traveled path. the answer has been lying all along. clear and sobering as a white marble cross. so why then as late as 2005 was peggy's congressman still telling her that her husband was missing in action. turns out there are no records of representative thornberry even checking with the national archives. if he had as we did, he would have seen it says right there,k. i.a., killed in action. thornberry didn't want to talk to us. but on his facebook page this week he said he sen

. >> reports coming in that nicholas cage has broken into the national archives and has stolen the constitutionthe united states. look into that camera and convince nicholas cage to give that constitution back. [laughter] >> nicholas, bring back our constitution. >> he's a princess. >> he's evil-liscious. >> who do you have here? >> i have floppy here. he's calmer. >> oh! >> he didn't have the constitution--no, he didn't have it. um, so you now have to address nicholas cage fans all over the world and explain to them why you killed their favorite actor. three, two one--go. >> my bad. >> john: if you would like to see congresswoman jean schmidt be wrong about more things, tune into c-span any day of the week. tea-evangelicals. what is only a matter of time before these two fell in love. that's coming up next. for elon musk what could possibly be next? watch "the gavin newsom show." >> john: so the other night i said to myself, self, what happened to the tea party? they were all the range in 2010. they were nominating candidates holding rallies holding republicans feet to the fire and holding ele

those documents down at the national archives, those defined our liberties and freedoms. they were endowed by our creator and protected every day by those men and women in uniform. the reason we are able to be the elite -- the leader of the free world is because we are the leader of free enterprise. we allow some other nation or some other group of nations overtake us in that and we stop being exceptional, we stop being the frittered -- the leader of the free world. we have got to tackle these issues. we have to have the courage to tackle these issues. i want my kids and some day my grandkids to inherit a wisconsin greater than the one we inherited. we have to make some changes to make that happen. >> we have about 25 minutes left. [applause] i promised to get to audience questions. before that, i want to drop a line in your request. i was at a symposium on medicaid iran ago and there was a conversation about handing it over to the governors in the terms of a block grant and let them innovate and decide what to do with it. and robert rector, who may be familiar to some of

the report was found in a box at the national archives. >> a test plane created the first of it's kindght. it's a solar powered plane trying to be the first to make a transcontinental flight. it's a single seat air craft but is the size of a jet and it's fitted with 12,000sol ac cells so it can fly throughout the night. it costs more than a hundred million dollars. >> a school administrator could be sent to jail. coming up, the admitted failure that the da said put students at rick of sexual abuse. it's a story you will only see here. if a tradition of gay pride taking on new meeting. the . no a school administrator under investigation. what he is a accused of failing to do when students calamine whether abused by a teacher. >> and developing news in castro valley. what we are learning about the minutes before sheriff's deputies opened fire on a man suspected ofa attempted murder. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now this is news at six. >> good evening . >> a san jose school administrator is now in an investigation of a teacher who may have abused students. only on two,

. >> reports coming in that nicholas cage has broken into the national archives and has stolen the constitutionthe united states. look into that camera and convince nicholas cage to give that constitution back. [laughter] >> nicholas, bring back our constitution. >> he's a princess. >> he's evil-liscious. >> who do you have here? >> i have floppy here. he's calmer. >> oh! >> he didn't have the constitution--no, he didn't have it. um, so you now have to address nicholas cage fans all over the world and you killed their favorite actor. three, two one--go. >> my bad. >> john: if you would like to see congresswoman jean schmidt be wrong about more things, tune into c-span any day of the week. tea if you missed joy behar one week only... >>hey, time flies when you're having fun. >>don't worry because she'll be back. >>where are the lefties besides on current tv? >>joy behar is getting her own show coming to current tv this fall. [ male announcer ] it's back again at red lobster but not for long! your very own four course seafood feast for just $14.99. start your feast with a soup like our hearty new

and that's what we have brand new documents that was the first to get from the national archives backat finally connect the mafia and johnny roselli to watergate and show that that was the reason for the break-ins. >> what about mark felt? his personnel files were released this week by the fbi. why do you think he did what he did? why do you think he helped the reporters? >> those files show clearly that mark felt for almost 30 years had been a very by-the-book, upstanding fbi agent and supervisor and then high fbi official. he fully expected that when j. edgar hoover died a few weeks before the break-in that he would become fbi director. nixon knew that the fbi and hoover had these secrets that he did not want exposed in 1972, an election year. instead of mark felt, who would be the logical successor, who had practically been groomed to be the next find director, nixon chose a political guy that he could trust, l. patrick gray, instead. mark felt was very, very resentful. so in the summer he starts leaking to bob woodward. >> lamar waldron's research is in a new book called "watergat