nobody else has reported on this it is clear nixon is guilty you will read that richard nixon was directing the cover-up march 19732 projected gordon strong who he had just learned was involved in the break-in. he was an aide to bob and therefore he believed that would lead to aldermen so therefore he was trying to concoct a phony report saying we will put a public to cover up the involvement. we have broad strokes i think it'll be interesting if you see the journey. >> host: what of the things you mentioned this nixon was maneuvered out of office but he did a lot of things to set up his own downfall can you describe what goes at that? to my personal they nixon reminds me of woodrow wilson who i also wrote about who simply could not fire his friends even when he knew he ought to. that is one aspect of it. but the problem with nixon when he came to office the foreign policy goals were interesting and good but because of his own history he felt he had to achieve these by a secrecy there is a wonderful transcription of a briefing bendix and gave to the right house staff shortly after the we go

so hearst told nixon you better get some proverbs. so whereas your father's offers i get for things he had heard all his life, with nixon, he was actually sitting down studying them. so it was kind of illustrating nixon's awkwardness as opposed to khrushchev's naturalness as a performer. and of course, nixon did accomplish some proverbs, some of which we cannot actually repeat on the air here. >> host: but it is one thing that really may feel a little bit irritating in your book, that when you're talking about father, my father, you name him dictator all the time. dictator here, and of course, that he was the most unlikely tourist in the united states. and in reality, my question, of course he was the leader, but same time after stalin tierney, he tried to change this rule, and he was elected as the party leader. and it is misunderstand because party leader and the soviet union, it was not party leader because there was only one party. and all spectrum of the politics on the right to the left is in one party. and the party leader like

rodriquez nixon and the air show is here.nixon the two handed flush. 72-56. >> solid explanation point. it is part of what vcu. they'll wear you down. it is that attrition we talked act. eventually they'll feel like you'll break. the panthers, unfortunately for them, did. >> fields off the left elbow able to hit. fields now with a 72-58. vcu gets it across. eight second differential. trap on the sideline. whistle. bumped again is rizzel. he played in this arena with high land springs high school he was the player of the year for a team that went 30-2. he is one of so many rams that feel comfortable in this arena. rams 10-1 at home. >> they work hard in the offseason. added ten pounds of bulk. he became a stronger player. we saw that with the way he went to the rim and was able to mix it up on the inside. he is such a hard worker. originally expected to red shirt as a freshman. he ended up playing 15 minutes a game at the end of the season. >> able to convert 74-58. grant now with alabama. former head coach with florida ties.

this is richard nixon and elvis presley. >> sure. again, a great photo of elvis and nixon, the most requested photo from the national archives. when you think of everything that the national archives keeps in storage, this is the one that people want to see the most over the years. >> now, is it true that elvis had asked richard nixon to allow him to carry a badge of some sort? i've heard this story many times. >> he did. he rolled into town into washington, and he was very concerned of the hippie culture at the time and actually rolled his limousine right up to the west gate at the white house and asked the guard to see nixon and wanted to be made a federal martial at large to help with the drug problem of young people. the of course, he was turned away, but only for a few hours because when the word got to nixon that this the kind of incredible request can had taken place at the west gate, nixon reconsidered and said, hmm, i think, you know, bring him over. let's do this. he called up his directer of narcotics and had a badge sent

able to kick it out to nixon. back to rodriquez. tipped out of bounds by the panthers. 17 to shoot. 52-47 the closest it has been on the second half. >> nice job by hampton stepping over towards the baseline denying the cross court three. that was going to be an opened flee from the corner. >> right side. opened look. not there. rebound georgia state. he's undercut. more free throws coming up for georgia state. this panthers team has trailed by as many as 13. now has a chance to bring it within three. >> what a job to look up there by georgia state. johnson getting the pass. they were trying to put that one on the floor. he knew he wasn't going to have the opportunity. took two pivot steps and went up hard. court free throw shooter 43%. >> feels able to convert. 14 of 29 at the stripe. fields the man who hit a jump we are 43 seconds left in overtime. shot clock about to expire. put his team ahead against jacksonville state. second free throw not there. but a whistle for a lane violation. this will go against him. that means a third

we have released nearly 400 hours of nixon tapes and pages of nixon material.he is nearly completing installation of an installation on watergate based on the oral history accounts. and he has managed the library through two earthquakes and a major fire. before this, he taught at the university of virginia. he was also director of their presidential recordings program at the manner -- the miller center of public affairs. he appears frequently in media and is the author and co-author of several books. in his most recent book, "george herbert walker bush," it appeared in 2007. he holds a degree in history from yale and economics from john hopkins and a master's in history from harvard. i turn this evening over to him. [applause] >> thank you, david. he has been with us a few months and has made great change and we are pleased to have them at the national archives. it is much warmer here. this is an away game for me and i am awfully cold. first of all, please join me in welcoming eagle but grow -- egil krogh and jerry schilling. gentleman. bud krogh was deputy to

he was a suspicious minded fellow like nixon. he could not fire people like nixon. he harbored his ambitions quietly. he was not expensive. and yet he was very smart like nixon, and he was very determined to get his goals accomplished. >> i would love to have interviewed nixon. when i have liked to have interviewed polk? >> if we had conversations over drinks and we happen to notice that jimmy paolk was down there with a drink, when we invite him to be with us? probably no. he was a sanctimonious fellow. >> tell me about his family, his wife. >> his wife was quite vivacious and considered kind of an antidote to his mordred personality. he loved her dearly. -- to his morbid personality. he loved her dearly. he was very sickly as a young boy. his father was worried about him, and he could not do any work on the farm, the plantation. his father thought, maybe i will apprentice him to a merchant because he probably do that. he hated that. he wanted to continue schooling. then they diagnosed that he had urinary stones. this was at the turn of the century before last, so

the first vice president for richard nixon, did a series of broadcasts attacking television news. and he was the first to give that idea of the media cachet, the media sort of -- that word that embraces everything from journalism to public relations. and he also conveyed the impression that the people in the media were really a special elite group ff northeast pinls, he didn't say harvard, but he meant it, and if you come from the northeast and you are a graduate of harvard that that makes you unamerican. and he conveyed that impression because there was the beginning of strong opposition to the vietnam war on the part of the american people. and they blamed the reporters

he surprises himself when he says to nixon -- >> mr.nixon, if you want to give him a badge -- [commercial].

it's that simple. >> larry: the nixon plan. >> the nixon plan. >> larry: back to the stimulus plan. ben, do you think it's working? >> i don't know. i just don't think when you're in debt spending money is the right thing to do. i know that people are a lot smarter than me but i don't think they're a lot smarter than everybody. i think letting individuals have that money back is a really good idea. i don't believe the government is smart enough to let people know where to put money. >> except trickle-down economics does not work, has not worked, is responsible for great deficits, so i think the whole notion we don't let everybody pay taxes and the whole country will rebound, i think that's counter-factual. in terms of whether or not this stimulus is working and in terms of whether or not it will work in the long run, we all knew last year it was going to take time for some of that money to work its way through the system. perhaps if we really want to invest in the country, see about making a difference, we've got to realize, you don't always get -- things don't turn around in two mo

nixon. and then reagan -- well, wasserman had been his agent back starting in 1939, so they had a relationship over decades of great reciprocity. and clinton wasserman was crazy about. i remember he said to me, you know, don't get me started on bill clinton. i'll sound like a lovesick teenager. c-span: connect the connie bruck dots for me. you have been in new york. you're married to a former congressman who was here in washington for a while, but you live in los angeles. when did all -- explain all that. where did you start in -- professionally? >> guest: well, i've always, in my adult life, lived in new york. my professional life, i've lived there, basically, forever -- in california briefly when i was really young, but then new york. i started out as a reporter at the "american lawyer" magazine. and then i wrote a book about michael milken, called "the predators' ball, and with that, bob gottlieb hired me at "the new yorker" to be their business writer. c-span: by the way, the "predators'

platform and nixon turns to him and says i race you to the top.is that a true story? >> if it is, i don't know it. i never come across that before. and never heard it from tonight and i thought i knew a lot about herb. there was one time -- only once in all of his time at the "washington post" with the freedom he was given -- first by mr. meyer and then by -- then by phil, katherine's husband and then kay and then finally don and right into this period and that was the "post" endorsed eisenhower in '52. and herb was fa-natcally -- he didn't hate eisenhower but he was for stevenson and he drew cartoons and phil graham did not want to run the cartoons and herb said i'll run it out in the syndicate and phil gramm said we need you. come back. if it's true, i didn't know that. >> i would like to know your opinion of tom who is there now in herblock's place? >> the question is, my opinion of tom toles who is herb's successor. tom was hired by us from the buffalo paper as a cartoonist. he is a totally different stylist and all that. i like tom. he's a fr

, riggins -- >> of kennedy, nixon and reagan could either of them have done what truman did? would either of them have had the will to overcome the opposition of their entire cabinet? something so fanciful as this? >> you know, i don't know. the presidency, the trilogy i wrote on it really in the end shows what a reactive job is that campaigns and promises and those things don't mean anything. we don't president's wife and our three we pay them for their judgment in crisis. i think is very possible that harry truman was the only one of those three men reagan would be the next who would do something strictly on instinct. he had no idea that it would work but he had a good idea the americans were not going to be pushed out of berlin. and it was interesting in the obama-mccain election. i'm prejudice i have a daughter that writes for obama in the white house. however, this is not the kind of thing that barack obama would do. he wants all the information. he wants to think it out, and john mccain, a very instinctive and sometimes disruptive politician, is the kind of person who m

nixon allegedly shot and killed two officers who pulled him over. he ran to a nearby apartment building and eventually shot and killed two s.w.a.t. officers before police shot and killed him. the incident was the deadliest in oakland police history. >>> we are getting new details about a shooting spree at a st. louis factory that left four people dead, five others injured. police say the suspected gunman was armed with four guns and a fanny pack full of ammo. they say dozens of workers in the plant ran for the roof, broom closets, boiler rooms, anywhere they could find safety during the shooting thursday. authorities still aren't sure of a motive but say the suspect, 51-year-old timothy hendren, was involved in a lawsuit against the company. >>> octomom, aka nadya suleman, has won a court victory and won't have to worry about someone monitoring the family's money. this is from radaronline. there was a call for an independent guardian to watch over the children's finances. it ruled the petition was "an unprecedented meritless effort by a stranger," a

kennedy, richard nixon and ronald reagan.e is a syndicated columnist and currently a senior lecturer at the annenberg school for communication at the university of southern california. for more information visit richard reeves.com. >> next, portion of booktv's monthly three-hour live program in depth. >> i basically am a country guy. i live ten years in london. i grew up ten years in london, ten years in new york. i lived in key west for a while and various, central california and i came up here and people are like you know the days when you said rural seclusion for a writer and his rural coming up wearing a shirt like leo tolstoy is really not wear this hat. i mean with modern communications you can wake up in the morning and read every newspaper on the planet. it is very different. i mean we have in petrolia, in the winter we have power outages and all the rest of it but you know these days, personally i don't think-- so that you have a dsl line. you have every image in the world and to many are available to you. i ambien s

also, the neocons and foreign policy going back to the nixon administration.get the latest book t b updates on twitter pretext mr. a, the government announced growth in the gross domestic product. president obama talked about this and other economic matters in his weekly online address, including his initiatives to lower the federal deficit. then susan collins with her party's weekly address. she discusses the interrogation procedures used against the terror suspect in the attempted christmas day bombing of the detroit bound airliner, like 253. >> at this time leicester, amid headlines about job losses of 700,000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy. our economy was shrinking at an alarming rate, the largest decline in 50 years. factories and farms were producing less. businesses are selling less, and more job losses were on the horizon. one year later, according to numbers released this past week, the numbers have reversed. for the past six months, our economy has been growing again. last quarter, it grew more quickly than at

you know, i was brought up in keynesian, even nixon, nixon said we're all keynesians, but that change very quickly. and under keynes, the belief was that corporations were there not just to make profit, but two good things. and to serve the people. and this goes back in the united states, for the first 100 years of this country, no corporation could get a charter unless it could prove it serve the public interest. charters only ran on average 14 years and then you had to go back and prove you it serve the public interest to get another charter. that all changed in the late 1800s when the supreme court decided that corporations had all the legal rights of individuals. and without any of the responsibilities. since then we've kind of been going downhill a lot with the few times we've gone up, but then keynes came into picture and he said government has to play an important role here. there is a very important role for government and part of it is to rein in businesses and make them compassionate. and didn't milton friedman on chicago school said no. should be no compassionate business i

>> well, i was a part of the richard nixon administration. i was a special assistant to the president. i was staff secretary to the president and a staff secretary very close to the president. i i was asked to do a couple of things by the chief of staff of the white house, and i went out on one occasion, glenn, on one occasion, and actually began to do something that i knew was wrong, and i got right in the middle of making this phone call to an individual, and i talked about this in my book, because it scares me. every time i think about it, i'm right in the middle of a phone call, i said to this person, jim, forget i called you. i'm not going to tell you what i was going to tell you. my heart has told you what i'm going to tell you is wrong. i'm not going to tell you. i went back to the chief of staff and said, sir, i cannot do. this i cannot do what you have asked me to do i was prepared to have him fire me. he looked at me blankly and for two or three days he didn't speak to me and then it blew over. then he never asked me to do anything

eastern for a discussion of president nixon's meeting with elvis presley. the photo of the two together is the archives' most requested photo. .

in terms of the nixon interviews, nbc news were offering $400,000 or whatever. about checkbook journalism happened during the 18 months between when we signed and when we didn't. i would answer. but they really came to an end when the first interview went out and everybody said this is history. >> you were not rolling over nixon. >> exactly. and this is history and this is valuable. and so that controversy sorted of faded away. >> bernard goldberg and i went over it over the love affair with barack obama. >> mainstream media writers hate o'reilly and think msnbc is -- i've repeatedly taken on msnbc for lurching to the left. >> obviously i don't mean every single reporter and i don't even mean every single reporter was in the tank for barack obama. i'm making a statement about the mainstream media as a whole. >> but if you as a critic are upset about msnbc's pro obama bias, chris matthews and all that, what about all the softball interviews that they did with john mccain and sarah palin? are you apply together same standards where you also a contributor on the ri

at last two years go by and then when i thought maybe they'd forgotten about that, so the president nixon said that we were going to stick to their transportation and communication centers, knock the hell out of them. and they were going to move, they did move half of our prisoners of their to the place where he was most central going to bomb. and i decided i would take the risk in the eye and said the half move to dollar high. and they got it to. i couldn't believe they got it so they didn't send the bombers there said the communications are really important. not only for morale, and for the chain of command, the senior management took over and decided what we could and couldn't do, what we would and wouldn't do like a hunter strike or don't write anything, that kind of stuff went on altering the war. and then you had a role in your book you talk about there was one man who was in terrible shape and you have the distinction between amnesty and the parole. would you explain that the station for the viewers? >> but they revere the military. for very good reason. >> that's true. thank god f

of a divide in our country, and a divide in the democratic party that led to the rise of reagan and nixonnd republican dominance in the expansion of the war, and you know, ambitions of some led to the watergate crisis and the collapse of the nixon administration for going too far. but grant park wasú÷ñ the place where people were gassed, where people were beaten very heavily, for no provocation, no reason whatsoever. and itÑi was on the night of obama's election that he returned to grant park and spoke to a huge, huge multiracial crowd of thousands and thousands of people. many of whom had a memory of grant park in 1968. some had no memory whatsoever. but i got a letter from somebody in the obama campaign. it was a message from david axelrod, the campaign manager, who saidÑi that the plan wasçpd deliberate to choose grant park as the place for the victory celebration, as a way to sort of the race the memories of the past of a time when democracy and free speech had died in the same place. so there is, on a very deep level here, and ongoing relationship between the '60s, the '90s, 2000s, 2

we did it with nixon last week who didn't ask to do it over. he said "he insists. that's the only thing we can do is do it over." i asked permission to speak to the senators. i went upstairs, he was lying on the bed in a room that looked like a harvard college dormitory room, pictures of football players, harvard players, i hoped, on the dresser, and i assumed it was john in pickup games kind of thing -- i don't know -- but at any rate, i went in and i pleaded with him to do it over and he said, "no, we're not going to do it over." >> charlie: you pleaded to leave it as it is. >> he insisted "we're going to do it over." >> charlie: his problem is he didn't like the way he was sitting in the chair. >> he said that it was because he was sitting in the chair -- we had him placed in a soft chair where he was all doubled up and lked bad. you it. he didn't look badly at all. it was the fact that he had muffed this question. and knowing that, i wasn't about to do it over just for cosmetic reasons. anyway, it would still be unfair. i said "we're going to have to label the

nixon, 1975. reagan, 10% unemployment in 1983. what they did in all three instances was essentially reduce the tax burden. right? unfortunately, obama is looking back to fdr, a public sector-led recovery. the only time we had 10% unemployment for ten straight years. the great depression. >> paul: 1930s. >> i look at unemployment at best 8.5%, if it stayed at 10 or rose. because they are raising the tax burden. i'm not shocked. >> paul: steve, chris toena romer the white house economic advisor said if you pass the stimulus, the jobless rate will not go above 8%. now it's 10%. now she says probably will not go down to 9.5%, much below that by next november. are you more optimistic than that? >> you know, what is keeping the the folks at the white house up at night is this unemployment number. the fact that we have 15 million unemployed. dorothy is right. no matter how many times the white house talks about how wonderful things are and the expansion, the we don't see resumption of jobs the democrats are in big trouble. the president

it compares to nixon in -- who inherited the war from johnson.oing into 1969, we're coming out of vietnam. nixon took four years to do it, another 20,000 soldiers, american soldiers died during the withdrawal. the lesson there is, look, when it is time to come home, do not take for you -- do not take for five years to do it and lose 20,000 soldiers. host: tony on the republican line, go ahead. caller: i am not just some young kid listening to you. you compare it to what happened in 9/11. vietnam, we did not get on from the north vietnamese, did we? another thing, we had the flower children out there painting their faces and protesting. it is a lot different now. you have the majority of people at 9/11 supporting going over there. and north korea, you could nabhan them at the beginning of the war. it was not until later. guest: the caller has a good point. of all the similarities and differences between vietnam and afghanistan, the fact that those were the people who attacked us gave was a moral right, whether you agree with war or not, to go afte

have been three unemployment peaks in the post war period, during the kennedy administration in 1964, nixon 1975, and reagan who was at 10% unemployment in 1983. what they did in all three instances was essentially reduce the tax burden, right? unfortunately, obama is looking back to fdr, which is a public sector led recovery. that's the only time we had 10% unemployment ten straight year which was the depression. >> paul: 1930's. >> i'm looking at unemployment coming down at best to 8.5%, if it stayed at 10 or rose because they're rising the tax burden i'm not going to be shocked. christina romer says if you pass the stimulus the jobless rate won't be above 8%, now it's 10 and now she says probably not to 9 1/2%, much below that by next november. are you more optimistic than that? >> you know, what's keeping the folks at the white house up at night is that unemployment number. the fact that we have 15 million unemployed and i think that dorothy is right no matter how many times the white house talks about how wonderful things are in expansion, if we don't see an expansion of jobs, the demo

between iran today and the people's republican of china in the early 1970's and thank god president nixonealized the united states needed a productive, constructive strategic relation ship with china and i think the world has been the beneficiary of that since. we need to understand that we need a constructive, strategic relationship with the islamic republican of iran and get to work on building that relationship. host: ever ever is a graduate of texas christian university. also at mit and professor at penn state university we do have twitter comments saying sorry flynt they're building a bomb to drop on new york city. we're going to preempt them by force. question to you, then what? guest: i hope the forecast is wrong. i hope we're not so full hardy to try to eliminate their program by force. first of all i don't think that's feasible. i think the program is to dispersed. we would not be able to eliminate it through military action. but secondly, i think that the consequences of such an action would be very, very bad for american interests. i mean first of all as i said earlier. my own

and later state of the state addresses from mark sanford and missouri governor jay nixon. >> congressies in an idaho wilderness area. the house plans to be out of session thursday and friday so republican members can attend their annual retreat in baltimore. live house coverage is on c-span. and the senate gavels back in on monday to continue work on legislation that raises the federal debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. we expect debate on both amendments and a final passage vote could happen before the end of the week. see the senate live on c-span 2. >> each year the washington center brings thousands of students to washington, d.c. to experience the workings of our government firsthand. this weekend they'll discuss politics, government, and their futures, "q&a" sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> from first lady michelle obama on preventing childhood obesity and spoke earlier at the annual meeting on the u.s. conference of mayors. this is about 25 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. hello. i'm elizabeth couch, mayor of the city of burnsville and president of the u.s. conference of ma

i was talking to my children about richard nixon. thank god that the american people for the most part are forgiving. >> [laughter] >> it is hard to hear the audio but that was the next mayor greeting the governor as they made their way to the podium for their first joint advent. the governor told us he had been preparing for his job a whole life. >> [inaudible] >> martin o'malley has had personal affection for the family. the new mayor's father is a mentor of the governors. >> the respect i have for him -- there has been that additional closeness looking into her daughter's eyes. i always see her father. >> governor o'malley says the leader's style contrasts with the old. >> atkin she has a steady and methodical approach -- i think she has a steady approach. she is a pretty cool steady- going person. >> he had one last bit of it buys. >> don't mess with the pink flamingo. -- he had one bit of advice. >> city hall insiders say it one councilman has been lobbying colleagues for the job. he and another councilman are considered foreign

despite nixon's opinion from the chair, anderson's motion was tabled. in 1959, anderson raised the constitutional option at the start of the 86th congress with the support of some 30 other senators. this time he raised the ire of then-majority leader johnson who realized that a majority of senators might join anderson's cause. to prevent anderson's motion from receiving a vote, johnson came forward with his own compromise, changing rule 22 to reduce the required vote for cloture to two-thirdses of senators present and voting. clinton anderson relied on the constitutional option as the basis to ease or at least reconsider the cloture requirements laid out in rule 22. as he said in 1959 -- quote -- "my motion does not prejudge the nature of the rules, which the senate in its wisdom may adopt, but it does declair in effect that the senate -- declare in effect that the senate of the 85th senate is responsible for and must bear the responsibility for the rules under which the senate will operate." that responsibility cannot be shifted back upon the senate of

and governor nixon and governor patrick joined them and said, slow down. meet this effort building 100-mile an hour train systems. or else we are truly confining ourselves to be a second-class nation when it comes to transporting our systems. we have to look at the mac labs. we have to look at the bullet trains. we have to look at improving. if we did the work on improving the amtrak we could go to new york to washington and an hour to 30 minutes. would you go to new york and philadelphia in 33 minutes. we could confining shuttle. we would improve east-west air traffic all over the eastern seaboard. we shouldn't be flying people 500 isles or less. you should be putting them on a high-speed train. now ranking member thune asked a very good question. how we decide which of these projects, whether they're 2 billion or 400 billion. how will we decide which projects should be given priority? i suggest that we create a national infrastructure bank staff by professionals, not necessarily professionals all of them and transportation. it could be some former member

government at that time under president nixon asked the attorney general to put out an injunction to stop "the washington post" from publication. which could have been a direct interference with freedom of the press. so the supreme court ruled the right way a week or two later. it all happen very, very swiftly. the impact of the story was enormous. it led to the toppling of the government, to the resignation of a president, two steps ahead of almost certain impeachment. it put the country into a terrible tailspin and i would submit that we're still not out of that. and it ignited in young journalists the belief that they could automatically become a woodward or a burn stein. so on the one hand the excitement into doing investigative reporting is very good. president overexcitement that you could actually be woodward and burnstein overnight was very destructive. up at the kennedy school we give out a prize every spring time to the best investigative reporting. and i have to tell you that with all of the economic and technological problems now facing newspapers across the country i am

also, presidential foreign- policy going back to the nixon administration. find the entire weekend schedule booktv.org. >> in the nation's capital, listen to c-span radio. in washington, at 90.1 fm. it is also a free application for your iphone. c-span radio, covering washington like no other. yesterday, in london, representatives from other -- other countries met to set goals for the future of afghanistan. president karzai told a conference that his company -- country was moving slowly toward national security. of the next 45 minutes, british and afghan leaders and the un secretary general outline their goals. general mcchrystal has the international forces serving with such distinction in afghanistan and soon to be over 100,000 strong. foreign ministers, distinguished guests representing over 70 nations and international organizations, including every single member of the 43 nation strong international security assistance force. representing also afghanistan's key regional and muslim partners with whom we are pleased to work and his involvement in this wor

it compares to nixon in -- who inherited the war from johnson.oing into 1969, we're coming out of vietnam. nixon took four years to do it, another 20,000 soldiers, american soldiers died during the withdrawal. the lesson there is, look, when it is time to come home, do not take for you -- do not take for five years to do it and lose 20,000 soldiers. host: tony on the republican line, go ahead. caller: i am not just some young kid listening to you. you compare it to what happened in 9/11. vietnam, we did not get on from the north vietnamese, did we? another thing, we had the flower children out there painting their faces and protesting. it is a lot different now. you have the majority of people at 9/11 supporting going over there. and north korea, you could nabhan them at the beginning of the war. it was not until later. guest: the caller has a good point. of all the similarities and differences between vietnam and afghanistan, the fact that those were the people who attacked us gave was a moral right, whether you agree with war or not, to go afte

richard nixon proposed a national health insurance plan that teddy -- he and teddy kennedy were workn. over on the last few years, there has been a real split. and the republicans very much want a private sector plan based on private choice and the private industry. and there is a sense that the democrats much prefer a system with the government heavily involved regulated or running it. and one of the dinks, president obama came down on the side of keeping the health insurance companies there. and he's been -- a lot of people are pulling to the left of his own party to have more government intervention. i think there is a fundamental split on it. >> larry: mary, how do you get those who can't afford it to get health care? >> the notion that you are for the status core, for no reform, it's one of the straw men that the democratings like to employ. they will come back to the table with a number of ways to reduce the cost of health care and health insurance, from pooling, small bases, and market based plans, tort reform. and all the things, they control the cost. this is not affording h

be talking with a publisher about doing stuff he promised he would consider depending how book this nixon and how well this book went to publishing this on a restricted number that i could give to friends, libraries and folks like that. we have not discussed that yet the we are working on it. the other problem i had, the title was too long. as you may have read the title of this one "autobiography of by the grace of god, only in america the autobiography of lieutenant general julius becton, jr., obviously that is a mouthful. to make a long story short, in a mashaal that is my story. thank you for being here, thank you for inviting me and i am prepared to respond to questions. but already been told where the first question is coming from. do you have a microphone? [applause] >> [inaudible] before i ask my question i want to congratulate on your inspiring career. i hope many people will follow your example. my question has to do with your most challenging jobs in the school system and washington, d.c.. i remember you said [inaudible] remember reading people thought you were trillion to put

you talked about in this meeting, we saw the human side of both president nixon and elvis presley. i don't mean this to be a hostile question but more of a sympathetic one. wasn't richard nixon a bit of a hypocrite to rail against drug abuse when it is alleged that early in his presidency, he was taking anti-convulsive medication to relieve stress? and i believe it's been well documented that he was abusing alcohol as the watergate scandal began to unravel? >> well, i would have to take issue, i think, with the premise of the question. i don't think, at least to my knowledge, that there was any history of abuse of alcohol at all. in terms of the drug he is used, i think they were all prescribed drugs. i did work on the markets programs for richard nickson for four years. he focused very specifically on what he thought were the most dangerous drugs, heroin in particular, and he shifted the national policy from a primarily law enforcement policy to treatment, rah he -- rehabilitation, research, and ex-, because he saw that was where we could get the greatest value. he felt that would

government at that time under president nixon asked the attorney general to put out an injunction to stop the "washington post," which could have been a direct interference with freedom of the press. so the supreme court ruled the right way a week or two later. it all happened very, very quickly. the impact of the story was enormous. it led to the toppling of the government, to the resignation of a president, two steps of almost certain impeachment. it put the country into a terrible tailspin. and i would submit that we are still not out of that. and it ignited in young journalist to believe that they could automatically be calm a woodward or bernstein. so i'm the one hand, the excitement into doing investigative reporting is very good. the over excitement that you've actually be woodward or bernstein overnight was very distraught days. at the shorenstein center at the kennedy school, we give a prize every springtime to the best of investigative reporting. and i have to tell you that with all of the economic and technological problems now facing newspapers across the country, i am al

he earned a place on president nixon's enemy list. mack was an important supporter of the civil rights movement helping to craft an open housing law. in 1965 he traveled to selma, alabama, to visit martin luther king, jr. who was in jail. in 1976 at a party for mack, the president of the naacp said, i say thank god for mac mathias. he was an outstanding advocate for congress. he was committed to the environment, he proposed legislation to protect the chesapeake bay, a antetum natiol battlefield and helped to create the c&o canal historical park. in the 110th congress he traveled to washington to help lobby fellow republicans for a bill to combat election fraud. was a leader for campaign finance reform. a subject that the congress would have to revisit in citizens united v. the federal election commission. he remarked that no problem confronting our nation is greater than that of our steadily eroding confidence in our political system. he was so right. he understood that democracy is depended on inclusion and on citizens who participat

back in washington our man david gergen, cnn's senior political analyst and adviser to presidents nixon, ford, reagan and clinton. scott brown took a popular stance during his campaign, very much an it's against us big, bad washington theme. he sounded that theme in his victory speech. >> i will remember while the honor is mine, this senate seat belongs to no one person and political party. as i said before and you've heard it today and you'll hear it loud and clear, this is the people's seat! >> larry: andy card, do you think the republicans might not take credit for it if it's the people's seat? >> the republicans will take credit for it it, but scott brown skefshs the bulk was credit. he ran a very disciplined campaign and was not phony. he was the real thing. this is the people's seat. it belongs to the people of massachusetts and scott brown says that he'll take good care of it and make sure they're part of the process rather than being dictated to or preached at. >> larry: does that mean he will serve the liberal interests of that most liberal of states? >> scott brown is a very a

richard nixon, of all people, proposed a national health insurance plan that would that teddy kennedy and he were working pretty closely together. fell apart at the last minute. might well have happened. over the last 20 years there has been a real split between the two parties, both wanting health care reform. but the republicans want a private sector kind of plan, be very much based on private choice and the private industry. and there's a sense that the democrats much prefer a system with the government heavily involved, regulating or actually running it. one of the big differences that president obama came down on the side of keeping the health insurance companies there, but he's been pulled -- a lot of people are pulling to the left in his own party to have more government intervention. and the conservatives just don't buy that. i think there's a fundamental ideological split on this. >> larry: mary, how do the republicans feel that the poor will be involved? how do they get those who can't afford it to get health care? >> the notion that if you're not for big government takeover