richard nixon, enter nixon was particularly shrewd, i argue in exploiting the drug crisis in vietnam to his political advantage. he exaggerated the menace of drug abuse in an anslingeresque way and effectively presented himself as a national savior bent on eradicating the drug peril from american life and june 17, 1971, after the release of a congressional report claiming exaggeratingly as it turned out 15% of american gis used heroin, he formally declared the war on drug, called drug, abuse public enemy number one in america and the situation he says approached the dimension of the national emergency, now, the timing of the speech is very opportune for him, four days earlier "the new york times" had begun printing exempts of the pentagon papers, which -- apparently there is -- i haven't seen it but there's an excellent documentary out on daniel else berg and his role in leaking the pentagon papers. the pentagon papers was a top-secret blueprint of american governmental war planning leaked by elseberg, and showed a pattern of deception by the government. and, also, the imperial motiv

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

met jack and his wife that spring on the hot-button issue shrewd america recognized red china after nixon's trip. they came up at a coffee break and she introduce them and my jaw dropped because of a college june either in the middle about his persecution and history of a service officer. out of the first meeting developed a very special person relationship first then a very special personal relationship. in 1978, december 15, when they announced formal diplomatic relations would be established, i was with them and jack ordered a bottle of champagne and we toasted the french above the people of china and the united states. he told me for the first time in a guerrilla stronghold when mao was begging for cooperation from the united states and american capital is to help rebuild china after the war. also in 1989 when they tanks rolled through tiananmen square i was in his home for lunch. it was statehood-- it was a historical moment i had to tell the story and at the it evolution whose beginnings he had witnessed in 1940 in china. he despaired of the lack of political expression in china that

nixon believed in it and so did i then and now.ama plans to place heavy tax on so-called cadillac private health care plans to tax them. there could also be a new tax on high-income americans. this makes sense frankly but the plan is to also cut reimbursements to doctors for their work on medicare patients and is strictly regulate insurers. i don't like these parts. why should doctors, already often wildly overworked and very poorly paid compared with bankers or rock stars or athletes get the pay cut. why are we beating on the insurance companies? they're not raiders from another planet. they're american companies owned by other americans' pension funds and retirement funds. they often screw up. so does everyone everywhere. if they're going to be recovered to cover pre-existing conditions premiums for healthy people will soar. is that fair? well anyway it's a brave new world now. uncle sam is bigger than ever. there's no going back. america just roll up your sleeves. this won't hurt a bit. >> osgood: commentary from ben stein and n

when richard nixon in watergate -- and i'm the anti-nixon. i met nixon. right until the end, professor, remember the united states court ruled unanimously release the tapes, okay? and then he realized he did something wrong and he resigned. i'm the opposite. play the tapes. they will prove me innocent. >> so you're saying if we hear those tapes we're going to find out that lisa madigan would have been the senator of illinois if you hadn't been arrested? >> you're going to find out that that was the decision and the direction i gave. i can't talk about the specifics on the tapes but i recall that i know it. i know what i was doing. and i believe if -- if i was given a few more days and we got that going, that would have happened and none of this would have happened. i do believe that. >> that's interesting because i just you will not -- she chose not to run for senate. >> she knows not to runny wonder why. why don't you look into that? where's the ethical obligation of the media to look into the truth. now, you talk about government -- >> you don't think t

even richard nixon. teddy appreciated -- i'm sorry the president didn't mention nixon. richard nixon actually tried to do something on national health care in the first administration. never succeeded. but teddy appreciated the efforts and appreciated the efforts as i worked with him in '93 and '94, president clinton tried valiantly in the same vein. so i think he had a great sense of that. the president graciously mentioned his appearance in that's room about a year ago, maybe one of the lasts other than a couple of votes he cast later that spring. the last real public appearance he made as kind of an appeal to get this off the ground. that is the national health care debate and the victory we saw today. so i couldn't help but think of him sort of reaching back to all of the battles, some won, some lost, the piecemeal efforts over the years. he was around for medicare. that battle in the '60s. he was, of course, the author of the children's health initiative. he was a great help to me when i wrote the family medical leave act, autism, premature birth, infant screenings

i remember pat, reading something that you wrote about when richard nixon was inaugurated and the whene came down pennsylvania avenue and the ugliness of that crowd. remember that? i'm sure you don't forget it. >> very first thing that richard nixon said to me as president, came walking into the reviewing stand, i was in the way. i didn't know he was right behind me. and the secret service moved me aside and he said, buchanan was that you throwing the eggs at me? they threw eggs at the presidential limousine coming down there. >> and that led to -- a lot of that ugliness of the late '60s and early '70s that ended up helping the republicans in a way. >> every time. hey hey, lbj, how many kids did you kill today? >> that got the president up 60%. >> every time they went after nixon on these things, we soared in the polls. i was at the pentagon when a crowd of about 50,000 mailers, armies of the night tried to storm the building, fought with the mps trying to break into the building. it was an enormous event. these things are tea parties compared to that. >> well that was '67. >> '67, exa

richard nixon said it in 1974, so that this is the time to do it. we've come the furthest we've ever come to getting this done, and we're going to get it done today in the house of representatives. >> fair to say there will not be a vote called if you don't have the 216? >> we're going to have a vote. we're going to have 216. >> either way. >> we're going to pass this way? >> either way you'll have a vote. >> we're going to pass this vote, david. >> leader boehner, are they going to have the votes? >> it's clear from steny they don't have the votes yet. you have to think about this, 54 speeches by the president over the last year, a year's conversation with the american people and they've been heavily engaged in this conversation for nine months. the senate bill's been out there now for three months and yet, after all of this hand wringing, all of this debate, millions of americans upset on both sides of this debate, we're about to make this historic change on a purely partisan vote, and i think of the american people stay engaged in this fight for

dad was a nixon republican and he made sure that we were all wearing nixon buttons in 1960 and our catholic school in the first grade i wore a nixon button and the nuns could not figure that one out because most catholics were for kennedy in those days. but when did you become a democrat? >> this was the interesting story. when i came away to college, i loved politics. i thought i would run for elective office one day. instead i had a different kind of political job. when i came to trinity -- i chose trinity -- i had a full tuition scholarship. because it was in washington, i loved the idea of coming to school in d.c. as i became involved, this was 1970, came to trinity, got involved in the anti-war movement, suddenly became exposed to many new and different ideas that i had never seen before. over time i became increasingly liberal and soon became a democrat, much to my dad's chagrin. we had many long talks about what was happening to me. that is part of the occasional process. i just wish that he had lived longer because we might have closed the loop again on some of those discussions. >>

but despite nixon's opinion, anderson's motion was tabled.n the 1959 anderson again introduced the constitutional option. this time with the bipartisan support of some 30 other senators. then-majority leader johnson wasn't happy with johnson's proposal -- wasn't happy with anderson's proposal. he saw it as gaining momentum and realized a majority of senators might join the cause. to prevent anderson's motion from receiving a vote, johnson came forward with his own compromise. he proposed changing rule 22 to reduce the required vote for cloture to two-thirds of the senators present and voting. johnson's compromise passed, but attempts to change the filibuster rule continued for more than a decade. rule 22 was last changed in 1975 when senators walter mondale and james pearson used the constitutional option to change the cloture requirement for most issues except rule changes to three-fifths of those senators chosen and sworn. only three of my colleagues, senator byrd, inouye and leahy, were in the senate then and have ever had the opportunity

. >> larry elder, i looked at what richard nixon proposed when he was president and this proposal looksilar to what richard nixon posed. >> he's a socialist, too, david. >> so is george washington, by the way. >> do you mind? first of all, you mentioned medicare. medicare was passed with majority support on the part of republicans. republicans, a majority of them supported social security. in this obama care bill not a single republican joined with the democrats to do it. medicare is underfunded by $37 trillion. >> a number of republicans joined in the democrats in passing medicare part d, which was $700 billion and nobody decided they wanted to pay for at the time. we've got to wrap it up there, because we're expecting president obama to step into the briefing room any moment. larry elder and joe, we'll have you back, i promise, for more on this important debate. >>> again, president obama expected to step into the briefing room in just a couple of seconds, we think, to talk about a major breakthrough in foreign policy with the government of russia. the united states and russia have be

look back at the vietnam war the way nixon, ronald reagan vilified in the first part of his administrationook how george bush was vilified and demonized. i think we are going to go through a period, there are no easy decisions no popular decisions. that's why the tea party movement is so= the back of a new generation of political leaders, hopefully some come from baby boomers. >> sean: i watched gingrich up close during the revolution his contract with america day george w. bush did was kept this country safe and he never wavered on the idea that we've got to be on the offense. which we weren't in the lead-up in the 90s. i don't know, these problems seem worse to me. has taken us back to bill clinton era policies. &$4= us back to carter on steroids. >> that's frightening. we can build, even though we have a calamity here and we built on the ashes before. after the great depression, after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it. >> but we have a timeframe.és$u i think the day of reckoning is coming. by china and t(

eisenhower never had nixon upstairs to the white house to visit.nedy was uncomfortable in johnso johnson's distance. the reagans and the bushes were oil and water. clinton and gore hardly ended as a due wet. for all joe biden's overenthusiasms, for all his wish i hadn't said thats, he balances well the president's coolness and they both know it. he's barack obama's liaison with regular people. people like joe bide. when he picked biden that summer day, i was taken with a fact a regular guy with his heart on his sleeve had risen so high. joe biden, bless his heart, hasn't changed a bit. i was fortunate to travel with the vice pren

could nixon have had any sort of maybe special interest groups that pushed towards the drug addicted army? >> again, it's not something i export. but i think certainly the case that special interest, you know, i mean, it's a question of why are certain drugs legal and certain drugs illegal. and it's often politics or connections, or the interest of the pharmaceutical companies. but i haven't done much direct research on that. that would be an interesting, you know, project or course or thesis to explore the influence of the pharmaceutical company across time perhaps. it would be a great thesis for anybody who wants to write a phd. so it's very interesting question. yeah, i just don't have all the evidence but i would surge suspect it's a factor. and it is sometimes hard to document because it's not always, you know, it may not make its way into an archive or any official government hearings. but as we know, lobbyists play a very powerful role in you can. so, yeah. >> you seem to talk a little bit in the recent articles in the book, there's a focus here on government policy, governmen

it went through harry truman, through richard nixon, bill clinton, and today barack obama. we are there to fulfill ted kennedy's dream and the work of many congresses and many people. i have had several constituents come to me andle it me of serious illnesses they have had that they would have gone broke if they didn't have insurance. and if they didn't have insurance and their cancer surgeries were covered, we would pay for it and the tax we pay we don't know about of $1,000 for person for uncompensated care. let's do something worthwhile. let's pass health care. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute to address the house. >> thank you, i rise today to commend the forerunner of today's women's military pilots, the women's air corps service pilots, they flew more than 16 million miles. from 19

also there was john nixon, district court judge in middle tennessee and the sixth circuit court judge. he goes every year because he was withle civil rights division in 1965 with the march that succeeded with dr. king took place. there are people that go back every year to renew their thoughts and experiences because we shall overcome someday. and that day hasn't occurred yet, mr. speaker, i submit. the 110th congress passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and jim crow. in that resolution passed by voice vote, by everybody up here, we said we are going to rectify the lingering effects of slavery and jim crow. and lingering effects include saying that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are truly part of the american dream. and you can't have life without health care. and many of the people without health care don't have it because they have been denied the opportunities to participate in the economic dream of america to have jobs that give them insurance and to afford that opportunity. that's part of what bloody sunday was about. to pass this resolution is so important, b

and so, it was '72, and young conservatives had kind of had it with nixon. it was too much big government, you know, selling out to the commie chinese. so, we had an organization, at yaf, called youth against mcgovern. you have to do something in the election. and i went down there one saturday, and we were stuffing and mailing. and there was this cute-looking fellow there from buffalo going to school at fordham, and we got to know each other. he didn't ask me out for almost three months, which puzzled me until i learned that he had no money. and he came into some around christmas time. he had some extra money, and then he took me out. and we just clicked. and almost 36 years later, we're doing well. >> but frank donatelli ran yaf at the time. >> he was in law school. he came to washington to become the executive director. ron worked for him, and i worked for him. and then, when ron and i married, i left, because ron had just gotten the top job, and it doesn't work well for me to work for my husband. >> now, where did you get your strong conservative views?

and richard nixon said this, let us act now. that was in 1974 when there were far fewer americans who did not have health insurance. and where health care was less costly. richard nixon was right in 1974 on this issue. let us in 2010 in a bipartisan way, perhaps not a bipartisan vote but recognizing that this has been a bipartisan objective, a bipartisan vision for those republican presidents and democratic presidents whom i have not quoted but whom as all of you know were equally committed to that vision and that objective. affordable health care for all. for all americans was embraced by both parties' nominees in the last campaign, senator obama and senator mccain. what a campaign of fear this bill has faced this last year. its critics call it without justification and we'll hear it tonight, a government takeover. that's not true. but if you believe it's true, perhaps you think we ought to repeal veterans' health care which is clearly government-run health care. perhaps we ought to repeal medicare, government participated but

despite nixon's attempt, andersen's motion was tabled. in 1959, he introduced the constitutional option. this time it was with bipartisan support from 30 other senators. johnson was not happy with the proposal. he saw it as gaining momentum and realized the majority of senators might join the cause. to prevent his motion from repeating, johnson came forward with his own compromise. he proposed changing role 22 to reduce the required vote of cloture from 2/3 of the senate. his compromise passed. the attempt to change the filibuster rule continued for more than a decade. world 22 was last changed in 1975 when center's walter and james pierson use the constitutional option to change the cloture requirement to 3/5 of the center's. -- senators. only three of my colleagues were in the senate then and have ever had the opportunity to vote on rule 22. 97 of us have never voted on the rule that prevents today's senate from passing critical legislation. all of this brings us to today. the impact of the filibuster has become more pronounced. senator

we have a new individual mandate that was not in the nixon's law.nedy was trying to interpret what his brothers' behalf, -- brothers would have, what their legacy would have been, so he picked up health care. you should not have to get insurance through your employer. at one point, he and the head of the ways and means committee, a compromise bill called the kennedy-mills bill. two things happen. wilbur mills went into the tidal pond, got involved in personal scandal, and he was founded as an alcoholic and left washington. even at the conservative age, the watergate scandal that occurred made things trend a democratic. some of the labor union decided they were going to win the election in 1974 big, so let us speculate political futures. let's bet that we are going to get in better deal in 1975. it turns out that that was the wrong bet because the economy went south and things were not as often as they were today. so nixon considered this somewhat conservative proposal in 1971, and it becomes president obama's liberal proposal in 2010. host: a commen

those things in combination and the pressure got it banned in 1972 under president nixon but in the meantime it was used all over the world, you can see old video or film footage of people in crowds of ddt being lofted around in picnic tables. it was very widely used and the it was studied and studied nothing more than tangential and speculative links were ever established. there were concerns about eggshells. we can get into that if you wish. a lot of conjecture, no solid proof. >> this is booktv in primetime and it is a live call-in program about rachel carson and her book "silent spring" published in 1962. we are joined by paul driessen peoples senior fellow for the committee for a constructive tomorrow, and the congress for racial equality. he has a law degree from the university of denver and field economy from lawrence university and this is his book, green power, black death. we are also adorned by linda lear in charleston, south carolina who is rachel carson's biographer. herbal is called rachel carson, witness for nature. she has written an introduction to the new addition of "silen

it was a term invented by the nixon administration. it meant that we could have an agreement with the soviet union, who we know are lying and cheating and stealing rations -- [laughter] >> it is not like they cannot help it or something there were born with. [laughter] >> right. but we could do this in time to respond. i think that is where we will end up with iran. we will develop some analogous phrase. >> we will let them back of their nuclear weapons. >> we would -- >> know. we would attack -- >> no. we would get tax if they throw the inspectors out. we would detect that and then we would make this decision to use force and prevent iran from ever having this capability. to get into a diplomatic discussion with other countries, if they were about to brandish an actual weapon or put the final pieces together or throw the inspectors out who currently monitor this material, that would yield a different response. i think that is where this debate is going to go. >> may i respond? >> i feel like a lowly college professor. why wait? why do

traces elvis' rise in the '50s to his meeting with the president nixon back in 1970. it also includes rare objects in presley's lie, some not displayed outside of graceland, as well as others not publicly displayed anywhere. the elvis exhibit will be displayed until the end of april. you've got all month. >> the prettiest day of the work week, but not necessarily the warmest because tomorrow's temperatures will nudge just a little higher associati eer so, this after start wig a cool work week. temperatures in the exitings. 60s. gorgeous day. foggy bottom at 67. the cool spot along the water, 64 degrees. indianapolis, chesapeake beach, 64 degrees. look at that sky, awfully pretty north in milltown, maryland, where the temperature is 70, down to 71. also cool there. tilln island at 57 degrees. so here's what's been happening today. huge area of high pressure has been moving in. so, a little breezy, but we'll see the wind start to settle a bit. breezy conditions, the next weather system already brings rain to northern illinois. this is all part of the same weather system

it was 1972, and young conservatives had had it with nixon. we had an organization named used against the government -- used against the government -- youth against the governed. i learned that he had no money. he came across some extra money around christmas time and took me out. we just clicked. 36 years later, we are doing well. >>frank wasn't lost or -- was in law school. when ron and i married, i left, because ron had just gotten the top job and it does not work well to work for my husband. >> where did you get your strong, conservative views? >> my family was conservative and my father was hard-working. he always complained about the taxes. he had four children. government was way too big in the 1950's and 1960's. i heard it all those years and i just hope it end. i just soaked in. -- soaked ii in. that was my introduction as an activist and high school. my senior year, i was voted class politician because i was willing to speak about political things. >> where was this? >> port chester high school. it is a suburb of new york city. you c

we have a new individual mandate that was not in the nixon's law. kennedy was trying to interpret what his brothers' behalf, -- brothers would have, what their legacy would have been, so he picked up health care. you should not have to get insurance through your employer. at one point, he and the head of the ways and means committee, a compromise bill called the kennedy-mills bill. two things happen. wilbur mills went into the tidal pond, got involved in personal scandal, and he was founded as an alcoholic and left washington. even at the conservative age, the watergate scandal that occurred made things trend a democratic. some of the labor union decided they were going to win the election in 1974 big, so let us speculate political futures. let's bet that we are going to get in better deal in 1975. it turns out that that was the wrong bet because the economy went south and things were not as often as they were today. so nixon considered this somewhat conservative proposal in 1971, and it becomes president obama's liberal proposal in 2010. host: a co

every decade since, we have had presidents, republicans and democrats, from harry truman to richard nixonk to lyndon johnson to every single president has said we need to fix this system. >> how about the seniors out there. we will have $500 billion in medicare cuts and a bunch of seniors, you will see a lot of them, a couple million lose their medicare advantage plans. are they going to be happier about that? how about the small business owner who is going see higher taxes, more mandates and higher fees. think it is going to become more popular with them? i don't think so. this healthcare bill will ruinure country. we have to stop it. >> geraldo: and the eve of what is going to be an historic vote, tea party protesters holding a vigil outside the united states supreme court where challenges to the legislation even if it passes will undoubtedly be heard. with more on what the protesters did today, here is our molly henneberg. >>> thousands gathered in what they call the "final push" to try to stop the healthcare reform bill. they say they are here to put pressure on undecided lawmakers to

dad was paid republican -- dad was a nixon republican. most catholics were for kennedy in those days. >> when did you become a democrat? >> this is an interesting story. i love politics. i thought i would run for elective office some day and now i have a different kind of political job. when i came to trinity, i trows -- i chose trinity. i loved the idea of coming to school in the district of columbia. as i became involved in the anti-war movement, i suddenly became exposed to many new and different ideas that i had never seen before. i became increasingly liberal and became a democrat. this was much to my dad's a chagrin. that is part of the educational process. i just wish that he would have lived longer because we might have closed the loop. >> what is the breakdown in politics among your siblings? >> i do not ask that question. we do not discuss politics. i suspect that most of them are probably pretty conservative. >> in this article that started all this, he writes "her value to the school cannot be overstated. she seems to run ever

six who has the stomach for this, the attorney general would not reply to deny letters, nor governor nixon take this fight to them and aim proud to stand with bill mccullum from florida and the others from this fight. >> i apologize, are you a democrat or republican. >> i'm the only republican among missouri's six statewide elected officials. >> we should point out one of the state ag's is a democrat. >> all praise to him. >> so where do you see this going? i've talked to legal scholars who say with the best of intentions it's not going anywhere. it's a tough sell. >> we know it's a tough sell. this is a battle that has to be fought on many fronts. fy talked to you on thanksgiving, would you have thought massachusetts would elect a republican senator or -- >> a very good point. i stand corrected. we'll be watching closely. >> thank you. >>> this guy's state is ready to go the most money from the newly inked healthcare reform but he's fighting to keep one penny from making it to his state and wants to use the supreme court to do it. mr. campbell, where do you see this going? >> it goes to t

title 9 was signed by richard nixon in june of 1972 that opened the playing field of america to girls as well as boys. i'd say 1909, even 2000 you would expect this kind of dominance. i'm surprised in 2010 we're seeing one team being so strong where there's no one getting within 10 points, 12 points, stanford was in december. that's as close as anyone has gotten. this team has only been behind in three games in this second half of the 71-game streak. i'm surprised and i think it's a little worrisome in the depth with all these girls you know hundreds of thousands of girls playing basketball in our country, where is another team rise to go the challenge? right now we don't see it. >> woodruff: worrying for down the line, recruiting, getting girls interested to stay interested in college sports? >> well, in basketball, of course, that's the national game. you know for boys and girls. you have all these turn a.m.s and high school tournaments. you know, tad dads starting their daughters at age 4 and 5 and 6. my question is, why now? i mean i guess it's great that u-conn is to fantastic. t

it includes never before seen artifacts from elvis' life from richard nixon to the white house in 1970. it also includes elvis' harley and a sequenced jumpsuit. the elvis display will remain at the newseum until next february. >>> still ahead on "news4 at 5," the fans again at the newseum. we're going to have more of this video when we come back. >>> and it's gorgeous outside right now. but will things stay nice for your weekend? veronica looks a >>> tonight, we're going to reintroduce you to a couple of brothers who you first met as wednesday's children back in 2005. the boys have been lucky to have remained knowing their time in foster care, at least so far. barbara harrison tells us they are still hopeful they will find a permanent, loving home together. >> hi, anthony? >> yeah. >> dequan? you remember me? >> yeah. >> you've gotten so big since the last time i saw you. >> reporter: it's been almost five years now since before we first introduced you to anthony and dequan, as wednesday's child siblings, looking for a home together, a home they're still looking to find. we've got a gr

look at the vietnam war how nixon was vilified and reagan is vilified.. we will go through a period there are no easy decisions and popular decisions. the tea party movement is owe powerful. the american people will have to have the back of new generation political lead deers. >>> a watched gingrich up close the contracting of america i think the best thing george w. bush did was kept the country safe. he never waived on the idea we have to be on the offense which we weren't in the 1990s. i don't know, these problems seem worse to me. >> first of all barack obama has taken us back to bill clinton era. look, we can build, even though we have a calamity here, a problem here, we have built on the ashes before after the great depression and after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it. >> we have a time frame. i think the day of reckoning is coming. so much of debt is owned by china and the golf emirates and russia the day of accounting is coming. the further we go down this road wi

his name is walter nixon junior from mississippi.and he was actually in jail at the time of the trial. so you're sort of starting on the logan. and we knew that. but we thought it was a bad conviction. and that he really should not be convicted that he was looking for vindication. and i thought it was a solid case. we really, i think, persuaded some people that we did have a good case. we actually -- you know, they do best, these days judges don't get try before the full senate. they get try before the committee. and before the committee that heard our evidence, we made some headway. and we actually defeated two of the articles. there were three. and on the third one it was 9-3. and a full set a deadline toward because those senators didn't know the facts. they were just voting on the politics. so i challenge that procedure in the case that went up to the supreme court. so it was a fascinating exercise in trying to come it was all the levers of government. all the things we didn't do too well, but it was a real insight into the proce

things in combination and the pressure brought against the ddt eventually got a band under president nixon. but in the meantime it was used all over the world. it was used tremendously in the united states. you can see old video or film footage of people dancing and clouds of ddt and swimming pools with clouds of ddt often are held them. people at picnic tables. so it was very widely used and the which was studied and studied, nothing more than tangential and speculatively next to the diseases and cancer and so forth were ever established. there were concerns about eggshells and we can get into that if you wish, but again a lot of conjecture, not a good solid proof. >> host: and we will get into that but good evening. this is book tv in primetime. and tonight's discussion, life call-in program is about rachel carson and her book, "silent spring," published in 1962. we are joined by paul driessen we've been listening to. he's a senior committee of constructive tomorrow we with congress for racial equality. he has a degree from the university of denver, be a infield ecology from lawrence uni

. >> guest: he was on the judiciary committee of the impeachment of richard nixon and our mutual friend had told me about a bill coming through new england because the kind of show i did was a talk show they but not let me, able men, do substantive interview so they said talk to bill call-in on his way through he will m.i.t. knew what is going on. are looked at him and i said cohen? what is your name? because he had a map of ireland and i later learned his mother was irish and his father was a jewish. >> because i have the quintessential jewish name but my mother irish converted me so i am not jewish. i was raised i went to six years of hebrew school but i was not considered jewish and it this -- desensitize me to the gentiles i was jewish spread to the others are was a gentile and fit in either category. i -- it was a character building experience and to be sensitive to people that have to labor under the discriminatory emphasis but i want to get back to talk about what was so, for me inspiring about her life. she was able to overcome all of the discrimination that took place with the

>> she does have a little baby brother, his name is nixon.tthew 'noles is kind of fighting this woman who says, look, it's not my kid. it turned out to be matthew knows child being so now they're trying to figure out the whole child support, custody,thal kind of stuff. we know right now he pays $8,000 a month for the baby which is a lot of money, but they may adjust that depending on now knowing that he is for sure the father. >> you can bet on that. >> we got about a minute. i know we're not supposed to talk about it. can you give us a little preview into what's going on with snoop? >> well, got a great video of him out in snoring, he was walking down the -- out in new york. a couple of kids came up to him, they were in like high school, will you please listen to our music. he loves it and he starts dancing around. he tells his agent or manager, get this kid's information, i want to know this kid. >> it happens like that sometimes. >> you never know. this kid could be the next big rap star. >> that's awesome. >> thanks. >> thanks, guys. >> o

became very attracted to her speech to working on a judiciary committee on the repatriation of richard nixon. just been on the cover of time magazine. tell me about bill coming through new england. the kind of show i did was a talk-show. they would not let me do the serious interview. said talked to bill kaelin. people talk to you. and and let that bill. i said is your name cohen? i later learned that his mother was irish. >> guest: with that combination i had the quintessential jewish name. and i was raised, six years of heber's cool. i was not ever considered jewish. it kind of sensitized me to what of the people discriminated against. i didn't fit in either category. i think it was a character building experience. it made me much more sensitive. but i want to get back to talk about janis. what was so, to me, inspiring about her life is how she was able to overcome all the discrimination. the kkk headquarters. to go from being a young girl living next to the big zero who played basketball. you go and become a model to meet with dr. king and have him as her mentor, to meet mohammad dumbly.

ben stein is the economist and best-selling author, a speechwriter for presidents nixon and ford.s a columnist now at "fortune mag distin magezine." leslie marshal is a democrat who is liberal on most issues. and andrew weil is here. he is director for arizona center for integrative medicine. thanks for coming in. let's do a quick whip around. first, good or bad? right direction? wrong direction? dr. wiel, what do you think? this health care reform that is about to become the law of the land. good or bad? >> this is not health care reform. it's health insurance reform. and that is a good thing. it's a step in the right direction. we desperately need health care reform which means improving health outcomes, making us a healthier society and getting health care costs down. this bill will do none of that. >> ben stein? >> well, i don't think it's really that bad a deal. i'm not really upset about the language. i think the way it was passed is shocking. there is no identical bill passed by both houses which is a requirement of congress for a bill to become law. they've done around the

in the fall, but, anything like this is hard, we have had republican presidents who bid for this, nixonoing something about health care and was not successful. a lot of presidents have failed. it looks like we're finally going to have a president who will be successful. >> scott? your reaction. >> well, 2012 is a long way away but representative frost probably does remember the results in 1994, which was, his party was swept out of power, and i hope that democrats who are sort of on the fence about the bill, when they go home tonight and go to ped, maybe they'll be visited by the ghost of elections past, present and future. in the form of 1994, scott brown's election in massachusetts, and what could happen in november, because i think it will be a big sea change. >> scott -- >> 1994 was a different situation and democrats didn't realize they had a tough election, until right before the votes were cast. everybody knows now, this is going to be tough and people are out working hard. >> all right. and that is martin frost, and scott, we thank you both for sharing insights on 2012, we're ta