richard nixon: yes. i would say, unfortunately, those who criticize the style, and it certainly justifies criticism, generally say that it sounds like me. the reason it sounds like me is that, after i take all of the -- and i point out in the author's note that i had some excellent people working with me: marns tremeky, who was the editor, my chief editor on this book, who did made a great contribution; and monica crowley, who is in my office now; joel marks -- they were two full-time assistants. and then a number of others wrote various papers on the various subjects. but when it finally came down to the final product, then i had to not just do the editing, but i also had to get it in my words so that it sounded like me. as i often said to people working with me, when i would rewrite something, i'd say, "the trouble is everybody knows my style so well that if i leave it like this, it isn't going to sound like me." i think this book sounds like me, for better or for worse. [end of excerpt] c-span: now fr

to common for nixon. they were getting too far along side of the counsel and the attorney general went down and was told to go do something really wrong. i felt like we were in a banana republic. i think a couple of court rulings may nixon turn over the case. i would go back to the european committee. i don't know that it discovered very much, but it went to this country this rather oddball group of slippery folk who had participated in all this. said the country got engaged. and i say the ultimate turning point was the house judiciary committee, which has been this portrayed in some books on the. i was there when i type -- talk to him about it. there is a lot of liberal hotheads who said let's get in. and rodino felt that this had to be and be seen as a collaborative process, as a fair process and as a bipartisan process. so the articles of impeachment that were voted by the house judiciary committee, all of them in one form or another about offenses to the constitution were voted on by a bipartisan grou

nixon died. it was a very significant friendship. >> that was a jack brennan, who was my data military marine paid in the white house, served his country with great distinction. and after the resignation, jacking up and was chief of staff for my dad, and i remember my father crying, too. >> i was going to say something to the eisenhower nixon relationship is actually of interest to historians in a big way julie and i have been talking with a man who is going to base a book on them. the scenes that you're talking about, jack, i was that i remember. if the answer to everybody. not only, here, there was a clash between the two that one might expect. one of the relationships we covered in "going home to glory" is a clash between dwight eisenhower and douglas macarthur. and the reason they clashed is eisenhower and macarthur, now serving together at an early point in the career could not have recognized that macarthur had the stuff of the commander of an entire war front in world war ii, and so did ei

the ironies that affectingly turned tables on richard nixon. remember at the critical moment, ike is watching. nixon raising general eisenhower, and going after hadley stephens, and calling on everyone to release -- ike breaks his headphone. he knows exactly, ike, the instinctive politician, who spent a life time denying he was a politician, knew exactly what was being done to him. this is an amazing moment. >> guest: that's his brilliance, his genius that he could turn that defeat into victory by being able to see other people's weaknesses. >> host: would you by the fact that nixon was the last new deal president? >> guest: to some extent, i would. he did believe in health care reform. he did believe in many public -- major public initiatives. >> host: and was some of that accommodating himself to the prevailing political consensus? in other words, 20 years later, 25 years later, there's still -- america was still a new deal nation. george wilk said in 1980, they want to conserve the new deal. specifically social security. is nixon in effect l

nixon felt he needed a democrat in the administration. scoop jackson had turned him down for secretary of defense. his theme he hoped was bring us together so he asked pat to come down from cambridge and they would talk about the possibility of his joining the white house staff. hy came up from washington to review this with pat immediately after he had seen the president elected down the street at the hotel pierre which was transition headquarters at that time. pat came down the stairs. we had dinner. i said well. he said i can't believe it! i can't believe how ignorant he is! he doesn't know anything about domestic politics. it was true. nixon was a very smart man who had totally devoted his mental thoughts to geopolitics and the world. i remember 62 he was running for governor, called me on election day and i said you still think you are going to lose and he said yes, but at least i never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again. january 22nd, the president was inaugurated and pat moynihan became assistant of urban affairs and

nixon. bob, if you don't do something, every member of congress is going to be farting on the seal of the president. [laughter] the seals instantly came off, and that was what pat added. okay. [laughter] so we have memos, we have process, we have humor, and then a funny thing happened that only if the you had been part of the nixon group would know. we said to each other, the boss is in love. it seemed every spring for a short period of time nixon had somebody, some person who was going to be so creative that he wanted to have that person around. might be jim connolly, might be pete peterson, in april it was pat moynihan. and they retired to talk about books. and the president said, what should i be reading? pat said, read blake -- [inaudible] [laughter] okay. now, everything is going fine except presidents know that they've got 100 days before they're going to be attacked. and moynihan and burns are fighting this thing out, and it's may, june, july. the president wants to be rid of both of

now, perhaps nixon -- nixon iswa so flummoxed by the task of finding some grand idea to summarize his political to philosophy that he had to borrow kennedy's war had asked notosopd already been woven so seamlessly into the national soul that nixon and his speechwriters or, perhaps, is unaware of the similarities. they're echoes of kennedy hoinoh both of queens inaugural addresses.esses. kennedy said now the trumpet summons us again. clinton, we have heard the trumpets. kennedy's inaugural contains several challenges to his sinceh generation such as since thisunn neratioey was founded each atneration has been summoned ton give testimony to its national loyalty and only a fewgeneratioe grantedofns have been the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. clinton said we must do what not generation has had to do beforel and that challenge a new generation of americans to a season of service.rrowed th open clinton even barred the openinge of kennedy's asked not beginning one sentence in his 1997, my inaugural with and so my fellowf americans. instead of offering his own a sti

of his experience in nixon's white house as deputy assistant to the president for urban affairs, he once said, basically, i was the chief of staff to daniel patrick moynihan. [laughter] peter galbraith is senior diplomatic fellow at the center for arms control. from 1979 to 1993, peter was a seep staff member of the senate foreign relations committee where he worked directly with senator moynihan. in 1993 peter was appointed the very first u.s. ambassador to croatia by president bill clinton. for 2003 to 2005, he advised the kurds on t iraqi constitution, and his father, john kenneth galbraith, also served as ambassador to india and was a colleague of senator moynihan at harvard. richard vavitch is the 75th lieutenant governor of new york state, and he got to know -- [applause] and he got to know daniel path rib moynihan in the -- patrick moynihan in the 170s when he played a very key role in senator moynihan's future. in those days he was chairman of new york's urban development corporation under hugh l. kerry and later served as chairman of the metropolitan transportation authority, th

the contrast between the nixon white house and the idealized version we created in the west wing which provoked a quick west wing story. the first i had to write in season 1 on page 1 the forseen was interior oval office day and i am typing that and realized i have a problem because i have seen the presidential character the creator of the show came up with but had never seen a president like that. in my adulthood there had not been a president i had much admirers and i was to fictionalize one. i have no real writing exercise to get m staring at the blank page for a while it finally occurred to me, what would senator moynihan do? so that got me through writing many of these scenes. my little device in that show which is not easy to detect is the politicians making noble choice is everyone's a while but i in my script always made sure it was an absolute last resort. they tried everything else first and got back into the corner of having to do be semi honest thing. dick eaton gets a lot of laughs when he talks about senator moynihan. that is all we do together. the moynihan graduates. we

back at marge nixon's house, more volunteers came to lend a hand. here they call it the queensland spirit, and there's been plenty of that today, determined to clean up and rebuild this flood devastated city. ian williams, nbc news, brisbane. >>> when "nightly news" continues in just a moment, startling new disclosures from president reagan's son, ron, about his dad's alzheimer's disease. >>> later, someone who has been making a difference in tucson for years and how much this community needs her now. >>> as we approach the 100th anniversary of the birth of president ronald reagan next month, his son, ron, has written a new book with startling disclosures about when his dad's alzheimer's disease started to reveal itself. here's nbc's john yang. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. >> reporter: ronald reagan was the oldest president ever, 69 when he took office. he was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease five years after leaving the white house. but in a new book son ron reagan writes that as early as thre years into his first term, i was feeling th

true of writing several other books including robert kennedy, richard nixon, spiro agnew and jimmy carter taking on this book about joe biden. a determined in doing those books the impressions on it formed of these people were pretty wrong. all of them were ambitious -- is that better? and some even ruthless, for example robert kennedy was accused of being rootless. secure agnew of accused of being [inaudible] in july and this is not the case at all. i interviewed about 120 people for the book, many of them in the senate and washington, many of them in delaware, and the worst i found was a fellow who was an aide to a republican candidate, one of his relations campaigns, and last white as joe biden continue to get reelected, he's elected six times at this point to the senate. he's an embarrassment but he's our embarrassment. [laughter] and that is really the worst i was told about him. but as we all know, joe biden has had what i call to barnacles on his ship that always cling to him on this speech here. not as damaging in any way to the characteristics that have been assigned to nixon, sp

i can't remember who it was in the nixon cabinet who had read a critical piece my father had writtenabout something of the nixon administration was doing and wanted to take issue with him and that's the kind of thing that happens to you when you write a column in the times or something to me in the standard, you're used to getting the call from the politician perhaps if he's either a friendly or not so friendly, you misinterpreted knees -- i remember that something that never happened when he had written essays -- i guess they called the work of literary intellectual types, they sulks and soaked retribution. so he did get much more interested in politics of public policy but of course the politics got more interesting as he would say in the late 60's the cultural social and philosophical issues intervened in what had been for me 20 years after world war ii classic kind of american political system, but that changed of course in the 60's. and so, you know, in that respect got interested in politics because politics got interested in the rest of us and -- but he had my mother did move

nixon trama stet american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace. from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker doesn't run the first captain a lot of people are kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows that we're out here. like. two batteries or a tourist posters on groceries with nobody we don't even exist. you just need. we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army deny that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there weren't american troops on the border. it would be playing out in my office and. saying why no or. why you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base this place was like no. bathrooms we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing of order. to try to hire a hired man or have to go on thursday just set us on the captain crowed in order to six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission because he sent six guys out a

nixon promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace enters from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker not a dozen trucks the first captain a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody back in the room knows you were out here . like. two batteries or a tourist poster the grocery with nobody we don't even exist. we just need a miracle ships we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army tonight was that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there were no american troops on the border. it would be fighting for democracy. why no or if you all like to go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base it's planned so it's like you know. this is we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing for order think he's. going to try to hire a hired man they don't have to go on thursday just send us out into the captain crowed in order to six men to go out on a night ambush what

as secretary of state he prepared the visit of his boss richard nixon.spoke to us and began by asking him whether the recent transformation keeps them up at night. >> it does not keep me up at night. i did not expect it in 1971. but it is a reality with which we have to live. crux is that a reality america should be afraid of. >> america has to live with the china that exists. whether we have to be afraid of it or not will depend on the problems we both pursue. it should be our objective to have a country with which we cooperate creatively. >> the last years have been pretty tricky. issues of trade and human rights. if you were in the white house today what would you advise president obama? >> it seems to me china and the u.s. have really -- there is no conceivable victory in the cold war between them before either side. so i had the impression -- while a lot of the media deals with alleged [unintelligible] i believe some of these differences are real, but also there is a conscience this -- consciousness they need to be overcome. >> china is the world's

he endorsed nixon for reelection in 1972. he was teaching at the time at nyu business school and i remember being at harvard as an undergrad watt and people were outraged that i was related to someone who was supporting nixon. that was my first election, and i voted for nixon.

in december of 2003, i wrote a letter to the zoning administrator jim nixon at that time to ask him for a letter of determination. that letter was received on january 7th with plans at that time. two months later, february 25th of 2004, we have a letter back from craig -- i hope i'm pronouncing his name right, acting zoning administrator at that time saying we could indeed do it. at that point in time we went ahead and applied for and paid for building permit in 2004. as part of that building permit we were also required to get a street use fee that was paid for in october 6th, 2004, and an engineering inspection fee that was on november 18th, 2004. at that point in time i kind of stepped out of the project. i delivered a building permit to the contractor and owner inunderstand then that years later that this permit is no longer being considered valid and we are reapplying for a permit. there are a couple of things different for the permit in question today. the original permit called for landscaping that was never put in the plan, that was never built in the real world. when the contra

it was 91% for mcgovern, 5% for eldridge cleaver and 3% for nixon.i was one of those for lucky 3%. >> host: it was a wise move. we have spent the hour talking about the neoconservative persuasion selected essays by irving kristol and we have been talking with bill kristol. thank you. >> guest: thank you david.

the same for richard nixon and bill clinton, huge reversals in fortune in time to run for re-election. john, that's the question, what is his biggest challenge, though, holding the center as he did last year with his deal, or keep the left which is a bit unhappy with him lately? >> that's the easiest question that you have asked me in a long time. congressional democrats are mad at him for various reasons. who cares about those people. he has a huge -- he has a huge support among the actual members of his base, african-american voters, latinos, he has a high approval rating with him. the base is not his problem. his problem is winning back the independent voters who shifted in the 2010 elections. he can do that, the unemployment rate is important over the course of the next year. he has a bunch of big agenda items that are perfectly tailored to get back independents. he wants to do deficit reduction, trade, tax reform. he can get republicans to work with him on and do a world of good politically. chris: one of the advantages of cutting deal with republicans, they can't call you a soci

he drove richard nixon crazy. the white house tapes are filled with attempts to give him, altman the culminating in an actual plot to poison him. >> to you know if anyone else who previously written about this particular aspect of the nixon history? >> no, no one had. it was surprising to me. i was an investigative reporter myself. this into seconds between history in journalism, a lot of great there in the past can be found if chino were in have to look. there are amazing tales found in my book, sex scandals and love letters and blackmail and burglary in bribery. all of the juicy stuff that textbooks leave out. >> with of the more surprising things that you found? >> i am not sure i can sit in on the air. one of them was the way that j. edgar hoover back sly and the martin luther king. that has been known. a gunman of the transcripts and memos that described actually what was distributed to the press. stories of him chasing prostitutes. i mean, they were made up allegations. so that was pretty startling to me. an

the nixon administration the policy of vietnam the same. to shift the burden to the south vietnamese. north vietnam. promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in the sense of combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace. from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker not a dozen from the first captives a lot of people are kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows that we're out here. like. two batteries or a tourist posters in all grocery with nobody we don't even exist. we just need a miracle ships we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army did nine hundred that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there were no american troops on the border. it would be funny how democracy. why no or. why you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base it's plain so it's nice to know. that soon as we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing for order. to try to hire hired m

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nixon was so afraid ordered that company pulled out they sent it. another company they had heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refused to fight and after that no company notes troops willing to fight and said look we're not going to fight anymore. there are more problems to winding down the vietnam war than just holding the enemy and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the morale of g.i.'s who know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced plenty grit insubordination shooting of officers by the wrong men and a deadly practice called fragging the purpose mine was he did to get me or intimidate to myself and all others in authority in the company and battalion sergeant saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the v

off of pat's saying that he's going to work on his nicks on memoir in advance of the centennial of nixon's birth. next year is the centennial of ronald reagan's birth, and they will begin with a flyover and 21-gun salute at the library, then a year worth of events culminating tin first primary of the republican candidates. and i think the reagan spirit will hover over the election process, but i hope they take the right message from it, because reagan worked with democrats. he was a former democrat, and he had a signature optimism, and i think divisiveness is much more the order of the day, particular well sarah palin who is kind of derided president reagan saying, oh, he was really just an actor, as a way to inflate her own credentials. >> what is that all about? >> it was her way of saying that she and i do in the 21st century. >> i do agree with pat. >> you believe in an apocalypse now? >> i do agree with pat to some extent. i think debt cry cease that we' seeing around the world, that they will lead to some great new economic reset. i don't know what form it's going to take but i will

george creel, former journalist who appropriate ended his career working for joe mccarthy and richard nixon in the 1950s. and anti-communist. and house affairs un-american activities american activities. because the war had no popular support, wilson in fact ran for reelection on the slogan that he kept us out of the war. but the bankers, wall street, had lent tremendous sums of money to the british and french. and if the germans won the war, that money was not going to be repaid. so there was pressure from the financial elite to push us into a conflict that had no popular support at all. very little popular support. wilson and walter lippman, arthur, all of them understood this. and so they created this remarkable system to saturate the country with propaganda, crossing the lines of many disciplines. they had their own film division. they had a new division -- news division that pumped out one story after another. manufactured of course all of the atrocities attributed to the hated hun. they use graphic artists. they used radio. they established because bureaus. and it was the first time w

nixon and agnew of being conniving and crooked. carter of being stubborn.and in exploring joe biden, it's not the case at all. i interviewed about 120 people for the book, many of them in the senate, many of them in washington, many of them in delaware. and the worst i found about him was a fellow who was an aide, a republican candidate against biden on one of israel election campaigns. when i asked why joe biden continue to get reelected, he was reelected six times. and the fellow said he's an embarrassment, he's our embarrassment. and that is the worst that i was told about him. but as we all know, joe biden has had what i call to barnacles on the ship that always cling to him, of this nature. not as damaging in any way to the negative characteristics assigned to nixon and agnew, and even carter, and that is he talks too much and that he puts his foot in his mouth too often. joe biden would plead guilty to this himself. i would like to read to you from the book won a couple of republicans have said about joe in this regard. the first is bob dole, who made

president nixon talked about energy independence. president carter took major steps to try to move us toward energy independence. since september 11th, 2001, not only have we not reduced or energy independence by 1%, which actually increased by 25 for 40%. so, we have become more indebted and bound because we failed to invest in these obvious alternatives that would not only liberated us from borrowing money from china so we could buy oil from someone else and then follow the atmosphere and make people sick and send them to the hospital and spend more money on that, avery and virtuous cycle. not only are we doing that, but we are not turning that around so we are actually creating those jobs here at home that reduce all of those negative impact. the irony of this is in public life i've learned in the years i've been here very few public issues where you get to benefits for doing one thing. usually it is one for one normandie 1.542. here you get five or six benefits because you clean up the air and you are healthier. you reduce depend

it wasn't that nixon was in a fog somewhere. he was actually talking about something quite important. but the real answer to why khrushchev was wrong and frankly why nixon got it wrong in his debate a year later with senator kennedy was that economies that have better innovation and growth wind up with both color television and rocket thrust. so growth is the answer. now, the book is not a doomsday book. i know it is very fashionable and every time i have lunch with pete peterson i'm reminded of this fashion to have a root and branch discussion. and there's a little bit of c cal -- calvinism. and pointing to things that might be. but don't have to be. peter and i are very much interested in long-term problems but we will not be offering a kind of liquidationist eat your spinach kind of medicine. now, to frame ideas, i want to start with something that we have all lived through and sadly are still living through and use it as a microcosm of why we've gone astray with excessive focus on the short term and inadequate attention to t

nixon's book was about his tortured psyche because he had a tortured soul. clinton's book was desperately seeking approval because he needed approval. bush is a regular guy, and it's filled with all sorts of stories that show that. one quick story, there's a tale of of when he is meeting tony blair for the first time, and he's a little nervous about it. and blair was famously friends with clinton. they got along great, they were the same generation, they had similar l politics, so bush wasn't quite sure what was going to happen. and they had dinner at camp david, and bush said, well, tony, what movie do you want to watch? and blair said, i think we should watch meet the folkers. he said at that moment he knew he was going to get along with him. a regular guy aspect to him. >> there is another new book out, and it is called the presidency of george w. bush, and it's edited by history professor julian zelizer, and he joins us from from princeton. doctor, your assessment of "decision points "as a presidential memoir. >> guest: i thought it was good. i don't thi

when nixon went to china he went five days and he spent six hours a day talking. but what you can do and what we have done is to convey the intention and the seriousness of the intention and to begin the process. and thereby can give instructions each to their system that that's how they want the work to be done. but if it isn't followed inform either way it will evaporate. so the big task, the chinese more or less automatically in their system follow things. we can fragment ourselves more and do specific issues so that the challenge for president obama, i'm quite confident that he and his security advisers and secretary of state are aware, realize that some consistent confrontation needs to be done and not just on the day-to-day issues but in the direction we want to go. >> charlie: you have watched the chinese for 40 years but you also watched them over the last year, 18 months or two years, since the economic collapse. have you watched them change? have they become more confident, they have become more aggressive? >> they've become more assertive rather than ag

and he drove richard nixon crazy. and the white house tapes are filled with all of these attempts to get anderson, to ultimately culminating in this an actual plot to poison him. >> do you know if anyone else had previously written about this particular aspect of the nixon history? >> no. nobody had. and can it was really surprising to me. i was an investigative reporter myself, and then i went to grad school, and i'm a historian now. so this intersection between history and journalism is a lot of great dirt in the past to be found if you know where to look and how to look and interview the right people. and there are amazing tales i found in my book of sex sandals and love letters and blackmail and burglary and bribery and forgery. all the stuff, really juicy stuff in history that the civics textbooks leave out. >> what are the more surprising things that you found in writing this book? >> i'm not sure i can say them on the air. one of them was the way j. edgar hoover slimed martin luther king. that's been known, but

osha, the clean water act, the mining and safety act, some 24 pieces of legislation, because nixon was still scared of movements and responded to those movements. and of course there was a conscious effort, as anyone who has read the cowal memo, which i quote at length in the book, to take nader down and they created and funded powerful right-wing corporate think tanks and centers like the heritage foundation, the business roundtable, to destroy any kind of populist activity, especially the kind of populist activity the nader was so successful at when he still had allies in the democratic party in the 1960's. and once all of these checks were gone, we began to see what can only be described as they could talk in slow motion by corporations where where they dismantled everything that anp -- impeaded the maximization of corporate profits. they made war, remnants of labor unions, they passed nafta, and that was passed, for me bill clinton is the poster child of a bankrupt liberalism. [applause] clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he could get a corporate money and that the

although he continued his act for years, it wasn't quite the same once he didn't have richard nixon to anymore. david fry was 77. >> i can tell you your future. >> osgood: charlie calas died on thursday also in las vegas. >> i see that you are going on a long journey. >> reporter: he too was born in brooklyn and spent his early years on the nightclub circuit. zany antics and whacky sound effects were his stock and trade. leading eventually to tv appearances and movie roles. of his passing the legendary mel brooks said he was a cast of thousands. all by himself. charlie calas was 83. >> listen to me. >> osgood: next. >> i have a voice. >> yes, you do. >> reporter: the king's speech therapist. actor geoffrey rush. and later the importance of saying thank you. the best device for everything you love to read editors' choice. best dedicated ereader. magazines look spectacular. fantastic device. touch the future of reading at barnes and noble. nookcolor. ♪ it's not unusual to be loved by anyone ♪ >> it's sunday morning on cbs, and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: that's geoffrey rush

the title comes from during the nixon white house, they plotted to poisen a journalist, an investigative reporter, jack anderson. nobody under the age of 60 remembers who-or knows who he was, but he was the most feared investigative reporter in the country, and he drove richard nixon crazy, and the white house tapes are filled with these to get anderson in a plot to poisen him. >> do you know if anyone else had previously written about this aspect of the nixon history? >> no, nobody had, and it was really surprising to me. i was an investigative reporter myself and went to grad school, and i'm a historian now. the connection between history and journalism, there's a lot of great dirt in the past to be found if you know how to look and where to look and interview the right people. there are amazing tales i found in the book of sex scandals and love letters and blackmail and forgery and bribery, all juicy stuff in history that textbooks leave out. >> what are the more surprising things you found? >> i'm not sure i can say them on the air. one was the way hoover slimed martin luther king. t

ambassador to china, stapleton roy in an event sponsored by the nixon center.night a couple points were addressed. first of all come and prove it to enhance communication and coordination between our two countries. secondly, the realization that without nuclear weapon and finally the u.s. and china agreed on the critical importance of maintaining peace and stability among the korean peninsula. >> guest: i think the security side of this discussion over the past 24 hours have gone fairly well. on korea we got anymore -- we got a tougher chinese statements on north korea and its nuclear program than we've had before. and that has potential consequences. it looks like over the past month or so they've put a lot of pressure on north korea to back down and stop their provocations against the south and the negotiating table and if you're too earlier agreements. i do think that the issue that stapleton was talking about in engaging a serious, sustained, pragmatic, in-depth set of discussions with the chinese military, having chinese military offers coming to the u.s.

nixon. it has been going on 50 years. nobody has even kept count of how many people have been arrested -- 10 million, 20 million, 30 million? it sounds like something out of stalin's russia. turn in your neighbors, turn in your friends. if you turn in 10 people, you get less time in prison. that is what it is, you know? this war on drugs is something out of stalin's russia. and let's stop this war on sex offenders before this gets way out of hand. it is already way out of hand. [applause] i know we are concerned about sexual assault and rape and people assaulting women and children -- i know that. most of the people in prison as sex offenders are not those people. i call them romeo and juliet's. he is 19 and she is 16 or she is 19 and he is 16. that is the most of the mark. let's face it -- we should know, especially in san francisco, that as human beings, we are not really comfortable with sex. some of us do not even know who we are, right? from day to day, right? you know, i mean, sex is a very complicated issue. the id