house, nixon waving goodbye. i stood there with my parents and watched nixon leave. we went into the self the east -- the south east room of the white house where he took the oath of office. this was not a joyous occasion. this was somewhat a constitutional crisis. you had a man who was going to take over the reins of this country. we had the vietnam war going on, we had a huge recession, the stock market had lost 45% of its belly, the cold war with the russians, -- loss 45% of its value. the cold war with the russians. this man was going to take the oval office and was not elected by the american people. this had never happened before in this country. dad those and becomes president -- dad goes into becomes president, -- and becomes president, and then finds himself 30 days later in a situation where -- let me back up just a little bit. right after dad became president, nixon went to california. one of the first request that the president's staff had back at the white house was to send all the documents, papers,

was just fine with that so it was eisenhower anyhow those guys nixon. eisenhower they're far closer to the democratic party of today than the republicans are today michael in his letter to me went on to talk about what pushed him over the edge he wrote a one word stimulus for my opinion it was wisconsin what happened to me was simple i'm a retired teacher from the new york city high schools where calls ronald reagan's eloquent characterization of the teacher as america's finest announced in august one thousand nine hundred four his goal to put one on board and a shuttle mission he was talking of christa mcauliffe those are. what i observe now is a crusade against my profession by republican governors senators congressman and presidential wannabes egged on by the angry voices of radio and the poison pen writings of the internet and print media they see nothing less than a glorious opportunity to move in for the kill all of organized labor. it's a pity that the tea party composed mostly mostly of working folks has emerged as a group of useful idiots in su

nixon you're both in the white house then and you followed him out to california. those are extraordinary times. you had a great seat in history as it was unfolding in front of you. please help me understand your continuing loyalty to president -- to a president that had lied to the american people and gave birth to the watergate scandal, help me out. >> it wasn't even just about that. in a funny way, it was how i lived up to what my father had always taught me which is if you walk away from someone at the worst time of their life, that is also a choice. that has implications. for who you are and who you want to be. i have been there to go to china with your brother. i had been there through all the times to the end of the signing of the treaty of the vietnam war and there were a handful of us who are asked to go. i was asked to go for a very specific reasons which was mysteriously, i got up and read everything in the morning, i had read some many things that for the first round, one of lawyers said to me that you can tell it what we are saying is not true based at

nixon." and a personal visit like this would draw attention to that and we would recommend against it. in response, gerald ford said, "richard nixon is my friend, he's in trouble, i want to see him." so his aide then said, "well, mr. president, perhaps he's not well enough to see you." and president ford said to his staff, "call his doctor, call pat nixon, ask whether it would be good for me to visit him and i will abide by their decision." they called out and called mrs. nixon and called my dad and he said, it might be the best thing for his health if that happened. and when that was told to gerald ford he said, "make it happen," and he did. he came and he visited richard nixon at the hospital. after it was over he turned to his aide, chief of staff, dick cheney, and said, that's as close to death as i've ever seen anybody, because president nixon was very, very sick at the time. my dad called me up after that was over and said this was a wonderful visit. it will help the health of president

nixon. >> dash pleased to have dr. nixon. >> thank you for coming. >> you bet. >> your ministry is known throughout the bay area tell us about your background. >> actually i come from the hills of new hampshire. and i grew up conservative baptist and for people that don't know what i tell them really in order to truly understand conservative baptist we used to think the southern back tests were liberal. that is how i -- baptists were liberal. that is how i grew up rural town 500 people went to a local school there and then high school and grew up playing outdoors, having a great time with nature and with my friends and but you know, it shapes you where you are from so we had really two very conservative newspapers, not hardly any div.ty, and being -- diversity and being in a con is vair tiff baptist church didn't -- conservative baptist church didn't see women doing a whole lot other than being with children. >> interesting how you got the call like that. >> some how i innate witted and internalized and that love broug

sixty eight great and you see them bolting and declining and they suddenly decline and the richard nixon and economy declines and hovan economy but you know i wish that. each one of those three decades you had more than three point two percent g.d.p. growth the the the best of the entire century not in real terms not in real terms in the seventies not to wilton's at all in the seventy's and you had well over fifty percent unemployment do you not you would see on country is what we need in this country is more freedom the fact that somebody is poor is not a moral claim on my life it doesn't mean that it's right for the government to force me to pay for them and freedom and somebody else and or that's a whole unit of people it's a it's a really easy word to throw out but when you look at research like you and i'm sure you're familiar with this wilkerson pickett's book the spirit level the you know equality trust or get u.k. that shows that more equal societies are healthier both physically mentally emotionally and unequal societies like the u.s. how do you respond i would put a bet on the

he actually raised taxes and he talked about that with nixon in the nixon kennedy debates incursion go back and listen to the kennedy talk about how he was one of those guys who was supposed to pay the night a percent tax and nobody paid it we're paying forty fifty sixty percent as are so many loopholes he wanted to close the loophole and raise it up to seventy four percent he actually actually he didn't do it it was l.b.j. as you know it happened a year after kennedy died it was so it was johnson who lowered their tax rate but he raised taxes on the rich and increased revenues. you raise taxes on the rich you raise the raise the amount of money that was collected from the rich that's right by lowering the marginal tax rates he write more red losing the loopholes so you what you're saying is by lowering tax rates the government gets more revenue or you know i'm not going to recognize our loopholes if you look at what reagan did reagan lower tax rates or created such a disaster that he had to eleven times raise taxes on working people in order to make up for the disastrous drop of taxes

my understanding is when nixon first went to china he went there on behalf of pepsi to try to begin the process of p.n.t.r. which was basically you drop your tariffs will drop our tariffs or at least with the growth of these products do i have that right can you describe it what's the history of the london story well i mentioned the anti-communist aspects of the whole free trade thing earlier in the show right where nixon went to china on behalf of pepsi china was a communist country that produced almost nothing the people in developed world wanted to buy and the big game internationally was still supposedly stopping the u.s.s.r. from taking over the world so it was a totally different context but we've stayed with that policy despite the fact the cold war is over we're in a totally different environment the new rival for americans is not communism it's state capitalism and very few people seem to understand how serious a threat that is state capitalism as in chinese state capitalism south korean state capitalism german state capitalism. states state protective and we used to be say pro

nixon ford carter administrations we didn't have the problem with poverty that we have now it wasn't anywhere near as. it was much worse and you know it was much worse not to talk about inflation and corruption and crime and the two reading cities nobody nobody you know lyndon johnson could be back half and figo ammeters seventies you know that he will the basis of fairness feyerick a first class in the united states. you know the quite the contrary if you look at the graphs and thomas old has done this quite carefully if you look at the graphs the growth in the middle class stops with the establishment of the great society and johnson it was growing dramatically through the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. and it's holt's and declines into the ninety seventy's eighty's and ninety's look why i realize it came to a screeching halt the eighty's was reaganomics but l.b.j. was worley's it was not the eighty's. no l.b.j. is ok sixty three through sixty eight great and you see them bolting and declining and they suddenly decline and the richard nixon and economy decl

know we can't trust our government and the creepy thing is that that paid off for for the party of nixon for the republican party that this perception this massive cynicism towards government that was spawned by mainly by watergate but also by the vietnam war you know we are daniel ellsberg was just just before here a man from from that era you could told you think about this and that is the the that's where the cynicism cynicism began and what's really creepy about it is that cynicism first chased nixon out of office then elected this sort of massive democratic wave in one nine hundred seventy four and then it sort of congealed into this you know the into the conservatism that we know it is today and then elected ronald reagan and it's just gone on from there cynicism pays massive dividends to conservatives and what's creepy about this is that it's sort of self-fulfilling so conservatives tend to deal in very bad government the government very poorly well at least not everything they don't i mean they tend to run the military very well ok to do certain things i've argued i would challen

nixon took the vice president -- he figured it out. i said you guys would never have picked spiro agnew. >> charlie: who would he have picked. >> lindsey. >> charlie: you suggest that reagan might have picked sandra day o'connor. >> yes, somebody guessed that also. >> charlie: first of all he nominated her for the supreme court so he liked her. she's from the west. >> the dynamic of that is if ford beats carter and the calamity of the 70's which i believed were backed in the cake, then reagan comes to the nomination after 12 years of republican, he has no democratic unpopular carter to run against, he's got to change the dynamic. now let's think all the way back to 2008 and see another republican candidate succeeding in unpopular republican coming who felt he had to change the dynamic with his running mate. for this hours, that looked like, sarah palin looked like a brilliant choice. sandra day o'connor had significant more experience chops than she did. so again you could argue no. but look at the dynamic that would have resulted and

war powers act, every president since nixon has treated as unconstitutional, including this one. he does have enormous leeway. the problem here is that he is committed us to the military operation in libya. libya is essentially a sideshow. there are no american interests involved in libya. now we have humanitarian and geopolitical crises in iran, syria, bahrain and yemen. those places actually are strategically important to the united states, and what will happen here is that the president has sent this precedent but now he will fall back behind the u.n., behind the congress, behind nato and say, gosh, i'd love to intervene in all these important places, but i just can't get the coalition to do it. >> richard? >> well, look, he's not in trouble now, but he might be. so he needs to get yuck lucky. the big problem is that the u.s.-led mission and the stated goal is not u.s. policy, to get rid of gaddafi. but the no-fly zone is not a problem. that's under nato. but the nato has 28 members, including turkey, and turkey has -- is extremely concerned. this is why the negotiations were

freedom in the first game of people more money you could take you should give right in washington that nixon here. today the former chicago bulls superstar michael jordan runs a division of nike but during his playing days he too often acted as though nike ran. him they were job the dream team. but greatest collection of basketball challenge ever assembled and they were out of asia to return to a spanish default back to its once golden past in one thousand nine hundred eighty two jordan went to barcelona with the u.s. and with the basket possibly as the medal ceremony approached. says of conscience. notice how jordan has an american flag over his shoulder all this apparently heartwarming display of a tree it is i'm what turned out to be something else entirely jordan was using the flag to hide the reebok logo on the team jersey. boy. thought. he was using an american flag to protest and a form of subservience to corporate power the michael jordan model the yet again when he refused to endorse harvey gant an african-american democrat when he ran against republican senator jesse helms an outsp

my question is impart about the nixon administration. earlier in your career, you were involved in republican politics, helping nixon write his memoirs. how was wondering what will you have in politics aside from reporting? -- i was wondering what role you have in politics aside from reporting? what involvement do you have? >> one of my proudest things is that my husband -- he will tell you if you want to call them at home -- he does not know my politics. has no idea. [applause] by the way, i meant what i said to you earlier. i did not come as a partisan. i love it, but i love it as someone who loves hearing all sides all the time. >> ok. yes, please. >> i am a freshman at gw as well. what advice you have for young people, especially women, looking to break into the realm of media? >> good. >> i am a big believer that you can still go to small market and learn a whole lot about becoming a reporter, the truth about becoming a reporter. i sent my godson to weigh teeny weeny -- to a teeny weeny little market someplace in nebraska. he wrote

it really is beneath the united states to be engaging in tactics like this i mentioned that richard nixon once called or said that they are all very it was also aiding the enemy so let's think about how bradley manning might be seen a few decades from now because now they also has looked upon as a hero do you think that things could change for bradley as well well that you know i was on a conference call with ellsberg today. and he said you know back i find it sort of late in life rehabilitation of my image to be really interesting and it's all being done to disparage bradley manning because people are trying to say oh well what daniel ellsberg did in his time was great radley and that's not the same thing and daniel ellsberg said no it's almost exactly the same thing and you know the reason to be saying anything nice about me is because we've got a democratic president who's doing this and they're trying to find a distinction between something you know the left has traditionally found to be respectable heroic even and what bradley manning is three and so it can justify the way he's being

someone who broke the law is someone that should be punished well i was called a traitor by president nixon and by his vice president i left office because of bribes and that time i expected to be called names like that that's very very hard when you are you know three hours a day making yourself i did i would as a civilian i was out on bond the conditions are very different i stoped for myself no recorder has talked to bradley manning in the nine or ten months that he's been in prison first and kuwait a known quantity not one single reporter so all we're hearing about him is the chapel it's basically collation about him i'm very impressed if those chat logs are valid which is it remains to be seen as far as the court cases if there are accepted or not but i'm willing to go on them that they're the ones that was being charged in the first place and so i'm very impressed by the person who comes through the door he said i'm prepared to go to prison for life or even be i thought that last point when i read it was a little stream that it was worrying about but of course you know the rest they a

it started in 1960 with richard 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

she stayed on to help nixon write his memoirs. in 1978, she returned to the news, cbs. in 1984, she made history by becoming the first woman on "60 minutes." in 1989, she joined abc news to create an innovative new magazine program. every week, she traveled the world and interviewed newsmakers. for the years, as she has done award winning investigations into racism, fraud, and the care of a vulnerable. >> they search for someone to help them just a few hundred dollars, but the church is portrayed no money can be found. >> i am never going to get it. >> i am diane sawyer from louisville, kentucky, the new kid on the block. >> in 1999, the she added another job. two years later, she and charlie would watch and report on 9/11, as it played out live. she would soon make her way down to ground zero. >> it is a curious scene. >> in december 2009, after 11 years, she moved on from good morning america and became anchor of world news. as always, she has her bags packed for the big story. >> people are asking, what will help arrived? i have covered a lot of disasters around the

his like not being on nixon's enemies list sort of embarrassed do you think bradley manning is. think about lamenting about obama's i mean well he certainly treating him as if he deserves to be tortured right now does no credit to the president and said he was going to end torture you know according to the chat logs the thing the first. thing which great manning and led to his consideration if he was the source of putting out this truth was that he was actively participating in and big suspects over in iraq to be tortured and when he told us was that an intelligence analyst he was told pay no attention to that that's not your job just hand over more subjects suspects and he said i was actively participating in something i was totally against well no as a result he's experiencing that treatment himself not perhaps as bad as the iraqi suspects that the betel nuts as a lot of people have studied we think of solitary confinement is just part of how to fly from prison but actually it is a form of torture and it has the effect of driving people mad or getting them to confess things th

came into power in the nixon administration came in they knew full well that the war in vietnam was lost and could not be won but to avoid the political setback of a military defeat because they didn't want to take responsibility they sent more soldiers to that war and dropped more bombs on vietnam after they knew the war was lost thirty thousand more u.s. troops died and millions more vietnamese died before the inevitable u.s. withdrawal and if you are against what bradley manning has done over allegedly done which is told the truth about the situation in afghanistan if you're against that then you're saying you're for all of those tens of thousands more soldiers we're going to be sent to their deaths we're going to be sent to get their legs blown off for a war that this government knows very well is lost now i don't sell michael you were an iraq war veteran and when you sign up to join the military i mean you take an oath to to swear this country and to stand by the laws of this country so let me put this question to you did he violate paddler irish allegedly releasing that inform

. >>> tonight we have new information about a shooter, according to an autopsy reports lavalle nixon was not drunk or high on drugs when he was pulled over be he shot and killed two officers and then holed himself up in a apartment building before s.w.a.t. team members took him down. >>> there was a surprise for some boat owners in the north bay. christien kafton takes a closer look at the cleanup. >> reporter: be washed up boats drew plenty of curious onlookers like nancy forrest who can see this one from her home. >> about two thirds of decided the boat is gone on the other side. >> reporter: newschopper 2 spotted about a half dozen boats. the coast guard without making sure they were not leaking fuel -- was out making sure they were not leaking fuel. every year one or two boats do great free and run aground. >> sometimes they have just broke and away from their moorings because it is more shallow in there. >> reporter: the majority of storm damage came from fallen trees like this pinetree that blocks woodmont avenue in berkeley. crews cleared it today. gerard burnet's mother lives

war powers act, every president since nixon has treated as unconstitutional, including this one. he does have enormous leeway. the problem here is that he is committed us to the military operation in libya. libya is essentially a sideshow. there are no american interests involved in libya. now we have humanitarian and geopolitical crises in iran, syria, bahrain and yemen. those places actually are strategically important to the united states, and what will happen here is that the president has sent this precedent but now he will fall back behind the u.n., behind the congress, behind nato and say, gosh, i'd love to intervene in all these important places, but i just can't get the coalition to do it. >> richard? >> well, look, he's not in trouble now, but he might be. so he needs to get yuck lucky. the big problem is that the u.s.-led mission and the stated goal is not u.s. policy, to get rid of gaddafi. but the no-fly zone is not a problem. that's under nato. but the nato has 28 members, including turkey, and turkey has -- is extremely concerned. this is why the negotiations were

. >> you worked with richard nixon. he was interested in latin america. he went to columbia and his limousine was stoned. that's how interested he was, pat. his tradition, his memory and his legacy. >> i think his legacy is more the opening to china than that trip to columbia. >> i don't know about that! >> gone for three days, over the weekend. i think we can handle the rested of the crisis on our own here on the "the e four, who will save the party? >> defeat obama in 2012, save our country, and in the process save our pardon. >> the republican goal is clear -- make barack obama a one-term president. how to do that is not so clear. which one of these presume tirr candidates is the g.o.p. best hope are to limit mr. obama to one term in office? barbour, christy, daniels, gingrich, huckaby, huntsman, palin, pawlenty, perry, romney, ryan, santorum? gallop offered some in sight into the answer. the poll released this week measures which candidate has the strongest support. intensity of support, among republican voters. in other words, which candidate's suppo

nixon. nixon. bcu pulls away 59-46. they will meet georgetown in the second round. or too young to get the joke. here comes melle vin johnson iii. stop the wall. 29 johnson. road -- tyler woods for three at the buzzer. he's like i'm so bad you are not leaving me open. uc san antonio advance. are they face top seed, ohio state next. >>> on to baseball. records in spring training just mean nothing. they are irdevelop rant. having said that the world champion giants have looked impressive this spring. an encouraged group of white sox today. >> this guy apartment team you won't recognize with us they played lastite. this team will either be on the finch bench or in triple-a so we will win one today. >> foregot that tim lincecum was pitching. swinging at it in the first and then in the fifth. lincecum five and a third. struck out seven. belt with three hits in the game. a triple shy of the cycle and the giants win it. aah huff played last night so he got a rest. more on the man who without up the "rally thong." >> sacrifice best. his first of the year. he appreciated the

he won a pulitzer prize for the watergate scandal in 1973 that led to president nixon's resignation. he detected political trends early. he was a regular contributor on talk shows. >> farm workers are protesting the sentencing for two of the three defendants charged in the death of a 17-year-old farm worker who was two months' pregnant. the judge approved the deal in the stockton court today. maria mennez decide of heat stroke after working in a vineyard outside of stockton. her core temperature reached 108 degrees. the victim's uncle spoke at the hearing and explained why the defendant should serve time. >> it would be an example so that employers would have more care with their workers. they would have better treatment, dignity and respect on the job. >> the three defendants include the owner, the safety director and the supervisor at merced labor services. >> president obama and first lady michelle obama are out with a new message about bullies on facebook.com. the obamas say this is a personal issue. they're holding a conference tomorrow that will bring students and educators tog

she worked in the nixon white house. in 1984, she made history by becoming the first woman on the formidable newsmagazine "60 minutes." >> those stories and andy rooney tonight on "60 minutes." >> in 1989 she joined abc news and greeted "-- and created "prime-time live" with sam donaldson. through the years, she has led award winning investigations into racism, fraud, care of the vulnerable, report on camden, new jersey, winning her awards. >> no money can be found. >> i'm never going to get it. >> i'm diane sawyer from louisville, kentucky, the new kid on the block. >> in 1999, she took on a new role, rising at dawn with charlie gibson on "good morning america at." two years later, she watched and reported on september 11. >> this is not another story, even for those who have been doing it for so long. >> in december 2009, after 11 years, she was done with "good morning america" and became anchor of "world news." >> so good to be with you tonight. >> as always, she has her bags packed for the big story. >> every place t

he won a pulitzer prize for the watergate scandal in 1973 that led to president nixon's resignation. he detected political trends early. he was a regular contributor on talk shows. >> farm workers are protesting the sentencing for two of the three defendants charged in the death of a 17-year-old farm worker who was two months' pregnant. the judge approved the deal in the stockton court today. maria mennez decide of heat stroke after working in a vineyard outside of stockton. her core temperature reached 108 degrees. the victim's uncle spoke at the hearing and explained why the defendant should serve time. >> it would be an example so that employers would have more care with their workers. they would have better treatment, dignity and respect on the job. >> the three defendants include the owner, the safety director and the supervisor at merced labor services. >> president obama and first lady michelle obama are out with a new message about bullies on facebook.com. the obamas say this is a personal issue. they're holding a conference tomorrow that will bring students and educators tog

beginning with nixon, ford, carter, reagan, the bushes, clinton, and obama. mr.ma is an honorable man. i know he wants to do the right thing, but unfortunately he cannot because of some much internal opposition to opposing gaddafi. first of all are the oil companies. they want to see gaddafi stay in power. they get what they want and have access to whatever they want. the hypocrisy is we really cannot help libya. we cannot provide a no-fly zone. it just depends where you are. they will lead to it in africa because i hate to say this -- but it is racism. we saw hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered in africa and the europeans did nothing. pinkoson well -- inkosovo we have a no-fly zone. every single american president has known what this man has done. he has been responsible for massacres and murders in africa. it is not charles taylor who should be in court. it is colonel gaddafi, because he is the one who aren't the troops and trained them. no country in africa has been able to withstand this. uganda is facing problems with fragmentation because gaddafi ci

but it tiny splinter group of students saw themselves as already at war with the nixon administration. and the nearest target was close at hand the campus army math research center. a research lab funded by the pentagon and housed in the department of physics. at three forty two am on the twenty fourth of august nine hundred seventy an explosion destroyed the army math center. hundreds of f.b.i. agents from all over the united states were sent to wisconsin this was of extreme interest to the white house was that this is the explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what was happening out here and why it happened and we had to come up with some answers real fast this what was what was going on so anyone killed yes a young physicist by the name of robert boston i was killed in the initial blast. the f.b.i. team immediately focused their investigation on a car spotted fleeing from the scene at high speed. the bombers were led by a twenty two year old college dropout are all armstrong. this is the route you took

next possession for the rams ed nixon, the three ball.pulls away and it will be georgetown in the second round. the first principal of defense, stop the ball. here comes melvin johnson, the third. no, nobody stopped the ball. 29 for johnson. road runners all the way. uc san antonio advancing 70-61 and will face on p to of the -- on top of ohio state. looks like the giants picked up where they left off. timmy dealing against the white sox. adam dunn is baffled all day. first inning and a swing and a miss. you will get nothing and like it. timmy goes 5 and a third. giants, what are you doing, minors, majors, opposite field homer in the 5-3 victory. >> "nightline" is up next. thanks for watching. we appreciate your time. good night.

this summer so i clean nixon for you. if i care of old soviet puppet copecks in their cells for me to make a little contribute to the filmmaking process. this is the most spectacular and certainly the most dangerous part of the whole process this radio crucible is filled with most and groans as you can see. it's going to go over here. in the case of stanwell but. it's funny. the finery liquid is ready to fly. you can see the soup of copper and skin all this most in bronze being poured into this huge cost that's going to take around about a week to cool down before the whole thing can be taken outside and the next stage of the process begins. so that the workers really get to shake things up a bit. i think. we've been based. this fish out. a. deep in. the process is still full from over the new born bell needs to be washed to remove any traces of clay and it's been sand blasted and polished to give it a much surface. finish joins the other finished products ready to begin their journeys to churches and temples across the g