he is a bit torn about nixon. and he admired nixon's mind. and he wanted nixon's library to be credible. now, i don't believe that every member of the nixon foundation shared john's intellectual goal. he really wanted the cold war historian. he knew who i was because i had worked on the project with pda. i just let the materials speak for themselves. i write books, but on different subjects. john taylor wanted me, too. he was hired by then-president george w. bush. my first book is about the cuban missile crisis. both of them wanted me. they came to me. i did not apply for the job. from the beginning, i said, look, i am a historian. we have to have a place where history is so comfortable. i am not a member of the republican party. i am not partisan crowd i am now going to become a member of the republican party. and that is aside from the fact that i was gay. i told them come if you want this, this is what you will get. i was very straightforward. i spoke with julie nixon eisenhower and tricia nixon carps. i told them, i'm going to create spa

nixon would always be nixon, always insecure. eisenhower but always be eisenhower. i asked somebody what he was like and they said that he would go all five star on you. >> eisenhower was very suspicious of political -- corera politicians. why did he choose him? >> he did not choose them. when eisenhower was nominated for president in 1952, he was not even aware that he made a choice. i am the one who does it? as opposed to the delegates. yes, it is you. >> why was the relationship so difficult for nixon? >> nixon was always wasawe of eisenhower. nixon was not a disgrace president, he was a first-term senator with a slightly strange background. he was joining the supreme commander of the allied forces. he was in awe of him. there was not the attraction between a father and son. there was the 22-year age difference. >> in 1960, eisenhower put not credit nixon with influencing any phase of his administration. >> eisenhower was asked at a press conference in august about a month after nixon was nominated, can you think about one substantial suggestions or ideas that wa

nixon.the situation came to a head on the there'd day as pat walked through the store, hundreds of people crammed on to ball copies or stood? aisles to wave and catch a glimpse of her. reporters trying to cover the event found their views blocked by the soviet security detail. pushing became shoving, fists flying. pat saved one reporter from being man-handled by a soviet officer by pulling reporter to him and offerer a lick ofly her ice cream cope. and so we end with another story that reinforces pat's love of travel. her openness to all of the people she met, including reporters. and her willingness to take whatever action was necessary. from her youngest days when she listened to her father's stories of his adventures, through her years as a single woman, taking off on small excursions, to the early years of her marriage to dick, as they shared they're love of visiting new places, travel intrigued pat, invigorated her, and provided her with opportunities she might not have had otherwise. t

he had great instincts of war and peace and looking at nixon, looking at nixon in this period, he wasn'ted former president but a very intelligent, very ambitious and controversial senator and then a vice president. so, he was -- he's not the nixon we know today and quite different. >> i want to hear about how they brought out the worst in each other. >> i don't think i -- i don't think i ever say that but tended to bring out the best in each other in some way but eisenhower did make nixon unhappy. nixon was constantly feeling dissed basically. he felt he wasn't treated well, wasn't being respected for all he could wasn't being respected for all he could bring to the ticket and bring to the country. >> well, and you seem to indicate part of ike's disdain is he had a general disdain for politics and politicians in general. did that impact his ability to govern effectively, that sort of contempt for the game? >> i don't think -- you're talking about eisenhower now. i don't think eisenhower had contempt for nixon but he didn't think much of professional politicians. he was much happier with

nixon learned golf, kind of.. >> and it haunted him. we always talked about nixon being an outsider and having this resentment against the east coast establishment. it really started here. all he wanted to dwous be accepted into this inner circle. even until the day he died, what a great scene in the nixon oval office. he finds out that ike's died and breaks out in tears. not because of sadness. because, as you said he realized he never would be in that inner circle. >> it was all over for him. and even the fact that he -- that eisenhower and nixon were family then. he was his father-in-law once removed. >> and ike didn't even want that to happen. he was against the marriage. >> he liked julie a lot. he basically thought david should have a career in law or medicine or something and was being derailed by this. they were teenagers. they were 18 years old when they got together. they got married when they were 20. >> one final thing -- >> they were still married, happyfully married. >> one final thing before i pass

nixon and rosa parks wanted to transform the naacp into a more activist branch so in 1945 nixon run for president and wins. parks again is elected secretary. many middle-class members of the branch wanted more of a social club and opposed these politics and wrote to the national naacp office. these letters are at the library of congress. they are mad and don't like him and they think he is a dictator and his politicking and they try to unseat that and they try to get the national office to come in. both parts of nixon were working class, we worked in a working-class west side, she is in the cleveland court project with her husband and her mother moved their. nixon and parks are reelected to head the montgomerie branch and they come to head the alabama conference of the naacp. a lot of what they did in the late 40s was tried to document white brutality against black people, file affidavits, and also sort of protest and challenge legal lynching. the prosecuting of black men for sexual crimes who had either stepped out of place or were having consensual relationships with white women and s

at 3:00 a.m., robinson calls nixon. robinson doesn't call perks interestingly, she calls nixon and a 5:00 in the morning, ed nick finster's making calls to ministers in town because he wants in sees the need for the ministers to be on board. so because i've are not the, reverend abernathy, and a gun town by the name of reverend mark luther came to his new andy's church essentially located and nixon sees this as an ideal place to have this meeting. it is not till the next day at lunch however that rosa parks finds out about these plans when she goes like she usually does, she often would have lunch of fried grease. when she gets there that day, she finds out about the plan. meanwhile, that saturday she is scheduled this youth workshop and only a couple kids, and she's really disappointed in increasingly nervous he said she plans this whole thing, nobody comes another plainest boycott for monday and she is worried. so the first day of the boycott is amazing and she very much describes her best memory from that whole year

nixon. i consider him a friend. that are also qualified to be president. >> how was this relationship borne. >> oh, sure. >> was there an impetus? >> sure we know. had met a couple of times before. once they had been together at the exclusive bohemian grove club in san francisco and eisenhower was president of columbia and nixon running for the senate, which became one of his nastiest races, and in 1952 eisenhower's advisers suggested this guy, this california senator who was -- who had many things going for him. he was a red hunter and appeased the man who helped alger hess, but eisenhower didn't know a presidential candidate got to make this choice. oh, i got to do this, and his advice, particularly tom dewey, then the governor of new york and a presidential candidate was a great fan of richard nixon, probably the strongest advocate of nixon, but it was classic smoke-filled room. sherman adams who later became eisenhower's chief of staff compared it to picking an alderman in philadelphia. >> here was a guy who was

and his friends and his nation to remember president nixon's life in totality.ing president nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close. >> reporter: the irony of those words would not be appreciated until a few years later when president clinton faced his own challenges. >> new mexicoen got chased out of the white house with his impeachment fears and the same thing happened to bill clinton. and this new group of letters from the nixon library just connects those two famous two-term elected presidents, nixon and clinton in history with this very interesting correspondence. >> this was not the first. harry trueman struck up a good relationship with herbert hoover and lyndon johnson forged a bond with dwight eisenhower. >> who would have thunk it? were you surprised? >> i really was. you don't think about nixon and clinton but douglas brinkley told me yesterday they both have this that they found useful. >>> have you heard? romance is in the air this valentine's day, so we'll celebrate with the self-proclaimed queen of sappy love songs.

i know nixon. i'm not necessarily a nixon hater by any means.e was a member of the naacp in the '50s. pretty friendly with whitney young, getting to know martin luther king ahead of the kennedys. and then becomes a totally mean guy in terms of electoral politics, hooking up with strom thurmond figuring he was going to grab what was left of the segregationists in the south when they were disappointed with the democrats. what happened to this guy? >> i think sam's piece clearly indicates that not only would a politician like nixon find it convenient to go in that direction for potential success, but politicians generally, chris, all of us tend to want to move in a direction that points to success. in sam's piece he talks about how kennedy clearly moved away from where he was as a liberal in massachusetts to try to make sure he didn't get tubed as he had been on the vice presidential nomination when he sought the presidential nomination. so we politicians are not like the moral standard on this issue. >> okay. sam, great piece. boy, you put a lot o

nixon is a sleeping car porter, active in the union. he and rosa parks wants to transform the bridge into a more activist branch. he runs for president and wins in 1945. he and parks go out to investigate cases of voter registration, acts of brutality. there is controversy in the branch, many that oppose this, they try to unseat nixon and parks. she is doing this very dangerous work. it sounds not so dangerous but to see -- be a naacp activist in the 1940's, taking testimony of people, getting them to sign affidavits, that is extremely courageous work. only a handful of people in montgomery were committed to doing that work. >> how does this moment happen? as you point out in the book, it was not the first time that rosa parks had refused to get up on the bus. explain what was different, when she tried it the first time, compared to 1955? >> there is a longer history of resistance on buses in montgomery. there have been numerous cases after world war ii of people getting arrested on the bus. she knows what can happen. a neighbor of hers

nixon and rosa parks wanted to transform the naacp to a more activist branch so in 1945, nixon runs for president and wins. parks again is elected secretary. many middle class members of the ranch wanted a social club and opposed the politics and the road to the national naacp office they don't like him and they think that he's a dictator for his politics when and they try to get that shakira national office to work in. the work on the west side. she is living in the cleveland projects with her husband and then her mother moves there. nixon and parks are reelected to have the montgomery branch and come to have the conference at the naacp. it's also to sort of protest and challenge the legal inching, the prosecuting of black men for sexual fines who had either stepped out of place or were having consensual relationships with white women and so these charges were used to sort of put people back in their place. rosa parks traveled the state taking testimony and trying to get people to sign affidavits to the justice department that they would send to the national office and the justice depa

other presidents have used taping periodically, but nixon up andthe white house o and nixon wins largest landslide election but he is out of office not long after that. spiro agnew gets tossed out of office because of scandal. it was a man with a great legacy going. we would have been honoring nixon in a different way now. the tapes keep tripping him up because of anti-semitic remarks were anti-plaque remarks. holeaints himself in a who cost of these tapes. caller: hi. abouteen hearing a lot president obama getting another term. is that even possible? guest: no. he is a two-term president. there will sign big book contracts. i imagine it would be over $10 million to barack obama. then he will build a presidential library in chicago what would think around the university of chicago campus. you start your career as an ex- president. you're getting out of office in your 50's. you have decades ahead of you. jimmy carter won a nobel peace prize and works on disease ratification and holding democratic elections from the world. bill clinton with his global initiative and all the great work he d

the responsibility was left to richard nixon.he primary responsibility for controlling inflation rests with the national administration and its handling of fiscal and monetary affairs. but would this president be willing to accept the traditional keynesian approach to reduce demand by increasing taxes? chief economic advisor paul mccracken exains nixon's reluctae. i don't know oanypolitical n short of a war, where there isn't hesitancy about increasing taxes. that's the least popular thing the political system wants to hea increased taxes were likely not only to cut inflation, also to slow the economy. nin believed t 1960 economiclowdown had costim the presidency, anhis eye was w on t 197elections. nixon was a lahe feared increased renues woulincreasegovernment. if taxes woul't be raised, why t cut backasegovernment. on federal spending? it would have been irresponsible to start with a cleaver, slicing everything, partly because, i'm sure, a year or so later, government would be trying to increase partleverything i'm sure, they c

it went to richard nixon.nd richard nixon vetoed it even though it passed with lots of republican votes. president nixon said the idea of preschool for everyone had quote, family-weakening implications. he said quote, the child development envisioned in this legislation would be truly a long leap into the dark for the united states government and the american people. a long leap into the dark. 40 years after president nixon said no to preschool for all american kids with the weird leaping in the dark analogy, president obama is trying to bring a version of that idea back with a plan for early education for all americans. but this time the president has wind in his sails blowing in from an unlikely source. it's blowing in from a really, really red state. from maybe the reddest of all red states. this is how oklahoma voted in 2012. mitt romney swept every county. in 2008 john mccain swept every county. in 2004 george bush swept every county. oklahoma is the reddest place we've got in america. and republicans, yo

he declined the offer and offered his services to the richard nixon campaign. during the transition in late 1968, he worked on defense and budget planning in an obscure attic with an elite team that included alan greenspan. during his first year in the nixon white house he became increasingly concerned that the federal communications policies toward suppressing technological innovation and conceived the idea of the special white house office to break the jam of agencies and commercial protectionism. he floundered on the task of finding the right person to head the effort. reluctantly, he agreed to take on the assignment himself. one indication of the force of his intellect and character is the extraordinary quality of the individuals he attracted to the new office of telecommunications policy. a new law professor with an interest in regulatory policy. antonin scalia signed off as counsel. they are with us this evening. three other veterans will begin our panel presentations. henry goldberg is succeeded as the general counsel is one of the deans of american comm

have legalized it like washington and colorado so question mark isn't it time for us to fail and nixon's failed drug war and say enough already absolutely nine hundred seventy controlled substances act especially putting marijuana as a schedule one which it clearly should not be has led to mass incarceration early on it was the one nine hundred seventy act it was nixon it was followed through with don't just say no with reagan and nancy reagan you know spearheaded that to a large degree and then more recently we've got a absolute you know penetration of both state of local politics state politics and national politics with private prison companies and bed space has become a commodity we have a country that you know where we seem to not know exactly who were with war with around the country i can tell you with these drug laws this mass incarceration this this country is currently at war with its own citizens because you criminalize so much that everyone's a criminal and you put these folks in jail this is ridiculous we incarcerate more you know this land of the free home of the brave in a

should not be has led to mass incarceration early on it was the one nine hundred seventy act it was nixon it was followed through with don't just say no with reagan and nancy reagan you know spearheaded that to large degree and then more recently we've got a absolute you know penetration of both states. local politics state politics and national politics with private prison companies and bed space has become a commodity we have a country that you know where we seem to not know exactly who were with war with around the country i can tell you with these drug laws this mass incarceration this this country is currently at war with its own citizens because you criminalize so much that everyone's a criminal and you put these folks in jail this is ridiculous we incarcerate more a you know this land of the free home of the brave and all this time we're talking about drone strikes against our citizens and incarcerating more people than any other country per capita you start to really wonder what kind of moral high ground we have in the in the world on the you know on the world stage because you kn

that nixon and kissinger used to pursue the diplomatic opening with china in the early one nine hundred seventy s. it's not their achievement was not based already talking to. the united states have been talking to beijing for years but it was this very narrow kind of dialogue very focused on grievance american grievances toward china and what china was going to need to do to to bring itself in line with american preferences nixon and kissinger flip that on its head they said we are going to convey to the chinese both in words and in actions that we we accept the people's republic of china and on that basis the rest of these issues can be taken care of that's what enabled this dramatic turn in american diplomacy toward china that's what we need to do toward the islamic republic of iran to accept it and then to back that up with concrete actions in terms of rolling back covert action programs in terms of stopping economic warfare against iran but what are the chances for diplomacy i mean iran is surrounded by u.s. military bases by nato patriot missiles they have to sanctions that are cr

if you go to youtube and put in dick cavett richard nixon, you can see the head of the free world sayo his h. r., cavett. how can we screw him? [ laughter ] >> some will think i'm making that up. if you don't believe me, go to youtube. >> john: that was pretty rare that he actually -- it is shocking to think nixon had enemies. >> i know. how could he? i had offended him in various ways including the fact that when lennon had me maintain he needn't be deported by the nixon white house that i did and they were not pleased with that. and several other things. but hearing the president -- nixon liked among other things, i won't say his name again the great unindicted co-conspirator loved to -- as you know, illegally punish people with the i.r.s. he did that to my staff. >> john: oh. >> wealthy people. >> john: that shows how much confidence he had in his point of view. >> still dead. >> john: i see him at mets games all the time. some more after the break. what john brennan didn't say at his hearing today because nobody even asked him. my commentary coming up next. with accident forgivene

nixon library. thank you so much. >> for a dvd copy of this program, call 1-877-662-7726. c-span's programs are also available as podcasts. >> the communism of china is basically communism only in name these days, preserving the power of the members of the communist party. they basically through -- threw their ideology aside. they talked in length about marxism and leninism, etc., but as i say, it is all about preserving their power as they continue to grow. they got rid of most of the vestiges of communism all long time ago. in north korea, it is all about preserving the kim dynasty. it really does not have anything to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism. communism when it moved into asia, it diverged into something different than the communists and that appeared in europe. that is an absolutely fascinating split. >> 34 years of reporting with keefe richburg, next sunday at 8:00. >> next, david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. after that, ed miliband. and the

it as a badge of honor i know i would but just that fact that a list exists an enemy's list richard nixon shows just how crazy the leadership in the n.r.a. have gotten just how much they've let paranoia and greed consume it i mean shit another reason out of many why we should stop listening to any of their arguments or any of their ideas they've officially crossed the line into the dangers road and that is the subject of tonight's daily take. if we listen away in la pierre and the n.r.a. and the rest of the gun nuts on the far right about how to make our schools safer from gun violence and actually pass legislation they've supported that a typical school day would look something like this to begin with all those gun free zones signs be taken down there a place with signs that read gun friendly zone the simple change immediately alerts would be suicidal maniacs that this is their place the n.r.a. school shield program fully implemented school children will walk on to campus past rows of armed security guards at first the big men in body armor with powerful something automatic assault rifle

>> the more he has to prove, the more dangerous a leader, witness richard nixon. there is some opinion that richard nixon is the most sexually insecure chief of state since napoleon. >> somebody once said a woman a man most fears is the woman inside himself. >> doesn't henry kissinger more than compensate for president nixon's sexual insecurity? >> that's like, are you still beating your wife? anything i say is impossible. >> we were photographed together. since kissinger was, i think, pretty much the only unmarried person in the nixon administration, somebody from "the new york times" called me up and asked me about it. >> this week, gloria steinem, almost unbelievably to me, is voted as having said she's not now and never has been a girlfriend of henry kissinger. but, i would like to tell you, i'm not discouraged. >> people think being pretty or beautiful solves everything, which, of course, it doesn't. the hard part, for me, i must say the painful part, is i work really hard, and then the result is attributed to looks. that's -- it's really painful, and you wou

he politely declined the offer and offered his services instead to the richard nixon campaign. during the nixon transition in late 1968, he worked on defense and budget planning and an obscure attic on lafayette square with an elite team that included allen greenspan, john deutch and james wilson. during his first year at the nixon white house he became increasingly concerned that the federal communications policies were suppressing technological innovation and conceived of the idea for special white house office to break the logjam of hcn commercial protectionism. he sold that notion but floundered on the task for finding the right person to head the effort. reluctantly, and over the objections of many colleagues and mentors who saw tom's future as a defense strategist he agreed to take on the assignment himself. one indication of the force of tom's intellect and character was the extraordinary quality of the individuals he attracted to the new office of telecommutelecommu nications policy. a all young law professor from the university of virginia was interested in rekha trade

and nixon was that ambassador. but eisenhower's always cold with nixon.ou may remember the famous checker speech? that was because there was a phony scandal, this little slush fund that really didn't amount to anything, but it blew up. you know, the press was just as crazy then and avaricious then as it is now, and they blew up this phony scandal about nixon's slush fund. and instead of defending nixon, eisenhower let him twist in the wind and, basically, defend himself. so nix sob went out -- nixon went out and gave this famous speech that was very effective to save his job about his dog, checkers, and it was the famous checkers speech. biggest tv audience in history at the time. and it worked. but eisenhower never -- finally, eisenhower finally said patronizingly to nixon, you're my poi -- you're my boy. eisenhower tried to drive nixon off the ticket in '56, and nixon hung in there, sort of refused to be maneuvered off. and then in 1960 when eisenhower was running for, excuse me, when nixon's running for president and he's to succeed eisenhower, august

and nixon said that to reagan. i'm yours to command. >> did you get the idea ike liked nixon? -- jeffrey frank shows this -- what was so maddening for nixon is nixon didn't matter to him anymore than a lieutenant matters to a four-star general. he always saw him as a lieutenant. he always saw him as his underling. and ike never thought twice about playing bridge at camp david with some of the post powerful men in the world and told dick to walk the trails. never once invited him there. it was a really complex relationship. but you've heard that expression that hate is not the opposite of love. indifference is the opposite of love. that's i think what happened here. >> all right. "the presidents club" is now out in paperback. michael duffy and nancy gibbs, thank you for being back on the show. up next, thousands gary on washington's national mall to call on president obama to reject the keystone pipeline. straight ahead on "morning joe." ♪ [ male announcer ] were you more interesting in your twenties, or now? when you were starting out? or after a few decades working in some we

does it mean nixon could have killed bill ayers? it does mean that. bill ayers or the weatherman, he had an active plot against the u.s., bombed the pentagon. that means if this -- if nixon had assumed the kind of power that obama's assuming, he could have sent a commando team out to wipe out bill ayers. you can't kill rogue leaders, no, you cannot by law. we cannot assassinate foreign leaders. we can now kill americans as long as we say they are related to al-qaeda somehow. and that link isn't too tough. al-qaeda hates america, all do you have do is hate america, it could be said that you are an associated force. remember, all of the anger at the left had over water boarding. i think i have this right. constitutional scholar barack obama is demanding the right to kill american citizens without making his case to a judge, as long as he thinks the american in question is in an upper tier of operations of al-qaeda or a related group. but you can't water board the guy. you can kill him, but we can't water board him. we can kill the son of a-- but we can'

carter is the only president since nixon not to visit china during their own term.o today's winner, paul axel. well, let me bring back the panel here. patty solis doyle, michelle bernard. sorry about that. the good news is, it was new york's fault. it's not us. we're happy about that. so i was going to the sort of the messaging of the republicans here, and we were talking about that. i guess whyproact tivly more saying this is what we were brought here to do, we don't like the way sequester is going, but you give us no choice. why don't they go with that message than what boehner did? that's made a lot of conservatives scratch their heads. >> the answer is we have absolutely no idea. it's happening now. maybe they will watch you today and say, you know what? we've got to get our messages straight. it makes no sense. >> you saw this, in the byron york column, patty, that basically said, what are you doing? you're agreeing with the president's words? that these are drastic, this is too much, this isn't the right way to do it? >> you know, i'm with you. i don't get it.