nixon learned the lesson. that part of nixon was there early.it wasn't just doing eisenhower's bidding. i'm not sure if the domestic policy what she meant by that. >> i guess i would say for the very first month he was 30 applied these lessons of domestic policy to determine his political future. i'm curious if he saw how many muslims do things like little rock to how to get out ahead of these things. i don't think eisenhower thought politically. eisenhower did what he knew he had to do. >> there's one foreign policy lesson he learned. in her book he suggested he may assault up at the time. long story short, these israelis and this is a conspiracy to give it its nasser. the united states decided not to back grape root in advance. in fact puts real pressure to get out of it. richard nixon thought it was a mistake that the united states -- however you look at it, he was certainly very open when he starts talking about it. so he saw this as a mistake eisenhower had made. so i think their negative lessons. >> he also said eisenhower changed his mind

nixon and lbj were the ones who quit. decided -- remember, there were a lot of calls -- when he admitted that he lied about this, a lot of calls for his resignation. it was a humiliating moment. he decided, i am just going to tough it out. he is perhaps the most popular political figure now in the country. i think that is a lesson if you are in that office and you get whacked. the tough it out and you will be redeemed by history. >> we omitted one president, jimmy carter, who, for one thing, got shot down by that speech he made, and then of course the iran hostage crisis pay them that did not go well. -- crisis. >> that did that go well. the attempted to get the hostages out and that failed. he had a lot of failures. doubleonomy whacked him, digit inflation, then he blamed the problem on the malaise in government. he came to the presidency eisenhower, who knewesidency .he institutions of government jimmy carter had none of that. i served in that administration and he was a decent person. >> carter had more current and cam

is rethinking nixon.did this experience of writing about this relationship, cause you to rethink nixon? >> thought about nixon a lot. i don't think -- i'm not sure i really saw him. i wasn't doing the nixon presidency, even though i have an epilogue that deals with what came after. but i really only deal in the book with three or two months of the nixon presidency, which began when he was inaugurated and two months later eisenhower was dead and that covers the story. from their first meeting at the bohemian grove, an exclusive men's club north of san francisco, and ended up with ike's death in 1969. >> what sense of man did you get? >> he baffled me, and i found him extremely complicated. was riveted by the different sides on him he could be really vindictive and vicious. at one time he referred to his 1960 running mate, henry cab about lung, knuckle-headed gutless wonder, and yet he could be so kind to people. and generous in ways he didn't have to be. you think about the kennedy but help he was presiden

>> he did, he treated nixon shabbily, in many ways. he let nixon twist in the wind, as oneould say. you have to go on tv and save himself. it worked. it saved nixon's political career. >> that speech kind of makes your skin crawl, but it was successful. a lesson for people that came afterwards. >> understand context. richard nixon was being called on by major republicans run the country to leave the ticket. he was under siege. eisenhower did leave him dangling in the wind. that was his last, only chance to save his vice-president sea and his public career, and he did it, brilliantly. it was checkers and the dog and those two little girls. it was brilliantly done and made possible for him to lead to become president of the united states. >> he said, we are not going to give the dog back, right back to the people. lie, you do the outright and you play for time. the thing that you showed of clinton, where hsaid, i did not have sexual relations with that woman, perhaps redefining the definition of the word sex, but it was strong enough, believable enough -- stories were being put out ab

he is close to nixon now.e ap example is a good example of something that obama has done, what nixon never did. so i have him presently in second place behind nixon and ahead of bush ii. he is moving up fast. if he goes ahead on assange, he will at least be even. >> i want to go back to the pentagon papers. we have a clip from a documentary that was made about daniel ellsberg. the documentary is called "daniel ellsberg: the most dangerous man in america." he leaked the pentagon papers symmetrically led to the downfall of the knicks in administration. this is a clip. >> it was october 1, 1969 when i first smuggled silver hundred pages of top-secret documents out of my safe at the rand corporation. contained 47 williams, 7000 pages. xerox the steady and reveal the secret history of the vietnam war to the american people. >> the fbi was trying to figure out who gave the new york times a copy of the pentagon's secret study. >> like a thunderclap you get the new york times publishing the pentagon papers and the cou

nixon learned the lesson. that part of nixon was there early.it wasn't just doing eisenhower's bidding. i'm not sure if the domestic policy what she meant by that. >> i guess i would say for the very first month he was 30 applied these lessons of domestic policy to determine his political future. i'm curious if he saw how many muslims do things like little rock to how to get out ahead of these things. i don't think eisenhower thought politically. eisenhower did what he knew he had to do. >> there's one foreign policy lesson he learned. in her book he suggested he may assault up at the time. long story short, these israelis and this is a conspiracy to give it its nasser. the united states decided not to back grape root in advance. in fact puts real pressure to get out of it. richard nixon thought it was a mistake that the united states -- however you look at it, he was certainly very open when he starts talking about it. so he saw this as a mistake eisenhower had made. so i think their negative lessons. >> he also said eisenhower changed his mind

he said richard nixon. well. and then i listened to the words that became much more moving in this sad occasion of the passing of richard nixon when clinton gave the eulogy that brought tears to my eyes and most americans because in that you megaera those comments bill clinton moments ofs we all transcend division, partisanship and sometimes even in the word that my boys are not allowed to say but the hate to word and in the '60s it was used by a lot of people including me about people who disagreed and through the '70s and '80s and '90s it became a very common word. i hope to after the bloodletting from the clinton years that we would be over that. and a very good friend of mine that i was in college with between law school something about the new haven drinking water. one of my close friends before i went to yale law school and met somebody named hillary rodham when that was her last name i was close friends with somebody named george bush who i voted for for president not president but of might richard a. [lau

is what makes him worse than nixon? >> he's getting close to being worse than nixon. in this area he is worse than nixon. nixon indicted only one person and that was the first person ever so inindicted. and then there were two more since obama came in. and a total of three is all we've ever had in this country. what obama has done, he has indicted six. he's head 6-3. but the three encompasses three and the six from obama. he's worse than nixon. >> michael: there is not an american president alive who would like to be compared to richard nixon. >> no, i want to say that we're talking about national security leaks here. this is where obama is challenging nixon for the lead. there is a big difference between obama and nixon to the extent that nixon wanted to destroy the press, and obama in this area are pretty good. but this part, he ain't so good. >> michael: that's becoming even more clear when you read and listen to what you've got to say the president was asked by a reporter today in the rose garden about that comparison. let's listen to him. >> how do you feel about

nixon has to do something i would think now in response to very serious charges that mr. dean made. >> brown: and at days end, the team put their own questions to committee members outside the hearing room. >> you may have noticed that >> i'm not tired, as a matter of fact the only thing that i object to now is that it cuts into my exercise schedule. >> brown: testimony continued, but by mid-july, there was still no proof that john dean had been telling the truth. that is, until fred thompson, the chief republican counsel and a friend of senator baker's from tennessee, put questions to a little-known former white house aide named alexander butterfield. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of any listening devices in the office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes sir. >> were you aware of any devices installed in the executive office building office of the president? >> yes sir. >> were they installed at the same time? >> yes sir, they were installed the same time. >> well walso, icalldid destroh presidency. >> butterfield revealed that all of president

nixon was not a fan and his white house went after him.ust through legal channels, which is how the department of defense has gone after bradley manning, with appalling ruthlessness. no, no, no. through criminal side channels. >> so, tomorrow we'll review all this stuff, we tried a few, we had one little operation that aborted in los angeles, which, i think, is better that you don't know about, but we've got some dirty tricks under way that may pay off. >> that operation that he wasn't telling nixon about involved the wiretapping at the office of daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist. they broke into the guy's shrink's office to root through his records and bug him. and by the way, none of this is the actual watergate break-in pulled off by the same henchman. this was some of the stuff we found out because of the investigation of the mall fefeae malfeasance. the fact that he was a sociopathic wrathful boss does nothing to excuse wrongdoing by the obama administration. but ever since the 1970s, republicans and conservatives embarrassed by nixon ar

this is what nixon means about enemies. brookings institution a political enemy. >> we're up against an enemy, a conspiracy. they're using any means. we are going to use any means. is that clear? did they get the brookings institute raided last night? get it done. i want it done. i want the brookings cleaned out. >> i want the brookings institute safe cleaned out. another political enemy, former military analyst who leaked the pentagon papers to congress, needless to say, nixon was not a fan. his white house went after him, and not just through legal channels, which is how the department of defense has gone after bradley manning with appalling ruthlessness. no, no, no, through criminal side canals. >> so, tomorrow we'll review all this stuff. we tried a few -- we had one little operation that aborted out in los angeles, which, i think, is better that you don't know about. >> agreed. >> but we've got some dirty tricks under way that may pay off. >> all right. that operation that he wasn't telling nixon about involved the wir

now nixon is flying through the air.orrin hatch said i never have seen anything like this except in the past during the nixon years. >> add watergate and iran-contra and multiply by ten which is confuseing math because iran-contra is watergate tense time. and it lets all the way up to people who have never met anyone in the top reaches of government. if you believe that behavior in a crisis is the same as an irs cock up that results in paperwork for people. it may surprise you to learn there are suesel differences between barack obama and richard nixon. when nixon learned that the irs audited conservatives was made them audit liberals on his enemy list. he used irs because he was a drug delusional socio-path. and obama's treasurey department scoped the scrutinizing under douglas schilman, a bush appoint appointee, which is like two and a half men fired ashton kutcher because charlie sheen. nixon used bribely blackmail spying forgery and to spy on the press for political purposes and obama can't even get gun purchasing ba

>> i'm for nixon. >> stephanie: right. ♪ nixon nixon, nixon ♪ ♪ i'm nixon ♪ ♪ i'm for nixon ♪ ♪ i'm for with leadership nixon is for you ♪ >> >> stephanie: i think that second gal was hit with a cattle prod. ♪ nixon, nixon ♪ ♪ i'm nixon ♪ ♪ i'm for nixon ♪ >> stephanie: oh of course i am. i love him. i love dick. >> i'm sorry what? >> stephanie: what? >> that's not what i heard. >> stephanie: they discriminated groups with the words tea party in their organization. the treasury department inspector general department would show no one outside the irs was involved in developing the criteria the agency acknowledges were fraud. the practice is absolutely not influenced by the administration. oh conspiracy souffle. >> benghazi! >> stephanie: jim in illinois. you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, stephanie. i used to work for the irs when i was in law school and all of the supervisors or heads of any departments were based on politics, and that has not changed, therefore i would assume it was all democrats that were in leadership roles in the irs. then where did that directo

and its reporters saying they were coconspirators nixon failed so while most succeeds where nixon failed you'll be worse than nixon so in this context you if you julian a songe as the publisher similar to the new york times similar to the guardian and all the other news outlets that then published what julian a songe disclosed through wiki leaks right there saying that it's the same thing if everyone's on the same point it's like if you have a web site yourself and you publish this interview you're a publisher u.s. officials maintain that that julian assange compromised national security by publishing classified documents as you know in america you know sometimes first amendment is trumped by national security issues when information is disclosed that could threaten the lives of soldiers on the battlefield or threaten the lives of americans here at home do you believe honestly that killing or saw a sign should face no consequences whatsoever yes that's right and so why you know the same claims were made about the new york times when the pubs print the papers it was a strong national secu

say richard nixon. what he does unconsciously is take the ampleg, sub trajt the average from nixon's face to get the difference between nixon's face and all the others and amplify the others to introduce a caricature. the final result is a drug even more nixon-like than the original. they argue that if the chicks had an art gallery they would hang a long stick with red dots and worship it and pay millions of dollars for it and call it a picasso. anyway, the citation of nixon, to me, is interesting because the great cartoonist doug once said that nixon looked like the policies that he was the cartoonist what marilyn monroe was to sex. his nose sold you he was going to innovated cambodia. i want to just -- i don't know where we're on time. we're running a little short so -- [inaudible] so who i already quoted who is beneath crit sick and psychologist, he put the caricature in the business of myth tholings it -- making the mythical with the real. they create the fusion that fusion that amount that same con

a great writer said -- and herb locke who gave nixon his 5:00 shadow and here he comes now, nixon coming out of the sewer and again, that is one of these permanent images that as much as anything helps to bring nixon down, watergate was part of it but this contributed to. and this cartoon has to do with the danish mohammad. the danish mohammad at the time they cause the fuehrer, the new york times wrote an article saying we are not going to publish the caricature is because they were easily describe a bowl and you describe the monday internet and as a result of that there was no need to publish them because you could describe them and you could look, if you need to. at the time i thought that was all wrong because you have to experience them in order to understand them and to describe them is the opposite of what a work of art or a cartoon does but when it came time, are we going to include them in the book or not? the publisher always worried that bookstores, people would come into bookstores and the book sellers were at risk that they might be bombed, they might be attacked or amazon w

more than 40 years later the nixon library is marking the occasion with ceremonies and another dinner menu for this anniversary dinner includes sirloin steak, potatoes, and mousse. it's almost the exact same menu that was served in 1973. white house staffers said they chose the dishes to represent american food that the returning p.o.w.s dreamed of in captivity. singer tony orlando spoke about his iconic song "tie a yellow ribbon," which he performed at the white house gala. >> the opening line of that song is their mothers' and wives' prayers, i'm coming home, i've done my time. >> reporter: president nixon embroiled in watergate resigned about a year after tinder, but the former p.o.w.s remembered nixon as the man who secured their freedom. for these surviving veterans, this reunion is like coming home again. teresa garcia, cbs news, your ba linda, california. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," the latest on the scotland yard hacking of the british soldier. we'll go live to london. >>> plus predictions for this hurricane season. we'll get the update from meteorologist david bernar

congress had had it in comes richard nixon. the next mechanism. so, nixon saw that crisis that had been caused by johnson as an argument for why he ought to come back with an even bigger grab of power. what he basically said is no countries would negotiate on the next round, unless the u.s. had some incredible congressional handcuff mechanism in play. now, that got a little complicated because then the next round started and everyone came to the table. so, nixon got also grandiose -- shocking -- and came up with an idea he said would speed up the negotiations, and he should be able to negotiate, sign agreements, before congress votes and row claim changes not just to the tariff but to u.s. federal law. this of course would be unconstitutional very clearly. thankfully, the senate put an into that. it's a sad story of what happened in the house. the ways and means committee chairman, where these policies are discussed, is wilbur mills had fallen into severe alcoholism. the period of the whole tidal basin hysteria, about to get thrown into rehab situ

if richard nixon once famously said he gave his enemies a sword, this president might have just given them a chain saw. >> neil: welcome. i'm neil cavuto. now it's tea partiers who want to dunk the president, because they are still not have the agency going after him and whether he or anyone in his administration told the irs to do it, my next guess has had it, predicted it, dealt with it, and now wants to speak out more about it. mark on the phone with us now. mark, what did you make of the president's attempted explanation of all of this? >> the president never explains anything. never takes responsibility for anything. he is never combatable for anything. the fact of the matter is his internal revenue service ex-going back to march 2010 we now know, started targeting tea party patriot organizations, 912 organizes, and diswas -- this was in the news, clearly in the news by a year later 20, 11. that's how i became aware of it. and for him to continue to act like he doesn't know what is going on around him and he just happens to be president of the united states, is absolutely unaccep

to me again even stories that really would have been a public service obama is worse than richard nixon's there's the pentagon papers lawyer if he continues with his attack on transparency and the secret grand jury against wiki leaks he's exactly goes ahead and prosecutes doing the science he will pass next he's he's close to nixon now. the example is a good example of something that obama has done. nixon never did the british secret service hunted an emotion and her family off the ship blew the whistle on it thanks a lot for joining us what's safe havens did you look at we discussed two countries one with crowds which has very good with legal protection to this day and the other ironically nine hundred ninety s. with america because of course when they state they still had a working constitution they had working rights and freedom of expression was one of those basic right now of course no one in their right mind would flee from u.k. to the us in order to blow the whistle they would you know be shipped off to guantanamo but we could say aren't. i. whole for you between the us and europe

now the example is a good example of something that obama has done what nixon never did the british secret service hunted an emotion and her family after she blew the whistle on it thanks a lot for joining us well safe havens did you look at we discussed two countries one with crowds which has very good with legal protection to this day and the other ironically in the one hundred ninety s. with america because of course in those days they still had a working constitution they had working rights and freedom of expression was one of those basic rights now of course no one in their right mind would flee from u.k. to the u.s. in order to blow the whistle they would you know be shipped off to guantanamo but we could say aren't. i whole for you between the u.s. and europe is home to the world's first polar month iceland government to the mix the level in people are good to those he has helped draft a constitution where transparency is the government. default secrecy are good things to look for coming on you so traditional ruling systems come function in the internet since old school we're

. >> president nixon ordered his perceived enemies' taxes audited. >> it was not just nixon, it was fdr, kennedy, bobby kennedy, after watergate there were some laws to separate the white house. there is evidence that clinton misused the irs. it is an old game. this is not just something obama was doing, this was down the chain. i do not think they found a link that suggested obama was involved. >> we only learned about did a week ago. we are saying there is not a link to the white house. i do not know if there is. when obama was asked, can you assure us no one in the white house knew about this, his answer was, i did not know about the ig report until i read about it last week. he was asked about the scandal, not the ig. he gave the most narrow answer you could have. all i am saying is that it opened a lot of questions. >> as i followed the story, we learned about the existence of the inspector general's report, the treasury department on the irs. that had not been released. there was a reference made to it earlier. i can understand the president not knowing about this. he would have b

richard nixon was not so fortunate. >> i think you bring up a good point with looking at nixon and lousyrobably had a lot to do with the lousy economy. i don't think that scandal in washington affects our markets that much, if it did, i am sure we would not be as well off as we are, scandals in washington have been happening since washington, it is important we remember that what creates strong economies are jobs and government working with citizens to build its economy. >> what if people question that government, and the trust -- that trust factor? what if people begin to question that. >> i think that country showed in 2008, that it wanted a new government, it didn't have trust for its current government. way americans have been feeling about their government has been down in the dumbs for a while, i think it may have been bush win in 2000. neil: there you go. it took you three minutes to get to president bush. >> i think the way we feel about our government, our government should be taken more ssriously, it is,a shame how okay they are with our lack of trust for them. neil: this could

didn't you get sort of nixon burglarized during the nixon presidency? >> yes, he did.g story, but turned out i didn't know at the time our home was burglarized by people who turned out to be part of the notorious plumbers operation. it was a long time figuring out who did it. there are those to this day said no, it wasn't really that, but it was. our home was broken into it, but this became common during the nixon administration. doctor's offices were broken into it to get information, tapping telephone lines. very common. and when people say well, watergate wasn't that big a deal. watergate is shorthand for a widespread criminal conspiracy led by the president of the united states himself, which more than 40 people eventually served hard time. so people who don't like the hard facts of history about the nixon administration, every time some scandal happens, well, this is watergate, quite honestly, don't know what they're talking about. >> having you here is the best perspective i get. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> dan rather's latest program is called operat

incomes richard nixon, the next mechanism.nixon saw that crisis that had been caused i johnson as an argument for why he ought to come back with an even bigger grab of power. we basically said is no country would negotiate on the next round of the capitalists the u.s. have some incredible congressional handcuff mechanism in place. i got a little complicated because in the next round started, never came to the table. so nixon got a little grandiose how shocking of any came up with an idea that he said would speed up the negotiations. he should be up to negotiate agreements before congress votes and proclaim changes. not just for tariffs by the u.s. federal law. this of course would be unconstitutional very clearly. thankfully the senate -- a very sad story what happened in the house. the ways and means committee chairman, was wilbur mills, who some say people know headphone into severe alcoholism. this is right at the. of the whole any fox tidal basin hysteria about to get thrown into rehab the situation. he actually let nixon

no comparison with nixon or no one else. real comparisons should be with obama. what does obama think? what do you really want to do? let us know and show it. >> if we haven't heard or seen that, sir, by this weekend, then what? >> that would be more doubt. there will be more pessimism. there will be less cooperation between the parties. congress will almost grind to a halt in terms of any legislation being passed. and it will spill over and over and affect not only the things that are happening in washington, it will affect you and me and the american people and we should not have to abhor that. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this guy named doug, not the only democrat having questions about this president. why charlie is ready to wrangle with him, too. the congressman will be my special guest at 8 p.m. >>> never mind it looks like the irs broke the law thousands of new irs agents are still set to enforce the health care law. just as we are hearing that the white house wants to spend a billion bucks on innovation to strengthen that healthcare law to okl

and apparently nixon certainly was.lin roosevelt was the same way, often used the irs for a political tool. he got away with it. >> is it obama -- obama has to be pulled into this some way, shape or form. otherwise it's just going to be an irs matter. is that fair? >> yes. i mean, if it stays in the irs, heads will roll at the top of the irs, but obama will get out scot-free. >> do you agree with that? >> i think this is all about the president. obama care discussion with the irs an important discussion. but this is really about the president, a president who has been popular for four and a half years. but now he has his first real scandal. and this goes all the way to the top. at least in terms of his blessing of the leadership of eric holder. that's why republicans want to keep this investigation in the house and in the senate. because they know when they look back at watergate, there is a feeder to these investigations. they want to put obama on the spot. >> when you say holder, hang on -- >> confidante of the presid

. >> every time people mention nixon -- >> even nixon didn't do what holder's done. even nixon didn't seek to go after a journalist like rosen at fox news and try and get all these background details, his e-mail, his family's e-mails. >> holder is not a sitting president, okay? again -- >> he works for the administration. >> not exactly. the state department doesn't exactly work -- the department of justice doesn't exactly work that way. ostensibly operates independently of the president and of course we know there's connections there. but let's not overstate those connections. >> but if you say of course we know there are connections and everyone does know there are connections, how far can you stretch the line of credibility? let me ask you this, margaret. where literally, the president can say i had nothing to do with any of these scandals. >> until you can prove and look, again, americans are smart and willing to reserve judgment. bill clinton had very high approval ratings in terms of his performance as president, even though the american people felt that morall

nixon was his ticket to becoming director. so felt leaked in order to destroy gray and pick nixon think well of felt and make felt the director. so the idea that he was a whistleblower or leaked to destroy richard nixon is completely untrue. >> so felt was a company guy. >> i'm sorry? >> so felt was a company guy? >> the bureau was everything to him. it was his life. and being the direct or of the bureau was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and he did everything in his power -- engaging in dirty tricks, you know, fbi co-intel tactics -- to get to the directorship. and he flummoxed woodward. i don't think woodward really understood what was going on. >> do you feel that he was misrepresented by woodward and bernstein? >> absolutely. i don't fault woodward and bernstein's reporting in the fall '72, what i fault is their book about the reporting. it's a fairy tale. >> bob woodward, following the death of felt, bob woodward put a book out disclosing his relationship with mr. felt. what are your thoughts? >> it's called "the secre

-- nixon white house? >> well, aside from the little problem of watergate which gradually i could no longer ignore, um, it was very exciting. i mean, the odd thing that people forget about richard nixon is that almost every piece of progressive economic legislation that we have was passed, either passed or tried to be passed and didn't during the nixon administration. i mean, the epa, the eeoc, the -- you name these alphabet agencies. and, in fact, he and daniel patrick moynihan tried to put in a negative income tax, and they couldn't get it through congress, but they tried. i remember a few years ago bob dole made a tv series for public television in which he commented that there is absolutely no way that richard nixon could get the republican nomination today because he was far too progressive, in fact, in many ways his economics was to the left of barack obama's. and, of course, he opened up china, and he made the first was it salt or s.t.a.r.t. treaties with the russians. so it was a very exciting time

now mitch mcconnell is using footage of president richard nixon recently testifying to irs officialssh president barack obama in a new ad. doug thornhill do you think it will have any traction? it's kentucky after all. >> i doubt it, jake. people care about jobs and the economy and that's in a red state not a blue state. >> all right. we'll check in with doug and others. [ stewart ] this is the kind of food i love to cook. i'm very excited about making the shrimp and lobster pot pie. we've never cooked anything like this before. [ male announcer ] introducing red lobster's seaside mix & match. combine any 2 of 7 exciting choices on one plate for just $12.99! like new cheddar bay shrimp & lobster pot pie, and new parmesan crunch shrimp. plus salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. combine any 2 for just $12.99. [ stewart ] for the seaside mix & match, we're really mixing it up. there's just so many combinations to try. i'm stewart harrington, red lobster line cook, and i sea food differently. angie's liat angie's list,ngton, i autyou'll find reviews. cook, on everything from home re

president nixon and -- under president nixon and in the 1980s she served as vice president and chief economist of general motors. she's next on booktv discussing her memoir, "the martian's daughter." >> in his 1999 autobiography, the physicist edward teller wrote this of the group of geniuses gathered together to work on the hydrogen bomb: we are martians who have come to earth to change everything. change everything, they did, and among them, of course, was the brilliant mathematician john von neumann, father of what we now call the von neumann architecture for modern computing and, of course, so much more. today is not necessarily about john von neumann, of course, but it is about a martian's daughter, marina von neumann whitman whose own great intellect and considerable business talent have been applied to economic, social and education frontiers in our country for almost 40 years. in her new autobiography, "the martian's daughter," marina recounts what it was like to grow up in her unique family and then to continue to break new ground as a talented and credentialed woman making