which we cosponsor with the nixon foundation and the nixon library. when asked about his library when it was first being played -- planned, president nixon said i have insisted that the nixon library and birthplace be not a monument to the career of one man, but a place where visitors and scholars will be able to recall the events of the time i served as president and to measure and wayeigh the policies my administration pursued. i hope the nixon library and birthplace will be different, a vital place of discovery and rediscovery, of investigation, of study, debate and analysis. those words will be our touchstone as we begin a major renovation of the permanent exhibit at the nixon library this year. except for the recently opened watergate exhibit, the nixon museum has been relatively unchanged since it opened in the summer of 1990. over the past four years to mother have been many changes in many is in the techniques and technologies. and in the volume of material now available. it will be an exciting and exhilarating exercise in bringing in the 37th

against nixon. none of that would have forced him to resign or could have led to his impeachment. as i understand it, what made him vulnerable to impeachment and even to prosecution and conviction were actions that were known to be directed by the oval office and those were particular actions that involved me. it was the antiwar movement but in particular, against me. it has often been understood that those actions were impulsive, somehow or somehow reflected his psychology personal psychology in some way. essentially, they were overreactions of some sort. certainly, it is not understood that they were related to vietnam. to say that is to say that watergate is not usually seen as related to vietnam. in fact, i would say that what nixon to the point of resignation or impeachment was very much close to his vietnam policy, his secret policy and particularly, to how i fit in or related to that policy. the pentagon papers was related to it. it was not really so much the pentagon papers themselves which

he was also on the nixon trip. he was the staff assistant to then secretary of state william rogers. he went on to hold senior positions at the department of defense and after leaving government he dealt extensively with the chinese through the last 40 years. finally is admiral jonathan how who was a young commander on kissinger's staff. he was the only military officer on the staff and the only naval officer. then a lieutenant commander, he spent most of his time at sea as a submariner. he went on to a very distinguished career in the navy. became a four-star admiral. he was also present george h w bush's national security advisor. i'd like to get right to it. i want to ask each of you how you happened to be associated with henry specifically. how did henry find you? >> i was a foreign service officer working in the pentagon in 1968. the first person that kissinger asked to join him was the head of the policy planning staff in the pentagon where i was working, a man named would help and to he asked me to go with h

nixon was very concerned about this. from political points, it was a negative when he was going to run again. it was also something he was concerned about with the ability to govern. if you have people rioting industries it will make it very difficult to keep the country settled and focused and doing what needs to be done. i never questioned that there was a need for the intelligence. i questioned that there was a need to block all of the rights and liberties of people and how you get that. i never got into sources and methods when i was there as to how they were getting what they were getting. the stuff was so lousy. wherever they were going, it was not particularly fruitful. when i look at my papers and some of the interagency evaluation committees, they look as weak today as they did at the time i saw them. >> how did it reach you ? . >> it was haldeman. he told and happened with huston and he said that huston was able to not get this off the ground after the president pushed for it. he told me to see what i could do

and nixon may survive. i am not out to nail nixon initially. it is only when they decide to go to war with me that i said you picked the wrong guy, and i am willing to do battle. moderator: what is the line, what is the red line? when do you decide that they have gone to war with you. john: when they put out a statement that intimates that. in fact, i think i can track that back down. i issued -- i never talked to be depressed when i was in the white house, refused to. -- to the press when i was in the white house, refused to. never did never did during my time as a witness, either. i did learn later that one of my lawyers did so, much to my chagrin, which charlie, my principal lawyer and i suspected, but he did it without my authority, and i was able to testify to the senate. i suspected who was leaking this, but i cannot tell the prosecutor, my lawyer, what have you. i do not talk to the press, but anyway. while i was still in the white house, they issued a statement that i had forced my secretary to issu

nsc, nixon had to assume i had gotten it from someone else. kissinger did not have to assume that. >> to see the first part of this interviewer or watch this portion again, visit our website at www.c-span.org/history. this is american history tv on c-span three. here are some of our featured programs for this weekend. on c-span twos book tv, tonight at 10:00 eastern on afterwards, former marine and were corresponded david morris on the history of post-traumatic stress disorder that affects over 27 million americans including himself. sunday night at 8:00 am a former navy seal sniper scott taylor argues the obama administration is hurting our national security. on american history tv on c-span three, the commemoration of bloody sunday when 50 years ago voters rights advocates begin a march from summit to montgomery alabama and were met with violence by state and local police. that begins at noon eastern. we are live from soma with your phone calls followed by the commemorative ceremony with president obama and congressman john lewis. on sunday,

before henry could reply, nixon said, "let me tell you what i think. i think you should promote lehman tomorrow." i heard the story because i thought i was a goner. i thought bill rogers wanted to hand fulbright my scout. afterwards al hague told me the story. there was a growing paranoia about these leaks. as i recall, the president asked kissinger and kissinger asked dicvk. i know i got asked by dick allen to compile -- ok you are getting headlines for saying they are leaking. where's the leak here? give us the citations. i compiled a list of dozens of newspaper articles based on classified information. it was a very thick compendium. it then went into the president and that led to i don't know the exact sequence of who spoke to whom. after that the plumbers were set up. i guess it is kind of a historic document in that it is just a list of newspaper citations. >> wasn't this a problem for kissinger won he came up for confirmation? wasn't there some concern about what questions may be asked about wiretapping? john lehman: i was still working for henr

as a later meeting with nixon, where nixon wants to know what happened. nothing happened. it was humorous in the way it was said. that great line, modified limited hangout. they were suggesting mitchell might do, where you say something but don't say anything. mitchell was something it out. he was prepared to go down in flames of necessary. he just wasn't going to stand up and be accounted for. moderator: if you were the desk officer, who was the general in charge? john: several generals. mitchell at first. then it was a combination. mostly halderman. moderator: halderman felt vulnerable? john: i don't know that he felt vulnerable. everybody had a vulnerability. ehrlichman had a greater vulnerability. he took more overt acts of getting young to make documents disappear that would track back to the break-in to him. halderman -- he was aware of that as well. they just knew there was a huge disaster. they thought that pr was the answer. i tried to dissuade them. the first am i told ehrlichman that we were obstructing justice, he said there is something putrid in the water you

the next president was going to be richard nixon.hink that was pretty generally the expectation in the republican family. it certainly was my expectation. so eisenhower went out in that message with a strategy that left tax reduction for the next president. schoumacher: nixon urged eisenhower to stimulate the economy with an immediate tax cut. ike declined. by mid-summer the economy had ground to a halt well short of full employment. the budget surplus was holding money out of the economy and costing workers their jobs. while john kennedy campaigned on a promise to get the country moving again richard nixon was forced to publicly support a policy he privately opposed. the country hit bottom just two weeks before the election. for nixon, the damage had been done. if the present trend continues mr. kennedy, senator kennedy will be the next president of the united states. schoumacher: kennedy won with a margin so narrow that people still argue over what tipped the balance. but nixon had no doubt. he blamed the recession of 1960 for cost

and nixon may survive. i am not out to nail nixon initially. it is only when they decided to go to war with me that i said you picked the wrong guy, and i'm willing to do battle. moderator: what is the line, what is the red line? when you decided they have gone to war with you? john: when they put out a statement that intimates that. in fact, i think i can track that back down. i never talked to the press, refused to, never did never did during my time as a witness, either. i did learn later that one of my lawyers did so, much to my chagrin, which charlie, my principal lawyer and i suspected, but he did it without my authority, and i was able to justify to the senate. i suspected who was leaking this but i cannot tell the prosecutor, my lawyer, what have you. while i was still in the white house, i said that -- if they think i ll be there scapegoat, they picked the wrong guy. moderator: when does mitchell talk to you about -- john: late april when i am dealing with the prosecutors and i have told mitchell t

nixon. that description applies of course the john f. kennedy but equally fits our subject tonight, nelson a. rockefeller. in fact, the resemblance is more uncanny when comparing the two men intellectual interest, in the arts, the vibe, the future of latin america individual belief in government action to improve working conditions, advance of rights and promote nuclear disarmament. i'm not interested in what i can't do rockefeller reminded his age. i want to know how i can do what i want to do and it is your job to tell me. richard norton smith said governor rockefeller comes to life in this enthralling and deeply informative new biography on his own terms -- another. mr. smith is the author of biographies no stranger to presidential libraries. is directed five he teaches at george mason university, is to come at it on the "newshour" on pbs, and is the in house historic on c-span but it is always a pleasure to have him on our state. mr. smith opens his book copies of which are on sale in our bookstore, there will be a book signing follo

nixon was intrigued by this. according to one story, he took it home and was showing off to one of his daughters and almost set a white house tablecloth on fire. i'm not sure i answered everything you asked there. definitely, there were some presidents that i would say had big alcohol problems. and for some of them, cigarettes were worth. i would put johnson and eisenhower in that. johnson had several heart attacks, as did ike, and is probably more attributed to their cigarette smoking. ike's most up to -- smoked up to three or four packs a day. >> it is well documented that president taft got stuck in the white house tell. i'm wondering if that is when he was under the influence horse or sober. mark: taft was a huge guy. at times, almost 340 pounds. grover cleveland was very happy about because if it wasn't for task, he would be the biggest guy. task surprisingly, was a very moderate drinker. when he tried to lose weight, he almost out tricking altogether. his aid, archibald butt, who later died on the titanic,

and my dear friend, ed nixon. ed i appreciate you being here. i think it's very appropriate -- and let me also thank everyone for being here. i've got so many friends and family. a few years after 9/11 i was i was asleep one night and left the tv on, and all of a sudden they were showing the last interview that president nixon, one of the last interview is the he gave before he passed away. and one of the last questions was, mr. president as we approach the 21st century whoo should americans -- what should americans be most concerned with? president nixon did not bat an eye, he said the rise of islamic that fanaticism. i got a chill up my spine. but i should not have been surprised, because president nixon in one of his last books seized the moment, wrote, and i quote -- when he was talking about islamist fundamentalists -- quote: they are motivated by a consuming hatred of the west and a determination to restore the superiority of islamic civilization by resuscitating the past. they seek to impose the sharia, the code of law based on the quran

nixon, and what is his significance? vernon: he was one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. when rosa parks was arrested she did not call martin luther king. she called nixon, who was the president of the local branch of the naacp. that is who rosa parks called. and the lawyer that e.d. nixon called was clifford, a white lawyer, he was the first lawyer to see after rosa parks. and then after she sat down, got arrested, and the movement begin to go, it was e.d. nixon who understood that this circumstance was beyond his capabilities, and it was e.d. nixon who called the new pastor at dexter avenue church and said reverend king, this is e.d. net -- nixon, president of the local branch of the naacp, and we need a leader who is colleged. al: ed nixon was not colleged. >> he was not. he understood that the circumstance that they were confronting was beyond what he thought his capabilities were, and so he called martin. so martin said to him, brother nixon, i would have to think about what you are asking me to do

obama did it once, therefore you can say he's better than nixon, nixon never did it, but it will be badthey prosecute our friend julian assange. >> the obama administration prosecuted more alleged larks. they have prosecuted more alleged leak ertion under the espionage act from 1917. that's more than any ert administration combined, ever. is there a place for national security trumping the national amendment, where the leakers should be prosecuted, let alone the journalists who report it? >> i don't think the leakers should be prosecuted. we talked about the espionage act. find the leaker, and you are a reporter, and say i leak something to you, i haven't committed espionage, i have just given you information that you are in a position to publicise. if, in fact, me as a leaker, i gave the information in question to the russian government. we have something to act against. generally speaking i'm against prosecution. if you are going to prosecute, don't do eight. the law is not clear. do one, wait another eight years. >> what do you think happens with julian assange? >> what is happening?

president nixon didn't bat an eye. he said the rise of islamic fanaticism. i got a chill up my spine but i shouldn't have been surprised because presidents nixon and one of his last books seized the moment and wrote, and i quote when he was talking about islamist fundamentalists they are motivated by a consuming hatred of the west and a determination to restore the superiority of islamic civilization by resuscitating the past. they seek to impose the sharia court of law that recognizes no separation of church and state. and i could go on and on. richard nixon was one of the best foreign-policy presidents the country ever had and he was a visionary. [applause] the launch of this book of the new terror is characters on how to fight it and defeat it is being held at the nixon library here tonight. why a book about this? those of you that know me, i wrote a lot of articles and and tv appearances about iran and north korea and the link between the two countries on the missile technology, the nuclear programs. a good friend of mine worked in the reagan administrat

nixon who called the new pastor.called up and said this is the branch of the naacp and we need a leader who is colleged. >> hunt: e.d. nixon was not colleged. >> no, he was a union man he was a community man. but he understood that the circumstance theyhrq)e confronting was beyond what he thought his capabilities were. and so he called martin. and so martin said to him brother nixon i have to think about wha> hunt: the essential movement really was the church, wasmented it. >> everything in the in the black community startedmqichurch. morris college was founded in a baptist church in agusta georgia. all of the traditionally black colleges have a relation

nixon, lyndon b. johnson. anybody familiar with history knows that they were presidents who were not celebrities in their own right as presidencies war on. several celebrities in chief had notoriety and built on it. it makes a big difference in shaping the perspectives of issues and the in -- and the president as an individual. host: teddy bears, baby ruth bars, and billy bear. guest: teddy roosevelt, this is an example of him as the forerunner of the modern celebrity residence. he captivated the imagination of the country. what you're referring to, there was a case where he was a rate name hunter. he like to hunt all over the world. he went out to hunt bear and one of his guides brought him a baby bear to shoot. president roosevelt decided he won not do it so they released the bear. the teddy bear became a popular plush animal. it was different versions of how it came to fame. one version said a german manufacturer started producing teddy bears, others said american manufacturers did. but it became popular. w

are actually insulting to nixon. because what we're talking about here is an 18 minute gap. when you consider what hillary clinton is accused of doing here, it's so much bigger. >> wait, i don't understand. let me say the 18 and a half -- for those of you who weren't around, there was supposedly an eraser on the tape that wasn't there. what exactly though in your mind. >> uh-huh. >> an anti-hillary clinton person, is she being accused of? other than using an e-mail system that was not secure and that she shouldn't have been using. what exactly -- >> well, the whole point of having a private server is to be able to control access to -- of other people of those e-mails. so she had total control over the e-mails what she determined would be released what she would delete. >> that's true. >> exactly. >> okay. she set it up so she could control the flow of information in and out and decide what the public would see. that's wrong. i think it's wrong. what else is she being accused of though? >> remember when the nixon case

anywhere along the line is a conflict. >> there was the new nixon.re we going to see the new hill hillary hillary? >> at her last paid speech she was showing this lighter side of herself saying americans should have more fun. we should all go to summer camp. she is trying to relate more. we will see if it works. >> okay. got to go. >>> airport security is supposed to keep us safe when he fly. well how did a felon convicted of murder and explosive charges get through the express lane? that is a great question and the controversial pledge of allegiance at high school and why the pledge wasn't said in english but in air become. -- now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon wireless 4g lte. plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. >> a convicted felon passing

. >> former national security council and officials from the nixon administration discuss nixon's attempts to normalize relations with china in the 1970's. they detail secretary henry kissinger's visit and nixon's official visit one your later.

and if you liken them, as some have, to the nixon tapes, in the nixon tapes case, my god, the supremeourt ruled that he had to turn them over to a grand jury, not to congressional committees, not to people who filed freedom of information act requests. so, i think the likelihood of ever seeing those, unless she voluntarily gives them up, is close to zero. and she -- if you think about it, it's -- somebody did some very good lawyering in saying, before there is a subpoena, before there's a request for these, i just eliminated them, because there's a privacy concern. well -- >> nixon could have done that. >> yeah. well, nixon, actually, if you go up to the nixon library and say, give me the tape of whatever, and if it's not related to abuse of power or watergate, they say, well, there's a national security or a privacy claim. now, this is 40 years later, so, i'll be happy to take you and the family to dinner if we ever see a substantial number of -- >> let's talk about the reset aspect of this. can she charm her way back into -- i think there's a thing there -- it's a chicken and egg th

for the most part he got along well with nixon and saw side we don't see.alk in the book a bit about how there was a doctor jekyll side to next but it was when he was not feeling threatened or insecure. most situations made him feel threatened or insecure but there were occasions when he wasn't. >> there are other stories that he would order nuking sending out the nukes, and the defense secretary said he would not take the calls and he would take them the next morning. >> i think page and kissinger put out the word in the last month the military was not to take orders from the president. yes. >> another question did you -- his comments about cheney being a different person. did you get into his theories as to why he changed personality? >> i talk about that a little bit. i don't know the exact reason. i am convinced that it is not -- that it was not just cheney's conservatism because he has always been a conservative and a believer of strong executive power and presidential discretion. i think it may have been something like, perhaps a federal judge or supr

well nixon, actually if you go up to the nixon library and say, give me the tape of whatever and if it'suse of power or watergate, they say, well, there's a national security or a privacy claim. now, this is 40 years later, so i'll be happy to take you and the family to dinner if we ever see a substantial number of -- >> let's talk about the reset aspect of this. can she charm her way back into -- i think there's a thing there -- it's a chicken and egg thing. you can go back, it seems to me and say she felt there was too much folklore press against her, back in the '80s, about her hairdo or wearing glasses or whatever, and she said i've had enough of that crap and white water, and you could argue she's the one playing defense, or you could say, she's a privacy person and shouldn't be in public life. >> let me tell you, a lot of the journalists in that room last night were not around for those old stories. she has an opportunity to have a relationship with the new press. >> will the new press be as aggressive as they should be? >> absolutely, even more so. are you kidding, now in the days

did he have anything to say about nixon's health or drinking? >> he did say that nixon was not a heavy drinker and more reclusive as watergate worsened and hold up by himself and invite kissinger late at night he would give scowcroft bizarre quarters that scowcroft would ignore the next morning. there was a little bit. he came to see this in the book a little bit. there was a dr. jekyll side to nixon but when he was not tendered and secure, there were occasions he wasn't. >> there were other stories that ordered a newing sending out the new expanded defense secretary said he wouldn't take the calls but would take some next morning. >> they put out, to take orders from the president. >> did you -- questions about cheney, did you get into serious as to how you change personality? >> i don't know the exact reason but i am convinced it is not just conservatism. has always been a believer of strong executive power. it is a federal judge or supreme court justice, in the absolute position, on the other hand another theory is we know that heart surgery

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-- they wanted nixon first.r kind of inserted himself into it he admits it in his memoirs. they kept saying president nixon should come to beijing or an envoy. dr. kissinger said well, obviously they mean an envoy has to go first. twice. so that led to the death of roughly ten chinese generals. finish and mao sort of winks and says to nixon, you know, it's in the declassified documents ma or o says to nixon some -- mao says to nixon some people didn't want you to come but don't worry about it. [laughter] he meant he'd killed his top ten generals who opposed this. and to this day the mystery of this plane crash that's heading for the soviet union crashes in outer mongolia, and the chinese narrative is well they're traitors. they tried to kill chairman mao, they opposed nixon coming, so they ran and their plane ran out of gas, so they all died. and others are put on trial later on. there's another story, as you know the gang of four story in '76. they have a whole different vision. mao's wife and the others in the

garland nixon joins me. news view radio host, do my opinions need some fixing. >> yes, a little bit out there on this one. bananas on this one. numbers, certais 7 fran,000 711. 9% less going over the numbers. they still came up with 91% of the request they were asked for. numbers are good. if nob% i 91% is not good enough for you. kennedy: i am talking a free flow of information government is required by law to address, fully request in a tame lymaner -- timely manner. by the way, there a 39 percentage tering a rate of request that are answers. that means that the information is either with held or it is almost blacked out that is hardly free information with so much of a page that is redacted caedyou cannot glean any informn from it you on it is free. >> i if you consider, you have social security numbers, people's addresses, and times and dates. kennedy: find black it out with a sharpie. >> absolutely this is the norm. for any administration. but if you look at numbers they have done a great job, they are

. >> the new scandal brings to mind for president nixon has sought to capture history with secret tapesse of the similarities between the two were growing more striking by the day powerful figures driven to the highest office in the decade-long pursuit the victims of their own entitlement and paraplegia the one glaring difference between them is only nixon had descended to the presidency while lady hillary will she make it to her subject? biblical the in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. kennedy: even the president commented forcing to answer for her trouble and a interview so he has known for years she had a private e-mail? when did he find out? >> the same time as everybody else learned through news reports. >> that's right that he was the president. presenting he had an electronic relationship with having a private e-mail account he learned it by watching the news? that's right the same place he learned about though waiting list scandal with the veterans the justice department all records and "fast & furious" to name just a few.

and she went to ghana with nixon in 1957 where ironically it took a trip to ghana for nixon to meet martin luther king. ethel said be you really want to see the freedom struggling, why don't you come south. of he invited martin luther king to come to washington. she ended up going to africa at least 13 times, around world several times. and her always was the connection between self-determination of other countries and self-determination here. and in one of the great moments in her life very shortly before her death, she went to south africa to interview nelson mandela before well after he'd been freed. one of the joys of spending several years studying ethel payne is she had a wonderful sense of humor, and she has this photograph of her with nelson mandela, and he's in his bathrobe, and she says, well a lot of folks got to interview him, i'm the only one who did so while he was in his pjs. [laughter] >> this is another thing, gloria, that the two women had in common. alice loved to travel too. she went to haiti, she went to israel, she went to a number of countries. this is a part of the

brian lamb: blair is nixon today -- where is nixon today? david stewart: the last time i spoke to him, he was in biloxi mississippi. brian lamb: this was in 1989. how long did he serve in prison? david stewart: the sentence was 20 months. brian lamb: going back to james madison and some of the earlier things, we have video of the whole issue of the burning of the white house. you talk in the book about the impact of the 1812 war. this is bill steele talking about it. >> they had 22 javelins, which had rags on the end soap in lamp oil. they were lighted and thrown into the house. it burned and burned, until early in the morning. it pretty much put the fire out when it rained, but it was a big stone box with ashes in the bottom. it was eight -- a tremendous jolt to the american people. >> although the first lady famously helped save the portrait of washington, dolly and james madison's reputation in the immediate aftermath of the burning cannot be saved. >> they were hated after the fire. they were considered terrible cowards for running. bria

he flew to washington dc, he wrote a letter to president nixon in which he basically wanted nixon toake him an undercover federal agent at large. charlie: did he come up with a badge? kevin: they finally gave him a batch. it is a remarkable story. charlie: and it is based on facts? kevin: it is based on facts. we had elvis's sky and the guy who supervised richard nixon. charlie: let's assume the answer that you continue to learn as an actor is yes. how is it you continue to learn as an actor? kevin: because storytelling allows us to learn things about ourselves, examine things about other human beings that we might not necessarily agree with or understand entirely. there is something very humanizing about the role of being an actor. and the most remarkable thing about it is that we can write our own endings. i just had this extraordinary experience in the middle east with my foundation. we wanted to do a project called homegrown, to try to encourage the leaders there that while building national theaters with all the facilities that you could want, is a wonderful thing. performing in

nixon, lyndon b. johnson.dy familiar with history knows that they were presidents who were not celebrities in their own right as presidencies war on. several celebrities in chief had notoriety and built on it. it makes a big difference in shaping the perspectives of issues and the in -- and the president as an individual. host: teddy bears, baby ruth bars, and billy bear. guest: teddy roosevelt, this is an example of him as the forerunner of the modern celebrity residence. he captivated the imagination of the country. what you're referring to, there was a case where he was a rate name hunter. he like to hunt all over the world. he went out to hunt bear and one of his guides brought him a baby bear to shoot. president roosevelt decided he won not do it so they released the bear. the teddy bear became a popular plush animal. it was different versions of how it came to fame. one version said a german manufacturer started producing teddy bears, others said american manufacturers did. but it became popular. we know

richard nixon would have been impeached had he not resigned.ld like to know if you knew why andrew johnson was impeached. host: your understandin -- guest: your understanding is just the same as mine. andrew johnson was not the kind of accommodater or brilliant politician lincoln was. he had tremendous fights with congress, to girly the lincoln facti -- particularly the lincoln faction who wanted a tougher stance with the south. johnson was not very deft at this. he had problems with appointments and ran afoul of the senate. it was a rather technical issue of his appointments that caused the impeachment. underneath that was this tremendous stirring of animosity towards him because of his handling his ham-handed handling of reconstruction because he was allowing the south to do things with former slaves that lincoln would not have allowed, for all we know. people in the north felt that he was letting the south off much to easily -- too easily. there was tremendous animosity towards johnson. that is why the impeachment occurred. clinton was impea

united states versus nixon was a unanimous decision. it was not liberal or conservative you think about all those examples where liberals and conservatives would agree both to the failures into successes what i'm arguing overall is not ideological. yeah are cases where there are ideological disagreements. citizens united versus the federal election commission which i believe is a terrible mistake by the supreme court but i think i can make a strong case against the supreme court just focusing on cases where liberals and conservatives agree. >> you say a number of times in the book that you think on balance in the supreme court has made things worse rather than better. would we be better off without supreme court? >> no, though i have to tell you i spent a lot of time pondering that as i was writing this book. there are constitutional scholars who believe we would be better off without supreme court with the power to strike down federal state and local actions. a very perceived as professor at harvard law school wrote a book called takin

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mark: do you remember anything nixon sent to you? -- said to you?do not remember that exactly, but i saw him shortly after my parents were killed by a drunk driver. he wrote a letter to my sister and it was amazing. at that time he told me you need to study foreign policy, it is really important. john: that is a picture of you with one president from another -- from one era, and here is a picture with another president from a different era. 1997. talking about the balanced budget agreement. what was that period of time when you were newt gingrich's advisors? >> a lot of people say he is a lot of energy. i was the chief architect of that agreement. i had spent 10 years of my life to get us to that went. i worked with a great team of people. we balance the budget. we got people to put aside personal ambition. -- we balanced the budget. the first balanced budget since man the moon. it was. by the way having some success. john: when you were in washington, before you went back to ohio, was this a high point in terms of achievement? >> you mean in terms

plus, why a former federal prosecutor is drawing parallels between hillary clinton and richard nixon. and next, the status of the u.s. ambassador to south korea after a b >> new development tonight in a lawsuit over the 2013 government shutdown. the suit was filed on behalf of workers deemed essential who worked with no assurance of being paid. on monday workers will% receive a notice advising them they are welcome to join the case. the lawsuit claims the federal government violated the law by failing to pay essential workers during the shutdown. questions tonight over how security was handled for the u.s. ambassador seriously hurt in an attack in south korea. >> i need an ambulance fast. get me to the hospital. >> mark lippert was attacked two days ago when a man jumped from a crowd during a speech he was giving and slashed him in the face and wrists. he had just one security guard who was unarmed. security policies are under review. lippert is expected to remain hospitalized through the weekend. >> he's in very good spirits and eager to get back to work. >> the suspect kim ki-jong w

why shouldn't she be held to the same standard as nixon? the epstein sex scandal, her -- >> doug you think this is bigger than any combined, right? >> no i think there are real questions here. but given that she was not under legal obligation to keep personal e-mails there wasn't a subpoena, sean. >> nixon's mistake that he should have -- when people advised him to get rid of the tapes before they were subpoenaed, he should have gotten rid of thetapes. >> that may well happened here. but i don't think she broke the law and the real question as she said how do the american people react. >> in two years aren't you supposed to hand over according to the records act if it's subpoenaed aren't you supposed to preserve things? >> you are and who's going to show they weren't personal e-mails? >> two years later roger? i have two years congress subpoenas my stuff? >> look, the clintons have skated on financial and legal scandals big and small. the real question here is not whether she will pay a legal price, which i doubt. but will she pay a politic