in the 1970s, in the nixon administration? what had the pentagon been doing before that time to try and assess the military capability of its preeminent adversary and the military balance between the united states and the soviet union? >> that was more than one question. [laughter] >> well, you can pick the one you want to answer. >> look, if andy was here tonight and you asked him so what were sort of the origins of this notion of net assessment, he would go back to the last day of the truman administration when president truman established something called the special evaluation subcommittee. and its aim at that point was to try to assess for the president -- this was a group on the national security council what damage a soviet nuclear attack would inflict on united states. and when the when that was continued by president eisenhower, became net evaluation subcommittee, and it kept on looking at the problem of the damage that the soviets could inflict with a nuclear attack on the united states. he continued exploring that i

president nixon decided to bomb cambodia right, shortly after he took office. the huge use of bombers and bombs to relentlessly bomb cambodia. that bombing of a neutral country was without notice to congress, without support from congress, and indeed, like any crook, two sets of books were kept by president nixon. one set of books showing where we actually bombed, including cambodia, and then there was a separate set of books that showed where -- for the public that showed that all this bombing took place in vietnam. why is this a problem? because our democracy depends on a system of checks and balances. the president and congress and the courts are to balance each other out. why do we have that system? because the framers of the constitution were deeply troubled about the idea that anybody would amass too much power, and they were particularly concerned about presidents amassing power in connection with war because they were students of history, and they understood that monarchs have a characteristic, which is to take countries into war bleeding them economica

when i talked to bill kleiber about his long walk he took with president nixon after nixon announced his resignation. bill told me he was one of the handful of people in the over office desk in the oval office. he had to be there for technical reasons. he was walking down the west colony to go back to his office in the basement of the white house and he heard footsteps behind him and it was the president walking by himself. bill stepped to the side so the president could get ahead of him and the president said, walk with me. ill turned to him and said you did the best you could do in the president said, i wish more people felt that way. i think that is such a poignant moment. when bill told me that, is very moving. brian: you are is gary walters who was an usher. -- here is gary walters who was an usher. [video clip] >> president george herbert walker bush. 41, as he is known by some people. the nicest person that has probably ever lived in the white house. when president bush was in japan on a visit toward the end of his administration, he got sick. eating the gentleman that he was

[applause] >> tonight's discussion is that andrew marshall who served from nixon to obama. he retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. for his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and -- behind american foreign policy. his two former aides, let me back up for a second. what is significant is nixon tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries at the time namely the soviet union to the concept is called net assessment. his former aides andrew krepinevich and sub diver here to discuss the achievements of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called "the lost warrior" andrew marshall and shaping of modern defense strategy. mr. krepinevich's it is the author of several books on military history and strategy including the very influential the army in vietnam. he is a west point graduate and a retired army officer and he also received his ph.d. from harvard university. barry watts's a senior at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments. he also has said great body of work including frict

when i was talking about his walk with president nixon after nixon and out his resignation.e was one of a handful of people in the oval office. because he was the electrician. he had to be there for technical reasons. he was walking down the west colony to walk down to his office in the basement of the white house and he heard foot steps. it was the president behind us. the president said, walk with me. then bill said, you did the best you can do. the president said i wish more people felt that way. his eyes killed with tears. it is very moving. i think that is such a poignant movement. brian: here is gary walters, who was an usher. he was talking about george herbert walker bush. gary: president george herbert walker bush is the nicest person that has probably ever lived in the white house. there may be people as nice in the future, but there will never be anybody nicer. when president bush was in japan on a visit, he got sick, but being the gentle man he was he did not want to call off the meal. he got really sick during the actual occasion. when he came back to the white

nixon what, about the blacks?rry: the bigger point is both republicans and democrats have had a lot of affirmative action when it comes to discriminating against black people. all right. class sis dis missed. and congratulations, graduates! hope you all learn to read. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) kids, new juicy fruit gum with starburst flavors? yeah. juicy fruit, so sweet you can't help but chew. ( cheers and applause ) >> larry: welcome back. i have to tell you guys i love the show morgan freeman has on the science channel, "through the wormhole." it's unbelievable. and wednesday night at 8:00 he's taking on the subject of bigotry so luckily for you he jumped through the time wormhole and told soul daddy all about it. ( laughter ) ( applause ) take a look. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> larry: all right, we've got the fifth dimension coming out later. it's going to be a stone cold picnic. you know what i'm saying? speaking of dimensions. we've got this cat over here he claims he's from the future. his name is morgan f

now when we left in 1968, you know nixon was inaugurated. those nice bushes came all the way to andrews to wish us goodbye. don't you wish we had that bipartisanship now? [applause] on the day that steve's mother was going to have this operation, president ford came to the opening, the dedication of the lbj grove in washington and we have pictures of kathy who was very young -- three or four years old -- holding president ford's hand. he was helping her down the steps. a wonderful picture. he did that. and then the fords invited us to come back to the white house. and we have a picture, which you will see later, of us standing in betty ford from bedroom and there is the suitcase all packed. we did not know -- she did not tell us. last night when we heard it on the radio and television, we just could not believe it. laura bush told me when i came to the white house as a senate spouse she told me if your mother ever comes up here, i would love to have her come over and see the white house. and i will give her a tour. and we built an elevator s

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he was nixon that finally picked up mao's hands. mao was the one who wanted good relations with the united states. china and american are like two huge balloons in a closed room and at some point these two balloons are going to naturally bump up against each other and the results of those bumps is going to be the empathy and understanding for each other. i'm not some genius trying to lecture about how we should be. i will tell you about my first trip to china. when i went to china i'm an author. maybe i will spend the rest of my life in the commie jail you know. oh my god i thought it was taking some sort of a risk. i went over alone and someone said i have a friend in shanghai shanghai. she's a pharmaceutical executive m.i.a. meet her? so i'm having coffee at starbucks in shanghai and i'm talking to this pharmaceutical executive. i learned that she had hong kong passport and she gave it up for a chinese passport. she moved from hong kong to shanghai and became a chinese citizen. i thought everyone was trying to get over the fence t

here is our chapter on pat nixon. pat brennan says "when pat nixon came to the white house, one third of the furnishings were antiques. when she left the white house, two thirds of them were antiques dolly madison is famous for saving the campus of george washington in 1814. she saved two campuses. the other was a portrait of herself and patent it and brought it back to the white house. she worked hard behind the scenes to pick up or jackie kennedy had left off. she could be very persuasive. and convincing is divisions and museums to return pieces and loan them to the white house. they found people to donate money to get the proper funding." they didn't publicize it. she was doing it for a long time before anybody realized she was. she tried to give the credit to other people. mr. seale: and she was faced with doing the state rooms over because the johnsons had just worn them down. huge entertainment, huge events. she was a little dismayed at first but they so much approved of what the kennedy administration had done

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mcgovern took on nixon and pleaded. >> come home, america. >> reporter: nixon plucked him, but he had his own demon, watergate, the scandal that drove him from office and took his finger off the trigger. then 15 years into this war, it came to a crashing, dismaying end. what are the lessons of vietnam? here's one, don't use conventional means to fight an unconventional enemy so far from home. here's another, there are people on that wall who had doubts about the war but answered the call. there are others who believed in the cause and they died, as well. their common bond, they died with honor serving their country. >> tom brokaw at the vietnam memorial for us 40 years after the end of that long and difficult war. that will do it for us on this thursday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> it's a win/win situation that protects good people from both sides of the lens. >> right now at 6:00 cops on camera as the new plan unveiled today to put body cameras on every single san francisco police officer. >>> good evening everyone. i'm

marina von neuman whitman, former economic advisor to president nixon. overall system needed to be reformed and overhauled and that in order to set the stage for that -- in order almost to get other countries' attention and force them to focus on the need to reform -- that step of closing the gold window, and thereby effectively ending the pegged-rate system, had to be taken. schoumacher: with no effective room to maneuver nixon broke from bretton woods. i have directed secretary connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetary stability and in the best interest of the united states. 40 years after the historic conference here economists and politicians still applaud the goals and the accomplishments of bretton woods. it was an historic undertaking to set up rules and procedures to promote world trade that would benefit all nations. many of the institutions and policies are still in service. but not the exchange rate system. it

how people voted for nixon and schroeder, i have no idea. something to me about how so many people get so tired of the same old yap, yap yap in politics. you can't tell who's for what. you know, they're all -- in colorado, the politicians used to run these incredible things. you couldn't tell whether they were republican or democrat until you got to the last page because they were always there with their family, and then they were outdoors, and then they were in a grocery store, and then they were with a cop. and on the last page, the republican would be on a horse and the democrat would be on a bike. and that would be it. [laughter] you know, you couldn't tell. so i think to have somebody out there taking stands on all of these things, people thought "well, what the heck? you know, let's try this." anyway, it was wonderful. i had a -- i had a pilot's license, so i wanted to be on the armed services committee, as did my wonderful friend, ron dellums. and our wonderful chairman vetoed both of us. for the first time, they overruled a chairman'

my commencement speaker in 1974 when i finished a masters degree was president richard nixon. we held that ceremony in lewis field. it was a warm day. the president did a good job. he really talked about the generational change that was about to happen. his address that day was well received. as all of you know, that was may of 1974. in august of 1974, president nixon had to resign, resigned from the presidency because the watergate scandal. he concluded his speech that day by noting that in 26 years the graduating class of 1974 would usher in the 21st century. we all thought that was a huge deal. he closed the speech with interesting words to our post-boomer generation. "on that new year, you will look back on this day and then you will judge your generation. let me tell you what i think you will be able to say. yours was the generation that had the strength and stamina to see that america played a responsible role so that we did have peace in the world for a generation. yours was a generation that health america become -- helped america become self-sufficient in energy, that

paris accord. >> i have another thought about nixon. when we see president nixon have agreement with china, at that time probably vietnam is not the frontline for the freedom country anymore. so the people in america because of the loss of 58,000 american soldiers and losing money, they don't want to lose more people and money anymore. i think that reaches a pawn on the chessboard. we have nothing to fight with but the aid from america. right now if the americans , withdraw from afghanistan, i think it would be terrible. when president ronnie came over here last week to have american soldiers stay behind in afghanistan to assure the freedom of afghanistan. >> next question. >> you said everyone in vietnam would leave except for a select few people if given the opportunity to now. i know over the last couple of decades, we have opened up relations with vietnam. do you agree with the policy of the united states? >> the gentleman said if people could leave vietnam they would except for a select few. recently, the united states has opened u

because personally, i think that if we would have the support that president nixon promised to support us if the communists violated the paris accord, he would retaliate. he would retaliate severely. but that was not forthcoming. so even though we have the will and the manpower to carry on but we could not because of the lack of logistical support toward the end of the war. imagine that we could not even get $300 million through congress to buy gasoline for our airplane and ammunition for our soldiers. whereas, our enemy got $4 billion aid, military aid, from china and from russia. from the soviet union. this is why, one of the big reasons we lost the war. >> eventually, saigon the capital of south vietnam, fell on april 30, 1975. that date marked the end of the vietnam war. it's a very important date that's engraved in many of our minds. mrs. hao tran, on the date, april 30th 1975 where were you, and what were you doing? >> i live in saigon since 1954, when the geneva treaty decided to have our country in two parts. the north belongs to the communists. the south to the nationalists. m

she has nixon's paranoia. kennedy: do you think she is nicksonian. >> it is an insult to nixon.patriot. a good american, and he had failings, he wasn't perfect. who is. kennedy: what you're saying she wishes she could be nixonian but to be clintonian is worse. >> it's bad, she had the paranoia that nixon had, that was ultimately his down fall. kennedy: she has a winning personality, she is so charismatic. >> like al gore, wouldn't you love to have them on for an hour or two? kennedy: that would be a form of torture. they do that at gitmo. they play christina aguilera and ship al gore in. >> if you've seen her give a speech and we will over the course of the campaign, you might fall asleep in the middle, that boring. kennedy: negative ratings have gone up, people have a more negative view in the wake of the book and the contents and the e-mail scandal, do you think that this stuff is going to stick and is it going to tank her presidency or her bid for it? >> she's not going to give up. she is ultimately fighter. that is something she's going for. nixon, he had a sense of shame an

nixon was the most interesting woman.ing that time there was a movement to build a chapel in the white house. boy, she wanted no part of that. she thought it was not a place for a religious denomination. that idea had already gained money and moved to camp david. it was mrs. and who blocked it at the white house. >> did they ever have bible studies in the white house? mr. seale: not that i know of but they may have. they had their friends over for different things and that wouldn't be such an unusual thing to do. i wish i could be definitive but i'm not. ms. swain: one more question. >> one of the nicest complements ever paid me and my husband was that we made a good team. of course i said to this young man, it's called marriage. i would like to know in your estimation, what president and first lady made the best team. mr. seale: all back through history? >> yes. [laughter] mr. seale: it would either be rutherford and lucy hale's or the garfield's. -- hayes' he was always amused at lucy's morality. she was against alcohol

nixon resigned the presidency. in the middle of his greatest crisis the president took time out to welcome an infant child named rebecca johnson. we know how proud and happy your father would have been to know that you chose his mother's name for your daughter. as ms. johnson herself told newsweek magazine, there was no reason for the embattled president to show such kindness certainly no political gain to be had. was the main her words come and extraordinary act of thoughtfulness from a man in the midst of a terrible ordeal. it was something else as well a small but telling example of the special relationship that binds all those who have inhabited the white house. .. soon after her father was hospitalized in north carolina with tuberculosis. she was a frequent she was a frequent guest on sometime resident where she experiences side of her famous grandparent all to bring a weakness for the general public in those years of the depression. not long before he died former president hoover restored in public esteem by

think kennedy nixon in 1960. >> sure. >> think bush/gore in 2000. >> a lot of time it's determined byher the other guy may be more likable. because at least he seems even on that same stage and i'm wondering whether that is more of a factor rather than it's someone that you could have a dink drink with. >> well it depends on how well they know a particular candidate. in terms of a clinton or a bush they know where they are coming from. a lesser-known candidate, i think people would be more influenced. but neil what you were saying is actually important, you know for this once. >> it happens. >> it was important. >> yes, it happens from time to time. the candidate can be disliked but what saves that candidate often is that his or her opponent is even more disliked. both candidates are in the cellar because they've both been the targets of $100 million in negative advertising. so that may also happen in 2016? i always think that in the reagan/carter battle, they both appeared on the same stage in the one and only debate and reagan just seemed -- he wasn't -- we liked him. he smiled a lo

nixon resigned the presidency. in the middle of his greatest crisis the president took time out to welcome an infant child named rebecca johnson. we know how proud and happy your father would have been to know that you chose his mother's name for your daughter. as ms. johnson herself told newsweek magazine, there was no reason for the embattled president to show such kindness certainly no political gain to be had. was the main her words come and extraordinary act of thoughtfulness from a man in the midst of a terrible ordeal. it was something else as well a small but telling example of the special relationship that binds all those who have inhabited the white house. .. the fact they give teenage children of their own most certainly did. americans take a proprietary interest not only in the white house but in all those who live there. today, that interest is renew. as we invite for members of presidential families to share their observations of life and the goldfish bowl on pennsylvania avenue. margaret hoover brigh

when helms resisted nixon's efforts to involve cia and the cover-up, nixon got his revenge on the agency by replacing helms with james/injure. -- schelesinger. and his second command ordered cia insiders to disclose their activities in violation of the cia's legislative charter. that led to the amassing of what the agency referred to as 'the skeletons." and the media called the family jewels, that 693 page documentation of cia this deeds that hirsch began exposing. what nixon replaced schlesinger with colby he turned over control to someone who helms believed was all too willing to sing about the skeletons to reporters, the church committee, and president ford. had there been no watergate, helms would have stayed on at the cia stonewalled and the agency's skeletons might've stayed in the closet. fourth watergate led to the ford presidency. when the hirsch allegations broke, ford listens to dick cheney who advised him to try heading off a congressional inquiry by naming a blue-ribbon national security establishment investigative committee headed by vice president nelson rockefeller. ford

and what richard nixon believed is that anything the president of the united states does by definition is legal. you can break into your opponent's political headquarters, not a problem. he's the president. you can spy on people. not a problem he's the president. so i would ask my colleagues and the american people -- and i do not suggest this for one second that this is true of the obama administration but i do ask the american people to think what happens in the future if you have a president who really does believe that he or she is the law. that he or she can or should have access to the kinds of information that is out there. think about the incredible power that administration has the potential for blackmail the political advantages that that administration has. people say well, it's a pretty crazy idea, never going to happen. well a lot of things have happened that we never thought could happen. so mr. president it seems to me that now is the time for us as a nation for us as elected officials, to have a very, very important conversation about how we balance our need, of which t

thanks mostly to the fact that richard nixon was famously -- in that debate and, therefore, a little shifty looking and john f. kennedy looked cool, calm and collected under a layer of powder foundation. that first debate was filmed in the chicago studios of cbs, but it was a join production and it was jointly broadcast by all the tv networks at the time. that was to say landmark political moment in our country. 70 million americans watched that debate. illustrate changed the course of history. interesting note for that night. that night, there was a third candidate who thought he should be there on the stage with nixon and kennedy. and that third candidate pushed very, very hard to get himself on to that stage. obviously, they ultimately did not let him into that debate. but he did succeed in forcing the tv networks to give him some semblance of equal time. is his name was lar daly. he was a perennial candidate who ran basically for everything for 40 straight years, never won a thing. but in 1960, when kennedy and nixon got all the airtime, lar daly convinced the fcc that he, too, s

guest: i think it was richard nixon who said it was the most misremembered war in american history.t time was that this was the first war that the united states lost. it is great history. the united states of america fought many, many times. but only once have we without doubt lost a war. and so it leaves a huge impact upon the american people on the u.s. government, on presidents who have to send troops off to fight in other wars. so when the presidents find time and time again, is this the right thing to do or are we getting into another vietnam? and another vietnam means another quagmire, another mess that we are not going to be able to get out of. when we think about world war ii, for example, it was in so many ways a horrible war, but the president of the united states said unconditional surrender. and the enemy did just that. but in the vietnam war, what lyndon johnson called a raggedy ass little forthright country beat the united states. how could that possibly be? that is what we had in mind with "haunting legacy." how does that happen and what does that have on other presid

the candidate of the people of america. [ applause ] fellow american, we have looked in vain to the nixon administration for the courage, the spirit the character, and the words to bring out the best in us to rekindle the faith in the american dreamdreams, yet all received in return is just exercise and political manipulation deceit and deception, callousness and indifference to our individual problems, and the disgusting divisive politics, pitting the young against the old labor against management north against south, blacks against whites. [ applause ] the abiding concern of the administration had been one of political expediency rather than the needs of mans nature. the president broke promises to us and is therefore lost claim to the trust and confidence in him. i cannot believe -- [ applause ] i cannot believe that this administration would have ever been elected four years ago if we had known then what we know today, but we are entering a new era in which we must as americans demand stature and spines in our leadership. [ applause ] leadership needs fresh leadership that is open, an

that is why nixon was the last liberal president we had.ot because he was liberal or had a heart but because he was frightened of movements. the mine and safety outcome the clean water act all of which were altered by nader is pushed her with a functioning liberal wing of the democratic party that has not been destroyed courtesy of bill clinton and we lost that understanding. it's not our job to take power. it is our job to build movements that hold power accountable and unfortunately we have lost those movements in the name of anti-communism. there has been a century of destruction. the old anarchist movement, the old cio the communist party. whatever you think of the communist party was sitting down integrating lunch counters long before king and the civil rights movement to that is -- history has been completely erased from american consciousness and the destruction of the state that ellen trevor writes about this annoy every tower the purging of the university center other books thousands upon thousands of journalists, social workers, h

anti-war demonstration there are empty city buses as barricades all around the white house and nixon is going henry they are going to break to the barricades and get us and that is where we want people in power to be and that is why nixon was the last liberal president had. not because he was liberal or had a hard because he was fearful of movements, the clean water act, all of adopted by ralph nader, poised for with the functioning liberal wing of the democratic party that has been destroyed courtesy of bill clinton. and we lost that understanding. that is not our job to take power. is our job to build movements the old power accountable. we have lost those movements in the name of anti communism. a century of destruction, labor the old anarchist movement the communist party which whatever you think of the communist party, was integrating lunch counters long before king and the civil rights movement. history is completely erased from the american consciousness. the destruction of the stage, no ivory tower, purging of universities and other books thousands upon thousands of journalis

. >> where are we on this -- president nixon declared a war against cancer. there are others that say, you know what it is natural, we're all -- if you live long enough you'll get cancer. >> yeah. >> what do we know yet? there is so much i feel like we don't know. >> the big breakthrough is about to be even larger it appears. that is mono cloneal gene therapy, they reengineer genes and reinsert them in your body. >> this is adult stem cells? is this where that comes in? >> that's something else. they take blood from you and reinsert it in you. this is where they're going out and specifically engineering a cell to attack cancer. and everyone you talk to whatever their view of how to treat cancer this is the next big breakthrough. here is a perfect example. very dramatic one. at the mayo clinic they had a patient who had three relapses of multiple myeloma. just wasn't going to survive. and they said we got a hail mary but don't know whether it is going to work or not, are you willing to try it? she said what choice do i have? of course i'll try it. they gave he

every presidential administration from fdr through nixon had used our nation intelligent gathering apparatus tuning gauge in political espionage. we know how it ends, we've seen this movie before. it's not something that anne's well. a new technology comes along and it's abused and until we put in laws that strongly, strongly discourage and restring the government to abuse that power it will. >> power it will. >> one of the interesting trends that's going on in the u.s. senate today is exemplified by your partnership with senator leahy. he is perhaps the most liberal of senator from vermont. through the civil libertarian streak in both political parties now. they are working with progressive, what's it like to work with patrick leahy and tell me why you think you can get this fixed? >> i refer in the book to a couple of bills i'm running with patrick leahy. leahy. he's a conservative and i'm not. we both agree that there is limits on what the government can do. we both agree that the fourth amendment has meaning. he is one that gets into a problem that's been around since 1986 that isn't kno

. >> but johnny's first joke was about richard nixon in 1962 his very first joke. when jay came on he loved politics so much we had the 24 hour news cycles we got so much material and we had bill clinton as president who was a multidimensional character, gave you many things to have jokes about. nowadays with jay gone it is spread out more. to get attention, people want to go viral. that's not necessarily a political joke. >> i was going to say what does he think of -- what does jay think of what social media has done to political comedy good and bad. >> i really don't know. i mean i suspect that you, like me you long for the old days you long for the days when -- >> you say that right? >> i understand. and what jimmy fallon does is great. his bits go viral. >> i feel like the show is almost designed that way. >> it is. >> it is not about putting together a one hour show it is about putting together 25 minute segments. >> right. and what he does he's not a political monologuist. he does political jokes, but what he does on -- with fallon is let's give me that great

narrowly defeating vice president richard nixon. >> the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans born in this country. >> ke kennedy writes, sends a memorial at the wall in philippines that has been inscribeed with harold a name, he closes his letter saying, if ever you are in the nation's capital, i would like very much to have the white house and other public places shown to you, then that awful day, november 1963. jamie: president kennedy of shot today just as his motorcade left downtown dallas. the end of the white house camelot years, and end of mum's relationship with the most powerful man in the world. jennie marney dies in 1973. and bequest her carefully preserveed letters from kennedy to her daughter elaine, and she gave them to her son in 1985, 5 years before she died. >> i said oh, wow, and promptly put them in a safe deposive box. jamie: there they remained for a quarter century, but a surprise phone call from a straeufrpbl strangeer. >> i got on the phone, and there was a strange message, are you the nephew of pt109 crew member harl marney. >> what is the m

richard nixon with john love and william simon. and the administration's response to the energy crisis the 1970s and interestingly. in the school of business frank czar was an energy czar and the inner agency response to the ebola up deck epidemic and both of the cases nixon's use of energy czars and president's appointed the zars on their own initiative. there are policy issues and resolve if not actually solving them. so presidents own the development of the phenomenons. and other times such as the case with george bush and the institutionalization the drug czar sxv late 198 0s. the development of the czar is spirited by the congressional action and not surprisingly by incentives facing the president. and so following september 11th, the george bush administration created at different moment czar doms and the homeland security czar that dave talked about at length. and national intense begins czar that we have the fort to forenot too attendees of the could have friends. and the pan elf the room that is following this one. and a s

that was the day president nixon was inaugurated.y family left the residence of the white house for the last time. my mother had always referred to the white house as the ultimate in public housing. we never thought of ourselves as any other way except tenants. nevertheless, this chapter of our lives was over. it left me with a flood of emotions and felt tears welling up in my eyes. tears that gracious tricia noticed. there's a bond that unites the residence of the white house. regardless of age, gender, and politics, it is a bond of shared experience. of having been there. it is that bond that has brought me here today to share with you what life was like for me during those five years of my father's presidency. where did it all begin? everyone who remembers november 22, 1963 remembers know exactly where they were and what they were doing when president kennedy was shot. what was exceptional about my situation was how it impacted my life on all fronts and forever. i was a junior in high school, a 16-year-old student at national cath

i am an historian at the university completing a book on the nixon administration, before the ipo theyng book on the cold war. for both those spent thousands of hours reading classified documents. in the documents has a lot of. seriously weird for wanting, and there are certain impressions that you get some of them are pretty obvious. one is that very often public officials say thinks to the public that are not true. actually, i have to say, sometimes i reading something in a document that is secret, and then i look at present nixon or secretary kissinger, and they come and say the exact opposite that they said one hour ago. i'm always amazed when this happens. sometimes, officials are not truthful, or they exaggerate, or deceive themselves, or they can be misled by advisers. from reading all these documents, the most important impression that i have gotten -- i have been struggling on how to articulate it -- is when you look at the deliberations of people at the very top level the use of language, and have a way of talking -- sort of a national security vernacular -- that has the effe

and so president nixon said that his favorite jefferson quote is we act not just for ourselves but for all mankind and he wrote that in one of his postpresidential books and he said that a few other times in the white house. we act not for ourselves but for all mankind, supporting the idea of american exceptionalism that this is how the jeffersonian script is used to advance this idea that they owe the rest of the world to bring our form of democracy with a civilizing the moral effect. and that is not conspiratorial finger we are accustomed to. but not every president i told you about told you about truman, reagan, not every president loved thomas jefferson. teddy roosevelt, he thought he was a wimp and wasn't afraid to say it. and so in a way it is a story of how the democrats inadvertently ceded jefferson to the republicans during the last third of the 20th century and into the 21st. the 1992 republican national convention which occurred shortly after the democrats had nominated bill clinton, ronald reagan said that this fellow they have nominated claims that he is the new thomas jef

kennedy. >> jfk. >> nixon, excellent. >> really? >> great man.cted to him. >> i would say on a weird emotional level, yes. >> what's jfk stand for? >> good looking president, john f. kennedy. >> what was the f. for? drik, right?d. >> fitzgerald probably or something. >> fitzgerald, very good. was he a good leader or bad leader? >> he was tested in his time for the cuban missile crisis. >> i think he was a good president. my dad really liked him. >> he did a lot for the civil rights and building a nation and bringing everybody together as a whole. >> what was john f. kennedy president? >> from 1961, i guess, to '63. a thousand days. >> around '644. >> 1970? [ buzzer ] >> 80? [ buzzer ] >> he could always do better. >> 63 perhaps? >> yes he was. >> he was president from 1962 to 1965? [ buzzer ] >> >> republican or democrat? >> republican wasn't he? [ buzzer ] >> he was a democrat. >> oh, i thought you were asking me personally. i thought we were getting like a little sentimental here. you were wanting to know about. >> we just met each other. you h

president nixon used that jefferson quote to invoke executive privilege and justify congress. so politicians have this nasty habit thinking they can bring him up today. it's what i call a jefferson abuse. the research department at monticello has someone in charge of tracking down serious jefferson quotes on the web and exposing what are not jefferson quotes what are combinations of jefferson quote used to change the context. so that is all part of the thing that caught jefferson abuse. in 2001, the texas congressman spoke before the house on tax cuts. he said mr. jefferson never called himself a democrat. he called himself a republican. the party committed to the preservation of the american republic the core principles that made this country great reducing the size power and cost of the federal government. mr. jefferson sat with is the highest property with the income tax. president mugabe introduced a federal income tax. but the republicans -- the jeffersonian republicans of 1800 with the republicans of the modern era i just don't know where to begin. 2012 another texas rep

in that case, the congress was ready to impeach nixon and he ultimately resigned. i want to get back to the main point. it's a matter of balance of power. if the supreme court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been passed what if the supreme court ruled they were going to make the decision as to who was going to be the next president and save the taxpayers and voter from all the expense and trouble of voting and they'll just pick a president. we would say, they can't do that. why can't they do it? they can't do it because it's not in the law. we are sworn to uphold the constitution and law. one branch of government can't overrule the two. i'm convinced a lot of ivy league law schools must have forgotten that simple basic civic lessons along the way. >> governor, thank you for coming in today. thank you for sharing your holiday weekend with us. we'll see you on the campaign trail. >> thank you. >> and we'll keep asking you questions. >> all right, chris. thanks. >>> u