i look at nixon's school papers which are preserved in the nixon library, to see if nixon had so was into shakespeare and ancient greek. he had read julius caesar but he totally missed the boat. he never got the idea hubris come in and those, that was all false money. interestingly nixon's brother told me grandma millhouse had warned him against hating enemies. she was a quaker and she said that will get you in trouble. it was a lesson lost on nixon. he just couldn't get it. it's like nixon had a sense of destiny in virgil's play. if i do that destined to be a great man to even the he was shy and lonely, he was going to be that great men. there's a very affecting scene. a lawyer in new york, somewhat of an odd couple, nixon and leonard. leonard was a new york jazz musician from a jewish guy who had voted for kennedy and yet he and nixon were good pals. they went down to florida together to give a speech and they were supposed to spend the night in a new housing development. nixon had great political instinct. the last second, the owners of this new, gorgeous nixon to sum up promote t

they also introduced nixon as russell nixon. and ambassador saw nixon and turned his plate over saying i will not break bread with this man and walked out. you can imagine how mr. and mrs. nixon, richard and pat nixon, felt. this awkward couple coming to be treated like this. it just left a bad taste he never lost. it got worse after being elected president. nixon sent kissenger to be the ambassador and he did great with the crowd. he was money and sly but making jokes about the president soon enough joking about fearless leader and talking about his drinking habits and of course this got back to nixon. nixon tried to be philosophical and he would tease him. but of course it wounded him. he wanted to get even. and those famous white house tapes, he installed those tapes to abut kissenger's version of history. because he was going around saying i am the dove and nixon is the hawk and i am the reasonable guy and nixon is the crazy person. nixon wanted a record on things like going to china. going to china was not kissinger's idea.

and nixon on nixon with nixon on the personal side and what he thought about the death of ms. nixon and john connelly and so forth. and as i began writing, i realized the story would be better told in two parts. and i wanted to take the political material and publish it separate because i think it stood powerfully on its own. >> host: was this a hard thing to do n is? >> ms. crowley: no, the book pretty wrote itself. >> host: the new york wrote a obese on bill clinton and "time" magazine reviewed it and said there is lots more. does that surprise you? >> ms. crowley: no, because whether you like or dislike richard nixon there is no denying he was one of the most powerful and controversial people to ever run the country in the 21st century. there is no ignoring richard nixon and he continues to fascinate us. >> host: do you worry people in the future wouldn't want you around them because they think a book might come from a relationship? >> ms. crowley: this was a unique experience for me particularly because i was so young. it is something i wanted to do for my own reasons and

nixon was lucky for another reason. three of the departing justices, chief justice warren and associate justices fortis and black were liberals of the first order. when he nominates six individuals to the court. first, in may out 1969, he fills the court's center chair with the noncontroversial warren earl burger. ironic name given who he was replacing. newspaper reports concluded that burger was tough on law and order and moderate on civil rights. that record allowed him to win a quick and easy confirmation. selecting a chief justice with an image of being tough on law and order had great appeal to the president. consider two polls taken immediately before, just before burger's nomination and just after. a january 1969 gallup poll asked the following question. in general, do you think courts in this area deal too harshly or not harshly enough with criminals? less than 2% of respondents answered too harshly. another poll placed significant blame for the difficult combatting crime directly on the doorsteps of the supreme

>> it's always a good time for a nixon biography! [laughter] i'm the 13th nixon biography. there are going to be 13 more, i guarantee, because he's an endlessly fascinating, complex guy. i don't pretend to have broken the code on anybodies son. i made a good run on it. there is an incredible amount of evidence. almost all the tapes have been released. it took years. nixon fought it hammer and tongue. he knew what was on those tapes. he spent millions of dollars on legal fees trying to stop those from being released. almost all of them, except for 700 hours are out now, including the classified stuff. a lot of the documents are out now, so in terms of documents, you can -- you can't totally get into his head, but between the documents, diaries, holdman took notes on everything nixon said, stream of consciousness, you know? hundreds of orallies. so the record -- oral histories. there'll still be more, there'll be new interpretations. that's the beauty of history, it's constantly being revised and improved. >> great. well, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> so copies of ev

it was enacted as a watergate reform after nixon. nixon was a special prosecutor.is is the end of prosecutor law. it was fun against republicans, but used under clinton it was not quite as bit as fun and allowed to expire. you don't have one today. i happen to think it'sen -- it's unconstitutional. the president is responsible that the laws be faithfully executed and it doesn't have an asterisk except for investigations of his administration. there's a right to impeach. the supreme court has ruled the other way. there's a delightful case where ted olson and there was an independent prosecutor appointed and ted saiden constitutional, you can't ask me questions. the circuit court -- it's going to take a minute. we'll get to you. it's an inconstitutional delegation. brilliant opinion. bill, wrote the opinion and he said it's not much of an intrusion into the president's powers. i happen to run into jeff, i worked with him when i was on the white house staff, shortly after that decision, and i went up to him and i said not entirely in tongue and cheek, you know, i'm re

nixon and mr.issinger, even though they're the ones who ended it, they don't really get responsibility -- you can't tag them with responsibility for everything that went before, because i think, in fact, their strategy was quite brilliant, and it would have been better if we applied it even sooner. for example, i think the entire lbj administration, they never really thought through implications of the soviet split which i think henry and president nixon did very thoroughly, obviously. lastly, sort of on a happy note, despite the loss of vietnam to the north, despite all the human tragedy that ensued for boat people, vietnamese who my greated here and so forth, i found it very interesting when i went back as deputy sake tear of state, first time i had been back to vietnam in 35 years, since the signing of the agreement and just saw the incredible enthusiasm that existed in the democratic republic of vietnam for good relations for the united states, and i think it's mutual. i remember leaving hanoi

>> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon?e president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught earlier today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of bugging devices. >> it was saturday morning, june 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague of my mine was on the phone, he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic national committee headquarte

nixon's alone, not his party's. >> i think nixon was resolute. now i am liberated.w i am going to be whom i wish to be. >> the united states has resumed full-scale bombing of north vietnam, including the hanoi haiphong area. the north vietnamese said american planes carried out heavy attacks around those cities tonight and that hanoi's armed forces shot down a large number of planes and captured several pilots. >> first lieutenant to be 52. >> nixon wanted the communists to think he was crazy in the hopes that that would drive them back to the bargaining table. >> a lot of the civilian areas were hit apparently. >> civilian areas must have been hit, and i don't want to say that it was not a very painful thing to have to do. >> when 8,500-pound bombs go off one plane, that's the closest thing to a nuclear weapon. >> the response to the christmas bombing was such an outrage. here is this small, third world country that the united states is bombing back to the stone age. >> the word from the president is military pressure will continue until a peace settlement is reach

peters an hour before nixon was due to arrive. given the noise level below, the pope couldn't help but observe the aircraft. so he invited the passengers inside. imagine kissinger's shock when he arrived and found laird already there. kissinger concedes in his memoirs that in tangles with laird he lost as often as he won. he also concedes that laird operated with a buoyantsy and good humor that made working with him as satisfying as it could be on occasion maddening.. i think maybe that's in my heart of hearts why i've taken a liking to laird. now, it's an impression of mine, nothing i've measured scientifically, and until very recently laird has not got his due. the index to the first edition of my book, america's longest war, for example, contains two citations to laird, both references to his and william rogers' unsuccessful opposition to presidential initiatives. richard hunt's history of laird stewardship of the pentagon, i think, is a superb corrective. it's most impressively resear researched. i'm one of those weird charact

it had nothing to do with nixon. it wasn't any embarrassment to nixon. he got hammered for opposing the leak of these papers as if he was trying to cover things up. it was just making his predecessors look bad. he felt it was an important principle, one to only classify documents. him and kissinger were particularly upset. because june '71 was precisely a month before we were going to china secretly and we're in the middle of these promising negotiations with the vietnamese. so they were doing this on behalf of their successors where you try to keep some relevant secrets but also the timing was atrocious. >> are you going to talk about china? >> yeah, we're now getting to that. in fall of 1971 you think things are going well, but the north vietnamese, you detect, are gearing up for another offensive. >> right. >> then let's go to 1972. that was the momentous year for a lot of reason as professor smyser pointed out, nixon went in february, moscow in june. >> he went to moscow the end of april. the watergate break-in occurred at roughly the same time. and

yes there are downsides in nixon's career and their upsides to nixon's career but they are relentlessly and chronologically covered in a fair fashion. that's what we want our authors to do. the day after i'm talking to you i will be interviewing ted cruz about his new book a time for truth. the day after that i will welcome into my studio ambassador michael oran to talk about his new book, ally. this is not my reading copy. this is my signature copy. this is an incredibly moving book about the history of being an american you becomes an israeli and becomes a warrior and an ambassador. i'm going to be able to ask about his real end this horrific deal we are about to sign with iran to the ambassadors because i will have read this book in a fairly chronicles and understands the perspective of the territories. he has been there and he has waged war there and he has been in gaza and he records at all. it's an amazing book that i will be prepared to ask questions of these candidates not because i know anything about gossip. i've never been there. i've been to israel but i haven't been to the

sheld died at age 81 and she's buried aat -- at the nixon memorial library in yorba lindad pat nixon, very unappreciated. was the most traveled first lady up until hillary clinton. she visited over 80 countries.go and when she went on these trips, she wasn't content to just go to receptions and tease, she would do those things, but o she also wanted to meet the people. she wanted to go school. she wanted to go hospitals.he she wanted to go to orphanages, she wanted to talk to the people in the outlying villages, one-on-one and meet them and find out what their concerns were.she co she was at ease no matter what the agenda was. she could discuss human rights issues in south africa. she actually recommended to ugoa yugoslaviovi officials that the parliament could use more women members. it wasn't fluff. she was there to work and she did work. she took a good-will trip to vietnam in july of 1969. and that made her the second first lady -- only the second first lady to enter a combat zone. the first was eleanor rose develop. there in vietnam.t person again she visited hospitals, orphanage

nixon: no se puede me dijeron, directamente. asÍ, no se puede.emos remover la anterior y rehacer o hacer una licencia nueva. pero ya tengo mi documento de queso legal le dije, y me dijo que no se puede hasta que no se haga una nueva ley. jaime: quedÓ perplejo por las leyes. nixon: me dijeron que deberÍa hacer con esa licencia, la que tenÍa hoy, hasta que se pide. una vez que se expire, en el 2019, serÍa legal. jaime: fue hablar con una supervisora al no quedar conforme pero la repitiÓ lo mismo. nixon: es absurdo pero no se puede hacer nada, eso me dijeron. jaime: nos dijo que una persona que se convierte residente puede reemplazar su licencia. tyson: solamente debe llevar los documentos de inmigraciÓn que ya lo identifican como una persona con presencia legal a la oficina y hacer el cambio. ahora, hay que tener mucho cuidado, hay que asegurarse de que estos ya son los documentos finales y no que simplemente le estÁn diciendo que están aceptando su solicitud. carmen: nixon mostrÓ su carne de residencia paralÍtica se repitieron. Él agrega que la ge

. >> and then we have pat nixon. pat nixon is one of the first ladies that we've talked about,m probably the first lady born into the poorest circumstances. born in eli, nevada, which is nowhere's ville in nevada. her father had numerous different occupations.he sailer, miner, farmhand, truck driver. he died when pat was 18. sher mom died when she was 14. she had a high school education. her parents had already died. but what she did was she worked her way through school. and she went to junior college.r she went to usc and eventually got a bachelor degree in equiv merchandising and got a certificate which was the equivalent of a master's degree at usc to teach high school. and so she is actually the first, first lady to have a e h graduate degree. she married richard nixon at age 28. and like i mentioned, she had a wide variety of jobs. pat nixon would do anything to earn the money to pay her way it through college. she was a janitor. she helped the family at farming beforewas her parents died. she was a bookkeeper.

recorded conversations that nixon thought were hers, his, he's not going to get them? hillary clinton took that position initially. i'm not turning this over. there is going to be no cooperation. >> cartoonists found the comparison irresistible. but his two victories on a historic landslide offer the only modern precedent for what she's trying to accomplish now, trying to capture the white house after a highly polarizing 20 year career on the national stage. evan thomas is the author of the biography "being nixon" and he says both suffered if a mistaken assurance they wouldn't being enmeshed in scandal. >> we know nixon was trying to cover up a crime. we don't know that about mrs. clinton. >> of the 3700 hours of nixon tapes, investigators discovered 18 and a half minutes, or a tiny fraction had been erased by a culprit never identified. of the 63,000 e-mails crossing hillary clinton's server, she'd admitted to erasing roughly 48% of the vo of the total. >> now, we turn to alan combs. you don't want to be linked to water gate or nixon. >> there is no comparison here. >

nixon and mr. nixon's two historical presidencies. to capture the white house after a highly polarizing 20-yearatio. evan thomas is the author of ""being nixon". >> she's not richard nixon but she has some of the same problems. she hides things. she's secretive. that's her nature. it was nixon's nature. >> reporter: she hasn't been charged with committing any crimes, but the controversy over her e-mails and finances of the clinton foundation have take an heavy toll on her poll numbers for honesty and trustworthiness. >> thank you so much, james. >>> up next, want another reason not to trust iran? but first here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 59 in indianapolis with the former face of subway expected to plead guilty to child porn charges. jared fogle became famous as his massive weight loss as a college student on a diet solely subway sandwiches. his home was raided as part of a child porn investigation. fox 32 in chicago where michael jordan took the stand in a lawsuit over the unauthori

recorded conversations that nixon thought were hers, his, he's not going to get them? clinton took that position initially. i'm not turning this over. there is going to be no cooperation. >> cartoonists found the comparison irresistible. but his two victories on a historic landslide offer the only modern precedent for what she's trying to accomplish now, trying to capture the white house after a highly polarizing 20 year career on the national stage. evan thomas is the author of the biography "being nixon" and he says both suffered if a mistaken assurance they wouldn't being enmeshed in scandal. >> we know nixon was trying to cover up a crime. we don't know that about mrs. clinton. >> of the 3700 hours of nixon tapes, investigators discovered 18 and a half minutes, or a tiny fraction had been erased by a culprit never identified. of the 63,000 e-mails crossing hillary clinton's server, she'd admitted to erasing roughly 48% of the vo of the total. >> now, we turn to alan combs. you don't want to be linked to water gate or nixon. >> there is no comparison here. >> why no

for 53 seconds richard nixon did not say a word in that phone call. as mitchell, attorney general mitchell waited for an answer. president nixon was clearly mulling over what a baker appointment would offer. the need to decide brought uneasy, almost pain as he sighed several times. as he said to his attorney general, rehnquist has a hell of a record. first in his class. law clerk to one of the great judges of this century. and practiced law as a lawyer's lawyer. and with that statement, the decision was made. he was convinced by his own argument. howard baker would stay in the u.s. senate and william

recorded conversations that nixon thought were hers, his, he's not going to get them?clinton took that position initially. i'm not turning this over. there is going to be no cooperation. >> cartoonists found the comparison irresistible. but his two victories on a historic landslide offer the only modern precedent for what she's trying to accomplish now, trying to capture the white house after a highly polarizing 20 year career on the national stage. evan thomas is the author of the biography "being nixon" and he says both suffered if a mistaken assurance they wouldn't being enmeshed in scandal. >> we know nixon was trying to cover up a crime. we don't know that about mrs. clinton. >> of the 3700 hours of nixon tapes, investigators discovered 18 and a half minutes, or a tiny fraction had been erased by a culprit never identified. of the 63,000 e-mails crossing hillary clinton's server, she'd admitted to erasing roughly 48% of the vo of the total. >> now, we turn to alan combs. you don't want to be linked to water gate or nixon. >> there is no comparison here. >> why not

now the nixon library began in controversy and it continued in controversy. it was the only library to be operated privately for 17 years. the process is that a president creates a foundation, raises the money, money, filled library according to architectural standards and then hands it over to the government and kind of donates it to the government. then the government operates that library on behalf of the american people. we spent $1 billion a a decade operating these libraries. there are over a dozen legislative authorities that require the archivist to preserve records, make them available. there's one there's one mention of museums in the law. there's over a dozen about the archives but there's just one about the museums. yet so much focus, energy, energy and effort is placed in commemoration, in these exhibits and in these public exhibits that celebrate presidents that the archival, i know tim and i had discussed some things about this and i make a case from the congressional side that if we didn't put the money into the exhibits, we might be able to p

tell us a little bit about richard nixon. what do you remember about him? >> i remember how private, focused, intelligent he was. i had, just by stroke of providence, i was the aide to brice haar low, his first a appointee. i literally sat in the west wing in the office of the vice president. and i had all of this wisdom from mr. haar low. i wasn't an adviser to president nixon but i was around him a lot. i saw mr. haar low deal with him. i remember how far reaching it was. i have on my wall notes he used in the congressional leadership meeting he would have on tuesdays where he described the environmental movement in the united states in 1970 or '71. president nixon was trying to explain the republican senators and congressman that it was coming. that was when earth day was created. that's when senator muskie and senator baker presented the clean air and clean water acts, which passed unanimously. his administration even created the environmental protection agency, which today is is one of the agencies that republicans most detect because of its overreach.

when nixon first became president so nixon asked him to go to general son ranch to talk about a prave is grumpy and said how can i remember what happened 20, 30 years ago. i had this tape machine, pressed the button. those chapters are great. you go back and tell your friend richard nixon as he starts his presidency, nothing more important than a taping. >> jon: it was johnson's fault. >> it was johnson. >> jon: incredible. (applause) >> jon: doris kearns goodwin, i love you. thank you so much for being with us. even the people that did the letters and diaries knew they were writing for history, so i imagine that was pointed it seemed like jefferson and adams always knew they were writing for each other but for history, i'm a great man who doesn't like slavery. so you never know with that stuff. >> you never know. but at least its a he handwritten and you save it at the end of the day and they are writing their stuff. >> jon: and they know to say the bum hole what about -- >> very nice to see you, lyndon johnson and the american dream, available on ebooks august 4th doris kearns goodw

yes there are downsides in nixon's career and their upsides to nixon's career but they are relentlessly and chronologically covered in a fair fashion. that's what we want our authors to do. the day after i'm talking to you i will be interviewing ted cruz about his new book a time for truth. the day after that i will welcome into my studio ambassador michael oran to talk about his new book, ally. this is not my reading copy. this is my signature copy. this is an incredibly moving book about the history of being an american you becomes an israeli and becomes a warrior and an ambassador. i'm going to be able to ask about his real end this horrific deal we are about to sign with iran to the ambassadors because i will have read this book in a fairly chronicles and understands the perspective of the territories. he has been there and he has waged war there and he has been in gaza and he records at all. it's an amazing book that i will be prepared to ask questions of these candidates not because i know anything about gossip. i've never been there. i've been to israel but i haven't been to the

how much does hillary clinton have in common with richard nixon. >> nixon would say everything is fineit looked good. he didn't remember the bad stuff. that's human nature. we don't r bad stuff. 60,000 emails. my god! i was diagnosed with lung cancer. as a firefighter approaching a fire, i had to confine it, contain it and attack it. and i went to cancer treatment centers of america. we were able to do thorascopic surgery where we could use tiny incisions. we put a camera inside the chest and tony was able to go home three days after surgery. we have excellent technology that allow us to perform very specialized procedures for patients who have lung disease. our individualized care model gives each lung patient specific treatment options with innovative procedures that are changing the way we fight lung cancer. we have targeted therapies looking for a specific molecular target and then matching the patient to that treatment. to learn more about precision cancer treatment, advanced procedures and the experienced physicians who deliver them, go to cancercenter.com lung cancer is a very d

richard nixon was facing re- election. he result was a dramatic re- thinking of the united states' role in the global economy which has had a lasting impact on the value of the dollar today. "the range of actions i have taken and proposed tonight on the jobs front, on the inflation front, on the monetary front, is the most comprehensive new economic policy to be undertaken in this nation in four decades." in 1971, america's economy was facing a crossroads. paying for the vietnam war, aiding other countries and expanding social programs had stretched the value of the dollar. it was a dollar that since world war ii was linked directly to the value of gold. but with inflation soaring back and forth from highs not seen for two decades, president nixon knew he needed to do something before the '72 campaign, if re-election was in his future. on august 15, 1971-- nixon froze america's price tags and paychecks hoping to calm inflation and re- set the dollar's standing in the world. "this is a peculiar period, unlike one we ever ha

regard to richard nixon and bringing down the , jaworski makes some observations on richard nixon's memoirs. i'll read this excerpt. "overall nixon's book, in the treatment of watergate, a master piece of evasion, self-serving declarations, a distortion of erroneous conclusion conclusions. there is a legal term which best his version -- and he has quotes around it -- avoidance."and 1976, leon that, in judgeki is invited by mccaul, the president of baylor to address the chamber of waco.ce of and so monday, january 12, 1976, waco convention center he this his speech with paragraph. "there's just one way to put it. home again.to be and waco has been and always home.e it was so wherever so my trails be soeen and it will wherever they may lead me in the ahead." the firstdsoe is african-american to sing on broadway. waco inorn here in 1897. although there is a little controversy. seen 1898, 1902, but we're say 1897. he's buried here in wake waco. he lived a relatively short life, 1943 he dies. in the rich life that he had between, we have his archival .ollection of about 25 boxes my understanding

coming up at 8:00, richard nixon's foreign policy with former members of president nixon's national securitycouncil staff about vietnam, the paris peace accords and relations with china. >>> at 9:50 prime minister, president nixon and the supreme court. with a lecture in the supreme court chamber by kevin mcman, author of "nixon's court, his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences." he's introduced by justice antonin scalia. >>> at 10:35 p.m., author richard hunt on melvin laird's time as president nixon's defense secretary during the last years of the vietnam war and his strategy to possession the military for the future. mr. hunt wrote "melvin laird and the foundation of the post-vietnam military, 1969-1973." >>> saturday, august 29 marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane sandy, ohu hurricane katrina, one of the five deadliest storms in u.s. history. tonight, the 2006 tour of hurricane damage and recovery efforts. at 9:30, a 2005 house hearing featuring new orleans citizens describing their experiences during and after the storm. >> they told us that they would take

nixon won. that section that funded independent living was taken out and then congress voted for the act as it had voted few times before with the independent funding out. a defeated you want to call it that. the way the story is told this to tell that as a success. occupying streets of new york, coming to washington, flooding the offices and the override. it is an interesting one. i want to talk about why that happened. i want to tell you a couple stories and draw this into something, senator ted kennedy and john sununu. i want to read a little bit of this, in the upstairs room in the capital senator ted kennedy slammed his hand down on the table with force that shook the room. his hefty body raised from his seat, angle across the solid wooden surface as he glared at president george h. w. bush's chief of staff john sununu their heads inches apart. kennedy screamed do you want to fight? fight with me. you want to yell? yell at me. kennedy's face was red with anger. tendons building from his nec

evan thomas is the author of the new biography "being nixon" and says nixon and hillary both suffered from secretiveness and mistaken assurance that they wouldn't become meshed in scandal. surely she is hiding something. why else would she have erased all of the e-mails. >> reporter: of the 3,700 hours investigators ultimately discovered that 18 1/2 minutes or tiny fraction of less than 1% had been erased by a culprit never identified. of the 63,000 e-mails that crossed mrs. clinton's server she admitted erasing roughly 48% of the total. >> we leave the maps to james rosen. here with more on the nixon comparison we turn to host of the allen combs show. regardless what side of the aisle you are on you don't want to be linked to watergate. >> there is no comparison. saying crazy things on the tapes and then trying to obscure or obstruct an fbi investigation which is why had to resign the presidency. >> the fbi investigation now with hillary clinton. >> the investigation is nothing at all like what they were looking into with water gate. no burglary. >> there is potential. those who talk

it is a distinct honor to be able to introduce longtime friend and contributed to the nixon library, hugh hewitt. my wife and i have been friends of the library for a while. i came of age during the nixon years and have vivid memories of the 1968 republican national convention, watched on the black-and-white tv late into the night hoping for his nomination. we have come to learn more about richard nixon and the indelible mark he left on our country and the world. as i look at the state of our nation and the world today and i reach into the archives of the 72 campaign nixon now more than ever. we have had the opportunity to meet wonderful people through the library. hugh and betsy hewitt among them. hugh is a figure at library and foundation programs interviewing authors facilitating panel discussions participating in debates and as we saw today conducting his national syndicated radio show. he served in the nixon administration's speechwriter and he was critical in the construction of this facility and for that but debt of gratitude aisle who have been benefiting from it. hugh hails

. ♪ >>> in just a few moments now, president nixon will be appearing before the people perhaps for theast time as president of the united states. >> hail to the chief! hail to the chief! >> good evening. i shall resign the presidency effective as noon tomorrow. the turning over the direction of the government in vice president ford, i know that the leadership of america will be in good hands. >> in those first few days and weeks when gerald ford ascended to the presidency, you could say if you were casting someone to play the role of a president to heal a nation, that gerald ford would be that person. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states and mrs. ford. >> gerald ford was one of the most popular people, but always willing to talk, always willing to compromise. >> my fellow americans, our long national nightmare is over. >> part of what gerald ford wanted to do was move beyond watergate. and so to say our long national nightmare is over was to try to tell the nation my main job as president will be to heal this country. >> may our former president who brought

this was during the nixon administration. some of the members were quite -- were members of the peace act. it is allowed in their opposition. they fired us all. there was no more psac. there was a letter from nixon. that was 1972 or so. since then i have had little to do with any except -- had nothing to do with any classified work since then. that was a clean cut. >> you another nobel laureate -- and other nobel laureates -- in urge the senate to approve a comprehensive test ban treaty. and 49 other laureates urged clinton not to try and antiballistic missile system. maybe you want to talk about those initiatives and how scientists have become politically active like yourself and what you hope to accomplish. >> newer quite right -- you are quite right. it started with the manhattan project. it was entirely due in the scientists sector. they were keen on getting control. there were some efforts to give an international control. we all ended up in the atomic energy commission. it was a reasonable way. that was always entirely

somewhere comparing it to the downfall of president nixon.by fox news chief washington correspondent, james rosen. that's a tough comparison, james to compare this to watergate. who's saying that? >> reporter: good afternoon, cheryl, the comparisons are among cartoonists not typically associated with right-wing conspiracies to defame her. during watergate when clinton served as a young staff lawyer that recommended the impeachment of president nixon. 18% mantes turned out to be erased. secretary clinton isn't or received 63,000 e-mails which 30,000 she has told us she personally erased. such facts are among the reasons why the "washington post" bob woodward, one-half of the pulitzer prize-winning team sees similarities between the two cases. you have a massive amount of data adding it reminds me of the nixon tapes. thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that nixon thought were exclusively his. evan thomas in a new biography is praised for his even handed views of president nixon. >> why he continued to think he wasn't going to

nixon served in the pacific as well. born in california 1913, he graduated from a quaker founded with your -- whittier college and with the aid of a scholarship was admitted to duke law school. following a short time of practicing law in his hometown he accepted a job in the office of price administration in late 1941, but disgusted by what he encountered in washington -- as he later confessed, desiring to obtain a war record to support his political ambitions, nixon was inducted into the u.s. navy in august 1942. he was commissioned as an ensign in october 1942. after a brief period at a naval air station in iowa, he requested sea duty. he served as the officer in charge of a combat air transport command. in locales subject to japanese bombing, nixon never saw combat, earning two service stars for "efficient performance." returning to the united states in august 1945, he served as administrative officer of the alameda, california naval air station, later function as a negotiator terminating work contracts, and then resi

well, nixon broke the law.ink we have seen anything yet that would indicate that secretary clinton as secretary of state broke the law. you have a lot of republicans, i think, who are hyperventilating and who are engaging in overreach about this business, well, we'll see what's in the server and then questioning whether or not the fbi and the justice department will be fair and impartial in looking at this because of president obama, so there's a lot of political overlay here. but she created this problem by using the private server. and the question is now whether or not she broke any laws. so far, no law broken. >> we already know she sent top secret information and that's illegal. >> but it wasn't marked. >> the law is top secret information. it's illegal to send it. >> you have some experience in this with your military reporting. what do you make of it? >> i think that it's a question one of did she know or did any of her aids know that it was classified at the time it was sent? not knowing is not necessar

. >>> the legacy of the nixon presidency. next, members of the nixon national security team on his foreign policy. then a look at his supreme court appointments. and later the career of nixon administration defense secretary, melvin laird and his impact on the post vietnam war military. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. >> recently taking part in a discussion about president nixon's foreign policy. topics