and nixon knew it.forgot. >> and that was the origin of watergate. >>> so you want to be the most powerful man in the world. how far are you prepared to go? will you turn friends into enemies? will you break your own rules? if you want to be the most powerful man in the world, do the ends ever justify the means?

and nixon knew it.r forgot. >> and that was the origin of watergate.

and nixon knew it.>> and that was the origin of watergate. >> in an average man's life there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me i'll remember november 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building to find the assassin. >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> oswald has been shot at point blank range, fired into his stomach. >> police are working on the assumption that oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> elements of the central

nixon: thank you.ellow americans, tonight, accept the challenge and the commitment to provide the new leadership for america, and i ask you to accept it with me. let us accept this challenge not as a grim duty, but as an exciting adventure in which we are convinced to help a great nation realize its destiny, and let us begin by committing th, to seeto the tru= it like it is and tell it like it is. to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. that is what we will do. [applause] mr. nixon: we have had an update promises and little action -- had enough of big promises and little action. the time has come in america. [applause] notnixon: so tonight, i do promise the millennium in the morning. i do not promise we can eradicate poverty and end discrimination and eliminate all danger of war. i do promise action. a new policy for peace abroad, a new policy for peace and progress and justice at home. look at our problems abroad. do you realize that we face the stark truth that we are worse off

>> 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 early 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 knows yet 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 mine, chuck work, was on the phone. he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic national committee he

nixon's alone, not his party's. >> i think nixon was resolute. now i am liberated. have to run again. now 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 navigate a b-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 iwas t 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

at the time when nixon text -- nixon picked rogers as secretary of state he would seem like a inspired choice, that rogers was destined to take his place. after all rogers would have everything you are looking for. he had been a long time and a friend of nixon. he went back to their collaboration on his case in the late 40's. the checkered speech in 1952 was this very serious experience. with him on that. rogers was attorney general so they had a close executive branch partnership. of course rogers had gained tremendous experience running a large agency as attorney general. then he had a successful legal career. so it would have seemed at the time this would be the next in rogers administration and team. this was not to be. in, who isre next one of the most complicated personalities, he was certainly beset by personal insecurities in many areas, but when it came to foreign policy he was quite confident. kissinger deliberately sots someone who although not a political supporter could function as a alter ego. he also found someone who shared nixon's geopolitical outlook. to re-shape the

i want the replaced with -- you guessed it -- nixon pictures. butterfield launched an investigation of this, was able to persuade people that it was not proper, that it was suggestively disloyal if you had pictures of other presidents in your office. i was kind of skeptical of the story. and then there's the document that butterfield wrote directly to the president. and the subject was sanitization of the executive office building. sanitization, as if there was some disease because staff people had pictures of another president. and think about it. what do you think lincoln's response would have been if he discovered that there were staff people in the white house or the government who had portraits of george washington or thomas jefferson? i think it is unthinkable and this inability -- and if you trace the nixon story, you see that he's not accommodated to the idea of who he is, the opposite of lincoln. when gerald ford became president, the next year, one of the things he said, again, contradicting nixon, he said "none of our problems today a

nixon's argument was for a war abroad and at home. and then he said the long, dark night for america is about to end. let me read that again. nixon, august 8th, 1968, the long dark night for america is about to end. six years to the day on august 8th, 1974 announced his resignation. it was gerald ford who responded to the nixon resignation and watergate by saying our long national nightmare is over. political 29th, 1974, before nixon was -- he was three months away from resigning the house impeachment inquiry subpoenaed more secret tapes. so what nixon did is invoke lincoln in defending his argument to not comply with the subpoena and he said lincoln at an equivalent time in his presidency was being subjected to unmerciful attack. the book i did in the fall called "the last of the president's men" about alexander waterfield who revealed nixon's taping system, and spirited away thousands of documents from the white house, the nixon white house, that he gave to me. you sit and dream as a reporter about somebody spiriting thousands of do

the old nixon. >> i wrote a diary of being on the nixon campaign plane.ame out just saying, what does he believe in? what does he care about? how can we trust him? i realize that the person i felt most related to was robert kennedy. >> i have traveled and i have listened to the young people of our nation. and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight, about the world that they are about to inherit. i am announcing, today, my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. [ applause ] >> eugene mccarthy clears the way and tests the water. but he wasn't the guy who was going to get there. bobby was going to get there. >> this nation must adopt a foreign policy which says clearly and distinctly, no more vietnams. [ applause ] >> you have the declaration of another rival candidate from within his own party, currents of anti-war sentiment are building up, and at the same time, the war is getting worse. i think if you're lyndon johnson, you feel you're being surrounded by a stampede. >> good evening, my fellow americans. tonight, i want to

basically it was how every president -- during nixon and watergate, how every president, including nixon, tried to get right with lincoln. that's what i think people do today. they try to get right with lincoln, but the republican party of today i don't think lincoln would be able to relate to or identify at all. i also think -- and lincoln knew some dirty politics. i mean, you know, they were not angels back then. the lincoln/douglas debates were pretty brutal. lincoln was a politics. but were he alive and witnessen some of what has happened in this presidential campaign season, i think he would be appalled. i really do. i don't think he would be able to support anything about exclusion of immigrants just because of who they are. >> thank you, professor. >> oh, wow. thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank for you visiting with us. >> i'll get out of your way. >>> tonight hillary clinton becomes the first woman to accept a major political party's nomination for president of the united states. and with c-span, you have many convenient options for watching the entire speech without

that was a repackaged nixon. nixon had lost to governor pat brown in 1952 following his narrow defeat by john f. kennedy in 1960. nixon had angrily told a press conference that they "would not have nixon to kick around anymore." sure enough, that was wrong. but he did it with packaged town halls. i'm forgetting the title of the book, "the selling of the president." it really told the story of how frank shakespeare packaged record -- packaged richard nixon said that he was in front of seemingly ordinary voters, but in fact they were carefully selected and screened to tell his story his way. the other part of the 1968 election was demonstrations in the street. i think very few of us who were politically aware will forget conflict in the streets of chicago that may have been enough to deny super comfrey the election -- like hubert humphrey the election. the victory over humphrey for candidates could be marketed and sold through the corporate world. corporate advertising has found its place in american life. one thin

i worked with president nixon on his memoirs. i worked with him for four years and i sat for many hours with him as he prepared his memoirs. as he watched the 1976, and then later conferred with him as he watched the 1980 and 1984 elections, i can assure you that nixon saw ronald reagan as a political practitioner of the highest ability. he had great respect for president reagan's skills all around, as a communicator, as a politician. anyway, it is nice to introduce a former colleague of mine in the reagan white house. there have been hundreds of books written about president reagan. i haven't read all of them. many of them were written from the inside. they say, what i saw, or what they say about reagan the man, or the real reagan, the truth about reagan. the fact is, there are only a very few people, and few of those books written by people who had close personal exposure to the president. frankly, we would fit in a pretty small room. jim has written one of those books. one of the few who can say he was there to observe the pre

vice president nixon's office was still at the capital building but unlike his predecessors nixon spent most of his time -- spent almost no time presiding over the senate, he spent most of his time going to meetings in the executive branch, meeting with president eisenhower's cabinet, national security consul, taking foreign missions for president eisenhower, often times he would go for a month or two months on a foreign trip doing political work for the president, heading executive branch commissions and so forth. and vice president nixon's successors, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, spiro agnew, gerald ford and nelson rockefeller essentially followed the nixon model. their office moved into the executive office building, they took on more functioning in the executive branch chairing commissions, making trips for the president, doing political work other than vice president agnew i think all of these people were really among the leading political figures of their political generation and the vice presidency became a presidential springboard and it became attractive to able people for

... >> this as nixon, carter and now -- nixon, ford and now carter are going to grapple with his -- a monumental problem. >> yeah. >> it is a gordian knot. >> not to give it away, but it is history. [laughter] >> spoiler alert. >> yeah. so nothing good is going to come of jimmy carter's very sincere efforts to try to grapple with the energy crisis. so jimmy carter comes into office in january 1977, and we might all remember one of the sort of iconic moments is when he gets out of the limousine, and he's going to walk from capitol hill to the white house. >> it's freezing that day. >> you just stole my line. >> oh, i'm sorry. [laughter] let's go back. what was one of the iconic moments? >> so -- [laughter] we all remember this, but what's amazing about this moment is it's one of the coldest days in all of washington's history. the country was suffering from this deep freeze. we recovered from that, right? so countries suffering from, you know, so it's snowing in miami, you know, it's this really unusual, historic weather. and here he is shedding his overcoat and walking. and it's a pro

so jim, welcome to the nixon library. a place where we welcome your personal look into history. [ applause ] >> thank you, ken. thank you. but i really, i've got know your sources. where did you find that out? i have to say that i'm tremendously honored to be here at this beautiful library, which i have to say is managed even better than the white house. the floors are buffed to a high shine. the whole organization really just sings. it's beautifully managed. i really appreciate the invitation to be here. but i was going to say how much i appreciate the introduction by ken. but this story about being in china, i have to add a few details. but i want to say how important it is to me that my friend ken did this introduction tonight. and i want you to know that ken was not only noted for having been an important part of both administrations, nixon and reagan, which is a tremendous part of history to participate in, but ken was two things, very important. he had the confidence directly of president and mrs. reagan. and so he

i voted for nixon the last time. but, when we come to senator goldwater, now it seems to me we're up against a very different kind of a man. this man scares me." but, ads were unsuccessful. "we want barry! we want barry!" the movement was sweeping the party. by the summer, other republican primary contenders had dropped out and goldwater was the clear front runner. *singing "he's got the spirit. he's got the fight. scranton is the man we need to guide our country right." it was only after the california primary handed all of its delegates to goldwater that a new candidate jumped in the race, william h. scranton, governor of pennsylvania. he came to the convention in 1964, having campaigned in no primaries just to ward off the threat from the extreme right of thearty both arrived at the convention confident. "i promise you that i will preserve and extend freedom all over this country and all over this world." "scranton had announced his candidacy saying, 'we are going to san francisco for a convention not for a corona

i like to read richard nixon stuff. i like to read about richard nixon. he's the most fascinating politician of my life and i t thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. >> does your reading help you in your work as a congressman? >> it does. you know, history in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress and if they're not careful, they sort of think history begins with them. there's something -- but you're really stepping into the flow of something and institution or, you know, and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of interesting, not only parallels butng background quite frankly of what's going on, you know, you want to understand congress. john berry wrote a wonderful book called the ambition of power and barry is a substantive writer. he did like what was it? oh, gosh, the great book on 1927 flood in mississippi. i think it was rising tide or something. but he happened -- he got hooked up with speaker wright before he realized

even nixon had two friends. and mrs. reagan understood the unusual quality of their self-containment, but i think that he had -- there were moments when i thought reagan was pre possess at the obviously sill -- silly and other moments when where he was big and deep, like the character in one of john updike's rabbit books in the '80s who thinked about reagan in this way, about that he seemed to know very little but was like the old hedgehog versus the fox. i thing one of the keys to reagan is his film career. that doesn't go as far back as as deep psychologically as what bill is talking about but they asked him one time, how can an actor be president of the united states and he said i don't see how anyone who wasn't an actor could do this job. and i think that his acting career had paid him tremendous dividends on the whole. it allowed him to imagine things. sometimes very sentimentally, sometimes in a very kind of cheap hollywood way, but it enlarged him in a way and just wen one quick story. a lot of my book is about th

vice president nixon's essentially followed the nixon model. their office moved into the executive office building. they took on more functions in the executive branch, chairing trips for theking president, doing political work. other than vice president agnew, all of these people were among the leading political figures of their political generation. and the vice presidency became a better presidential springboard and became attractive to april people for that reason. nixon and hubert humphrey were nominated. spiro agnew was the front runner for 1970. growth duringthis from nixon to rockefeller, there still were limitations. primary focus of the vice presidency was on providing a presidential successor. the executive branch worked. the vice president's were not part of the president's inner circle. vice presidents tended to feel underutilized and pretty frustrated with their positions. president eisenhower wanted to dump vice president nixon from the ticket. in 1956 he suggests to him that he might chart his own course and the political future

the policies of the nixon administration, nixon, richard nixon, is far to the left of obama in many respects. >> so i didn't want to go there, but you're right -- >> oh, yeah. >> nixon on domestic policy. >> oh, yeah. >> [inaudible] >> uh-huh. [laughter] >> so johnson versus obama, where would you -- given domestic policy initiative ands our man in d.c. >> there are so, you know, the war on poverty, and i am critical of johnson in the war on poverty, but that's because a that's our job as historians, to be critical of even figures and programs that we admire. johnson is a complicated figure, but the war on poverty and the policies of his administration, the promise of the principle of maximum feasible participation is something that i think we really, really need to return to. i think that if we want to, if we want to think about a road map or a precedent for policies moving forward, then we need to kind of look at some of the early, really, you know, the earlier ideas that were emerging in the kennedy and the johnson administration. in many senses, johnson just kind of took the urban progra

he says his opponent, richard nixon, is an undeserving air to the dwight d. eisenhower presidency. in addition, kennedy addresses concerns surrounding his catholic faith and offers himself as the leader for what he calls the new frontier of american history. john f. kennedy defeated richard nixon in a close general election with less than 1% of the popular vote separating the two candidates. the speech is just over 20 minutes and our coverage is from nbc news. [cheering] >> governor stevenson, senator johnson, mr. butler, senator symington, senator humphrey, speaker rayburn, fellow democrats, i want to express my thanks to governor stevenson for his generous and heart-warming introduction. [cheering] it was my great honor to place his name in nomination at the 1956 democratic convention, and i am delighted to have his support and his counsel and his advice in the coming months ahead. [cheering] let me say first that i accept the nomination of the democratic party. [cheering] i accept it without reservation and with only one obligation, the obligation to devote every effort of my mi

nixon! richard nixon, in 1968, famously took political advantage of the chaos and strife and worry and anxiety and fear in the country in 1968. he took the unrest and strife in the country at that time that was already freaking people out and he made it as scary as he could make it. he stoked even more fear out of it, and then he presented himself as the solution. he wanted the country to seem as scary as possible. he wanted people to be as afraid as possible. he wanted what he called the silent majority to both feel as scared as possible and to see him as the solution to what scared them. he wanted to be the man who stood for law and order, one of the most notorious things about richard nixon the way he stoked that fear and used it to his advantage, the whole law and order presidential campaign he ran in 1968. this is presidential campaign today in newport beach, virginia. >> we must maintain law and order at the highest level or we will cease to have a country 100%, we will cease to have a

we are not conceding a single state to richard nixon. [applause] i should like to say to my that ohio maying have passed a few times in this convention, but tom eggleton and i are not going to pass ohio. [applause] i shall say to governor gilligan, ohio is sometimes a votes,slow in coming the but when those votes are counted next november, ohio will be in the democratic victory column. [applause] now, to anyone in this hall or beyond who doubts the ability of democrats to join together in common cause, i say never underestimate the power of richard nixon to bring harmony to democratic ranks. [applause] he is the unwitting unifier, and the fundamental issue of this national campaign. and all of us are going to help him redeem a pledge he made 10 years ago that next year, you won't have richard nixon to kick around anymore. [applause] we have had our fury and frustrations in these past months and at this convention, but frankly, i welcome the contrast with the smug and dull and empty event which will doubtlessly take place here in miami in

, some sort of nixon-hoover plot.actually. her r. bob haldeman would say he thought this kent state unhinged nixon sufficient live it led to the creation of the plumbers because hoover couldn't find for him the outside agitators the sds, the weathermen he was sure had done this so he lost faith in hoover, and the started his own -- the plumbers to take care of the work that hoover couldn't do. but good point. over here. anybody else have a question? i'm sorry. >> john dean in his book said he thought kent state in retrospect would be the end of the nixon administration. that was the beginning of it. the thing friday night dish wasn't the -- you can almost replicate that at most state university towns. the police went in and threw a bunch of drunken college students when they could all buy beer. this just drove out of the bars. a recipe for disaster. absolute stupidity. >> because say tau sds everywhere. -- they've saw sds everybody. there were four sds students had been release -- called the kent state four -- had bee

and gave -- said he was giving nixon a full pardon for watergate. and any other crimes he may have committed. now, ford, of course, went on television early on a sunday morning, hoping no one noticed. but it was widely noticed, but not by me. i was asleep and my colleague, carl bernstein, called me up and said, have you heard? and i said i haven't heard a thing. i was asleep. and carl, who then and still has the ability to say what occurred with the most drama in the fewest words said, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch." [ laughter ] and i was even able to figure out what had occurred. at the time, i thought, perfect. nixon goes free. the only one to get a watergate pardon. it is the ultimate corruption. you look at the polling at the time and the suspicions about the pardon, that was a widely held view. and you can argue and i think the historians of the '76 election, when ford lost to jimmy carter, that the pardon had an aroma that there was a deal, that something really untoward had occurred. and i believe this. i have real strong c

please stand up. >> my name is marni nixon. >> pelley: marni nixon died of cancer.> ninan: when we return, the ice bucket challenge leads to an important medical discovery. >> ninan: finally tonight, if you're wondering whatever happened to all the money raised by the ice bucket challenge, jim axelrod says it's paid off in a very cool way. >> aahh! >> reporter: two summers ago everyone was getting into act. presidents... movie stars... billionaires. and while the cynics tried to throw their old cold water on the idea, saying it was a way to make a splash without actually doing anything-- >> don't company a bucket of ice water on your head. it's stupid. >> reporter: ...the ice bucket challenge raised $115 million in less than two months. >> without the ice bucket challenge, we wouldn't have gotten this money. >> reporter: dr. john landers, a neurologist at the university of massachusetts, runs a lab trying to find genes linked to a.l.s. he got $1.5 million from the challenge. does a million, a million and a half bucks really make a difference? >> you know, not to sou

nixon. our task is not merely one of itemizing republican failures. nor is that wholly necessary. for the families forced from the farm do not need to tell us of their plight. the unemployed miners and textile workers know that the decision is before them in november. the old people without medical care, the families without a decent home, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it's time for a change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness; we are here to light a candle. [applause] as winston churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. today our concern must be with that future. for the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old ways will not do. abroad, the balance of power is shifting. new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one-third of the world may be free, but one-third is the victim of a cruel repression, and the other third is rocked by poverty and hunger and disease. communist influence has penetrated into a

nixon: mr. chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place, i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the united states. with your help and with the votes of millions of americans, we won a great victory in 1968. tonight, i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] let us pledge ourselves to win an even greater victory this november, in 1972. i congratulate chairman ford. i congratulate chairman dole, anne armstrong and the hundreds of others who have laid the foundation for that victory by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and for peace in the world. speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep gratitude to this convention for the tribute you have paid to the best campaigner in the nixon family, my wife pat. [applause] in honoring her, you have honored millions of women in america who have contributed in the past and w

nixon: mr.hairman, delegates of this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place , i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] as well aselp millions of americans, we won a great victory that day. [applause] i again proudly accept your nomination as president of the united states. [applause] let us get ourselves an even greater victory this november. [applause] i congratulate chairman ford and armstrong and hundreds of others who have laid the foundation by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and peace in the world. [applause] speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep gratitude with attributes you have paid to the best campaigner in the nixon family among my , my wife. [applause] in honoring her, you have honored millions of women across america who have contributed to the future so very much to better government in this country. again, as i did last night

his speech, the south dakota senator criticizes richard nixon policies on the non-and culture for -- vietnam and calls more policy changes. he lost to richard dixon. his speech is just over 40 minutes and our coverage is from the nixon presidential library museum. , chairwomano'brien kennedy, senator citizens,nd my fellow i'm happy to join you for this benediction of our sunrise service. [applause] i assume that everyone here is impressed with my control of this convention and that my choice for vice president was challenged by only 39 other nominees. [laughter] but i think we learned from watching the republicans four years ago as they selected their vice president that it pays to take a little more time. [applause] and i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon grateful that the oregon delegation at least kept her in the race with martha mitchell. [applause] i congratulate you on your patience and i pay my respects to those two superb presiding officers of this convention larry o'brien and the bond breakaway bird. bird.on [applause] tonight, accept your nomination

it sounds a lot like nixon to me. does it sound like nixon to you? nixon, but also george wallace.ways been comfortable playing the race card. if racial tensions get inflamed, he will no doubt do it again and perhaps to his advantage. john: talk about that a little bit. the nixon context, the country was very different. i'm talking about the way the country has changed and the way that rhetoric may be less potent given a browner america than it was when richard x and did it. how: it's a more diverse america and in some ways a more tolerant america. the context of the eight was a vietnam war. it's not a perceived write-down of law and order at home, it was the sense that country was out of control and far more so than is the case today. i think it was a more appealing issue back then and to an extent, nixon split vote. i don't think it will be as big. mark: last week was a bewildering and up setting series of events for the country. i wonder what kind of context it is for what needs to happen tomorrow? al: i think it's a terrific things that they will be there together. this is a ti

nixon. and they do not need us to tell them of their plight. the unemployed miners and textile workers know that the decision is before them. without medical care. families without decent homes, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it is time for a change. and we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. as winston churchill said, when taking office, some 20 years ago, if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. today our concern must be with that future. for the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old ways will not do. abroad, the balance of power is shifting. there are new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one third of the world may be free, but one third is the victim of a cruel repression, is affectedr third by poverty and hunger and disease. communist influence has penetrated into asia. it is in the middle east and off the coast of florida. friends have slipped into neutrality, and neutrals into hostility. r

in forces nixon to suddenly think about the conservationists' involved. >> true. we do know nixon did a lot for the environmental is impnt and side in --- signed into law which was a sweeping piece of legislation that is impossible to imagine todayay talk about the code between man and nature he thinks ite will boost his the ending for the reelection battle in 72 and these are the pressures that they are experiencing. as they have to drill in more harsh blow cowls of their perceived to be battling of the new regulations in their the first ones and start talking

nixon, romney, percy.re's ronald reagan ahead of nelson rockefeller, the governor of new york, and a senator from oregon mark hatfield. in effect, dwight eisenhower had mentored novice politician ronald reagan from being the beginning of his career into a potential president of the united states. what did ike think of seeing ronald reagan someday in the white house. well, in june of '66 after their first meeting to the press he certified ronald reagan as presidential timbre and to the press in 1967 and he said that if reagan is nominee, he certainly will endorse reagan for president. at this time the increases month, reagan is still not sworn in yet as governor. ike writes this to his protege, that he'd like to discuss more about world affairs the next time they can meet. so, that's now leading into the second part of my talk. this is just a tiny sample of how dwight eisenhower mentors ronald reagan on foreign affairs. at this time president johnson was having the beginnings of his problems about vietnam,

richard nixon, you've got a couple pictures on your wall of you and richard nixon, but that was before your political career as governor of tennessee. >> guest: yeah, the first time i ran for governor, made democratic opponent called me nixon's choirboy. i worked in the white house in 1969 and 70 for a man who's a wonderful individual and a former eisenhower aide who has had enormous respect from everybody. so that was really the beginning of my political activity. i started before that with howard baker, but that was early in my time. >> host: senator alexander, is president of the university of tennessee, what was your experience with the students when it came to reading of literature and some of the classics? >> guest: i tried to drop in on classes. one of them was not there anymore. his name was richard mary is. he had taught at the university of tennessee and when i was governor i created a governor's school for teachers of writing. he came down from harvard where he had been taught the freshman writing course to teach about 200 tennessee teachers for two weeks how to write, how t

in forces nixon to suddenly think about the conservationists' involved. >> true. we do know nixon did a lot for the environmental is impnt and side in --- signed into law which was a sweeping piece of legislation that is impossible to imagine todayay talk about the code between man and nature he thinks ite will boost his the ending for the reelection battle in 72 and these are the pressures that they are experiencing. as they have to drill in more harsh blow cowls of their perceived to be battling of the new regulations in their the first ones and start talking about this crunch. >> host: thanks for setting that up now we're at h 1973. as you point out it really have a hard. content of the tremendous shortage of whale and this time the arab states say we will use oil as a weapon and they announce their embargo.raeb in retaliation of support that is consequential to shrink the supply with the massive price increase. is the o with us shortage research did crisis and nixon was of a good partition this is what the pollsters said itit is a gut level issue. and faced wi

nixon and agnew won despite the attacks. bush and quayle won in 1988, despite the attacks on quayle. and in 1988, bush and quayle won by a lot. i think history would judge that spiro agnew and dan quayle were not good choices to be vice president of the united states, very different reasons. they veer between disastrous and embarrassing in terms of vice presidential choices. the parties knew that in advance, in enough time to try to make an issue of it in the campaign. but it's hard to make an issue of bad vice presidential choices in the campaign. most of the time, even really bad running mate choices, they don't hurt you in november. but right now, tonight, as we speak, we may be about to test that hypothesis one more time. and that story is next. stay with us. ho doesn cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter

nixon expressed this sentiment to chief of staff. there is never in history that an adequate lactation the president had and they are the only race in which this is true. i know that nixon's comments to domestic john ehrlichman has been getting press lately. a number of posts i have in the book are more telling about the intent behind many policies that the administration. in a less conspicuous form, jimmy carter stressed grassroots participation is a critical component of administration punitive program. authorities refused to fund groups such as the fleet to improve the robert taylor home which advocated strategies very much in line with its stated commitments of the administration but not to implement strategies without oversight from police and public housing authorities. when reagan took office, the rhetoric vanished from the domestic policy arena never to return. it's up to you to change what we've been talking about. stemming from the punitive shifter in the previous decade over the course of the 1980s, law enforcement officer

but richard nixon 1968. law and order, this was speech unplanned order talking about the forgotten americans. this was a direct echo of richard nixon. >> rose: what was amazing to me, in terms of one of the biggest applause lines was "i am your voice." >> yeah. unbelievable. in the focus groups, they were looking did not rate well with that crowd. but not with those outside. >> rose: what else rated well? how was the speech being analyzed outside? from people watching on television? >> one of the key moments was when you heard those chants "lock her up" trump waited and said, let's defeat her. took some of the energy out of the room. that is the message that is going to appeal to your hard core. but "lock her up" is not an appeal to independent voters. >> rose: there is a movement. trump has been able to go to the head of that movement. always saying he's a messenger. it's like this campaign was coming together, a movement that was already there. then already highly -- celebrity star and well-known. >> if yo

does it sound like nixon to you? >> yeah. of nixon but even more like george wallace. donald trump has always been comfortable playing the race card. as you know, that's what the birther issue was all about. if racial tensions get inflamed in this country, he will no doubt do it again and perhaps to his advantage. >> talk about that a little bit, just -- the nixon context, country was very different in 1968 than it is in 2016. talk about the way in which the country's changed and the way in which that rhetoric may be less potent given a browner america than it was when richard nixon did it. >> well, it's a more diverse america and in some ways, a more tolerant america. also, the context of '68 was the vietnam war, too. so it wasn't just any breakdown of law and order, perceived breakdown at home. it was the whole sense that the country was out of control. really, in many ways, far more so than is the case today. so i think it was a more appealing issue back then and wallace and to an extent nixon split that vote. i don't thin