nixon is cool. nixon had a wide lead in the public opinion polls. and a strategy was done to maintain that lead that lead. until the closing days of the campaign, the election seemed so sure, that nixon seemed to be thinking more about the problems he would face as president, as rather than thinking about the race. he would jump be on the clouds to the future. he often had the presence of the president, his plans to -- the misfortunes of the past. i have also received a very gracious wire from president johnson, congratulating me and indicated his desire to be of assistance, for the next administration. i intern, look to him and offered my assistance and cooperation, in the interim period between now and integration. and be helpful in bringing peace to the world that we all want. richard nixon, had earned his right, to be president of the united states of america. few men have served their country, and their party with nixon's incredible energy and devotion. every presidency, is known by the character of the man who holds it. by the people he choose

nixon. the keen university movie classes online due to the coronavirus pandemic, video of the class is courtesy of the school. >> okay guys, we are ready to start. thank you for your patience and for logging into class. again, today remotely during this unpleasant coronavirus situation, which will hopefully pass soon. i'm glad to see you were all well, also you see leave moved out of the dorms, i took a walk through campus today. since we are social distancing here doctor kristin is not here with me in the zoom but she is with you in the video, kuby say hello. there she is. she can answer any questions about the papers afterwards online. today, we get into one of my favorite chapters in the whole year, and that is the chapters, the chapter on richard nixon followed by gerald ford in this presidents and constitution book. the nixon chapter was written by the late stanley cutlery. was a professor of history at the university of madison wisconsin. one of the green scholars of the watergate era.

hannah nixon and grandma millhouse taught nixon the meaning of charity.t his son how to work and succeed. in his sophomore year at college, nixon represented the school in more than 50 debates, most of which he won. he also played football for his school. >> president of the student body and second in his class, nixon graduated from whittier in 1934 and went on to duke university law school in north carolina, more than 2,000 miles from his birthplace. years before richard told his mother he would be an old fashioned kind of lawyer, the kind that can't be bought and he proved true to his word. back in whittier after law school, richard met patricia ryan, a pretty young teacher. to pay her way through college, pat ryan worked in a department store and took small parts in hollywood movies. richard nixon courted her with the same determination he applied to his law practice and in 1940 they were married. after the united states entered world war ii, nixon joined the navy and served with distinction. the end of the war marked the beginning of richard's politic

and with the richard nixon. foundation welcome to the richard nixon library. before we introduce our distinguished speaker this evening i want to mention a couple of special guests. we have the distinguished speakers daughter here. lisa, and her husband jack wild. and we have betsy he. with the wife of our president and ceo, newly elected, hugh hue at. our distinguished speaker was to to doctor kissinger as doctor kissinger was to -- he joined the staff and 1960. nine a special assistant working on the world and basically every diplomatic initiative in the administration the midst of the vietnam war in the greater cold war. he was with doctor kissinger during the grinding talks of the negotiators and paris that culminated in the paris peace accords of 1973. he was with president nixon in moscow during his first presidential trip there in may of 1972. he was there for kissinger shuttles between the arabs and israelis after the 1973 young the poor war. he was a key actor in the historic trip to china in 1972. known popularly as the week that changed the world. t

president nixon had a very top down management style. and as assistant to the president for domestic affairs was head of the domestic policy, period, end of conversation. that's, everything that went up from john and everything came down from john. we will never know how much of the specific policy and initiatives were really drawn's, and how much were the president, personally. but, it really didn't matter because jon has had the authority to speak for the president and he did so, and appropriately, he never let you know anything more than that. that's, we need to give john major credit for the presidents indian message and policy, because he was in trickle to, what he was essential to it, he was essential decision-maker. now, let's turn to how that message came about. it was october, 1969, it was 7:30 am and was that was the white house secret staff meetings. now, i attended that, not because i was a member of the white house senior staff, i was a 23-year-old white house fellow. but because i was a white house fellow, i was given that

then nixon and lodge, goldwater and rockefeller, and then, again, nixon and then rockefeller. there's always a split inside the republican party between the conservative outsiders and the more moderate insiders. this, of course, happens in 1980. reagan represents the conservative outsiders and bush represents the more moderate insiders and this is the fight over, you know, the nomination, the future of the party boils down to these two individuals. >> tell us about it. >> well, it was a seesaw battle for a while because reagan kind of coasts. reagan is in his worse when he's not challenged. reagan is at his best when he was challenged. it was -- reagan needs to be challenged. he doesn't take the george bush challenge seriously and he ends up losing the iowa caucuses in january of 1980 which was a stunning, stunning upset to the political world. it's enormous. it's huge. reagan had been a radio broadcaster in iowa all through the '30s. he was from nearby illinois. he's a local hero. and george bush is from new england or texas. he has, you know, less ties to new england than he

to the health of president nixon, and mrs. nixon. guests to the health of all our friends present, and to the friendships between the chinese and american peoples. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and realizes that it runs for hundreds of miles, thousands of miles over the mountains and for this country. it was built over 2000 years ago. i think that you would have to conclude, and that was a great wall and it was going to be built by great people. and there is no machinery. and it all had to be done by hand. under the circumstances, it is certainly a symbol and tell china in the past has been and what it will be in the future will become people can vote of wall like this, and certainly have a great passed between product and and a people for this kind of a past must also have a great future. my hope is that in t

and why he joined the nixon operation to teach nixon about tv. in the campaign, nixon went on a show, and he said the famous catch phrase, socket to me on air. he went, on it showed that he was more of a man of the people than people had anticipated. other presidents have become introduced to the american people via pop culture. most famously, ronald reagan. i think one of the reasons that he was called the teflon man i, critics and criticism wouldn't stick to him is because the american people felt that they knew him from his decades on tv and his decades on movies. and all of the accusations that people would make against him. it didn't seem that the person from bond so, the lead the weekly shows that he hosted. having the popular culture behind you is a good way to introduce yourself to american people and make you like them. >> how is your story affected by innovations and technology? such as radio on television. how have they affected the presidents relationship with the popular culture. >> that is at the heart of the story. i have a copy of

picks lodge and eisenhower picks nixon and nixon picks agnew and that was the ticket splitting that both parties are practicing perfection in the '40s, '50s, and '70s and it unifies the party and it goes through 30 primaries and state conventions is that the primary or the nomination is not just reagan's for the asking. he's got to fight, the street fight of his life to beat george bush to get the nomination. >> and that fight is the source of the term voodoo economics. >> yes. that's right. reagan was pushing camp rock and it was developed as an issue in '78 and doing radio commentaries about it and it became one of the centerpieces of his '80s campaign and it's bedevilling bush because he can't match it. he came up with his own tax plan and it was focused on business and less of the individual whereas reagan was less on business and bush unwisely starts attacking a very popular plan of reagan's and the reagan is scoring well politically with and he calls it voodoo economics and reagan was so furious over that. he almost didn't pick bush for his run and in fact, it was a big sticki

joined the nixon operation to teach nixon about use of tv and in that in that campaign nixon went on the show laughing, which was the most popular comedy in america at the time and he said the famous soccer the famous catchphrase socket to me on air. he didn't say exactly right but still he went on he said he was game and that kind of showed that he was a little bit more man of the people than people had anticipated other presidents. have become introduced to the american people via pop culture most famously ronald reagan. ronald reagan was in movies for decades and i think one of the reasons that he was called the teflon man by his critics that it criticism wouldn't really stick to him was because the american people felt like they knew him from his decades on tv and his decades in movies and all the accusations of people would make against him didn't really seem like they comported with the person they new from whether his bedtime for bonzo or from the weekly ge shows that he hosted. so again having the popular culture behind you i think is a good way to introduce yourself to ameri

meanwhile, somebody on the bus goes to tell edie nixon so nixon and the derrs as well as her husband come down to bail her out a few hours later. they go back to parks' apartment, and nixon is in a measure delighted because this is sort of the test case he's been looking for. raymond is worried for her safety, but also that the community won't stay together and back her in the long run as had happened with claudette colvin's case. but after some discussion she decides to go forward. she calls fred gray to ask him -- fred gray is a new, a young black lawyer in town that she has been mentoring, meeting with, so she calls him that night and gray then calls joann robinson who's the head of the women's political council, and it is the women's political council that decides to act and call for a one-day boycott on the monday when parks is to be arraigned in court. in the middle of the night, robinson with two students, sneaks into alabama state where she is a professor and runs off 35,000 leaflets. another 3:00 a.m., robinson calls nixon. robinson doesn't call parks interestingly. but she

nixon: the new president" is a 1968 film produced for international audiences by the u.s. information agency, focusing primarily on president-elect nixon life's story and released prior to his inauguration. the film was distributed in many languages overseas, but by law could not be shown in the united states for at least 12 years. it's now part of the national archives motion picture collections. >> watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy "american history tv" every weekend on c-span3. >>> you're watching american history tv. explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3, created by america's television cable companies and brought to you by these companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. sammy, is a 1972 defense department film documents a trip to vietnam by sammy davis, jr., traveling at the request of president nixon's special action office. he performs in several uso shows and discusses drug abuse problems, military service and race issues with the troops. ♪ ♪ >> and everyone felt the same ♪ ♪ >> and everyone f

robinson calls nixon. robinson doesn't call parks interestingly, but she calls nixon and at 5:00 in the morning e.d. nixon starts making calls to ministers in town. so he calls reverend aber nathy and then he calls a young minister in town by the name of reverend martin luther king who's new in town and whose church is centrally located and nixon sees this as an ideal place to have this meeting. it is not until the next day at lunch, however, rosa parks finds out about these plans when she goes like she usually does -- she would often walk from her job at montgomery fair to have lunch at fred grays office. and she gets there that day sort of there's that -- she finds out about the plan. meanwhile that saturday she has scheduled the youth workshop and only a couple of kids come, and she's really disappointed and increasingly nervous. now they're planning this boycott for monday, and she is worried. so the first day of the boycott is amazing and she very much describes her best memory oum frt whole year is w

nixon. to the health of our other american guests.esent and to the friendship between the chinese and the american peoples. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can only say that i've never seen this before. it exceeds all expectations. and one stands there and seeing the wall going to the peak of this mountain and realizes that it runs for hundreds of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of miles over the mountains and through the valleys of this country. it was built over 2,000 years ago. i think that you would have to conclude that this is a great wall and that it had to be built by a great people. many lives, of course, were lost in building it because there was no machinery or equipment at the time. it had to all be done by hand. but under the circumstances it is a certainly symbol of what china in the past has been and what china in the future can become, a people that could build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of and a people who have this kind

nixon: the new president" is a 1968 film produced for international audiences by the u.s. information agency, focusing primarily on president-elect nixon life's story and released prior to his inauguration. the film was distributed in many languages overseas, but by law could not be shown in the united states for at least 12 years. it's now part of the national archives motion picture collections. >> watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy "american history tv" every weekend on c-span3. traveling at the request of president nixon, special action office for drug abuse prevention. mr. davis discusses drug abuse problems, military service and race issues with the troops. >>> and everyone felt the same way. i asked everybody, did they want to go. i didn't tell them you will go, you know. i couldn't do that. i felt this would have to be their own decision to make. ♪ ♪ i was born a natural gambler ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> early in 1972, sammy davis jr. made a trip to south vietnam as a representative of president nixon's committee on drug abuse. his objectives were to o

nixon and so nixon and that -- as well as her husband come down to bail her out a few hours later. they go back to parks is apartment and nixon isn't measured delighted because this is sort of a test he's been looking for. who's worked for her safety but also that the community won't stay together and back here in the long run as had happened earlier. but after some discussion, she decides to go forward, she called for -- as fred for a new young black lawyer that she has been mentoring, meeting with, so she calls him that night and crazy then colds joanne robinson, who is the head of the women's political council and the women's political council that decides that night to call for a one day boycott on the monday when parks is to be arraigned in court. in the middle of the night, robinson sneaks into alabama state, where she is a person fessler and runs off 35,000 leaflets. at 3 am, robinson calls nixon. robinson doesn't call parks in, interesting lee. but she calls nixon and at five in the morning, eating nixon starts making calls to ministers in town. because he wants and he sees

between nixon and eisenhower that played out while nixon was vice president. so i decided to look more closely at eisenhower. and how he worked with members of this cabinet mmm, so here's the book on the screen. so why why humphrey and wilson? well first because they were businessmen and one of the subplots. in this book is the affinity that i had for members of the business community? you'll recall that he had a gang of buddies. who he hunted and fished and played bridge with and they were they were all business men. eisenhower felt more comfortable with business men as many of you that he did with other military officers so why did you know the question is? why did eisenhower pick humphrey and wilson for these jobs? another reason for focusing on them is that not much has been written about humphrey. or wilson they were the only this is strikes me as interesting that they were the only major figures. in the eisenhower administration who did not write memoirs. or any kind of recollections of their service they just went off and retired to their country estate

nixon has ever made.nd i suppose there would be meaning many even among his critics who will say that perhaps the few things in his presidency became in as much as his manner of leading. certainly no attacks on his enemies, none on the press as we did at an vice president yuriko when he reside. >> then they went to dan rather and he said this was a historic moment and this was, if not -- this is one of his finest hours if not the finest hour richard nixon. >> well, i think it may very well go down when history takes a look at it as one of richard nixon's if not his finest hour. used to be made clear and can't be emphasized too often i think as i think the president made clear in his speech better is no joy in this for anyone, no decent thinking american could take any joy out of this. that said, this is tempered by for many with all, all for the constitutional process that we sometimes call the system which worked magnificently. it was that constitutional process, a process of law which brought us to this

hopefully nixon inflation is only history, never to return. but none of us can guarantee that inflation won't return. not only is the size of this stimulus package detached from reality, so is the scope. a common adage for stimulus and economic relief measures is that they should be timely; they should be temporary; and they should be targeted. by this standard, the democrats' stimulus is well wide of the mark. more than one-third or about $700 billion of the funding in the bill wouldn't even be spent until 2022 or beyond, according to the c.b.o. how does anybody know that we need a stimulus in 2022 and beyond? by what standard does the biden administration say that we're going to need that? and hasn't that got something to do about the failure of this bill to accomplish what it wants to accomplish, or even the need for it, if some of this money won't be spent until the outer years? i don't know about you, but i don't see how spending hundreds of billions of dollars years from now is either timely or targeted, as these economists talk about a

being with richard nixon right before he resigned. what's that story?>> lillian was the premier makeup artist in washington, and she had started with the face the nation contract and she had done john kennedy when he was beginning to run for the presidency. she was also eric several rides regular makeup artist, she got a call from the white house, we want you over here for the nixon speech. she went over, left eric and went over to the white house. when she got there the secret service agent who knew her said lillian, he's not in very good shape. he was then meeting with the leaders of congress telling them that he was about to resign, and the cameras were over there in the oval office setting up for his speech, and a secret service agent said he's not in very good shape, so just to let you know that. so he got up. she waited near the oval office and he left the meeting with the congress leaders, congressional leaders, and he came in and he sat down and she began to apply the makeup, and he began to cry, weeping. she couldn't keep the makeup on because

made a trip to south vietnam as a representative of president nixon's committee on drug abuse.were to observe the military drug rehabilitation program, to talk with the troops, to report on race relations and, of course, to entertain. when he returned from vietnam, we asked him if it was anything like he expected. >> no. a couple of things you could say you expected to happen, but the warmth of the guys -- i'm not talking about for the show, i'm talking about on a one-to-one basis, i didn't know how they would react to me. the knowledge that i learned about the military, and i haven't been around a lot of military since i was in the army myself, which was in the '40s, that was absolutely illuminating to me. i know it sounds like a lot of hogwash or something else we weren't on television i could say, but it's true. the army, being an establishment of its own, it is very hard to make a step forward, to change things because it is a system. but when i see the changes in the army, in the military between 1943 and 1970, i am amazed. i thought it had made half that kind of a step, i

. >> and it helped nixon win the presidency. but there was nothing ailes could do to stop watergate. >> espionage unparalegaled in american history. >> he felt they didn't treat nix won why enough respect. >> i shall resign effective at noon tomorrow. >> he wanted to create a media vehicle that protection for the next nixon. >> ailes became the go-to right-wing media strategist of the 1980s. infamous for his vicious attacks. >> as governor michael dukakis gave freedom to first-degree murderers. >> in 1986, ailes found his destiny. when billionaire rupert murdoch came calling. the right-wing's favorite hatchet man. >> we do not believe that it is up to the media to make up the public's mind. >> was now creating a new news network. >> these days people think tv news is about as unbiased as the commercials. >> on cable. every channel needs to find its own slice of the audience. >> dedicated to getting the story right. >> ailes turned his channel into a right-wing bull horn. >> the terrorists. >> cutting like never before. >> you're

when nixon could have cleaned his archives of things -- there was outrage at the idea. as we have moved toward electronic records, have we at an innate level changed our sense of what a record is so that we are not outraged if it is disappeared? we want to use in some cases messaging apps that make things disappear. is there a broader revolution and understanding of records that needs to happen? >> i think it is funny because, one of the early concerns in the federal records act -- which is the counterpart that agencies are bound by -- they gave agencies a lot of authority to dispose of records, because they understood otherwise they would be overwhelmed with paper. we have the reverse now. the amount of paper records is diminishing, i suspect dramatically, but the amount of electronic records have increased exponentially. however, it is a lot easier to store and access electronic records than people records. that does not really answer your question, but members of the public, we use electronic -- we send email and intermingled doing work. it is not unusual to throw in

nixon, the new is a 1968 film produced by the u.s. information agency. focusing primarily on president-elect nixon's life story and released prior to his inauguration. it was distributed in many languages overseas, but by law, could not be shown in the united states for at least 12 years. it's now part of the motion picture collections. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. >>> founded on february 4th, 1941, the uso, united service organizations is 84 years old this year. next, on reel america, hosted by entertainer, bob hope, uso, 30 years of service, a 1971 u.s. army big picture episode, outlining the organization's history and military personnel around the united states and the world. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, this is bob hope with the uso story. for anybody who tuned in late and missed the first 30 years, stick around, there's more to come. actually, i have a special warm spot for the uso. we both started working for people in uniform about the same time, 1941, and we both covered a lot of ground sin

and was president nixon himself involved?inded the idea of breaking in and wiretapping the democratic national committee's headquarters inside the watergate complex in washington. when his burglars bungled it, the case directly led to liddy. as congress investigated the so-called smoking gun audio tape connected nixon himself, here talking about liddy. >> is it liddy? is that the fellow? he must be a little nuts. >> he is. >> i mean he just isn't well screwed on is he? >> desjardins: nixon resigned. liddy went to prison for more than four years. after he was out, liddy added to his reputation as a conservative outlier, bragging about his role in watergate as well as his own toughness. he sought the spotlight... >> well, sonny crockett. >> hello, sir. >> desjardins: ...including a part on tv's "miami vice." then in the 1990s, his voice gained new following, as a force in conservative talk radio. >> and we're back here in radio 3 d.c., the g. gordon liddy show! >> desjardins: on air, liddy used a sharp mind to launch a blunt ve

. ♪ ♪ ♪ traveling at the request of president nixon special action office for drug abuse prevention.avis performs in seven uso shows and discusses drug abuse problems. military service and raise issues with the troops. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> everyone felt the same way, i'm not saying that -- you see because it's true, i asked everyone that they want to go. i didn't tell them that you will go. because i couldn't do that. i felt that this would have to be their own decision to make. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> early 1972, semi travis junior make a trip to south vietnam as a representative to president nixon's camp community of drug abuse. his objective was to observe the community drug rehabilitation program to talk to the troops. to report on race relations and of course, to entertain. when he returned from vietnam, we ask him if it was anything like he expected? >> no. a couple of things you could say, you expected to happen. but the warmth of the guys, i'm not talking about for the show, i'm talking about only one to one basis. i didn't know how they would react to me. the knowledge that i learned about the m

and i don't think richard nixon ever really understood that. reagan loses to ford at the convention by the narrowest of margins. 67 delegate votes out of 2,257 cast. you're there. talk about -- this is the last openly contested nomination. >> right. >> and it's all being broadcast live on all three networks. >> so, the convention hinged on an obscure rule that required the delegates to vote the way their states had voted. so the delegates were not free citizens any more. they had to vote that way. and had we won and let the delegates vote their conscious, we thought we had a chance. well, that wound up losing so that would have been tuesday night. so, i remember and we came that close and, so, i was so despondent that night and i remember i walked out and i just shook my head and i just said to no one in particular, i think we just blew the best chance we'll ever have to elect a conservative. that's how down everybody was because, you know, he was soon to be the ex-governor. >> 65 years old. >> he was 65 years old which in those days was consid

but she wins that nomination, and in the general election, she runs against richard nixon. who uses a lot of the same tactics that have been employed against her in the primary. and accuses her of being pink, right down to her underwear. so she returned fire, because in one campaign speech, she labeled nixon as tricky dick, and that stuck with him for the rest of his political career. and that campaign tactic, kind of tying her to the red scare, and communist sympathizers, was potent because nixon won in a landslide. and she left politics. >> this is a 1941 magazine which has not survived into the 24 century. but you could see it's a magazine aimed at women, and there's a woman posing in a wedding dress, there's something called the bachelor life on the cover, and it's an exposÉ of bachelor days and nights. but inside there's an article on women in congress. one of the things i love about this, is that this is a great example of how the press didn't really know how to place limiting congress. the and you see jesse sumner here, and lots of the women that we know you know it

so nixon raise taxes, and nixon that unleashed the dollar, unhooked it from any gold or any other monetary discipline, and imposed a massive regulation on the economy. so again, in a bipartisan way, a democrat and republican got it right, and we had a democrat and a republican who got it wrong. and now the question is, how is the balance going to wind up tipping? and i can't answer that question. i don't have a crystal ball. but it's important. the other point that brian red, which i love really, this is that doug dylan, he is a very wealthy banker, his father clarence dylan founded the old dylan reid. and for many years that was among the widest of the wide shoe of investment banks in new york. and doug dylan had just about as much money as joe kennedy and john f. kennedy, and travels in high social circles. in fact even higher than the kennedys. so kennedy could not stare him down. he had to listen when dylan spoke. after all kennedy put him in office as treasury secretary. and sometimes you have to be able to make people listen to you, whatever it takes and in this case it was money and

so after lady bird johnson every first lady except pat nixon who had her daughter do the job for her every first lady has published a book on leaving the white house. we'll we don't know about the current first lady if she will or not, but that's been the rule that they've all written the about leaving the white house. the time there next question is from darren from florida. please comment on edith wilson's role after president wilson had a stroke. yes, that's what i was referring to earlier that people think that she you know petticoat government. that was the phrase that she was running the government and he was incapacitated. i mean she didn't let anyone in to see him or only of the very few trusted staff members into sea. but if you look at the things that did not get done, you know, there was a major strike there were problems with deporting people from the united states who didn't agree with certain policies. she really functioned as more like a a barrier to people who wanted to get near him. so if she'd been really a door. it should really take an over government. she would h

nixon is a film by the international industry. focusing on president nixon's life story and released prior to his inauguration. it was distributed in many languages but could not be shown in the united states for many years, by law. it's now part of the motion picture collections. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every week day on c-span 3. >>> next on history bookshelf, texas christian university professor, talks about her book, "the girls next door" bringing the home front to the frontlines, which examines the women who volunteered to entertain american soldiers overseas during war time. we were part of this event at the 2019 roosevelt reading festival in the presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. >>> now, my

nixon, the new president, is the 1968 film produced for international audiences by the u.s. agency. focusing primarily on president-elect nixon's life story and released prior to his inauguration. the film was distributed in many languages overseas, but by law, could not be shown in the united states for at least 12 years. it's now part of the national archives motion pictures collection. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> next on "history bookshelf," texas christian university professor kara dixon vuic talks about her book "the girls next door: bringing the home front to the front lines" which examines the women who have volunteered to entertain american soldiers overseas. we recorded this at the fdr presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. >>> it's now pleasure to introduce this session's author, kara dixon vuic, lance corporal benjamin schmidt war conflict and society 20th century at texas christian university. she's the author of "the girls next door: bringing the home front to the front lines" an

nixon and to be among our five most notable presidents of the united states. thank you so much for being here today. president washington. president lincoln. president theodore roosevelt, president calvin coolidge, and president roosevelt, i have moments of sitting here is really true, thank you so, so much for being here today. i would like to go first of all welcome, president washington. it's a honor and a privilege to meet you. so the first question that i have for you is as the first president of our nation, i would like to ask you why did you decide to elect a president instead of naming a king? >> i said one king george is enough. and i frankly didn't even want to be president. the last thing that i ever wanted to be was king. it might interest you to know that before i was inaugurated, the senate passed a resolution that my title should be his highness george washington, president of the united states, and defender of its people. i finally put an end to that and said, it's mister president. >> as most of us are aware, the president takes the oath of of

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i think nixon did. robinson was angry when they backed off of colvin. colvin was a young girl that parks had worked with. they had a relationship in that sense. so when they backed off of covin, she was really upset. as the article tells you, they're waiting. robinson has been fighting this fight for a decade, right? and when the decision -- the brown decision comes out and she writes, what, four days later, she writes to the mayor like, you know, just reminding you, african-americans make up 75% of the rioters. if we were to actually boycott, that would be really bad for the bus company, right? that's a threat, right, to the degree to which she could do it. i don't think we can tag that on robinson so much. but i think we can tag it on gender politics of the time and politics of color. because it's not incidental that she's a light-skin woman. all of these things allow for middle class respectability. they allow for middle class respectability, despite the fact that rosa parks is absolutely of the working class and arguably of the working poor. she doe

eisenhower the president and the welcoming party including vice president nixon mrs. nixon the president's mother-in-law and his daughter in law also at the airport were cabinet members congressman and diplomats reporting on the historic meeting at the summit. the president said, yes, what will be the result of this conference? of course? no one knows but the coming months will tell much. but in the meantime, we do know that new contacts have been established and there is evidence of a new friendliness in the world. civil in saigon south vietnam's capital reminded the world that enduring peace was still far away loyal troops fought in the streets against a rebel outlaw army civilians caught in the crossfire ran aimlessly anywhere to escape with their lives and their loved ones. the american-backed government was victorious, but saigon lays scarred under the smoking devastation of civil war sovereignty for west germany signified her return to a place of trust in the community of free nations, the allied occupation ended west germany was again mistress of her destiny ch

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pat nixon said about herself. i'm an ordinary woman and i've had extraordinary circumstances and opportunities, but you know what? she was really really humble because she was as comfortable as meeting people that you read about in history books as she was about engaging in a conversation at a grocery store. so it's just an honor and a privilege for me to portray her and very fitting today to portray mrs. nixon and to be among our five most notable presidents of the united states. thank you so much for being here today president, washington president lincoln president theodore roosevelt president, calvin, coolidge and president franklin roosevelt. i have been pinch me moments of sitting here. is this really true? and thank you so so much for being here today. so i'd like to go first of all welcome president washington. thank you. it's an honor and a privilege to meet you nothing. so the first question i have for you is as the first president of our nation, i would like to ask you why did you decide to elect a pres

and it's interesting craig, there was really a twofold idea behind this, and the first was that the nixon administration was in all kinds of trouble at that time, they were being accused of watergate, and all the attending problems. so the first goal, was to say the conservative movement is aligned with the republican party, but not the same as the republican party. the republican party is a political vehicle, and the conservative movement always stood for ideals, which had a home and maybe in the republican party, but that's the first point we wanted to make. but the second point was that there was this governor, we have in california that was probably the most consistent conservative on the national scene that we had ever had. and yet a lot of people nationally, did not know about him and that was ronald reagan. so the idea was to give him a national forum to introduce him to the american people, and the conservatives. and remember this was way before talk radio, and cable television. you know and a big deal used to be, getting an article about your candidate in the new york times of th

nixon, the new president is a 1968 film producer international audience by the u.s.nformation agency. focusing primarily on president elect nixon's life story and released prior to his inauguration,the film was distributed in many languages overseas but by law cannot be shown in the united states for 12 years. it is now part of the national archives motion picture collections. watch monday, beginning at 8 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. since 2011 architect and historic preservationist jobie hill has been visiting and compiling a database of former slave dwellings in the united states. her interdisciplinary work includes architectural documentation photography interpretation and preservation of slave history. up next on american artifacts we travel to southern virginia near the north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. she's joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble incorporated who came along to document brando

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