is arthur nixon arthur nixon. i'm sorry to say past when he was seven years old he woke up one day with the headache and he goes, oh mom, he goes. i don't feel good. and so it's in several days. what a tragedy in the family. so many people don't know that richard mille house. nixon didn't lose two brothers at a very early age and many people say perhaps it's what gave him the drive and the ambition to do something with his life last but not least. i'm very happy to say that ed nixon is still alive as i told you because he's the author of the book the nixon's and he was born in 1930. so he never lived here, but such great stories. he can tell you about when richard nixon did ask him to take him a cross country ride in the car and he was able to drive the car and one of the favorite things. i kind of like a nixon shared with me is he said to me darlene one of our favorite foods that dad would make for us was beef stew the best beef stew ever. that was so succulent with the vegetables at the beef would just melt in y

nixon and dr.here on european problems and the role of smaller nations in an era of great power diplomacy. a luncheon is given in the president's honor before his departure. after a brief stay, the president expresses his appreciation for the opportunity to learn austria's thinking on the problems of europe and the world. moscow, a summit conference between the united states and the soviet union has been in preparation for many long months. ♪ president nixon is met by the president and foreign minister. this is the prelude to eight days of hard-working meetings and negotiations. sessions will state place in the halls and palaces of the kremlin, 15th-century citadel of the czars. ♪ catherine hall is the site of the first full meeting of the soviet and american delegations. ♪ at the hotel, several hundred members of the international press have gathered to report on the progress of the talks. as they go about their daily lives, the citizens of moscow and the world await news of the meetings. five maj

misses nixon visits the world-famous moscow circus. ♪ >> misses nixon is taking on a tour of moscow stateversity. these tallest structure in the city. there are 34,000 students at the diversity from 105 countries. -- at the university from 105 countries. they observed young dancers at work. training begins early at the age seven[speaking foreign language] >> that evening, the president and misses dixon attend the ballet for a special performance of swan lake. ♪ >> on may 26, the american and soviet delegation gather at state level we are all. after 30 months of intense negotiation, president nixon signed to the united states, general secretary signs for the ussr. he agreements are a major scale down the arms race. units imposed on nuclear arsenals represent an important step toward international stability and confidence among nations. and reach trip by air to leningrad. marines are laying really thousands -- laid for the thousands who died. -- wreaths are laid for the thousands who died. from her diary, president makes its reason about tonya -- reads about -- president nixon reads about t

roberts: richard nixon had been in office for two years.rate in 1968 against hubert humphrey, the democrat on a platform that had two parts. one was to restore law and order because there had been riots and uprisings in the cities, antiwar demonstrations. students occupying college campuses. that was one part of his vision. the other part of his campaign was to end the war, and the disorder that it was causing in the country. he managed to win an extremely narrow victory over humphrey. if you go by popular vote, the margin of victory that nixon had over humphrey was less than the 2016 election. if you were trying to gauge the division in the country, that is a good measure. nixon, instead of ending the war, he expanded it geographically. in 1970, he sent troops over the border of vietnam into cambodia, and that had engendered a huge national student uprising against the war which ended in this tragic shooting at a university campus in ohio where national guardsmen killed four students. in 1971, in the spring, nixon decided to expand the war

now, part of the nixon library are the nixon tapes. i don't think anyone is listen to all the tapes nixon talks about energy before. there are a lot of them. these kind of conversations are important. sometimes it tells you how people really think even more than the public statement. student what about interviews? did you have any breakthroughs on interviews? or do people remember correctly what actually happened? >> think i've met over 50% or over 50 people mentioned in the book. when you're at a presidential library you not only meet nature figures in your president but others as well many occasions on the times you were present to talk with president carter about energy. and to give additional perspective and particularly we were redesigning the museum. i used a lot of interviews that were done at the time. when you leave the white house to do an exit interview with the national archives. when you are at a fairly senior rank you do a long interview and the university of virginia which is a very fine school. what you find as you go 4

richard nixon was elected in 1968. one of the reasons he was elected was his promise to end the war. rather than ending the war, he was expanding it geographically. in 1971, in february, troops were sent south. that triggered another run of the movement, which was in the spring of 1971. we have dozens of antiwar groups who came together in this chaotic choreography, starting in mid april of 1971 and going through mid-may. they were designed to bolster support. the finale of this protest was to be the most audacious one, which was the blockade of the street and bridges. that is why they were camped, getting ready for protest. the nixon administration was increasingly worried about the effect of all the protests, so they secretly revoked the permit on saturday and sunday morning, they sent in the police to clear out the park, in the hopes that the people who would come in would disperse and go home, and there would be no protest monday morning, but that is not what happened. greta: i want to show the viewers, on april 7,

nixon said business as usual.elt so dejected, i guess, because it seems like all this effort was put forth, yet it wasn't getting through. >> i'm going to stop at that point. lawrence roberts? >> yeah, one of the enduring questions of this time is, you know, to what extent did the anti-war movement, vietnam anti-war movement stop the war, shorten the war, constrain the military in the war and, you know, historians debate this because, you know, it's hard to say what would have happened if there were no anti-war movement. i think there's no question, if you listen to the nixon tapes, if you look at the documents, if you study the johnson administration as well, there's no question that the anti-war movement, the domestic opposition to the war constrained the military from doing more intense options, more serious invasions of north vietnam, of using more, you know, weapons of war, even potentially using tactical nuclear weapons, which was on the table at one point. there's no question that domestic opposition got in

nixon was astonishing. nixon at one point had the secret service put a wiretap on his own brother as a special personal request from him. who even knew nixon had a brother. but yeah, he had a brother and he had the secret service install bugs on him so nixon could spy on his own brother while he was in office. but that -- that change after 1968, after the bobby kennedy assassination and the secret service was put in charge of protecting major presidential candidates, that ended up giving nixon a whole new idea for how he could try to use and corrupts the secret service. 1972, segregationist presidential candidate george wallace had secret service protection as a presidential candidate, but wallace was nevertheless shot while he was campaigning in laurel, maryland. and that attack did not kill george wallace, but it did leave him paralyzed. when nixon heard about the attempt on george wallace's life, he immediately got himself a great idea. he would very quickly insist that because someone had tried to kill

vice president nixon's office was still at the capitol 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 part cabinet, national security, counsel, taking foreign missions for president eisenhower oftentimes he would go for a month or two months on a farm trip during political work. between having executive branch commissions and so forth. and vice president nixon successors, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, spirit canoe, gerald ford and nelson rockefeller essentially followed the nixon model. their office moved into the executive office building, they took on more functions in the executive branch, sharing commissions, making trips for the president, doing political work. other than vice president act new, i think all of these people were really among the leading political figures of their political generation. and the vice presidency be again better presidential springboard and became attractive to enable people for

, they followed the nixon model. they moved their office moved into the executive office building. they took on more functions in the executive branch, sharing permissions and making trips for the president, and doing political work. other than vice president agnew i think all of these people were really among the leading political fields of their political generation. and they became it became a vice presidency became attractive to able people for that reason. it became a springboard to the presidency. nixon and humphrey were went to seek the presidency. and there were gallop polls were spirit at new -- but until we have to leave office. but from nixon to rockefeller, there's still work limitations. the primary role of the presidency of the vice presidency was to provide a successor to the presidency. the vice presidents were not part of the presidents inner circle. and vice presidents tended to feel pretty frustrated at under utilized in their positions. president eisenhower he wanted to dump vice president nixon f

president nixon detected spero ag nu, there were presidents when president nixon would be talking to halderman and johner lickman and they would say agnew wants to meet with you and the president would say the president doesn't meet with the vice president. that is not his job. that is not part of the deal. president ford's nine months as vice president were probably the least happy time of his public service. he took on some commission work in the executive branch, commission on privacy, he did some legislative liaison, but he spent much of the time traveling around the country trying to help republican candidates who were being hurt by the watergate scandal and staying as far from it as he could. then when he designated nelson rockefeller as his vice president, president ford really wanted to try and do something with the vice presidency. he liked nelson rockefeller, he admired his ability, he wanted to make use of him. he wanted to make vice president rockefeller's staff feel welcome. he felt that the ford vice presidential staff had not been included and he wanted to make sure th

there were five nixon boys.he reason hannah nixon gave birth to richard in that bed was because it was so cold that day. hannah nixon said that was one of the coldest days of the year here in california so she gave birth to that baby in here. please look at the wonderful blankets. the quilts and the blanket, 1837 , ohio, isn't that amazing to note these were the original blankets given to hannah nixon for her wedding day. when she met frank nixon, within three months they got married. those frames were made by hand fight richard nixon when he was a small boy, and he surprised his mother and gave it to hannah nixon as a gift. it said mother's voice -- boys, and hannah nixon cherish it because she had five sons. to the right of that frame you see a lovely picture of the four boys. it is a lovely picture to see. all four boys were born in here but the 50 point was born later in 1930. he never lived in this house. the dresser was made by hand bite richard nixon's uncle and the wonderful photograph. how wonderful it

nixon in 1958. inspired mobs disrupted the goodwill tour of vice president and mrs. nixon in 1958. upon their return to washington, the nixon's were hailed by the president for their courage in the face of political gangsterism. a crisis in the congo reflected the problems of new nations complicated by russian interference. on june 30th, 1960, the king of belgium declared the end of the congo status as a colony. patrice was elected premier, he demanded immediate withdraw of belgium troops. antiwestern riots resulted in which the soldiers participated in attacks on european settlers, forcing them to evacuate. the premier of province supported by belgian troops remaining in his province declared secession from the congolese government. the united states secretary general flew when they appealed for russian aid. he persuaded the belgians to withdraw. the president ousted him from the premiership and expelled communist ambassadors from the congo. countries supporting him faced the problem of preventing

, so that he reflected sort of the nixon election of 1972. and, similarly, his appointment of rockefeller then reflects the same trend. but i think the idea is that the senators and the congressmen really serve as a surrogate for the electorate. it's hard to come up with a perfect system. the alternative would be to have special elections, and that has a whole host of problems. and i think most people thought that the 25th amendment in 1973-'74 worked quite well, because given that you had a democratic speaker at the time and you had president nixon facing impeachment, that it would have been more difficult to remove a president if you couldn't put in a vice president who was from the same party. with respect to section 4 -- section 3 provides a system where the president can voluntarily turn power over to the vice president if the president is disabled. section 4 deals with a situation where if the president is either unwilling or unable to declare his or her own inability, the vice president and the cabinet can say that the president is dis

nixon in 1958.heir return to washington, the nixon's were hailed by the president for their courage in the face of political gangsterism. a crisis in the congo reflected the problems of new nations, complicated by russian interference. on june 30th 1960, the king, a belgium declared the end of the congo -- as a colony. -- he was elected premier. he demanded immediate withdrawal of belgian troops. anti western riots resulted -- congolese soldiers participated in attacks forcing them to evacuate. the premier -- supported by belgian troops remaining in his province declared secession from the central congolese government. united nations secretary general -- flew to get tangled when -- threatened to appeal the russian aide against the belgians. he persuaded the belgians to withdraw. president joseph cast the ousted him from premiership, and with colonel joseph mobutu expelled communist ambassadors from the congo, the country supporting him and showed, faced the problem of preventing russian interference

supreme court in 1982, in nixon v.d held when the exercise his official duties he cannot be held liable. among other things, the court said the desire to be reelected will deter the president from abusing his official duties. that's a good one in a case like this where the president had been voted out of office. the court also said that you could rely on congress to check the president. that's a really good one in a case like this where the president is accused by congressmen swadwell of aiming an angry mob at the capitol at congress to prevent it from performing it's f function, the president's claim to stay in after being voted out by the people and the electoral college takes it to a new level. saying i have a duty to you my subjects, i can hear the play "hamilton ownership ton owners "hamilton" -- -- - if i president had an official responsibility that was part of his job description to hold on to that office even after he's voted out of it, and to do it even by trying to have his own vice president hung in front o

nixon said " business as usual."o dejected i guess, because it seemed like all this effort was put forth, and yet it was not getting through. host: i'm going to stop at that point. lawrence roberts? guest: one of the enduring questions of this time is to what extent did the antiwar movement, the vietnam antiwar movement stop the war, shorten the war, constrain the military? historians debate this. it is hard to say what would have happened if there was no antiwar move it. there is no question if you listen to the nixon tapes and if you study the johnson administration as well, there is no question the antiwar movement, domestic opposition to the war constrained the military from doing more intense options, more serious invasions of north vietnam, of using more weapons of war, potentially using tactical nuclear weapons, which was on the table at one point. there is no question that the antiwar movement was at least partly responsible for lyndon johnson's decision not to seek another term in 1968. during the period tha

and after nixon left office, fitzgerald sued nixon saying, that he was reorganized out of a job and that real reason the president did was that he didn't like the way fitzgerald had testified against him. the u.s. supreme court in 1982, in a case call nixon versus face charles, held that when the president is exercising his official duties, he cannot be held liable. among other things, the court said, the desire to be reelected will deter the president from abusing his official duties. that's a good one implied in a case like this where the president had been voted out of office. the core also said, that you can rely on congress to check the president. that's a really good one in a case like this where the president is accused, by congressman swalwell, of aiming an angry mob at the capital, as congress. to prevent it from performing its function. the presidents claim that it is part of his official duties to stay in office no matter what, even after he has been voted out by the people and by the electoral college, really takes hotspots to a new level. it says i have a duty to you, my sub

or told richard nixon, that's it, the jig is up. in this day and age, howard baker would be thrown out the way liz cheney is being ostracized by her party. does it have to do with nixon and trump always thinking that they have political enemies and that these enemies have to be afraid of them? >> i think it's more the radicalization of the base of the party and the leaders that are not radical or afraid of the base. those who are radical are comfortable with them, want them to continue projecting that radical image, and trying to give it some legitimacy. the people at the hearings that have been pushing these weird perceptions of what happened on january 6th are radicals. so that's the only explanation, that we're down to a very radical republican parties that has little connection with reality, jim. the moderates and thinking republicans, they're not in that group anymore. they're talking about -- i talk to a lot of them. they're trying to figure, do we start a new father? how do we get people to start facing reality? they don't no

with china in 1971 with zhou en-lai and that led to his leadership in the summit between president nixonand chairman mao and opened up relations with china later in 1979. he successfully concluded the paris peace conference ending the vietnam war and has continued to be a person has who has written extensively so on behalf of senator mccain and his entire family thank you for being with us. the topic of this year's form is defending democracy and if i may and they want us to focus on the pivotal relationship with the u.s. and china so maybe i will start with an obvious open-ended question. you were really one of the first that began the modern area -- era of relations with the u.s. and china and it still is even more important the bilateral relationship to end he managed to avoid the conflict to our mutual benefit and i wonder if you would reflect a bit on the historic opening discussions you had which led to the beginning of the u.s. china relationship and compared to where we are now and what her role is now. >> it's good to talk about senator mccain. he was a prisoner in vietnam and h

more will die before richard nixon is president because nixon does not quickly, easily, effectively and the war in vietnam, the anti-war movement in the years ahead will radicalize and explode, and create an incredible polarization on the american people. that's for next time. i on tuesday in american history tv and washington journal study session for huskily sudan's preparing for the advanced placement u.s. history exam. coauthors of fabric of a nation. a brief history with skills and sources for the ap u.s. history course, provide strategies for the free response answers, and demonstrate how to analyze historical documents. watch tuesday beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3.

well that does some difference i mean back here nixon's they his was deemed to be highly moral have to step down this you know that this web purging position of most not deemed to be legitimate however what has been quite interesting united states is that the moral it is shifted a bit because who want us to notice it is a bit unique that this has been all this is up in united states because it's rather unique country in terms of its historical focus on individual this you know the need to restrain government this is built into a demand there of the country which would imply that the country should almost. immune to the helping of police however what we've seen over time especially since nixon's days has been to shift tomorrow to previously you know individual is some limitation please stay on this or some are or else you know we see more a challenging authority is immoral an impish of it so you see more now on the left with this urging. decision and granting new powers and apologizing for his governments and their economic was a lie that is considered. openly and. through back to the n

enter presidential candidate richard nixon. he knew exactly how terrifying 1968 was to the right wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in america. >> fear, fear, fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. build the base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> these code words, these dog whistles, law and order. >> law and order is something everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to their horror, he wanted to make government bigger. >> he proposed a universal health insurance program and no president left behind a more ambitious environmental legacy than nixon. >> nixon actually founded the environmental protection agency. >> big government was there to stay. it was disappointing for a lot of conservatives. >> there's the president waving goodbye. >> then the watergate scandal consumed the nixon presidency. it would be 1980 before conservatives found a new hero. ronald reagan was goldwater reincarnate

here is a preview. >> president richard nixon is greeted by the premier.ing the next eight days, the two nations will begin the process of slowly bridging diplomatic barriers. after the president's arrival, there is a meeting with dash, a major step in opening dialogue between the two countries. on the first night, a banquet is held in the president's honor in the great hall of the people. [speaking foreign language] >> the american people are a great people. the chinese people are a great people. now, through the common efforts of china and the united states, the gate to friendly contact has finally been opened. [applause] >> there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us seeks the territory of the other, neither of us seeks domination over the other, neither of us seeks to stretch out our hands and rule the world. ♪ >> premier joanne mr. nixon meet often, talks covering cultural and economic exchanges. -- i -- exchanges, independence in asia. while the discussions continue, misses nixon acts as a roving ambassador throughout the city. ♪ >> at the

nixon lost to kennedy in 1960, and lost his bid to become california governor, but richard nixon is noteasy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the dead, he does something tricky and i'm not going to be able to say much more today. nixon had made his bones as a fierce anticommunist. he said, always, we must stand up to the threat of soviet calm knew communist. but by 1968, the war in vietnam was wearing thin with again, not just radicals, not just with young people, both more and more americans. they didn't want to betray the troops. they certainly didn't have a radical critique of american foreign policy. but the war had been going on now for more than 3 1/2 years when election day came. nixon didn't say we will win no matter the cost, we will defeat communism no matter what burden it costs us. he said something different. he says americans must win this peace. americans must win this peace. okay, what's that mean? he goes, well, i promise you that i will win this peace for america, i have a plan to end the war in vietnam. everyone is like, thank goodness. how are you going to do

that kept nixon from using nuclear weapons and escalating in 1969.the most effective -- i was telling greta thunberg, our hero, i think for both of us, my hero for sure, and i was speaking with her the strikes sure leading network weekday strikes, on friday against climate, i told her the history moratorium and said, think about what they plan to do, which was one day the first of the month, today's the second month, three days the third month -- in other words, not just one day at a time, but escalating kind of thing. which she has not yet done with the pandemic. but i'm going to go back to her with this notion. anyway, the idea of a strike was -- it was the most effective action. the pentagon papers themselves had -- i did not expect much because they ended in 1968 and did not tell us what nixon was doing. i major message was contrary to what people believed after nixon's election in 1968, this war is not ending. it is going to go on and it is going to get larger. that is what i had in mind. i did not have the documents because the people who did h

so nixon offered something interesting.didn't say, we will win no matter the cost, we will defeat communism no matter what burden it costs us. he said something different. he says americans must win this peace. americans must win this peace. okay, what's that mean? he goes, well, i promise you that i will win this peace for america, i have a plan to end the war in vietnam. everyone is like, thank goodness. how are you going to do that? he goes, well, it would be unfair of me to tell you while i'm not the president of the united states, because that would undercut president johnson's efforts to negotiate with our enemies. so you'll just have to believe me, because i'm such a believable figure, that i have a plan to end the war in vietnam. well, we're going to have to leave it here today. the war does not end with richard nixon's victory in 1968. indeed, the war will go on until 1973. when richard nixon took office about 31,000 american soldiers had already perished, marines and sailors as well. 27,000 more will die while ric

families of the missing men joined the nixon campaign. there was that suggestion that nearly since all families had no idea if their pilot's sons, fathers or husbands had been captured, killed or were missing in action, we should offer to find out by letting them write a letter once a month and receive a letter from home in return. we created the committee of liaison with teams of soldiers detained in north vietnam. we brought our proposal to the women's union of vietnam. the closest thing to a nongovernment al organization in so we wouldn't be arrested under the logan act. we brought hands full of letters from families to be distributed to those who were pilot prisoners and because of the news of the huge moratorium and mobilization demonstrations, we were received with considerable kudos. upon our departure ten days later, we were handed 138 letters from pilots from pows. for many, it would be the first time they found out that their family member was alive. we also brought the news that men could write. everybody was a man -- i mean, t

kennedy, ronald reagan, jimmy carter or richard nixon?the double your point total lose all your points. >> site might i say ragan. kennedy: gary you have nothing i'm erasing all of your points it was richard nixon he signed the national cancer act in 1971 before sent people into the watergate hotel to break in and steal stuff. okay this is question number six. [laughter] what was george washington's presidential salary? was it $100, 25000 big ones, 200,000 or $2 million? happy first answer. >> $200 i think. kennedy: know you are wrong gives $25000.1789 congress voted to pay the president's salary of 25 grand a year. vice president only got five large. so was able to percent of the total federal budget that seems like a lot. he'll imagine how much a president would bake now? [laughter] that will be great. right tim carney you can "prez your luck" and w . total. or you can just take this normal. abram liked was the first president to drive an assassination. who is the second? was it james a garfield, van buren, or jeremy? [laughter] >> "pre

it was president nixon's picture here. and here now you could clearly see the inside of the building with a stage down here and many of the participants and that particular event, bunting's all along here to show with this would look like in 1973 in from that time, on every president has had a ball here. there are numerous balls that are conducted during that period of time. there is an official set. and unofficial set. though there could be as many as they want. institutions had them. universities had them. all around town. anytime over that weekend there would be something called an inaugural ball. but there is only a limited number. they are sanctioned by the presidential inaugural committee. let me show you a few more of those. let's see what they look like. here's president carter. and this is carter here, and the back you could see some of the columns, you could see her gown. president carter was more of a populace and he wanted to have which he called a popular peoples inauguration. he was the first want to walk fro

president nixon, mrs. nixon, the presidents mother-in-law and his daughter in law. all aboard were kong chris members, diplomats, reporting on the meeting in the summit the president said. >> what will be the result of the conference? no one knows? but the coming months will tell. but in the meantime, we know that the context has been established. and there is evidence of a new friendliness in the world. >> civil war in saigon, south vietnam's capital reminded the world that injuring piece was still far away. loyal troops fought on the streets against a rebel army. civilians cost and the cross fire walking aimlessly to escape with their lives and their loved ones. the american-backed government was victorious but saigon lead scarred under the devastation of the civil war. sovereignty for west journey signified her return to a place of trust in the three nations. the chancellor at flag raising ceremonies proudly announced we are free and independent. standing free among the free. sovereignty for austria concluded within vienna's ancient belvedere balance. . . . milit

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