in the nixon era. her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jona

nixon surround himself with great diversity. the difference between conley and burns, and peterson it was really quite something to get them in the room and basically make decisions everyone sort of agreed to. i don't of that biden has this kind of diversity. i hope he does but i don't follow it so closely. when you're making it really big decisions the most dangerous thing is to have everyone feel exactly the same way and not present any challenges. and third, kissinger was acutely aware there was a relationship between international economic policy and our foreign policy. and in the end, they were really emerged. i hope biden is able to do that too. there is no kissinger in this administration. and there is no connolly who basically brought the opposite viewpoint. and so i hope this whole question of interlinking foreign policy and economic policy is taken very seriously by biden. i think that's one of the lessons of the camp david meeting. >> going to hold up the book here as a show. not just because i am a monetary policy ne

burns above all wanted nixon's admiration. i go into this a lot about how personality plays a major role. burns simply wanted to be in these situations. he came to the conclusion that neither fiscal nor monetary policy was the right policy but in fact, inflation was being caused by labor unions negotiating for higher wages which made companies raise prices so, rather than focus on interest rates, he wanted a way to convince nixon. so, inflation played a big role. when i think about it today, i think we face a tricky situation now. i don't know if it's a parallel, but certainly, the biden administration is very focused on getting everyone back to work. they are saying the inflationary pressures are pressing. and i hope they understand that there is expectations. let's put it this way. the approaches to inflation are of more than just academic interest. a lot of people are saying, are we there again? richard, let me throw the ball to you for a second. i have told you all i know. how do you see it? >> of course, you and i worked

nixon knew something had to be done. we to allow the dollar to be devalued. that's why they did it even though there was so much prosperity around. >> you had fierce national is in sean connelly. i wonder if you could give us insights into how these personalities came to this decision? >> that's a really good way to put it. nixon knew something had to be done. he didn't really have grasp of the international financial situation. only one person there did. what was remarkable about the people around nixon is most people never heard of it. they had heard of them, they heard in a much different context. john connelly was the secretary of the treasury and in many ways he would have been very much at home in the trump administration. he was a fierce nationalist. he basically, his motto was let's screw the foreigners before they screw us. he had no interest, at all, in the global financial system and he arrived in washington thinking the japanese had taken advantage over the last two decades. he was the undersecretary of treas

nixon new something had to be done.didn't really have a grasp of the international financial situation. in fact, only one person there did and that was paul volker. let me take one step back. what was remarkable about the people around nixon was that most people had never heard of him. as richard said, john conley was the secretary of the treasury and in many ways he would have been very much at home in the trump administration. he was a fierce nationalist. he basically, his motto was let's screw the foreigners before they screw us. and he arrived in washington thinking that the europeans and the japanese had taken advantage of us over the last two decades and they owe us big. in contrast, there is paul volker. he was the undersecretary of treasury. but he was the only one there who really understood the global financial system. he realized the dollar had to be devalued. the only way to do that is delink it from gold. he really felt okay. devalue the dollar and then you relink. he wanted fixed exchange rates. connolly c

. ♪ when the nixon administration -- it sen >>> when the nixon administration untethered gold and the.s. dollar, it sent shock waves throughout the u.s. economy and uphended the most important political and military alliances. why was this decision made? what are the current challenges to the dollar from china's dominance to new forms of currency? luckily we have with us tonight two individuals that can help shed light to the topic. good evening and welcome to the program 2367 counsel in dallas-fort worth. our program this evening features garten of the yell school of management and author of "three day at camp david" how a secret meeting in 1970 when transformed the local economy. richard fischer former president ceo of the federal reserve bank of dallas joins us to moderate the discussion. you can get copies of providence street at our local bookstore partner. our audience receives a 10% discount from the on line store by using the code csw world and remember the code is good for any of the books in your shopping cart not just jeffries. the council will continue to offer top-tier vi

so, nixon. >> really interesting question. in the interests of the speed round i'm going to say mostly it's the person. but i think the policies has been underemphasized as a reason for the hatred over time. >> johnson. >> i think it's a combination of both. for example, if you look at something like the kernor commission where johnson commissions this group to look into the reasons for some of the riots that happened in american cities, you know, with the best of intentions, but ultimately ignores the findings. so it's like, the policy seems to be there, but then ultimately the personality gets in the way. >> roosevelt. >> i would say it was both. he smoked and he drank and his kids divorced their spouses, those caused problems. it was also the policies. without mussolini, franco, i don't think there would have been as much fear and hatred of roosevelt. >> lincoln. >> a lot of people made fun of lincoln about chopping wood. i would say it was far more policy. the opportunity to address one of the questions about race, was lin

nixon's expansion opens an entirely new theater of horse elsewhere nixon through american support forn on american relationships with authoritarians and places as diverse as brazil, chile, pakistan on and on one could go. for many commentators this tolerance for brutality and they turn away from democracy provides a major reason to despise nixon. jimmy carter gave a classic formulation in his famous 1977 speech at notre dame university pretty said in part for too many years we have been willing to adopt a flawed and erroneous tactics of our adversary sometimes abandoning our values for theirs. vietnam he said was the best example of the intellectual and moral poverty of u.s. poverty choices. but he blessed nixon's decision-making more generally and embrace of any dictator joined us. it kind of criticism perhaps peaked in the early 21st century with the publications the trial of henry kissinger which proposed no less than prosecution for the decision making during the nixon presidency. expressions of hostility nixon had departed from honored american traditions both in the content of h

and over time the gop would move away from nixon's realism but at the heart of this lay this sense nixon's amoralism laid outside as jimmy carter would have put it, the enduring american values. the unfortunate outcome as i think many analysts of nixon's presidency might say is to throw into very deep disrepute any reason sense of limits and interest that may have served the united states well at many points across united states history but especially during the era of 1945. the real tragedy of the hate surrounding nixon may be the sheer difficulty of fundamentally resurrecting sound policy decisions. so encrusted have those ideas become in the reputation of the 37th president. so i will stop it there, jeff, and turn it back over to you. >> thank you, mark. always fascinating. we never have as much time for discussion as we want. so i'm going to start us out with what i call a semi-speed round. i'll ask a question to the group and feel free to answer if you think it's pertinent to your president, and after that i've got a couple of questions for speed round where i'm going to ask each of y

on nixon? >> yeah. as i mentioned quickly in my presentation,ty nixon was certainly criticized from within his own party. you could seeha that in the -- theo watergate crisis develops. but you could also see it in a broaderr sense as the 1970s advances and a different brand of republicanism comes to the fore that is quite critical of what nixonon stood for and foren policy is the best place to see that. but it is a broad critique of this m relatively moderate real politics style of politics and foreign policyn. that nixon go d reagan goes in a different direction. i won't call it hatred. i would call it more like something like indifference or a desire to distance one self from what had come just before. butra there were certainly individuals who might be characterized as having hated nixon, barry goldwater gives us some of the most colorful language in criticizing richard nixon. >> let me offer if i may a bonus president. bill clinton during the era of impeachment. he was despised by his enemies, but o

less so than the nixon administration. and nixon's answer came pretty quickly. in may of 1969, they were stored aid to the brazilian regime. this group partly, it seems to me, from the broader effort to lower american ambitions to reshape brazil. and for that matter lots of other developing countries in the world. nixon said, in a nationally televised speech, said the united states was entering a new era which it couldn't hope to do everything. and promote democracy and development all over the world. and his democratic predecessor as dumb. he also promised that the united states would point to deal realistically with latin american governments, no matter the character. made clear the united states has moved on to the era that have come before. nixon may have also had a genuine sympathy for the brazilian dictatorship, and perhaps dictatorship as a form of government. if brazil was a dictatorship, he said on one occasion, it should be in order to cope with its disorder internally. even as human rights grew increasingly seized on the situation in brazil. and nixon

so nixon. >> interesting question. i'm going to say mostly it's a person but it's always been under emphasized as a reason for [inaudible] >> i think it's a combination of both, for example if you look at something like the turner commission, where johnson commissions i look into the weeds in's for some of the riots that happened in american cities, with the best of intentions, it ultimately ignores the findings, the policy seems to do this and ultimately the personality gets in the way. , >>! who that staff in india. it was one of the masses. taking the opportunity to address this. the criticism of them was really racist and for radicals. when it comes to policy, lincoln very much identified it with the political government. but they called several consolidation in those days. the federal government intervening. they can't extend slavery. this connection between all of this a take space, it gets resurrected when it comes to johnson and nixon. >> i would offer a third option has policies, putting himself forward. i was

to the t nixon presidential library. [applause] : : : my name is jim byron and i'm the executive vice president of the richard nixon foundations my pleasure to welcome you back. this is the nixon foundation's only second in person east room event since march of 2020. and the biggest crowd. [applause] the [applause] the biggest crowd that we have assembled since then and our first book signing in nearly 17 months. thank you to all of you for being here and being part of it. i'd like to start by recognizing a few special guest with us here today. a member of the board of directors ofxo the nixon foundation. and the grandson of president missus nixon sandy quinn a member of board of directors of the nixon foundation and former president of the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda. where is she? there she is. and councilman jean hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jesse's wife, thank you for joining us. [applause] emma and jesse left their four -month

richard nixon. you said your books are not about these figures there about america. >> the president on the coverages sells books, flow hustle and got going. >> you're done now, the cat is out of the bag you can let people know. we've got what's going on the culture was going on in politics if you read your books it's on the same page you will find discussions of ronald reagan, george lucas and star wars what's on the billboard top 40 all of these things woven together in the coherent narrative. let's talk about though what you mentioned at the end about jimmy carter this turn of the democratic party. that is a central piece of the narrative here. reading the book you do not get the sense you are a big fan of mr. carter. i have told you before, my father, jimmy carter was my father's favorite president. he liked the existential reckoning he thought jimmy carter was trying to bring to the united states and it was embodying the aesthetic, or articulation of honesty and politics. it's going to be cute

that president nixon - what the court said. that president nixon could i what the court said.. t�*isgt president nixon could not exert executive privilege over the white house tapes recording his phone calls in which he had instructed others to obstruct the watergate investigation. sometimes executive privilege is upheld. but one thing is very clear, that the executive privilege belongs to the president of the united states, the current, sitting president of the united states, and that isjoe biden. joe biden has the right to assert the executive privilege with respect to communications of any president because he holds the presidency, and the courts would decide whether the executive privilege stands or does not. unlike richard nixon backin does not. unlike richard nixon back in 1973, donald trump is no longer president. there is no longer president. there is no way that he could assert the privilege sitting on a golf cart in florida as a former president. he has no standing to assert privilege. i don't believe the federal courts will pay any attention to this. his case claime

we will bring you back here to the nixon library after this. when you're driving a lincoln, stress seems to evaporate into thin air. which leaves us to wonder, where does it go? does it get tangled up in knots? or fall victim to gravity? or maybe it winds up somewhere over the bermuda triangle. perhaps you'll come up with your own theory of where the stress goes. behind the wheel of a lincoln is a mighty fine place to start. and there you have it- woah. wireless on the most reliable network nationwide. wow. -big deal! ...we get unlimited for just 30 bucks. sweet, i get that too and mine has 5g included. that's cool, but ours save us serious clam-aroonies. relax people, my wireless is crushing it. that's because you all have xfinity mobile with your internet. it's wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself. >> bret: welcome back to the nixon presidential library and museum. chicago's police chief is threatening to fire officers who do not comply with the city's vaccine policy. david brown sent a memo last night. it also says officers who choos

in the nixon era. her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor don

so let me conclude as follows: we are here in the nixon library, and i know that one of president nixon'sf speeches that you have to wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been, and that quote, by the way, governor wilson actually quoted during his eulogy for president nixon at this very library. so let me end by saying this, now as we step back 25, 30 years from the wilson administration, we now can see how splendid the day was during governor wilson's tenure. thank you. [applause] >> -- a place where everybody refers to everybody else as my friend. it can hard to form real and lasting friendships in a place like congress. that's why we have been so grateful to have pete and gayle wilson as true friends for many years now. he was already in the senate when i arrived in 1985. i liked him right away. he was a principled leader and an effective legislator across a number of subjects. but of course [inaudible] -- one step in his career as public service. he stood up for things like public safety. imagine that. so my friend, i'm sorry i couldn't be there to celebrate in person. co

: ( as nixon ) hey, bob, i made you famous.me like that? i am nothing like that guy. i created the e.p.a., and this is my real hair. in summation, abbbbbla, abbbbbla." ( laughter and applause ) luckily-- wow, wow, the ghost of richard nixon. ( applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ luckily, the former president's legal team did not count on one thing: some republicans caring if the united states continues, like utah senator mike lee, who said of plans to try and overturn the results in individual states: "you might as well make your case to queen elizabeth ii." okay, let's ask her. your majesty, can they present their case to you? >> no one wants to hear it. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you. thankfully, if you want to see a functioning democracy, just look north, because yesterday, with very little drama, canadians re- elected prime minister justin trudeau. trudeau called the election back in august in the hopes of getting a majority in parliament, which led to a 36- day campaign, as opposed to our 2020 campaign, which started in 2017 a

nixon loses. the tapes go over. three weeks over, richard nixon resigns. that's the stakes we're talking about. >> no interpretation of executive privilege suggestions it should cover evidence of potential crimes. that's important also. so who gets to assert it also? is it just current presidents or does a former president have a right to executive privilege? >> this is the question of the moment. we don't have a definitive answer from the courts. however, in 1977, the supreme court talked about it. it is a different case relating to richard nixon and the court said this is what they call victim. they said it in passing. it wasn't the basis, so it's not binding. the privilege survives the individual president's tenure meaning a former president can have some interest here. on the other hand, the current president is in the best position to assess the needs of the executive brab ch and invoke the privilege accordingly. now, if we look at the way this played out in recent history. 2001 george bush exercises executive privilege for bill clinton. 2009 barack o

and as we heard the author of the hispanic republican shaping of american political identity from nixon to trump that was published last year by echo and imprint at harpercollins publishers. >> that is correct. one 100% true. >> the funny thing about the situation right now, there is so much that has happened since the presidential election and things that are still happening. before we get into that, why don't we start off at from the beginning. what was the inspiration to write this book? >> thank you. first i had not even thought about that. this is a very different conversation this year then it would have been at last years printers row festival. i was supposed to be there then we know the pandemic close things down. but, there's probably more to talk about this year after the election since there had been so much attention to how latinos voted. i mean for me, the inspiration for the book, is somewhat personal actually. my grandfather is a hispanic republican. i grew up in tucson, arizona. he is colombian, filipino and panamanian. he voted for the first time for a republican in 198

president nixon during his time put a lot of expansion into the camp, expanding aspen, adding laurel which is the main entertainment cabin which you sometimes see on news reports and coverage of world leaders visiting and a number of other features throughout. maintained since then. it's been modernized at times. that's been going on for the past four to five years, a very sequential, smart way to keep it current but maintain the rustic nature out on the -- probably the most unique thing is the evergreen chapel donated through private money, gifted to the president of the united states and camp david and commissioned in 1991 during president george h.w. bush. >> and how did presidents get to camp david? you talk about fdr within driving distance but presidents don't historically drive in anymore. >> not ideally. weather permitting they'll fly in on hmx1 or the white top as we call marine one. they'll come up by motorcade from wherever their last departure point is. >> camp david is a presidential retreat yet we know presidents often find themselves working at camp david. tell us a li

i wish he would just do what nixon did and that's step down.ght to go up there and tell him it's over. the plane is waiting for you, you're out. colin powell preached tolerance and moderation. he was a leader, warrior and statesman. and, according to many of the tributes today, a genuine american hero. the former us secretary of state. a key adviser to several presidents who died at the age of 8a. joining me now is a lecturer at the freeman institute at stanford university who worked with colin powell in the us state department from 2001 until 2005. thank you very much forjoining us. tell us what he was like to work with. welcome he was a terrific _ was like to work with. welcome he was a terrific human - was like to work with. welcome he was a terrific human being. l he was a terrific human being. his intelligence was readily apparent but so too was his concern for the people. with whom he worked, the people in the country is that the united states was dealing with, his determination to listen and to pay attention to what he heard made him jus

i wish he would just do what nixon did and that's step down.ght to go up there and tell him it's over. the plane is waiting for you, you're out. colin powell preached tolerance and moderation. he was a leader, warrior and statesman. and, according to many of the tributes today, a genuine american hero. the former us secretary of state. a key adviser to several presidents who died at the age of 8a. the former us secretary of state colin powell, has died at the age of 8a. i spoke with the senior national security correspondent at the washington post who wrote a biography of him. she gave me her take on what drove him to succeed. he was not a stellar student, was not a person of great ambition when he was in school, and when he went to college at city college in new york, which was where a lot of immigrants and the children of immigrants went — the public school there — he fell in with the rotc, the military training school at a college level and he found himself. he found that he liked the institution, he liked the structure, he liked the order,

up next, author jeffrey garten . ♪ when the nixon administration -- it sen >>> when the nixon administrationntethered gold and the u.s.

going on the list, we can see that nixon's average rating is 32 and 425 and others reagan 18 and bush and clinton is 17 and bush, 36, and as we took the average ranking of all of these presents, it is 19. and franklin roosevelt and the average ranking was 19 of the greatest and why is that set the result of their individual fault, ball to some extent sure, over the course, is very critical of jimmy carter and not out of any personal opposition to anything he tried to accomplish. the criticism of his understanding of executive authority and is use of the powers of leadership. carter's ranking as we saw we flipped back here, concord, 25 and 1919 and 27, 25 and 26. and we can identify those specific reasons that carter fell short of greatness that only he can be - one, denny undermined the presidency speech, and prestige is key. like how the president is viewed by people outside or rather how president is viewed by washington and trying to determine how the public views, when he will be able to successfully convince what he wants is in the people's best interest. he did things like carry

joining us, the famed journalist whose reporting from "the washington post" helped bring down nixon.ein, good to be with you. to this day, anyone who's seen all the president's men remember it is line, follow the money. we were speaking to jamie raskin. it sounds as though the financial trail, financing, bankrolling, whatever these insurrectionists were up to, might be important to all of this. >> that's what part of the power of a congressional investigation is all about. it's to subpoena and obtain the documents and evidence of whether there is money spent. where it went. who funded it. and what did it fund. of course in the case of nixon where we first at "the washington post" were able to follow the money trail and then the senate watergate committee followed the money trail and it established beyond any doubt that the conspiracy to undermine the constitution in the united states and subvert the electoral process by the president of the united states was a massive conspiracy led by richard nixon and his aides close etst to him. so if we look now, trying to nail down those corners

know your expectations are a little lower for what this house committee can achieve. >> well, and nixon mistakes. he thought he first would invoke executive privilege before the senate watergate committee and then thought his top aides, attorney general john mitchell, bob holderman, chief of staff, could testify and rebut john dean who had turned prosecution witness and he was john dean of course was nixon's counsel in the white house. and dean laid out this devastating case and then we discovered that they had a secret taping system and there was a one-year battle on that. so and that was disclosed by alexander butterfield, top nixon a aide and i think everyone now is in search of the alexander butterfield who -- is there evidence, are there tapes? a lot of work to do. >> a lot of work to do. bob, always wonderful to have you. bob woodward, thank you. >>> coming up, the trump golf course is now the target of a criminal investigation. >>> and the demand for answers in the mysterious disappearance and death of jelani day. his mother joins us live. >>> mounting legal trouble for former pr

nixon -- >> no, no.found that the statute provided a mechanism for him to challenge production of those records. and that case was litigated. and then he gave up. >> they got the records, and that's why in the holding, the court went out of its way to say this privilege is not about protecting you as an individual. it's about protecting what he's allowed. >> he is not asserting as an individual. he is asserting his function in the office to communicate to those who worked for him. >> that's why it would be up to biden, an extension of the office, to assert the privilege. why would he ask biden? >> the statute has a mechanism for him to ask the former president, which had biden asserted it, it would have strengthened the claim but it doesn't eliminate it. >> that's your assertion. i hope it works out. does scavino want to cooperate? does he believe he is operating with high ground here and he has nothing to hide? >> well, i haven't discussed with him yet all the legal issues and questions that he may have

donald trump's behavior continues to make richard nixon look like a choir boy. there is no bottom, there never will be. that is how corrupt this particular individual, who used to occupy 1600 pennsylvania avenue, is, and how much he has corrupted, the republican party, which is no longer a functional governing party. it's a cult. i think, we came very close to losing our democracy and the more information that is to, fields the clear that becomes. and so i expect that on the house, judiciary committee side, they will continue to explore this information, probate, presented to the american people of course. leading that effort in the house is going to continue to be the select committee, and they were going to have to try to figure out how we can hold some of these individuals accountable, for their behavior. whatever and wherever possible, so as the hopefully deter it from ever happening again. >> you know, on the deterrent part, when i was reading this, what i kept seeing. and this is something the trump air really revealed for us. is that everything, everythin

i remember the i had from nixon. the economy is good you will lose but in effect, was but i think that was the big - there were some people said that he didn't want it. remember the talk that he doesn't act like he wanted and then firing scully. i never saw that, that he was working hard. we became very good friends and i remember going down there, was a 92 and thinking about not running again. i talked to him and he said will, let's talk about this. i said no, but you are still young guy. and he was a 92, i guess it was in you want to do it. >> what made you think about not running again. >> prostate cancer. i didn't know at the time it was all of the stuff. in the survival rate was excellent. after i had that was when i went out, and thought maybe it was time for me to move on and he said no no pretty. >> you must've thought about this. what you done. i still find it hard to believe. [laughter] >> i never had any. i don't know, i don't really thought about one of the deal they 92, i know i would be young enough to

if you just took one piece of nixon you didn't get the whole and i think trump is exactly the same andmportant to take a comprehensive look. yes, you're right, this puts democracy on the line in a very serious way but it puts our national security on the line in an equally serious, if not more important way and you only -- look, as trump is going to be in our lives for more months, more years, we need to know more about him. bob costa and i found if you take the time, we had the months, start looking at this, i mean, the element of surprise we had when we discovered these things about a national security crisis that the chinese thought we were going to attack them, this is the most worrisome moment for anybody in the military. >> of course, but let me -- what happened to the guardrails then bob? even in the senate we're seeing this constant brinksmanship with things like the country's debt. which could destroy the economy. how does the country get back to a place where truth and customs actually mean something? >> yeah, i think this is a great question, and i take a lesson from the old

. >> i wish she would just 2-wood nixon didn't step down.ody ought to tell him it over, you are out. >> colin powell preached tolerance and moderation. he was a leader, warrior and statesman. according to many of the tributes today, it genuine american hero. >> for more we are joined by ron christie who met a new general powell while serving the white house as a special advisor to george w. bush. how are you remembering colin powell tonight? >> i am remembering him as a gentleman, a statesman, a warrior and a trailblazer. i look at my own professional career from being involved in republican politics and you have to recognize that this gentleman had been doing it decades before i had. he had a really difficult path to attain the success he had, but he made it easier for people who look like me, people of color, to truly achieve the american dream and i'm grateful to him and he will be sorely missed by so many millions around the world. >> was he the president that america never had in some ways? >> i think he was. one of the things that stri