nixon and president nixon had that vision and modeling growing up. i wanted to talk a little bit about also his two daughters trish and julie who represented the younger generation of republican women who strongly believed that women should be able to do whatever they wanted to just like both of their parents did. women could be in the workplace and also at home to do it all. they supported like her mother's , to elevate women in the government and working world. here we have president nixon with barbara hackman franklin and her job was to get more women into higher-level government positions. when barbara franklin comes into the nixon administration into the west wing to do her work, i will tell you more about that, context between barbara's move into the nixon administration as staff assistant to the president this assignment to get more women in government, keep in mind we had the advent of the birth control pill in 1960 freeing women up we have the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, the feminist movement. we have all of these things swirling

how is nixon fit in? nixon ran in 1968. president, you all that california you got to know about the environment a little bit no matter what you think out here, it's everywhere. your people are doing it. but do you realize that nixon asking, getting asked questions he can't answer. do you realize that nixon hires john erlichman, who goes to prison for watergate? most known who was a land water lawyer from seattle. and nixon went up there and went boating with him once and came back and said, you know, erlichman is really he's making money on nimby, not on my backyard rich people not wanting an aluminum factory next to them. they'd hire higher erlichman firm and win. and so he, the de facto environmentalist for nixon, the sierra club, calls him a cover art green. however, he thought on other issues he in with the environmental crowd erlichman and he goes to the white house in to be fair to nixon he's president days just day. i think it's eight days and the santa barbara oil spill happens now. television color, the nightly ne

. >> paul nixon. >> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game. it actually says here, george washington of washington, on chapter one, page seven of washington, an american soldier says he throws or catches the ball for hours with his aid and probably working with rounders. the bridge game with eight precursor. >> there are a lot of books or stories about baseball is involved, and it evolved in part out of the british rounders. there have even been stories about how baseball goes back many centuries or something similar to baseball goes back many centuries, but i don't ink we have any indication that there is not any real involvement of that in the lincoln cartoons. >> fred, over the years, why have there been such a close relationship between presidents and the sport? >> a lot of things state back to the first pitch position, and a started in 1910. but it is really two years later when a new manager came in name clark griffith. he was an owner of a team, and he saw a lucky opportunity. he said let's make this an annual tradition. that's what wen

i think richard nixon would have accepted the indictment. ah richard nixon cared.n though he committed crimes. he cared about the institutions of this country and he wanted his legacy to be that he was a great president donald trump has yet to show that he cares about the institution of the presidency. tim thank you very much, really great. to get the historical perspective. always we're gonna have much more on today's events. donald trump arrested and arraigned. the next. some election results are coming in to cnn in chicago and wisconsin races that have implications for some of the most hotly debated issues facing this country. wait have you surrounded your lord back with scotts turf builder to ripple action gets three jobs done at once kill swedes prevents cab gas and keeps it growing strong bag of scots triple action today. it's guaranteed fee alone. feed it. here's your pachute certain it's okay. are you foreign prin certain. certainty matters, so congratulate coworkers or say thank you with promotional products from four imprint dot com imprint for certain si

with richard nixon, 25 letters. seem to like nixon, you liked the way that man was smart and would think things through, tell us about nixon, who it was about him that appealed to and did not. >> i respected him, he was a very smart person. he was accepted to big best colleges he could not go there because he didn't have train fare. i don't know if you heard that story. i heard he was the accepted to many. did not have any money. he went to his college. because it was near his place of birth. he was a very smart guy. he had a temper am that ment not setted for a lot. there was a story in "washington post" about nixon, he was angry, he want toeto go to washington post, and attack tomorrow. afternoon equally bad story about reagan, everyone was angry about it except reagan, he said don't worry about it, it was a different personality, nixon of the very smart, i didn't know him well. i had dinner with him, he liked my, i was hot at the time, i was a real estate developer, a couple of books the art of the deal. a lot of

this happened because nixon sort of wanted it both ways. politically, nixon was running, trying to win the votes of. white segregationists in the south, bringing them into the republican party. it was part his so-called southern strategy. and that we forget that this isn't long after. goldwater and the emergence of the southern strategy in response to what was going on in the civil rights movement and desegregation. yeah. and so you know nixon on one hand was trying to white votes in the south and on the other hand, he was respectful of the supreme court decisions. and so he put together a task force and named spiro agnew, the vice president, to head it and named george the labor secretary as the deputy director. it became clear very quickly that agnew wanted nothing to do with. and so george became the de facto head of, this group. and the way they operated was very interesting. they came up with this strategy that george played the leading role in putting together. they took a delegation from each of the southern states, brought them sepa

and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents that represented him and his views, a very particular image. when we think of an fbi agent or a g-man, there are very specific ideas about who that is. will it be a tall white guy in a suit with a hat and shiny shoes and a certain set of political views. during his lifetime, i do not think agents loved him. he was a hard boss to work for. they had a lot of respect for him. right now my sense is the fbi has an ambivalent relationship with hoover. on one hand he did build the institution. on the other hand i think some of the most outrageous things the bureau did in the 60's and 70's do not make them great firm they want to be now. >> let's see what callers have to say. skip with w

welcome to the richard nixon presidential library and museum. my name is jim byron and i the honor of being the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it's my pleasure to begin this evening by recognize seeing a few special guests. and i'll start with a member of our board of directors the former governor of california, wilson and first lady gayle wilson. you. steve craig, a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. maureen nunn, longtime board member. sandy quinn, the board member and former president of the nixon foundation. dr. daniel stroupe, president of chapman university and a member of the board. and thank you to all of our board members that are here tonight. i'd also like to recognize lisa sparks, chairwoman of the orange county board of education and fred whitaker, chairman of the republican party of orange county. thank you both for being here. i want to acknowledge and thank all of the members of the president's council, the associates club in our audience and, those who are watching tonight onlin

for th country. >> he may have actuall register that nixon did do bad things and got away with them.spiracy, for obstruction of justice, fo possibly for perjury and the prosecutor, lee and, whoriskey at the time, if he had not been pardoned by geral floors so how can you be surprise that donald trump would say, along with nixon, is you can almost read on our democracy which nixon did, and then have a different way of life for 20 years. >> the already know is that started with little spin, member of congress at the time who was on the judiciary committee who voted to impeach richard nixon. and she made the point that, back then, the reason why this didn't go far there is because republicans in congress ha said they will not associate themselves with the wrongdoing of richard nixon they distinction on march 30th of 2023 is that, with th exception of one congressman who i could find, republican don breaking of nebraska, wh said let the justice syste play, out everybody else piled on to the whole, this is politicized which, hunt soros, backed, left-wing, socialist communist stuff. >> and

so richard nixon, for example. i was indicted simply because i was not indicted about what was facing criminal charges almost because he had been doing something that was wrong. but he resigned in time because he was hoping for a presidential pardon which he got in the end that would never happen today. never, why is that? what does this say about the state of american politics at this point in time compared to some of the nixon europe? well, for one thing, trump has a lot of backing in his own party. nixon didn't have that nixon had to resign because it was bipartisan consensus at the man have to go on the a. and the other thing is that joe biden will not pardon donald trump if it even came to that. gerald ford did that simply because he believed that this was the best way to bring the nation back together and to continue a period of, you know, p seeking and mutual understanding and all of that. that's not at all the situation that the nation is in today. can you imagine a bipartisan agreement on how to treat a ca

nixon does not listen to him and runs. the nixon becomes a president he becomes insecure as we all know. all of the dirty that were played, instead of saying listen, you need to appeal you are a better man than this. you do not need to do these nefarious acts to stay in power. you do not need to raise campaign funds. he do not need to destabilize the grand family and destroy their ipo because you're angry at the "washington post". instead he was an enabler and takes a thousand dollars loan from howard hughes in 1970 that rears its ugly head later on. it's really the cause, i believe of white nixon believed at the dnc. which obviously led to impeachment his ultimate resignation. could have played a very different role in that presidency. and unfortunately didn't. quick to talk about enablers. some people accused georgia being an enabler for bill clinton and his affairs. he taught collusion. >> ... correct the issue. he commit perjury by testifying getting a blow job from monica lewinsky before the scandal broke, he'd been a

nixon. - mr. nixon was the president of naacp and mrs. rosa parks was mr. nixon's secretary. the naacp was one of the only formal organizations blacks had at that time, so if it was gonna be a legitimate vote, mr. nixon would automatically become the president of the new organization. but mr. lewis did not want that, he figured this young man, most people didn't know too much about him at that time, would be better. - so, in some sense, martin luther king, who was brand new to montgomery, the thought was he would not alienate any segment of black montgomery and so that the total black population may be able to coalesce around martin anyluther king's leadership.ery - when he spoke in that church that night and he said, "if we're wrong, the constitution of the united states is wrong." - (dr. king) and we are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. [crowd exclaiming] if we are wrong, the supreme court of this nation is wrong. [crowd applauding] if we are wrong, the constitution of the united states is wrong. [crowd applauding] if we are wrong, god almighty is wrong. [c

well, for one thing, trump has a lot of backing in his own party. nixon didn't have that nixon had to resign because it was bipartisan consensus at the man have to go on the a. and the other thing is that joe biden will not pardon donald trump if it even came to that. gerald ford did that simply because he believed that this was the best way to bring the nation back together and to continue a period of, you know, p seeking and mutual understanding and all of that. that's not at all the situation that the nation is in today. can you imagine a bipartisan agreement on how to treat a case like this, or do you see us politics now in a fundamentally different place than it was say, 50 years ago? i think the latter is the case. i think us policy takes, has really changed and in many ways changed for the worse in the last, really since the resignation of richard nixon, because the presidency itself has become so much more contentious and american voters have just much more suspicion and skepticism towards their government. than they used to have 50 years ago, and really donald trump's legacy

but we are at the nixon library and lot of out of the 11th and that's first lady pat nixon just. she's deserving of so much applause because she really was so special. she was the first first of so many firsts, really. she was she was the first first lady to ever go to active combat zone vietnam, where she visited orphanages and these wounded soldiers, these wounded american heroes first lady, first first lady in africa, one of my favorites, first first lady to throw out the first pitch at an mlb game. all of this. but so many people, they don't know this. they don't know about the path she paid for women that came after her. she they don't they don't know how special she was. so do we bring a woman like pat nixon to the fore front of the woman empowerment movement? you know, i think we have to talk about them. and that was the thing is the hardest part, when you can only do ten, there are so many women that have really laid the groundwork for what's happened the country. and that's why i loved reading those biographies of first ladies, because these ladies really steered the cou

. - the most recent president to find himself in such deep legal peril was richard nixon. two months before nixon resigned, vice president gerald ford appeared on the original "firing line" with william f. buckley jr and said this. - in the event that you become president, would you grant amnesty to everne involved in the so-called watergate affair? - i'm not sure, bill, that i ought to undertake to respond to a question of that kind. the first place i don't anticipate becoming president and to speculate in such a sensitive area without knowing who might be convicted and who might be acquitted, i think would be presumptuous and ill advised. - vice president ford, of course, didn't answer the question about whether he would pardon or not, but what we do know is that he did go on to pardon president nixon. and there are legal scholars who since then have argued that the act of pardoning the former president has created a sense that former presidents are immune from prosecution. do you think that nixon's being pardoned did set a precedent for former presidents not being charg

after those, we'll hear from richard nixon, 1969. richard nixon talked abt e great silent majority. and in 1974, he resigned from office beginning now. here's lyndon johnson. president hatcher. governor romney. senators mcnamara and hart. congressman meader and stabler. and other members of the pine michigan delegation. members of the graduating class. my fellow americans, it is a great pleasure to be here today. this universe today has been coeducational. since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said, and i ot in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or aeducational school. well, we can find both here at michigan, although perhaps a different ours. i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son's education had been a real value. it stopped his mother from bragging about him. i have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of your campus to speak about the future of your country. the

that only rests on a ruling by the nixon justice department in the early 1970's. not something that is in holy scriptures. all i am saying is that if we are worried about presidents getting into lawlessness, like a nixon, as there were accusations of ronald reagan during iran-contra, other moments in american history, does it encourage that for presidents to think they are above the same kind of laws that the rest of us are? geoff: what does this indictment, what is the impact on our politics? not just the arraignment, but donald trump's efforts to use this arrest to inflame a partisan firestorm to protect himself and build his support? of course, this didn't happen in a vacuum. it comes on top of two historic impeachments, his falsehoods about the 2020 election. the attack by his supporters on the u.s. capitol. what does history suggest about what might come next given the rhetoric? michael: as you and i have talked about, this is an extremely divided country, and he will say this is a partisan indictment only because there is a so-called democratic prosecutor th

that is, he left of his own free will and nixon was not tried later. in one of his interviews, he admits that there are no crimes committed by him, interference in the internal affairs of another state, accomplishments of the leader of foreign countries, but that he regrets that he destroyed the films compromising him. if you had to do it again, you would burn those cassette tapes. yes, i think so, because these were personal conversations that could be misinterpreted, which actually happened. when will we receive an official statement from you? it's a matter of time. i think that this week at the end of 1986 it became. it is known that employees of the us presidential administration organized secret arms supplies to iran , thereby violating the arms embargo imposed against this country, moreover, the money received as a result. again, bypassing the congressional ban went to finance the nicaraguan rebels contrast a few months ago. i told the american nation i didn't trade guns for hostages my heart and my best intentions. they still tell me it's true,

line from the frost nixon debate were nixon's out of a presiden does it, it must be legal bu trump neverxon never said it if an ex president is indicted. it's different, trump's a ma without that kind of privilege that we would like to clai executive privilege and he has none >> he has nine doug brinkley, you always just make it so plain and break all of the things down i am grateful for your voice i this moment. appreciate your time >> oh, thank you >> and thank you out there for watching symone on thi saturday i am symone sanders-townsend you can cast your right here o msnbc at legan's at 4 pm eastern. anytime over on peacock where have new episodes on the msnbc hub every monday i will be back, right afte reverend al sharpton at 6 pm eastern. i will be guys hosting america voices from 6 to 8 you don't want to miss me an after the break, stick aroun because reverend al sharpton will have an interview wit michael cohen. eric holder and so many others thank you so much. so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn ho

that only rests on a ruling by the nixon justice department of the early 1970's.something that is in holy scriptures. if we are worried about presidents getting into lawlessness, like nixon, as there were accusations of ronald reagan during iran contra, doesn't it encourage that for presidents to think that they are above the same kind of laws that the rest of us are? geoff: what does this indictment -- what is the impact on our politics? not just the arraignment, but donald tmp's efforts to use this arrest to inflame a partisan firestorm to protect himself and build his support. this did not happen in a vacuum. this comes across his historic impeachments, his falsehoods about the election, what does history suggest about what might come next given the rhetoric? >> is you and i have talked about, this is an extremely divided country and he will say that this is a partisan indictment because there is a so-called democratic prosecutor that is trying to get him. that is something that goes through american history. white supremacist groups in the south would use poli

but barack obama, who was at the beginning on the screen, the only president of the states since nixons not interested in the competent authorities. the minister of agriculture of poland is resigning , he made such a statement against the backdrop of dissatisfaction with local farmers, due to the influx of cheap ukrainian grain, just the day before, farmers reported that the authorities were not fulfilling agreements and protests will continue , prime minister morovetsky corrected his glasses and hastily flew in, saying that traffic flows. from the east, they decreased by 5-6 times, though it is not clear what kind of transport the comrade had in mind, maybe trucks from belarus well, if the serious situation is so serious that one of the main topics of today's meeting, the leaders of the regimes, poland and ukraine, could be precisely the supply of grain farmers have already promised to ruin zelensky's visit. if warsaw does not begin to act more actively, perhaps the resignation of the minister. these are the same active actions. estonia continues to wallow in democratic values ​​in th

and i remember the nixon administration. we were worried rightly about the damage that drugs do to an individual and to a society. so i'm very, very much of the view that we need to figure out how to deal with that problem adequately. and there was the idea and pat moynihan, who is counselor in the white house, thought that one of the things to do would be to fix it. so drugs are just not here here. so he had this of denial. and the two of us are writing up to camp david and i have a presentation to make. so i'm studying my notes and pat's a state of euphoria that irishmen, a state of euphoria, something else. and he says to me, shultz, don't you realize we just had the drug bust in history? i said, congratulations. yeah, but this was in marseilles. we broke in the french connection. that was the problem. the time. so that's terrific. that go back to my notes. it was himself up and he says, shultz, i suppose you think that as long as there is a big profit of demand for drugs in this country, there will be a supply. i looked

and if richard nixon - when richard nixon left if agnew still vice president, he would then become viceresident, he would be cloaked with the immunity that the government policy bestows upon presidents, he would have cloud overhanging him for th remainder of his term. that was his big chip. and he bargained that chip awa to avoid jail. that's what happened it was very contentious. myself, barney, and timmy, w argued at length with elliot richardson, the attorney general, about treating vice president agnew like everybody else, that he should b indicted, he should stand tria if he wants to, he could defen himself, and if he was convicted he should be sentenced to imprisonment. elliott richardson, in the context of watergate, older an wiser than the three of us realized that it was very very important as a policy decision to get agnew away from succession, a heartbeat away from the presidency. that's what brought that cas to a close in addition to agnew knowing that we had built a solid case against him. it was airtight. and he knew, if he went to trial, he was going to b convicted and he

the law was passed after nixon nixon had a case because the law wasn't in place, the law was effectiveith the reagan presidency in 1981 does donald trump think he should get paid because nixon got paid $18 million is he holding the documents for a financial settlement >> that's a cheap shot >> he keeps bringing up this nixon thing. >> let's go more modern day. bill clinton had multiple things he he kept in his sock dwrauer of his presidency while in the oval office, and talking to leaders and advisers, he says, hey, that stays in my sock drawer. obama foundation had millions of documents in a former, i think, furniture store out in illinois. arguable whether it was truly secured. they acknowledge they had classified documents probably to the tune of thousands and there was never any blink by nara. they, in fact, said, we're going to give nera $3.3 million to help move the documents back eventually when we have digitized documents. thousands for classified documents in some place near a mcdonald's in illinois, and never blinked and never any criminal tools and never any criminal referra