nixon here. as he said, she never really wanted that recognition but she was the kind of first lady who deserves it, so thank you very much, it is very much appreciated, on behalf of the nixon family. >> thank you. >> since we are passing out thanks, i never like for us to leave an event like this without saying thank you to all the people who work hard behind- the-scenes to make something like this happen. i want to thank the wonderful staff of the gerald r. ford residential foundation for all they did behind-the-scenes to pull off a big event like this. it as months and months in the planning. i would also like to thank all the people here at the jw who prepare the meal and served so beautifully, so thank you all for all you did to make this a great event. [ applause ] and of course, we thank you, the four panelists to digest an exceptional job of humanizing what so often is just in a history book or textbook or local clip on the history channel, you got behind the scenes and underneath the ext

nixon's and mrs. ford's chief communication strategist, patty matson, thank you so much for being here. leaders and board members of the white house historical association, among whom are anita mcbride who is a familiar face to this event and also dr. colleen showingon who is president obama's nominee to become the 11th archivist of the united states. we hope you get all the way through that senate process. also trustees of the gerald r. ford presidential foundation who, in addition to susan who are here, include tina freeze decker, david hooker and fred keller. the director of the ford presidential library and museum, brooke, brook clement, is with us also. and west michigan's veteran political reporter rick alban is with us. let's give all these distinguished guests a hand. [ applause ] >> i also want to thank the many, many generous donors, the sponsors who made this luncheon possible. again, please hold your applause, our premier sponsor, once again, fifth third bank, our table sponsors, steve and

nixon. well, for these two remarkable women who became friends who encouraged each other to live their best lives in the pressure of public life and the glare of the white house. well, with us to give deeper insight into pat nixon and betty ford, we have some distinguished people on this stage, susan ford bales only daughter of president and mrs.. susan is the sponsor, the aircraft carrier uss gerald r ford and recognize one of her extraordinary service as the ship's sponsor. susan was named an honorary aviator by the united states navy, becoming only the 31st american ever to receive this distinction and the first woman ever to be so honored. she is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and is the author of two novels set in the white house. i'm waiting for those novels. get on tv now, because the netflix we need to clean up next looks a little. edward cox next to susan, the son in law of president and mrs. nixon. many of you recall that the hauenstein and the ford held a joint program

so nixon resigns now. nixon resigns. and one of the reasons he resigns and of the reasons that people are willing to accept the resignation is that this new guy, gerald ford, he doesn't have a long and obvious paper trail, but there are no scandals in his background. there is no hint of any impropriety. he, like the anti nixon because nixon now is seen as this purveyor of skullduggery and everything else. and jerry ford, this just, you know, straightforward guy from western michigan who does things the way they're supposed to be done. but then but then in a month after nixon resigns, gerald ford pardons him. and all of a sudden, these questions are raised, why was there a deal here? did nixon and ford get together? or maybe intermediaries? and did ford say. --, if you resign, then as president, i'll pardon you. you're not going to have to go to jail, which by this time was a real possibly pity. now there's no evidence that anything a deal occurred and fact it strains the imagination to think that there would be anything

nixon had discussed how nixon's laugh-in stint had actually hurt the former president.ed it undignified. and actually, in the first year of ford's they emphasized that he is the president he is not to. they wanted to really distinguish as something different from what nixon had done. but then he goes on the show and public statements where he's crediting laugh-in as giving nixon that win is ultimately it contributing to this growing political belief that media image mattered more than anything else in american political life and entertainment could make a difference. it also really elevates visibility of shows like saturday night live. again, whether or not this actually did make a difference, that didn't matter as much as this growing belief that we need these types of shows in order to get elected or get elected and to govern. and indeed, that year at that moment, ford was not alone in his search for free media. and the use of political entertainment to advance presidential aspirations. at that exact same time, a former actor, ronald reagan, was launching a substantia

and why did it happen to nixon? nixon resigned one step ahead. and if so nixon resigned. why did it happen to nixon? and i would say the difference is people like reagan. it might sound trivial that we are talking about great affairs of government. but when you live in a democracy and operate your politics on the principles of democracy, well, every election is in essence a popularity contest. do people like you? and if they like you enough, they cut you some slack. and nobody was going to cut nixon any slack because he was not likable. i mean, it all sounds like junior high. but that is the way that things often work. i thought that the clearest gauge for if you want to know who people are going to vote for or win in an election, the question is who would you rather sit down and have a beer with. candidate a or candidate b. because people want to feel that that person in the white house somehow knows me. and there has to be a kind of identification. so jerry ford come in and watergate happens. that will get us to the end very quickly. i think i have gone over my half hou

nixon, please welcome tricia nixon- cox, the eldest daughter of mr. nixon. and edward cox, her husband, and the chairman of the new york republican party. ed and tricia have an additional distinction in that they were at the dinner 50 years ago at the white house with all of you. i would also like to welcome melanie eisenhower, youngest granddaughter of resident mrs. nixon and the daughter of julie nixon eisenhower. melanie's husband, joseph sergio. we are joined by a number of members of the board of directors at the richard nixon foundation, including robert o'brien, chairman of the board. charlie jane, treasurer, albert alvarez, who i know you all know, larry d, ken keegan, lori young, and a great former governor for the state of california, governor pete wilson. i'd like to welcome senators harper, the only vietnam war veteran serving in the united states senate from we will be hearing a bit later in the evening. thank you for being here, senator. i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge the major sponsors in support of this 50th anniversary homecoming

so nixon resigned. why did it happen to nixon, and not to reagan. and i would say the difference is, people liked reagan. it might sound trivial, we were talking about great affairs of government. but when you live in a democracy, when you operate your politics on the principles of democracy, well, every election is in essence a popularity contest. do people like you? and if they like you, they'll cut you some slack. they cut reagan a lot of slack, and nobody was going to cut nixon any slack because he wasn't likeable. it all sounds like junior high, but that's the way things often work. i've often thought that the clearest gauge for, if you want to know who people are going to vote for, who's going to win an election, the question should be who would you rather sit down and have a beer with? candidate a or b. people want to feel that person in the white house, if we're somehow talking about the president, somehow knows me. and there has to be a connection. so gerald ford comes in, and watergate happens all around him, and i'll get us to the end ver

the nixon family.u here. for everyone here, i think we're grateful for you. thank you very much. so, senator, thanks for your words. governor, madame first lady, thank you. mr. ambassador, all the general officers we got here, distinguished guests, it's such a huge honor for lonely little me to be here. one of our national security advisors, used to have to go to the pentagon from time to time, go in the tank, meet with the chairman of the joint chief, and you understand that, chief, and mark really had a running gag he would do every time. he would say, okay, everyone, pay attention. army reserve jake, office major brian to give you a briefing. pay attention to him. we all kind of laughed i sure feel that way today with all of you here. it's such an honor for me to be here. you know, in april 1962, there was a white house dinner for nobel laureates, a famous quote the president, president kennedy said. he said, i think this is the most dictionary collection of talent, human knowledge, ever gathered to

nixon did not care about the environment at all. the famous thing is that when he went to the beach he would wear dress shoes. [laughing] he would think that i was shown too much skin if i i was on te beach,n basically. but he was forced to because everyone in the country really one of the environment cleaned up. what he was saying, the. you tht he signed in the epa's in your times that it's one of the really bright moments in an otherwise dismal year. and that same year president nixon was telling two executive from ford motor company environmentalists, what they really want to do is go back and live like a bunch of damn dirty animals. what the really interested in is destroying the system. but since we want to clean air and clean water and clean skies so much, he had to sign in as president nixon's ghost kept calling in today dash and was kyser, not ford motor. but because we demanded it, he actually is no to improve more significant environmental legislation in any president in history. my book is about iron is like that, that pe

nixon did not care about the environment at all. the famous thing is when he went to the beach she would wear dress shoes. he would think i was showing too much skin if i was on the beach basically. but he was forced too because everyone in the country really wanted their environment cleaned up. he was saying the year he signed in the epa the "new york times" said that's one of that really the reallybright moments and ote dismal year that same year president nixon was telling two executives from ford motor company the environmentalists but they really want to do is go back and livehe like a bunch of dirty animals who what they're interested in is destroying the system. but since we want to clean air, clean waters and clean skies he had site is as president nixon's ghost calling in today. >> 's chrysler wasn't ford motor company. [laughter] because we demanded it he is improve more and significant environmental than anyone inl history. my book is about ironies like that the departed igloo the quickest way to describe it is to say wha

part of why i describe these editors as brave, the nixon white house and the nixon era republican party brought all sorts of inappropriate pressure to bear against those prosecutors to try to force them to drop that case against nixon's vice president. the u.s. attorney who was overseeing the prosecutors, republican nixon-appointed u.s. attorney george bell, his brother was a republican u.s. senator. his father had been a republican u.s. senator. george beall was put in office as a u.s. attorney by rich nixon. nevertheless, emerges as the total hero here. he's the one who resisted intense pressure put on him by the nixon white house and the nixon era republican party to drop that case. and george beall protected his line prosecutors. protected them from that pressure. destroyed his own career in the process. but he allowed those line prosecutors to bring that case and it forced a sitting vice president of the united states out of office under threat of 40 felony charges. 50 years ago this month. and it took incredible bravery and incredible fortitude for them to do it because of the ina

and nixon was a human being.ll. >> nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. as always, michael, thank you. >> thank you. >> next, as air strikes hit gaza, why this conflict is so complex and so -- stay with us. stay with us ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪ before my doctor and i chose breztri for my copd, i had bad days, (cough, cough) flare-ups that could permanently damage my lungs. with breztri, things changed for me. breztri gave me better breathing. starting within 5 minutes, i noticed my lung function improved. it helped improve my symptoms, and breztri was even proven to reduce flare-ups, including those that could send me to the hospital. so now i look forward to more good days. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor i

tell you what happened during president nixon's watch later in the show. but tonight there are new casualty figures from iran backed attacks on u.s. personnel in the middle east. president biden is being noncommittal about a reply, what the push back will be. jacqui heinrich has details live from the north lawn. >> reporter: good evening. president biden vowed the u.s. would respond if iran or its proxies attacked u.s. troops. despite defense officials confirming 21 service members were injured in iran backed rocket and drone attacks in iraq and syria last week, so far the president has only repeated his warning. >> we have had troops in the region since 9/11 to go after isis and prevent re-emergence. my warning to the ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops, we will respond. he should be prepared. it has nothing do with israel. >> reporter: the casualties which included traumatic brain injuries weren't disclosed by days, by his critics sounding off. is biden going to wait until a service member is killed to hold the iran regime ac

he's the one who resisted intense pressure that was put on him by the nixon white house and the nixon era republican party to drop that case. and george bell protected his prosecutors, protected them from that pressure, destroyed his own career in the process, but he allowed those prosecutors to bring that case and it forced a sitting vice president of the united states out of office under threat of 40 felony charges, 50 years ago this month. and it took incredible bravery and incredible fortitude for them to do it because the inappropriate that political pressure they were subjected to because spiro agnew was a powerful politician. and i do not, it's weird how i am becoming a specialist in this stuff. but tomorrow i have a new book coming out, it is called prequel, american fight against fascism. and this book is the story of americans who sided with the nazis in the lead up to world war ii. americans who helped the nazi cause, and in some cases, tried to bring about an american form of nazi-ism here. the fact that there was a big, very radical, unnervingly, well connected fascist mo

because helms refused to allow nixon to use the cia to create a false impression. that, as it were,l, nixon did not forgive helms for his refusal to help him at an hour when it was very important for him necessary, removed him from the post he held in the cia, and then... appointed him ambassador to iran, but in general, the deposits did not work out, nevertheless, i tried when i helped nixon, somehow bring helms back into his circle , we had a meeting where helms outlined to nixon his vision of the international situation, before nixon’s trip to the soviet union, it was still the soviet union, and we talked about what went to in terms of various terrorist attacks within the soviet union and some other very unpleasant things. and nixon said, but i don’t think that this could have been done by any forces inside the soviet union. and i said that i, uh, i don’t see who in the soviet union could do this, and i don’t think that it could be tsir, but health is so looked at me. how do you know, i say, well, the cia couldn’t, the united states supports gorbachev, reagan just went to the sov

. >> i am amazed eisenhower and nixon got along as well as they did.when you think about it you have two presidents of rumbling around. presidents going to be someone who is very driven. he has an agenda. he has a vision. he knows where he is going to have dwight eisenhower and then you have richard nixon at 39 because vice president who is already showing signs he is on his way. the fact they got along so well, as well as they did i would say is a testament to several things. but i think personal eisenhower should be praised because eisenhower made the vice presidency significant. he sent my parents to 53 nations around the world as goodwill ambassadors for they were in vietnam in 1953. they were in africa and asia and 53 nations because he believed in person-to-person diplomacy. he is the vice president i think my father like that so let's say eisenhower led the way in that relationship back spoken to a a lot of my grandfathers colleagues over the years including eisenhower and one in particular was lynn hall who was a theater at roosevelt republican

so joining us to unpack this so called career diplomat, it is garlan nixon. he is a political analyst and co host of the critical hour on radio. sputnik garland, thanks for joining us. so 1st your top line thoughts on miss victoria new and what's her place in the us political elite class? i think victoria newland represents a particular audiology independent in the, in the elite class, a class. it is a very confrontational, expansionist, and in my opinion, i would argue a fascist ideology. one that believes in using brute force, while they pretend to be intellectuals, they pretend to be, you know, uh, you know, to use their thoughts and their education and their background to determine their future and determine the course of america in, in, in, in truth. these people are, i mean, and i hate to use this term, but i consider the knuckle draggers. these are the people who see the world through the lens of, you know, fangs and cause us are viable if you have the biggest findings. and the biggest clause that you can rule the jungle, and they seem to believe that

. >>> plus, his lawyers are now raising a variation of the nixon defense in one of his cases.e have two watergate figures joining me live next to discuss. >>> breaking news tonight. donald trump is no longer coming to capitol hill next week for the speaker's election. and he's no longer floating himself as an option for speaker of the house. instead, sources tell cnn that he is expected to endorse congressman jim jordan. jordan has been making the rounds and calling around to colleagues. speaking of jordan, listen to what liz cheney, the former congresswoman said about the prospect of a speaker jim jordan. >> jim jordan knew more about what donald trump had planned for january 6th than any other member of the house of representatives. now, somebody needs to ask jim jordan, why didn't you report to the capitol police what you knew donald trump had planned? if they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could be counted onto defend the constitution. >> ed rollins is a republican political consultant and the for

so joining us to unpack this so called career diplomat is garlan nixon. he is a political analyst and co host of the critical our on radio. sputnik garland, thanks for joining us. so 1st your top line thoughts on miss victoria new and what's her place in the us political elite class? i think victoria newland represents a particular audiology end of the day in the, in the elite class, a class. it is a very confrontational, expansionist, and in my opinion, i would argue a fascist ideology. one that believes in using brute force, while they pretend to be intellectuals, they pretend to be, you know, uh, you know, to use their thoughts and their education and their background to determine their future and determine the course of america in, in, in, in truth. these people are, i mean, and i hate to use this term, but i consider the knuckle draggers. these are the people who see the world through the lens of, you know, fangs and claws, us are viable. if you have the biggest findings and the biggest close, then you can rule the jungle. and they seem to believe th

richard nixon, i think, captured it best, nixon said. it's so characteristic. it's it's a good comment on and it reveals something i think deeply true about nixon. nixon said of americans, look at kennedy and they see what they want to be. they look at me and they see what they are. many hopes were to kennedy and. johnson found a way to pick up the mantle. the kennedy administration had been planning an antipoverty program in the months prior to the president's death. kennedy was determined to pass a major tax cut in order to sicily his campaign promise to, quote, get the economy moving again after the eisenhower doldrums. and he wanted to balance this gift, the nation's affluent classes with something for the poor. johnson immediately seized on the program for development in his first state of the union address, congress. go. johnson understood that he could ask the american public, think about what kennedy had meant to them, and then ask them to honor kennedy and the kennedy legacy by moving rapidly on the kennedy program, which up until that time, during the

americans, that’s half the point, and nixon’s visit in 1972, it was communist in china, remind us whatcs there was in china then, the cultural revolution, they that they didn’t know what was happening in china at that time, maudzedu, but he made a normal nixon visit there, and he didn’t choke on anything anywhere, then they even wrote a whole opera by nixon in beijing, the whole cultural achievement, listen to us, they accused us of supporting chusescu, the most dictatorial, that's when he was executed, shot by the most dictatorial regime, the securitate, this is the security service, communism is just a symbol of dictatorship, what do you mean, who supplied him, who subsidized him, who applauded him standing in los angeles? year - to the rumenia team, which, despite the boycott of socialist countries, came to the olympic games, these were not americans and they supported chavsescu, fueling the contradictions that existed between moscow and bucharest, by the way, to the question of what would be the only people there in eastern europe there were satellites, that’s what moscow says, tha

nixon for the briefing, and i will give it now.ue to do exactly the opposite, pump ukraine up with different things and dissuade the kiev regime from realistic settlement scenarios ukrainian crisis. the volume of western aid to ukraine continues to break records. if we take this seriously, we can hold our meeting, at least. still, every time they will come up, something new will come up, but there will be practical proposals from our former western partners in essence, which would contribute to finding a peaceful outcome to the situation in ukraine. we haven’t heard anything at any of the past meetings, but there is an abundance of accusatory rhetoric against our country that is not supported by facts, and at the same time, there are inconvenient moments, they carefully erased or swept under the carpet. that is why. in our speech, we would like to draw attention to a number of subjects that are unpleasant for our western colleagues. the cynicism of our former western partners is simply amazing. today, mr. nixon has already quoted l

it's just that at some point, nixon and kissinger decided that it's easier and more profitable, they say, to get involved with china and reach a certain compromise with it, than to oppose all this soviet stuff. a huge number of seato organizations, serious support collapsed and troops were withdrawn from vietnam , yes, that is, trump's plans in this sense are what is called america first, yes , of course, yes, mr. yaroslav, first of all, of course, these interests of the united states states, yes, well in fact, mr. yaroslav, we are limited in time, unfortunately, thank you for trying to explain, we see, verbatim, how the same kissinger changed his position on ukraine's membership in nato, let's hope that. i am also a western politician, even those who are against the provision of new military aid, oppose, will change their point of view, in simple words , today i talked about a difficult thing with yaroslav bozhek, political consultant, chairman, chairman of the center for political studies, doctrine, thank you for joining , and we thank you for being there this hour with us, with yo

how could her block to call out nixon. the libel laws are so strong that he could express his opinion that nixon was involved but woodward and bernstein couldn't write it down until they had evidence. that was true. and that's the difference. yeah. >> next question. there is one in the back here. . i'm curious about the . correlation between foreign policy and what we see in maybe comic books thank you. great panel. i want to ask about american foreign policy, always seen as such a bashing of power for american presidents. the correlation between policy and what we see and comic books, is it that presidents are more often to be depicted when there are engagements? 911 or what's more popular as engagement, seeing presidents depicted in laudatory fashions, controversial engagements, are there any correlations you want to point out? >> one of the things we saw around 9/11 was the sensitivity in the comic book industry. marvel and d.c. were the two main publishers based in new york. very careful at that time what they did and

nixon cultured it best. it is a good comment on kennedy. and it reveals something true about nixon. nixon says, americans look at kennedy and they see what they want to be. they look at me, and they see what they are. many hopes were attached to kennedy, and johnson found a way to pick up the mantle. the kennedy administration had an anti-poverty program they were planning in the months prior to the president's death. kennedy was determined to pass the tax cut to fulfill his campaign promise. he wanted to balance this gift to the nations affluent classes with something for the poor. johnson immediately seized on the programs development. in his first union address to congress, and there we go. johnson understood that he could ask the american public to think about what kennedy had meant to them and then ask them to honor kennedy and the kennedy legacy by moving rapidly on the kennedy program, which up until that time, during the three years of the kennedy administration, had been stalled in congress. the magic here is that, as we know, johnson -- he is called the master of the senat

is, just as the soviet union wanted it in the 70s, when brezhnev, for example, was negotiating with nixon and ford, that is, they will talk about something, they, but i think that there are no such political global agreements, for china to somehow contribute to putin ending the war now, this will definitely not happen, because china is still interested in the west, at least, if not economically, then politically relaxed so he is interested in putin's success in ukraine. and tell me, in principle, if we talk about how the internal political situation in the united states itself will develop. so what do you think about, the very fact of electing mike johnson as speaker of the house of representatives, after this several-week marathon, when on the one hand they did not elect obvious desperate trumpists, on the other hand they did not elect moderate republicans, and then once they elected a person known for his pro-trump position. why is that so? did everything happen at all? i think that there's a lot of factors here, one of the factors is that those 20, 20 to 25 moderate republicans there c

confrontation, but at the same time the side remained with its, all its aspirations, and let's say, nixon came to the soviet union in 72-74, brezhnev to the united states in 73, and this did not interfere the soviet union to carry out its expansion, say, when portugal, a revolution took place in portugal and portugal provided independence. their african colonies were all called the soviet union to install pro-soviet de facto communist regimes in angola in mozambique, this did not prevent the soviet union in 1975 from inciting north vietnam to conquer south vietnam and actually take part in it, well and this did not prevent the soviet union from striving, when the revolution took place in portugal, to establish a communist government there, and such a one... that is, i think that china, it will behave approximately as it did then the soviet union behaved, but it is better to meet than not to meet, because it is better to talk than not to talk, at the same time , you have to remember that joe biden met putin in june 2021, and that did not stop putin from doing what he is doing , that is, i

how could herblock call out nixon three days after the break-in? it is so strong in this country that he could express his opinion that nixon was involved. they couldn't write it down until they had evidence that it was true. that is the difference. yeah. sorry. thank you. great panel. i want to ask about a >> next question. i see one in the back. >> thank you. great panel. i want to ask about the american foreign policy. it is always seen as power for american presidents. i'm curious about the correlation between foreign policy and what we see in comic books. is there a correlation that presidents are more often to be put depicted? dc-9 11 or more what are commonly seen as popular foreign-policy engagements? d.c. presidents depicted with more controversial engagements are less so. are there any correlations you want to point out? >> one of the things we saw, especially around 9/11 was great sensitivity in the comic book industry, because at that time, marvel and d.c. were the two main publishers based in new york. they were very careful around tha

nixon would try to an act, and president obama would finally and act. the republican president before richard nixon knew that government was a force for good, in this world, when he served as the european commander of the united states forces in world war ii. when general dwight eisenhower became president eisenhower, he supported all of the relatively new social service programs, including social security, that were advanced by a democratic president franklin delano roosevelt, and legislated by democratic congresses. president eisenhower created the interstate highway system, the single biggest federal infrastructure program the country had ever seen. so ronald reagan's anti government rhetoric was actually out of sync with his republican predecessors in the presidency. but president reagan never followed through on his rhetoric, because he never meant it. he campaigned on cuts to government spending that he then never enacted. he campaigned against taxes, even though in his service as the governor of california and president of the united states, he r