nixon hannah nixon died. this is actually i don't have a photo from mrs. nixon's funeral because obviously she's in this. this is when frank nixon died. and 56, the brother's the youngest editor escorting, their mother here in uniform. and foreground, two months before hannah nixon had died. so frank had passed away in the fifties when nixon was vice president. and in 67, in the fall, hannah nixon died. and hannah nixon was the one more than anyone else. graham also who encouraged nixon get another chance to run. you have to do it. you know, don't don't give up. and a lot of sort of writers of nixon will refer to this is kind of like the voice of hannah, like at certain moments in nixon's career. so the voice of hannah, which might actually have been her voice or something inside of him, you know, that inspired him to keep going and. so graham helped to officiate at her funeral in 67 and was there and like hannah graham said, you're going to get another chance. now, graham. graham believe that nixon nixon was

nixon a sense of shame. yes, he did actually he believed in the institutions enough that it wouldn't have occurred when goldwater and john rhodes, hugh scott, you know, come down i think on the fifth or 6th of august and say you haven't got the votes to survive in the senate. he didn't say, all right, let's get the proud boys together. yep. and to and equally what's often forgotten but you know so well was beginnings of the nixon when when there was actually a legitimate congress controversy about whether in fact nixon had won the election. and there were a lot of voters in chicago, for example, in the of chicago, you know, who brought forth a lot of voters kind of it made a big difference. and nixon was urged to challenge in court the case against him because people around him said will win this case. and nixon, we can't do that. we can't do that to the country. and it was a call on his good. yeah, it was a good side. yeah yeah, absolutely. and the other kind of offer a thesis and you you assess the validit

nixon was not about p conduct. nixon was about, ang other things, using the c.i.a. to interfere with.i. investigation. he acceptsardon understanding that after having resigned -- i think that undermines ts impeachment first argument. after nixon, we then see a series of independent and ial prosecutors different types of conduct. you saw idents p*epbl counsel lawrence wal the iran-contra affair. the department invokes in his reply brief in chapter 27 of report, the independent counsel assumes that president reagan was subject to ecution. and says, but we didn't get there evidentiary. not that we sthaut there was immune -- thought there was immunity. that's continued to pr this notion we are going to see a floodgate -- careful investigations and the in the clinton era didn't result in any ch did doesn't reflect that we aren going to see a sea change of vindictive tit for tat prosecutions in the future. i think itcts the fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. ver before has there been allegathat a sitting president has, with private indis and

and pardon of president nixon. president nixon was accused of a wide range of private conduct and facing potential indictment. >> that is purely private conduct. when we go to the indictment they are -- they are alleging this is private conduct not official acts. why don't you speak to that because we have to look to the broader question and as well as the indictment -- [indiscernible] >> and return to the alleged motive or purpose. and alleging purely private conduct and engaged for particular purposes and that is a strong line of supreme court -- >> this circuit distinguished of how you are committing the acts. >> it strongly reenforces. and going back to marbury versus madison the nature of the act itself. and it's an objective. and use the word objective context. it does not turn on the purpose or motive. and this court properly rejected. and bradley against fisher and spalding and it is the strongest -- [. [indiscernible] >> we'll give you what you need, with respect to the actual indictment, it does not gloss

by people who were associated with president richard nixon's reelection campaign. it evolved into a battle between congress and the president over access to tape recordings that contained evidence about the crime and the cover up. and it concluded with the resignation of president nixon under threat of impeachment. so i wanted to point out several documents in this case. one is this security log right here from the watergate complex. and this security log, you can see the date of june 17th, 1972, which was the date, the break in at the watergate hotel. and the log has a note written by the security guard from the watergate frank wells, who made a note there in the log that he had seen a piece of tape on a door that prevented the door from latching and made the door accessible from outside. first, he removed the piece of tape, but later, the same night as he was continuing his rounds, he found another piece of tape on the door and that tipped him off that something was happening and there might be intruders in the building. he the police. and when the police arrived

so he president than nixon. like nixon, he was a better president. when people remember. and but i think he was actually he did some good things. but he also had these qualities these inner qualities that are so to me, as you know so well, the emphasis in necessarily what you what your program really big question is who are you? do you knoo you are? do you know what you believe? do you know your principles? and you and do you have you found your true north, as it's called? and because people have found their true north tend to be better leaders. lincoln example was a prime example of the and and clinton had some of that but he had these forc that frankly got in his way and he was not he was not all he might have been. and of course, it was not easy to, because at that time we really had newt gingrich coming out for. and i have to tell you that i think the politics and the government at the national level -'changed, when gingrich came to town it 1994 because he ghwith a set of beliefs, if you tear the house down and you tear down the president and we start again. and he wa

they don't know the nixon rule. the rule the news media followed when hiring the very few people who were hired from nixon world. no one close to the crimes. rona romney mcdaniel was on the phone with donald trump while he was trying to illegally overturn the presidential election in michigan. that is close to the crimes. that is way too close. to the crimes. of all the crimes donald trump is charged with, the first crime he allegedly committed is the first one going to trial. april 15th. that is the date that the world will see a former president of the united states stand trial in a criminal case for the first time in history. donald trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records for allegedly trying to hide hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels, ahead of the 2016 election. it was a date that judge held at the end, after donald trump's lawyers tried to further delay the trial, faultily accusing prosecutors of withholding over 100,000 pages of evidence related to witness michael cohen, who actually

those guys knew nixon was a criminal, and they never, never defended nixon to me privately for even a minute. john dean, who was deeply involved in nixon's crimes and served time in prison emerged 35 years later as a tv commentator without being paid by any network. cnn gave john dean a paid position during the trump residency 45 years after the nixon crimes for which he was convicted. none of the people who were involved in hiring ronna romney mcdonald, some of them were not born yet. they do not know the rule, the rule that the news media followed when hiring the very few people who wear hired from nixon world. no one close to the crimes. ronna romney mcdaniel was on the phone with donald trump while he was trying to illegally overturn the presidential election in michigan. that is close to the crimes. that is way too close to crimes. of all the crimes donald trump is charged with, the first crime he allegedly had is the first one going to trial, april 15th. that is the date that the world will see a former president of the united states stand trial in the criminal case for the firs

for crimes committed while nixon was president, which is why president ford pardoned richard nixon in nixon to trump, every one of them was always 100% certain that they could be prosecuted for crimes committed in office, just as richard nixon was going to be prosecuted before he was pardoned. not one of those presidents was inhibited in any way in office in doing their duty by fear of being prosecuted. the history of the american presidency and the american criminal justice system, especially the post nixon history, proves beyond a reasonable doubt that this statement in the trump brief is a lie. the threat of future prosecution and imprisonment will become a clinical cudgel to influence the most sensitive and controversial presidential decisions, taking away the strength, authority and decisiveness of the presidency. in an earlier brief to the supreme court arguing there was no reason for the supreme court to donald trump's appeal, special prosecutor jack smith said the criminal immunity the former president is asking the supreme court to write into constitutional law quote, would u

there was a concern that the three nixon appointees would side with nixon out of loyalty. they did not. just justice requested. that is the historic world of the judiciary. stephen breyer, the year after nominated by bill clinton with the paula jones case, he ruled against bill clinton despite all of the politics and the pressure. i remember when the affordable care act was being argued and it was chief justice roberts who cast the deciding vote to save obamacare. handing a huge victory to barack obama before the 2012 election. that's what judges do. by the way, that is what the court of appeals did to judge cannon. it was three republican appointees who reversed judge cannon twice last year in stark language. including a trump appointee. this is the way the federal judiciary is supposed to operate. my deep hope is that it can still happen here. >> this will be a rare moment everybody should record. it should go to the museum of broadcasting. i'm going to not correct the supreme court matter, i will at a footnote to the reference of that justice who recused himself from th

nixon. did you ever think you would admire richard nixon's love letters? no. was why i found it very interesting, because sometimes it's the opposite of wt you what you think. i'm sorry, i someone like jfk. who had wonderful speeches politically, had very little to say. i'm sorry. romantic glee. the only thing that he ever wrote to jacqueline before they were married was a postcard, which said, just simply wish you were here, jack. so that was that was that okay? yeah. we often don't think about nixon in romance, but i think this is a really lovely picture up there. two of them in the east room of the white house. yes, that was that was at a dding of of of. oh, i'm sorry. i always forget. i'm sorry. that was tricia's wedding, i believe. yeah. yeah. thank you for■ that. i also since this is valentine's day and since the president's, like all of us, experienced heartache, let's talk about him for a minute about one of the saddest stories in your book on this day in 1884, theodore roosevelt experienced the darkest day of his life. can you talk about this tragic a

no one's faith was shaken in the possibility that judges appointed by nixon would be deciding nixon's fate. but this point is another one. there was a concern the three nixon appointees. the privilege of working for justice steven briar, the year after he was nominated to the supreme court by bill clinton. we have the paula jones case and he ruled against clinton on the paula jones case despite all the pressure and the like. i remember when the affordable care act was being argued and chief justice roberts saved obama care handing a huge victory to barack obama right before the 2012 election. that is what judges do and by the way, lawrence, that is what the court of appeals did to judge cannon. it was three republican appointees who reversed judge cannon twice last year in stark language including a trump appointee. so this is the way the federal judiciary is supposed to operate. and my deep, deep hope is that that can still happen here. >> and this will be one of the rare moments. everyone should record it. it should go to the museum of broadcasting. i will not correct neil on a supr

there's no equivalency between this case and the nixon case that you referenced in your setup.case is far, far more important for the country and an for the constitution than the nixon case. we don't know, from the mere grant of a review in this case, what any of the justice might be thinking. as you said, it took four votes to grant the case, but that doesn't mean that any of those four justices have any intention of reversing some the court of appeals for the district of columbia judgments. we just don't know. at most, we can infer that at least four justices believe it's was important that the supreme court of the united te states decide this case. >> judge luttig, let's go back to the mattress second. 51 days before the here it's, then, as he said, possibly the end of june. let's go to lifers, just for arguments sake. then, if judge chutkan first permitted to move on with this case, irthere are 88 days that the defense has before this can go s to trial, which basically takes us to the end of september, beginning of october. tell me how that math works out. in other words, i

nixon. did you ever think you would admire ric■hard nixon's love letters? no.t was why i found it very interesting, because sometimes it's the opposite of what you what you think. i'm sorry, i someone like jfk. who had wonderful speeches politically, had very little to <■say. i'm sorry. romantic glee. the only thing that he ever wrote to jacqueline before they were married was a postcard, said, just simply wish you were here, jack. so that was that was that okay? yeah. we often don't think aboutance,s a really lovely picture up there. two of them in the east room of the white house. yes, that was that was at a wedding of of of. oh, i'm sorry. i always forget. i'm sorry. thatcia's wedding, i believe. yeah. yeah. thank you for since this is va's day and since the president's, like all of us, experienced heartache, let's talk about him for a minute about one of the saddt stories in your book on this day in 1884, theodore roosevelt experienced the darkest day of his life.can youc anniversary and how it shaped the future president. actually, a lot of interesting thi

as we saw with the nixon tapes, that's not an unprecedented nor and request.ially on a matter of most national importance. but the supreme court tonight smith's request and sent the case to the court of appeals instead. then, even after the court of appeals issued its ruling on february the six, the supreme court took 22 days just to announce it will wait another 51 days to hear the case. it's a decision that will have ripple effects, not just on trump's legal cases, but on americans to moxie itself. the federal january 6th case in d.c. remains indefinitely paused until this particular question is resolved. moreover, trump estimate a similar claim he is a mean for prosecution in florida, where he's facing criminal charges for improperly holding on to classified government records, and obstructing justice after he left the presidency. and that case could also get delayed as a result of the supreme court taking of trump's immunity claim. there's technically a trial dates set for may in florida, but that is not expected to hold. the parties met in court yesterday

nixon was trained as a lawyer. he was a man. all of my proved himself with a conscience trump has neither of those qualities. he, as we've watched with the bond, he plays it to the last minute and he's unpredictable. he is a terrible witness in court he is terribly emotional about some of these things. so i think the show is going to go on if you will as these trials proceed. and i think one or more will play out before the election. >> yeah. i think as you rightly point out, and we are in the midst of of course him fighting these legal battles, but also in the middle of an election cycle. so politics are also at play here and that may factor into some of the decision-making here. trump for 1 is continued to refer to the january 6 rioters has hostages and patriots the washington post is riding that he's aligning himself with them and intensifying his use of dark graphic. and at times violent language and some are dismissing this is trump just being trump. and i'm curious for you how do you view it? >> well i view this as somebod

party in mida, and not one of them told me that the soviet union consciously wanted to help richard nixonhad a strong reputation as an extreme anti-communist. but the soviet union did something different; it fully supported. north vietnam, and, of course, wit cong, the liberation front of south vietnam. and this liberation front, with the support of the soviet union, carried out very large-scale offensive operations in south vietnam, including many hours of bloody battles on the streets of the capital of south vietnam. saigon, by all accounts, from a military point of view, is an offensive ended in failure, well, of course, there were already 530 thousand american troops there, it could not help but end in failure, but it produced the psychological impression of a bomb exploding in the united states, politically, psychologically, it certainly looked like it. like a huge victory for north vietnam, and the soviet union that supported them. lyndon johnson, who was actively preparing for the elections, and who , on the issues at that time, generally had a good chance of winning, realized that

and then nixon came and conversations began about what the supporters of the austrian school and thethat we need to completely abandon the gold standard, because we only got rid of it by half. the americans still had a lot of gold, but we supported the dollar. and this allowed the dollar to become the reserve currency that people trusted, because everyone else was even worse , yes, so we took the dollar, and this is all very, very serious, but this cannot go on forever, i believe that we are approaching the moment when some kind of chance, i believe in this black swan theory, yes, something will happen that cannot be controlled, and you ask, what should people do? i think the most important thing is to understand what's going on. so, getting back to economics, you've always been a proponent of owning gold, physical gold, and you've been for decades talk about it. do you still think so, do you think this strategy has paid off over the years? yeah, yeah, sure, but i'm not like those gold bugs where gold is sacred, right, gold can protect you from inflation, that's been known for 600 ye

nixon, the infamous case in which richard nixon refused to hand tape recordings from the oval office to a federal judge in the watergate scandal. everyone in the country understood this was make-or- break for nixon. it was the biggest case of the time. those tapes could prove his involvement in crimes. and on july 8th, 1974, the supreme court heard arguments in the case when they weren't even in a regular session. >> and decisions expected in a week or two, even before this money's argument one justice was writing and circulating his ideas. another had his quote prepare a draft opinion. >> with faith, the republican on the line, the court issued their decision just 16 days later. >> the president nixon has not yet responded to the sledgehammer decision that the supreme court today, which ruled that he must immediately turnover tapes in 64 presidential conversations. >> what about bush v. gore? remember that? the recount in florida? barely a month after the votes were cast, and one day after florida's highest court ordered a statewide recount, the supreme court stepped in. they grante

richard nixon, richard nixon was a man who together with...sian dissidents themselves. nixon could not, to some extent, ignore this pressure, because there was the notorious jackson amendment, which simply limited the possibilities of american trade, american loans to the soviet union, unless relatively free emigration was allowed. to meet the pressure, he was able to meet the request, and indeed tens of thousands of people got the opportunity to leave, and then this door closed for a while when on... with the rights of russia in the post-soviet space, but also openly interfere in russian internal affairs, what conclusions would you draw from this? well, like some: it was a cold war, and now a hot war, that’s what they call it, feel the difference, you know, i, uh, remember that all american presidents of recent decades have used the lever of human rights and democracy. not only here, but in china, but seriously, seriously, these questions were the last, precisely the last, not the last, but the last, to be posed by jimmy carter, i don’t even

i'm rick sanchez along with carla nixon and wilber leon. and i wanna fax these gentleman for joining us to so we can have his illustrious conversation. illustrious, on your part, i'll do the best buy to all right. we were talking just a moment to go about the 1st amendment of the united states of america, and something else happened this week happened to the 1st amendment this week. the supreme court, whose job it is by the way to interpret and in essence, defend the constitution of the united states, actually made some comments that seem to suggest that maybe it doesn't think all that much of the 1st amendment of the constitution. yours just as good times you browned jackson, seeming to suggest that maybe we ought to push freedom of speech. you know, maybe it ain't that important in some cases. so my biggest concern is that your view has the 1st amendment, ham, stringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods. i mean what we, what would you have the government do? i've heard you say a couple of times that the

but think and think about what happened to nixon. i mean, barry goldwater, john rhodes, all the republican go down from the congress and say, you've got to, you know, this isn't going to work. you got to resign. and nixon says, well, if push on to a trial, will you? how will you vote? and goldwater said, i'll vote to convict you. and that's the thing i was going to say that like in 2016, donald trump governed in a coalition government with the republican party. in 2020, that republican has gone right. there's no paul ryan speakership. there's a mike johnson speakership. and so the the very we've a very near-term question and the longer term question. right. what happens if the bridge builds over the trump waters? right. what happens if joe biden. wins 5347 and that's end of that? i don't i mean, look, i was wrong about trump coming back in 2020, but coming back again, 2024 seems i'm sorry, 2024. i was wrong about him coming back in 2024, but him coming back in 2028 after losing the popular vote twice in a row feels even less likely t

foreign service in cold war hotspots, really across the globe in the 1960s, he was a political and a nixon foreign ministrations he was ambassador to portugal during a particularly tumultuous of time he was deputy of the central intelligence agency during their careers and. he was caspar weinberger is reagan's first secretary of defense his deputy the department of defense during the first term and then served president reagan's national security advisor and then secretary of defense in the second term resume unlike pretty much anyone else, few could compare what secretary carlucci did during those years of government service. now, secretary carlucci is remembered here at the reagan institute as one of the most accomplished and serving figures from the reagan administration. and he was a consummate public servant. what quote, a hero among civil servants devoted to service, hard work and statesman statesmanship, which, of course, is unusual in this town. he got things done, as we were just discussing. so we'll talk about all of this and more. please join me in welcoming kristen carlucci hea

and in this washington post article, they they say that nixon, reagan kennedy had all said, get me, who is this guy? get me carlucci. everybody is asking for him. and that's basically this book is about it's about identifying the traits that make my dad so, so wanted. so desired. and in this town, a consummate professional skilled public servant that everybody wanted in their corner. republicans democrats, even though he was a republican. but that he was he got things done. so i thought it was a very appropriate title. absolutely. and that image, the beginning of the story of president kennedy who's carlucci, get me carlucci. where and your father sitting? i in foggy bottom, having lunch with carl. and next thing you know, he's kind of brought in and into the white house, meet someone who was a statesman from, well, from congo. yeah. back. he was a foreign service officer. and he had served in the congo, and he'd come back to washington. he was having lunch. was having lunch. oh, that's better. and a minister from the congo was sitting down with president. and this who my father had kno