nixon. eisenhower is pat nixon the untold story. all three of these works are set to be released next year, paul carter writes in his preface, quote, i am a trial attorney. i am quite aware that speak louder than words and. i know the thoroughness required to assemble evidence presenting it layer by layer until the full story emerges. that's what i've done with richard nixon. california's native son. and now it's time for you to be the judge. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please join in welcoming paul carter. thank you. thank you, jim. thank you to all of the incredible staff here for putting this evening together. i really appreciate it. and, you know, let's just get started. richard nixon as california's native son, he was born hearing linda in a house. his father built a few steps where i'm standing. he was raised in whittier and graduated whittier college. and then went off to duke law school. we're all pretty much familiar with that aspect of his life and that story. but no

nixon. well, while we waited, susan, we lived in the closet in my office, which was on the third floor of the old executive office building sometime in the dead of night. she was still of that office out of my closet and landed the office of someone who had said or done something detrimental to women. it's. so i of course, i had to go pick her up in the morning, put her back closet. but it was known that the spirit of suits and the anthony row wound the white house at night. so if you're a man, beware, what's the best? well, a final note about that. i think it was quite appropriate that mrs. nixon was the one to receive this symbolic gift, because i do think that she was an inspiration. and as jim said, behind the president's move to advance what and so we're grateful to her as well as be grateful to the president. so thank you all for coming. i as i said, i wish i were there with you. i think will have an informative and inspiring and i hope you will leave with the momentum and the desire t

one of them nixon is tamia more human character nixon you see nixon suffering you see nixon in these tapes having conversations with his daughter. you know, he had a of course he had family i go into some of the family crises they faced. um, but you know, he was a loving family person. ultimately. i mean, i see perhaps in 50 years time. we'll get a different. view of trump, but i'm not sure we'll have the you know, i can't see the human qualities in trump that i can see in nixon. i can't see the suffering. i can't see the basic respect for the system. i certainly can't see the i mean nixon whatever else you think of him was a brilliant mind. it wasn't kissinger who opened up to china, of course, you know, that might not have been such a great idea now that we have problems with china, but that was nixon was a very, you know, creative foreign policy thinker he read deeply about american history. i i'm in perhaps my too close to trump, but i i put them in booktv.org. >> you've been watching booktv, television for serus

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

one of them nixon is tamia more human character nixon you see nixon suffering you see nixon in these tapes having conversations with his daughter. you know, he had a of course he had family i go into some of the family crises they faced. um, but you know, he was a loving family person. ultimately. i mean, i see perhaps in 50 years time. we'll get a different. view of trump, but i'm not sure we'll have the you know, i can't see the human qualities in trump that i can see in nixon. i can't see the suffering. i can't see the basic respect for the system. i certainly can't see the i mean nixon whatever else you think of him was a brilliant mind. it wasn't kissinger who opened up to china, of course, you know, that might not have been such a great idea now that we have problems with china, but that was nixon was a very, you know, creative foreign policy thinker he read deeply about american history. i i'm in perhaps my too close to trump, but i i put them ingood . this is the 37th time

nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university ofa southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability which take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the extort 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20, 1969. dwight has dwight has written a terrific new memoir, "the president's man" which can see it to my left, but you would use with his work with president nixon. "the president's man" is without a doubt one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency andn. president nixon as a person that is yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank gannon. frank joined the nixon white house and the sum of 1971 as a white house fellow assigned to counselors to the president, donald rumsfeld and bob finch. he did d work for john ehrlichmn on the domestic council staff, along with colonel brennan and handful of other stuff e

nixon and mrs. nixon and as you say in the book, it was him getting to know you and to trust you because the jobs you did were well done that made him at ease with you and it was that ease that sort of characterized the relationship and and the closeness of it. yes as the clock goes ahead here and you'll find this in the book. after in 1967 as i after i become his personal aid, it's just the two of us traveling all over the country. no, no other aids or anything occasionally pat buchanan might go if there is a big speech or ray price one of the other speech writers, but for the most part it was just the two of us criss crossing the nation doing political events and so forth and for a young man, like myself who at this time is 26 years old at that juncture, you know, it was just one phenomenal education. today that role is sort of known white and well known as a body man. i think in those days when the media was just travel was becoming easier and politics was picking up into a media enterprise the r

me to working on richard nixon at the nixon library. so it's so interesting it was all based on primary research and world history. so the trail led me twice so that's been interesting. i guess for me it's kind of a whirlwind i started with another student in texas wondering about i really loved women's history classes and in thosen classes i would question what is the role in politics, not just community organizing but also as elected officials and those questions kind of derived towards my other passion of taking political science classes where i would learn about women's history over there so i would start asking those questions. what role did women have. soat another graduate student tt drove my questions teseah and wi entered the graduate school i didn't know much more than the questions i had to. i started reading a little bit more through literature and then my questions involved. what about mexican-american, how did mexican-american women shape the politics and government and representation? and i started finding there's not ver

nixon. and if anything is left or needs mentioning, we'll all fill in. i will ask sarah as a historian. the white house historical association, as well as bob barr, stuck to talk about the most immediately public visual impact of. pat nixon. and that was her with the white house historical association. yes, absolutely. and it's very difficult to encompass the many house legacies of mrs. nixon in a short time. but i'll do my best. and i know that bob will supplement this as well. of course, one of the most obvious is the impact that mrs. nixon has on the white house or her acquisition efforts. and if you walk through the white house today, the white house that you see is largely a testament to her. with white house curator clem conger and bob will talk a little bit more about those acquisition efforts. but this is a project that we're really proud of, of course, the white house historical association in carrying forward a legacy not just of mrs. kennedy who made these efforts very public, but

nixon really . >> nixon really didn't, nixon gavepr a prominent speech. the way i interpret, he's not going to dismantle the great society, he wants to shade it in kind of a republican direction. instead of big welfare program, he's talking about tax cut and investment in cities instead of bigng spending bills for education. he's talking about improving schools and cities. he's talking about community policing. i mean, a lot later liberals look back at nixon rhetoric, surprisingly liberals and, of course, when nixon becomes president, i don't -- i don't want to get to where he's notse president. eisenhower did fdr's new deal. they didn't, the size of government turned nixon administration grew.dn it didn't shrink. and a lot of what nixon as president upset conservatives. we will come back to that later in the presidency. so on the issues he was surprisingly moderate but convention in miami beach is actually where -- actually where the democrats wished they had moved. johnson had locked in chicago. republicans were in miami beach. huge question about secur

nixon.wight was borned in kansas attended the university of southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he caught the political bug his hard work uncanny ability to take into nixon side throughout the entirety of historic 1968 campaign and to the white house 19209. dwight has written a terrific presidents man you can see here to fight left.t. much of it deals with his work with president nixon. he is without a doubt one and those important contributions to understanding of the nixon presidency as a person that has yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank gannon. what is a white house of fellow assigned to counsel to the presidentt on a domestic counsel staff. along with colonel brandon the handful of other to fly aboard air force one on the final flight home to california in august 1974. frank work with more present for fivech years this richard nixon cheap editorial assistant organizing the researching and writing of his memoirs wor

he uses that word the nixon part. he calls the nixon diary. and i was a lot of it's restricted but because he lived to age 99 it's 52 volume so diaries i mean imagine 52 books of diaries because he lived i mean his 99 when he died and he begins in 1950 with harry truman and goes into 2014 with president obama and would describe it as kind of a hybrid diaries. it documents contact, sometimes verbatim with presidents their, families and top staff that i've not seen at any presidential library or national archives. a unique resource almost like a counselor or sort of pastoral relationship at times. johnson documents the content of the prayers at some point. i mean, really personal details about how these leaders, each other, you know, oftentimes out the public eye. and i allowed to access it. wheaton college outside of chicago. and what we had told was the diary also contains graham with over 50 foreign heads of state because graham is crusades. so many were international extended. i was told that one researcher ahead of me had had been granted a

nixon. and he said, i'm sorry, we getting back to you, so why don't you come on in for an interview? it wasn't the greatest interview in the world since i was a columbia law student. pat thought i was a from the rockefeller camp. at least that's what he teases me today. but he did. they did give me a job, and i started answering correspondence at their office. 520 one fifth avenue, and i to do some research. and marty anderson, who was on leave, that hoover institution, saw some value in what i was doing. and he offered, as we approached the nominees. and in 1968, it looked like more, more that nixon was going to win. marty offered me a job that summer for the presidential campaign, then i got a job working for a fellow named alan. alan greenspan was domestic policy adviser in. that campaign. well the things worked out. of course, we won that election. and then i ended up in the white house. i finished my third year of law school and came back to california, took the bar exam, and then up in

nixon. so i will -- i will open with a very brief overview of that role of first lady and bringing us up to 1969 when pat nixon becomes a first lady and the way at the time that role was perceived. it had been less than ten years that jackie kennedy had done hei famous white house tour of her restoration work, refurbishing along historic lines of the white house and created the white house historical association became most with followed lady bird johnson, who first undertook somewhat similar effort in terms of the exterior, meaning the land and the environment. first of washington and then of the nation. so there was a big that pat nixon would take on one quote unquote project it. but in at the overall role first lady, we see from the beginning it was one fraught with symbolism in everything they said did even within the tradition confines of the 19th century and early 20th century with the expectation of women's roles in american society. we see that with first ladies. it could be a little

nixon did. interestingly to the point of our viewer here, in the '50s, nixon really reached out of to the black community, republicans in the 1950s, the party of lincoln, had some ties to black community that the democrats didn't have. the democrat -- we forget all this, the democratic party base what the south. the white south, and nixon, partly for political reasons, made a play for african-american vote but not just for political reasons. for instance, when nixon was in college, he made sure that his fraternity took in a black athlete and i think maybe two. there's a record of nixon being pretty progressive on race as a young person, all forgotten, all overlooked because nixon's later politics made people -- rightly made people uncomfortable, but nixon, i can't say enough what a complicated guy he was, and i know, to the last point, nixon understood that it was really important for african-americans in this country to have some economic benefit. they had -- not to put too fine a opinion -- be

nixon was wartime president. he inherited the war in vietnam from lyndon johnson and jack kennedy when he came into office, there were 540,000 troops in vietnam over 500 troop troops. young men were being killed every month in vietnam, over a thousand casualties. there were had been promoted and escalated by establishment. the eastern establishment and the state and the defense department created by johnson and jack kennedy. but despite all that, starting in january of 69, it became nixon's war and it became his burden and all the protests across the country and all the violence on the campuses and the bombings that were attempted at the pentagon and all the mass protests all across country. they weren't blamed on lyndon johnson. they weren't blamed on jack kennedy or the eastern establishment on clifford or george marshall or mcnamara they were blamed on richard nixon. so that was one big burden he carried. the second headwind he had was that you people have to remember that the congress was in the hands of demo