nixon supported it by 1968. all party candidates supported the era, but it was more or less pro forma. and you see the movement starting and especially the movement for the era starting. in the early, the late sixties and early seventies. so nixon had an idea that he and his staff they would make in part in the the sports analogy a double play for women's rights. thinking again largely of the politics, but not exclusively politics. do a re-endorsed ment of the era in 1971, when he the opportunity with the supreme court in thinking he could appoint a woman and make a real big splash. well, they were unable to find a woman who the american bar association would support. so they didn't. they they appointed rehnquist and lewis powell and there was a little bit of delay in endorsing the equal rights amendment. a lot of the members of the staff felt, you know that his past endorsements were sufficient. it's very interesting, though. pat nixon supported the era and julie nixon, eisenhower him a little note saying, dear

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. 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

president nixon and richard nixon or by the shrewdest american thinkers in life. among the fasting things in those first chapters deal with nixon political analyses of the 1976 and 1980 campaigns. sometimes i wondered how we ever got the memoirs written. brought me into talk about 10 minutes. the nexus about the new hampshire primary on the ads and things like that. people and personalities and politics. in their strengths and their weaknesses. this trust ronald reagan strengths and weaknesses in those campaigns. thereen are many, many books written about presidential giants and legends. most are secondhand. one of the unique things about my story and one that i think is untold and that the reagan and nixon'ss relationship. nixon's friendship and collaboration brew in the time i serve the two of them. part of it is how nixon analyzed them during those times. atat the very important historil point. it came out during one of the conversations we had. i kept a very, very good notes and kept it in.diary during that entire period nixon said to me and one of our convers

nixon?like to think of myself as an archaeologist or anthropologist and i have always perceived her as a little enigmatic. i am 54 and do not really remember his presidency but what i remember is not really knowing who pat nixon was, not really having a positive or negative, just almost a link. and then -- blank. and then i was reading more and there is plastic pat, the moniker given to her by john fairchild, things like that and then the woodward and bernstein rumors about her having an alcohol problem and being reclusive. these added to the mysterious portrait and the whole book, however, is an excavation and deconstruction of that mysterious image, but she is not really mysterious at all. the media i always view with a level of suspicion because they are often not true and when i started reading, i found she was not really mysterious at all, she kept a distance from the press and even from people sometimes so you can get to a certain with her and then her thoughts are her own. peter: you

pat nixon was was very embittered about the whole thing. and nixon's daughter.the others were wondering, hey, what's he going to do for a living? and where are they going to live? here's what john kennedy had to say after, knowing he was president elect to all american. i say that the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all. the election may have been a close one, but i think that there is general agreement by all of our citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in the years ahead to this country. safely through the 1960s. i ask your help in this effort, and i can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that i possess will be devoted to the long range interests of the united states and to the cause of freedom around the world. so now my wife and i prepare for a new administration and for a new baby. thank you. and that was president elect john kennedy in hyannis port on november ninth, 1960. after finding that he had been elected president, presidential historian david patricia, what was the country's react

nixon"? >> yes.etimes i like to think of myself as a bit of an archaeologist or an anthropologist. and i've always perceived her as a little bit enigmatic. i'm 54 so i don't really even remember the nixon presidency, for what i do remember was not really knowing who pat nixon was, not really having positive or negative, just almost having a blank. then i started reading more and there's of course plastic past, that whole sort of moniker given her by john fairchild, things like that and, of course, there's the woodward and bernstein rumors about her having an alcohol problem, being reclusive. these all add up to thepr mysteriess portrait. and the whole a book, however, s anhe excavation and the deconstruction of that mysteries image, but she is not really mysterious at all. the media i aa level of suspicion because they are often not true and when i started reading, i found she was not really mysterious at all, she kept a distance from the press and even from people sometimes so you can get to a certa

and len garment, who was nixon's friend, adviser, wrote that nixon's enforcement of civil rights, and this is len's quotes, was progressive but observed by clouds of retrogressive rhetoric. in 1973, when the historical record of the first four years is written, i am confident it will show this administration did far more in equal rights and opportunities than its critics were willing to admit. do you think nixon's confidence was well-placed? >> well, it certainly was in the area of women's policies. i mean, that was the heyday of women's policymaking. those years when he was president. and, you know, some of that was just timing when everything just kind of came together. but, part of it was in his administration's willingness to entertain this pressure from women. >> dean, in your book, you say in 1972, newsweek could say without sarcasm, as you say, the person in washington who has done the most for the women's movement may be richard nixon. to go around the panel, were women better off in 1974 than they were in 1969. abigail, do you want to? >> i think if you're going by numbers an

nixon, you can cure cancer." that was really the thing which dislodged what became the war on cancer, although that was a phrasing that was never used, because he thought it would be misleading and he was more interested on research. but, the power of one person, of one woman, to affect national policy, we have seen with nixon. we have so much more to talk about and we have such little time. john mitchell famously said about the administration, that we should watch what we do, not what we say. and lynn garment, who was nixon's law partner, friend, white house adviser, wrote that nixon's enforcement of civil rights -- this is lynn's quote -- was, for the most part, operationally progressive, but obscured by clouds of retrogressive rhetoric. in 1973, president nixon wrote, when the historical record of the first four years is written, i am confident it will show that this administration did far more in the fields of civil rights and opportunity than its critics were willing to admit. panel, do you think nixon's con

and nixon richard nixon had had worked hard. but i think in history we would see had really one of the easier paths to the nomination if for no other, because he had no major challengers. well, here are richard nixon and hubert humphrey at their respective conventions. now, there is no quarrel between progress and order, because neither can exist without the other. so let us have order in america, not the order suppresses dissent and discourages change, but the order which guarantees the right to dissent and provides the basis for peaceful change. and tonight, it's time for some honest talk about the problem of order of the united states. let us always respect, as i do, our courts and those who serve on them. but let us also recognize that some of our courts and their decisions have gone too far in weakening the peace process as against the criminal charges in this country. let those who have the responsibility to enforce our laws and our judges, whoever responsibility to interpret them, be dedicated to the great principles of c

nixon? heath: i like to think of myself as an archaeologist or anthropologist and i have always perceived her as a little enigmatic. i am 54 and do not really remember his presidency but what i remember is not really knowing who pat nixon was, not really having a positive or negative, just almost a link. and then -- blank. and then i was reading more and there is plastic pat, the moniker given to her by john fairchild, things like that and then the woodward and bernstein rumors about her having an alcohol problem and being reclusive. these added to the mysterious portrait and the whole book, however, is an excavation and deconstruction of that mysterious image, but she is not really mysterious at all. the media i always view with a level of suspicion because they are often not true and when i started reading, i found she was not really mysterious at all, she kept a distance from the press and even from people sometimes so you can get to a certain with her and then her thoughts are her own. p

pat nixon was was very embittered about the whole thing. and nixon's daughter.the others were wondering, hey, what's he going to do for a living? and where are they going to live? here's what john kennedy had to say after, knowing he was president elect to all american. i say that the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all. the election may have been a close one, but i think that there is general agreement by all of our citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in the years ahead to this country. safely through the 1960s. i ask your help in this effort, and i can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that i possess will be devoted to the long range interests of the united states and to the cause of freedom around the world. so now my wife and i prepare for a new administration and for a new baby. thank you. and that was president elect john kennedy in hyannis port on november ninth, 1960. after finding that he had been elected president, presidential historian david patricia, what was the country's react

so i so, i got to know richard nixon. so i got i got a bunch of letters from richard nixon.i spent a number of years cultivating him. and i have to admit in public, i had you know, i had an intent. you know, i, i, i had a private purpose in doing this because at some point i was going to ask him. and the point came in 1989, and i asked him if he had been of what kissinger had done had been in 1971, the between bunkers, plans and, kissinger's plans and nixon white to totally lost his composure. and you could just see in his face and everything like this he was he was just he was in agony because and then he didn't want to talk about it anymore. but my sense was to go to your point he was some burden because we lost the war. what related to watergate his resignation, kissinger's negotiations. but he hadn't he hadn't connected all dots and on that afternoon in that in that moment, he the dots and and this was a man i felt just filled with with with with it was it wasn't anger so much it was something deeper to comment on back to your point, what else? yes, dr. thank you very mu

but nixon does not contest that. you've written a book about this 1960, lbj versus jfk versus nixon. do you think that john kennedy won the vote in 1960? that's the thing about the mississippi is controversial. i think the vote would have gone for him anyway if it was not with these electors in terms of the illegitimate votes in chicago, where there were allegations of vote fraud dating back in the weeks before the election and not just allegations in a general sense, but very specific. and then we saw what robert caro did and came up with in one of his bios of lyndon johnson, where he had one of the perpetrators of the vote fraud, tell him specifically what was done to to cast some very suspicious votes in terms of lbj landslide lyndon as he was known back in 1948. what were some of the issues discussed in the 1960 presidential campaign? oh, i think it was in descending order. cold war, cold war and cold war. i mean, certainly there were the mastic issues involved. but even when jfk was talking about the domestic is

the investigation led to the resignation of president richard nixon. this is about one hour. i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. and that was august 8th, 1974, when president nixon went on national tv to announce his resignation from office. that followed a compelling series of hearings in the u.s. senate the year before and a threat of impeachment by the house of representatives. thanks for joining us. for the american history tv series. congress investigates where we look at significant congressional investing nations over our history. this week, it's a look at the watergate hearings and their aftermath. our guest is kate scott, who is the senate historian and author of the book reining in the state civil society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. ms. scott, what was the defining event that led to the senate hearings in 1973? the trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the senate hearings in. 1973 had happened the prior year. in june of 1972, when five

there has never been applause for such as that for pat nixon. mrs. nixon approached floor. and even if you go back and look the video now i have fairly recently it doesn't begin to to take into account the sustained nature of the applause and the camera keeps going back to the same space in the in the crowd in the audience. if you could have scanned that crowd, she mrs. nixon was just loved and it dated far back. it went back to 52 and 56. and all the years that she had herself been to national conventions. but she just it and she handled it so gracefully. and jimmy stewart and ronald reagan were seated right on the dais and they would not help her. she was trying to get them to help. and they even she had a gavel, a gigantic gavel, where she tried to gavel the crowd. silence some kind, and they wouldn't have anything to do with that. they were just cheering. there were tears and i say, i've been to two conventions before and after, and it was nothing like that. that 72 convention with mrs. nixon. and maybe that had to do with what happened. but i applied for a white house

nixon. and another one, a certain comfort, benny ford as first lady. when you were chosen for the white house position and then the first lady staff, what qualified you for that? how did they choose you? what was your role? >> that's probably the best question you could possibly ask. i came home from school, high school my senior year and my grandmother was recovering from surgery. and i liked to sit down with her just to spend a few moments. she had on the television a talk show, i'm going to be aging myself but it was something called the mike douglas show. and his featured guest in 1971 was a woman by the the name of ann armstrong. she came on the screen and the television wasn't big enough for that personality. she was full of vitality, energy, just the substance of her remarks was fascinating but it seemed as if the television was not big enough to contain her. i wrote a letter that night. she had just been named cochair of the republican national committee. bob dole was the chair, ann

pat nixon said, "it was like a funeral in the helicopter." - i watched the nixon resignation speech with leaving on that chopper was kind of the end of an era and man, (chuckles) what an era it was. we watched one president die, another refused to run and a third resigned. by this point, boomers were working, starting families, raising the kids that would become the next generations. and just as their parents once did, a lot of those kids would grow up and find fault with the older generation. - there is a very strong perception that baby boomers did extremely well and then they just disregarded younger generations. they pulled up the ladder after climbing it, is the way that this is often put. - the baby boomers are basically kind of our parents. i think there are mixed feelings towards that group of people. i think they did enact a lot of social change but i think we also saw them sort of, i wanna say, sell out the social change, when they were able to sort of buy nikes and bmws and stuff like that. - it's easy to hate on the boomers because they are these like gorgons just squatting o

welcome to the nixon >> your honor, welcome to the nixon library. it is a real honor to have any justice of the supreme court with us, but particularly you, sir. i want to welcome you back. thank you for being here. >> [ applause ] >> it is so great to be in the western united states again. >> [ laughter ] >> i have to say, this replica of the east room rings back a little ptsd. >> [ laughter ] >> when i was introduced to the country, my nomination was in the east room and i think i was photographed more in one minute then i had in my entire lifetime. >> not surprising. your book, over ruled, is timely. use it to highlight stories of regular americans just trying to live their lives but they find themselves dealing with the government. your honor, don't take this the wrong way, but i can't say the stories or circumstances in over ruled make me optimistic about our long-term priorities and several of our country's institutions. am i wrong -- and let me start by asking, take us through how you wrote the book from 30,000 feet. >> i am optimistic and i

nixon was just loved. it dated far back to 1952 and 56 and all of the years that she had been to national conventions. she handled it so gracefully and jimmy stewart and ronald reagan would not help her. she was trying to get them to help. she had a gavel, a gigantic gavel where she tried to gavel the crowd into silence and they wouldn't have anything to do with that. they were just cheering. i have been to conventions before and after and it was nothing like that. may be that had something to do with what happened next. i applied for a white house internship and i had gotten a job at the national committee, ended up at the white house with the office of proclamations with a genius who later edited the journal. many had had a hand in it. then i worked for -- it sounds like i was transferred a lot. i worked for bryce harlow. you can't learn from anybody like those gentlemen. they taught so much. i watched them deal with the press. they would meet with members of the press in their offices. and watching the

nixon is pushing for this behind the scenes. she also is pushing to get a woman on the supreme court, really wants that to happen, publicly talks about that, when it does not happen she is very disappointed, president nixon is very afraid of her reaction. there are some funny stories about that, him telling julie, mommy is very mad at me. pat was incensed this did not happen but that set the scene for sandra day o'connor later to come in and be a female supreme. on female reproductive rights, mrs. nixon was the first to say abortion publicly and to support a woman's right to choose. her other legacy is her international diplomacy. we have talked a lot about that from the beginning of her career on, particularly in the vice presidential years and as first lady did a lot of solo trips to cement relationships, and also with her husband in china, dependence, sealing that deal, and also russia where her husband signs a treaty, an antiballistic missile treaty. she is going behind-the-scenes with russian wives smoothing things over wor

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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

welcome to the nixon library. it is a real honor to have any justice of the supreme court with us, but particularly you, sir. and i want to welcome you back. so thank you for being here. >> your honor, welcome to the nixon library. it is a real honor to have any justice of the supreme court with us, but particularly you, sir. i want to welcome you back. so, thank you for being here. >> well -- [ applause ] it is so great to be in the western united states again. though i have to say, this replica of the east room brings back a little ptsd. when i was introduced to the country at my nomination, it was in the east room. and i think i was photographed more in one minute and i had been in my entire lifetime. >> it's not surprising. your book overruled is timely and it is refreshing because it talked about a lot of stories. you use it to highlight stories of regular americans who are just trying to live their lives. but they find themselves dealing with the government. your honor, don't take this the wrong way but i ca

remember, richard nixon.rd nixon who features prominently in "countdown 1960." it's a beautiful cover. don't even read the book. just look at the cover. show your friends. >> chris: what's inside it is even better than what's on the outside. having said that, richard nixon during watergate in 1974, the supreme court ruled that he couldn't keep the tapes that were hidden. he because it involved the possibility of a crime, had to be turned over. the kind of feeling on the supreme court seem to be of to that point, the precedent that the president, as opposed to a precedent, was not shielded from the law. new law that the supreme court decided. i don't know. the fact that it's a 6-3 conservative majority in three of the justices were appointed by donald trump i'm sure is totally coincidental. >> stephen: nothing to do with it. and three of the justices who were in the majority actually worked for the bush campaign in 2000 and were down there around the time of the brooks brothers riot which was specially the mod

nixon was only 47 but nixon had been vice president for eight years. >> there was a stature gap. there was a sense that he was heavyweight and the kennedy was too good looking to rich, too inexperienced. and when the two of them got up on that stage together, and kennedy, who was very smart, he had gotten a tan. he wore a dark blue suit against the gray background and he rested he had a time. yeah nixon lives exhausted. >> he was still select from a flu and a bab staph infection who wore a gray suit against a gray backdrop. you can see there how almost fades into the background. and nixon, who had a serious 5:00 shadow refuse to do makeup because kennedy refused to do the difference was kennedy had the tan nixon had this 5:00 shadow and both on the substance and on style, i think that it just completely changed the dynamic that of that election in the whole momentum and kennedy, though it was still razor thin, went on to win oh interesting, we have like 15 seconds, but i just i don't want to lose sight of the dirty tricks and this was the first election that you really saw it in

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