nixon. gerald ford believed and again, i think perhaps naively, that you could in effect, turn the page. and and his focus understood. anybody he's he's trying to learn to be president on the job. and day after day, he's being confronted with bad economic numbers of the rate of inflation was high and going higher. and by the way, it was reached a level significantly higher than anything we've experienced in in recent years. and so he said up front that inflation is is enemy number one. but he, again, introducing the element of openness, the contrast with the nixon white house, where economic policy was often decided in secret and then sprung on the country at the end of august, ford did something that no one else had done. he had a televised national confer runs in which he brought together experts, economists of the right and the left organized labor, you name it. he brought all these folks together and in front of television cameras, debated ideas, differing approaches to address what at t

and richard nixon was the author of detente. remember detente. detente was the idea that the united states could live with soviet communism until then, the belief had been either democracy or communism was going to win. they couldn't coexist. but detente was all about peaceful coexistence, by the way, i will add this when germany was on the brink of apparently of defeating when it did defeat france in 1940, this is back to the earlier debate, he said that the united states might have to learn to live with dictators and franklin roosevelt and roosevelt's allies said what an insane thing to say. what a malicious thing to say, to learn, to live with dictators. well, that's exac only what richard nixon said, what they taught and among republican concerns, there were some hawkish democratic conservatives as well. he said detente, is a terrible idea. we need to sort of get back on the ball and just fight the next vietnam war better instead of avoiding the next vietnam war. and this became a big issue. and ultimately the hawkish side w

and his pardon of richard nixon, on lectures and history. georgetown university history professor on the irish diaspora and the role of the united states during the troubles, and in the northern ireland peace process, and in the presidency, james bradley, co-author of the martin van buren papers, talks about his biography, the first fresh look at the van buren presidency in decades. watch american history tv every weekend, and find a full schedule on your pgr guide, or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> the director of the national economic council responded to questions about the jobs report, speaking in the white house driveway for about 15 minutes. >> kevin, couple of quick questions. into that microphone. if you can start by telling us your perception? >> sure, thanks. i am kevin hassett, director of the national economic council. most of you know that. it is nice to be here. yeah, i thought that it was a really, really impressive jobs report, that in the biden administration there were some strong jobs numbers that were base

. -- to pardon president nixon. you try to tackle the treatment of vietnam war draft evaders watch our american history tv series first 100 days saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> remarks now from white house deputy chief of staff dance covino and republican congressman harriet hagman of wyoming. they spoke at the political action conference held just outside of washington, d.c. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> good morning, everybody. how is everybody doing? let's go! it's a great honor to be here. thank you very much. congratulations on everything you have accomplished with cpac over the years. again, it is a great honor. i'm truly humbled to be here. thank you. i have two words for all of you. i said this before, i don't speak at lot publicly. i like being the behind the scenes job. i'm not a public speaker. i don't often come out and speak, but when i do, i speak from the heart. i have a lot of passion. i had the option for teleprompters. i said no thank you. i just wanted to come and

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months of president gerald ford's term in 1974 including his part in the former president richard nixon who resigned from office during the watergate investigation. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, georgetown university derek gannon on the irish diaspora in the role of the united states during the troubles and in the northern ireland peace process and at 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency, james bradley coeditor of martin van buren papers talks about his biography of our eighth president the first in-depth look at the van buren presidency in decades. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> senate democratic leaders including minority leader chuck schumer held a press conference on president trump's executive order to dissolve the education department. from capitol hill this is about 25 minutes.. good afternoon, everybody. thank you all for coming. so last night reports came out that president trump is preparing to sign an executive order to a

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can -- nixon, who resigned during the watergate investigation. georgetown university history professor on the irish diaspora and the role of the united states during the troubles, and in the northern ireland peace process. at 9:30 p.m. eastern, james bradley, coeditor of the martin van buren papers, talks about his biography of our eighth president, the first in-depth look at the van buren presidency in decades. exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturdays on c-span two, and find a full schedule in your program guide, or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. democratic senator elizabeth warren and republican congressman andy barr talked about republican tax cut proposals. senator warren, leading democrat on the senate banking committee, talked about republican plans to cut medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. and chairman bar applauded the efforts of doge for cutting wasteful spending. they both spoke at a forum hosted by semafor news. >> please welcome senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts, and the congr

on --'s reporting on nixon who he didn't like. when people call b.s. on stories something they know about what continue to trust report to get areas where they are not. bill murray broke free of that. it is not just one area it is about all news. every single person who ever read a piece that they have prior knowledge of comes away never trusting the news again that. isn't every story than untrue? because every story is viewed as such by somebody knowledgeable on that subject. meaning every climate story rings false to somebody who studies it, every inflation story rings false to everybody who understands it. every story about to me rings a false unless it says i am 5'10". [applause] kennedy, this is for me it is a revelation to see it in realtime. where somebody goes my god i can't trust this person anymore because now i have experienced the reporting of close. and he knew woodward to. >> this phenomenon is unique. might -- michael crichton was the one who termed... amnesia and it only pertains to the media because most of us whe

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all of you said about nixon to china. it wouldn't, matthew said about providing some respect to russia. i mean, look of china and, and the soviet union were all very much at odds back in the days of dixon. i think that part of the thinking of washington would be, not only can we do a reverse nixon to try to, but we can somehow drive the russians and the chinese a partner. i think that's part of whatever strategic thinking is going on. i'm sure the russians are aware of that, and that's not gonna work. so i, you know, again, i think part of the, the basis of what is it seems to be the attempt here on the part of washington is isn't going to come to fruition. yeah. patrick, yeah i, i take it on board. what you said about the winter is that you all to absolutely brilliant observation. and that's what trump is. that's what trump wants because he wants the major powers going back to a early 20th century 19th century paradigm. the only difference is the u. k is bought at the table and that's why there's so angry, they've made t

since the big clashes with nixon in the 1970's no president has gone outside of that framework to say i have a strong impoundment power. president trump looks like he may. host: let's start with callers. mary on the republican line in texas. caller: go ahead -- hello. host: go ahead. caller: i am mary smith and i, from a long line of democrats and i voted for obama and biden but i had a friend who was very politically astute or meet that biden was pro-abortion up to the ninth month and i'm a pro-life person so i made a 180 and became a republican. then i started watching newsmax and fox nation and i became a conservative republican and i will be watching the president tonight. i appreciate your show very much. host: here is carol in illinois. line for democrats. are you there? caller: thank you for taking my call. i am very concerned that all of our relatives died in the past to have our u.s. constitutional rights. congress is not stepping up and doing their job. what can we do to get congress up doing their job? instead of taking away from the people and giving it all to the oligarch

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and more specifically, um, uh, nixon goes the china in reverse. i think this is, you know, this is what trump is thinking about if he can do it. i don't know, but i think that's what really motivates him. and on top of it, you know, when you have the british and the ukrainians yelling at the top of their lungs, trump remembers russia, russia, russia, they're not scoring any points with him at all. the is trump thinking big picture and i want my audience to now i have a lot of problems with a trans foreign policy, but not on this issue. patrick. now when you say you alter to point out peter, you know that, but i don't, i don't rage. i don't say it in a negative way. i don't think it's a dirt. oh no, no, no, it's not. it's not. but it, remember you all to it was the winners of world was coming together. so what trump is doing is trying to re position himself to be on the winning side. he doesn't want to go down with this disastrous proxy war. this vanity project is i'd like to call it nato's vanity project. europe's vanity project, trump wants to be

since the big clashes with nixon in the 1970's no president has gone outside of that framework to say i have a strong impoundment power. president trump looks like he may. host: let's start with callers. mary on the republican line in texas. caller: go ahead -- hello. host: go ahead. caller: i am mary smith and i, from a long line of democrats and i voted for obama and biden but i had a friend who was very politically astute or meet that biden was pro-abortion up to the ninth month and i'm a pro-life person so i made a 180 and became a republican. then i started watching newsmax and fox nation and i became a conservative republican and i will be watching the president tonight. i appreciate your show very much. host: here is carol in illinois. line for democrats. are you there? caller: thank you for taking my call. i am very concerned that all of our relatives died in the past to have our u.s. constitutional rights. congress is not stepping up and doing their job. what can we do to get congress up doing their job? instead of taking away from the people and giving it all to the oligarch

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hundred days of gerald ford's presidency, he took office after the resignation of president richard nixon during watergate investigation. president ford declared long national nightmare is over and later made the controversial decision to partner richard nixon in the first few months of his term he tried to tackle high inflation, energy issues and the treatment of vietnam war activators. saturday at 7:00 p.m. earn on american history t on c-span2. >> white house press sect karoline leavitt and month granted one-month reprieve for u.s. automakers and discussed briefing is over 30 minutes sum. >> hello, everybody. how are we? i apologize for my tardiness. it is quite the newsy day and i was with the president talking about that news. first i want to talk about president trump's historic and incredible speech last night. the american people and the entire world watched president trump powerfully lay out how he is renewing the american dream in a record-breaking joint address to congress. americans loved what they heard. according to a cbs/ugov survey 76% of those watching approved of preside

also on nixon's enemies list which i thought was outstanding combinations. anyway, during that time in 62 with russia, china was not the china that we knew now. who was russia's allies back then, did they have any other than cuba and i'm just curious about the relationship with these other countries around their and i have to ask you both. you can answer if you want to. are the commanders going to the super bowl? i say yes. guest: i say i would be thrilled if they win today and went on to the super bowl but i always have that in my thought and i think that has to do with simply being a journalist. you have to examine what the evidence is. the commanders came out of nowhere and they are on the edge of the super bowl and is an extraordinary thing. so much will depend on this rookie quarterback. and if mr. daniels can pull it off today i would regard that as a football miracle. on a measure of the agreement at the end of the cuban missile crisis. now to come back to reality, you are asking essentially russia's allies at that time and especially china. it is an

scott: she wrote a lot of letters to richard nixon. there are a number of files in the nixon library that contain nothg t mrs. to inform her. they had an interesting relationship. she had been a longtime supporter. she was constantly haranguing him via email about one problem or another that she saw was crucial to the survival of the republic. generally he would write back asserting he agreed with everything she said and wished there were more citizens like her but then he would do absolutely nothing about what she wanted him to do. he treated her basically like an annoying aunt at thanksgiving who tells you how to dress and vote and what shows to watch and rather than get into a long conversation that will only end with bad feelings, you acquiesce to her and then go about your business because she will not be there. he would say yes, you are absolutely right, and the nothing would happen. and she seems to not notice that often. on the other hand, he did not really want to antagonize her because she had a vast readership through the l.

he took office after the resignation of president richard nixon during the watergate investigation. president ford declared our long national nightmare is over and later made the controversial decision to pardon richard nixon. in the first few months of his term, president ford also tried to tackle high inflation in the country, energy issues, and the treatment of vietnam war draft evaders. watch our american h series first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, on c-span2. >> democracy is always an unfinished increase. >> democracy is worth dying for. >> democracy belongs to us all. >> we are here in the sanctuary of democracy. >> great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. >> american democracy is bigger than any one person. >> freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. >> we are still at our core a democracy. >> this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. dedicated to the president's joint address to congress last night. we will show you portions of that during our time together. we will hear fro

she couldn't help doing that. >> nixon hated "the post" and us personally to his dying day. >> reporterbout, i think, something like 57. >> no, i know that. >> she's aged terribly. >> she a terrible old bag. >> reporter: did she talk about facing that kind of sexism in those kind of taunts from the president of the united states? >> well, nixon didn't scare her at all. >> reporter: what did scare her was the idea of losing the paper. >> "the washington post," its presses crippled in a violent strike. >> reporter: never did that feel more real than in 1975 when the posts's printers damaged the presses and went on a bitter strike more than four months limiting the paper's circulation. how challenging was that? >> that tore her apart. she was suffering at that time more than ever during watergate or during "the pentagon papers" or anything. but she thought she might be blowing everything. >> reporter: buffett told us katharine graham prevailed because she was brave. and it's because of her that "the washington post" company stock price went up more than 3,000% while she was publisher. ut s

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it would be the same scenario. >> trace: who is the nixon guy he keeps talking about?rnor of california? >> no. when i think of kamala harris i think of a couple of things. first of all, tremendous incompetence. she has that word salad i can't stand. and the worst part? her laugh. i was so happy when trump won not just because i was supportive of trump and everything but i thought hopefully she would fade off into the distance. the laugh is a nervous laugh. it's not a funny laugh. i think she really doesn't know what she's doing and i think she knows that. she loves the limelight and she might go. but i don't know if the democratic party wants. >> trace: that's the whole thing. it's a foregone conclusion everyone assumes that she would dominate and become the california governor and that puts her back on the national stage, but does it? california has moved a little towards the right. >> actually it's moved a lot. if you look at the map after the last election on november fifth it was so much more red. the only blue parts where the big cities. san francisco, oakland an

the kennedy-nixon debate. on the floor in the living room in acres home with my mom and dad. and black and white television. and they were the commentators. my mom and my dad. neither one graduated from high school. but they were the ones saying to each other, kennedy represents the people. this other guy, eh, we don't know. but that's who we like. i was 6 or 7 years old. sitting on the floor. taking it all in. and quite frankly, it caught my attention. and i said to myself, one of these days, i'm going to be on that stage. >> were your parents involved in politics? >> they believed in voting. they didn't go to a college, they didn't graduate from high school. but when it came time to vote, they voted. my dad was a union guy. that helped elevate our family from where we were, made life a lot better. they both focused on making sure their kids had an opportunity for an education more than what they did. so when it came time to school, my mom and dad, they were there. when it came time for my homework, they didn't know algebra and all that they just knew, you need to be doing y

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i think that part of the thinking of washington would be, not only can we do a reverse nixon to try to, but we can somehow drive the russians and the chinese a partner. i think that's part of whatever strategic thinking is going on. i'm sure the russians are aware of that, and that's not gonna work. so i, you know, again, i think part of the, the basis of what is a seems to be the attempt here on the part of washington is isn't going to come to fruition. yeah, patrick. yeah i, i take it on board. what you said about the winter is that you all to absolutely brilliant observation and that's what trump is. that's what trump wants because he wants the major powers going back to a early 20th century 19th century paradigm. the only difference is the u. k is bought at the table and that's why there's so angry, they've made themselves so irrelevant. go ahead and i'll say this is the big danger right now is if the united states pulls out of ukraine or is not occupying that diplomatic and that geo political space, there's a danger that, that vacuum someone else can slide in and cause a lot of tr

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they framed nixon. like all of a sudden i went, oh my god, if this is what he writes about, my friend that i've known, you know, for, you know, half of my adult life. >> yeah. >> which is completely inaccurate, talking to, like, the people of the outer outer circle, getting the story. what the hell could they have done to nixon? i just felt like if he did this to my friend like this, and i acknowledge i only read five pages, but the five pages i read, you know, made me want to, like, set fire to the whole thing. >> so there you go. murray realized if he couldn't trust woodward on a topic that he knew well, like his friend belushi, that he has to question everything woodward reported on, including, of course, nixon, who murray didn't like. essentially, murray just escaped what's called the gell-mann amnesia effect. that's when people call bs on stories about something they know about, yet continue to trust reporting in areas where they're not. murray just broke free from that. but it's not just about woo

project or nixon did it it has be the right you know whatever whatever my non right tendencies are my complaint about the right think it's a historical that in the context of american history in the last 50 years of forces that they considered themselves conservative republican right have more amenable to the ideas think it is because we meet on free market guys like milton friedman you know was a lifelong consultant advisor to republican politicians from goldwater to nixon to reagan, and was seen as conservative man of the right figure by most boring, solid libertarians. when i interviewed him in 1995, he made it very clear, like, of course, i am a libertarian but like if you look at my career, you will see, oh, i seem like i'm a guy who's working the republican party. well, i am, because that's where i can be effective. but of course, i'm a libertarian and he even granted to me that he would like to be a zero government libertarian like his son david, the anarcho theorist. he he was a little he was a little doubtful that it actually could be a sustainable human social structure. and

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