s has died. a special counsel to president nixon, he went to jail for his role in watergate. he was known as the evil genius of the nixon white house and once said that he would walk over his grandmother to get nixon reelected. in prison he became an evangelical christian and spend the rest of his life helping prison inmates. he died of complications from brain surgery at the age of 80. now that mitt romney is the near certain republican presidential nominee. the attention is turning to the presidential election. according to recent reports, this year's election is shaping up to be the most expensive in history. anthony mason is here with what could be a billion dollar campaign. >> the mitt romney campaign has spent $77 million to win the republican presidential nomination. that is not all. " restore our future " the supertax supporting him, chicken another $45 million for advertisements taking down his opponents. >> following a supreme court decision two years ago, the super pak can receive and spend unlimited amounts of money. so far 17 billionaires' have donated to the pro

. >> good evening, commission e-s allen lowe from the law firm of nixon and peabodyy, attorney for of the owners of 555 9th street. the prong is about 150 square foot retail center. it has tenants ranging from bed bath and beyond. nordstrom's rack, trader joes, peer one imports and a wells fargo a.t.m. as well as publico urban tacoria. they are formal retail tenants who have been there over 10 years. it has produced many dollars in sales revenues and employs over 400 people. it has been existing as i said over 10 years, well before the formula retail legislation and well before the eastern districts. what this legislation is really intended to do is just ratify what currently exists. there is no proposed change in use. there is no proposed alteration to any aspect of the center. it's just to keep what currently exists at the site. there has been some concern that this is really designed to bring in a big box retail tenant. that's not the intention in conversations with supervisor kim's office, the project has agreed to cap the limitation that a tenant up to 75,000 square feet, which i

s. thompson days of coverage of the politics of the sixty's and nixon and there you are you're at the in the magazine in the writing is different then you're going to find the long wall street journal of financial times because you bring in a real literary sense to it it's great to read even if you're not interested in the in the details of the stories it's well written so that as a writer one of the challenges it's kind of a bit of a tangent story mr rose wanted to ask this i was a writer when you're talking in this space because the material so well paid for any crimes are when you talk about inflation it's a crime that no one is really aware of happening it's creeping it's all around you how do you deal with that i mean as a writer as a journalist and go through your thought process on that a little bit yeah it's incredibly complicated challenging because this is part of the reason that these guys get away with as much as they get away with because the instant in trying to explain some of these crimes you know you can't do it in a thousand words you can't even do it. isn't words it ta

s is one thing to play saxophone. i don't rememberer clinton arguing anything between sax riffs. i would agree, it is and the like nixongh in." >> that was a campaign riff -- >> but he d notot argue -- >> thihis was a takeoff of his argument on that position. is thiss as appropriate as bill clinton going on after his enesess nominating speech of michae dukisis, at admitting to johnny carson thatat it was not the best hour of his life. thatas self-deprating and it worked for him. >> i in 2008, president obama got 67% of th youth vote. only 6 of 18-to-29 orders are registered, only 46% say they are definitely going to vote. there is an enthusiasm gap. >> because they are y young. >> they had it is a chasm in 2008. -- enthusiasm in 2008. >> the thingss that inspireded them in 2008 are gone. it would take a miracle. >> everyoung person i knein 200000 it was out canassing. >> youth is the ultimate solution of hope over experience. i think the lighting is no longer in the bottle. >> if you listen to that treasury secretary this week talking about social security not being there for them. >> right now it is and jobs, and the

s. >> a prominent member of the nixon white house who became a key figure in the watergate scandal has died. he served as special counsel to the president. nixon died at the age of 80. but he later served time in prison and became an advocate of prison reform. he died of complications from a brain hemorrhage. the men travel the distance around the earth's a quitter. he hardly seemed worse for the where. -- wear. >> the time he arrived at the annapolis harbor, his boat was without an engine, or gps. that is what happens of 25,000 moss certain net -- circumvented the americas. bebop -- miles circumventing the americas. >> this was the very first time that the 31-year-old president stepped ashore in three and 14 days. before this, -- 314 days. >> the hardest part was the northwest package. the combination of ice and fog is incredibly dangerous and, as you can imagine. there were times with very close mrs. that i had. when you mix it altogether, i was nearly killed by a giant iceberg at one point. >> he left annapolis last june. he sailed around the americas, nearly run down by a freighter

nixon. it's very public. and what all the''slection campaign is pointing out to the people of this country, people that are putting unless of -- millions of dollars into mitt romney's campaign, if you look at them, most are from the oil industry, many of them are lobbyists for the oil industry, and the oil industry feels threatened by the reelection of this president because he's protesting alternative fuels, he's gotten the amount of oil, we import down, these guys have a lot in common with saudi arabia, iran and others. they want to keep oil prices high. keep us hooked on it. megyn: you're fine with it. >> absolutely. not only am i not okay with t. i think this is transparency. mitt, where are you getting your money? it's from the oil industry and that's healthy, good, and lets people know how to vote in november. megyn: brad, there's an opinion piece in the "wall street journal" from kimberly strasen that talks about this and says presidents hold a unique trust unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all am

also on health care -- we have had a problem with health care ever since the 1970's when nixon turned over the choices for health care to kaiser permanente to let them decide who should be in charge of our health care and who could get health care. it has just progressed until all of has been is a for-profit business. host: three different issues -- do you have anything to say? guest: my impression is that kaiser permanente is a great system and they are responsible for doing something terrible in the 1960's. ann romney, i think, did say she had been quite fortunate in having the choice to stay home. i have to say that i had never have kids but i now have a grandson. inyou see what's involved raising a kid, it is amazing to me that the human race has survived. my hat is off to anyone who does this. host: here is ""the wall street " front page story. getting back to the wealth of candidates -- i am wondering why mitt romney's well as an issue. -- wells is an issue. guest: how can he emphasized with people and their problems today, especially with the state of the economy. host: he is n

think that the 1960's it was not so much of a closing down of a system but of a sense that there was such a desperate need to highlight causes that people turn to radical tactics. nixon had many thoughts. i'm not saying he was -- you know, but he was not the whole political system. there was the opportunity to testify. there were movements in congress, there were still vote, there were many other things. i think it was the spirit of the time between the civil rights movement and the anti-vietnam war movement that made people after working so hard on so many issues and try sog many things and seeing things that didn't change they were like, we're going to try other things. clearly in places which have more extremely authorityive government, you have a variety of techniques in which people turn to protests. you can have everything from, you know, the mothers in argentina who turn to just the silent witness almost as a way to highlight the disparity between their suffering and what the government was willing to do. in other places you can have violent uprising in which people tried to overthrow the state by force. in america we haven't had huge shifts. we've had subtle

. >> that is wonderful and opportunities have opened so much for women s much of what happened back then, led by president nixonference. >> did it come directly from his office he was going to make sure women were a presence in the federal government. >> yes >> amazing. >> he was unexpected in a way people did not expect that president to do it, he did and i do not believe the advances that are shown in this book, would have made -- been made without presidential leadership he decided, to advance women in the federal government, because it was something he could directly influence, and what he did, was three things actually, one was to require action plans from his cabinet secretaryagency heads about advancing women and he wanted them back in a month and he wanted to know who was going to be in charge. then i was the second piece of that puzzle brought in to recruit women and monitor how the departments and agencies were doing, and then the president would know and write a note here or there and then jane was brought in to watch over women in career service. >> how were you noticed back then? what were you doin

nixon? who is our president? the watergate are stunning. no one will look at the mall or look at the transcripts. you do in the car. >> i do in the car. [laughter] >> 's early on down the road. not only are their crimes, not only abuse of power, but the smallness of nixon, when you listen to them that if nixon has the responsibility and the high purpose and president in the united states and he wants to use the power of the president be as an instrument of revenge. screw everyone. get the irs down here, cia, fbi. order a firebombing at the brookings institution saying i don't give a. get in there, firebomb the place if you have to. president of the united states. it's really important that the notion that this was kind of paper or that the cover-up is worse than the crime, which is not a case i certainly believe, that this was an assault on democracy by the president to the united states and his men and the system then word. the judiciary, supreme court of the united states, order the president of the united states internists pages two unanimous decision. richard nixon would expect to get a pass from the chief justice. the 77 to nothing by the senate

nixon. there is a photograph of hillary clinton as she and graduate -- congratulate her daughter. how the role of the first lady has changed from the 1950's and 1970's to the 1980's and today. guest: throughout our history. a first lady has been a bellwether of changes to come, but also has been reflected of what is happening in the country at the time. most people, when they think of activists first lady, they think about our roosevelt. in some ways, yes, she broke the mold. all first ladies have had an impact on issues that they care about. they are best when they select things they have some background on, experience, and credibility. guest: absolutely. when they choose something they are compassion about, when they really have an impact. oftentimes, with the work their husbands are doing, they can be a force to be reckoned with. host: the other photograph, ladies first. this is not only everything they say, but what they wear, everything they do is the focus of scrutiny dating back to jackie kennedy. test but it is true. we have a fascination with -- guest: it is true. we have a fascination with what our first ladies wear. it is a fac

nixon was ever younger. [laughter] he was 39 when he took office. but this is an enormously popular in the south and as a matter of fact and 1860's when the democratic party is what, breckinridge represents the southern wing of the party and in comes second to lincoln in the electoral college. 800,000 southern white males voted for breckinridge for president, said he had an enormous prestige in the population and the south. it would take too long to explain now but as a result of circumstances beyond his control, and much against his wishes, breckinridge ended up being forced out of the union, not southcom and joined the confederacy. he has no military experience, no military training. but then as in the leader times of course it was deemed expedient to get military command to the men who were popular politicians. he hopes that been popular in kentucky might bring kentucky into the confederate said he made him a general. first brigadier-general and then a major general and he rises to the brigade to the conversion and to port command and commands a very small army most notably the famous battle of new market virginia in 1864. the important point bei

s. i do not see him much until the end. >> did you feel -- when but thgt back to the present, he felt he should apologize. he felt he had done something that has hurt nixonlame could be shared. >> i did not apologize to him because i was doing exactly what he told me to do. i did not think i was involved in watergate. i had given him /spirit get rid of the people who did this and hire a special investigator. i left the conspiracy when i did that. i realize it yet again my vice he might still be president. >> did you disappoint me? >> sure. of course. i also understood the man. families disappoint one another sometimes the yourself family. >> thank you for spending time with us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> next "q & a." then david cameron takes questions at the british house of commons spirited than a conversation with erick kantcan. >> in his room from positive government policy is a private sector that drives it developments. it feels it. we have some vision where we are going. if ever we needed that it is right now where we have this opportunity creating infrastruct

only to be resurrected in the 1970's as a way to channel money into the inner city with no intentions conceived under the johnson administration that it was under nixon correctly under nixon secretary someone named george romney, father of a certain presidential candidate and he wrote on the occasion or said on the occasion in 1970 of this jury first mortgage-backed securities being issued this had been marked a revolutionary step forward effort to increase the fund available for mortgage financing but in the figuring of the 2000's of prime lending program it fell apart as the predatory wonders and unscrupulous flippers from the first-time home buyers. the government found itself unable to resolve the house's that add to foreclosure. terse denying the problems romney was ultimately forced to freeze it in 1971 even as it's a particular lending program the mortgage-backed security blossomed the securitization works as an instrument that connects local demand and global coupled the new kind of bonds that could find any kind of house, transform global financing heat it bypassed the traditional links to the two banks the would allow the money to come from

only to be resurrected in the 1970's as a way to channel money into the inner city with no intentions conceived under the johnson administration that it was under nixon correctly under nixon secretary someone named george romney, father of a certain presidential candidate and he wrote on the occasion or said on the occasion in 1970 of this jury first mortgage-backed securities being issued this had been marked a revolutionary step forward effort to increase the fund available for mortgage financing but in the figuring of the 2000's of prime lending program it fell apart as the predatory wonders and unscrupulous flippers from the first-time home buyers. the government found itself unable to resolve the house's that add to foreclosure. terse denying the problems romney was ultimately forced to freeze it in 1971 even as it's a particular lending program the mortgage-backed security blossomed the securitization works as an instrument that connects local demand and global coupled the new kind of bonds that could find any kind of house, transform global financing heat it bypassed the traditional links to the two banks the would allow the money to come from

nixon administration with regard to women. i would argue that it really does have to do with the progress that women in this country ever since then because what happens in the late 1960's and early 1970s were so much of the progress in so many of the opportunities that have taken place for women in the united states since then so this was really in my mind a pivotal ball moment for women in the united states. and so that is why i think it's incredibly important to consider what is in this book. so let's begin by meeting the panelists. there is an extensive biography in your program so i'm not going to read all of it except to say to my immediate right is the distinguished former congresswoman, former chairman of the maritime commission representative helen dela spent way. let's welcome representative ballet. [applause] in the center, barbara had been franklin about whom the book is an barbour we will be talking a lot about you tonight, barbara. [applause] and finally, lee stout with the pittsburgh state university. i'm sorry, penn state, penn state, forgive me, forgive me. penn state university in pittsburgh pennsylvania. i'm sorry, wrong city. i got the state right, p