the red line is supported by the nixon administration, many city council members, the business community, an ally in coming. >> it is good for the economy, our quality of life and a sustainable future we want to create for the next generation. >> when a coalition is concerned that the red line will be divisive. they want the red line built underground. >> the city spent $12 million beautifying the street. now they are going to throw it away. they will take four lanes of traffic and cut it down to two. they will cut us off from the waterfront. >> the governor says the light rail will be nearer and quieter. >> it would improve housing values and the desirability of neighborhoods. >> the arguments in favor of moving the red line to the will one area is to make access to one building easier. reporting live, wbal-tv. >> that brings us to our watercooler question of the day. what do you think of the city's red line light rail plan? email us your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> community members took to the streets last night joining police as part of a national call to stand up to crime

. >> the liberals point to the nixon administration. they said the nixon administration had a proposal that was pretty good. and if we had to do it all over again, we will never make that mistake again. and they have it all over again. and they're making the mistake again. >> the public option is such a modest, such a modest -- it's not even intrusive. >> then give it up. >> it is an option. >> if it's not important to you -- it is important to conservatives, why not give it up? >> at the end of the day, is question is, is it essential? and the answer is probably no. but it is crucial to making the system work much, much better. to contain costs. >> we've been talking for about five minutes. and the subject of cost, which is tiresome and depressing, has not come up. >> i just mentioned it. >> when we began this debate a few months ago, the costs were going to be paid primarily by two things. one, the proceeds from selling under cap and trade, permits to emit carbon. and, "b," medicare cuts. "b," is never going to happen. and we've given

kennedy was one of the original promoters of the war on cancer, which was begun during the nixon administration. he was one of those who believed that we should begin to find a way to wipe out cancer. health has always been an important component of his political and public life. it's been true, as well, in the mental health services. his family had a very difficult experience with rosemary kennedy, who was born with some defects and, unfortunately, was ebotomized, a treatment they used at the time. the family lived with that forever, and it inspired eunice kennedy to start the special olympics for people who had some mental, if not disabilities, some cognitive skills that needed some attention or even physical skill that is needed some attention, that they, too, would have an arena in which to compete. senator kennedy certainly is a supporter of that. that, again, was something that was supported across partisan lines. it was neither republican nor democratic program. it was much more of a humanitarian program. i think i know where we are now. i would say that we're probably another, at that p

[applause and boo's] >> the red line is supported by the nixon administration. -- by the dixon administration. >> we know everybody is not going to like the plan. >> a posers cited delays and possible collisions at a tunnel. >> this is not a sound move by our governor. he has just put a lot of lives in danger. >> many oppose putting a portal where the tracks, the ground. they say they are not opposed to mass transit but they want the red line built underground. >> the city has spent near $20 million to beautify the street. they will now cut it down to two lanes. they will literally cut us off from the waterfront. >> governor o'malley says this is not going to be your grandfather's light rail. he claims it will be more narrow and quiet there. >> it actually improves housing values and the desirability of neighborhoods. >> one of the selling point is that it will make it easier for people to get to work at the social security building. but security concerns, the fed says that station has to be a quarter mile away. >> the senate majority leader is predicting the swift passage of an extension of

was willing to not get any public credit for legislation he was jointly working on with the nixon administration>> nixon cut a tough deal. >> and that shows, you know, the kind of -- that he wasn't -- he didn't want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. but i think that in congress it was always interesting, i'm sure you found this from the '8 os on. it always amazed me when he would get up on the floor and speak as well and articulately as he did because as a reporter when you would try to grab him in the hallway it wasn't his -- he wasn't natural at it. he didn't really seek out the press the way others did. but you knew -- you knew from his friends and from republicans as well as democrats that behind closed doors he was the ultimate irish talker and a real dealmaker for all of his liberal ideology. he was a pragmatic legislator. so, you know, he's clearly, by any estimation, one of the, if not the best legislators -- you may not like the product but in history. >> he got it done. >> right. >> let's switch gears to this cia story. eric holder appointed a prosecutor this week to examine

the nixon administration accused of a slew of illegal activities and to cover up. ed his term and unhappy and to a presidency 33 years ago today. and now you know the news is fox reports the saturday,

. >> it also was reminiscent of what he had done with nixon's administration, and he was the one who p nixon. ted remembered the role that he played and his philosophy that he played when he condemn. back in 1964 when nixon was on the ropes and he employed an employer mandate and he barged to death a national law that you must give your employees health care and teddy didn't want to go along with that. there was issues of partisanship there where he blewed it. i think he learned and the question is what lessons did he learn and when? did bill clinton learn from his mistake? did he learn from that? i think it's dynamic, we're headed towards universal coverage. it's a question of how we're going to get there and when. >> when it came down to expansion, like medicare part d. did kennedy support that? no, he did not. you could see that as some kind of incrememental it change, it turned out to do nothing for american seniors. people would have seen that as a bipartisan compromise. >> if they do cut a deal and it does have a public option. they got to turn insurance companies into public ut

after his testimony, the nixon administration, we now know, worked closely with another veterans grouphat eventually came the veterans, that's kind of the ring, the senate, that worked closely with them to put out a different story to the public. that these guys were liars and fabricators, and in fact, the army records don't show that they were liars. >> thank you. >> incidentally, you mentioned john kerry, you know as probably most of you recall in 2004, he was attacked by the swift boaters when he was running for president for his testimony in 1971, war crimes were a common occurrence in the non. and it was an effective attack that helped defeat him. but one of the people, one of the officers was part of a small group that collected these records in the pentagon is now a retired general, and a vocal opponent to the iraq war. in 2040 contacted the kerry campaign three times. he wanted to tell them that there was a large body of records that would support what he told the senate in 1971. but no one from the kerry campaign called him back. so didn't come out for another couple of years.

the nixon administration got really concerned about that. they did impose some price controls. guest: yes, controls were imposed. john connally was nixon's treasury secretary and someone nixon really admired. the both admitted later that it was foolish to try. they've repealed it. host: that was done by executive board? guest: it was. host: here is a message from twitter. guest: you know, i do not recall that specifically. it has been 35 years ago. you know, he testified which was incredible for a sitting president to come up to the hill and testify that there was no deal made with alexander haig, nixon's pr host: if you covered congress prior, how well did you know ford? guest: pretty well. you know what you see is what you get. ford was an easy man to admire. politics aside, anything else aside, he liked reporters. that made a big difference. as stu pointed out earlier about nixon he disliked reporters, and you can say, well, he had a right to. ford admired reporters, knew they had a job to do, and even when you wrote, as i covered the ford white house, if you wrote a story th

and as russell has pointed out we have people through the nixon administration through the second bush administration. so there are four sessions all together. this is one of them. and look at c-span, look at the miller center website to see when the others will be available. but our theme for the next 90 minutes is, what happens in the transition from campaigning for president, making a number of promises and pledges responding to a variety of questions regarding domestic policy issues and after winning the election and then becoming president and to somehow take into account what you've said during the campaign with what you actually can do, need to do, are pressured to do as president. and what a distinguished group of former white house domestic policy people we have here to help us do that. i'm going to introduce first burt carp, who worked not only for president jimmy carter as deputy assistant for domestic affairs but also as legislative counsel prior to that with senator walter mondale who, of course, vice president in the carter administration. burt carp, after years working i

as russell pointed out, we have people here from the nixon administration through the second bush administration. there are four sessions altogether. this is one of them. look at c-span and the miller center web site to see when the others will be available. our theme for the next 90 minutes is what happens in the transition from campaigning for president, making a number of promises and pledges, responding to a variety of questions about policy issues, and then actually after winning the election, proceeding to the office or like president four becoming president and having to take into account what you said in the campaign with what you actually can do, need to do, or pressure to do as president. and what a distinguished group of former white house domestic policy people we have here to help us do that. i will introduce first the person who work not only for jimmy carter as deputy assistant for domestic affairs, but also was legislative counsel for senator walter mondale became vice president in the carter ministration. after years of working in cable television in one important capacity after

we have people here from the nixon administration through the second bush administration. there are four sessions altogether. this is one of them. you can see when the others will be available. our theme will be what happens in the transition from campaigning for president, making a number of promises and pledges, responding to domestic policy issues, and then after winning the election, or succeeding to the office, becoming president and taking into account what you've said during the campaign with what you can do it and need to do as president. what a distinguished group of people which have here to help us do that. i will introduce first someone who was worked for jimmy carter as a deputy assistant of domestic affairs but also as legislative counsel prior to that with senator walter mondale. after years of working in cable television in one important capacity or another is vice chairman of the firm of billions and jensen. the second person i will introduce is not here yet. he is on route from london during this program. that is stuart. he was also part of the carter adm

i am going to refer you back to the nixon administration when he came out in the press room and c congratulatulated her in being named the first women in the white house core and she had no problem responding by asking him a tough question on the ongoing water gate affair. i think helen thomas has earned her stripes in the credibility department. >> amen. did she get a kill from the president at that time? obama gave her a big kiss on the cheek. >> reporter: i don't know about that. >> point well made. we will turn away from helen thomas' 89th birthday same as president obama's who turns 48 today. we were talking about bill clinton and you who he is over in north korea trying to negotiate the release of the two journalists. a lot of people are wondering could this be more than just release of two journalists? could this mean some sort of break through in a relationship between kim jong-il, who a lot of people here in the united states, including the obama administration, were wondering if he was still healthy and alive? could something happen here? could there be a breakthrough with regard to

what was on the 18 minutes of audio tape erased by the nixon administration?security expert and former -- it's good to be joining us to see why we may uncover one of the biggest mysteries in the watergate case. >> a deal is struck in the house on health care reform. molly has the latest. >> this is the last of three bills that had to pass three different house committees and this one passed ever so narrowly 31-28. now house democratic leaders will have to figure out how to meld the three bills into one and get it to the floor for a vote in september. president obama called the passage of that final bill out of the house energy commerce committee a historic step that puts the u.s. closer to health care reform than ever before. you can see them leaving the white house heading to camp david. not all democrats are on board that vote. five of them voted with all of the republicans on the committee against the measure. and democratic leaders say they may not be able to keep their caucus together for a final floor vote either. >> i think that we may not get every dem

nationwide celebration produced a particular groundswell that spurred congress and the nixon, ford and carter administrations enact a host of sweeping environmental laws including president nixon's national environmental policy act, often referred to as the nation's environmental magna carta. >> i mean, they really did a phenomenal job of studying it. it was a very scholarly approach. they had economists, environmentalists, everybody else, trying to look at the whole effect of population growth on the globe. the interesting thing is that nixon set it up. and nixon was professed upon it, he really kind of understood it. and it just became this big political brouhaha. and they kind of panicked and backed away. >> bonnie: a common recollection of aging population activists is the night in 1973 that it was reported that u.s. fertility rate had reached zero population growth. most people thought that meant the u.s. population problem was over. in fact, because of what demographers call population momentum it takes up to 70 years after the replacement-level fertility rate is reached for a nation to stop growing. o

. >> there are a number of different pages where you have supreme court nominees, nixon -- >> these administrations came loaded with their teammates. that's being very fair to them, teammates. i mean, there was much worse than that. >> what do you think is the affect of cartoons on politics in general? is there an influence? >> i wouldn't call it an influence on less by chance, and it's a very important chance it does come up that you confirm for a certain large mass of people that you confirm their stand on a particular instance. on vietnam i think not just me but ed sorrell, joez phiffer, i hope i'm not putting him in prison, there were others, steve rothman, a group of political cartoonists that moved toward deeper satire in a sense. what the date is confirmed for the intelligentsia, i am not sure which pronunciation, but they confirm for that eckert the profs, the intellectuals now take a clear stand and a clear stand was leading young people and the young people came back with affirmation of what they were saying so they did influence but it had to have a movement toward something in the first

the nixon administration got really concerned about that. they did impose some price controls. controls were imposed. john connally was nixon's treasury secretary and someone nixon really admired. the both admitted later that it was foolish to try. they've repealed it. host: that was done by executive board? guest: it was. host: here is a message from twitter. guest: you know, i do not recall that specifically. it has been 35 years ago. you know, he testified which was incredible for a sitting president to come up to the hill and testify that there was no deal made with alexander haig, nixon's principal the system. host: how will begin g noerry ford? guest: pretty well. what you see is what you get. ford was easy to admire. politics aside, he liked reporters. that made a big difference. about nixon, he really disliked reporters. you could say he had a right to, but ford admired reporters in new they had a job to do. even when you wrote because i covered the ford white house, a story that he did not like, you did not hear a word from him. he did not complain. host: time for two

every time levi gets his little 15 minutes -- >> who would have guessed he worked for the nixon administrationylan ratigan. >> yes, i am dylan ratigan, and welcome to the "morning meeting." we have seen the right get angry, and now the left is angry. democrats revolting this morning over the public option. he says the president will lose 100 democratic votes in the house if he keeps that public option. >>> and then a man accused of stealing 100 debit card and credit card numbers. what did he do with those numbers? >>> engineering a crime scene, and dna evidence is supposed to be fail proof, and now some scientists say it could be fabricated. forensic expert joins the morning meeting to talk dna. >>> can the hammer nail down the texas two-step? tom delay dancing with the stars. pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." >> welcome about that good morning to you. the white house's willingness to back up the option, it has a few threatening a revolt. savannah guthrie on the beat. good morning. >> reporter: on the left side of the democratic party is disturbed over what they think is signals

he is talking about the privacy act of 1974 which specifically the nixon administration was put in place after they used it to illegally investigate for political purposes defined what's the upside too cute with the bastille to the question. those in opposition to the health-care plan are not quite about it. they have ads running bear on talk radio. there are town hall meeting's there have been quite about it. >> dave: it reminds me of the campaign -- >> clayton: did remind me of the one made so that the world to fight the smears. so they were responding instantly to what they felt were republican smear tactics. this romance in that. he can do that inside the white house. >> alysin: member but dismissed was actually started by the dnc, so the dnc did it on behalf of the candidate because there is so much misinformation about rock mama. they are doing it again but they are running up all of the law possibly. >> clayton: we will talk to dana perino and little bit. >> dave: which he thinks would happen to the bush administration if they tried this tactic. >> clayton: history about to be mad

it's sort of like roger mud after the nixon administration a.for me but tough. >> he was born a kennedy but he died just one of us. this is a guy, we heard this yesterday, pat buchanan, one after another person coming up here, talking about how they had their brush with ted ken dirks how ted kennedy worried about average people. everybody had a story. pa pat. >> you know, joe, i think that's right. i think, frank li it may be premature for what cohen wrote. he's exactly right. kennedy did have flaws in this sense. we have to remember say in the 1980s, he and tip o'neil, two irishmen represented american liberalism and ronald reagan represented conservative im. in this period, teddy kennedy did an enormous amount to influence legislation, this is the same area, liberalism totally dominant as a philosophy won over about half the country, half of what the conservatives had in the united states of america. kennedy, as an irish politician of the old school, liked tip and unlike his brother, jack ken dirks an aist tocrat, i think that's very very true

they are from john sears was -- >> guest: john sears was a young aide for the nixon administration. he was later a campaign manager for ronald reagan in 1976 and part of 1980. c-span: what year did he give you these words? >> guest: this was after -- this was in 1971 when we were working on a book about nixon. c-span: he can be very tough guy as long as he doesn't >> guest: he's written about nixon. c-span: thank you. why did we just read this for the first time in this book? >> guest: he had given it to me for use in the nixon book that we wrote, that we published, "nexium: the frustration of power," which was published in 1971. and it never fit in the book. and going through my papers i felt that this was -- we were talking about nixon -- i thought that that was an interesting thing to put in the book. c-span: you call yourself selfish and your wife self sacrifice. >> guest: yes, that was -- that's been the case for our whole life. i think it was a specific that we were on a trip, reporting trip in 1964, and south america. and discovered she was pregnant. and really we all -- we s

all the way through the nixon administration and watergate and general ford.ed jimmy carter, the sitting democratic president in the 1980 democratic primaries. civil rights, voting rights, abortion rights, gay rights, vietnam, the fall of the berlin and the cold war, health care, education. pick an issue the country has dealt with in the last half century and ted kennedy has been in the thick of it. it's a sad irony he passes at a time on the issue he cared most about, health care reform, is front and senter in the united states congress, front and center in president agenda and in trouble. what the president needs is a legislator to help him out of a mess, a mess in his own party. he had a history of stepping up at moments like this and finding a way to compromise. >>> interesting, a year ago, august 25 of 2008, shortly after that diagnosis as we know and the treatment he went through for brain cancer that he appeared at the dnc strong. he looked happy, strong, and just -- you could see it. he was thrilled. he stepped out there and endorsed barack obama. and

when nixon administration went into court to stop publicaon by "the new york times" of the pentagon papers the secret chronicles of how the u.s. government hadone back seval decades had involved itself in the war in vietnam. when the nixon administratio sought to stop that, claiming e day claims of national security was threatened, the papers resisted, contested the injunction and they went to court. ultimately was resolved by the suprem court in favor of the press and the first amendment but before they got there, the judge wrote an opinion that i think was quite eloquent and very much to the point. the security of the nation is not thathe ramparts alone he wrote. secuty also lies in the value of our freedom institutions. a cantankerous press, an obstinate press, ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority and order to preserve even greater values of freedom expression and the right people to know. think about those phrases, cantankerous, obstinate, suffering by those in authority. that is language usually considered the path-- pathway to success and prosperity in journalism t

. >> pat buchanan, you're a veteran of the nixon white house where a lot of books came in the aftermath of that administration with a lot of backstabbing in those books. does this surprise you, that cheney might join that crowd of backstabbers who write memoirs revealing all the secrets after he leaves the white house? >> i don't believe dick cheney will engage in backstabbing. i do believe this, lawrence, cheney does feel, i think, that the bush administration or the president himself had sort of a lapse of faith in his earlier axis of evil policies, that he put rumsfeld over the side who was dick cheney's mentor and friend in a way that was really reduced rumsfeld to a level that cheney felt was insulting. i think he felt that the president did not move against north korea and iran as toughly as he should have in those final two years, and, of course, you have the scooter libby pardon that did not happen. but i agree with tom that cheney's not going to get personal and small here. i think he's going to defend his record as the most powerful, influential vice president in history. going to say we did the rig

carter came into office right after the nixon and ford administrations which were probably i think the best period of time for democratic members of congress and the history of the world. everything you think was passed under lyndon johnson was passed under these guys and our guys didn't even take responsibility for the part that wasn't perfect. [laughter] best we could do. what have been better but best we could do. and the situation with parties not getting along this was a political will secret love fest and then comes carter the same guy saying no. [laughter] and i do think that the big electoral defeat especially in the senate in 1980 made its, made the lives of subsequent presidents easier than they would have been had the -- congress is still a post. they are supposed to be antagonist but there was the sense that we may all hang separately here if we don't hang together after the 1980 election i think was not present before then. >> i wonder in talking about how can panning translates into a governing there's the intervening event of the actable election and the size of the vict

reporter: in 1971, kennedy worked to defeat a nixon health care bill because he thought it was too watered down. >> it's really a partnership between the administration and the insurance companies. >> reporter: he would come to regret that. in the years to come, kennedy, the liberal lion, would get things done by working with republicans and compromising when he needed to. he worked with arch conservative orrin hatch, to expand health coverage for poor children. >> we've been adversaries for 32 years. we've also been partners. >> reporter: he worked with the first president bush on the americans with disabilities act, opening access for the disabled in public places everywhere. >> presint of the united states, george bush. >> reporter: and in an even more unlikely alliance, he joined forces with the second president bush on education reform. >> then, of course, there's senator edward kennedy. the folks at the crawford coffee shop would be somewhat in shock when i told them i actually like the fella. >> reporter: he could also clash mightily with republicans, as he did over the iraq war. >> you, basically, have mismanaged the war and created an imposs

at the same time, richard nixon played a key role and help lessening tensions between the united states and china following tiananmen care. the bush administration had sent him on that mission. so i think presidents can play a very important diplomatic role here in terms of easing tensions and getting certain american foreign policy interests on the ground. >> has it always worked out, or had their been gaffes? >> well, i think that president carter made a major faux paw recently when he tried to interject himself in the israeli/palestinian dialogue. and he ended up alienating israel, and really making the situation far worse than it was when it -- when he first began. >> we've only got about 30 seconds left. but i was surprised by how this is actually a policy that goes back sometime. i mean, all the way to theodore roosevelt? >> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states a the state funeral for the king of england at the beginning of the 20th century. and during his funeral, you had all of the crowned heads of europe just before the outbreak of world war i. and it was there that theodore roosevelt privately came to the conclusion t

nixon term. i went to the private sector. i left after the ford administration and ran for congress. then left after secretary of defense and went to the private sector. so these are normal kinds of transitions that you've got to make in this business. and what i've always found is there are compensating factors to living a private life, to having more freedom and time to do what i want and to spend more time with the family, which is very important. over the years, you know, i've sacrificed a lot in order to be able to do those things i've done in the public sector. >> well we want to thank you for talking with us and including in your private life putting up with an interview from the likes of me. >> i enjoy the show, chris. >> good luck. vice president cheney is spending much of his time in wyoming working on that book. but this weekend, he was going fly fishing. up next, the va's so-called death book. we'll follow up on the controversial story we brought you last week. back in a moment. - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chi

and i left government after the first nixon term and went to the private sector and i left after the ford administration, and ran for congress. and then, left after the -- secretary of defense up and went to the private sector, so, these are normal kinds of transition. that you have to make, in the begin. and what i've always found is that there are compensating factors to living a private life, to having the more freedom and time to do what i wanted and to spend more time with the family which is very important. over the years, you know, i have sacrificed a lot in order to be able to do those things i've done in the public sector. >> chris: well, we wanted to thank you for talking with us and including in your private life putting up with an interview from the likes of me. >> that's fine, i enjoy your show, chris. >> chris: thanks very much and all the best, sir. >> chris: vice president cheney is spending much of his time in wyoming, working on that book. but this weekend, he was going fly fishing. up next, the va is so -- the so-called death book. we'll follow up on the controversial story we brought

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i was referring to other presidents, other administrations that were pretty good at playing hardball. lyndon johnson comes to mind. richard nixon comes to mind. bill clinton comes to mind. even the prior president comes to mind when it comes to corralling support for the war in iraq. i'm not judging either or any of the prior. i'm just saying that this is how the game is played. is it not? >> well to a certain extent it is. but it's usually played on the positive not the negative. the president will come to someone's state and talk about the importance and the success of the stimulus. if president obama or one of the cabinet officers had gone to air to tout something that was good for arizona, that was coming out of stimulus that would have been inbounds. saying, look, we're going to work hard to get you funding in a package if you support this, that happens all the time. but after the law has been passed, after $800 billion is out there to say we'll basically withhold it if you don't play ball that hasn't happened before. neil: one thing that hasn't happened before that's a little new is this whitehouse.gov website. i might ha

administration. i accept the idea that this advisory council, which has had its ups and downs-- nixon dissolved it, some people ignored it, some people filled it with political appointees-- i want this to be full of exciting interesting people from a lot of fields. >> rose: what is it that he wants advice on? >> what the president sees that has attracted all of us to this council, he sees the connection between doing basic and technology-related science and every aspect of his major programs-- education, manufacturing, the economy, health care, improving-- trying to control our climate, energy-- all of these things he sees as closely linked to scientific activity. so we have on this council 21 people who represent virtually every discipline in science and technology and people from many different states and people of different genders and colors and we are going to take on, we hope, with his blessing, a large number of important topics. we're currently working on a report on influenza, but virtually every aspect of modern society that's influenced by science and technology will be subjected to our scrut

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happened in the last administration, if they had put at an edict like, we want you to track anybody who might have anything to do with the iraq war or the build up, while richard nixon and the whole debate of the pentagon papers prior -- or richard nixon, we might be talking about how we got into vietnam. quite a different reaction, i would think, in the way it would be covered. >> well, neil, if you look at this, i think the really big lawsuit -- wazoo is that you have simultaneous plummeting of the barack obama approval ratings, and you have got simultaneous distrust being sewn back into the electorate, when you hear geithner and sommers, as you very articulately pointed out on this program -- when you. geithner or larry summers -- when you hear geithner or larry summers. if he loses its credibility, trying to build this kind of utopia, everything else is shot. coupled with what we have been able to educate ourselves on regarding the health care debate in the last couple of months, it is combining to combine into a double whammy against the administration. neil: at this time, they are also controlling our studio lights, which also concerns me. just kidding. i am t

nixon, and evangelist billy graham. >> a conservative journalist talks about the obama administration opposes take on health care. this is about 25 minutes. malkin michele malkin who is out with her new book. guest: thanks for having me, steve. host: first you say the obama's team is a disfunctional and dangerous conglomerate a business as usual croneys, barak obama owns this cabinet of tacks cheats, crooks and croneys it is his and his alone. judge him by the company he keeps. >> yes. guest: i have to thank david brooks for inspiring this. the culture of corruption opens with a column he had written not long after the election day and just sort of foretelling this klick of achievea-trons and how phenomenal he was impressed that obama brought with him the best of the washington insiders and praised their ivy league pedigrees, and really this was sort of a repeat of, you know, this idea that somehow these smarty pants were going to come in and change washington. and well, it didn't take long before the obama administration disabused us of that notion in a very big way. and i go through all of the botched nominatio

administration. this was in 1971, when we were working on a book about nixon. >> he can be a tough guy, as long as he have to see the other guy. in personal relationships -- >> this is about nixon. >> in personal relationships, he has a good bit of cowardice, because he cannot make small talk. why did we just read this for the first time? >> he had given it to me for use in the nixon book that we published in 1971, and it never fit in. going through my papers, i thought that was interesting to put in the book. >> you call yourself selfish, and your wife self-sacrificing. >> yes, that has been the case our whole life. the specific was that we were on a reporting trip in 1964 in south america, and we should have gone home immediately,

administration. lyndon johnson made himself readily available to members of congress but members of congress said that seeing -- it took an act of god to see richard nixon. nixon kept congress much more at a distance. i've talked to some of his congressional liaison staff and they have been listening to lyndon johnson's c-span conversations that c-span radio has been playing and they said they can't imagine what it would be like to work for a president who knew where a bill was in the subcommittee and wanted to call the chairman of that subcommittee to twist his arm a little bit. richard nixon approached things not as a majority leader but as a lawyer. he liked legal briefs, he liked them to check off boxes and they would form his legislative programs that way. he would call members of congress for foreign policy issues and defense issues. he really didn't like calling them for issues that he wasn't as concerned about. he would call them, eventually -- he was very sensitive about his power of persuasion, and after the vote was taken, he wantsed a check list of all the members and how they voted to see if the people he called actually voted his way, and

administration. lyndon johnson made himself readily available to members of congress but members of congress said that seeing -- it took an act of god to see richard nixonnixon kept congress much more at a distance. i've talked to some of his congressional liaison staff and they have been listening to lyndon johnson's c-span conversations that c-span radio has been playing and they said they can't imagine what it would be like to work for a president who knew where a bill was in the subcommittee and wanted to call the chairman of that subcommittee to twist his arm a little bit. richard nixon approached things not as a majority leader but as a lawyer. he liked legal briefs, he liked them to check off boxes and they would form his legislative programs that way. he would call members of congress for foreign policy issues and defense issues. he really didn't like calling them for issues that he wasn't as concerned about. he would call them, eventually -- he was very sensitive about his power of persuasion, and after the vote was taken, he wantsed a check list of all the members and how they voted to see if the people he called actually voted his way, and ob