also, the neocons and foreign policy going back to the nixon administration.get the latest book t b updates on twitter pretext mr. a, the government announced growth in the gross domestic product. president obama talked about this and other economic matters in his weekly online address, including his initiatives to lower the federal deficit. then susan collins with her party's weekly address. she discusses the interrogation procedures used against the terror suspect in the attempted christmas day bombing of the detroit bound airliner, like 253. >> at this time leicester, amid headlines about job losses of 700,000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy. our economy was shrinking at an alarming rate, the largest decline in 50 years. factories and farms were producing less. businesses are selling less, and more job losses were on the horizon. one year later, according to numbers released this past week, the numbers have reversed. for the past six months, our economy has been growing again. last quarter, it grew more quickly than at

also, presidential foreign- policy going back to the nixon administration. find the entire weekend schedule booktv.org. >> in the nation's capital, listen to c-span radio. in washington, at 90.1 fm. it is also a free application for your iphone. c-span radio, covering washington like no other. yesterday, in london, representatives from other -- other countries met to set goals for the future of afghanistan. president karzai told a conference that his company -- country was moving slowly toward national security. of the next 45 minutes, british and afghan leaders and the un secretary general outline their goals. general mcchrystal has the international forces serving with such distinction in afghanistan and soon to be over 100,000 strong. foreign ministers, distinguished guests representing over 70 nations and international organizations, including every single member of the 43 nation strong international security assistance force. representing also afghanistan's key regional and muslim partners with whom we are pleased to work and his involvement in this wor

when you think of one of the most corupt administrations in american history, you will think of richard nixon, because he is the image of "i'm not a crook." when the subpoenas were around, because you were in that administration, when the subpoenas went around, you were one of the only people in that administration that wasn't called to testify because the people around said, jon wouldn't be a part of anything. what happened there? >> well, i was a part of the richard nixon administration. i was a special assistant to the president. i was staff secretary to the president and a staff secretary very close to the president. i i was asked to do a couple of things by the chief of staff of the white house, and i went out on one occasion, glenn, on one occasion, and actually began to do something that i knew was wrong, and i got right in the middle of making this phone call to an individual, and i talked about this in my book, because it scares me. every time i think about it, i'm right in the middle of a phone call, i said to this person, jim, forget i called you. i'm not going to tell you what i w

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as a liberal republican, he championed civil rights, opposed the nixon administration's policy on the vietnam war, and worked to clean up the chesapeake bay. mathias was 87 years old. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and still to come on the newshour: housing prices-- going up or staying down? partners in health care in haiti; and failing grades on a weapons test. that follows our look at two key senate contests. if president obama didn't already have enough on his plate when it comes to policy issues, now the political ground is shifting under his feet as well, even on home turf. in delaware, the u.s. senate seat vice-president joe biden held for 36 years is up for grabs. but democratic attorney general joseph "beau" biden-- the vice- president's son-- announced this week he will not run to succeed his father. and the odds immediately shifted to favor republican mike castle, an eight-term congressman who also served as the stat

also, the neocons and presidential policy going back to the nixon administration. latest update on twitter. host: dennis johnson is here to talk of up tonight's state of the union address, but also looking back and other state of the union addresses. can you think of an appropriate comparison for tonight's state of the union? after the president's first year with an economic situation like he had, headlines that read "liberal funnieunease," cau come up with a comparison? guest: it is pretty tough. he might have to go back to bill clinton. at this time, the company was coming back strongly. of course, is big problem -- his big problem was his agenda. he famously had troubles with the monitor talking about health care. but you also have to go back to ronald's -- ronald reagan paused first term. there were positive signs that he was going to do something better. there was a lot of anticipation at that time. i think those would be good parallels for barack obama. host: how did they use those speeches to take on the years as president? guest: when you look at all three

he opens a door to the nixon administration we have never seen before and it allows us to see things we have never seen before and how things were done to undermine the policies and in the end if you think about it and general haig is the ultimate cramer i eighth, if you buy that, then he should protect the president but he doesn't he does everything he can to make sure dickson does not survive. we have looked at lighthouse tapes after the smoking gun tape and we saw a time and time again haig gave a price that was detrimental. nobody else has reported on this it is clear nixon is guilty you will read that richard nixon was directing the cover-up march 19732 projected gordon strong who he had just learned was involved in the break-in. he was an aide to bob and therefore he believed that would lead to aldermen so therefore he was trying to concoct a phony report saying we will put a public to cover up the involvement. we have broad strokes i think it'll be interesting if you see the journey. >> host: what of the things you mentioned this nixon was maneuvered out of office but he did a

seuss and presidential policy going back to the nixon administration. booktv.org. today in london, representatives from over 60 countries are meeting to set goals for the future of afghanistan. afghan president hamid karzai told the conference that is country is moving slowly toward national security but that training security forces could take years. at an opening session this morning, the british and that an leaders and the un secretary general outlined their goals for the conference. . . >> in the last year britain has suffered hundreds of fatalities per he to the countries represented today recognizes that this mission is vital for our national security. it is vital to the stability of this crucial region and it is vital to the security of our world. we set out last autumn on strategies and we're making progress. the military search is turning to the tide against the taliban- led insurgency. it is at the same time building the capacity of the afghan forces who are fighting alongside us. a civilian surge is insuring that areas are cleared of the tali

there have been three unemployment peaks in the post war period during the kennedy administration, 1964. nixon, 1975. reagan, 10% unemployment in 1983. what they did in all three instances was essentially reduce the tax burden. right? unfortunately, obama is looking back to fdr, a public sector-led recovery. the only time we had 10% unemployment for ten straight years. the great depression. >> paul: 1930s. >> i look at unemployment at best 8.5%, if it stayed at 10 or rose. because they are raising the tax burden. i'm not shocked. >> paul: steve, chris toena romer the white house economic advisor said if you pass the stimulus, the jobless rate will not go above 8%. now it's 10%. now she says probably will not go down to 9.5%, much below that by next november. are you more optimistic than that? >> you know, what is keeping the the folks at the white house up at night is this unemployment number. the fact that we have 15 million unemployed. dorothy is right. no matter how many times the white house talks about how wonderful things are and the expansion, the we don't see resumption of jobs the dem

as well as neocons and federal foreign-policy going back to the nixon administration.get the latest updates on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guests are linda feldmann, "christian science monitor" white house correspondent, and david hawkings, "congressional quarterly" managing editor. is the president unveiling things early on in the week to benefit middle-class americans with this reunion, and ending in a meeting between republicans and the president, did he come far in the past week? caller: i think if he did. -- guest: i think if he did. having a state of the union, which is always a big event, then that move -- that meeting between the president and the republicans. what did you think? guest: were you in baltimore belli guest: i had to watch it on television. host: elevated both sides, many will be talking about who is winning -- winning and losing, but obviously, the president, by going on television, insisting that it be on television, he put them on and he proved himself as more bipartisan than others in the democratic party. host: what h

get the latest book tv updates on -- nixon administration. >> now secretary of state hillary clintontalks at a taun hall meeting she had the state department with state employees. it is about an hour. it has been one year since we welcomed the secretary of state to the state department and one year since she held her very first town hall meeting with us and it has certainly been an eventful year. what i would like for you to do is please rise for a moment of silence for the thousands of haitians who are lost and also for vicker to yea delong who died in haiti as well as the wife and two children of andrew wiley, an officer in the p.r.m. who was on assignment in haiti as well. an officer in the prm who was assigned in haiti as well. thank you very much. i know the secretary of state will address many of their issues, but i'd like to thank all of you who so generously committed your funds coming to her personal funds to the haitian relief efforts and also i'd like to note that we are also engaging in a separate and parallel effort to collect funds for what we called the foreign service

the war years in the 1940's, also the neocons and provincial farm policy going back to the nixon administrationfind the entire schedule at book tv.org and get the latest updates on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: colonel attalla, former africa director 2003 through 2007. where is the terrorist movement in africa? can you talk broadly about the whole concept? guest: sure, greta. they are actually spread between north africa and the horn of africa. the horn of africa right now is a very big issue because you have several dynamics. those are the areas primarily focused by al qaeda. everyone focuses on al qaeda and hopefully in the show we could talk about other groups as well. host: let us do it right now. it is not just how tight it in africa but other terrorist groups. guest: notably has a lot. they have been around for the a long time -- has block -- hezbollah. there have been involved in the drug trade. collections with the tri border region in latin america. working directly with the drug cartels, they are involved in the illicit diamond trade. just about every piece of busi

you can go back to the early 70's there were wage price controls of all things out of the nixon administration and in the late 70's there were voluntary controls and the hospital sector under carter because there was concern that there would be mandatory controls. we saw a big dip in inflation in health care during the managed care revolution of the mid-1990s. if you look in the last couple of years you will see that actually the distance between growth and wages and growth in health care costs has slacked and part because we have raised deductibles and co-payments so there's ways in which we can control health care cost to it i do think they will continue to exceed economy but i think if we have to do we will find ways to cut them, cut the rate growth, they are not going to be pretty ways that they will entail benefits but i don't subscribe the idea it's been to spin out of control. having said that we need to do something about medicare before part a trust fund before 2017. >> before 2017? >> that is when it is supposed to run out. >> alice, i know you want to respond and if you would, you w

problem, there have been three unemployment peaks in the post war period, during the kennedy administration in 1964, nixon 1975, and reagan who was at 10% unemployment in 1983. what they did in all three instances was essentially reduce the tax burden, right? unfortunately, obama is looking back to fdr, which is a public sector led recovery. that's the only time we had 10% unemployment ten straight year which was the depression. >> paul: 1930's. >> i'm looking at unemployment coming down at best to 8.5%, if it stayed at 10 or rose because they're rising the tax burden i'm not going to be shocked. christina romer says if you pass the stimulus the jobless rate won't be above 8%, now it's 10 and now she says probably not to 9 1/2%, much below that by next november. are you more optimistic than that? >> you know, what's keeping the folks at the white house up at night is that unemployment number. the fact that we have 15 million unemployed and i think that dorothy is right no matter how many times the white house talks about how wonderful things are in expansion, if we don't see an expansion of jobs, the demo

can go back to the early 70's there were wage and price controls of all things out of the nixon administrationlate 70's -- in the late 70's there are voluntary controls and possible sector under carter because there was concern because there would be in a voluntary mandatory controls to be we saw a bit in inflation and health care during the managed care revolution of the mid-1990s if you look the last couple of years you will see that actually the distance between growth and wages and growth and health care costs has slacked and partly because we have raised deductibles and co-payments so there are ways in which we control health care costs. i do think they will continue to exceed the economy but i think if we have to we will find ways to cut them, cut the rate of growth. they will not be very pretty ways. it's going to entail reductions in benefits but i don't subscribe the idea it is bring to spin out of control. having said that we need to do something about medicare before part a trust fund before 2017. >> before 2017? >> that is when it is supposed to run out. >> alves i know you want to

and the neocons and presidential foreign policy going back to the nixon administration. find the entire weekend schedule at book tv -- booktv.org and get the latest book tv updates on twitter. >> house republican leaders spoke with reporters today about the president's state of the union address. this happened shortly before the start of a republican retreat in baltimore which will include a visit by president obama tomorrow. this briefing is about 20 minutes. >> the gang's all here. well, good morning, everyone. we did this a little later today so you could all get a little sleep. and maybe us, too. yesterday i said that i thought the president needed to prove to the american people that he was listening. unfortunately the president doesn't appear to have listened to what the people in massachusetts have said, what the people in new jersey and virginia have to say in the elections last year. and decided to just double down on his job-killing agenda. you know, it's the democrat leaders here in congress and the president are serious about getting our economy going again a

the neocons and presidential foreign-policy going back to the nixon administration. get the latest updates on twitter. the sergeant at arms: madam speaker, the president of the united states. >> madam speaker. the president of the united states. the president: thank you, thank you, thank you. the speaker: members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the united states. the president: thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. please. madam speaker, vice president biden, memberses of -- members of congress, distinguished guests and fellow americans, our constitution declares that from time to time the president shall give to congress information about the state of our union. for 220 years our leaders have fulfilled this duty. they've done so during periods of prosperity and trank quilt and they've done so in the midst of war and depression, in moments of great strife and gr

the obama administration has not pursued engagement aimed a the kind of realignment of relationships between the united states and islamic republic as what president nixonid. obama has made some nice statements and he's offered some interesting or favorable rhetoric, rhetorical formulations in addressing iranian leaders but put no proposals on the table that would address key iranian strategic needs and he's not laid forward a road map for realigning relationships for the two countries. until we do that we in the united states have not been serious about engaging iran. it's unfortunate the half hearted a tempts the obama administration made in this last year are taken as litmus test that engagement with iran won't work. i think strategic engagement with iran is absolutely needed and for us to adopt regime change for the islamic republic. what i think was a very bad decision. caller: good morning. what a refreshing change it is to see this gentleman on instead of the neo-liberal talking heads we always get with their blathering for war. iran poses no threat to this country. i do not see why all of this demonization is going on like it is. it is of so dif

the obama administration has not pursued engagement aimed a the kind of realignment of relationships between the united states and islamic republic as what president nixon did. obama has made some nice statements and he's offered some interesting or favorable rhetoric, rhetorical formulations in addressing iranian leaders but put no proposals on the table that would address key iranian strategic needs and he's not laid forward a road map for realigning relationships for the two countries. until we do that we in the united states have not been serious about engaging iran. it's unfortunate the half hearted a tempts the obama administration made in this last year are taken as litmus test that engagement with iran won't work. i think strategic engagement with iran is absolutely needed and for us to adopt regime change for the islamic republic. what i think was a very bad decision. host: good morning republican line. caller: like to say what a refreshing change it is to see this gentlemen on instead of the normal talking head liberals on this point. the proisrael crowd with the blaterring for war. iran posts no threat to this country and i don't see why all

nixon center. will is the president and founder of the progressive policy institute which modernizes progressive politics for the local stage. they helped create many of the new democrat ideas for the clinton administrationnd influences and works with european parties as well. he is the co editor include " memos to the new president," and others. finally, ronald steel professor emeritus of international relations at the university of southern california. he has previously taught at texas, dartmouth, rutgers, ucla, and princeton. he has a problem holding down a job. [laughter] he ended up in a good place. he has written in lots of other places, so really a terrific group. he is the editor for "the american interest" in a predecessor he was a staff member for the national security study group that the u.s. commission on national security which is the commission and an aide to haig. he was at penn and has authered several books. welcome adam to get us started. [applause] >> i will not take up much time because i want to hear the discussion. i want to it express the magazine's gratitude for setting this out. we should do more of these co- sponsor ships in the future. what i was trying to do with the symposiu