don't forget the role played by republicans within the nixon administration who said no. and luckleshouse is one of them. he's not alone and we'll hear from a few of them. >> here is william ruckleshouse. who is number two? >> the secretary-general of the united states. [video clip] >> it was clear he wasn't going to carry out those orders who he maintained after cox's press conference. i remember him turning to me and saying what are you going to do? and i told him, i don't think it's close. i think that what he's asking you and apparently subsequently me to do is fundamentally wrong. and that you don't have any choice but to do it. and that will mean they'll find somebody else to do it and vefrpblly -- there was only one other person in the line of official command in the justice department, if bork hadn't done it he could have asked anybody in the department to do it. to me, if it came to that, your responsibility was fairly clear. i don't think he resigned lightly. i think you do have a obligation to the president, he is the one who appoints you. and you do have a dut

do not forget the role played by republicans in the nixon administration. he was one of them -- he was not alone. we would hear from a few more. >> here he is -- he was at the time? >> deputy attorney general of the united states. >> it was clear he was not going to carry out that order. he turned to me and said, what are you going to do? i told him -- i do not think it is close. what he is asking and apparently subsequently needed to do was fundamentally wrong. he said, you do not have any choice if you refuse to do it -- that means they will find somebody else to do it. if bork had not done it, anybody in the department could have done it. your responsibility was fairly clear -- i do not think he resigned lightly. you do have an obligation. there are lines over which you cannot cross. you have to -- sometimes you will not do. >> this is really important. i did my best to interview as many surviving players in the saturday night -- your audience may not now what do you here is talking about, but president nixon wanted to fire the special prosecutor archiba

personal interest in whether there is a homosexual ring, a gay ring, at the center of the nixon administration. he was the deputy assistant to the president, a good-looking california guy. >> here we are -- i can remember going home, you are scared to death. this is like a time bomb. this gets in the press and anderson gets going -- it is a disaster for all of us. and it is not true. the next day, each of us individually go into the cab that and sit across, right across -- we are sworn in. and then each of us is questioned by j. edgar hoover. he asks all of the questions -- the transcript of this was provided to jack anderson. that is how it was stopped. >> and hoover was planning to give this to anderson? >> no. anderson was going to go with the story -- jack anderson, the columnist. he was the one who is going to put the photographer down there and -- i have always thought, if i ever see brit hume i will ask him, because he was working for anderson at the time. anderson is getting ready to go for the story. he tells mitchell -- mitchell goes, i want to meet with all of you as a group. he say

kleindienst and kleindienst is a key guy for goldwater and is also caught the attention of the nixon administrationand john mitchell, who was nixon's best friend, campaign manager and attorney general. the kleindienst is invited to come on as the number two man and says i need rehnquist with me. he's really smart. mitchell opposes at first because he said we don't need more than one cowboy. when cowboy is enough. when cowboy from arizona is enough. the kleindienst persuades him to bring rehnquist to the pier hotel in new york, with their campaign headquarters is in transition headquarters and rehnquist comes in and leaves the private beta with mitchell and it's got the job. >> host: his second big rate. robert jackson, richard kleindienst will pick up after this. >> guest: thank you. >> host: welcome back, john jenkins. we'll pick up on the chronology of william rehnquist 16 chief justice of the united states. first come a couple questions about you and how you decided to write this book. i know you had 10 apiece and william rehnquist for "the new york times" magazine in 1985, but here we are in 20

i think you could probably argue that during the nixon administration the sort of quid pro quo was called corruption and now it's been institutionalized. by the supreme court the corporations can make or break politicians and and you know with unlimited resources and funds is this is an example this threatening to sue over the bailout all this kind of stuff about these corporations that just kind of swaggering around going this is our country this is you know the we don't is the place it's a world of no risk for corporations tom whether you're talking about a pharmaceutical industry that says you know what we're going to make a product that might kill people probably is going to kill people but at the end of the day we're going to make a big profit in nobody goes to jail where one of the only countries really in the world that says that the c.e.o. at the top of a corporation can kill can kill people just like we see here with k.b.r. and get away with it and nobody goes to jail so until that changes what nothing's going to change look when there is no risk at all for a corporation to do wh

representative, a flight surgeon, three press representatives, two secret service agents, nixon's administrative assistant and the only other woman on the trip, rosemary woods, the nixons embarked on their 42,000-mile journey. in a little more than two months, the group visited over 15 countries, attended hundreds of state dinners, participated in innumerable ceremonies and spoke with millions of people. the state department had briefed the group on the many countries and peoples they would be visiting. pat took these briefings very much to heart. in fact, one member of the group told a reporter a few years later that pat had served as the group's walking encyclopedia. whenever they needed information about whatever country they were in or the culture, they would always turn to her, because she would have the information. her husband concentrated on the larger mission of reassuring america's asian allies and friends clarifying eisenhower's policies and assessing attitudes toward communism. while he did that, pat's role was to go out and meet the people. neither he nor pat had ever been particula

rarely seen documents and items selling milestones in manned space flight from president nixon's administrationall on apollo 11 mission during nixon's presidency and follow with five more looter missions. the archives look back at nixon's support for the space program. the new exhibit will open today and will include the telephone nixon used to talk to the apollo 11 astronauts after their moon landing. a speech drafted in case of a disaster, and items used to collect moon rocks. >> the latest installment in the texas chainsaw franchise has claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend. the horror sequel texas chainsaw 3 d was number one with a 23 million-dollar debut. it is a follow-up to the 1974 film. meanwhile quentin tarantino's revenge sought godjango unchained held on to the no. 2 spot with just over $20 million. three weeks after claim box office gold, part one of peter jackson's behalf the trilogy was in third place with $17.5 million. >> a suspect in colorado movie theaters shooter james holmes will appear in court today. we will have more on the details that are expected to be r

administration which is very much pro in the eyes now in this direction which was pro union in the nixon administrationthat was pro union don't even start you know richard nixon but. you know what we're seeing for strive for employees striking in this day and age is simply a bad idea you end up losing more than you get your because because the employers have all the power i don't disagree with that let's take on let's talk about pot on tuesday the u.s. court of appeals ruled in favor of the d.d.a. drug enforcement agency and declined to change the official drug classification of marijuana currently the d.a. classifies marijuana as a schedule one drug which is reserved for the most dangerous type of drugs that have absolutely no medical benefit other schedule one drugs include heroin and l.s.d. on schedule to cocaine morphine and p.c.p. played in the case presented more than two hundred peer reviewed studies that show the benefits of medicinal marijuana governor ling. in chafee in rhode island governor christine gregoire in washington state both called for marijuana to be rescheduled but the court was a

displaying really seen that gets an item showing milestones and manned space flight from president nixon's administrationan to the moon on apollo 11 mission during nixon's presence presidency and follow with five or low emissions. the archives will look back at nixon's support for the space program. the new exhibit will open today and include the telephone mixing used to talk to the apollo 11 astronauts after their moon landing and a speech drafted a case of a disaster and i am used to light moon rocks. >> in just two minutes we will check on today is whether and what a bay area at assembly woman is doing to try to limit ammunition sales. we will hear complete details about what happened in the your movie theater with james holmes. also, dairies for a spot on the 49ers match up with the green bay packers this 49ers match up with the green bay palook at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-verse high speed internet. you know, in my day you couldn't just start streaming six ways to sunday. you'd get knocked off. and sometimes, it took a minute to download a song. that's sixty seconds, for crying out loud. w

he then went to washington as a white house fellow during the nixon administration. from there, general powell rose through the ranks, becoming national security advisor to president reagan, the first black american to ever hold that post. he continued in the administrations of bush the elder and the younger. general powell presents himself as a rather conservative individual, a traditional man. but his politics are mixed. he is pro-choice, for example. however, up until 2008, he was always a staunch republican. now that has changed. as the general voted for barack obama twice. in the process, powell has been very critical of the republican party as it stands today. he has also made some comments about race and the g.o.p. >> they still sort of look down on minorities. how can i evidence that? when i see a former governor say that the president is shucking and jiving, that's a racial era slave term. >> bill: general powell referring to sarah palin who used that term cite sizing president obama for not being forth coming about the libyan disaster. now, having known gen

insurance through, but we had an amazing how long ends between democratic congressmen and the nixon administration trying to get the national health insurance through. ronald reagan comes to power, ronald reagan was the great antagonist of medicare. you find it on youtube, the wonderful recruiting fighting against medicare if this program passes we will tell our children and our children's children what it was like in america when they were free and he is one of the people that call it socialism. ronald reagan gets into office and uses a diary. we got to pass catastrophic health care for the older people, and i hope i can do something for the working stiff, too. ronald reagan, when we were sitting in the archive reading his diaries and we think what is going on? and sure enough, republicans in the administration save the idea of expanding medicare to cover the catastrophic cost. in fact in the cabinet meeting, one cabinet officer votes for him. all the rest try to talk him out of it. no, we are going for this and he signs the bill and it collapses as soon as bush takes over it was have to cut in h

many of you when you are asked to come and join the nixon administration to join in a cause bigger and better than yourselves probably heard from fred malek. fred started as a recruiter and he has agreed to lead the nixon legacy campaign. though the campaign is just being announced, i must give a little bit of a leak here. here. we have arty secured and raised over $4.5 million for this effort. [applause] in no small part from the contribution of fred and marlene and the generous gift that they may. without her there do, fred malek. [applause] >> can you remember when we used to quake in their boots when hinckley would call? [laughter] he is the only guy who doesn't look the same. you don't have any hair. the rest of us have not aged a bit. what a privileged is to be here tonight. what a great turnout. what a great turnout. [applause] it's a privilege not only because we celebrate the 100th birthday of our 37th president, richard nixon, but it's also because we are in the presence of the nixon family. but to me, so much is because i am standing before some of the best friends that a ma

to me as though it will be the most dishonest low-paid deceitful administration since the nixon administration: we do care. lou: who could not care? lori: of course you do. melissa: what she said is what difference does it make. lou: if it did not matter, why did the administration lied to the american people for three weeks? why do they continue to withhold information about what transpired and who is responsible amongst, how did she call it, a federation, a affiliates of al qaeda which suggests a very loose understanding of what al qaeda and other organizations through north africa, the middle east and southern asia represent. it is really very stunning stuff. melissa: she talks about what difference does it make, it makes a huge difference. if it was planned, we have to ask ourselves why did we not know, what is wrong in our intelligence committee that we did not find out. it makes a huge difference. lou: remember, the secretary did hit her head. perhaps, some of this is that after a fact. we will chalk it up to that. otherwise, the display is, well, beneath any secretary of state. lori: i

leon worked in the nixon administration. >> bill: really?hat part of his career. >> he left there. that's when he decided to change parties and decided to run for congress. >> bill: many of us in california were disappointed he did not run for governor of california last time around. we were hoping we could persuade him to do so and several people did. but he wants to get back to that walnut farm. all right dave, see you later today. thanks so much. >> all right bill, get better. >> bill: thank you. >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show." now on current tv. have the passion. show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. i want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. rry. i was surprised to hear there was no life insurance. funerals are so expensive. i hope larry can afford it. i know. that's why i'm glad i got a policy through the colonial penn program. do you think they have coverage for me... you can get permanent coverage for less than 35

slang releasing documents and items showing milestones in manned space flight from president nixon administrationasa said the first man to the moon on apollo 11 mission during nixon's presidency and followed with five more lower missions. >> the archive will look back at nixon's support for the space program. the new exhibit will open today. it will include the telephone nixon used to talk to the apollo 11 astronauts after their moon landing. a speech drafted in case of disaster, and items used to collect more rocks. >> flat screen tv manufacturer vizio is coming out with the new windows eight tablets its latest product will be in stores in march and the pricing has not announced, it is expected to sail for route $800. >>vizios high-definition tablets has an 11.6 in. screen and the full version of windows 8. >> by comparison, microsoft you're on timeout leo! $1,000 ad features some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. will be back with more strongroer so s hol h up u be. vebeit''s now noilt ilth tth soshiesh™ lers.er when wenet, ne, angeansoftso is oisne, tw, thr t mes merongro

but we probably haven't seen such an oppositional party dislike since the waning days of the nixon administrationl to action. this is a wake up call. this is almost a pull revere call saying, we're going to have issues going forward in the next 22 months and we've got to get the folks who are interested in the republican party values back on board and say, let's stand up and pick the battles that we want to pick and win those battles. but what he's saying is it's a very hostile environment. so the republican party is concerned, i think talk radio is concerned. i think independent and conservative outlets are concerned. they're saying, well, how far will this white house go to wipe the debate in a way that is not productive? >> brian: do you believe, in your estimation, that the white house might have more aggressive view than even democrats in the senate and the house? >> i don't know who captured whom. i don't know who the democratic party's back the kidnap victim of. i don't know if the white house has become so progressive that it's taken over the democratic party or the democratic party has t

we will hear remarks from his daughters as well as former nixon administration secretary of state, henry kissinger. that will be live tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern and over and c-span2. next, today's white house briefing with chick party who talked about the debt ceiling. he did not confirm news reports nomination for treasury secretary. earlier today from the white house. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i have an important personnel announcement to make. i am kidding. i will go to the ap. >> it has been widely reported that jack lew was the president's choice for commerce secretary. -- treasury secretary. [inaudible] >> let me say two things. i do not make cabinet level presences. the president does. i will not get ahead of the president. when he is ready to make an announcement about his next treasury secretary, he will make an announcement. secondly i would say jack lew has been and continues to be an extremely valuable adviser to the president. over the quarter of a century he has been an integral part of some of the most important budgetary, financi

we heard a lot about during the nixon administration. >> i don't think we've known this about johnson is the reason that i do go into this. in december of 1963, he has been in new york for a month. and you see this congress. he has the civil rights bills started and he defeats congress on another thing and he says i want the murdered en masse. he flies off to texas. he is down for a two-week vacation during which she seeks a war upon congress. but he also has a number of conversations about worrying that the press is getting too close that he has accumulated a fortune during his life. would you like me to talk about that? c-span: yes. >> guest: he comes out and says there is a report of margaret miner from the dallas harold and says, what do i do about it? johnson telephoned the managing editor of the newspaper. the newspaper in dallas. and says the exact quotes that were in the book. he says, you don't want to be investigating me. because you know someone might investigate you. i don't know if he actually uses the word tax return, but it is pretty obvious that there are a lot of thin

you look at the people who were in attendance last night and the alumni class of the richard nixon administrationally is. i myself became later a ceo of two major corporations and i'm an underachieve in this group. we have a president of the united states, vice president of the united states, four future secretaries of state, two that became secretary treasury, two that became secretary of defense, four in actual security advisors, a handful of other cabinet officers, a number of ceo's, a number of distinguished columnists and writers. it was a remarkable group. colin powell, pat moynahan, dick cheney, george h.w. bush. it was truly a remarkable group. >> steve: henry kissinger was there. pat buchanan, ben stein. i understand it was the largest gathering of family and staff and supporters in more than 40 years. and the foundation, the nixon foundation referred to it as a night of where they celebrate patriot, president and peace maker. but a lot of people still remember him as i introduced you for the way the presidency ended with watergate. >> they do. of course they do. that probably will conti

lines of most people will "back betty was the republican -- code that his wife pat nixon were that the truman administration has been bribed by people bringing mink coats into the white house. i'm an ordinary guy. pat would look wonderful in anything. a lot of the speeches, as some people remember it, sometimes it's hard to remember that a lot of it is just documenting what he has and what he possesses, his car, his house and then of course the dog. the dog is at the center of his kind of attempt to make himself into an ordinary, average male, the central man of the whole speech. checkers the dog is the character that is obviously central to the speech and it's during the speech that when he is giving the speech, i have watched the speech so many times that i can almost do it verbatim. but he has transitioned and he does this thing where he pinches his nodes. he goes like this and he goes one of the thing i probably should tell you because of it don't -- [inaudible] man down in texas and pat mentioned archie answers would like to have a dog. believe it or not the day before we left he got a message from the

is this something we see in every administration? >> that nixonms, but nobody has approached this, nothing on the record. >> megyn: all right. may be another problem for president obama, promised to be the most transparent administration. >> we're trying to hold him to that. >> megyn: thanks. another potential scandal taking place in washington. did federal agents delay the arrest of a sex offender to protect a prominent democratic politician facing reelection? and the president's new gun control plan is likely to have an impact on millions of americans, but gun owners and gun owner groups may feel the change more than most. lars larsen joins us to discuss the announcement and his immediate concerns. >> they're common-sense measures, they have the support of the majority of the american people. this will be difficult. there will be pundants and politicians and special interest lobbyists. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans -- we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back

to you is the republican cloth coat his wife pat nixon wore, which meant he didn't have a mink coat, which is the illusion to the truman administration has been bribed by bring mink coats into the white house. i'm an ordinary guy. pat would look wonderful in everything, in her republican cloth coat. in a lot of the speeches -- some people remember it. sometimes it's hard to remember that a lot of this is documenting what he has and what he possesses, his car, his house, and then, of course, the dog. and the dog is at the center of his kind of attempt to make himself into an ordinary, average male. that's the kind of central theme of the whole speech. checkers the dog is the character that is obviously central to the speech. and it's during the speech that he -- help he is giving the speech, i watched the speech so many times now i could also do it verbatim but he transitioned and he does a think where he pinches his nose, goes like this, and he says, one other thing i probably should tell you because if i don't they'll say this about me, too. we did get a gift after the election. a man heard my wife mention our youngsters would like

signed into law, it really is president nixon who we have to thank for the environmental protection agency and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and osha and the consumer product safety commission and title ix and the cost of living adjustments to social security. those first three things on the list creating the epa, creating noaa, creating osha, that was all just in one year that was all in 1970. on the occasion of renewed interest in richard nixon for his 100th birthday, there is kind of an urban legend going on about him right now. this is supposed to show how his signature deteriorated over time. so in 1968, the year he was elected for the time his signature looks clear and straight forward, but over time it gets tougher to decipher until when he resigns it's barely recognizable as a signature at all, let alone his signature. it's kind of an amazing portrait, right? with this compelling visual to go along with it. this, however, one of the stories that is ruined by careful fact checking. nixon resigned in '74, right? this is his letter resigning the presidency, dated august 9th, 1974. this is his last letter as president.

nixon is going to go to china while settlements are being built, while the u.n. vote was responded to in the way it was, in a way that also infuriated the obama administration, really infuriated the obama administration, and rightly so. >> rose: the fact that the palestinians went ahead to urge that vote. >> there was then economic punishment and the e-1 settlements were set into place. there's a real loss of hope. so the reverse of what dennis ross is talking about has happened. there's an increasingly hopelessness on both sides, even though we're not in the middle of some terrible intifada. >> it's a great paradox by the way. >> it is a great paradox. >> rose: some people say they might be--un, there may be the seeds of a third intifada developing. >> well, look, no one knows-- anyone who says it won't happen, it's the kind of thing you could light a match and spark is sent and it's triggered. i would say palestinians paid a terrible price for the second intifada and they have not recovered from it and they're anxious that something could still happen. the fact is both have that memory. the key right now is-- david put his fing or something i think is quite impor

nixon was an activist president and believed in regulation. he fostered the environmental protection agency, osha, the safety -- occupational safety and health administrationous other regulatory agencies. but it's true he did have an economic policy that i don't think was all that sound. >>brian: you talk about a guy that has a rich legacy that people are still studying. he was a significant player even after he left office as we found out in subsequent administrations leading up to bush 43. robert merry, thank you. look forward to reading your book "rating the presidents." 51 minutes till the top of the hour. >>> it is still secret: who is more popular? congress or cockroaches? stick around for a poll that could have cockroaches cheering. >> she woke up to find a stranger sleeping on her couch so she grabbed a machete. >> you need to sit right here. you're going to jail. >>brian: that mom joins us live. and i will sit right here until she shows up. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't ge

ted serves in the administration for a while, goes home to texas, serves as solicitor general, runs for the u.s. senate. first run for office, wins. he is a, if i may use an old nixonone of us, by which i mean he's a reaganite, or reaganaut as dick allen said, he's what i call an all- rounder. i think it's a cricket term. he is a legal eagle of course. a free marketeer. knows a lot about economics. a national security hawk. very knowledgeable about foreign policy. he is a, wish there were a better term for this, he's a social conservative. that term will have to do. and he's a hell of a guy. ladies and gentlemen, the new senator from texas, r, and capital r, rafael ted cruz. \[applause] >> thank you so much. jay has been a dear friend a long, long time. i told jay please -- you know this past week was a momentous week -- oh, i need a mike? hello, hello. >> as they said in the 20 70 campaign, help is on the way. \[laughter] so when the mike wasn't working i told all sorts of embarrassing secrets about jay nordlinger and i trust all of you got them in full lurid detail. this past week has been a momentous week. president obama was sworn in to a second term. i guess w

nixon started affirmative action and hiring and government contracts. hell he went to china. nobody in the republican party would stand for that today. the republican suggestion for secretary of state in a republican administrationwould say we should get along with china, the president would be impeached if you stood by him. we need people who are not in the political photo that we take. they're not on the same agenda. >> cenk: that's interesting. you know, nixon started the e.p.a. too, of course. >> that's right. >> now that would be unimaginable even for a democratic president to start a government agency. >> nixon's only problem when you get down to it was that he was a crook. >> he was a felon and he should have gone to prison. >> cenk: that gets to the heart of the issue in my opinion. i'm curious to hear what you think. i think we took the crooks and now it has become legalized bribery. >> we stacked the supreme court with the citizen's united decisions and it certainly moved a long way in that direction. there's no question that money has much more to say about politics and the result than it did, partly because of decisions like citizens united, partly because people like the koch brothers and even karl