jobs in in the nixon administration with rumsfeld as a second to him. went off to become an ambassador, he left the white house probably at the right time happened in the nixon administration. when gerald ford took over as pvpt, he brought donald rumsfeld back to be chief of staff. and rumsfeld brought dick cheney to be the assistant chief of staff. light, a young man for that job getting a lot of notice foralready had this quality working with people in which he could sit quietly at a meeting, and of assess the room, then make the right maneuvers for his boss, the president in a or that didn't showboat didn't take the spotlight or anything like that. things done.ly got when the ford administration left the white house, dick kind of went on a road trip. he left washington, d.c. and back to wyoming and with the tough campaign with ford house. to win the white they lost. so he came back to wyoming as something of a fair haired boy. man in his 30s. well known. nationally now. he knew interestingly he knew coming back to wyoming the should do is walk in as

with president nixon's administration presumably with only hours yet to run, reports very strong that he will resign him and he goes on the air 15 or so minutes from now. matter of this presidential power? through,esson come with the balance between the executive and the legislative greater in this next administration? >> it is natural human nature that a force going a certain direction keeps going that direction until it meets an obstacle, and a big one. so-calledtide of the imperial presidency has been going on since franklin roosevelt. it has been carried on to an extreme by mr. nixon. it is no accident that jon erlichman said, of course we ise one-man rule, because he the only national elected officer. that was the state of mind. i think you will get a new ballot. esther ford now becomes president. he comes in with one great advantage. the people will wish him well. he has the sympathy of the country. his great disadvantage will be that he will be the first president not elected either as vice president or president by the people, and the man he picks as vice president presumably

with president nixon's administration presumably on the hours you have to run, the reports being very strong that he will resign when he goes on the air 15 or so minutes from now. we've had no con tra indications for the last 10 or 12 hours. what about this matter of presidential power? has the lesson come through and with a balance between the executive and legislative be greater in the next administration? >> i think it will, it's natural in human events in nature that a force going a certain direction keeps going that direction until it meets an obstacle and big one. this tide and high tide of the so-called imperial presidency has been going on since franklin roosevelt and carried to the ultimate extreme by mr. nixon. not no accident that his man said of course we have one man rule because he's the only nationally elected officer that was the state of mind. this has gone to the brink and over. i think you'll get a new balance if mr. ford now becomes president. he comes in with one great advantage that people will wish him well. he'll have the sympathy of the country. all of that wi

. >> william rehnquist served in the nixon administration and then went on to serve on the supreme court. he recused himself from this argument and the decision. why? >> it is common practice if a justice has worked on a matter prior to joining the court, and rehnquist was in the office of the attorney general and he had worked on this matter, and it would be common in those circumstances for a lawyer who had worked on a matter for one side or the other, and rehnquist had, essentially, worked for the department of justice and/or the president to take themselves out of the case. so his recusing himself was not unlush, it's what lawyers would have expected him to do. >> did it make any difference in the outcome? could it potentially have been an 8-1 decision instead of the unanimous decision? >> well, that's one of the things we'll never know. because he was not in the case. he did not participate in the argument. he did not vote. and i am sure he followed the rules and did not try to influence other justices in their vote. so we'll never know the answer to that question. however, i think

leave the book and go out and get dinner and still be living in them in the middle of the nixon administration and want to run back into it. so you can see all of it beauty and occasionally make it to be more beautiful. >> do you take a red pen or pencil to this? >> i come to my days as a newspaper and magazine reporter and editor and it allows me to move back and forth easily. it allows me to sort of get it back to them so they feel like they can look at those notes and absorb them as they would on their own terms. >> another author that you have worked with and are working with our audience knows it's karl rove. did he choose you where did you choose him and how would that relationship began? >> essentially i have to audition for it. i got a call from my publisher and he asked me to go down to washington. it was the first book i was asked to edit. i had been a journalist for 30 years and he had read up on me and what stories i covered. we have politics in common and i had covered him as an editor for many decades and basically my argument is you should hire me because this is my first job an

history. >> the true irony is the nixon administration will be studied so exhaustbly it may become one of the most transparent administrations in history. >> reporter: three segments are online. four more will be released this saturday which is august 9th. august 9th was nixon's last day in 1974. >> transparent after the fact. >> which is something that some historians will say but other historians say other. >> "real money with ali velshi" is next on al jazeera america. >> the ceasefire in gaza is holding so far, and attention is turning to what it will take to rebuild gaza. international donors failed to step up the last time that gaza needed money. we'll loo look stakes to ambassr to israel. and millions work on their 401ks and retirement, but where they work ends up with retirement. the best and the worst corporate plans, and 700 years

i don't think anything else comes closer than this nixon administration to undermine the government of the united states. >> you were a young man -- >> i was. >> and you worked for the special prosecutors, leon jaworsky and archibald cox. what pressure was on your office? >> the pressure was to do a did job and to come off as fair and judicious in what we were doing. everybody was looking at us and here we were going after the president of the united states. two people very high up, two attorney generals were convicted of felonies. i think the real pressure was to make sure that what we were doing was totally by the book, that we were proper in what we were doing, that we weren't going off the reservation -- >> did you talk about that? >> all the time. it was something underlying the ethic of what we were doing. it was very, very important that we not appear partisan. >> and you thought it was important for the country. >> it was absolutely important. we had not one week out of the office. you wouldn't see me doing this 40 years ago. most of the players are dead, most of the stuff i'm

technology on order in your wallet was first developed, during the nixon administration. to tell us about new cards, how they work and why they're safer, we are joined by stephanie erickson from visa. great to have you here. start with the idea that these cards might be safer? what do they have? what is the technology? >> great, thanks a lot, gerri. they are equipped with emv technology. it is basically a computer chip added to your car, the card will have a mag stripe on back until the technology becomes more prevalent around the world and in u.s. the chip provide the ability for card to create unique code for every transaction conducted with the card. so if that data is ever stolen or hacked out after system it can not be reused to create a counterfeit card. gerri: i want to repeat that a little bit because that is the secret sauce here. there is code given to each and every transaction, so every day you can't fake it to make it, you have to have the actual card. could this card, this type of card, could it have prevented what happened with the company target late last

anniversary weekend of the richard nixon's resignation is good time to bring it up because the nixon administration invented modern political public relations, the photo ops, the limited access, attempts toe control the news. so much of it goes back to the nixon operatives. every president since has tried to refine the techniques. the staged foe totes, keeping a distance from reporters, speaking in gobbledygook. as i watch the current administration bar the press from some of secretary of state kerry appearance at the recent africa conference were they worried he might be asked the question about the ebola epidemic. reminded me that most of the timement press agents learned the wrong lessons from the nixon folks and nixon himself provides the perfect example of why. richard nixon's opening to china and arms control efforts with the soviets live after him as remarkable achievements. as his attempt to undermine the constitution lives on as a dastardly deed. the lesson washington ever learns is that good public relations never trumps bad policy. nor can good policy ever be undermined by bad pr. most e

the book, originally published in 1975, covers the dissolution of the nixon administration from september 1973 to august of 1974. this weekend marks the 40th anniversary of president nixon's resignation. this is about an hour. .. a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. by first -- i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. and i thought this is interesting. he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring. david mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary william shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next? i don't know. i have a feeling we are going to change vice presidents and presidents within a year. this

probably just at the --ht time, considerably considering what ultimately happened with the nixon administration. when gerald ford took over, he brought donald rumsfeld back to be chief of staff, and rumsfeld brought dick cheney in to be his assistant chief of staff. sure enough, rumsfeld then moved to the department of defense. dick cheney became the youngest chief of staff at the white house in history. dick cheney was a bright light, young man -- very young man for that job -- who was getting a lot of notice and already have this quality for working with people in which he could sit quietly in a meeting, kind of assessed the room, and then make the right maneuvers for his boss, the president, in a way that did not show boat or take the spotlight or anything like that, but effectively got things done. administration left the white house, dick cheney kind of went on a road trip. he left washington, d.c., and drove back to wyoming and thought very seriously about getting into a position where he was the guy getting elected, not working for people hear you he had been through a tough campaign wit

forced out of office when his antismoking campaign ran afoul of the tobacco lobby during the nixon administrationsteinfeld changed the cigarette warning label from, "smoking may be hazardous to your health" to say flat out it is dangerous. steinfeld died yesterday. he was 87. we will be right back. d a choic. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. peanuts! peanuts! crowd cheers! osteo bi-flex® with joint shield™ nurtures and helps defend your joints° so you can keep doing what you love. what'd you guys do today? the usual! the usual! [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, ready for action. >> pelley: for 10 years and nearly four billion miles, a european spacecraft chased a comet. well, today, it caught up. and this is the first close-up look at any comet. comets are made of ice and rock left over from the formation of the solar system. in november, the spacecraft will drop a lander on to the comet's surface to study it. we also got a look today at a storm on saturn's north pole, and it's unlike any storm we've ever seen. the storm has six sides. winds of 330 miles an hour and it's

years before in the most famous bungled break in in american history operatives of president nixon's administration broke into the watergate office complex in washington d.c. it was just one instance of the clandestine and illegal collection of information on political opponents directed from the office of the president it was frantically covered up and steadfastly denied i have never obstructed justice and i think that i could say that in my years of public life that i welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president should have well i'm not a crook i've heard everything i've got the revelation of a money trail and nixon's interoffice recordings from the white house offered up all the evidence investigators and newspapers needed to convince him that resignation was the best option he made the decision informed the nation one week later and then explains how the rest unfolded that summer i went up stairs and all the family was gathered in the west hall and as i came in and they have it said i don't see how you did it i don't see how you did it because

there was a major effort in congress to pass a national popular vote amendment in the nixon administrationnd my understanding was nixon and john mitchell said pull the plug on it because the wall is voters, why do you think it happened? and why do you think we have not seen an effort to do anything about it cents? president withe a popular vote? there was a serious effort in 1968 to abolish the electoral college and replace it with a national vote by the people. because theened country has just had a spare. what if wallace had gotten a few more votes? what if nixon and humphrey had been more equal? the problem is the only way to do that was through amending the constitution which is an incredibly arduous process in our country and almost never works when the subject is controversial. unless it is the civil war for the political party in charge was able to exact terms. two thirds of the house and two thirds of the senate and eventually three fourths of the states have to agree before an amendment can be added to the constitution. this is where the opposition emerges. i do not think the admi

[laughter] after the nixon administration came to kabc television and did commentaries in debates when former secretary john tunney to my great guy. incidently we still see each other whenever he comes in from the york rite of there. a marvelous guy. fourteen years of these things. and so, once you have name recognition you are better off than someone who does not. anyway, i gave it a try. i ran -- i got the nomination. ran against barbara boxer. >> host: 1992. >> guest: that's correct. 1992. >> host: he ran again in '94, did you? for the nominations each you know, i did not. the first time i ran, i knew nothing was going to happen. but it was 1986. and then the second time was 1992. that did go a lot better, but i did not win. >> host: bruce herschensohn, you are the author of this book, "obama's globe: a president's abandonment of u.s. allies around the world". >> guest: yes,. >> host: what is "obama's globe," what do you mean by that >> guest: i believe -- let me preface it by saying i believe. i believe to have foreign-policy as a nuisance. i think he loves the stuff that is domest

after the nixon administration came to kabc and did commentaries and debates with former congressman tunney, a great guy. by the way, marvly guy. once you have name recognition, you're better off than someone who doesn't. anyway, i gave it a try. i got the nomination, but ran against barbara boxer. >> in 1992. >> that's correct. >> but you ran again in 1994. for the nomination? >> no, i did not. i did not. the first time i ran and i knew nothing was going to happen, but it was 1986. >> you're the author of this book, "obama's globe" a president's abandonment of u.s.c allies around the world. he wanted to do foreign policy, and by god, he did. he did it magnificently, but most people who come in -- and president reagan loved foreign policy as well. those two really loved it. some of them sort the get stuck with t. and they realize toward the end of their administration, but take a guy like bill clinton, he came into office wanting a health care. that was his big pursuit and his wife -- in those called he called it hillary-care. but when he wanted to go into bosnia, when he went into k

there was a major effort in congress to pass a national popular vote amendment early in the nixon administrationmy understanding always was that nixon and john mitchell pulled the plug on it because the wallace voters, why in your view do think that happened and also, why do think we haven't seen an effort to do anything about that system since? >> is to replace the electoral college with a natural -- a national popular vote to choose the electorate. >> there was an effort in congress the year after the election to abolish the electoral college and replace it with a national vote by the people. because thed country had just had a scare. what if wallace had gotten a few more votes, what if nixon and humphrey had been more evenly divided, what if it had gone into the house with who knows what attendant chaos? the only way to do that was to amend the constitution, which is an incredibly arduous process in our country. when thever works subject is controversial. unless it is the aftermath of example, when for the political party in charge was able to exact terms. two thirds of the house and two thir

committee that had heard all sorts of serious, criminal allegations leveled against richard nixon and his administrationp aide. it was that aide's word against nixon's. there was no way to prove what anything he was saying was true, unless those tapes came out. since nixon had no interest in releasing them, the senate watergate committee sued him. sued to get those tapes out. and that was the start of the drama that played out for the next year. that committee. then a special prosecutor and a federal judge. all demanding that nixon turn over the tapes. and finally, supreme court demanded that, too. which is how the smoking gun tape finally surfaced 40 years ago today. and three days after that, nixon was gone as president. there's a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out tonight that puts congress' approval rating at 14%. and we're using to seeing numbers like that now. for years now the public has been almost unanimous in its hatred of congress. and maybe this is part of the reason why. look at those two front pages again. look at the front pages about the same thing happening, about the congress

this was a view shared by the british commander in malaya and who was an adviser to the nixon administration. but the terms on which the war was settled allowed the north vietnamese to retain troops in the south, and the terms were quite different from those which had been secured by the french at the end of the french war, which resulted in the withdrawal of north vietnamese troops from the south, and there were also quite different from the terms that were secured by rhi at the at the time of the settlement of the korean war in 1953 when the chinese were required to withdraw from the country as part of the peace agreement. so, negroponte was quite disillusioned by the paris agreement, and made clear to kissinger he did not agree with it. he attended the initialing of it but refused to go to hanoi for the signing. and there were stories that appeared in american newspapers, notably the "washington post," which disclosed his point of view, which was also the point of view of alexander haig, who was kissinger's deputy. kissinger didn't blame negroponte for these disclosures because they obvio

after the nixon administration came to television and did commentators and debates with former senator john tunny, great guy incidentally, we still see each other when he comes in from new york or i go there, marvellous guy. we used to do 14 years of these thin things. so once you have name. recognition, you're better off than someone who doesn't. i gave it a try and i ran -- i got the nomination, but i ran against barbara boxer in 1992. >> you ran again in '94, didn't you? >> no, i did not. the fest time i ran and i knew nothing was going to happen, but it was 1986. then the second time was 1992 and that did go a lot better, but i didn't win. >> bruce herschensohn, you're the author of this book "obama's globe." what do you mean by that? >> i believe, i don't know the man, i believe to him foreign policy is a nuisance. i think he loves the stuff that's domestic in nature. and when it comes to a foreign policy where a president can really do what he wants, he can't really do economic policy, he has to have a congress that's for him. if he doesn't, he can't do his stuff. but a foreign p

is the most secretive administration since the nixon administration. but you're not going to convince me it was more secretive than the richard nixon white house. >> why? >> these are the facts this this is not dan rather's opinion. widespread criminal operation out of the oval office itself and kept it secret. we are talking about conversations about killing jack anderson who was a reporter, fire bombing, breaking into homes, reporters homes, burglarizing homes and able to keep that secret. as bad as the obama administration has been about with secrets up to and including now, there's no empirical evidence that they have been that secretive with that vision a campaign. >> could a coverup of this magnitude happen again? >> i'm sorry to say it could and in some ways i think it might be easier if you will because the power of the presidency, always great, the power of the presidency in relationship to the other branches of government has increased since the nixon times. >> i know you're an optimist but tell me what you don't like in television news thes

nixon. roxana has tham. >> i did not want to quit. i thought it would be an administration of guilt, which, of course, it was. >>> in this interview richard nixons describes his fall from grace. >> i hope no other president resigns. >> the richard museum and foundation is released 28 minutes of interviews with the former president. it's part of the 30 hours of interviews recorded with a former white house aide in 1983. nine years after resigning the presidency. he's more reflective. he's beginning to talk and think in terms of his legacy. with some distance from watergate. >> transcripts of the interviews have been available online. for the most part this foot ug has been sitting in the university of georgia archives. now with the release on youtube, the nixon library hopes more would learn about history, a goal historians say he may have had when doing the interviews. >> this was his gamble with history, that you can sit for the interviews 30 years ago, and one day we'll release them and maybe a younger generation that didn't live through watergate or vietnam can have fres

watkins, i was in hud for 33 years, came in under the nixon administration. you can thank hud for the problems we are having today in all of our central cities, chicago, detroit. and to justify, a small group with individuals said we have to provide housing now for these 4 blacks so we went around the country and have all these projects, hundreds of them, thousands of them, controlled by s small group of people. as we speak today, 75% of black americans are living in these help hold projects where there is no education, there are no jobs, no opportunities, and 35% doing well. >> host: where do you get the number 70%? >> caller: look at the situation. and i will say 75%. >> host: kent watkins, housing development. >> guest: it depends, as i say, from where you sit. or attempts in whatever way they can weather it is under nixon, reagan, joy is bush, clinton or the rest of the administrations, with a you call it hud or something else, there is always going to be a bureaucratic organization for better or for worse that is out there trying to do the best they can.

the videos may help to change the image of nixon's administration as one of the most secretive. >> the true irony is the administration will be studied so exhaustively, it may become one of the most transparent in hist. >> reporter: three segments are online, for released by saturday, august 9th, and that was nixon's last day in office back in 1974. >> good stuff. appreciate it. coming up on al jazeera america - a controversial photo shoot that some say uses a girl's gang rape as inspiration. >> on techknow, new hope for a cure >> he has a rare severe form epilepsy >> a miraculous medical marijuana breakthrough... >> it's something we can all relate to, a sick child getting better >> a week went by, still no seizures... then we know we were on to something... >> tech know, every saturday go where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >>> a fashion photo shoot - fashion photo shoot, okay, is causing controversy today. that's because critics say it is ins

agreed to be interviewed in this way, and so these videos may help to change the image of the nixon administration as one of the most secretive in history. >> so far three segments are online. and four more will be released by this saturday. aljazeera. >> that's our broadcast tonight. and i'm john seigenthaler. see you back here, 11 p.m. eastern time. >> real understanding... >> where you scared when you hear the bombs? >> al jazeera america real... news... >>> on"america tonight", a fragile ceasefire takes hold. a more vulnerable community, gaza's children, by the hundreds of thousands suffers the fallout. >>> drawing the line in texas. >> i want them to go away from the city. they don't have to be where they contaminate the air, the water and the people. >>> a dallas suburb steps up with a first against fracking. can the home owners in

. >> from the tapes, you worked on the nixon administration's reaction to the vietnam veteran's against a war. tell us a little bit about recruiting john o'neil. >> searched my memory for that, because it became a current issue in 2004. i'm not sure that i recruited him. somebody in the white house told me about him, and i -- i can't tell you how i heard about it, but i invited him to my office, and was hugely impressed. naval academy graduate. handled himself well, spoke articulately, and was, as he told me, a democrat who voted against nixon. but believed nixon was absolutely right, and that this war was being -- he was being politicized. and as a patriot, he wanted to come forward and contradict what vietnam veterans against the war stood for. he started at that point the organization, i think his organization had a name at that point. i don't know if it was -- we helped him get television appearances and that sort of thing later, i think he already organized it. the vietnam veterans in support of the war. i had a guy on my staff who watched out for these things. he was probably the

>> my only new year's resolution this year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon administration authors on there. heavyweight boxers. >> there were conversations. >> when you mentioned the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare -- >> that is not unorthodox? it isn't unorthodox? >> no, no, i thought it was beautiful. there you go. >> i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word "excited" in every sentence. >> you're not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? >> well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it's the nemedium that's going save america or send it down into demise. there's no question. >> i'm getting out of it myself. >> really? we'll be back after this. >> what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show business, some politics, some newspaper people. get them all on the stage together an

it was the administration of richard nixon. who was it that released potentially damaging tax information about the governor of alabama, the aids of richard nixon. on another subject of gross abuse, who was it that frustrated that ultimate date with justice that awaited daniel elseberg and anthony russo. was it some left wing radical liberal plot, no my friends it -- no, my friends it was the , administration of richard m. nixon. however you describe yourself, wherever you may be you ought to , be concerned here because this president with whom you perhaps agree politically can get by with the abuses described in this article. so can succeeding chief executives, including those with whom you do not agree. thus imprinting in the standard of our highest office, a standard of conduct that is certainly unacceptable to me. >> time of the gentleman expired. the gentleman from new jersey has three minutes remaining. >> i think now we have the whole case. if we could rest all of this on this one, this lawyer would ask for direct verdic

administration. agitate the community. >> all right robby. i think we got the point. president nixonwas a source of party to party conflict. >> we've had party to party conflict since 1800 when thomas jefferson and john adams rip at each other. i think one of the important things is to always remind us that modern times aren't as uniquely oppressive as we think. look at the civil war in this country where we lost over 600,000 people dead. lincoln getting snuck into washington d.c. and the battle of bull run outside of washington d.c. water gate is looking quite small. it is true in 1968 he was very worried about humphrey becoming president and five days before the election johnson started doing a bombing halt in vietnam. there's some evidence that nixon didn't want the south vietnamese to make any deal at all with linden johnson because vietnam was the albatros around humphrey's neck. in 1972 he see nixon hammering mcgovern for being for abortion and amnesty. he ran a tough and dirty campaign in 1972. i tell you there have been tough and dirty campaigns throughout american history. n

judge robert bourque was solicitor general in the nixon administration. in this oral history interview for the nixon presidential library, he talks about the saturday night massacre when president nixon ordered him to fire watergate special prosecutor cox after the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest. this is an hour and a half. >> i was sitting in my office with the solicitor general when he called and said what time did i go home, and i told him. he said since i went right by the white house, would i drop in and see him when i left. i had no idea what was going on. so i did, i dropped in, and first he sat me down and said the president wanted me to resign as solicitor general and become his chief defense attorney. that shocked me because i had no idea anything like that was coming or that they would ask it. later on, i remember after a different episode at the white house, richardson said to me, why would he call you, you were a professor. i said before i was a professor, i was a practitioner and i put together big cases, ant

, and, boom, few months later, he is just getting hammered over watergate and you watched nixon's administration we put "gate" on everything. and there's always rumbles of impeachment. ronald reagan a little bit during iran-contra, and bill clinton with the lewinski affair and now president obama on obamacare, but nothing is like watergate because there was true obstruction of justice and many people from the administration went to prison. >> it put a chill on presidents and their taping systems after that, and i'm wondering what you think if we didn't have the tapes? would hey have had to resign? >> that's an interesting question. i don't think so. i think the tapes did him in. everybody told nixon to burn the tapes. people like nelson rock feller and henry kissinger pleaded with him. he thought this was going to be what made him great in history. that he was going to be able to keep them at san clemente, cherry pick part oses of it use it in memoirs. he wasn't nationallorred of winston churchill's book about the world war ii. he might be able to do a multiple volume and because well now know t

with president nixon's administration presumably on the hours you have to run, the reports being verytrong that he will resign when he goes on the air 15 or so minutes from now. we've had no con tra indications for the last 10 or 12 hours. what about this matter of presidential power? has the lesson come through and with a balance between the executive and legislative be greater in the next administration? >> i think it will, it's natural in human events in nature that a force going a certain direction keeps going that direction until it meets an obstacle and big one. this tide and high tide of the so-called imperial presidency has been going on since franklin roosevelt and carried to the ultimate extreme by mr. nixon. not no accident that his man said of course we have one man rule because he's the only nationally elected officer that was the state of mind. this has gone to the brink and over. i think you'll get a new balance if mr. ford now becomes president. he comes in with one great advantage that people will wish him well. he'll have the sympathy of the country. all of that will

the administration of richard nixon. who it was who released potentially damaging tax information about the governor of alabama? the aides of nixon. and who was it who frustrated the ultimate date with justice that awaited daniel ellsberg and russo that i trusted would come to them at the hands of the jury? was it some left wing liberal radical plot? no, it was the administration of richard n. nixon. however you describe yourself and wherever you may be, you ought to be vitally concern here because at this president, with whom you perhaps agree politically, can get by with the abuses described in this article, than so can succeeding chief executives, including those with whom you do not agree, thus imprinted in the standards of our highest office a standard of conduct which is certainly unacceptable to me. >> time of the gentleman has expeered. the gentleman from new jersey has three minutes remaining. >> i think now we have the whole case. if we can rest all of it on this one, this lawyer would ask for a directed verdic

so he tried to sequester the pentagon papers, of course, loses those battles, but nixon administration does very many usual things, like trying to break into a psychiatrist's office to get his files. it shows nixon anticipates outrage of leaks. i think nixon hated the leaks ore. the combo is when you get nixon at his worst. host: and in your note prior to the transcript of the tape, and you mr. nichter write, another occasion, this could have been a chance to score a political victory. however, nixon's department of justice launched a vigorous yet ultimately successful defense of government secrecy and the records documenting private war deliberations that went all the way to the supreme court. the event played a direct role in creating the white house plumbers, the group tasked with preventing leaks to the press whose existence became popularly known during the nvestigation into watergate. guest: nixon was vice president for eisenhower for eight years. he knew when ike ran in 1952 for president, the korean war was raging. eisenhower said, elect me and gill to korea. that meant that if

. >> from the tapes, you worked on the nixon administration's reaction to the vietnam veteran's against a war. tell us a little bit about recruiting john o'neil. >> searched my memory for that, because it became a current issue in 2004. i'm not sure that i recruited him. somebody in the white house told me about him, and i -- i can't tell you how i heard about it, but i invited him to my office, and was hugely impressed. naval academy graduate. handled himself well, spoke articulately, and was, as he told me, a democrat who voted against nixon. but believed nixon was absolutely right, and that this war was being -- he was being politicized. and as a patriot, he wanted to come forward and contradict what vietnam veterans against the war stood for. he started at that point the organization, i think his organization had a name at that point. i don't know if it was -- we helped him get television appearances and that sort of thing later, i think he already organized it. the vietnam veterans in support of the war. i had a guy on my staff who watched out for these things. he was probably the

we've got the obama administration spying on merkel and all this. yet the nixon tapes show a person operating without character and moral. ronald reagan and gerald ford, certainly and barack obama, jimmy carter had a moral fiber to them. morality of some kind. you can't just be real politic, i don't care, bomb them, get rid of them, spy on anybody, break anything, because presidents have to be accountable to the law. nobody's yet found barack obama and the nsa doing anything wrong in the snowden incident. it's government as usual. he doesn't have his fingerprints on things the way nixon did. >> thank you, doug. thank you very much. final question. >> thank you. it's a good setup about good journalism. mr. bernstein, you and bob woodward did good journalism. the deep throat, the person we now know, mark phelps, incredible source. can you enlighten us about that? and tell us how incredibly helpful was he in expediting your reporting? >> deep throat, mark phelps, the deputy director of the fbi, with whom bob met maybe ten times, a dozen at the most, during our water

he held a number of jobs in the nixon administration generally rumsfeld as donald an assistant to him. rumsfeld left to become an he left the white house. gerald ford became president, he brought in donald rumsfeld and he brought in dick staff.to be chief of when rumsfeld move to department chaney was a bright light. for that jobman who was getting a lot of notice had this quality of working with people. a could sit quitely in meeting and make the right his boss who did not show boat but got things done. the ford administration left the white house, dick cheney went on a road trip. he left washington, d.c. and to wyoming and thought seriously about getting where she wasn the guy getting elected, not working for people. through a tough campaign with ford trying to win the white house. lost. he came back to wyoming as a boy.haired he was a young boy in his 30's, now.known nationally he knew coming back to wyoming should doast thing he is walk in as a politician and greate himself as a success from washington, d.c. working for wyoming. he did what politicians do. you go door-to-door and

in the wake of some of the revelations about the nixon administration but the point about impeachment we've heard from republicans before that what their base is saying is crazy and won't happen with the government shutdown and it did happen so i think it's still something to think about because the right has a potential these days of snowballing things out of control or giving its leadership can't keep their center of a minute no possible way we're going to see impeachment i agree it's total fear mongering and it's a lie it's akin to obama saying that he's going to have one or more points of the supreme court to raise a little bit more money to see if they can hold some seats you think that steve king is grandstanding just like you think that obama was grandstanding i think there are members of congress on both sides that have a hard time but i holding their tongue i would suggest though that it's more likely that a supreme court justice who said cancer several times in his push in eighty two you know is going to. say that respectfully sure absolving lee actually i have such respect

times i would leave the book to go and get dinner and still be living in the middle of the nixon administration and would want to get back. you want the ability to sink into the story as much as possible to see its beauty and occasionally make it more beautiful. >> host: do you take a red pen or a pencil? >> guest: i take a pencil it comes from my days at the editor at the newspaper to move back-and-forth and get back to them they feel they can look at the notes and absorb them as they would on their own terms. >> host: another author you have worked with is karl rove. did he choose you? how did that relationship, out? >> guest: i had to audition i got a call from my publisher and it was the first book i was asked to edit i was there journalist and he had read up on me and we had politics in common covering him as an editor for many decades. and basically my argument is this is my first job i can not screwed up. it worked. >> host: is a different working with a personality rather than like nancy or michael who are not as well-known? >> guest: every writer have to put themselves on the page so i

i would leave the book and go out and get dinner and still be living in the middle of the nixon administration and want to run back and get back into it. that's what you want. you want the ability to sort of sink into the story as much as possible so you can see all of its beauty and so you can occasionally make it be more beautiful. >> host: do you take a red pen to it? do you take a pencil to have? >> guest: i take a pencil to it. it comes from my days as a newspaper and magazine reporter and editor. it allows me to move back and forth easily. it allows me to sort of give it back to them so that they feel like they can look at those notes and absorbs them as they would on their own terms. >> host: another author that you have worked with and are working with that our audience would know was karl rove. did he choose you or did you choose him? >> guest: essentially i had to audition for a pic i got a call from my publisher. he asked me to go down to washington. it was the first book that i was asked to edit. i have been a journalist for 30 years and he had read up on me and what stories i had