graph taited towards that, and it happened to be the time when many of the documents from the nixon administration were available. and my curiosity got the better of me, and i started to read these documents, and i was really surprised, because the image that came out of those documents, of nixon, of kissinger, of the shah, of the relationship between these men was so different to what i had heard, was so different to the orthodox view in academia that i got hooked. and i spent the next three or four years living with these three men and studying them and trying to understand them. >> now most of our audience -- all of our audience is familiar with the backgrounds of henry kissinger and president nixon. but who is mohammed shah pa labbe? >> he ascended the thrown in the midst of the second world war. he was not born a prince. his father came to power in iran in 1921 in a military coup. and he became the crown prince of iran after his father was crowned in 1925.[pp so he ascended the throne in possibly the most difficult circumstances you can imagine. his country was under occupation by the allied

how does this affect -- there was another track in the nixon administration of pursuing a middle eastpeace pact between the saudis and iran. >> the ultimate objective, of course, was to diminish soviet influence in the middle east. in the minds of nixon and kissinger and not just them, i think, most of the foreign policy establishment at that time, this was one theater of global cold war. of course, that's not how the actors in the region saw it. you know, they don't see themselves as just a theater in the global cold war. they're fighting their own battles for their own reasons to do with sometimes very, very local issues. so, the rogers plan and secretary rogers' approach to the region and his sort of portfolio really was the israeli issue but his approach was more of the regional one. he was trying to solve i think a regional issue, the arab/israeli issue, to try to gain some traction and some momentum. this was not something i think that was of great interest to either nixon or kissinger unless it had some kind of consequence for the global cold war. and so the two -- whereas thei

and the nixon administration then wanted to stop the whole thing. >> my argument inside was, if you wantnst the pentagon papers, get up and charge "the new york times" with publishing national security secrets, gross irresponsibility, and sabotaging the war in vietnam. >> the justice department went to court in new york today and got a temporary order restraining the "times" from publishing the next and last two installments. >> attorneys for "the new york times" claim the protection of the first amendment which embodies the concept of the freedom of the press as sufficient to protect their disclosure of the vietnam memorandums. >> the supreme court ruled that "the new york times" may continue to publish the secret pentagon papers. >> i think the lesson is the people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself, even foreign affairs any more than domestic affairs, without the help of the congress, without the help of the public. >> if you had to sum up the prevailing mood here on capitol hill, you could do it with two words, embarrassment and anger. believ

was a long time and the nixon administration hardly came out from that. mr. frankel: not every speech is supposed to be the gettysburg address. i learned that early on. distinctly i remember writing a inech for a labor audience 2008. i got really into this. it was red meat, it was as lofty as i could get it. it was very clear immediately that he had just gotten a call from the president. he started with a story about how he was a reporter in chicago . there was a lesson that was about to come. i remember covering the opening of an airport in illinois. i wrote this piece and i thought it was the most beautiful piece that someone could read or write about the opening of an airport. i talked about planes in the sky, all this kind of stuff -- but airlines will be flying out of there? himself it is a great -- himself, he is a great writer. mr. schlesinger: when you were talking about your experience in japan and this information if something like that happened today, people would be speculating about it on twitter. how has the social media transformation changed,

alexander butterfield who served as a deputy chief of staff during the first years of the nixon administration. my first question is after it was acknowledged a decade ago to do you think you're done reporting on watergate? [laughter] >> guest: release this is not on watergate but it is on nixon and he is the central character in there has been so many books written on him to decode him that yes, i thought i was done but then i ran into a alexander butterfield who is now 89 and has a better memory than you and i. it is astonishing. i ran into him for years ago encumbrance and said nixon you are in washington and let's get together so he called a and we went off for a day and it sounded like he had a few interesting stories. "the washington post" gives me a limited time quite frankly so when i was in california i said i will stop by. do you have any documents? he said i have a few. i went into his a .1 dash apartment and there are 20 boxes most people leave the white house and i have a theory there is a box in the attic but not 20. it was a data treasure trove and there were originals we did no

early life of henry kissinger prior to his appointment as national security adviser in the nixon administration. in coming week on afterwards we designed >> to prize-winning journalist will report on the rise of big money in college football. n.y. times columnist teresa brown will talk about the challenges patients face in the health care system. roberta kaplan will recall her successful arguments against the defense of marriage act against the supreme court. >> the way to win this case was to focus on fact of life, they are remarkable. the life sort of tells of panoramic story how life has been or how life was for gay and lesbian people in the 20th century. that was important. >> afterwards airs on booktv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous afterwards programs on our web site booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is a look at what is on prime time tonight. at 7:30 p.m. eastern fox news contributor janine borelli on her book backlash. at 8:00 president george h. w. bush's former chief of staff

simultaneously advise and go and join the kennedy administration if asked just as later on in the later 1960s he's talking to rockefeller and humphrey and nixon it's the same thing in his mind that he has an expertise that should be available to anybody who happens to become president. kennedy, as you know was rounding up harvard professors in forming his administration. prior to his election, they all rushed out to washington when the administration was formed and the dean of the faculty became the national security adviser. now this is when the plot thickens because it seems as if kissinger is going to be involved. but on a part-time basis. at first i was puzzled by this whole arrangement. why would you agree to be a part-time consultant for the white house. are your harvard classes so dear to you? but it turns out it was bundy's suggestion because bundy quickly saw that kissinger was a potential rival. he certainly knew a lot about berlin and nuclear strategy. i think what happened was a common lesson in politics for young kissinger. he discovered that as long as andy could stop him having contact with the president, he could shut him in a

when i was in the nixon administration it was called operation ivy bell. we listened to their communication. are they listening are they doing something else about it. are they going to disrupt our communications or are they going to hack into them and somehow disorder some of our communications. >> what has raised the prospect they would seek the cut the cables? my second question would be why wouldn't that always be one of the possibilities you would assign to your enemy strategists? >> i think this is all a piece, lou with the general push that putin is making to challenge american interests all around the world. to show that he can hold at risk some of the most important american assets. to show that he's got tremendous leverage over us. he wants things from the united states, including he wants the sanctions off. he wants to show he can push the united states around and really hold us at risk. >> is there any doubt that that is precisely what he's doing k.t.? this is a president who said he was going to bring effectively, bring putin to his knees as h

himself as a nixon loyalist, but it's a unsettled whether he was being fed information from the nixon administration being used for it. thompson's notoriety, though, was just beginning as a federal prosecutor and twice elected republican senator from tennessee, he also ran for president in 2002. when he wasn't in office, he was on screen, playing admirals, politicians, sheriffs, judges, and fine directors. he enjoyed a hearty laugh, strong handshake, a good cigar and a healthy dose of humility. he was the same man on the senate, the movie studio, or his home. >>> gun control is a very personal issue for many americans, and for some it can be matter of religion. the new documentary, the armor of life, follows the chairman of a church as he becomes a gun-control advocate. >> what are your feelings when i say the phrase christians and guns. >> the bible is very plain about a man who doesn't protect his life is an infidel. >> let's pray, father we know there are a lot of people in this country that would like to register guns and take them awhich. >> if we take guns away, people are just going to kill p

the details how the nixon administration contemplated tactical nuclear strikes against north vietnam in october of 1969. as part of a secret operation known as duck cooked. the woodrow wilson centers cold war history project hosted this event, a little under an hour and a half. thank you for your nice comments and thanks to all of you for being here this afternoon. summarizing the subject matter and themes of our book, and then jeff willaddress -- address what we think is new and noteworthy about it. mr. burr: our collaboration on this project began some years ago, and we had both read the price of power and were struck by the account of an unusual strategic air command alert. we wanted to learn more about it. connection to the vietnam war and the role that the next administration and the events.

alexander butterfield, who was called the deputy chief of staff during the first years of the nixon administration. my first question especially after it was acknowledged a decade ago that he was deep throat, didn't you think you would and reporting on watergate? >> guest: this is really not on watergate but nixon. of course nixon is the central character and having written so many books on him and trying to decode him, yes, i thought i was done and then i ran into butterfield who by the way is now 89 and has abettor memory than you or i. it is astonishing. i ran into him four years ago at a conference and said it next time you are in washington let's get together and so he called and we went off for day and sounded like he had a few interesting stories. the washington post gives me time unlimited time quite frankly and so when i was out in california, i said i will stop by your home. do you have any documents? and he said yes, i have a few, there are 20 boxes. most feeble leave the white house, and there's a box in the attic but not 20. it was -- is a treasure trove because some of these things t

: during that time, what we were trying to do obviously was manage the transition from the nixon administrationo the ford administration. there had never been anything like it. don: and the country was faced with some serious economic problems. and what was coming up through the system was not what i felt represented the direction the country should go. and it was in large measure coming i think it's safe to say from speechwriters as opposed to economists. >> we were spending a lot of time on the economic program. >> my gosh. >> we were still doing it at vail at christmas time. don: i remember that very well. we spent a lot of time in ski clothes in the living room of the house that ford was renting. dick: yeah, and the bath house. arthur: gerry ford was proposing the tax increase. a 5% tax surcharge. so i was talking with don, back then, who was chief of staff. and dick, who was deputy chief of staff. i said, look here, guys, you are not going to get 5% more revenue with a 5% tax surcharge. you may get 4% more revenue, you may get 3% -- you might also lose revenue because the tax base will shr

clean," and lived up to that nickname when he resigned from the nixon administration rather than derailhe watergate investigation. he never truly retired. he recently led the fight to protect puget sound, and has urged his fellow republicans to join him in combating climate change. he spent his life putting country before party or politics, and he reminds us how noble public service can be. our air and water is cleaner, and our lives are brighter because of him. back in 1966, plans were laid for a highway straight through some of baltimore's neighborhoods. the new road seemed like a go, it was about to happen, that is until it ran into a young social worker. let's just say, you don't want to be on the wrong side of barbra mikulski. [laughter] mikulski.r barbara [laughter] she stopped that highway and jumpstarted one of the finest public service careers we have ever seen. for decades, barbara has been a lion, a lioness on capitol hill, fighting for working families, fighting for high-paying jobs, fighting for the prospects of america's women and girls. i could not be prouder to have her

we know this has been the most lawless administration since the nixon administration. hope the american people would be outraged. >> what did you find out? >> the obama administratiminista huge impediment to enforcing our laws. they will not allow a border patrol to have access to many federal lands where the illegal immigrants and human traffickers do their business. we know that also there are people from all around the world including nations where we know there's terrorists activity not just mexico and central america. it's a huge problem. something that the administration continues to turn their back on. they actually phone in it. >> they may take focus now and issue another executive order. we'll have to stay tuned on that. great to see you. >> thank you. >>> a leaf blower prompts a horrifying fight between two neighbors. >> they'll never be able to work again. he's destroyed his life over leaves. >> how the victim's girlfriend was able to save that man's life. >>> plus, donald trump suggesting a starbucks boycott now because of what you're looking at right there

thequestion i have is after man was involved in obstruction in justice and the nixon administration and the only one to resign and went to prison. what do you believe he is doing here? he was so interested in power. is it the same thing? eric: no. that is one of those things where something is a hard to believe and they should be hard to believe. it is hard to believe that jesus read -- rose from the dead bodily. but i do believe it. it is hard to believe. we talk about chuck, here is a tricks, was, mr. dirty the hatchet man in the nixon white house. we were right to hate him and think he is less than ideal for our political culture. safee had an experience of that -- phase similar fa --ith similar to mine that was deep. people ask, did he lose his mind? what happened to him? he was brilliant. it was authentic and so i've been it that led him to do things people cannot believe. his lawyer got him after he volunteered information around the watergate thing. lie and hecannot volunteered information. it is fascinating. that's why i put him in the seven men book. his lawyer got him a plea d

the early life of henry kissinger, prior to his position as national security adviser in the nixon administrationgilbert ball will report on the rise of big money in college football. tresa brown will talk about the challenges patient base in the healthcare system. this weekend roberta kaplan will recall her successful argument against the defense of marriage act before the supreme court. >> the weight when the case is to focus on the facts of the life. they really are remarkable, it is life tells a panoramic story of how life has been, or how life was for gay and lesbian people in this country in the 20 century. i thought that was in port. >> afterwards airs on book to be every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch previous programs on our website, book tv.org. tweet us your feedback on the programs you see here, twitter.com/book tv. >> the word your chew was used by each virtue was used by each of our first presidents. what they meant by virtue was something more than just how people report themselves. whether they are just good and wholesome, will not wholesome,

clean and lived up to that nickname when he resigned from the nixon administration rather than derailhe watergate investigation. he's never rutruly retired. in recent years he's led the fight to protect pujet sounds and he's urged has fellow republicans to protect climate change. he reminds us how noble public service can be. and our air and water is cleaner and our lives are brighter because of him. >> back in 1966, plans were made for a new highway. it was about to happen until it ran into a young social worker and let's just say you don't want to be on the wrong side of barbara mim ul ski. [ laughter ] she stopped that highway and jump-started one of the finest public service careers we've ever seen. for decades barbara has been a lioness on capitol hill, fighting for hard-working families, for hi-tech, fighting for the prospects of america's women and girls. i couldn't have been prouder have her by my side as i signed in law the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. and barbara's legacy -- [ applause ] barbara's legacy reflects her roots. a mom who offered credit to steel workers on strik

the question i have is after the man was involved in obstruction in justice and the nixon administration and the only one to resign and went to prison. -- mr. chuck colson went to prison. what do you believe he is doing here? he was so interested in power. isn't this the same thing? eric: no. no, no, no. this is one of those things where something is hard to believe and they should be hard to believe. it is hard to believe that jesus rose from the dead bodily. it should be hard to believe, but i do believe it. it is hard to believe. we talk about chuck, here is a guy that was, mr. dirty tricks, the hatchet man in the nixon white house. we were right to hate him and think he is less than ideal for our political culture. but he had an experience of faith that to i would say, similar to mine, was deep. people just thought, you know, did he lose his mind? what happened to him? he was brilliant. but, it was authentic and it's a led him to do things people could not believe. his lawyer got him after he volunteered information around the watergate thing. said, iof his faith, he cannot lie and h

we have representatives from six administrations from the nixon, reagan, bush 41, clinton, bush 43, president obama. i was a little disappointed we couldn't getford and quarter. this could have qualified as a presidential republican debate. so what i'm going to do is go chronologically. i'm going to ask everyone to speak for no more than five minutes and i will cut you off with a have to. i forgot to bring my watch so if you see me looking at my i phone that's why. speech for five minutes about how their president handled moments of national tension and then have panel discussion and then open up to questions. so the first person sitting immediately to my left is lee, deputy director in the nixon white house of the white house writing and research staff. now professor of media and public affairs. >> thanks for all who organized this conference, and this association which is bringing into more visibility and coherence i think what used to be a group that preferred to remain rather quiet and anonymous. ghost writers. students are flocking to courses on speech writing. my own experience at georg

connection to the vietnam war and the role that the next administration and the events. -- the nixon and administration. jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. more research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. it's published in cold war history in early 2003. we give the first full account of the alert and argued that the readiness test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arrange a settlement. by putting u.s. nuclear forces and conventional forces on high readiness, nixon wanted to joel sovietsold -- jolk to end the war quickly. those were some of the key elements of the argument we presented in the article. later, with more sources become available, we decided there was enough material to justify a book on the october alert and the larger context of the next and white house d

first time the soviet union was shipped a military personnel outside of iraq we this is the nixon t administration toho reach out ae sodic about it the moment the soviets are sending military personnel with afeir aircraft to israel. so at the time when the president did this incentive is under secretary of statethe n with the expectation of having made the suspension and lo and behold to use the h diplomaticim term he blew him off. he was not interested whatssumpn about the second assumption pri you probably don't know thisn but we don't provide arms to many israel and tell the candidate administration because he recognized over the united opposition of the u nanitional security advisers. they all thought it would cause a terrible problem.er he doesn't do much after that. but kennedy breaks the taboo gre they said this will set a terrible precedent and do arabs great damage to oures o p relationships. the same day it comes out publicly is the same day then secretary of state is meeting the crown princess saudi arabia. what does the crown prince focus on? he aises that is not what he is concerned a

this was something that had been arranged during the nixon administration and within her first 24 hours, she was thrown in sink or swim. >> 1976 campaign, a big challenge from ronald reagan. a lot of work during the primary when president ford had the nomination. by the time election night came and the fords lost, president ford lost his speech. betty ford: the president asked me to tell you that he telephoned president elect carter a short time ago and he congratulated him on his victory. he wants to thank all of those thousands of people who worked so hard on his behalf and you supported him with their votes. it has been the greatest honor of my husband's life to have served his fellow americans during two of the most difficult years in our history. the president urges all americans to join him in giving your united support to president-elect carter as he prepares to assume his new responsibilities. >> it was tough. they come from so far behind. every candidate believes they will win, but he had never lost an election. you can see the look on the kid's face. >> the only person in amer

i hear this discussion, kent state, which is worst part in the early moment of the nixon administration, student was killed and nixon give given this speech about cambodia incursion. that's the only foreign policy speech pat buchanan did write. instruction from the president was don't show it to henry. he said he would have calmed it down. to make it worse, statement came over the white house after the students were killed, speech writer staff sworn they never seen it. usually the rule is we would see all the words before it went out as a final check. i don't know where the statement came from. somebody if the press office. it got out. then a sentence out of context can become inflammatory. and the phrase was something that went out. dissent turns to violence. it invites tragedy. that sounds okay except it seem to be blaming the victims. it wasn't accompanied by other expressions of sympathy or regret. it had a terrible effect on the nation's campuses. >> [indiscernible]. >> i don't think it does. what happened the next day nixon went to the pentagon and a woman's husband was in vietnam

in the coming weeks of after words, the early life of kissinger in the nixon administration.erta and this weekend former congressman kennedy will speak about struggle with addiction and bipolar disorder. >> everybody knew it and it was written about everywhere. for her age she was known like betty ford, being an alcoholic. we kept id -- it under wraps. no one would look at her, no one would talk to her. it was kind of like the people that we all walked by in washington, d.c. and we don't look at, we walked by and it was the same thing except it's my mother. >> you can watch all previous after words programs on our web scythe at booktv.org. ♪ ♪ .

administration if asked. just like later he was talking to humphrey and nixon. here is a sense in his mind that there is an expert that he has that should be available to anybody who happens to become president. kennedy was rounding up harvard professors informing his administration. prior to election he talked to kissinger and others and they rushed down to washington when the administration was formed. now this is when the plot think it's because it seems as if kissinger is going to be involved but on a part-time basis. at first i was puzzled by this arrangement, why would you agree to be a part-time consultant? is it so dear to you? it turns out bundy suggested that because he quickly saw kissinger was a potential rival. kissinger knew a lot about the key issues of the moment. certainly nuclear berlin a nuclear strategy. he discovered that they could stop them having contact with the president if they could put him in a room with files and tell him to write a report. he had a frustrating experience, normally a consultant but hardly ever in the presence of the

that we worked on transcribing the secret oval office recordings of the kennedy johnson and nixon administrations. that covers about 60 some odd years. senator kennedy served under every single one of them. this oral history by far exceeds the number of interviews and interviewees for those. over 280 interviews, including one president, president obama, two vice presidents, mondale and biden, five members of the house , foreign leaders from ireland to south africa, 1000 pages of interview transcripts alone with senator kennedy. large as thes largest presidential oral history we have done. it also follows the gold that james stirling young established for our oral histories in terms of getting the highest quality of interviews. right now we are in the middle of work on the george w. bush oral history, which has equally as dedicated a commitment. and i want to particularly acknowledge martin spelling as the president of the george bush center at smu for that undertaking. doing this has all been under the wish of senator kennedy. to allow those who participate in history rather than just historians

prevent the tremendous loss of american and vietnamese life that followed the administration of president johnson and president nixon, bearing in mind that many americans died under the administration of president nexen as they did under president johnson. early on, my colleague wrote , thethis was the wrong war wrong place, the wrong time. i did not necessarily agree with him then, but i agree with him now. an extended even american effort could have forestalled an ultimate .ationalist victory a nationalist victory in vietnam would have meant the supremacy of the major force in vietnam at that time and today, the communist party. that is the best i can do in the allotted time. >> thank you. i think we will wrap it up. thank you for coming this evening. we will be hanging around for little while to have a chat if anyone wants to talk informally. thank you all. [applause] [indiscernible] >> why should my husband's job, us from beingnt ourselves? i do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind with pro-choice and a supporter of the equal rights am

remember, cheney and rumsfeld had been basically in washington since the administration of richard nixon working on foreign policy issues, so they had much more background. i think toward the end of his presidency, the younger bush did realize that he actually did fire rumsfeld and stopped paying attention to cheney, but by then it was too late. >> that's sounds like a fascinating book. lawrence, very good to get your thoughts on it. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >>> now, rescue teams are searching through the rubble of a collapsed factory in pakistan with 150 people thought to still be inside. at least 21 people died in wednesday's incident, but it's not clear what caused the building's collapse. there was structural damage in the area due to an earthquake there last week. al jazeera has this update from the site. >> reporter: for a second night running, rescue teams are trying desperately to dig corridors or gaping holes to try and reach those who are buried under the rubble of a large factory building that you see behind me. it is now the second night, and the attempts are be

nixon. >> guest: he was communicating with allen and and other people in the administration. xon was seeking and that is clear nobody has ever denied that. the notion notion that the information was somehow classified information that kissinger was leaking cannot be substantiated. >> host: you do say nixon worries at one point that it is a trap, that kissinger had been set up to pass information from johnson's thinking and it would be a try. nixon apparently valued this even though you argue that everybody knew about it. >> guest: one of the confusions hears between analysis and intelligence. kissinger is offering his analysis and that is documented. >> guest: you said information though. >> guest: i don't think there was any. >> host: you're the expert on this, i just find the nixon quote quite interesting. >> guest: i think nixon was offering his advice, his analysis, that is clear and documented. but what is not there is some kind of smoking gun, secret that kissinger was going to betray. >> host: can you translate this for me several years back when i was a full-time journ

one of the things i said in the book as they ended up being the angriest administration since richard nixon. i think it's because they had a sense of betrayal. >> i think it's betrayal because when i was covering the white house, jimmy carter's people felt, i think, and maybe the clintons felt that they thought the press was on their side. so betrayal is the right word. they felt betrayed. the republicans never thought the press was going to be on their side. they had a great relationship with the press corps because there was no expectation. they actually respected what we did. reagan had a good exchange with the press. they understood the boundaries. i don't think democrats did. >> the clintons have all those stories. they watched all the fox news claims saying that the press is liberal. the press votes democratic. a number of clinton socialites;, they said you know what, what, it was north eastern bias against each other and the southern outsiders. they felt they weren't getting a fair shake because they were dead differently. i think that is kind of a rationalization. a very good friend

no administration since nixon/ford saw more governor and state legislative chamber losses in the president'sreason for those losses. the watergate scandal. you have to go back to eisenhower again to find more losses of state legislatures over 1,000 back in the '50s. so what is going on here? why are democrats across the country getting wiped out in election after election? where obama name is on the ballad. democrats don't turn out if obama is not on the ballad. wasn't that long ago, 2002 they won a bunch of governorships. something is wrong here and you can't just blame it on democrats don't show up. >> there's -- what's happening is that the democratic party is getting smoked by the republican party. they made a decision to invest long term in places where it makes an institutional difference whether or not you're there. the republican party didn't talk nationally but invested heavily in advance of the 2010 cycle in winning state legislative seats across the country. they flipped enough to flip legislatures to flip the congressional map. republicans are thinking that way. democrats aren't.