a lot of it did come out in the first term of the nixon administration. one big thing that happened was, and stewart got lucky in this regard, it didn't fall on his watch, but just a few days after the johnson administration left, there was a huge oil spill just off the coast of santa barbara in california. there were other smaller ones as well. the santa barbara oil spill helped further galvanize support in favor of environmental protection, not even a year later, there was earth day and not even a year after that, there was nepa and the e.p.a. so that oil spill helped, but it was a crescendo, there was a lot of buildup to e.p.a. and to the nixon administration's environmental achievements, further more, that was, a lot of those initiatives were very much congressional initiatives as well. good question. >> just looking for your index speaking. and i found bureau of indian affairs. you say it falls under -- it fell under his department, but it really, indian relations hit crisis mode in the late 1960's, early 1970's in particular. after his watch, was he

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without going down the road to analyze nixon, something that comes up over and over again on the tapes is a crude sense of masculinity he believed his administrationwas defined by that and a key part of his loyalty. loyalty is a key component of what it takes to be a man. so this is where nixon does have an important connection to the current president. donald trump is describing someone that is loyal to his administration and jeff sessions i wouldn't think they would describe as kind of a resistor of the trump presidency but because he recused himself from the russia investigation, that is enough and it shows it doesn't really matter, what matters is loyalty so what i try to show is that the clashed with that very basic understanding of loyalty and masculinity. >> what is your judgment of the documentary watergate? i apologize i haven't had time to watch it. i've watched it and i thought it was pretty good. do you go into some detail in your book about it? >> the enemies list initially started off as a list of people to not invite to the white house in 1971 and over the next 18 months or so, chuck colson, john dean and a few others get involved i

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think one reason donald trump has not plus the chinese, has not accepted wisdom going back to nixon administration, we are now having to look at a lot of other options on china but is there a path forward where we could have truly free and reciprocal trade with china, sure, they need to do a lot of behavioral change however. >> how would you characterize as rival, competitor, what term what would you use? >> strategic, competitor and adversary in others, doesn't necessarily mean that there's a trap here, some academics have said, i think every -- i think every situation is unique but the fact is china has done a lot of things not just in the economic area as in the case of stealing intellectual property but let's look at the south china sea now where contrary to commitments that they've made in to barack obama, that's exactly what they are doing. we talk in the middle east of the parties making facts on ground, the chinese here are making the ground on the south china sea and putting naval and air bases on it. at one point i think they said to president trump these are just housing projects, well,

they got some hearings with the nixon administration. they got some discussions with the government. they did not get alcatraz. it kind of just fizzled out over time. it lost a lot of the steam that it had. there was a number of issues and protesters. the leader, his daughter died. fires broke out. a series of unfortunate events under minded the occupation itself. it brought a lot of attention to the idea and inspired a number of others to get involved in this issue of red power. thee: two years later was occupation of wounded knee. where did that take place and what happened? that took place in southwest south dakota. write down by nebraska, wyoming border. theas the sign of the -- site of the 1890 massacre. 150 indians were massacred. activists use that historical massacre toe 1890 bring back those old issues and highlight issues with the federal government. they were invited on to the with tribalto deal issues and they realized there was a lot of cultural cachet. to wounded knee, there was a trading post, a few houses, not much there.

. >> before he anchored the evening news, dan rather covered the johnson and nixon administrations for >> so tell me about the briefings during the johnson administration. where were they conducted? >> well, sometimes they were conducted in the press secretary's office. >> and sometimes the president did the briefings himself. >> it was not unusual, if you were a regular white house correspondent, to some days be in the oval office, five, six, seven, eight times a day. president johnson would stand at the oval desk and in a normal tone of voice, mr. president, i was about to ask you about this. >> back then reporters were located in the office that now belongs to the national security adviser. it's very close to the oval. and when the reporters weren't busy, they gathered in the lobby near the entrance to the west wing. sam donaldson covered watergate and later the white house for abc. >> before nixon, the press on many if not all the visitors to the oval office. richard nixon didn't want that. >> he hated the press. >> when nixon lost to john kennedy. >> president nixon gets in office

nixon often complained there were too many principled man in his administration did just enough nice guys to stop them from undermining constitutional democracy. thank you. [applause] it looks like we have about 25 minutes or so for question. and if you can use the microphone right over there. but we thank you for a conversation your thought provokes certain questions if they decide to preemptively and unilaterally what happens with the republican party as it happens right now or if he is under tremendous pressure and he brings a lot of pressure to bear, but the republican party at this point decide enough is enough. it is to provoke people to get an answer. it seems the constitution suffers from the time that it s to be uncertain namely the imbalance between the so-called checks and balances while we see what is happening with checks and balances it is in the balance or a check etc. it seems to me at this point in time you have a presidency that is becoming extremely which many people say he should have been or could have been impeached but they thought it was too close. in a sense

immediately, kissinger and nixon -- when they first met, to talk about kissinger joining the administration -- they agreed that the foreign policy establishment in washington was corroded, that it needed a dramatic overhaul, a really kind of a bold bureaucratic revolution. and kissinger and nixon agreed that that policy, foreign policy had to be centered in the white house. they both hated the state department. wanted to see it marginalized to the sidelines. that's why william rogers, a little-known lawyer, was chosen to be the secretary of state. kissinger thought the same thing about the pentagon and defense department. but very early -- and kissinger did execute this bureaucratic revolution on nixon's behalf. while nixon was doing the inaugural address, kissinger was sending out letters to all the embassies saying that all serious foreign policy would not have to go through his office. at the exact same time nixon's giving his inaugural address. so there was a bureaucratic revolution they shared, but in his first political battle over strategy and tactics on vietnam, he lost. mel laird,

stated by the nixon administration is to create a drug free society. that's what it's all about that's why we spend the billions of dollars and incarcerate millions of people is to create a drug free society. and we've been at this now for good no hard for forty years trillions of dollars into it no wind in sight really and when a reasonable person says how much closer are we to creating a drug free society you begin to realize that perhaps we've been given a mission here that is impossible to achieve we saw violent crimes go through the roof as these. criminal gangster organizations fought one another so we're seeing that type of phenomenon today in our major metropolitan areas like los angeles the crips against the bloods and of course there are endless violence that we're seeing in mexico and in places like south america as these very rich powerful cartels fight one another it lines up perfectly with alcohol prohibition when you look at oklahoma prevision the richest man in the country was ok he controlled if you tried to get in his market he would

and we look at members of the nixon administration who challenged the 37th president. all that and much more on this holiday weekend of booktv, it's for serious readers -- it's television for serious serious readers. visit booktv.org for a complete schedule. [inaudible conversations] >> if i could have everybody's attention, we'd like to get under way. thank you. good afternoon. i'm city journal editor brian anderson. it's, as it always is, my enormous pleasure to introduce my colleague, heather macdonald. heather is the thomas w. smith fellow at the manhattan institute, a contributing editor of city journal and a 2005 recipient of the prestigious bradley prize. from the moment she started writing for the magazine back in the early '90s, she's been a seismic intellectual force whether writing about philanthropy or crime and punishment or welfare reform or one of her passions, opera. it's always exciting when one of her stories lands. i invariably learn a lot, and that's in part because heather is a great and truly fearless reporter. if there were any justice in the wor

end of the freedom of information act was designed to do it was supposed to coming after the nixon administration it had been set up so that you could write and get information and not have to go to court and to get anything other than classified information that would take longer because you had to challenge the classification but these are not classified things that people are looking for there they're open government things that should be freely available and quickly available whatever the real reason behind this this attempt to restrict access to information is not great for the trumpet ministration how they're going to. show this one off into the in a positive light well they're trying and it's a complete joke i mean if they say it's to be more efficient and to respond better to quote customers meaning citizens. they're doing the opposite so i think it reflects. basically the fact that they're trying to run a secret government dave lindorff investigative journalism finding it's sort of the only newspapers coming happening don't net festive greetings to you thanks for coming on and sharing yo

lost to president kennedy. >> winning is a lot more fun. >> nixon wins and anna chennault thinks, i will be a big deal in this administration wants no part of her. >> the nixon administration, they were afraid of any position for which she would have to have senate confirmation and be asked about the october events. >> she was taken advantage of and not being offered a real position. it is possible that she herself felt she was most taken advantage of by president nixon. >> i suspect that she didn't like nixon because nobody liked nixon, but she got burned. you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. >> each moment in history is a fleeting time but some stand out as moments of beginning in which sets decades or centuries. >> nixon wins, in part, thanks to johnson's decision not to make public what he knew about nixon's treachery. richard nixon's plot to undermine the vietnam peace talks. >> i, richard bill house nixon do solemnly swear. >> president johnson did believe this was a treasonous act, that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of

lost to president kennedy. >> winning is a lot more fun. >> so nixon wins, and chenault thinks i will be a big deal in this administrationsically he wants no part of her. >> the nixon administration, they were afraid of any position for which you would have to have senate confirmation, have to be under oath, and be asked a question about the october events. >> she was taking advantage of, taken advantage of and not being offered a real position. it is possible that she herself felt she was most taken advantage of by president nixon. >> i suspect that she didn't like nixon because nobody liked nixon. but she got burned. if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. >> each moment in history is a fleeting time. but some stand out as moments of beginning. in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries. >> nixon wins. in part, thanks to johnson's decision not to make public what he knew about nixon's treachery. richard nixon's plot to undermine the vietnam peace talks. >> i, richard milhouse nixon do solemnly swear. >> president johnson did believe that this was a trees nous act that ultimately led to an expand

anymore as well so if they want to go after him they can but it's never happened before the nixon administration did not go after senator mike gravel when he published the pentagon papers outside the congress where he's protected to say whatever he wants and it hasn't happened since john peters anger in sixteen thirty five colonial america that a government of britain then the british colonial govern went after a publisher for writing something that turned out to be true but they didn't like it because iran uncovered exposed crimes by the government so he's in a very precarious situation because the trump administration might be the first one to actually do this even though politically it's never been been the right decision even though they have the legal tools they've never been used and i should add the new york times number two lawyer was out on the west coast few months ago and told judges in a speech that they did not want to songe prosecutor because the new york times could be next because they're just writing thing we can leaks does publish classified information you know patrick and tha

. >> pat buchanan is a super smart super ideological guy who worked in the nixon administration and wast nightmare. he starts talking to the american people who are feeling a little unsure as the reagan prosperity engine sputters. >> all those are with us can come on in. >> while george bush was an excellent foreign policy president, he was not a good politician. >> to get to that. >> let me quote the words of one arab leader, saddam hussein himself. >> pick this up or take it out of my pocket? >> george bush was a little awkward. it's like he's pretending to be a politician. he did not look forward to the '92 election. >> to deflect public criticism of his foreign travels, the president said his trip to japan was about jobs, jobs, jobs. the result was hardly what his imagemakers hoped for. >> the lone camera in the dining room was locked in on the head table when president bush was overcome by nausea and fell forward. it appears he lost consciousness as he toppled over on to his host, the prime minister. >> this man who had overseen the soft landing of the cold war, who had been comman

all of this by the law-and-order administration of richard nixon.nd, some 40 people pled guilty to watergate related crimes. jon ehrlichman, bob halderman, john dean and 16 others went to jail. >> i'm not quite sure when i enter the conspiracy to obstruct justice. that's one of the things i'm trying to figure out. whendy cross the line? when did i enter that illegal conspiracy? no question i went across it. >> there was a breakdown in personal integrity as well as organizational integrity on the part of us that were given those assignments. >> i'm not sure where i'm going to be for the next few months, but i'm going to miss you all. >> it also requires you to ask the ethical questions, is this right. is it respectful. is it responsible. is it fair? we didn't ask any of those questions. we should have started with. is it legal? we were so caught up in trying to serve the president's needs or desires that we did not ask those questions. >> i, gerald r. ford. do grant a full, free an absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all offenses against the unite

here, president nixon came to the rescue. his administration supported a change that allowed for revenue-producing activities at these former federal facilities. he also signed executive order 11593, which mandated that agencies identify properties to register any national register for store robberies. properties.ric it directed the interior department to develop guides on the professional methods and techniques for preserving, restoring, and maintaining historic parties. irrelevantas made because the national park service architects were assigned the duty of helping the pair of payment designed this building and they were overwhelmed by the job. instead of saying, we can go help our other federal agency do this work, they said that come up some standards and follow the standards, rather than making them do the work. foundation ofhe the standards for rehabilitation of historic properties. surplus federal buildings and the search for their adaptive use were at the center of many challenges in saving spaces. in the early 1970's, after executing t

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april twice on that, once in a democratic administration under bill clinton and once in the nixon administration but it's very important to realize what the prosecutor said in those pleadings. they said that michael cohen violated the law and that according to them it was instructed by number one, the candidate, to make the payments. they didn't say that the candidate told him to make illegal payments. they were very careful not to say that the candidate instructed him to violate the law. it's a very, very important part of the pleading. they have not alleged that the president of united states violated the law, the alleged of that michael cohen did. >> i think the president not being charged is different from what the democrats are representatives in the u.s. senate. >> it's going to go it seems to me with the president being indicted or, at least up to that point and it's going to go to congress taking on a very serious and very, very appropriate investigation and you might call that the opening days of the impeachment. >> i think the totality of today's filings show that the house will give l

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pocket he had a promise from president nixon that if he did this and it didn't work out, the nixon administration would take care of him so he actually went to richard nixon and said i think i would like to be treasury secretary. to which nixon replied you are not qualified he actually said something worse the treasury secretary has to be somebody who can someday be president and he is not it. so then to be at the united nations at which point george bush at that point had zero diplomatic experience and he wisely turned that into a virtue to explained to the staff if he did nothing he would do exactly what kissinger said and that is what kissinger wanted to hear. cspan: he began as the chair of the rnc after 21 months middle of watergate? mimic because the president asked if the un experience was his happiest time of life that is what enthralled him than that time was the worst politically because president nixon decided to shake it up and then they decided that's the person that you want and then it became difficult with watergate and the unenviable job to go out on the stump every day to defend

. >> that's a role again that you had in the nixon administration. how much of this information do you think could be coming from don mcgahn? >> i think a good bit. almost contemporaneous. i think he's probably going to be a potential witness in anything that has to do with obstruction of justice because he was dealing with the special counsel as these things were unfolding. and he was doing it with the permission of the president's private counsel. so they knew he was over there. i, i think they may have misjudged. they said later they were surprised that he had spent as much time with the special counsel as he did. but i think he could be a very important witness and he managed to get through the rain drops without getting too badly splashed. >> max, let's get to the bottom line here. the bottom line is that the current president of the united states has been directly implicated in two crimes. >> yes. >> what impact does that have on the country? >> that's a great question, don. what you see i think is a scandal that is engulfing the presidency of

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pay a hefty fine so he wouldn't have to go to jail and resigned as vice president during the nixon administration. he was receiving bags of money in the old executive office. the criminality that this president is being accused of is multiple. his family is entwineed as well. i think the president must be feeling really squeezed and we're seeing that reflected in the number of tweets that he is issuing, some of which don't really make sense. >> it's funny brought up the tweets because i'm going to david about this. i'm asking you to make sense of these tweets for us. i know, it's a tall order. let me put this one up. he obviously talks a little about michael flynn but i'll read you the last tweet within a few minutes of us starting. the russian witch hunt hoax started as at insurance policy lock before i even got elected. it's very bad for our country. they are entrapping people for misstatements. lies or unrelated things that took place many years ago. nothing to do with collusion. a democrat scam. one of the earlier tweets about 30 minutes or so ago, he makes reference to general flynn saying i

. >> that's a role again that you had in the nixon administration. how much of this information do you think could be coming from don mcgahn? >> i think a good bit. almost contemporaneous. i think he's probably going to be a potential witness in anything that has to do with obstruction of justice because he was dealing with the special counsel as these things were unfolding. and he was doing it with the permission of the president's private counsel. so they knew he was over there. i, i think they may have misjudged. they said later they were surprised that he had spent as much time with the special counsel as he did. but i think he could be a very important witness and he managed to get through the rain drops without getting too badly splashed. >> max, let's get to the bottom line here. the bottom line is that the current president of the united states has been implicated directly in two crimes. >> yes. >> what impact does that have on the country? >> that's a great question, don. what you see i think is a scandal that will is engulfing the presidenc

talk about the role of the media because pat is telling us these great stories about how the nixon administration, prior to going into office, how the nixon campaign knew how to use media by 1968. people were seeing this in their living rooms. guest: cronkite in february had gone over to vietnam and he came back and said we are mired in a stalemate. i think many in the american elite media had really broken on the war, and decided it was not a winnable war. thi tended to moffatt that -- they tended to move at that time, and by the time nixon took over, they would move heavily into the camp and we've always thought of them as really the demonstrators by 1969. there is something else in march that you do not have in there. it was stunning for us. you had a picture of room and i think it was the 21st of march or something when rockefeller was going to announce for president and nixon told us he did not like to watch them on television. you guys watch and tell me what they said and and will get our reaction. i went and said rockefeller is not running and he dropped out. that is where nixon got the st

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that is the biggest loss that republicans have suffered since the nixon administration.gest problem is president trump. melissa: ford, go ahead. get last word. >> bill clinton lost 52 seats in the 1990s. obama lost 63 in 2010. very little correlation of midterm and presidential. since 1900 incumbent presidents are 15-45 presidential reelects. donald trump is favorite to win. only question that democrats take the state i mentioned. 40 states are decided. tin are up for grabs. he is the favorite. melissa: thank you for the discussion. connell: from that to this. disappointment under the christmas tree and in your wallet. americans apparently waste $13 billion on unwanted holiday exists every year. melissa: no, stop. that is horrible. why are you telling us this? connell: i think this is hilarious. wait for the whole thing. finder.com we waste buying presents for people that don't want them. 5% of people actually look forward to receiving presents. it gets worse. about 8.5 million americans will just throw away their unwanted gifts, though them in the garbage. big time bah

washington, we want to get perspective from someone who worked in this town since the the nixon administration. lee on leon panetta was bill clinton's chief of staff and served as cia director and defense secretary under president barack obama. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> nice to be with you, chris. chris: you lived through the uproar over vietnam. you lived over the crisis of watergate. how much trouble is the trump presidency in right now? >> well, it is one of those moments, if you're in the white house where you really have to look at the situation and try to do what you can to try to provide a little better stability for the country. there is, there is just, too much chaos, too many crises going on. i think it is very upsetting for the country, for our economy, for the world. i just think that, i think this is moment where the president really has to focus on what steps need to be taken in order to provide a little better stability for the country. chris: we're going to drill down on each part in a moment. when you look at the broad picture, the government shutdown, free fall in the

washington, we want to get the perspective from someone who has worked in this town since the nixon administrationanetta was bill clinton's chief of staff and cia director and defense secretary after barack obama. secretary panetta joins us from california and welcome back to "fox news sunday" ." >> nice to be with you. >> chris: you lived through the uproar over vietnam, you lived to over the crisis of watergate, how much trouble is the term presidency in right no now? >> it is one of those moments if you're in the white house, you really have to look at the situation and try to do what you can to try to provide a little better stability for the countr country. there's too much gray chaos, cs going on pretty upsetting for the country and economy. i just think this is a moment where the president really has to focus on what steps need to be taken in order to provide a little bit of stability for the country. >> chris: when you look at the broad picture, the free fall in the markets, the government shutdown, the real disarray and now resignations when it comes to national security, have you ever se