than the kennedy administration. mrs. nixonery much admired what mrs. kennedy had done and wanted to improve the collection, increase the collection and take very little credit go it. mrs. kennedy set the path. she didn't need to ask people to donate as such because mrs. kennedy set the standard for relying on the public understanding. she hired a curator, the man who actually hired me for my job in subsequent years. they worked very hard. they kept a lot of kennedy things in some of the rooms, and they changed out some kennedy things in other rooms. but all the pieces are ours permanently, and they will come back into use from time to time as different. s and first ladies choose from them. >> my second question is on the art collection. it was interesting when you were talking about the builders and how you paired that painting which is more modern to a be painting slightly more traditional. as tastes change and we get further away from the modern art period and more contemporary art, how do you mix in piece there is that time

kennedy administration. mrs. nixonired witnesses kennedy had done and wanted to improve and increase the collection and take a credit for it. not need to god out and asked people to donate because she set the standard for what every first lady could rely on public understanding. she hired a curator, the man who hired me. kept arked very hard and lot of kennedy things and changed out things in other rooms. but the pieces are permanently and will come back into use as different presidents choose from them. >> on the art collection, it was interesting when you were talking about the builders and how you paired the painting which is more modern with a slightly more traditional. as tastes change and we get further away from the modern art period and more contemporary art, how do you mix in pieces from that time period that might not necessarily match with the style and the rest of the house? asi do not think we are locked into style issues as people once were perhaps. we were plenty of paintings going into these rooms that

the green room in the nixon administration, the federal furniture mrs.nedy chose was not the strongest pieces for a room with very high ceilings and large-scale. it was replaced with furniture made by a different workshop in about 1800 1810. that doesn't mean it wasn't mrs. kennedy's acquisitions, these chairs she had acquired a set of four of those. they were not used in the green room but they are perfect to be added to the collection. in contrast that very great five style, that very simple chair in the lower left, this is curators delight, you take the back panel off the upholstery and it was asked inscribe by the upholsterer. most furniture doesn't give that much information. the green room, as you see today, it is the third set of changes since mrs. kennedy. still her silk moraine fabric. it has been replaced but it is considered a key element. the nixon era furniture has been kept but we have made a new rug, new upholstery fabrics. mrs. kennedy was interested in improving the art collection. what you see in this picture, the lower left painting wa

but the connection between the president's commission on income maintenance and the nixon administration is an important one in theg0c inception of my project. i came across the commission in research daniel patrick moynihan's involvement in a major welfare reform proposal introduced by the nixon administration in august of 1969 called the family assistance plan. the proposal never became law due to congressional opposition but at its core was a guaranteed income even though nixon hesitated to call it that. as it turns out part of the basis for this proposed family assistance plan could be found in the work of the president's commission on income maintenance. what i found most interesting about the commission, especially in thinking about methods for doing american political history was its investigative approach in how it went about its work. investigative processes have not generally been the focus of scholars who write about presidential commissions. they have instead focused on why presidents appoint commissions in the first place and on commission recommendations. with less attentio

out your house and they say we are moving to washington my husband is accepting a job in the nixon administration and she turns to the real estate representative and says we are not taking it. i refuse to live in a house made available by the election of nixon but she's accomplished a lot of things it's much more about knowing what your convictions are and where you come from and then understanding where the other side is coming from to try to find a way to meet somewhere in the middle that satisfies both parties and it isn't about can she go get a drink. she's not a politician like the democratic leader in the senate and the connection between human beings. that is the way her politics were. she's more about counting votes and doing those deals. >> host: what is your sense of what she cares about in these stimulus negotiations? democrats are talking all the time about vote by mail protections and making sure whatever happens in november is safe on the level and so forth and it you don't see the leverage that nancy pelosi now has so how might be his next round of negotiations go given how importa

and despite all of the nixon administration's bravado in court, despite his lawyer james saint claire claiming in court that maybe nixon wouldn't comply with the supreme court's ruling, the nixon white house did pledge to comply with the court order and they did. mostly by then, the country was just agog, they wanted to hear what was on the tapes but in terms of the constitutional issue at the time, the nation was just agog that nixon even tried to get away with it, that nixon even tried to get away with putting himself above the law like that, by saying that subpoenas didn't apply to him, they couldn't be enforced, and maybe he wouldn't even listen to the supreme court. a lot of what was going on the last time the supreme court heard a case this big like the one they're about to hear tomorrow, the feeling of the country was it was astonishing that nixon had even tried it. >> the president elected in history's biggest landslide, 19 months after his inaugural address, threatened with impeachment, and removal from office. his vice president already gone. in disgrace. and now, hearing fr

said hedean in his book thought kent state was the end of the nixon administration. -- young friday night could almost replicate that at most state university towns. the state -- a bunch of college students at the time they could all bite b -- all buy beer. they threw them out of the bars, which i thought was stupidity. students had been released from the county jail just a couple days earlier. back on thewas loose and all of this stuff. guard admitted they messed up because i think two days later one person testified in washington that there was a sniper on the roof, which was really insane. someone shooting on the roof, so you shoot people on the ground. they backed away from that one pretty quick. >> it made no sense. one of the most heartbreaking documents, an after action report by a general. the last question on it was, problems encountered and lessons learned. he says none. know.ust -- i don't it did me in when i read it. >> there were 67 shots fired. four students killed. how many wounded? >> none. >> so that is only 13. you would think there would have been more fatalities. >> th

scandalized since two republican attorneys general in a row were found guilty of crimes during the nixon administration. attorney general william barr could have taught them a thing or two like how to get a way with corruption in plain sight without technically breaking any laws. today the attorney general asked a judge to drop the case against donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn even though michael flynn pleaded guilty in the case and repeatedly told the judge that he was knowingly pleading guilty because he was indeed guilty of the crime. we'll cover the attorney general's attempt to erase all of michael flynn's decoloration,s of guilt later in this hour. but as we begin tonight, we are very lucky to be joined by dr. khan. as i said to rachel, he is the former head of a division of the centers for disease control. he is profiled on the current edition of the new yorker and a piece entitled why weren't we ready for the coronavirus? dr. khan will be our first guest tonight and we begin with the numbers. we'll add a very important number to the numbers we have been using to des

house and the owner said we are moving to washington and my husband is taking a job in the nixon administration and she turned to the real estate broker and sent were not taking it. i refuse to live in a house made available by the election of richard nixon. and she's a democratic partisan and not have particular love for republican party. with that said, she has accomplished a lot of things on a bipartisan basis throughout her career. i think that understanding the way she operates as much more about knowing what your convictions are . having a very firm sense of your valleys and where you come from. and then understanding where the other side is coming from and trying to find a way to meet somewhere in the middle that satisfies both parties. it is it like can she go and get a drink with someone. she is not about, a politician like chuck schumer is a democratic in the senate is more about that sort of schmoozing relationship. an infection between human beings. i think that is not the way she is pretty she is much more about doing the deals. host: what is your sense in what she cares about in t

renting out your house and she says i'm moving to m washington he's accepted a job in the nixon administration. i refuse to live in a house made available by the election of richard nixon. she's always been a democratic partisan and not have particular love for the republican party but that said, she has accomplished a lot of things on bipartisan basis throughout her career and i think understanding the way she operates is much more about knowing what your convictions are, having a very firm tens of your values and where you come from an understated where the other side is coming from and trying to find a way to meet somewhere in the middle that satisfies both parties, it is not about can she go get a drink with john weiner, can she go with mitch mcconnell, she's not about a politician like chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate is about a smoothing relationship and action between human beings and i think that's not the way her politics work, she is about counting both in doing the deal. >> what your sense of what she cares about right now on this ongoing stimulus negotiation. and

and throws himself quite forcibly behind the nixon administration in '72 and '73. goes to visit vietnam on the administration's behalf, and is essentially so tone deaf to his own community that the reverberations i think were felt throughout the rest of his life. that's where we start the documentary. you know, performers are not, you know, necessarily excellent barometers of political taste or political action, and frequently find themselves quite thrown into the wind, blown back and forth on the boat depending on the shifting tides of popular opinion of the day. i think in a way, sammy's story is kind of a, you know, bit of a warning story about what happens when people who are frankly out of their league politically embrace causes that they may not know the deep consequences of. >> yeah. i mean, he was drawn more through personal connections than political ideology. >> well put. >> and after being totally shunned by the kennedy administration, you could see why if he developed a relationship with nixon then he would be comfortable pushing for him, but it does ha

the chairman of the cabinet committee on opportunities for spanish speaking people in the nixon administration, henry ramirez, wrote a fascinating memoir of his time in the white house called "a chicano in the white house." i spent some time in my first remarks talking about how i'm using the term "hispanic" and i find it fascinating that he chose to call his book "a chicano in the white house," he had interesting ideas about identity politics. if you wanted to assign something about conservativism among hispanics, i would look at some of those memoirs rather than a scholarly text. >> so i've been influenced a lot about the coalition literature, so i'm thinking about "blue texas," sonia lee's work on puerto ricans and african-americans in new york city. a handful of essays by george j. sanchez about how politics worked in los angeles. and these works were influential to me for two reasons. they introduced us to a world of urban multiracial organizing in post-war america that's fascinating in its own right. it's particularly so because these unique communities were the ones that brought forget

the chairman of the cabinet committee on opportunities for spanish-speaking people in the nixon administration, henry ramirez, a fascinating memoir of his time in the white house called "a chicano in the white house." i spent some time how i am using the term hispanic. i thought it was fascinating that he chose to call his book a chicano in the white house. if you wanted to assign something about conservatism among hispanics, i might look at some of those memoirs rather than a scholarly text. i haverancis-fallon: i have been influenced a lot by the coalition literature. blue texas, a handful of essays describing how multiracial politics worked in los angeles. the work on the poor people's campaign is another. these works were influential to reasons.o they introduce us to multiracial organization, fascinating in its own right. particularly so because these unique communities were the ones who brought forth people who would become the leaders of latino politics in the united states. people like henry b gonzales of san antonio, hermann badillo of new york city. the first mexican-american elected

he throws himself quite forcefully behind the nixon administration in 1972 and 1973.e goes to visit vietnam on the administration's behalf and is it's essentially so tone-deaf to his own community that the reverberations, i think, were felt for the rest of his life. that is when when the documentary started. performers are not necessarily excellent barometers of political taste or political action and infrequently find themselves quite thrown into the wind, thrown back and forth on the boat depending on the shifting tides of the popular opinion of the day. in a way, sammy's story it's kind of a bit of a warning story about what happens when people who are frankly out of their lead politically, embrace causes that they may not know the deep consequences of. >> he was drawn more through personal connections then political ideology. . after being totally shunned by the kennedy administration, you can see why he developed a direct relationship with nixon, he would be comfortable pushing for him. but it has such a devastating impact at the time on his reputation as an acti

henry kissinger worked in the kennedy white house while joining the nixon administration. new right activists called convergence between the republican and democratic parties so as to eliminate foreign policy from campaigns. they agreed the only way to fix the broken system of missed governance and "establish greater democracy in america" was to abolish the political party stalemate in favor of what was called two genuine parties centered around issues and essential values. as it put it in a statement. both sides set out to do just that. the liberal reformers who stripped cold war conservative democrats of power through reforms while conservatives purged rockefeller republicans from their ranks. all this was backed up by congressional liberals who launched a decade-long session of inquiries beginning in 1966 and ending with the hearings in 1975, which dragged deep state dirty laundry into the harsh light of public scrutiny. in its wake, the establishment found itself under siege and adrift. a lost tribe of neocons wandering in the wilderness of electoral politics that was

you know, to most people he's -- for example, historically he's kind of the coda to the nixon administration an accident of history who is kind of put there to finish up whatever he could finish and i discovered that his presidency is much more about the future than about completing a nixonian agenda. for example, economic deregulation, it's something that we take for granted. maybe we argue about it. if we have to fly anywhere these days. but nevertheless, it's part of our lives. it started under ford. because ford -- ford asked the question, do we need an interstate commerce commission in 1974, and that led to other questions being asked and ultimately they deregulated the financial services and they tried to deregulate the airline. it's interesting because jimmy carter picked it up and he became a bipartisan and then a global margaret thatcher gave it a new name, and there's -- the bottom line is there's a lot of unknown history associated with the ford presidency. and the nice thing is it turns out to be, he turns out to be a much more interesting, much more complicated person, and i tho

consider him a hero for telling the truth about watergate and exposing the ways in which the nixon administration inappropriately used his power as president in ways that were historic and overreach. please help me understand why you made that comment and what that should tell me about your view of independence of the fbi and inappropriate actions by the president. >> senator, i absolutely love american history and i mean this sincerely -- >> there isn't a senator here that will say that they hate america. >> what i was about to say, i would relish the opportunity to watch and talk about american history with you and share your opinion and my opinion. part of it that makes it so much fun awhen his people can have different opinions and perspectives sitting here as a district court judge, i don't think it's appropriate for me to comment on john dean. whether i'm lucky to be confirmed or not i' i would lovo talk watergate history with you and i'm quite sure that i would learn a lot. >> i will move to the last question if i can. they found that they were not qualified for the judgeship due to the la

forced to pass the impoundment control act of 1964 to control these sorts of abuses by nixon and his administration. lot973, something we see a in the later chapters after congress learned that nixon had secretly bombed sites in cambodia without notifying congress, they passed the war powers resolution and clipped nixon's wings by requiring the president to notify congress about any armed conflict within 48 hours, and if they didn't give approval within 60 days, he had to withdraw military forces. reallyr powers act is hung around the neck of every president since nixon, constraining their powers. reelectiona smashing victory in 1972 by wide margins. before long, he is engulfed in the watergate scandal. white house operative are arrested carrying out a burglary inside the democratic national headquarters in the watergate hotel in washington. now, nixon is implicated in covering it up and offering to money tollion in hush keep the perpetrators quiet. administrations -- as we discussed in class last time, i was privileged to write the biography of watergate's special prosecutor, archibald cox. he was

by republican presidents by people who are actually soft on national security which nixon through to bush administration george mitchell bush so it's it's really around the dramatic shift in the outlook and going back to fairly phrase of the cold war back in the late forty's early fifty's when the what talk about her new disappear or to be able to outfight the other side and then on the whole on all sides with your weapons the idea was that actually the use of nuclear weapons was suicidal that you had the primary as a deterrent and particularly now as new forms of rhetoric coming into existence. missiles and also more attractive cruise missiles the idea that you would create a black hole where you don't react while the other side is doing actually makes the world less safe because you don't have a situation where you feel that you're about to be the victim of a surprise attack you misread the signals and therefore decide to go to ensure a childish an interest in mark this is not of course the 1st hard one agreement they come to ministration has cast aside the iran nuclear deal springs to mind is there a

it happened under richard nixon and ensuing administrations to get america and entire world lifted up out of -- whatever milieu, whatever we're doing right now to look to outer space and have that vision and imagination. you're right i think it galvanizes hearts and minds to step out of ourselves to look to new horizons, right, general? >> yeah. we got night as a business proposition. the thought was previous administration did a cost benefit analysis. we had some setbacks and horrific debts to be sure, what is the cost. but we saw that same administration launch hundreds of billions of dollars into shove ready programs that never materialized. lack ever imagination drove that decision. not everything was dollars and cents. if it was dollars and cents, the united states, explorers wouldn't have come here. they themselves at risk to find the new world and courage they had to do something like that. this is america at its best. i have always believed when we took on space as an exploration and succeeded so magnificently doing it. it is good to see us back. elizabeth: general, great to h

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two, theget to article test that was established in nixon versus the general administrator and continued on ismorrison and other cases whether or not something interferes with the president's ability to perform. if the house is willing to go with that test, the president and doj are not. they wanted a higher standard of production. they did notng ,tress much, in the second case they did a good job of emphasizing this. it can be done on a case-by-case basis and it came out in clinton versus jones. ,ourts are able to step in particularly you are going after the president and it looks like harassment, federal courts are able to step in. i think that is another protection that shouldn't be discounted as a way of ensuring these kind of subpoenas don't get out of hand. >> thank you for that. kavanaughrsuch and have asked the question of how congress could meet these higher standards. the answer was that congress has not specified what legislation it could enact, and in response to justice kavanaugh the question of how you meet case were the congress is considering general legislation, it would

a price but ford felt that nixon had paid a price in terrible humiliation and leaving office and in all the findings made about the things that went on in that administration so he pardoned nixon at the time and it is very unpopular decision but took a lot of political courage for him to do this. i think he was sort of exonerated by history by this and even the kennedy family, ted kennedy, was critical of ford for pardoning nixon later and gave ford a profiling courage award saying i was wrong, senator kennedy said. he was right in pardoning nixon so there has been a historical redemption here for jerry ford. now, we remember this but this is jimmy carter and the iranian hostage crisis. we still had iran in the headlines today. this is a case where the american ally left the country and the religious zealots took over and took control of iran. america was widely despised in iran for supporting the shah who was very brutal and guilty of oppressing his people so one day when the shah had left he wanted to have a treatment for physical problems that he was having in the united states and the question was will be let him in the united states and maybe stir up

the this is what the eisenhower administration was trying to do. when nixon saw this in the newspapers, he was outraged. somebody in the cia, he thought, must have told kennedy about the cia's plan. now kennedy was claiming this as his own idea when, in fact, he, richard nixon, had been pushing for this operation for months. but nixon couldn't say that because it was a covert operation. so he just had to shut up and let kennedy pretend the whole thing was his idea. that's probably what he should have done. that's not, in fact, what nixon did. instead in the fourth debate, he lashed out at kennedy's statement denouncing it as irresponsible and foolish. he gave a long thoughtful argument as to why a covert military operation against the castro regime was a terrible idea. dangerously irresponsible as he said in the debate. nixon later explained that this lie of his was very painful, but that it was his "uncomfortable and ironic duty." then he added from that point on, i had the wisdom and wariness of someone who had been burned by the kennedys. i vowed i would n

these changes started in the presidential administration of richard nixon. it is not an accident that richard nixon, who so firmly believes in the power of media to shape his political success, something i charted in my first book, becomes a president who is very passionate about telecommunications policy. he takes it seriously. he firmly believed there is an idea of liberal bias in network television. he wanted to do something to challenge these institutional structures that gave network television so much power. he ultimately empowered many white house staffers who work for him to pursue a very revolutionary approach to television that would allow cable television to emerge as a competitor to broadcasting. he created the office of telecommunications policy and it existed for eight years. this was an incredibly influential office because it started to pierce holes and some of the reigning assumptions about television. notably, it capitalized on the growing critique of objectivity that was manifesting both on the left and the right in the early 1970's. it en

awakening of the united states where the occupational health and safety administration came in there and if you get 6970 years under dick nixon so as a republican white house. it originally i think did a fairly good job trying to improve workplace safety they've been weakened over the years with budget cuts and under the trump administration they've basically been prevented from doing their job and in the united states we've had a number of cases i mean there's all sorts of workplaces that are hazardous don't have proper protective equipment but it's been most pronounced in the meat packing industry where you all these workers in cramped places with poor ventilation and we've had major outbreaks in a number of meat packing factors across the country and they've had to shut down trump's response incredibly was to order them to stay open so rather than ensuring that the workers could work there safely he just says open up i think revolution has too much to hope for at least some concern about worker safety would be great. thank you. thanks for i mean after the break cancer time bombs in adequate protection 60000 pound death pay

talking about people on the streets i'm talking about people in his own administration as he did during the watergate crisis. nixon was always kind of paranoid about how he was being treated and how he was going to win, whether he would stay in office or whether people like him. some people did not like him, which is why he was kind of paranoid of whether or not people liked him. again, in 1972 he is running for reelection. almost in watergate. first he has to get reelected. that's okay. that is quick. it starts in the reelection of 1972. richard nixon did not have any worries about being reelected. he was not going to not be reelected. in 1972, but he got himself into a position. it is hard to say. nixon had always been known as someone who is engaged and dirty tricks as a politician. his nickname in the 19 fifties was tricky dyck. it gives you an idea of his reputation at least among other politicians. in the election, one of the things that happened earlier. we won't go back there actually. one of the things that nixon did is breaking and entering. breaking into a psychiatrist office -- when the leaked pentagon

people wanted nixon to pay more of a price but they felt nixon had paid the price with humiliation with the findings that were made in that administration a very unpopular decision but it took political courage to do this , he was exonerated and the kennedy family was very critical and later gave a profile encourage award to say i was wrong senator kennedy said so there was a redemption there so this is the iranian hostage crisis still in the headlines today were the shaw of iran left the country the religious zealots took over and took control of iran while the despised for supporting the shaw who was very brutal so one day when the shot had left he went treatment for some terrible physical problems so where they let him in the united states with that opposition in iran with this hated figure in the and carter said it's a humane thing to do but if these people take over the embassy i will come back to you and say what do we say now and that's exactly what happened students and other radicals captured 60 of the people and held them for a year and carter cannot get them out this is a case he was derided instead of taking action which is