so what did nixon do?s is this is the every election in 1972, the polling showed the bombing was popular it showed he was tough, so so instead of stopping the bombing, killing people, he intensified intensified the bombing in that year 1972 ordered the dropping of 1.1 million tons of bombs. >> how did butterfield get to the white house? >> it was an accident. he knew haldeman knew haldeman which was nixon's top eight, chief of staff from ucla. butterfield was an air force colonel, he asked interview and haldeman realized here somebody out of air force -- somebody who would be perfect to bring in as his deputy. he he did that with nixon's approval but nixon didn't meet butterfield until the first weeks of the presidency and on their meeting it is described shows how nixon literally cannot talk, all he did was mobile. . . . live coverage of the texas book festival. [inaudible conversations] hello. welcome to the 21st annual texas book festival. thank you for coming out today

they're studying about president nixon. what doant to leave us with as the final thoughts of president nixon? sec. kissinger: i think the fundamental problem of american foreign politics remains. the willingness to ask the questions, our administration, our government very rarely does this because our machinery of government is geared to actually cables that come in with problems. there is no mechanism -- there is a theoretical mechanism, but i've now heard in one way or another with 10 presidents. he is the president who has been most concerned with long-range purposes and with wanting to know where we're going and really what people ought to take away is there are no flashy solutions to the middle east problem. the solution will be to understand correctly what are the forces -- which are the forces we need to balance, which are the forces with which we can cooperate, and which are the ones we need to defeat? and then, we have to find, with whom we can do it or whether we have to do it alone. those are the deeper questions. so, an

met many times and the family is a deer friend of mine, as nixon said to me when he was out of office, you don't think much of my economics do. nixon unleash the dollar, any other monetary discipline and impose massive regulations on the economy including wage and controls, so, again, bipartisan way democratic republican and we had a democrat and republican who got it wrong and now the question is how is the balance going to end up tipping. i can't answer that question. my cristal ball is no better than yours but it's important and the other point that ryan read which i love, really, bob was a wealthy banker. the whitest of the whitest in new york. doug had just about as much as money joe kenny and jack kennedy and traveled in very high social circles in fact, higher than the kennedys so the kennedys did not stair him down. so i thought that was pretty good. sometimes you have to be able make people to listen to you in this case was money and social standing. me, i take it any way i can get it and good policy is good policy but the main point here, this is not a partisan book, i just want america to get moving again. we've g

we saw nixon do the same thing and we will see the same thing in trump. campaigning is a drawl. you're at war but when you try to govern and see you see the issues talking amongst the club of presidents, even when president obama met with donald trump, they were about getting to the peace because ultimately we are a united nation and we have to govern ourselves together and really this once again is about we the people who are responsible -- we the lawmakers who are accountable. going to trying to get to unite together through the real problems we have in this country is very, very important. i know that supporters for hillary are out marching. they will actually walk it off, walk it off and then this situation will find a way to govern somewhere in the middle having moderate right and moderate left because that's what my book is about and that's where we are right now. >> time will tell, we shall see. oliver mcgee, thank you so much. not trying to throw side on uber drivers, i talk to cab drivers all the time. i'm always looking for perspective, i just wasn't sure where you wer

said, you've got to go get your enemies, well, we've got to go get our enemies. >> nixon, he did not know they were doing-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. >> by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. >> who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? >> well, the persons who the grand jury indicted in washington, d.c., last week gave the orders to do it. >> you don't think they were following orders then? >> no. i do not. there's been no evidence presented by anybody who did that. i think the opposition is disappointed that after a thorough intensive investigation that seven persons were indicted. >> at the time, most of the press was satisfied that the nixon white house had nothing to do with this watergate break-in. >> i have full confidence in the integrity of president nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the watergate matter to the full satisfaction of the american people. >> now, this is when "the washington post" really distinguished itself from the rest of the press pack. >

nixon. and then we went all the way to oxford to get a lady who had a particular interest. the other thing the storytellers helped us do is to contextualize the times. we did not just ask questions about richard nixon and his presidency. we also asked about the time and we asked our storytellers to share with the audience what was going on in that time in our history so that our visitors had a larger view and could put the presidency in the context. >> one really important part of the film that i want craig to talk about for a moment, about what we needed to do with this film. >> if we are going to go for this, we need to be audacious in our presentation and concepts. we said, it would be pretty audacious to do the unexpected. a visitor might think you are going to sweep watergate under the carpet. let's not do that. let's push the plunger and blow up that idea and start with watergate and the resignation and from there, we have shown you exactly what you did not think you would see and we can move on to talk about the legacy and the man and the career and all of the achievements that were there. not sweeping it under

nixon, and that's what we want them to do. in this particular exhibit, you pick up a puck that's off to the side. it has an rfid signal on it. you set it in the suitcase and it activates content for that particular visit. mrs. nixon went to peru, africa, the national parks tour. you put the puck down and it activates the interactive screen and brings up content on that particular visit. you're able to peruse through a photo album. my personal favorite, you can see mrs. nixon's passport. above that is a mirror with video in it, and i hope that you stop and look at it because looking at hours of footage of mrs. nixon, she is so loved, and she radiates love as she goes out and meets with people around the world. and it was one of the things we didn't know. we did not know, and i discovered it. and now i tell everybody about it, because i'm a discoverer. >> so, one of the things we discovered, of course, during our research process was the incredible amount of domestic achievements. the epa, title 9, desegregation, the war on canc

right, people shouldn't stand up in the back and say richard nixon never robbed banks. >> exactly, how do you feel about >jruining the good name o richard nixon? >> seth: yeah. also not interesting fact, richard nixon did not turn up there either. >> no. >> seth: so you have a lot of the original cast and then some new people. we saw christina hendricks in that clip. and then kathy bates plays your mother in the film. >> plays my mom, yes. >> seth: and i think we find out a lot about why you've turned into a bad person because she is a horrifying person. >> absolutely. >> seth: maybe worse than you. >> oh absolutely. i mean, that's the thing about the new movie. this one pushed the raunchy stuff a little further. i mean it's not, there's not more profanity in this one. it's just we're more descriptive >> yeah. >> seth: perfect christmas story. >> it's a great christmas story. one some of us know very well. and by the way, your drummer, who you were talking about earlier, looks like joel cohen. >> seth: yeah he does look like joel cohen. one of the cohen brothers. >> yeah. >> seth: yeah. >

>> they could always copy ford's pardon of president nixon. could do the same thing for anything they may have done. lou: that is remarkable. trump meeting with paul ryan today all seems forgiven and trp is setting a tone of generosity, cooperation. your reaction. >> he's defying all of the people who thought he was something different. he needs congress, lou, to enact much of his agenda. so this is off to a good start. lou: so you said he's defying -- are you in favor of the way in which he's proceeding? are you laudatory or critical? >> laudatory, he behaved like a great gentleman today. like a president-elect. i think that's going to pay dividends in the long run. lou: and the -- very quickly, these people that are being put in the street by george soros, is there criminal culpability and liability for george soros for funding this kind of outrageous violence in our streets and demonstrations and costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars? by the way, it's also bad form, george soros? >> and there's been videos of attacks on voters voting fo

do that for george h.w. bush. even, for instance, in 1960 when dwight eisenhower, a very popular president, tried to leave the presidency to richard nixon. couldn't do it. bill clinton, whose popularity had rerebounded by 2000, tried to do it for al gore. couldn't do it to such extent that gore was able to escape the fate of the recount in a supreme court ruling. the democrats lost the white house. so i think as we think about all the reasons why this happened tonight. it's not reason number one, it's not reason number two, but on that list is the fact that structurally, it was very hard for president obama and the democrats to retain the white house for another term and hand it along to his preferred successor. >> here to for, to ask a structural question, they have been members of the party apparatus. this is different because this is someone, as we've established over months, who kind of burned down the house of the party establishment. >> right. >> plowed through all of his competition, and every contest during the primaries. >> and wears that as a badge of honor, as we've said many times. this will be, if donald trump is elected to

do you believe as mr. nixon and his party seem to, that the people are tired, they're no longer interested, they no longer care. do you believe that after four years of broken promises, a man should be reelected president without even campaigning among the people? i ask you now, if you worked for a living, work with your hands or in an office, if you believed everyone who wants to work should have a job, if you want a tax system that is fair to you, if you want a better home for your family, a better school for your children, if you believe all people were created equal and deserve the same equal chance, if you still feel as i do, that we can live together as one people, join me at the voting booth on tuesday. in 1960, john kennedy won the presidency by a handful of votes over richard nixon. in 1968, i lost the presidency by a handful of votes to mr. nixon. only a few votes made the difference. only a few people who stayed at home or didn't stay at home. next tuesday, it will be time to vote again. i don't have

do that. it's almost like the ford-nixon situation. believe that if this continues and obama will know, that he will pardon her before he gets out of there. >> then he should pardon the sailor who is spending a year in jail taking pictures of the submarine and he should. >> instead of the dope dealers is he legged letting out. >> pardon petraeus and governor cart write. >> i hope is he watching. you were watching returns with donald trump last night. >> i was. >> tell me, was he jumping up and down and hooting what was he doing. >> he was very calm. i think he realized turning point when the exit polls turned out to be so far off our own calculations. i think he realized he had a good chance. once he saw florida turn and he knew he had ohio. i always believed if he won florida and ohio. >> those were the bellwether. >> the rest will fall in. >> weighs in his tie or in his jammies. >> he was in his tie all the time. >> he never takes the tie off. in the shower is he wearing the tie. >> this is reagan. >> they love me there don't mention

nixon comes to the white house just as president-elect trump is doing tomorrow with president obama and johnson was really watching him carefully during this transition is nixon going to keep trying to meddle with my peace talks and trying to make him look good. as it turns out nixon was so terrified that johnson would reveal this treason he was saying i'll do anything. i'll even fly to saigon to tell the south vietnamese to go to the peace table. >> there is discussion of whether there will be press pool coverage of them meeting tomorrow. there was an awkward statement put out saying if you've been told by the trump side that there won't be pool coverage, that is inaccurate. this is the white house. we will be covering this event. is something like that likely to be just a glitch? at times like this do logistics get difficult, mistakes get made? because if they are putting their hand in the face of the press day one after the election, that could be a worrisome sign. >> they are. if the strength of the democracy and the press saying this is the way it's done and other presidents have d

because they do, what was it richard nixon said, to pat, she also ran, pat nixon. they do also run. and they do learn on the job. you're absolutely right. and the obamas have made no secret out of the fact that michelle obama did not want barack obama to run for president. didn't want him to stay in politics. their kids were very young. and she agreed one more run, when he ran for the senate. and he won. and then they were off to the races. but it's very -- she was very angrybout the birtherism thing, for one thing. which is so remarkable how she carried on so well today. i wonder if the conversation between her and barack was like the conversation that my wife would have with me, if i asked her to come and be real nice to the trumps this evening, just one more time, honey, right? not an easy thing to do. >> i think those conversations would be treasures. i would like the 90 minutes they had, the two guys they had today in the oval office. we'll be right back. the roundtable is sticking with us, and up next, these two will tell me something i don't know. this is "h

do you want to go up to 5? guess who's on the nickel? >> sure. >> jimmy: all right, she's going for it, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] jessica, who is on the nickel? >> nixon? laugh live. >> jimmy: they don't do it through alliteration. no, nixon is not on any of the money. we don't like him, he was bad. [ laughter ] wow, that was the quickest out ever. all right, jessica. very well done. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] we've got to get at least up to a buck. all right, this guy. hi, cobi, where are you from? >> from hawaii. >> jimmy: hawaii. what do you do for a living? >> student at usc. >> jimmy: what are you studying at usc? >> business. >> jimmy: so you should know money, correct? >> oh. sure, why not. why not. >> jimmy: do you understand? i know we've been keeping you sequestered from the others. but the object of this game is to guess -- is to tell us o on the coin. we're going to start with a penny. okay, who is on the penny? >> abraham lincoln. >> jimmy: that is right. [ cheers and applause ] you have 1 cent. do you want to go for 5 cents? >> 5 cents. >> jimmy: all right. >> sal: i am so nervous right now. >> jimmy: who is on the nick

one caveat, evan is right about nixon doing those things, but hao was forced to. only very narrow majority. had two big democratic houses of congress. wanted to get re-elected. i fink the nixon had come in as trump has this year with, you know, a sizable electoral margin plus both houses of congress, i'm not sure he would have been so well behaved. >> evan, you said the failure of these big institutions over the la several years, the internet has amplified the disgust on the part of most americans. what can big institutions, be it media, polling, what can big institutions do, the one big thing to restore some of that, and what can trump do to be a part of that? >> be humble. one thing we all need is humility. trump is a bully and a braggart. if he can show some humility, the country will be hungry for it. they have seen the bullying and braggart side. i think we have seen a little bit in recent days. i think big institutions got themselves in trouble by being arrogant and the public rejected that. i think the country is ready for a dose of humility, and i hope that

nixon is an effective leader of his party. i hope he would grant me the same. the question before us is which point of view and which party dowant to lead the united states? is. >> mr. nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you're live on television and there's a camera right here, there's no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he's the leader for you? >> that's the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want. what you want this country to be. what you want to do with the futu future. >> kennedy clear toly won that debate if you saw it on tv. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you could have a huge impact. and if you couldn't, you were toast. >> i'd like you to give a real tonight welcome to senator of massachusetts, mr. john kennedy. [ applause ] may i ask you -- so i don't look too naive -- a tough question off the bat. >> whether i i'm a democrat or republican? [ laughter ] >> people recognize television was now the