gave "american history tv" a tour of the house that rests on the ground of the richard nixon presidential library and museum. the 37th president was born there in 1913 and laid to rest near the house in 1994. >>> welcome to richard nixon's presidential museum. it really is an honor having you here today. i'm most fortunate to be able to share with you our 37th president of the united states, richard milhous nixon was born. if you look behind me, you can see this wonderful house. this is the birthplace of president nixon. i'm very excited and pleased to tell you that the most often-asked question i get out here, has the house ever been moved? no, it's never been moved. it's always been on the spot. it's kuhly a kit house. please use your imagination for a moment. let's go back to 1912. in 1912 frank and hannon nixon arrived in this area. believe it or not, there was only 200 people in population in yorba linda. now there's thousands. if you look around, you can see how beautiful the grounds are here today. in 1912 there was plenty of lemons an orange groves. frank and hannah nixon arrived here and

in 2007 and 2008, he sat down with the director of the richard nixon presidential library for two extended oral history interviews. in excerpts from the first of those interviews, colson talks about the secret white house tapes, the watergate break-in, his relationship with president nixon and the day that the 37th president resigned his office. this program is about 1 hour, 20 minutes. >> people in this high-tech media centered world get stereotypical pictures of particular characters on the public stage. and they then conclude that that's all there is to that person. nixon was a very complicated personality. he's characterized, for history, as the evil emperor who punished his enemies, was vindictive and mean and vicious. he's actually a very kind, decent man and there were many, many, many times when we would have discussions even though i was the guy with the political portfol portfolio, and i was the guy with the task of mobilizing outside groups. he would just talk about, you know, we have to do this because this is the right thing. in 1964, riding in the back of his limousine with h

held at the nixon presidential library, this is about an hour. >> you get a call out of the blue. it's elvis. tell us about it. set it up. >> well, i was in culver city, california. across the street from mgm studios. i quit working for elvis. i was doing my film editing stuff, and i had gone to bed, i think. yeah it was saturday and the phone rings. and i go, who is this? it's me. so i realize it's elvis presley. nobody else would say it's me. and call in the middle of the night. i don't know. you know, i was always glad to hear from elvis. so i perked up. he said, jerry, i'm changing planes in dallas, and could you pick me up at the airport? i said who is with you? he said nobody. this is a guy who hadn't traveled without an entourage in 15 years. he said i don't want anybody in the world to know where i am. i said okay. you know, i said -- and elvis has given me his flight number and what time. he doesn't do those things. people do those things for him. he had it all down. i said, okay. i'll come in my car. it will not draw any attention for sure. and he said, well, if you want

held at the nixon presidential library, this is about half an hour. >> let's fast forward to the summer of 1974. spring and summer of '74. do you -- redino hasn't taken account yet, but is it -- are there the votes to impeach nixon? when is it clear -- >> well, it's clear that the overwhelming majority of the democrats favor impeachment, but rodino understood, and i think by that time, most of us understood that impeachment was never going to happen unless republicans participated and southern democrats participated, even if we had a majority vote in the committee. that was not going to work. and so there was an effort to structure -- and i was on part of that. there was an effort. rodino participated in a small number and democrats participated in a small number and a few republicans participated in shaping articles of impeachment that could have broad bipartisan support. and i think the southern democrats also participated in that because you had to bring everybody along or as many people as possible. and in the end, ultimately, all the democrats supported this. the articles of impeac

i think once you have the nixon library in the presidential system the focus can become more balanced and people can look at the entire press. michael has done that with johnson as well. >> a couple of month ago you gave testimony saying e-commerce has inflated the risks documents or images will be stolen for monetary gain. are you blaming ebay for peddling the documents? >> no, they've been very cooperative to us window when we pound out certain documents for sale are documents that are part of our sole. they've been very cooperative with us, most of the community of documents, will go document sell weeks ago one of the individuals who did steal from us who was identify by in fact the private citizen who just happened to notice the fact that documents he had used in the archives were being -- this man ways rested. convict and sentenced to two years in jail. >> over how long a period had he been stealing? >> for several years. >> seven? >> several. by are not certain -- >> at least five. >> there are dates out there. >> there are dates out. there for at least five. >> he was not an in

nixon's birth in january of 2013. we sponsor these in conjunction with the national archives, and my counterpart the assistant archivist in charge of all presidential libraries will be here at the end to help us conclude today's panel. today's legacy panel is entitled "working with 37" without speech writers remember working with richard nixon. you see, soaring rhetoric alone cannot sustain a presidency. it takes substance. but substance without sizzle cannot persuade. every administration struggles with a combination of substance and sizzle to show presidential leadership. how that was worked out with our 37th president is the topic today. and we have an excellent moderator with us that i'd like to introduce right now. lee huebner. [ applause ] >> lee came to richard nixon's attention in 1962 as the co-founder of the ripon society at the university of wisconsin and he worked with richard nixon in what we call the wilderness years when he was a private citizen and successfully was with him in the 1968 campaign when he was elected president. so lee became the youngest member of a speech writeing team that started on nixon's white house staff and he was, by no

presidential library, the eisenhowers recall ike's presidency and later retirement in gettysburg, pennsylvania, the relationship between ike and his vice president and the reasons that propelled richard nixon to make another run at the presidency after his close loss to john f. kennedy in 1960. this program is 1 hour and 15 minutes. >> well, good evening, and welcome to our program tonight. i'm don carlton, and i have to get my glasses out or i won't be able to see what i'm talking about. and i'm the director of the university's briscoe center for american history. the briscoe center is delighted to join with the lbj library to co-sponsor the program featuring david and julie eisenhower's fascinating book "going home to glory, a memoir of life with dwight d. eisenhower, from 1961 to 1969." it's a fabulous book. when lbj director mark updegrove asked me to xo sponsor the program, i jumped at the chance. we always enjoy partnering with our partners at the lbj library, but our topic tonight president dwight eisenhower is an added attraction for us. the briscoe center's divisions include the sam rayburn museum located up in the north texas town of bonham and the center is the repository for sa

nixon loved it. >> hear more about his political rare, watergate, and his work in prison reform at the c-span video library. >> my discussion of the roles of wives in the 2012 presidentialampaign. this is just under an hour. but i want to welcome to veterans at the white house. this is tipper gore appears thank you for being with us. the role ofng on ladies. thank you for being with us. >> he frames the debate this morning in an article for the newspaper. guest: so much of it is larger than women's issues, there are family issues. i think this notion of where women belong in the debate is really pretty limiting. they belong in the entire debate. i think we have put ourselves in a position of lamenting the role that women can play in this conversation. >> in this morning's "washington post." guest: women care about all kinds of issues. at the end of the day, when it comes to voting, you vote for the person who you think will represent the issues that you care about. whether that is a woman or a man or a republican or democrat. host: let me ask you about the comments made. what she said about ann romney and the political tactics that followed. was she right or was she wro