sat under a tree and reagan agreed to have nixon way to run we know that the manhattan project was originated in the grope and those are just what we know you know when you have two thousand of the world's top echelon of media moguls the oaths and high profile politicians getting together of course business deals are going to be made politics are going to be discussed and who else who else knows what is really going on there so i think people are just really outraged about it just another closed door meeting that the public has no say at all in what goes on or are no say in any really discussions that happen there yeah and abbie as you know i was there last year and there are some really interesting stories when you mention nixon and reagan spoke and reagan agreed to to hold off on running for president it is you know certain policy decisions that you come out that affect a lot of people you touched a little bit upon this but go into a little detail i mean things are different this year than when i was there last year because two months after last year's bohemian grove took pla

and foreign diplomats who all make the pilgrimage to this year the redwood campout presidents nixon reagan and george w. bush all attended the group before the grace the oval office even media bigwigs are stable with the likes of the hearst dynasty and walter cronkite now replaced with rupert murdoch and c.e.o.'s from c.n.n. and l a times so if the media is there american should know all about what's going on right so have you heard about union group i have not not really no not at all i don't have to know. on friday don't the world's most powerful players get together and discuss policy party and also do mock sacrificial rituals together oh no that's basically the first. i heard about it they sacrifice a coffin to have a giant forty foot kind of like a modern day stonehenge i don't think it's i don't think so if that truly does take place i think it's great that's scary that's what i did here they were talking about like a new world order in like two years. maybe that's what they're planning. plainly to your friend. what do they do that's not supposed to be. the public to know what's goin

reagan and bush and clinton and now obama. it was a real journey of discovery. we learned about eisenhower, kennedy, nixon, and ford. we, too, said wow, i didn't know that. for us it was a journey that continues because people kept telling us things we do not know. in some ways, ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would have gassed, because when we first meet him in 1947, long before his presidency, and as we dug deeper into reagan's relationship with the club, we learned that he had actually seen fdr when he was living in des moines, and he had gone to a truman fundraiser in kansas city when he was still a democrat. he would then be taken under the wing of tran-eights. i was struck with a relationship as we were coming up the driveway here we saw all the presidents here, as we were coming in the driveway, which reminds us that they have a part of the bigger club. i just want to advance the picture here that was on the cover of "time" magazine. we were thrilled to put it on the cover from a picture that had never been published before, it takes you into the modern club that really began a long time

is doing this fox is own by billionaire rupert murdoch and run by multimillionaire and former nixon and reagan strategist roger ailes is pretty much the official mouthpiece for the billionaires and their republican party so of course fox would want their working class viewers to believe that fabulously rich people like ailes and murdoch and their buddies who sit in the corporate boardrooms are the noble makers and they also have a vested interest in branding americans who are retired or down on their luck as takers to justify breaking up public unions dismantling social safety net programs and trying to convince americans to ignore actual economists who say that taxes need to be raised on the wealthy and government spending actually needs to increase like dwight eisenhower jack kennedy and richard nixon all did to put the unemployed back to work after all of the banks and health insurance executives succeed in privatizing medicare and social security and that means a boatload of new profits that they can skim billions off the top. so we know why fox news to us but what's really important here

chris: how ike helped ronald reagan against richard nixon and some of nixon's own skull duggery. chris: welcome back. his book about the most secret club of the most powerful men of former presidents, there was one who was hardly a teammate. richard nixon. after nixon was pardoned, nixon went on an upstaging trip to china right near the new hampshire primary. ford was put in a position to having to defend the guy who had once again embarrassed him. >> he's going under the guidelines. >> you see no complications to foreign policy in his trip? >> none, whatsoever. chris: i remember reading that. he showed off, getting all the press attention, national news. at the very moment jerry ford was trying to run for president. >> at the same time jerry ford never apologized for the pardon. he knew exactly, you know, how damaging it was to him politically and the thing he was proudest of that caroline and ted kennedy gave him the profile and courage award for having pardoned richard nixon. you know there was a lot of deep resentment over that trip. chris: he was out secretly giving advice t

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background you should know that kt worked in security positions for three presidents, for nixon, ford, and ronald reagan. she and i had a breakfast meeting this morning and we both commented ronald reagan's foresight and vision and the encouragement that she got in those early posts were what put her on the track that has made her a great american. those are my words, not hers. in addition, in today's world and in a world of media and variations of media, kt has become the fox news analyst and appears on fox news and fox business news and she is blogging. she is communicating with every tool that you could have. has a very significant radio presence and i'm sure you will recognize her either having seen her there or heard her voice on one of these many radio programs. so now it's time to travel the world in foreign affairs and defense matters and welcome k.t. mcfarland. [ applause ] >> i just want to tell you you have no idea who this lady is, marilyn ware is a legend in conservative circles and diplomatic circles. she doesn't sing her own praises ever but ran a major corporation and went on to be the a

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we used for reagan, nixon, clinton, what's wrong with that i.d. now?n. i don't know that anyones that answer. you would hate to think that any of our elected officials would want to keep people from voting. but it appears that there is an effort, front, to keep people from voting. and so i think we just had to be vigilant as we always have. there's nothing more powerful in all the world than an idea whose time has come, victor hugo used to say the time has come for us to mobilize, organize, and registration with education will create ultimately voter participation. >> one of the reasons that we are moving in july is because if people have to get i.d. and may take weeks to get the i.d. back and then they have to register before 30 days. you can't do this in october. what do you say as the son of dr. king and mrs. coretta scott king to people that are frustrated, that it is so complex, i'm tired of -- going through all of these different complications to vote. >> while i say this is a -- quirk, you know, i have to think about what my dad and his team wen

you look back and richard nixon, ronald reagan, george h.w.ole, many of them, particularly republicans have been sort of very reserved men who are hesitant to talk about themselves. the truth we live in a oprah style confessional society. we first saw it with bill clinton --. martha: spilling it all the time how great you are. >> bill clinton was talking about what kind of underwear he wore for goodness sakes. for better or worse the american people expect the president or presidential candidate to really talk about themselves, their own personal backgrounds. i think governor romney really needs to kind of get over that. president obama -- president obama has no problem doing it with himself. martha: it is baked into your dna we all know people like that. we understand it. listen to another piece from the interview and i want to get some more thoughts from you guys. >> my wife and i we try to give 10% of our time, not just 10% of our money but also time to service in the community and those thing have enriched our life. have give us perspectiv

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reagan was elected governor of california in 166 and considered running against richard in iraq on and nelson rockefeller two years later, but ultimately decided it was too early. the result, of course, was nixon and watergate and then finally, ronald reagan. and the triumph of a movement that began as a gleam in the eye of young bill buckley. by 2007, reagan was gone, but george w. bush presented bill buckley the medal of freedom at a white house ceremony honoring his life, his work, and acknowledging the debt that the country and all of us owed him. by then though, buckley sensed that the movement he built was fraying around the edges. he was convinced that the balance that had existed among the various constituencies that made up the movement was somehow off kilter. it seemed to him that some like the young president who placed the medal around his neck, just didn't get it. that others who had come to washington to do good had stayed to do well. and that the sectarianism and hubris that they demonstrated was leading the movement down the road to potential disaster. buckley had never been orthodox in his conservatism. he didn't believe that conservatism was ideological. so much as a way of l

order politician has really taken such hold in america as you know since at least since reagan and i guess nixon as well but that idea of of being harder on crime than everyone else even when that means that you're actually being acting criminally it's just it seems like it's a ratchet that only goes one way. john and in fact mayor bloomberg has referred to the police department as his army john f. will thanks a lot for being with us tonight. absolutely thanks for having me after the break mitt romney's brainchild bain capital is in the process of outsourcing even more jobs overseas leaving more americans unemployed and struggling to survive what's happening at a manufacturing plant in illinois and our workers there trying to save their livelihoods. if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be showing. casualties of war ok. i wish it would have never happened but it has. been a war a t.v. camera becomes unnecessary what this is their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and the spear happens with such witnesses i got it on my

years later, nixon joined president ronald reagan, also as you might have heard, a republican in supportf the brady bill, which the nra stridedly opposed. president george h.w. bush, republican, made it illegal to import assault weapons. there was a time in modern history where you could be a national political figure, a national republican, and be in favor of gun control. today, that is about as common as a unicorn riding a dodo bird with the transit of venus flying by in the background. today, even most democrats stay out of the nra's way. why? pick a fight that you are just going to lose. and obama's mostly taken that advice. he hasn't taken that fight. in fact, if you calculate the number of new gun control policies he's advocated in his first term, you come up with one, and that is a negative one, by the way. under obama, there's not been one piece of new control passed on the national level, but there has been an expansion of gun rights. as of 2010, your national parks are now armed. it is now legal to carry loaded weapons into yellowstone and yosemite and acadia and the grand teto

president over these many years since 1967 going back to lbj or nixon or jimmy carter, ronald reagan, any of the presidents, both presidents bush or bill clinton or barack obama, for that matter, they've always kept the embassy in tel aviv. so he said he would consult with the israeli government -- >> hey, wolf? >> reporter: he said he would move it. >> wolf? >> reporter: yeah? >> you've done this many times, i know, mitt romney speaking at the podium. we've got to let you go. we'll talk to you after the speech. >> -- israel's achievements are a wonder of the modern world. these achievements are a tribute to the resilience of the israeli people. you've managed against all odds, time and again, throughout your history to persevere, to rise up, and to emerge stronger. the historian paul johnson writing on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the jewish state said that over the course of israel's life, 100 completely new independent states had come into existence. quote, israel is the only one whose creation can fairly be called a miracle, he wrote. it's a deeply moving experience to

he was an assistant to richard nixon, and later served on the staff of governor ronald reagan and u.s. senator george murphy. he was head of marketing for walt disney world in florida through construction and its opening. and several years of operation. later joined the corporation as a division vice president. he was president of quinn and brian marketing and communications and for many years served blue chip corporate accounts throughout the united states. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, sandy quinn. [ applause ] >>> well, i can't miss this opportunity to raise some money for the richard nixon foundation, which is privately supported because david was so kind to present that photograph of president nixon and elvis presley when they visited -- when elvis presley visited the president at the white house. now, i know all of you are elvis fans. you're nixon fans. so you can get magnets and mugs, t-shirts, and that photograph, too. and that photograph in several colorful executions on t-shirts. you can do that on www.nixonfoundation.org. great gifts. thank you, david. and thank you

reagan wanted. they got -- i worked in the nixon administration. you could not get up in the morning knowing what the heck it was the president wanted. because i don't know if he knew. he may have, but he didn't communicate it anybody. so people went to work. there were studies at the time how many political appointees went bad, bad in the sense they weren't pursuing any kind of a unified, you know, way of looking at things. if you worked for ronald reagan, you knew. you might make mistakes. you might go bad. you might be captured by your agenc agency. all the things that always happened in a bureaucracy. you didn't have to get up in the morning and say, i wonder what the heck it is that president is all about. you want a movement that's led and run and down through it they know, they know what it is that they're about. that's why i say it's important that they know that rather than just, i like "x." you know? because "x" might change his mind. >> david, what holds together this political movement? this fusion movement. is it the shared interest in

it was richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan went after led and gasoline. george h. w. bush went after acid rain. these were republican presidents everyone. i dare say they would not recognize some of the members of their own party in the house today and they certainly wouldn't vote alongside them. the worst of this dark vision has not yet come to pass only because the senate has either voted down or refused to act on the worst impulses of the house but let's be clear. votes counted. they are how we know what really matters to the people we elected. they are how we hold our officials accountable to the public. after all the rhetoric and political cheap shots have died down, votes are all we have got. in this case more than 200 of them. forty-two years ago when we pause as a nation to mark the first earth day our environment faced grave and gathering threats. we had seen oil washing ashore in santa barbara. los angeles was the smog capital of the world. the waterways of our heartland where so desecrated and polluted that the cair

reagan. ask richard nixon. going to be $2 billion more spent this cycle from super pacs, and 100% of those ads are negative. $2 billion in addition to what the campaigns are doing. so, you're right. the environment and the mood is going to be so incredibly poisonous by the time somebody gets elected, it's going to be very difficult for either one of them to govern. >> joe, i also think, joe, though, there's a price to be paid even before the election. and the price for president obama is some of his supporters are diminishing in enthusiasm. >> right. >> if you look at the poll, the poll is basically good news for the president. except look at high-interest voters. and those are voters that say it's 9 or 10 out of 10 likely that they're going to vote. romney is high-interest voters. and that's a red sign for the president. >> so a sign that the attacks may be taking a greater poll on mitt romney than the president. 60% say they personally like president obama versus 47% saying they like mitt romney. the economy,

reagan and bush could not give nixon the real-time public redemption that ironically a younger generation little -- nixon going to china moment for clinton. >> yeah. >> this is such a moving idea for a book. i can't believe nobody has done it before. such a brilliant idea. >> and lbj, of course, worked eisenhower and worked truman and worked all of the ex-presidents just like you'd expect him to do. >> i mean the bizarre thing is on the one hand i think each president feels jealous, particularly of the one who comes right after him, so there's a natural human desire, even if it's your own party, to want the guy to screw up a little bit to make you look better, but on the other hand once their regime is over and they're not worrying about whose portrait is up there and the greats and near greats, these are human beings who have only had this experience. in 1962 when schlessinger was doing one of these presidential historian polls and jfkust started complaining how can anybody else but us know how to -- so it would be interesting if we got those polls done by just the experts and those stil

nixon. you would get reagan. you might get three, usually get to. in 1920, you have six. >> six u.s. presidents? >> six in contention in one way or another. as several people have sent. yes, i know that. but if he is not dead, he is the nominee and the president of the united states. he sends his secretary of state to the convention to stampede the convention. about idea. >> he wanted the nomination. and of course, harding, coolidge, hoover, wins two democratic primaries come fdr is on the ticket a device -- as a vice presidential candidate. you have this and so much else going on with the league of nations and every other thing. 1960, well, we move on from that to where you have three titanic personalities. we don't have six, but we have three of the biggest namebrand and presidential personalities ever. kennedy, nixon, johnson, so very different. so different in terms of dynastic or just personal, and something which, i think resonates so much with the folks and reading books today. 1948, that is a great cliffhanger. we love to listen to the experts. we'd love to get the weather re

but since then every president from nixon to lbj, carter, ronald reagan, bushes, president clinton, now obama considers east jerusalem, including the old city behind you to be occupied territory. not part of israel. would you change that? >> i'm not going to talk about the borders. the decision as to where the borders would be as we move to a two-state solution, which i support. that's a decision on borders that will be worked out by israelis and the palestinians. i hope it's a process which is ongoing and ultimately successful. as to the exact negotiation in borders, i'll leave that to the deciding parties themselves. >> you just visited the western wall. one of the oldest sites in jerusalem. we saw the pictures, the video. do you consider that to be part of israel? >> it is certainly part of israel. the decision as we move to a two-state solution as to what would be part of israel and what would be part of a palestinian state is something to be negotiated by the palestinians and the israelis. i believe that the key to that negotiation is the recognition that there will be a palestinia

you would get kennedy and nixon in 1960, and '68, you'd get nixon, and you would get reagan.o you might get three. usually get two 1920, you have six. you have -- >> host: six? >> guest: six in contention in one way or another. all though sever people said but tr is dead. i know that but if he is not dead. , he is the nominee and is the president of the united states. wilson is sick but he sends his secretary of state to the convention to stampede the convention. he wanted the nomination, and harding, coolidge, hoover, fdr, on the ticket as the vice presidential candidate so you have this hook, and you've got so much else going on with the league of nations, and every other thing, and 1960, well, we move on from there to where you have three titanic personalities. we don't have six but three of the biggest name brands in presidential personalities ever. kennedy, nixon, johnson, and so very, very different. so very, very different ambitiouses in terms of dynamics or personal, and something which i think res nate with folks who are reading books today. 1948, the great cliff han

nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real because he was convinced to leave his job and go to work for teddy kennedy and kennedy was like 30 points ahead. and the week after he left to work for kennedy kennedy david interview with roger mudd in which roger mudd asked a to a -- ask a trick question. kennedy is running against jimmy carter. roger mudd asked this very unfair trick question -- why you want to be president? kennedy couldn't answer. he co

nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real because he was convinced to leave his job and go to work for teddy kennedy and kennedy was like 30 points ahead. and the week after he left to work for kennedy kennedy david interview with roger mudd in which roger mudd asked a to a -- ask a trick question. kennedy is running against jimmy carter. roger mudd asked this very unfair trick question -- why you want to be president? kennedy couldn't answer. he co

reagan taught bill clinton how to salute. they didn't always help each other. we know that nixonin '68 and lyndon johnson knew it. join me and michael duffy, andrea mitchell and casey hunt for a great round table. now for a look at what's coming up on "meet the press," here's david gregory. >> thanks. coming up a new very negative phase, the battle over bane and the battle to define mitt romney. president obama is on the offensive. the romney campaign responds. i'll talk to senior adviser ed gillespie. and then the battle over the bush era tax cuts. with me is senator durbin and senator kyl of arizona. we'll break up on the politics and a few minutes with bob costas as we talk about the fallout from that damaging penn state report this week. it's all this morning on "meet the press." be sure to stay tuned after the program for a special press pass conference with actress sigourney weaver on her new miniseries. only here on nbc4. >>> despite met ro's computers this weekend, they're looking for singers and dancers and poets to perform at the metro stations. they will hold the audit

way of background, you should know that kt worked in security for three presidents, and nixon, ford, and ronald reagana breakfast meeting this morning and we both commented ronald reagan's foresight and vision and the encouragement she got in those early posts putting her on the track, making her a great american. those are my words. world,tion, in today's in a world of media and variations of media, kt has become the fox news national security in adel -- analysts, she appears raider li on fox news and fox business news. she is writing, communicating with every tool that you could have. she has a significant radio presence and i am sure you will recognize her having seen her there or her voice on one of these many radio programs. so now it is time to travel the world in a foreign affairs and come kt matters and wellcom mcfarland. [applause] >> thank you, i want to tell you, you have no idea who this lady is. she should be speaking to you. she is a legend in diplomatic circles. she does not seen her on present -- praise as ever. she ran a major corporation and went on to be the ambassador to finland wh

nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real because he was convinced to leave his job and go to work for teddy kennedy and kennedy was like 30 points ahead. and the week after he left to work for kennedy kennedy david interview with roger mudd in which roger mudd asked a to a -- ask a trick question. kennedy is running against jimmy carter. roger mudd asked this very unfair trick question -- why you want to be president? kennedy couldn't answer. he co

in 1972, when richard nixon won a decisive election and carried virtually every state, there was zero reason to believe ronald reaganould become president. the vice president with spiro agnew. there was every reason to believe after nixon that spiro agnew would be the republican nominee. there is a great book, i think it is called "a heartbeat away" about the discovery that iran agnew was a crook and about getting him out of the presidency, which led nixon to pick gerald ford. nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. -- two huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american poll

reagan's effort fell short. in 1965, president johnson signed the haw creating medicare. -- the law creating medicare. insurance for every american over age 65, and medicaid for the poor. it wasn't just democrats. richard nixon had big ambitions on health care. >> richard nixon, which i happened to work for, put forth a comprehensive plan which looks a lot in structure like the obama plan. and then you remember we had a problem with watergate. and nixon resigned. and hit and run totally died. >> by the early 1990s, there was the clinton plan to cover every american without spending more. >> health care reform must be achieved for the good of our country. >> too big, opponents said, too expensive. too complicated. >> we're going to lose our doctor. we're not going to be able to make medical choices anymore. it wasn't true, but these kinds of argument resonated. -- arguments resonated. >> like truman's plan, it never came to a full vote. around that time, republicans like house speaker newt gingrich, started talking up a mandate. a requirement that every man and woman buy his or her own health coverage. >> with a mandate you could have near universal coverage and preserve the private insurance system. the idea