buchanan started to talk to him he got him to change his position and then brought them into the nixon white house so they had a partnership there he ends up posting the show and then that explodes in popularity. all of that is 1982 george h.w. bush running for president read my lips no new taxes then he reads taxes he does better than expected but not much is read into that and 96 running again and then he says now it is that conservative to bob dole as the front runner but you can start gaining traction there are a couple of answers to this message he would want a moratorium on all immigration especially since the sixties it has exploded and that aspect of western american culture are threatened you also once a wall a fence along the entire southern border. [laughter] he recently passed november 1993 the free trade agreement nafta at that point the most prominent republican with these trade deals and to provide american manufacturing. with political correctness with multiculturalism. so this platform american heritage that attracts fringe supporters most notably david duke. and then to move up t

but when i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. it probably was some of the most intense times i think our country had ever faced. i mean, so often we were feeling like we were in a state of siege. you felt it physically. and we knew that we were going to have to protect the white house. there was a lot of discussion about using troops directly facing the demonstrators, which i felt could lead to direct confrontations and conflicts. and so it came to municipal, why don't we do what jan wayohn way, why not circle the white house, not with wagons but buses, so that's what we did. so did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne? my parents chose john wayne and, therefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of law and order. ♪ sit down ♪ more than ever ♪ we need nixon now ♪ nixon now >> nixon's law and order platform was very popular. in the coming election he seemed a shoe-in. >> i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. . >> by the summer of 1992, nixon's campaign machine was

the word came down that the president did not want any women wearing pants in the white house. nixon didxon -- mrs. not wear pants in the white house itself. an extensive interview for abc, virginie assure word was the reporter -- virginia sherwood was the reporter who did an hour-long special on the first lady and with the portions that were filmed at the nixon home in san clemente, overlooking the pacific ocean, mrs. nixon was there on film in that national tv special wearing pants. you see the picture of her in the upper left corner there, from that interview. oferal months later, january 1972, ladies home journal featured the first lady in a sheion spread and there, was posed in two of the i think five fashion spreads also wearing pants. to signal that this was not just a mayor coincidence, but a conscience -- conscious thing that the first lady was doing. are the two images here you see match below on the far left, that is a rather famous image of the president and mrs. nixon walking along the pacific right outside of san clemente. there is the first lady in a windbreaker, pair

white house fellow in 1969, assigned to the treasury department, where he worked under paul volcker, and then undersecretary for monetary affairs. afterwards, he joined john ehrlichman's domestic council staff at the nixon white house, serving five years, and another year as associate director of general government in the ford white house. for the last three decades, he has arranged and hosted annual reunions of nixon-ford policy planning staff, and has produced the nixon legacy series. [applause] jeff: thank you. what a pleasure to be here. we have done these forums in cosponsorship with the national archives, and david and his people have been tremendous. we're happy to be here again. richard nixon's public life, highs and lows, incredible highs and incredible lows. we are here today, the 50th anniversary of the 1968 election, to talk about one of the highest, to celebrate one of the highs. it doesn't mean we aren't mindful of the lows, but that will be a topic for another forum. today we have gathered four people who worked on president, then richard nixon's campaign, and they will share their memories. it is a wonderful group. we will go in order of how long they knew richard nixon. one, ae recent f

and the word came down that the president did not want any women wearing pants in the white house. mrs. nixon did not wear pants in the white house, itself, but he gave a granted a very extensive interview for abc. virginia sherwood was the reporter who did an hour long special on the first lady and with the portions that were filmed at the nixon home in san clemente attala casa pacifica overlooking the pacific ocean, mrs. nixon was this on film in that national tv special wearing pants. you see a picture of her in the upper left corner there from that interview. several months later january of 1972 "ladies home journal" featured the first lady in a fashion spread and there she was posed in two of the, i hink it was five fashion spreads, also wearing pants. and as if to signal that this was not just a mere coincidence but a very conscious thing that the first lady was doing are the two images you see that match below on the far left. that is a rather fame use image of the president and mrs. nixon walking along the pacific right outside of san clemente. there is the first lady in a wind breake

eventually, nixon made a major policy in the nixon white house. >> dwight? >> i wanted to raise the subject, on nixon's birthday in 1968, he went to go on the mike douglas show. there was a young demand their, same -- there was a young man there, and his name was roger ailes. mcginnis said in his book, references the fact that nixon in 1960 was somewhat afraid of this thing called television, roger ailes looked nixon in the eye and said, sir, you need to make television your friend. when we left, mr. nixon said, i want you to arrange for that man price, the first stop in the line of things, and roger came up the next week and met with ray price and then met with shakespeare and the people who were part of the television team. one of the most significant things about 1968 was nixon's use of television. for a person who everyone thought was not good on television, and the myth of that spun out of the jack kennedy debate, nixon mastered television. pat talks about the telethon on election night. but we had these television programs called the man in the arena, w

john dean, former nixon white house counsel, karen, a "washington post" columnist, harry is here, a former u.s. assistant attorney and rob is former senior counsel for the tax division of the department of justice. thank you all so much. john, let me ask you this. if this is right, and sue laid out their extensive reporting that they have, he was a million mayor by the time he was 8 years old. that is not self-made at all. he's known to not tell the truth, but this -- this is big. what do you think this does to the president? >> i don't think he was that precocious at 8 to make a million dollars a year. but what's interesting to me is the big picture this is going to fit in, and the reaction his core and people in general are going to have. this came up in the nixon years, and it became actually a part of his impeachment proceedings where they considered an article of impeachment for his creting -- cheating on his taxes where they overvalued a gift he made of his vice presidential papers and the public got it. they got tax fraud. they didn't understand all the nuances of obstruction of jus

watergate, a cover—up, is this another one7m looks like it and if you go back to watergate, the nixon white housents, and they we nt underlings, rogue elements, and they went into court and said that the mastermind of watergate was some low—level person who was going to jailand of low—level person who was going to jail and of course we learned as the process unfolded that the master mind was nixon and that he was behind it. it is stunning that lindsey graham who is very close to trump, there is no ambiguity in what he is saying, he says mbs did this and it is intolerable, i think this will be a very interesting test of whether the diplomatic process which as you know is a kind of, oh yes, you go first, deference, can really oi'i you go first, deference, can really on earth something like this which is notjust on earth something like this which is not just an on earth something like this which is notjust an international scandal but this is a moral scandal. let me ask you about the white house. when there is a crisis of this nature, who is running it in the one house? whose voice is prevailing? wh

i got a full scholarship at amherst, then i worked in the nixon white house. went to the university of virginia again was president of the unique republicans came to fairfax at the age of 29, then to chairman of the county board which is equivalent to county executive for mayor. and then a new district gets created in '92, but i was just elected to chairman of the board. it had -- he was a pretty neutral district, maybe a democrat lean. pretty close district and so in '94, the this was my shots and i took it. i thought i had a good shot of winning until the reps nominated their -- oliver north. he ran a very competitive race against ron state would but in my district he got 29% of the volt. i had a more rural district. when oliver north came to fairfax you couldn't find me with a search warrant. i had to run my own race, and just put my independence -- i had help from john moore who had not imovd north. i had a record as head of the county government, and i had "the washington post" endorsement which also helped in terms of my independent -- oliver north gets

the east room of the white house was the scene of an emotional meeting between the president, his cabinet and the aides who have stayed with him during all of these years of mr. nixon'sin the white house. >> you have this president who is bitterly resentful of what had happened to him in his political career, overlaid with a shakespearean level of paranoia, and he was willing to engage in extraordinary acts to preserve his power. >> all presidents are human beings. i assume they all have faults and flaws. i assume they will make mistakes. i assume that once they're caught in their mistakes because of who they are and the kind of people they are, they will try to cover up those mistakes. >> i was in the east room of the white house when he made that very bittersweet, very poignant speech with his family gathered around him. >> i look around here, and i see so many in this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaking hands and i'd love to have talked to you and found out how to run the world. everybody wants to tell the president what to do, and, boy he needs to be told many times, but i just haven't had the time. >> he's not looking into the ca

senior correspondent tom brokaw could have had the nixon white house. 1973, president richard nixon was under siege, watergate and more. >> good evening, it is an all out war. >> the yom kippur war in the middle east was a risk of u.s.-society confrontation. the resignation of vice president spiroagnew. >> i hereby resign effective immediately. >> i will have nothing more to say at this point. >> reporter: the naming of a new vice president. >> congressman gerald ford of michigan. >> and that same day a fateful court ruling. >> the u.s. court of appeals has ruled decisively against mr. nixon's position on his secret white house tapes. >> white house tapes, potential evidence of a watergate coverup, for months, nilen had been fighting to keep them secret. now a federal court ordered them to turn them over, saying the president was not above the law, but nixon had other plans. >> president nixon announced he will neither appeal or comply with a federal court order to turn over the tapes. instead the president said he will provide a summary of the tapes. >

secretary of agriculture that speaks to the white house for the farmer, rather than a secretary that speaks to the farmer for the white house. [applause] >> mr. nixon, the president blocked the nomination of abe to the supreme court. who do you plan to nominate if you are elected? [laughter] without even knowing, i would know that is a newspaper man. good question. when i get questions as to who i will appoint to the cabinet, and many people all are ready appointed by cabinet, i don't have to do it. [laughter] as for the supreme court, it would be presumptuous for me to say that until i first when the election i hope i do you but there is a kind of man i want, i think that would be fair. judge onbout what a the supreme court should be does not relate to whether he is a liberal or a conservative. many people confuse what judges really have is a role. at i am concerned about when i look at a judge is also not whether he is a credit or republican. the question is, what kind of lawyer is he first? and second, what is his attitude toward the constitution? a man, whether it is a liberal or conservative, who recognizes it is the role of the court to inter

richard nixons former white house counsel. john dean.thank you chris. >> i'm not surprised we arrived at this occasion. i would not have thought it would have been 50-48. this shouldn't come as that much of a surprise. we seemed to head it here. what is your concern of the reality going forward now the process is behind us? >> as i testified before the committee, one of my concerns is a process issue. that is the fact that the committee is not being very effective in vetting. that is not a new phenomena. people are slipped through the process. and the examples i used were bill reign kwis. . and clarence thomas. i was warning the committee don't let it happen again. it tarnishing the justice and the court. and hurts the american people. >> one of the points, senators collins and murkowski. came to opposite conclusions. but the same reality about the process. it can't be like this anymore. here's my question about that. they made it this way. not collins and mur cow. but the senators made it this way. harry reed, blowing up the filibuster

agriculture that speaks for the farmer to the white house, rather than one that speaks to the farmer for the white house like we have right now. [applause] >> mr. nixon, the senate now has blocked the nomination of abe fortas to the supreme court. who do you plan to nominate if you are elected? [laughter] mr. nixon: without even knowing, and i didn't know because i read the panel earlier, i would know that is a newspaper man. a very good question. mr. murphy, as i am sure you will recognize, when i get questions as to who i will appoint to the cabinet, and many people already applied to my cabinet. i don't have to do it. >> [laughter] mr. nixon: as for the supreme court, it would be presumptuous for me to say that until i first win the election, which i hope to do. but i will indicate the kind of man i want, i think that would be fair. you can get an indication of who it might be. my view about what a judge on the supreme court should be does not relate to whether he is a liberal or a conservative. many people confuse what judges really have as a role. what i am concerned about when i look at a judge is also not whether he is a democrat or republican

but when i watch this geraldo, there are pictures of elvis pressley and richard nixon in the white house. then i tried to look back and see what was discussed out there, but it's not like this. it was behind closed doors. but there was an aid of richard nixon's who is in the room. pressley indicated that he thought the beatles had been a real force for anti-americans. and he said that they were promoting an anti-american team. he also in a very emotional manner said he was "on your side." also he talked about the fact that he wanted to restore the respect for the flag which he thought was being lost in america. he then went on a bit of a ramble talking about communist brainwashing and a drug culture. in a spontaneous gesture, he put his arm around the president and hugged him. >> hugging richard nixon, he's kind of a -- physically speaking, president nixon was an awkward person. elvis is new notoriously or was notoriously shy. i always thought that maybe was because elvis wanted to be an antidrug fighter. he wanted to campaign and get the scourge of drugs away from american popular cultu

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nixon's position on his secret white house tapes. >> reporter: the white house tapes, potential evidence been fighting to keep them secret. now, a federal court ordered him to turn them over. but nixon had other plans. >> president nixon announced he will neither appeal nor comply with a federal court order to turn over the watergate tapes. the president said he will supply a summary of the tapes to the watergate committee. >> reporter: archibald cox responded in a news conference. >> in tend, i decided that i had to try to stick by what i thought was right. >> reporter: cox rejected nixon's plan, saying it violated the independence promised him by attorney general elliot richardson. the prosecutor and the president were on a collision course. >> the country, tonight, is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. nixon ordered richardson to fire cox. richardson refused and resigned. his deputy also refused and also resigned. the solicitor, robert bork, was made acting attorney general, and he fired cox. >> one white house source says the motive was

but richard nixon famously, one night, if you remember, left the white house and went out and talkedt the vietnam war. and he talked to them in a very civil, courteous way and he claimed afterwards that it had changed his mind. that's when he decided to withdraw from vietnam. can you see trump doing that? that is the closest in modern american history to the pattern that trump is setting. he is talking like something out of a mid—20th century horror story. totally coming from a different material point of view... he spoke at one point about migrants 'infesting' communities in america. likening them to vermin. does he know nothing about 20th—century history? nothing! the president on cnn said the other day that words matter. if you are the most powerful man on earth saying things like that, it will have an effect. james clapper, one person who received one of the devices, we don't know what the motive was so we should leave it for the investigation, he said that he doesn't think there is automatically a link but he did say that, "i do think that donald trump bears some responsibility

department as this president has been illegally so if he stays positive when nixon allegedly was going and talking at the white house and to the paintings on the walls and whatnot. this president is still optimistic. >> host: if you didn't know what was going on and you were with him on the weekend or the evening -- >> guest: a normal person. >> guest: he's learned how to integrate that as a steppingstone in his life to move forward and push harder. >> host: in the end people will see how much better he made things for america. >> guest: and i think he's right. >> host: we just have a couple of minutes left. because of your training and whatnot, we've just gone through this difficult time in america hearing justice kavanagh discouraged by what was said to be a repressed memory for 30 years. what can you tell me in your experience about repressed memories? >> guest: most people i know who deal with the everyday one-on-one clinical sort of therapies don' don't give a lotf credence. it may be importe important to e victim in their own mind to come to a memory because they know something's wrong, they feel anxiety in ou

house in alexandria. because the nixon had left so suddenly, there was no inauguration, no inaugural ball. white house was ready for you to move into. so the family goes back to the house while president ford now has his first day in office. they're having a party there with the neighbors, it's not every day your dad becomes president . so and then your dad comes in later that evening. and your mom, betty was pulling was on the out of the oven. >> and the remember what she said? >> your president of the united states and i'm working in the kitchen, something's wrong. >>. >> there's something wrong here, i'm still cooking . i don't think she really put too much after that, did she? >> so they lived their house at 5:14 crown view drive in alexandria for the first 10 days of his presidency which i found astonishing. and you you have presumably went back to. >> i went back to ourgraduate school . and coming to visit often. >> seven weeks later you get another sort of devastating piece of news. >> tossed a little bit about that. >> my mother had her checkup for her doctor and they discovered she had

nixon to the watergate break-in. within a week of that break-in, mr. block drew footsteps leading directly to the white house. and he could do that because it was his opinion that the watergate break-in, as well as other scandals, were originated in orders issued by nixon. but you notice he is careful not to draw nixon in this cartoon, because that might have been going a little bit too far. this cartoon, katharine graham glanced at and said, you are not going to really run that, are you? when he said yes, she went, ok. she was prepared for the call she was going to get the next morning when the paper landed on people's front porches. in this particular cartoon about the clinton administration, we see the white house as a symbol for the administration policy on bosnia, making -- involved in treaty negotiations. if you know your constitution, you know it's not the president who gets design treaties, it's congress. and ahave the capital barricade between the two, and a congressman, a generic congressman, saying, he can't do that, we have not agreed to anything yet. so mr. block is also explicating for his viewer

as this president has been and illegally sell, but he stays positive when nixon allegedly was going and talking at the white house and the paintings on the walls and whatnot. this president still optimistic, high gear. >> guest: you would never know if you didn't know what was going on with him one-on-one on the weekend for the evening. he has learned how to integrate that as a stepping stone in his life to move forward and push harder. >> host: in the end people are going to see how much better he made things for america. >> guest: and i think he is right. >> host: we've just got a couple of minutes. because of your training and whatnot, we have just gone through this difficult time in america hearing justice kavanagh besmirched by what was said to be a repressed memory for 30 years. what can you tell me based on your training experience that repressed memories? >> guest: most people that i know who deal with the one-on-one daily therapy don't have a lot of credence to repressed memories. it may be important for the victim in their own minds to come to a memory because they know something is wrong, they are feel

yet, he stays positive when nixon was going and talking to ghosts at the white house and paintings on the walls and whatnot. this president still seeds and optimistic. >> he didn't know what was going on when you are with them, one-on-one on the weekend for the evenings. he's learned how to integrate that as a stepping stone in his life to move forward and push harder. >> he thinks in the end, people are going to see how much better he made things for america. >> i think is right. >> we just got a couple minutes. because of your training and whatnot, we just gone through this difficult time in america, hearing justice kavanaugh, by what was said to be a repressed memory for 30 years. what can you tell me, based in your training, about repressed memories? >> most people i know, who deal in the everyday one-on-one clinical therapy, don't give a lot of -- it may be important to the victim in their own mind to come to a memory because they know something is wrong, they are not sure why, or where it came from, they may need that that conclusion but a lot of mistaken things have happened fr

white house's situation here. >> jill winebanks, when you were going through this experience before back under president nixon, and you saw all of the issues with various people at the fbi and the white house, as well, how much -- how much independence does the fbi have? >> it's not even so much a question of the independence of the fbi, but it's the president's evasion of his responsibilities. he's saying that it's up to the senate to set the restrictions? it's his nominee. if he doesn't want to know the facts about his own nominee and allow the fbi to do a full investigation, then maybe the democrats should have a hearing for all the witnesses that are not being called that the american people need to know the answers for. that's one way to get to it. but i do think that the fbi will say to mcgahn and maybe even more directly to the president, that they need to have more witnesses called, and that they cannot, and that hopefully that jeff flake will be the republican who says, this investigation has been a sham, it's a fraud. it is not the investigation that will get the answers we need in order to exercise our

going to say that he agrees with the president of the united states on what as one white house counsel from the nixon administration said judge kavanaugh, if confirmed, quote, will be the most pro-presidential power supreme court in the modern era, end quote. well, i can tell you this. if those on the other side of the aisle are promoting this nomination because they want a rubber stamp on the trump administration, we will fight you every step of the way. the supreme court is supposed to be the impartial arbitrator, the one that even though we have different congresses and different views interprets the law over a period of time that does not make those political decisions but makes the impartial decisions. and to have somebody on a court now where every day an administration is not following the rules of the law and basically subverting them, it's a time where we need a supreme court to stand up and do their job and hold an administration accountable. i'm sure it's not a pleasant activity to have anybody hold an administration accountable, but this is an important time for checks and balances in the

day of work and the family goes back to their house in alexandria because the nixons left so suddenly there was no inauguration, no inaugural balls, the whitee wasn't ready for you to move in so the family goes back to the house while don you have a little pa with the neighbors and not every day your dad becomes president and he comes in later that evening, betty was pulling lasagna out of the oven. do you remember what she said? >> you are president of the united states and i'm in the kitchen, something is wrong with this. >> something wrong here, i still cooking. i don't think she cooked much after that, did she? >> you can watch this and all other booktv programs from the past 20 years. type the author's name and the word book in the search bar at the top of the page. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. for the complete television schedule visit booktv.org. you can follow along behind-the-scenes on social media, booktv on twitter, instagram and facebook. [inaudible conversations] >> starting now from austin, texas book festival, more live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. [inaudible conversatio

richard nixon was president at that time. he called the first white house conference on food, nutrition and health this is the first time the government said in a big way, we need to talk about this. we need to figure out what is going on. there had been talk in the new deal era back during roosevelt's time and all of that about subsidies and talking about food stamps and that era. by the 1960s, we have scientists who understand the stuff that we have people who are doing research on nutrition. let's get them together and talk about this in a more formal way. out of that conference, a couple of really important things came out. it was focused on malnutrition, hunger but malnutrition in a bigger way. not having enough nutrients but what were we talking about in our food system in general? from that came food stamp programs that were enhanced, enrichment became a standard thing, enriching macaroni, with iron, putting b vitamins and flour, food labeling became required. the school lunch program got more funding and was started, women infants and children nutri

white house dating back to martha washington. he served as a speechwriter for nancy reagan and ghostwriter for betty ford. honored again to welcome you to the richard nixon presidential library. >> thank you to members of the board and staff of the richard nixon foundation. i would also like to add my olivia and the curator with the national archives here. and also, cheryl, the secretary. hardly a title that really captures all that she does. it really is wonderful because it was -- the seed of all this came about through, i believe the really great personal relationship between cheryl and olivia, personal and professional. it was wrong that a great enthusiasm was worked up. and so when cheryl first called me about this and said it would be about first ladies' fashion and so forth, i told her i was not interested because i wasn't really interested or did not have a knowledge of fashion, per se. and i say that with all great, the enormous respect to that industry. but it is sort of like building an automobile or a house. it is a whole world unto itself. the structure, the art of it, the manufacturing, the marketing. but i began to think while we were spea

. >> the president nixon says he will not comply with nor conform to turn over to tape, but he will supply a summary of the tapes. >> reporter: the white housearchibald cox responded in a historic nationally tell the vised news conference. >> in the end, i decided to stick by what i knew was right. >> reporter: he had rejected nixon's plan saying that it did not comply with what was promised to him. the prosecutor and the president were on a collision course. >> the country is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. >> reporter: nixon ordered richardson to fire cox, and richardson refuse and resigned. his can deputy also refused and also resigned. solicitor general robert bork was made acting attorney general and he fired cox. >> the president's motive was to solely remove the confrontation of the koconstitution as quickl as possible. >> reporter: but he did not turn over the most incriminating tapes and he went after the tapes. >> i have never heard such outra ray jous, and vicious and distorted reporting of 27 years of public life. >> reporter: in the end, of course, richard nixon had only himself

white house. the author of the secret club to elect ted kennedy president and hasreal watergate scandal ranged and hosted annual -- it has produced the nixon legacy series. jeff: thank you. happy to be here. to look at richard nixon's public life, incredible highs and incredible lows. we are here to talk about one of the highs. it doesn't mean we are not mindful of the lows but that will be a topic for another forum. gathered four people who worked on richard nixon's campaign. they will share their memories. they will go in order of how long that they knew richard nixon. researcher taking off time from columbia law school where he was a law student. police and her husband martin formed the domestic advisory group who marty flew with the campaign, and police flew with home-based doing the hard work. pat buchanan requires no introduction. he joined nixon way before the campaign. finally get to doug chapin who in termssenior to pat of nixon. we will start with the -- with each of them explaining how they met richard nixon and how they came to be a participant in the campaign. >> in 1962 as a freshman at the university of santa barbara on the

white house is thinking. >> i'm not sure he is thinking of it as a wound. >> again, that's the question. this was nixonof speaking. didn't it work perfectly? the shinny object we chased around all afternoon and evening. >> i'm not sure if it was quite that strategic. it is hard to ever know if they are that strategic. >> you said this was a private lunch. they opened the cameras and let him go on the rant. why? >> you know president trump loves the attention. he has elevated the relationship with kanye west. he hopes it elevates him with the african-american voters. he hopes it showcases his friendship with kanye west. and perhaps not thinking about the message it is sending to the people in florida. >> it is everything the right used to hate not long ago. >> let's talk about the situation with saudi arabia. some calls that the saudi arms deal should be canceled. the multibillion dollar arms deal to send a message to saudis over what happened in istanbul. what happened in istanbul will not be cotolerated. the president throwing cold water on that. listen. >> spending $110 billion on military equipment

white house and enjoying company. this is started way back with warren harding. 1920. and goes up to richard nixon calling in elvis.e very much wanted cameras there. so that just is part of the presidential tradition. what you're putting your finger on is the judgment that goes into doing it in the face of the horrific storm. with so much suffering in the country. it would have been so much better to postpone kanye west. for four or five days. have a conversation. if the president can't go to the people suffering, have a serious conversation in the white house about the relationship of storms to climate change. and when we'll do something serious about that. opposed to having this. that is what is i think is so disturbing. yorn anything about his mental condition. what i did pick up was something i hadn't thought about. he kept saying this hat and putting the hat on. made him feel like a man. i kept wondering is that what's going on with some of the men in the country? and the relationship to trump. being for trump make them feel masculine? i don't know the answer. they were sure an over tone of it in the session.

nixon did not make it. running as an incumbent vice president isn't an easy way to make to it the white house.o when george h.w. bush got the republican nomination for president in 1988, having just served eight years as vice president, democrats thought they had a pretty good chance against him. four years earlier, they had run walter mondale in 1984. mondale of course got shellacked by reagan. but in 1988, when they knew they were going to be up against papa bush, and they thought they would have a better chance, early on in the '88 campaign, democrats pretty much decided that they were going run a whole different kind of democrat to give themselves hopefully a way better shot than mondale had ever had. early, early on in the 1988 race, democrats started to coalesce around a charismatic, strong candidate who was an excellent speaker, who had good defense credentials. he was a handsome senator from a western state. he was the consensus early front-runner in 1988 for the democrats against papi bush. 1986, really the start of the campaigning season. "washington post" started polling on the 1988

white house keeping that loophole in the new tax bill? >> just to give you a little bit history here, this is exactly what richard nixon tried to do when congress in 1969 passed the tax reform act. he tried to keep the provision that would allow him to continue to take deductions on gifts of papers to the united states. it would not surprise me if we find president trump and jared kushner lobbied and trying to keep that provision in the tax bill. >> have we seen that? indications of that? >> there is a ton of lobbyists on the financial world. i don't think this issue matters at all. >> democrats are going to hate the tax bill no matter what and republicans are going to love it no matter what. this is a guy who campaigned i am not going to release my taxes. i took it so much that i want you to have the same benefits that i have. >> he purposely kept that in for his own personal benefit. to me, that's a direct conflict of interests. it is not about whether people want to have a tax bill or certain types of supervision in there. if the person of the united states and the son-in-law who are benefiting big time the fact they are not paying any taxes

nixon look like a choir boy. i would like to respond to that. the executive is controlled by one party. have both houses, and the white house controlled by one party, it is extremely difficult. i call it a lock on power. if you can break that and create a majority, the opposition party, the democratic party in one of these houses, you break that dynamic career that is what i hope will happen on the selection day. if we break that dynamic, we will be able to pass good legislation in the senate. i really do believe that. you have the situation where you don't really have an opportunity because you do not control. you do not control the agenda, what is on it. you can protest and we do it. they move their majority regardless. is the basic i think power struggle that goes on. it is really important to vote democratic in this election. you change that dynamic. i hope that will be the case. i have been there long enough to see it happen and hardened. it is like hitting your head against a concrete wall. you can march, you can filibuster, you can talk all night. todoes not change anything read what changes things are election

white house, but i did live in sagamore hill. i remember her as an extraordinarily formidable lady. like alice. neither of them had much time for children. >> so when president nixon was resigning, the last day, he asked his son-in-law to give him a book that contained a letter from teddy roosevelt and the letter was something he had written when his first wife died. you remember this letter and what he said about the life of his -- he said about the light of his life had gone out. with respect to that end teddy roosevelt, what is it that you most remember about teddy roosevelt and what he said at that time and the fact that he thought his life was ended and how did he reconstruct his life? >> it is interesting. i, of course, didn't know him, but my grandfather, for the most part, raised me. my dad was in the foreign service overseas. years later i realized, this is perfectly normal, but a grandfather does with his grandson just what his father did with him. he was very good with children. all those hunting and camping trips he took with children, my grandfather did. he even told the same stories. ghost stories and so on. i thought i knew him that way. tr had a lo

white house and the presidency is a position of moral leadership. that it is incumbent upon you to try to take the high road. now, you know, nixonlinton -- i understand people on twitter that they don't always meet that. but there was a sense that the presidency meant that. it counnoted that you try that. donald trump has no such -- there is no moral authority he views he needs to live up to. he does what is good for him and he doesn't do what is bad for him. it's that simple. >> everybody stand by. there is more news we're following. including there's new information on the search for what caused an airliner with 189 people aboard to plunge into the ocean. killing everyone. . . . this is actually under your budget. it's great. mm-hmm. yeah, and when you move in, geico could help you save on renters' insurance! man 1: (behind wall) yep, geico helped me with renters insurance, too! um... the walls seem a bit thin... man 2: (behind wall) they are! and craig practices the accordion every night! says the guy who sings karaoke by himself. i'm a very shy singer. you're tone deaf! ehh... should we move on to the next one? it's a great

white house but, she was wearing them on a campaign poster for reelection in 1972. that to me is a fascinating look at her and the book does go into great depth on mrs. nixon. mr.baribault: carl, thank you. [applause] washington to george w. bush, every sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern feature the presidency. a weekly series exploring the presidents, their policies and legacies. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in springfield, illinois and looking forward to the november midterm elections. we are asking folks which party should control congress and why? >> i think the party that should control congress is the democrats because it is obvious that we need checks and balances on what is going on in washington. there is so much that is contrary to what i believe is best for the electorate in the united states. and so i think that with the democrats controlling congress that will definitely bring the checks and balances to the process which is much needed. to see thelike republicans retain control of congress in both chambers

the campaign, she -- pat nixon was with him going back to when he was vice president.overall of the years through the turbulent years of the late 60s, then through the white house and then finally watergate and we find out about her own struggles with depression and alcohol, as you hear this conversation tell us what you are thinking and did that come into play at the library . >> . >> i was thinking intently about how hard it is to document first ladies because the system of papering the white house is not designed, or wasn't designed until eleanor roosevelt preserved the voice of the first lady and her actions and activities, i'm learning so much about florence , but, i actually believe it's very hard to get insights on what a first lady is thinking and doing. we have examples of when we do have insight, one is lady bird johnson in her diary i could be wrong about this but i don't believe there are many decisions, i apologize, i've never -- i haven't worked at the library but my sense was there were many. the other is, jacqueline kennedy's interviews with arthur schlesinger, which carolyn kennedy decided to release and retracted, do not always complementary t

white house who enabled that and he got himself into real trouble. and i don't think we can make a comparison yet because there was a very thorough investigation of president nixon, and it drew conclusions so that even republican members in the congress understood that they had to take action, and we are not at that point yet with this president. >> stephen: well, nixon had these people around him who you say who enabled him. >> uh-huh. >> stephen: we hear stories from an anonymous op-ed in "the new york times," from bob woodward's book-- that the people around him, many of them are actually disabling, they are trying to stop him from doing things that he wants to do. >> that's right. >> stephen: have you ever heard of anything like that before from a cabinet? >> no, i haven't. i think it may well be unprecedented and the person or people who wrote that article were trying to tell the rest of us that they are stopping bad things from happening. and when you think of all of the bad things that have happened, that's pretty sobering that they are actually there with, you know, all fingers in the dike trying to prevent the bad stuff from happening. >> stephen: does