nixon had always wanted to to run a campaign in a certain way and part of the story i tell us how nixon, this is how we should run the campaign and eisenhower says i'm not sure i'm comfortable with all then by the end eisenhower is taken at his word and wants to run a campaign similar to his. this is the way nixon originally envisioned the campaign, writing something i discovered in the archives as well, a letter to a fund-raiser. this campaign, some people in this campaign to be conducted on so-called high intellectual plane. there is a republican desire to do that and i think that is actually a smack in adlai stevenson's that we should let bygones be bygones and not pulling up the past mistakes of the truman administration. that after all we have two good candidates for president and in short a little nice powder pub dual and that language, there is a lot of -- i mean if you read a lot of language in 1952, there was always this undertone about homosexuality and this notion that adlai stevenson divorced and never got remarried and what's up with that? maybe he doesn't really like the g

, and there's a lot of pundits who enter the book, including joe alsop and there's pat nixon, pat nixon is a prop to dick nixon, quite literally during the speech. she is sitting there nervously, not knowing what he is going to say. she is crucial into the strategy of making her husband look normal. he talks about her being a normal suburban house wife but there's a fascinating think about pat nixon, and she is weirdly open about the fact that she doesn't really seem to like politics, and seems to even have some kind of trepidation about being with her husband. she writes a puff piece for her husband titled "a wonderful guy" and she says, dick doesn't do anything in a half hearted manner so i know we're in for a rugged time. this isn't a piece that is supposedly a celebration of his -- and she is worried about him, about what her life is going to be, and things like that. you get a real sense that with both eisenhower and pat nixon that politics transformed people in sometimes ways they don't necessarily want. another character is joe steph mccarthy, running in 1952 for re-election. his

nixon loved it. he did that sort of thing often. >> he died in 2012 at age 80 -- how many hours did you interview him? >> it was a fantastic experience with collison. >> was he honest with you? >> i interviewed him twice. the first time, that is from the first interview, again, i let people talk. a number people who had been interviewed often had a set of stories. the first interview was basically a set of stories. the second interview was the follow-up. i knew more and could ask -- it was different. he is much less comfortable with in the second interview. it's not because of age. it only happened a year later. i do not think chuck colson was candid. i think he is guarded and i think he -- i think that charles colson decided what he would, what he would say he did and nothing more. there was a set of things he would apologize for, and there is a whole, i think, ocean, a whole story out there that he never talked about and he took with him to the grave. he knew a lot more. that's just the sense. the

he was very close to nixon. nixon had a small staff in the 1968 campaign, a personal staff. he was his advance man -- he later was the head advance man before he went into the white house. this man was extremely close to richard nixon. >> donald sigretti -- >> they went to school together at usc. >> he was a prankster who had done it some republican candidates over the year -- tricks being crazy little things. nothing harmful. one day the buzzer goes off and i go into the president's office -- he is sitting there. they say,bob says it, did you know anyone who can do that stuff -- we should have somebody like that. i say, let me think about it. so i went out and i thought about it -- i thought of donald sigretti. he had been a roommate at usc and was just leaving the judge position in the army. i thought -- he is very anonymous and would fit in and could do this kind of thing. >> what happened to sigretti? >> he went to jail, too. i actually met sigretti./ he was that close to doing an interview -- i talked to him twice. but he did not want to do the project. >> why? >> he di

do not forget the role played by republicans in the nixon administration. he was one of them -- he was not alone. we would hear from a few more. >> here he is -- he was at the time? >> deputy attorney general of the united states. >> it was clear he was not going to carry out that order. he turned to me and said, what are you going to do? i told him -- i do not think it is close. what he is asking and apparently subsequently needed to do was fundamentally wrong. he said, you do not have any choice if you refuse to do it -- that means they will find somebody else to do it. if bork had not done it, anybody in the department could have done it. your responsibility was fairly clear -- i do not think he resigned lightly. you do have an obligation. there are lines over which you cannot cross. you have to -- sometimes you will not do. >> this is really important. i did my best to interview as many surviving players in the saturday night massacre -- your audience may not now what do you here is talking about, but president nixon wanted to fire the special prosecuto

once there we got more of the good nixon and the bad nixon.is trip to china and russia in '72 reshaped american foreign policy. his policies of sending federal money to the states prompted a rise in local initiatives. he worked on behalf of affirmative action, promoted women's rights, established the epa. for later generations nixon's political life is often summed up in two words. vietnam and watergate. he made good on his promise to get u.s. troops out of the war. some 20,000 soldiers died while he was in office. nixon's paranoia and distrust of the media led to the scandal that ended his president. he appeared on "meet the press" in 1988 in an attempt to put watergate and his presidency in perspective in his eyes. >> it was a great mistake. it was wrong. as i pointed out over and over again. but under the circumstances now people as they judge that period have to see what we accomplished and what we did wrong. and for the future, i would advise all those who follow me and the position of president, do the big things as well as you can. but

nixon. the situation came to a head on the third day of the visit as pat walked through the store, hundreds of people crammed onto ball con neys or stood in adjacent aisles to wave and catch a glimpse of her. reporters trying to cover the event found their views blocked by the soviet security detail. pushing became shoveing became fists flying through the air. pat saved one reporter from being man handled by the soviet officer by pulling the reporter to her and offering him a lick of her ice cream cone. her or obvious distress at the situation and her attempt to remedy it did much to win the open admiration of the reporters. and so we end with another story. that reinforces pat's love of travel, her opennesses to all of the people she met including reporters and her willingnesses to take whatever action was necessary. from her youngest days when she listened to her father's stories of his adventures through her years as a single woman taking off on small excursions through the early years of

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what would nixon do? tonight i'm going to tweet the slogan a little bit and ask, what would nixon say? i'm fairly certain that if my father with us tonight, he was the to all of you, thank you. thank you common men and women of the nixon administration for serving in the most challenging times imaginable and do any job superbly and brilliantly. so many achievements in five and a half years. any misstate thank you to the bigger nixon family, the friends and supporters have come here tonight to celebrate. sometimes i'm asked whether the site from a family to defend my father during the embattled moments in the white house and my response is simple. he was the best father in the world. he loved his country and he made us proud. happy birthday. [applause] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> please stand as we sing god less america. ♪ while the storm caused rather, all across the sea ♪ let us all be grateful for a land so fair, as we raise our voice is, in this solemn world. ♪ i guess you already know the next part

whenever they're there, the dark side of nixon comes out.n you see other parts of the tape to listen to nixon an nato affairs on dealing with the apollo program, he comes off as quite wise and shrewd. so you're spot on. >> he would never talk like that with bill clinton. or reagan, even. >> bill sapphire once described nixon as a layer cake. eight, nine layers thick. there's the conservative person. a loaner. a realist, overseas. a hater at some level. and, also, a really good poker player. so he was a much more complicated piece of work. he had been your average president and most of them are complicated. >> a good part of them were just spooky. >> well, at some point, he had just been a striver and a scraper. >> the world of french, the chinese love this guy. the french love him. maybe that's like jerry lewis. maybe it doesn't say a lot, but it is strange. you know that, douglas? we look at him in a particular way. he's ours. anyway, thank you, happy birth day, dick, where ever you are and richard nixon. i am not a nixon hater. it's much m

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kennedy and richard nixon., they faced each other in a far grander series of debates in 1961. yes, there was a time when people got along in politics, even as they debated the big

so by this time, nixon attorney general mitchell have decided to take this thing over themselves.they can't run the risk of it got another important job for rehnquist at this point, with these two vacancies, wishes he is supposed to be running a committee to declassify documents and nixon and his diabolical authors, and rehnquist i'm sure doesn't know this, but with the white house tapes came out later, turns the reason he was rehnquist to do this is because he believes that he can get these documents declassified, he can use them to bang the image of the kennedy family, particularly bob kennedy and share k. and even ted kennedy, who he sees as a potential rival in the coming election. so the declassification of documents, nixon once rehnquist to handle so he can the documents out. when it turns that rehnquist isn't going fast enough, nixon and his other folks the later discredited watergate decide they're going to make up some documents from within any way. that's a whole other thing. so what happens is rehnquist is busy doing not and meanwhile, mitchell and nixon are trying to f

the roots of the watergate scandal can be traced back to nixon's presidency which was the tories theysecretive a famous example being the release of the pentagon papers which exposed the secrets of vietnam and information about a legal bombings of laos and cambodia without congressional knowledge the pentagon papers hid in the press smeared nixon's image as a result and came even more invasive and distrust of the american public ironically enough as reserved as he was nixon made audio recordings of meetings and personal thoughts he had in the oval office material that would soon lead to his demise he had a group of people working for him and the committee to reelect the president also known as cream these are the guys that got caught breaking into the democratic national headquarters but their connection to president nixon had yet to be made it wasn't until after nixon won reelection that as association with the burglars was discovered which marked the beginning of a formal investigation against him it's important note that nixon and his chief of staff conspired to have the cia bring

the roots of the watergate scandal can be traced back to nixon's presidency which was the tories theysecretive a famous example being the release of the pentagon papers which exposed the secrets of vietnam and information about a legal bombings of laos and cambodia without congressional knowledge the pentagon papers hid in the press smeared nixon's image as a result and came even more invasive and distrust in the american public ironically enough as reserved as he was nixon made audio recordings of meetings and personal thoughts he had in the oval office material that would soon lead to his demise he had a group of people working for him and the committee to reelect the president also known as cream these are the guys that got caught breaking into the democratic national headquarters but their connection to president nixon had yet to be made it wasn't until after nixon won reelection that his association with the burglars was discovered which marked the beginning of a formal investigation against him it's important that nixon and his chief of staff conspired to have the cia bring the

had yet to be made it wasn't until after nixon won reelection that his association with the burglarswas discovered which marked the beginning of a formal investigation against him it's important note that nixon and his chief of staff conspired to have the cia bring the investigation to a halt by saying it was a national security matter sound familiar needless to say that plan failed which led to these famous words. years of public life. i have never profited never profited from public service i earned every cent and in all of my years of public life i have never obstructed justice and i think that i could say that in my years of public life that i welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook well i'm not a crook i heard everything i got those words proved to be empty even the nixon claimed executive privilege in the case in one thousand nine hundred seventy four the supreme court forced him to release the tapes and this is a very important decision because sent a message the president and to the public that said no one is a

"tricky dick" nixon. president nixon of course is most remembered for resigning in disgrace, but he is also remembered for legendary paranoia. >> also, never forget the press is the enemy. the press is the enemy. the press is the enemy. the establishment is the enemy. the professionals are the enemy. the professors are the enemy. write that on the blackboard 100 times and never forget it. >> write that on the blackboard 100 times! that is the kind of thing for which we have remembered richard nixon in the four decades since he became our nation's only sitting president to resign the office. but now today on what would have been nixon's 100 birthday from this comfortable distance, mr. nixon can also be remembered as a president who had a profoundly liberal record of legislative accomplishment. these were not necessarily nixon's own ideas. he was actually a conservative. so most of these things were democratic ideas from the congress. but governing went coming to governing agreement with the congress, inclu

plea aed -- blied around nixon? i think the audience response to whether there's a sense of complexity that's true to the spirit of something but that's a balancing act against, is it with the facts? i watched "argo," and one of the things i was unclear about, the most exciting part of it, the only thing that didn't actually happen, is that valid? i'm not saying it's not or it is, but it's interesting. how much can entertainment rely on things that didn't happen to come up with the entertainment factor if it's supposed to show real events? >> tell us about your new piece. >> i will be working for mr. the vince very soon on a piece about -- for mr. nevins very soon on a piece about masters and johnson. >> an ongoing series about masters and johnson which i think has not been done. there are these sort of conventions about how popular entertainment gets made. we do historical pieces, we do a series -- series about the borgias or the tudors but real 20th century figures, they're done in movies but not done in series. s

remember the tapes that got nixon so much trouble? johnson had this thing keeps going, but they kept them hidden. they didn't release to the public till two or three years ago and our book was one of the first that had access to these tapes. now lyndon johnson famously was that when medicare passed in 1965 and the normal story that johnson himself tells in his autobiography goes like this. representative wilbur mills was fighting, resisting medicare. he stopped he single-handedly and as chair of the ways and means committee could do that. after the 1964 election, and insight for the democrats, he stated that the last day of the markup of the bill. there's three bills before the committee. administration proposal which covered hospital care. the ama proposal, which discover doctors care that another proposal, which suggested let's not cover all people over 65. vicious cover poor people. the great antagonist of medicare sits back and says let's pass all three. the johnson administration officials in the room at the time panic. what is h

was nixon going to do that? i doubt it. not as fast as he did it.00 americans were killed after john kerry's testimony. that number was going to be higher, much higher but it was going to be higher. if john kerry hadn't become the most extremely effective war protester in american history. the only war protester who the war president richard nixon thought was what he called extremely effective. there are men alive today in this country thanks to john kerry and they don't know it. i have brothers who are alive today thanks to john kerry. because of john kerry. didn't play it safe when he testified against the war. he personally attacked by name the defense secretary along with the other democrats s in the johnson administration who failed the country and the world so miserably. on april 22nd, 1971, at the age of 27, he assured his position in history. and that is war hero. the hero who saves lives by helping to end the war. >> each day to facilitate the process by which the united states washes her hands of vietnam someone has to give up his life so

and eighty's when richard nixon's justice department went after eighty and t. which at the time was the largest corporation the world and the justice department after them for violating the sherman antitrust act and its and its heirs after solomon eighty and he agreed in one thousand nine hundred four to break up into bell system to break it to break its bell system into seven different smaller companies known as baby bells and that opened the marketplace for new players to jump in offering new services and new prices. t. whale was taken out of the fish tank in the end it was good for all the investors involved in fact the value of a t.n.t. and all its former subsidiaries tripled after the break up breaking up monopolies is good for an economy whether it's the break up of standard oil and american tobacco in the early twentieth century or more recently the break up of a t.n.t. removing the whale from the fish tank always leads to more competition in the market which is common sense tells us means lower prices and better products unfortunately there haven't been

franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the opposing party during his second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between the president and congress, over the treaty. after considerable after working with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. and i was at the congress of right-thinking federalist senate president hu is revered. when they went in his second term, eisenhower worked quietly behind the scenes of the senate majority leader, brendan jones said, to gain approval of his legislative agenda. ronald reagan began the demo

all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, these yellow notes and you would say this is a political genius. at the same time this is a man who could be so gironde at night in the white house, tortured, hurt. the whole white house finally has henry kissinger explained to the people in england that the president is ill and he's in bed and he will have to call you back tomorrow morning. so you get a sense of the full package. not just a fair legal national health insurance bill, but he really had a handle on. you see the extent to which he understood health care. and also the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as he passed. take another example. jimmy carter to read jimmy carter's, was that he knew that he was smarter than everybody in the room. and he tried to get into such detail. so, at 1.8 memo goes around and jimmy carter would take notes with his fountain pen. you can see his handwriting and at one point in one of the health care memos she says and don't forget about psro'

biggest regret he didn't embrace nixon's health plan.o far to the right. >> john: but he hated blacks and jews, rest in piece mr. nixon. dean and scott, and the lee three of my favorite new york politico medians. thank you so much for joining us. up next, happier news, same sex weddings guess who is flipping out. that's up ahead. hd

nixon then left saw paul to the previous engagement. i use this story to begin my talk because i think it exemplifies key points a wish to make about pat nixon and her public role or her role as foreign diplomats. she met the indian woman the traveling she did as a first and second lady was the best part of her job as a political wife. second, not the wife of an ambassador or statesmen but a young woman who had come to the united states to see this second lady then to study. she treated everyone she met as a favor the most important person in the world. they responded to her sincerity. third, issues happiest in her role if she could take action. the cajuns' the nixons' wrapped was not that long negative important at that moment as getting this cast a seat at the presidential dinner. it is a small act but left a lasting impression on the indian woman and the woman at the table where she was seated. that is how we know through a letter someone responded and wrote to pat later. on occasion she was proud of her work to help raise funds for

. >> how about richard nixon? >> richard nixon. the clean air act. the man who took the lead out of the air. richard m. nixon. the man who saved the waters of this country, richard m. nixon. the last great liberal president this country had. i just would like to see this rise above this petty, partisan bickering that i heard somewhere in this panel. >> this is all part of the speech, laid out, the thing that we at least have to do with. the things the government has to be involved in. the air, the water goes from state to state, city to city. one place cannot do it. it has to be -- the regulation of how to deal with protecting all of that has to be the business of the federal government. >> can i get half a minute of rebuttal here? cap and trade work well for acid rain. acid rain stays in our country. i am not against regulated carbon. if you can get china and india to do something. if they don't, we are spitting in the wind. we are dismantling our economy to do absolutely nothing for the global climate. >> dealing with india and china is the job of

i say this about richard nixon.he was a brilliant man, maybe pound for pound the smartest man we see. he sits in the -- across the street from the oval office, the fireplace calling, the air-conditioner turned up full crank, and he writes in yellow pads. some of it is brought to my have to be strong. some of it is billion stuff. you see the future of health care predicted piece by piece. all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, and you think, this it was a genius, a political genius. at the same time this was a man who could be so drawn, out of a truck at night in the white house, tortured her man that the whole white house had to explain to the people in england that the president is ill and in bed in and have to call you back tomorrow morning. you get a sense of the full package, not just this merely dull national of insurance bill that he really had a hand in. ecb extent to which he understood health care the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as to pa

nixon presidential library.e with a preview, we have a representative live from yorba linda, california. >> reporter: hithere, jamie. it was in this caught house, january 9, 1913 that, richard nixon was born, the second of five boys. he went from being a hard-working lad in his parents' grocery store to one of the most celebrated but controversial leader who is changed world history forever. the nixon foundation will unveil a special personal poignant exhibit of his personal artifacts and memorabilia and we will see in a few hours' time, a celebration of his life today here at his birth place. among those in attendance, those woworked with him and hahe achieved. >> to have som was at that pinnacle of office is very unusual. it wasn't that -- clearly, president obama had none of that stature at all coming into office. >> reporter: a lot of stature created by the foreign policy of richard nixon. he reached out to china and encouraged it to become a big player in the world, the dominant player it is today. he start

lyndon johnson readily be barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public. and the winner had the advantage of the weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won his second term, landslide, because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a heated battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country with the winner walking off with the modest majority. it is a customary wisdom that the campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent will be either a referendum on the first term of the president, or a judgment of which candidate will be the better leader. is there really a difference between these two considerations? does not boil down to judging the leadership skill of the incumbent based on his effectiveness during his first term, versus the unknown leadership skills of the challenger? it's easy to point to the national security, or the economic consequences, or consequent im

the best way to do this is to start a video oral program that involved the nixon players from of the left and the right to have them tell the story and then to use portions of that story in the museum to let visitors understand the complexity of this constitutional drama. >> the former head of the nixon line and museum. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> next the president's address. he talks about avoiding the tax hikes. then dave camp call for spending cuts and the elimination of tax loopholes. >> hi, everybody. over the past year as i traveled across the country campaigning for this office i told you if i was fortunate enough to be re-elected i would work to change the tax code that will benefits the wealthy. this week we did that. for first time we raised taxes on the wealthiest 2% americans in a bipartisan way and avoiding a middle-class tax hike that could throw the economy back into a recession. 97% of small businesses will not see their income taxes go up one dime. we maid sure that millions of families will continue to see tax credits. companies will continue to rece

the archives look back at nixon's support for the space program.nd will include the telephone nixon used to talk to the apollo 11 astronauts after their moon landing. a speech drafted in case of a disaster, and items used to collect moon rocks. >> the latest installment in the texas chainsaw franchise has claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend. the horror sequel texas chainsaw 3 d was number one with a 23 million-dollar debut. it is a follow-up to the 1974 film. meanwhile quentin tarantino's revenge sought godjango unchained held on to the no. 2 spot with just over $20 million. three weeks after claim box office gold, part one of peter jackson's behalf the trilogy was in third place with $17.5 million. >> a suspect in colorado movie theaters shooter james holmes will appear in court today. we will have more on the details that are expected to be revealed in court this week. also this morning bank of america agrees it's a pay $10 billion to settle claims over mortgage loans. we will talk with rob black at 6:45 a.m.. at the kron4 morning