where pat buchanan spent much time in the 1906s. >> caller: that's true. i have a question for pat, but first i would say i was an independent and went to california and was a delegate for you in 2000 and i also had a nice chat with brian lamb while i was there. it was an exciting experience. >> long beach. >> caller: yes. and my question is, there was a time when i supported the vietnam war in the mid '60s. i was in high school and i graduated in '66. you knew it was winnable with all the chinese pouring in this as they did in korea. why didn't we handle vietnam like truman handled korea? i have always wondered that. >> well, with truman, korea drove truman out of the white house and it was general eisenhower who came in and said we're not going for victory and you had a dmz where the two armies were lined up and he threatened the chinese and he got basically an armistice. vietnam, you had a -- you had a much different story. i mean, the chinese were actually not in vietnam. the north vietnamese were in the south. but it's a very good question. i mean, loo

agnew centright. >> our guest barbara perry and pat buchanan. sinned indicated columnist and author formally with cnn. presidential candidate himself and nixon aide in 1966 wsh tony judges joins joining us from prairieville, indiana within on the line from republicans thank you for waiting. >> i have a question or a comment and a question directed to pat buchanan. i have long held a belief that had nixon won in 1960 he would have been a better candidate or a better president than he wound up being in 1968. and had he won in 1960 what does pat buchanan think nixon would have done during his presidency following his election in 1960? >> thank you, tony, another what if. >> what if? it's hard to know. i mean jack kennedy's great moment was the cuban missile crisis. i don't know how nixon would have handled that. my guess was nixon was a small seat conservative. he wouldn't have launched the bay of pigs. if he had he would have made sure it worked. but you can't know the things. and of course there would have been no great society if nixon were a tw

host: for your insight, perspective men stories, barbara perry, and pat buchanan, thank you. pat: good to see you, friend. barbara: our pleasure. announcer: next sunday, we continue our series 1968, the year in turmoil, focusing on the civil rights and race relations. martin luther king and his assassination. black power, and the kerner commission report. that is next sunday, april thirst, live it 8:30 eastern. >> next on the presidency, we ,ear about george washington the first president, the first americans, and the birth of the nation. he explains that washington first interacted with native american tribes during the seven years war, and was the first to recognize their importance to the survival and growth of the young nation. george washington university hosted this event. it is 90 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captig

host: pat buchanan, that was two --40's after the primary and primary andter the primary that was two weeks before lbj dropped out. pat: the allegation about opportunism -- i remember that murray at "the new york post" really admired bobby kennedy. he said that what bobby kennedy is doing proved st. patrick's did not drive all the snakes out of ireland. it was rough on bobby kennedy. people forget that bobby kennedy was ruthless on lbj in the interim. he accused johnson of appealing to the darker impulses of the american spirit. i have a memo that i sent to nixon, i said this is astounding how ruthless he is on the president, because we assumed the president was going to stay in. and of course, mr. nixon said, keep gathering that. we've got better quotes than that. i think mr. nixon thought we might end up with robert kennedy as the candidate and we would have another kennedy run. as i said, i always thought that humphrey had a great depth inside the democratic party from that 48 convention. he was mr. civil rights. he had put the civil rights act on the floor of the senate and run it

thank you for waiting. >> caller: i have a comment and question directed to pat buchanan. i've long held a belief that had nixon won in 1960, he would have been a better candidate or better president than he wound up being in 1968. had he won in 1960, what does pat back to you cannon think nix on could have done. >> it's hard to know. i don't know how nixon would have handled that. my guess is he was a more small seat conservative. a lot of what nixon did was very progressive. he did not repeal the great society at all. >> let's add another to your what if. that is what if nixon had met with chris jeff this 1961. it would have had a different outcome perhaps many the bay of bigs. wouldn't it have been interesting to see nixon in 161. historians think because kennedy didn't have such a good outing there that helped to precipitate the cuban missile crisis. he did not like nixon at all. as a matter of fact, it wasn't gary powers but we had two other pilots that had gone over russian territory. he didn't release them in 1960 so he could help kennedy defeat nixon. he didn't wan

what does pat buchanan think nick sim would have done during his presidency following his election in960? .ost: thank you another what if. pat: it's hard to know. -- i don missile crisis not know how nixon would have handled that. he was a small c conservative. i do not think he would have launched the bay of pigs. of course, there would never have been a great society. in that sense, a lot of what nixon did was very progressive, in hisn he got in, mid-50's, he did not repeal the great society at all. there's another part of your what if -- what if makes and had met with khrushchev indiana in 1961? indiana in 1961? it might have been a different bay of pigs. wouldn't it have been interesting to see khrushchev a in aon in the in physics to want? historians think that because kennedy did not have such a good outing, that helped precipitate the missile crisis. but chris jeff having met nixon in the kitchen in 1969 -- chris jeff having met next and in the kitchen in 1969 did not like nixon. -- he did not want to do something that nixon could claim credit for. but i think you are right. ke

former staffer, author, and columnist pat buchanan. we first want to take you back of 1960 81ric moment president lyndon johnson stunned the country when he announced he would not be seeking another term as president. you will have behind-the-scenes footage as well as -- for what that moment was like from the oval office fifth is ago. -- 50 years ago. last evening in march, 1968, the stage was set. shortly before 9:00 p.m. washington time, in the mists of last-minute electronic reparations, president johnson put the finishing touches on his address to the nation. finally, with a reassuring presence of his family seated nearby, the president was ready to deliver one of the most important speeches of his entire life, a speech that would alter the course of world history. >> good evening, my fellow americans. i want to speak to you tonight of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. so preoccupieson our people, no other dream so absorbed the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world. motivates american policy and southeast a

-- pat buchanan? true. that is goldwater laid this foundation of a powerful conservative movement that captured the party but not the country. nixon picks up that movement and brought the republican party twether and picked up the pieces ofo the democratic party, nor the catholic since other protestants, and created a new majority that won the republicans five out of six presidential elections after 1964, which was astounding considering the defeat. in the democratic party, g mccarthy, bobby kennedy, mcgovern, they would capture the party and nominate mcgovern in 1972. i think what you have subsequent to 1968, that year we really crossed the continental divide, and we have never been able to get back over it, i think, and it is because it involves more than politics. it involves fundamental beliefs about rights, wrong, good, evil, and justice and injustice. there is very little upon which you find in americans -- that americans really agree on these days. host: for your insight, perspective men stories, bar

joining us, pat buchanan, author of "the greatest comeback," and barbara perry, co-director of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch "1968 america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. >> next, today's white house briefing with budget director mick mulvaney and legislative affairs director mark short. they awe a -- they announced president trump will sign the $1.3 trillion government spending bill the house approved earlier this afternoon. the legislation is now under consideration in the u.s. senate. this is 20 minutes.

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richard nixon won a decisive victory for joining us on the program former presidential candidate pat buchananwho served under president nixon and reagan and also the author of the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority and barbara perry, director of presidential studies and codirector of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia, watch 1960: america in turmoil, live sunday at 8:30 p.m. eastern on washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in

joining us, pat buchanan, author of "the greatest comeback," and barbara perry, co-director of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch "1968 america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. >> next, today's white house briefing with budget director mick mulvaney and legislative affairs director mark short. they awe a -- they announced president trump will sign the $1.3 trillion government spending bill the house approved earlier this afternoon. the legislation is now under consideration in the u.s. senate. this is 20 minutes. sarah: good afternoon. the president has three events today that are open to the press pool and there's a lot of action to cover, i want to make sure you have the most up to date information on the omnibus this bill is so important on many fronts, from school safety and troop funding to opioids and veterans care. to give you the detailed rundown and answer a few questions with o.m.b. director mick mulvaney and director of legislative affairs mark short, i'll bring

our guests are pat buchanan and barbara perry, presidential studies director of the

it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and from one harding to calvin coolidge the republican party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world has ever seen and continuously the us relied on tariffs to convert from an agricultural economy in one thousand nine hundred to the mightiest manufacturing power on earth by one thousand nine hundred. suppose what the president is going to be doing when it comes to global trade let me go to and first reflect upon those words because in the mainstream media it's all gloom and doom i think part of it is because of what it's this president is saying it because we had bush and obama looking at the increasing duties on a number of things and it would focus on quite a bit on china so maybe trump is amplifying it but i think it's still pretty much a political football and in new york go ahead. yes certainly th

we'll hear from former nixon white house special assistant and communications director pat buchanan who also worked on richard nixon's 1968 campaign. and remarks by the director of presidential studies at the university of virginia's miller center. barbara perry. "american history tv" in primetime. wednesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> thursday morning, we're in olympia, washington, for the next stop on the c-span bus 50 capitals tour. washington governor jay inslee will be our guest on the bus during "washington journal" starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >>> monday on "landmark cases," griswold v. connecticut, challenged a connecticut law banning the prescription and use of birth control. the supreme court ultimately ruled the statute to be unconstitutional and in the process established a right to privacy that is still evolving today. our guests are helen alvare, law professor at george mason university's antonin scalia law school and rachel rebouche, law professor at temple university. watch "landmark cases" monday and join the conversation, our #is laour our #landmarkcase

pat buchanan, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority and codirector of oral historyprogram at the university of virginia. watch 1968, america in turmoil live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >> you have the right of a presence of an attorney, do you understand that? >> that right was guarantied in the 1963 supreme court case getty -- gideon v.wainwright. here is a look at their documentary. >> i agree that this case dramatically illustrates the point that you cannot have a fair trial without counsel. ♪ ♪ >> and then clarence gideon defend yourself. >> on june 3rd, 1961 an unknown man broke into a pool hall, clarence was arrested based solely on witness account. he could not afford a lawyer and because of the law at the time a man with eighth grade education was forced to defend himself against trained prosecutor. >> so gideon was brought for his trial, he stood up and said to the judge, your honor, i don't have a lawyer, i'm too poor to hire one. the state doesn't permit it. >> he lost the trial and was

our guests today are pat buchanan who work on richard nixon's presidential campaign in 1968 and barbara perry, presidential studies director at the university of virginia miller center. first, a look at the televised 1968, whenmarch 1, he surprised the nation with his announcement he would not run for reelection. ♪

former white house special assistant and communications director of the nixon administration, pat buchanan, who worked on richard nixon's 1968 campaign and presidential studies director at the university of virginia's miller center, barbara perry. american history tv in primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> monday, on "landmark cases," griswold v. connecticut. the supreme court ultimately ruled the statute to be unconstitutional and in the process established a right to privacy that is still evolving today. our guests are helen alvare, a law professor and rachel rebouche, the associate dean for research and a law professor at temple university. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. our hashtag is #landmarkcases and follow us at c-span. and we have resources on our website for background on each case, the landmark cases companion book, a link to the na national constitution and a licolink to our podcast. >>> this afternoon on c-span, a discussion with justice department officials on privacy, the law, and government surveillance. it's part of the interna

that field, because he sensed, i think, correctly as, you know, ross per rot did before him and pat buchananre is a constituency even among republican voters for tariffs. >> and michael, the president said last week, ronald reagan wasn't good on trade. >> yes. >> ronald reagan is an icon typically for republicans. >> yes. he doesn't respect icons in a way. i think that this is revealing in an entirely different way. i mean republicans rarely have come together 107 of them to resist a president's policy on this. but when you look at all of the previous provocations where they might be critical of the president, it is tariffs, it is not misogyny, it is not, you know, nativism and racism, it reveals something about the republican party that this is their red line. >> it is aluminum. >> exactly. >> gary cohn stayed in place after charlotteville but he quit over this. >> what do you think it reveals? thathat it is purely about econc policy when it comes to -- >> talked about the order of the loves, is this is the order of their loves. what they dearly value in life and i think that is a serious p

it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and from one harding to calvin coolidge the republican party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world has ever seen he continues to say the u.s. relied on terror of say a convert from an agricultural economy in one thousand nine hundred to the mightiest manufacturing power on earth by one thousand nine hundred. eight of what i suppose what the president is going to be doing when it comes to global trade let me go to and first reflect upon those words because in the mainstream media it's all gloom and doom i think part of it is it's because of what it's this. as it is saying it because we had bush and obama looking at the increasing duties on a number of things and it would focus all quite a bit on china so maybe trump is amplifying it but i think it's still pretty much a political football and in new yo

joining us on the program, former presidential candidate pat buchanan who served under presidents nixonso the author of the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority. and barbara perry, director of presidential studies and co-director of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch 1968, america in turmoil, live sunday, at 8:30 a.m. on c-span's washington journal. and on american history tv on -span 3. >> i'm asked what are your favorite items? in the museum? and with 3,100 on exhibit, and an inventory of almost 100,000 to pick from that we curate, it's really hard to say what that is. but there is one. and it's this one right here. this is julia howl -- howell ward who wrote a poem at 2:00 in the morning at the willard hotel. and as she says in her own words, she took a stub of a pencil by the candlelight that was available to her and she wrote down what she says god gave her to write down. she showed it to her daughter the next morning. and it was all scripture that she had written down. but it formed a poem. and her

rockefeller and third party candidate george wallace but it was humphrey facing nixon zbloop commentator pat buchanan and barbara perry director of presidential studies at the university of virginia miller center. this is 90 minutes. >> on the last evening in march,

from former white house special assistant and communications director of the nixon administration pat buchanan and presidential studies director at the university of virginia's miller center barbara perry. american history tv in prime time begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >> tonight book tv in prime time looks at the environment. we'll hear from charles man on his book "the wizard and prophet." journalist catherine miles reports on the natural and man made causes of earthquakes in her book "quake land." book tv all this week in prime time starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> monday on landmark cases griswold v. kentucky. the supreme court ultimately ruled the statute to be unconstoogzal and in the process established a right to privacy that is still evolving today. our guest is rachel rebouche. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmark cases and follow us on c-span. and we have resources on our website for background on each case, a landmark cases companions book, a link to the interactive constitution and the land mark cases podcast.

it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and from one harding to calvin coolidge the republican party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world has ever seen he continues to say the u.s. relied on terror of say a convert from an agricultural economy in one thousand nine hundred to the mightiest manufacturing power on earth by one thousand nine hundred. eight of what i suppose what the president is going to be doing when it comes to global trade let me go to and first reflect upon those words because in the mainstream media it's all gloom and doom i think part of it is it's because of what it's this. as it is saying it because we had bush and obama looking at the increasing duties on a number of things and it would focus all quite a bit on china so maybe trump is amplifying it but i think it's still pretty much a political football and in new yo

it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and from one harding to calvin coolidge the republican party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world has ever seen he continues to say the u.s. relied on terror of say a convert from an agricultural economy in one thousand nine hundred to the mightiest manufacturing power on earth by one thousand nine hundred. eight of what i suppose what the president is going to be doing when it comes to global trade let me go to and first reflect upon those words because in the mainstream media it's all gloom and doom i think part of it is it's because of what it's this. as it is saying it because we had bush and obama looking at the increasing duties on a number of things and it would focus all quite a bit on china so maybe trump is amplifying it but i think it's still pretty much a political football and in new yo

from former white house special assistant and communications director of the nixon administration pat buchanan who worked on richard nixon's 1968 campaign and presidential studies director at the university of virginia's miller center, barbara perry. american history tv in primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on the 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in phoenix,e with the commission starting at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> for nearly 20 years in-depth on book tv has featured the nation's best known nonfiction writers, the live conversations about their books. this year as a special project we're featuring best selling fiction writers for a monthly program on in-depth, fiction edition. join us live sunday noon eastern with walter mosely. his other books include gone fishing, and fearless jones, plus over 40 critically acclaimed books and mystery series. our special series in-depth fiction edition sunday live at 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitols

joining us on the program pat buchanan and author of the greatest come back, how create the new majority. and barbara perry, university of virginia, watch 1968, america in turmoil, live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. president trump's next nominee to become a member of the labor relations board is pending before the senate. john ring labor attorney and partner at the firm of morgan lou lewis. if confirmed he would serve a five-year term. this hearing is just under an

from former white house special assistant and communications director of the nixon administration pat buchanan who worked on richard nixon's 1968 campaign and presidential studies director at the university of virginia's miller center, barbara perry. american history tv in primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on the 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in phoenix, arizona, asking folks who's the most important issue in their state? >> i stand here in support of more public school funding. arizona's last for teacher pay and 48th for per pupil funding. and it's hurting the state's economic competitiveness. companies like amazon are passing arizona by. so it's a very important issue that needs to be fixed so that the state can be healthy and grow strong. >> hi, i'm the arizona state senator and an important issue here is k-12 education. we ranked 49th in the country in per pupil funding for the schools and we need to make fund the schools and helping the teachers a priority. we're wearing red in support of the teachers around t

a conversation with pat buchanan and barbara perry director of presidential studies at the universityiller center. this is 90 minutes. >>> on the last evening in march 1968 the stage was set. shortly before 9:00 p.m. washington time in theid

and there is a write in effort being staged in 1968 by bill's buddy hue greg for rockefeller, pat buchanan writes a piece called "nel the kni knife" which says rockefeller cuts out friends, cut out romney. et cetera. this piece appeared on the front page of the manchester union leader under the biline the william lobe. >> but pat had writ it for you. and when pat and nixon flu into manchester that morning for a campaign appearance, a guy runs up on the plane and hands nixon the union leader, with the editorial. nixon reads it and said, pat, why can't you write like that? back on the democratic side, i think it shows the power of the newspaper in manchester. because the guy who was the campaign manager for gene mccarthy had started the new hampshire sunday news with my dad in 1946. gentleman named blair clark. how the hell blair clock and bj mcquade got along, and they only did for a year, was beyond my understanding. but blair later become president of cbs news when john kennedy was president and later edited the nation magazine, and i became friends with him. nice guy. and my uncles repor

richard nixon won a decisive victory for joining us on the program former presidential candidate pat buchanan who served under presidents nixon and reagan, and also the author of the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority, and barbara perry, director presidential studies and codirector of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch 1968 america in turmoil live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors any weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. .. mit and political discuss the fate of democracy. and then steel chronicles the efforts to rebuild western europe after world war ii the former ambassador about the relationship. and how it will impact the society in the workforce. that is all this weekend on book tv. television for serious readers. we now kick off the weekend with the franklin four. and this talk from september he discusses the influence of on our news, politics and free

. >>> plus a big sunday show on tap, you can't miss it, pat buchanan, mike huckabee and our own jasonhaffetz all here all live. >>> first this morning, we're joined by the united states air force academy band. take it away, guys. ♪ >>> welcomeback. former fbi deputy director andy mccabe speaking out in a column in the "washington post." the title "not in my worst nightmare did i dream my frib cleafbicareer would end this wa" she said mccabe targeted her and ended her career after she filed a sexual harassment complaint. who is the real andrew mccabe. robin ritz joins me now first of all for the viewers, share your story as it relates to mr. mccain. > mccabe.>> i worked with andy m around 2005 to the end of my career, different capacities. i was at the washington field awches. he was my assistant special agent in charge. and then when i went back to counterterrorism in 2012, he was the assistant director over the counterterrorism division. >> and what happened to you that caused your dismissal? >> i was selected as a senior detailee to the cia. i had two individuals, my boss and cowork

buchanan, and one of the first orders of business for pat by nixon was to go up to the north shore of massachusetts and try to win over this guy bill lobe. so pat went, became great friends with both bill and knacky lobe, became such friends that when romney is out and as a write-in effort being staged in 1968 by bill's buddy hugh greg for rockefeller, pat buchanan writes a piece called "nels the knife" which says rockefeller trades in his republican friends, he cut out romney, he cut out javatz, et cetera. this piece appeared on the front page of the manchester union leader under the by line of william lobe, but pat had written it for him. and when pat and nixon fly into grenier field in manchester that morning for a campaign appearance, a guy runs up on the plane and excitedly hands nixon the union leader with william lobe's editorial. mixon reads it and says, pat, why can't you write like that? back on the democratic side, i think it shows the power of the newspaper in manchester because the guy who was the campaign manager for gene mccarthy had started the new hampshire sunday new

joining us on the program, former presidential pat buchanan , who served under nixon and reagan, and also the author of and greatest comeback," barbara perry, director of presidential studies and codirector of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. turmoil,8: america in live sunday at 8:30 eastern on c-span's washington journal and american history tv on c-span3. c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. sunday morning, >> c-span's washington journal live every day with policy that impact you. coming up, we'll talk about our arch for lives rally and teenagers engaging in political activism with political reporter -- and patrick buchanan and barbara perry, presidential tudies director at the miller center, will discuss the 1968 presidential campaign as part of c-span's 1968 america in turmoil series. be sure to washington, d.c. journal life at 7:00 eastern morning. join in the discussion. college professors teach a class describing the political culture at the time, the relationship and offbroadway production

his journey he started on the far left he traveled via pat buchanan and david duke and run the gamut until he arrived or he is now. >> i think if you're on that path your the going to turn all the way around or keep going and i think most people keep going. so his idea of nationalism was that we can't go around saying and believing that our race is better than any other race. we just have to say it's our race. to this day i don't even know if he believes that. we don't have to use lawyers or say mean things. he called it a compassionate form of nationalist which is a bit of an oxymoron but he said in an interesting way. the first time i met him was no longer riots and he would say these things sounded sensible but once he dug into a it came back to that idea of -- should the hate separate which to them everyone wants to be with the wrong people and that's what it comes down to. he wanted to read the national scene of this white supremacy so he didn't want to play with the kkk or the neo-nazis. in their view there founded on the idea of white supremacy. later he keeps traveling down t

. >> when you're talking about a george wallace or pat buchanan, the way that newt gingrich helped to talk the fire politics so deeply. but i was actually referring to was the final speech that ragging gave want you to imagine donald trump's anything remotely like the is a god bless him teeming with people of all kin kinds, living in harmony peace. the city with reports that hunt with commerce and creativity and if there had to be walls the walls had doors and the doors were open to anybody with the will and the heart to get here. that is how i saw ten see it still. so i apologize for my lack of sophistication. but that strikes me as a vision of america and a vision of immigrants and free trade that seems completely alien to the politics and political rhetoric that we have today. [applause] >> the title of our panel is, what is the future of american conservativism? were gonna come to how we get from where we are to where we want to be. i will also want to acknowledge it would be possible to put together something similar terms of liberals. but the dilemma is deeply entrenched i'm goi

tonight, former presidential on thete pat buchanan 1968 presidential campaign. and an economist on taxes economic growth. senate hearing on opioid addiction and its effect on american families. up next, american history tv. , 1968. back 50 years ago we are calling this series, "america in turmoil."

from pat buchanan in his day, fantastic for reagan. a huge turnover in the comms department.ope hicks close to the president. didn't have a huge background in the communications but trusted. i hear there is someone sort of close to her who might be thought of for the job. then we have mercedes schlaps fantastic and seasoned. what are your thoughts? >> this is an all-encompassing job. the press secretary is a big job. but the comms director does everything from working with the press secretary to make sure that the rapid response is in place, surrogates get out on the networks. >> events. events with the steelworker. mercedes worked on that. >> all the events whether it's harley davidson coming in. >> laura: get him on the road. he is great on the road. he is great on the road. >> right. the comms director job is extremely important. it's also with president trump who knows every article that is written. he watches all of the key moments that define the narrative. i have never seen a person more in tune -- >> they criticize him for that. you watch tv. >> but in regard to the c

host: for your insight, perspective men stories, barbara perry, and pat buchanan, thank you. >> we continue our series 1968 x sunday, with a look at civil rights and race relations. martin luther king jr.'s campaign, assassination in memphis, black power and the kerner commission. that is april 1, live at 8:30 a.m. eastern. next, we hear about george washington and his relationship with native americans from colin calloway, . the author explains that washington first interacted with native american tribes during the seven years war, and was the first to recognize their importance to the survival and growth of the young nation. george washington university hosted this event. it is 90 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> good evening. welcome to the seventh annual george washington lecture. my name is denver brunsman. i have the privilege of teaching a class at mount vernon. i would like to welcome the president and his wife, their first time to celebrating george washington's birthday with us. thank you so much. one thing historians love to study is how certai

us, former candidate pat buchanan who served under nixon and reagan and also the author of the greatest comeback, how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority. and barbara perry, codirector of the presidential oral history row graham at the university of virginia. watch 1968, america and turmoil come alive sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's washington journal and american history tv on c-span3. announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. saturday morning, we will talk about the march for our lives rally and teenagers engaging in political activism with eugene daniels. then former residential candidate patrick buchanan and barbara perry, presidential studies director at the miller center, will discuss the 1968 ofsidential campaign as part c-span's 1968: america in turmoil series. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. announcer: california democrat nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the u.s. house of representatives in 2007. american histor

bush lost a couple of early primaries to pat buchanan, that is a real problem.he 1980 election where jimmy carter faced ted kennedy right up to the convention itself was a problem for the sitting incumbent but look, we don't know what conditions are going to be like here in 2 1/2 years. melissa: yeah. >> we can say this, that president trump would be damaged if somebody ran credibly and got 15 or 20, or 25% of the vote consistently, because in essence making arguments that would allow democrats, if they were smart to pry some of those republicans or soft republicans away. the second thing is if president trump doesn't have the ability to use the main argument that incumbents generally use to avoid a challenge, that is to say party loyally. president trump did not support george h.w. bush, in, in 2004. he supported john kerry for president. i like bush tax cuts but that was yesterday. i agree with kerry on iraq war. that is today. within a year-and-a-half after the 2004 election president trump, excuse me, two years after the 2004 election, then mr. trump was cal

. >> bernie sanders, donald trump and pat buchanan on trade. >> there is very little difference but inresident trump has run a populist nonconventional agenda. on this. i think this has been consistent. i think the bottom line is, this suggestion quickly that somehow he's isolated, the secretary of treasury is still there. gary cohn will have a job in the administration. >> the perception and the talk, the chat here and everywhere else, i've been pushing back on this is this guy's home alone. all the big brains left him. he doesn't have smart people around him. is that a true story? >> i don't think he's home alone. certainly he's lost a lot of important people. >> he's still going to o got mad dog mattis. >> hope hicks was a huge, huge funs in his administration. i'd like to go back to. >> getting rid of a guy that doesn't agree with him, gary cohn doesn't agree with him. >> he said he likes having conflict and people give different views. the proof of that will be when we see who does he appoint to take over for gary cohn? does he like to continue having that chaos or not. >> what ha

let's walk down memory lane if we can. 1992, pat buchanan, president george h.w. bush.t win, but got 37%. that was seen as something that was crippling to george h.w. bush in the primary. go back to 1968, the democrats, lyndon johnson hadn't dropped out yet, he was at 50%, he won, but the fact that eugene mccarthy did so well drove him from the race. that's the concern here, that someone else shows pretty well, not necessarily even beating the president, correct? >> that's right. remember in 1980, i think teddy kennedy got 37% of the vote up there in new hampshire against incumbent jimmy carter at that time as well. when an incumbent president faces a primary challenge, even not a successful one, but a substantial one, where they can make a nick from inside his own party, that has proven to be quite troubling for the president running for re-election come the fall in november in the general election. >> indeed. remember, trips to new hampshire and iowa don't happen by accident as a rule. david chalian, always great to see you. thanks so much. >> you too, john. >>> anoth

he was a socialist in college, or in high school and then he is kind of traveled via pat buchanan and david duke and sort of these run the gamut of conservative until the rivalry is now and he still going further to the right. but his idea -- >> which is entirely unusual. >> no. you either going to turn all the we rent or you will keep going. i think most people keep going. so his idea of nationalism when a starting at with canales was we can't go around saying and believing that our race is better than any of the race. we just have to say that it is our race. that is what i preferred it to the statute know whether or not he believes it at that was his spiel anyway, that we can be nationalist but we don't have to use, we don't say mean things. he called it a compassionate form of nationalism, which is also bit of an oxymoron. >> like white people should do e white people. >> he would say in an interesting way, for instance, he was endorsed at one point by nation of islam. like the first time i made it was around the ferguson writes that he would say it's not right that account of ferg

whether you're talking about a a father coughlin, whether you're talking about a george wallace or a pat buchanan or the way that newt gingrich helped to foxfy our politics -- toxify our politics so deeply. but what i was actually referring to was the final speech that ronald reagan gave to the country. now, as i read this, i want you to imagine donald trump saying anything, you know, remotely liked that. he saidel i've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, god-blessed, teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. and if there had to be walls, the walled had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the hart to get here. -- the heart to get here. that's how i saw it and see it still. so aapologize for my lack of sophistication in understanding that, but that strikes me as a vision of america and a vision of immigrants and of free trade that seems completely alien to much of the politics and the poli

former presidential candidate pat buchanan who served under nixon and raisin reagan but also author ofthe greatest comeback, how nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority and barbara perry, director of residential studies and the oral history program at the university of virginia. watch 1968: america in turmoil live at 8:30 eastern at c-span's washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3.

joining us on the program, former presidential candidate pat buchanan and barbara perry director of presidential studies at the university of virginia. watch 1968 america in turmoil live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on washington journal and on america history tv on c-span 3. >>> congressional caucus for women's issues held a hearen ogco -- hearing on