louis, missouri, where pat buchanan spent many time in the 1960s. good morning, donna. >> caller: that's true. good morning. i have a question for pat. but first, i would just say, i was an independent and went to california and was a delegate for you in 2000 and i had a nice chat with brian lamb while i was there. >> and my question is, there was a time when i supported the vietnam war in the mid-60s. i was in high school and graduated in '66. you knew it was unwinnable, though, if all the chinese pouring in there, with as they did in korea. why didn't we handle vietnam like truman handled korea? i always wondered that? >> well, with truman. >> it was general eisenhower who came in and decided that that we're not going for victory. and you had a dmz where the two armys were lined up. and he threatened the chinese and he got basically an armistice. with vietnam, you had a -- you had a much different story the chinese were not in vietnam. the north vietnamese were in the south. it's a very good question. looking back, and anybody that's been involved

and pat buchanan. you wanted to respond? >> i had a brother who wanted to go, broke his foot during are jump and he went during the tet offensive. i was a journalist in 1965. at george washington university there. i speaking on behalf, in favor of johnson and kennedy's policies and ideas. but the demonstrations -- it was already -- it was not violent by then. but there was real hostility, especially on the elite campuses. they had sds members march and i would go out and talk to some of those kids before they became violent. you're right. the war was the major issue going on but i will say that after dr. king was assassinated, i had riots in 100 cities, my how many town here in d.c. was partly burned down, 7th street, 14th street, marines, armed troops were in the city. law and order and the war in vietnam became the issues. >> that's my next question. to try to put this in perspective, you had president johnson who narrowly won the new hampshire primary on march 12th and then senator concern did i entering the race on march

he had a guy working for him by the name of pat -- >> buchanan? >> buchanan. pat buchanan. and pat buchanan called me and said we would like to talk to you about working with us on our seat on the maritime staff. i said pat, i am just leaving for vietnam. and when i get back, i'll talk to you. i went to vietnam in january 1967, and the reason they probably should have sent me, they were 80 american flag cargo ships stuck in saigon harbor because they could not be unloaded because nobody knew how over there. so, i worked with then teddy gleason who was the ioa president, the ioa being the international assurance association, and teddy got a crew together and was taking them over. i went about the same time in january. we had a much bigger merchant marine at that time than we do today, but still, 80 ships being tied up, and in that length of time, nobody would know how long -- undersecretary baldwin, who was the secretary of the navy, came over. i knew him from having done stories with him at the pentagon. he came over, he took a helicopter ride around, and i said to him, you

pat. >> buchanan? helen: pat buchanan. pat buchanan called me and said, we would like to talk to you about working with us on our maritime stuff. i said, that, i'm just leaving for vietnam, and when i get back, i will talk to you. i went to vietnam in january of 1967. and the reason my publisher sent me, there were 88 american flag cargo ships stuck in saigon harbor because they couldn't be moated, because nobody knew how over there. so i worked with teddy gleason, he was the ila president about the ila being the international , longshoremen association, and teddy got a crew together and was taking them over. i went about the same time, in january. we had a much bigger merchant marine at the time that we do today, but still, 80 ships being tied up at the length of time, nobody would know how long. undersecretary baldwin, who was the under secretary of the navy came over. i knew him from having done stories with him at the pentagon. and, he came over and we took a helicopter ride around. i said to him, you are never going t

you think a pat buchanan. a warrior from the right to it than with next and for a couple of years at that point and was writing speeches and was a campaign strategist. a young man named john c -- john seers. the nixon candidacy and white house incubated the career is of a whole generation of center-right, some practitioners of government, some theorists, it's really replenished the stock of ideas and the republican party. host: from california, republican line. i am endowed with the law enforcement powers and i have always wondered why there -- in this country and why so many people in the african origin call themselves black in this country? host: tim in atlanta, georgia. caller: i've heard rumors that martin luther king and robert kennedy were forming an alliance to wear if kennedy was elected, king would become vice president. do you know if they ever got together and actually formed any kind of political alliance? guest: i've not heard that particular story. no doubt that they were sympathetic to each othe

and there is a right and 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 of javits, etc. this piece appeared on the front page of the manchester union leader under the byline of william loeb. but, pat have written it for him. when pat and nixon fly into grenada field in manchester, that morning for a campaign appearance, a guy runs up on the plane and excitedly hands nixon a union leader with william loeb's editorial. nixon 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 new. lisa's -- newspaper in the campaign. how the hell biller clark and bj mcquaid only got along, is beyond my understanding. but blair later became president of cbs news when john kennedy was president. he later edited the nation magazine, and i became friends with him, he's a nice guy. my uncles who were reporters on that paper, along with the kid who according to my father only got the job because hi

we cut to 24 years later and pat buchanan runs against george h.w. bush. for the president who gets challenged by a serious challenger within his own party. >> that is very true. you are the leading theater on 1968. it is true that there are not great models for the challenger. on the republican side, the primary challenge everyone thinks of is 1976, reagan versus ford and in that case the party was really split. reagan found something that was already there. what john kasich is asked to do is take a party shrunken but united behind donald trump and embark on a martyr mission for himself. >> how would you compare it to the buchanan run that looked hopeless from the start, surprised us with its strength and ultimately died in the primary season. and george h.w. bush could never quite recover from that to go on to what was expected by most observers to be the re-election of an incumbent president. >> i think it goes to something that david referenced. that is the challenger finding something that is there. pat buchanan, very much like donald trump in his ris

johnson, george wallace, ronald reagan, and we hear remarks from former staffer pat buchanan as well as barbara perry. starts atistory tv 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. sen. casey: -- for discussion, we are joined by richard kauzlarich. we were talking about the grid, what does that include. that is the very basic question because my connection to the greatest when i come home at night and throw the electrical switch and i think most people think that is the most important part, but you have the production of energy which may come from coal, gas, nuclear power, you have its transmission, but ultimately it goes to the consumers. the grid is that network and that is what makes it so complicated and vulnerable because there are many points of entry. it is not just the physical grid it is a cyber grid as well. , host: who is responsible for protecting the grid and how do you do that on something so vast? guest: that is one of the things we are working on at george mason. you have regulators in government at the federal level and the state level. you have private companies that own the pro

"pat buchanan's gonna take as much from the right as i take from the left." - some nader raidersnr andd a petition denouncing him.fo - ed a website, www.nadersraidersforgore, and much to myurprise, i've had over 11,000 hits as of this morning. - i would rather stab myself in the eye than stab him in the back after the years i spent with him. i wouldn't sign, i didn't sign, least,t i explained to him, at t he should avoid popular states that could go either way. - he pledged he would not campaign in states where he would make a difference. he has broken that pledge, and it's with a really heavy heart that all of us haveecided now that we can no longer support him. - it was pretty clear e that florida was gonna one of the knife edge states, that it could very well be decisive. nader had no business being ly that ballot-- absoluo business. - this is decision 2000 election coverage. - the election night, we had been wahing the polls, and we knew that in some states ralph was getting double-digit returns,an in other states we saw our polls go down. we thought that the democratic party had b

by 1992 he's so important his support of pat buchanan helps bring george h.w. bush down in the primary. '96 you have fox, msnbc, cnn was founded in '80, of course. so you had this period where we did have, more or less with the kind of -- part of it also is that's the media world in which most of us grew up. we're accustomed to this idea of cronkite and the "new york times" and there was a conversation. >> we're clinging onto the idea that's what it should be. that's what the american way of journalism is. my question is, is it? >> no. it wasn't all that great. joe mccarthy knew how to manipulate that system. he would call a press conference for 11:00 in the morning because he knew the papers closed at noon. he would say i'm seeking a communist in demy name s moines. he would wait until 11:00 p.m., headlines across the country, redoubles effort. he rode that to power but television helped undo him. because when people could watch him, they didn't want that. he rose because of intense coverage and fell because of intense coverage. that's the mysterious cycle her

it can be drawn upon by pat buchanan or trump. it's drawn an by people not being beholden to international institutions. many of them do not trust organizations like the united nations or the various pacts. suspicion of foreigners goes deeply in the american psyche. for this reason i think isolationism or the isolationism impulse is within us and will continue. >>> as i said, beverly gage could not make it, so i asked her if it would be all right if i read selective portions of the paper that she submitted, and she said that i should do so. i'm not going to read her whole paper by any means, but i will read a few key passages that i think convey the essence of it. i think it's an important paper, and leaves a lot for us to think about. so i begin. on march -- on may 21st, 1940 white house aid franklin roosevelt's aid steven early dispatched a fresh stack of telegrams to the fbi. quote, the president thought you might like to look them over, noting the names and address of the senders. early suggested to fbi director j edgar hoover

there was an interesting quote from pat buchanan. banner of america first as well. he said you know, the great thing about mccarthy was that he did to the american establishment what the new deal democrats had done to the business elite and wall street. he forever destroyed the american people's belief in their natural leadership. and this again stemmed from the battles before and leading up to world war ii itself. and even the talk we have nowadays about the political correctness in buckley's view went back to this. not just before the war, not just during the war, even after the war, any kind of revisionist scholarship was beyond the bounds of polite discourse, it was not allowed. harry elmer barnes was ostracized from the profession for resisting it. and buckley was a symbol of the liberal establishment's coercive conformity. buckley believed in coercive conformity, not just of the left, of the right. but as he saw it, the left would not admit that pearl harbor and everything leading up to pearl harbor was the foundational error of the entire subsequent post-war

there is a quote from pat buchanan, who picked up this banner of america first as well, he said the greathing about mccarthy was that he did it to the american establishment what the new deal democrats had done to the business elite and wall street. he forever destroyed the american people's belief in their natural leadership. this again stemmed from the battles before and leading up to world war ii itself. even the talk we have nowadays about political correctness, buckley went back to this, because not just before the war, not just during the war, even after the war, any kind of revisionist scholarship is beyond the bounds of polite discourse, it was not allowed. harry elmer barnes, to use one example, was ostracized in the profession for persisting in revisionism. mr. buckley was a symbol of the liberal establishment absolute corrosive conformity. this is a little hypocritical because buckley himself believed in course of conformity. he wanted to replace it with his own. as he saw it, the left would not admit that pearl harbor and everything leading up to pearl harbor was the foundatio

our guests are pat buchanan who worked on nixon's campaign in 1968, and barbara perry, presidential studies director at the university of virginia's miller center. first, president lyndon b. johnson in a televised oval office address when he surprised the

what would you describe i guess maybe probably in your book and maybe you can touch on it, and pat buchanan joined in the type of people that go into special projects. how did they raise their head or have their hand raised for them to go down there path if you are involved with, versus other divisions of the military. >> you heard the term shanghai? >> yes. even occur a special forces. what kind of training collection source did you go through to get into special projects? blackmail. you had to be a triple volunteer percival. you had to volunteer for special forces. he had to volunteer for vietnam and you had to volunteer to be in private. anytime you could quit. i mean, you had people that actually quit. to this day, there was no stain on their manhood or anything because this was about as high pressure as you can get. the only thing that comes close to a i think it's been over 70 because every day could be your last one. it is something that some of you recognize. but as part of the special selection, we ran a 10 course. it was a recon team leader. i was a select for us. one was his assi

pat buchanan was being egged on by donald duke. he would leave the reform party and did not want to be associated with it. david duke was at this rally. he has changed on his posture toward this david duke element. look at the hard edge, the bitterness and the anger, racial anger. he gives, by this, he gives permission for the expression of just sort of flat out racist statements that would not have heard ten years ago and would have been rejected by any previous president that i can think of going back to woodrow wilson. republican or democrat. and trump encourages it and brings it out into the sunshine and i think the party will pay a price, the country is paying a price. >> thank you all for joining us. and be sure to tune in on sunday. msnbc, "breaking hate," 9:00 p.m. sunday night. on monday, chris will be back and sit down with omarosa talking about her new book "unhinged." >>> coming up, rick gates copped a plea. the mueller team is not done with him. what role is he playing in the russia probe. next, chris matthews talked t

pat buchanan who ran a 1992 republican campaign against the incumbent president george h.w. bush was anti-free trade, he was anti-immigration, he believed that international institutions that had kind of propped up the situates in terms of its role in the world post 1945 that those institutions were eroding american sovereignty. so i think that there is an alternative tradition on the right that hasn't necessarily always been ascendant, but that there are lines that we can draw from trump to -- to, say, the 1960s, elements of at least the conservative movement of the republican party in the '60s. >> i want to turn to the general election in just a moment, but first pamela from maryland, democrats line, good morning. >> caller: yes. hello. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say that an earlier caller, kevin, is absolutely correct about the republican party and particularly the conservative movement, how it's undergirthed by race and class and in an anonymous interview in 1981 lee atwater he laid out, he spelled out the southern strategy that was used in 1968 and he sai

helen: pat buchanan. said,chanan called me and we would like to talk to you on ourorking with us maritime stuff. i said, that, i'm just leaving for vietnam, and when i get back , i will talk to you. in january ofnam 1967. and the reason my publisher sent 88 american flag cargo ships stuck in saigon bebor because they couldn't moated, because nobody knew how over there. so i worked with teddy gleason, he was the ioa president about the ioa being the international andshoremen association, teddy got a crew together and .as taking them over i want about the same time, in january. had a much bigger merchant marine at the time that we do today, but still, 80 ships being tied up at the length of time, .obody would know how long wasrsecretary baldwin, who the under secretary of the navy came over. i knew him from having done stories with him at the pentagon. over and we took a helicopter ride around. i said to him, you are never going to get the ships unloaded as they are. from here on, you have to use container

it for hanging chads, butterfly ballots, katherine harris, elderly jews mistakenly voting for pat buchanan in palm beach, but there was another whole part of that election. which is that florida is one of the only states in the country that prevents ex felons from voting -- something i will talk about later. the state claimed that all of these acts silence, even after they served their time, were on the voting rolls and needed to be. urged. so they sent to this list of suppose it asked felons to be be purged. but first off, the purge was discriminatory. african americans were 44% of the voter purge list, even though they were only 11% of the population in florida. secondly, the purge was inaccurate. what happened was, people showed up to vote on election day in florida in 2000, they were wrongly told they were felons, and cannot vote. after the election, the ncaa naacp sued the state and the state showed that 12th thousand voters were wrongly deemed felons and purged. that was 30 times the margin of election victory for george bush in the state. some people than one lesson after florida, w

relationship with butina and the second one is george o'neill jr., a rockefeller heir and worked on the pat buchananling up about butina's alleged influence campaign financed by support from the russian billionaire and with deep ties to the russian presidential administration and the word you can't use in the trial, the oligarch's son. and the senate today unanimously approved turning over that transcript, what she told them and details about the billionaire to prosecutors as well as the defense lawyer. buzzfeed is hot on the trail and they're reporting investigators are looking at $300,000 in these transactions by butina and erickson, which includes $90,000 sent to or from a russian bank. the transactions were first flagged by anti-fraud investigations at wells fargo in some cases found no economic business or lawful purpose to explain them. those records also handed over to the fbi. joining me now is one of those authors of those scoops, buzzfeed investigative reporter, anthony cormier. i guess i should start with, wow, there is a lot here. >> a lot going on. the $300,000, what does it mean? >> we

we hear from former nixon campaign staffer and columnist, pat buchanan, as well as barbara perry, the miller center presidential studies director. starting at 8 p.m. eastern on sees and

. >> 25 years ago, 30 years ago when pat buchanan's presidency rose in 1992 against george h.w. bush and i started hearing in certain precincts of the right. i worked at the "washington times" at the time and there were people on staff and repopulating sort of early trumps of. they started talking about european americans. in this is ludicrous. like one thing to say you are an american jew as we both are. the defining characteristic of my life. stats and have to say i'm an american because this is a very big thing. but it's also, i do it because -- but then they -- europeans are an absolute majority. they're attempting to don the mantle of an oppressed minority will be in the majority and that was a forerunner to what is happening now where white americans still constitute. but the idea is the only way you can't stand being in a society that is atomized in this fashion is to retreat into a sub tribe. >> i think this is a huge problem and again, i am all for calling out the problems on their own site, but this is a problem that is a cultural problem in the left commanding heights

he opposes pat buchanan on the one hand, and then subsequently when the real beliefs emerge, his vicious's a cornucopia of hate that's been brashly articulated of a man of manifest lack of serious coherence, chaotic intelligence and the lack of an ability to really express himself by not only pulling upon the strands of history, but refusing to take into consideration what's going on today. so i think in one sense if we're going to talk about -- if we're going to be honest about donald trump, he has not helped black people, he has not enabled african-american people to move forward. he's riding a crest and a wave of economic prosperity put in place by his predecessor barack obama. he has refused to acknowledge the centrality of pollutiice brutality, and unarmed black people being assaulted by police in this country. the reality is that donald trump, while claiming through rhetoric to be for the blacks, what he has done is undermine the kbasty of african-american people to exist in a country where it's not only about the economic facts and the wherewithal we contend with, it is about the

the system as follows, three bullet points, key members of the staff including our old friend, pat buchanan. should be requested to inform us as to who they feel we should be giving a hard time. wow. number two. the project coordinator should then determine what sorts of dealings these individuals have with the federal government and how we can best screw them. forgive me but that's literally what he says, how we can best screw them. for example, grant availability, if they have contracts, litigation, prosecution, et cetera. number three, the project coordinator then should have access to and the full support of the top officials of the agency or department in proceeding to deal with the individuals. this was the first term of the richard nixon administration. this also ended up being part and parcel of the re-election campaign effort in 1972. this white house operation eventually turned toward democrats running for congress in the senate and people associated with democratic presidential campaigns in addition to enemies they identify as critical of the administration in general. this wasn'

beach county, who in all likelihood ought they were voting for al gore had their votes counted for pat buchananunted at all. normally, at that point, you could be planning the transition, you would be having meetings about personnel, and there we sat, and nobody really quite knew what to do. - should the verdict that has been announced thus far be confirmed, we'll be ready, and i think that's what the country needs to know. - the battle over the ballot moves from t counting room to a courtroom. - when the supreme court at 2:00 halted the vote, i knew that was over. because, you know, en scalia and those guys get involved you're like, "they're not-- oh, what, really?" - i think that the reality was er bush had a better ion and it was a sufficient operation to prevail when the other guys made mistakes. - my husband's a lawyer, and when we heard the supreme court had stopped , i called him. and i said, what does this mean? the supreme court has apparently stopped the counting and he said i think it means we're moving to washington. - i know american wants reconciliation and unity. i know americans

and giorgio neil junior, a rockefeller heir, a conservative writer and he worked on the pat buchananickson. the details are piling up about her alleged influence campaign in the u.s. financed by a russian billionaire with deep ties to the russian presidential administration. to use a word you can't use in the manafort trial, that oligarch had a son who worked as a volunteer on trump's campaign. now sources are saying butina first told the senate about this funding source in her interview there. today the senate unanimously approved turning over that transcript what she told them and the details about the billionaire to prosecutors, as well butina's defense lawyer. buzzfeed reports federal investigators hot on the trail and reporting that the investigators are looking at $300,000 in these transactions by butina and erickson which includes $90,000 sent to or from a russian bank. the transactions were actually first flagged by anti-fraud investigations at wells fargo who in some cases found "no an apparent economic business or lawful purpose to explain them." those records also now hand

pat buchanan ran a 1992 republican campaign against the incumbent president, george h.w. bush. he was anti-free trade. he was anti-immigration. he believed that international institutions that had puffed up the united states in terms of its role in the world, that those institutions were eroding american sovereignty. i think there is a tradition on the right, they haven't always been suspended, but there are lines we can draw from trump to, say, the 1960s. the conservative movement and the republican party of the 1960s. >> pamela from maryland on the democrats line. >> thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say an earlier caller is absolutely correct about the republican party, particularly the conservative movement, how it is underwritten by race and class. in an anonymous interview, they spelled out the strategies used in 1958 and he said in 1954, you could say the n-word. in 1968, you can't say the n word. so say stuff like civil unrest. one of your guests said ronald reagan was as electable as goldwater. i am listening to the radio so i can't see who said that, but goldw

i think we see that with trump, pat buchanan who ran in 1992 a republican campaign against the incumbent president george h.w. trade.s anti-free he was anti-immigration. he believed international institutions had propped up the united states in terms of its role in the world. those institutions were eroding american sovereignty. and i think there is an alternative tradition on the right that hasn't necessarily always been ascendant, but there are lines we can draw from trump to the 1960's, elements of the conservative movement. steve: i will return to the general election, but first pamela from maryland, democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say an earlier caller is correct about the republican party and particularly the conservative movement, how would his undergirded by race and class. in an anonymous interview in 1981, atwater laid out the southern strategy that was used in 1968. he said in 1954 you could say in 1960word -- n word. you can't. so civil unrest and fiscal responsibility. one of you gets there and says ronald reagan was the electable goldwater,

pat buchanan who ran against george h.w. bush was antifree trade. he was anti-immigration. he believes that international institutions that -- i think there's a tradition on the right that hasn't always been ascended but there are lines that we can draw from trump to say the 1960s elements of the republican party in the '60s. >> first pamela from maryland. democrats line. good morning. >> caller: yes, hello. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say that an earlier caller kevin is absolutely correct about the republican party and particularly the movement how it's undergirded by race and class. and an anonymous interview is 1981, lee atwater, he laid out, he spelled out the southern strategy that was used. and he said you can say the "n" word. in 1968 you can't because it'll back force on you. say things like states rights. civil unrest. and fiscal responsibility. then one of your guest there is said ronald reagan was the electable gold water. i'm looking to the radio, so i can't see who said that. but goldwater was a vocal opponent. and he wants his home state of louis

i think we see that with trump, pat buchanan who ran a 1992 republican campaign against the incumbent president, george h.w. bush was anti-free trade. who was anti-immigration. he believed that international institutions that had kind of propped up the united states in terms of its role in the world post 1945, that those institutions were eroding american sovereignty. and i think, i think that there's an alternative tradition, on the right. that hasn't necessarily always been ascendant. but there are lines you can draw from trump to, to say the 1960s, elements of the conservative movement in the republican party in the 1960s. >> pamela from maryland, democrats' line, good morning. >> good morning, hello, thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say that earlier caller, kevin, was absolutely correct, about the republican party, and particularly the conservative movement, how it's undiverted by race and class. in an anonymous interview in 1981 lee atwater laid out, spelled out the southern strategy that was used in 1968. he said in 1954, you could say the "n" word. in 1968, you can't s

another person on that staff was pat buchanan. and he had been with nixon before he was president. and he had -- nixon himself fired buchanan, based on reputation sometime in the mid '60s when he was still getting ready to run again for president in '68. i have heard buchanan tell the story that nixon, who worked very, very hard on his speeches, probably harder -- as hard or harder than most of his successors since then -- that nixon -- he remembers nixon saying why can't i get speech writers like woodrow wilson? they said, well, mr. president, woodrow wilson wrote his own speeches. >> i think we have one more. >> could each of you share a few anecdotes about mistakes or screwups that you either made or witnessed in the white house? >> i'll jump -- i'll jump to that one. the -- we were very proud of our fact checking operation in the speech writing office. the fact checking operation was 100% successful. but shortly before we had an up and running fact check operation, i remember there was a reference to pope john paul leading a flock of a trillion. well, there aren't a trillion pe

staff wasrson on that pat buchanan. he had been with next and before -- with nixon before he was president. he hired buchanan based on reputation when he was still getting ready to run again for president in 1968. buchanan tells the story, next nixon, who worked hard on his speeches, as hard or harder than most of his successors since them, he renders nixon saying that remembers -- he remembers can't iying, wh get speechwriters like woodrow wilson?" well, woodrow wilson wrote his own speeches. [laughter] >> i think we've got one more. >> could you share a few anecdotes about mistakes or screw ups you either made or witnessed in the white house? john: i will jump to that one. we were very proud of our fact checking operation in the speech office. it was 100% successful. shortly before, we had an up and running fact checking operation, i remember there was a reference to pope john paul leading a flock of one trillion. well, there aren't one trillion people on earth. it was a billion. but, it was during budget season. ever

we hear from former nixon campaign staffer and columnist, pat buchanan, as well as barbara perry, the miller center presidential studies director. starting at 8 p.m. eastern on -- on c-span3. the majority of the country begins to see that these litigants, these people, these real people had a real injury and our court addressed system, our commitment to the rule of law, our commitment to decency is such that i think most of our decisions are accepted overtime. >> that was supreme court justice anthony thomas the night conferencing, you, just days ahead of retiring from the nation's highest court. ronald reagan renominated him in 1987. he was not the president must first choice, it was rather his third choice. he took his seat on the court the very 18th, 1988. for over three decades he ate a major role in some of the most complex constitutional matters in america religious liberty, school prayer, college admissions, gay rights, and prisoners rights as well areas often called the swing vote on the court, today we will take a impact ofat the justice kennedy, several existing cases on the

and there is a write-in effort being staged in 1968 by bill's buddy hugh gregg for rockefeller, pat buchanan writes a piece called "nelse the knife" which said rockefeller trades in his republican friends. he cut out romney, he cut out javitz, et cetera. this piece appeared on the front page of the manchester union leader under the byline of william lobe. but pat had written it for him. and when pat and nixon fly in to grenier field in manchester that morning for a court appearance, a guy runs up the field and excitedly hands him the editorial. nixon 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 news with my dad in 1946, a gentleman named blair clark. how the hell blair clark and b.j. mcquaid ever got along, and they only did for a year, is beyond my understanding. but blair later became president of cbs news when john kennedy was president, and he later edited the "nation" magazine, and i became f

. >> kathleen kennedy townsend i want to share a column by pat buchanan who joined us to look at 1968. he said the year america came apart. among the things he talked about was the race riots following the assassination of dr. martin luther king, the loss of your father and simmering anti-war movement which made democrats bitter and humphrey seen as a johnson lackey and the american establishment. the best and brightest had been broken at the wheel of vietnam. your thoughts. >> well, i think that vietnam did destroy a lot of the establishment. because they knew that they weren't winning it and they were still sending people over to vietnam to die in a war that they knew was not going well. and they were dishonest with the american people. and it was a disaster. and as i would say, and i think historians could say, you were not going to win that war. if you don't have the people in south vietnam, the government didn't want to fight, you can't prop it up from outside. it is so ironic and sad when you think of how many people died, both vietnamese and americans, and now we can have good