heniretta wyeth did pat nixon. so she was an artist that was well known in my part of texas, because a lot of people ask her to do their portraits, because she was so close and so good. all of those portraits i like, aaron shikler also did jackie kennedy's very elegant and lovely portrait. and another painter that also lived in texas did the portrait of eleanor roosevelt that's downstairs. the ones where he not only does 3/4 portrait, but all around it are hands, busy, working at various things. and i think it's a style that people associate with him as a portrait painter, chandor, but also interesting to me, because

henrietta wyeth did pat nixon. so she was an artist that was well known in my part of texas, because a lot of people ask her to do their portraits, because she was so close and so good. all of those portraits i like, aaron shikler also did jackie kennedy's very elegant and lovely portrait. and another painter that also lived in texas did the portrait of eleanor roosevelt that's downstairs. the ones where he not only does 3/4 portrait, but all around it are hands, busy,s things. and i think it's a style that people associate with him as a portrait painter, chandor, but also interesting to me, because i knew he lived in weatherford. >> are there any other first ladies you look back to for inspiration? >> of course, i often think of my mother-in-law, when she lived here. she's my favorite first lady, and the one that i love the best. i think about the life they had here and we had many chances to visit them, but i also often think about ladybird johnson, because i knew her, since she was from texas, and admired her al

nixon himself said in his memoirs, frank nixon disdained stand pat republicans like harding and coolidge. in fact, frank nixon may have voted for fdv in 1932 and 36. big news. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. he read, in addition to "the l.a. times" as a young man, good housekeeping and the saturday evening post, both of which may have praised 1920s america. hoover's america, to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns. frank jorgenson, he said i entrust fdr and distrusted him. a rot of us fell he had been soft on communism. i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. john francis, he was a big fund-raiser in the san francisco bay area for nixon and many elections between 1952 and 1968. he told his own employer william randolph hearse, that governor fdr, who he met in '33 did not understand fundamentals of the national economy or the u.s. stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that a

i'd like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's work "pat nixon" the untold biography of her mother. she had access to materials not available to other beingiograpb. she provided outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and then in 1945 she detailed the story of how whittier banker herman perry contacted the nixons while they were in baltimore and that's september, 1945, and asked if richard was interested in running against the incumbent representative. and julie verified that her parents' savings, $10,000 went into-th presidential race. i'd like to talk about another biographer, morris who was an ivy league educated historian. he resigned in protest from the national security council after the cambodian incursion. he showed a strong underlying bias against nixon. at the same time he was actually a very methodical researcher, so you have to kind of weigh -- kind of proceed with caution these types of coverage. just to focus on the law firm days when nixon was working as a lawyer in whittier, his first case was morris portrays that as being saddled by nixon where he represented

tanya, tell us how you ended up meeting pat nixon. >> again, this was not planned, i was just working in front of the house, and all of a sudden she came up with a group, small group and came up and wanted to see things and she was delightful. very very pleasant person. it was very nice to talk with her, it was easy, very nice, simple person, not complicated, not stand offish, i remember her distinctly as being very pleasant and the crowds liked her. stayed for a little while then she walked through. >> now, the next big moment of course is the -- let's look at the next picture. >> we took them in the studio the cameramen were ready, they stopped there, and were talking which became in effect a debate on, there were two debates, everybody thinks there was one. one in the rca color studio, and that was captured on television, and later on moved through. >> what was supposed to happen we're going to see this in a moment. what was supposed to happen here? >>> what was supposed to happen we were going to show them color television, going around, the technicians and the other people they r

tanya, tell us how you ended up meeting pat nixon. >> again, this was not planned, i was just working in front of the house, and all of a sudden she came up with a group, small group and came up and wanted to see things and she was delightful. very very pleasant person. it was very nice to talk with her, it was easy, very nice, simple person, not complicated, not stand offish, i remember her distinctly as being very pleasant and the crowds liked her. stayed for a little while then

you created a new way to look at pat nixon.mary woods as we recall from that still photo of the 18 and a half minute gap. you looked at her as the loyal, trusted and spritely, loyal secretary and alex along with roosevelt that one of the most dynamic portraits. >> nixon did go to her 90th birthday party. she was still completely with it as she closed in on 90. watergate, she couldn't get enough of it. she was sort of my witching chorus in the novel. she was the person with the longest memory and could see the comedy of it. had been close to the nixones from the time he got to town in the 1940s. >> you've imagined her as to giving him advice of handling the scandal. >> she was in the nixon white house an awful lot but not quite as much as i have her there. >> just the value of creating a fictional account of watergate, what does this bring us? >> i think if you speculate on how it felt to people, what motivated them. rose mary goods with a good example. she comes down to that one awful memory of the photograph of her stretching.

agnew came down very hard on the protesters and caught the attention of some of nixon's men, particularly john mitchell and pat buchanan. nixon famously apparently said, although some nixon scholars question whether or not he ever actually said, that a vice president -- vice presidential running mate cannot help you, can only hurt you. in 1968, he just did not place all that much attention to it. and by the late spring of 1968 and into the early summer before the convention in miami, nixon began to sigh, well, i have to choose someone. he met with agnew several times. came away apparently impressed. although i have found actually in my research something that i found very interesting. in march of 1968, milton eisenhower wrote agnew a letter saying although dick nixon is one of my best friends, we need to do everything we can to make sure nixon doesn't get the republican nomination. agnew wrote back saying, i'm very interested in talking to you about this. if nixon had ever learned that agnew had done this, we can be sure that agnew never would have been the running mate. but nixon never performed any sort of b

nixon himself said in his memoirs, they disdain and stand pat republicans. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. in addition to the l.a. times, good house keeping on the saturday evening post, both of which may have pis america. hoover's america to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns. frank jorgenson, he said i entrust fdr and distrusted him. i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. he was in the san francisco bay yarea and he told his own employer that governor fdr who he met in national economy and the stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations." earlc. adams, a local guy, helped fund the 1950 run. "the new deal, the fair deal, the new frontier, all that is hog wash. it's a lot of rhetoric. builds up the pie in the sky for people and people get up hopes and ambitions and mean their goals never get me

nixon has was he couldn't win. he had been beaten in 1968, as you point out, beaten in 1962 by governor pat brown who reagan defeated, and they said nixon can't win. nixon used to tell me, well, the knock on me is i can't win, and the only way you're going to getd get rid of that is by winning. so we're going to have to go into the primaries and beat everybody in the primaries or we're not going to be a nominee. so we went in, and the only one to challenge him was romney, and we had him knocked out. percy, none of them got in. we were marching through the primaries. rockefeller sent lindsay out to oregon, and we said, look, rockefeller ran on the slogan, he cared enough to come in 1964 and win oregon. this is 1968 and he sends lindsay. he turned to john lindsay and said, vote for john lindsay. we crushed him in oregon. how can you not give in to the nomination when he won the delegates? we had about 690 delegates on the first ballot than he did in 650. but that was it. i mean, nixon was -- they felt a great sense of royalty and debt to nixon, and if he could prove to them he would win, they would go with it. the int

nixon. loyalty is the heart of pat's being.ge to pat, the world can never be better than the one he grew up in as a young boy. blessed sacrament church and grade school, gonzaga high school, georgetown university. no country will ever be better than the united states of america of the early 1950s. it's his deep loyalty t

king, but came down hard on the protesters and caught the attention of some of the nixon's men, but john mitchell and pat buchanan. by the late spring of 1968 and summers before the convention in miami, nixon goon decide i have to choose someone. although dix nixon was one of my best friends, we need to make sure he doesn't get the republican nomination. he wrote back saying i am interested in talking to you about this. if nixon never learned agnew did this, they could be sure he never would have been the running mate. but they are subjected before they are picked by the fbi. never asked any questions or asked anyone in maryland about agnew. perhaps he should have thought about them and chose agnew and the choice was mildly controversial and agnew would be one of the most controversial vice presidents in the country's history. after they were elected, nixon and agnew never developed any sort of working relationship whatsoever. although he was the first vice president to have an office in the west wing, he rarely saw nixon and nixon never consulted him on any substantive issue from the war in vietnam and

nixon. loyalty is the heart of pat's being.h, to neighborhood, to heritage, to pat the world can never be better than the one he grew up in as a young boy. gonzaga high school, georgetown university, no country will be better than the united states of america, of the early 1950s. his deep, loyalty to preserving that reality and all the cultural and ethnic aspects that has been his primal purpose and got him in trouble, not just but over the years. >> as the boys took back the streets of los angeles, block by block, my friends we must take back our cities and take back our culture

nixon. was he knew or different from 1960? >> he would tell me about certain people that had worked with him. he said pat, they're eight years older than they are, and i'm eight years younger. there was no question about it. nixon had matured in a way up there out of office, been humiliated with the defeat in 1962 in california. he had come to new york and written off politics and all of a sudden he had seen this opening. in 1965 when i went to work for him as the first aid, he came aboard. it was pat buchanan in the office with rosemary wood, a little tiny off off his office in the law firm and mrs. ryan who was patricia ryan nixon, the president's waif was down there handling phones for him in his law office calling herself miss ryan. he saw p in '65 and told me in '66 whether i run in '68 or not will depend on how well we do this year. if he we do as well as i think, a comeback of 40 seats or more in the house, i think the presidential nomination would be worth something and gave me the impression we would definitely go for it. >> what was he like? >> he was the most interesting man in a lot of ways i

featuring a mitt romney look alike though it struck some of us as looking more like a mix of pat buchanan and richard nixona warehouse with a mudslinging minnesota gun in an ad aptly titled rombo. >>> last year in chicago romney sent a box of half eaten pizza to the obama headquarters. >> much closer, much closer. oh, my goodness. >> that was her. >> oh. >> i'm thrilled to let people also know the other side of mitt which you might not all get to see and that's -- [ laughter ] oh, dear. >> apparently a funny bone runs in the family sun matt called dad a day before the 2008 michigan primary posing

. >> it worked well for nixon, and i asked about this to pat buchanan once and he said yeah we had ade. and here they are again doing it in different unique ways dalia. one is voter laws which happen to disenfranchise many of the blacks and latinos in the area. >> this really is the modern day poll tax. we're going to heavenly burden communities that don't have birth certificates or driver's licenses. this is all based on this fraudulent notion that there is a huge massive vote fraud problem in this country that is non-existent, not documented and absolutely impossible to do. so it's a non-solution to a non-problem that has the effect of very, very disproportionately disenfranchising voters. >> i love that point. let's call it even and this issue is complicated and you make up your own mind. when they should say this isn't right there is almost no voter fraud at all in the country. >> reporting a negative isn't very interesting. tonight at 11:00 no voting fraud and then the weather. that's not going to draw people in. and even if the main stream media doesn't often repeat the idea th

this was at a--he was, again, one of the--he was-- the-- president nixon had three speechwriters: buchanan--pat buchanan and bill safire and price. c-span: ray price. >> guest: ray price. and safire i had photographed in his other job. here is what they call the "plans committee," or also--or also the image-makers, if you wil--would. it was in herb klein's office every s--every saturday or whatever saturday they called it, and they dealt with all the problems that the president had negatively with the press and they tried to--to see how they could steer things positively in the way that the press was re--reporting him. and i'm sure this is the room and that was the meeting that i was approved to do my project. c-span: jeb magruder on the right. dwight chapin next to him. lyn nofziger there on the couch. herb klein at the back. >> guest: this is the "plans committee," the image-maker that i had just spoken about. and it's interesting that ron zieglar is not in the picture. he would come briefly and then leave. and herb klein alluded to this in his book, that--but these were the men that had to d

pat buchanan our special interview next point. i. i. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which nixon gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir first of all thank you very much for joining me you were writing and speaking out extensively about the bush era in iraq crusade under the banner of ending terror name in the world do you think that crusade is still long or the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial and what the united states should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own problems there no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have a risen and seized power in one place or another and as

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. >>> pat buchanan has been forced out at msnbc and he's not happy about it. the commentator and former nixonreasingly out of step at a network that the move sharply left. but he calls an incessant clamber from the left and he took his case to sean hannity at fox news. >> it is quite clear the people of media matters and the others are saying what buchanan says doesn't deserve to be heard. we don't want to challenge it. it should be perge purged from the air. i think they're engaged in a blacklist, sean. >> but he has no evidence they caved to outside pressure. it's true that liberal critics denounced his new book for its inflammatory look on race. and msnbc president phil griffin says they aren't appropriate for a national conversation. but buchanan has been saying this stuff for decades. he hasn't changed. it's msnbc that no longer felt comfortable with buchanan. said in a statement they strongly disagree with the decision to dump boou can nan. i suspect we haven't heard the

pat buchanan wrote a strategy memo outlining a strategy for nixon. they said it would cut the democratic party and country in half but that nixon would get far the larger half. it's time for liberals to start realizing we are now the larger half. right now, i am joined by michaela angela davis, a writer and former executive fashion and beauty editor for "essence" magazine. richard kim, my friend and colleague at the nation where he is executive editor of thenation.com, john mcwhorter and rebecca traister, a contributor to "the new york times" magazine and salon.com. thanks for coming back. the first most important bid of business, john, congratulations on the birth of your daughter. >> she's very cute. >> i saw a picture and i agree. >> we were swapping daughter pictures in the green room. okay. now that we've talked about that, am i right? are we -- are liberals winning the culture war? i felt like the whole week was this bizarre-o world where the script was playing out, i wanted to scream and say, no, no, no, you're winning. >> it came this moment,

pat brown. so in terms of the coverage and the baggage from these campaigns, just staying with him and lumbering throughout his career with most people and a lot of these books and these nixon biographies, if a kennedy, if president kennedy biography, if you turn to the index and all of the quotes were from victor laski or nigel hamilton or sigh hirsch, you would dismiss it, you would say it's pol emic and some original stuff, but it's skewed and books that do this with nixon have become part of the canon, so that's something that in the future, the papers are here. the nixon library are now the 12 presidential libraries, the state of the art here are archival and all of the materials are here so yorba linda will become the center of international mix and research with the storying why ravi of the nixon administration can be seen in the more general -- not things were done, anyway, a more generous perspective. thank you. [ applause ] >> i want to invite the audience into the conversation. questions, reactions, for any of our panelists, there are two people running around with microphone s around the lecture hall. please don't speak until you have the microphone. the first q

pat brown. so he, in terms of the coverage and the baggage from these campaigns just staying with him and lumbering through all of his career. but a lot of these books, these nixon biographies, it would be like if a kennedy -- president kennedy biography, if you turn to the index and all the quotes were from victor laskey or nigel hamilton, you'd dismiss it. you'd say it's a polemic and some original stuff that's skewed. books that do this with nixon have become part of the cannon. so i think that's something that -- that in the future, now that -- thanks to the archives, the papers are here. the nixon library is the 12th of the now 13 presidential libraries state-of-the-art archives. yorba linda will be the center of nixon research and thanks to books like mel small's, the liftography of the nixon administration can be seenn perhaps a more general, not generous, because good and bad things were done. a more generous perspective. thank you. [ applause ] >> i want to invite the audience into the conversation. questions, reactions for any of our panelists here. there are two people with microphones who will be running around the lecture hall. so i will call on you

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pat within hours of her birth. the ryans moved to southern california for a better life and settled on a small truck farm in arteeshia -- artesia. a young person of tremendous courage and determination, mrs. nixon had her heart set on higher education and work continually to secure the necessary funds. she drove an elderly couple to the east coast and worked as an x-ray technician in new york. returning, she graduated magna cum laude. she held part-time jobs on campus and was a department store salesclerk and a hollywood extra, appearing in several motion pictures, including the 1935 film "becky sharp." mrs. nixon taught at at a high school in the late 1930's where she met her husband who had returned to his hometown to practice law after graduating from duke law school. approximate richa ryan and richard nixon were married in 1940, and was true of so many couples their age, she worked here at home while her husband served in the military in world war ii as a naval officer in the pacific. mrs. nixon campaigned with her husband as he was elected to the house of representatives in 1946 and 1948. and to the united states senate in 1950. there's a charming photograph of the nixons with their infant