and a very special welcome to an expert on pat nixon, julie nixon eisenhower. julie serves as a member of the board of the richard nixon foundation. pat nixon was admired and liked by a broad spectrum of people at home and abroad, regardless of their political leanings. she had a talent for connecting people and putting them at ease. no other first lady traveled so much until pat nixon set out into the world. sh traveled to over 75 countries, most famously china and russia with the president, but also on her own libera, venezuela, southeast asia and more. in 1970 her immediate and heartfelt trip to peru after a devastating earthquake earned her the gratitude of the people and the government. with a greeting heads of states, introducing herself to children, pat nixon was always a caring and gracious lady. now i will turn you over to sandy quinn, the vice president of the nixon foundation. he was an assistant to richard nixon, and later served on the staff of governor ronald reagan and u.s. senator george murphy. he was head of marketing for walt disney world in

pat nixon traveled to more than 75 countries during her time in the white house. her daughter, julie nixon eisenhower, offers her own recollections and insights. this program is about 90 minutes. >> good evening. i'm from the archives of the united states and it's a pleasure to well i don't mean you to william g. mcgowan theater this evening. we are celebrating first lady, pat nixon. and a special welcome to the c-span audience. before we begin, i would like to tell you about two programs coming up later this month. on wednesday, april 18th, we'll have a special discussion on slavery freedom to observe the 150th anniversary of the d.c. emancipation. the next week on monday, april 23rd, we'll host a nipgs nixon legacy forum called wages peace, nixon and politics in the middle east. to learn more about these and all our programs and exhibits, consult the monthly calendar of events and there are sign-up sheets in the lobby where you can receive it by regular mail or e-mail. you'll also find brochures about other national archives exhibits and programs. another way to

those giant pandas that came to the zoo in 1972 came there because of pat nixon. julie, how did your mother score two giant pandas from the chinese? >> well, it was one of the banquets, and my mother was seated next to joanneli, the chinese they were heavy smokers. there was a silhouette of panda cigarettes. they were making conversation. she thought he was very intellectual. she enjoyed meeting and talking with him. at one point, she put her hand out and talked to the cigarettes and said they're so adorable i love them. he said, i'll give you some. my mother said, cigarettes? he said, no, pandas. that was the beginning of the whole thing of giving the american people two pandas. in return, the united states gave the chinese two musk oxen who are very dull animals. from loma linda, my favorite thing from the exhibit out there is the cage that one of the pandas was sent to the united states in. and there were two cages. and it's about -- maybe about the size of this table, maybe a little longer. very primitive. i mean, it look its like a dog or cat cage. apparently

timomenton the life of our country and to help everybody learn more about what an extraordinary woman pat nixon was. we worked for a great team of designers and part of what they did was the design process as they read the book about mrs. nixon and each one came to me and said you know especially the first guy who was old enough to rep t remember the nixon years. he said i shouldn't say this, but i have a crush on pat nixon. she was an amazing woman, as a representative of our country around the world and an amazing woman and did so much and was such a great role model for all of us. i'm sorry about the videos. i hope that we will have them online at the nixonfoundation.org. one was a tribute to her on the floor of the house and statements from first ladies. so i hope that you will go on to the website to see that video. i'm sorry we weren't able to see that today. >> and barbara bush begins her comments i love pat nixon. so thank you all for coming tonight. >> the life of a sailor includes scrubbing the deck in the morning, working on the sails climbing aloft but by the end of the day you are

pat nixon worked at the broadway hollywood. tavis: richard nixon's wife. we have two famous people from their past. >> and never met her. momma was tough. she went to night school. she got her aa degree. she was studying law. she was interested. she got me into classical music. she got me into art. there was a story that my father won an award for window dressing in a grocery store in toronto. he got a national award. i always thought that was whatever. folklore. two weeks ago my sister found a book of my father's on window dressing. for stores. i started crying. i could not believe it. tavis: there was creativity in your family. >> his sister became a dress designer. she had a following, not a big one. it was indigenes somewhere. genes somewhere. crazy. tavis: runs in your dna. you mentioned at los angeles city college. education institution, city colleges, state-funded programs, are under such attack across the country. when the economy gets tight, never mind what we say, we end up cutting education. oftentimes, before anything else. what does it say tha

at 9:00 remembering first lady pat nixon who traveled to other 75 countries during her time in the white ambassador of good will. at 10:00 p.m. we exexplore harvard's relationship with women since the university's founding 375 years ago. american history tv in primetime all week on c-span3. and on c-span2, watch some of book tv's weekend programs in primetime. tonight, a look at american journalism. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern christopher daly in his book covering america captures the culture of journalism and major news events. at 9:55, timothy gay tells the story of the war against hitler through the eyes of five reporters. ant at 11:10, beb bradley's 45-year career. book tv in primetime all week on c-span2. >>> this weekend head to the state capitol named in honor of thomas jefferson with book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri. saturday at noon eastern. literary life with book tv on c-span2. gene car han on family life inside the governor's mansion from her book "if walls could talk." also a butcher's bill ark business contract, a provisions list from ancient me

and then first lady pat nixon. this weekend head to the state capitol named in honor of thomas jefferson. st saturday at noon eastern, family life inside the governor's mansion. from ancient mesthopotamia and on sunday on american history tv. >> at one time this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. >> a warden takes you through the state jail. once a month, we explore the life in cities across america. this weekend from jefferson city. on c-span 2 and 3. now former u.s. representative pat schroeder talks about women in politics in the 1970s. she was one of 14 women in the u.s. house. she talks about the obstacles that women and other minorities faced in the 1970s. this is an hour. praus plaus [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you so much. so sweet of you. thank you, how wonderful. how nice to see so many of you. you're all marvelous, thank you. it is great to be here and i can't tell you how honored i am to be the inaugural history lecturer here. i'm glad it's not the natural history museum. i'm feeling a l

at 9:00, remembering first lady pat nixon who travelled to over 75 countries during her time in the as an ambassador of good will. helen explores harvard's relationship with women 375 years ago. american history tv in prime time all week on c-span 3. and on c-span 2, watch some of book tv's weekend programs in prime time. tonight a look at american journalism starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. christopher daley covering america captures the culture of journalism and major news events. at 9:0055, timothy gay tells the story through the eyes of five reporters and at 11:10, jeff draws on post memos and correspondents and photographs and private interviews and book television and prime time all week on c-span 2. this is c-span 3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend. 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing looking at racial profiling in the u.s. specifi

and that's just so typical pat nixon. i mean, she had her eyes on what they were trying to do. why they were there. they were on a mission. and this was going to be the whole story is just one small group who were bent on destruction would ruin the good will of being in south america. and she said once she got to the embassy, though, then she was afraid. because she realized what a close call it was when they got to the american embassy and they went in and rose woods came in and the three of them, you know, i think that's when she realized that it had really been a near death experience. >> and julie, how did you and your sister hear about this attack, or did you hear about it? >> we just heard about it. the sam marcos incident that don described so well, we were watching television at home, and we heard that my parents were being attacked by mobs at san marcos. but that was not a true story. it wasn't that bad. and we ran to the phone and called my father's office. but we really didn't hear about it at the time. later i think somebody from my dad's office came out and said ev

at 9:00, remembering first lady pat nixon who traveled to over 75 countries in the white house as an ambassador of good will and at 10:00 p.m. we explore the harvard relationship with women since the university's founding 375 years ago. american history tv in prime time all week on c-span3. and on c-span2 watch some of book tv's weekend program in prime time. tonight, a look at american journalism starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern and christopher daily in his book "covering america" captures journalism and major news events. timothy gay tells the story of the war against hitler through the eyes of five reporters and they draw on post memos, correspondence, personal photographs and private interviews to trace ben bradley's 45-year career. book tv and prime time all week on c-span2. >> this is c-span3 with politics and programming throughout the week and the weekend, 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs on our websites and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> next, the polk investigati

former congresswoman pat schroeder from colorado and then remember pat nixon who traveled to over 75 countries during her time in the white house as ambassador of good will and at 10:30 p.m., a professor explores harvard's relationship with women since the university's founding 375 years ago. american history tv in prime time all week on c-span3. and on c-span2, watch some of book tv's weekend programs in prime time. tonight, a look at american journalism starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. "cover america" captures journalism and major news events. and 9:55, the war gets hitler through the eyes of five reporters and at 11:10, drawing on pest memos and correspondents and personal photographs and private interviews to track ben bradley's 45-year career. book tv in prime time all week on c-span2. >> the life of a sailor include scrubbing the deck in the morning, working on the sails, climbing the loft, gun drill practice. by the end of the day you're ready for rest. you don't get a full eight hour sleep. it's four hours on and four hours off. >> this weekend on american history tv, the life

eastern, remembering pat nixon who traveled to 75 countries during her time in the white house as an ambassador of good will. the university's founding 375 years ago. american history tv in prime time all this week on c-span3. this weekend, head to the state capitol named in honor of thomas jefferson, book tv and american history tv in jefferson city missouri, saturday at noon eastern, literary life on c-span2. jean carnahan on family life inside the governor's mansion from the book "if walls could talk," also a butcher's bill, a business contract from ancient mesopotamia, the stories behind eight miniature babylonian clay tablets and sunday on american history tv on. >> at one time in 1967 this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. a former warden takes you through the missouri state penitentiary and walk back through history in the halls of the governor's mansion. once a month, c-span's local content vehicles explore the history of cities across america. this weekend from jefferson city, saturday at noon and sunday at 5:00 eastern on c-span2 and 3. >> the life of the sailor

at 9:00, remembering first lady pat nixon who traveled to over 75 countries during her time in the white house as an ambassador of goodwill. and at 10:30 p.m., professor helen left witts horowitz describes harvard's relationship with women since the founding 375 years ago. american history tv in primetime, all week on c-span3. and on c-span2, watch some of book tv's weekend programs in primetime. tonight a look at american journalism starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. christopher daley in his book "coving america" covering major news veents. at 9:55 timothy gaye telling the story of the war against hitler threw the eyes of five reporters. and at 11:10, jeff hemelman draws on post memo, correspondence and personal interviewers to trace ben bradlee's 45-year career. book tv in primetime all week on c-span2. >>> this weekend head to the state capitol named in honor of thomas jefferson with book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri. saturday at noon eastern, literary life with book tv on c-span2. former senator and missouri first lady jean carnahan on family life inside the gov

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eastern, remembering first lady pat nixon who traveled to over 75 countries during her time in the white house as an ambassador of goodwill. and at 10:30, professor horowitz explores harvard's relationship with women since its founding 35 years ago. american history tv in prime time, all this week on c-span3. >>> american artifacts airs every sunday at 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern time on c-span3. >>> and we have come now to very proud moment. we are selling george washington's personal copy of the acts of congress, consigned by the he is indicate of h. richard diedrich jr., and it is showing in the front of the room for those of you who have not had a chance to peek at it, you may do so. we will start the bidding, ladies and gentlemen at $1,300,000. 1,300,000 -- [ auctioning ] $2 million. the gentleman at $2 million. [ auctioning ] >> further down is a passage which gives -- >> could you just begin by telling me who you are, what your position is, and why you're here in washington? >> hi. my name is francis walgren, head of books and manuscripts for christies and we're br

he wanted to convince nixon by the time of the election that pat gray wasn't up to the job, and that fter the election nixon would appoint an insider, someone who knew how to control the bureau. he was far from principled. he was contemptuous of the media. and even woodward and his books admits that felt expressed disdain for the press' inexactude and short attention span. and i would add to the degree to which it could be manipulated. now i thought i was very clever when i figured out why mark felt was leaking. but eventually i realized as i reviewed the press coverage that i wasn't even as clever as i thought because this is a story from "the new york times" in august, 1973. so this is two months after felt had left the bureau. serve or eight months before "all the president's men" comes out and reveals a secret source code named deep throat. a front page story in "the new rk." and that arrow point almost to one of the last paragraphs. this is what that paragraph says -- there have been reports over the last year that at least some of the details of the involvement of officials of t

so they try and tell pat gray he's not to be trusted. in fact, when nixon decides against all the odds to appoint pat gray as the permanent director, he says the first thing i want you to do is put mark felt on a lie detector, and if he fails, i want him fired. yes? >> you said about a third of the things mark told bernstein were incorrect? can you give an example, and did that have an effect on the coverage? >> at one point felt alleged that the reason john mitchell had resigned from the committee to reelect the president is because each of the top aides in the nixon white house, haldeman, ehrlichman, john mitchell, were having to contribute their own personal funds to the kitty to pay off the burglars to keep them quiet. this was completely untrue. i mean, they were raising money privately, hush money to keep the burglars private, but it wasn't coming from the personal bank account of haldeman, ehrlichman and mitchell. it's completely without foundation. this is one of the questions i had for woodward, what did he think about this, and then this is one of

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nixon certainly changed everything. pat, nice to see you. >> it's a pleasure. >> greta: donald trump says the president is picking a fight -- not with him, but with business owners. president obama take a lot of heat for saying, if you have a business, you doesn't build that. now he says he meant they didn't build the bridges and roads. but what does donald trump think? donald, nice to talk to you. >> hi, greta. >> greta: donald, the president has said that you did not build it and he says the romney campaign has taken it out of context. i am curious, your thoughts on what the president meant or how you took what he meant when he talked about people not building it. i realize there is more to the quote than that. what's your thought on it? >> i think it's a very, very tough statement. people are very upset by it. it really has energized a lot of people in this country because maybe the truth is coming out about president obama. it's a very, very hard thing for people who work 20 hours a day, whether it's building a business

nixon runs again. they derailed and helped destroy senator muskogee and pat buchanan wrote a memo saying this is great. our strategy paid off. so, the idea -- you think about this. we've talked at some length about it's really an attack on the free electoral process to say, oh, i'm running against somebody in your -- let me pick who i think will be the weakest candidate. and the idea that somebody is going to do that who is president of the united states in all of these people around him is pretty horrifying. >> you come back in a piece saying was nixon the central factor in all of this, in all of the wars, in all of the execution. >> that's what's so astonishing about the tapes. always, it's nixon saying bring me the dead mouse. and he is the one that says break in, break in, break in. i want those files. he comes back to it time and time again. and it's he that is insistent about getting ted kennedy's tax returns, about saying let's get my old secret service agent from when i was vice president, put him in ted kennedy's secret service detail, get him to report back and maybe we'll catch the son of a

at the cocktail party, nixon came up to my father and said you know, pat, i didn't really need to laugh, but i thought i would look better if i did. >> that's a great impression. >> i don't know about that, but anyway i never forgot that story. my father who was a republican called nixon tricky dick every time he referred to him. that made an impression on me. >> was your father quietly smug when nixon came crashing down to prove him right? >> he was heartbroken for the country. he didn't want to see a republican be that stupid. especially nixon who was a brilliant man. >> it would be great to say america learned its lesson and politics cleaned up its act, but right now you see washington paralyzed. you see the emergence of what to me as john mccain told me, it is surely a recipe for scandalous disaster. the super pacs being encouraged by the supreme court to go out under freedom of speech and basically try to buy elections. this can only end in tears. >> for doesn't make sense. you have the wealth to buy more freedom of speech than people who don't. to me is makes it such an unfair com

and at the cocktail party afterward, nixon came up to my father and said you know, pat, i didn't really need to laugh, but i thought i'd look better if i did. and, you know, it's -- >> that's a great impression, by the way. >> well, i don't know. but i've never forgotten that story. my father, who was a republican, call nixon "tricky dicky" every single time he referred to him. >> was your father quietly smug when he came crashing down? >> i think he was heartbroken for the country. he didn't want to see a republican be that stupid. especially nixon. >> it would be great to say america learned its lesson, politics cleaned up its act. et cetera, et cetera. but you see the emergence of what, to me, as joan mccain told me, it is surely a recipe for scandalous disaster. the super pact, to go out under freedom of speech and basically try to buy elections. this could only end in tears. >> it doesn't make sense to me because it means you have the wealth to buy more freedom of speech than people who don't. so, to me, it -- it makes it such an unfair competition. and means that the special inter

former colorado representative pat schroeder talks with about women in politics and then a look at pat nixon.

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