. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium called understanding richard nixon and his era. this hour long program focuses on the environmental and economics policy and the civil rights record and the expansion of the white house staff and its authority during the nixon years. >> well, as the coordinator of of this event and i say in all sin saincerity that i'm very gld to see you all here. this is one of the panels that i've really been looking forward to, the domestic panel. starting with nigel boll who was educated at georgetown university and oxford university, he's taught at the university of edinburgh and oxford where he's been a lexurer since 1988, his books include "the white house and capitol hill," "nixon's business authority and power in presidential politics" which won the richard e.nustead prize in 26. his current project which we're looking forward to is "the politics of money, president's congress and the federal reserve board 1945-1988" and he's currently the director of the american institute at oxford. we're also pleased to have karen holt. kar

. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium titled "understanding richard nixon." this hour long discussion focuses on the president's economic and environmental policies and reviews the administration's civil rights record as well as the expansion of the white house staff and its authority during the nixon years. >> well, as one of the coordinator of this event, you know that -- and i say in all sincerity that i'm very glad to see you all here. so this is the panel that -- one of the panels i've really been looking forward to. the domestic panel. we've really got some amazing scholars who have some very interesting and understudied topics. starting with nigel bowles. educated at the university of sussex, georgetown university and oxford university. he's taught about the university of edinboro and university of oxford where he's been a lecturer since 1988. his books include "the white house and capitol hill," "nixon's business." "authority and power in presidential politics" which won the richard e. newstadt produce of the political studies association of the uni

as a result, together, they fashioned what former appointee of richard nixon, richard nathan, first called the plot that failed, but later came to call an administrative presidency approach. and he did that after what he saw as the successes of that approach as it was put into place more systemically by ronald reagan. we have seen it also being put into place by presidents like george w. bush, bill clinton and, to some extent, president obama. it's not a republican set of strategies nor a democratic set of strategies. it's another way that presidents try to achieve their policy and political objectives. so that's what i want to talk about just a little bit today with the pioneer of some of those strategies. of course, as it was suggested this morning, some of the responsibility or the gratitude for that may well go to dwight eisenhower. who really thought that richard nixon needed to have greater experience and understanding some of the constraints and the dynamics of larger organizations. something that mr. nixon really had never had at any point in his career. in terms of a set of strate

miles away from richard. just like hundreds of other bastrop residents, brian returns to find nothing but a foundation and charred memories. >> this is just one of 1,600 homes that burned. this story repeats itself 1,599 other times. fire could take everything you got, just like that. >> the historic blaze claims the lives of two bastrop county residents and consumes 34,000 acres. richard counts his blessings. because he stayed behind and filmed, it could be used by the texas forest service to better understand the path the fire took. he has a word of warning for those who find themselves in the path of a wildfire. >> my advice to others that get in a situation like i was in, if you can get out, get out when you can. >> hope i get to see you guys again or hope you guys get to see me, again. >>> coming up, a storm chaser catches up to the storm, but gets a little too close to the action. >> oh, my god! how's it going? good afternoon. don't feed that meter. this meter's on me. with all the hundreds i've saved a

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but never mind. >> richard wolffe, i want to talk about illinois now. moving forward.f rick santorum had not had a rough week, talking about social issues, he probably would have done a better job in ohio. ohio and illinois, i think, demographically and structurally, politically, are very much the same. what does santorum have to do to get things going in illinois and could he take it away from romney? >> yeah, with a big downstate operation he could. downstate illinois is -- you know, it's huckleberry finn territory. the suburban votes around chicago versus the downstate vote. and right now rick santorum is heavily outspent. i don't think he's up on the air right now. he's already getting beaten to a pulp. he has to get the enthusiasm going and hope that the romney vote just stays away in the suburbs around chicago and that kind of combination works for him. >> karen, what do you think about that? >> i think that's exactly right. it means illinois isn't going to tell us much more of anything. that's the pattern we've seen. that's where mitt romney's strength is. we're

richard, i would like to ask you this. we've seen the financial sector very strong here domestically since the beginning of the year. do you think that is over or under rated? >> financial sector meaning share prices? >> share priceses on the financial equities. >> sure. >> no, listen, the u.s. banks were priced for something really nasty not just domestically but of course from across the pond. what was happening in europe. so absolutely that's warranted. whether it has an impact on the real economy, i'm rather less sure about because, of course, what you are seeing is banks deleveraging with the will. you see a pickup in credit, private sector credit from loans to consumer lending. but actually the flip side that have is the banks have been deleveraging savagely so i'm not sure that they're going to see any followthrough from this rising share price to the broad economy. >> all right. thanks for that, richard. we are going to leave it there. still to come on the show, president obama defends his policies but americans ar

in >>> understanding richard nixon and his era. over the next hour scholars focus on the vietnam war. they discussed the partnership between richard nixon and henry kissinger, his role as commander in chief, the pentagon papers and the administration's response to dissent. >> welcome back to understanding richard nixon and his era, a symposium. i'm kenn hughes. i'm a researcher with the presidential recordings program of the university of virginia's miller center, co-sponsor of this, the first scholarly conference at the richard m. nixon library and museum. we're turning now to nixon and vietnam. a tragically timely subject when america finds herself embroiled in an inconclusive war or two and the editor of foreign affairs and the pages of "the new york times" has suggested that president obama model his exit from afghanistan on president nixon's exit from vietnam. we have some amazing, amazingly good scholars to discuss the subject with you today. i'll introduce each one right before he or she speaks. we'll start off with jeffrey

but never mind. >> richard wolffe, i want to talk about illinois now. moving forward.f rick santorum had not had a rough week, talking about social issues, he probably would have done a better job in ohio. ohio and illinois, i think, demographically and structurally, politically, are very much the same. what does santorum have to do to get things going in illinois and could he take it away from romney? >> yeah, with a big downstate operation he could. downstate illinois is -- you know, it's huckleberry finn territory. the suburban votes around chicago versus the downstate vote. and right now rick santorum is heavily outspent. i don't think he's up on the air right now. he's already getting beaten to a pulp. he has to get the enthusiasm going and hope that the romney vote just stays away in the suburbs around chicago and that kind of combination works for him. >> karen, what do you think about that? >> i think that's exactly right. it means illinois isn't going to tell us much more of anything. that's the pattern we've seen. we've seen that. that's where mitt romney's s

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, who admired richard nixon. and late in nixon's second term, first term, before he ran for re-election, in 1970-1971, the nixon white house determined that hoover was losing his grip. hoover was now past 75 years old. and he dent want to do some of the dirty tricks that nixon had ordered him to do. wiretapping, breaking, bugging. surveillance, stealing people's personal effects and doing it without judicial warrants on the order of the president. so they set up their own bucket shop, didn't they? in the white house. known as the plumbers. houston from the white house made a liaison with hoover's intelligence chief at the f.b.i. bill sullivan. so known to some of his colleagues as "crazy billy," had been working the intelligence beat for hoover since the 1950's. he wanted to take over the f.b.i. when hoover died. and he overreached. and he tried to take over the bureau when hoover was still alive. with this plan, which is known as the houston plan because it came out, originated in the white house but it was writ

i was closer to the pope, now i'm closer to richard dawkins.about that. yes, churches do some great work. but i'm not sure that church life functions all that well. church life functioned very well, then one would expect that the metrics of social well-being in this country would be much better. and religious areas of this country very sus less religious areas. and that's not the case. >> are you currently still at your church? or -- are you going to go preach next sunday? >> i am going to go back next week and meet with my leadership and talk about where we're going to go from here. and we'll see. >> i think i have a sense of what they're going to say. i mean -- and i guess this brings the question that i think is a really important one i think for people that are not believers and are not embedded in the social fabric that goes along with religious faith and religious practices. the degree to which the social life of that is as important perhaps as the internal spiritual life of that. >> absolutely. >> i know in just my own life and in the ca

would you consider being a guest lex you arer there as richard nixon as i did but was turned down. you may have more luck. thank you. >> are you offering? >> thanks. go owls. >> i'm a senior at harvard university and i had a question for you. if you read the article regarding empire light and imperialism for professor ferguson's writings and he calls it being the imperial project. how do you feel about having the lens of imperialism put over the vietnam war as historians. >>y started with john. >> you're saying that the question -- let me see if i understand this correctly is how do we feel as historians about whether vietnam was an imperialist project. >> is it possible to call the project? it's an american story. >> yes. i think it's very possible to call vietnam an imperialist policy. they built their entire position on the vietnam war on american imperialism ands that a factor and a theme in the political conversation about what the meaning of vietnam was. i worked with political groups who used those kind of arguments. i was not entirely convinced if vietnam wasn't imperialist

behind that soft tissue, it is richard norris. >> this was -- she made good progress, but experts say physical recovery is just the start. >> you do not recover quickly, and he will have to gradually come to terms with his new face that he sees in the mirror. i hope that he will be able to own his face. >> doctors have been developing face transplantation techniques for years. the aim is to refine the procedures in order to about injured veterans returning from afghanistan. for richard norris, after 15 years behind the mask, it means a chance to resume a normal life. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." we will take you to canada, or the scenic landscape heights a drug at bid -- drug academic. the majority of people live there are hooked. yesterday, we were just learning about trouble aboard a jetblue flight from new york to las vegas. the details paint a chaotic scene. the plane was forced to make an emergency landing after the capt. apparently suffered a breakdown and the co-pilot took over. jetblue is suspending the pilots and eight federal criminal charges been applied ag

but-- did richard pryor damage you? did richard pryor damage me? yeah, you listened to richard pryor when your mom felt it probably wasn't appropriate. foul language. unless you had a very early richard pryor album. he started me off cursing, for sure. 'cause i curse like a sailor. but i'm grown. and when i got into richard pryor, i was 16, 17, trying to sneak that turnt-- but at the same time, there was a balance of, okay, my parents knew who richard pryor was. and they said, "yeah, i know richard pryor, but no, you can't listen to richard pryor." and so therefore, i just went on outside, because i'm not gonna get no turntable. but it might have been different if i was able to get a cd player or a cassette walkman. your concerns about parenting are echoed all over this country. but you are chuck "fight the power" d. yeah, but to my kids, i'm "daddy." "oh, daddy, turn the radio back on!" "no, because we can't play shake your ass, right, on--in the car." 'cause i got nieces that's three years old in the back based on the radio singing, "shake your a

richard and i think that we just very good point richard i think it's interesting in the course of the last year i remember a year ago people say well these are. we're going to take over and people are a little scared about that but we're seeing with the nation with libya and and and we have in iraq as well i mean you you have these parties that are coming to power coming have come to power coming or going to the process of coming to power and they don't seem very scary is that a is they did at one point i mean is the west learning learning to begin to understand that the islam can have its own democratic values and institutions. well we've always had this debate about whether or if the if they come if the islamist parties the war in the cold war with the communist party so they come to power. i mean out of their of their beliefs you know the primary challenge of governing people having the right social services i mean to have an effective economy and the evidence is mixed i mean so far you're right the muslim brotherhood in egypt has pursued i mean it's actually generally seen as more

richard norris. [applause] >> we looked at the donor and look at richard and it is a blend of two individuals. clearly there are specific features like the nose and chin. but behind the soft tissue and behind a skeleton, it is richard norris. >> then he described the moment the patients on his new face. >> he put the mirror down and hugged me. it was a wonderful gift. he will make a functioning member of society again. >> surgeons have been amazed by his progress. richard norris is already able to taste, smell, shaved, and brush his teeth. the man spent 15 years doing the shopping at night out of view is now able to face the world in daylight. >> let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around world. sudan. bomb -- sudan will not bomb south sudan. this almost today's of clashes at the border region. the african union says it is deeply concerned that the escalating security situation could get worse. the campaign group human rights watch says hundreds of afghan women have been jailed f

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i do think, as richard says, we've never... congress has never before said to a large group of american people "you must buy a commercial product of a certain kind." and that could cross the line. i'm not sure the congress would take it much farther. i'm not sure the politics would tolerate it. but it's a legitimate concern. by the way, one irony of the case is if congress had passed a single-payer system, everyone gets medicare, we'll pay for it with a tax, there would be no doubt about its constitutionality, which raises the question, well, if you could do it that way, why not do it this way? to which there are two answers: one is the critics would say, yeah, and if you called it a tax it wouldn't have passed. and so... >> rose: i'd like that ask... yes? >> it's more than that. one of the things to understand is that you do not need to have the mandate in order to keep the control problem. you could have required once people buy insurance they keep it for a year and it's not correct to say the mandate is designed to prevent p

kind of future they want now that we know what the progressive alternative is which do you choose richard usko joins me from our los angeles studios now he's a senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard welcome good to be here great to have you know so on one side we have the paul ryan plan ends medicare as we know it it pulls the social safety net out on the working people and makes absolutely no substantial investments in our future and then on the other side we have the progressive plan that preserves and strengthens medicare and social caribbean mates and citable investments in modernizing our infrastructure economy so isn't this a no brainer. it should be a no brainer i mean the only surprising thing if you look at it from a rational person fact that the only two surprising things about this are that they call the progressive budget a progressive budget because most of its provisions are supported by a majority of republican voters if you look at the polling it's really a very modest proposal when you look at the politics of the country at large as opposed to the poli

i think it was richard nixon who got the idea. he'd been talking about it before he became president, before he won the election in 1968. he'd written an article for foreign affairs in 1967 in which he said sooner or latermust bec community of nations. he'd given talks in which he'd said that and i had a very interesting conversation with someone who knew him the other day who said he remembers talking to nixon about this in 1968 and nixon said i'm going to go to peking as it was pronounced in those days. i think it was nixon that had the vision. the record at the time is that henry kissinger was surprised that nixon said it, said to haldeman among others, the president wants to go china, what's going on, i think he's lost his senses here. kissinger has now said and said in his memoirs that he and nixon were always at one on this and i think it's absolutely true when kissinger realized that this was in nixon's thinking, he saw the possibilities and he saw the advantage of an opening to china and worked very hard on it, but it was

well i would agree with what richard said the base when the motivation of many of these movements is a quest for freedom and economic freedom political freedom in some cases religious freedom but each country of course is unique the course of the revolution depends on the the response of the regime the strength of the regime and the degrees to which it bends with the wind and makes compromises or in the case of fee or assad or brutally tries to put down their own people. in there it's unclear where the revolution may go in the future although i think there are many common denominators about the beginnings of these revolutions but revolutions are very hard to prove they can be hijacked as we saw in the french revolution the russian revolution we're ronnie in revolution so it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen go on ahead ok now if i go back to you in london i mean how much is this these changes in the in the arab world in north africa and beyond i mean has to do with geopolitics because khadafi wasn't loved by the west i mean they may embrace him but they would they ha

across not the future of the arab world and muslim lands i'm joined by richard white's in washington he is a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute and an expert at wilkie stop also in washington we have james phillips he is the senior research fellow for middle eastern affairs at the douglas and sarah allison center for foreign policy studies at the heritage foundation and in london we go to doubt he is the current deputy secretary general of the muslim council of britain all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard i'd like to go to you first you know i do and i this is a very broad brush program looking at a lot of events of the last year about a year ago the west was very concerned with the possibility of islamic democracies and they were very worried about it all the way from tunisia to let's say iraq i mean is that what those fears been allayed now. that's a really good question i mean you probably can see common trend since there's been several i mean product right ou

richard, thanks.e'll see you later. >>> up next, some good news for a change for travelers. >>> and it's happened again. apple has debuted something else people are going to want to want. apple has debuted something else people are going to want to want. when bp made a commitment to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and environment for ten years. thousands of environmental samples from across the gulf have been analyzed by independent labs under the direction of the us coast guard. i'm glad to report all beaches and waters are open for everyone to enjoy. and the economy is showing progress with many areas on the gulf coast having their best tourism seaso

and, richard, i bought a lot of bank of america.on and said it was a good deal. we bought it at 6, i think, michelle, remember that? >> fantastic. >> i'm not a believer in buying treasuries when they're paying so little. they're paying almost nothing. i do believe treasuries when they start paying 2%, 3%, 4%, then this country is really in trouble. >> donald, aren't these rates going up because the economy is getting better? in other words, rates are too low because everyone expected a double-dip recession, now that we're doing better, rates have to normalize, people are getting out of these treasuries and going into stock ps. >> i think the economy is getting a little better and i think, larry, i know you do because i watch, prices are very fragile. i happen to think oil was the biggest culprit three years ago, the last time. i think that oil had a worse effect on the banks but that's at blood of the nation essentially, it makes it work. when oil got up to $150 a barrel, i really think that had a huge negative impact on what happen