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constitution under the war powers act introduced in one thousand seventy three over president richard nixon's veto us armed forces of gravity from being involved in the foreign military action for more than sixty days without congressional authorization and obama has so disregarded this law as existence every president has expressed some concerns about its constitutionality but interestingly not a single president has questioned the sixty day rule and neither has most of the u.s. congress which seems to have been neglecting its responsibilities along with obama's defiance of the law senator john mccain has even gone so far as to dismiss the law altogether saying new president has recognized the constitutionality of the war powers act and nor do i and there doesn't seem to be any great movement towards acting but some lawmakers have attempted to have sway on the issue like republican richard lugar a member of the senate foreign relations committee who has called in a bomb and to respect the act that president did not she could separate from the war began with. nor really has there been much di

you have to get inside the head of this woman that if richard nixon was a on the richter scale of paranoia she's a ten she believes the forces of evil are so. whirling around her at all times she she had her mic at the governor's mansion for bugs regularly her governor's office and sweat for bugs regularly she believed people were e-mail accounts she believed that former political enemies of each other were coming together to plot her downfall it's a it's a massive scale of paranoia in my opinion the i think george will's most famous point about her was the main reason to not even consider sarah palin is nobody would trust her with nuclear weapons. is is that if that recognition sinking into the republican party. how can party in actually because i think the republican party itself is is now has to identify with the so far right that i think that the crazy i call it the outcome of the party and the time you know one of the goals whether it's now trumped up pops another one if you knock down huckabee up down payment up. michele bachmann you know it's one after the other and i don't think th

power you know came from congress richard nixon came up with the idea but then you know last year in the year before this came before the supreme court and the conservative majority on the court so the e.p.a. should have the right to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollute. we know other words it is because carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and it produces global warming it's not something that we inhale it causes answers in the market it's a pollutant in that it is damaging the world so you have the supreme court ruling on those really on the legality of this law and and you have the functional reality of it and new information came out just today about global warming is from the international energy agency that last year we will we released into the atmosphere thirty point six gigatons thirty point six billion tons of carbon dioxide more than ever before and now scientists are saying you know that two degrees celsius that we said would be a disaster we're now worried that you know there's no way to stop that and we're going to try and hold the whole the dike at four degrees celsius a

president bush is following in the noble tradition of presidents like richard nixon, who still holdshe guinness record for most anti-semitic slurs per minute. [laughter] and william howard taft, who went on to be one of those fat twins on mopeds. so bravo, president bush for singlehandedly restoring america's image in the world, which, for reasons i don't understand got tarnished over the last decade. [laughter] folks, i'm trying to re-ignite my music career with a follow-up to my '80s new wave classic "charlene, i'm right behind you." so i enlisted the help of guitar god and former white stripe jack white. last night, we got to know each other. tonight, we get to know me. this is: ♪ stephen colbert presents 2001 and one a rock odyssey. featuring jack white. [cheers and applause] let me cut to the chase. okay. can we talk show business for a second? >> yes. >> stephen: last year on won a grammy. >> congratulations. >> stephen: thank you very much. this year i did not win a grammy. i want to tell you it wasn't as. good can you guarantee me the song we cut is going to win a grammy? >>

>> richard nixon's role, there's a lot of mythology about nixon and eisenhower. there's just, you know, i don't want to get too involved, but the eisenhower presidency has just been distorted by my profession shamefully. just because people didn't do the research. and one of them is the relationship with eisenhower and nixon. eisenhower, and i'm satisfied would have never kept nixon for a second term as vice president if he didn't want him. you really have to know eisenhower to understand he just didn't abide people -- well, it's not true. he kept that doctrine. [laughter] but anyway, you know, dr. snyder was an old crony, but nixon was, basically, to answer your question, ike's political surrogate. and when eisenhower quit campaigning, once he did once this crisis broke out, nixon went out and substituted for him and took on adlai stevenson. nixon also provided much other support in the congress, and i haven't looked very carefully at what he did with the eisenhower doctrine passage, but i'm sure he played a major role. he was the vice president, so presided ove

richard nixon was clearly president during his time. host: we want to let our viewers know that this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, we will be visiting the nixon presidential library's newest exhibit on watergate. we're looking at special programs including archival video of nixon's first watergate speech and katharine graham on breaking the watergate story for you can get the complete we can schedule at c-span.org/history or you can have a e-mailed to you. back to the telephones and our conversation with presidential historian doug weed. caller: good morning. i have a question and comment if you don't mind. if memory serves me, were you the liaison between the george h. w. bush white house and the evangelical community? a moment ago you implied something that was not true. the kennedy brothers did not intend that the south vietnamese leader was assassinated. they were shocked when it happened. some of the arguments this morning seem to be along the nature that they all do it. thank you for your comments and i look forward t

from american shores with simply tolerable, and not just to conservatives like barry goldwater or richard nixonbut really to everybody. so, fidel castro was interrogated on the subject of communism everywhere he went on his visit. by vice president nixon, by congressional subcommittee, by scores of journalists, everyone asking the same question, dr. castro are you a communist? indians are the same every time. no, he was not a communist, never had been, never would be. in castro finally left new york on april 25, the police were relieved to see him go but most the new yorkers were happy that he came to visit. an editorial in "the new york times" summed up the general attitude towards castro as he left. quote, he made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his government so far as he knew was a communist. by the same token it seems obvious that the americans feel better about castro than they did before. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org.

it goes all the way back to richard nixon. at the end, what happened with nixon? a delegation of senior republican senators, barry goldwater, but to the oval office and say, times up, you are done, and he resigned. the pressure behind the scenes from his party, also behind the scenes ultimately -- i think he would have to go, although it looks as though he is so determined he will be out of like an isolated island. >> his constituents seem to be with him, not overwhelmingly. >> two polls show at least opposition to his resigning. >> if he were to stay, he would probably be it redistricted out. there is a sociological point to be made. david vitter -- >> republican senator from louisiana. >> caught frequenting a brothel, not a beloved a member of the senate, and he managed to survive. but there were no pictures of it. in this day and age, the evidence is all lined up for everybody to see, and it is so icky -- >> like chris lee. >> like chris lee. and there is almost never just one instance of it. >> this not the end of the story for weiner. he is probably weighing

president when china turned communist and richard nixon asked "who lost china?" and i flare people at the white house right now that among obama's closest people, one of the reasons why they're so careful with that afghanistan is they don't want to lose it. they lose it, obama loses the election next year. so they are very mindful of the legacy of a lost war like vietnam. >> woodruff: deborah kalb, you all worked on this for five or six years, you learned there's an enormous amount of fresh reporting in here. do you come away the sense that one president more than the others understood vietnam, got the message, the legacy of vietnam better than the others? >> that's a great question. i think one of the presidents that maybe seemed to get it more than the others in the way we talk about it is george h.w. bush who spoke about burying the vietnam in the sands of arabia. he went to a certain point in the gulf war, came out working successfully at that point and a year later he lost the election to bill clinton, but at that point he did seem like he had learned the le

he first met richard nixon because he has an obsession with presidential and clinical memorabilia. and i'm not kidding. it's an obsession. i won't let his wife get up and talk about how much of that is in the karachi box is or hear judge fish talk about how much is in its path is probably for how much is all over his home. but he has been kind enough to share a lot of that with a period and we have much of it on display here. but that's when he first met richard nixon as a young man that will probably tell you a little bit about that. but he is a neighbor. broken flakier in yorba linda and he was a member of our board for quite some time before he went on the bench to her three years ago. but his wife in public service and in the legal profession began in 83 when he graduated from law school. he was a practicing attorney, very successful in private legal if. he was deputy da in los angeles. he was the youngest municipal court judge serving in glendale. you know him as a congressman. he served as secretary of commerce in washington is congressman and was head of her patent office. a

he rose to the post of secretary of state and served richard nixon to george h.w. bush.riot. >> the its tenth day. she's charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee in 2008. testimony today focused on hair recovered from anthony's car. an fbi technician testified the hair did not belong to casey anthony but could have come from her daughter's decomposing body. antho anthony's attorney called it unreliable opinion. a special report at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> so i have to warn you the video you're about to see is hard to watch. it is a magic act that goes horribly wrong. if you are squeamish, close your eyes. >> three, two, one! [ screaming ] >> i should have closed my eyes. it happened thursday night at the atlanta motor speedway. michael moony who goes by the stage name moodini was supposed to slip out of handcuffs while being attached to a race car. this time he was dragged down the track. >> i was crying. it was just excruciating pain. >> let me ask the question everybody is thinking when they see it. what were you thinking? >> well, i have been ent

rise to the post of secretary of state and served american presidents going all the way back to richard nixon. his career included the first gulf war. he served as secretary of state in the final months of the george h.w. bush administration. he was called a tireless and dedicated patriot. dead at the age of 80. let's go to the weather and our country continues to be in the headlines. this time it's fires and flood causing so much anxiety. jacky is here with us. arizona is seeing some of the worst wildfires in history. >> one of the largest is in eastern parts of arizona and that continues to rage at this hour. check out the pictures that consumed 140,000 acres and that makes it the third largest wildfire in arizona history. 2500 people have been evacuate and this is continuing to grow. dry weather and extreme heat along with gusty winds making conditions worse. smoke is visible in albuquerque, new mexico. let's move on to the floods and that's where 180 mile an hour stretch from sioux city along the missouri river where a record release of water is expected in the coming days and weeks ahead

with congressional approval ratings down to 16%-- and that's lower than richard nixon's approval ratings when he was forced out of the white house-- it seems to me this is not just a problem for democrats. >> it's a problem for the institution. this is getting beyond ridiculous. i feel so sorry for huma and her family most of all. we have to get this behind us because it's a distraction. yes, he should resign. i don't take pleasure in saying that. we have important work to do, and this is just a ridiculous distraction. >> schieffer: is there something that can be done to speed this along? >> well, there is a process. it would take a little while for this process to go through. there are censuring and... you'd have to go through a process, you'd have to go through the ethics committee would have to process. this would take time. i think the fastest best way is for anthony to resign. >> effectively, i think paul and i and probably all his colleagues agree that any process, judicial process through the ethics committee is going to take time. i don't know that we have that time. i would hope

congress asserted its constitutional authority to rein in richard nixon with the war powers resolution there's a new law that lets the president commit the nation to war without congress but only for sixty days. it's still a pretty generous handover of power of the executive branch one that in my personal opinion is clearly unconstitutional and should be rolled back by the supreme court that's a little old mother rant it was an affront to nixon however who vetoed the war powers resolution basically saying he was going to play ball with any of these new restrictions on the power he and his recent predecessors have claimed in the oval office. of congress overturned a nixon's veto and passed into law these new checks on presidential power that our founders never. ten to the president to have. from that point on after sixty days a president must ask congress for permission to continue a war. so now the sixty days are up in libya is president obama going to cons. know. the white house wrote a letter to the congressional leadership last week arguing that the limited nature of u.s. military i

the millionaires and billionaires in america back to what they were under republican president richard nixon seventy percent and you shore up social security by lifting the cap so that bill gates will pay the same percentage of his income as you and i do in the social security trust fund then you drop the retirement age to fifty five that way you give mcgee's arrest let them enjoy life in retirement and you also cut unemployment in half and open up the labor pool for the younger generation of americans right now are staring at a twenty four percent unemployment rate in fact it should tighten up the labor market enough that wages will rise which will increase tax collections which will solve the deficit problem and pay for the retirees everybody wentz except the billionaires who have to pay the same tax rate as they did for most of fifty years in america and they frankly won't even notice i don't know about you but to me this republican idea of forcing americans to work until they die is unacceptable this isn't a death camp this is the united states of america let's rebuild our middle class a

richard nixon got on the television. he interrupted "bonanza." he said the dollar would have no more gold. for the past 40 years, we have been on here paper standard. >> he mentioned the fed does not bother printing money anymore. how do they do it? >> they materialize it. there is a guy in new york city few has a computer keyboard. he clicks and credits to the account of commercial banks hundreds of billions of dollars. just like that. the dollars are electronically deposited in the excess reserves thebin. it sounds implausible. the federal reserve has to approve it. >> i might as well tap into your reserved. well when the interest rates go back of? -- when will the interest rates go back up? >> my goal is 2005. we are not getting any younger. there is so tiny can barely make them out. a couple weeks ago i had a guy figure out. he asked, do you have a fe\ / view on this?of they said no. do you have a line on whether it is a good or bad thing that they go to 0 on the money they have set aside on their retirement? they got back. we have not heard

s where you had this huge huge social movement and then they kind of freed it all away and richard nixon becomes press so what he's trying to figure out is why did this happen and instead of you know being what he calls rhetorical radicals take a sickly make yourself feel better you have to figure out how you can actually appeal to your audience and bring them along with you by using symbols that they already identified ok and how are you find these with organizing for students for a live report so what we do is is you have to use language to keep you in your community to understand your goals and their goals are the same thing you have to explain to them that why what you're trying to accomplish is a part of their value system you talk within their experiences that you said so we're working with college students we explain to them how they need to get organize on campus in order to liberty. campuses because they have lost their voice on campus this a liberal establishment the wrong thing campuses some of the around the gulf. and so we explain those things to them and also saul says that

administrator of the social security program under the administrations of jack kennedy lyndon johnson and richard nixon this guy knew what he was doing running social security and medicare was developed as an extension of social security he was the guy who helped write the medicare bill now his suggestion is we actually have his own his actual words in my book rebooting the american dream. he says for persons who are trying to understand what we were up to the first point to keep in mind is that all of us who developed medicare and thought for us had been advocates for universal single payer health insurance we saw insurance as and for the elderly as a fallback position which we advocated soley because it seemed to have the best chance politically all of the public record contains some explicit denials we expected medicare to be the first step toward universal national health insurance perhaps with plenty care as the second step so about maybe a month month and a half or so before the vote came up in the senate on medicare republicans got wind of the fact that this medicare thing was going to be just t

. >> richard nixon. it was a very serious meeting, though, that day in the white house.ering his help in fighting the drug problem. >> yeah, believe it or not, this meeting inspired president nixon to announce the start of the war on drugs 40 years ago today. we're going to have a story of a family who has suffered personal tragedy in that battle and that is comipng up. >>> welcome back. >> half past the hour now. >>> ahead in saudi arabia a potential revolution under way. women there are fighting for their right to drive. today, activists are kicking off the women to drive campaign an effort to defy that law and the latest on it coming up. >>> first, betty nguyen is at the headlines desk with the top headlines of the morning. >>> good morning. >>> ten days after admitting he sex sexted women online, anthony weiner is stepping down. >> i am announcing my resignation from congress. >> reporter: hecklerring punctuated his announcement. weiner's wife did not appear with him during his resignation announcement. >>> a security scare outside the pentagon this morning. u.s. par

even richard nixon spoke admiringly of larry eagleburger, telling me very proudly that larry was utterlyhis own agenda, and was as smart as an outhouse rat. [laughter] that latter phrase was high praise [laughter] from] -- high praise from nixon. [laughter] so i made one of the wisest personnel decisions i have ever made. i hired him. i soon learned that everything i learned about larry was true. he was one of the kind who drove a red corvette and who smoke in no smoking buildings. all the while, he used that in hiller of his to counter the effects of -- he used that in his to counter the effects of the smoke. he was absolutely fearless when it came to accepting difficult jobs. deputies and cabinet members get all the work and none of the credit. as my no. 2, larry was the sheriff who had the day-to-day responsibility of making sure that things ran smoothly. blood pressures rose in the offices of ambassadors and other state department officials when the word came in that eagleburger was on his way. and even more so when they heard that the eagle has landed. [laughter] but larry was even

he worked for the first president bush melvin laird did it when he worked for richard you know richard nixon it can be done and it could be done and if you do it right you got to manage the place better in the bush administration and you know even gay so you don't have a strong deputy secretary of defense to keep weapons costs under under control under control but act accordingly as i mentioned in the intro we are fighting three to four wars that as a doctor carano mentioned our military spending didn't cockpit that problem we have proposed cuts by the obama administration so why not just leave it at that and focus on other an opening first of all to what i'm talking about is not war funding war funding as supplemental which is the first time we've ever done that in korea and vietnam we didn't do supplements what you know after the first year of the war so i'm not talking about that those need to be funded by the way the pentagon has snuck a lot of things into the supplements that weren't you know directly you know to the war defensive because of what it contributed back in two thousand you

richard nixon was the greatest, and he made the opening of china. nixon is my friend. we correspond. we exchange letters. he sends me all these books. i have read all of his books. i said, well to use san ten banks? oh, yes. i fell down as a reporter and failed to ask him what boxy since and have not gotten around to asking mr. nixon about it. i would dearly like to know what was sent to him. c-span: were you under the impression that he was a disciple? >> guest: very much, but he was the kind who has his own category of interest as well. i would not say that he necessarily share the taste, but he liked having an action man. he shared personality. he has done some bad gangs lately, the massacre. when he came to office in 1977 he was buried much the same. an older man, in his early 70's. the full of ideas and energy. the kind of man who might leap out of his chair. the chinese called him the indian or ball because he had lost power and would bounce back up full of energy. i'd think he was exactly the kind of man that china needed after the disaster and terrible problems

richard nixon passed the clean water act. i'm a history buff and i think richard nixon should be known, not just for watergate but for clean water. i hope they don't repeal richard nixon's signature achievement, the clean water act. mr. speaker, i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> perm mission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, international competitiveness is critical to revitalizing america's economy. that's why it's so imperative that we move forward the free trade agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. passage of these f.t.a.'s will not only improve our relationships with these countries but it will also create new trade jobs for america. make no mistake, creating jobs and growing the economy are the most important issue today facing america. mr. buchanan: the

congress' approval rating is down below what richard nixon's was.is because the congress is doing nothing. it's been in session since january is doing nothing. the whole purpose of government is to improve the live of citizens. >> it is because it's become so partisan that they're not getting anything done? >> because we're in this mess financially and members of congress are trying to find ways to move around this that they don't have to take a vote that can get them beat in the next election. that's what we're in the middle of right now. people understand that, people say that. they don't like the congress. the congress is trying to find some way around it. they don't know a way around it either. when this country was founded, the people that signed the declaration of independence pledged their lives, fo fortunes and their sacred honor. that meant they expected they'd probably be hanged if this didn't work. right now we have a congress that is afraid to step up there and at least put their political life on the line here. until we find some courag

more than that of richard nixon, for example, who presided over tax rates that reached 70%, regulations that spanned whole industries like airlines and telecommunication and who actually instituted price and wage controls? in fact, right now any discussion of any government involvement in the economy, even to build vital infrastructure, is impossible because it is a cardinal tenet of the new conservatism that such involvement is always and forever bad. that's the theory. meanwhile, in practice across the globe, the world's fastest growing economy, china, has managed to use government involvement to create growth in jobs for three decades. from singapore to south korea to germany, evidence abounds that some strategic actions by governments can act as capitalists for free-mark growth. but conservatives resemble the old marxists who refuse to look at actual experience. i know it works in practice, the old saw goes, but does it work in theory? republicans often praise businessmen. one of the first steps any business now takes when confronting a problem is to ask how are other companies arou

starting with richard nixon from a position of total hostility between the two powers, we have gone through eight presidents now of both parties, some of them starting out was some pretty harsh views about china. and they'll have come to the conclusion -- and they have all come to the conclusion that broadening our relationship with china is in the interest of united states and they have made enormous progress. there have been some rough spots. and for understandable reasons. the chinese have tended to defer to the united states as being the world's experts. who was it that screwed up in 2008? it was the united states. the chinese think, we do not have to pay any attention to you anymore. there was a certain amount of hubris that went with that. and they began to make some changes which were at the very least irritating. i think what we have to remember is that we and the chinese are about as different as any two people could be. that is in terms of our history, our culture, our religion, everything. we, for example, live in a world of the nation state system. the chinese still mentally liv

he served american presidents from richard nixon to george h.w. bush. mr.lled eagleburger a tireless and dedicated patriot. >>> sunday marks the 30th anniversary of aids. u.s. health officials first reported it as a rare form of pneumonia on june 5th, 1981. today i spoke an african-american woman who made several panels for aids memorial quilt. she herself is hiv positive and tonight she's what matters. >> what i do when i make the quilt panels i make them so in the statistics where we hear about it's 30 million people every day or whatever, each panel represents a person. >> right. >> and i made the guilt so that we'll know it's not just a number. this was a person in my life that i love. >> this is ricardo, someone you loved? >> yes. >> let's take a look at this one. which one is this one. >> i'll take ricardo. >> this is a brother and a sister. >> this is my mom and my uncle. and this talks, shows pictures when they were kids. as they've grown up. >> you seem you get a little emotional when you talk about this. >> i do. i do. not only is it putting a fac