richard nixon's first vice president turned out to be a crook. en he had to resign before nixon did, nixon appointed a new vice president named gerald ford. that was an appointment, not an election. so when nixon then had to quit, too, this man who was never elected president and who was never elected vice president, a man who had been appointed to that position and then only got to the oval office because the two crooks ahead of him in line got caught and had to quit, gerald ford inexplicably became president of the united states. then less than one month after taking office in the rather gangster sort of way, gerald ford said richard nixon according to him was off the hook. scot-free. >> i deeply believe in equal justice for all americans. whatever their station or former station. the law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons but the law is a respecter of reality. now, therefore, i, gerald r. ford, president of the united states, do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all offenses against the united state

the two of them each differ from richard nixon or ronald reagan as well. this. >> how were the different from ronald reagan? >> the first for example, his main emphasis was on stability, prudence, caution. he was trying to preside over a very dramatic changes. at think it was pretty successful. much more idealistic. the u.s. would try to undercut support for terrorism. very different. >> in your book you have chapters as well on barry goldwater and robert taft. does the senators to look particularly good indicators of republican opinion, conservative republican opinion. goldwater, of course, was the republican nominee for president. floridian taft. half represents the 30's and 40's where most republicans, especially midwest republicans, anti interventionist. one of the main stories in the book is so republicans eventually abandoned that tradition. you have the success of eisenhower and republicans by the 50's, but it took a long time. in some ways it is never completely safe. ron paul today, kind of and that after patrician. nigel's -- says cool water beca

foreign policy since world war ii published by princeton your chapter on richard nixon is entitled richard nixon and henry kissinger to read >> royte because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. we will only include a handful of people that were not and nixon and kissinger were a team. at the end of the day he made the decision and kissinger said of himself but kissinger is probably the best certain string of republican foreign policy by which i will call realism and that emphasizes balance of power international behavior of other countries and internal behavior the need to carefully coordinate to read the kissinger approach is different from the bush approach and the ronald reagan approach so kissinger is deserving of special mention for the reason. as bernanke went to china in 1972. what did that to for the republican foreign policy expectation? >> at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public -- voting public there was a conservative who were very skeptical because their point of view was with a horrible dictator and long term united states pr

republicans were dissatisfied with the potential nomination of richard nixon. >> every few cycles the republican party is the ostracized party. when it gets tired of itself, someone comes from outside. the republican party is more

so if you're a richard nixon during the vietnam war protests and many people forget many of the protesters were military veterans who had come home from that war richard nixon script from that era was to try to deflect attention from the message and vilified the antiwar messengers make the protesters themselves the issue so they thought is going to double down to conservative movement is going to double down but in this case i don't think it's going to work because there's a fundamental difference between that tactic there nixon's era and the war and today during the nixon era we were talking about a war which fundamentally inherently brings up questions about supporting the troops about patriotism about nationalism and there's a there's a very individual personal quality to those questions this movement by contrast is against faceless corporations who are among the most unpopular institutions across party lines by the way of any institutions in society so i think trying to change your divert attention from the message and put it on the messenger negates how powerful the message

c-span: where was richard nixon? >> guest: richard nixon was, at that time, of course--he had--he was about to launch his run for the us senate. he was going to use his -- the name that he had made for himself, the fame that he had gained by prosecuting the hiss case and carrying it forward and proving his guilty, to translate that into, you know, political success to the next level, moving from the house to the senate here. c-span: what was joseph mccarthy's relationship with joseph kennedy, the father of jack kennedy, in 1950? >> guest: well, before i answer that, let me just come back briefly to the nixon issue and the hiss issue. they're important to understand mccarthy and to understand the wheeling speech for this reason, and that is is that richard nixon was always the ex--example, the role model for mccarthy, of how taking on the issue of domestic communism and pointing fingers at the members of the truman administration or past members of the truman and--and roosevelt administrations, pointing fingers at the

richard nixon was overwhelmingly reelected in 1972 amid the great protests you talked about. >> that was a long time ago. >> that was an era where the left was protesting every day. and my father in construction work in manhattan, burning the american flag, the left embraced it and media embraced and guess what, richard nixon was reelected. >> neil: the great silent majority. i'm wondering if there is a difference the way the media portrayed it as charlie said, it is getting a lot of coverage from the media, the crazy people argue. this is a movement and wall street movement, had more than the tea parties. do you think either resonates with the american public? >> i think it does, because, the key word here is frustration. i think that the people are frustrated. and i don't know. and i don't know what they're frustrated at, i'm frustrated, too, the economy, look what the tea party did. ne were frustrated and they worked with industries and they're members of tea party. do you think any of these guys are-- >> the tea party and wall street protesters actually have a lot in common. >> n

think richard nixon. but in 1968, nixon found salvation if you will on the hit nbc show "laugh-in." ♪ sock it to me ♪ >> sock it to me? [laughter] chris: jerry ford was a more likable guy but he was in big trouble running in 1976. he went on "saturday night live" to show he got all those chevy chase prattfalls and ridicules of him on the air. >> good evening. i'm chevy chase and you're not. good evening. i'm gerald forled. and you're not. -- jarled ford. and you're not. chris: that was convincing. even john mccain had a cameo in "wedding crashers." it wasn't out of character for mccain to joke around but it didn't hurt to show up in a big hit when he was ramping up his second run for the white house. history not lost on mitt romney. in 2008 the romney kids, his children, decided to take matters into their own hands. here you see them pranking their dad. even though his reaction wasn't everything they wanted, they posted the video on their website. >> you got to imagine right now he's feeling stressed. the

harding, richard nixon, john f. kennedy, bobby kennedy, even though he wasn't in the white house. >>> what's the proof of that? >> joan quigley was arguably the most -- not joan quigley, jean dixon. joan quigley was the reagan psychic adviser. jean dixon first advised fdr, told him about how the world was going to be after world war ii. also predicted the date he was going to die. jean dixon predicted to a crowd in 1956 that a democrat with big blue eyes and bushy brown hair would be elected president in 1960. it was john f. kennedy, predicted the day he was going to be assassinated. and through rosemary woods, richard nixon's secretary, jean dixon used to advise richard nixon. in fact, there's a recording in the library of congress of president nixon talking to secretary of state kissinger, and he said, you know, rosemary talks to that soothsayer. >> i suspect that we will find out whether the current residents of the white house consult psychics, but not for a few years to come. i want to mention your book, "never

he brings richard nixon on to the national scene at the age of 39. i would have thought your dad saw some of his younger self in young richard nixon. they had some temperamental similarities. >> they did. i think it is easy to say that geography had a lot to do with it just that it -- just as it did with earl warren in 1948. it is also important that you mollify the taft wing of the party. while they are not selecting somebody from the taft wing, nixon was seen as the closest possible die. i was there when my dad said, there is your vice-president to eisenhower. >> where were you? >> i was at the convention. i was opening doors and carrying the notes as a college sophomore should do. i know that is what happened. i don't know if it was a temperamental likeness or if it was getting the taft wing on board. geographical balance was a big thing like -- it was a big thing back then. >> what your dad used to say, at the end of his life he said, everything came to rule for me. he always like to surround himself of people who he said careers were ahead of th

this is a man who took power when richard nixon was president of the united states. i note the a.p. report, past reports, proven incorrect. nobody wants to jump to conclusion here, but. >> well he was forced out of power in tripoli. getting him was a long process of liberating libya. this is an important step whether he was captured or killed. the mere fact that they managed to take over his hometown indicates that libya is once again beginning to be whole. there are now some very small pockets but the abilityer of them to hold out much longer i think will be very difficult. this is the kind of psychological moment where the libyan people will begin to peel they can move ahead. >> steve, this morning we heard reports that the libyan transitional forces felt they had taken control of sirte. we're also seeing a report that perhaps the death happen ed aftr nato struck the convoy. is that technically overstepping what their mission was? >> nato's mission is to basically help protect the people of libya and to deal with command or control. if you have a very libyan view of what control i

finally, he was more responsible than anyone else for richard nixon been on the ticket. he spotted him as a young talent in 1948. he brought into new york to speak at the annual dinner of the republican party. he sat down, he took the cigarette holder out of his mouth. he said, making a promise. don't get fat. don't be lazy trade some day you can be president. >> we will go back to those moments later on in the show. the will talk about his legacy and what he was able to accomplish even though he was not successful for the white house. first, let's hear from a shell from kansas city, missouri. >> giddy dewey campaign actually exploit his ties with the organization in kansas city? some of the things they did back then helped him get in the position he was at. thank you. >> that is a very good question. no, they did not. that was part of dewey's approach which was very consciously to stay away from personal attacks, to keep this thing on a very high plane. some would say vapid, content free. bearing little resemblance to modern attack campaigns. >> let's go back to the pri

and richard nixon used to go fly-fishing at jews control the media creek. even barack obama spents a lot of time at camp david which until recently only admitted white presidents. now-- (applause) (cheers and applause) folks, let's be fair. now perry says they changed the name a long time ago but i say who cares. i am sure the original meaning of -- >> niggerhead-- . >> stephen: yes, that word, was totally innocent. as a commenter on the conservative blog red state pointed out the word in question is a technical term. meaning many things such as the striking weight on a pile driver and isolated coral head notorious as a navigation hazard or a black iron post for mooring ships. see t just meant anything that was dark and bothersome that you would pound on the head or tie a rope around. nothing offensive about it, okay. let's move on. folks, today is the first monday in october. the season-opener of my favorite sport, supreme courting. now some say it's not actually a sport but i say it's got a court like basketball, as much excitement as baseball and more bl

ever since it was created by that bleeding-heart liberal richard nixon. get haircut, hippie. of course, the agency was formed back in 1970. back then america's ecosystem was full of hazardous cfcs, ddts and 3 be gs, and ohio's cuyahoga river was so polluted it caught fire 11 times. who knows what caused that. it could have been pollution. personally i suspect the trout torched it for the insurance money. but that was then. this is now, right, john stossel? >> thank goodness for the e.p.a. the air and water are cleaner than they used to be, but they passed those rules. they made the air and water cleaner. it's diminishing returns. they've done a wonderful job. stop already. stick a fork in it and it's done. >> stephen: yeah, stop already. when something is clean, you don't need to clean it anymore. that's why i sold my dishwasher and my bidet. [laughter] the e.p.a. is useless. that is an indisputable fact. here to dispute that fact is senior fellow at the center for american progress and former head of the e.p.a. carol browner. carol, thank you so much for coming. [cheering an

he lost to richard nixon and the 1972 presidential election. also, a commentator andy rooney is hospitalized after developing complications during surgery. the 92-year-old developed his last survey on 60 minutes in three weeks ago. >> the top prosecutor main make a run for congress. he may run for the house in the newly redrawn fourth congressional district. prints george's prosecutor from 2003 until 2011. >> rick perry proposes a bold a chance to the tax code. the first is a flat tax peter >> we put a flat tax on a personal standpoint -- when you put a flat tax -- that is the type of confidence that a americans are looking for. >> the would also allow for private social security investment accounts. he would want to put/relations. he's tried to regain momentum that has an behind herman cain and at mitt romney. . mitt romney will be in our region. he will tour with all of a mcdonnell. he spoke with potential voters and cincinnati. >> the president intended -- we have a first look at an appearance of late-night television and what president had

it makes me think of richard nixon. >> a bus couple of crumbs. -- save us a couple of crumbs. >>> it'sdegrees outside. >> it was our place and we are going to miss it. >> caa favorite bar >>> thousands of cases have been tapped and thousands more people have been served, but last call is officially over for capitol hill hawk and dove. after four years in business the business has closed. plenty of people out and do the bar to have one more drink or dinner. kris van cleave has the grand finale. >> it is the end of an era. >> the fine on the door says it all. >> i came in to say goodbye. >> after 44 years, capitol hill's neighborhood bar -- >> it is sad. nostalgic. >> famous for being a watering hole where politics and disagreements were left outside -- collect all the mechanics and lawyers and lobbyists and congressmen, it was our place and we are going to miss it. >> its final last call. >> september 19 we have afforded anniversary of the first beer that i ever had a a hawk 'n' dove. >> he spent time on both sides of the bar in those years employee and patron. gorzelanny its more than

chris: everybody thought he was tricky and ruthless enough, richard nixon, to pull us out of vietnam. >> no one loves him. >> if republicans aren't in love with mitt romney and he becomes the nominee, will they turn out? and i would argue they will it's all about how much they don't like obama. that will be the motivator. chris: going around the table starting with your thought. can he make himself, to use a phrase from the last campaign, likeable enough? >> he is so far until this last debate he had made himself i think likeable enough so my answer would be yeah, he doesn't have to be wildly likeable, just competent. >> there's enough time and intervening event might give him a chance to be vulnerable. >> absolutely. chris: tell a few jokes? michael duffy, you're hesitant. >> if he comes out unlikeable, it's not going to work because it's not about likability. chris: the republicans debated in vegas this past week and monday president obama heads there, too, speaking of betting. the easiest way to put your money where your mouth is in politics is at the website intrade.com. it's base

republican president elected who didn't have a solid relationship with the republican base since richard nixon in 1968. every republican nominee and president has had a solid enthusiastic relationship with the base. mitt romney does not. tactically right now, it may not matter. you have six dividing up the nonromney vote, he can win. >> there is not a candidate called cain, perry, bachmann. chris: or romney. i heard this week that all obama has to do is say to mitt romney to the voters, he is on the far right. you don't want him. he is just like perry and the rest of them. is that convincing? >> no, because it doesn't stick with who romney is. >> exactly. he doesn't seem like a far right. >> he can't decide. is mitt romney a flip flomer or a tool of the tea party, not both. chris: chris cristi came around to mitt romney this week. what was amazing was his timing. hardly the first to notice that two days before he stood add that podium to endorse romney, "saturday night live" had this exit, he was pleading with republicans to like romney. >> listen up. you have to start showing governor romney

richard nixon. "haley barbour is too fat." >> i think what's going to happen and what is happening right now in our nation right now, bob, is, look, there are going to be two economic plans that the people of our country will choose from. one that was the failed plan proven to have failed under george w. bush which brought us not only record deficits but worse, record job losses in our country. then, you will have the plan that has been advanced by the president, once again renewed with his drive for the american jobs act, that will create jobs in our country. and the opposition from the do- nothing tea party congress makes it very clear that they do not have an alternative except to prevent the president's plan from fully working. we'd all like it to be creating jobs more quickly. i'm sure the president would like it to be creating jobs more quickly. if the members of the do-nothing republican congress would actually put a couple of oars in the water and help us do these things like governor barbou

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would stop calling it new fox's regionally conceived back in one nine hundred seventy two memo to richard nixon from roger ailes who is currently the president fox news said and at that time was working for nixon suggesting that the white house had some rich republicans to fund what roger ailes called g.o.p. t.v. to put out republican talking points under the guise of a new us i make no pretense that what i'm doing is not is news it's not and spin i'm pretty blunt with my opinions and my opinion is that any network that has the word news as part of its name and particularly the claims to be fair and balanced when in fact it's a g.o.p. t.v. and it's not a positive thing for america that's it for your take my take tonight if you like your comments and questions for it on this segment a picture of the big picture listen up. i. hit zero zero democrats need to take a good long look in the mirror because many of them seem to have forgotten just who the heck they are yesterday the six democrats on the gang of twelve super committee introduce their first proposal as first offer a starting point for neg

the name the roger and ailes and vision when he wrote a memo to richard nixon nixon's chief of staff in the early so seventy's suggesting the administration invest in creating a television channel to put forward republican talking points under the guise of news. i world without fox news is frankly a better world it's a world where voters will hit the polls next year without being frightened by spin doctors like frank luntz unfortunately that's not the world we live it even if anonymous shuts down part so-called news as website on november fifth it will only be temporary and the t.v. talking heads will continue anyway but for one day maybe just one day a fox news less world could exist and will remember what it was like before bill o'reilly told us how to think before fox and friends told us what to be afraid of and before hannity told us what it means to be an american and we'll all wait up on november sixth right back into a world with news i decide to turn the channel some may say i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one. as the big picture first night. for more information on the st

you go back and you think about our presidents, some of the mean, behind the scenes, certainly richard nixonin their sort of public personas, whether it's reagan or bill clinton or barack obama, they're not mean personally. they don't go for the angry, excessive attack rhetoric, so maybe andrew jackson was pretty mean when he was president, but we don't really elect these type of people to the highest office in the land. so newt would really be breaking a barrier. >> i think it's a fair question. would you want a guy as president who likes wrestling in a cesspool. that's what this guy is. he likes dirty as possible. both sides can get dirty and he can be a little less dirty, dirtier than the other guy. he doesn't want to run on a clean field, this guy. >> no. and let's also keep in mind that this is someone who recently has fearmongered over islam and sharia law, his comments about the community center down at ground zero were incredibly inflammatory. he's someone who has invoked the memory of auschwitz when comparing -- when talking about democratic policies and politics. he's incredibly in

he brings richard nixon on to the national scene at the age of 39. i would have thought your dad saw some of his younger self in young richard nixon. they had some temperamental similarities. >> they did. i think it is easy to say that geography had a lot to do with it, just as it did with earl warren in 1948. it is also important that you mollify the taft wing of the party. while they are not selecting somebody from the taft wing, nixon was seen as the closest possible guy. i was there when my dad said, there is your vice-president, to eisenhower. >> where were you? >> i was at the convention. i was opening doors and carrying the notes as a college sophomore should do. i know that is what happened. i don't know if it was a temperamental likeness or if it was getting the taft wing on board. geographical balance was a big thing like -- it was a big thing back then. >> what your dad used to say, at the end of his life he said, everything came to rule for me. he always like to surround himself of people who he said careers were ahead of them. the fact t

johnson richard nixon and gerald ford and when i looked him up i also found that he's been in the news about another european wide issue arising in the very same week these last few weeks and that's the tobin tax now all the governments of europe have are now agreed that they want to tobin tax which is a tax on financial transactions the only one outside of this is the u.k. of course because they have the city of london and they don't want to financial transaction tax well from september twenty seventh her father harold was quoted in the f.t. in an article titled long term investors would benefit from tobin tax and harold monger refers to the fact that so much trading is now high frequency trading and so long term investors are disadvantaged he says because he argues that big financial institutions that operate f.t. platforms try to bully up flagging markets by well timed surge of buying of exchange traded funds triggering automatic buy responses from algorithmic trading models across the market if true this must create an upward market bias that will over time skew asset values well t