all of that was lost unfortunately. >> richard nixon won. the war raged on for a couple other years. what about cuba humphries life after this? >> nixon did not say he was going to end the war. he said he was going to win the war. he had a secret plan. that was the effort that appeal to the silent majority. the problem for humphrey again, we talk about how he is trapped in being lbj vice-president and lbj is feeling he needs to win this war. he is also trapped with the larger argument with nixon were he wants to say, i am for stability. i am not for things going out of control. this is at the same time nixon really says he is a law-and- order candidate. humphrey can never be that because nixon has the space occupied. he is alienating people who would be his supporters. >> i will take a call. this is cavan from new york. >> hello. you touched a part -- you touched upon this earlier. if george wallace had been out of the 1968 presidential race, would you have seen the outcome be in even closer than it was? in all of your opinions, who would it

did richard nixon do these things often? >> that was not that unusual. he had done this when he was campaigning and the following year in san jose, california, he got out of his car, hoping-- literally hoping that stones would be thrown at him, much to the horror of the secret service. he was both fearless and some might say irresponsible and not just on this occasion. >> it signals a kind of interesting relationship with his valet. >> yes, menolo sanchez was his valet. he was a cuban emigre. >> and they're discussing this at 4:00 in the morning after a turned down offer of hot chocolate but asked him if he had ever been to the lincoln memorial at night and what, pals along with him to go down there? >> it was a little odd because nixon had been on the phone. he made about 50 phone calls from 9:00 to 3:30. he called henry kissinger eight times. he was in a very odd situation mentally, i think. the country was falling apart, from his perspective. he later said this was the darkest period of his presidency. henry kissinger said washington and the white hou

richard nixon took his advice. richard nixon resigned on august 9, 1974. >> the relationship between the two? >> testy. barry goldwater consistently throughout watergate would broad richard nixon to tell the truth. he said this is beginning to smell. there was a very famous showdown between barry goldwater and richard nixon at the 1960 republican convention. one of the most important set pieces and conservative history. nelson rockefeller basically threatened a floor fight unless he could dictate the terms of the republican platform. he forced richard nixon to fly to new york to negotiate the terms of the platform. it was announced in chicago where the convention was. barry goldwater was so mad he give this angry speech calling it munich of the republican party. that was when people started demonstrating for barry goldwater at that convention to usurp the nomination from richard nixon. ever since that point i don't think he ever really trusted richard nixon. >> tipping ahead to watergate is what brought on the resi

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yes, i'm unsnarkly quoting richard nixon. the epa had photographers document the consequences of environmental neglect, of why our country needed something like an epa. these are some of those images. in 1970, there was no clean water act. that's a woman holding water from her well. no clean air act, right? virtually no laws regulating how much toxic waste companies could dump into the water. the epa changed all that after richard nixon created it. richard nixon, by the way, in case you haven't heard, was a republican. today's republicans blame the epa for pretty much everything wrong in the country and that's only half hyperbole. seven of the ten jobs agenda ideas put forward by house republicans this august, ideas meant to create jobs, were things that would kill environmental regulations. seven of the ten were to undermine the epa in some way. anti-epa politics are so extreme in republican politics right now that kentucky senator rand paul recently argued against power plant pollution rules by actually sort of arguing that

did richard nixon do these things often? >> that was not that unusual. he had done this when he was campaigning and the following year in san jose, california, he got out of his car, hoping-- literally hoping that stones would be thrown at him, much to the horror of the secret service. he was both fearless and some might say irresponsible and not just on this occasion. >> it signals a kind of interesting relationship with his valet. >> yes, menolo sanchez was his valet. he was a cuban emigre. >> and they're discussing this at 4:00 in the morning after a turned down offer of hot chocolate but asked him if he had ever been to the lincoln memorial at night and what, pals along with him to go down there? >> it was a little odd because nixon had been on the phone. he made about 50 phone calls from 9:00 to 3:30. he called henry kissinger eight times. he was in a very odd situation mentally, i think. the country was falling apart, from his perspective. he later said this was the darkest period of his presidency. henry kissinger said washington and the white hou

all of that was lost unfortunately. >> richard nixon won. r waged on for a couple other years. what about humphrey's life after this? >> nixon did not say he was going to end the war. he said he was going to win the war. >> that plan that he had. >> the secret plan. >> he had a secret plan. that was the effort to appeal to the silent majority. the problem for humphrey again, we talk about how he is trapped in being lbj's vice-president and lbj is feeling he needs to win this war. he is also trapped with the larger argument with nixon were he wants to say, i am for stability. i am not for things going out of control. this is at the same time nixon really says he is a law-and- order candidate. humphrey can never be that because nixon has the space occupied. even as humphrey is trying, he is alienating people who would be his supporters. >> i will take a call. this is gavin from new york. >> hello. you touched upon this earlier. if george wallace had been out of the 1968 presidential race, would you have seen the outcome being even closer than i

richard nixon was rubbing his hands. richard nixon's political undertaker's parlor. we as always want to hear from you. our phone lines are open. if you live in the eastern or central time zone. 202-737-0002 if you live in the pacific time sons. we also will get questions from the audience. it will show you political ads from 1964. you remember this campaign. how did lyndon johnson run against barry goldwater? was his tactic? >> rottenness. he ran a very smart campaign. he made barry goldwater the issue as opposed to the issues being the issue. the barry goldwater was painted as a crazy person. there were things put out by the johnson campaign that some groups of psychiatrists and a america came out with a statement that barry goldwater was mentally ill. some of you probably remember that. the nuclear bomb commercial which only aired one time. it got a lot of attention. it was designed by bill morris actually. it was a totally do the guy in kind of campaign. >> it is important to realize the nuclear stuff did not come out of nowhere. in his book he made a strong argu

this is richard nixon we are talking about. someone found out about it. and a camera crew showed up and that became a cropper. nixon was scheming and scamming, hoping that goldwater and rockefeller were knocking themselves out. there was this great cartoon in which it showed rockefeller and goldwater having a shoot-out in the middle of an old western town. and nixon was rubbing his hands in the political undertaker parlor. [laughter] >> we as always want to hear from you. our phone lines are open. we'll show you some of the political ads from 1964. you remember this campaign, how did lyndon johnson run against barry goldwater? what was his tactic? >> rottenness. johnson ran a campaign. barry was painted as a crazy person. there were things put out by the johnson campaign that some group of psychiatrists in america came out with. some statement that barry was mentally ill. some of yo will probably remember that and that he was crazy. and then of course the famous 10, nine, eight, seven, the nuclear bomb commercial which only aired one time but it got a lot

foreign policy since world war ii," your chapter on richard nixon is entitled richard nixon and henry kissinger. >> right. >> why? >> because henry kissinger was an exceptionally important figure. i only include a handful of people who were not presidents, and nixon/kissinger really were a team. at the end of the day, nixon was president, and kissinger has said that himself, but he's the best living resident of a certain strain of republican foreign policy thought which i would call realism, and that emphasizes balances of power, the international behavior of other countries, not their internal behavior. the need to kind of carefully coordinate force and diplomacy. the kissinger approach is very, very different from the bush approach. and very different from the reagan approach. and so i think kissinger's deserving of special mention for that reason. >> richard nixon went to china in 1972. what did that do to republican foreign policy expectations? >> well, at the time it was a popular move. i mean -- >> on the republican side as well? >> with the general voting public it was popular,

governor wallace always suspected that richard nixon was trying to destroy him, which he was, because nixon saw wallace as his greatest threat in 1972. he made every effort that he could and governor wallace was aware of that. >> in your book, in the 1972 campaign, george wallace started strong before he was shot, correct? >> absolutely. he got more votes at the end of the day he was shot. he had more votes than any other democratic candidate at the time. i do not think he would have got a nomination, but it was a tremendous problem for the democratic party. >> after he was shot in 1972, richard nixon went to see him, correct? >> that is correct. >> who else went to see him? >> hubert humphrey went to see him, george mcgovern went to see him, at the kennedy went to see him. in her case, it was a sense of compassion after what had happened. in other cases, it was the politics of it. they would like to have his support. nixon did more than go and see him go. he manipulated the shooting of governor wallace by trying to blame -- trying to link the man shot him to george mcgovern. >> de re

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it forced richard nixon to become the only u.s. president to resign from office. for the first time, the official transcript has been made public. we have the highlights. >> richard nixon was already a broken man when he appeared before the grand jury in june of 1975. he resigned as president a year earlier. despite being granted oregon by his successor, he still risked perjury charges and lied under oath. he was asked about a meeting with the stiffest off just days -- with this chief of staff days after burglars broke again to the headquarters. he secretly taped it, but investigators found a mysterious 18-minute gap in the recording. nixon told the grand jury, i practically blew my stack all morning that part of the recording was missing. if you are interested in my view as to what happened, it is free sample. it was an accident. -- it is very simple. it was an accident. investigators suspected potentially incriminating dialogue had been deliberately wiped out. we can read it all for ourselves in a treasure trove of opened up by the national archives. there are h

president richard nixon will be forever tarnished by the watergate scandal. today, the tapes were released. we have the highlights. >> richard nixon was already a broken man when he appeared before the grand jury over two days in june, 1975. he had resigned as president a year earlier and despite being granted a pardon by his successor, he still wrist perjury charges for lying under oath. -- he still risked perjury charges. yet a meeting with his chief of staff days after the break-in at the watergate. he taped it and investigators found a mysterious gap min the recordings. nixon told the jury, "i practically blew my stack when i found out that part of the recording was missing." he said it was an accident. his secretary told the grand jury that she had an intentionally deleted up to five minutes of material. investigators suspected that potentially incriminating dialogue had been intentionally wiped. now, we can read it all for ourselves in a treasure trove. there are transcripts of what nixon told the grand jury. it will take the historians time to go throu

foreign policy since world war ii, your chapter and richard nixon is entitled richard nixon and henry kissinger. why? >> guest: because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. i only include a handful of people that were not presidents and nixon and kissinger really were a team. at the end of the day nixon made up his -- decision. kissinger is probably the best living representative today of a certain string of republican foreign-policy thought which i would call realism, and that emphasizes balance of power, the international behavior of other countries, not their internal behavior. it needs to carefully coordinate diplomacy. the kissinger approaches very different from the bush approach. and very different from the reagan approach. and so i think kissinger is deserving of special mention for that reason. >> host: richard nixon went to china in 1972. what that that due to republican foreign-policy expectations? >> guest: well at the time it was a popular move. with the general voting public it was popular. in congress, there was a group of conservative kind of con

all of that was lost unfortunately. >> richard nixon won. r waged on for a couple other years. what about humphrey's life after this? >> nixon did not say he was going to end the war. he said he was going to win the war. >> that plan that he had. >> the secret plan. >> he had a secret plan. that was the effort to appeal to the silent majority. the problem for humphrey again, we talk about how he is trapped in being lbj vice-president and lbj is feeling he needs to win this war. he is also trapped with the larger argument with nixon were he wants to say, i am for stability. i am not for things going out of control. this is at the same time nixon really says he is a law-and- order candidate. humphrey can never be that because nixon has the space occupied. even as humphrey is trying, he is alienating people who would be his supporters. >> i will take a call. this is gavin from new york. >> hello. you touched upon this earlier. if george wallace had been out of the 1968 presidential race, would you have seen the outcome be in even closer than it

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moreover, governor wallace always suspected that richard nixon was trying to destroy him, which he wasuse nixon saw wallace as his greatest threat in 1972. he made every effort that he could and certainly governor wallace was aware of that. >> in your book, "the politics of rage," in the 1972 campaign, george wallace started strong before he was shot, correct? >> absolutely. he got more votes -- by the end of the day he was shot, he had more votes than any other democratic candidate at the time. i do not think he would have got the nomination, but it was a tremendous problem for the democratic party. >> after he was shot in 1972, richard nixon went to see him, correct? >> that is correct. >> who else went to see him? >> just about everybody. hubert humphrey went to see him, george mcgovern went to see him, ethel kennedy went to see him. in her case, i think it was a sense of compassion after what had happened. in other cases, it was the politics of it. they realized that they would like to have his support. nixon did more than go and see him go. he also manipulated the shooting of gove

richard nixon was not the republican front-runner from the outset in the campaign. the early front-runner from the nomination in the lead-up to the campaign was actually mitt romney's dad. george romney, former governor of michigan. look, same hair as mitt. same chin as mitt. actually it's a little uncanny. he just looks like the same person. george romney was leading in the polls early on in the republican race in '68, but he was not necessarily known as a great campaigner. and in the middle of 1967, george romney said something weird. he said something weird about being brainwashed. george romney wanted to campaign against the vietnam war, but father like son, he had changed his mind on that important issue. he had earlier been a supporter of the war, now he was against it. when he explained his change in positions, mitt's dad, george romney said, that he had only supported the war before because he had been brainwashed. brainwashed was the word he used. brainwashed by american military officers and american officials when he had visited the war zone. brainwashed?

but again, every moment of richard nixon is fascinating. and this is no exception.luding the digs, including the cageyness. but really, what struck me once again, he calls watergate this silly break-in when in fact this was a huge criminal conspiracy to undermine the very electoral process of this country. it was a conspiracy presided over by the president of the united states. i was struck also today -- i read a lot of testimony. i read the penn state testimony. i watched james murdoch before the british panel looking at the murdoch empire. and i'm struck by all these institutions that become corrupted from the top down because of a culture of willingness to do anything to get one's own goals. and that's what we see with nixon. that's what we see with all three. >> carl, i agree with you about politics. having worked in it, everybody is led by the guy at the top. the one time michael dukakis said something, remember the fish rots from the top. it's an old greek expression. and it's always true. you end up talking like the bus. let's go to timothy nav tali, who had

to his boss richard nixon back in seventy two or what it was seventy three he explicitly suggested that it should masquerade as news but in reality be a vehicle vehicle to pitch republican talking points is it time for fox and drop the masquerade and simply go back to their original name g.o.p. t.v. i reject the premise of the question what i'd like to know from you is where are the news organizations is it the unbiased artier is that the unbiased c.n.n. of the unbiased n.b.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. or m s n b c tell me where the news is tom that's a damn good question and this is one of the real problems and issues of our day i think tony is where is the news we used to have a rule that if you were broadcasting in the public airwaves you had to broadcast in the public interest and that's why all three networks had news divisions and they all actually lost money because they had they had correspondents all over the world they did their very best to provide news and that was necessary for t.v. stations and radio stations to keep their licenses you know reagan ended that eighty seven and clinton p

william jennings bryan across the goal and my own political hero richard nixon. don't tell anybody. tell us how william jennings bryan and nixon affected the dollar in their own times. >> richard nixon would roll over in his grave to be compared to william jennings bryan. in a fundamental way they were aiming for the same thing. william jennings bryant became the spokesman of the populist movement in the 1890'ss and at the heart of the populist movement was a belief that the financial system of the united states was tilted against farmers specifically. ordinary people generally but farmers specifically. they had a very specific complaint, namely falling prices for farm products. the price of corn went down by half between the 1870s at 1890s. cotton was a little more. this was a very serious problem for farmers because farmers typically operate under conditions of that and debtors are seriously disadvantaged when prices fault. if you are a $100 when week is $1 a bushel you have to grow 100 bushels to pay it back. but if it is $0.50 you need 200 bushels to pay it back. the fundamental

one was richard nixon, and the other was lyndon johnson. and, actually, it was the other way around, sorry. anyhow, they were incumbents. they were way ahead in the polls, and they had no reason to debate, and they just said no. there was no way of putting pressure on them. and the only reason they started again in 1976 was because gerald ford, who was the incumbent but, he was 20 points behind. and i interviewed him about this. i asked him, why did you do? he said, it was the only chance i had to gain ground on jimmy carter. because otherwise going the regular way wasn't going the work. so he challenged carter to the debate which was unheard of. and carter agreed. and he, they came within three points. i mean, it worked from -- then ford, of course, had a problem in one of the debates where he said the soviet union didn't dominate eastern europe. that hurt him. but, basically, the debates helped him gain ground big time on, on carter. and, but more importantly, it established the fact of presidential debates. there were, you know, and no c

larger public it could go either way and we need to look back on history and remember that look richard nixon back during the protests of the vietnam war understood that tipping point very well and he did a very good job unfortunately limited but he did a very good job of of basically chip taking the protest against the vietnam war and changing the focus for most americans into a referendum on the protesters themselves in other words he changed the the focus at least for a time away from the protesters message which is very popular against the vietnam war just like the occupy wall street message is very popular and then richard nixon as an opportunist managed to turn public eye or at least for a time against the protesters themselves you better believe that the politicians were trying to crack down on this this kind of protest are going to exploit mistakes that the occupy wall street folks make in order to try to achieve that i hope they're not successful the well it's not just the politicians that are doing it we see the same thing with the right wing media outlets the right wing pundits the

presidential historians, who are combing through the newly released transcripts from former president richard nixon'se of 1975. for the first time, the national archives and the nixon presidential library released the 11 hours of testimony. of course, it was efforts to cover up his administration's involvement in the infamous break-in at the dnc offices in the watergate complex that led to his resignation. but his testimony has never before been made public. after a lawsuit, the judge ordered the material released and today it was. it was the only time president nixon discussed the discussed tr oath. and carl bernstein, of course is the legendary journalist who broke the case. he's now a contributor to "the daily beast." carl, why don't you start, your assessment of what is new here, if anything? >> not much of it's more of nixonian attitude. he's cagey. the real nixon is the nixon of the watergate tapes, unfettered in his office, ordering break-ins, fire bombs. that's the real nixon. this is a witness who wants to make issue he is not caught in a legal trap, who also wants to get some digs in at the