by 1938 richard nixon had registered as a republican. up to that time melvin small claims nixon was a nonideological centrist. yet in 1936 or in retrospect, one of richard nixon's roommates from this period 1936 and on at the end of his law school career at duke claimed nixon believed that individuals should push back against big government, big society, and big business. and americans could never be free if he or she abdicated his or her personal responsibilities to someone else. so, finally, nixon did pledge in a letter to herman perry, the first political mentor, dated 6 october 1945 to practice, quote, practical liberalism as opposed to, quote, that particular brand of new deal liberalism, pushed by nixon's opponent jerry voorhees in the 1946 campaign. well, this is a topic that i believe deserves further research. that's something i will work on. that's something i wanted to share with you folks today, what are the true roots of richard nixon's conservative political views of this period. those folks who believe in small government,

richard nixon was no new dealer. having studied the congressional and vice presidential periods of nixon's political career, a question crossed my mind or a thought crossed my mind. it happens once in a while. what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1833 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a kruse bal upon which the all american persona, we see that as a young man, certainly, full of belief and sturdy self-reliance and pep, was tested and challenged by, well, a few things. the mass deprivation and general suffering one saw during great depression, that was no picnic, certainly. the relatively radical effort business the new deal agencies to intervene, some would argue, in the lives of the individual citizens. and finely, the polarization of much of the citizenry in response to the new deal in general. okay? second, the company you k

richard nixon was no new zealand. having studied the congressional and periods of nixon's political career, the questionss mind or thought crossed my mind. it happens once in a while. what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1843 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a crews bell upon which the all american persona as a young man. they would intervene in the lives of individual citizens. much of the citizenry in response to the new deal in general. >> you look at influences like any good musician. the carpenters and barry manilow. his grandmother known as a lifelong republican. nixon himself said in his memoirs, they disdain and stand pat republicans. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. in addition to the l.a. times, good house keeping on the

the story of spiro agnew and richard nixon is a strange tale. we heard the last talk about nixon and eisenhower and nixon having been vice president and having gone through the rigors of presidential campaigns. did not strangely in 1968 give much or really any thought to who his vice president might be. which was rather odd, because nixon had spent the past six years or since losing in 1962, trying to figure out how he could get elected president. in 1968 he eventually settled on spiro agnew who was then the governor of maryland. agnew had a reputation. in his early political career of being a fairly liberal republican. he was not really that id logically liberal. what he was not, however, was a conservative. what changed with alnew or seemingly changed, although i argue there wasn't really much of a change, mostly in perception, was that when he was elected governor in 1966 he ran against an opportunist, george mahoney, who r mahoney,. in 1967 and 1968 there were race riots in cambridge. and then later in baltimore in april fallowing the assassi

the story of spiro ag newt and richard nixon is strange. we heard the last talk about nixon and eisenhower and mix on having been vice president and having gone through the rigors of presidential campaigns. they did not strangely give much or really any thought to who his vice president might be. that was odd because nixon had spent the past six years since losing in 1962 trying to figure out how he could get elected president. in 1968, he settled on spiro agnew who was the governor of maryland. he had a reputation of being a fairly liberal republican. he was not a conservative. change with agnew or seemingly change although i argue there was not much of a change, mostly in perception. he was elected governor in 1966, he ran against an opportunist. 1967 and 1968, there were race riots in cambridge and later in baltimore and april following the assassination and martin luther king, but came down hard on the protesters and caught the attention of some of the nixon's men, but john mitchell and pat buchanan. by the late spring of 1968 and summer

so will a complete early life history of richard nixon which is complex. the idea of black history, nixon and whittier college had black football players at that time before world war ii. there were very few colleges allowed and richard took the black historian whom i interviewed, by the way, he ended up in the merchant marine and had nothing, but praise for the nixon family. >> so let me -- >> i just want to clarify, "the l.a. times" made the error of saying that i was appointed and they announced it as the director of the project to interview friends and associates. don't believe it. i interviewed anti-nixon people. we tried to get jerry voorhies among others and he refused. those who knew -- he hated nixon's guts. the last thing i would do is try to gifz a biased interview collection on nixon. >> let me ask you to -- let me ask one of them to respond. >> the last speaker in particular who said there's a need and the third spoeaker. there's a need for an early life history. thank you very much. excuse the wordiness. >>. >> which one of you would like to r

why did richard nixon run that year? >> i think richard nixon wanted to be president of the united states certainly almost back into the early 1950s. he had run in 1960, and i think he felt he had made some mistakes then. he almost, i think, considered trying to move in ahead of goldwater after goldwater ran into difficulty in 1964. he felt he was more mature and that this would be his time in 1968 and all the planets came into alignment for him. it was an extraordinary year, but i think he sort of always wanted to be president of the united states from the time he became vice president. >> he was the so-called new nixon. was he knew or different from 1960? >> he would tell me about certain people that had worked with him. he said pat, they're eight years older than they are, and i'm eight years younger. there was no question about it. nixon had matured in a way up there out of office, been humiliated with the defeat in 1962 in california. he had come to new york and written off politics and all of a sudden he had seen t

and used car lots with american flags the size of city blocks, what else would you expect from richard nixon? there is, in fact, yorba linda, whittier, fullerton, orange county. nixon's youth as idyllic. he writes on the memoirs that you could see the snows. and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of faith, theology and education in southern california. they came in the 1880s, maybe. and built first a church and then a school. and then a college. so nixon -- and it was also a considerably racially diverse community. so nixon's early life, i think, has been much disserved and misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography as applied from almost from the cradle, although he didn't help us in the memoirs because, as he said, his first memory was first of all being dropped on his head and then running after a wagon from which he had been dropped, afraid of being left behind. freud is in the wings waiting to deal with that. and that's as he said in the interviews, the reason he unfashionably somewhat combed his hair backwards was instead of parting it on the side

and he had a relationship with richard nixon. the alhambra newspaper describes fulmer's help as a symphony conductor. he certainly did a lot of behind-the-scenes kind of work on nixon's behalf, helped him get elected in 1946. when it came to 1950 when he ran against helen douglas, "the l.a. times" was very squarely in richard nixon's corner and worked very hard to get him elected. when he gets to the -- during the alger hiss case, and by the way, at this point, nixon, it looked like, was enjoying some fairly decent press coverage and, in fact, as he begins the hiss -- alger hiss investigation, the fellow that he chose to work with him on this was a fellow from the press, a guy by the name of bert andrews who was the washington bureau chief for the old "new york herald tribune." he'd just won the pulitzer prize for doing an investigation how the investigation of communism had ruined the life of ten people in the state department. and nixon chose andrews to work with him on the hiss investigation specifically because he wanted someb

richard nixon's anniversary of his historic visit to china. when we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the visit to china, what will our relationship look like? >> i think it is arkabguably i would argue maturer relationship over the last 30 years, it is as 30 thoethoers. that kind is corrosive. it leads to military expenditures and then counterexpenditures to the fulfilling prophecy of an tag nachl. it seems to me that we've got to keep this timed in. but to keep it in the direction of a major power relationship that is normal where we can cooperate, where our? and where -- when you have irreconcilable differences, we have ways to lidge the damage though do. and frnkly, looking ahead ten years from now whether we'll be have to be basically an 'tis nick i do think forward-leaning education can make a difference. >> ken lieberthal, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. you're welcome. >> you're listening to "c-span today" with relations to china as the president, again, rerated a long-standing concern. at the luncheon, he also said that hi

where does richard nixon stand on the u.n. treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? he says he's in no hurry to pass it. hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now before it mushrooms. hubert humphrey supports the u.n. treaty now, as do the 80 countries who have already signed it. let's stop the spread of the bomb now. humphrey, there is no alternative. >> so i'll have you address the politics of fear as displayed in those two political spots. >> well, yeah, they're -- humphrey's ad, of course, was the play on the warmongers that were republicans that were, you know -- it's something they did earlier, and it patrol didn't work so well fin this election. nixon's ads were right on target, because all he had to do was sit back and watch the democratic party disintegrate, and that's what he did. he put out an ad like that and said, look at these people. you don't want them governing. it was pretty simple for him. he was well-funded and he knew he was the candidate early and he had a loot of time. the democratic convention was late, so nixon had a jum

cultivate peace and harmony with all. >> the comments of president richard nixon in beijing, china, 40 years ago this month. david ig thnatius writing about this in the washington post. -- what the conventional wisdom of the day seems to support. that was true of nixon in china. kennedy in the cuban missile crisis. lincoln in the civil war. a look back at the 40th anniversary of u.s. relations opening up the doors to china and president richard nixon's historic visit to beijing. >>> back to washington, back to the budget debate and we heard earlier in the hour from jeff zinins, testifying on capitol hill, one of the number of the president's cabinet secretaries, discussing the 2013 budget plans. it calls for taxes on wealthy americans. a republican of idaho, he questioned the obm director on when the budget ultimately will be cut facing a debt and growing. >> the concern that i have it's now time to prepare the 2012 budget. we still hear that it's not time yet. for us to begin the austerity part of controlling spending at the federal level but we still have to engage on the spending si

next, in an excerpt of a longer oral history interview for the richard nixon presidential library, herbert klein reflects on the 1968 election, his role during the nixon presidency and his relationship with the former president once they both had left office. this interview airing now for the first time on television is 1:15 minutes. >> when we were in the soviet union in 1959, after we left moscow we flew on russian airplanes and one of the interesting things was that the doctor with us was an air force and colonel i guess he was. air force officer. and when we flew from st. petersburg we flew the long way across country. one of his assignments from the air force was to take pictures of anything he saw that would look militarily out of the wind window. so these airplanes had like clothes hangers and you hang a newspaper up. that's how you read them. kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice president and with their key people that were with him and so i'm back there with the doctor. and so when he had's see something he wanted to take a picture of, i'd stand in the aisle an

richard nixon holding a gala at the white house to honor vietnam p.o.w.s. is this an appropriate way to say thank you to troops who served in iraq? >> i think it is. i think the president has said it's the initial recognition of the success we have had in iraq, understanding that we are still fighting. or in afghanistan. i'm fairly certain at some point when that's over that they will recognize everybody who served across both iraq and afghanistan. >> as you look at the developments in iraq what do you think the u.s. legacy is and will be? >> well, the legacy we see in iraq depends on what the iraqis do now. we have given them the opportunity to enjoy freedom and liberty. now they need to decide what sort of form that will take for them and their children and grandchildren. >> colonel, you were on the front lines in iraq. what did you see? what were your impressions about your involvement in this conflict? >> well, it was a long process. the marine corps was largely in anbar province. so my experience is largely from what happened there and fallugia and ram

certainly one thing he did, richard nixon created the new majority coalition. it was one of the things we had worked on from 1966. fdr had this magnificent coalition that he had taken out of the republican party and put it together that governed the country and the democratic party by 1964. it was about twice as large as the republican paerlt. what nixon did straight politically was take the socially conservative catholic ethnic southern bloc and move it into the republican coalition so that in the next five elections -- the next four after 1968 republicans won three landslides of 49 states, 49 states, and 44 states and george h.w. bush won 40 states. so i think richard nixon is the most important political figure he and fdr in terms of putting together ruling coalitions, governing coalitions in america. we see that gradually disintegrate for reason i described in other books we're not talking about today. >> we should point out this month marks the 40th anniversary of the trip to china, which was historic. >> i was with him on the trip to china. as i told folk

we will fast forward and look at a spot by richard nixon and john kennedy.may be the first one. >> this is the sills family, kennedy visited the sills. >> they are facing one of the great problems that all american families are now facing and that is the great increase in the cost of living. >> our rent has gone up, our food, our cleaning of our clothing, buying of the clothing, our gas and electric and our telephone bills have gone up. >> what has been your experience as far as keeping those two daughters of yours -- >> we would like them to go to college. >> have you been able to put much aside? >> unfortunately not right now. >> one of the things that i think has increased the cost of living has been this administration reliance on a high interest rate policy. my own judgment is that we have to try to do a better job in the fields. >> yes, we can do better, but we must elect the man that cares about america's problems. >> next is a nixon spot from 1960. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, richard nixon. >> i want to talk to y

one item in the shop, president nixon and elvis in many forms. >>> tim naftali director of the richard nixon museum. he taught history at several universities, including university of virginia, he oversaw a team of researchers who transcribed and an oh take itted meetings recorded by presidents roosevelt, truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson nixon. a popular writer, his work amend on slate.com, the new york times, foreign affair and has appeared on national public radio history channel and cspan. he's the author or co-author of four books including two involving the cold war, and nikita khruschev. his most recent book biography of george bush, undergraduate degree from yale, please welcome tim naftali and tonight's panel. [ applause ] >>> gooding -- good evening. join me in welcoming the three members of our panel to the stage. [ applause ] you will be

what else would you expect from richard nixon. yorba lenda, whittier and fullerton, nixon's youth was idyllic and he writes in the memoirs about that on a clear day you could see the snows of mt. bald ty to the pacific and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of theology and education in the 1880s and then to college. it was a diverse community and it was misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography that was applied from the cradle although he didn't help us in the memoirs because the first

richard nixon carried it to the computer six times. we lose it every time now, because the hiss boat is a larger share. even followed individuals bp custome customer. >> ariel, did you have a question at the washington center? >> yes, i do. shifting back the nude ya after so much of president sees. now, do you think the more main street media moved to the left in the con vikz of albert hiss for being a soviet spy. >> you're very well read and i think they're exactly right. they never forgave him. nixon carried the attack, and there was so much rough by him. . -- even when i was in st. louis, we would hear rumor of this where kennedy had all the girlfriends. my wife was in that. they all heard these stories and they simply covered up for kennedy, and kennedy's recklessness was astonishing. but they were all covered up. let's take kennedy and johnson. nothing richard nixon did, in my judgment, compares to what was done to dr. martin luther king when kennedy ordered his wire taps because of communist connection. but they got all this mate

there would be no richard nixon and the war would have ended sooner and no watergate. until the time of -- it really started with johnson, but we had a whole different attitude towards our president than he we do now. nixon sort of finished it off after johnson started it. really created a negative image of the president. that would have been different, and i don't know what would have happened after that. all of the things that happened since carter and reagan and all of those kinds of things, bush and all the rest would have not been there. it would have been a whole different world, but he would have been a more positive force for the country. he would have been a more loved president than richard nixon. that's to start with. >> let's have george mason ask another question. >> if you could describe hubert humphrey's legacy regarding presidential politics and what mistakes can today's presidential contenders hope to avoid when looking back on humphrey's failed campaign? >> wow. good questions. humphrey -- i don't know. his legacy in regard to presidential politics i'm

. >>> in july 1959, then vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev engaged in a debate. over the next hour-and-a-half, timothy naftali talks with eyewitnesses to the debate in a conversation held at the national archives. >> pleasure to welcome you to the william g. mcgowan theater. and the national archives. tonight we have a discussion of one of the most famous events of the cold war. it was on june 24th, 1959, that an impromptu debate took place between then vice president richard nixon and then soviet premi premier nikita khrushchev in moscow. it has become known as the kitchen debate. the two leaders were debating the communism versus capitalism as they toured in moscow. they stopped in front of a model kitchen that exhibitors claimed all americans could afford. while there, nixon and khrushchev continued their discussion through interpreters with cameras rolling. we'll hear more about what they had to say to each other and the overall significance of the exchange in a few minutes. tonight's program is being held in conjunction with our new exhibit in the

. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium called "understanding richard nixon and his era." the following discussion focuses on politics inclueing the former president's weak partnership with vice president spiro agnew, his relationship with the press in the 1960 presidential election. this program is an

along comes richard nixon, because he's richard nixon, and he figures it out. first of what was always democrats that got saddled with losing china and never the republicans because richard nixon wasn't there so hit a little freedom of action there to begin he realized that what was the clock running out on him domestically was the draft, the all volunteer army. richard nixon is too smart to think that a war that is 500,000 americans and into because the vietnamese were losing it would suddenly be successful as he put the vietnamese back but it was buying time. he was lying political space and what he did with it, how much -- hauer early he came up with it, it became a zero some trap. suddenly he can do it. you can step back in vietnam and not have the victory in the soviet union so it's not the hold of richard nixon. it's not all the things he did. it's not the plumbers, it's not the paranoia, but as i say, we look at history from the vantage point of our own time and this is an interesting fact if you're looking at the years in the emergency state to see how

along comes richard nixon, because he's richard nixon, and he figures it out.as always democrats that got saddled with losing china and never the republicans because richard nixon wasn't there so hit a little freedom of action there to begin he realized that what was the clock running out on him domestically was the draft, the all volunteer army. richard nixon is too smart to think that a war that is 500,000 americans and into because the vietnamese were losing it would suddenly be successful as he put the vietnamese back but it was buying time. he was lying political space and what he did with it, how much -- hauer early he came up with it, it became a zero some trap. suddenly he can do it. you can step back in vietnam and not have the victory in the soviet union so it's not the hold of richard nixon. it's not all the things he did. it's not the plumbers, it's not the paranoia, but as i say, we look at history from the vantage point of our own time and this is an interesting fact if you're looking at the years in the emergency state to see how richard nixon fi

and so william safire will explain the kitchen debate is an opportunity for richard nixon to come back at khrushchev, this was a disaster and captured on tv and as i said this was never this, uncut footage, there were parts shown but not the full thing. vice president nixon is uncomfortable, and khrushchev is relentless. let's listen to william safire in 2008 explain how we go from the ampex tv studio to the kitchen debate. and the role he played. >> tell us what you remember of the kitchen debate. >> it was my kitchen in a sense. i was the press agent. i was working for tex mccreary incorporated, a pr firm in new york, one of our clients, allstate properties, was a home builder, and we had the idea of presenting at the u.s. exhibition in moscow the typical american home. which was $11,000 house, similar to what would you find in leavittown in the very beginning. so we built the house, and by we, the builder built the house and i was the press agent, went along. we went to moscow and vice president nixon opened the u.s. exhibit, and was walking along with premiere khrushchev and they w

there's a cassette in 1960 with richard nixon. this is the stuff that historians just love to see. but for whatever reason, many of my colleagues don't do the work. and they've got to do the work. if they're going to be credible, if they're going to be acceptable, then the entire panorama has got to be what's examined. and then let the chips fall as they may. >> i know others of you have questions. this session is ending. i invite you to bring those questions to the panelists who will be circulating. we're going to take a 15-minute break, and we will resume in this room with a session on politics. please thank the panelists. [ applause ] od thank you. thank you so much. good job. you get a star. >> it was too much pressure. >> you get a star. >> it was too much pressure. >> you were both fabulous. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you did well. >> yeah. >> a pleasure to meet you. >> so please, please. please, please. >>> all weekend long, american history tv joins our time warner cable partners in beaumont, texas, to showcase its history in literary culture. beaumont, founded in

>> it is true that on election day richard nixon became the first, maybe the only candidate to run for president to leave the united states on election day by having lunch in tijuana. and there may have been some political calculation and the fact that the election was all, but over and we didn't have cable news in those days and in fact, it wasn't known he was in tijuana because he managed to escape from the press was the whole point. he was trying to get away from the media and went to tijuana because nobody would recognize him there in a significant enough way to manage to have a quiet lunch. he did stop off. i don't know that he went into the church. he stopped off at san juan capistrano. he also stopped off at camp pendelton and there were a couple of marine corps guys throwing a football by the side of the road and this was all long before the population that exists in southern california today. so things were much more -- the roads were different. anyway, he tossed a couple of footballs with the marine corps, but yeah. i often wondered if it was an attempt to get hispanic votes

. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium titled understanding richard nixon and his era. this program is the first panel discussion from that conference and addresses the former president's life story, from his parents' political views to the writing of his memoirs. this is about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

well, in 1968, richard nixon copied kennedy's 1960 formula to run in the primaries, to show popularity by winning primaries to build party organizations, by winning in primaries and to use television advertising in order to massage the electorate and win the election. the bigger budget and the bigger staff really mattered. the -- yeah -- well, that's good because i'm at the end. as nixon hinted in a letter just before -- well, anyway, so the 1960 election was a big disappointment, of course, to nixon. and indeed, republican party officials were really angry with him because they believed that the underlying fundamentals of the economy and the peace and prosperity eisenhower eight years and so forth should have given nixon the victory. and, of course, one does wonder if he only hadn't done the debate in chicago under those sort of strange conditions wearing a gray suit that faded into the gray background and being sick, i think 101-degree fever, perhaps the debate is what really cost him the election. or maybe he was just up against the fact that in the country, he was only the number -

looks back over the political history of this country, there is only one other man other than richard nixondent five times. that is franklin roosevelt. >> that's pat testifying before the senate watergate committee in the fall of 1973 defending nixon in his hour of peril. using a sharp mind and whit to stand up for someone who placed his trust in him, young pat buchanan as a young man. name another public figure who has built his public career on being a stalwart loyalist to richard nixon. loyalty is the heart of pat's being. he is loyal to country, to church, to neighborhood to heritage to pat, the world can never be better than the one he grew up in as a young boy. blessed sacrament church and grade school, gonzaga high school, georgetown university. no country will ever be better than the united states of america of the early 1950s. it's his deep loyalty to preserving that reality and all its cultural and

election that i heard is i don't know if it's mythology for fact, that on election day 1960 did richard nixon, in fact, take a trip to tijuana? and on the way backstop at mission san juan capistrano to be the only candidate that set foot in the catholic church on election day 1960. is there truth to that? >> it is true that on election day richard nixon became the first maybe only candidate to run for president to leave the united states on election day. by having lunch in tijuana. and there may have been some political calculation in this, although the fact is that the election was all but over -- remember, we didn't have cable news in those days, so there's not a lot of news reporting -- in fact, it wasn't known he was in tijuana because he had managed to escape the press was the whole point. he was trying to get away from the media and went to tijuana because nobody would recognize him in a significant enough way that he could manage to have a quiet lunch. he did stop off at san juan. i don't know that he actually went into the church. he stopped off i believe on the way down. he also stop

i was, too, but if you do that, i'll go with -- >> richard nixon. go with nixon. >> ronald reagan. >> and the right answer is? you were right! did you know? >> a guess. >> in 1954, ronald reagan took the gig as a las vegas stand-up comic to supplement his acting career. >> oh, i thought they meant something else. which president was once a fashion model? john f. kennedy. could have been. george w. bush. >> uh-huh. >> okay. gerald ford. or herbert hoover. i'm going to say gerald ford. >> i'm going -- fashion model, i'm going with the obvious, herbert hoover. what's the answer? gerald ford! did you cheat? >> i didn't know. i just thought -- in the '40s. >> gerald ford did a bit of modeling and even posed on the cover of "cosmopolitan"? >> does helen know that? >> his wife was a fashion model, betty ford. >> i'm 2 for 0? 0 for 2? which president was given a $20 speeding ticket for riding his horse too fast on washington street? >> horse. >> andrew johnson, ulysses s. grant, thomas jefferson -- >> i'm going with jefferson. >> ulysses s. grant. did they g

his book features 134 pictures that follow richard nixon and the staff from the presidents inauguration to his resignation in 1974. c-span: fred j. maroon, photographer, what--what went into putting together this book, "the nixon years"? >> guest: it took four years to do the actual photography. i had to get a permission first from the white house to do the behind-the-scenes first term of president nixon. then i went on to do all the other segments: the committee to re-elect the president, the watergate hearings, the impeachment hearings and finally his departure from the white house. and then--it was too passionate a time to use the images right away for any major purpose. i had done it as a historic document primarily. and so i had to wait and--which i did, until about three years ago, and at which time i took the negatives out of storage, where i had them, and produced about 1,000 work prints and edited them. and now, 25 years later, the book is published, and there is an exhibition at the same time at the national museum of american history. c-span: where does this photo come from?

embracing richard nixon. >> yes. >> and nixon looking like, oh, this is just awful. >> he'd rather beplace else in the world. that's right. [ laughter ] >> it just showed you something about richard nixon. >> right. >> and then you come forward, fast forward to bill clinton, and clinton has an ease, and i think it's being a southerner. >> yeah. >> being a southerner, he had an ease with black people. having grown up in arkansas and having lived around black people and havingú black people come into his uncle's store.. >> right. >> .and having a friendly relationship with them. i think he was a different person.. >> yeah. >> .than the other white presidents we've had. it doesn't mean he's lacker than barack obama. >> right. but being, being a southerner were, were, a preconditioned coofort wwthú that and serving effectively as president, haley barbour might be running for president. >> but you know, i think haley barbour probably is more comfortable with black people than many northerners are. >> really? >> yes i do. >> the accusations of racism against him notwithstanding. >> oh yes.

in 1970 title ten which funds family planning for the poor passed unanimously and richard nixon was signed into law, ultd n -- you would not know it from the rhetoric to campaign trail now. >> i cannot tell you the number of times i've heard folks of difference faiths saying we are all now catholics in the fight. >> a president that can order a religion to break its beliefs it can do it to any religion. and i'll repeal any anti-religious act of the obama administration. >> i want to defund planned parent hood. the question is religious liberty. >> ann is a politics features writing for the washington post and susan davis is chief congressional reporter for usa today, you wrote about this today. what strikes you as remarkable about this campaign and this issue buying brought back right now? >> i think a lot of women and a lot of men frankly had felt that this was settled social behavior to use birth control, it has been accepted for years. 1965, through a battle of activists, the court struck down any law in connecticut that made it illegal to use contraception in a married couple relations

this month we celebrate the 40th year anniversary of richard nixon stepping off that plane. >> february 22nd, 1979. >> and we forget when nixon stepped off that plane, 1972, we were fighting the chinese in vietnam. we had fought them not too long before in the korean war, where the chinese lost 400,000 men. there was a cultural revolution still playing out in china. we had no trade, no cultural contact. >> but nixon had the guts to step off that plane. -- >> can you imagine that happening today? >> have we gotten to the point in our presidential campaigns, and you've seen it from the inside, and now you're looking at it from the outside, where candidates say anything to play to audiences. and then they have to live with it once they get elected, and that's why we've had some very bad foreign policies from both republicans and democrats. >> and it was an election year for richard nixon, february of 1972. so it was a bold and courageous you. it was counterintuitive. you don't see that today. >> what would be your advice to mitt romney and to president obama as they proceed, and to rick sa

anyone with symptoms stay home for at least a day. >>> recently unearthed tapes reveal president richard nixonig fan of football but not a big fan of then commissioner pete rozelle. nixon was recorded in 1972 saying he was furious with the nfl's blackout policy which blocked any game from being televised in the city it was played. nixon told his attorney general he would do whatever it took to make sure games were televised. eventually, congress passed a law in 1973 banning the league from blacking out any game that was sold out three days before kickoff. >>> all right, i get to do sports here. it is one of the best rivalries in college basketball, maryland versus duke. unfortunately, the last few games haven't been so kind to the terps. terrell stoegland struggled, scoring only 13 points. duke's tandem of miles and mason plumley dominated maryland, combining for 29 points and 32 rebounds. the blue devils dominated maryland, the final 73-55. >>> 20th-ranked virginia had a tough task against 5th-ranked north carolina. the game was tied at 37 early in the second half, but the tar heels were just