not simply richard nixon. and, frankly, my sense is that the person who might have done it is the one really deny bl person in the nixon entourage, and that's bebe riboso. because it went to florida. what was it doing in florida? there's no evidence. there's no secret evidence. i never saw any. and what evidence i saw i made sure it was available, and there's nothing more. i wish there were more on the 18-and-a-half minute gap. so i've just begin you speculation, but it's just mine. >> question over here on your left. >> my name's brian, and i'm not going to ask you about conspiracies. it's probably safe to say that americans' collective faith in government is a lot lower than it was, say, 50 years ago, and obviously a lot of things have happened in that period, the vietnam or war, the iraq war, 9/11, katrina, etc. how much of that loss of faith in government do you ascribe to watergate? >> and vietnam. >> and the assassinations. >> i think, i think that, well, first of all, you've got the credibility gap, that

not since richard nixon. and, frankly, my sense is that the person who might have done it is the one really deniable person in the nixon entourage. because it went to florida. what was it doing in florida? but there's no evidence, no secret evidence but i never saw any cut of whatever evidence i saw i made sure, i nature is available and there's nothing more but i wish there were more on the eight minute gap so i just give me a speculation at this point. >> my name is brian. i'm not going to ask you about any conspiracies. probably safe to say that american collective faith in the america is a lot lower than that was 50 years ago. a lot of things have happened in that period, the vietnam war, the iraq war, 9/11, katrina, et cetera. how much of that loss in faith of government can you describe the watergate? >> and vietnam. spent and the assassination spent i think, first of all, you've got a credibility gap, the whole concept is a product not of the nixon administration but johnson. that sort of comes and. we

because every president until richard nixon on their papers. hey didn't know that there were kennedy tapes until the nixon tapes were released and the kennedy family then told them that, you know that scene in the warehouse? well, the national archives didn't even know. president kennedy, president johnson, they assumed that the tapes that they were making would belong to them. well, when he cut a deal to try to get back the tapes, congress intervened and passed a special law. the nixon library is the only one covered by one law. that law stipulated that members of the public have the right to get an information. president nixon then sued. and it was a long, long struggle. it took years. only now are the tapes coming out. when i was there, we released about 630 hours. there is important material coming out this year. it has taken years for this stuff to come out. that is because of richard nixon and his estate. so they did not want these tapes come out. the same with the papers. nixon sued the national archives and the drag out. when i was there

he, richard nixon, of the one he should deal with. nixon's intermediary was caught on tape telling the ambassador, just hang on. we need the war to keep going through the election. it's outrageous, right? the war could have ended. it was on the verge of ending, except a candidate for office in our country thought that the war ending would help his opponent in the election. he thought he'd have a better chance of getting elected if the war kept going. so instead of getting the war to end, he did what he did. it was astonishing. and president johnson thought so too. >> and they oughtn't to be doing this. i think it would shock america if a principal candidate was playing with a source like this on a matter this important. >> yeah. >> president lyndon johnson there on the same day as that earlier tape remarking that, as far as he could tell, this is treason. he says it repeatedly on the tapes. he thinks that is a hanging offense. he thinks that was treason. this was four days before the election that year. having thought that the war was

would richard nixon began the breakup of a t.n.t. that ended during the reagan administration it stockholder equity tripled it we may have seen some powers positive outcome in the past of putting these artificial legal restraints into the marketplace but by and large using the and i sure as

richard nixon's centennial year. opening february 15 here at the presidential library is an asibit on president nixon peacemaker, as president, as a patriot. in that, we focus of the it on this more. who lived in the area or are visiting the area, i welcome you to come after february 15 and see this fascinating exhibit on the life of the 37th president. today, the cia will examine president richard nixon's role in intelligence in the 1973 arab-israeli war. we have two speakers, after which we will take a break. then we will have two panels. , it is myspeaker great honor because he is an careerbly respected cia man and a master of intelligence and analysis, a former principal deputy director at the national fromer-terrorism center 2011-2012. he joined the cia in 1982 and focused on middle east issues, the deputy director of the cia's counter-terrorism center and assisted in running one of highest priority, this complex and largest units. he is head of the agency as office of iraq analysis for two years and he also serv

[applause] richard nixon and ronald reagan will never elect another republican. i can see why democrats want amnesty why on earth is mark marko bio and these bush rubio and these bushes pushing for it. they are panicked and demoralized after the last election. stop panicing republicans. liberal writing the obish rare of the republican party right now remind me of new homeowners at the height of the housing bubble. people announce their complete triumph moments before their crushing defeat. our job -- our job is to ensure democrats have that crushing defeat. thank you and ill take some questions. [applause] >> go ahead. >> do you believe that chris christie should have been invited to cpac this year? >> the nominee? >> chris christie invited to speak? >> oh, did you see his convention speech? >> yes. >> it was really bad. [laughter] i must say, as you know, i have loved chris christie i am a single voter against amnesty so christie is off my list. [applause] our next speaker ted cruz is still on my list. [applause] >> good evening. i'm from ohio. is there any advi

number of prisoners both on a per capita absolute basis in the world and richard nixon kicked nixon's drug war and from the drug war and now we have more prisoners than any other country in the world both in absolute numbers and we've got a couple of countries like india and china with over a billion people we have more prisoners on either one of them and we have more number more people in prison on a per capita basis it seems to me like the confluence of of a private for profit prison and you know supply goods to. to the police industry and the you know what all of this together. and the drug is the viewers see it is remarkable if we had justice antonin scalia is prison management policies based on the rulings that he has issued the cost of incarceration would be dramatically lower if you'd everybody you know iraq would be the ones objecting about this execute everybody the day after the trial i mean i think if we could all agree to legalize marijuana we'd be half way there could be all agree on over criminalized it's overcome a lot of crime it's a natural her of the kind of when you

at that point, the supreme court also, before them, headed by chief justice appointed by richard nixond to give up the tapes. he expected the chief justice to back him. he took the other justices aside and said we must have a unanimous decision showing he is not above the law. the system worked. that's the great lesson of watergate. then, amazing things that nixon's successor, gerald ford pardoned nixon. i said have you heard the news? he said no. woodward can always understand my shorthand. he pardoned him. oh my god. he got it. for a couple years, we thought like many people that the pardon of nixon was an irresponsible act. it became clear. he lost the presidency when he ran for re-election because of that act. the most important thing journalists do is to decide what is news. it's the great thing about the movie involved in the president's men. it's not about the heroics. it's about basic reporting and finding out what the hell happened. >> next weekend, ahead of the tenth anniversary, my interview with michael isikoff . why a rally on wall street doesn't mean happy days on main st

if we were to give the telecom and internet oligopolies the same treatment today that richard nixon and jimmy carter gave eighteen t. in the one nine hundred seventy s. then maybe we americans could enjoy the same super fast internet speeds and the same super cheap rates the most of the rest of the developed world enjoys it's time to break up the telecom industry once again and this time make sure it sticks and that's the way it is today tuesday march twelfth two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active occupy something your it suitable. well to british soil. from time to. time. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons a report on a. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start t

nations throughout the developed world are paying far less than it was an effort spearheaded by richard nixon in congress passed the sherman to use the sherman act to break up eighteen teams bells as to in the seven different countries the baby bells in the realm of the bell labs this left the market open for new players to jump in and offer new prices you services and you prices eighty and he was broken up in the end it was good to all the investors will impact the value of a t.n.t. and its former subsidiaries tripled after the break unfortunately ronald reagan functionally stopped in force in the sherman act in one thousand nine hundred two monopolies in oligopolies began to return with the m n a mania of the one nine hundred eighty s. and the baby bells that have been successfully broken up began merging together yet again forming bigger and bigger telecom companies if we were to give the telecom and internet oligopolies the same treatment today that richard nixon and jimmy carter gave eighteen t. in the one nine hundred seventy s. then maybe we americans could enjoy the same super fast in

i feel sorry for richard nixon because when eisenhower made him vice president, he barely knew him. it really was expedient. nixon could deliver the california delegation to eisenhower in the '52 convention, and he was a bridge to the republican right. and republican -- excuse me, eisenhower was a moderate republican and had a very vigorous right wing, some things never change. the republican right, we think the republican right is fierce today, imagine when it had joe mccarthy as its lieutenant. so he needed an ambassador. and nixon was that ambassador. but eisenhower's always cold with nixon. you may remember the famous checker speech? that was because there was a phony scandal, this little slush fund that really didn't amount to anything, but it blew up. you know, the press was just as crazy then and avaricious then as it is now, and they blew up this phony scandal about nixon's slush fund. and instead of defending nixon, eisenhower let him twist in the wind and, basically, defend himself. so nix sob went out -- nixon went out and gave this famous speech that was very effective to

cenk: so richard nixon brought some good to the world.accidentally unintended consequences with his war on drugs wound up getting dylan some great kale. >> that's right. >> so pornography gets you ted talks on the internet and hydropanic weed growing techniques get you the highest growing nutritious kale in the world. >> i don't know if you know about this, but they have some veggie fertilizer made from vegetable matter only, which is much healthier than the fertilizer made from animal products. the only reason they used animal products was because it was a by-product. now, there's a company out that i'm involved with that's making vegetarian fertilizer. cenk: i got to hook you two guys up. >> honestly, this is -- there's a reason the israelis and folks in the netherlands use the technique that we're ustion on the farms here in southern california, and it's because it does not use -- it uses 90% less water, and it uses no land, it and produces a higher nutrition higher impact product in a shorter period of time. cenk: dylan, one more thin

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president richard nixon was the first president to go to israel. he may have done to simply to distract public attention from the investigation that was corroding his presidency and eventually led to his resignation, because we have had precious few presidents more cynical than richard nixon. the next president, gerald ford, did not go to israel. president jimmy carter visited israel, but ronald reagan never thought israel was worth the trip. nor did his successor, president george h.w. bush. then president bill clinton made up for that 12 years of neglect by visiting israel three times. and president george w. bush visited israel once in the last year of his presidency. so not every president visits israel, especially republican presidents, but modern presidential candidates do visit israel. barack obama actually first went to israel in 2006 when he was still an illinois senator. he went again in 2008 when he was running for president. you'll know chris christie is serious about running for president when he schedules a trip to israel. mitt romney

so did richard nixon. whoever wrote to them in, they are not coming back and they are not running. right hands went everywhere from allen west to condoleezza rice to judge andrew napolitano. of those rights in this, none of the right sense received more than 1%. while there were a whole lot of right hands and we had 67 candidates that actually receives votes, this is the largest group of candidates i have ever seen in a cpac straw poll. i can tell you, when i turned the next slide, abc, cbs, cnn are not going to be happy because their favorite candidate did not come in first. but your favorite candidate came in first. [cheers and applause] first with 25%, senator rand paul. behind him, right on his heels, literally -- virtually tied, florida senator marco rubio. [cheers and applause] rickyou have senator chris christie at 7% and so on from there. the 14% other were the individuals written in. that is what they equaled. thank you. year, thank you all. ladies and gentlemen, remain in your seats. we have our keynote speaker coming up. i know you are all here to listen to him. thank yo

haig more to do with richard nixon's impeachment than any other living human being. he was a liberal agent, now he is embraced by conservatives because he is exposed or allegedly exposed the white house, that it's the pas attorneyity who has the pas attorneyity. i mean it is graham rudman 25 years later that is what it. >> rooney: -- . >> woodruff: so the voting rights act, david, arguments between the supreme court this week. what did you make of it. this is much anticipated. >> yeah, well antonin kalia said something an knox us about voting being a racial entitlement. >> which is ridiculous. but i do have to say i was sort of surprised reading through that i was a little more persuaded that some of the skeptics at some point have a much stronger argument than i thought. and their core argument is that in 1964, 6ee, the voting right as becauses were localized in some of these states which were under this provision which is under discussion. now if you look at the map of where the abuses are, they're nationalized. it's not 1964 any more. and in some cases states like

then was that republican party that this republican party should be honored for that when in fact richard nixon came out and said you know we're going to reach out to the and the democrats were the party of slavery historically and it's and they were the the segregation now segregation forever party right up until the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. . but the and in fact what eisenhower leads good efforts i think and tried to to desegregate the republican party but it was nixon who came out with the southern strategy it was ronald reagan who gave his first speech in philadelphia mississippi where he's talking about states' rights the city where three civil rights workers were murdered when the modern republican party ever since nixon has been the party that has been catering to the racist of the democratic party has been. running away from them what did the how did this guy not missed that get get that message well and you know it's actually funny the people that myself mr terry another audience members are with my organization who were in the audience talking we actuall

richard nixon, bill clinton and george w. bush made the trips to jordan also.h's last trip came in november of 2006. >>> enough with the real news. let's gather around the water cooler for your political version of kids say the darnedest thing. new jersey governor chris christie has been touring the state this week answering questions about the fallout from hurricane sandy. he stopped by a kindergarten class on the jersey shore. he took a few questions from the 5-year-olds. pretty harmless, right? >> yes? >> did you come here in a limo? >> no. i came here in something better. i came in a helicopter. >> yes? >> did you park it in the street? >> no, i parked it in a big field by the tennis court. >> do you get to meet the president? >> yes, i got to meet the president a bunch of times. i used to know how many times in my head i met the president. but now i met him so many times that i can't keep count. >> is the president's wife in shanting? >> yes, actually. she was. she is very smart. she is very nice. >> do you do math? >> do i do math? i try not to. i have a

would richard nixon began the breakup of a t.n.t. that ended during the reagan administration it stockholder equity tripled it we may have seen some powers positive outcome in the past of putting these artificial legal restraints into the marketplace but by and large using the and i sure as sherman antitrust act has had disasters all to another calm context and i think if you see it here what you'll see is you'll see the government picking winners and losing losers using it as a tool to favor their friends and and go against their enemies if you had an absolutely uniform in force one of it may have some positive results possibly but you'll never see that it's a monster of a bill and if you go out and start using it i think the results will be bad for the free market not a good small businesses function in america for seventy years yeah when i think what is interesting about the mexico bell is that it allows for a greater or an investment so you may impact the american cup. moving into the mexican market which would be really interest

richard nixon going to china to reach out to communist nation. or john kerry going to iraq to speak frankly to the nation. sometimes the gestures are mentioned to dispel notions like rand paul use rag filibuster to say republicans aren't about defense at all cost. president obama holding private dipper at the white house to remind israeli he still cares. both easing suspension. that's why you have to get them in the same room before you get them on the same page. little things lead to big things. sometimes just seeing a new president like gerald ford making his own breakfast is all you need at the white house. to show scandal weary americans there is change at the white house. such images don't always last but never let it be said in the moment they don't count. that is not to say that waving to the crowd mys more crowd but it says there is a new noppope intown. they they you never get a second chance to make a first impression. but i'm impressed with those following up to take chances to make a lasting impression. >> kimberly: >> hello. i'm eric

because all the problems of america have occurred since one thousand nine hundred ninety one when richard nixon took us off the gold standard that are all the debt of this country cumulated and all you have seen spending and the obscene salaries and government pensions that are bankrupting this country now to texas i mean texas liz does everything right my book the ultimate obama survival guide actually has a key chapter about the state of texas and how fantastic things are going there and they've got the best economy in america they've now moved to number two size wise a condo in america it's one of the twenty biggest economies in the world and they've created more jobs in the last ten years then all the other forty nine states combined they do things right and they're right to be suspicious of who's keeping their goal the federal reserve in new york is it really their can they get it when they need it in a crisis that's what this new texas gold standards are all about bringing the gold that we own in texas back to texas let us corner own gold and take possession of her own gold to show that w

failures of this american history let's hope president obama and the democrats get the message and richard nixon's war on drugs the bad the washington post last week was the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war given the washington post central role in drumming up support for the invasion you'd think now would be the perfect time for the paper to soberly reflect on its own shameless warmongering apparently not pretty good journalist greg mitchell the post is investigation of its faulty iraq coverage just before publication sunday paper claims mitchell's piece lacked broader analytical points or insights. if only the posed to displayed such editorial discretion while it was sheer lead in the bush administration's foolish and murderous war and the very very ugly the n.r.a. will no strangers to public relations ineptitude the national rifle association has spent the past week in dating towns across connecticut with anti-gun control robo calls according to the newtown action alliance a pro-gun control group formed in the wake of the december massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtow

period. >> pretty clear. >> bill: where richard nixon stood on that issue.ow republicans can't even follow their own leaders when it comes to this issue on gun control. and on that other issue of sodas, the headline -- 16 ounce remember michael bloomberg came up with this latest in his health craze the nanny state. to ban the sale of soft drinks over -- sugary soft drinks, not the diet ones, over 16 ounces. it was supposed to go into effect today. and a judge yesterday ruled we've been talking about this morning that that ban he said was the way it was drawn up was arbitrary and capricious and he overruled it. the headline makers are having a field day. the front page of the "new york post" today is "judge cans nanny's ban on big sweet sodas." i just saw on msnbc they saw "judge cans soda ban." >> the headline writers are the real winner. >> bill: bloomberg yesterday refused to cry uncle. he says he will fight on. >> we strongly believe that in the end, the courts will recognize the board of health's authority to regulate the sale of beverages that have virt

[applause] richard nixon and ronald reagan will never elect another republican. want see why democrats amnesty why on earth is marco rubio and these bushes pushing for it. they are panicked and demoralized after the last election. stop panicking republicans. liberal writing the obituary of the republican party right now remind me of new homeowners at the height of the housing bubble. people announce their complete triumph moments before their crushing defeat. our job -- our job is to ensure democrats have that crushing defeat. thank you and ill take some questions. [applause] >> go ahead. >> do you believe that chris christie should have been invited to cpac this year? >> the nominee? >> chris christie invited to speak? >> oh, did you see his convention speech? >> yes. >> it was really bad. [laughter] havet say, as you know, i loved chris christie i am a single voter against amnesty so christie is off my list. [applause] our next speaker ted cruz is still on my list. [applause] >> good evening. i'm from ohio. is there any advice you can give us young, vocal, blac

i remember discussions that i had with richard nixon on his last trip to the house. he suggested i come over to the senate. on how we could eventually evolve societies. there are more ideals like the ones we're talking about. offhought to try to cut it and probably would work. the gauge of a strategy might lead to some very real changes. part of that is our responsibility. journalists have irresponsibility. it is to make everyone understand what is really happening. the pressure is the type of change inhat forces a a society. advocateroutinely these issues in the house of representatives from the forms we have here. we're also doing it in country. thank you. post time to review the news agency. last month when he visited beijing you had an opportunity with the new premier a couple of days ago what is your impression about chinese leaders? what do you expect from them regarding the u.s.-china relations? you realize the united states should engage more with china. -- dohe current mechanism you see that the current mechanism is enough? >> it is wise to have more exchang

actually turns in it are fond of performance before the committee, but he was very, very careful richard nixon was trying to set him up for a perjury charge, kept grilling him, i mean that whittaker chambers and he kept insisting, i do not recall. so long way of answering your question again, i have no evidence about the relationship between the two. generally speaking, the most important soviet moles at the time weren't treasury and not in the state department. >> did he have direct influence on the state department to hand over eastern europe? >> no, that was certainly be going too far. just because he had no an event after fdr died. both he and morgan were sidelined. he did have enormous influence if i could just be allowed. he put them in charge of producing the occupation currency that the u.s. would use in germany after the war on the soviets were quite insistent that they be given the u.s. currency place. naturally there was fierce resistance within the u.s. administration, but white wanted to do it. he went so far as to totally mischaracterized the memo from general marshall. if you de

so the idea that he was a whistleblower, a link to destroy richard nixon is completely untrue. >> so felt was a company i? >> the bureau was his life. being the director was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and he did everything in his power, engaging in dirty tricks, fbi tactics to get to the directorship. i don't think woodward really understood what was going on. >> you feel that he was misrepresented? >> absolutely. and the reporting of the fall of 1972, it is what i call a book about the reporting. it is a fairytale. i think that woodward is not abuse and he has to know better. but he is sort of riding a tiger and he created us. he can't get off now. >> what are your sources to demystified as? >> fbi investigated this leaking at the time. and they are very revealing. people who were in the fbi with mark phelps, it isn't on truth that the details were leaked to press it forward. there was nothing in "the washington post" that the fbi didn't know. sometimes days or weeks or months before the piece in the post. >> how premeditated you believe that felt was in regards to leaking? >>

president once had to leave the presidency because he resigned under duress in the face of scandal, richard nixon. we are used to seeing leaders take off in that big, deluxe chopper and never coming back. today, watching the pope do the same thing dressed in white, seen him take off in that dramatic fashion and exit stage up, there is one big difference. unlike presidents who are leaving forever and not coming back, today he took off and left the vatican, but he is just going on vacation for awhile. he will stay at his summer plans for a while, and then he will come back to the vatican, where he will live, dressed in white, sharing this man as a secretary. he will be sharing him indefinitely. he will be there indefinitely for the rest of his life. the ex-pulp's brothers says that he will be happy to advise his successor while he is not being pope. it took him away today, but he going to go >> in his darkest moment. speaker boehner cited the serenity prayer. today we were introduced to the sequester prayer. >> rise up oh god and save us from our selves. >> we want solutions republicans want seques

. >> some are taking it as a reference to richard nixon. it is it a running dispute between him and the white house. >> turning to a big story making news. cemeteriers of the key stone pipe line has gotten a boost. they stopped short of an actul ricommendation but help the pipe line to inch closer to realit ipeeper? >> the state department doesn't give the 1700 mile lock line up or they cite detail would scientific research to explain that canadian star sands are likely to be developed one way or another. whether or not the pope line is built. impact on the environment will be the same. it is important this point to deal with the nature of the document and look at different environmentam issues that are raised. in about a wike, the epa will post the draft report and a 45 day public comment period will begin. >> and the speaker are of the house john boehner made up his mind and said today a report makes clear there is no rain for it to be blocked one more day. it is time for president to stand up for middle class jobs and energy security and

one is he really regretted having endorsed richard nixon for president in 1960, which she did because he had interviewed both nixon and kennedy in doubt that nixon was more pro-civil rights and kennedy. originally endorsed hubert humphrey, but when he did not win the 1960 democratic presidential nomination he endorsed nixon. he regretted doing that. he said he regretted his criticism of paul robeson. he said, looking back and realize that he was a principled and heroic and courageous figure who basically gave up his career and his fame for his political principles. he felt very bad about that. by then robison had died, so it could not personally tell him he was sorry. and so that is another example of somebody who was a hero, but not a saint. robinson regretted it, but he was flawed and made a big mistake, what he owes a big mistake, and i agree with him. a few other examples of some people in my book that maybe you have heard of in a you have not. but i think the plan important role in building our society. in the last ten years in america , the issue of same-sex marriage has come to

. >> so, i think, you know, this week the 100th birthday of richard nixon and richard nixon was the presidentndard. what hasn't died is the gold standard mentality where we think money is something we'll run out of. so that is a false constraint this idea we're going to run out. there's a real constraint. let's talk about $10 trillion coin. >> you cut her by 90%. >> so if we put that, obviously as stephanie put that out if we put it in the bank account there's no hyper inflation. where you would get a constraint the the government said let's spend $10 trillion on infrastructure projects. you have a real problem. there's not $10 trillion of real resources in the economy. you push this in the economy and get inflation and wages would surge, price of commodities would surge. there's your constraint. you hit the point where you're putting too much money or real resources and you get the push back. it's not about money running out it's about too few goods to be in there. >> let's get back to something slightly more resembling reality let's say we're getting to a showdown and let's say the white ho

johnson's term in 68 that johnson had a solution, a treaty just about to be worked out and somehow richard nixon was able to torpedo that answer budget. considering the death between 68 and 72 when the war was finally ended why isn't that mentioned more and people's recollections of nixon, he is known for watergate. at toomey is a worse sin that possibly he let the war continue for four years just to get back at johnson for some reason. of your comments, it is sold for about all the work in the beginning, so hard, the carrying of equipment. looking to a guy called jerry nolan, heartbreakers, one of the great dramas. >> guest: i would say this. if johnson had a plan to end the vietnam war he wouldn't have resigned. certainly johnson was powerful enough and clever enough, he took a backseat to no one, certainly not richard nixon who had no official authority at the time. nixon didn't even have an elected post in 1968. so i find it hard to believe that johnson would have had a way to get out of vietnam that he didn't employ. >> host: that caller was probably talking about robert caro's book on lbj.

certainly not richard nixon who had no official authority. at the time, nixon didn't even have an elected post in 1963. so i find it very hard that johnson would have had a way to get out of vietnam that he didn't employ. >> host: i believe that caller was probably talking about robert caro whose latest book -- >> guest: was he a guest? >> host: ye. he's been on week tv several -- booktv several times. have you heard that story before? >> guest: i have not heard that one. what i do find interesting is that nixon gets so much blame for vietnam, and he takes us down to 70,000 troops when he leaves office, when he resigns. >> host: what about the cambodian bombing? >> guest: and certainly people who, have you hat victor hanson on the show? >> host: yes. >> guest: he would say, hey, why didn't they do that earlier? i have students in my classes -- not so many now because, you know, age is changing, but maybe ten years ago i'd have students whose dads had served in vietnam, and i remember one student said my dad was serving up near the ho chi minh

richard nixon. but he was not new to washington. when he won the white house. he had been a congressman, first elected in 1946, then a senator elected first in 1952 and re-elected in 1958 and while he was a senator, in that year that he was running for re-election in 1958, john f. kennedy introduced this legislature. a bill to ban the importing into the united states of guns or ammunition manufactured for military purposes. now, the most popular weapon like that at the time looked like this. it's an italian rifle called a carkano. this was the most popular foreign firearm, originally manufactured for military purposes sold in the united states at the time kennedy introduced a bill that would have banned the sale of this gun. if you want to get a better look at this gun, here's another view. the man holding the rifle is in this photo is lee harvey oswalt who went on to kill john f kennedy with that gun in 1963. mr. oswald bought that gun by mail legally using a coupon he clipped out of the american rifleman magazine, the magazine of the nra f. he was able to buy

it's worth pointing out the last two republican presidents ever to balance a budget was named richard nixonggest problems in the next ten years is not deficit. something that the president bases not only on facts economic theory and last four years of being president but we haveand thereduction we've already done to slow our pesky recovery, but republicans demand leadership. in an op-ed. it says for all of washington's focus on the president's outreach to republicans it's his engagement with members of his own party that will germ whether we succeed in dealing with our own challenge of dealing with our economy. meaning, he would be a true leader and we would have a budget that cuts entitlements strips money from programs from those who actually need it. and it balances out. maybe that's why the president likes to stay at home in the white house after all. joining me is peter welch of vermont, who had a chance to meet with the president today. congressman, thank you for being on "viewpoint" this evening. >> thank you. >> john: you met with the president earlier. how would you describe the me

so was richard nixon. he pulled the same thing. it was basically the first day.e're going to get married one of these days. they're strange things that happened between people driven to become president and their spouses. she threw herself into his work. she was one of the first guys to take a job under senate payroll. she ran his office in the senate. they're a partnership as she rose and politics. she ended up buying interest in media stations, radio television and texas and one of the first ladies who understood how the press works. that helped quite a lot. there are partnership from the beginning i would say. johnson was in some ways a little bit more of a stubborn president. i'm not sure he always listened to her but in terms of working out politics of the day, they did a lot of talking and he at least hurt her. yes. [inaudible] >> you know, she's absolutely a cultural icon, no question of that. she would go out on the campaign trail. in fact she was pregnant and because her pregnancy was getting advance in our.druce told her she needed to take it more easy.