some of those members of the court had been appointed by richard nixon himself. m acting in a nonpartisan way, in a credible way, regardless of politics. >> imagine that in the politicized supreme court that we've had in our recent history. >> while nixon tried to put on the pretend act that operations were going on as normal, they weren't. they were disintegrating every day. >> three days after the supreme court ruling the house of representatives took the step most dreaded by the president. impeachment. nixon's fate now rested in the hands of the committee. >> today i am an inquisitor and hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole. it is complete. it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the constitution. >> aye. >> mr. conyers? >> aye. >> some republicans who voted for the impeachment, some democrats who voted for the impeachment, they were putting their political lives on the line. all of us

president richard nixon is greeted by the premier.g the next eight days, the nations will begin the process of slowly bridging barriers. >> that was a big deal. that hand shake was a big deal, see richard nixon, who had been a hard line anti-communist whole career, who had railed against democrats for having lost china to communism in 1949, to undertake this trip, make that hand shake, combined with the salt one agreements. and he did all this while he ruthless secret bombing campaign against the try to bringese to the vietnam war to an end. many credited nixon's foreign policy achievements with his landslide victory against george mcgovern in 1972. conservatives disagreed with was doing between 1969 and '72. they saw it as a mistake. earliest critics of detente came from within the democratic party. washington senator henry jackson, who was called the because ofm boeing the location of this military contractor in his home state, was a liberal on domestic policy but increasingly hawkish on policy. and jackson feared that his own much

richard nixon had been the president to make detente the policy of the united states.efore watergate, this is what many americans knew about his presidency. they believed that he was trying to rebuild the strength of the united states overseas that had been weakened as a result of the turmoil of the 1960's. to secure u.s. influence in the post-1960's era, nixon had been convinced that he would need to make a series of dramatic moves, like bringing the war in vietnam to a total end and thawing relations with the soviet union and china. because of his strong political standing with conservatives, nixon believed that he could do this, that he could open up relations with the communists, without suffering politically here at home. the individual who most eloquently articulated the concepts behind detente was his national security advisor, henry kissinger. the first component of detente under richard nixon involved a series of high-level arms agreements with the soviet union that produced the salt 1 agreement, signed on may 26, 1972. this was a deal with the soviet union th

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richard nixon has no chance at all. a very radical maneuver. >> nixon tells his team to use a woman to monkey wrench the negotiations in paris. >> anna, a fundraiser of nixon campaign is telling saigon stay away from peace talks and you'll get a better deal if nixon is elected. >> as my candidate joins me in this, neither he or i will say anything that might destroy the chance to have peace. we want peace. >> i think it's dirty pool for dick's people to be messing with the south vietnamese ambassador. anybody keep measures to all the crowd they're just tied up for a few days. >> lbj feels confident to move forward. the condition that north neat vietnam has asked for has been met. so, four-party peace talks, will happen. well in saigon november 1st, the president stands up and drops his major bombshell. >> translator: south vietnam cannot participate in the negotiations. >> i have no more things to tell you. >> embarrassment is commonly today among americans here in vietnam particularly those of us who have acquaintances

richard nixon's campaign manager didn't go to jail until after richard nixon had been forced to resign the presidency on the brink of impeachment. there's something new here. the difference between donald trump and richard nixon tonight is that donald trump's campaign manager managed to get himself charged with federal crimes and in jail much faster than richard nixon's did. what's happening to paul manafort and donald trump is happening much faster than it happened to john mitchell and richard nixon. and as donald trump gazes at the tv tonight trying to fall asleep in the white house, he has to be wondering what we're all wondering, what does paul manafort know about donald trump that could be an indictable offense or impeachable offense? what does paul manafort know that he could tell robert mueller that could get paul manafort out of jail and save him a possible prison sentence a conviction -- a sentence that could then louisiana the rest of his life. and as paul manafort tries to fall asleep tonight on his first night in jail, he has to be wondering what we're all wondering, will d

a lot of what happened in the driven by richard nixon's ourse paranoia about whether or not he was going to get reelected in '72. part of his election paranoia in '72 centered on the risk that he perceived from alabama segregationist governor wallace. nixon was worried that wallace was going to mount a national comeback and run for president again in 1972. nixon thought if that happened, if wallace ran again in '72, nixon thought for sure that would result in him losing the white house, because he thought that wallace would siphon off the hard-core racist vote. nixon needed that in order to get re-elected, at least as far as nixon's feverish mind calculated when it came to '72. so nixon decided he needed to stop wallace's comeback. in order the stop that comeback, he decided he needed to stop wallace from getting elected governor in alabama again. wallace was running for governor of alabama again in 1970, and nixon decided in order to save his reelection campaign, he needed to put the kibosh on wallace right then and there. in order to kibosh wallace in 1970, nixon sent his personal lawy

the same thing barry goldwater was talking about, richard nixon, george wallace. rizzo was the local paradigm of law and order and he used it. he used his popularity as police commissioner for all these people as a springboard to a broader political career. in 1971, he ran for mayor and he won. he was a democrat but he still won on a platform of maintaining law and order. his campaign slogan was "rizzo means business" and that meant what you want it to mean. it was a master stroke of double meaning because it could mean he'll bring prosperity or he'll deal with people causing trouble. for two terms as mayor of philadelphia he divided the city in a lot of ways. he broke with his own party in 1972 to campaign for nixon. he opposed everything from affirmative action to public housing to school desegregation and he did so very flamboyantly, a string of controversial statements and series of scandals. but throughout all of it, his supporters supported him so much that he survived a challenge to the democratic primary in 1975. he survived a recall challenge in 1976 and

in on this v question in the waning days of the nixon administration as the wal closing in on richard nixon, the doj's office of legal counsel ruled that, quote, under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the president cannot pardon himself. three days later, nixon announced his resignation from office. but according to this president and his legal team, there are no constraints on the chief executive's power t intervene in a federal investigation, including an investigation of which he himself is a subject. as they would have it, the president cannot commit obstruction of justice when exercising his vast powers as head of the executive branch. in a letter delivered to special counsel robert mueller back in january and published by "the new york times" on saturday, the president's lawyers argue that his actions by virtue of his position as the chief law enforcement officer could neither constitutionally nor legally cute obstruction because that would amount to him obstructing himself. think about that. and that he could, if he wished, terminate the inquiry or eve

richard nixon prefers no holds bar discussions. >> new hampshire was the first time and richard nixon'shave them instead of the media asking questions. and made it look like he was a brave truth teller willing to face down every critic. when, in fact, it was staged. >> nixon discusses the issues with citizens of new hampshire. >> lawlessness, crime, is a major problem in this country today and we talk about civil rights. you know what the most important civil right in this country is? the right to be safe in the streets. to be safe in your home. >> his campaign in new hampshire was a classic. >> there is a new nixon, the reporters were saying. better disciplined and more relaxed and takes criticism well. >> i plan to shake a lot of hands and i have a good strong hand and i also would like to talk to people. >> the intelligence of the old nixon combined with the better behavior and outlook of the new nixon, that's the candidate in '68. >> i'm going to play the role. if people looking at me say that's a new nixon, all i can say is maybe you didn't know the old nixon. ♪ introducing the all

was an investigation that determined there was no foul play between marc rich and the clintons richard nixon stepped down after it was revealed that he had spied on his political. ponens and then obstructed justice in an attempt to cover it up now gerald ford who were placed in the oval office decided to let bygones be bygones he said it was an act of mercy all right your are for. the president of the united states granted and by these presidents to grant aid to free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hope that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little less about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process involved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously rev

line lynn son johnson, i richard nixon, ronald reagan, robert k. kennedy, uanyone mccarthy, vice president hubert humphrey, three-term new york governor, nelson rockefeller. michigan governor, george romny. a newcomer to politics but won three times, massive elections, in michigan, each time as a republican, each time winning in a vue blue state. the one man just before his assassination, john f. kennedy, said they that's one guy i don't want to run against 1964. and then you had the wild card, george wallace, former governor of alabama, the guy who in his inaugural address as government says segregation today, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever and when bobby kennedy's department of justice trade integrate the university of alabama, wallace has governor stood and blocked the front door saying this is an intrusion in our rights, major standoff. george wallace was runninging a third party candidate at one opinion he was over 25% in the poll. he just kept ticking up and george wallace on the campaign trail, if you thought any of the candida

. >> and the astounding parallels to richard nixon. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >>> then -- >> you said that he did not dictate. but said you did. >> the white house caught in massive lie over the trump tower meeting with russians. >> i'm not going to respond to a letter from the president's outside counsel. >>> and this is what child separation looks like. >> american citizens are funding this operation. >> senatormey es to texas. >> i'm a u.s. senator. >> to investigate the trump policy of separating migrant children from their parents. >> can i go in with you, please? >> and he is back to tell me what he found, when "all in" starts right now. >> i've now been asked to leave the property. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president of the united states is asserting absolute authority to shield himself from legal liability, a power grab, at least in what is being asserted the likes of which we have not seen since richard nixon. this is exactly the kind of constitutional crisis experts have been warning about. and, well, it now

how would richard nixon have handled watergate in today's media environment? >> guest: remember that in 1973 and four, we had a monolithic media. three major networks, several national newspapers but there was no internet. there was no alternative media. therefore, there was only one narrative, it was the washington post narrative. we didn't know the time that three of the burglars were still on the cia payroll reporting their case officer. we know that john dean directed tony last caulfield, to private detectives and both decorated police officers working for the white house to case out the watergate six weeks before the break in, according to their role history texas and university of their own biography. there was only one narrative. so i think if there had been an alternative news media, would have had a better chance to make his case but let me say this and i think it's important. nixon was both very great and very flawed. the strategic arms limitation with the soviets, he opened the door to china. he desegregated the public schools. he saved israel unila

the national archives and richard nixon foundation cohosted this 90 minute event. david: i am david ferriero, archivist of the united states, and it is a pleasure to welcome you this morning. a special welcome to our c-span audience, and to the head of the nixon library foundation and the director of the nixon library. we are very proud to have one of our nixon legacy forums here. we havbe

richard nixon have handled watergate with today's media environment? >> remember 1973 and 74 and 74 he had a monolithic media with three major networks several national newspapers that there was no internet or alternative media. there was only one narrative that was the washington post narrative so for example we didn't know at the time three of the burglars were still on the cia people and reporting to the case officer we did not know that john had directed tony the two private detective most decorated new york police officers working for the white house weeks for the break-in to case that out and in their own biographies there was only one narrative. so if there was the alternative news media he would have had a better chance to make his case but i will say this and it's important, nixon was great and flawed stage strategic arms with the soviets opening the door to china and desegregated the public schools. he saved unilateral leave in the yom kippur war and launched affirmative-action for minority enterprises and at the same time launched a racist w

how would richard nixon have handled watergate in today's media environment? guest: well, let's remember that in 1973 and 1974, we had a monolithic media, three major networks, several national newspapers. but there was no internet. there was no alternative media. therefore, there was only one narrative. it was the "washington post" narrative. for example, we didn't know at the time that 3 of the water gate burglars were still on the c.i.a. payroll and reporting to their case officers. we didn't know that john dean had directed tony and jack, two private detectives and both decorated new york police officers working for the white house, to case out the watergate six weeks before the break-in , according to their oral histories at texas a&m university and their own biographies. there was only one narrative. so i think if there had been an alternative news media, nixon would have had a better chance to make his case. but let me say this, and i think it's important. nixon was both very great and very flawed. he reached a strategic arms limitation with the soviets

was time to judge richard nixon on his entire record. i think it shows he was a peacemaker. >> he died in 94, do you recall your final conversation with him before his stroke? >> guest: i was supposed to dine with him the day before. i had to cancel. he was very upbeat. never very retrospective or introspective. he was always looking forward. he came to be a key advisor to president clinton during the breakup of the soviet union developments in china. he wrote bestsellers on foreign policy in his retirement years. people asked me about my reference before next and. it was almost nonpolitical. it has to do with his resilience and persistence. it's an american story, defeated, not down, disgrace, he still kept coming back. a man is not finished when he's defeated nixon wrote, he's only finished when he quit. i subscribe to the. >> from the michigan we have henry next. go ahead. >> good morning. i would like to piggyback on the missouri caller. the first using a metaphor of war. a conventional invading force into america or any other countr

should be impeached according to a cnn poll one point shy of the 33% total who said the same for richard nixon. that was a poll that was taken in 1974, harris poll, same year, we point out that he resigned. former director of the nixon presidential library joins me now. with that said, tim, what does the number mean for the president politically? >> this is interesting because richard nixon's impeachment numbers didn't get up to 40% until he fired the special prosecutor, archibald cox in the famous saturday night massacre at the end of 1973 and president trump has managed to hit that number this early. the most important issue really is republican house members. republicans control, i don't need to remind everyone, the house and the senate. the democrats controlled the house and senate in 1973, '74. even when they controlled the house and senate, democrats were not ensured of both impeaching and removing richard nixon. you need a simple majority in the house but you need two-thirds in the senate. at the moment it doesn't look to me as if a republican house or senate would ever move on impeachi

it was accepted fact for decks aids what richard nixon was saying wasn't in fact, true.the president's lawyers are basing their whole difference on it. >> it is the return of the ghost of richard nixon. it is being adopted by donald trump as his defense. it has just been astound to go me to think ofwhat'sgoing on in the past week. our founding fathers purposely wanted to make sure we didn't create a demagogue as president, somebody who thought they were above the law. we did everything we could with checks and balances, and supreme court. but here you have a president threatening i'm above approach, above the law and sending messages i can pardon anybody i want to at any time, including myself if need be. so we are heading into a constitutional crisis when the mueller report eventually comes forward with its findings. it look like there will be obstruction of justice charges. donald trump will say there is no such thing. the president can't obstruction. >> when you say he charges that suggests there will be something legally filed here. that's what we don't know. they w

it is ti to judge richard nixon on his entire record, and his record i think shows he was a peace maker. host: he died in 1994. do you recall your final conversation with hinl? guest: i was supposed to dine with him the day before, and i had to cancel. but he was very upbeat. he was never very retrospective or intro spective. he was always looking forward. and as you know he came to be a key adviser to president clinton during the breakup of the soviet ubeion and developments in china also wrote numerous best sellers on foreign policy in his retirement years. ask me about my reverence for nixon. it in a sense is almost nonpolitical. it has to do with ask his resilience, with his persistance. it's an american story. defeated, knocked down, disgraced, he still kept coming back. a man is not finished when he's defeated, nixon wrote. he is only finished when he quits. i subscribe to that. host: on the democrat's line from michigan. henry you're next with roger stone joining us in florida. go ahead with your question or comment. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i would like to kind of piggy

a fool free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hope that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little last about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process involved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was real road into the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level of this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate owned media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president

profile in courage award for his decision to pardon richard nixon. which puts arrested him the controversy. it struck me and watching the video the ford family. i had not realized fully everything betty ford list going through. 74 campaign would be his last in the house. they were thrust into this role. of the presidency so suddenly. and your family experience exactly -- tragic terms the same sudden -- not having any time to prepare for that responsibility. how did it affect you? >> i went from being a college sophomore at the university of texas living in a dorm with 300 girls. those were the days when women lived in dorms with only women. very different. a whole new world. which made it difficult for secret service. eventually this was november -- i finish the semester at the university. during that time the girls did not like the intrusion. of the secret service. i was on the third floor. so some of the young ladies would try to put cameras up there. secret service dead. they would hang bear unmentionables on the cameras. to block them. they were

haldeman, he went by bob, he was richard nixon's chief of staff through the spring of 1973. true nixon loyalist. he had run one of nixon's campaigns for governor of california. he had been chief of staff for the 1968 nixon presidential campaign. and then he became white house chief of staff when nixon was sworn in. all through nixon's first term in office and through the 1972 re-election campaign h.r. haldeman, bob haldeman, was nixon's chief of staff. which means that haldeman was up to his neck and beyond in watergate. the 18 1/2-minute gap of the mysteriously erased tape from watergate, that was tape of nixon talking about something we'll never know with bob haldeman. also the smoking gun tape. the tape that caused even pro-nixon republicans in congress to give up and turn against him. the smoking gun tape that actually started the impeachment process roll inexorably for nixon, that smoking gun tape really nor than anything was the proximate cause of forcing nixon from office. that smoking gun tape where nixon is heard on tape organized the cia to tell the fbi that the fbi

a fool free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hoped that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little less about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process involved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was railroaded under the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president unite

a fool free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington to leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hope that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little less about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process of volved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was railroaded under the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate owned media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president

, he makes richard nixon look like a choir boy. so richard nixon resigned because of the break-in in the watergate hotel. there is plenty of evidence there that this president can be impeached. that's obviously a political question with the dominancef republicans in both chambers it. however, i do believe the democrats should have a unifying voice and be strong with regards to what this president is doing to reckon this nation. this just doesn't impact democrats. that impacts republicans throughout the country. >> kevin, congratulations on moving on. >> thank you, katy. have a wonderful day. >>> after quick ea umeffect. how ityed at the polls in california and how it could play in november. bob shrum and shawn steele join me right here in huntington beach next. don't go anywhere. my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain naturally begiange which may cause trouble with recall. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain andm - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen

>> it conjures richard nixon and watergate. that is the phrase that richard nixon also used. but it's very alarming for the president of the united states to attack the first amendment and a free press in this manner. unfortunately, when you watch fox primetime news, it looks like it's turned into state tv. thank to you msnbc and other networks for not doing that. >> there's another interview without today largely a friendly interv which the president sort of says about kim jong-un, you got to hand it to the guy. he got the job when he was so young. it's hard to be that young. and the interviewer says well, he killed lots of people. he said lots of countries do lots of things. he has spent the last two the days seeslessly sharing the persony trait traits and the warts of kim jong-un. bizarre. the leader of north korea kill aid relative with poison. he shot another with an anti-aircraft gun. he has labor camps. if someone does something wrong, they can take three generations of their family and put them into labor camps. at the same time with the president now attacking canada

unlike richard nixon he did not inherit a war in which more than half 1 million american soldiers were bogged down. unlike franken roosevelt and barack obama he didn't take the oath of office in the midst of a massive financial crisis. although the world had its share of problems when the trump presidency began they were ongoing, not new or urgent. the domestic economy had been growing slowly but steadily for all but one quarter of the previous six years. the annual rate of inflation is below 2%, the annual rate dipped 5%. the percentage of americans regard themselves as middle or upper class to rch 62%, greater share than below the 2008 financial crisis, the stock market was already booming. and unlike recent republican predecessors donald trump took office with the republican congress. look at it that way, donald trump was dealt a very good hand and honestly, i am somebody who appreciates the significance of the tax cut bill that was enacted last month into law but when you step back and think what have pres.s been able to do in the past when they had a congress controlled by their o

but an internal department of justice memo for nine hundred seventy four just before president richard nixon resigned from office following similar accusations says the commander in chief cannot pardon himself still for some legal analysts the latest truck tweets suggest something else if he isn't worried about committing a crime then there's no need to have a pardon so it certainly suggests a guilty mindset and he's afraid that the walls are closing in a number of people have already been charged to probe including trucks former campaign manager paul matter for michael flynn trump's former national security advisor pled guilty. never to lie to the f.b.i. scholars are divided on whether a president can pardon himself but if donald trump is charged in later self pardons his actions would almost certainly be challenged in court kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house well it's pretty unclear finkelstein she's the director of ethics and the rule of law university of pennsylvania law school she joins us via skype from miami how surprised are you by donald trump's tweet that he has the abs