richard nixon? so endlessly and absolutely fascinating. the more that i could soak in serves to benefit my understanding and that is how it started. then i learned about nonprofits, i learned about fundraising, programming and i had some very close mentors along the way that helped me out every step of the way. when hugh hewitt took over, he asked me to be his number two and run the staff. i gladly accepted. he made the decision to come back on the board and recommended that i succeed him and much to my look -- my luck, the board agreed. susan: that first distant you took at the library when you were a youngster, you were aged 14. have any of your contemporaries were interested in presidential politics and particularly, nixon history as you are at that age? >> very few. i think it is something that set me apart. i have always been an old soul. i think it has done well for me. susan: when did you decide you wanted to make presidential history museum management, public history a career? pres. byron: r

and he had impressions of richard nixon. which weren't hostile or negative but they weren't glowingly positive. he just wasn't sure about him yet. and this was on the lip of nixon's nomination in 1960 to run for president. >> there is so much in the book and we have so little time so i'm going to just go for it. one of the figures that as you move to describe in the actions or wings within the republican party. one of the most prominent figures is tom dewey, had been governor of new york and i guess attorney general of the state. he was big crime buster. >> thomas dewey is long neglected but a fascinating fellow. and he was from michigan. and he was on a -- an aspiring opera singer. a bass baritone and actually a very good voice and finished at michigan and came to new york to seek his career as a lawyer. all the while taking voice lessons and through much of his time in the early politics he sang as a cantor in jewish synagogues in new york city to have enough money to help afford his rent of the but tom dewey was from a win

i'm executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation and the special hello to everyone watching on you tube this evening are the nixon foundation web site or all of those watching on c-span. i had the pleasure this evening of welcoming and introducing to the eminent scholars of richard nixon in the nixon era. her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser

i'm if executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation and special hello to everyone watchingyoutube this evening or the nixon foundation website or all of those watching on cspan. i have the pleasure this evening of welcoming and introducing two eminent scholars of richard nixon and the nixon era. our moderator is frank gannon, member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served ads special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he promptly joint the new nixon administration in 1969 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later with domestic advisor as special assistant to the president for urban affairs. john later went into banking ultimately becoming head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of pittsburgh. a special note. john is joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and his son phil. so welcome to both of you. john's new book, the last liberal republican, an insiders perspective on nixon's surprising social policy, reveals the influence of those including moyni

this was the very first executive order that richard nixon signed. it was signed two days after the inaugural parade was over. these are the members of the domestic cabinet. what's it happened was that nixon had, serving under eisenhower, was very familiar with the national security council, which we all heard, which was created by statute in 1947. the president was chairman of the vice president, was a statutory member, he had five statutory members. cia, so. on this was nixon's idea about formulating domestic policy. in his early iterations with patrick moynahan, they talked about themselves after the election. he said, he wanted something which, in a formal way, could manage the process of making policy about domestication. whether it was, you know, worlds of element or whether it was, you know, health insurance, whether it was welfare, he wanted some place for it to be discussed at the top level of government. and he used it, as i would've expected he would've, he was, almost like an appellate judge. he had that legal side to him. what he had done

i am the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. lcome to day two of the inaugural nixon cancer conference. last night, we looked at the history of the national cancer act. this morning, we look at practical uses and implications. i want to begin by thinking a few individuals, starting with our conference chair, and yvonne nash and bock -- andy von eschenbach, a professor at md anderson cancer center. thank you for all that you have done. 15 directors of nci designated cancer centers from across the country are here. i want to thank them for being here. several members of the board of directors for the nixon foundation. one, the youngest granddaughter of president nixon. the chairman of the board, dr. cavanaugh. thank you. gavin herbert, founder of aller gan. thank you. for maureen nunn, thank you. there she is. charlie zhang, an entrepreneur, thank you for being here. i want to recognize the director of the nixon library, who i believe is here. thank you. we can introduce our conference chairman and set up our first panel of nobel l

well okay, so this is the kind of story that has long, it seems to me, infuriated critics of richard nixon and i hasten to add his partner in foreign policy making henry kissinger. again and again antipathy to nixon focused on the president's approach of a moral approach to foreign policy. his approach to stability above all at the expense of a concern with democracy or human rights or even economic development. what counted for nixon in other words was the extent to which a foreign nation served american geostrategic interests. the nature of those governments in their attitude towards their own people mattered hardly at all amid the ascendancy of what political scientists of course have taken to calling a realist school of foreign policy in which hard-headed notions of national interests. trump allegedly soft-headed notions of democracy or social justice. so this kind of thing is of course one of many reasons why richard nixon has been the focus of so much disdain if not in fact hatred over the years. now, it's true that all the news is, i suppose, not bad for richard nixon and his legacy

so this kind of thing is of course one of many reasons why richard nixon has been the focus of so much disdain if not in fact hatred over the years. all the news is not bad for nixon in his legacy. presidential polls of standing reveal he sometimes falls in the lowest quartile but usually lands in the third quartile of company of martin van urine or zachary taylor or herbert hoover but clearly none of these men i just named aspire the visceral dispassion for sheer malevolence, for dishonesty and self-serving cunning that's long been around richard nixon. and one quote which comes from the political strategist rick wilson, who sums it up saying that nixon is simply the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. well, of course at the heart of this judgment stands the sheer dishonesty, the illegality, indeed, epitomized by the watergate break-in in and cover up but running through any number of episodes from richard nixon's political career. the prison terms meaded out to nixon's cronies and advisors of course speaks to this line of criticism. the anti-semitism, the racism revea

some of the speaks different about richard nixon. the waters a bit and enables us to see the phenomenon of nixon hating part in a more complicated life in the realm of foreign policy after all is the realm weren't nixon would seem to be on his strongest footing. with the many champions point out he achieved great accomplishments include the opening of china and the superpowers with the soviet union. what are consistently in all of the boldness of vision and risk-taking they embodied but also the dedication to peacemaking they seem to imply. and yet nixon hating us powerfully over the years by uglier developments in the international arena print in vietnam for example, dixon is often claimed to carry on the war for four years longer than it really had to be carried on at an enormous human cost only to achieve basically the same peace deal that was achievable when he first came to office in 1969. nixon's expansion opens an entirely new theater of horse elsewhere nixon through american support for double down on american relationships wi

praising the veep, writing kamala harris is the most powerful vice president since richard nixon.asting a record number of tie-breaking vote since taking office, she cast 15, for vice president mike pence casting six tie-breaking votes during his first year, harris is in charge of solving the border crosses, election form, share the national space council, improving access to high-speed internet and serving as ambassador to small businesses. they are talking about casting tie-breaking votes. the headline caught some people's attention. >> if you're going by the metric of the tie-breaking votes that is the numbers based argument i think there is an argument to be made but to your point do you feel in watching what has happened in the last 11 months the kamala harris is the most powerful vice president of your and my lifetime? last time i checked we were not around for richard nixon's time. >> least valuable player i would put her in that category. the salon article says the symbolic significance of a black woman with multiethnic heritage relighting over a 50/50 senate largely compr

it was 50 years ago this week that president richard nixon signed the national cancer act, launchingcancer. and since then, fatality rates have dropped 27%. dr. jon lapook reports on the progress we've made and how far we have to go. >> when president richard nixon signed the national cancer act just before christmas in 1971, cancer was so mysterious and frightening it was often called "the big c." >> you will have of course, the total commitment of government. in the past 25 years, the cancer mortality rate increased over 20%. >> reporter: it was an all out effort to bring cancer out of the shadows. the law established a national program to study the inner workings of cancer cells and find their weak spots. >> that was really a momentous act. >> reporter: dr. lisa deangelis is a neuro-oncologist and physician in chief at memorial sloan kettering cancer center. >> it established a pipeline of discovery that is continuing today. rtrepeaorteenr:t thaharnt espe power of the immune system to seek out and destroy the cancer cells. knowing genetics of mutations helps doctors administer tre

but richard nixon was confident and had skills. kamala harris doesn't.ala harris is incompetent. zero skills. never done anything. harris can't redecorate her own office. she tried and made it uglier. take her off the list. what about pete buttigieg? everyone at cnn loves him. until a few years ago pete buttigieg dated women. now he is gay and a father and uses many unintelligible buzz words. talk like him, it's not hard? pick a phrase and add the word racism. you have a future in the democratic party. >> do you think that people who supported president trump and his immigration policies are racist? >> anyone supporting this is supporting racism. our healthcare system is burdened by racism and our schools are burdened by racism and the uniform. but it goes far beyond that. it's a matter of concern for every american that we dismantle systemic racism in our lifetime. >> tucker: and roads are racist too. certain kinds of people love this. if cnn anchors could use science, pete buttigieg is the candidate they would create in their baseman lab. no achievemen

and as watergate was finally starting to crack around richard nixon, this was around the time that hisff said in his audio diaries that nixon finally seemed to start to understand the seriousness of what watergate could really mean. how much trouble he really could be in if the watergate cover-up unraveled. in march, 1973, richard nixon was caught in the oval office state, strategizing out loud for how he thought all his watergate henchmen should handled the congressional investigation into watergate. what they should do to try and make it all go away. he said, on the white house tape, and the really hard to hear, but there's so much that, it can be hard to hear, but we have a transcript of them. he said on the tape, march 22nd, 1973, this, i don't give a bleep what happens. i want you all to stonewall it. let them plead the fifth amendment, if it will save it, save the plan. that's the whole point. plead the fifth. save the plan. save the cover-up. that's the whole point. so said richard nixon in march 1973. that was his plan. everybody pleads the fifth. maybe we can all stick togethe

i had the pleasure this evening of welcoming and introducing to the eminent scholars of richard nixon in the nixon era. her

applause] my name is jim byron and i'm the [applause] and the executive vice president of theri richard nixon foundation. it is my pleasure to welcome you back. this is the only second in person event since march 2020. and the biggest crowd. [cheers and applause] that west have assembled since then and the first book signing in nearly 17 months. thank you to all of you for being here and being a part of this. i like to start by recognizing if use special guest today been with the board of directors and then the grandson, member of the board of directors at the nixon foundation former president. councilwoman from the city of yorba linda. and then that councilman hernandez. and the special welcome tonight to jesse's wife. thank you for joining us. [applause]ab they left her four -month-old baby to be here with us tonight. we are doubly appreciative to them for being here tonight. how many of you are members of the nixon foundation or library? everybody's hand should shoot up. that is pretty good. how many have you renewed since covid? that is better than i was expecting. if you're not a member

moving to washington and nancy pelosi said i can't rent a house that became available because richard nixon was elected and she wouldn't rent the house. it needed some work and that is how strong her politics are. when she was a little girl her father took him to the polling places fc often did and a worker tried to get this little girl a stuffed elephant as a toy and she wouldn't take it because even then she knew what elephants stood for. >> i noted that you mentioned how some will look at the back to see if and one of the names of the former representatives that are listening is a gentleman that is named in susan's book i like to start these conversations at the beginning and you've mentioned a remarkable once upon a time there was an incredible young girl named nancy and it's a great tail but you've also written about power and everyone i talked to who wants to know about nancy pelosi remarks on her power, her use of power and what we want to know is where does it come from, what is the essence of her power and also may be could you talk about the different facets of it and that struck

. >>> it was 50 years ago this week that president richard nixon signed the national cancer act, launching the war on cancer. and since then fatality rates for all cancers have dropped 27%. in our special series cbs's dr. jon lapook reports on the progress we've made and how far we have to go. >> reporter: when president richard nixon signed the national cancer act just before christmas in 1971, cancer was so mysterious and frightening it was often called the big c. >> you will have of course the total commitment of government. >> in the past 25 years the cancer mortality rate has increased over 20%. >> reporter: it was an all-out effort to bring cancer out of the shadows. the law established a national program to study the inner workings of cancer cells and find their weak spots. >> that was really a momentous act. >> reporter: dr. lisa deangelis is a neurooncologist and physician in chief at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. >> it established a pipeline of discovery that is continuing today. >> reporter: that pipeline has led to success stories. new treatments harness the power of

you would humphrey, in 1968, did not say that richard nixon was a fake president.s is something different. and what we have to do, and it really is about us, is we have to be able to say, you know what? we are not going to follow a cult of personality because when you follow a cult of personality, when you put the will to power at the center of everything, then we are back in a state of nature. right? we are back to what hobbs called the war of all against all. and democracy was supposed to save us from those worst appetites. >> we have work to do, jon, when you say things like democracies our of maximum danger or a crisis of citizenship, i think there are reasonable people in all parties that don't know that that is true. and don't worry that that is true. i hope they hear what you have to say. tonight jon meacham, we always appreciate what you have to say. we are back with more of the 11th hour after a quick break. quick break. the last thing before we go tonight, when we lost when we can show, one of my main goals was to learn how people across the country feel

he was a devoted confidant of richard nixon.by democrats. but he also through the years was willing to work with democrats on major legislation. i often wonder, as we see people like this pass away, whether it's a dole or a mccain or others, that is that time in washington lost? are those folks willing to work across the aisle becoming fewer and fewer in your view? >> well, i think the question, unfortunately, answers itself. let me tell you the other side of the coin. seeing those capitol steps today brought back a memory. about 25 years ago, almost exactly, the day he left the senate. remember, his campaign in '96 was sort of dead in the water. the campaign strategist decided they needed a hail mary. and so it was decide he would leave the senate, which he loved, i think second only to elizabeth and robin and demonstrate to the doubters that he was really serious about trying to win the white house that fall. anyway, the media attention would be focused on dole, he would be in the spotlight for 24 hours, and they wanted to tak

in the end, richard nixon actually played by the rules.y antidemocrat things to get elected, he cheated to win, he abused his power in office, but in the end, he seemed to have had a conscience and resigned when in trouble and was incredible he would be impeached. i don't see that behind the january 6 drive behind it or what resulted and erupted. we are on a straight path right now towards authoritarianism or authoritarian rule. the republican party has embraced it. i've written extensively about it. it's an ugly way for our democracy to die but that's what's in the scope right now. >> republicans continue to downplay the insurrection, right, and avoid cooperating with the investigation. we're days away from the anniversary. it came by so quickly, almost been a year, so do you think we are in danger of seeing something like this happen again? >> it could very easily happen again. what is probably more troubling is what's been happening in various states that are controlled by republicans where they're literally rigging the elections, gerry

up next, a conversation from the richard nixon presidential library about the impact of the law in the 50 years since it was signed. >> [indiscernible] she has a phd in russian history. why someone who chose that career is now coming up on stage as the founder and cochair. it is because she represents a story many of you all share. how cancer impacted her life. it impacted her sister and family. she understands the tragedy of cancer. she has played numerous roles that i can't even recount for you, service on the advisory board. she has built multiple programs that are influencing policy today. when i say she is my boss, i say it's because she has been the chair. and when she says get up there, i get up there. it is my pleasure to introduce a transformational woman who has made such a huge difference in health care policy both at the fda and nci. [applause] >> thank you. it's actually not true, i'm not his boss, madalyn is his boss and his friend. i'm his good friend and adore him. i chair cancer research and i'm honored to have the vice chair here. interestingly enough, cancer research

president richard nixon's daughter trisha married edward cox in 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. the naval photographing center produced this film. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> one of the most important days in tricia nixon's life was draw ing to a close. the wedding was over but a w life and career as >>> one of the most important days in trisha nixon's life was drawing to a close. the wedding was over, but a new life and career as mrs. edward finch cox was progressing. at a press conference trisha once said -- >> the most important thing is love. you can't really define it. you can say i love this about a person, his intelligent and everything. but it's a little intangible you just can't quite define. >> the events leading up to this memorable day all started back on the night of march 16th. the father of the bride to be announced his daughter's indajment. the occasion was irish evening at the white house. a celebration of john lynch, the president of ireland and mrs. nixon's birthday. >> i understand i am supposed to make a surprise announcement. the difficulty is every time i'm supposed to make

president richard nixon's daughter tricia married. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> one of the most important days in tricia life was drawing to a close. the wedding was over, but a new life and career at mrs. edward finch cox was just commencing. at a press conference tricia once said. >> the most important thing is love. but -- you can't really define it. you can say i love this about a person. i -- just can't quite define. dek on the night of march 16. the father of the bride >> the events leading up to this memorable day all started back on the night of march 16th. the father of the bride to be announced his daughter's engagement. the occasion was irish evening at the white house, a celebration in honor of the visit to washington of john lynch, prime minister of ireland, and mrs. nixon's birthday. >> i understand that i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement i find that some way it is leaked before i get to make it. and this seems to be no exception. under the circumstances, of course, i was wondering whether making an a

in march of 1973 as watergate was starting to crash down around richard nixon, this was around the time his chief of staff h.r. alderman that nixon finally seemed to understand the seriousness of watergate could mean, how much trouble he could be in if the watergate unraveled. march 22nd, 1973, nixon was caught strategizing out loud how he thinks his henchman should do to try to make it all go away. he said on the white house tapes, they're heard to hear. there's so much static. we have the transcripts of them. what he said on the tapes was this, i don't give a bleep what happens. i want you all to stone wall it. let them plead the 5th amendment. if it will save it, save the plan. that's the whole point. plead the 5th. save the plan. save the cover up. that's the whole point. so said richard nixon in march 1973. that was his plan. if everybody pleads the 5th, maybe we can all stick together. how'd that work out in the end? because we are entering the plead the 5th save the plan phase here as well. we'll see how it works out this time. more ahead tonight, stay with us. >>> tonight a fede

hubert humphrey in 1968 didn't say that richard nixon was a fake president.is something different. what we have to do -- it really is about us. we have to be able to say, you know what? we are not going to follow a cult of personality because when you follow a cult of personality, when you put the will of the power at the center of everything, then we're back in a state of nature, right? we're back to what hobbs called the war against all. and democracy was supposed to save us from those worst appetites. >> we have work to do, jon. when you say things like democrat's hour of maximum danger or crisis in citizenship, there are reasonable people in all parties who don't know that that's true and aren't worried that that's true. and i hope they hear what you had to say tonight. jon meacham, we always appreciate your time. that you can't. we're back with more of the "the 11th hour" after a quick break. s to get clay calloway in this show. no one's seen him in over fifteen years. there's no rockstar in here anymore. ♪ but i still... ♪ just sing. ♪ haven't found...

she says my husband just gotten an appointment by richard nixon to hew and that's why we're moving to washington and nancy pelosi said i can't rent a house that became available because richard nixon was elected and she wouldn't rent the house. and they eventually bought a house that needed some work because of her-- that's how strong her politics are. and when she was a little girl, her father took her to places on election day and they often did and the poll worker tried to get this little girl, a stuffed elephant as a toy and she wouldn't take it because even then she knew what elephants stood for. >> very revealing. chris. thank you, steve, and i noted that you mentioned, steve, how some folks will check themselves and i notice that at least one of the names of former representatives that are listening is a gentleman who was named and name checked in susan's book so that was not lost on susan either. i usually like to start the conversations at the beginning and you've written to say remarkable once upon a time there was an incredible girl named nancy d'alessandro's story and a gr

chose him to become head of the republican national committee when richard nixon was embattledn this party to come to terms with the fact that nixon had to step down even after barry goldwater and senator scott went to the white house and said you're going to be impeached and you're going to be removed in office, convicted in the senate if you proceed. you have to resign. >> yes, that's true. you know, he's played so many roles within the republican party over the years. but i want to go back those kansas roots. because i think on a day like this, it's important to remember the sacrifice that bob dole made for this country. not as a politician, but he did, but as a soldier. and the sacrifice that he lived with through his entire life. i mean, i think of bob dole certainly as a politician, but i think of him as a patriot. and someone with incredible courage. i mean, to think about put aside the injuries that he suffered in world war ii and the life-changing factors that created. but to go to russell as many of us have, and see where he grew up and how he grew up, and to think ab

, republicans went to the white house and told richard nixon that he had to leave office, thatwater, the great con sieve tift party. republicans are doing nothing of the sort in the trump era. they've become the party of voter suppression. they have embraced a seditious conspiracy led by the president of the united states, donald trump, by his chief of staff, mr. meadows and also by a gang of constitutional thugs such as jim jordan. so what we have now is ongoing a conspiracy. looking towards the next election in 2024, the president of the united states in which the republican party is committed to voter suppression, which is really a seditious enterprise. so it's becoming a party of sedition such as we have never seen since the civil war and even then no president of the united states ever committed the kind of seditious acts as trump did on january 6th and through the end of his presidency. >> if that's the case, what do you want the press and the public to do? >> i think that we need to start covering -- the most important story for us to cover, yes, we need to continue givi

[applause] my name is jim byron and i'm executive vice president ofthe richard nixon foundation and itasure to welcome you back . this isthe only , this is the nixon foundations only second in person east room event. it's tough to say. since march 2020. and the biggest crowd ... [applause] the biggest crowd that we've assembled since then and our first book signing event in nearly 17 months so thank you to all of you for being here and for being part of it. i'd like to start by recognizing a few special guests here with us today beginning with christopher nixon cox, a member of the board of directors of the nixon foundation . and the grandson of president and mrs. mixon sandy quinn, a member of the board of directors of the nixon foundation and former president of the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman brett haney of the city of yorba linda. there she is. councilman jean hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jesse's wife. thank you for joining us. >> and i just elect their baby to be with us and we know it's tough on them and we appreciate them for

psi took youtube by storm >>> 50 years ago, a major moment in the oval office, elvis presley met richard nixonperforming he had done a study on federal agent at large he was given an honorary one >>> let's look ahead and get your christmas weather with janessa webb when will it feel like christmas? >> yeah, here on the east coast, not too bad. just a few showers we will contend with from the ohio valleys to the great lakes but temperatures will be a little above average in these spots from the deep south to the central u.s. the problem is, we do have another storm system for your christmas eve. that will cause travel troubles for at least two days. sunday starting to clear out but for your christmas day, it looks to be a white christmas from the rockies to the plains. >> jessica, thanks he sees u en wyoevhen you are swimming santa spotted in a much warmer location than the north people >> > pole ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so dad bought puffs plus lotion, and rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion puffs bring soothing softness and relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed.

there are a number of presidents, from jimmy carter to richard nixon, who really tried to impact inflation and supply chains and weren't able to largely do that. how confident are you that you have the tools and the power to do something about supply chains that help americans find some president biden: because of what i have seen so far, based on what we have done. this is the first time i have seen labor and business so ready to cooperate, because they didn't go through a period of almost two years of the impact of a terrible virus that has caused real damage to the world economy. so, i think people are in a different state of mind. and it may have been during the carter years and in years. it is just a different world. reporter: knowing that president trump tested positive for covid before your first debate, do you think the former president put you at risk? president biden: i don't think about the former president. [reporters shouting questions] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [capt

the case against davis, who was once called a terrorist by former president richard nixon and listened by j edgar hoover. on the f, b i's 10 most wanted fugitives list for heretical politics. lead to a global outcry, calling for her freedom. 2 years later, she was acquitted of all charges and began a movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. but as abolition really possible, and what would take place instead of police and prisons this week in upfront special with angela angela davis. thank you so much for joining me on up front. the past couple of years have revealed to many americans and much of the rest of the world. what people of color have long known, the u. s. criminal legal system is racist and attempts at incremental reform have failed. you and others have called for the abolition of police. why? well, we've known for a very long time that the structure of racism. it's such that it invades virtually all of the existing institutions in our society and especially the penal institutions and law enforcement institutions. one cannot study the history of the police without a

richard, as you astutely said, nixon understood that we were coming to an end of an era. he believed that american leadership was possible in the future. but that the relationship between the u.s. and its allies and the u.s. and china and the u.s. and russia had to change. that this was -- it is no longer possible for the u.s. to be so powerful and act like it was because that really wasn't the situation. in the particular meeting i wrote about, they realized on the economic side, on the financial side, the dollar was just shouldering too much burden. and also that other countries needed to open their markets to us in a much more reciprocal way because we had been giving them a lot of concessions. so i think one kind of similarity here is i think we're coming to an end of an era now. you know, over the last several decades, the u.s. is really -- has had to see more and more power, not necessarily leadership. but we have to -- we need the cooperation of other countries more and more than we ever did before. i think that's true. richard, you were right in the middle of the

i think of richard nixon and you did this podcast series about nixon.ges, the notion of the financial elements of what happened on 1/6 is getting greater prominence and i wonder if you see parallels between what happened to richard nixon and donald trump and the co-conspirators around him that brought 1/6 into being. >> it's a worthy comparison as people have said all along of the donald trump administration, it's stupid watergate. but it is -- it has its parallels with watergate nevertheless in terms of exactly as you say, the watergate crimes were significantly about cash payoffs to the burglars, for instance, and as well as obstruction of justice. but absolutely. and unlike watergate, you have here, it seems, in terms of the investigation of january 6th, people -- the president and people around him actually effectively committing the central crime in a way that you didn't have at least in realtime in the watergate investigation and hearings evidence of richard nixon ordering the watergate crime. here you have all kinds of incitement and people aroun

. >> when president richard nixon signed the national cancer act just before christmas 1971, cancer was so mysterious and frightening it was often called the big crs. >> you will have the total commitment of government. in the past 25 years the cancer mortality rate increased over 20%. >> it was an all out effort to bring cancer out of the shadows. the law established lshed a national program to study the inner workings of cancer cells and find their weak spots. >> that was really a momentous act. >> dr. lisa deangelis is a neurooncologyist and physician in chief at memorial sloan kettering cancer center. >> the pipeline of discovering continuing today -- >> led to success stores. new treatment harnessed the power of the imhewn system to seek out and destroy the cancer cells. knowing genetics of mutations helps doctors administer treatments. >> diagnosis, melanoma. back then we thought it was 40 diseases, now we think of it as more of 400 diseases, meaning we have had to develop treatments that are unique and specific to each subtype of cancer. >> how were we able to know there were the

[cheering] i am in the executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation it is my pleasure to you back. this is the only foundations only second in-person east room event that is tough to say. [laughter] since march of 2020. and the biggest crowd, the biggest crowd we have assembled since then and her first book signing event and nearly 17 months. thank you to all of you for being here and being part of it. i like to start by recognizing a few special guests who are here with us today beginning with christopher nixon cox member of the board of directors of the nixon foundation. anden the grandson of a president and mrs. nixon. sandy quinn a member of the board of directors of the nixon foundation former president of the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman haney of the city were there she is, and councilman jean hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jessie's wife, thank you for joining us. emma and jesse left their four -month-old baby to be here with us tonight. we know it is tough on them we are doubly appreciative of them for being here to

and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. [ applause ] >> richard nixonress, 1971, announcing the u.s. was going after cancer in a big way. >> let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal. >> reporter: remarkably the last television commercial touting the joys of cigarette smoking had aired just weeks before. and until the 970s the word "cancer" was rarely uttered, said aloud. >> it was forbidden. did people 50, 60 years ago think cancer was contagious? >> that was part of the reason but i think also such a bad diagnosis with such a terrible prognosis it was nothing anyone wanted to admit having because it sounded like a death sentence. >> the head of the national cancer institute says fresh from some victories over childhood leukemia the medical community at the time believed curing cancer was within reach. the idea was as bold as it was naive. >> we'll be done with this in five or ten or 15 years. was that the belief? >> i think even some of the leading cancer scientists of the time said, you know, maybe we can -- 1971, maybe we can have

[applause] my name is jim byron and i'm the executive vice president of the richard nixon foundations my pleasure to welcome you back. this is the nixon foundation's only second in person east room event since march of 2020. and the biggest crowd. [applause] the biggest crowd we have assembled since then and our first book signing event at nearly 17 months of thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here and for being part of it. i'd like to start by recognizing a few special guests who are here with us today beginning with christopher nixon cox a member of the board of directors for the nixon foundation. [applause] and the grandson of president and mrs. nixon, sandy quinn a member of the board of directors and the nixon foundation and former president of the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda. where is she? there she is. [applause] and councilman gene hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome to jesse's wife. thank you for joining us. [applause] emma and jesse left their 4-month-old baby to be with us here tonight. we appreciate the

he was a fan of richard nixon and in the aftermath, in the tapes, he discovered richard nixon was notdamentally broken by is that and pulled back from politics. and you think about billy graham's son, franklin graham, who's completely consumed by the trump movement. i thought that the signature point of this -- of this is opening everybody's eyes to where evangelicals or this group is in no belief, really, in the message of the gospels, was when they basically took on donald trump as their savior, probably the most morally reprehensible person to ever run for president of the united states, with his entire history of what he has done to people, what he has done to women, how he's conducted his life, and they took him on as he was the person that was going to save the country or save, in their mind, christianity. but i think fundamentally, yes, we have a political problem in the country, but i think deeper, we have a soul problem. we have a fundamental soul problem when we have an entire segment of our society who no longer believes in the fundamental message of jesus christ, about lov

. >> what about richard nixon's legacy? aughter] >> is there anything that you realized or is there anything positive? >> certainly. you can't have been a passenger on the titanic and then say the table tennis was great. [laughter] and nixon is revealed in the tapes. it's not only the criminality. but then on the day in august 1974 and then you have a license they are that this is why i told you. others may hate you but those whoo hate you but then you have rsdestroyed yourself. not just for politicians but it is you and then to listen to the tapes. and listen to what drove him. and then to let go of that hate. so then nixon's gift to history so the hardest thing to do but he was active. is there something positive there? and that you cannot have that added to. and then to do good about that. >> and that is another story. but when george herbert walker bush died even though he was a one term president could you see him in that light? and would never let me talk to it. and he was chairman and around the country and then when