george mcgovern ran against richard nixon. nixon was not terribly popular at the time. there was resistance to vietnam. there are people who did not like nixon but they ran a successful smear campaign against george mcgovern. he had chosen a running mate name thomas singleton who was found to have had under psychiatric hold a some time. george mcgovern had been a decorated war hero during world war ii and was believed by mcgovern's campaign that would not be helpful to him in campaign in which war was figuring so heavily. i wanted to mention that. it is not necessarily support for nixon, it was a successful campaign against mcgovern that helped put in office. i would also like to say thank you for c-span which would have covered all of this. host: how to be existed we definitely would've covered them gavel-to-gavel. guest: does a to points from the caller. thank you for that. george mcgovern was a decorated world war ii veteran. he was a prominent vietnam war voice in the senate when he ran for president in 1972. the caller is making a great point about what we know abo

george mcgovern ran against richard nixon. nixon was not terribly popular at the time. there was resistance to vietnam. there are people who did not like nixon but they ran a successful smear campaign against george mcgovern. he had chosen a running mate name thomas singleton who was found to have had under psychiatric hold a some time. george mcgovern had been a decorated war hero during world war ii and was believed by mcgovern's campaign that would not be helpful to him in campaign in which war was figuring so heavily. i wanted to mention that. it is not necessarily support for nixon, it was a successful campaign against mcgovern that helped put in office. i would also like to say thank you for c-span which would have covered all of this. host: how to be existed we definitely would've covered them gavel-to-gavel. guest: does a to points from the caller. thank you for that. george mcgovern was a decorated world war ii veteran. he was a prominent vietnam war voice in the senate when he ran for president in 1972. the caller is making a great point about what we know abo

when i taught especially after i started writing about richard nixon. people would talk to me. i could apply for grant after grant after grant and have superb grants and get thank you so much. no. and the nature of writing about nixon anything other than saying he was darth vader. was not publishable. and for one of a better word publishers are greedy. they want to make money and if they can't sell books. they don't publish now the campaign of the century and my other books have sold pretty -- well, but what it what it means is is either i'm fooling a lot of people or that there is a a certain amount of belief that the material that's been written so long so wrong. i'll tell you one last thing i was nominated for a thing called the plutarch award and 2015 for the best biography of the year. and i got a call from a high up in the thing and said they're 257 books nominated. they're going to narrow it down to the top 10. irv, don't feel bad you're not going to make it. two months later i get a call from the same guy saying earth. i got to tell you you made it to the top 10, but now

or a secret memo to his own file his presidential pick was richard nixon. is vice presidential pick was henry cabot lodge junior. it was not so much nixon picking it was eisenhower picking lodge. at the time was un representative for the united states and was the main person who talked about the russians being evil and made a tremendous amount of television. he had the ability and by the way you may not know the person that wrote the biography of cabot lodge junior. >> is not a self-serving prep question i promise. >> the third misunderstood and i highlighted 1960 on theal democratic side as interesting so many senators, jon f. kennedy, center lyndon johnson. aboutut this would candidate wod not have been elected president without johnson is really eisenhower to aaa the south. virginia both campaign. the band eat away at the traditional democratic south. would kennedy have won the presidency do you think without lyndon johnson from texas to hold down the democratic south? >> not a snowballs chance. what lyndon johnson brought to the table was what ronnie dug

to give my own personal experience when i taught especially after he started writing about richard nixon, people wouldn't talk to me. i can apply for grant after grant and get thank you so much, no. the nature of writing about nixon anything otherno than sayg he was vader wasn't publishable and for want of a better word, publishers are greedy and want to make money and if they can't sell books, d they don't publis. now the campaign of the century and my other books have sold pretty damn well but what it means is either i'm fooling a lot of people or there is a certain amount of belief that the material has been written so long so wrong. .. i've got to tell you you were in the top 10.oe now it comes down to the top for. there is no way you are going to be a finalist. a month later i get a call or when you have to sit down for this you are a finalist so i have on my wall finalists for the award. go figure. i was very pleased and it's always nice to be acknowledged. amanda was telling me this was on the inside in new everything going on and there was not a prayer and i didn't have a t chanc

a look at the letters between eisenhower and richard nixon again, big surprise, just about every one of them said say hello to pat and appreciate her help. doesn't sound like eisenhower and is wife did not get along. >> the second misunderstanding is nixon and lodge were ill-suited together and lodge was the downfall of richard nixon. >> january 7, right eisenhower learned his own file, his r presidential bid was richard nixon. his vice presidential pick was henry -- junior. it wasn't so much nixon, it was eisenhower and at the time, watch was the representative for the united states and the main person who talked about the russians being evil and made a tremendous amount. he had the ability, the boston and you may not know the person who wrote the biography -- it's luke victor misunderstanding i highlighted on the democratic side, also john f. kennedy -- how about this one, elected, it was really eisenhower, virginia campaigns the way one without lyndon johnson on the democratic south? >> johnson brought to the table was a famous texan journalist said, every election johnson election

whether gerald ford's decision to pardon richard nixon was good for the country seems a little bit lessclear now than it did then but there's an interesting thing that happens in that same interview. the decision to pardon nixon was bad for jerry porter in the short-term and it is much as anything else has cost his n reputation for integrity and character and putting the national interest ahead of personal t interests. so what jerry porter is remembered for is the fact that he was professionally there are eyes today a model of the public servant who goes into politics for theht right reasons comports himself in the right and appropriate way and is willing to abide by the decision of the people. so gerald ford is at the center of all this stuff going on and they think he remained someone who's instructive today and indeed well i will put it this way and thispr is probably an audience that might be more inclined to gerald ford than others but the jerry ford won theho ticket in 1994 how many of you would have voted for him? a breath of fresh air. now do we have time for questions? okay, qu

he wanted to be richard nixon's running mate in 1960. he discovered a process just before he left the presidency. he was approached by bill, secretary of the treasury, about john mitchell. the campaign manager who went to jail for his part in the watergate affair. ford turned him down. i don't think it was because of any sort of aftermath. quite simply, ford had been taught to look for the good in everyone. that led some people to see him as naive. the other side of the coin was, just as he was honest with people, he expected them to be honest with him. two days after the watergate break-in, ford confronted mitchell one-on-one and asked did you know anything about this? mitchell denied it. ford said later on that guy lied to my face. that was something you didn't do. there are a lot of those kinds of factual discoveries. a lot it was the surprise. historically, i think ford went to his grave believing what most of us believed, which was his historical legacy would be seen as his efforts to restore an element of trust after watergate and

there, of course, is somebody who it will be familiar to most of you in the primary, richard nixon defeat ronald reagan and george romney and others and he nixon benefits from his strong anti-communist credentials. so he doesn't have to take too hard a line on vietnam because people know he's respectable in that regard. and but he also, you know, sometimes he'll talk tough, but he will also talk about how he's going use diplomacy to reach a successful conclusion. and he will talk privately about how he's going to threaten the north vietnamese. and they will be scared of him and will give in. i know he does. questioned at one point about whether he has a secret plan to end the war, which he does not say of it becomes another myth that somehow somebody reports that he does he has a secret plan, but there isn't really a secret plan. but he does still have some ideas what he's going to do using diplomatic pressure, pressing the soviets and the chinese and building up the south vietnamese. but he's able to to fare pretty well. and he you know by the time of the primary he's a shoo in. it's ver

richard nixon, the supreme court says you have to turn over these incriminating cases and nixon is informedblican leaders in congress, they will be impeached and you're going to be convicted so you better make a decision because that will happen so nixon resigned. this new guy and nixon straightforward ins michigan dos but then and all of a sudden they are weighed. and did ford say did you resign and you might be in jail and by this time there's a real possibility. there's no evidence that anything like the deal occurred and to think it would be explicit however, it is possible and the big deal is this president is no longer president. that is precisely the argument they made in justifying. the short-term consequence was the least in the country and a sense that okay, we can move past watergate so short-term this decision was good for the country. slightly longer term was ford. it meant there was no way who's going to win in 1976. in fact, even the bad news about richard nixon, ford could have been the favorite and 76 because if you look at the electoral map of 1972, the publicans had this

there, of course, is somebody who it will be familiar to most of you in the primary, richard nixon defeat ronald reagan and george romney and others and he nixon benefits from his strong anti-communist credentials. so he doesn't have to take too hard a line on vietnam because people know he's respectable in that regard. and but he also, you know, sometimes he'll talk tough, but he will also talk about how he's going use diplomacy to reach a successful conclusion. and he will talk privately about how he's going to threaten the north vietnamese. and they will be scared of him and will give in. i know he does. questioned at one point about whether he has a secret plan to end the war, which he does not say of it becomes another myth that somehow somebody reports that he does he has a secret plan, but there isn't really a secret plan. but he does still have some ideas what he's going to do using diplomatic pressure, pressing the soviets and the chinese and building up the south vietnamese. but he's able to to fare pretty well. and he you know by the time of the primary he's a shoo in. it's ver

if you're richard nixon. because, by the way, so agnew is forced out at a time when watergate is becoming uncovered. it takes a long time between the the arrest of the burglars in june of 72 to the summer of 73, when the senate watergate hearings take place, and nixon finally resigns in the summer of 1974. so it's a slow moving scandal. and the last thing nixon needs and the last that he wants to convey is that he's brought on board. this guy is going to help push him out. and so gerald ford took the job. it's it's an honor. but he certainly didn't expect it to lead anything. lead to anything he thought that this would be a nice sort send off. i'll do this and then retire. in 1976, when this term is up and, that would be that. and and ford knew no more about watergate. everybody else did. so he didn't know where this story was going. but when the story went the way it did, when nixon as became apparent in the coverup of this and and it was at this time that the adage emerged that it's not crime, it's the cove

george mcgovern ran against richard nixon. nixon was not terribly popular at the time.e to vietnam. there are people who did not like nixon but they ran a successful smear campaign against george mcgovern. he had chosen a running mate name thomas singleton who was found to have had under psychiatric hold a some time. george mcgovern had been a decorated war hero during world war ii and was believed by mcgovern's campaign that would not be helpful to him in campaign in which war was figuring so heavily. i wanted to mention that. it is not necessarily support for nixon, it was a successful campaign against mcgovern that helped put in office. i would also like to say thank you for c-span which would have covered all of this. host: how to be existed we definitely would've covered them gavel-to-gavel. guest: does a to points from the caller. thank you for that. george mcgovern was a decorated world war ii veteran. he was a prominent vietnam war voice in the senate when he ran for president in 1972. the caller is making a great point about what we know about watergate and the

[laughter] richard nixon is told to turn over these incriminating tapes by republican leaders in congress so you better make a decision that's going to happen if you don't do something. nixon resigned. is this new guy, gerald ford, this not have there are no scandals in this background there is no hint of impropriety. seems like the anti- nixon he is seen as a purveyor but then a month after nixon resigned to r report such board of and also these questions are raised did nixon and ford get together did ford say if you resign apart and you not going to have to go to jail. which was a real possibility. there is no evidence for thing like a deal occurred but in fact it's strange the imagination to think anything. however it is entirely possible that nixon recent weight board subsequently freezing and that is not constitute and appoint the big deal is as president is no longer present the let's move on. that is precisely the short-term consequences we can move past watergate was good for the country there's no way he was going to win ford could have been the favorite going into the election 7

remember, richard nixon carried every state but one. my home state of massachusetts and what nobody knew and i discovered for the first time, there was a secret. there were 17 democratic house members, mostly southern conservatives, who had at least informally pledged if republicans got close to a 218 majority, they would switch parties en masse. and so you what body had that card? his pocket? well, it turned out on election. nixon swept the country and the republicans only picked up five seats in house, which left them at. 197. 20 short. so much for the deal. and then at that point, ford decided in consultation with mrs. ford, okay. you know, let's face facts. i'm never going to be speaker. so they decided he would run one more time in 1974 and then he would step down from the minority leadership, serve his last two years as a backbench chair and we've capitol hill, we've public service. at the beginning of 1977. now, the reason the whole business with agnew and the potential vice presidential vacancy matters is because it coincided th

he defeated richard nixon and appointed henry kissinger for national security adviser.it was the first but not the only finest hour of the kisenjars from that moment on. all accumulated knowledge. the whole experience is all your extraordinary mind. henry kisenscher. channeled international diplomacy. diplomacy. there is the art of the burdened body. henry keysenger from diplomacy. from 1969 to september 1972 , henry kiesner made 29 trips to 26 countries and participated in 140 meetings between president neeson and foreign leaders. at that time, that activity of caesar was called in political dictionary shuttle diplomacy intestines. this period of his work is now being studied by the universities of those studying to be a diplomat. it must be said that it was then in september of the seventy-third year that the appointer was appointed by the state for the first time in the history of america , the key positions in the administration of the president of the state for national security were entrusted to one person. there is a photograph she is quite famous on it, she swea

and it's important to emphasize that richard nixon, with astonishing speed, reduced the number of american troops in vietnam. now, that didn't mean some kind of surrender was intended. on the contrary, nixon also wanted to apply pressure on hanoi, even as he was withdrawing troops. how did he do this? well, the first step in this direction was to bomb north vietnamese bases in cambodia, to do it secretly, and this, i think, is the key to what nixon had in mind, because he had an extra ordinarily sophisticated grasp of what would fly in american politics. he knew that he had to get the troops out and reduce the casualty numbers, you know, enormous numbers of american young men were being killed in the battlefields of vietnam in 1968. nixon's first goal was to try to reduce that number. but to avoid abandoning south vietnam, he had to do something to apply a pressure. and i think that's the first i think that's the first thing to get across that nixon was seeking to use airpower as a substitute for ground forces, something that the united states had been doing in warfare since the 1940s. and

and president ford made sure that richard nixon knew about that case before he accepted the pardon.be the very least you could hope for, but i think that a trial where the evidence is put forth is without a doubt the best way to hold a wrongdoer countable. >> i appreciate, jill, that you give us the context of the way in which history comes into play. retrospectively, but also looking forward as we think about accountability and making sure this never happens again and why is it just so important. jill wine-banks, as always thank you. throughout the next hour, i will bring you updates as lawmakers begin to weigh in on president biden's first formal on camera remarks since reaching a deal in principle. house speaker kevin mccarthy. who's gonna talk with congressman jasmine -- about what the house democratic caucus heard on its call with white house officials. and can house bigger mccarthy get his caucus to fall in line and vote in favor of this compromise? two political insiders weigh in about what republicans are saying. stay with us. up to 30% off. with smokin' fast shipping. and g

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i've read terms like whether you're talking about richard nixon or presidents from the 19/18 century were constantly shifting the legacy. one year nixon's up and the other he's down. one year we reevaluate eisenhower and say maybe he was a great statesman in year we say that bill clinton was magnificent or he was a disappointment. you know, sometimes say kennedy was an unfinished presidency. but fred logan is showing us in two volumes. he's this extraordinary in a way that i really before. right. so why does it and by the time we have madam president, her legacy going to be contested, too, you know, so tell us about the records, this narrative war, the story these records are trying to tell. yeah, i mean, i think that the thing is that the records don't necessarily tell a story. it's what we bring to the records, the stories that we pull out of them that really matter right. that's why we see the narrative shifting. and even if we had a sort of perfect documentary record of a presidency, we would still continue to battle over what that presidency meant. and those records though help u

i've read terms like whether you're talking about richard nixon or presidents from the 19/18 century were constantly shifting the legacy. one year nixon's up and the other he's down. one year we reevaluate eisenhower and say maybe he was a great statesman in year we say that bill clinton was magnificent or he was a disappointment. you know, sometimes say kennedy was an unfinished presidency. but fred logan is showing us in two volumes. he's this extraordinary in a way that i really before. right. so why does it and by the time we have madam president, her legacy going to be contested, too, you know, so tell us about the records, this narrative war, the story these records are trying to tell. yeah, i mean, i think that the thing is that the records don't necessarily tell a story. it's what we bring to the records, the stories that we pull out of them that really matter right. that's why we see the narrative shifting. and even if we had a sort of perfect documentary record of a presidency, we would still continue to battle over what that presidency meant. and those records though help u

nixon seminar on conservative realism and national, a monthly educational program presented by the richard nixon foundation. and he is a recipient of the nixon foundation's of peace award. secretary pompeo's new memoir is never give an inch fighting for the america i love, which you should all have copies and you can purchase additional copies in the gift shop as you exit tonight's program. ladies and gentlemen, would you please now stand and join me in welcoming secretary pompeo hugh hewitt coming up, new york city. school bus driver the intersect features. david, to face his inner minnie route. looking at the promise of claire. one kid dreams, fame and fortune so ladies and gentlemen welcome this stand. i was able to interview the secretary for an hour on the radio show, and i ran out of time. so i've got 18 pages of questions that i didn't get through. but i'm going to start with a real tough one. all right. go tonight. lebron is going to surpass kareem abdul-jabbar as the all time nba scorer in. never give an inch. you you tell that you are a lakers diehard fan. yes. so if you had to pick be

finally, richard nixon, by far his close this friend among the presidents. but as hoover started to get old and it defies some of what nixon wanted him to do, there are some funny moments where hoover says, that is illegal. j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents that represented him and his views, a very particular image. when we think of an fbi agent or a g-man, there are very specific ideas about who that is. will it be a tall white guy in a suit with a hat and shiny shoes and a certain set of political views. during his lifetime, i do not think agents loved him. he was a h

after those router from richard nixon. 1969, richard nixon talked about the greatsi silent majority, and in 1974 he resigned from office. beginning now, here's a lyndon johnson. >> president hatcher, governor romney, senators mcnamara and hart, congressmen meader and staebler, and other members of the fine michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow americans.s it is a great pleasure to be here today. this university has been coeducational since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said, in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school. [laughing] well, we can find both here at michigan, although perhaps at different hours. [laughing] i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son's education had been a real value. it stopped his mother from bragging about him. [laughing] i have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of your campus to speak about th

. >> exactly 50 years later to the day here at the richard nixon library the same food.ne salad, beef, strawberry shortcake. there just aren't as many men left alive to enjoy it. >> we considered richard nixon, guys that were responsible for getting us home, and we love the man. >> every minute this table was held at the same p.o.w. camp. there is smith and wallingford. in 1972 both were badly injured and captured after the brutal battle -- >> an explosion went off. i felt like half my had been blown away. i was agnostic before vietnam. you talk about conversions, you're looking at one. >> i only was the guy that new look at the got captured, that only happened to losers. in a k round got me in the shin, knocked me down out of the way of rpg that was headed at my chest. >> they were held in bamboo tiger cages. >> explain to me what a tiger cages? >> heavy ribbon to the zoo? see animals in cages. they just put these logs, five by six, five by five into a cage and a little door you had to bend down to get in. >> held in those cages because they would not do as they were to

whole party into an anti-war stance to some extent that what has happened just because party hates richard nixon. right. but that's true. but it's also true. all that popular mobilization ation behind the mcgovern really has a very large impact. and again i would emphasize that it is a power factor for nixon that he doesn't think he's going to have the votes in congress to the war. you really that way and he's extreme maybe frustrated that the south vietnamese government or the top officials in that government don't understand how the american system works. imagine he has a freedom of action that he no longer has. so i don't know if i'd quite answer the question, but bob, to be in the ballpark, one of the things i've said somewhere, mary in print, can't remember where, but said that for all of the five president who dealt with vietnam in a serious way, the outcome vietnam mattered principally in terms of the damage it could do to their domestic position. i was being deliberately provoked. so it's maybe a little overstated, but i think in broad outline, i would defend statement. and so it, i thin

. >> back in 1973, richard nixon honored 1600 vietnam war p o w is for what is actually the largest banquete history. and now 50 years later, nearly 600 of those same p o w is gathered this week in southern california. nichole berlie reports. >> all the parade essentials were there. the flags, the streets lined with people. the old sports cars parading down main street recently in yorba linda, california, vietnam veterans fill those cars marching their way to the richard nixon presidential library for a homecoming reunion. 50 years after the p o w return from captivity. the military band played long hugs were exchanged. friends embracing their shared history. no one in a hurry to let go knowing many of their former brothers in arms didn't make it back from vietnam or did but died before this week's big 50 year milestone. >> most of the people that i was close to done. a fight with her now gone that fast for a a handful of left now and and the younger field, a visit here with and they're a great bunch of people. when we get together, we don't dwell on thing. clinician about funny like that.