for richard nixon, it was not enough. >> was very shrewd politics. he seemed to want to get every state. some of you may remember when watergate surrounded nixon. the bumper stickers that said don't lay me. i am from massachusetts. okay. anyway, i still cannot figure out what motivated richard nixon to do this. is there something about you just have to win big. you cannot just win big. you have to win it all. i do not know this. a puzzle, and enigma. a personal enigma. richard nixon was smart. had this soundest strategic sense of any american president of theodore roosevelt. understanding how the pieces of the international puzzle fit together and if you move this over there, this will slide. to do this in a way that will improve american. why did he going to politics? that is what i cannot figure out. politics is usually the arena where people who like other people go. people who are happy to stand on the corner when the shift is getting off of the factory and say hi, i like your vote. richard nixon was painful in the small talk. i hesitate to tell t

it was very clear that richard nixon was the one who was about to be impeached. that nixon was at the center of all of this. that nixon and the watergate scandal involved a couple members of the cabinet. but for the most part, it was people who worked in the whitehouse. so to keep the other members of the cabinet was entirely brokered but you are absolutely right. it did hurt his political chances. it allowed people who are not inclined to vote for him or who are on the fence are people who thought that there was this deal say, well, he is just coming in and he is taking over nixon's government. he would have been able to distance himself more from the previous administration by cleaning house, but it also would have made it that much harder to do the government's business, because you can imagine in the wake of watergate, being a member of the cabinet was not a particularly appealing job offer. so then to bring new people in when the government had been essentially paralyzed during most of this two year period from the summer of '72 to '74, it would have been a g

this began to change, richard nixon, because viewed cable television as a politico weapon to undermineer of network television and to also advance a free market policy agenda. in doing so, nixon changed the political and structure of cable television, helping to shape its development as a disruptive media medium designed to tear down media gatekeeping with market forces. and so this is the media environment that gerald ford inherited. and in his efforts to restore integrity to the presidency, he actually advanced these two components of richard nixon's media politics. his show style and his cable agenda. here's it worked. gerald confronted the challenge how to communicate, govern and then win an election in political environment that won journalist characterized as a disillusionment that had turned into ridicule. he faced a cynical press corps who had witnessed nixon lying. the extensive efforts he went into to manipulate the press and he faced a public that had lost faith, trust in the presidency. for ford entertainment became a way to restore that trust by personally seizing and huma

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

i'm the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it is my honor to welcome you. thank you. to welcome you all back to the nixon library on behalf of the board of directors and the nixon family. it is a special privilege for us to honor you this evening. 50 years to the day that you celebrated your homecoming at the white house. this evening we are joined by a few special guests to celebrate with you. representing the family of president and misses nixon, please welcome tricia nixon cox, the eldest daughter. and edward cox, her husband and the chairman of the new york republican party. ed and tricia have an additional distinction in that they were at the dinner 50 years ago in the white house with all of you. i would also like to welcome melanie eisenhower, the youngest granddaughter of president and misses nixon and the youngest granddaughter of julie nixon eisenhower. and melanie's husband, joseph sergio. we are joined by a number of the members of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation, including ambassador robert o'brien, chairman of the board.

the chance now richard nixon said that you were courageous, the p.o.w.aptivity and his personal diaries. so on a daily basis that he was thinking about you and how humbled he was by your heroism. the president was overwhelmed by the fact that you presented him that night that we've been watching tonight, this evening. and for those of you i know, the p.o.w. is not what it said, but others may not. it was inscribed our leader, our comrade richard the lionheart. it he treasured that gift. now, as we bring this 50th anniversary dinner to a close, let me share a passage from president nixon's memoirs as he spoke about the first night that we had at the white house. well, i saw it on tv as a kid, but you had at the white house trace out of the white house. tricia was only one years old at that event. the show did not end until after midnight wrote. and the dancing went until after 2:00. but pat, i went upstairs around 1230. i kissed her goodnight and i went to the lincoln sitting room. and as i before the fire, listening to the sounds of the music and the lau

a brush fire and, but -- and in 1972, william ruckel, the first epa administrator appointed by richard nixon took a very brave move. a lot of pressure on him know the to do this and ban the sale of ddt in the united states. really opening the way up for the restoration of many bird populations such as the pelican and the bald eagle and falcons and merlins and others. >> patrick, in your book about mark catesby, you didn't have a plethora of original sources or letters that mark left behind. you do a splendid job researching and putting context in and around that period of time in england and in early charleston, but talk a bit about, i guess, that struggle and how you overcame it in bringing your subject to life in the book and then walking us through his life until his death, i believe, at the age of 66. >> sure. before i do that, i do want to say that i wanted to mention jack knows this pretty well, but catesby's first plate in the natural history of carolina was the bald eagle. speaking of ecological relationships, the bald eagle persuaded an osprey to gift the eagle a fish that the ospre

historical association website about the history, that photograph and why elvis came to visit richard nixon. so you can check it out on our white house. white house, white house history. it's a fascinating story. do you have a favorite document? i have a set of of favorite documents, obviously. to me, in my role in the women's suffrage centennial commission. i really love the 19th amendment. the 19th amendment is important, obviously, for women gaining the right to vote, the legal right to vote, but also for i should be for all americans, since it was the largest single enfranchise easement in american history. so when we talk about expansions of democracy, the 19th amendment is at the heart of expansions for democracy. and then i also was able to see my father's military record when he served in the army. my uncle, who served in world war two, his naval service record. i was able to see that. and then as someone who studies the presidency, i'm a big fan of obviously everybody loves lincoln. i'm a big fan of lincoln. i'm also a big fan of grant. and i just happen to tend to display where th

. >> you have talked about jimmy carter, richard nixon, jfk, etc.. >> you have observed the last 6070 years of history. a friend of mine called the current period the great realignment. i want to get your take on the last 10 years in american history. >> the ark was from fdr in 1933 until ronald reagan in 1980. a time where people believed the federal government was your friend. whether it was world war ii, social security, the highway system, the department of defense. reagan came in and it was a revolution that went to trump. it was more of a suspicion of the federal government, not to waste, balance the budget. and now we are in a time of neo-civil war. the age of reagan is over. they are morphing with biden people. you have a new world order going on with donald trump and how he has consumed so much of the oxygen of our country. we do not know where we are at. this divide, al gore and george w bush down the middle. the florida recount, hillary clinton won the popular vote but trump came president. we have not been able to get out of that feud. i think the republicans are winning i

now, richard nixon did come the closest when he fought to keep the infamous oval office tapes secret.is lawyer argued, an absolute unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. now, the justices dismissed a portion of that argument then. but what about now? i've got two perfect voices to give us some information here, john dean, former nixon white house counsel and cnn contributor and also with us john sale, former assistant special watergate prosecutor. the law here really is not settled on this issue. some legal experts say you can't dismiss it out of hand. how do you see it. >> it is a gray area. reading this motion they have filed to dismiss because of presidential immunity kind of got my attention. it's not a frivolous brief. it's a well done brief. i have not checked all the law on it yet. i haven't had a chance to do that, so i'm very anxious to see the government's response. if anything might delay this case and pit iut it off after t election, this is the brief that will cause that to happen. while interlocutory appeals are very

richard nixon did come the closest when he fought the infamous oval office type secret.rs argued, quote, an absolute unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. now the justices dismissed a portion of that argument then but what about now? i've got to perfect voices to give us some information here. john dean, former nixon white house counsel and cnn contributor, and also with us, jon sale, former assistant special watergate prosecutor. john dean, i want to start with you. the law here is really not settled on this issue. some legal experts say you can't dismiss it out of hand. how do you see it? >> it is a gray area. i think reading this motion they have filed to dismiss, because of presidential immunity, kind of got my attention. it's not a frivolous brief. it's well done brief. and they've got, i have not checked pull the law, haven't had a chance to do that. but i'm very anxious to see the government response. but if anything might delay this case and put it off until after the election, this is the brief that will ca

richard nixon pushed a health care bill in congress that was structurally similar to the bill president nixon would try to an act, and president obama would finally and act. the republican president before richard nixon knew that government was a force for good, in this world, when he served as the european commander of the united states forces in world war ii. when general dwight eisenhower became president eisenhower, he supported all of the relatively new social service programs, including social security, that were advanced by a democratic president franklin delano roosevelt, and legislated by democratic congresses. president eisenhower created the interstate highway system, the single biggest federal infrastructure program the country had ever seen. so ronald reagan's anti government rhetoric was actually out of sync with his republican predecessors in the presidency. but president reagan never followed through on his rhetoric, because he never meant it. he campaigned on cuts to government spending that he then never enacted. he campaigned against taxes, even though in his service

president richard nixon understood the threat. he helped save the jewish state.e situation right now? we are back at that same point basically 50 years ago? >> the threats are huge. it's all driven by iran. this is the one thing this administration the biden administration has failed on the appeasement of iran from day one with this administration has been a policy of failure of a huge a magnitude. if one thing comes out of this horrendous horrible attack on israel and the innocent civilians 1300 slaughtered last week the highest number of jews killed like this since the holocaust. if one thing is good that could come out of this not good but an awakening by the biden administration they need to bring tough policies against iran. iran is behind all this weather it is hamas, hezbollah, just like they have been for decades they have spent decades killing americans, jews would need to we up to the fact we need to beat much tougher on them this administration is clearly failed in this regard. >> the computers going to cut us off we will have you back. i think you for

it was after this that on august 15, 1971, us president richard nixon untied the dollar from gold andaid that the dollar was no longer tied to gold, but remained a reserve currency. i have directed the secretary of the treasury to take steps to protect the dollar from speculation. i gave instructions to secretary konely to temporarily stop the exchange of dollars for gold and others. to gold, france needed to return its gold reserves in order to ensure the stability of the financial system, indeed, when my grandfather exchanged francs for dollars, he knew that this amount in dollars was equivalent to a certain amount, but since the rampant financial speculation of the eighties, especially the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent crises, countries that pursue sound monetary policies seek to replenish gold reserves because gold is the most reliable means of collateral in the event of a financial collapse. your country does this in many ways, china too, today thanks to what my grandfather managed to do, return gold to france, the fifth country in the world in terms of gold reserves. t

someone who is very driven, has an agenda, has a vision, knows where he is going, white eisenhower, richard nixon who at 39 becomes vice president who already is showing signs that he's on his way. the fact that they got along so well, as well as they did is a testament to several things but eisenhower should be praised because eisenhower made the vice presidency significant. 53 nations around the world as goodwill ambassadors, in 1953 they were in africa and asia and all over the world, 53 nations because he believed in person-to-person diplomacy, he used his vice presidency, my father liked that. they eisenhower led the way on that relationship. >> spoken to a lot of my grandfather's colleagues over the years including one in particular, glenn hall, theodore roosevelt republican former national chairman of the republican party. i interviewed him in oyster bay, new york, close to the teddy roosevelt homestead some years ago and i asked him that question and i think he would have agreed with your response entirely, dwight eisenhower was not somebody who enjoyed campaigning but he said the two gre

he has an agenda and a vision and knows where he is going so you have dwight eisenhower and richard nixonho becomes the vice president who is already showing signs that he is on his way so the fact that they got along so well is a testament to several things, but i think first of o all eisenhower should be praised because eisenhower made the vice presidency significant. he sent my parents 253 nations around the world as goodwill ambassadors. they were in africa and asia and all over the world 53 nations because he believed in person to personrs diplomacy and of coursi think my father liked that so let's say eisenhower led the way on that relationship. >> i've spoken to a lot of my grandfathers colleagues over the years and one in particular was a theater roosevelt republican and former national chairman of the republican party. i interviewed him in new york very close to the teddy roosevelt homestead some years ago and i asked him that very question and i think that he would have agreed with your responseir he wasn't somebody tt campaigning but he said the greatest politicians he had stto

idea of guaranteed income was going to have its real moment in the sun under the presidency of richard nixon. nixon in 1969 submitted to congress the family assistance plan. the plan had been designed by patrick moynihan, seen here. it would have provided a living wage all-american families and it would've done -- it would've replaced afdc and by replacing afdc it would've done away with singling out welfare mothers and others of the unworthy poor. the family assistance plan was defeated in 1972 by a democratic congress. it is something that kennedy among others -- ever after. the idea of a guaranteed income did fail, and we will have more to say about that next week. the subsequent major policy developments, 1980s and the cuts during the reagan administration to a range of social provision policies followed in 1969 by the act that created the temporary assistance for needy families. it's under president clinton who promised to end well for as we know it. both of these under reagan and clinton attack -- moved further away from the idea of the possibility of a legitimate guaranteed income. at

he knows where he is going to have dwight eisenhower and then you have richard nixon at 39 because vicepresident who is already showing signs he is on his way. the fact they got along so well, as well as they did i would say is a testament to several things. but i think personal eisenhower should be praised because eisenhower made the vice presidency significant. he sent my parents to 53 nations around the world as goodwill ambassadors for they were in vietnam in 1953. they were in africa and asia and 53 nations because he believed in person-to-person diplomacy. he is the vice president i think my father like that so let's say eisenhower led the way in that relationship back spoken to a a lot of my grandfathers colleagues over the years including eisenhower and one in particular was lynn hall who was a theater at roosevelt republican formant national. i interviewed him at oyster bay, new york very close to teddy roosevelt homestead some years ago. i asked him that very question. i think he would have agreed with your response entirely dwight eisenhower was not someone who enjoyed campai

trying to put out a brushfire but in 1972 the first epa administrator points out richard nixon with every move and ddt and the united states. the restoration of bird population and bald eagle and falcons and others. >> in your book about mark, you didn't have a plethora of original sources or letters left behind. you do a splendid job earesearching and putting contet in and around that period of time. talk about that struggle and how you overcame it bring the b subject to lighten the book and walking us through. >> i want to say the first place in carolina was illegal and he portrayed being persuaded to get the fish so you have them looking -- i'm not sure what that expression is but anyway, that's natural history. >> i love that image but just, we have no image, no letters before he reaches 39 so i took it as anai opportunity to no dot it is being done so many british men and women at the time, isaac newton when he landed so you could read all the newspapers wanted and there were parents. >> the mediterranean and caribbean. >> located charleston a couple of years before and one of the fa

house historical association's website about the history behind photograph and why came to visit richard nixon's. so you can check it out on white house. white house. white house history. it's a fascinating story. do you have a favorite document. i have a set of favorite documents. obviously, to me, in my role in the women's suffrage commission, i love the 19th amendment, the 19th amendment is important. obviously for women gaining right to vote. the legal right to vote, but also for, i think, be for all americans, since it was the largest single enfranchise moment in american history. so when we talk expansions of democracy the 19th amendment is at the heart expansions for democracy. and then i also was able see my father's military record when he served in the army. my uncle who served in world war two, his naval service record. i was to see that. and then as someone who studies the presidency, i'm a big fan of obviously everybody loves lincoln. i'm a big fan of lincoln. i'm also a big fan of grant and. i just happened to tend to display where they had brought out the document in which lincoln

richard nixon, i think, captured it best, nixon said. it's so characteristic. it's it's a good comment on and it reveals something i think deeply true about nixon. nixon said of americans, look at kennedy and they see what they want to be. they look at me and they see what they are. many hopes were to kennedy and. johnson found a way to pick up the mantle. the kennedy administration had been planning an antipoverty program in the months prior to the president's death. kennedy was determined to pass a major tax cut in order to sicily his campaign promise to, quote, get the economy moving again after the eisenhower doldrums. and he wanted to balance this gift, the nation's affluent classes with something for the poor. johnson immediately seized on the program for development in his first state of the union address, congress. go. johnson understood that he could ask the american public, think about what kennedy had meant to them, and then ask them to honor kennedy and the kennedy legacy by moving rapidly on the kennedy program, which up until that time, during the

[applause] richard nixon came up with this in 1971, one of his aides went to prison and when he came out he said everything and what was happening and he said among other things when richard nixon declared drugs number one: any that was not true. it was primarily on people. we spent $1 trillion on the drug war. it has exacerbated the situation. we spent hundred billion dollars a year now and we 300,000 people incarcerated in the united states today is 2.3 and half of all violence prisoners are not violent drug offenders. it feeds the present industrial complex. it's time for for a fraction of those hundred billion, for a fraction of that we could have a network of world-class recovery officers. we should be treating it as an issue. is now become such a ubiquitous problem including condos here in new hampshire we must recognize what we are doing now is not working sums up the essence of the attitude core of my campaign, but we are doing now is not working. we can't continue to treatit now . we're trying to it child poverty over here, no, there are rooms causes here and that root cause

the impeachment inquiry and articles drawn up against richard nixon peaked my interest.the time i read whatever scholarship i could gets my hands on, i still do that today. and there is not a ton but there is a good amount. you have a lot of professors who like typical law professors who are promoting their opinion as text. but that is not accurate, you need the abilbility to separate, that you could look federalist 65, ha hamilton discusses it. there is not a huge amount of specificity, they didn't want it to be overly specific, they could not contemplate every possible situation go which there should be prime minister inquiry and official removal -- potential removal of a president, but they wanted it specific enough where simply a disagreement between the parties or branches of government did not serve as a purpose to have an impeachment trial and removal of a president, otherwise you would not have three branches of government that is congress, they were aware of that. these debates witnes can't on, at -- went on. they adopted this phrase high crimes, misdemeanors, a

thanks to richard nixon taking initiative.nd infantata start taking effect. >> lawrence: they don't like what is happening, inside the government there is uprising and palestinian people start astacking. >> brian: you have 1000 people uprising, israelis lose 3200 and palestinians lose great number and infantata takes root. when peace movement come into play, effort to give palestinian a state. we try giving palestinians somewhat autonomy. >> lawrence: they are trying to give them money and parts of the territory, peace doesn't work. >> brian: the secular group, hamas would not like them, they are at war with them basically, like to be muslim extremist group. yassar afafat is face of the movement and start talking about peace and coexisting together. really kicks into gear with bill clinton getting between barrack and yassar afafat. >> lawrence: yassar afafat destroyed this -- >> brian: he would be killed so he walks away and clinton is bitter to this day and further peace efforts stalled since 2014. they talked about a west ba

kennedy, rachel carson, lyndon johnson, richard nixon and the great environmental awakening. i previously had written a book on theodore roosevelt and conservation called the wilderness warrior. it's about tr saved you want a 34,000,000 acres acres of wild america, public lands the national monuments, the national parks and federal bird reservations and created the national forest service, on and on. i consider that the first wave of environmentalism. second wave i wrote a book called rightful heritage but fdr's error on how fdr was a tree planter. in fact, never he would fill out a form for occupation, roosevelt would write tree farmer, like that's my job. he was a scientific farmer on the hudson river. eleanor roosevelt said he knows every flower, , note, cranny of the hudson river of dutchess county. i can rattle off national parks fdr created, many like you could big bend on d-day. he didn't counsel the meetings. he was designing roads and how to visit big ben part in texas while the normandy invasion was going on. that's a dp was in all this. he also created 800 state pa

. >> i'm not sure how much the political party matters when i started in 1973, richard nixon, a republican, was still the president. he came through or the united states came through and the arsenal of democracy came through as israel faced an existential crisis. if we don't screw this up with the nonsense over the speaker of the house, this coup attempt, another counterpe attempt by ral republicans. and we need to stop the worst holocaust, the rains and murders and we will step up to the moment and deliver what israel needs to defend itself. >> how do you think he did? >> i thought this was a var important significant speech. he has shown tremendous moral clarity at a moment there is such chaos in congress and such discourse in america. joe biden has been unwavering in america's support of israel, the special relationship but also has been unwavering and reminding americans that we are not a place where there is hatred, we are not a place that fosters anti-semitism or islamophobia. i thought it was incredibly important today that he spoke about american values. about what america means to