i am the president and ceo of the richard nixon and foundation and welcome the nixon library this morning for is sure to be a fascinating series of conversations today celebrating women's impact across four panels. we will look at the women's movement in the 1960s and seventies focusing in particular on the strategic nixon white house initiative to identify and hire women into the senior roles of the federal government. and as new scholarship, contends. first lady pat nixon played a decisive behind the scenes role to keep initiative moving, which will be the subject of one of our panels today. the person recruited to lead this effort in the nixon administration was barbara hackman, franklin, then a recent graduate of harvard business school and a newly minted at first national citibank. this resulted in nearly quadrupling the number of women in these senior positions between 1971. in 1973, her white house story is told in the 2012 book by lee stout a matter of simple justice the untold story of barbara hackman, franklin and a few good women. mrs. franklin become secretary franklin. in 199

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and if richard nixon came in and said oh, this was for national security, end of story, nobody's chargedison. >> nixon admitted everything. in accepting the pardon he said i've been informed that president ford has granted me a full and absolute pardon for any charges that might be brought against me for actions taken during the time i was president of the united states. that is key. because he understood that he committed crimes while he was president. and then he said i know that many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and actions in the watergate affair like you said und jer john roberts you can't talk about motivation, were intentionally self-serving and illegal. i now understand my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that belief and seem to support the burden is the heaviest one of all i have to bear. he understood what he did was illegal. he did it while he was president. he was intentionally self-serving. and john roberts would have said all of that is off the table, nixon would have been cleared to remain in office. it's stunning. >> absolutely right. it

the worst that could happen, for example, murdering a political rival is not a hypothetical for richard nixon watergate prosecutor nick ackerman orders -- right that nixon ordered the hit. one of the reasons dixon was forced to step down was the release of a recording of him trying to interfere in the fbi's watergate probe. a clear case of obstruction of justice but under the new supreme court decision, ackerman writes quote, there would've been no reason for him to resign. nixon could've just picked up the phone and directed the fbi to terminate its investigation. joining me now is former watergate prosecutor nick ackerman. he also served as assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. thanks for being here. your piece is fantastic. i urge everybody to go out and read it but the thing that just struck me and shook me was the fact that nixon ordered a hit on ellsberg, which i was unaware of but to your point, now, with the scotus decision, you can inquire into motive and you certainly can't inquire if it was an official act of nixon picking up the phone and ordering a hit on

for example, murdering a political rival was not a hypothetical for richard nixon according to our nextst. nick ackerman writes that nixon ordered a hit on ellsberg and one of the reasons he was forced to step down as the release of a recording of him trying to interfere in the fbi's watergate probe. a clear case of obstruction of justice. under the new supreme court decision, ackerman writes, quote, there would have been no reason for him to resign, nixon could've just picked up the phone and directed the fbi to terminate its investigation. joining me now is former prosecutor nick ackerman and he served as a united states attorney for the southern district of new york. thanks for being here, your new piece, the supreme court rewrites watergate history 50 years since nixon's resignation. the thing that struck me and shook me was the fact that nixon ordered a hit on ellsberg which i was unaware of, but to your point, now, with this scotus decision, you can't inquire into motive and you can't inquire if it was an official act of picking up the phone and ordering a hit on a political rival

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and it is a gift that richard nixon would have loved. he would have served his full term if the supreme court had been in power. there is so much to be disturbed by in this opinion. but one of the worst part is as i pointed out in the op-ed is that the evidence that you can use at trial or at the hearing to show that you are rebutting the presumptive immunity for even those things in the outer parameters of official acts, that makes it almost impossible to bring any cases. i think it will limit the indictments that he is already under. it will not kill them. there are still plenty of things that no court and that is you will make the decision is a supreme court, even the supreme court cannot find that the fake slate of electors and other parts of the indictment are within even the outer parameters of official duties and there are three categories. the ones that are responsibilities, like ordering seal team six or telling your attorney general to drop a case or to bring a case. or to do something else to influence the outcome of the elect

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and somebody like a richard nixon shouldn't have resigned because what he did by definition was legal, even if he was breaking into the dnc head quarters when president biden says that the court has essentially now rule that presidents are basically kings. i mean, is he exaggerating no i don't think it's over dramatic because what listen, if you if donald trump would i mean, if if he makes a decision to say, let's say let's just take this thing, let's say he gives an order to a member of the military. somebody was saying this on twitter. and that member of the military found that to be an illegal order. as members of the military week cannot execute illegal orders no matter who gives him is it technically illegal or because the president who can do nothing illegal now, gave it. that's a little bit of an extreme example, but those are the kinds of things we have to think through. every one of those will have to be determined by this room. let me play what a former attorney general bill barr said about that's similar scenario all right. the seal team six example that was utilized by jus

there were a number of justices had been appointed by richard nixon. but they all unanimously decided with one person just with actually one person are reducing himself. that nixon had to turn over. those takes, are there was nothing purchasing at all about it. this just has a different feel to it. it's had a different feel to it all along. ever since the overturning of the abortion decision are with the decision on the obstruction count on that day was use to indict a number of the january 6 riders on this really does not make a lot of sense other than to play into donald trump's strategy of delaying this whole matter until after the election. but this i'm sorry to dwell on this, but this is a business, a big thing. but you're saying to be citing the thoughts this the pre im calling them out is any fact corrupt? yes, i'm not saying that because there's no way back in 1972 and we're investigating richard nixon in the watergate matter. but anybody was saying, oh, there's presidential immunity. you have to be careful about what you do. we can't date and n

who came down on the side of the special counsel and against richard nixon. the feel is the supreme court justices appointed by trump did everything they could to buy into his delay strategy. kailey: of course, it was the six conservative justices that ruled this way. the three liberal justices dissented. i read earlier from the dissent drafted by sonia sotomayor who reads at the end, never before has a president had reason to believe he would be immune from criminal prosecution if used the trappings of his office to violate criminal law. she ends with "with fear for our democracy, i dissent." how does this make you feel about the state of american democracy and the three branches of government? >> not great. i am not feeling good about the supreme court. between what we know about two of those members who should have recused themselves on this decision, and how this came out and how this was dragged out, i really not feeling good about the state of our democracy compared to what happened in 1974 with a supreme court appointed mainly by republican presidents.

and then richard nixon continued the war for 5 more years. a 1000000 more be it. and these died 5030000 more americans died of george wallace who was contesting with nixon for the far right vote in 1972. he was spelled by an assassin's bullet. you are the killing and martin luther king junior and 1968 malcolm x. 1965 medgar evers and a boy a c p and 6. the court assassinations are typical of a period of political instability in the, in that time it was because of the vietnam war, in particular, a war the us couldn't. when we are now in the new period to a declining empire, everybody can see the us empires decline. americans, soft powers and decline of the american economy is really been ravaged by 3 major economic recessions. they give them different names. there was the 19th and 2008 wall street meltdown or the 2020 pandemic. where 60000000 americans lost their jobs . but you know, about 30 or 40000000 people in the united states had been, have lost their jobs to mass way up since 1996. so you have big parts of the country that are hollowed out. at the same time,

and then richard nixon continued to work for 5 more years. a 1000000 more b, and these died 503-0000 more americans died of george wallace who is contesting with nixon for the far right boat. 1972. he was spelled by an assassin's bullet. you are the killing and martin luther king junior and 1968 malcolm x. 1965 medgar evers and a boy a c p. and 60 core assassinations are typical of a period of political instability in the, in that time it was because of the vietnam war, in particular, a war the us couldn't. when we are now in the new period to a declining empire, everybody can see the us empires decline. americans, soft powers and decline of the american economy is really been ravaged by 3 major economic recessions. they give them different names. there was the 19th and 2008 wall street meltdown or the 2020 pandemic. where a 60000000 americans lost their jobs. but you know, about 30 or 40000000 people in the united states have been, have lost their jobs to mass way up since 1996. so you have big parts of the country that are hollowed out. at t

-- gave us richard nixon. richard nixon was a crook who's come in committee was preschool antics compared to whom i take the office next. there are patriotic republican lawmakers who persuaded nixon to resign. not one person will represent the gop in congress next year. elections are always a choice between flawed human beings, each of human -- each of whom could form -- send in north carolina on the not sure line. good morning, cindy. caller: good morning. i am not sure. i'm an independent. but everybody's calling in, and a lot of people are saying in the news and elsewhere about age . i'm 72 and i think it depends on mental acuity. a lot of callers are not mentioning mental acuity. and that is what i am basing. i watched biden. i did not vote for biden. i did not vote for trump. but i like to look at policies. if people would look at policy instead of -- and what has happened the last four years, and all of the line going on on both sides, it is just ridiculous that we have two men up there, one half is conv

the closest was richard nixon three years after he left the presidency in interview in which he said's not legal. that statement was widely ridiculed by constitutional scholars on the left and right but politicians on the left and right. unfortunately as a result of our polarised and politicised age, you have people now making basically bogus claims about the constitution like the republican saying this is a restoration of the rule of law. there is no possible way it could be and the president is now above the law and the criminal law even for great and hannah's crimes is not the american system.- american system. briefly i wanted to _ american system. briefly i wanted to bring _ american system. briefly i wanted to bring up - american system. briefly i wanted to bring up some l american system. briefly i | wanted to bring up some of these hypothetical things coming at this could potentially be well if the president orders the navy seals to assassinate their rival, that could be considered an official act. a military coup taking a bribe in exchange for a pardon. looking into the futu

or as you heard, richard nixon who believed the country was in a civil war and he could do whatever hed. the thing that saved us, the hope comes not from the court and often not from congress. it comes from the people themselves, newspaper editors who fought back against adams and let's not forget frederick douglass who reclaimed the constitution for democracy against a supreme court that would destroyed. roger goblet -- frederick douglass should be regarded as the founder of american democracy. the pardon, we never got to see that president held to account. never got to see the crimes, such as the attempted break-in at the brookings institution. his order to take a safe out. to rob it on a free pre-basis, as he puts it on the tapes. these are things we should've seen in a criminal trial, but the pardons stopped all of that. so throughout american history, and i say it in the book, we have recovered that citizens have given us hope by reclaiming democracy against adams, against buchanan. when it came to nixon, citizens of the grand jury, residents of washington, d.c. who tried to indic

we look at an inflection point, i think in american history, when richard nixon steps down right?ng bad things that are criminal in nature, maybe it was a mistake to pardon him, because, you know, at the end of the day he was never never criminally prosecuted for it. >> which i believe-- >> and we can monday morning court back the wisdom of what happened back then, but is-- what has happened this week with the supreme court and immunity decision effectively eradicated any kind of moral compass or any type of moral kind of compass that we would be looking to, when it comes to history? because we've always looked at that nixon event being, you know that is when you know that presidents are not above the law and yet now we have a supreme court that is saying you know what? we have reconsidered that >> the presidential immunity decision of the supreme court means that now it is on all of us to make sure that no one ever becomes president who does not have the high character to resist the temptation to do things like have your opponents killed or subdue the defense department or use th

but on november 7, 72, richard nixon again won the us presidential election, after which he immediatelyof the agreement. according to washington, the resolution of the conflict should not be in the hands of the vietnamese themselves. moreover, northern vietnam must recognize the existence of the southern one. nixon began massive bombings of the cities of hanoi and haiphong, also known as christmas bombings, they lasted 12 days in a row and were supposed to force hanoi to accept american conditions, but during this period vietnamese pilots shot down dozens of enemy aircraft. including more than thirty b-52 strategic bombers, under pressure public and in the context of the growing gate scandal, washington was forced to make concessions. kissinger returned to the negotiating table, and on january 27 , 1973 , an agreement was signed in paris to end the war and restore peace in vietnam. all in all. he didn’t start this war, but the responsibility fell on him, and he finally solved the problem, for which he deserves respect? i don’t think trump knows what to do, should he put pressure on kiev

we saw this with richard nixon and of course joe biden. host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the newspaper. guest: [laughter] it is a really good quote. there have been some colorful ones. john adams said the american people invented the most useless office for him imaginable. i think it was john nance garner who said i'm not going to use -- i'm not going to use the actual phrase -- but he said the office was a warm bucket of spit. he used a different word. vice president have not particularly enjoyed that position. host: with us this morning is lindsay chervinsky, executive director director of the george washington presidential library at mount vernon. about 15, 20 minutes for you to call in. phone number explained as usual. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. john is in buffalo, new york. independent read good morning. caller: good mor

i will add, in 19741 of the arguments that republican leaders may to richard nixon, that he should stepn again. i'm not comparing biden to nixon, but one of the arguments was the 1974 midterm elections that republicans across the country would would be pummeled if richard nixon, we're still in office by the time of that election. so this decision by biden is biden's to make historically, we can expect the first lady to be playing a very significant role in the decision and the role of a biden's remain of his children, his daughter and his son will be important too. but in the end the decision is the president's alone. when parties tried to force out president's, generally speaking, they fail gerald ford wanted to run again ronald reagan tried to beat him and lost in 1976 in 1980 jimmy carter wanted to run again. ted kennedy wanted to be the nominee. jimmy carter prevailed as the incumbent president, incumbent president has an enormous amount of suede usually wins these kinds of fights. the one difference today is that we're talking about the health and the stamina of a president that ha

>> i wasn't born when richard nixon was in power. i don't believe nixon for one moment. >> but do you think that biden. there was a suggestion? i think that it was understood biden would stand for a single term to defeat trump, to get rid of him, and then would. and while the democrats regrouped , as it were, democrats regrouped, as it were, it was definitely to make him run again because the guy, you know, not trying to be very mean, his brain doesn't work like it feels. >> it feels just sad now, like wheeling him out there. and he's probably pumped full of all kinds of drugs, like you and i, who spend far too much of our lives on twitter. >> we've seen the evidence for at least a couple of years, right? it seems like half the world was shocked by this, as if they hadn't been paying attention or they were. >> no. yeah, i think i think a lot of people were very, very concerned that a man who doesn't really know where he is half the time is in charge of the big red button that made people a little bit concerned. he's not fit to stand

as a result, on december 2nd, 1970, president richard nixon consolidated 15 environmental programs from across the federal government to form the united states environmental protection agency. not only did the new epa inherit responsibilities from its parent programs, but it soon had a raft of new ones. the passage of the clean air act in 1970 meant that epa's management had to simultaneously lee organize dozens of different staffs and laboratories to develop the national air quality standards required by the act, while at the same time showing the american people that something was being done to stop air pollution. epa went to court. factories were shut down. the message got through. gross pollution would no longer be a part of business as usual in the united states. the clean water act, passed in 1972, also required enormous and unprecedented efforts on the part of the new agency. 60 million people were on sewage systems, discharging 2 million tons a year of raw organic waste into surface waters. the new law mandated a system of universal sewage treatment and gave epa the job of bring

as a result, on december 2nd, 1970, president richard nixon consolidated 15 environmental programs from across the federal government to form the united states environmental protection agency. not only did the new epa inherit responsibilities from its parent programs, but it soon had a raft of new ones. the passage of the clean air act in 1970 meant that epa's management had to simultaneously lee organize dozens of different staffs and laboratories to develop the national air quality standards required by the act, while at the same time showing the american people that something was being done to stop air pollution. epa went to court. factories were shut down. the message got through. gross pollution would no longer be a part of business as usual in the united states. the clean water act, passed in 1972, also required enormous and unprecedented efforts on the part of the new agency. 60 million people were on sewage systems, discharging 2 million tons a year of raw organic waste into surface waters. the new law mandated a system of universal sewage treatment and gave epa the job of bring

according to the mayor of the city, richard nixon, who was president of the united states 50 years agor everything. it was because of him that russianism reigned in the city, the consequences of which are still felt today. this year, the notorious mass shootings, which are commonplace for... america, have become especially frequent, while there were an unusually large number of so-called celebratory shootings, even by local standards. last year, independence day was marked by one and a half times fewer murders. the scandalous and comical result of the idea of ​​​​sending refugees to rwanda who make their way to britain. this idea was born when boris johnson was prime minister. one, at one time they even planned to send ukrainian refugees to rwanda, who... marina romanovskaya will tell you what the holiday in vitebsk is filled with. this day will be very important for the participants. music competition they will perform on the concert hall stage vitebsk, of course, each of them came here to conquer the starry sky of the slavic bazaar, which opens new names every year. the draw took pla

to be just a small of this convention that's going to nominate richard nixon for another four years in the white house. goodbye, white house and the lovely lady pat nixon by his side. she is one of the most intriguing figures in american history and an effective diplomat, an ideal and an inspiration. i give you the first lady of our land, the first lady of our world patricia ryan nixon. i think you were in high school when your mother died, whether early and then you had to take care of your father and you were on your own. you kind of take care of the family. i didn't set it was a pleasure because we all worked together. she rose from the humblest and harshest beginnings to be voted one of the most admired women in the world for 22 years. she said, people are my project and she moved easily and eagerly among people who sensed her strength and, felt her compassion. she reshaped and expand did the roles of both the second and first lady. mrs. nixon personally active visiting hospitals and other institutions. mrs. nixon enjoyed the park herself, even to the point of rolling in a few pat

senate richard nixon was president at the time. that was an 87 he became chair of the senate judiciary committee his first presidential run began and ended in 1987 as well he dropped out because of plagiarism allegations pretty ran again for president as a senator from delaware in 2008. he finished fifth in iowa and then got picked as president obama's vice presidential nominee. 2009 -- 17 he was the vice president of the united states and is presidential run was in 2020 when he won. michael, thomas of new jersey please go ahead. >> caller: peter, good evening how are you? good, good very, thank you for asking really missing brian on the show it is been a while since he has been retired. real quick, joe biden's been around for a while tonight his speech was eloquent come out people are not going to agree with that. but look at the choices we have and it is not good. i used to be republican but a switch to independent because of circumstances. but as far as biden come is doing good it took a month to pass the torch but at the end yo

detonating especially powerful charges, over 150 kilotons, was signed during the visit of republican richard nixonin america both republicans and democrats just... make nuclear threats, they also come from the white house. unless our adversaries change course, we may need to increase the number of warheads in the coming years, and if the president decides to do so, we must be fully prepared to carry out this task. considering that the nuclear suitcase, the red button is now in the hands of a man who forgets the names of his closest advisers, calls himself a black woman and promises his comrades. according to the party goes to bed early, anxious the feeling is only growing. we are talking about the possible destruction of the entire world, and biden says that the nuclear issue is not important, global warming is important. i also love fresh air and clean water, but the real existential threat is that tomorrow there could be a war so destructive that the world will not be able to recover from it. and these are not just political statements. atomic scientists, it was started in 1947, by the creators

the story. .. which he told, he learned this from the words of his ex united states president richard nixonzyrev, who at that time was the minister of foreign affairs, he asked him what the interests of the new russia were, to which kozyreev replied: one of the problems of the soviet union was that we were stuck on national interests , now we think more about universal human value. how familiar are universal human values, multiculturalism, tolerance, yes, but if you can, says the russian foreign minister, to the former president of the united states states, but if you can tell us how to define national interests, then i will be very grateful to you, of course, nixon, to put it mildly, was dumbfounded by this answer. as a result , he formulated his attitude towards kuzrev in one word: slug, that is, by the way, once again the importance of a person in history, such a person as kozyrev, when american advisers sat in a white house on two floors, wrote us laws and wrote us a constitution, between by the way, when we lost our sovereignty, with his direct participation this little man... our alli

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