but richard nixon bold and richard nixon was confident. and richard nixon took them on. and richard nixon beat them. and richard nixon beat them. and jerry voorhees own hometown, a diamond bar. richard nixon was then in 1948. he was elected in 1950 to the united states senate in the largest landslide of any any senate candidate in the country. and two years later, he was elected vice president, united states. all this in just six years. that's a meteoric rise in american politics. i call it mr. hustle. now, i realize that many detractors about richard, that would listen to what i have to say. would say, well, you know, he must have changed. but the reality is they have to say something like that. because if you really look his life is incredibly successful and truly all-american. but as to the question as to whether or not nixon changed, i say the best judge of a man is a. so let's look at what the women had to say about richard nixon, the woman that knew him best. the women that worked with him evelyn dorn was richard nixon's first legal secretary back in 1937. she was

president nixon richard nixon was probably among the most shrewdest political in american life and among the most fascinating getting things in those first chapters. deal with nixon's political analysis of the 1976 and 1980 campaigns. sometime i wonder how he ever got those memoirs he'd bring man to talk for about 10 minutes about the memoirs, and then thing, you know, boom, he's asking you about the new hampshire primary and how ford's doing against reagan or about other primaries. and he wants to want to know my analysis of the ads and things like that. and then you have to understand that nixon's idea of relaxing is talking out loud about. people and personalities in politics and giving his own opinions on them and on their strengths and their weaknesses. and there's plenty of that in the book, especially really interesting to me was how he assessed ronald reagan strengths and weaknesses in those campaigns because. there. many, many books written about presidential giants and legends and most are second hand and. a lot of them are ghostwritten. but, you know, one of the unique things

and was experiencing perhaps the apex of his more than 11 year career working with richard nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university ofa southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability which take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the extort 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20, 1969. dwight has dwight has written a terrific new memoir, "the president's man" which can see it to my left, but you would use with his work with president nixon. "the president's man" is without a doubt one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency andn. president nixon as a person that is yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank gannon. frank joined the nixon white house and the sum of 1971 as a white house fellow assigned to counselors to the president, donald rumsfeld and bob finch. he did d work for john ehrlichmn on the domestic council staff, along with colonel brennan and handful of other stuff ev

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

so, thank you richard nixon. so, um let me unpack all of those questions and answer one of them the decision to name richard nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator is an interesting story and involves some inside baseball. we were the first to listen to the first tranche of tapes. produced after the saturday night massacre incidentally the event that i think was the most responsible for the change in america's opinion about richard nixon, i think even after the spectacular hearings in this room by the irving committee, most americans who still prepared to give richard nixon the benefit of the doubt all of his aides contradicted what john dean was saying it was he said he said times three and so without the tapes, i don't think uh, richard nixon would remotely have been forced to resign his office in the way. he was but we listened to the so-called cancer on the presidency speech in which john dean to his great credit. attempted to get nixon to realize that the cover-up couldn't last. and that he nixon ought to cal

frank was a great friend of richard nixon's.n fact we brought frank in on the moonwalk and several other things. he was kind of our conduit with nasa. >> i'm going to pass over this because we don't have time. this was my introduction to dwight chapin. i was the white house fellow who gave peripheral a new meeting . i was just an outsider whereas dwight was the insider so when the trip to china was announced i tried to finagle a place on the plane so i wrote a memo so this was my first contact with dwight chapin and he says unfortunately even though your arguments are e meritorious there isn't a chance in hell you're going to be on this plane . more diplomatically and having never met him but received his memo we met in the mess and you said to me words that i will always treasure . nice try. [applause] >> all of us were involved in this. the idea of going on a trip to china, there was no one on the white house that did not want to go to that trip to china so it was very dicey kind of picking the right people to go and so forth.

my name is cameron martin and i'm the director of the richard nixon presidential library museum. i am very excited for today's event and i wanted to welcome you all here today. this is the nixon library is 2024 women'sti history symposium entitled celebrating women's impact. this event is hosted at the richard nixon presidential library museum in beautiful yorba linda california. thank you to those of us that have joined today in person as well as those that are tuning in virtually and our viewers on c-span. before we start the first panel i wanted to note a few items. the richard nixon presidential library museum is one of 15 presidential libraries that are a part of the national archives and records administration, office of presidential libraries which is located in college park marylan. we share our campus with our wonderful partners the richard nixon foundation and our primary mission is to educate and inform assisting all those who search for knowledge and understanding of the 37th president of the united states, his administration and his ongoing impact on the world. today'

host: we are joined by john farrell, author of “richard nixon: the life." the significance of president nixon's resignation 50 years later? guest: i think he is with us always or at least will be because he was the only president to resig >> he was the only president to resign in disgrace. his life was so shakespearean. he came from nowhere. he had this meteor christ a vice president -- he had this meteoric rise to president. comeback, claimed the white house again and then was brought down by his own flaws. it is an irresistible story, along with the way that he was a polarizing figure, so half the country hated him, have loved him. each portion of the country -- a huge portion of the country loved him right up until the end, so as long as a couple of generations are around, he will be a magnetic figure. host: what was president nixon doing 50 years ago this morning? guest: he varied from his usual routine. usually eight a very simple breakfast of skim milk, cereal or yogurt from his favorite famous southern california dairy. he was down in the kitchen thi

so the democrats control board had the majority in the senate in 1973, and of course, richard nixon was a republican president. and so mcmahon's field, the majority leader of the senate, looked around very carefully in making his selection to the special watergate committee, and he settled on a chairman who he thought was had unimpeachable credentials. sam ervin, democratic conserva tive from north carolina, had been in the senate since the 1950s. he was at that point in his seventies. he had no desire to become president later on. he was just content to be a united states senator. and importantly, he had a couple of interesting credentials that made him really perfect for this role in this politically sensitive position. he was the senate's constitutional l expert recognized by his colleagues as such, and he was incredibl interested in some of the issues that the watergate scandal had exposed, issues of surveillance, issues of breaking and entering, issues of invasions, of privacy. he'd been investigating some of these issues, actually, for about ten years prior to the break in at wate

richard nixon has no chance at all.neuver. - nixon tells his team to use a woman named anna chennault to monkey-wrench the negotiations in paris. - anna chennault, a republican fundraiser and a member of nixon's campaign, is telling saigon, "stay away from paris. "stay away from the peace talks, and you'll get a better deal if nixon is elected." - as a presidential candidate-- and my vice presidential running mate joins me in this-- neither he nor i will say anything that might destroy the chance to have peace. we want peace above politics in america. [johnson speaking] - lbj feels confident to move forward. the condition that north vietnam had always asked for has now been met, and so four-party peace talks are imminent. they will happen. well, in saigon, on november 1st, president thieu stands up on the dais and drops this major bombshell. - [speaking vietnamese] - south vietnam, with deep personal regrets, cannot participate in the negotiations. - i think that's enough. i have no more things to tell with you. - embar

stand and the biggest why really is inside nixon's hey, right, i mean and where do you end up with richard milhouse nixon at the end of all of this. i mean with well what what it's so fascinating and ultimately i think so about nixon is he would. on any other measurement stand as one of the most consequential figures of the 20th century. he is the hinge i think actually upon which the entire 20th century changes, you know, the ushers out the era of the new deal and the great society, you know reinvents the republican party he appears on the national ticket five times between 1972 and 1952 and 1972 record tied only by fdr. he creates the epa. he creates osha. he signs title nine he is he reopens relations with china. he's the first president to visit moscow. he's the first president to visit p king. he's the first president to visit a communist country. he's the first he signs strategic, you know arms treaties with the soviet. and ushers in the era of dayton, you know, this is an arrow. so jake i mean genuine vision genuine vision deep strategic. he i mean his game plan. yeah, he'll game pl

nixon was not the lead for civil rights, lyndon johnson did way more than richard nixon never did but nixon is relegated to being considered a racist and the bad guy nixon made racist comments on the states, he did and nixon was not blameless in hothis area. >> host: so was lbj. >> guest: so was lbj. my point was nixon did more than we realize in the cause of civil rights. >> host: and you went back to his vice presidency. >> guest: in the 50s he did. >> ... that has been overlooked. and so i think nixon deserves some creditve for that. i mean, that there's a streak in american politics where people naturally want to be part of their own gang, their own group and they look at their tribe as their group and they look down or scan at the other capital t, capital o, capital t, it can be whatever color you want, it can be this relying on or that religion. when i use the word travel, that's what i'm referring to. it's the fear ofth the other, looking down on the other and building up your own group. we had hoped after the end of the cold war that we were going to go to a new era that was b

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farrell the author of "richard nixon: the life."st more of your phone calls with alpine -- open form after the break. the numbers on your screen. you can start calling you now. ♪ >> booktv every sunday on c-span2 futures leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. we will mark t 50th anniversary of president richard nixon's resignation from office with three authors. at 6:15, garrett graff the author of "tergate: a new history" provides a comprehensive history from the 1972 break in to the resignation two years later. 7:15 p.m., michael dobbs with his book "king richard" which focuses on the nixon's administration's reactions. and then can kachigian takes a behind-the-scenes look at the administration. watch booktv every sunday on c-span2, and find a full schedule in your pgr guide or watch online anytime at tv.org. -- booktv.org. >> the next stop for the coverage of this summer's political party conventions we go to the democratic national convention in chicago. watch live on monday, august 19 as the party puts forwar

it was like cold warriors supported richard nixon. yet, nixon is a complicated figure, watergate aside. whether you talk about the bombing of cambodia, undermining peace negotiations in 1968 to help get him elected in '68 against humphrey. there's that side of it. then you have nixon the cold warrior opening china, going to china, opening china. >> yeah. >> you have nixon the hard line conservative being the founder of the environmental protection agency, also nixon fighting against more moderates in his administration, pushing for detente with the soviets. again, very complicated policy wise. richard nixon would be, i think it was same 30, 40 years later that richard nixon would be seen as a left-wing radical by most current day republicans. >> oh, my lord, absolutely. one of the questions people ask is, how did we survive 1968? when you think about the tumultuous year, president johnson gets out, mccarthy and rfk challenge him, dr. king is killed, senator kennedy is killed, the chicago democratic convention is chaotic, george wallace

i think richard nixon did quite well. >> he confronted kirchhoff, the head of the soviet union and the debate of the cold war and helped nixon's political position so americans can see him as a forceful guy that stand up to kindness. it was an important moment for him and that only charged area of the cold war. 1959. the two leaders actually talked to each other. that didn't happen in the 1950s. we were in our separate camps. at least they were talking. >> your father at harpercollins, or at harper at the time. did something very unusual for the day. he gave somebody a million-dollar advance for a book. >> i'd forgotten that. who got the advance? >> stones book. >> my dad was the number two guy point i don't think he wrote that check. he was the editor of the book. i forgot that. believe it or not, i was the first american boy stalin's daughter ever met. she had just got off the plane and i was a 16-year-old boy my way back to boarding school and i went to patricia mcmillan's house on longisland . stalin's daughter pinche