and that was vice president richard nixon in chicago giving his acceptance speech to the gop delegates david patricia, presidential historian, you said earlier that president nixon gave a good speech, but what was noteworthy about it? what's what's remembered about that speech? really? nothing is quite remembered about it. it was it was just very good at the time. you know, things that seem awesome politically turn out to be 48 hour stories. and that was that was the case. there. what is the story in that convention? is the acrimony leading up to it between nixon and rockefeller and the struggle to crack a republican platform for which rockefeller is is forcing it on and shoving it down nixon's throat. when he does that, they they hold a secret meeting in new york city at rockefeller's penthouse, which infuriates the conservatives and leads to barry goldwater mounting a sort of pretend candidacy at the convention. but where he challenges is the delegates grow up conservatives and will take this party back. and that is exactly what happens in 64. but then who does richard nixon choose f

where did richard nixon's support come from? when we got into the general election, well, it was a pretty much traditional republican democratic split, traditional by today's standards or the standards of mid 20th century anyway, where kennedy holds the solid south, where except for a couple of on the fringe fringes, he takes the northeast. he runs wild in southern new england and in the midwest. he does well. but in the west, that's where nixon shines in terms of demographics. kennedy adds to the black vote of the democratic black vote. he certainly adds the democratic cast like vote. there's one statistic which i've said that seen that says that in 1950, adlai stevenson only got half, 50% of the catholic vote and jfk 80%. frankly, as a catholic who was alive in 1960, i think 80% maybe understate that. and he holds the union vote. so he gets holds out to all of those things. and i think probably even the youth vote i don't think that was ever mentioned or measured in the poll. but certainly the enthusiasm of younger people and

and that was vice president richard nixon in chicago giving his acceptance speech to the gop delegates david patricia, presidential historian, you said earlier that president nixon gave a good speech, but what was noteworthy about it? what's what's remembered about that speech? really? nothing is quite remembered about it. it was it was just very good at the time. you know, things that seem awesome politically turn out to be 48 hour stories. and that was that was the case. there. what is the story in that convention? is the acrimony leading up to it between nixon and rockefeller and the struggle to crack a republican platform for which rockefeller is is forcing it on and shoving it down nixon's throat. when he does that, they they hold a secret meeting in new york city at rockefeller's penthouse, which infuriates the conservatives and leads to barry goldwater mounting a sort of pretend candidacy at the convention. but where he challenges is the delegates grow up conservatives and will take this party back. and that is exactly what happens in 64. but then who does richard nixon choose f

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

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

how did john conley enter into richard nixon's orbit? if nixon would've survived a second term who you think he would've supported in 76? >> john connolly entered into the orbit when he appointed him to the secretary of treasury, and he was, you know, very high on connolly. i don't know how he entered into the orbit. perhaps to the acquaintance of linda johnson, i don't know. nixon had a good relationship with president johnson in the post-presidency, but you like connolly just because he was a very strong individual. i think connolly endorsed himimn the 72 campaign as well. maybe that was the acquaintanceship. i can't recall the particulars now. but anyway, connolly was a very strong individual, so i, that's the main relationship he would've had. what was the second part of your question? [inaudible]n >> he would've supported -- the political part of him would've stayed neutral, but i think he would have come he like john connollyhe so much he would hav, he was, he had sort of a bromance with john connolly. [laughing]wo he thought that c

president nixon and richard nixon or by the shrewdest american thinkers in life. among the fasting things in those first chapters deal with nixon political analyses of the 1976 and 1980 campaigns. sometimes i wondered how we ever got the memoirs written. brought me into talk about 10 minutes. the nexus about the new hampshire primary on the ads and things like that. people and personalities and politics. in their strengths and their weaknesses. this trust ronald reagan strengths and weaknesses in those campaigns. thereen are many, many books written about presidential giants and legends. most are secondhand. one of the unique things about my story and one that i think is untold and that the reagan and nixon'ss relationship. nixon's friendship and collaboration brew in the time i serve the two of them. part of it is how nixon analyzed them during those times. atat the very important historil point. it came out during one of the conversations we had. i kept a very, very good notes and kept it in.diary during that entire period nixon said to me and one of our conversa

well, richard nixon announced his candidacy in february of 1968. here's some scenes from a nixon campaign video just before the new hampshire primary. right before you do it, your friend dave, of course, is referring to nixon. oh. you tell me. this fellow was a good chairman up here. i heard good fellow. way. you really think so? i really think he's a good guy. all right. got to get. well, as a matter of fact, that's what we hear. we got to a lot of people said, well, he's too young to be chairman. and i said, well, we we need to follow that sort of al gore. would you agree? i would have said, yes, sir. are you on his payroll. i'm retired. all right. you were in the service. you were in the first one. what's the big one? right. that's right. what division were you at? the 73rd division here. you got a heavy artillery. oh, you had a big seven. those were the spring of 75. you you you know, we used to have another kind of we trained on the naval guns, right? the coast artillery service in new hampshire. sure, i don't. yeah, yeah, yeah. well, you know.

the investigation led to the resignation of president richard nixon. this is about one hour. i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. and that was august 8th, 1974, when president nixon went on national tv to announce his resignation from office. that followed a compelling series of hearings in the u.s. senate the year before and a threat of impeachment by the house of representatives. thanks for joining us. for the american history tv series. congress investigates where we look at significant congressional investing nations over our history. this week, it's a look at the watergate hearings and their aftermath. our guest is kate scott, who is the senate historian and author of the book reining in the state civil society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. ms. scott, what was the defining event that led to the senate hearings in 1973? the trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the senate hearings in. 1973 had happened the prior year. in june of 1972, when five

she does work, two of richard nixon's brothers die, hannah works at the grocery store that the nixon'sng but she is from a different time and i just think pat also i never saw is greatly religious and hannah is very religious so i think they tolerate each other and become fond of each other but i think at first there is a little bit of a culture clash. peter: 46, 48, richard nixon elected to congress. what was pat's role in the campaigns? heath: from the beginning it is the pat and dick team. i think she is his best counselor, advisor. in the beginning she is not afraid to tell him when she thinks it is not the best speech , but she always goes to every speech, she goes on the campaign trail and patients -- patiently always sits and listens. she is really engaged. she puts the time in on the campaign trail. i think he respects her opinion and listens to it, he does not always take her advice but very much a partner for quite a long time in that relationship. peter: what was her life like as a congressional wife in d.c.? heath: she comes to town and there were all these rules. i talk ab

she does work, two of richard nixon's brothers die, hannah works at the grocery store that the nixon's own so she is working but she is from a different time and i just think pat also i never saw is greatly religious and hannah is very religious so i think they tolerate each other and become fond of each other but i think at first there is a little bit of a culture clash. peter: 46, 48, richard nixon elected to congress. what was pat's role in the campaigns? heath: from the beginning it is the pat and dick team. i think she is his best counselor, advisor. in the beginning she is not afraid to tell him when she thinks it is not the best speech , but she always goes to every speech, she goes on the campaign trail and patients -- patiently always sits and listens. she is really engaged. she puts the time in on the campaign trail. i think he respects her opinion and listens to it, he does not always take her advice but very much a partner for quite a long time in that relationship. peter: what was her life like as a congressional wife in d.c.? heath: she comes to town and there were all th

t that was the context when richard nixon was sworn in as the 37th president. although his 1972 49 state landslide victory was one of the two or three great landslides in electoral history, his 1969 t margin was razor thin. he was the first president in 120 years not to have at least one house of congress controlled by his party for at least any part of his term. in analyzing and judging his political domestic, particularly his domestic political record it is important to remember the constraints on him and and what he could deal. he could not guarantee that bills would pass and he could not fund them. there was a limit on what he could actually do. io his years in office, particularly 69 to 73 have been called the peak years in feminist activism. harvard professor, kennedy administration official advisor daniel patrick moynihan wrote in a memo to president nixon female equality will be a major cultural political force in the 19th 70s. the essential fact is we have educated women for equality in america but have not given it to them. ts inequality is so great t

first, working at the richard nixon presidential library before joining jfk in 2013. prior to her with nara, she worked for the winthrop group in new york city. abigail received her m.s. in library and information science from long island university. she is an associate lecturer at university of massachusetts. boston, and serves as a representative at large for the new england archivists. apropos, today's program, she was the archivist who processed the barbara franklin collection of papers and the last but not least, john roy price retired is the retired president and of the federal home loan bank of pittsburgh. during the first nixon administration, he was special assistant to the president and executive secretary of the council for urban affairs, the council for rural affairs. he's the author of the last liberal republican an insider's perspective on nixon's surprising social policy. so it's a it's a very distinguished panel that, as i think the archivist said in her introductory remarks. it combines first person experience. archival. archival. knowledge and then a

remember, richard nixon.rd nixon who features prominently in "countdown 1960." it's a beautiful cover. don't even read the book. just look at the cover. show your friends. >> chris: what's inside it is even better than what's on the outside. having said that, richard nixon during watergate in 1974, the supreme court ruled that he couldn't keep the tapes that were hidden. he because it involved the possibility of a crime, had to be turned over. the kind of feeling on the supreme court seem to be of to that point, the precedent that the president, as opposed to a precedent, was not shielded from the law. new law that the supreme court decided. i don't know. the fact that it's a 6-3 conservative majority in three of the justices were appointed by donald trump i'm sure is totally coincidental. >> stephen: nothing to do with it. and three of the justices who were in the majority actually worked for the bush campaign in 2000 and were down there around the time of the brooks brothers riot which was specially the mod

justice gorsuch will be interviewed by the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. with that, ladies and gentlemen, all rise, please, and welcome justice gorsuch. >> [ applause ] your honor. welcome to the nixon >> your honor, welcome to the nixon library. it is a real honor to have any justice of the supreme court with us, but particularly you, sir. i want to welcome you back. thank you for being here. >> [ applause ] >> it is so great to be in the western united states again. >> [ laughter ] >> i have to say, this replica of the east room rings back a little ptsd. >> [ laughter ] >> when i was introduced to the country, my nomination was in the east room and i think i was photographed more in one minute then i had in my entire lifetime. >> not surprising. your book, over ruled, is timely. use it to highlight stories of regular americans just trying to live their lives but they find themselves dealing with the government. your honor, don't take this the wrong way, but i can't say the stories or circumstances in over ruled make me optimistic about our long-term prior

if you can throw that one up of the family, the richard nixon family, 1937. they are driving home from north carolina. he had just completed law school. you will see over on your far right, with the hat on, hannah, his mother. just towards the middle from her, a very elderly woman, richard nixon's grandmother. i don't think this photo is out downstairs. let's put it that way. i must tell you, there was an utterly profound impact, on nixon. of the women in his family. his mother and grandmother. outside, folks in the underground railroad. helping slaves run away from his health. his mother, was a devout quaker. that led to a couple of things. or perhaps nixon's conservative style. he was a man living in the interior in so many ways. almost all of you may recall the phrase, lower our voices. lower your voices from 68. he picked up from someone in eastern ohio. that was a 20 essentially quaker idea. lower your voices. he also had percolating away inside him, an impulse. this was far more liberal and far more radical. even that, i think comes from his mother. han

justice gorsuch will be interviewed today by jim byron president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. so with that, ladies and gentlemen, all rise, please, and welcome justice gorsuch for. your honor. welcome to the nixon library. it is a real honor to have any justice of the supreme court with us, but particularly you, sir. and i want to welcome you back. so thank you for being here. well. it is so great to be in the western united states again, though i have to say, this replica of the east room brings back a little ptsd. when i was introduced to the country and my nomination, it was in the east room and i think i was photographed in more in one minute than i had been in my entire life time. but that's not surprising. your book overruled is timely, and it is refreshing because it talks about a lot of stories. you use it to highlight stories of regular americans who are just trying to live their lives, but they find themselves dealing with the government. your honor, don't take this. the wrong way, but i can't say that the stories or the circumstances in overruled make me particular

in 1968 it was richard nixon and hubert humphrey.s year, vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump accepted our invitation. but, unfortunately, last week, trump canceled. the trump campaign had told us that the interview would be this past thursday at mar-a-lago. they also asked us whether we would meet 78-year-old trump in butler, pennsylvania, where he was grazed in an assassination attempt. we agreed. on september 9th, trump's communications director steven cheung sent a text that read, quote, i'm working with our advance team to see logistically if butler would work in addition to the sit down. sit down meaning the interview in florida. days later, cheung called to say, quote, the president said yes. then, a week ago, trump backed out. the campaign offered shifting explanations. first, it complained that we would fact check the interview. we fact check every story. later, trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020. trump claims correspondent lesley stahl said in that interview that hunter biden

richard nixon was under a lot of pressure from his party to challenge the results. especially in illinois where questions lingered over the accuracy of the vote count. nixon could have contested the vote. he could've done that and dragged it out, but he did not. in that moment, he put the good of the country above his personal ambition. ironically, is a sitting vice president, he fell on his shoulders to oversee the joint session of congress to count the electoral votes on january 6 of 1961. just for a moment put aside everything you think you know about richard nixon, which is probably true, and watch how a certified his own defeat. >> this is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the results of an election in which he was defeated and announced the victory of his opponent. i do not think we could have a more streaking and eloquent example of the stability of our constitutional system. our campaigns, no matter how far they may be, no matter how close the election may turn out to be, those who lose accept the verdict and we support

woodward, who rose to fame investigating watergate, writes in the book trump is far worse than richard nixon. a trump spokesperson responded saying woodward's reporting is not true and that trump gave woodward absolutely no access. norah? >> norah: scott macfarlane with those new details,

>> well, the funny thing is you would get almost compare richard nixon, richard nixon because of coursethink he was pretty bitter and i believed that part of watergate was that he was so bitter about what had happened him in 1960, he came to the conclusion that all bets were off and you did whatever you could to win. and that led him to avoid bad path. i think the astonishing thing is that agree to which not only trump has changed the norms, but the entire republican party as it now exists, which is certainly not the party of richard nixon, has gone along with them on that. >> well, because the party it was the party really that forest nixon to step aside and watergate, right? >> yes. there were the elders who came to the white house and said, you don't have any votes but now they know anybody who would say that to drop would be in terrible political trouble themselves, not trump indeed. >> all right. >> chris wallace, you're going to join us on this next panel. >> thank you so much for being here. thank you for the this book. is excellent. i highly recommended. i'm still working my way

kennedy and vice president at the time, richard nixon, month before they faced off in one of the mostistory. though rivalry is the subject of the new book by chris wallace, countdown 1960. and we know that kennedy won, that's not a mystery, the book does give this interesting day by day, play-by-play on how it all unfolded. i learned a lot, and it does have some suspenseful cliffhangers. there are a lot of lessons from that election but none are more relevant today than what happened after he took place. richard nixon was under a lot of pressure, from his party to challenge the results, especially in the state of illinois, where questions linger over the accuracy of the vote count. he could have easily contested the vote, he could have done that and drag the whole thing out. but he didn't. in that moment, he put the good of the country above his personal ambition. and ironically, as a sitting vice president, it fell on nixon's shoulders, you can see it right there to oversee the joint sessions of congress to count the electoral votes on january 6th of 1961. put aside everything that y

he had not seen in 20 years, he said to his wife, nothing but banks, banks, banks. >> in 1972, richard nixon was president of united states. >> nixon didn't say a thing about chaplin coming back to america and getting an honorary oscar. ed hopper was dead, he did not have to worry about being harangued. >> how long did charlie chaplin stay in the country? >> a week, came to new york for a medallion. first, they went to the bahamas to get used to the time change, he is 83 years old and old age is beginning to have its effect on him he is not the same person he was in 1952, he has slowed considerably. he had to be handled carefully. they went to the bahamas for a couple days to get used to the time change, then they went to new york for a couple days and then los angeles for the oscar ceremony. he went back home and never came back to america. >> a partial filmography, "the , input -- "the tramp," and others. a king in your came out in 1957 when he was living abroad if you were to recommend one of those movies to get a sense of charlie chaplin, which one would be? >> one movie? "modern times."

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by people who were associated with president richard nixon's reelection campaign. it evolved into a battle between congress and the president over access to tape recordings that contained evidence about the crime and the cover up. and it concluded with the resignation of president nixon under threat of impeachment. so i wanted to point out several documents in this case. one is this security log right here from the watergate complex. and this security log, you can see the date of june 17th, 1972, which was the date, the break in at the watergate hotel. and the log has a note written by the security guard from the watergate frank wells, who made a note there in the log that he had seen a piece of tape on a door that prevented the door from latching and made the door accessible from outside. first, he removed the piece of tape, but later, the same night as he was continuing his rounds, he found another piece of tape on the door and that tipped him off that something was happening and there might be intruders in the building. he the police. and when the police arrived