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

these letters showed this very tender, deeply relationship betwee richard nixon and pat nixon. i was just astounded reading richard nixon particularly, and i looked at a lot t courtship letters to that. i know you see. and he is like a smitten schoolboy. ing by her tour like i'm not really sure i want you to come in. it's late at night. she doesn't him in sometimes he her to dates with other men in l.a. repeatedly which loved that she made him do that. she made him work really. i was like, wow, that is amazing. like you got to put up a lot. if you're going to do that. you so i just was it really blows your mind. you read these letters how tender they are and also during world war two, how selfless they both halves of the couple are. richard nixon writes her from south pacific where he's serving, saying don't scrimp on yourself like spend money on yourself, buy clothes, go to shows eat good meals. i want you to do that. well, pat is saving like crazy. she's super thrifty, as we see throughout book and she saves their nest egg that later it becomes very important to them. but the

to go back and give that sort richard nixon and henry kissinger have this amazing groundbreaking reopeningto the west in 1972 1972 theretrying to open the res back up they take mrs. nixon along. she is so good behind the scenes with diplomacy. she's like the secret sauce that helps president nixon make these deals. there's a pin with pandas on it and she says i love pandas they are so cute and says i will give you some. she thanks he means cigarettes but he means a pair of pandas. ever since then andga now this s been over 50 years ago there's been this exchange of pandas between our countries and it is a barometer of how our relations with china are going. this is all thanks to pat dixon. >> host: 1974, when did pat know the end was near? >> i think pat, until the bitter end was not ready to give up on her husband. however, let's go back a little bit 1972 in june there's a break in at the dnc. that is upsetting to her. she is aware of it but they are remembered jumping into campaign season. so it gets a bit lost in the weeds with that. she's very focused on that. you see here, we just saw

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it was richard nixon who said, a man is not finished when he is defeated.my friends, he also said, the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but when you suffer some defeats, some setbacks, you take some knocks. because only until one has been in the deepest valley can one appreciate the highest mountaintop.n in the fight for freedom, in the fight for our constitution, in the fight for our way of life, my friends, neither donald trump nor yours truly, roger stone, ever quit at in that fight. god bless you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this morning the state him for president jimmy carter continues as his remains are taken from the carter center and brought to washington, . watched the departure ceremony live starting at 11 a.m. eastern on c-span3. later in the day at 4:30 eastern a memorial service will be held at the u.s. capitol. you can follow all of our live coverage on a free mobile video app c-span now or online at c-span.org. democracy unfiltered with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage this month as republic

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five people 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. 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 the security log right here from the watergate complex. in this security log, you see the date of june 17, 1972, which was the date of the break in at the watergate hotel. the log has a note written by the security guard from the watergate frank will who made a note 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 the outside. first he removed the piece of tape but later the same night as he was continuing rounds, he found another piece of tape on the door. that tipped him off that something was happening and there might be intruders in the building. he called the police and when the police arrived, they found the five

[cheering] it was richard nixon who said a man is not finished. he's only finished when he quits. my friends, he also said the greatness comes about when it suffers some defeats, some setbacks you take some knocks only until one is meant in the deepest valley can one appreciate the highest mountain top.op [applause] in the fight for freedom. in the front fight for our constitution. in the fight for our way of life. my friends, neither donald trump nor yours truly, roger stone, will ever quit in that fight. god bless you. ♪ cooks not too sure about that. ask why? conservative activist talked at turning point america fest

for those who need a reminder, richard nixon ordered department officials to fire archibald cox, the special prosecutor investigating watergate. two officials, elliott richardson and lee michael's resigned rather than carrying out richard nixon's orders. on the committee considered the appointment of loretta lynch to be president obama's attorney general, a republican number of the committee emphasized, "what we need from our next attorney general more than anything else is independence." that same member who know still serves on the committee said, "the job is not to be the president's wingmen. the job is to represent all americans. the attorney general must be willing to stand up to the president and say no when the office demands it." when attorney general nominee merrick garland came before this committee, another one a republican colleagues still serving told garland, "my sole criteria for voting for your confirmation is your pledge to make sure politics does not affect your job as attorney general." the view that the justice department must be insulated from political influence

richard nixon started, this war on drugs for political reasons against young people and blacks and 100,. 100 million young african-american people paid the price for differential enforcement. and it's it's has been so hard for the federal government to get out of that mindset after having spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this failed war on drugs. it's been for the minority community, for young people, and lost opportunities. if we get the point where we use medical cannabis for. medicare or medicaid, the va will have health care. we will save hundreds of billions of dollars. but we're sort of trapped time. and that's one of my biggest disappointment. i'm proud what i've done with the legalization. when i started one out of three people agreed with legalization. now, three quarters of the public agree and a majority of republicans. but the federal government has been trapped in time. i, i hope we change that. what concerns do you have about recreational use and driving under the influence? well, it is an issue of not having people understand the dynamic. if instead, if we had gi

in the meantime, the democrat electors had sent in a separate certificate to congress and richard nixon was the sitting vice president and had to preside over the chamber, so he had multiple certifications in his hand and was a little before old for a time on what to do about it. ultimately, it was decreed that hawaii's votes would go to mr. kennedy, but it was -- disputes go way back and it was the toxicity and intractability of the 1876 dispute which was just paralyzing for a while and ultimately to trying to develop rules of the electoral count act that would clarify who wins and what was an adequate basis for objecting. host: this image of a sitting vice president counting votes in an election they lost and announcing the winner and that they themselves have lost an election -- is it a uniquely american thing that happens? guest: as far as i know. it is an episodic unremarkable thing. we are going to have to see today ms. harris, our vice president, standing before the chamber and going through this process. previously, in 2016, we had vice president biden atop the chamber and he wa

as to who won between richard nixon and jfk in the election of 1960. slate of electors had come in for jfk and one for nixon. it turns out that it was a close race. they only had three electoral votes in those days. the idea was that they were able to go back to a recount and determined that actually nixon won the state. in a rather magnanimous gesture, nixon awarded those electoral votes to jfk who ultimately won. >> thank you very much. let's head back to the house floor and listen. >> 4 votes for president and j.d. vance of the state of ohio received 4 votes for vice president. [applause] >> madam president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of illinois seems to be regular in form and authentic. it appears there that kamala devi harris of the state of california received 19 votes for president and tim walz of the state of minnesota received 19 votes for vice president. >> madam president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of indiana seems to be regular in form and authentic. it appears they are from that donald j. tr

that really started with lyndon johnson and continued with richard nixon and gerald ford. but, the problem was that there was significant opposition in the united states to giving back the canal. and, in panama in 1968 there was a military coup that brought to power a general. a military dictatorship. so, there was concern in the early 70's, really, that making a treaty, a deal for the revision of the treaty. >> we will leave this program but a reminder you can watch the entire program on c-span.org as we take you live to a discussion on current u.s. foreign policies hosted by the stimson center in washington, d.c.. you are watching live coverage on c-span3. >>

bella's writing under lyndon johnson newhouse is writing under richard nixon. and the escalation even greater escalation of the vietnam war and bella says that johnson did a good job. these are my words, but did a good job drawing on civil religion for the sake of his civil rights legislation, voting rights act and so on. and he gives examples of that and it's and this is that the section where bella says. that it almost sounds biblical or is that with another example right that might have been kennedy earlier or kennedy wright almost sounds biblical. and what's so funny about that unintentionally funny about that is that he's quoting from the bible. kennedy, in that example is quoting from bible. so there's a there's a good why it sounds almost biblical, because it's from the bible. but but he but in those johnson examples right in speaking for passage calling for passage of voting rights legislation he's quoting from scripture but then bella gives johnson really bad marks really low marks when comes to foreign policy when it comes to the vietnam and says it w

he finished what richard nixon started with china with a secret trip to beijing.amnesty to vietnam war draft dodgers to try to close the circle on that very painful experience in america. he tried to forge better relations with the soviet union, which of course, ended up being upended when the soviets invaded afghanistan and he ended up being the one to begin the military buildup that later was credited largely to ronald reagan. >> i want to have join our panel, congressman. congresswoman, i know we have a number things he wanted to talk to you about, notably, we have all been watching, i know you as well, president jimmy carter was transported to his library and lying there after the ceremony. what are your thoughts? >> my initial thoughts is to conduct my deepest condolences and gratitude to the carter family for allowing him to serve so long as governor and officer. as mentioned by one of your earlier panel as he came into office during a tumultuous time in the field of the nixon scandal. i think he will be remembered fondly and when i think of jimmy carter i t

this weekend, speeches by john kennedy in 1961, lyndon johnson in 1965, and richard nixon in 1969. at 9:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency, author robert schimmel with his book, "winston churchill and the white house," shares that the british prime minister was more than a houseguest during his lengthy visits to the white house during the presidencies of glenn roosevelt and dwight eisenhower. the book draws on letters, diaries, government documents and memoirs to tell the ory of winston churchill and the two presidents. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2. find a full schedule on your program guide, or watch online anytime at c-span.org /history. >>> booktv every sunday on c- span2 features leading authors, discussing their latest nonfiction books. here's a look at what is coming up this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, stanford institute for human artificial intelligence fellow, who served as a european parliament member, talks about regulating the tech industry in her book, "the technical, how to celebrate democracy in the silicon valley." >>

richard nixon has received 219 votes. larry if byrd has received 15 votes. >> the first time most of us saw this process was on january 6, 2001, when the candidate who got the most votes for president had to preside over and electoral college count that would give the presidency to republican george w. bush. >> the state of the vote for president of the united states as delivered to the president of the senate is as follows, the whole number is 538 of which the majority is 270. george w. bush of the state of texas has received for president of the united states, 271 votes, al gore of the state of tennessee has received 266 votes. >> it does not get closer than that. it was an agonizing loss for al gore, no matter what you thought of al gore you couldn't help but admire him more after he was then forced to perform the most difficult official duty a vice president could carry out. it was kamala harris's turn today. they are now are exactly 2 people in the world who know what it feels like to do that as vice president with t

wow, to learn you are richard nixon. >> harold: sandra, what are your thoughts on this? one of the biggest statistics that was happening right around the election was anytime you asked voters if their family was better off or worse off than they were prior to joe biden taking office, the number was consistently four in ten said their family was somewhat or much worse off than when biden took office. i think you have to go back to the early days of this administration. first ignoring inflation, right, then downplaying, saying it was just the way you feel, and imagine you are the person in your household who goes to the grocery store and you see historic inflation, bread, butter, eggs go up 20%, 30%, 40%, and being told it is just the way you feel. people remember that, and it stays with you, and that was brutal. i think -- you see biden, you think about that economy, the economic perils that everyone in this country live through during this presidency and that will stay with him. >> harold: mr. exclamation point, bring it home for us. >> greg: kayleigh brought up a gallup

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prior to that election are, 1972, richard nixon wiped out senator george mcgovern, the democratic nomineewas a progressive. paul: for sure. >> and nixon beat them handily. fast forward to 1976, and the democratic nominee turns out to be governor jimmy carter from georgia, a moderate. he's from the south. and he made an appeal9 to the common man. bring it all the way forward to the last election we just had, and the democrats once again, by and large, ran on a progressive ideology and platform, and they lost handily to donald trump who appealed to regular americans and the common man. and now the democrats are having a conversation among themselves over what kind of person should represent the democratic party, and i think the argument could be made it should be someone like jimmy carter. paul: wow, now that would be interesting -- [laughter] because i don't see anybody like that running in the current concern. >> well, that's their problem. paul: well, and just to dan's point, kim, about how much american politics have changed since the '70s, since '76 and the democrats, jimmy carter, a m

so richard nixon reached down to a woman named anna, snarled she was a chinese national who had married an american general. claire snarled. and she was very tied in with top officials in vietnam and nixon got her to go to the president of, vietnam, and say, we don't want go to the peace talks. if you boycott the peace talks, you'll get a better deal. nixon and sure enough, the south vietnamese did not show up at the peace talks. the democrats had egg all over the face. it was it was embarrassing. and nixon won in a squeaker and some of the key casey was part of that campaign. and william casey was part of that. came so campaign. so was richard allen and anna schnall. i just covered was also with bill casey in 1980 during the october surprise 1980. all right. so that comparing 1980 back 2 to 1960. okay. all right. let me keep going. okay. okay. so nixon was elected. he was running for reelection in 1972. he's petrified. the democrats have the goods on him. because because what happened in 68. so he wants to get any documents or tapes might have. and he puts together team of burglars to

my name is jim byron and i am honored to serve as the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. and it's my pleasure to welcome you tonight to the nixon library. i also want to welcome all of you live tonight on youtube and on x formerly known as twitter because we live stream of our distinguished speakers series events and we're proud to offer them as civics lessons that anyone watch online and enjoy. i want to welcome blake kernan, a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. thank you for being here. and i want to recognize a few special guests. mike antonovich, longtime los angeles county supervisor. where's mike? there he is. and i want to welcome mazzie, francine and jo lynn and pat mahoney, who are members of the american civics campaign finance committee. so thank you all. i also want to thank all of our presidents club members, associates club members for their support, which makes this evening and all of our distinguished speakers series events possible. and if you're not a member, i would encourage you check out membership and check out our mem

richard nixon was the last president to enhance social security. that was in 1971. all of us are concerned, on both sides of the aisle, but concerned is no -- concern is no substitute for action. and it's long overdue that congress takes a vote on behalf of the american people. social security is more than a pension program. and i think the american public knows it and is getting a rouse because, well, there's 70 million americans that are on social security and 10,000 baby boomers a day become eligible for social security. for example, mr. speaker, in your district alone, you have over 175,000 social security resip yebts -- recipients and it's broken down into those who receive pensions, those who get spousal benefits, those who get widow benefits, children, and of course disabilities. more veterans rely on social security disability than they do on the v.a. but here's the other key thing and we don't emphasize this enough. social security is the best economic development program that we have in the country. every district on average gets over $200 million coming i

after richard nixon's imperial presidency and wasn't easy to do. >> we are, in these final moments, waiting, and obviously they're running a few moments behind. but that casket will be brought in to lie in state in the capitol, and the service will begin where we will hear from the vice president, the majority leader, the house speaker, kai. it obviously, if you had gone by hearse, this would have happened in just a few moments. part of the choice of a caisson. and carter would have, of course, been very aware of this was to give time, to have time to think, time to consider, time for people to watch this time to discuss. >> yes, absolutely. >> and i think he also, jimmy had a respect for tradition. he he disliked pomp. he disliked the imperial presidency. but i think you're right, tim. he you know, this caisson journey is reminiscent of lincoln. and as a southern man, he is trying to he's very much aware of that history. he's very much aware that the south was defeated and occupied and that there are limits to america's power. also, it's i think it's important to remember that it was jimmy

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remember that he came on the heels of richard nixon who was being investigated and was about to be prosecuted for the watergate scandal. so he left the presidency in shame and of course followed vietnam and americans withdrawal from vietnam. so there was, there was a lot to be disappointed about to be ashamed about in america the time that was a feeling. and jimmy carter came on and said, i will bring us back to that place. it was a religious man. he was a hopeful man. he was someone who had a lot of humility and his spouse, those values ends with that is something that he carried throughout his career in the white house, but also in his post presidency, which was very neat, mercy patients, comfort them with a sense of your goodness lift up your countenance upon and give them peace for jesus christ stars, or ahmed the of the. so it just watching the coffin of the former president jimmy casa, being brought slowly into the national cathedral in washington dc. many people came to washington, then they steven to pay the tribute not to mention luminaries, politicians. this was somebody who really

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and imagine waking up to gallup saying you're tied with richard nixon, who had a -42 net approval ratingmean, wake up and smell the roses. you've been lied to. and i blame his staff. his staff saved him, put him in a cocoon, and he's just there with the dearth of information and wow, to learn your richard nixon. yikes. >> sandra, what are your thoughts on this? you share jesse's view. >> i think that one of the biggest statistics that was happening right around the election was anytime you asked voters if their family was better off or worse off than they were prior to joe biden taking office, the number was consistently 4 in 10 said that their families were somewhat or much worse off than when biden took office. i think you have to go back to the early days of this administration first ignoring inflation rate, then downplaying it, saying it's just the way you feel and imagine that you're, you know, you're the person in your household who goes to the grocery store and you see historic inflation. you see your bread, your butter, your eggs, your milk go up 20, 30, 40%. and being told it's

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which will give me the same authority extended to every president from franklin roosevelt through richard nixonnd used by many governors across the country is absolutely crucial to successful reorganization effort. so far, news from the congress, because of their support, is very encouraging. the office of management and budget is now working on this plan which will include zero based budgeting, removal of unnecessary government regulations, sunset laws for programs that have outlived their purpose and elimination of duplication between government services. we will not propose changes until we've done our best to be sure they are right but we will be eager to learn from experience if a program does not work, we will end it. instead of just starting another to conceal our first mistakes. we'll also move quickly to reform our tax system and welfare system. i said in the campaign that our income tax system was a disgrace, because it's so arbitrary, complicated and unfair. i made a commitment to a total overhaul of the income tax laws. the economic program that i have already mentioned earlier will

he was talking about the pardon of richard nixon, which was very controversial then and now.it was probably a plus for us on the carter campaign. it counted against gerald ford, but carter decided that the first words he would say on being sworn in as president were recognizing what his predecessor had done through his lights to to try to reconcile. >> and he invited nixon to the inauguration. but he didn't attend, which was probably for the best. um, you know, as i'm watching this, i, i can't help but just think that this is part of what it means to be the united states of america. there are so many places in this world where there are kings and queens and families that have royal status effectively, and where there's a lot of pomp and circumstance. and in this country, we see this at two major junctures when a president comes in and when they leave the world. and the thing that makes this to me incredibly poignant and important, and i can only speculate that if jimmy carter decided that this is the way that he wanted to go out, it was because the this spectacle that we are

[cheers and applause] would you rather quote richard nixon or john fitzgerald kennedy?ers and applause] the republicans have always been the party of privilege. this year, their leaders have got even further. in their platform, they have repudiated the best traditions of their own party. where is the conscience of lincoln in the party of lincoln? what became of the traditional republican commitment to federalist responsibility? what happened to their commitment to a safe and sane arms control? i don't claim perfection for the democratic party. i don't claim every decision we have made has been right or popular. certainly, they have not all that easy. but i will say this. we have been tested under fire. we have neither ducted nor hidden. -- ducked nor hidden. [applause] and we have tackled the great central issues of our time. the historic challenges of peace and energy which have been ignored for years. we have made tough decisions. we have taken the heat for them. we made mistakes. we learn from them. g we have built the foundation now for a better future. we have done