want to illustrate so nixon chose the portrait of washington for the mantle in the oval office and t.resident eisenhower and president obama chose i think the statue of liberty just the torch of the statue of liberty and president clinton chose -- a strange flowering presents. it was a very young staff and when nixon then moynihan met moynihan was 32 when nixon was 56. >> ziegler was 29. >> and larry hague b was -- so what was the urban affair counsel and what did it do? >> here's the urban affairs counsel and this was the first executive order that richard nixon signed signed two days after the inaugural parade and he's with members of the domestic cabinet. he was very familiar with the national security council which was created in 1947. the president was chairman of the vice president was a board member and he had five statutory members. this was a formulating domestic policies in his early iterations with patrick moynihan after the election. he wanted something which in a formal way could manage the process of making policy whether it was rural development or whether was health ins

at t.r., lbj, you don't get these opportunities very often and i think the democrats felt there was anrtunity. it collides with their narrow majority and that's why. but i don't share the view that the problem is merely a democratic album. ifif you look at bernie sanders and the 6 trillion-dollar program the democrats made it a 3 trillion-dollar program and then $1.5 trillion. they didn't compromise. for 30 years the republicans have moved in that direction of conservatism to radicalism and nihilism to white supremacist and. it's a long story and american politics. we have one political party the somewhat fractious andwe one apocalyptic cults. a [applause] i didn't deliver the line quite right. we have one party that's fractious and one party that was described by a 25 year veteran stalwart of the republicans and years ago as the talk collected cold and it's only gotten since then. [applause] >> during the second impeachment trial there were -- there was the opportunity to drive a stake t.through trump's heart and we were told it was a private vote with well over 67 votes. there were s

so, nixon chose the gilbert stewart portrait of washington for the mantle in the oval office and t.r. and wilson and president eisenhower for the cabinet room. and that president obama chose the statue of liberty, just the torch of the statue of liberty, and president clinton chose the flags on fifth avenue. moynahan picked this strange glowering presence. it was a very young staff. when nixon and moynihan met, moynahan was 42, nixon was 56, they were really in that first year of the presidency. >> he was 27, i think. ron sinclair was 29. >> that staff, larry hagely was in diapers. so, what was the urban affair council. and what did it do? what didn't it do? >> here is the actual body called the urban affairs council. this was the very first executive order that richard nixon signed. it was signed two days after the inaugural parade was over. these are the members of the domestic cabinet. what's it happened was that nixon had, serving under eisenhower, was very familiar with the national security council, which we all heard, which was created by statute in 1947. the president was chai

t.r. was very much a man of whatever struck him at the time. and if the swamp that trump faced had struck teddy roosevelt, he would have fought backn probably even harder than trump and gotten very bloody. and he might have been impeached and taken out, removed, right? because he would have bought in a much different way. reagan's style was such that he would have tried conciliation as much as possible, but i think in theng end he would have done the same thing, we're not going to back down the on these essential points of america's freedom. so, you know, you get into these historical questions, i feel like thanos with the time ring, jumping back and forth. but that's my best shot on ahistorickism. >> do you have more questions? raise your hand. >> o one of my concerns is that the people are so clueless today. after church at the coffee hour, i talk to these people, friends, very successful people. they don't want to talk about anything other thanth their golf game. we live in a retirement village right now of people that are successful. they d