we went out for a month. that extended for various reasons for six months of the official transition, every president is allowed by statute. of course, the nixon -- those six months, he resigned on august 8, and on september 8, president ford issued a pardon, so there was a whole flurry of events. i was called on to draft the war work on the draft of the pardon statement. that was -- draft or work on the fraft of the pardon statement. just on your library depends on docents, they depended on us for the thousands of pieces of mail the cayman the mail for months. -- mail that came in the mail for months. and then he got sick. he got very sick. then he went back in. and then he began a. of just touchy health from the fall of 1973 until the fall of 1974 and then until the fall of 1975, for some months there it was touch and go. doctors said that they did not want to get our hopes up because he might not make it. that occupied us. as he began to get better and the. of the transition and it, for various reasons, ma

he went into shock.f touchy a period health -- pretty much from the the fall of 74, 75 -- for some months there, it was touch and go. the doctors would come out, and say, i do not want your hope of, he might not make it. so, that occupied us. then, as he began to get better, and the period of the transition ended -- for various reasons, mainly financial, he knew that in order to pay his was staggering -- when he left the white house he had half $1 million of legal bills. that was before he left the white house. in order to pay his bills, it was an exquisite dilemma. in order to pay his bills, essentially have lawyers bill, he had to do television, and write a book. essentially that lawyers advice was, whatever you do, do not do television, and do not write a book. so, he decided, and he knew from the past -- iin graduate and he had worked on the of winston churchill. so, he said his book offices way that winston's book office had been set up. i knew how randolph had said that office up. so, nixon knew th

a lot of his people went to jail. most of them went to jail. and seeing the parade of all of these men going to jail and there was an accountability that went on. >> my name is ted covy. i was a college student back and can still remember watching president nixon when he resigned. i have read quite a few books on watergate and i guess what i want to ask you as an author of one of those books is there anything we still don't know about watergate? anything you think still needs to be answered that hasn't come out? >> i don't think so. because i think in the end it wasn't the little bitty details. i could get arrested for this but i didn't care who deep throat was. what is the difference. the story was what nixon and the whitehouse were doing. it was intrigue of who was leaking to these very very hard working and very smart, good reporters. but, no. there is nothing that i am curious about that there is some detail i don't know. i think we have enough to understand it. i hope that is what this book does. i hope it follows the events but always ref

went through me. there was a general editor who don't with -- who was in charge of all the texts to prepare them to go to the printers. briefingprepare these books or folders. put the graduate students things in the enormous folders, we would give them to the president and he would absorb this stuff for months at a time. then he would go to ground. he would disappear for weeks or a month and work in the upstairs study. there's a small room, probably only 12 by 14 or something. glass with bookcases lining and the fireplace in the meadow -- middle and windows looking out over the pacific. he would work there. when he came back to the office, 200,000 have dictated or 300,000 words on the subject. that would become the basis of the manuscript. we would take those dictations and give them to the researchers to fact check them. then we would go to the documents and add documents to them. that would be refined and given back to the president. this process continued. dictationst on, his built until we had sev

clock, it went 10, it went to 8. it wasn't expected to be successful. they thought to have a you have to have women predominantly. it went to the number one show in the world. i was the number one show in the country, number one television show. and the agent called me up, and he said donald, could i see you. i said about what, jim? he said your show just went to number one. congratulations. it is a fantastic tribute. 'd like to come over and say hello. i said, what do you want? he said, i think i'm entitled to a commission. i said what do you think it should be? he said $4 million. i said jim, you're fired. laugh laffer -- [laughter] sometimes in our business it takes years and years for a geal deal. with that business it's all about ratings. o we're going on january 4th with a new show. the concept was, we would let people go over a course of 16 weeks. the first show, the first season, there was one guy, and he was a nice guy, but he was really pathetic. so bad i got angry at him. i said so and so, you're fired. the whole place went crazy. that's how

the whole place went crazy. the cameramen -- everybody went crazy. that's how that came about. it wasn't scripted. there is no script. we don't have any script at all. >> where do you shoot that? in new york? >> we shoot it in trump tower. we actually had a special board room that's made. people say why don't you use a real board room? well, it is real a studio. behind the board room they have at least 32 cameras in the board room when they are filming. >> have you hired anyone? >> yes. bill rancic did a good job. he was the first one. numerous people that were on the show. when i was going to -- if i thought somebody was really great and i thought i wanted to hire them, i would never let them win because then the price goes up. it's true. i would always make sure i fired them sometime prior to the end. but i fired a number of them. >> let's talk about two things you have done in the washington area. one, you bought the fuji estate. >> yes. you didn't pay that much for it. how did that come about? >> it is in charlottesville, virginia, 1500 acres. john is a friend of mine. i wa

you just went in all different directions.eople did not know what to do except flee as quickly as they could to their homes. had that announcement been made in the stadium, i think we would have witnessed a lot of trouble and injury of people trying to rush out of the stadium. that is what i remember. i will leave the floor now to my distinguished colleague. >> talk about growing up in chicago, a little bit about your family background and leading up to that date. >> i want to thank senator warmer for those auditory comments. you are most kind. he is the one that deserves that kind of praise. i served him when he was an outstanding secretary of the navy and again when he was a most effective senator from the state of virginia. thank you for that. >> thank you. >> i did grow up in chicago born there, raised on the northwest side. nothing spectacular about it. school, boy scouts, so forth. but on sunday, december 7 i had just come back from sunday school and church. i was probably reading the funnies. dick tracy, little orphan a

she went through a lot. it was very tough for me i have no interest in going to jail if i do not have to. >> how has it impacted your life? >> at first, it bothered me for the first couple of years but now i've gotten used to it. my best answer is to write another book and to keep working. "pay any price" is my answer to the government. you cannot stop me. you cannot shut me up. >> what is your relation with the "new york times?" >> i still work there. the first book because they would not publish some of the information. >> i was planning it anyway but i added material that -- i added the story when the government got them not to run it. but before the book came out, i told them it will be in the book. >> what was their reaction when the book came out? >> they put it in the paper before the book came out. it had resolved itself. >> material and a new book they were not put in the paper. >> no. [laughter] >> let me show you a fellow by the name of bill binney, who is in your book. some video we have. he is b

my children went to school. they went to college. one went over. ralph went to morehouse.they got educated. we did all right. but the movement did not pay us. that is what i want understood. >> miss abernathy, i'm afraid i'm going to have to cut it off. we've been given marching orders by her to tell the truth. please join us in thanking her for doing so. [applause] thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> today at 6:30, project runway cohost tim gunn hosts a discussion of holiday decorations and traditions at the white house. analysts -- panelists include linda johnson robb and gary walters. that is today at 6:30 pm eastern time on c-span3's american history tv. >> each week, american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. >> i am sarah elliott, the curator for the house of representatives. i take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the house's ric

a lot of his people went to jail. most of them went to jail. and seeing the parade of all of these men going to jail and there was an accountability that went on. >> my name is ted covy. i was a college student back and can still remember watching president nixon when he resigned. i have read quite a few books on watergate and i guess what i want to ask you as an author of one of those books is there anything we still don't know about watergate? anything you think still needs to be answered that hasn't come out? >> i don't think so. because i think in the end it wasn't the little bitty details. i could get arrested for this but i didn't care who deep throat was. what is the difference. the story was what nixon and the whitehouse were doing. it was intrigue of who was leaking to these very very hard working and very smart, good reporters. but, no. there is nothing that i am curious about that there is some detail i don't know. i think we have enough to understand it. i hope that is what this book does. i hope it follows the events but always ref

the whole place went crazy. the cameramen, everybody went crazy. that's how that came about. it wasn't scripted. there is no script. we don't have any script at all. >> where do you shoot that? >> we shoot it in trump tower. we actually have a special board room that's made. people say why don't you use a real board room? well, it is real a studio. behind the board room they have at least 32 cameras in the board room during the shooting. >> has anybody that you are hired worked out ok? >> yes. bill rancic did a good job. numerous people were on the show. but when i was going to hire them, i would never -- if i thought somebody was really great and i thought i wanted to hire them, i would never let them win because then the price goes up. [laughter] i would always make sure i fired them sometime prior to the end. but i fired a number of them. >> we are in the washington area. let's talk about two things you have done in the washington area. first one, you bought the fuji estate. you did not pay that much for that. how did that come about? >> john is a friend of mine. i was muc

rob went home to his law practice in california. allowed yourself to take that gun into their home? >> it was my normal practice. do i wish on that one particular trip i wouldn't have? of course. >> reporter: and belinda went to california too -- with her girls to be with her biological father, jerry. and it was there she tried to explain that they lost their father. >> we were on my dad and my stepmom's couch. and we brought the girls in. and i had been crying, obviously, pretty severely. and we were just, like, a little pow wow circle. and just told them that daddy was in heaven -- sorry. >> reporter: up in buffalo, meanwhile, lee's mother and siblings were suffering their own brand of agony. of the mushroom in the dark variety, they kept asking, "what's going on" and nobody told them anything. >> it was an open investigation. and it remained an open investigation for a very long time. >> reporter: but of course investigators couldn't reveal what they knew or didn't know. standard procedure, but excruciating for lee's family. >> w

and as soon as i graduated i went right into the military.as what they call a shade tree mechanic. i worked on everything from a jeep all the way up to a 35,000 kw generator that used to launch missiles. i loved it. >> joe worked his way up to sergeant and was honorably discharged. but when he returned to the distressed economy of 1980s rust belt cleveland, joe couldn't find work. >> he thought he was a certified mechanic. i don't know what certification is in the military. but people were telling him, you're not a certified mechanic. >> in the spring of 1988, joe moved into a basement apartment near little italy. >> he lived in the coventry area which at the time was something a lot of 20-somethings did. they were blue-collar workers and they partied a lot. >> i was not an angel. i drank. i drank like a fish. >> right across the street from where i was living was a bar called the saloon. and i was in there throwing darts one day and ed espinoza, the foreman for mike keenan, came in and threw out a general question, who needs a job? and he hi

all of that stuff went away when they went to europe.e had was involved in the transportation of soldiers to europe at that time. and all of the confiscated german ships that were in our possession were used for that transportation. while at camp mills, there had been a pretty big pick up in the officer corps of the regiment. every regiment in the division benefitted from product ofl he officer's training camp at plattsburg, new york, which had been in existence before we got into the war. and most of these guys who volunteered for plattsburg and volunteered for these commissions were filtered into the established regiments that existed at that time. the alabama unit got a pretty healthy boost from these new officers. most of them had a few years of college, which was a lot more than their national guard trained counterparts from alabama had. and all were -- had volunteered. at this point, every person in the rainbow division was a volunteer. the spirit of the volunteer was quite significant in its espirit and preparation for what they w

first the radar that went off of radar and then the radio went off a minute later and then finally the automatic broadcasting capabilities went down. so it's possible that the plane was in distress, the pilot's reaction to a problem with the plane in bad weather will be looked at and be a significant factor. they have a lot of clues now that they didn't have in 370 and they know it's vital in the first hours to get there. >> mary, we know this is different in the sense this is a smaller plane and certainly a smaller area the java sea in which search-and-rescue or search for this plane will take place. i imagine because of that it will be an easier task to find this plane and to get the critical information that's necessary. particularly to the families who are waiting. >> it's an important thing to know. it's a busy shipping channel. if there's any floating debris at all and i say that's really important thoirin the immediates and days. and then use that debris field to trace back, they analyze the currents and literally trace back the debris field to help them narrow in on where they

>> he went right after the media on this. you have to be thing he is in a position right now where he is trying to figure out the right balance and it is easy for all the politicians on both sides to go after we mayor deglass yes and what is happening in new york but we need to be forward thinking. what will happen next? how will he create that bond and calm the city down? >> what do you think about way the media have framed the story and going back to former mayor giuliani with four months of problem good and everyone should hate the police? hate the police? >> i have not seen president obama say that and i don't think anyone who has seen president obama say that. i was a reporter in new york city as you know and you were, too, we know that tabloid culture pretty well. it is rough and tumble, and it will highlight tension and it will bring tension to the surface and make it much tougher and much starker than it would be in cities that depth have tabloid newspapers. it is just a fact about tabloid journalism --. >> is it driv

down after and went into richmond before he did. he met her there and was staying in jefferson davis's bedroom at the time and that is our they were reunited. can you imagine that life in their 20s? it is tremendous circumstances. but custer being a ladies' man that is not a libby by the way he is kissing and the love the expression of the matron behind them that was shocked. this is a reception that a rat that the lady started to kiss the generals is comical but it made the papers so custer was having various relations and someone says there is a list in the secret papers of libya of all the women that custer saw on the side. but a lot of what we know that george wrote to the the would talk about to be given a york on a business trip. a blonde walks by the hotel to catch my attention so i talked to her and i thought why would you write this to your wife? or the indian princess that they captured in supposedly e very beautiful he wrote to the be all of you -- all about her he got out to where he was quickly she got to him. why would

and went on constantly throughout that day. it went very smoothly, the covering forces operated efficiently and only one unit had trouble. that was task force jones on the southern flank last to withdraw. >> so the bhaern column passed through these little towns and as they did, they became part of task force jones which was the rear guard of the bhaern unit coming out of san very. and my little platoon became part of the rear of the rear guard out of san very. >> i found the road choked with vehicles from a task force of the 7th armored division. we found there was a burning tank and the germans had come around behind us with a tank gun. >> someone had discovered a side road, a sort of side canyon that went up this high mountain behind this side river. then, a beautiful thing happened, a full bright moon came up over the hills. >> when up the side road and then across-country and then one place, we had to detail some of the tanks of the 7th armored division to bull the wheeled vehicles over this -- over a highland swamp. and a

he just went out in it.so now he had a whole brigade to fight with them four days later there he is on day three of gettysburg. i'm sure you are all with the story of the battle duesberg. the custer was on the right flank. again, kind of lucky because general greg who was not his commander, general kirkpatrick was his commander, doing stuff that the end of the battlefield, but greg needed some people over here and he said we are going this way because something bad is going to happen and i need guys. custer said okay, no problem. sure enough, the instincts were right because here comes the confederate calgary swooping around, trying to get around the union right flank of supported tickets charge, which was going on in the center of the battlefield. so that is where custer really reached national fame with his consecutive charges that gettysburg. the same is, on, you will for reasons, with his michigan regiments one after another, spending each regiment against superior forces with the idea he was going to st

he and i went to the same school. i went afterwards to the united states, and he went to greece to study denyivityry, but he returned to jerusalem -- denyivityry. and he returned to jerusalem and has been living there ever since. >> maybe the people he meets here can have root canal from him. >> he's seen the situation. half of his patients can't even afford to pay him. but he never turns anyone away. >> and you see some guy coming from russia and he says this is my land, and he takes your land, which you have been here thousands and thousands of years. and somebody comes only a month ago and says this is my land. why? because god gave it to me. >> you stopped believing in god. i'm a christian. i stopped believing in god maybe. imagine if they came into china and you find some jews in china, my god. the number would be about 10 million. where would we put them? look at the country. in seven years, i don't know from america, from argentine narcs i don't know from where, but these are not the palestinians. they don't kn

he went to -- he went -- to a phd. at harvard. at the age of 27, all of the sacramento and the west in the east and 100 miles north. the 40th parallel survey. took in seven years. he books, the maps, the reports, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars today if you can get them there. beautifully accomplished. and he had all sorts of amazing doing the while survey. survey. them a reward for doing so well, they did the geological survey, it exists today, it maps its entirety. he moved to new york to the headquarters of the usgs, he was director. the second was john wesley powell as it happened. but his personal life is what i to mention briefly because i was astonished when i stumbled across it. energetic young man and he did not like white women one bit. he loved native american women and he loved black women. well on in was years, something like 60 but till clearly, you know, had any a cialis moment, i think, he saw coming toward him a black was sort of -- for this is the creature of my dreams. and what he should have done, i w

the first time that i actually went there to libya, i went into tripoli. the second time i went back and the third time and fourth time, they were in benghazi. >> this attack lasted 13 hours. four people died, including our ambassador. it was on 9/11. so i want you to take us back to the beginning. for people who don't-s: know t job, contractors, how do you explain it? >> for us, it was protection. protecting cia case offers overseas. >> how did the hierarchy work? you have the chief of base, the main guy in charge. >> that was bob? >> yes. then you have the team lead, >> our team leader is a staffer. us contractors are -- if you talk military, we are like enlisted. >> our members of the team are not here. tyrone woods, who you called rone, two other members who remain anonymous. jack and d.b. >> correct. yes. >> you were set upÑifñ to prote the annex, which was the cia -- >> the personnel at the annex. >> this is -- gives us perspective of the other facility there which was what you guys call the consulate. where are we? >> here is the consulate. then he

the first time that i actually went there to libya, we all went into tripoli. that was my first trip. the second time i went back. the third time and fourth time they were all in benghazi. >> this attack lasted 13 hours. four people died, including our ambassador. and it was on 9/11. so i want you to take us back to the beginning. for people who don't know this job, contractors, how do you explain it to them? >> private security contractors. for us, it was protection. protecting cia case officers overseas. >> how did the hierarchy work here? >> we had the chief of base, the main guy in charge. >> that was bob? >> yes. and then you have the team lead, which would be in charge of us. >> our team leader is a staffer, an employee for the agency. and then all of us contractors are like -- if you talk military wise, we're like the enlisted folks. >> other members of your team are not here. obviously tyrone woods. there are two other members who remain anonymous. >> correct. >> jack and d.b. >> yes. >> so you were set up to protect the annex. >> the personnel at the a

and they went back to war. they broke the siege of bastion and the sun came out and the bombers flew and he was the hero of the battle of the bulge. one never knows how something will tush in-- turn into a chri book. and this is something that continued for me. i wrote a fifth book about a wartime christmas because i had written an earlier one about pearl harbor. i don't know if it is on the shelf. it is called long days journey into war was an experiment on my part. i wanted to write about every hour that it was december the 7th, 1941, around the globe. because frankly roosevelt, who i was writing about at the time, said in his declaration of war speech to congress, december 11th, 1941, is a date that will live in infamy. he didn't say day, he said "date." and people confused the two regularly. i wanted to deal with the date. it becomes december the 7th, or any other date on the west side of the international dateline. that is where the day begins. so it is just east of new zealand that the day begins. i began

as we began to search the sea number one motor went out. and number two went out. plane just heeled over to the left and hit the water and blew up into a big fireball. the plane sank. i felt my ears pop. but i keep on sinking and pretty soon i feel pain in my forehead. i only have time to say god help men and i lost consciousness. and then i'm conscious again. i'm confused. i couldn't figure it out. this must be the afterlife. i should have been dead. >> in fact, everyone else aboard the green hornet was dead except for the pilot, russ iell philip and the tail gunner. >> i pop to the surface swallowing fuel and blood. i saw a life raft. i grabbed it. and then we started our drift of 47 days in the south pacific. >> the trio would eventually drift 2,000 miles over those 47 days, surviving on a little rain water, a few fish and an occasional bird. >> it was then for the first time in my life that i began to pray. i said, god, if i survive this ordeal, get back to america alive, i'll seek you and serve you. >> staying alive took grit and tenacity. characteristics that

i went to the apple store 3000 years ago with my herd of goats. the store owner says, i don't want goats. i want sheep. maybe i have to hire a sheepherder because the sheepherder wants to be paid in wine. i have read. he wants white wine. imagine if we still had parker today, trying to deposit a cow in an atm. it becomes very inefficient. in essence what money does most of the time does not have intrinsic value. but it makes transactions easier, and in that sense money measures value. that is all it does, the way clocks measure time, scales measure weight,, rulers measure length, money measures value. because it represents value, makes transactions easier, and in that sense as a form of communication and lets you know information to do all the billions of transactions we do. some money in and of itself is not wealth but represents a claim on products and services. think of it as you would a coat check. your coat in a closet in a coat check and it represents a claim on the coat. so the idea that creating money, money represents products and service

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figure out what went wrong because there's so many of these aircraft in the air as we speak. >> yes. as you say a320 the work horse, a lot of passengers have questions. stay with us. we'll pause for a moment to restock at the top of the hour and continue the breaking news coverage. >>> good morning, everyone i'm suzanne malveaux in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 here on the east coast. we continue our breaking news coverage of this search at sea. now suspended, more than 12 hours after a passenger jet with 162 people on board went missing in southeast asia. officials say large ships with powerful lights will continue to comb the waters off indonesia for airasia 8501. >> the airbus a3200 left indonesia at 5:30 eastern last night bound for singapore. indonesian officials say in about 45 minutes later the captain asked to climb above 38,000 feet because of torrential weather. minutes later the plane disappeared from radar. now airline officials say they lost contact at 7:24 eastern, though indonesian authorities say they actually monitored the jet for another half hour

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but younow you did, went to him and said it is not for me? >> something like that. >> you said the most important relationship you have is with yourself. >> that is the one advice i tell every person in the world. the most important relationship in life is the one you have with yourself. once you have that every other relationship is a plus and not a minus. -- not a must. >> you know i agree with that. >> i know you do, more than anyone. you met me, i was maybe 25 years old. how was i? >> you know what i thought. >> but how was i? what is the difference between the girl and -- >> i thought you were cocky but you had a reason to have confidence, much more worldly than i was. i was a country boy from north carolina that came to the city and a few people thought i had potential. >> i am so proud of you. >> likewise. >> i go to sleep walking you and i wake up watching you and i am very, very proud. >> let me talk about the monumental things that happened. just tell me about the wrap dress. >> this italian manufacturer asked me to intern for him a

a german soldier went into no man's land. the whistle of bullets, on the right another man was shot in the arm. we're supposed to fire but there was no enemy. getting into er on the disorder. tic tac, our own machine gun was firing at our backs. from behind we heard the cry of the soldier. we crawled out in spite of the fire. over later we had crawled the dead bodies. was killed soon after, in may 1915. allies and central powers. they had gas attacks and with special infiltration units. land ing through no man's and barb wire. 1915, the spring of everyday since small engagement occurred along the line. august, they to committed 1.2 million german soldiers. by the end of the struggle the in something thousand casualties. battlewas ust as the going to close, the british organized an ambitious offensive. using the british fourth army of the french fifth, they went into the gym -- german line. there was little destruction with their artillery. the afflicted 30,000 casualties. that number rose to 57,000. they did nothing to break

the money supply went up even though the dollar was fixed at gold. so gold just make sure the value stays fixed. it does not restrict the supply. if you have a vibrant economy that sustains the marker placement in a stagnant economy you don't created so it's just very very very basic. so when people lose sight of that, when you end up having what we have had since 1971. we have gone from one crisis to another. we had a terrible decade in the 70s. we got a semi-right in the 80s and 90s and boy we moved ahead but in the last decade we went backwards and starting, and this is not a partisan thing started under the bush administration, treasury department federal reserve started to weaken the dollar. they thought that would stimulate exports and that's how we got the housing bubble. anytime you undermine the integrity of the dollar, people don't own hard assets. in the mid-1980s the last decade the average price of a barrel of oil was a little over $21 a barrel. what is a two-day? 80, 90, 100 this crisis may not get up to 110? in the 70s if any of you ar

but she went. she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. and then, it was august 14th, 2012. >> 911 what is your emergency? >> i am calling from travelodge in pendleton. there's a girl dead in the bathroom. i don't know. >> a girl dead in the bathroom? >> i think she's passed out or -- >> okay, i'm gonna get police and ambulance headed that way, okay? >> reporter: in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. >> it just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call. >> reporter: bill, remember, was a close friend of the brandhagen family, attends the same church. but he's also a policeman and that day, with the chief on vacation, lieutenant bill caldera was the man in charge. >> as soon as one of my patrol sergeants arrived on the scene, he requested my presence. which i knew then we were probably dealing with a homicide. >> reporter: but as he raced to the motel,

the family friend went over and died. but listen to this, roger with nothing else to protect him but a life jacket managed to go over niagara falls and survive with only a minor head wound. as an adult, he credited jesus with his survival saying it was his miracle that saved him. >>> and that's it for this week's second look. i'm frank somerville. we'll see you again next week. oç'c'cz<;<;<>xxó1?1?÷x÷x÷x÷x÷x (train horn honking) - prague, czech-republic is a must-stop for travelers the world over. we went by overnight train. the whole crew crammed into one small cabin. yeah, it was tight, but it was cheap, and i'm paying, so there you go. this train may not have been the best for sleep, but with a sight like prague as a wakeup call, it was totally worth it. the castle was incredible. i've never seen anything like it. i know i'm not always the most eloquent wordsmith, but mere words can't possibly do prague justice, anyway. fine, sir, your tram has arrived. when i travel, i like to dig below the surface. we're going deep.

this never went anywhere.in fact, that's one of the interesting things on the tapes and in these conversations where nixon raises some really interesting things that haldeman never shares with anybody else. so the tapes were -- there is no question today in watergate that i really don't think i know the answer to or the answer isn't found in those tapes. it was a it was a grinding exercise. one of the most difficult parts of the book was nixon gets compulsively obsessive about the conversations and starts repeating himself where he'll make a little spin differently here or a little change there as he repeats these conversations often with the same person, but with somebody else over and over and over again towards the end. and i wanted to give -- i couldn't burden the reader with that but i wanted to give the reader a sense of how this man operated. so with those opening remarks i'm going to turn it over to my friend rick perlstein whose works i enjoy. he and i have had the pleasure of doing programs before. h

the photographers went wild. when that photograph appeared on the front page of every newspaper in the country the next day, his wife was not amused. 50 years later, when margaret truman, his daughter, spoke at the club and recounted the story, those truman women had no sense of humor. that became the iconic photo for the press club circulated to the media when lauren bacall died last summer. follow none that great tradition, i turn this over to a current american legion post commander, can do like he to tell us why we're here tonight. >> thank you very much. i can't top the harry truman story. i want to thank you marvin for joining us this evening. you have been a great friend to the national press club for many years. the american legion post has been a part of the national press club for 95 years, actually as of this month, this is a 95th anniversary. partners of local many in the vietnam war commemoration, which is a program authorized by congress and organized by the department of defense. key to multiyear p

the money supply went up even though the dollar was fixed at gold. so gold just make sure the value stays fixed. it does not restrict the supply. if you have a vibrant economy that sustains the marker placement in a stagnant economy you don't created so it's just very very very basic. so when people lose sight of that, when you end up having what we have had since 1971. we have gone from one crisis to another. we had a terrible decade in the 70s. we got a semi-right in the 80s and 90s and boy we moved ahead but in the last decade we went backwards and starting, and this is not a partisan thing started under the bush administration, treasury department federal reserve started to weaken the dollar. they thought that would stimulate exports and that's how we got the housing bubble. anytime you undermine the integrity of the dollar, people don't own hard assets. in the mid-1980s the last decade the average price of a barrel of oil was a little over $21 a barrel. what is a two-day? 80, 90, 100 this crisis may not get up to 110? in the 70s if any of you ar

every place he went, he was feted as a great hero. people were very sad to learn he was going to turn in his commission and go back to being a farmer at mount vernon. and when george iii of england ifrd about this, he said, washington actually refuses to be the king of america, he will be the greatest man in the world. and maybe he was the greatest man in the world at that time. so that resulted in a second christmas book that was unexpected. i then began thinking about a book about franklin roosevelt as president. during the last election that he fought, which was his fourth term election in 1944 during world war ii. he never lived to serve out the term. he died the next april. however, many people who voted for him, many servicemen who voted for him voted by absentee ballot because they were far away in europe or the pacific. this was about a month before the battle of the bulge in december 1944. i began thinking that was not the first absentee ballot election. abraham lincoln was elected to a second term in absentee ballot election

but first i went and bought another bag of walnuts. these were so-called conventional in product california and we certainly grow plenty of walnuts in california. so that was just a household event. but a couple of weeks later, my wife was on the phone to a company called natural direction, which you may be familiar with. try the labels for independent groceries here to the same company coming unified groceries that operates the western family brand that you may be familiar with. they saw the money, nothing wrong with that. but to $30 billion every year even to the organic sector. that's only 4% or 5% of the grocery dollars. they started to bring out a so-called organic line. i continue to modify the word organic because it is so problematic as i learned. she was on the line not about the organic. these were black beans like one in the back of the room. she was concerned about bpa in the line mean of 10. on the other end of the number the operator said if you look at the top of the can, it will say where the beans are from and i can va

away when they went to europe. every e every ship that we had was involved in the soldiers of europe at that time.onfused and all of our possessions were used for that transportation. while at kavrp mills, there had been a pretty big pick-up in the officer corps of the regimen. every regimen in the division benefitted from product of the officer's training carp at platsburg, new york, which had been in existence before we got into the war.which h and most of these guys who have volunteered to go to plattsburg and volunteered for these commissions were filtered into o the established regimens that kpigsed at that time.issi the alabama unit got a pretty healthy boost from these new officers. most of them had a few years of college, which was a lot more than the national guard trained counter parts from alabama had.h and all were in volunteer. at thidis point, every person w a volunteer. the spirit was quite significani and its preparation for what they were going to face in europe. screws continued to be very demandi

that's basically what we went over.you feel like there's an issue and they need to add security then he'll work on it. i think at this point because the issues that are going on and what i'm saying to mike i think they need a security guard. >> talk to them again >> any other questions, thank you. >> good evening commissioners. a few things to address. club malibu at 3395 mission, i been working with them on their sound issues and recently received another communication from a neighbor of theirs. i went by this past two fridays ago and had a long talk with them about ensuring they understand the limited [inaudible] permit most recently the [inaudible] permit and then followed up again on saturday. they are still struggling to keep things at 90. so i wrote them a citation for exceeding. the metronome ballroom on 1830 17th street, i went by there this past weekend to establish ambient sound levels. i like to work with them pending approval of their permit to ensure that the neighborhood is not negatively impacted with eve

they went all right, he tried to fix them, he lost control the plane and went down. you look at the conditions of those and you can imagine the terrifying last moments. >> as curators, we are proud to be able to include this case and i gallery. it is why the first permanent installations of artifacts from 7 to 11, 2001, here in washington, d.c.. it is a remarkable collection objects from the post office across the street of the world trade center. on the morning of the attack, clerks were in the office processing mail -- what we have is the mailbox from outside the office that survived the attack. the post marking device still september 11, 2001 date slugs in it. we have a fire hose nozzle two, which symbolizes after the attacks, the post office became a command center are trying to fight the fires. the building never lost water for whatever reason, so firefighters try to put up the fire from the upper floors of the building. pieces we have a couple of mail that survived september 11. a couple members of her staff the church nt into street office to see what we could