john: mostly from the oral histories from whittier.t is amazing how many times you come across the lord belligerent -- the word belligerent, stubborn, rude. just sounded to be a very unpleasant man. richard nixon was a very sensitive guy, very sensitive child. had tw brotherso, died as a youth. e in some ways was bruised by that dad. in "nixonland," the author talks about the sturdy political trope that all politicians are trying to prove they are good in the of a fatherticism from whom they can never win his approval. brian: how did you go about doing this? physically, where were you? of ajohn: haven't gotten the intract three years earlier, could have done the research 30 minutes from my house. everything was at the national archives in greenbelt, maryland. in those three years before i contract, everything was up and moved to yorba linda, california, which was then the private nixon library, now a national archive library. i spent a lot of time in the extended-stay motel up and movea linda, california, which was in yorba linda. bria

she's the principal here at whittier education campus in northwest washington.from d.c.p.s. here and you're in a program at georgetown. you're saying just to us off camera helping even grow leaders even more so. tell me about this. you're an eastern high school graduate. you're a d.c.p.s. product yourself. i talked to your mom earlier she said this is what you dreamed about. is that right? >> absolutely. i always wanted to be an educator ever since i was a little girl. i always said that i wanted to give back to the community. i wanted to give d.c. public schools the same opportunities that they provided to me as a student and so that's the would, that i do. >> reporter: and one of your things is hard work pays off. is that right? i mean, you've heard that from children, right. >> absolutely, hard work pays off. and my motto is start where you are but don't stay there. as childre have our personal stories but no matter where you are, you can achieve whatever you would like. >> reporter: you started off as a teacher. you've been >> test test hey! yeah!? i switche

i went through my apprenticeship down in whittier california, down south. we support any contractor that has apprenticeship programs. it's -- it means a lot to me, so it's just kind of how it came full circle, so any way, we support the contract. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. welcome. >> so thank you. my name is margie lariviere, and i live on green street, and because i'm on green street, i didn't have the notice that folks on vanness received and other areas, because my neighbors oppose the project as written, and one of our objections was we went to the initial meeting -- or i thought the initial meetings that was held at galileo high school and were asked to be kept informed, and we don't feel we were. many would have been here today, and they couldn't, as well, so i don't know if i would be able to ask for a continuance. the plans that were shown earlier, that looked different than the one i had to quickly look through before. so one of the other areas was the conditional use application rendering shows the vanness and union facades. their no

stephen is calling from nearby in whittier, california. i hope that you, too, are safe, way of the fires. stephen, can you turn on your tv and listen through the phone? stephen? all right, we are having some technical problems there. coming up, we will have "time" correspondent wj hennigan here military'sthe growing reliance on elite special forces operations. walidg up, dr. willy gellad will be here to discuss the proposed cvs-aetna merger. but first, senator pat roberts of kansas, he is chairman of the ethics committee. here he is on senator al franken and senate candidate roy moore. can you characterize the work of the committee? senator al franken stepped down, despite saying earlier that he wanted the ethics committee to do an investigation. do you believe that a member of do you believe a member of congress can get to process through the ethics committe? >> oh, yes. i do not want to label all the cases we have doubt with. we are very deliberate and also expedite as best we can. john isaacson is a super chairman. we're bipartisan, the