. >> next is william safire. he is jewish. he was an observer and -- tell us what you -- >> this for me is hard. this is heartbreaking. he was really mad at me. >> for the interview? >> afterwards. i had a terrible conversation with william safire about a month before he died. >> died at 79. >> he was so angry i had invited john dean to the library. i explained to him that in order to establish this as a nonpartisan space that people would take seriously as a research center -- the fight there had been over access to the tapes, missing tapes, the documents -- it is essential to establish beyond any doubt that this was a non-partisan issue. i thought it was important that john dean, an important player in the watergate scandal, comes to the library and speaks. safire was furious. i was talking to him because i invited him to do a master class. every summer we had national interns -- we had a national competition and said two students, come to the nixon library. we are changing this -- be part of this experiment. we got great ap

this goes back to william safire's influence. one of the first uses of cool, not in a sense the sense of temperature but in the sense of being callous, he said that was a behavioral thing. those are words, words like cool. obama could come up with a new meaning for it as well. he could take his own word and given a new meaning. how either this was i did a lot of reading and i did a lot of use of huge proprietary databases that the libraries tab. nineteenth century databases where we can actually find the original document in which jefferson writes to the danbury caucus and comes up with a phrase of separation of church and state, which is not in the constitution. in fact it was first articulated in this letter by jefferson. so there were these big huge data proprietary bases where there is about every word and phrase. mckinley came out -- i read a book years ago when he comes up with war room. that was an easy one. i think we are down to about one question here. >> where did mulligan come from? >> a mulligan has an extra shot whe

william safire was among those who thought he was not. sa-fire, a "new york times" columnist for years. >> when you ask, does it affect your opinion of nixon? >> some, yeah. it was disappointing, but he was not anti-semitic. to be anti-semitic means to hate jews. he certainly didn't. going back to your question -- >> how would you explain these discussions, ultimately, with haldeman, concerns about jews in the bureau of labor statistics? where does that come from? how do you explain it? >> he saw jews as liberals, as new yorkers. people had been against them from the start. he would look at me and others as exceptions. but it was liberals that he hated -- shouldn't hate, but it was liberals. and jews and hollywood and new york were part of the target. but i don't go for this some of my best friends of jews argument. but in this case, i think it was the towel-snapping locker room kind of anti-semetism and not something he thought of or something that he carried out. >> your reaction? >> i am proud to say that there are a lot of people inte

that president nixon's comments on the tapes are about jews in a way that is different from how william safire describes it. richard nixon is talking about how jews have exaggerated the holocaust because they want sympathy, and they have used it to gain sympathy. there is an anger towards jews that i believe cannot be explained simply in terms of liberal versus conservative, but i leave it to others to make up their own minds. i will tell you there is now a very good collection of people speaking on this issue that is publicly available. that is my job. >> here is chuck colson telling a story. >> kissinger had the right, although he abused it, to have nobody announce him. kissinger could walk in when he wanted. nixon told him that because of the severity of foreign policy issues, feel free to come in and interrupt anything. henry would do it for trivial things. one day, nixon was really kind of ticked off at henry for a variety of things. in the executive office building -- i looked over, it was henry. nixon did not appear to look, but i knew he knew it was henry. he said, i think you are righ

again, going back to william safire's influence on his, one of the first uses of cool, not in the sensor temperature, but the sense of being callous coming he said that was cool. i was a behavioral thing. so again, obama could come up with a new meaning of cool. one word and you give. how i did this quiz i did a lot of reading and i did a lot of use of huge proprietary databases at the library on price. nineteenth century databases for you can find the original document in which 1807, when jefferson raised to danbury baptists and comes up with this race and the separation of church and state, which is not in the dictation. first articulated in this letter to danbury baptists preach everything. a lot of it was just working at terminals but these monster, not google kind of thing, but these proprietary databases for the encapsulated every word and phrase. and it's been fascinating. the mckinley thing came on both margaret leech in the day of mckinley. i read that book years ago. and he comes up with a war room, doubtlessly you recall moment. i think were down to about one question. mole ag

lincoln was also, again i'm going back to william safire's influence, one of the first uses of cool, not innocent of temperature but in the sense of being callous, he said, something he said that was cool. that was callous. it was a behavioral thing. so again, those are, a word like cool. obama could come up with a new name of cool. that's another thing. one word and you give it different many. as i said with all these different meanings. and how i did this was i did a lot of reading and i get a lot of use of huge proprietary databases at the library of congress. 19th century database where you can find the original document in which 1807 when jefferson writes and comes up with the phrase separation of church and state, which is not in the constitution. in fact, the first articulate in this letter to danbury baptists by jefferson. so a lot of it was just looking at terminals where these monster, not google kind of things but these proprietary databases where it has encapsulated every word and phrase. and it's just, it's fascinating, this stuff. mckinley thing came out of market leech