nixon had a pretty good foreign-policy. so who was richard nixon? let me tell you a story writing good things about richard nixon he wanted an interview and got to me and i told mr. nixon you should do it. writers don't take notes, they just sit there and listen and re-create it. if he would have been a new dealer rather than when heated in the postwar era affected who he was, he wasn't against government action, didn't believe they should rely on it and use the government that needed it. so nixon came to power in the gop in 1946 in the cold war these were the issues that initially made him and defined him from the alger hiss case, the battles against adlai stevenson. in 68 he had moved on to a much broader vision of the world and i do think that it was a touch of woodrow wilson this idea that he could create a generational piece. he generally believed that and so in the domestic policy for the issues like epa if he felt it could do good for the people, he was not adverse to that and a lot of the programs will see indicate that. he was not a liberta

richard nixon rose. it is no was not only the consee conscience but the strategist for the president. no other single person in my judgment had the same creative insight into the american political mind able to capture the forces shaping america in the 60s and 70s as pat did. he knew president nixon better than anybody else. you will find in this book when you read it it is a roadmap to the great battles with the american left and the media. if you were in the white house at the time that we were there, it is a true insight to the years we were there. the records left behind in the great society was the era the computer keypad took away the fun of writing speeches. we had ibm typewriters from before and some of the speechwriters, he could make the typewriter saying. pat could make the typewriter smoke. [laughter] i was always trying to emulate that. he leaves the royalty and credulity to the personal conviction. they enjoy the pass and when we were here in saint clementi they would visit and he would be

i'm bill, president of the richard nixon foundation. honored to have president counsel members and a presence counsel member who is joining us today. shelly buchanan. [applause] shelly actually started working to richard nixon before pat did. has that ever been pointed out? be next we look forward to it. thank you all for the support that enables us to prom gait and encourage civics and citizenship in our community. i hope everyone would today consider becoming a presence counsel member. i'd like to introduce several people more than we might because this is almost a family reunion. and you'll tell when i complete how many alumni from the administration and people that were close to the president during his career are are here today. very special group. first larry served as -- [applause] to hr -- [applause] mary is member of board directors of richard nixon foundation and we appreciate his service and focus on advancing the legacy that rismed richard nixon. thank you. sandy quin also a board member. sandy we have one individual that i

and welcome to the new nixon library. i'm bill, president of the richard nixon foundation. we are honored to have several presidents council members here today and a very special presidents council member who is joining us today, pat buchanan. shelly actually start working for richard nixon before pat did. has that ever been pointed out? that will be next. we look forward to it. thank you all for the support that enables to us promulgate president nixon's legacy and encourage civic and citizenship in our community. i hope everyone will consider being a president's council member. i'd like to introduce several people, more than we might, because this is lamb family reunion. you can tell when complete how many alumni from the administration and people that were close to the president during his career, are here today. very special group. first, larry higby, who served as assistant to hr hads movement larry is a number of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. we appreciate his service and the focus on advancing the legacy of richards nixon, thank you. sandy q

>> nixon. >> richard nixon. >> nixon. >> yeah, nixon. >> nixon. >> is anybody else running but nixon? >> the president was a political animal. the president was phenomenally skilled. he was able to handle virtually anything. >> five men wearing white gloves and carrying cameras were caught early today in the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. they were caught by a night watchman, and they did not resist arrest when the police came. they apparently were unarmed and nobody knows yet why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't even been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in apparently planned well in advance. files were ransacked and papers removed. also in this area, ceiling tiles had been removed for the suspected planting of bugging devices. >> it was saturday morningjune 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague of mine, chuck work, was on the phone. he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic nat

nixon was even though richard nixon is twice elected presidents took roger ailes is never elected to anything, but goes on to become the president of fox news and by the way works on a budget by the republican presidential campaigns in the meantime the. >> host: including hw bush. >> guest: exactly gets other republican presidents elected. the ailes legacy is so much bigger than the nixon legacy and we live with it today, but nixon himself is a far more interesting character than i could possibly imagine when i was a high school kid. as is nelson rockefeller who is one of his competitors in this story. the first fifth avenue billionaire to decide he's going to run for president as a republican, but he's running as a liberal republican, something that no longer exists and in this book we see literally the last liberal standing on a republican convention stage and that is the liberal mayor of new york, republican john lindsay who has two up on the stage as part of the nominating process for the vice presidents, something he was hoping maybe he could get himself and lindsay not only doe

i was assigned to photograph richard nixon. of course the strategy of getting that nomination was no easy task. one of the life photographers of roberticonic image and jfk in a hotel room, kind of deciding who they would offer the vice presidency to. lyndon johnson eventually becomes a running mate to jfk. i have seen this picture published in parts of the world where they are discussing the cuban missile crisis. or they are discussing armament. for this is a hotel where they are meeting with chris jeff -- with khrushchev. it wasn't long before he secured that nomination and really had to go out on the road to -- out on the road to improve himself. in california he is up there with governor pat brown. preparing some notes for a democratic rally. the wonderful thing about the kennedys as they never push photographers or writers away. they knew that if they made themselves accessible to the media -- it was a groundswell. there is no question about it that the media coverage of jfk was the first time we had ever seen anything like

but the richard nixon that they supported through the years was not the richard nixon that they thought they knew. >> every generation has to lose their virginity, and it was just the day that my generation did. but to think that we're the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. >> he is already before the cameras now. president richard milhous nixon, 37th president of the united states. >> throughout the long and difficult period of watergate i have felt it was my duty to persevere. >> watergate doesn't go away because it was so extraordinary, it was so hidden. >> we act like it can't happen again. and it did a lot of stuff after. there was a lot of hoo-haing and passing la, giving speeches. but if you ask me do i think we learned anything from it, no. >> i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president i must put the interests of america first. >> the president had been driven from office because the american people p learned the truth about rich

milhous nixon, do so let mely swear. >> i richard milhous nixon do so let mely swear. >> that you will faithfully executed the office of president of the united states. >> of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. [ applause ] ♪ >> the new president was in his office here at the white house at 7:30 this morning before anyone else on his staff and after only about four hours sleep. he's felt for some time he can do this job well and he was eager to get at it. >> president elect nixon today named another long-time aide h.r. haldeman, who served as chief of staff for the nixon campaign. haldeman is the closest thing to an alter ego the president has noted for his conservative views, his crew cut, and nonstop video taking. >> it was just an extremely exciting time for all of us. it was terribly hard work and very, very long diffic

pat buchanan, in the acknowledgment of your new book on your time with richard nixon, you write, this memoir and the history of the nixon presidency is actually the last to be who servedonfidant in the white house from his first two final day over four decades ago. how many others are left? mr. buchanan: i'm sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but i'm not sure they are going to. memoir, thisritten is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. brian: what did you put in this book that you never talked about before? mr. buchanan: the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. there were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. it,e is also the end of where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on inauguration day in 19 69 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. all of this is fresh and new. most of the

every one of those crises and then some with richard nixon. on the way back from china, kissinger had gotten word. i thought the shanghai communication was a sellout of taiwan. work,low piece of concessions alternate. it almost made me ashamed. problems?at's your i said turn these over in the statement about revolution and what we want. i say the japanese, they say japan is militaristic, we don't the part ofwn on taiwan. we basically accept their position. it was badly written. i would like to have written it. then you went forward and came back and henry started ragging me, you and your conservative friends have not supported us in the middle east, and we had. my face about that far from his and i yelled bs, and the vernacular. i think he enjoyed -- i don't know that he agreed that he entered the encounter. encounter.njoyed the p taught the worst diplomatic disaster in american history was yalta, signing freedom of those 10 countries of the soviet union and it was a horror show. but her in this betrayal. i said if i've been party to something

will also enjoy, john farrell talking about "richard nixon: the life." and our interview with evan thomas discussing his boo "being nixon: a mandy vided." you can search our entire video library at c-span.org. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, the economic policy institutes darren cooper from george mason university mercades center discuss the pros an continues of raising the minimum wage. and a reporter for u.s.as today reports on be sure to watch "washington journal," live on monday morning. join the discussion. unfoldsn, where history daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. british prime minister theresa may answered questions from members of the house of commons with the first time last month general election. many questions focused on the investigation surrounding the building fire in west london that claimed the lives of more than 79 people. this is

richard nixon did not have charisma. [laughter] >> lbj did not have charisma. [laughter] >> jack kennedy had charisma. could have possibly tipped the balance in some people's mines. smart as hell, too. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> washington journal continues. host: at our table this morning, justice correspondent for npr about thenson to talk fbi nominee christopher wray testifying on capitol

pat buchanan, in the acknowledgment of your new book on your time with richard nixon, you write, this memoir and the history of the nixon presidency is actually the last to be

but to let me tell you, this is as bad as it was in thehe final days of watergate with richard nixon. though tremendous hostility of the press, the media, any of those press conference looking like things were in the forum, and i think the real problem here is that the president senses that the 80 you are the enemy, and i think the media if you watch all three networks and the major networks of the press,

nixon did not know about the watergate break in in advance but he bore ultimate responsibility if you look at the statement of president obama this weekend he said he didn't approve is dropping on candidate trouble you notice he didn't say it didn't happen only that he didn't approve it of course if the justice department did ask the face a court for permission to serve ale candidate trump in june and against again in october it is unlikely that they did so without the permission and knowledge of the president so the question becomes what did obama know and when did he know it as i said this is a scandal far far greater than watergate and it may take some time in which the former president and his secretary of defense and his cia director and his f.b.i. director are dragged before a grand jury and question under oath about what they knew if i were president trump i would fire the f.b.i. director and within hours have him in front of the grand jury to find out what he knows this is potentially the greatest scandal in american history mr mr nigh agree with you that the president obama's

>> no, not since richard nixon was president when you had the attorney general of the united states, john mitchell, go to prison because, you know, the entire leadership of the justice department then was corrupted. and, you know, there is annett i can in the justice department that it is not just another department. the president can do what he wants at the department of commerce, he can do what he wants in the state department. he is in charge of american foreign policy. but the justice department has two missions. it is part of the administration but it is also part of the administration of justice which is supposed to operate neutrally and the same from one administration to the other, and that is a concept that is completely foreign to how donald trump is running his administration. and jeff sessions is trying to honor that tradition, and it's not working out so well for him so far. >> do you think it's just rhett could you s -- the recusal that sparked all this or is there something deeper here? >> it could be. today he talked about the fact that the justice department had not

. >> richard nixon developed quite a reputation as an anti-communist. as eisenhower's vice president, what was his role, if any, in the eisenhower/mccarthy intrigue? >> well, he was involved. the big thing in the book that we talk about is that richard nixon does a speech in response to a speech by adlai stevenson accusing the administration of being half eisenhower, half mccarthy. and nixon does that response very effectively. dick nixon was a political adviser to eisenhower including on things mccarthy. he was not directly involved with the operation that finally tied this gala of scandal around his neck, but nixon was a particularly important adviser especially after taft died. we're all afflicted with richard nixon because of the way he lived his presidency. but actually, he's a most interesting -- the irwin yellman, my colleague, has written a great book on ike and nixon on the vice presidency that i commend to you. stronger than mine. let's see, who's next? i cannot -- okay, sir. >> thank you for coming. i've noticed over the last century about ev

end of richard nixon. gerald ford ascends to the presidency but gerald ford has no republicans made a psychic investment in gerald ford, nobody outside of one congressional district has voted to for gerald ford. he has his hold on the republican party very tenuous and he wants to run for 76 but he confuses nixon's appeal with nixon's policies. he was barely conservative but not as conservative as reagan. [train horn] >> he pursues nixon's policies, continues dÉtente, his fiscal policies, to the bench. this creates an opening for conservative challenger 76 and some looked at it but re >> the reality is carter beat ford by an extremely slight difference. carter carries ohio in 1976 by 6,000 votes out of over 3 million cast. he carried -- the headquarters are in ohio so there is a lot of suspicion the teamsters but they wouldn't do that. >> no. >> let me quickly say the fact that ford came so close would seem to indicate there is a shift but reagan now it is definitely in his limits in the book to persist. h

the year of america, richard nixon, if you can in eve it, was 68% approval the gallup poll and 19% astonishing and nixon seven years before had written off as biggest loser in american politics. professor and novelest roxanne gay discusss life in her memoir "hunger." front see a woman on the of her book in fat pants and she's like, i did it. write that can't book yet and i want to write that back. so why don't i tell the story of my body today, without apology, is my fat of, this body and this is what it is like to be m this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend's to book t.v. dot org. >> "washington journal" continues. ost: and joining us now from san francisco is jessica pishko, contributor to the nation and the author of -- she did a recent investigation and uthored an article in the nation on the resentencing of uveniles serving life in prison. jes jessica, thank you for today. us talk about the reason for write thanksgiving article and doing this research, what prompted you look into this? uest: well, i think since last year the supreme court had a ruling which decided that very

thank you, again. >>> now, you heard in randy's piece about roger stone's ties to richard nixon. tonight at 8:00 p.m., tune in for "our nixon," about the president's time in office told only through arifootage and tap of the president himself. >>> coming up, a tabloid twist after the president's latest tweet scandal. the white house now accused of trying to blackmail two tv anchors. >>> plus, a "time" magazine cover featuring donald trump displayed with pride. the problem? it's a phoney. we'll explain when "cnn newsroom" returns. it's not just a car, it's your daily retreat. the es and es hybrid. lease the 2017 es 350 for $329 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. could save money on car insurance.nce you know, the kind of driver who always buckles up... comes to a complete stop... and looks both ways, no matter what. because esurance believes that's the kind of driver who deserves to save money on car insurance. in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. so if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. auto an

i am the president of the richard nixon foundation. we are honored to have several council members here today and a special member joining us today, shelley buchanan. [applause]

democrats and republicans alike for a long time that he became very attached to richard nixon long before nixon ran for president and so that kind of was his downfall because he became too close and he changed his views to nixon's abuse really and he started to defend the nixon administration so when the vietnam war came to its terrible climax he was among the people to be blamed for it and later for watergate which he did not denounce early enough. >> as i read your book i thought of billy graham as a foreshadowing novelistic, a foreshadowing of what happens after him. he was one person a larger-than-life figure but by the late 1970s to have an entire organized movement to make a marriage happened between conservative evangelicalism and fundamentalism and the republican party which we know is the christian right and a lot of the figures, a lot of the tv back in the day jerry falwell all of them larger-than-life across your pages. start with the birth of the christian right and it's trajectory. >> well, i think he was preceded by an upsurge of fundamentalism in the south. it was the secon

at the time. >> 49 states with unpopular -- richard nixon, two-time loser deeply unpopular, put together the greatest landslide in history with the city against him, both houses against him, the press against him. it was incredible achievement all, of course, wiped out in the public mind by what happened in watergate in '73 with saturday night massacre, shades of which -- [laughter] neil: let's not get ahead of ourselves. pat buchanan. some of the good news you might not be hearing the ongoing accumulation with market wealth. this is staggering myself. if wall street were worried about all the drama in the white house and does seem to fixate the media, we want to step back and look at that, $4 trillion in added wealth in the markets and they are still going higher even with the failure of health care, so what do they see and what are they betting on with their own money that maybe others are not appreciating here? we are on that. the half glads of the -- glass of the story and the back and forth with reince priebus and forth with reince priebus and anthony scaramucci, whethe listen. i re

the grand jury in the watergate matter wanted to indict richard nixon. and he said to they will, you cannot do this because a sitting president cannot be indicted. that was his decision. one personal. it's not a court. he wasn't a scholar. the grand jury compromised. they named him as an unindicted co-conspirator. >> is there a red line with the gop on trump? at what point would he go too far? first a look into the archives in tonight's thing one, thing two. after brushing, listerine® total care strengthens teeth, helps prevent cavities and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. >>> thing one. the new white house communications director scaramucci skarp apologized to donald trump for what he said for the 50th time -- >> another politician. >> he's a hack. >> it is anti-american. very, very divisive. i'll tell you who he will be president of. the queens county bullies association. >> why is he resonating? >> from queens county, b

the year of america, richard nixon, if you can believe it, was

richard nixon didn't have charisma. lbj had charisma. but jack kennedy had charisma. and i think that could have possibly tipped the balance in some people's minds. ? to our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >> senate republican leader mitch mcconnell released the latest version of the health care bill today. it would let insurers sell low-cost policies. while retaining cuts in medicaid. the bill could be voted on in the senate next week. earlier today, house speaker paul ryan and house democratic leader nancy pelosi spoke with reporters about health care legislation and other issues facing lawmakers. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> first i want to take a moment to talk about some flooding we've got right now in southeastern wisconsin. heavy rain has led to extensive flooding throughout our community. i spoke with governor walker. he has declared a state of emergency emergency in kenosha racine and walworth counties. i intend to return home to see firsthand and respond to recovery efforts on the ground and to assess the damage. the house co

nixon. >> there were going to break richard nixon as they broke lyndon johnson. but the -- but at the end of 68%, richard nixon was at approval in the gallup poll. astonishing. he had beenbefore, written off as the biggest loser in politics. roxanne discusses her life, body, and its impact on her life in her memoir. >> is the woman on the cover of a book standing in her fat pants , and i thought, i can't write that book get. i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology and just explanation of, this is my fat body, and this is what it is like to be in this world in this body? schedule, gon the to booktv.org. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, university of washington professor william compares the 1950's beatniks to the hippies of the 1960's. >> they were veterans of the great depression, world war ii, and the atomic age. the hippies were the optimistic children of the baby boom generation and the rising affluence of the postwar consumer boom. >> at 10 a quarter eastern, 30 years

. >> dickerson: jack, everybody is saying richard nixon, his secret see. comparing it to donald trump, in the trump campaign, they compared him to nixon, where do you the similar teas and differences >> there's a great similar tea in the investigation and the actual crime and they both alleged crimes were break inat the democratic national party headquarters. very little comparison between the two individuals. there's a little bit of similar tea in listening to nixon's tapes and reading president trump's tweets >> dickerson: you're seeing sort of what they did and future biographies and historians are going to have down on their knees praying god thanks every night. because president trump insisted on tweeting at a time when nobody writes letters or keeps diaries anymore. and despite the slight comparison in their ability to look out into their audience and find recent meant and actually turn that into votes. tell me about the two different timelines of history when we do it day-to-day, of course, we get everything right and it's perfectly in context but w

the former director of the richard nixon presidential library. c nr professor at princeton, and a joint fellow at the u.s. institute of peace and a former speechwriter for george w. bush. i want to start with you because it feels to me like we're in a very important moment in terms of congressional reaction to president trump. you saw senior republicans like mitch mcconnell publicly disagreeing with trump. on health care, three republican senators voted against, but i wanted to read -- lisa murkowski has called the secretary of the interior saying they will no longer support projects of hers in alaska. she responded -- this feels like a republican revolt against donald trump. >> it's beginning, i think we often hear a lot about president trump and his base. but really it's the republican party that protects him and it the republican party on which he depends, broadly defined. all these things you have talked about are some evidence that the fire wall of the republican congress is starting to weaken, if not fall apart. this is very significant. he

richard nixon allowed bob haldeman, his first chief of staff, to be the gatekeeper. the problem with haldeman and nixon is it didn't always work. nixon would go around haldeman. and haldeman also had some ethical personal problems. but the strong chief of staff is the haldeman model. when presidents leave that model, as we've seen with trump, they only encounter troubles. trump's problem is he lets other people talk to him, besides his tweeting. his problem is bannon has direct access, kushner has direct access. >> scaramucci. >> scaramucci has direct access. in order for a chief of staff, whether he's a general or not, to be successful, he has to be the gatekeeper. he has to not only control the president's time. he has to be able to tell people no, you can't see the president. will trump allow kelly to do that? we've seen trump delegate to mattis. but trump is delegating things he doesn't really understand. military operations. will he delegate to kelly? that's the key. and we'll see. >> the one thing i think we can say about kelly, military people generally have a

even though i was still just a kid, and, you know, the epublicans, they supported richard nixon, didn't understand they got to g on, the point and said, no, this is enough. you know. they weren't willing to just -- they when he was found out the things he was doing, you know, when he was wrong, they were the ones they put his, they were the ones that let him know, either resign or we're going to impeach you. they won't do this with trump. do this with him. nd i tell you what, i would rather dig up richard nixon's corpse with my bare hands, reanimate his corpse and put im in the white house and good lord knows that man was corrupt have m a democrat, but i ever seen -- it is like a cult with people supporting trump, it is like they are mooneys or something. never seen in all my life, anything like it. there is, he said, during the out and shoot somebody on fifth avenue and people would still vote for him. host: diane, appreciate you getting us on the topic of dead l.a. times, headline this morning, a headline on 4th of july. 4th of july. when three presidents died on the holiday, american

the grand jury in the watergate matter wanted to indict richard nixon. and he said to they will, you cannot do this because a sitting president cannot be indicted. that was his decision. one personal. it's not a court. he wasn't a scholar. the grand jury compromised. they named him as an unindicted co-couldn't spear or t co-conspirator. >> is there a red line with the gop on trump? at what point would he go too far? first a look into the archives in tonight's thing one, thing two. your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. [music playing] across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease. but what if, one day, there was a white flower for alzheimer's fi

ervin has had a battle with richard nixon for almost five years. was an imperial presidency. personal, he did not trust the man. ms. stahl: right from the beginning. in those days, we had a middle. we had conservative democrats and liberal republicans, and the country had a middle. we have lost that. i don't know that you can really do what you all did if there is not a middle. does anybody want to comment on that? mr. weicker: well, you've got to talk to each other in the first place. i don't think the rivalry or the partisanship was any less when i was in the united states senate, but -- and this is a big but -- when the bell rang and it was the end of the day, you used to go off together, republican and democrat, and that's where the business was done. you talked, in other words, and did the dealing so by the time you came back on the floor, you had a solution. now, if you don't talk to each other during the session, after the session, at no time, how can you get anything done? you cannot. >> we had parties back then, leslie. we stayed in washington. now, you stay in washi

to president richard nixon. >> they were going to break nixon as they broke lyndon johnson, but at the end of that -- 1969,0 year, richard nixon was that 68% approval. astonishing. here was nixon seven years he has been written off as the biggest loser in american politics. and a sunday, ses, professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her memoir. >> you see a woman on the cover of her book standing in her formally fat pants and she is like, i did it. i thought, i cannot write that book yet, and i write -- i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology, just explanation? this is what it is like to be in this body. >> for more on this week's schedule, go to book tv.org. >> president trump trip to the g 20 seven in poland, where he held a joint news conference in warsaw with the polish president eared he answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea. this is 25 minutes. >> the presence of united states of america and poland. most to sink was president, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure

richard nixon did not have charisma, lbj did not have charisma, by jack kennedy had charisma. i think they could've had chari. i think that could have possibly tipped the balance in some people's minds. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to www.c-span.org. >> the shot heard round the world happened right here at the northbridge. we are in concord, massachusetts to learn more about the battle that started the american revolution. >> by the bridge, here the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world. historicalational park was established to celebrate the activities and events which took place on april 19 1775. behind me is northbridge. this is considered to be the beginning of the american revolution, because it was here that colonial militia and british regulars encountered one another, shots were fired, and lives were lost on both sides. more importantly, it was where the colonial militia was ordered to fire upon the king's troops creating in essence an act of treason. massachusetts was a royal colony. there have been tensions growing w