he knew it was better to wait for nixon so that is the nixon defense. it's not a great defense but it didn't make any difference because chu wasn't going to go to paris anyway. >> thank you for coming. quick question you talk a lot about nixon and kissinger and i'm curious whether anti-semitism and give her fine throughout his life in a particular incident or events that caused that and also did you find any issues when he spoke to goal the meir and things of that issue? >> nixing gets on this thing about the number of jewish and the bureau of labor statistics and it's just awful. that's not the only time. nixon had a knee-jerk anti-semitism not typical of his generation or of other presidents. roosevelt and truman use bad words but his was worse. always with nixon was complicated he goes nixon loved gold the meir and she loved him. in 1973 kissinger and nixon are playing at a little bit queue. the nixon administration wants egypt to make some gains against israel because they think it will be a better piece that will come out of it but actually the war

nixon was -- this is bud krogh talking again -- nixon was flushed, drawn, exhausted. i saw him probably the most psychologically exposed, raw day of his presidency. nixon went to the capitol at 5:30. he wanted to show his chambers to his valet, manolo sanchez, who had never been inside. haldeman corralled him at 6:15 a.m. the president demanded a plate of corned beef hash at the mayflower hotel. he got it. haldeman urged him to get some rest, but nixon still could not sleep, and he rattled about the white house all day without purpose as a peaceful protest of 100,000 people swerved around him. haldeman wrote in his journal that day, weirdest day so far. [laughter] very weird. president completely beat and just rambling on but too tired to go to sleep. i am concerned about a his condition. about his condition. he has had very are little sleep for a long time. haldeman added that he had demanded the president take a five-day weekend in key biscayne, but that proved i futile. i quote again from haldeman's recently-declassified diaries. more of the same. he just keeps gri

he knew it was better to wait for nixon so that is the nixon defense. it's not a great defense but it didn't make any difference because chu wasn't going to go to paris anyway. >> thank you for coming. quick question you talk a lot about nixon and kissinger and i'm curious whether anti-semitism and give her fine throughout his life in a particular incident or events that caused that and also did you find any issues when he spoke to goal the meir and things of that issue? >> nixing gets on this thing about the number of jewish and the bureau of labor statistics and it's just awful. that's not the only time. nixon had a knee-jerk anti-semitism not typical of his generation or of other presidents. roosevelt and truman use bad words but his was worse. always with nixon was complicated he goes nixon loved gold the meir and she loved him. in 1973 kissinger and nixon are playing at a little bit queue. the nixon administration wants egypt to make some gains against israel because they think it will be a better piece that will come out of it but actually the war

nixon was the strategists. nixon's grand strategy is something to be met admired in the end even though he failed. kissinger is probably tied for first place for the reasons nixon started taping himself in the white house. this is hard to understand, but it's true. nixon installed the taping system and it wasn't just the white house. the white house and executive office building, it was camp david and all the telephones for two reasons. one, he thought no one would ever find out about them until after he left office and he can write a multimillion dollar memoir and it would be a defense against the memoirs of henry kissinger. no washington memoir ever makes himself come out to be anything less than a brilliant man. kissinger was interested in power. through proximity to power and through proximity to the president, and unflagging work, he rose german refugee to become a secretary of state under nixon. for better or for worse. >> i have a follow-up question for your previous response. i understand why nixon made

nixon. i believed then and i believe now that we were about to lose a president because of inadequately representative. i demanded a seat at the table and i transcribed the tapes, i ran the documents in the room that held the files and i briefed the senior staff and i staffed the presidential counselors on watergate. you may remember it ended rather badly. it's not just that i lost my first case, but we lost a president. i left rather bitter about the whole experience. maybe you remember the mantra was no man is above the law and that's true, but about 12 years ago i decided i'd go back and have another look and see what led to and how watergate unfolded. i discovered something something that i hadn't realized before and that's that the special prosecutors, being government employees, their files are kept even today at the national archives. it's a little hard to get into them, take some time and you have to put in a request and know what you're looking for. if you persevere, you can read th

>> 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 earlier 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 were apparently unarmed, and no one yet knows why they were there. the film in the camera hadn't been exposed. in any case, they're being held. >> the democratic national committee is housed in the fashionable watergate complex. the break-in prepared 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 morning, june 17th. the phone rang, it was about 6:30. a colleague of my mine was on the phone, he said, hello, it's chuck. we have a hot one. we have a burglary at the democratic national committee head

nixon nixon asked me to draft several personal nixon too long telegrams containing extravagant expressions of friendship and support. recalled marshall greene, the secretary of state. i was concerned he would read into those messages, degree of u.s. military support and commitment that exceeded what our government could deliver on, given congressional attitudes in particular. also regarded him as lacking any qualities needing to lead his country out of its mass. does any of this ring a bell? as it i want helms to develop and implement total plans with maximum assistance to elements in cambodia he instructed. cia dir. helms, promised, promised to support nixon's military effort on traceable money and guns, swiss gold and an arsenal of weapons. this proved difficult. cambodia had no america ambassador, no ci station chief, no ci military intelligence officers on the ground. casting around the world, the cia called upon john stein, a veteran cia officer with plenty military experience in africa but none in indochina. he reported back back to the white house and got straight to the point quote

being nixon admin divided. mr. thomas.chardn al was richard nixon alwaysing to n fascinated to theew news media. he liked it. it was an extremely shy, awkward lonely figure who likes being at the center of events.wkward, i don't know how crazy he was,. i'm not a shrink, that he needed something, he wanted something in the public escape him what he wanted. >> hope and fear waves the constant battle at the end of the presidency. nixon accomplished a great deal. he was an obsession with his enemies. he just couldn't need to loan his enemies. don't call this number but send a text message to (202)465-6842. we are going to be talking about richard nixon, adding comments who has written many books and we will talk about those as well. as a historical figure is a fascinating and important? >> he was one of the most successful politicians. he accomplished a great deal and is the only president to be driven from office. that alone would keep them in the history books. he stands for something sad and that is the legacy after

we think that we know nixon but what was it like to be nixon. that's what i set out to try to find out. how could someone that is so shy and so awkward be so successful at politics? how could this man become one of the most successful politicians of the 20th century, and he was painfully shy and so bad at small talk sometimes he couldn't talk at all he would just wave his arms. we've all done this at cocktail parties. mixing ray and into mrs. kennedy and said this must bring back memories. [laughter] she was always trying to impress the press so before you started the campaign in 1968 he was the great anchorman at the hotel room and he gave him a drink and he said i will have sherry and he thought to himself that might not be manly enough, so i will have a double cherry. [laughter] >> mixing really didn't like people said they wanted to get to the state dinners to cut them short they got a stopwatch and they got the state dinners down to 58 minutes and they did it by eliminating the soup course because nixon would still serve over his taxi taxi.

. >> up next the nixon presidential library, geoff shepard, member of president nixon's watergate defense team argued this misconduct by the judges and prosecutors involved in the watergate trials. >> in the evening. i'm the president of the richard nixon foundation and i'm pleased to welcome you indifference of the foundation's geoff shepard. when i first took this position, geoff shepard's name is often identified as a person very active with the foundation and since i found that he was organizing reunions going back to domestic policy group within the nixon administration. later he had developed a number of legacy forums that were held across the united states that represent policies and achievements of the administration. then i heard he was writing about. when i finally met jeff he became a good friend i now understand all the current efficiencies made to the foundation and in particular in the nixon legacy. in the book you striving is finally here so we are very pleased to give them this opportunity it's his first stop. the book came out on monday we are honored to have him here for

"the nixon tapes: 1973," which is out this month, assembled from the final batch of nixon tapes released in 2013, it is an inside look of an embattled president. joining me now, douglas brinkley. douglas, let's take a look at this. after bringing the vietnam war to a close in 1973, richard nixon said he had achieved, quote, peace with honor. behind the scenes, nixon was still playing hardball with the north vietnamese over the release of p.o.w. saying if north vietnamese dragged its feet, he would not agree itself. here's nixon in a conversation with henry kissinger just one month after signing the peace accords. >> what do you make of that, douglas? whether he cares about agreement or certainly doesn't care about the wording of it much. >> no, you know, the paris peace accord happened in the big provision nixon was worried about was getting those p.o.w.s released. it was signed january 27th of 1973. he wanted their names and locations. he had secretary of state rogers deal with 12 countries finding these p.o.w.s. and no matter what, he'll go right back to war if he doesn't get them rele

nixon there. the empathy, if you have any empathy for nixon, it's got to -- it was like the chinese water torture of old. one thing after another, telling him he's finished, that he would like to get it over, it looks like there. >> that's right. and you can hear it in his voice, chris. that's where the tapes are interesting to listen to, hot just read the transcripts. you can just see he's being beaten on all sides. he really, i think, is thinking about resigning early so he didn't have to go through a whole year of what he ended up going through. we already know lyndon johnson stepped down the '68 over pressures from vietnam and i think nixon was toying with the idea there, what you just played. and you could start feeling his administration unraveling in this period. >> i love looking at documents like that. first of all, they're primary documents your putting out, this is the real deal. and you never know when you're going to come across something that just gets to you, that's a wow. anyway, c

nixon scholars have looked at the checkered speech and used it to forecast what nixon would become. if you take a look at several campaign, the 1952 several decisions, several changes. not only more interesting, but more important. able to forecast where politics is going. for that, both eisenhower and stevenson can take credit. writtenction has been as if eisenhower did not run against anybody. it doesn't work like that. i think what you have to do is to think in terms of context and texture. 1952, leastone this of all me in 1985. let's take a couple of these moments and talk about what they bring to the table. beenirst of what has dismissively called the surrender. eisenhower, who had just prior going to nato, served as a college president at columbia university, maintained his home there at morningside heights in upper new york city. he invites bob taft to bury the hatchet and hopefully not have bob taft bury the hatchet in him. because, there were a lot of conservatives who were hurt at what happened in the convention at the change of the rule, and bob taft did not -- if bob taf

and nixon was fascinated earlier. henry got nixon cranked up and then he started cranking each other up. kissinger told nixon that shows that you are a link weakling mr. president. so crimes lead to more crimes than he was involved in the early plotting including the wiretaps and and associates, surveillances and meetings where the nation's highest officers were smearing antiwar dissidents on both treasonous allegiance is where they were plotting to block mail former presidents and throw up. couple of states and the institute and give orders to run the paramilitary operations that led to watergate. even as vietnam and watergate were beginning to break up the old national security state, kissinger who had survived and we can talk later on in the questions about how we manage to survive watergate and continue on under the successor gerald ford was helping with the reconstruction of the national security state and a new form, kind of a restored imperial presidency capable of moving forward into the post-vietnam world and

we are in the nixon library. and richard nixon refused to debate george mcgovern in 1972. you bet it can be done. and hillary clinton would be out of her mind to debate ted cruz. he would take her apart, muscle and joint. and that's why i recommend that she simply declare the republican party has chose to nominate barry goldwater i will not be in a debate with him. i wrote this book, forewarned is forearm elfed. think that's what she will do. what die write about ted cruz? he could lose or win in a landslide. i don't know. depends on lightning in a aboutle and what the mood of the country is. you have no idea about these things. carly fiorina. theirs is the peril of writing a book a year before the election, and publishing it right in the middle of a serge of a person you dismissed as a noncandidate. i have to tear few page out and chew on them a little bit because i said, don't engage, don't respond, don't talk to her. she is dangerous. great advice. hillary is following it. car carli -- carly is mad at me. i wrote you have no upside in engaging with carly fiorina. she is

look at the nixon library, it was called the richard nixon library and birth birthplace and it was not able to continue and that is why they were sought seeking out the national archives. >> you made a wonderful presentation. my question is a sign of time, everything is digitized now. there any idea that may be the oldest archive will be available in digital and in the clouds? >> guest: one of the things i did on the hill is planned hearings. i wrote the script. if you watch hearings there is a script. even the jokes were scripted. so i would write the hearing and invite the witnesses and take the topics. it was a scary situation when i realized that would be my responsibility. congress passed a bill a few years ago acquiring the archives to produce a report a report on alternative models for presidential libraries. i took that report and developed hearings and said these are the five different ways we could go forward. so we set up a series of hearings, at the time, i was responsible for hearings of the census bureau and we had hearings on the national archives on electronic records.

with nixon you look at the smoking gun. but here -- >> remember, nixon, there wasn't a smoke gun at first. he gave 1,200 hours of here's a bunch of tapes and then they found the missing seconds of the tapes. and so it's not that we -- >> but changed impressions of nixon. we suspected our presidents used foul language. he proved it. >> it utterly destroyed his presidency. hillary clinton has to get ahead of this and if she doesn't or if a felony charge -- all of nixon's men started falling. december ''7 to 2 nixon says i'm on top the world, the biggest landslide, the china deal. he felt like everything was perfect. weeks later, all he is worried about is watergate dish. >> the democratic mott in the? >> right now. >> to the white house? >> i don't know. >> i don't think she'll be the democratic nominee. >> i think if it's just bernie sanders and her shell be the democratic nominee. if joe biden gets in whole new 'ball game. >> you could get the nomination. thank you. this is interesting. >> didn't cancel me when the pope is

nixon was not the first president. presidents before and after him -- rugs are a pretty -- drugs are a pretty easy political issue. beingeople can agree on tough on traffickers. it is a pretty easy issue for politicians to gain political capital. the countries i looked at were thailand, burma, and mexico. the reason i look to those countries was that the drug that u.s. policymakers and officials were most concerned about and that they thought it the most damage or caused the most crime was heroin. when you look at where heroine is coming globally, it's thailand, burma, mexico. the goal of the policies with fordixon and administrations, and somewhat with the carter administration was source control, eliminating illegal drug use at the source. it's a more efficient policy and use of resources versus, say, interdiction, trying to interdict drugs coming into the country. that usually stems about 15% of the flow. the thought was and still is that if you can go to the source -- production,on in this case, places where opium

now, the nixon library began in controversy. it was the only presidential library to be operated privately for 17 years. the process is that the president creates private foundation, raises the money and then hands it over to the government and donates to the government and the government runs on behalf of the american people. there are over a dozen legislative authorities that require to preserve records, make them available. there's one mention of museums but so much focus, so much effort is placed in con -- in public programs that celebrate the president that the archive -- i know tim and i have discussed some things about this, you know, i make a case from a congressional side that, you know, if we didn't put the money into the exhibits, we might be able to put them in the archives, although, he has pointed out and corrected me correctly, by the way, that the congress wouldn't give more money to the archives, they would take it away. i started off by thinking that there might be a way to reform, maybe a way to balance out no

tell us about that. >> well, it turned out that pat nixon, richard nixon's wife, the former first lady in 1987 saw donald trump on the phil donahue show and nixon sort of fell in love with donald trump. nixon wrote a note to donald trump saying if you decide to get into politics, you're going to do to do extremely well. now you see donald trump adopting the silent majority motif for his own campaign. that's what nixon used in 1969 to go after the anti-vietnam war demonstrators so there's an interesting note of history connecting trump with nixon. >> would you call that a posthumous endorsement? >> well, i don't know who it helps. i don't know who nixon's constituency is at this point. >> exactly. >> but nevertheless, it's the same workers that nixon was trying to win over during '68 and '72 that donald trump is reaching out to people fed up with hue better humphrey, lyndon johnson, and you see trump trying to generate momentum by being feds up with the obama people. >> thank you. appreciate all of you joining us this evening. >> thank you. >>> coming up, with the pope's arrival in the

nixon was a hater, okay? it's all on tape. he hated blacks, he hated jews, he hated liberals, he -- and once you were on his you know what list, let's just say his enemies list, you were there for life. on the other hand, you know, the united states had supported the creation of the state of israel in the year nixon came to congress. the united states had never wavered in that support. and in those days the egyptians and the syrians were supported by the soviets. okay? now, there's a terrible moment during the 1973 war, the yom kippur be war that you refer to, when, indeed, after a number of snafus an emergency airlift of weapons was organized from the united states to tel aviv. the soviets are are detected by american intelligence sensors shipping nuclear warheads through the dardanelles into the mediterranean. the national security council, kissinger, cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs meet. nixon is noncampos mentis because that week had happened the saturday night massacre in which the attorney general and the assi

the chapter on nixon is the nixon ford chapter. i really wanted to college because injured chapter -- i wanted to call it the kissinger chapter. i could not convince bill to agree. fory kissinger, for god or , had hisod or for bad own dynamic as a very powerful foreign-policy maker. at one point he was both national security advisor and secretary of state. he initiated this contact with castro without asking richard nixon's permission. it was right in the summer of watergate, and nixon was clearly going to be besieged -- impeached and leaves. he did this with the guy who ends up being president of national public radio, a longtime democrat who would provide perfect political cover if it were ever leaked that kissinger used him to send a message to castro. and then really, when we look at thatecord, it became clear he said very little to gerald ford. the stuff that he did say about what he was doing was kind of lies by omission. , very very cryptic clipped. at some point he would say things that were not quite true. he would go in a

so there's this real question of that nixon block, that nixon majority, does that nixon majority exists in america. >> why do we assume they're all white. nixon made great inroads into the african-american community. he got a third against john kennedy, 28% against hubert humphrey, he put more money into the african-american business community than any president in history. >> you know what the trajectory of republican vote totals and you know donald trump right now has an unfavorability rating of 79% among non-white voters. >> so people have a choice. they can choose opportunity and job growth and prosperity and future for the american dream or they can argue about immigration. i'm arguing that at the end of the day trump as someone who can return the country to prosperity will have appeal to all voters not just white voters. >> you think the numbers will change? >> they've already started to change. >> this is the last gasp of dog whistle politics in terms of using racism strategically to recruit white voters to vote for republican party principles that is arguably against most white

i think the american people must forget about nixon. >> good morning. we are about to see something which as far as we know may never have been seen before in american history. a sitting president of the united states testifying before a congressional committee. >> the committee will be in order. >> i had just been out of law school for a few years. i was the last person on that subcommittee to ask a question. and i thought for sure somebody in the subcommittee would ask president ford the tough questions about the pardon. nobody asked the questions. >> i would like to point out, mr. president, that circumstances of the pardon which you issued, the secrecy with which it was issued made people question whether or not in fact it was a deal. >> mrs. holtzman i repeat with emphasis if we had had an indictment, a trial, a conviction, that the attention of the president, the congress and the american people would have been diverted from the problems that we have to solve. >>ford now looks very smart in history for issuing the pardon. it did not look that grea

over time, president nixon's decision paid dividends. these relations aren't perfect, but we know we made progress. china sat with us, trying to stop iran from developing a nuclear weapon. in the late 1980's, reagan started negotiations about nuclear reductions. it was in conceivably that that could really negotiate. who would imagine that these two countries, the united states and the soviet union could sit down and reach an agreement, limiting the use of nuclear weapons? the cold war was far from over. in 1979, they invaded afghanistan to spread communism and led president carter to halt efforts. the list is lengthy, the soviet aggression at that moment in time and yet it was president ronald reagan who said he would sit down and negotiate with the soviet union. let me read a letter about the opposition reagan faced with the soviet union. it may sound familiar to what you're hearing today about president obama's efforts in iran. already, right wing groups have mounted a strong campaign. they have close to 300,000 letters opposing it an

politicalld trump's appeal a cartoon version of richard nixon? the current candidates are understandably struggling with coming to group with the phenomenon of trump. none has put together the pieces as reagan did. your response. guest: i read that piece yesterday and tweeted bill kristol gets with the program. i think what he is saying is trump is a pragmatic conservative. he is not a purist. he believes we should tax hedge fund managers who are currently avoiding millions of dollars worth of taxes. trump gets no advantages.he pays an enormous amount in taxes. the average businessperson in his country is paying a high tax rate. why should this special niche of financial operators making millions not pay? that violates the orthodoxy. i went to a very nice dinner this past saturday and many people there were aghast at this idea. i think this idea will sell to the american people and populist republicans. i think it will sell in a general election. i will give you another example. he did propose in 2000 that there would be a one time surtax dedicat

black members had boycotted president nixon's speech. two days later, the chairman said president nixon would like to meet with the caucus. so that's how that occurred. we did subsequently meet with him. it was a long and tedious experience to arrive on the appropriations committee from the last place on the committee. you have to realize, i went on the committee as the first black on the committee. there were 55 members of the committee. and there were 35 democrats and 20 republicans, that was the ratio, on the democratic side, i was put in the 35th slot so that meant that it was going to be a long time before i got any seniority. members of the appropriations committee did not get defeated and very few of them died, you didn't move up very much at all. i think it was 10 years before i moved one spot on that committee. between 19 -- i guess it was 1971 i went on the committee. and i left in 1999. by then i had come to be the third in seniority on the full committee. and i had also been a subcommittee chairman. i chaired the va hud, inde

and so nixon was scheduled to come to the house to give a state of the union address that evening. bill clay and i were on the floor. and i said to bill, i said, bill, you know what, since nixon won't meet with us, we ought to boycott his coming here to congress tonight for our state of the union message. i said, none of us should appear here for that speech. i said, let him look out in that audience and see an all-white audience with no black representatives and i think things can change. bill agreed with me immediately. bill got busy contacting other members of the congress and we talked to them about it. and everyone agreed. that night there wasn't a single black on the floor in the united states congress. the media picked it up, the following morning it went all over the world that black members had boycotted president nixon's speech. two days later, chairman charlie davis got a call from the white house saying president nixon would like to meet with the caucus. and so that's how that occurred. we did subsequently meet with him. it was a long and tedious experience to rise on t

i am the president of the richard nixon foundation and i am pleased to welcome you and a friend of the foundation, jeff shepard. when i when i first took this position, geoff shepard's name was often identified as a person very active with the foundation. soon i found out out he was organizing reunions and later he had developed a number of legacy forums held across the united states and then i heard he was writing a book. when i finally met who became a good friend and i now understand the contributions he has

nixon was moved. he was not casual sending young men into battle. >> as a new congressman in 19401947 feet toward europe. what city did he visited y? >> a rebel and 46 and 47. they went to berlin. i think they went to vienna. they went to whatever city they couldn't eastern europe and saw the shock of the war and how bad europe was. the united states needed to spend a lot of money in the plan that came out of that was enormously generous great act by the united states. >> that they have paid things men jfk assassination. please explain why. >> accessed -- obsessed with the notion that the president kennedy had order to kill president need him in vietnam. it does not exist. but when kennedy learned he was shocked. >> next call, a few minutes left. >> hello. my question, when is mr. thomas going to write? i would really like to no more about them. a very good book by w a swanberg that won the national book award. i would recommend if you are curious. >> mike, king furred -- part of me, mike kingsport te

in chile, kissinger urged president nixon to take a "harder line" against the country's democratically elected president salvador allende. on september 11, 1973, allende was overthrown by the u.s.-backed general augusto pinochet. in jakarta, indonesia kissinger , and president gerald ford met with indonesia's dictator general suharto in jakarta to give the go ahead to invade east timor. which indonesia did on december 7, 1975. the indonesians killed of the one third timorese population. kissinger also drew up plans to attack cuba in the mid 1970's after fidel castro sent cuban forces into angola to fight forces linked to apartheid south africa. while human rights activists have long called for kissinger to be tried for war crimes, he remains a celebrated figure in washington and beyond. ,oining us now is greg grandin author of the new book "kissinger's shadow: the long , reach of america's most controversial statesman." he's a professor of latin american history at new york university. his previous books include, "fordlandia: the rise and fall of henry ford's forgotten jungle city," "t

what i admire about nixon is his tenacity. to a very different and long career, he got knocked down repeatedly but he got back up. host: was richard nixon alive when you had the tattoo put on your back? it?o, did he see guest: unfortunately, he had already passed by the time i got the tattoo. i did it in remembrance of him. he was a good friend and mentor of mine. it was president nixon who introduced me to the reagan people and got me my job with president reagan. i worked on governor reagan's andpaigns in 1976, 1980, 1984. richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. texas labor day weekend, three days of politics, books, and american history. here are a few of the features for a labor day monday, beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. discussing the pros and cons of big data and civil liberties. later that evening at 6:30, a debate on how to reduce poverty between president obama and the president of the american enterprise institute, arthur brooks. at 8:00, former presidents bill cli

over time, president nixon's decision paid dividends in america's interests. china moderated its foreign policy and established better relations with our country. these relations aren't perfect but we know that we made progress and we are in negotiation and china sat with us on the same side of the table trying to stop iran from developing a nuclear weapon. more recently in the late 1980's , president ronald reagan began discussions with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. it was unconceivable when the talks started in october of 1986 that they could really negotiate. who would imagine that these two countries, the united states and the soviet union, with thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at one another could sit down and reach an agreement limiting the use of nuclear weapons. the cold war was far from over at that time. in 1979 soviet forces invaded afghanistan and continued to attempt to spread communism and led president carter to halt negotiations to the salt 2 arms limitation treaty. the list of aggression of the soviet iewp was -- soviet union was long

louis, but our country, and we're going to try to lead. >> reporter: and governor nixon says he's fully committed to finding that funding for those reforms. but with just 16 months left in office, scott, critics question whether his successor or the republican-controlled legislature will follow through. >> pelley: michelle miller in st. louis this evening. michelle, thanks. what happens when your number comes up but lottery officials don't pay up? the largest volcano in japan blows its stack. and a giant whale drops in on a tiny boat. cont the "cbs evening news" continues. om start to finish. love your laxative. miralax. every time you take advil you're taking the medicine doctors recommend most for joint pain. more than the medicine in aleve or tylenol. the medicine in advil is the number one doctor recommendation for joint pain. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil when your windshield needs for these parents, driving. around was the only way... ...to get their baby to sleep. so when their windshield got cracked, we can't drive this car they wanted it fixed right... ...so th

richard nixon was quite a young man. he was a young vice president. our grandparents didn't business and pleasure. you didn't see a lot of his associates around a dinner program to white house movies. that's another indication. it's fair to say next and was used a lot as a vice president, especially overseas. the fact they didn't have a relationship outside of business i don't think is the way we would have to examine that subject. that i want to emphasize did change later, especially when my brother got involved with nixon's daughter. they were instant family. when granddad passed away, the nixon's were very good to my grandmother and she said they took embarrassingly good care of her. become familyd eventually but during the presidency was when it was strictly business. steve: i want to broach a touchy subject. please bear with me. it's camp david. [applause] susan: sore subject. mary: i have an exclamation for that. and ifd was very fair one of us got something, the others got something so i'm the youngest. camp david was named for my brother and a

surely chisholm comes in and interrupts the plan and nixon wins. it's a disaster. and then you have african-americans looking to their party, where you and they are not helping. they're not winning. they have jimmy carter fall apart and the response of the democratic party, the black peoples party is to say we are going to walk away. we are going to adopt the tough on crime message of your and our opponents. we are going to be more like them. sorry but the issues he talked about we can't talk about. jesse jackson can't deal with it. jackson wants to become -- and i think as you see african-americans pushed back these fractures existed under the surface. they burst forth and now you have the southern democrat, southern governor essentially what he saw as the death of a former president of united states. i was the first black president. you are with us. you are talking about the war but saying to their aspirations no, hillary and then you saw what had been years and decades under --. >> host: you talk about this fracture beginning with lbj and in 72 he talk about it.

being nixon, very quickly in 1973, 1974 what were your impressions of nixon? in the white house? >> guest: they close down everyday and if you were a reporter you would go there early in the morning and wouldn't get out until after nightfall because you are working all the time. one of the things that impressed me most was the white house press corps at that time. we were colleagues then. we were so careful about what we said because we knew the consequences were big with little speculation and opinion making. i would work really hard with john chancellor and the nightly news and then get on the phone. now i would be asked to go on "msnbc" and then there would be a lot of opinions that what preface what i would have to say. in those days it was almost methodical hop carefully worried they would check with each other. fred zimmerman is a great report from the wall street journal. if i found something i wasn't entirely confident about i would go to him. they had a terrific staff at the lower level. staff and other people who have concerns about the fate of the country. it was a gre

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what i admire about nixon is his t tenacity. the fact that through a difficult and long career, he d got knocked down repeatedly, but got back up. >> was nixon alive when you had the tatoo put on your back and if so, did he see it? reaction?e ti unfortunately, he had passed by the time i got the tatoo. i did it in remembrance of him. he was a very good friend and mentor of mine. to the it was president nixon who n' introduced me to the reagan people. richard nixon gave me myt politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. stone, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. guest: great to be here. host: we will have live coverage of donald trump's news conference from new york city at 2:00 eastern time on c-span television. the washington post with wrenching photos driving home the tragedy of the syrian refugee crisis. coming up, bill frelick will be with us. on, what the iran nuclear deal means now that the president has 34 democratic votes. lawmakers return next week. this is c-span's washington journal for this th

what i admire about nixon is his tenacity. to a very different and long career, he got knocked down repeatedly but he got back up. host: was richard nixon alive when you had the tattoo put on your back? it?o, did he see guest: unfortunately, he had already passed by the time i got the tattoo. i did it in remembrance of him. he was a good friend and mentor of mine. it was president nixon who introduced me to the reagan people and got me my job with president reagan. i worked on governor reagan's andpaigns in 1976, 1980, 1984. richard nixon gave me my start in politics, for which i will always be grateful. host: mr. >> and a gallon will de role of progressiveness in the 2016 presidential campaign. we will talk to adam the city, trade reporter with politico about the status of the transpacific trade deal. "washington journal," live each morning on c-span. >> the sudden death of president harding, vice president calvin coolidge takes office. grace coolidge was enormously popular as first lady and influence the taste of american wo

there will be another nixon. anthony: define those guys for us. ken: harry truman? when harry truman retired, somebody asked him to make a speech. he said i' m sorry you are only offering this to me because i was president of the united states, and that is not for sale. hillary clinton and bill clinton -- a billion dollars. they are not alone. republican presidents have done the same thing. statistically, there will be another harry truman, another nixon without paranoia. another george h.w. bush, who by the way, would recognize that a promise is a promise. for as many times as i in person heard him say -- no new taxes, to me i made a commitment to the american people, and if it meant congress, i' is my bond. and he paid for it. he had a 90% approval rating. ken: perot is the guy that said -- rightfully so. ross perot would have been a superb president. there are a lot of things going on that don' t make sense, but the fact of the matter is, i do believe that ross in good part cost george h.w. bush the presidency. he got 20% of the vote. gary: "wall street week" wil

richard nixon in 1971 and gerald ford dealt with inflation. i think we have come a long way since that. >> i would like to thank jim again [applause]. i would not be doing my duty as a publisher, that you can acquire a copy of this book for a very modest consideration, tax-free at the table at the back. thank you also much. [applause]. combo [inaudible conversation] >> you are watching tv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at book tv.org. >> when you look at the world of the supreme court has played in our society now, our history series has to has relevance. as we thought about what we can do to give relevance to our current program, a series on the court made all the sense in the world. >> the court is an equal branch of government, it is the third branch of government. it still has fundamental impact on america's lives. >> inside this elegant building is a court where cases are heard, decisions are made, that impact all of our lives. there are so many incredibly interesting cases in the court hist

shortly chisholm comes income address the plan, nixon winds, it is a disaster. sort of saying these black holes. and thenholes. and then here and african-americans looking to the party, where you? they are not healthy, winning,healthy, winning, capable. jimmy carter falls apart plan the response of the democratic party is to say we arewe're going to walk away. there going to adopt the tough on crime message of your and our opponent and will be more like them. >> jesse jackson, we can do it. as you see african-americans pushback, these fractures existed under the surface. now you have this southern democrat, southern governor essentially trying to repay what he saw this is dead. i was the 1st black president. your thoughts. and this is a fantasy. again, you were talking about the. that was read as commits hillary's time. that is selfsomething have been years and decades of underlying fractions burst open. >> host: you talk about this fracture beginning with lbj. and then talk about it during the clinton administration. there are number of things you mentioned in