and in doing so, he addressed the question of old nixon versus new nixon? and newsweek magazine had him on the cover, time had him on the cover, all these major publications were writing about him and basically accepting that yes, there is a new nixon. host: the first to enter the race in 1968 was governor romney , and he was the first to leave the race in 1968. what happened? guest: romney i don't think he ever managed to graduate from state politics to national politics. i used to cover presidential campaigns for the wall street journal and i covered a lot of governors in those days. it is a totally different situation from being governor of a state and running for the presidency. the stuff comes at you in a -- you have to move so fast, you can't make a mistake. and when he said he had been brainwashed in vietnam, it made him a figure of fun. mccarthy expressed as well, perhaps devastatingly, said perhaps a light rinse would have been adequate. guest: the issue of civil rights. again, rockefeller and romney run and were pro-civil rights. after the civil v

image nixon had an problem. part was from the press conference we talked about, part if it were elements of his personality that didn't go over well. he interested in the fall of 1966 in terms of campaigning for republicans all over america. he was everywhere. he campaigned for liberal republicans, moderate republicans, conservative republicans. in doing so, he addressed the question of the old nixon versus .he new nixon all of these major publications were writing about him. a sickly accepting that yes, there is a new nixon. host: the first to enter the race in 1968 was a governor george romney. he was the first to leave in february of 1968. what happened? guest: romney did not manage to graduate from state politics. lot of governors, and it is a totally different situation from being the governor of the state and running for the presidency. the stuff comes at you in a deluge. the margin for error is is very low. mccarthy expressed it pretty well devastatingly when he said, probably a light rise would have been

in doing so, he addressed the question of old nixon versus new nixon? they had him on the cover of all these major publications and basically accepting that yes, there is a new nixon. governor romney was the first to enter and also leave the race. what happened? managed't think he ever to graduate from state politics to national politics. i used to cover presidential campaigns. it is a totally different situation from being governor of a state and running for the presidency. you have to move so fast, you can't make a mistake. what he said he had been brainwashed in vietnam, it made -- devastatingly he said probably a light rinse would have been adequate. >> the issue of civil rights. again, rockefeller and run were pro-civil rights. after the civil voting rights republican party becomes opposed to mandatory -- opposed to federal desegregation effort, the war on poverty targeting african-americans is a total failure and example of government overreaching. the only issue, but i think it is a central issue. i think it is hard to see how romney and the brai

nixon went to china. with a stroke of his pen, the environmental protection agency, he signed legislation that increased tenfold the number of young women who were able to get athletic scholarships, the social security cost-of-living increases that some of us rely upon came into being in the nixon administration and were signed by richard nixon. he was the single most, to supervise desegregation of 7 schools. what to make of him, what is the lesson about richard nixon. if he would say if he were here. and the polarized nation, teams tearing at each other's throats. i say that because of the last scene in the white house to leave washington and go back to exile in san clemente, when he sums up what happened to him and his own shakespearean tragic story, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy your self. that is the main reason why nixon now, a cautionary tale of what can happen to good souls who destroy themselves because they give into the baser passion of things like 8 - ha

nixon favored guidelines. they get sent the question of timetables, photos, and -- and all of quotas, that which was messy at the time. opposed tong, nixon school busing. he finessed the first, assurance on the second, and absolute assurance on the third, which was the vice president. d.c. john in washington, have questions for both. what significant role did the -- wheren party play they embracing black american voters? judicialrecovery act, protection for defendants of [indiscernible] he cannot have passed the voting act without strong support from republicans. there were republicans in congress and around the country who supported the voting rights. the republican party had a substantial, moderate wing that was pro-civil rights. some of it was in the midwest and northeast. the party was heterogeneous ideologically, as was the democratic party. 1968, three short years, that position was no longer viable in the national republican party. it was hard to see a path for romney or rockefeller given their pro-civi

i have studied nixon since the kennedy campaign. i have no doubt the trail will lead to the oval office if we can hang in there long enough. >> that was on the slow burn podcast a couple months ago digging out that artifact from how the democrats fought their side of the fight in watergate. now today, surprise, that artifact from watergate not only proved itself to be dug up, today it reanimated and came back to life. look. today the dnc, the democratic party today, filed a forgotten watergate-style civil freaking lawsuit against the trump campaign over the russia scandal. it's about the way they were broken into in this scandal like dnc headquarters were broken into in the summer of 1972. today, the dnc contends that although it was russia who did the hacking to break into dnc headquarters, they allege the trump campaign and people associated with the campaign were partners in this crime. the list of defendants is long. the dnc is suing the russian federation, which means russia, gru, russian military intelligence, the specific sta

it is going the end up to the president and right to richard nixon. nobody believed them when they started. the lawsuit itself was the way they chose to try to get to the bottom of what was going on. but, also to keep it in the public eye. for example, when they found something new in their investigation into what happened behind the watergate burglary. one of their tactics was that they would amend their lawsuit and amend their complaints in the lawsuit. that would result in a new filing showing up on the dock ketel maret in that case and giving reporters something to report in this scandal as it slowly and slowly widen out. >> the democratic party was in court. tomorrow the democrats will file a complaint which allege the former secretary of commerce and finance chairman for president nixo nixon, stance says this is a pack of lies. democrats complained that says stance used -- establishing a political espionage squad. >> a pack of lies. this was the fall of 1972. the democrats had a new filing and they amended their complaints. they're signaling tha

we think this was connected not only to the nixon campaign but the nixon white house. >> am i right looking back on that era, in remembering or at least thinking about the time -- because i wasn't born yet -- that -- >> i was. >> that george mcgovern running against nixon in '72, that other democratic candidates hadn't figured out a way to talk about the watergate scandal or decided they didn't want to talk about the watergate scandal in a way that resonated with people. it wasn't a major campaign issue that was working for individual democratic politicians. that's part of why the democratic party bringing on this lawsuit sort of shocked people because it was not in keeping with what people were hearing from democratic electeds? >> totally right. i talked to george mcgovern. he said one of the greatest frustrations, he was not able to talk about the offenses of watergate he saw in a way that moved the electorate. sure enough after nixon was elected in that big landslide in '72 that you mentioned, we now know from secret documents and also from the nixon tapes, he was working 110% of the tim

it says nixon sees witch hunt insiders say. does trump need to change the way he's responding to everything? >> he doesn't seem to recall his try very well. in 1987, he wrote a letter to richard nixon, which has never been made public. but he did make public the response that nixon sent him. that was largely based on pat nixon watching trump on a television show and complimenting him. but we know that trump has grade admiration for nixon. he ought to remember some of the consequences of what happened to nixon and thinking about that period of history that he's faced a very similar situation right now. >> john dean, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> thank you, don. >>> when we come back, was michael cohen talking to me a good idea? one person doesn't think so. his opposing counsel in the stormy daniels case. he will join me next. we do whatever it takes to fight cancer. these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. e

since we're comparing this to nixon, do you see any differences between trump and nixon's mo? >> look, apples and oranges. one, nixon had a great intellect. i don't think we'd ever accuse donald trump of having a great intellect, and at the same time i would never underestimate trump's brilliance at reading the country in a demagogic way, and his political skills which are extraordinary. but we're talking about apples and oranges. i think nixon had a command of the presidency. he was a criminal president, but he had a command of understanding the office of the presidency and how it has to preside over the rest of the government, that in fact trump lacks that. can we go back to this question of these computers? >> let me ask you this and you can answer here. this all started with a special prosecutor look into russian collusion or possibly obstruction of justice, but now you have the office of the president's personal attorney raided by the fbi with this phone and computer search. you say those computers could be the equivalent of the watergate tapes. what do you mean by that?

nixon has three. his meetings are more extensive, much more focused upon personal interrelations, much more secretive also, emphasis on making these relationships nimble, and an emphasis, and this is very important, upon negotiation. and, again, in what nixon sees as rooseveltian terms, that everything is negotiable. and that you can make tradeoffs, kissinger gives this the fancy terminology linkage. everybody studying negotiating recognizes this is the horse trading that goes on in any serious negotiation. this drives the experts batty. they have figured out systematically the way to talk about abms, and for nixon and kissinger it doesn't matter, it's all politics, all politics. they intentionally disregard gerard smith and all the others who have come to them who have spent years thinking this through. it's a belief that it's all politics, all politics, all about making tradeoffs. that's what salt is, that's what the abm treaty is. that's what the prevention of nuclear war treaty is. an effort to bu

when you get to the actual nixon administration, nixon had a way of writing off huge amounts of the government as it operated below him. he wanted to focus on his great peace initiatives, china, ussr,

he is castigating joseph mccarthy and richard nixon for a smear campaign. what you need to know about this cartoon is it did not run in the washington post. the post pulled the cartoon because it was a pro-eisenhower paper. he was pro-stephenson and very adamant about that in his cartoon. they felt mr. bloch's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far. and so it didn't run. it didn't run in the areas mr. bloch was syndicated, the other newspapers. s missedon post reader it. they knew that a cartoon had appeared elsewhere. they were angry. the washington post ran every single cartoon that he chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the post as a cartoonist. we can see that mr. bloch's art style and a very loose drawing style. he'ses a lot of graphite using a simple board. it really grabs the pencil and gives it a nice texture. white out as a way to enhance his image. for example, on this canoe being guided by president kennedy, he's got budget written in white out. on top of the ink and pencil so that it stands out in

nixon or mr. rockefeller? governor reagan: i think that without my answering that, you could say that to me. >> why should i answer it? governor reagan: i think on the basis of views expressed, for example right now the vietnam conflict or on the involvement of government in the solution of some problems, yes. i think this would be a fair statement. >> what would be a fair statement? governor reagan: that i have perhaps tended toward solutions of national problems more in the same context that richard nixon has, than i have at times, with rockefeller. >> take this a step further, governor. when we talk about the convention and delegates, there are estimates ranging from 38% to 60% of goldwater delegates returning this year to miami. do you see yourself as the only hope of the conservatives in the party? they certainly are not going to rally around nelson rockefeller, and many of them not around richard nixon. where else do they have to go except you? governor reagan: bill, as you know -- i won't go along with

this is an amazing biography of richard nixon i call it a thriller. you know the ending but yet you have no idea what a page turner this is, so i highly recommend this book. we have the biography of mohammed ali again an amazing and disturbing book almost like it is happening in real time. this is about four leading women you've ever seen written about together before. it's an interesting way of looking at the women that are revolutionaryy for their time ad if you are in need of inspiration these days, which i know i am, this may just be your book. and finally, we have asked him who's going to tell us about somebody that maybe we don't necessarily think of as being a great life. the author and sort of new food expert i look forward to having a discussion about the difference betweensc writing abt somebody we think we know all about, like richard x. and into somebody that runs off and lives on an island and lives off of land, so we have a unique combination. i would like to start with john who wrote the richard nixon book and ask how he started and cam

they had to find a source to link nixon to the watergate break-in. within a week of that break-in, mr. block drew footsteps leading directly to the white house and he could do that because it was his opinion that the watergate break-in, as well as other scandals were originated and orders issued by nixon. but you notice he's careful not to draw nixon in this cartoon because that might have been going a little too far. this cartoon cath therein graham said you are not really going to run that, are you? and when he said, yes, she went, okay. she was prepared for the calls that she was going get the next morning when the paper landed on people's front porches. in this particular cartoon about clinton's administration, we see the white house as a symbol for the administration policy on bosnia, being involved in treaty negotiations. and if you know your constitution, you know it's not the president who gets to sign treaties, it's congress and so we have the capitol and a barricade between the two. and a congressman, a generic congressman saying he can't d

nixon than mr. rockefeller. now, the nixon coordinator in the south recently said that perhaps, we can get george wallace on our side, that is where he belongs. would you feel that george wallace belongs on the republican side and would you welcome him in the republican party? governor reagan: welcome i think it is a decision but if he belongs on the republican side, then you should register. but he is still on the democrat side. it would seem to me that anyone -- i have always believed that anyone who wants to come into the republican party, has come in by virtue of buying our philosophy. but we don't go out after someone, by virtue of buying theirs. therefore, if he found that he was compatible and could reason the philosophy of the republican party, then i would think that his place was in a party. i would welcome him under the circumstances that he subscribed to our philosophy. don't get do think is compatible with your philosophy? governor reagan: i think if you look at his record as governor, you will find

block's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far. and might perhaps persuade voters not to vote for him. and so it didn't run. it did run in the areas where mr. block was syndicated, the other newspapers. what you also need to know about this cartoon is "washington post" readers missed it. they knew a cartoon had appeared elsewhere that hadn't appeared in their hometown paper, and they were angry. and "the washington post" ran every single cartoon that mr. block chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the "post" as a cartoonist. we can see that mr. block's art style has evolved from the midwestern type pen and ink drawing to a very loose drawing style. but much more, he uses a lot of graphite, a lot of ink brush, and a board, a stipple board, so it really grabs the pencil and gives it a nice texture. and he used white-out both as a way to control his mistakes but also to enhance his image. so for example, on this canoe being guided by president kennedy, he's got "budget" written in white-out on top of the ink and pencil. s

why did richard nixon win? mr. cohen: why did nixon win? that is a good question. george wallace obtaining 46. the i would say a couple of factors. i think primarily the sense of dysfunction in the country. i think a desire for americans to, to quote a phrase, return to normalcy. 68 is hard to understand it now. but how just dysfunctional the country was and how divided it was, the sense the country was coming apart at the seems, not only had the riots after the king assassinations, and kennedy but fighting a war in vietnam in a a good portion of the country that po opposed. so i think that's a big factor for nixon. i think also another important factor was humphrey's inability, for johnson. you just read the numbers, but i have the numbers in my book but a couple, 10,000 votes and humphrey wins. i think another week and humphrey could have pulled the election out. it was that close. and i think one thing to remember about nixon is that he started the race in the polling but look where he ended up with. he didn't bring people behind him. nixon was not a popular fig

he did not see a good sign to richard nixon. it doesn't mean he attacked it blindly. he had real issues from the things and the corruption and the wiretapping. things he didn't like. and to share it with others. that is the basic role of the editorial cartoon. and a good cartoonist does more than illustrate the news. he gets his point across, or she gets her point across. nixon is throwing some tape, an investigator who is represented by a hound dog. a bloodhound. while still clutching the most important evidence against him. you can see the bones of some of his indicted spirit is. left behind. when it came to jimmy carter, he saw him as a pretty ineffectual leader. it shows carter banging on his own presidential desk while refusing to take a leadership role. that's the most i can say about that. what a better way to show somebody is completely ineffectual at their job then to show them in front of their desk rather than behind it. herbert block was born in chicago. by the time you started drawing editorial cartoons as a teenager he was known as herb. it doesn't take

why not nixon for new york? it's got that nixon new york. why hide from it. >> the alliteration. >> stephen: sure, why not? >> it's not the aliteration i'm really hiding from. my mother used to say, she grew up during world war ii with a father named adolf, and she lived through the 19 70s with a husband named nixon. so i am aware of the dubious nature of my last name. ut i have to say if given a choice, i would rather be the good nixon than the bad cuomo. >> stephen: wow! stang! holy cow! put this someointment on that burn, all right. why are you trying to take away the man's job. his dad had the job. don't make him-- don't do this to him. why are you running? >> i'm running because i'm a-- you know, i'm a lifelong new yorker, and i love this state. and i just know we could do so much better. ( cheers and applause ) because we're-- we're a blue state. we're a proudly democratic state. but we've got a governor in there who governs like a republican. and at this moment -- >> stephen: now what do you mean by that? what do you mean by that? >>

so i think that's a big factor for nixon. i think also another important factor was humphrey's inability to separate himself from johnson. numbers,the electoral i have the numbers in my book but 10,000 votes and humphrey wins. i think another week and humphrey could have pulled the election out. it was that close. and i think one thing to remember about nixon is that he started the race with about 40% desktop where he ended up. he didn't bring people behind him. he was not a popular figure. one thing someone asked earlier , how bobby kennedy felt about nixon. my research in the book the one thing that was sort of consistent about every political figure i looked at, republicans and democrats, none liked richard nixon. they didn't trust him, didn't like him, didn't respect him. and i think that was a view held by a lot of americans. i think it speaks to how weak a candidate he was, in a year which republicans should have won a larger margin, he barely defeated humphrey. there's also the wallace factor, which i think hurt the to

nixon send henry kissinger on a trip to negotiate with china. experts point out the president shows pompeo to lead this effort because he believes the north will listen to him. he is traveling without intelligence intermatic coast. it is widely known that pompeo is one of trump's most trusted advisors and fully authorized to speak on behalf of the commander in chief. >> reporter: officials in puerto rico say could be another 24 to 46 hours before power is restored 1.4 million customers. and excavator who accidentally downed a transmission line is being blamed for the island wide blackout. violent protests in france over new changes president macroin wants to make to realize, threatening months of new transportation disruptions over the plan to overhaul the nation's state run rail company. to the streets of santee argot to demand government-funded education. it is the first major protests against conservative president's month old association. and the national assembly, brazenly grabs the body's ceremonial - a symbol of authorities in the legisla

nixon was so spooked by the kennedys. where nixon gets the word. after it's over someone turns the tv off. and nixon is still staring at the blank tv screen. it's very spooky. first of all how would he have avoided a debate. no hard fall then. you write in the book. they appealed to both working class and minorities. is there anybody on the political scene today who is a similar sort of appeal no. i think there's a lot of reasons. i'm more concerned on that issue. i don't think we have an immigration policy we really believe in. he never wrote it down and voiced it. you don't have a policy. there's an actual resistance to change. we just haven't figured it out yet. abortion rights divides the working class. and the way that they advance it's a value rather than a right. some bees can make a decision about it. but the values are a place to argue about it. it is a right. were talking about the right to one. i think they get confused on that. were talking about american rights now not our values. they want to screwed up fine. [applause]. [applause]. [

joseph mccarthy and richard nixon through a smear campaign. what you need to know about this cartoon is it did not run in the washington post. it was a pro-eisenhower paper. they are very adamant about that in his cartoon. they felt mr. bloch's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and went too far. we didn't run. it didn't run in the areas mr. bloch was syndicated, the other newspapers. they knew that a cartoon had appeared elsewhere. the washington post ran every single cartoon that he chose to draw after that. we can see mr. bloch's art style and a very loose drawing style. he's using a simple board. use white out as a way to enhance his image. being guided by president kennedy, he's got budget written in white out. it stands out in his cartoon. kennedy was hard. even as late as 1962. you they haven't found the years and big nose, he kind of looks generically handsome. that doesn't mean mr. bloch can't find faults to pick with him. but to some special privileges. people who have benefited. we have lyndon johnson. mr. bloch reall

this is richard nixon. [laughter] and then she would write back, and she would say, dear dick, why don't you come over wednesday, and i'll burn a hamburger for you. [laughter] >> i'd like you to give these people a round of applause. [applause] thank you so much for being here. and as i said, you're welcome to join us over at the signing area one, and we'd love to see you there, and we can have more questions and more discussions. thanks again. [inaudible conversations] >> and booktv on c-span2 is live on the campus of the university of southern california for the los angeles times festival of books. this is about the 20, 21st year that we have been covering this festival, the 23rd year of its existence. and the c-span bus is here as well. you can come over and take a tour, and you can see we've got free book bags that we're handing out. they're clear this year. we try to do something different every year, and we're passing out book bags as well right here on the campus. if you're in the area, come on down

a mention of richard nixon, the issue of vietnam. he was at the time, the republic nominee. let's listen. [audio clip] >> now, i have told nixon and i repeat to you that i'm trying as hard as i know how to get the peace in vietnam as quickly as i can. for that reason, i am not running. now, when i have anything that i believe justifies or warrants a consultation, i will initiate it. mr. scully: as you hear that conversation, your reaction, james jones. former rep. jones: well, in october, maybe 10 days, two weeks before the election, we were pursuing, or the president was pursuing, a peace agreement in paris and we had the north vietnamese, south vietnamese, et cetera. and the president really thought he was going to reach an agreement. along about that time, our intelligence sources intercepted a phone call from vice president agnew's campaign stop in albuquerque, new mexico, to madam chinault in washington. and shortly thereafter, madame chennault had a phone call with the president of vietnam, hold out, hold off, nixon will give you a better deal. then all of a sudden, th

nixon. and basically tell him that this is going -- if this happens again, it's going to be totally publicized. president johnson decided not to leak this or tell this to anyone. mr. scully: why? former rep. jones: he said that if nixon were elected anyway, he would be impeached right off the bat because this is a treasonable offense and he did not want to see the presidency or that institution disrupted that way. that was the main reason. so, he didn't tell anybody. very few people even knew about this. but it did, in my judgment, had that not happened, we would have had a peace agreement before the president left office. mr. scully: we get the impression through history that it was a tortured last year for lyndon johnson, but you were with him. what was his mood, what was he like, what was going through his mind with regard to vietnam, the election of 1968 and of course at that same time the assassination of dr. king and later, senator robert kennedy? former rep. jones: well, it was a very

nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> kennedy never had to answer that question, am i serious enough or am i equal to this guy who's had eight years in the white house? >> kennedy and nixon slug it out for six more weeks in one of the hardest fought presidential campaigns in history. >> today, on election day, the big question is, how will the people vote? >> america may be choosing a president, but they're also determining the destiny of the kennedy dynasty. >> the whole family gathered in hyannisport. they set up a war room. they brought in dozens and dozens of phone lines to communicate with campaign directors all over the country. and they waited. >> it appears that senator kennedy is moving into the lead. >> but as the night went on, the early lead that kennedy had seemed to drift away. >> when ohio went for nixon, the kennedy team began to wonder whether they would win this at all. >> senator kennedy's early lead of 2 million votes dwindles perilously as the returns come in from the western

richard nixon, i don't know the exact numbers, but during the nixon administration -- 20,000 americans were killed when richard nixon was president. guest: so it was about 50-50. i went to vietnam in 1971 after eddie adams had won his pulitzer prize and told me all of the good pictures had been taken. it went on and on, and i was there at the end of the vietnam war when president ford pulled the plug on it. host: -- joining us from caller: the vietnam war described free and open access to the combat scene, that they would just have a plant and receive the fighting as it occurred. then tet came along and the pentagon papers came along, and there were great surprises. how would you guys reconcile the gap between the free access and the fact that -- missing the main facts of the war? host: marvin kalb, i will have you explain that question and how your data came back to the u.s. guest: we had a camera crew -- if you were in television, you had a cameraman, a light/soundman, and you went out to cover the war. i did most of the coverage of the vietnam war from washington. my brother covered

nixon was behind closed doors. we wouldn't know nixon but for his tapes. he was polite and shy in public. trump is right out there. >> you don't mean in terms of legal, vulnerability or pushing the envelope legally? >> i don't think trump understands the presidency as well as nixon did. he knew where all the levers were and knew how to push and pull the right things at the right times. trump's learning. so nixon was more experienced in that regard. >> lawmakers keep saying from both sides of the aisle president should not get rid of mueller. when we ask what are you going to do about it? there are some bills where you put legislation in place. they say we don't need to do that because we don't think he will make this move. obviously, common sense tells you if the president were to make a move it would be too late for legislation. do you think there is a chance that the president does that, tries to stop the investigation by removing rosenstein and would that be a mistake? >> i think if he removes rosenstein it will not end the investigation. that will go o

we think about richard nixon and impeachment. we don't think about other things that could have happened during that time. the papers we have and the objects are from the robert kerr collection. robert kerr was senator from oklahoma. he was born in indian territory. he was born in the wonderful log cabin here. very hardscrabble background. true very poor, -- grew up very poor but worked his way up. had ain the senate, kerr lot of priorities. the number one over the entire career was the arkansas river bend project. the arkansas river runs through part of oklahoma and goes through tulsa and eventually winds all the way to colorado on one end and connect with the mississippi river. so there is lots of things he wanted to a with the arkansas river bed project. oklahoma had problems with whether as you know. we have tornadoes, but we also have droughts, and we have floods. we try to make up for our droughts in maybe a week's worth of rain per year. part of that project would help the flooding, get some dams and thegy, but also naviga

initially, he dismissed cynthia nixon's candidacy as "political silly season." analysts that he would be wise to remember the lessons of the 2016 presidential race. never underestimate the power of celebrity and never overestimate the importance of political experience. there are signs governor cuomo may be starting to get nervous. >> in an op-ed out today in the "new york daily news," governor andrew cuomo quoted telling leaders of the progressive working family party that if unions are anyone give money to these groups, they can lose my number. those groups are groups that have endorsed "sex and the city" stars in the unix and in her to defeat cuomo in the state democratic primary. on twitter, she has given her opponent a nickname, andrew the bully. on tv, she's out to prove that her candidacy isn't as silly as the governor claims. >> is it a serious run? are you doing this? >> i am 100% running to be governor of new york. >> she is running on a progressive platform and it's pushing governor cuomo even further to the left. he was already facing criticism for n

ramesh: jonah was mentioning nixon. it reminds me of dan evans, i don't know if it appeared in the national review, but it was very much in keeping with the spirit of the coverage of the nixon presidency. i only disagree with two policies. domestic and foreign policy. [laughter] rich: i think we have typically done a good job of balancing these tendencies and being a place to settle disputes, to think them through in a rigorous and thoughtful way. jonah mentioned bill rusher. bill famously advocated the creation of a third-party, because they are and party was a nuclear waste dump that need to be abandoned. >> he was ahead of his time. >> that was the late 70's. >> right before reagan won the nomination. on the other hand you have someone like james, who said the central organizing conflict of our time is the cold war. that is why he was unusually for a national review editor sympathetic to rockefeller. this was a tendency very much at odds with national review, but it was one that national review took seriously. i thin

nixon.-- during steve: explain this photograph. that was san francisco state college. that was very reflective of what was going on at the time. by notsay, i got beat up only the cops, but the demonstrators. , the soldiers loved it when somebody like me showed up, like an outsider, somebody who didn't have to be there. contrary to what you may hear, we had an incredibly good relationship with gis, with the officers on everybody. they wanted to tell their story. it was just another facet of what i did when i was there. our focus is 1968 and this program, the media in particular. daniel is joining us from pennsylvania on the independent line. 1968, -- journalists were liberal and conservative. today, it seems more flagrant that journalism today is more liberal. back then, you couldn't tell whether they were liberal or conservative. >> apparently you don't watch fox. say,graphers, i will speaking for myself but particularly knowing a lot of them, we really don't take sides. i was brought up that way. i think the lines have blurred a lot between commentators, people like s

jonah was mentioning nixon. it was very much in keeping with the spirit of the coverage of the nixon presidency. i only have two disagreements. national and international policy. [laughter] i think we have typically done a good job of balancing these tendencies and being a disputes, tole think them through in a rigorous and thoughtful way. when bill famously advocated the creation of a third-party, because they are and party was a nuclear west -- waste dump -- >> he was ahead of his time. >> that was the late 70's. >> on the other hand you have someone like james, who said the central organizing conflict of our time is the cold war. that is why he was unusually sympathetic to rockefeller. it was very at odds with national review, but it was one that national review took seriously. there is an enormous amount of value at a moment like now when there is uncertainty as to what exactly the central organizing conflict of our time is. there are some in our world to believe the central organizing conflict is about sove

host: what did walter cronkite think of richard nixon in 1968? marvin kalb: there were two other cronkite's there. there's the crank out on the air that was objective, told it as cronkiteter -- the that was out on the air that was objective, told it as it is. walter, i would guess was a reluctant democrat. his instincts would go toward the liberal side of domestic affairs, but he was very tough on foreign affairs. it was difficult for him to say that the war on vietnam was stalemated, because that meant the united states was not winning. oft was something the inside walter cronkite rebelled against. he loves the idea of america winning. he was a world war ii guy. marvin kalb: oh yeah. david hume kennerly: absolutely. host: a year away from the milk -- neil armstrong walk on the. moon the space program was not as strong as it was today. david hume kennerly: i was mainly watching that one on television. i didn't get a chance to photograph them at that point. story,kalb: it was a big and the russians were doing remarkable things at that time, too. o

nixon. right? e.d. nixon is the state chair of the naacp for alabama. e.d. nixon lives in montgomery. when rosa parks gets arrested in 1955, e.d. nixon is going to be the man who is going to orchestrate the montgomery bus boycott with the help of the women's political council. so randolph is close personal friends with e.d. nixon. e.d. nixon understands the power and efficacy of things like boycotts and pickets. that's why he immediately grabs onto the idea of a boycott. because he understands how powerful of a tool that can actually be. so mass-based. everyone needs to be involved. non-violent direct action. marches, pickets, boycotts, strikes. randolph also shows us the advocacy of a strong federal government. look. in order for us to get rid of segregation, we're going to have to have some moves made by the federal government. it's not going to happen, we can't wait for alabama to figure out how to repeal segregation. that's not going to happen. so we've got to push on a federal level for strong civil rights legislation. randolph also helps to lay bare th

he does it for kennedy, he does it for nixon, he does it for johnson. the american state eventually hangs itself. on the one hand, it is publicly saying all is well, and there is no decent interval, nixon says. it sort of takes us out of having to make that argument in one form or another where the contention often comes. what you do when you have that? -- when you have got that on tape? that's exactly what are here in as if you were watching it. it's interesting to have the tapes together that do it in a compelling way. host: this network, c-span, is a post-vietnam creation, 1979. over its history, we have had the generations of journalists , members of congress, historians who are part of the experience and served and are now aging out. we always used to hear about the country absorbing the lessons of vietnam as it approached current policy. as a historian watching more contemporary america, have lessons been successfully absorbed into our policy decisions? dr. bradley: i would say no. i would say -- you know, the afghan war and the war in iraq does n

that is totally out of the nixon lexicon that was a term that nixon used. but what donald trump was suggesting tonight i think he was suggesting that rosenstein as a dome month or a potential demon. the same thing with mueller. hinge see setting out the predicate, sadly, for a huge war in which he at least has the possibility of firing mueller and then trying to wage a political war. he is living in a different environment than richard nixon did. and it might be easier for him to do that. there might be a political crisis here. but we can't predict. >> michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. leaving us out on the limb at this point. >> sorry about that. >> that's where we all are. that's where we are. thanks, michael. appreciate it. >> thanks, rachel. >> we'll be right back. we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. the triple threat of dandelions, lurking crabgrass and weak, thin grass! introducing the all new scotts turf builder triple action. this single-step breakthrough changes everything. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass for u