vice president richard nixon joins it on the isst. nixon wins on the new hampshire primary on march the 12th and then president johnson announcing march 31st that he will not seek re-election and he earns the race on august 8th of that year and he was elected president on november 8th. maryland, democrats line. good morning. >> good morning. can you hear me? >> we can. >> yes. one of the things that i hear when i hear nixon speaking is the thread of what nixon is beginning to craft taken along the lines that he can't come out and speak the words as harshly as george wallace is speaking and he begins to use politics, being able to speak the unspoken thing that to the white new southern strategy that cannot be, that cannot be spoken, in a way, but eloquently is spoken by nixon in a way that has been carried out and picked up by ronald reagan and the state of how we have to crack down on the violence in the inner cities and the politics that's been picked up in our politics today with donald j. trump. >> robert mary, do you want to respo

nixon -- 1968, lyndon johnson was upset that richard nixon sabotaged the peace talks. if he had come out and spoke against richard nixon, what result would that have had? thank you very much. >> that is a little more ambiguous than that issue is given credit. nevertheless, it was very incendiary and it could've blown up and been detrimental to richard nixon. >> let's conclude with richard nixon's comments from the early morning hours of 1968 -- of november 6, 1968. >> there were times in this campaign, some were not very friendly, most were very friendly. the one that touched me the most, at the end of a long day of whistle stopping. it was almost impossible to see. a teenager held up a sign, bring us together. that will be the great objective of this administration, to bring the american people together. this will be an open administration. open to new ideas. open to men and women of both parties. open to the critics, as well as those who support me. we want to bridge the generation gap. we want to bring america together. i am confident that this task is one we can un

in terms of the popular vote, richard nixon winning. with the electoral college vote, richard nixon with 301 electoral votes. what was the nixon strategy in the general election? >> well, one, it was to try to not talk a whole bunch of specifics about vietnam. he wanted to keep the focus on the unrest in the country and how he was going to be a voice, really, for as he said in his convention address, the forgotten americans. what he would later term during his presidency, the silent majority. and that included some of the wallace voters. although they obviously a lot of them went for wallace. but working class primarily white americans and the south and the north all over the country. middle class suburbanites. the idea, too, that the cities were out of control. that campuses were out of control. that these were really kind of hot beds of really fronts to fundamental american values. i think he really tapped into that strain. and as well, the strategy was on the left he could be kind of in the center right. he had wallace, you know, far

one of the things that people do not know about richard nixon and their public and party is the richard nixon actually tried to get entertainers to run for office in the public. he understood that our dynamic has shifted. that one television on those performances become so central to political success, that entertainers are well-equipped to then give the republican party this resurgence that he had hoped would happen. so he recruited entertainers. he tried to recruit a variety of different entertainers and he saw them is very valuable. very different from the democrats, who relied more on entertainers to raise money and didn't necessarily encourage them to run for office. through thising now as historians look back at the trump presidency and his use of media, year and a half into his presidency, what do you think that they will look to? crexendo be a challenge for historians mostly because of the volume. your deliver a lot more in terms of public addresses and speeches now that you have to bring in social media. so the volume of that will bring a new methodological challenge for histor

richard nixon winning with a half-million votes, but with the electoral college vote, richard nixon with 301 electoral votes, hubert humphrey 191 and george wallace at 46. what was the nixon strategy in the general election? matthew: one was to try to not talk a whole lot of specifics about vietnam. he didn't really know. he didn't have a plan for how he the war, peaced with honor for example. he wanted to keep the focus on the unrest in the country and how he was going to be a voice for as he said in his invested address, the forgotten -- his convention address the later forgotten americans, the silent majority. that included some of the wallace voters, although they went for wallace, but working-class, primarily white americans in the south and the north, all over the country, middle-class suburbanites. the idea that the cities were out of control, that campuses were out of control, that these really a front to a fundamental american values, he tapped into that strain and as well the strategy was that on the left, he could be in the center right. he had wallace far to his right or to h

>> richard nixon talked about a new vision of america's future. he has said that 1968 is the time to begin that future and the place to begin is in new hampshire. ♪ >> on february 2, richard nixon held his first press conference of the 1968 presidential campaign in manchester, new hampshire. >> how can you run now and you couldn't win in 1960? >> my ability to win and focus on the issues have been in the fires of the primary, and not just a smoke-filled room in miami. >> over the next three days, there would be a reception and a speech. and conversations with people about issues in public and on television. >> in 1968, i look to the future of the country. in 1960, i necessarily had to think of the fast, also the future, but to think of the past and defendant. in 1968, as you gentlemen will hear in my speeches starting saturday night, i will be talking about america's future, my vision of that future, and what i think i could do with the years of experience i have behind me. >> what does your campaign have that the previous campaign did not have?

>> richard nixon has talked about a new vision of america's future. he has said that 1968 is a time to begin that future. and the place to begin is in new hampshire. >> richard nixon's first noted press conference of the 1968 presidential campaign in manchester, new hampshire. >> i have decided that i will test my ability to win and my ability to cope with the issues in the fires of the primary. and not just in the smoke-filled room of miami. >> the nixon schedule for the next three days would include a reception, a dinner speech, and with people about issues. in public and on television. >> i'm looking to the future of this down to the end of the 20th century. in 1960, i necessarily had to think of the past, also of the future, but to think of the past and defend it. in 1968 adds you gentlemen will hear in my speeches starting saturday night, i'm going to be talking about america's future, my vision of that future, and what i think i can do with the years of experience i've had behind me. >> what does this campaign have that previous campaigns haven'

richard nixon's tapes. which there's an incredible collection that's available through the miller center at uva. and it's, having them hear nixon. hear how he talks about the media, the press as the enemy has a very famous tape where he goes off about how the press is the enemy. that's really striking for students. because they hear this a lot. they don't actually get to go behind the scenes and understand what he's thinking and the great thing about nixon is he wrote everything down and recorded everything. so as an historian it's a really great opportunity to see what he was thinking, and why to bring students in to the study of his presidency, through those primary sources. >> your current book "showbiz, politics, hollywood and american politics" is there another book in you? >> "showbiz politics" just came out in paperback, now available. it came out in the past couple of years. right now i'm working on this book that actually uses the office of telecommunications policy as the beginning. so the questio

richard nixon accepts the nomination on august 8 of that year. and he's elected as our rather than permitting them to master us." going on to write that our convention in 1968 can spark a republican resurgence to face the realities of the world in which we live. thurmond knew that nixon needed him desperately. and nixon knew that he needed strom thurmond desperately, and strom thurmond knew that nixon knew. and that therein lies political negotiations. so the two main questions were racial guidelines, guidelines on racial integration, nixon favored guidelines, and it fwets into the whole question of test. captioning performed by vitac >> let me ask you about another key player in this period, william f. buckley. who was he? >> well, bill buckley emerged as probably the leading voice on the conservative side of american politics. he was a very young man in 1950, i believe, when he wrote a book after having graduated from yale, which he took his alma mater to task for its liberal inclinations, and then five years later became the very young -- he w

nixon. >> how did you fellas -- >> you are about to accompany richard nixon on the first leg of his 1968 new hampshire campaign. you will be with the candidate, his family and the nixon staff. you will hear what richard nixon had to say and what people said to him. >> i heard all those tales about woolies and everything. >> hi. >> how are you today. >> a long way from philadelphia. >> that's right. i'm glad to find some new hampshire people. >> well, arnold, how did you get up here? how are the eagles going to do next year? >> richard nixon has talked about a new vision of america's future. he has said that 1968 is a time to begin that future and the place to begin is in new hampshire. ♪ >>> narrator: on february 2nd richard nixon held his first press conference of the 1968 presidential campaign in manchester, new hampshire. >> tell us why you feel that you can win now when you couldn't win in '60. >> i have decided that i will test my ability to win and my ability to cope with the issues in the fires of the primaries and not just in the smoke-filled room of miami. >>> narrator: t

so there is a connection between donald trump and richard nixon? >> yes. and one of the things people do not know about richard nixon and the republican party is hetale chaed c understood that entertainers are well equipped to then regive the republican party this resurgence that he hopes would happen. and so he recruited -- he tried to recruit a variety of different entertainers. he saw them as very valuable. very different from the democrats who relied more than entertainers to. >> the trump presidency and a year and a half into his presidency, what do you think they'll look for. >> i think it'll be a challenge for historians, mostly because of the value. they say they have to bring in a lot more. so the slou of that will bring meth mogical challenges for historians having to depot through all this material. and i think one of the interesting things is what kind of stratsagies are facing trump's approach. because much of it seems impulsive. and i'm very curious if there's a broader security strategy behind that. >> 50 years after 1968, a tumultuous year.

and richard nixon is here on 1968. you wrote about that. why was that a significant moment in pop politics? >> it is significant we put in context of richard nixon's evolution. in 1960, he saw bobby kennedy as appearing on television show in a talk show format. is i'm hobnobbing with hollywood celebrities. it is how he prepared his campaign. he turned his celebrity to gain political power. he was able to do that on the primary chair -- trail. and stayed with him throughout the 1968 election. nixon actually used that tactic against kennedy. he said that he was perceiving g publicity. when nixon lost the 1968 election and then years later, the governor's race in california, he took some time to figure out why. what went wrong. he studied what he had done. he also studied ronald reagan and in the nixon library, their boxes of research that he did on ronald reagan. he observed that reagan was really effective at using television to connect it to the emotions of voters. there is a really compelling speech where you have nixon's handwriting on it

the follow up to richard nixon deal from 1972. they use the anger over this agreement that the president had entered into as way to raise money and to mobilize and expand their membership base in conservative organizations. they were hoping to embarrass democrats because of carter support for these treaties. it's patriotism said how aard pl li we're all lobbying against the senate to avoid and reject the ratification of this deal. they sent out prom innoceinent . carter had a pretty successful plan. he lobbied politicians individually to win over their support. we have no chips to call in the way president johnson, nixon and ford did because we not been there long nufr. carter still figured out a way to win over senate support.enuf. carter still figured out a way to win over senate support.nufr. carter still figured out a way to win over senate support.onuf. carter still figured out a way to win over senate support.unuf. carter still figured out a way to win over senate support.gnuf. carter still figured out a way to win over sena

i went to the memorandum to richard nixon. he said, keep gathering that. >> we believed that we might wind up with bobby kennedy as and candidate and you would have another kennedy run. i always thought that humphrey was the candidate who had great depth inside the left wing of the democratic party from that '48 convention. he was mr. civil rights. he had put the civil rights act on the floor of the u.s. senate and ran it through for lbj. he had labor. he could bring together the antiwar groups as eventually he did along with the center of the democratic party. wallace group, the south, the deep south was gone. >> robert from frosberg, maryland, go ahead, please. >> good evening, mr. buchanan and lady as well as you. i'm a vietnam veteran. i don't think that mr. nixon gets the credit he deserves. even though he voted most the time with the democrats, i think nixon was a very good president. but what overshadowed his goodness as a president was the vietnam war, watergate and his personality complexes. but some of the decisions

richard nixon came into prominence. after that discussion, we will show you a half-hour of nixon for president campaign film. post the candidate in new hampshire and new -- wisconsin. in an inner view with the professor on how richard nixon changed his media strategy for 1968. and later, the life and career of a leading conservative woman from that era. congress roma, ambassador, and author, clare booth luce. >>

president richard nixon is greeted by premiere. during the next eight days, the two nations will begin the process of slowly bridging diplomatic barriers. ♪ >> so, that was a big deal. that handshake was a big deal to see richard nixon, who had been a hard-line anti-communist during his whole career, who had railed against democrats for having lost china to communism in 1949, undertake this trip, make that handshake, combined with the s.a.l.t. i agreements. he did all this while he also conducted a ruthless secret bombing campaign against the north vietnamese to try to bring the vietnam war to an end. many credited nixon's foreign policy achievements with his landslide victory against george mcgovern in 1972. conservatives disagreed with what nixon was doing between 1969 and '72. they saw it as a mistake. one of the earliest critics of detente came from within the democratic party. washington senator henry "scoop" jackson, who was called the senator from boeing because of the location of this military contractor in his home state

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]

so, this is an opening for richard nixon. as richard nixon makes his great comeback, he is very mindful of what his public image will be, so mindful that it is the subject of satire on the cover of esquire magazine. what does he do, among other things he hires a madison avenue ad agency, who builds a whole television presence around him. he hires some key aides were very savvy to the power of television media to deliver a message. chief among them, being more -- roger ale, a young aide who goes on to found fox news. also among the campaign staff for nixon is a young patrick buchanan who later becomes a television combat and a presidential candidate himself, and is responsible for writing some of the more strongly conservative speeches that makes and gives during the 68 campaign. so, he has got a really savvy television savvy group around him, and he built a public image that is very different from the image that he has in 1960, trying to distance himself from the line -- one that is using television advertising in a way that

richard nixon was everyone's second choice. he had stature as a former vice president but he also lost in 1960 and it is rare for a party to give a loser a second chance. is, nixon in 1966, campaigning for republican candidates in a republican year, reestablished himself in a sense as the defect the leader of the party. his original opposition from the left, in those days there was still liberal republicans and the governor of michigan was thought by many to be the front runner for the nomination. his campaign never gained traction. then, you had the shadow candidacies. nelson rockefeller in new york was in, than he was out, then he was in again. the real threat to next in, and i believe the nixon people will tell you this, came from ronald reagan. his first term of governor of california, he was seen as having star quality, not just because this -- of his hollywood connections. clearly, remember, there were post-1964publicans who were still loyal to barry goldwater and what he represented. they were looking for a candidate, an

guest: richard nixon was in some ways everyone's second choice. the have the stature as a former vice president, but he also lost in 1960. it is very rare for a party to get a loser a second chance. nixon in 1966s campaign for republican candidates in what was a republican year. he reestablished himself as the tobacco weaver of the party. he opposition from the left -- in those days that was still liberal republicans. george romney was thought by many to be the front runner for the nomination. his campaign really never gained traction. then you have these shadow candidacies. nelson rockefeller in new york was in and out and then in again. the real threat to richard nixon came from ronald reagan, who even then in his first term as governor of california was seen as having star quality. and not just because of his hollywood connections. clearly -- remember, there were 1964 of republicans post who were loyal to barry goldwater and what he represented. they were working for a candidate. they could accept that si -- nixon, but they got excited by reaga

anything rmn can do, richard nixon can do? what can we do to make these stops so johnson and humphrey don't get a pr victory. and then the talks can resume when i'm president and then we can make something happen. so a powerful example of how our understanding of the past is always changing. how new evidence can also introduce new interpretations. and how perhaps some of the, some of the things we thought were true about what a president did and why he did it. can change many, many decades after his death. so november, november 5th, 1968, election day. nixon wins. george wallace gets the south. and even though this looks like a very red map, it was not as close as one might think. yes, nixon gets an electoral majority. but you do have, and there's a question about how much you know, who wallace took votes away from. probably a few more than nixon. but even at this moment this high-water mark of liberalism, an election, a year that had started off all about the vietnam war. all about resistance to the establishment. then ends u

people are so impressed by richard nixon. great for a fact, bar that, second time around, richard nixon runs for the house of representatives as the democratic nominee and wins in southern california. but, and yet -- [laughter] because richard nixon does not have a race in 1948, in the summer of 1948 he is footloose and fancy free and willie the whittaker chambers comes to u.s. congress and talks about a spy, richard nixon has time on his hands, goes after him like a bulldog. it becomes this great, huge secondary story to truman's comeback victory in that fall and ushers in mccarthyism, so within a year, richard nixon goes from the sublime to the horrible. that is the kind of man of complexity he is, and writing a biography of that guy, as bill says, does not lend itself to a "here's my treatise and i'm going to go out and either prove it or not." he's the only president to resign. his southeast asia policy lead to terrible collapse and vietnam and awful, awful suffering in cambodia, and yet, his six years in office are fille

the follow-up to richard nixon's deal from 1972. the used the anger over this agreement that the president entered into as a way to raise money and to mobilize and expand the membership base and conservative organizations. they were have been too embarrassed democrats because of carter's support for the treaties. it is patriotism said one of the leading activists and that is the issue we do best with. a number of conservative organizations such as the american conservative union the caucus and the committee for the survival of a free congress were all lobbying against the senate to avoid and reject the ratification of the deal that would give control back to the panamanians. they sent out prominent figures like ronald reagan to speak to local groups about the dangers. carter pushed back against conservatives as the senate battled over it. he had a pretty successful plan. he lobbied politicians individually to whenever their support. we have no chips to call in the way president johnson, nixon and ford did because we have not been th

richard nixon was never boring. as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after-presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicled in the book, beginning with spiro agnew. remember him being in some trouble? i remember my editor at the new yorker lamenting, very justly, legendary william shawn said what do you think of writing next? and i said, i don't know. i just have a feeling we are going to change vice presidents and presidents within a year. this is labor day. it was a very out there kind of thought at the time. and so, we agreed that i would write a journal. diary. i would watch the events and interpret them and talk about them. we don'tt the time, know how to change vice presidents. we didn't know how to do anything. to changeknow how vice presidents, how to impeach a president. we didn't know how to get another president. it was all kind of made up as we went along. one of the most distressing things about now is the loose way in which the word impeachment is tossed around. to this may

let's talk about richard nixon. he lost the presidency in 1960. he loses his bid for governor in 1962. the headline, the political obituary of richard nixon. he moves back to new york in the mid-60s. why did he run in 1968 and what was the state of the republican party in that year? >> in 1964, gold water was wiped out and nixon was the lead surrogate for goldwater. nixon was considered a split loser. he moves to new york. what he did is, i went to work for him, 1965-'66. nixon told me then, i said i want to get aboard early if you want to run for president. he said, i'll here you for one year. if we don't do well, the nomination won't be worth anything. we went around for five weeks in 1966. nixon campaigned, paid for it himself, got his own plane. he must have been in 35 states. and what happens, it's one of the great comebacks. he sprung back, nixon helped pick up 47 seats in the house they got six governorships, greatest republican victory since 1946. tom evans came us to me and said, i had been an editorial writer in st. louis, he said, i don

so richard nixon, little-known fact, great for a bar bet, second time around, richard nixon runs to the house of representatives as the democratic nominee and wins by a claim in southern -- in southern california. but, and yet, because richard nixon doesn't have a race in 1948, in the summer of 1948, he's footloose and fancy free. and when this guy, whitaker chambers comes to the u.s. chambers and talks about a spy, richard nixon has time on his hands and goes after him like a bulldog and it becomes this great, huge secondary story to truman's comeback victory that fall and ushers in mccarthyism. so within a year, richard nixon goes from the sublime to the horrible. so that's the kind of man of complexity he is. and writing a biography of that guy, as bill said, does not lend itself to a very simple -- here's my treatise and either improve it or not. he's the only president to resign. his southeast agency policy led to a terrible collapse in vietnam and awful, awful suffering in cambodia. and yet, his six years in office are filled with the kind of foreign policy accomplishments that ik

so we have's a unique combination so starting with the richard nixon book and asked how he just came to this subject that we know everything about them we only know part of this story. there are rules for biographers and one of them is if you publish of an american president of your students i was asked to explore if there was a story to tell about nixon and i decided i would make the argument that we live in a world that richard nixon left us in the polarization at home north versus south black versus white elites versus the good people of the homeland he brought china back into the world order to give us that structure if you define peace the way he did and he is a caricature the only president to resign we know him from watergate vietnam so showing up at the white house during the reagan years to join the delegation he walked in and former president gerald ford and richard nixon that said see no evil or hear no evilbo halfback but having said that the original title was nixon an american tragedy because it really is a tragic story he came up in the outback of southern california a

why did richard nixon when? -- win? guest: that is a good question. i think it was a dissatisfaction among americans. election for a return to normalcy. it is hard to understand now, but just how dysfunctional and divided the country was. the sense that the country was coming apart at the seams. you had the riots after the king assassination, the violence in chicago. nat was a big factor for ixon. was hubertt factor humphrey's inability to distance himself from johnson. i have the numbers in my book, in aens of thousands couple of states, and humphrey would win. a couple more weeks, and he would have pulled the election out. it was that close. remember, richard nixon started with about 40% of the vote, and he did not bring more people behind him. he was not a popular figure. for my research in the book, the one thing that was consistent about every political figure i looked at, none of them like richard nixon. they did not trust him. they did not like him. they do not respect him. that was a view held by a lot of americans. it speaks to how weak of a

richard nixon did not get a lot of votes on the democratic ballot. however, jean mccarthy got more than 5000 votes on the republicans ballot. this revisionist history that somehow a vote for mccarthy was still a vote in favor of the war, i think somebody at the new york times somebody is drinking the kool-aid. i was at unh when george romney was still in before he made his famous i got brainwashed remarks came down in my newspaper which was great on names for people with: romney chihuahua george. is there anybody in this room besides bill who knows what that means relative to romney? he was born in mexico. 's parents were mormons, and there was some question as to whether he could serve as president should he be elected. but, that never came to pass. rockefeller was quite the force. people had to be reminded he had been divorced, the only had to go to william loeb and the new leader, who famously wrote on the front page, rocky is a wife's whopper. the national press, which we are getting to be interesting -- interested in this guy loeb, said but you

that year richard nixon had run for re-election. and easily defeated the democratic nominee, george mcgovern. it was a land slide victory for nixon. yet the democrats retained control of congress. and ford thought to himself, my gosh, if the democrats can put up a candidate as bad as mcgovern yet still hold on to congress, certainly the house of representatives, i don't see how i'll ever become speaker. so he says to betty, look, here's what i would like to do. i want to stay in office for two more terms. that will bring me to tend of nixon's second and in the constitution, a last term of office, and then i'll retire. and they was thrilled. finally, i'm going to be able to spend time with my husband. finally i'll get my husband back. that was before a series of unprecedented events brought forward in the white house. i think many of the people here in this room remember in october of 1973, the vice president was forced to resign taking bribes. nixon asked his individuals in congress, who should i nominate to replace agnew? and overw

richard nixon. george romney was toying around, and i didn't even know who he was, but i'll tell you that nelson rockefeller was in the state of new hampshire. he was romancing everybody all around, and when he came to portsmouth, he got all the predominantly republican men and women to go to the rockingham hotel which was a great thing at that time, to have a little get-together which was ultra plus. lots of drinks. i think i had my first martini in that rockingham hotel. >> or the last one. >> yeah. started to build that terrible habit, but he really romanced the -- the republicans. the one night i'm talking about at the rockingham, it was early, you know, pre-dinnertime. and there was a big crowd there. when it was over, we all went up to the portsmouth high school because nixon was having a rally up there, so we got everything taken care of on the rockefeller side and we all went over to the high school to meet and greet with richard nixon. you know, listening to the -- the democrats, as they ha

he reflects on president ford's pardon of richard nixon. he is author of "ambition, pragmati pragmatism". this program is about an hour. >>> good evening. i am joel westfold. welcome here. we are pleased to have you with us for tonight's program. tonight our featured speaker scott kaufman, a scholar and chair of the history department. he earned his doctorate at the other ohio university. he got a travel grant. much of the research for this book he wrote came from the archives and manuscript collections of the ford library and he's grateful for the assistance of president ford's son, steve. he's the author and co-author of 11 books on foreign policy and diplomacy and history of the presidency and first ladies. "the presidency of james earl carter junior and rosalyn carter equal partner in the white house" is one of his books and many others. kaufman is a featured expert on the carter administration, cold war, u.s. foreign policy, the ford administration, nuclear testing, and the office of the first lady. with regard to scott kaufman's new b

richard nixon, after all, won 49 states in 1972. won over 61% of the vote, i believe. and then senator mcgovern, who was an anti-war candidate. so nixon's policy of getting out of vietnam, but giving the vietnamese a fighting chance to survive on their own as a free and independent country, by and large, even though it was protested by hundreds of thousands in the streets here, was a policy that was supported by the american people and rewarded in 1972 with that landslide. >> and you mentioned ronald reagan, a first-term governor in california, elected in 1966. he traveled to iowa in the fall of 1967. here's what governor reagan said back then. >> you know, it would be one way to make sure that crime doesn't pay. let government run it. i remember way back in 1964, when they said all the way with lbj, and now we know what he meant. he has his troubles. there's bobby kennedy. bobby has him so nervous about the upcoming convention, he's thinking of putting the country in his wife's name. [ laughter and applause ] but bobby was just trying to be helpful. he said he wanted

we should not be dividing the democratic party because richard nixon would win. that was the reason why i supported johnson as well although i really in my heart supported bobby kennedy. i was glad that he ran and offered himself as president but that was not a good reason to not support gene mccarthy. in fact i had the chance to meet paul newman, sherry maclean, i met so many other actors and celebrities supporting mccarthy because johnson's campaign was totally void of all of that. we didn't even have a presidential candidate visiting. when you think about it, it's remarkable that johnson had as many write-ins as he did because write-ins themselves are very difficult to do on any ballot especially one that had so many different names because people were running for delicate as well and especially in those communities where people had to vote by machine, where you actually, you check the box with a lever in those days and try to find out where do i exactly put a name to write it in. so comparatively speaking johnson's campaign did well. what i learned later on i

that is with the republicans are telling richard nixon. he goes and sees the cities of germany and france and he goes to a divided city. he is convinced that the people of western europe are not lazy socialist and the plan will work and he is confronted with a great challenge of any statesman. do you owe your people obedience or do you owe them judgment? he goes back to southern california and he campaigns feverishly for seven months. he goes to every rotary luncheon, every chamber of commerce meeting and makes the case for the marshall plan pick when it is over, not only did he get renominated by the republicans but under california's system he gets the democratic nomination as well and people are so impressed by richard nixon. the second time around he runs for the house as a democratic nominee and wins by -- and yet, because richard nixon does not have a race in 1948, in the summer he is footloose and fancy free and when this guy comes to the congress and talks about a spy richard nixon has time on his hand and goes after him like a bul

and a caretaker president whose only major act was to pardon richard nixon. i would suggest to you this is not a fair assessment. ford had to deal with a lot of issues, a myriad of issues as president. but i would argue with you that if ford should be remembered for anything, it should be for his belief in bipartisanship. today this country is mocked by partisanship. a partisanship that oftentimes is angry marked by accusations, harsh language and disdain for the opposition. a partisanship where a willinginize to compromise is seen as tantamount to surrendering to the opposition. this is not a country that gerald ford would have wanted. in fact in his eulogy for ford, a democratic urged his colleagues to bipartisanship. it's an entreaty that's been forgotten in washington. thank you. [ applause ] >> we do have a couple of really good questions from the audience. the first one, do you think congressman ford would do well in today's washington? >> do i think congressman ford would do well in today's washington? probably not. i mean let's look at the republican

richard nixon attempted to save his presidency by dismissalslj richard nixon attempted to save his presidency by dismissals. i think eventually he will be dealt with. presidency by dismissals. i think eventually he will be dealt withfi took a long time with robert nixon, and in the end he wasn't impeached. ifi and in the end he wasn't impeached. if i recall rightly, richard nixon resigned in august 197a, 197a, was that even a year passed a second election? so i think the process... but he got in for a second term. election? so i think the process... but he got in for a second termm might well be that they could not muster a majority or a two thirds majority, but i wouldn't be surprised if trump goes before that. if that is the scenario you're aiming for, the question is do we prepare president pence, someone who does not tweak things but who gets into congress and grinds out a result. —— he does not tweet things. american politics have a problem, but i'm not saying that all those people who voted trump are racist, but is this whole thing of america, not just but is this whole thing of am

nixon was talking about and george wallace. rizzo was a local paradigm to law and order. he used his popularity of the police commissioner of all these people as a springboard to a broader political career. in 1971, he ran for mayor and one. he is a democrat, but he still won on a platform of maintaining law and order. his campaign slogan was a rizzo means business. that meant he wanted it to mean. it was a master stroke of political double meaning, because it could mean he is going to bring prosperity, but also means he is going to deal with these people who are causing trouble. for two terms as mayor of philadelphia, he divided the city in a lot of ways. he broke with his own party in 1972 to campaign for nixon. he opposed everything from affirmative action, to public housing, to school desegregation. he did so very flamboyantly. he had a string of controversial statements in a series of scandals, but throughout all of it, his supporters supported him. they supported him so much that he survived a challenge to the democratic

why did richard nixon win? >> why did nixon win? that's a good question. i would say a couple factors. i think primarily the sense of dysfunction in the country, i think a desire for americans to -- this is to quote a grades used in the 1920 election return to normalcy. '68 is very -- it's hard to sort of understand it now, but how -- how just dysfunctional the country was and how divided it was, the sense the country was coming apart at the seams. you not only had the riots after the king assassination, both assassinations, you had the violence in chicago, but you had half a million troops fighting a war in vietnam that a good portion of the country opposed. so i think that that was a big factor for nixon. i think also for -- another important factor was humphrey's inability to distance himself from johnson. if he had done so he might have actually pulled the race out. you just read the electoral numbers, but i have the numbers in my book, but a couple tens of thousand votes in different states switched sides and humphrey wins. i think another week and hu