one of them nixon is tamia more human character nixon you see nixon suffering you see nixon in these tapes having conversations with his daughter. you know, he had a of course he had family i go into some of the family crises they faced. um, but you know, he was a loving family person. ultimately. i mean, i see perhaps in 50 years time. we'll get a different. view of trump, but i'm not sure we'll have the you know, i can't see the human qualities in trump that i can see in nixon. i can't see the suffering. i can't see the basic respect for the system. i certainly can't see the i mean nixon whatever else you think of him was a brilliant mind. it wasn't kissinger who opened up to china, of course, you know, that might not have been such a great idea now that we have problems with china, but that was nixon was a very, you know, creative foreign policy thinker he read deeply about american history. i i'm in perhaps my too close to trump, but i i put them in

nixon. vita was representative gerald ford who of course within a year would become a little over a year will become nixon's vice president 1992. also the epa banned the use of ddt the pesticide ddt, which was having such a terrible effect on the environment. it's one of those chemicals that is persistent. it doesn't really go away it gets into the food chain. that makes it very difficult heard a lot of birds because when they would ingest fish or whatever the ddt would get into their systems had a terrible impact on bird eggs made the shells very very fragile and we were seeing a reduction in birds such as the american eagle because of the dttt, so in 1990s in 1972 rather administrator ruckel's house announced that he ddt was going to be banned and indeed it was banned and that had a huge impact. on the environment the following year 1973. we saw the passage of the endangered species act. that bill was introduced by senator harrison williams from new jersey on june 12th of 1973. it passed t

nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university of southern california, and join to the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he had caught the political bug. his hard work and uncanny ability would take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the historic 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20th, 1969. dwight has written a terrific new memoir -- the president's man, which you can see here to my left. much of it deals with his work with president nixon. the president's man is it without a doubt one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency and nixon as a person that has yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank ann and. frank joined the nixon white house in the summer of 1961 as a white house fellow assigned to donald rumsfeld and bob finch. he worked with john glickman on the domestic council staff along with colonel brennan and a handful of other staff members. he was asked to fly aboard air

nixon has a daughter julie nixon eisenhower on a boat. they're kind of on vacation. so i recall this is taken up in maine. the love the water they had a house down in florida on the water in key biscayne when he retired to new jersey after he left california, he would frequently drive down to the jersey shore to go for a swim. you know, it fascinating he gave up his secret service protection in the early 1980s and just had like one former secret service agent who was his driver so he basically had very little if any security and despite how controversial he was. he never had an unpleasant encounter with anybody and all the time he spent out, you know, whether swimming in the beach or whatever, but this is a great this is the the nixon's really love love being on the water. he used the presidential yacht which he named sequoia again after the magnificent trees in california more than any other president during the whole time that the that they had presidential yachts because they really like being on the water. absolutely. yeah. okay. do you think his and for you know

for you know advice on how to deal with nixon turned against nixon. so my question is how has our political class changed? why is it in 2022 facts? are debatable not their interpretation are always interpreted. they're always debated. that's always they should be debated. it's healthy, but the actual reality of facts are debated in a way that they they weren't in 74 now in 74 you had tapes and maybe it was because of the idea of technology, but i will tell you that when we release tapes back in 2010, i think was that one that had nixon once again engaging in any semitic discussions there were people at the library came to me and said that i had created those things. these are these are people who were actually our volunteers who said we think you did this you you left these in washington have created these days, but what has so you have an issue of the change in our political class, but also in the change of our our political discussion and our understanding of facts that makes this period different and i would say more dangerous than 1974. before we

and nixon does not even participate in. the decision or the meetings because he's too drunk upstairs in the residence in the wake of this and again like these would be one of the like great moments of american, you know, presidential scandal and yet it's sort of like this is just one month in three years of unfolding drama. and so let's just let's just now dip in we may dipping several times dip into this business of contemporary relevance. i mean, i i feel i mean, you know when this is unfolding, i was a i was probably 14 15 16 living most much of the time in a village in the middle of england in warwickshire staying up late every night. to watch hearing the bbc was was broadcasting live, but we often very very late at night because of time difference. watergate and i became obsessed with watergate. and by the way, we had a we had a senior you us air force commander also living in the village working at one of the big naval air force bases nearby and definitely the defcon the move their contour remember this guy it had bee

and to bring back to nixon. he pulled in time and time again on race, economics, in particular, urban housing questions. questions of urban housing. he is constantly pulled in. he is very vocal and what he thinks nixon should be doing and what nixon is doing wrong. there is one point in the story that brooke tells in his paper where he is sitting on the plane with richard nixon and he says you can't run a complaint -- a campaign that's called law and order law and order law and order and people are going to see that as races. and he says it's races. i'm every time i go out i get called all of these things and as soon as the plane lands i'm going to quit. and nixon says how do i change this? a lot of cynical things go into that. and brooke said add justice to law order and justice. that changes the meaning of it. so i think as we think about this complicated relationship that is going on back and forth will looks says he can not feel but be honest with nixon. he also had a view of nixon that was very calculated a

nixon went crazy over these. but in no way did it implicate him. , and come it implicated his enemies, kennedy and lyndon johnson. it was a secret history of the war in vietnam. nixon at that point was not a part of that. explain why he then went off on that and everything else that ensued. >> this has long been one of the great mysteries, which is your absolute right. there are 2 million words in the pentagon papers and not one of them is "nixon." should've been one of the great political coups of his life. two mortal enemies, jfk and lbj, are slammed in these papers and nixon is not mentioned at all. however, the key that we now understand, that has been unlocked in the last two years that gives us the understanding for the first time of nixon's overreaction to the pentagon papers, is the chennault affair, which is that nixon becomes afraid in the wake of the ellsberg release of the pentagon papers in june 1971 that as part of these leaks that the documents documenting the chennault affair will come out. he kno

but nixon got a kind of revenge on us all. fox news, that was nixon's idea. he wanted a conservative network where they could get their message out. and it was his acolyte roger ailes who made it happen. nixon started this whole notion that the deep state, the cia was really behind watergate. the liberal media, this was a coup to oust him from power. and roger stone, who cut his teeth on the nixon campaign would bring that to fruition today. there is a clear road from nixon to trump, to june 17th, to january 6th. thank you. >> i think you will all agree we have had a fantastic discussion tonight from the wonderful people here. i want to thank you all very much, and thanks for the sponsors again. i hope that we will live to see another reunion. let me tell, you my biggest boo-boo in watergate. after the tapes were discovered, senator irving met in his office with the committee. and i was in there. and they said, well, how are we going to get the tapes? and somebody said, well, i don't know. i guess we are going to have to subpoena them. congress had never subp

to use at the trial of nixon aids. >> nixon himself had hoped to stone wall. his team said to him, mr. president, the american people need you to cooperate. if you don't it's an admission of guilt. >> good evening. i have asked for this time tonight and in order to announce my answer. to the subpoena for additional watergate tapes. in these folders are more than 1,200 page of transcripts of private conversations i participated in. with regard to watergate. >> what he tried to do is hue a line. where he would give just enough to make people think that he was cooperating without giving away the goods. >> they dumped these poorly done transcripts of dozens and dozens of tapes into the public domain. they weren't that accurate. some of them. this is the first time the public had seen much of anything about the nixon tapes. and people were reading this and saying, holy shit look at this stuff. >> it's one of the most fascinating things that ever happened. nobody ever got an inside look at politics. and how the white house operates. the white house itself. >> nixon

and nixon ask dean. well, how much will it cost to keep it going and dean said well a million a million dollars over the next two years. and they said so i'll suppose i could get the million dollars and you could find a way to deliver it to. continue to keep the watergate burglars quiet. paying them hush money. uh, don't you think that makes sense and dean? oh, well, uh and all of a sudden nixon asked the rhetorical question. don't you think you ought to get hunt paid the amount? he's demanding. and get it done fast. and that was it. we looked at each other and we said nixon cannot survive this he has in his own words through his own mouth, irrefutably provided evidence that he has joined the conspiracy if he wasn't a member before he sure as hell is now an overt act has now been committed immediately after telling dean to go forward hunt was paid and off to the races. so we said to leon. we know you don't want to name nixon as a defendant. we understand the constitutional process of impeachment is prefe

nixon has sneakers on. i've seen plenty of pictures of them at the beach where he's not wearing shoes you, know. but for some reason you, know, for some reason this sticks in some people's mind. they like to say -- didn't like the way she was on the beach. in fact eaten, but given the weather and given the long walk down this pebbled path, i would have worn shoes to get down down there as well. >> absolutely. and if it makes it if, it makes it any better, i do have distinct memories of a photo of truman on the beach wearing wingtips. so -- >> and jfk on the beach wearing -- so there we go! so there's a grand tradition -- for sure. speaking of grant traditions and speaking of, you know, legacies of multiple presidents here, we have this great image. cody tell us a little bit about what's going on here? >> yeah, this is great. because it speaks, i think, to the bipartisan nature of environmental policy making and interest in the 1970s. this is the president dedicating a grove of acquires in northern californi

offering to the nixon people. after the meeting, i went up to president elect nixon and said, if i need to reach you, do you have a phone where i can get you? he said if you can't get me, call john mitchell. he is the only one who thinks for me, speaks for me. after that i was shocked at that. lyndon b. johnson never went have allowed that. i thought, i had no reason to suspect what nixon would do or not do. i thought, this is the kind of thing that johnson would never do. what was that thought? >> it was about the fact that -- >> how did the nixon white house deal with that? >> nixon was not in the white house, you're talking about the transition. at the law firm, nixon's office was right next to mitchell john , mitchell became the campaign manager. i happen to be one of the people that is condensed, that mitchell -- nixon would never been elected president had john mitchell not been brought in, with kennedy. the criticism was that nixon tried to self manage his campaign and that he needed to delegate that. he di

liddy and nixon? they could have dumped on gordon living in john dean. that has changed dramatically. nixon and trump both thin skinned, but dramatically different people. guest: i agree they were both thin-skinned. both seem to be socially awkward and always feeling like they weren't part of the in group and fighting for that. i am not a psychiatrist, but this is based on readings i have and you would probably agree. guest: a were outsiders. guest: they were outsiders and that motivated them. i give nixon cut it for opening china and passing title ix which the anniversary is this week also for starting the epa. so i think there were some things that nixon accomplished. in terms of the media landscape, that is one of the crucial difference between then and now. back then we had three networks and they all had the same facts. everybody agreed on the facts. the other difference is we had bipartisanship. not only was the urban committee and the judiciary committee both completely bipartisan, but the coun

nixon. like this morning canvas, attended the university of california, and joined for the nixon for governor team a night is did to a 24 years old. he got the political bug and these hard work and uncanny ability would take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the historic 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20th, 1969. the work has written a terrific new memoir the president men, which you can see here to my left, and much of it it deals with his work which president nixon. the presidents men is -- one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency of president nixon as a person, that has yet been -- . it will speak this evening with frank -- . frank joined the nixon white house in the summer of 1971 as a white house fellow assigned counselors to the president node one sailed and dog bob fitch. he then worked for john ehrlichman on the domestic council -- handful of -- you passed by president nixon to fly whatever was one in the fin

but nixon got a kind of revenge on also. fox news, that was nixon's idea. he wanted a conservative network where they could get their message out and it was his acolyte, roger ailes, who made it happen. nixon started this whole notion that the deep state, the cia was really behind watergate, the liberal media, this was a coup to oust him from power, and waterstone, who cut his teeth in the nixon -- roger stone, who cut his teeth in the nixon campaign, would bring that to fruition today. there is a clear road from nixon to trump, from june 17 to january 6. thank you. [applause] >> we have had a fantastic education tonight from wonderful people and thank you all so much and thank you for the sponsors again and i hope that we will live to see another reunion of all of us here. let me tell you my biggest pooh-pooh and watergate. after the tapes were discovered, a senator met in his office with the committee and i was in there and they said, how are we going to get the tapes? somebody said, i don't know, i guess we will have to subpoena them. the congress had ne

those are things that are part of the nixon record. also, watergate is part of the nixon record. we have to evaluate the full measure of all these presidencies. >> coming back to your column and the -- watergate anniversary of the break in. you touch about the aftermath of the watergate scandal. the -- congress. i wonder if you think that this network as you have appeared on as of today 102 times. is this network a legacy of watergate? >> i think it is. going back to the class of 74, the watergate babies. they came in with the idea that they wanted to open up institution. one of the first things they did was they help knock out three very powerful committee chairs. democratic committee chairman. they did other things that were designed to essentially decentralize power in the house. effects watching online and watching on c-span, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone back to the hearing on mike pence. -- the library of congress. today is the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate, >>. there is no doubt the scandal has h

. >> at the time it was by no means clear that nixon was going to win. >> nixon and musky were neck and neck. >> nixon feared he was going to lose, and he did not want to be a loser. >> the democratic nomination was a horse race, and in the beginning the front-runner was musky. >> george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates and one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. >> nixon's re-election committee sent a fake letter. >> the white house wanted to undermine musky's appeal in new hampshire by associated muskie with some language about people of french canadian heritage. the sword canuck. the muskie campaign did not write that letter. at the time muskie felt being associated with a letter that described a very bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign, and he went public to deny any responsibility for the letter. >> it was snowing that day, and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it gave the impression that he was crying as he was explaining that he was not responsible for what became known as the canuck

confronts nixon about it. nixon denies any knowledge of itwhatsoever . but johnson is storming all over washington to other figures to tell people, tell nixon to knock it off. this is treason. he's out there keeping the vietnam war going for political benefit . then after the election johnson decides he can't ever speak of this publicly because it would undermine the moral authority of nixon coming in. the results of this are buried for four years. just 10 years ago when these documents are classified but nixon knows that he's done this so nixon becomes paranoid papers somewhere in the brookings institution about this event and that when the pentagon papers are leaked in 71 pentagon papers by the way which have nothing to do with nixon whatsoever and heshould have not cared at all . >> there about the earlier presidency of johnson and kennedy . >> there are 2 million words in the pentagon papers e. richard nixon's name does not appear a single time so in .theory this should be a great scandal for. about tearing down lyndon johnson and president kennedy .

nixon's instructions. richardson's deputy williams r ruckles house has been fired to a obey a order to fire the special prosecutor. >> i looked at mo and she looked at me and she said "what does this mean?" i said "i don't know, it's not a good sign." >> on the evening of the saturday night massacre, the fbi was ordered to come into our office and seal the office, make sure that nothing was removed and take over essentially our space. >> all of the sudden the place was overrun with fbi agents. it was chaos. there were a number of people in the office who took memoranda and put them in safe deposit boxes, all the evidence that we had that would be used if we ever tried to prosecute the president. i took that and i hid it in my grandmother's basement in arlington. >> the saturday night massacre was a disaster for richard nixon, and one of the worst decisions he made as president. he didn't set it up. he didn't brace people. no one really understood why he was doing it. he was doing it because cox was challen

he said that the post didn't get nixon nixon got nixon. he was referring to secret tapes audio tapes that richard nixon had made of many of his conversations at the white house. and we'll take a look at that in a moment. but the important thing is is that bradley's saying the post didn't get nixon. woodward himself had this to say if perhaps an earlier terms but emphatic. the press did not bring down nixon. and michael gattler the ombudsman whom i mentioned a moment ago had this to say in 2005. that ultimately it was not the post. but the fbi a congress acting in bipartisan fashion and the courts that brought down. the nixon administration indeed to roll up a scandal the complexity and dimension of watergate required the concerted if not coordinated efforts of special prosecutors. federal judges fbi both houses of congress the supreme court the justice and even then even then. nixon would have survived the scandal he would have walked. if not for the secret tapes that he had made of many of his conversations from 1971 to 1973. inside the w

liddy and nixon? they could have dumped on gordon living in john dean. that has changed dramatically. nixon and trump both thin skinned, but dramatically different people. guest: i agree they were both thin-skinned. both seem to be socially awkward and always feeling like they weren't part of the in group and fighting for that. i am not a psychiatrist, but this is based on readings i have and you would probably agree. guest: a were outsiders. guest: they were outsiders and that motivated them. i give nixon cut it for opening china and passing title ix which the anniversary is this week also for starting the epa. so i think there were some things that nixon accomplished. in terms of the media landscape, that is one of the crucial difference between then and now. back then we had three networks and they all had the same facts. everybody agreed on the facts. the other difference is we had bipartisanship. not only was the urban committee and the judiciary committee both completely bipartisan, but the coun

and nixon wants the truth to commit. and gordon is following the code of silence, oh marta, it's a really, really interesting development, because if gordon had come clean -- which he did in his book ten years later -- then john dean could her couldn't have whipped up his fairytale about non-involvement. because dean hired lady. it's on the tape, it's on the march 21st tape. but that tape you played is perfect, of because years later, not years later, months later, nixon nixon says on the air, i told him he should tell the truth, and i told him if he wanted to hear directly from me i would talk to him and peter markle's, who was a ladies lawyer, cause fell like a boy, or the associate special prosecutor, and says, henry peterson never told us that. he never made that offer that we could come in and see the president. if he had the d would have come clean. >> -- nixon wants the truth to come out, is that when he heard on that tape? >> it isn't what i heard on the tape. and it isn't what i heard in mounds of evidence, in h

. >> nixon wanted to win. so, he engaged in activities that were criminal to secure his victory. >> the wiretapping of his political opponents. >> conspiracy. extortion. black male. >> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the team received an overwhelming mandate from the american voters leaving every state but one, massachusetts . >> it is not just a desire for political power. it is a lost. that is what nixon said. i lust for power. >> the man in the middle, john wesley dean the third. >> i thought the cover-up was going to and after the election. i was wrong. >> i have no prior knowledge of the water great break in. >> is going to get much, much worse. >> seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with a break in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. >> the white house managed to contain the breaking of the watergate to only seven people. but, john new that people had lied and it passed him off. so, wh

was going to win. >> nixon and muskie were neck and neck. >> nixon feared he was going to lose, and he did not want to be a loser. >> the democratic nomination was a horse race. and in the beginning, the front-runner was muskie. george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates. >> one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. >> nixon's re-election committee sent a fake letter. >> the white house wanted to undermine muskie's appeal in new hampshire by associating muskie with some language about people of french canadian heritage. the issue was the word "canuck." the muskie campaign did not write that letter. but at the time, muskie felt that being associated with a letter that described a very important bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign. and he went public to deny any responsibility for the letter. it was snowing that day. and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it gave the impression that he was crying as he was explaining that he was not responsible for what became known as the canuck letter. and he

it's the style, the modus operandi of richard nixon. >> the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. >> it's about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. >> there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. >> when you have a president who thinks he can do anything -- >> he develops weapons of mass destruction. >> i just want 11,780 votes. >> and that's really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that's how dictators come to power. >>> within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up

liddy and nixon? they could have dumped on gordon living in john dean. that has changed dramatically. nixon and trump both thin skinned, but dramatically different people. guest: i agree they were both thin-skinned. both seem to be socially awkward and always feeling like they weren't part of the in group and fighting for that. i am not a psychiatrist, but this is based on readings i have and you would probably agree. guest: a were outsiders. guest: they were outsiders and that motivated them. i give nixon cut it for opening china and passing title ix which the anniversary is this week also for starting the epa. so i think there were some things that nixon accomplished. in terms of the media landscape, that is one of the crucial difference between then and now. back then we had three networks and they all had the same facts. everybody agreed on the facts. the other difference is we had bipartisanship. not only was the urban committee and the judiciary committee both completely bipartisan, but the coun