that's exactly what richard nixon thought of the cia and in the book i was lucky because of the cast of characters beginning with decals with a dry martini in one hand who could walk into the oval office and tell lbj what he didn't want to hear. but the obvious comparison is between trump and nixon he blamed him for his lost to kennedy in 1960 and was convinced that gap that kennedy ran on in 1960 accused eisenhower and those but nixon was convinced the cia had used it to win the election. and with that contempt for the organization but donald trump's campaign to politicize that community would make nixon a lush he has been far more overt and flagrant and blatant and successful the nixon and the latest example is the installation of john radcliffe because the only qualification he has is the pedals disinformation and as fact. so that success the nixon could only dream about now fast-forward to 9/11 and the deer times i was lucky enough in the review said with george tenet and i said really? i thought i was nuanced to george tenet because i conventional wisdom and cia kowtowing to the

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another appointment nixon made -- nixon was moderately happy with burger, but another appointment nixon would be disappointed in, harry blackmun, who authored roe v. wade among other opinions and votes on the left he would take. blackmun had been buddies with burger, they were known as the minnesota twins, but at the end of their lives, blackmun did not go to the funeral of burger's wife. they had a falling out mostly over these jurisprudential commitments. susan: you referenced roe v. wade, 7-2 decision in 1983, and it is obvious to anyone listening to this that it becomes the central theme of every supreme court nomination. what is it about that particular decision that has made it continue to be argued so vociferously in the united states? ilya: i agree with justice ginsburg actually and her criticism of roe v. wade, that it was premature and cut off a political debate going in a certain direction in the country, as well as doing it the wrong way, talking about an amorphous privacy right somewhere and during a previous -- somewhere in borrowing a previous precedent among various amen

another appointment nixon made -- nixon was moderately happy with burger, but another appointment nixon would be disappointed in, harry blackmun, who authored roe v. wade among other opinions and votes on the left he would take. blackmun had been buddies with burger, they were known as the minnesota twins, but at the end of their lives, blackmun did not go to the funeral of burger's wife. they had had such a falling out, mostly over these jurisprudential commitments. susan: you referenced roe v. wade, 7-2 decision in 1983, and it is obvious to anyone listening to this that it becomes the central theme of every supreme court nomination. what is it about that particular decision that has made it continue to be argued so vociferously in the united states? ilya: i agree with justice ginsburg actually and her criticism of roe v. wade, that it was premature and cut off a political debate going in a certain direction in the country, as well as doing it the wrong way, talking about an amorphous privacy right somewhere and during a previous precedent among various amendments, rather than what ju

another appointment nixon made -- nixon was moderately happy with burger, but another appointment nixon would be disappointed in, harry blackmun, who authored roe v. wade among other opinions and votes on the left he would take. blackmun had been buddies with theer, they were known as minnesota twins, but at the end of their lives, blackmun did not go to the funeral of burger's wife. susan: you referenced roe v. wade, 7-2 decision in 1983, and it is obvious to anyone listening to this that it becomes the central theme of every supreme court nomination. what is it about that particular decision that has made it continue to be argued so vociferously in the united states? ilya: i agree with justice ginsburg actually and her criticism of roe v. wade, that it was premature and cut off a political debate going in a certain direction in the country , as well as doing it the wrong way, talking about an amorphous privacy right somewhere and during a previous precedent among various amendments, rather than what justice ginsburg would have it, and equal protection, women's equality justification.

it's kissinger talking to nixon. shall we bring buckley along with us to beijing? and kissinger says no, he'll disrupt everything and cause trouble and nixon says we need him because he's themost famous conservative of the time . another example is constantine mingus. in a book i think you wrote forward to, constantine mingus wrote along 700 pages or so book called the gathering storm about the china threat. very detailed, specific ideas . the us should sponsor and fund the chinese government or parliament in exile that meets annually and talked about ideas to induce change in china. nothing happened. but the idea still kicks around and in hundred year marathon i tracked down how much money do we spend as a federal government on democracy, rule of law, information operations inside china? i'd say it's at most $50 million a year department of justice has a program, usaid , most of our departments haveprograms inside china . $50 million is nothing. this is a 14, $15 trillion economy. they're going to surpass us if we don't do the right thing so we can't afford more t

nixon, president nixon, republican nominee, could win one-third of the democratic voters, could get one out of three of the professing, identifying democrats. mr. hess, do you think there's any possibility this year that president ford can do that well amongst democrats? >> well, we expect this to be a close election, unlike 1972, which was a landslide. but the plain arithmetic in the united states, as we know from gallup polls and so forth, is that there's two democrats for every one republican. >> you don't say too many, you just say two. >> no, two, two. the number two democrat, two democrats, one republican at arithmetic. it is not without significance that the poster for governor carter's campaign, which is behind me, says vote democratic. the poster for president ford's campaign, which is behind professor penniman doesn't mention the word republican. so, the job for president ford is to play down his party identification to win over those who may be of the opposition party or of no party. clearly the job for mr. carter is simply to hold, get out to vote, all of those who consider

president kennedy even nixon is , only three years older than kennedy. and later, president herbert walker bush is only six years older than kennedy. world war ii shapes them. and so many other kennedy sibling serve in the war either in the military or in civilian roles. i think president kennedy would have encouraged us, were he alive today, to always value public service and consider public service in its many forms as way to strengthen the nation and the world around us. paul: that is a great place to end today's conversation. thank you for joining us. you do a great job up there. i hope you have a great year. alan: paul always great to talk. , i look forward to visiting hyde park again. paul: that is it for today. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you're watching american history tv, all we can every weekend, on c-span3. to 4, 1945, the united nations came into being. that day has been unit

not conceding a single state to richard nixon. i should like to say to my friend frank king, that ohio may have passed a few times in this convention, but tom eagleton and i are not going to pass ohio. i shall say to governor gilligan ohio is... he is the unifier and the fundamental issue of this national campaign. and all of us are going to help him redeem a pledge he made ten years ago, the next year you won't have richard nixon to kick around anymore. [applause] we have had our fury and our frustrations in these past months. and at this convention. but frankly, i welcome the contrast with the smug and dull and empty event which will doubtless take place here in miami next month. [applause] we chose the struggle, we reformed our party, and we let the people in. and so we stand today not as a collection of backroom strategists, not as a tool of itt or any other special interest. so let our opponents stand on the status quo while we seek to refresh the american spirit. [applause] let the opposition collect their 10 million dollars

but from that point on, the next -agnew, hewith nixon did have serious problems. i think it was pretty well known and that is why that ad was so effective back then. host: all right, bob. robert mann. 1964. to his point about there was a lot of knowledge in the voters minds about goldwater's minds. campaign believed that that that they would focus on that. theirey came up with that the united states fear going to war with the soviet union. oft was going to be a flight spots attacking goldwater over became for five spots that attacked him on the issue of nuclear war and proliferation. riotsk they probably were , it was a more effective message to put forth because of voters were just much more aware of where goldwater stood on nuclear war men where he stood on civil rights. out-earnment from oklahoma. he says, please keep in mind that many families did not own televisions at the time that the ad was -- in the timeframe being discussed. were talk about where we in 1952 versus 1980. in 1952 very about million homes with televisions in them. had roughly one television

in 1972, nixon was president. so the result was, no debates in the elections of 1964, 1968, 1972. 1970 six, the federal communications division decided congress was not going to act, that it would act on its own and it reinterpreted the equal time law to create debates as an exempt news event. the voters organize the 1976 debates. i was recommended to help the league and that is how i got involved. they were not getting along with the candidates and we organized what is currently the commission of presidential debates, as a result of two studies, one at harvard, and the other a study of georgetown. the current commission of presidential debates which organized every debate including the one that would occur next week. a permanente institution in american politics. >> as we see the shift from insider party politics determining nominations, shaping so much of the actual campaign, to bring it out more in the open, which means more in television, more driven by the media as well. you have an emergence of a new politic

one thing my father really, you know, felt strongly about, richard nixon -- richard nixon was loathed by just about everybody in washington. his strength was at the grassroots, and, you know, after the checker speech and that incident and eisenhower's retention of nixon on the ticket, i think that, you know, caused some doubts in his mind about eisenhower. he respected eisenhower and my father was such a figure in the world that john foster dulles, perhaps reluctantly made him a roving official ambassador of the eisenhower administration, so that in his travels throughout the world he could officially represent the united states. if there had been a difference and the real differences then, i think, were between the democrat and the eisenhower wing of the republican party with the taft wing. eisenhower's problems were with taft. and the conservative wing of the republican party. if my father had been a president you would probably have the new frontier, federal aid to education and other such programs might have taken effect earlier. as it was, much of it didn't take effect until afte

that only happens with nixon and ford and i am sure somebody will ask me why i didn't include nixon, ford as a separate chapter and at some point i will be into the punch and answer the question. the reason that the vacancy of the vice president is important is that john tyler is a disaster for the whig party because again he is basically a democrat. he doesn't subscribe to the whig agenda at all. like most of the accidental presidents that came after him he has a completely different , set of policy views than his predecessor and he takes the country in a completely different direction. like all of the eight accidental presidents he was ostracized , from the administration, had no relationship with the predecessor, i did not have a good sense of what was happening in the administration he was part of. at least for him the information , was only 30 days. so, tyler, as he subverts the whig agenda with the veto are of -- vetoing of two national banks, ends up adding formally ex-communicated from the whig party. so henry clay leads the charge to kick john tyler out of the party. so john

♪ good afternoon and welcome to the richard nixon presidential library and museum. i am the executive vice president of the foundation. welcome to the 2020 great american author series. i'd like to start by thanking you all for participating in today's program especially those that submitted questions. all watching or providing a tremendous amount of support to the library as we have been closed for six months. i encourage you to sign up for a membership and to do that, visit nixon library.com after this program and. today our guest is the son of the president of the united states from the first family, donald trump junior, executive president of the organization working to expand the retail and commercial real estate portfolio and overseeing a number of organization development projects and is now leading the company. mr. trump is joined today by hugh hewitt president of the nixon foundation,. >> host: the network and nbc contributor and "washington post" contributing columnist. welcome to the library. i wish i could be there in person. i'm stuck inside of the belt

>> nixon, maybe? president nixon? prof. gutin: why would president nixon be considered the unluckiest president? >> watergate, maybe? prof. gutin: well, think of an event you really can't control. unfortunately, there were certain issues where president nixon could've done some controlling with watergate. >> ok. prof. gutin: going once. going twice. >> kennedy? prof. gutin: kennedy. why would kennedy be considered the unluckiest president? >> he was assassinated. prof. gutin: well, yeah, being assassinated is definitely a very unlucky thing. but no, no. i'm going to help you here. it was herbert hoover. why hoover? of 1929 --s in march by the way, herbert hoover always gets a bad rep. he was really a very, very brilliant man, has -- much of europe after world war i, comes to the white house. he's in office since march. 1929, then october of stock market crashes and the great depression begins. one historian wrote that herbert hoover came to the white house poised for a grand job of building, and instead he was obliged to ca

vice president humphrey lost to president nixon. >> mister chairman,, my fellow american, my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [cheers and applause] this moment is one of personal pride and gratification yet one cannot help or fleck the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence, which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. for the first no injuries which have occurred. [cheers and applause] surely, we have now learned a lesson that violence breeds counter violence, and it cannot be condoned of whatever the source. [cheers and applause] i know that every delegate to this convention shares tonight it's my sorrow and my distress over these incidents. may we for just one moments, and sober affliction and serious purpose. may we just quietly and silently, huge in our own way, pray for our country and may we don't share for a moment a few of those immortal words of the prayer of saint francis of sec. words which i think, may help heal the wounds ease the pain, and lift our hearts. listen to this immortal saint. whe

>> nixon, maybe? president nixon? >> why would nixon be considered to be the luckiest president? >> watergate, maybe? >> well think of an event you can't really control. unfortunately there were some issues where the president could've done some controlling. wiwith waterga >> ok. >> going once. going twice. candidate? >> kennedy. why would kennedy be considered the luckiest presidents? >> he was assassinated. >> well, yeah, being assassinated is definitely a very unlucky thing. but no, no. i'm going to help you here. it was herbert hoover. why hoover? hoover comes to office in rch of 1929 -- by the way, herbert hoover always gets a bad re he was really a very, very brave men, had fed much of europe after world war i, comes to the white house. he's in office since march. and then in october of 1929, the stock market crashes and the great depression begins. one historian wrote that herbert hoover came t to the white house poised for a grand job of building, and instead he was obliged to catch. he was pretty unlucky. harry truman used to say that herbert hoover did not create thehe

nixon was super serious. rock-solid. performs as the president that we all imagine presidents to be. and the president of the united states, we always imagined that person to be here or hopefully she very soon, someone who's extra special. someone is an outlier. that someone who can just do the job competently but someone who can sort of do the job her oakley. the person who performs as that potential heroic president is the person who wins the election. not always, not always, but a lot of times yes. >> we're talking a lot obviously about performance. we're going to come back to that idea. i want to go back to you for a moment because the commission of presidential debates was established in 1987 and the point of that commission was to be sure these kinds of general election debates for leading candidates as a permanent part of the electoral process. so although we're here talking about performance, what was the logic behind creating that? making sure that the debates continued. and push back against this idea. >> again

as far as the nixon v. rockefeller, dad did not attend the 1968 republican convention because the rockefellers, going way back, had been maybe his largest campaign contributors, worked hard for him, they were good friends, but my take from that was that he thought that the party should be nominating nixon in '68 and he wasn't going to get involved in it. >> and it's also been suggested that quite frankly his law firm -- i mean, he had reasons not to alienate nelson rockefeller. >> i don't know whether they had anything to do with the law firm. his law firm was never the rockefeller's law firm, that was mill bank tweed. so i don't think there were economic reasons. >> okay. >> but he -- i think he -- by that time he felt uncomfortable with the amount of money that nelson had spent. >> let's hear from debbie in schenectady, new york, she's been waiting, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i have a -- a really interesting subject to talk about, going into the kitchen so the tv doesn't bother you. sarah palin and todd pa

>> nixon, maybe? president nixon? prof. gutin: why would president nixon be considered the unluckiest president? >> watergate, maybe? prof. gutin: well, think of an event you really can't control. unfortunately, there were certain issues where president nixon could've done some controlling with watergate. >> ok. prof. gutin: going once. going twice. >> kennedy? prof. gutin: kennedy. why would kennedy be considered the unluckiest president? >> he was assassinated. prof. gutin: well, yeah, being assassinated is definitely a very unlucky thing. but no, no. i'm going to help you here. it was herbert hoover. why hoover? hoover comes in march of 1929 -- by the way, herbert hoover always gets a bad rep. he was really a very, very brilliant man, has -- much of europe after world war i, comes to the white house. he's in office since march. and then in october of 1929, the stock market crashes and the great depression begins. one historian wrote that herbert hoover came to the white house poised for a grand job of building, and inste

nixon defeated hubert humphrey in a close general election. with less than 1% of the popular vote separating the two. george wallace came in third. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you, thank you very much. ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪

i mean dwight eisenhower, richard nixon are the most obvious. but there is a whole host of people who would remain, some here in new york, but others, hagerty was the white house press secretary to the state is regarded as the greatest press secretary while he worked under dewey. the attorney general under eisenhower was dewey's campaign manager and the list is a very long one. >> >> -- in virginia. you're next. >> hello. you're on the air go ahead. >> can you hear me? >> we can. >> okay. this is a very interesting subject. this is the first presidential election my mother, republicans voted in. one of the things she told me is that she found dewey unattractive because of his greasy hair and his mustache. could you comment on that? my main interest was understanding the role in the future player in the democratic party lyndon johnson played in this election. >> well lyndon johnson tried to get himself elected into the senate of texas, he wasn't significant in the presidential race. dewey's is revealing in a number of ways. dewey is somewhat toda

of contempt into this job but even richard nixon brought in the past. >> even using that analogy and the congressman and the white house and the state department and he also took advantage i don't recall how much detail he went into but every january with the senior intelligence officials and then to tell the

a few weeks later he would lose badly to president nixon. tonight, the candidacy and legacy of mcgovern. joining us from there is presidential author scott faris. scott, it is 2:30 in the morning when mcgovern delivers his acceptance speech in miami. why? >> well, the reason i think it was sort of emblematic of the whole distrust of the mcgovern campaign was, it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. what had happened was, as you heard senator mcgovern there, he was very strong on the issue of vietnam. i think one of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator mcgovern as one of the most influential of those who ranted the presidency, but was not successful, is that he adopted the vietnam war issue and i think he did two things. one, he spoke about that war in ways that no presidential candidate had spoken about war before. it wasn't language, as you heard, that was fairly mild for what he had said in the campaign, very strong language that unsettled a lot of americans and caused them to

interviews dad did with people, often nixon opponents, during the nixon areas that he was obviously monitoring your dad interviewed people, bobby kennedy, george wallace, ronald reagan. i guess he had a penchant for recording tapes. >> your dad interviewed so many people he was 29 years old and it just struck me how good he was at his craft. what do you think it was about his style that was so captivating? >>. >> the age part of it is amazing. i knew he was one of the best, of course, when i was alive and he was in his 60s and 70s. to see him that good in his 20 as as well is unbelievable i think if there's one thing overarching all of this, a genuine fascination in people, and finding out what makes them tick and exploring their personal philosophy and i don't think you can fake that. and i think it comes across subconsciously or consciously, i don't know, to his guests, that he was just genuinely interested in them. dad was an interesting man to talk to, but he was interested in people, above all else. >> and here you are following in his footsteps, you're our colleague at cnbc. those are bi

. >> 4 years ago in 1972, the great thrust of the nixon landslide was the fact that president nixon, republican nominee, could win 1/3 of democratic odors, could get 1 out of 3 of professing self identifying democrats. do you think there's any possibility this year that president ford can do that? >> we expect this to be an unprecedented election, unlike 1972, which was a landslide. there are two democrats for every one republican. the two -- the number two democrats for everyone republican. so it's no surprise the poster for governor carter says vote democratic. the poster for president ford does not mention the word republican. the job for president ford is to play down his party identification, to win over those in the opposition party or of no party whereas clearly the job for mr. carter is to simply get out to vote all of those who consider themselves democratic. if he does this, he will win. in the past, democrats lose when they are divided. the party has a great ideological division, as it had in 1972, or when the republicans up a charismatic leader such as dwight eisenhower i

in 1972,s ago and -- the great thrust of the nixon landslide was the fact that president nixon, republican nominee, could win 1/3 of democratic odors, could get 1 selff 3 of professing identifying democrats. do you think there's any possibility this year that president ford can do that? >> we expect this to be an unprecedented election, unlike 1972, which was a landslide. there are two democrats for every one republican. two -- the number two democrats for everyone republican. poster no surprise the for governor carter says vote democratic. the poster for president ford does not mention the word republican. the job for president ford is to play down his party identification, to win over those in the opposition party or of no party whereas clearly the job for mr. carter is to simply get out to vote all of those who consider themselves democratic. if he does this, he will win. lose whent, democrats they are divided. the party has a great ideological division, as it had in 1972, or when the republicans up a charismatic leader such as dwight eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, or the third factor mig

eisenhower and party and vice president nixon mrs. nixon, the president's mother-in-law and his daughter in law. also at the airport or cabinet members, congressman and diplomats. reporting on the historic meeting at the summit the president said -- will be the result of the conference, of course no one knows what the coming months will tell. but in the meantime, we do know the new context of an established and there is evidence of a new friendliness in the war. civil war and saigon, south vietnam's capital reminded the war that enduring peace was still far away. royal troops fought in the streets against a rebel outlaw army. the rent aimlessly anywhere to escape for their lives and their loved ones. the american-backed government was victorious but site gone lace card under the smoking devastation of civil war. sovereignty for west germany signified a return to a place of trust in the community of three nations. the allied occupation ended, west germany was again mistress of her destiny. ceremonies opening a new era of german history

vice president humphrey lost to republican richard nixon in a close general election with less than 1% of the popular vote separating the two. george wallace finished third in the race. >> mr. chairman. mr. chairman. my fellow americans. my fellow democrats. i proudly accept the nomination of our party. this moment -- this moment is one of personal pride and gratificati gratification. yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. and for the personal injuries which have occurred. [ applause ]. surely we have now learned the lesson that violence breeds counter violence. and it cannot be condoned whatever the source. [ applause ]. i know that every delegate to this convention shares tonight my sorrow and my distress over these incidents and may we, for just one moment, in sober reflection and serious purpose, may we just quietly and silen y silently, each in our own way, pray for our country and may we just share for a moment a few of those immortal words of

to not conceding a single state to richard nixon. i should like to say to my friend frank king of ohio he may have passed a few times in this convention but tom eagle fan and i are not going to pass ohio key. i shall say to governor gilligan ohio is... he is the unifier and the fundamental issue of this national campaign. and all of us are going to help him redeem a pledge he made ten years ago, the next year you won't have richard nixon to kick around anymore. we have had our fury and our frustrations in these past months. and at this convention. but frankly, i welcome the contrast with the smug and dull and empty event which will doubtless take place here in miami next month. [applause] we chose this struggle, we reformed our party, and we let the people in. and so we stand today not as a collection of backroom strategists, not as a tool of itt or any other special interest. so let our opponents stand on the status quo while we seek to refresh the american spirit. [applause] let the opposition collect their 10 million dollars in se

nixon's remarkable tour of russia. ♪ hawaii is set by campaign fever. it is the first election of the state with 81 offices from the legislature up to the government. two seats in the senate and candidates for senator r quinn and john bert. faced withters were the first opportunity to participate in the nation's government. the winners of the top votes, quinn, republican and a roman catholic. the gop and democrats each controlled one house of the legislature. reflected thelly melting pot of races and religions. an outstanding war hero was elected. and the first asian ever elected to the senate. chinese. >> according to the cia, the film "angels in paradise" was produced for family members of those working on the secret spy plane u-2 at the u.s. military facility in nevada. the film tells the story of the design, manufacture and testing of the plane between 1954 and 1960. it could fly and take photographs at an unprecedented 70,000 feet it is believed that siding of the flights in the vater with a source of many 1950's and 1960's ufo stories. >> this is

as far as the nixon v. rockefeller, dad did not attend the 1948 republican convention because the rockefellers going way back had been maybe his largest campaign contributors, worked hard for him, they were good friends, but my take from that was that he thought that the party should be nominating nixon in '68 and he wasn't going to get involved in it. >> it's also been suggested that quite frankly his law firm -- he had reasons not to alienate nelson rockefeller. >> i don't know whether they had anything to do with the law firm. his law firm was never the rockefeller's law firm. i don't think there were economic reasons. >> okay. >> but he -- i think he -- by that time, he felt uncomfortable the amount of money that nelson has spent. >> let's hear from deb in new york. she's been waiting. go ahead. >> caller: yes, i have a really interesting subject to talk about. i'm going into the kitchen so the tv doesn't bother you. sarah palin and today todd palen have been conversing on facebook, and occupy wall stre

even though nixon in some ways wanted to. some of his advisers were doing it behind the scenes. his dad was a very famous strong-willed irish catholic businessman and ambassador to england. it is a good joke because people were worried that joseph kennedy had too much influence over his son. >> today the catholic church is dealing with another crisis, the abused by priests that dates back to 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years ago. how is the church dealing with that? >> church dealing with that? >> it has not been successful so far. united states catholicism. >> in the history. >> absolutely, no question. in terms of struggling to figure out what the right messages and effectively dealing with the problem of sexual abuse and the trauma it causes young people and all of those who are abused. it has been going on as you said 40 or 50 years. the public scandal has been going on since 2002. there are famous early cases we can trace back to the 1980's and 90's. i think the frustration has been since 2002 and it is seen as to have not been resolved. the good news is that it does seem like there

four yearsu know, ago, in 1972, the great thrust of the nixon landslide was the fact that president nixon, republican nominee, could win 1/3 of democratic voters, could get one out of three of professing, self-identifying democrats. do you think there's any possibility this year that president ford can do that? mr. hess: well, we expect this to be an unprecedented election, unlike 1972, which was a landslide. there are two democrats for every one republican. richard: i thought you were going to say too many. [laughter] no, the number two, democrats for every one republican. so it's no surprise the poster for governor carter says vote democratic. the poster for president ford's campaign does not mention the word "republican." so the job for president ford is to play down his party identification, to win over those who may be of the opposition party or of no party, whereas clearly the job for mr. carter is to simply get out to vote all of those who consider themselves democratic. if he does this, he will win. in the past, democrats lose when they are divided. and the party has a great ideol

this was the only way to allow johnson's word to become nixon's war. i had a greater obligation to think of more than the years i'm administration in the next election. i have to think about the effect of my decision on the next generation and the future of peace and freedom in america and in the world. let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some americans are for peace, some americans are against peace. the question at issue is not whether johnson's were becomes nixon's war. the great question is,, how can we win americas piece. let us turn now to the fundamental issue. why and how did the united states become involved in vietnam in the first place? 15 years ago, north vietnam with the logistical support of communist china and the soviet union, launched a campaign to impose a communist government on south vietnam by instigating in supporting revolution. in response to the requests of the government of south vietnam, president eisenhower sent economic aid and military equipment to assist the people of south vietnam in their ef

. >> i tell you whether president nixon or not, i'd like to end t, i don't know how i'd do it. i wouldn't be dropping atom bombs on people because them people aren't to blame for being at that war that is they have their forms of government which they believe the same as we do, and why shouldn't they stick up for their rights whether they're one side or the other? i'd like to end it. i'd like to get our boys out of there. how, i don't know. i don't want to hurt them the same as i don't want ours to be hurt. i had a son, and he was in vietnam. he said dad, why should i have to go over there? he asked me. he asked me that. i said marty, what do you think? >> because i'm an american and citizen of this country and it's the only reason i go, so -- >> i think an 18-year-old is owed something to this country, to serve. >> i have a son over there right now and i lost two brothers in world war ii. >> we have something to fight for and we're at war, too, and you have nobody that wouldn't volunteer. very few wouldn't volunteer. >> i wouldn't mind, i don't think, serving my time in the ar

a lot of this, i don't think it started with nixon, we had big scandals before, but the nixon cloud hangs over this. john dean to have a continuing voice in public affairs, we need to keep remembering, you go down a path of coverup, i willy get, pillars begin to crumble. bob woodward and i talked about this when he was at the post and i was at the white house, saying we wondered whether the pillars would survive the nixon administration. they did. i think now we are in another moment which is very defining, will have big impact for a long time. i did feel, wolf, if i am permitted one more point, i did feel tonight that the president was returning from the world of medicine to the world of politics, and people have been  on the democratic side, have generally been pretty quiet last few days. biden pulled negative ads, for example. he is going to get in the thick of it now, it will be a fight. one of the things you'll hear again and again, we have millions of people going to vote early. they deserve to know the health outlook for both nominees, they need to tell us and tell us in detail wh

and they thought house where is this martinis sipping elitist nixon was wrong and trump is wrong. he has taken it to another level and believes the intelligence committee compared to not see you germany and has level of contempt that makes it impossible to brief them where to have the right information when history making decisions are made so that overwhelming parity has to be in november to get someone into the oval office who respects intelligence and the truth so that's what the cia does. >> so the question of what do we know then and now? have learned enough lessons with the plaintiff you with the intelligence community and 2016 that this election can be protected one way or another? >> we are more aware of the nature of the soviet threat obviously that is an advantage going into this and in august 2016 my book actually opens burning the midnight oil the seventh for cia headquarters and up in the canopy to figure out and he realizes but at that moment in august 2016 he didn't know about the whole social media component of it without machinery so there are those that said 201

richard: you know, four years ago, in 1972, the great thrust of the nixon landslide was the fact that president nixon, republican nominee, could win 1/3 of democratic voters, could get one out of three of professing, self-identifying democrats. do you think there's any possibility this year that president ford can do that? mr. hess: well, we expect this to be an unprecedented election, unlike 1972, which was a landslide. there are two democrats for every one republican. richard: i thought you were going to say too many. [laughter] mr. hess: no, the number two, democrats for every one republican. so it's no surprise the poster for governor carter says vote democratic. the poster for president ford's campaign does not mention the word "republican." so the job for president ford is to play down his party identification, to win over those who may be of the opposition party or of no party, whereas clearly the job for mr. carter is to simply get out to vote all of those who consider themselves democratic. if he does this, he will win. in the past, democrats lose when they are divided. and t

nixon was wrong, trump is wrong. trump is, takes it to another level. he's delusional. he believes that the intelligence community -- he's compared us to nazi germany. he brings a level of contempt for the intelligence community into the presidency that makes it impossible to brief him, makes it impossible for him to have the right information when history-making decisions are made. so the overwhelming priority has to be in november finding a way to get someone into the oval office who respects intelligence and who respects the truth. because at the end of the day, that's what the cia does. >> so that brings up sort of, i think, a last substantive question which is the last election versus this election, you know? and the question of what did we know then and what do we know now. do you think we've learned enough lessons about interference from the point of view of the intelligence community in 2016 that this election really can be protected one way or another? >> we're certainly, we're certainly more aware of the nature of the soviet threat, and is so that's obviously

president i become nixon or not, i would like to end it. i don't know how, but i would like to end it. i wouldn't be dropping atom bombs on this people, because those people aren't to blame for being at that war. they have their forms of government which they believe in the same we do, so why shouldn't they stick up for their rights, whether they are one side or the other? i would like to end it. i would like to get our boys out of there. how i do is, i don't know. i would not want to hurt them in the same way i would not want ours to be hurt. as i said, i had a son in vietnam and he said, why should i have to go? he said you answer that. i said marty, what do you think? and he said, it's because i'm an american and a citizen of this country and that is the only reason i go. >> i think an 18-year-old owes something to this country, to serve. >> i have a son over there right now. and i lost two brothers in world war ii. >> we had something to fight for in world war ii. you had nobody who would not volunteer, very few would not volunteer. >>

attempted and indeed actually achieved to draw china away from us as nixon drew china away from the soviet union and i referred earlier to how china has a very very heavy relationship with america that is one way if the americans could achieve distrust in the relationship between moscow and beijing now i don't see that happening in the 1st. boss or anything new anything is possible that challenges between russia and china really have to be resolved and in regards to india and russia is put itself forward so who all of the parties concerned as a mediator as a british because russia has said in china india and 3 and a half that leslie was so for all. less fuel cells for the soul the difference is that who is going to benefits it is going to be america last russia acts and as a mediator has not worked so far because china and india came so close. to question is tension is growing that's free in china and finance and the chinese know who breaks out in strange china and india or china and vietnam have chinese soldiers who die and die behind last may's weapons and those options off into t

assented and indeed actually achieved to drool china away from us as nixon drew china away from the soviet union and i referred earlier to how china has a very very heavy relationship with america that is one way if the americans could achieve distrust in the relationship between moscow and beijing now i don't see that happening in the 1st. bus or anything new anything is possible challenges between russia and china really have to be resolved and in regards to india russia has put itself forward so who all of the parties concerned as a mediator as a british because russia is telling china india and 3 and a half that leslie was so for all. less fuel cells for the soul the difference is that who is going to benefits it is going to be america. russia acts and as a mediator has not worked so far because china and india came so close. the question is tension is growing that's free in china and finance and the chinese know who breaks out constrain china and india or china and 3 and a half chinese soldiers who die and die behind lost weapons and those options are on incident safe india and