character, but, hey, it's richard nixon. and i open the book by trying to imagine myself getting inside the mind of richard nixon. during this campaign -- i'm just going to read you one paragraph of the opening. this is where i'm trying to say, this is what it would have been like if you could read his brain waves in 1952 and put myself in his mindset. a lot of what he is experiencing is a career crisis, and anybody who was had a career crisis can do some method acting and get into what it must have been like for this young man on the rise. here's the first paragraph of my imagined internal monologue. goddamn bastards want me out. they want to sack my political clear, they don't have much on me but they'll use what they have. these slugger and liberal president. i'm slumping in a chair on my train just rattling along, heading out of california. my fair state, towards the soggy center of oregon and all i'm hearing from tom fat little man who bubbles with fine political advice is that the press boys are going wild. i could fee

as you all know, the checkers speech is synonymous with richard nixon richard nixon saying i meant every man, i'm an ordinary guy. these are the lines we remember from the speech, the lines of most people will "back betty was the republican -- code that his wife pat nixon were that the truman administration has been bribed by people bringing mink coats into the white house. i'm an ordinary guy. pat would look wonderful in anything. a lot of the speeches, as some people remember it, sometimes it's hard to remember that a lot of it is just documenting what he has and what he possesses, his car, his house and then of course the dog. the dog is at the center of his kind of attempt to make himself into an ordinary, average male, the central man of the whole speech. checkers the dog is the character that is obviously central to the speech and it's during the speech that when he is giving the speech, i have watched the speech so many times that i can almost do it verbatim. but he has transitioned and he does this thing where he pinches his nodes. he goes like this and he goes one of the thing i

richard nixon mentions it in his memoirs. i'm very happy to say besides bud krogh, nbc located the one student who took photographs -- there are four or five students. one of the last things i did is i interviewed him about his experience that strange night, meeting the president of the united states on the steps of the lincoln memorial. >> we are really running out of time -- any of what you have found in your interviews has been kept from the public? >> unintentionally on my part -- there are about 15% -- 85% is completely open. 15%, some of the interviewees mentioned security matters and the relevant agencies have to review the interview. but i did not intentionally engaged in discussions of national security. where it was appropriate, asked him questions. to my surprise, they apparently mentioned things that agencies want to review. >> last video -- the youngest of the people we have shown today, 70 years old. here's a quick story. >> we watch the speech -- it was shortly after the farewell speech. i cannot remember exact

richard nixon mentions it in his memoirs. i'm very happy to sit beside bud krogh, nbc located the one student who took photographs -- there are four or five students. one of the last things i did is i interviewed him about his experience that strange night, meeting the president of the united states on the steps of the lincoln memorial. >> we are really running at a time -- any of what you have found in your interviews has been kept from the public? >> unintentionally on my part -- there are about 15% -- 85% is completely open. 15%, some of the interviewees mentioned security matters and the relevant agencies have to review the interview. but i did not intentionally engaged in discussions of national security. where it was appropriate, asked him questions. to my surprise, they apparently mentioned things that agencies want to review. >> last video -- the youngest of the people we have shown today, 70 years old. here's a quick story. >> we watch the speech -- it was shortly after the farewell speech. i cannot rubber exactly wh

richard nixon mentions it in his memoirs. i'm very happy to say besides bud krogh, we also have one of the students. nbc located the one student who took photographs -- there are four or five photographs of president nixon's visit. one of the last things i did is i interviewed him about his experience that strange night, meeting the president of the united states on the steps of the lincoln memorial. >> we are really running out of time -- any of what you have found in your interviews has been kept from the public? >> unintentionally on my part -- there are about 15% -- 85% is completely open. 15%, some of the interviewees crossed international security matters and the relevant agencies have to review the interview. i did not intentionally engaged in discussions of national security. but where it was appropriate, with people who had done it, i asked them questions. to my surprise, they apparently mentioned things that agencies want to review. >> last video of david gurgen, the youngest of the people we've shown today, he's 70

to have the people who were with richard nixon describe the day is priceless. we had the tapes, but we do not know what is going on around the tapes. it was not just butterfield -- you have colson, glen garmond, folks talking about what it was like. that is priceless. that is the part of history that gives it context and meaning but then disappears. it is often not written down. one of the byproducts of these interviews -- i let the tape run. i let people, even if it was somewhat rambling, let people think and recall and speak. what you get out of it is color -- it is preserved forever. one of the things that was very important to me is i had experienced oral history -- out of the miller center at the university of virginia. james young was conducting a program there and i was one of the interviewers. the way it was run by the miller center -- it was not their fault, just the deal they had struck -- the private foundation took control over the interviews and people could edit them. i know this for a fact because i participated with in interviews that were then

and now that we celebrate richard nixon's 100th birthday, once again we get to find out what richard nixon always wanted to know. what did buchanan think? ladies and gentlemen, pat buchanan. [applause] >> thank you very much, dwight. that was quite a reception. i was wondering where all my good friends were when i was running or the reform party. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight to celebrate the centennial of a statesman, a profile in courage and an extraordinary man. we are all proud to have served the 37th president of the united states, richard milhouse nixon. [applause] years ago meg greenfield of "the washington post" wrote that she belonged to what she called the nixon generation. what distinguishes us as a group she said, is that we are too young to remember time when richard nixon was not on the political scene and too old, reasonably to expect that we shall ever see one. meg greenfield was distressed about this. you know, in her thesis rings true. we are the nixon generation. we were born into and lived through what abdul called the age of nixon and what

kennedy and richard nixon. of course, they faced each other in a far grander series of debates in 1961. yes, there was a time when people got along in politics, even as they debated the big

president richard nixon would have been 100 years old today. while much of his legacy has been colored by watergate, the 37th president has a dominant force in politics. has been for 20 years. his political achievements range from opening the door to china of course with his historic visit there to a moderate even liberal domestic agenda that included among other things the creation of the environmental protection agency which some republicans today would like to eliminate, of course. in his later years he was an adviser to bill clinton. president clinton eulogized him at his funeral in 1994. let's listen. >> for the past year, even in the final weeks of his life, he gave me his wise counsel. one thing in particular left a profound impression on me. though this man was in his ninth decade, he had an incredibly sharp and vigorous and rigorous mind. he made mistakes and they like his accomplishments are part of his life and record. but the enduring lesson of richard nixon is that he never gave up being part of the action and passion of his times.

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i say this about richard nixon. he was a brilliant man. he was maybe pound for pound of gray matter the smartest man we see. she sits across from the oval office, fireplace going, air-conditioner full crank because it's summer and rice thoughts. sun is i have to be strong. some of it is brilliant stuff. you've read this and see the future of health care predicted piece by piece. i'll health care is the shadow of richard nixon. you think this is a political genius. at the same time, this is a man who could be so drunk that night in the white house, this tortured, hurt and that the whole white house staff has to explain to the people in england that the president is still an indicted call you back tomorrow morning. so you get a sense of the full package, not just is fairly dull national health insurance bill that he really had a hand in. he see the extent to which andersen of health care and the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons. take another example. jimmy carter. jimmy's carter's problem with e-mail he was smarter

richard nixon. the man who saved the waters of this country, richard nixon. the last great liberal president this country had. i would just like to see as rise above this pattern -- petty partisan bickering that i hear in this panel. >> this speech laid out the thing that we have to deal with. the things the government has to be involved in. the air, the water goes from state to state, city to city. one place cannot do it. it has to be the business -- the regulation of how you protect with all of that has to be the business of the federal government. >> could i get half a minute of the bottle? cap and trade worked well for acid rain. acid rain stays in our country. i am not against regulated carbon. if you can get china and india to do something. if they do not, we are spinning in the wind. we are dismantling our economy to do absolutely nothing for the global climate. if you have china and india do what we are doing, intending to do, you would actually make a change that would make a difference. otherwise, what we're doing is dismantling our industry and ess

. >> how about richard nixon? >> richard nixon. the clean air act. the man who took the lead out of the air. richard m. nixon. the man who saved the waters of this country, richard m. nixon. the last great liberal president this country had. i just would like to see this rise above this petty, partisan bickering that i heard somewhere in this panel. >> this is all part of the speech, laid out, the thing that we at least have to do with. the things the government has to be involved in. the air, the water goes from state to state, city to city. one place cannot do it. it has to be -- the regulation of how to deal with protecting all of that has to be the business of the federal government. >> can i get half a minute of rebuttal here? cap and trade work well for acid rain. acid rain stays in our country. i am not against regulated carbon. if you can get china and india to do something. if they don't, we are spitting in the wind. we are dismantling our economy to do absolutely nothing for the global climate. >> dealing with india and china is the job of

richard nixon. the man who saved the waters of this country, richard nixon. the last great liberal president this country had. i would just like to see as rise above this pattern -- petty partisan bickering that i hear in this panel. >> ts speech ld outhe thing that we have deal with. the things the government has to be involved in. the air, the water goes from state to state, city to city. one place cannot do it. it has to be the business -- the regulation of how you protect with all of that has to be the business of the federal government. >> could i get half a minute of the bottle? cap and trade worked well for acid rain. acid rain stays in our country. i am not against regulated carbon. if you can get china and india to do something. if they do not, we are spinning in the wind. we are dismantling our economy to do absolutely nothing for the global climate. if you have china and india do what we are doing, intending to do, you would actually make a change that would make a difference. otherwise, what we're doing is dismantling our industry and essentially

all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, these yellow notes and you would say this is a political genius. at the same time this is a man who could be so gironde at night in the white house, tortured, hurt. the whole white house finally has henry kissinger explained to the people in england that the president is ill and he's in bed and he will have to call you back tomorrow morning. so you get a sense of the full package. not just a fair legal national health insurance bill, but he really had a handle on. you see the extent to which he understood health care. and also the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as he passed. take another example. jimmy carter to read jimmy carter's, was that he knew that he was smarter than everybody in the room. and he tried to get into such detail. so, at 1.8 memo goes around and jimmy carter would take notes with his fountain pen. you can see his handwriting and at one point in one of the health care memos she says and don't forget about psro'

and eighty's when richard nixon's justice department went after eighty and t. which at the time was the largest corporation the world and the justice department after them for violating the sherman antitrust act that its and its heirs after a settlement eighty and he agreed in one nine hundred eighty four to break up into bell system to break it to break its bell system into seven different smaller companies known as baby bells and that opened the marketplace for new players to jump in offering new services new prices eighty whale was taken out of the fish tank in the end it was good for all the investors involved in fact the value of a t.n.t. and all its former subsidiaries tripled after the break up breaking up monopolies is good for an economy whether it's the breakup of standard oil and american tobacco in the early twentieth century or more recently the break up of a t.n.t. removing the whale from the fish tank always leads to more competition in the market which is common sense tells us means lower prices and better products unfortunately there haven't be

as a young man richard nixon was elected to the house at the age of 33. he made the jump to the senate when he was just 37 and was tapped as dwight eisenhower's running mate, ready for this? at 39. but his career nearly ended right there when allegations of improper financial gifts led eisenhower to reconsider his choice. faced with growing controversy nixon addressed the criticism head on in the famous checkers speech. used this crazy thing called television. >> pat and i have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got, we've honestly earned. i should say this. pat doesn't have a new coat. but she does have a respectable republican -- i always tell her she'd look good in anything. >> nixon's point by point response silenced critics. eight years later nixon became the first politician to be victimized by the new medium. his shaky debate performance opposite kennedy, at least appearancewise, led to nixon's defeat in 1960. two years later he lost again. beaten padly lybadly in a case governor of california. looked like nixon's political career was over

and eighty's when richard nixon's justice department went after eighty and t. which at the time was the largest corporation the world and the justice department after them for violating the sherman antitrust act and its and its heirs after solomon eighty and he agreed in one thousand nine hundred four to break up into bell system to break it to break its bell system into seven different smaller companies known as baby bells and that opened the marketplace for new players to jump in offering new services and new prices. t. whale was taken out of the fish tank in the end it was good for all the investors involved in fact the value of a t.n.t. and all its former subsidiaries tripled after the break up breaking up monopolies is good for an economy whether it's the break up of standard oil and american tobacco in the early twentieth century or more recently the break up of a t.n.t. removing the whale from the fish tank always leads to more competition in the market which is common sense tells us means lower prices and better products unfortunately there haven't been

let us know how we came here after richard nixon was like did in 68. >> guest: rehnquist went back to phoenix and decides that he jumps into everything he could possibly join to become a better and business getting attorney in these extreme is successful, by the way. very little known are the amount of property he was able to amass and wealth by the standards of that time in phoenix. he was very successful. he meets the protÉges and supporters of barry goldwater, whose really shaking things up is a precursor to ronald reagan in goldwater in the early 60s. so he hitches up with these guys and one of the people he meets is richard kleindienst and kleindienst is a key guy for goldwater and is also caught the attention of the nixon administration and john mitchell, who was nixon's best friend, campaign manager and attorney general. the kleindienst is invited to come on as the number two man and says i need rehnquist with me. he's really smart. mitchell opposes at first because he said we don't need more than one cowboy. when cowboy is enough. when cowboy from arizona is enough. the klein

also, paul has the same birthday as richard nixon. [ laughter ] we'll be right back. >>> map time. this is australia. the colors on this map represent temperature. the orangey and reddish tones are for temperatures from 104 degrees to 118 degrees fahrenheit. very hot. but forecasters are now predict weather for australia that is so hot that they have had to add new colors to the temperature scale. the super dark purple is for temperatures above 122 degrees fahrenheit, because that is what they now expect in the summer months in australia. those are the weather data. the fossil fuels data that are totally not at all connected to how we got to the point where we now need new colors on our temperature maps, the fossil fuel data, that is coming up. >>> i know the whole nation would like to join me now in saying happy birthday, tricky dick. born 100 years ago today, january 9th, 1913, our nation's 37th president, richard m. "tricky dick" nixon. president nixon of course is most remembered for resigning in disgrace, but he is also remembered for legendary paranoia. >> also, never forget

. >> former president richard nixon would have turned 1,000 week. the nixon foundation is planning to observe his complicated legacy throughout the year, starting at the nixon presidential library. here with a preview, we have a representative live from yorba linda, california. >> reporter: hithere, jamie. it was in this caught house, january 9, 1913 that, richard nixon was born, the second of five boys. he went from being a hard-working lad in his parents' grocery store to one of the most celebrated but controversial leader who is changed world history forever. the nixon foundation will unveil a special personal poignant exhibit of his personal artifacts and memorabilia and we will see in a few hours' time, a celebration of his life today here at his birth place. among those in attendance, those woworked with him and hahe achieved. >> to have som was at that pinnacle of office is very unusual. it wasn't that -- clearly, president obama had none of that stature at all coming into office. >> reporter: a lot of stature created by the foreign policy of

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franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the opposing party during his second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between the president and congress, over the treaty. after considerable after working with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. and i was at the congress of right-thinking federalist senate president hu is revered. when they went in his second term, eisenhower worked quietly behind the scenes of the senate majority leader, brendan jones said, to gain approval of his legislative agenda. ronald reagan began the demo

when richard nixon was wrikts his second inaugural, he looked at the past speeches and his conclusion was the shorter ones are better. i think a lot of people that read those speeches would find that true. this is not a state of the union kraes address, not a convention speech, you're doing it in the most formal possible context and values that unify our whole country. it's a day of unity. rhetoric and also rituals of unity and that's important to a divided country right now. >> is it important also genuinely to lay out the agenda ahead for the next four years or does it matter if it's true, i guess is what i'm asking? >> there is going to be a state of the union speech in about three weeks and that is the laundry of the traditional laundry list. in this case, it's worth recognizing the difference between a second and first inaugural address. when barack obama appeared four years ago the country did not know him, the beginning of his presidency. now for bet he and worse people know him. they know his strengths, weaknesses, the areas he's achieved and failed. it's more setting a brief

i say this about richard nixon. he was a brilliant man, maybe pound for pound the smartest man we see. he sits in the -- across the street from the oval office, the fireplace calling, the air-conditioner turned up full crank, and he writes in yellow pads. some of it is brought to my have to be strong. some of it is billion stuff. you see the future of health care predicted piece by piece. all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, and you think, this it was a genius, a political genius. at the same time this was a man who could be so drawn, out of a truck at night in the white house, tortured her man that the whole white house had to explain to the people in england that the president is ill and in bed in and have to call you back tomorrow morning. you get a sense of the full package, not just this merely dull national of insurance bill that he really had a hand in. ecb extent to which he understood health care the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as to p

richard nixon had won the presidency on the lie that he had a plan to end the war. john kerry gave us more young americans including nixon knew was a lost cause. it was personified then by hippies. kids who were experimenting with new ways of living and dressing and the attitude that they had no duty to serve in a american war. the anti-war movement to be successful needed john kerry. it was as if he was a character delivered to us by a novelist. he shared john f kennedy's initials and some of this accent and was a decorated navy war hero. he was clean-cut for a hippy. he didn't have a stragley beard. but no other man appears before the committee had long hair covering his ears. he had a choice to make. he could have gotten a haircut dressed like a senator. he chose to look like a war protester against the war. the senator had never heard testimony like that. as did the white house. the day after his testimony. president nixon had this conversation with his chief of staff who would later go to prison. >>> extremely effective. was nixon going to do that? i doubt it.

richard nixon had won the presidency on the lie that he had a plan to end the war. john kerry gave us more young americans ip including nixon knew was a lost cause. it was personified then by hippies. kids who were experimenting with new ways of living and dressing and the attitude that they had no duty to serve in a american war. the anti-war movement to be successful needed squon kerry. it was as if he was a character delivered to us by a novel ellist. he shared john f kennedy's initials and some of this accent and was a decorated navy war hero. he was clean-cut for a hippy. he didn't have a stragley beard. but no other man appears before the committee had long hair covering his ears. he had a choice to make. he could have gotten a haircut and gre dressed like a senator. he chose to look like a war protester against the war. the sen tarred had never heard testimony like that. as did the white house. the day after his testimony. president nixon had this conversation with his chief of staff who would later go to prison. >>> extremely effective. was nixon going to do

lyndon johnson readily be barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public. and the winner had the advantage of the weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won his second term, landslide, because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a heated battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country with the winner walking off with the modest majority. it is a customary wisdom that the campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent will be either a referendum on the first term of the president, or a judgment of which candidate will be the better leader. is there really a difference between these two considerations? does not boil down to judging the leadership skill of the incumbent based on his effectiveness during his first term, versus the unknown leadership skills of the challenger? it's easy to point to the national security, or the economic consequences, or consequent im

san lee mcchrystal >> kicking off a year long celebration to honor the presidency of richard nixon. fox reports live from richard nixon presidential library. >> the possible fight brewing in washington over who will be the nation seas next secretary of defense. numerous republicans she answered questions about the hearing. democratic lawmakers uneasy about the record that issue. >> the question question we will be answering is do his views make sense for that particular job. it is a hearing aby any other nominee. it is antagonistic approac

yes, richard nixon said that in '72. after a string of successes in his first term and after narrowly winning a second term, president bush claimed a mandate. >> when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view. that is what i intend to tell the congress. i learned political capital and intend to spend it. >> spend it he did. bush made the stark admission. to the press corps. >> just after the '20 -- 2004 election, you had an enviable balance of capital and strong mandate. would to make that claim today? >> i would say i am spending that capital on the war. >> up only did plummeting support for the award, but he also over reached with the social security privatization. his efforts collapsed under the weight of the other issue. they bundled the response to hurricane katrina. when they nominated him, republicans did not even fall in line. the publicly called him unqualified after three weeks he was forced to withdraw. shortly before he left office, they had sunk to a miserable 27

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this is before i worked at cbs and then my first one as a reporter was 1968 with richard nixon. >> jon: oh, that was an exciting one. >> yeah. >> jon: that was all the counter culture. >> i was actually sent down abby hoffman. >> jon: sure. >> they decided they would inaugurate a pig while he was inaugurated. they d. that was my assignment. i went down there. [ laughter ] >> jon: wait -- >> it was raining. >> jon: i just want everybody to catch up to this for a second. >> yes. >> jon: so you went there as a all righter and they said, bob, we have an assignment for you. >> first assignment in washington. >> jon: there's this pig -- [ laughter ] -- and then -- >> the pig got out. they got the pig out and it was raining and we chased the pig around. [ laughter ] and i called my mother that night and she said it must have been so wonderful. tell me about the dresses the ladies we are at the inaugural. i said mom, i'm out here chasing a pig in the rain. i didn't get indoors. you have to start somewhere. i always loved animal stories. [ laughter ] >> jon: did you catch the pig? >> they caugh

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richard nixon is to the left of him on health care. richard nixon is to the left of him on guaranteed income and the same policies in terms of imperial foreign policy is at work. i was glad to see romney did not win. we push back the right-wing takeover. we have a right wing mentality. where is a serious talk about investment, jobs, fighting privatization of education? our battle is just beginning. we have yet to take off the gloves. we have been fighting. >> president obama said to harry belafonte, according to harry, why don't you and cornell west, some slack? and harry belafonte responded, what might makes you think we are not? >> exactly. i want to ask you about bill o'reilly and tavis smiley. i don't know if you're watching fox on election night, but this is what bill o'reilly had to say about the outcomes of the election. >> what is your sense? he looked at these exit polls. >> my sense of the evening is, is that romney loses in ohio, the president is reelected. >> how do think we got to that point questor president obama's appro