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

host: richard nixon, declaring victory in 1968. as you hear that and reflect on it 50 years later, what is the political legacy of that year and for the conservative movement? guest: i think that the three most significant figures leading to the election of ronald reagan and the triumph of conservatives post-war america were barry goldwater, richard nixon, and bill buckley. what nixon did in creating the coalition that ultimately went on to bolster him and lead to that landslide of 1972 that matthew was talking about, and ultimately the election of reagan, was very significant. host: 50 years later, the legacies? guest: one legacy is that the republican party became -- the conservative movement became much stronger on national defense, pro-military, pro-using aggressive military power overseas, and the democratic party became much more antiwar. the issue of race, i think is central to this discussion. the republican party really became the party of white working-class americans, much more so than the democrats. really exploding the

host: richard nixon declaring victory in 1968. and reflect ont it years later, what is the political legacy of that year and for the conservative movement? guest: the three most significant figures leading to the election of ronald reagan and the triumph of conservatives in america where barry goldwater, richard nixon, and bill buckley. in creating the coalition that ultimately went on to bolster him and lead to that landslide of 1972 that matthew was talking about, and ultimately the election of reagan, was very significant. host: 50 years later, the legacy? guest: one legacy is that the republican party became conservative, much stronger on national defense, promilitary, pro using aggressive military power overseas, and the democratic party became much more antiwar. the issue of race, i think is central to this discussion. the republican party really of whitee party working-class americans, much more than democrats. exploding the roosevelt-lyndon johnson national electoral coalition, and became the party essentially opposed to c

host: a key player in the 1960's is richard nixon. he loses the california in 1962.hip that famous speech, you won't have dick nixon to kick around anymore. guest: my parents were very upset about that. host: that actually made him look like a victim, correct? guest: they try to make him look like a has been. there is the old role in american politics -- you are not finished until you say you are finished. but if you say you are finished, you are finished. and nixon said in that famous press conference that he was finished. so he thought that he was finished, but he wasn't. and his good friends in california gave him some great advice. they said get out of california, go to new york and you could actually rise back up. and that is what he did. host: he places the name of very berry goldwater in a nomination in 1964, and what happens between 1964 and that 1966 led the groundwork for his campaign? guest: he did a brilliant thing when he gave his nominating speech for goldwater. the liberals in the party were resisting goldwater, and in

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

administration and were signed by richard nixon. he was the single most, to supervise desegregation of 7 schools. what to make of him, what is the lesson about richard nixon. if he would say if he were here. and the polarized nation, teams tearing at each other's throats. i say that because of the last scene in the white house to leave washington and go back to exile in san clemente, when he sums up what happened to him and his own shakespearean tragic story, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy your self. that is the main reason why nixon now, a cautionary tale of what can happen to good souls who destroy themselves because they give into the baser passion of things like 8 - hate. [applause] >> i want to start will and jack two pres.s who had a relationship, nixon started, the vice president, nearly didn't make it because incipient scandal but the checkered speech saved the relationship between 2 terms of eisenhower presidency. my sense reading both of your books is it was a very fraught relationsh

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

ronald reagan discussing his richard nixon, nelson rockefeller, and george wallace. he discusses liberalism and conservatism, the assassination of robert kennedy, and what he argues are the weaknesses of democrats in the white house. republican governors congress in tulsa, the consensus was that for two days, you conducted yourself like a candidate for your party's president or vice presidential nomination. you still maintain that you are not a possible contender for either office? and i don't know how anyone would have gotten the idea. i attended all of the meetings. i don't know what i did at the outset except attend -- except agree to a press conference, which was asked of me. and i was at a meeting where the press was. in tulsa, oklahoma, the republican conference in color. governor reagan will be questioned by cbs news correspondents. we shall resume the interview with governor reagan in a moment. >> governor, why don't we go back to that question? do you still maintain that you are not a possible contender for the presidential or vice presidential nomination? -

that is a president discusses the 9016 presidential candidates including richard nixon, rough -- he also discusses liberalism and conservatism, student protest, the recent assassination of robert kennedy and what he argues are the failures of democrats congress and the white house. >> at the republican governors conference and tells her, the consensus was that for today's you conducted your sound like a candidate for your parties residential or vice presidential nomination. do you still maintain you are still not a possible contender for other office? it will be hard to know where anyone got that idea, i attended all the meetings. i don't know of anything i did on the outside other than a great to a press conference. other than that, i was in meetings. face the nation, a spontaneous and unrehearsed news interview with governor rauner reagan of california. he will be questioned by bill staab. correspondent martin who will resume interview with governor reagan in a moment. >> wondering up we can go back to that question, do you still maintain your not a possible contender for the vice pres

richard nixon getting 301 compared to 191 for then vice president humphrey. governor george wallace obtaining 46. the popular vote was closer. why did richard nixon win? >> that's a good question. i would say, a couple of factors. primarily the sense of dysfunction in the country. i think a desire for americans to, to quote a phrase, return to normalcy. 1968, it is hard to understand it now. but how just dysfunctional the country was and how divided it was, the sense the country was coming apart at the seams. not only had the riots after the but troopsons, fighting war in vietnam that a good portion of the country opposed. so i think that's a big factor for nixon. i think also another important factor was humphrey's inability to separate himself from johnson. numbers,the electoral i have the numbers in my book but 10,000 votes and humphrey wins. i think another week and humphrey could have pulled the election out. it was that close. and i think one thing to remember about nixon is that he started the race with about 40% desktop where he ended up. he didn't br

richard nixon getting 301 compared to 191 for then vice president humphrey. governor george wallace obtaining 46. the popular vote was closer. why did richard nixon win? mr. cohen: why did nixon win? that is a good question. george wallace obtaining 46. the i would say a couple of factors. i think primarily the sense of dysfunction in the country. i think a desire for americans to, to quote a phrase, return to normalcy. 68 is hard to understand it now. but how just dysfunctional the country was and how divided it was, the sense the country was coming apart at the seems, not only had the riots after the king assassinations, and kennedy but fighting a war in vietnam in a a good portion of the country that po opposed. so i think that's a big factor for nixon. i think also another important factor was humphrey's inability, for johnson. you just read the numbers, but i have the numbers in my book but a couple, 10,000 votes and humphrey wins. i think another week and humphrey could have pulled the election out. it was that close. and i think one thing to remember a

first, here is richard nixon excepting the nomination for president at the gop convention in miami beach 1968.

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

they are certainly not going to rally around nelson rockefeller aroundy of them may not richard nixon. where else did they have to go except you? as you know, those labels -- i've been working to get the party to drop those labels. >> but many people do use them. mr. reagan: i think there is a different philosophy or belief in that republican party today at the grassroots level that the republican party today is far ine willing to see good other republicans in the interest in unity and the interest of winning. there's a great desire. where fat our bloodbath and learned a lesson from it. -- party was virtually after out of existence of a few years ago. i do not think you'll have that problem. i do not think people are going into this convention frozen into a mold. >> let's not talk about being frozen. you said your political philosophy comes close to that of mr. nick's and then mr. rockefeller. coordinator, and he recently said perhaps we can side.orge wallace on our that is where he belongs. would you feel that george wallace belongs on the republican side and would you welcome him to

to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. time now to look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. and european regulators have ordered the inspection of hundreds of boeing seven three seven engines it's off to choose there's actually dent on a southwest airlines flight when a blade from one of the engines broke off and sent shrapnel ripping through the plane one passenger died during that flight the airline i had to make an emergency landing. students across the u.s. staged another will count on friday again demanding tougher gun legislation the protests came on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting students held thirteen seconds of silence to honor the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. and in nicaragua a protesters. again clash with police the vice president says as many as ten d

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

i think when i was actually trying to say was that both richard nixon and i have, over the period of the past year have spoken out against the limited work concept. policy,a wind and against being there. against the need to be there. >> do you mean you are willing to lose? governor reagan: i'm sorry, i -wint, against the no policy. perhaps knows and is placing a little more faith in negotiations or in some kind of compromise settlement than i find myself able to. >> you have no faith in that prospect of us? governor reagan: i can hope for peace, but i do not hope for the kind of peace that would result in a concession that would allow the viet cong to be part of the south vietnamese government. i think this would be the same as the united states government taking the cosa nostra in as partners. >> if we could move to a different topic. >> the day after senator kennedy died, or perhaps it was the day he died, you blamed demagogic and irresponsible leaders and in and out of office. you said that there was this attitude of lawlessness in this society. as i recall after that, you or fail

to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the campaign says the latest case is frivolous. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. and european regulators have ordered the inspection of hundreds of boeing seven three seven engines it's off to choose days accident on a southwest airlines flight when a blade from one of the engines broke off sending shrapnel ripping through the plane one passenger died during that flight and the airline ahead to make an emergency landing. students across the united states staged another recount on friday again demanding tougher gun legislation the protest came on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting three students helped thirteen seconds of silence to honor the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred nine. in nicaragua of protesters have again clashed with police the country's vice. as events says

to take advantage of the democrats and win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. ok time now for some of the other stories making news around the world students across the u.s. they should know the war how come friday again demanding tougher gun legislation to protest coming on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting students held thirteen seconds of silence on of the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred nine. in nicaragua protesters have again clashed with police with as many as ten demonstrators killed in the violence so far the protests broke out after the government decided to cut pensions and raise employee contributions to social security it is the most serious unrest the government has faced since winning power in two thousand and six. and improved two people were killed in twelve injured off. scaring german tourists crashed in the country's self the bu

to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world students across the u.s. they should know the drill count on friday demanding tougher gun legislation and protests came on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting students holding the thirteen seconds of silence to honor the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred nine. in nicaragua protesters have again clashed with police with as many as straight as killed in the violence so far the protests broke out after the government decided to come and change and rains employee contributions to social security it's the most serious some arrests the government has faced since when you back in two thousand and six. in peru two people were killed and twelve injured after a bus carrying german tourists crashed in t

to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. time now to look at some of the other stories making news around the world students across the u.s. they should know who will count on friday again demanding tougher gun legislation protests came on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting students holding thirteen seconds of silence to honor the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred ninety. in nicaragua protesters have again clashed with police the country's vice president says as many as ten demonstrators have been killed in the violence so far protests broke out after the government decided to cut pensions and to raise employee contributions to social security. the indian government has announced plans to introduce the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve cabinet ministers approved the pla

to take advantage of the democrats and win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. the indian government has announced plans to introduce the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve cabinet ministers approved the plan after widespread protests over the recent rape and killing of an eight year old girl several cases involving young girls have stirred outrage in recent years critics say that a no conviction rate means that many rapes go unpunished the measure now goes to india's president for approval. and we can bring in our correspondent on you found a guy who is in delhi so he had the indian cabinet approve the death penalty for child rapists today after an emergency meeting called by the prime minister and they're under modi why the rush on this now and what does it mean. you're right i mean it is really rushed and you know this is literally the most of the meeting course within literally ho

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

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

it was formed under richard nixon. he recognized that the country needed to put in place an agency that would stand up and protect our water, our air, our people in public health. it is charged to do that on three legs. the epa is required by law to use the best available science, coming up with safeguards. finally the public interest, every time the epa puts forth a commonsense safeguards to protect us it is open to public comment. epa officials meet with hundreds of stakeholders in washington and across the country. the environment protection agency has been successful. the industry cried wolf -- the 360% since thewn epa was created. been proved a lie. the epa has been saving lives in saving money, making people more productive at home and in the workplace. >> you have offered criticism of the epa administrator. the tweet from earlier this month defending his epa administrator, while security spending was more than his received death threats because of his bold actions. record clean air and water saving billions of d

were killed when richard nixon was president. guest: so it was about 50-50. i went to vietnam in 1971 after eddie adams had won his pulitzer prize and told me all of the good pictures had been taken. it went on and on, and i was there at the end of the vietnam war when president ford pulled the plug on it. host: -- joining us from caller: the vietnam war described free and open access to the combat scene, that they would just have a plant and receive the fighting as it occurred. then tet came along and the pentagon papers came along, and there were great surprises. how would you guys reconcile the gap between the free access and the fact that -- missing the main facts of the war? host: marvin kalb, i will have you explain that question and how your data came back to the u.s. guest: we had a camera crew -- if you were in television, you had a cameraman, a light/soundman, and you went out to cover the war. i did most of the coverage of the vietnam war from washington. my brother covered it for cbs from the war front itself, but wha

national democrats sued the richard nixon re-election campaign for the watergate break-in. the media scoffed and leading republicans called the charges scurrilous. the democrats' charges that it was something to do with richard nixon and his campaign was borne out, and they were right. and the democratic party ended up taking $p 50,000 off of nixon's campaign when they settled the suit on the day that nixon left office in disgrace over that scandal. well, today n f, in fed a ral c, that cockamamy seemingly lawsuit that was borne out and won, and today, that lawsuit had a child. today, the democratic party sued the trump campaign. the government of russia and wikileaks and key figures in trump world for this latest break-in to the democratic party, the hacking of servers and the theft of democratic documents in the 2016 campaign. the new trump campaign manager today responded with words straight out of 1972. he called it sham, bogus, corrupt, desperate, frivolous. this is just day one. we have no idea how this democratic lawsuit will play out. we can look at the consequences

a mention of richard nixon, the issue of vietnam. let's listen. >> i have told nixon and i repeat to you, that i'm trying as hard as i know how to get the peace in vietnam as quickly as i can. for that reason, i am not running. now, when i have anything that i believe justifies or warrants a consultation, i will initiate it. steve: as you hear that conversation, your reaction james jones. ,james: well, in october, maybe ten days, two weeks before the election, we were pursuing or the president was pursuing, a peace agreement in paris and we had the north vietnamese, south vietnamese, et cetera, and the president really thought he was going to reach an agreement. along about that time, our intelligence sources intercepted president --from vice president agnew's campaign stop in albuquerque, new mexico, to madam chinault in washington . and shortly thereafter, she had a phone call to president chu, sudden, theld off, nixon willaa negotiations came to a halt. >> undercutting president johnson. >> and he was furious at this. harlow,alked

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

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

can find future president richard nixon and future president kennedy. this is not speaker albert, but we have a picture of president innedy who came to oklahoma his only time to oklahoma. he is opening up an intersection. the reason he came is because robert s curr wanted him to come. this is furniture from his various officers. here is the queen's chair again. was napping on the sofa when he found out that spiro agnew resigned and he was next in line for the presidency. spiro agnew resigns and albert is next in line. liberal democrats had a plan that maybe we can get albert into the presidency. you could replace a republican, richard nixon, with a democrat. albert was opposed to this. he thought it was not fair to have a democrat replace a republican. being albert, he was prepared. this document is a memo written by ted sorensen labeled personal and confidential. it lays out what should albert do if he becomes president. you can lock. it says step one, take the oath of office. step two, physically taking over the office. step three, resigned from the h

to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon at the time when the suit was filed it was all laughed off by richard nixon's attorney general at the time john mitchell but eventually in nineteen seventy four the very day richard nixon resigned the presidency their republican party settled with the democratic. so have we heard it from the republican senator from the white house. we. had only not heard white house just yet we heard from attorneys for some of the aimed and the last of the allies. some of our russian nationals as well and they have referred to this wasin by the democratic party as a joke list of these they don't think that it they think that it lacks maritally by and and the risks of possibly undermining the credibility of i thought it best. well not a day and that brings me to mr comey because not a day has gone by this week without fired f.b.i. director james comey making a media appearance the memos now that he has kept his interactions with the president have been made public how compromised is the president's position today. this is.

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

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

nixon. ronald reagan made his debut as a candidate. editor of the american conservative and author of "where they stand: the american and george" washington university professor and author of "the right moments." "1968: america in turmoil, conservative politics." at eight: 30 a.m. eastern on c-span's washington journal and american history tv. c-span. where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> this month on c-span, we feature our studentcam contest winners. we asked middle and high school students to choose a provision of the constitution and illustrate why it is important. our second prize high school east winners are mia an

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

in 1987, he wrote a letter to richard nixon, which has never been made public. but he did make public the response that nixon sent him. that was largely based on pat nixon watching trump on a television show and complimenting him. but we know that trump has grade admiration for nixon. he ought to remember some of the consequences of what happened to nixon and thinking about that period of history that he's faced a very similar situation right now. >> john dean, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> thank you, don. >>> when we come back, was michael cohen talking to me a good idea? one person doesn't think so. his opposing counsel in the stormy daniels case. he will join me next. we do whatever it takes to fight cancer. these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com my secret visitors. hallucinations and delusions. the unknown parts of living with parkinson's. what plots they unfold, but only in my

richard nixon listened to hugh scott and took his advice because president nixon respected hugh scott in a way that president trump does not respect paul ryan, or anyone in government. in this case, president trump has given paul ryan the exact amount of respect as speaker that paul ryan deserves, which is none. joining the discussion now, joy reed msnbc national correspondent and also with us, jennifer reuben, writer for "the washington post," and david frum editor for the atlantic and author. joy, there is this widely made observation that if you get near donald trump, if you allow donald trump to have anything to do with your future, your future is destroyed, there we see the end of paul ryan's congressional career. >> rick wilson puts it everything trump touches, dies. that's his all-purpose saying. the reality is, i think you laid it out perfectly there. because paul ryan has been the ultimate triumph of form over stance. the beltway media adored him. eight years ago he was called the flimflam man. he has these ideas of ending the social safety net, ethe wants to end food stamps,

for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon ina americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning sits uneasily with the memories and shame of watergate. and lift off for the spacecraft! the window to the universe. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: this is our top story. north korea says it is suspending all nuclear and missile tests is with immediate effect. —— tests with. joining me now is peter hayes, executive director, nautilus institute for security and sustainable development. he is also a macarthur fellow on american nuclear dilemmas in korea. thank you forjoining us here on bbc world news. can i get your reaction to this announcement? well, to be honest, it was entirely on the cards. this proposalfirst came honest, it was entirely on the cards. this proposal first came out of south korea back injanuary or february. it was then that objected to the citrus league in washington, —— vociferously. what has happened is that the chinese proposal has been implemented by north korea on the o

national democrats sued the richard nixon re-election campaign for the watergate break-in. the media scoffed and leading republicans called the charges scurrilous. the democrats' charges that it was something to do with richard nixon, that was borne out, they were right. the democratic party ended up taking three-quarters of a million dollars off of ncixon's campaign. today in federal court, that cockamamie seeming at the time lawsuit that was eventually borne out and won, today that lawsuit had a child. today, the democratic party sued the trump campaign. the government of russia and wikileaks and key figures in trump world for this latest break-in to the democratic party, the hacking of servers and the theft of democratic documents. the new trump campaign manager today responded with words straight out of 1972. he called it sham, bogus, corrupt, desperate, frivolous. this is just day one. we have no idea how this democratic lawsuit will play out. we can look at the kweps he con from the last time something like this happened. this is my present to you. >> thank you. >> i

believed richard nixon when he said he was going to end the war in vietnam, so i voted for him. that had a direct impact on me. upas in college, but i ended -- i went in the army for six , national guard, basic training and all that. -- i don't know the exact numbers, but during the nixon administration -- 28,000 americans were killed when richard nixon was president. >> it was about 50-50. i went to vietnam in 1971 after eddie adams told me all the good pictures had already been taken. it went on and on and i was there toward the end of the war when president ford pulled the plug on it. i was in the room when that happened at the white house. steve: republican line, good morning. reporters at the time of the vietnam war reported free and open access to the combat scenes. they would just hop on a plane and they were able to see the fighting as it occurred. t came along and the pentagon papers came along, and they were great surprises. how do you reconcile the gap between free access and yet missing the main facts of the war. i will have you answer that question and also explain

i am not going to say richard nixon fixed the war, although he obviously got the u.s. out of vietnam, but there is a sense that democrats created this problem and it undermined them politically for a long time. host: i want to share with you a a few by pat buchanan who joined as a couple weeks ago. among the things he talks about, the surging antiwar unit, which your father may the democrats , angry. johnson was seen as an american lackey. he said the american establishment the best and the , brightest had been broken at the wheel of vietnam. your thoughts. guest: i think vietnam did destroy a lot of the establishment because they knew that they were not winning it, and they were still sending people over to vietnam to die in a war that they knew was not going well, and they were dishonest with the american people. it was a disaster. as i would say, and historians would say, you were not going to win that war if you don't have the people in the south vietnam, the government, the people did not want to fight. you cannot prop it up from outside. it is so ironic and sad a

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

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and by 76 of course gerald ford succeeded richard nixon who reside in august of 74. nobody, not the elites, , not te political communists, not the "washington post" and "new york times," abc, , nbc, anybody took reagan seriously. he was still derided as a grade b actor with premature orange hair, which is exactly a quote that gerald ford used in the gridiron dinner in 1975. he got up and spoke at gridiron andd says reagan is not dying hs hair, he's just turning prematurely orange. but this is a reagan was regarded by the elites, by the political elites in the republican party, the democratic elites at no use for them whatsoever, and the media elites. he runs in 76 and he comes astonishingly close to beating gerald ford. out of 2257 delegate votes cast in kansas city, when my wife was in 1976, should ask for a show of hands? 1 okay. she was in kansas city and 76 working on the campaign. close g an incumbent president and at the end he is now ford is presiding over a broken party and he knows he needs a unified party if you got any chance against jimmy carter in the fa

richard nixon listened to hugh scott and took his advice because president trump nixnixo respected hugh scott in a way that president trump does not respect paul ryan, or anyone in government. in this case, president trump has given paul ryan the exact amount of respect as speaker that paul ryan deserves, which is none. joining the discussion now, joy reed msnbc national correspondent and also with us, jennifer reuben, writer for "the washington post," and david frum editor for the atlantic and author. joy, there is this widely made observation that if you get near donald trump, if you allow donald trump to have anything to do with your future, your future is destroyed, there we see the end of paul ryan's congressional career. >> rick wilson puts it everything trump touches, dies. that's his all-purpose saying. the reality is, i think you laid it out perfectly there. because paul ryan has been the ultimate triumph of form over stance. the beltway media adored him. eight years ago he was called the flimflam man. he has these ideas of ending the social safety net, ethe wants to end food s

for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon ina americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning, next wednesday, sitting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and lift off of the space shuttle discovery with the space telescope. —— hubble space telescope. this is newsday on the bbc. welcome back everyone. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: president trump says a campaign of maximum pressure will continue on north korea until it agrees to complete nuclear disarmament. and cuba prepares for the end of the casto era as members of the national assembly name the next president — miguel diaz—canel. now, you may think that running an international modelling agency and then moving to highlighting the plight of human trafficking is quiteajump. but for katie ford, former ceo of ford models, there were all—too—many similarities. she was inspired to set up freedom for all, an organisation which helps men, women and children who were

he did not see a good side to richard nixon, which doesn't mean that he attacked him blindly. it meant that he had real issues with some of the things, whether it be corruption or wiretapping or things that he disliked. and he felt it was his job as a cartoonist to express his opinion and to share it with others. and that's the basic role of an editorial cartoon, is to express an opinion and persuade people to your point of view. and a good cartoonist does more than just illustrate the news. he gets his point across. or she gets her point across. so here we have nixon throwing some tapes to an investigator who is represented by a bloodhound, and then trying to throw a few reels away while still clutching perhaps the most important evidence against him. and we can see the bones of some of his indicted conspirators left behind by the bloodhound. when it came to jimmy carter, herb block saw him as a pretty ineffectual leader. and particular cartoon, who's in charge here, shows carter banging on his own presidential desk while refusing to take a leadership role. that's probably th

he did not see a good side to richard nixon, which doesn't mean that he attacked him blindly. it meant that he had real issues with some of the things, whether it be corruption or wiretapping or things that he disliked. and he felt it was his job as a cartoonist to express his opinion and to share it with others. and that's the basic role of an editorial cartoon, is to express an opinion and persuade people to your point of view. and a good cartoonist does more than just illustrate the news. he gets his point across. or she gets her point across. so here we have nixon throwing some tapes to an investigator who is hepted by a hounddog, a trying to throw a few reels away while still clutching perhaps the most important evidence against him. and we can see the bones of some of his indicted conspirators left behind by the bloodhound. when it came to jimmy carter, herb block saw him as a pretty ineffectual leader. and particular cartoon, who's in charge here, shows carter banging on his own presidential desk while refusing to take a leadership role. that's probably the most i can s

the constitution prevailed against president richard nixon, because nixon allowed the constitution to prevail. when the supreme court ordered richard nixon to comply with the subpoena, he didn't think he had a choice. donald trump is no richard nixon, he always thinks he has a choice, a way out, and he believes that everyone in the federal government is supposed to work for him. tonight donald trump sits in the white house as robert mueller decides whether he should subpoena the president of the united states to testify to a grand jury, and as robert mueller considers that he knows he is stepping ever closer to being fired. and donald trump is no doubt spending the evening watching his favorite news network where robert mueller is the equivalent of the nazis, a station where there will be no mention of james comey's book, what he called the golden showers thing, he will be watching the cable news network where there will be no mention of the trump doorman, but even when he's watching his favorite escapist tv shows tonight he has to feel the heat getting hotter, the heat of the forest