richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this on man, he was on the ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem of his taking money from a secret fund, and he was talking about his daughters dog and i thought, isn't he interesting. well, he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring and as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting after his presidency as he was during. i chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew, i remember him being in some trouble and i had said to my editor at the new yorker, the very limited and justly legendary william john and he said what are you thinking of writing next and i said, i have the feeling we will change vice president's and presidents within the year. 1973 so itlabor day, was a wild and out there thought at the time. and so, we agreed that i would write a journal. not a journal -- not a diary, but watch the events and interpret them and talk about them and we didn't know where it was going and

he also reflects on resident for's part of the richard nixon. the gerald r ford presidential museum hosted this program. >> good evening. welcome to the ford presidential museum. rest my honor to survey deputy director and welcome you on behalf of the united states. tonight our featured speaker is scott kaufman, a university board of trustees scholar and chair of the history department, where he teaches diplomatic and military history. he earned his doctorate at ohio university. university.io he was awarded the ford presidential foundation research travel grants. much of the research from this book came from the menu script collections of the ford library. he is the author, co-author, and editor of 11 books on foreign policy and diplomacy and history of the presidency and first ladies. thew of these include peaceful use of -- the presidency of james carter, and rosalind carter, equal partner in the white house, among others. kaufman is currently writing on the environment and international diplomacy. is a featured expert on the subject of the ca

and so this gives an opening for richard nixon. but as richard nixon makes his great comeback, he's very mindful of what his public image will be. it's subject of satire on the cover of esquire magazine whachlt does he do? he -- what -- magazine. what does he do? he hires some key aides who are very savvy to the power of television media to deliver a message. chief among them being roger ales, a young aide who found fox news. also among the come pain staff for nixon is a -- campaign staff for nixon is a young patrick buchanan who becomes a presidential candidate himself and television pundit and is responsible for writing some of the more strongly conservative speeches that nixon gives gurg the '68 -- during the '68 campaign. so he's got a television savvy group around him. and he builds a public image that is very different from the image that he has in the 1960. -- in 1960. he's trying to distance himself from this. one key prong is advertising and using television advertising creatively in a way that actually doesn't foreground

he also reflects on resident pardon ofnt richard nixon. the gerald r. ford presidential museum hosted this program. >> good evening. welcome to the ford presidential museum. it is my honor to serve as deputy director and welcome you on behalf of the united states. we are very pleased to have you with his for tonight's program. tonight our featured speaker is scott kaufman, a university board of trustees scholar and chair of the history department, where he teaches diplomatic and military history. he earned his doctorate at ohio university. the other ohio university. [laughter] 2004, he was awarded the ford presidential foundation research travel grant. much of the research from this book came from the manuscript collections of the ford library. he is grateful for the assistance from president ford's son steve. he is the author, co-author, and editor of 11 books on foreign policy and diplomacy and history of the presidency and first ladies. a few of these include the peaceful use of -- the presidency of james carter, and rosalind carter, equal partner in

think richard nixon hated the press. he felt the press was unfair, out to get him. he felt the press was giving america a skewed pirks of who he is. to learn a lot of what nixon thought we needed the secret tapes. whereas president trump he just says it front and center either on the twitter feed or television. it's a much more public attack that we have from the current president. >> earlier this week the white house refused to back down after barring our kaitlan collins sfr an event in the rose garden because she shouted some questions that he apparently didn't like. they said he wasn't taking questions. it brought to mind this moment from the nixon tapes when iks knicks isn't speaking about the "washington post" to ron zeegleer. >> i want to it clearly understood from now on, ever no reporter from the "washington post" is ever to be in the white house. is that clear. >> absolutely. >> unless it's a press conference. >> in the briefings. >> in a briefing. never in the white house, no churches is service, nothing which

as caretaker president his only , major act was to pardon richard nixon. i would suggest this is not a fair assessment. ford had to deal with a lot of issues. a myriad of issues as president. i would argue with you that, if ford should be remembered for anything, it should be for his belief in bipartisanship. today this country is marked by bipartisanship. a partisanship that often times is angry, marked by accusations, harsh language, and disdain for the opposition. a partisanship where willingness to compromise is seen as tantamount to surrender to the opposition. this is not the country gerald ford would have wanted. in his eulogy for ford, representative john dingell urged his colleagues in congress to honor ford by " carrying on bipartisanship." it is an entreaty that has been forgotten in washington. thank you. [applause] >> we have a couple questions from the audience. the first one, if you could repeat it do you think , congressman ford would do well in today's washington? dr. kaufman: probably not. let's look at the republican party. the number of

the richard nixon foundation. welcome to those of you who are attending in person at the national archives building in washington, d.c. and also those of you who are joining us on our youtube channel. a special welcome to our c-span viewer this is morning. we started doing these in 2010 and have now put on over three dozen such programs which feature in-depth discussion of various public policy initiatives undertaken by the nixon administration. documents are housed in the archives kept in the nixon library in california. but these are the discussions and debates behind those documents by the very people who created them which can provide unique insight on the implementation process utilized by president nixon. what we are adding today is the ability to electronicly retrieve the documents from the archives which will be posted on our website at the same time as the video of today's presentation. we will be working with the nixon foundation to make these documents available to future researchers and scholars. today

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the richard nixon foundation. welcome to those of you who are attending in person at the national archives building in washington, d.c. and also those of you who are joining us on our youtube channel. a special welcome to our c-span viewer this is morning. we started doing these in 2010 and have now put on over three dozen such programs which

the republican nominee was richard nixon, who believe it or not started off as a california moderate and even a liberal by california standards but soon enough richard nixon was on the campaign trail doing his best george wallace talking about the forgotten americans, non-shouters, the non-demonstrators, not racists or sick that plagues the land. he called them the real voice of america and pitched himself as the law and order candidate and went hard right to the supreme court in particular and said he would appoint supreme court justices to overturn the recent rulings from the warren court about miranda rights and the rest of them and restore the country to a system of law and order with conservative judges. that was part of nixon's southern strategy, part of his plan to peel off george wallace's supporters to make them his own. chief justice earl warren saw what was happening. he saw richard nixon, a front-runner for the presidency was threatening to roll back everything the warren court accomplished, it was becoming a big campaign issue and nixon was going hard right on that issue

the republican nominee was richard nixon, who believe it or not started off as a california moderate and even a liberal by california standards but soon enough richard nixon was on the campaign trail doing his best george wallace talking about the forgotten americans, non-shouters, the non-demonstrators, not racists or sick that plagues the land. he called them the real voice of america and pitched himself as the law and order candidate and went hard right to the supreme court in particular and said he would appoint supreme court justices to overturn the recent rulings from the warren court about miranda rights and the rest of them and restore the country to a system of law and order with conservative judges. that was part of nixon's southern strategy, part of his plan to peel off george wallace's supporters to make them his own. chief justice earl warren saw what was happening. he saw richard nixon, a front-runner for the presidency was threatening to roll back everything the warren court accomplished, it was becoming a big campaign issue and nixon was going hard right on that issue

nixon did surely he would have been impeached he paid her money he told his horn is the lie of the f.b.i. destroyed evidence he committed crimes while in office and donald trump if there's evidence that he committed crimes of course would be circular to impeachment my argument is you need to commit a crime to be impeached is not good enough to say he's a bad president or we don't want this policies or he's done terrible things you have to find a specific on the constitution says it has to be the bribery treason or other high crimes and missed in the soul when i haven't seen it bill clinton was wrongly impeached i think it was he did according to the allegations commit a crime it wasn't a high crime you know it was covering up for a sordid affair that's not what hamilton and madison basically wrote the impeachment provisions of the constitution had in mind they had minor crimes that affect the national security crimes like richard nixon's crimes covering up a burglary to help them get elected that kind of thing those are the kinds of crimes we had in mind or real obstruction of justice an

bob: my life changed when richard nixon was inaugurated in a dramatic way. and let me go back before that how i got to that point where my life changed so dramatically. i graduated from emory college in atlanta in 1958 and from harvard medical school in 1963. i did my psychiatric training at harvard and came to n.i.h. for research training. when i finished that in 1932, it was time for me to find my first job. up until that time i had been in training. one day a week during his -- my residency, i worked for the state prison which was distinguished as the place where malcolm x served six years and i really fell in love with the prisoners and the prisons as a career thought. and i thought i really care about these people. i want to help them. i want to make a career in this area and find some way to use my medical knowledge to do something about that. so come my time, i finished my training july 1st of 1968, which is very important time for what him and we're talking about, i went to work for the district of columbia department of corrections. now, understand

republican no, ma'minee that ye russ richard nixon. started off of a liberal by contemporary standards. richard nixon was out there doing his best george wallace. he started talking about the forgotten americans and non shouters and demonstrators that are not racist or sick or guilty of crimes that plagues the land. nixon called them the real voice of america and he pitched himself as the law and order candidate. he promised to appoint supreme court justices who'll over turn. he said he'll restore the country to a system of laws and orders and conservative judges. that was part of nixon's southern strategy and peel off george wallace supporters and make it his own. chief justice warren saw what was happening. he saw richard knicnixon, a fro runner was threatening to roll back everything that was accomplished. he saw it coming. in june 1968, just a few days after bobby kennedy had been assassina assassinated. chief warren told lyndon johnson that he was going to retire as soon as possible. chief justice warren did not want to run the ri

nixon different sikkim the f.b.i. and somebody you know auditing taxes so we can debate all this stuff and this is terrific but the bottom line ladies and gentlemen of the jury is it's what average house once don't let anybody tell you anything different. three say. we should lie about adultery is that what or this. your lips there for me. but if somebody does something if you're going to throw the president out merely because he lied about adultery that's not something that ollie presidents do and you know there were a what i'm doug about ventura don't don't botch me and i will get on that or the part that that's the part that got me what richard nixon did was different he was i mean this was a different story but yet again if they wanted to do it impeach nixon because of his hair they could have done what he could well but it was interesting stuff and i would recommend check out own version which is book always a pleasure to have you on laurel of one all media thank you so much indeed thank you. there often times in

( laughter ) >> wallace: how does richard nixon, if elected by a majority? >> kroft: interviewed by mike on the second program, the candidate made a remark that history would note. >> nixon: the most important thing about a public man is not whether he's loved or disliked, but whether he's respected. and i hope to restore respect to the presidency at all levels by my conduct. >> bill clinton: we moved into this place... >> kroft: virtually all of the presidents of the last half century have fielded questions on the broadcast. >> jimmy carter: you didn't anticipate all these questions. >> stahl: are you really going to build a wall? >> donald trump: yes. >> kroft: lesley got the first television interview with donald trump shortly after he won the 2016 election. >> stahl: are people going to be surprised about how you conduct yourself as president? >> trump: you know, i'll conduct myself in a very good manner. >> stahl: he was thoughtful. he answered all my questions. but are you going to be tweeting? >> trump: i'm going to do very restrained, if i use it at

how did you actually serve that subpoena to get richard nixon's tapes? >> it was something we actually had to think about, but it turned out to have a very simple answer because for all the bad things that richard nixon did, he did have some respect for the law and he allowed his attorneys to accept service of process. which is a very typical way of any defendant being served, is the lawyer for the defendant accepts the service. but it would be very hard. you can't just walk into the white house and you can't just walk up to the president, so it isn't that easy, just as we've seen now with jared kushner, you can't walk up to jared kushner and say, hi, i have something for you. you have to have a way to get past the secret service. if they are determined to protect him, that's going to be very hard. >> so now the lawyers who have been trying to serve this legal process on jared kushner have gone into federal court explaining to the judge we have exhausted every method for doing this and what we would now like to do is simply send him this legal process in

that was one of the counts that was preceding in theism peachment process for richard nixon before richard nixon resigned and short-circuited the whole thing. this is both lying to the american people for going on two years now, approaching two years, but also it is lying during a criminal investigation about this very subject that the president is lying about. and he is trying to communicate that lie to everyone around him in his campaign, in his administration and everyone who might be talking to the investigators about this. >> yeah. i mean, look, if just lying per se were an impeachable crime, donald trump would have been gone after the first week, right? but this is in furtherance of what one could argue is an ongoing criminal conspiracy, right? because it is to obscure facts that he knows, that putin actually did meddle with the election and indeed is continuing to do so and you could argue, i think, that that is an ongoing criminal conspiracy in which the president on that level, at least, is participating. now, i don't know if you could prove that in a federal court, but, of course

nixon different sikkim the f.b.i. and somebody you know auditing taxes so we can debate all this stuff and this is terrific but the bottom line ladies and gentlemen of the jury is it's what average house once don't let anybody tell you anything different. three say. we should lie about adultery is that what our. your lips there for me. but if somebody does something if you're going to throw the president out merely because he lied about adultery that's not something that only presidents do and you know there were a what i'm doug about ventura don't don't botch me and i will get on that or the part that that's the part that got me what richard nixon did was different he was i mean this was a different story but yet again if they wanted to impeach nixon because of his hair they could have done it we could know but it was interesting stuff and i would recommend check out our own version which is book always a pleasure to have you our loyal of one all media thank you so much indeed thank you. there often times in life whe

nixon different sikkim the f.b.i. and somebody you know auditing taxes so we can debate all this stuff and this is terrific but the bottom line ladies and gentlemen of the jury is it's what average house once don't let anybody tell you anything different. or say. we should lie about adultery is that what our. your lips there for me. but if so does if you're going to throw the president out merely because he lied about adultery that's not something that only presidents do and you know there were a what i'm doug about ventura don't don't botch me and i will get on that or the part that that's the part that got me what richard nixon did was different he was i mean this was a different story but yet again if they wanted to impeach nixon because of his hair they could have done it we could know but it was interesting stuff and i would recommend check out own version which is book always a pleasure to have you on laurel of one all media thank you so much indeed thank you. there are often times in life where it seems like so

richard nixon created the office of communications director. a lot of fun for you to tell the audience who that was. >> it was a guy named herb klein, who had been nixon's press secretary in 1960 when he ran for president and lost. and nixon thought that klein was not tough enough and so he actually kicked him upstairs by creating this term, you know, this title, director of communications, and he didn't do too much. the irony is that that job has become a lot more important. now, bill shine has a slightly different title, but i think what we're going to see with bill shine is, not only optics and this is how you stage a rally for president trump, but these -- this is the kind of language that works on fox news. these are the kinds of things you should say that will mobilize your audience. those are tools that nixon never had. >> yeah, and i wonder how he'll deal with every other part of the media -- >> i can only imagine and you can, too. >> yeah, indeed. michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. always a treat to talk to you. >> sam

nixon different sic in the f.b.i. and somebody you know auditing taxes so we can debate all this stuff and this is terrific but the bottom line ladies and gentlemen of the jury is it's what average house once don't let anybody tell you anything different. you're saying. we should lie about adultery is that what i heard escape your lips there for me. but if somebody does something if you're going to throw the president out merely because he lied about adultery that's not something that only presidents do and you know there were a what i'm doug about ventura don't don't botch me and i will get on that or the part that that's the part that got me what richard nixon did was different he was i mean this is a different story but yet again if they wanted to impeach nixon because of his hair they could have done it but it was interesting stuff and i would recommend check out own version which is book always a pleasure to have you on laurel of one all media thank you so much indeed thank you. there often times in life where it

faulkner: we have the inauguration of richard nixon. that night, we go to the ball and drink and have a good time. , once you haveay woken up from that good night you had, the very next day after the inauguration, nixon says i want the state department, the department of defense, the cia, the embassy in saigon, i want all of the major players to give me your assessment. you have 20 days, you come back to me and tell me your assessment of what is going on on the ground, what is possible and what is not. that tells you how important it is, his first official act. tell me what i have to do with vietnam, because i don't have a secret plan. what do these guys come back and tell him? go ahead. that thell agreed south the enemy not strong enough to do it on his own -- on its own. do just major't combat operations or [indiscernible] we had to do both. the u.s. and south vietnamese. prof. faulkner: what do you know if your richard nixon when it comes to us? >> we needed to let the south vietnamese handle the business and put that face on it. pro

faulkner: we have the inauguration of richard nixon. that night, we go to the ball and drink and have a good time. the very next day, once you have woken up from that good night you had, the very next day after the inauguration, nixon says i want the state department, the department of defense, the cia, -- i wanty in saigon all of you major players to give me your assessment. , you come backs to me, and you tell me your assessment of what is going on on the ground, what is possible and what is not possible? that tells you how important it is, his first official act. tell me what i have to do with vietnam, because i don't have a secret plan. so, what are these guys come back and tell him? russ.ad, >> they all agreed that the government wase not strong enough to do it on its own. that we could not do just major combat operations. we have to do both. we? faulkner: who is >> u.s. and the south vietnamese. prof. faulkner: what do you know if your richard nixon when it comes to us? >> we needed to let the south vietnamese handle the business

people who had been appointed by richard nixon. they decided that the rule of law was more important than a president and they said the president had to comply with the grand jury subpoena and turn documents over to the grand jury. >> stoeven, let's talk about th interpretations of what a president has to do with respect to criminal or other investigations. having been part of the ken star investigation, what's the legal thought? >> well, if there's a subpoena for a criminal case that the president would have to turn over the tapes. and the client versus jones tells us at least in a civil case the president would have to make himself available with due deference to the fact that he is an incredibly busy man. so the wisdom i think is that the president is subject to judicial process as a general matter, but the president can raise executive privilege in the right circumstance and what the court says is that's a sliding scale, and the president will get much more derch in the issues of national security and in the issue of diplomatic

[applause] amy: that is richard nixon speaking back in the 1970's. i want to go back to republican senator john barrasso of wyoming speaking at a hearing for a draft bill to amend the endangngered species a act. >> the discussion draft elevates the role of states in partnering with the federal government to implement the endangered species act. it affords states the opportunities to l lead wildlife , includingn efforts the establishment of recovery teams and developing and implementing recovery plans. it provides for increasing regulatory certainty so stakeholders are incentivized to enter into recovery activities. it increases transparency. it codifies prioritizes species listing petitions come as a limited resources flow to the species most in need. amy: kieran suckling, if you can respond. kieran: yes, this is really extraordinary. to get onto the endangered species list, you first have to -- the first have to be a finding that state plans have not worked. now he wants to have the law say, let's put the states, whose plans failed, in charge of con

nixon surely he would have been impeached he paid hush money he told his record is the lie the f.b.i. destroyed evidence economic crimes while in office and donald trump if there's evidence that he committed crimes of course would be circular to impeachment my argument is you need to commit a crime to be impeached is not good enough to say he's a bad president we don't like this policies or he's done terrible things you have to find a specific on the constitution says it has to be the bribery. reason or other high crimes and missed in the soul when i haven't seen it bill clinton was wrongly impeached i think it was he did according to the allegations commit a crime it wasn't a high crime you know it was covering up for a sordid affair that's not what hamilton and madison basically wrote the impeachment provisions of the constitution had in mind they had minor crimes that affect the national security crimes like richard nixon's crimes covering up a burglary to help them get elected that kind of thing those are the kinds of crimes we had in mind or real obstruction of justice and if th

richard nixon picked four judges. i can't say that's in the top ten list of how you define richard nixon. and secondly, i think the legacy here is more to do with republican party than with president trump. i think that they made a bargain, some would call it a devil's bargain that they would hold their nose on so many other aspects of donald trump just to get to this moment today. and so you i don't sleeper agents exactly. but they are particularly as they come on younger, you're talking about 35, 40, 45 years of jurisprudence. and you also wonder in the court we all change our minds if we're i think if we're thinking and living and you wonder whether any of these justices will evolve over time. >> david, i was reminded today the vote on ginsburg, ginsburg, not all that long ago in our lifetimes, was 96-3. she was not a puzzle to us. writers of history, it strikes me you're entire business is all about timing. look back at the last three presidents, two term presidents. they had two picks over eight years. along come

she said that is so sweet of richard nixon's campaign records to give a boy all the campaign buttons. i didn't say they gave them to them but the statute of limitations has passed. if you didn't get one please do. we in the law are associated with that. it is appropriate to bring a gavel to this meeting to order. this is a special gavel from my collection. this is a gavel used by a member of the house of representatives and the majority leader, the speaker of the house to preside over the iconic 1968 democratic national convention, this was the gavel used, banged down by hubert humphrey who challenged for the presidency. you can't see the picture of hubert humphrey, shaking hands with george mcgovern, hands if you look at the corner. and have a chance to look at this memorabilia. let's talk about 1968. a fascinating year, one of the most iconic elections in american history certainly in the 20th century. the election that got me interested in politics. i never thought i would be writing about that campaign. one of the things you find when you write a book, all the people you have know

nixon's downfall. 1975, ity published in covers the nixon administration from september, 1973 to august, 1974. the book was reissued 40 years later with an afterword covering nixon's time after he was forced to resign. politicsrecorded at and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. in 4014. it is about one hour.

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richard nixon picked four judges. i can't say that's in the top ten list of how you define richard nixon. and secondly, i think the legacy here is more to do with republican party than with president trump. i think that they made a bargain, some would call it a devil's bargain that they would hold their nose on so many other aspects of donald trump just to get to this moment today. and so you see so many other things exploding around trump. and yet, this is what they were waiting for. >> john, you and david as writers of history, it strikes me you're entire business is all about timing. look back at the last three presidents, two term presidents. they had two picks over eight years. along comes donald trump and he gets two picks right off the bat. 18 months and sooner or later, guys like you are writing about legacy, whatever else happens that defines whatever this presidency is. >> absolutely. it's interesting. if judge kavanaugh is confirmed, we'll have one justice from the one term president from george walker bush

nixon surely he would have been impeached he paid hush money he told his record is a lie the f.b.i. destroyed evidence he could it crimes while in office and donald trump if there's evidence that he committed crimes of course would be said to impeachment my argument is you need to commit a crime to be impeached is not good enough to say he's a bad president we don't like this policies or he's done terrible things you have to find a specific on the constitution says it has to be the bribery. treason or other high crimes and missed in the soul when i haven't seen it bill clinton was wrongly impeached i think it was he did according to the allegations commit a crime it wasn't a high crime you know it was covering up for a sordid affair that's not what hamilton and madison basically wrote the impeachment provisions of the constitution had in mind they had minor crimes that affect the national security crimes like richard nixon's crimes covering up a burglary to help them get elected that kind of thing those are the kinds of crimes we had in mind or real obstruction of justice and if the

and richard nixon immediately said, liar. might have said pathological liar but he said liar, liar, liar. john dean is not telling the truth. ultimately the tapes came out, john dean was proven to be right and richard nixon was lying. so donald trump jr. is in trouble here and donald trump sr. is in trouble here potentially if michael cohen is telling the truth and there's any corroborating evidence. >> liz, let me press you on that because of course officials with president trump, those in his camp, are going to say, hey, wait a minute, that moment you just talked about was possibly the pivotal moment of watergate, one of several. but one of the biggest. do you really say and what makes you think this could be that pivotal? >> it could be. because what we have is a meeting. we know that this was a meeting that represent end the russian government's support for donald trump's election as president. secondly, we know that the campaign was meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton to further donald trump's election as president. s

richard nixon said one year of watergate is enough. one year later, a tape caused him to resign from the presidency. >> the reason i'm asking you is that when cohen is talking to trump about it and he's talking about his friend, david pecker, it doesn't sound like they're talking about just one thing. and i believe if people listen to it closely, they're going to hear him say those things they were talking about that he has. and it seems like there was a collection of things that they wanted back from david pecker. that's why i'm asking you. i know you won't answer, but i want that to be in people's minds that this may not have been just about karen mcdougal. >> let me try to answer that. michael cohen is an authentic, sincere man, hurting because the power of the presidency, rudy giuliani, and all the henchmen are now after michael cohen. and he's living in a hotel because his apartment was drenched, and he's forced to live in a hotel with family that's being attacked by a president. and the end result here is what they were talking a

richard nixon is president of the united states. i'm also hearing something else on the part of people analyzing this, and that is an attempt to turn all of this into a campaign finance violation. we really do not want, lawrence, to go down the road where we say anything that happens that can be helpful to an ongoing political campaign should be monetized and counted as a contribution and therefore contribute to the criminalization of american politics. i think that's a terrible way to go. there are lots of ways of judging donald trump without getting into that swamp. >> and the tape tonight comes on a day that the president began by tweeting "tariffs are great." these are tariffs that have already begun to separate him from some of his support in the agricultural states which were crucial to his electoral college win. that day ends with this tape of the presidential candidate donald trump, who needs the affection of those voters who are now suffering under his tariffs more than he's ever needed it before. >> this is just another da

he would have trounced richard nixon. richard nixon was so scared and intimidated by the whole kennedy family, he became mush as a candidate. which he was, anyway. so under those circumstances, in my mind. had he lived, and gotten the nomination, he could have or would have become president. >> fred pappert, who was an ad man for bobby's campaign in '64 and '68. would always say, if hubert humphrey had beaten nixon, bobby kennedy. i'm not sure given the electoral college. going back though to getting the nomination, i think bobby had a strong shot at it. one of the things i write about in the, my book is, in 1964, when bobby first was deciding how he was going to pursue power. he went a very conventional route and thought -- if i want to be president, i should be vice president. and he immediately looks at it through the way of the lens of the convention delegates and where the power is and he's going through doing things he has to do. one of the ways the newspapers helped me is i could track where he was planning on goin

a post first created by one richard millhouse nixon. and joining us, author of the loudest voice in the room great to see you. let's talk about the importance in your view of bill shine going from fox news to the white house. it really shows the sconnection. i think one thing people need to know about bill shine is that he was shaped and molded by roger ailes from the beginning. he started in local news and he basically spent his career being shaped and tutored by roger ailes. he will bring all that thinking about how to set a narrative and push right wing talking points from the day to the nighttime to the white house. >> so fox news already has a perfect simbiosis with the white house. what difference will it make to have a former executive in the west wing? >> i think what trump is trying to do, he's trying to bring some discipline. the most undisciplined person is the president himself. he is trying to stick to set talking points and push throughout the day. there hasn't been a cohesive message. the president will suite things that

later in the -- he was on richard nixon's enemies list. we will spend much of the hour dellum in hison own words. ourell come to all of listeners and viewers around the country and world. think back to the last time you took a flight. while you were in the airport, did you observe the boarding gate from afar? did you touch your face or perspire? fidget? if you exhibited any of these or other behaviors, armed federal air marshals may have followed you and collected extensive information about your movements. a boston globe investigation has revealed the existence of a domestic surveillance program run by the transportation security administration, or tsa, which has been surveilling us citizens on planes and in airports since 2012. under the program, called "quiet skies," federal air marshals collect information about u.s. travelers, including common behavior like using the bathroom repeatedly, sleeping on flights, or sweating heavily. this is a video clip from the boston globe about the program. >> air marshals typically assist and surveill

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this was the gavel used that combination of hubert humphrey as the man that challenged richard nixon for the presidency. i have a picture of him here. you probably can't see it but it's a picture of hubert humphrey at the convention being treated after his acceptance speech shaking hands with george mcgovern, here is his first hand man anfirst-handman and if you e corner you see the gavel. i thought that was appropriate and i hope you will get a chance to look at some of this memorabilia. let's talk a little bit about a year 1968. a fascinating year, probably one of the most iconic in the history certainly in the 20th century. it got me interested in politics. one of the things yo things defl these people you've known for years come up to you and tell you i've written a book or i started a book or i'm thinking about writing a book. maybe i can take a couple of minutes and share my journey as a writer because it led directly to this new book that was published today. this book i wrote thanks to newt gingrich for my term in the house of representatives. i was on time, that he was early

[applause] amy: 45 years after president richard nixon signed the endangered species act, the landmark legislation is under an

actual president richard nixon signing the act, which established the trans-alaska pipeline system. and there's an interesting story this. senator stevens introduced an house which the would block any kind of legal pipeline to the system. and they were losing the vote. and senator stevens on the floor a very impassioned statement, which actually fellow the mind of a senator, which led to a tie in presidentwhich vice spiro agnew had to break the tie. once the trans-alaska pipeline act was passed, permitting and construction immediately began on the pipeline. and that pipeline system actually transformed the state of alaska. at the time, it was the largest privately financed energy project. still a marvel ofin' of today.ion >> our bill would allow foreign fishing only after it had been americand that fishermen cannot harvest a which would not deplete the system. the foreigners would have to pay a fee to fish and would be closely monitored. high seas, the determination of economic dislocation would be made by fishing for aow species such as salmon. that thext issue senator tackled was