if he had contact with nixon. and i think i'm right, nixon and carter came to the iran-contra hearings and, whoever was that carter was kind of all over the place, not -- nixon, and and that has stuck with me so many years that he was a brilliant man, very organized in his thinking. you have anything like that in the book. first,he colson question they remained friendly. he remained a defender of nixon to the end. of course, he was occupied with his prison ministry. there is a relationship documented in the book. the iran contra hearing is i write about and this in the book -- because nixon had a unique perspective on scandal. in the book he is delivering a --ech to republican senators this is late to "the washington post and they write the story about this, and he basically says you mean to have reagan's back on this. if his staff made a mistake, that's one thing. he was not trained to do anything wrong. don't cut and run from him on this. ,t's fascinating to watch reflecting on his own experience. i'm not aware

family to donald nixon, richard nixon's brother, friend enterprise he had in california called nixon burgers, from howard hughes, a very unsecured loan, which not only helped derail nixon in 1960, but also, when he ran for governor of california in 1962. so it was the shadow of 1962 and the race lost there, which caused richard nixon's downfall, ultimately. so you have a question and a case of three ambitions, finally realized, hopes and dreams finally destroyed, and three great, personal presidential tragedies. thank you, very much. [laughter] -- [applause] if we have any questions, raise -- >> if we have any questions, raise your hand and the c-span microphone will seek you out. in the front row? >> i'd like to know whether you have seen "frost-nixon" yet, and what you thought. there is a scene depicted that a sensible happened before the final jfk taping, in which nixon, lubricated by alcohol, calls frost and engages in a rambling discussion about how they are similar and both had these resentments. i wonder if that was license, or if you have information that was an actual call t

and nixon relished the chance. the only power he had left, which was his mind and his ideas to influence policy. he gives counsel to presidents. he influences them. let me give you something small. nixon, shortly after reagan --es president wants to reagan becomes presidents, have a way- was to to take care of his ability. this is a guy with tremendous political ability. to the country. he can rally the country, and nixon sees this and wants to take advantage of it. early in the nixon administration, nixon sends a letter to mike deaver urging the creation of a weekly 10-minute radio talk to allow the president to dominate the monday papers. nixon suggest they do this on sunday. and the saturday morning radio address is born. that lasted from 1982 all the way until 2018 one trump discontinued it. we've always known reagan's started it. we never knew that the idea came from a letter from richard nixon. but his real contributions came from bigger matters of substance. when gorbachev comes to power, nixon meets with go

nixon and mr. kennedy during their first meeting in chicago on september 26, 1960. >> the television and radio stations of the united states and their affiliated stations are proud to provide facilities for a discussion of issues in the current political campaign by the candidates for the presidency. the candidates need no introduction. the republican candidate, vice president richard nixon and the democratic candidate, senator john f. kennedy. according to rules set by the candidates themselves, each man shall make an opening statement of approximately eight minutes duration and a closing statement of approximately three minutes duration. in between, the candidates will answer or comment upon answers to questions put by a panel of correspondents. in this, the first discussion of a series of four joint appearances, the subject matter has been agreed to be restricted to internal or domestic american matters. now, for the first opening statement by senator john f. kennedy. sen. kennedy: in the electi

nixon goes to the justice department. in 1968, nixon used a southern strategy. the idea of approaching racial backlash as a way of getting southern votes. go back to the map. nixon does not carry some southern states. he loses texas to humphrey, and loses arkansas, louisiana, this is sippy, alabama, and georgia to george wallace. whyn's advisers say look, don't we try to use this vacant supreme court appointment as a way of appealing to southern conservatives? showing them if they affiliate with the republican party, they will get a concrete benefit. the warren court was not popular in the south. if they could get a southern conservative onto the court, nixon concludes that will be a way of bolstering republican support. there seems to be a quite good judge from north carolina on the fourth circuit, which is an appellate court in the mid-atlantic states, named clement haynesworth. very popular among north carolina republican types. a republican nominee at a time where there were not many republican judges in the south. remember, the south had basically been a on

nixon goes to the justice department. in 1968, nixon used a southern strategy. approaching the racial backlash to get southern votes. nixon does not carry some southern states. he loses texas to humphrey, loses arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, alabama, and georgia to george wallace. he says look, why don't we use this vacant supreme court appointment as a way of appealing to southern conservatives. showing them if they affiliate with the republican party, they will get a concrete benefit. the warren court was not popular in the south. nixon concludes that will be a way of bolstering republican support. this seems to be a quite good judge from north carolina on the fourth circuit. it is an appellate court in the mid-atlantic state. his name is clement haynesworth. veryrvative judge, popular among north carolina republican types. a republican nominee at a time where there were not many republican judges in the south. i had basically been a one party, democratic area. the problem is haynesworth actually has a pretty good judicial record. not a great judicial recor

we'll come back and talk about nixon, what's happening with nixon at this time. but first, let me show you a couple campaign ads from this period. first is george mcgovern's followed by a nixon ad. >> one of the reasons i'm disturbed about the president's $10 million secret election fund is that it indicates there's something this he's afraid to disclose. what are they hiding? i'm perfectly willing to publish the name of every dollar contributed to my campaign, and i don't see what the president is covering up, but it's that kind of thing that puts a kind of a damper on the moral tone of the whole nation. >> mcgovern, democrat for the people. >> i would just like to say a couple of words. i am a democrat for president nixon and his re-election. i can only say the thing that motivated my change was the year of just collecting pure unaffected facts. >> i want to make this pledge to sammy. i want to make it to everyone here when you happen to be black, white, young or old and all of those who are listening. i believe in the american dream. sammy davis believes in it

even as the republicans were sort of solidifying around richard nixon and nixon's presidency, his high point, which probably 1972. he famously went to china that year, among other things. >> we will definitely talk more about that later on in the program. but part of senator mcgovern's acceptance speech on that night in 1972 was about reforming the democratic party. he also takes aim at the republican party and what they are doing at their convention, which is being held shortly after the democrats also in miami. take a look. >> we have had our fury and our frustrations in these past months. and at this convention. but frankly, i welcome the contrast with the smog and dull and empty event which will doubtless take place here in miami next month. we chose this struggle. we reformed our priority. we let the people in. so we stand today not as a collection of backroom strategists, not as a tool of i-tea or any other special interests. >> scott faris, george mcgovern in 1972 saying we let the people in. take us back to that, to the 1968 convention win hubert humphrey gets the nomination an

in that sense i do think the foreign policy in the first nixon years was nixon's foreign policy. i think kissinger, to borrow the argument, i think he tuned himself into nixon and it advocates more forceful measures that he did on the korean shoot down of an american spy plane in 1969. i do think that is something about, particularly in the first years, in which kissinger did and often times to read nixon as a part of enhancing his own prestige and importance. unlike the secretary of state it was a constituent of one president and i think kissinger was very aware of that. to a certain extent he did advocate policies that played into some of nixon's own inclinations towards the use of force. specifically on laos, i do think that was one where kissinger was persuaded that some type of use of force could strengthen the negotiating situation that was still -- and his memoirs was for that. how much responsibility? i think it's there. i think that kissinger's role on a number of these issues does give him a certain level of responsibility. kissinger learned not to doubt himself. kissin

why does president nixon take a position between these two extremes? how does he view the conflict of vietnam? >> in 1963, president kennedy with his characteristic elegance and clarity said we want to see a stable government in there, carrying on the struggle to maintain independence we believe strongly in that we are not going to withdraw from that effort. in my opinion, for us to withdraw would mean a collapsed not only of south vietnam but southeast asia, so we are going to stay there. president eisenhower and president johnson expressed the same conclusion during their terms of office. for the future of peace, precipitous withdrawal would be a disaster of immense magnitude. a nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and lets down its friends. our defeat and humiliation in south vietnam, without question, would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. this would spark violence wherever our commitments helps maintain peace. in the middle east, in berlin, eventuall

nixon goes to the justice department. in 1968, nixon used a southern strategy. approaching the racial backlash to get southern votes. nixon does not carry some southern states. he loses texas to humphrey, loses arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, alabama, and georgia to george wallace. he says look, why don't we use this vacant supreme court appointment as a way of appealing to southern conservatives. showing them if they affiliate with the republican party, they will get a concrete benefit. the warren court was not popular in the south. nixon concludes that will be away of bolstering republican support. this seems to be a quite good judge from north carolina on the fourth circuit. it is an appellate court in the mid-atlantic state. his name is clement haynesworth. very popular among north carolina republican types. a republican nominee at a time where there were not many republican judges in the south. it had basically been a one party, democratic area. the problem is haynesworth actually has a pretty good judicial record. not a great judicial record. there are s

richard nixon. he really detested red baiters. he ran against a guy in south dakota who was a well-known anticommunist. and he despised nixon for how he had ran in '52 and '56. he relished the fight as well and it was a great incentive for him to run. >> in vietnam, what's happening on that issue during that time? >> of course, nixon had said in 1968 he had, quote, a secret plan to end the war in vietnam and that turned out to be escalating the war. in 1970 by having u.s. troops invade cambodia to disrupt supply lines. so early in the nixon presidency, the war was escalating and seemed to be expanding, not winding down and this really outraged the antiwar movement and gave mcgovern more impetus to want to run. he needed going through the process of the vooimtizatiietnaf the war. as mcgovern was making the decision to run, he thought nixon was escalating the war and not winding it down. >> 1971 the pentagon papers are first published. what's the impact of this? >> actually, the pentagon papers were n

nixon: yes. i would say first of all, we have been negotiating to get the tests inspected and to get an agreement for many, many months. there has been a moratorium on testing as a result of the fact we have been negotiating. i have reached the conclusion that the soviet union is actually filibustered. i reached the conclusion based on the reports made they may be cheating. i don't believe we can wait until the next president is inaugurated and selects a new team, and all the negotiating that takes place. i think immediately after this election, which is a timetable for the next president, working with the current president, president eisenhower, a timetable to break the soviet filibuster. there should be no tests in the atmosphere. that rules out any follow-up. but as far as underground tests, in particular he underground tests for developing peaceful -- in particular underground , tests for developing peaceful uses of atomic energy, we should not allow the soviet filibuster to continue. i think

but nixon said no. and instead on what was literally the eve of the 1968 election -- the election day in 1968 was november 5th. the night before, the night of november 4th, hubert humphrey and richard nixon held dueling head-to-head telethons on two different tv networks. i kid you not. humphrey, the democrat, was on abc from 8:30 to 10:30 that night. and nixon, the republican, was on nbc from 9:00 to 11:00 that night. i mean come on! seriously? i mean last night we had the democrat on abc and the republican on nbc, and they overlapped for all but a half hour. it was the exact same thing on election eve in 1968, down to the same two networks hosting the candidate of each of those parties. and what nixon and humphrey did in '68, these telethons, they weren't exactly what we call a town hall, but it was pretty darn close. voters at home phoned in their questions live. the candidates answered the questions on camera. and just like we saw last night, the two candidates were on tv taking these questions from

but how can president nixon tell that these people support him? how does he know they make up a majority? how can anyone tell what so many different people are thinking? one way to find out what's on their minds is to conduct a nationwide poll. i did the next-best thing. i talked with someone who directed a poll, a researcher respected for his objective approach and renowned for the reliability of his methods. >> for the last 33 years, the american institute of public opinion has been a respected reporter of american attitudes. the institute known as the gallop poll has pioneered in techniques of public attitude sampling and refined the methods of research in all parts of the world. george gallop is president of the association. today we would like to question him about one of his most recent polls. mr. gallop, on november 3rd, president nixon spoke to the people of the united states about his policy in vietnam. he mentioned a silent majority of americans who he felt supported his position. what did your organization do following that speech? >> w

nixon. until later in the campaign when nixon played a few dirty tricks. so he came out for humphrey. he thought he might lose texas at the end, which he didn't want to do. he was really late in the campaign when he started to work for humphrey. pretty much during the whole campaign he was out of the picture and wouldn't help at all and held vietnam all over here. >> juan, i want to bring the discussion back to civil rights. from the 1948 entry of hubert humphrey, he built his campaign on this, it came in really 1963 and '64 when civil rights legislation was being hut forward. tell that story, if you would briefly. >> humphrey's involvement is as the democratic whip in the senate. you've got lbj as president trying to -- basically, the inhater of president kennedy's mantel, president kennedy's efforts to get civil rights legislation passed. but kennedy, there was some doubt about his commitment to this. what he was willing -- the price -- was he willing to pay the price in terms of the south

she cited nixon patronage and she at no time like nixon because she called him the father of the quota system. part of it was providing goodies, i guess, jobs, federal jobs to latino communities, but he also start making some of the first fairly high-level appointments, both within his administration and other federal posts. he appoints the first hispanic treasurer of the united states and he appoints -- >> consuelos. >> mexican-american woman who is a fascinating character and also ben fernandez to be the chairman of the national economic development agency, so all of these posts and the benefit to him of appointing these people is that they can then become his latino surrogates out on the campaign trail and that's how he begins to recruit them. it's a really kind of -- just a redoubled effort, spending time with making appointments, these kinds of things. the critics, nixon's critics call that all tokenism and performance rather sincere interest to appeal middle-class latinos. it did the job that he needed him to do, first republican to win about 30, 35% of the latino vote that has b

but nixon said no. and instead on what was literally the eve of the 1968 election, the election day in 1968 was november 5th. the night before, the night of november 4th, hubert humphrey and richard nixon held dueling head-to-head telethons on two different tv networks. i kid you not. humphrey, the democrat, was on abc from 8:30 to 10:30 that night. and nixon, the republican, was on nbc from 9:00 to 11:00 that night. i mean come on! seriously? i mean last night we had the democrat on abc and the republican on nbc, and they overlapped for all but a half hour. it was the exact same thing on election eve in 1968, down to the same two networks hosting the candidate of each of those parties. and what nixon and humphrey did in '68, these telethons, they weren't exactly what we call a town hall, but it was pretty darn close. voters at home phoned in their questions live. the candidates answered the questions on camera. and just like we saw last night, the two candidates were on tv taking these questions from v

but how can president nixon tell if these people support him. how does he know they make up a majority. how can anyone know what so many different people are thinking. one way to find out what's on their minds is to conduct a nationwide poll. i had the next best thing, i talked to one who directed a poll, a researchers respected for his objective approach and renowned for the reliability of his methods. for the last 33 years, the american institute of public opinion has been a respected reporter of american attitudes. the institute, known as the gallup poll, has pioneered in techniques of public attitude sampling and refined the methods of research used all the over this country and by foreign research organization in all parts of the world. george gallup is president of the gallop poll organization. today we'd like to question him about one of his recent polls. on november 3rd president nixon spoke to the people of the united states about his policy in vietnam. he mentioned a silent majority of americans, who he felt supported his position. wha

with nixon. so it's hard to know where they came from. >> wallace also take louisiana, mississippi, georgia. let's take a call. this is jim. >> caller: hi there. first of all, i would like to mention that in 1968, in march of 1968 when johnson made his speech to step down, two days before on friday, march the 29th, which i have to correct your guest there on that date, march the 29th, mr. humphrey agreed to speak at my school. and the speech was scheduled for three weeks later. on sunday, march 31st is when johnson made his speech. and i've always wondered since that event whether he had a clue on that friday. because he had scheduled some other speeches for later in april on the same date that johnson was going to step down or he was just simply anticipating that the possibility may exist. because of that speech i was able to sit on the front row of his announcement speech on april 27th at the hotel along with the other students that helped invite him. and i was also at the capitol the day the c

nixon was the choice of the republican party. he had served as vice president sinc 1953. n he was a candidate for the presidency. his vice president runnin mate -- as the campaign gets underway, the presidential candidates meet face to face in television debates seen and heard by millions of people, the same people who will decide which of these two men will lead the country for the next four years. the personal contact with people is still an essential feature of any presidential campaign. senat kennedy, a tireless campaigner goes to all sections of the company, spelling out his views ofdomestic and foreign policy. on foreign policy the overriding issue is the maintenance of p peace and me meeting -- on domestic affairs, he stresses the governmes affair in meeting economic and social problems. senator kennedy's wife, jacqueline has to limit her campaign appearanceses because e is expecting a child. but is still seen by thousands. gi me your help, give me your hand and your voice to rule move america forward. with these words, senator cannery ask the people to support his

nixon. if you do not want to debate with the third-party candidate whose name shall not be mentioned, why don't you get your friends in the house of representatives to pass a special law permitting u.s. mr. hubert humphrey to debate. >> if you ever looked at the membership on that committee? it is always amusing to be when people said, why don't i get the republicans to do something of a debate. let's remember that the senate is 2-1 democratic. the house is 3-2 democratic. anytime that hubert humphrey with his influence on his side wants a debate, i would think he would be able to get the democrats to pass it. i think that my power in terms of what i can get the republican members in the house to do is greatly overestimated. that is the problem as you know it. they are not opposing the debate. they are sitting with wallace getting 21% of the poll -- i am sorry. i should not have mentioned his name. with wallace getting 21% of the poll, they are insisting that they cannot go back to their con

he has been far more blatant, over, and successful the nixon. thelatest example is installation of john ratcliffe as the director of national intelligence. the only qualification he has is he pedals russian disinformation as fact. that's the only thing he is good at in this job. trump has- i mean, had success that nixon could only dream about. .ast-forward to 9/11 i was lucky enough to be on the "over of the "new york times book review and the review said i offered a damming portrait of george tenet. i thought, really? i thought i was nuanced and fair. the conventional wisdom is that he and the cia kowtowed to dick cheney and rumsfeld and the rest of them and, in effect, made up this case for wmd's in iraq. i don't think it's that simple. a lot of people believe it and trump exploded that believe in the 2016 election. i think you can make a very georgeargument that tenet wanted to please george w. bush, perhaps more than a cia director should. he certainly failed in the infamous slamdunk meeting to presidentand told the that we just all have a v

you are writing about the treasury secretary under nixon and say nixon found himself a mexican-american that opposed to the activism but nevertheless contributed to those others for financial services. you have to give him credit for finding the sweet spot. it does seem to be the case that having these figureheads and the criticism of this overt tokenism did pay off. but this analysis among the administration and campaign advisors said okay, we are losing voters through the 60s and one of the ways we sort of stem that elsewhere he is a constituent we can make gains with and so having these prominent figureheads can crisscross the country. it's how many miles of the country that clearly impacts the voters. >> there are ways for the administration to say that we are in inclusive administration and we value basically you have a seat at the table. that's the kind of key point for the high level latinos job level positions. >> anothe >> another development in the nixon years is the creation of the hispanic category in the u.s. census. i'm going to give people a sense of this history because

it wasn't long until he came head-to-head with richard nixon. -- nixon, who the republicans had nominated. everyone thought richard nixon would win the election. what really turned the tide in a very, very unique way was the first televised debates between the candidates. americans had never seen anything like that before. the first debate here in october , jackie is very nervous and she is off by the corner, kind of looking out, trying to figure out and make sure that her husband is going to do the right thing. interestingy, very when these debates started. octoberif you would have listened to the debate on radio nixon was the clear winner. ,his voice was convincing. he spoke very well. but if you watched it as tens of millions of americans did on tv, you saw a very nervous richard nixon. you saw a man sweating, yet you saw president john f. kennedy poised, relaxed, articulate, and many writers, including norman mailer, who wrote this incredible piece. he said that the television debates placed jfk on the road to victory. the election was on november 8. ethel castingand their vote and i

i was assigned to photograph richard nixon. of course the strategy of getting that nomination was no easy task. hank walker, one of the life photographers made this iconic image of robert and jfk in a hotel room, kind of deciding who they would offer the vice presidency to. lyndon johnson eventually becomes the running mate to jfk. a surprise to a lot of people. i have seen this picture published in parts of the world where they are discussing the cuban missile crisis. or they are discussing armament. this is a hotel where they are meeting with khrushchev. but it was 1950 the democratic national convention. it wasn't long before he secured that nomination and really had to go out on the road to prove himself. in california he is up there with governor pat brown. here he is preparing some notes for a democratic rally. of course, the wonderful thing about the kennedys as they never pushed photographers or writers away. they knew that if they made themselves accessible to the media they would be published and it was a groundswell.

>> so between trump and nixon, nixon was not a demagogue. he was an authoritarian behind closed doors nobody knew the degree of his authoritarianism before his secret tape recording system that was recording behind doors and until i started to have regular meetings i didn't really sense that even in those meetings i have 39 meetings with him which and deadly for him but we did have 39 conversations i should say some of those were telephone calls. wasn't really and tell i went through all of the watergate related conversations and then i realize the depth of the four-year project and i realize how much of an authoritarian this man really was at heart something he didn't share but with only his trusted staff. see you might not know the next authoritarian comes along because more likely he is a social dominator will realize we can't have another donald trump to play this game and have people except it. it may sneak in and we won't know but there are some pretty good cues nixon did bring a reputation with him. i almost didn't go to work for him

nixon and mr. kennedy during their first meeting in chicago on september 26, 1960. >> the television and radio stations of the united states and their affiliated stations are proud to provide facilities for a discussion of issues in the current political campaign by the candidates for the presidency. the candidates need no introduction. the republican candidate, vice pr

who took over for nixon when he resigned. he was trailing his opponent but -- he was trailing his opponent by as much as 30 points that summer. they found their way around the fairness doctrine. if a third party, in 1976, it was the leak of women voters, if a third party held an event and the networks decided to cover that, it was not the networks giving the candidates a forum. it was covering a news event. see how lawyers work they find a way around it. we can do these debates with people we want. since 1976, we have had presidential and vice presidential debates every election. -- every election season. threeis usually presidential and one vice presidential debate. there used to be questions by a panel. -- why a panel of reporters. like four reporters asking questions. more recently they have gone to a single moderator. encouraging a lot more interaction between the candidates. 1980's, the 1990's, answers from candidates were pretty much well-prepared and thoughtful answers without a lot of interaction. when therebeen times

nixon brought -- nixon blamed the cia for his loss to kennedy in 1960. he was convinced that the so-called missile gap that john kennedy ran on in 1960, he accused eisenhower and nixon of a lot of the so weeks to get hit in missiles. it wasn't true but nixon was convinced that the cia had hash this and fed it to kennedy and kennedy had use to win the election. nixon came in with similar sort of contempt for the organization, but donald trump's campaign to politicize the intelligence community would make richard nixon blush. he's been far more overt, flagrant, blatant, and successful than nixon. the latest example of it is we could talk about this all day, but the latest example is installation of john ratcliffe because he is not, feel the qualification ratcliff has is that -- the only -- he pedals russian this information as a fact. that's about the only thing he is good at in this job. nixon has had success, i mean, at success that nixon could only dream about. to fast-forward to 9/11, i was kind of fascinated that the "new york times", i was lucky enou

donald trump is richard nixon on twitter minus 50 iq points. >> host: richard nixon on twitter would be a fascinating -- >> guest: i know! >> host: thing to try to play out. he actually does seem like he would take to it during the same dark night hours that donald trump does. >> guest: it would be something to uphold. >> host: i am fine, trying to takes questions. >> host: go right ahead. we are holding out for you. >> host: any one of you have a comment, long or short just let us know in the chat and we would love to open up this conversation. the first question, effectively, i am told trump is not only morally bankrupt but has multiple bankruptcy filings himself. how does he continue funding his business ventures? >> guest: through debt, skillful manipulation of debt and with the help remains mysterious, of one of the most suspect major banks, deutsche bank. that is all i can tell you about that. >> host: talk to was a little bit about what you learned about the office of doctrine in the course of this book and what america should know about it. >> guest: garamond stuff was a sovi

and nixon took his advice and richard nixon resigned on august 9th, 1974. >> the relationship between the two? >> testy. barry goldwater, as i mentioned in this article about the liberals, you know, lionizing him, consistently throughout watergate would prod richard nixon to tell the truth. he said this is beginning to smell like tea pot dome. there was a very famous showdown between barry goldwater and richard nixon at the 1960 republican convention, one of the most important kind of set pieces in conservative history in which nelson rockefeller basically threatened a floor fight unless he could dictate the terms of the republican platform and forced richard nixon to fly to new york to negotiate the terms of the platform. it was announced in chicago where the convention was as a fait accompli. and barry goldwater was so mad he gave a vituperative, angry speech calling it the munich of the republican party. that was when people started to campaign for barry goldwater to usurp the nomination from richard nixon. so every since that point i don't think he really trusted richard nixon. >>

richard nixon took his advice. richard nixon resigned on august 9, 1974. >> the relationship between the two? >> testy. >> barry goldwater consistently throughout watergate would prod richard nixon to tell the truth. he said this is beginning to smell. there was a very famous showdown between barry goldwater and richard nixon at the 1960 republican convention. one of the most important set pieces in conservative history. nelson rockefeller basically threatened a floor fight unless he could dictate the terms of the republican platform. he forced richard nixon to fly to new york to negotiate the terms of the platform. it was announced in chicago where the convention was. barry goldwater was so mad he gave this angry speech calling it munich of the republican party. that was when people started demonstrating for barry goldwater at that convention to usurp the nomination from richard nixon. ever since that point i don't think he ever really trusted richard nixon. >> jumping ahead to watergate is what brought on the res

and nixon took his advice and richard nixon resigned on august 9th, 1974. >> the relationship between the two? >> testy. barry goldwater, as i mentioned in this article about the liberals, you know, lionizing him, consistently throughout watergate would prod richard nixon to tell the truth. he said this is beginning to smell like tea pot dome. there was a very famous showdown between barry goldwater and richard nixon at the 1960 republican convention, one of the most important kind of set pieces in conservative history in which nelson rockefeller basically threatened a floor fight unless he could dictate the terms of the republican platform and forced richard nixon to fly to new york to negotiate the terms of the platform. it was announced in chicago where the convention was as a fait accompli. and barry goldwater was so mad he gave a speech calling it the munich of the republican party. that was when people started to campaign for barry goldwater to usurp the nomination from richard nixon. so every since that point i don't think he really trusted richard nixon. >> jumping ahead to wa

he took over for nixon when he resigned. he was trailing his opponent by as much as 30 points that summer. they found their way around the fairness doctrine. which was if a third-party later became the commission on presidential debates, if a third-party held an event and the networks decided to cover it, it wasn't the networks giving the candidates the forum, they were just covering it as news. see how lawyers work? they found a way around. it we can do these debates with people we want. without having 20 people on the stage. four was more than willing to take the chance and to debate. since 1976, we have had presidential and vice presidential debates every election. usually it's three presidential and one vice presidential debate. in 1992, town hall format was instituted from one of the debates in a kind of stuck. there used to be questions by a panel. a panel of reporters for reporters asking questions. more recently they have gone to a single moderator. the moderator asked questions encouraging a lot more interaction bet

president nixon had been moved back to new york, mrs. nixon saw your father on tv and thought he was going to be president, what did you think of that exhibit ? >> it was on the menu at lunch that we had here, it's an amazing library by the way , you've done an incredible job . they had that letter, correspondence saying it was from the president who didn't see the interview but he said my wife has been talking about you on the phil donahue show nonstop. if you ever decide to run you will win. that's the first opening salvo in this correspondence so i look forward to seeing all the others. that's amazing and it goes to show another person and family that understood the game of politics. >> enjoy it again for our audience, "liberal privelege" is available from the nixon library . you can get your copy@nixonfoundation.org. best of luck on the trail and i'll see you back inside the beltway . >> i look forward to it. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. there are programs towatch out for tonight . law profes

i encourage you to sign up for nixon membership and to visit that go to nixon library right after this program ends. today, our ghastly son son of the president of the united states, a member of the first family, donald trump junior but he's executive vice president of the trump organization looking too expand the retail wealth and real estate portfolio. he's ever seen a number of projects starting in family 2001 he is now leading global acquisitions today mr. trump is joined by hugh hewitt. host of the hugh hewitt show nbc contributor annie washington post contributing columnist, hugh taken away. >> thank you jim and welcome donald trump junior to the library. i wish i could be there i'm stuck inside the beltway but i have my own copy of liberal privilege right here. everyone watching if you order release from our bookstore it will be signed by don trump junior. how goes is booked on? >> it's going great. i was not planning on writing another book i was out planning and doing anything like that bright did went over little over a year ago. the reality is we were stuck in cortina could

nixon. he's got four times the size of the deficits that mr. nixon even had himself. this talking about more people at work is distorted because with a 14% increase in the cost of living in the last two years, it means that -- that women and young people have had to go to work when they didn't want to because their fathers didn't make enough to pay the increased cost of food and housing and clothing. we have in this last two years alone 120 billion dollars total deficits under president ford and at the same time we've had, in the last eight years, a doubling in the number of bankruptcies for small business. we've had a negative growth in our -- in our national economy measured in real dollars. the take-home pay of a worker in this country is actually less now than it was in 1968 -- measured in real dollars. this is the kind of record that's there and talk about the future and a drastic change or conversion on the part of mr. ford as of last minute is one that just doesn't go. >> mr. reynolds

and nixon took his advice and richard nixon resigned on august 9th, 1974. >> the relationship between the two? >> testy. barry goldwater, as i mentioned in this article about the liberals, you know, lionizing him, consistently throughout watergate would prod richard nixon to tell the truth. he said this is beginning to smell like tea pot dome. there was a very famous showdown between barry goldwater and richard nixon at the 1960 republican convention, one of the most important kind of set pieces in conservative history in which nelson rockefeller basically threatened a floor fight unless he could dictate the terms of the republican platform and forced richard nixon to fly to new york to negotiate the terms of the platform. it was announced in chicago where the convention was as a fait accompli. and barry goldwater was so mad he gave a speech calling it the munich of the republican party. that was when people started demonstrating for barry goldwater at that convention to usurp the nomination from richard nixon. so every since that point i don't think he really trusted richard nixon. >

the passage of the war powers act in 1973 which was passed over president nixon's veto. this was an important first step. it introduced senator mcgovern to a lot of the public and just two years later he would be the democratic nominee for president. he would lose very badly in that election. but still it was an indication of the growing strength of the antiwar movement in the united states. >> and i think that the stumbling block now is we're worried about losing face, embarrassing the policymakers that sent us in there. we're worried about admitting that perhaps we made a mistake. i think it would contribute to the greatest of the united states if we could admitted that we're capable of making a mistake. >> vietnamization is not a change of policy. it's a continuation of the old, old policy. >> what can we learn today as we're just about to watch this program from just listening to how the senators frame the debate and argument and what's happening in the war. why is it important to study this? >> when you consider how polarized politics have become, this is a bipartis

nixon and kennedy and the moderator were all at remote locations, and theyjust had a screen of the two of them together. certainly, understandably, there is less opportunity to interrupt and bully, if that is what trump wants to do, but they did not serve him well in the first debate.

those who listen to the first debate on radio thought nixon won. those who watched on tv thought kennedy won. after that, there were no more debates for a while. something called the fairness doctrine. licensed by station the federal communications commission gives a candidate time on the air, they have to give their opponent equal time. johnson was not anxious to debate. you have all the minor party candidates. it is not practical. able to dodge it successfully. in 1968 when nixon was running again, he was not too anxious to debate. he learned his lesson. this kind of stop presidential debates. like 1960 was a one-off, it would never happen 1976, gerald ford was president. he was trailing his opponent but much is 30 points. they found their way around the fairness doctrine. it was not the networks giving the candidates a forum. it was covering a news event. find a lawyers work they way around it. we can do these debates with people we want. since 1976, we have had presidential and vice presidential debates every election. there used to be question

>> to back it just a little bit, the president of the united states, richard nixon, had announced in november of 1969 the vietnamese program to remove american troops out of vietnam. the thought at that point was maybe this was the end of the war. actually it was good for me because i was a supply kirk and because they were not some pending -- sending clerks vietnam. i was sent to hawaii instead. a lot of us for either side of relief. but then instead of the war going down and reducing, it seemed to increase, to escalate. it seemed to be getting more violent. it seemed to be spreading into what to china, cambodia. that is why senator first -- senator cooper and frank church introduced the cooper church amendment to stop any american activity in cambodia. then senator mark hadfield, the republican from oregon, consider george mcgovern, a democrat from south dakota, got together and create the mcgovern hadfield amendment that would have ended the united states in the war. it would've first of all stopped on military actions that year and the next year would have withdrawn all troops. s

eisenhower never met nixon. i believe eisenhower accepted it as a decision of the party to have him on the ticket. i think it was a bad decision. i don't say that because of what nixon became later, but eisenhower didn't use his vice president as an adviser, a counselor. the two men didn't get along. they didn't have a relationship, quite frankly. in my opinion, eisenhower didn't trust nixon. he didn't believe he could grow into the job of becoming president. for eight years he tried, or so he said, but nixon was so intimidated by eisenhower, the two just never meshed. in 1956, ike tried to bounce nixon off the ticket. he said, dick, you need some experience. you really ought to go run the pentagon. nixon smelled a rat and said, i know what you're trying to do. thanks very much for that, but i'm okay right where i am. eisenhower refused to tell him directly, i'm ordering you to go run the pentagon. wouldn't do it. he wanted nixon to say, sir, i think i need some more executive experience, i would like to go run

nixon. mr. ford, quite often, puts forward a program, just as a public relations stunt, and never tries to put it through the congress by working with the congress. i think under president nixon and eisenhower, they passed about 60 to 75% of their legislation. this year mr. ford will not pass more than 26% of all the legislative proposals he puts forward. this is government by stalemate, and we've seen almost a complete breakdown in the proper relationship between the president who represents this country and the congress who collectively also represent this country. we've had republican presidents before who have tried to run against a democratic congress. i don't think the congress is mr. ford's opponent. but if he insists i be responsible for the democratic congress, of which i have not been a part, then i think it's only fair he be responsible for the nixon administration in its entirety, which he was a part. that's a good balance. the point is a president ought to lead this country. mr. for

he lost in the general election to the incumbent president, with richard nixon taking 49 states. our coverage is from the richard nixon presidential library and museum. >> chairwoman burke, senator kennedy, senator eagleton and my fellow citizens, i'm happy to join you for this benediction of our friday sunrise service. i assume that everyone here is impressed with my control of this convention in that my choice for vice president was challenged by only 39 other nominees. but i think we learned from watching the republicans four years ago, as they selected their vice presidential nominee, that it pays to take a little more time. and i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon delegation at least kept her in the race with martha mitchell. so i congratulate you on your patience and i pay my respects to those two superb presiding officers of this convention, larry o'brien and even brave weight burke. -- yvonne braithwaite burke >> so tonight, i accept your nomination with a full and grateful heart. this afternoon, i crossed the wide missouri to recommend a running m

nixon resigned. that is disgrace. >> the first president out of 38 that ever resigned from public office under pressure. so when you look at the penalty that he paid, and when you analyze the requirements that i had to spend all of my time working on the economy, which was in trouble, that i inherited, working on our problems in southeast asia, which were still plaguing us, it seemed to me that mr. nixon had been penalized enough by his resignation in disgrace and the need, and necessity for me to concentrate on the problems of the country fully justified the action that i took. mr. >> reynolds: i take it then, sir, that you do not believe that that you are going to reconsider and think about those 90,000 who are still abroad. they have not been penalized enough, many of them have been there for years? mr. ford: well, mr. carter has indicated that he would give a blanket pardon to all draft evaders. i do not agree with that point of view. i gave, in september of 1974, an opportunity for all draft eva

president nixon won the 1972

new york, nixon saw your father on tv and thought he would be president. what did you think of that exhibit? >> it is amazing. on the menu at lunch we had he here, it is an amazing library, by the way. they have that letter correspondence saying it was from the president, my wife has been talking about you nonstop, she's a political expert. if you ever decide to run, you will win. as the opening so i look forward to seeing all of the others, that is pretty amazing and goes to show another family that understood the game of politics. >> enjoy it again. donald trump junior, available from the nixon library. get your signed copies online. thank you don junior. best of luck on the trail and i'll see you back inside. >> thank you very much. ♪ >> britain's annual literary award has announced they will delay their awards ceremony by two days from november 17 to the 19th. in order not to conflict with the release of former president barack obama's memoir. it traditionally takes place in october with the date of the announcement of america's rise, the national bo

nixon for president? >> dan carter? >> no, he didn't think much of richard nixon, particularly after 1968, because in 1970, when governor wallace was running, his wife had died, of course, and albert pool who became governor then was going to run against former governor wallace. richard nixon put $400,000 in secret cash into the brewer campaign. it didn't stay a secret all that long. moreover, governor wallace always suspected richard nixon was trying to destroy him, which he was. nixon saw wallace as hit his greatest threat in 1972. he made every effort he could. certainly, governor wallace was aware of that. >> dan carter, in your book "the politics of race, " the 1972 campaign, george wallace started strong before he was shot. >> >> absolutely. he got more votes. at the end of the day he was shot, he had more votes than any other democratic candidate at the time. i don't think he would have even then gotten the nomination but it was a tremendous problem for the democratic party. >> after he was shot in