this will give you an idea of the knicks that can moynahan interplay between these two minds because they were intellectuals working on that policy. >> area much. very much. >> daniel patrick moynihan is a president of urban affairs speaking at a rally appropriately scheduled on halloween night. predicting the end of the world. >> good morning mr. president. >> where are you? >> i'm in a dark writing a speech but i'm going to give the russians a little. >> have you got a minute or is it a bad time? its brief so you can listen in and his ear retention time that long? >> can i just say to you that "the new yorker" is running three long sections and i think you'll be pleased. they found that what you had done and they couldn't believe it. the other thing is this pakistan thing i'm thinking of it in terms of the pakistanis and i need your help and advice in if i could trouble you. >> it may be too late. what you come down in a month. >> in december may be? >> december is a good time. if you have thoughts, november that maybe better. also we have to get henry into this. we put in 250 mill

leave the floor to his royal highness the prince of wales after him, i will give the floor to brian moynahan. >> i am most grateful to you for inviting me to address this immensely important meeting. i know you have many pressing issues of the day, but none is more present than the future health of our planet and of the people who inhabit it. the planet health today will dictate the economic prosperity of generations to come. hence, overwhelming responsibility to generations yet unborn. after nearly 50 years of trying to raise awareness of the growing climate and environmental crisis, i am sensing a change in attitude and the buildup of positive momentum. as you know, listening is often more important than speaking. i have listened closely to leaders of many countries, particularly commonwealth nations whose communities are some of the most climate vulnerable on this earth. it is also impossible not to hear the despairing voices of younger people who see you gentlemen as the stewards of the planet, holding the viability of their future in your hands. i have listened to those leaders of the p

up as nixon's domestic policy so there's a short line in which william introduces the then democrat moynahan and we butted up a very short excerpt on the phone conversation, this would give you an idea of the nixon moynahan dynamic, the relationship and interplay between these two minds because they were intellectuals working on that. >> 's assistant to the president and the last time he was at a rally very appropriately scheduled on halloween night. [laughter] was predicting the end of nixon the following week. >> good morning mr. president. >> where are your products. >> i am going to give today and give them a little help. >> all right. i am delivering tonight at 7:30 p.m. right in the middle of it but it's brief. is your retention time that long? >> i never -- >> don't admit it. >> i just tell you the new yorker is running three long asections, i think you will be pleased, astounded as they found out what you've done couldn't believe. the other thing is i'm thinking about in terms of pakistanis, i need your help and advice if i could trouble you after you come back from china and things

working with daniel patrick moynahan and later working with domestic adviser john earlson as special assistant to the president for urban affairs. john later went into banking, ultimately becoming head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of pittsburgh. john has joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and son phil. welcome both of you. john's new book, the last liberal republican and insiders perspective on nixon's surprising social policy revealed influence of those including moynahan and earlman across the broader administration priorities and how these men who surrounded the president and indeed the president himself impacted american social policy for decades, much of which we're only realizing now. often richard nixon surprised democrats and shocked republicans with the extent of his pragmatism. he proposed a guaranteed family income and almost achieved a national health insurance program, if you can believe it as a republican. i'll save the best of the conversation for these two gentlemen. please join me in w

. >> the man that was my best friend, pat moynahan secrets our government property and governments become acquisitive about the property and secrets and secrets make us necessarily or unnecessarily ignorant. this had to do with grand jury testimony from 60 or 70 years ago. what is the point of keeping this secret? >> you ended it with saying what is a case that should be but isn't part of the memory too cold to learnrn more about so it seems we should not shy away from this. do you think that conservatives in particular should take an interest in this complex history rather than fighting about the rt because it seems this well formulated argument that tells us why we do need to know rather than fighting about what other people present. >> conservatives should pay attention to the lynchings and other matters because it gives conservatives to make the case ofo this astonishing progress. it sets the course of the country and hasn't really gotten all that better and the illusion is a sign of systemic racism and all that stuff to which i think go to a football game and the head referee is an a

my friend moynahan who once rather rudely said he wrote more books in the senate for most of his colleagues read proved to be so. pat was writing and producing serious books but the trick of life in washington really everywhere butgo particularly is to keep your intellectual capital restocked. >> since this is booktv what books have impacted you the most? >> oh gosh. >> there are probably some that pop up in recent memory. >> i just read about john c. calhoun a very bright man. a very bad man. he was this anyway minded tanker for a terrible cause of white supremacy. >> speaking ofca bad causes this column that you wrote in 2018 about the holocaust museum here in washington another place we can go to learn and it's hard to go there and learn about it obviously. the column is called into eternity and you tell the story. >> you'll have to refresh me. >> i can'tut read from it becaue i will probably try because it's about a woman who's taken to the camps. >> the holocaust museum she was in to it by someone who discovered it far away. there were photographs about a woman who -- was sent to a dea

lamb your great producer, discussed the strategic solution which is the late great senator patrick moynahan on a bipartisan basis created economic empowerment zones in the innercity to build shopping malls, build shopping centers have full-service post office, police substations to create jobs not just for retail but to lead into management. and ultimately you have an economic requiem and renaissance in the innercities that checks crime, gates crime, and creates opportunity. and great spending like the late jack putterman did. on 609 one of the most profitable stores in america. and doj and s.e.c. were asleep at the switch which vulture companies came in and bankrupted and in my professional view stole the money so we need good old government oversight. and we need the economic empowerment zones. that can mitigate and ultimately checkmate crime. but the reports of crime are concerning to people who will and can invest with unions, the teamsters, bakers, et cetera, especially in those cities where they're low in selling anything except food. >> i appreciate the shoutout to jack kemp, once my