why nixon picked moynahan. and it was complicated. the second would be what happened with this internal struggle over policy. and why would moynahan when -- he won most of the battles. but moynahan was engaging and funny and he attracted the people on the staff and all of the americans liked him and burns was blind and he pulled on his pipe. he was a brilliant man. and they were sure of his loyalty and remember that moynahan was publicly against the vietnam war and he had been a founder of the lyndon johnson were on poverty program and yet his commitment to the president was not to say anything public about any of these disputes. he said things privately to him and he said i wish i had all that money to spend for other reasons, but public the he never said anything. and so as he proved his loyalty he said loyalty is a major key component. and they became close they had a real friendship. they had a friendship that was founded in a funny way. when moynahan was picked in december before the inauguration, he start

president nixon, stephen hess. [applause] >> thank you jonathan. start by taking the cap off the bottle. jonathan dwight eisenhower used to tell his staff that he had a favorite cartoon from the old saturday evening post, had a man standing on a platform like you did, and he's saying the next speaker needs all the introduction he can get. [laughter] so i thank you for your introduction. i love that little four minute film that we just did, it was produced by george burrows at brookings, and i loved having the president play "happy birthday" to duke ellingtop. i wish george had kept in the next scene which was ellington kissing snuck son on both cheeks and nixon, of course blushing. [laughter] i do want to add something that i would not otherwise have mentioned when i took this assignment, but one of our colleagues on the white house staff died on january 3rd and his funeral was yesterday. his name was marty anderson. when you read my book you'll see he's a very prominent prayer in this -- player in this particular

i wasn't part of the nixon campaign. i had been in washington for a while working as the chief minority of the house judicial committee and i was a secretary deputy general and while at justice i had meetings with the whitehouse staff and when the assistant of the president for domestic affairs the chair was empty for a while and then the president invited me to come over and serve as whitehouse council. >> how often would you meet with the president? >> very seldom is the best description of my job. alex butterfield, who worked for the chief of staff, had a good overview of the management of the whitehouse. and he said i had two masters, i actually had three -- the chief of staff who i reported to and the assistant to the president for domestic affair never gave up the council's job and nixon turned had time him for a lot and i did the work and when the president started calling on me that was the third master >> how often did you meet with bob hope? >> regularly. he had regular meetings and was a good administrative ch

archives in the nixon library to provide the definitive a rented questions what did president nixon know and when did he know it and what will stand as the most of forte of count of one of america's worst political scandals "the nixon defense" shows how the disastrous mistakes of watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time. i have always been a fan of john dean because i remember they were always on tv and my parents let me stay home from school so from that point forward i thought he was one of the greatest guys in the world. also i will introduce eric peristein, the author of the new york times best seller, the rise of another, before the storm, barry goldwater and the unmaking of the american consensus. is essays and book reviews have been published in the new yorker the new york times, washington post, the nation the village voice among others. his latest book is the invisible bridge, the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan. in january 1973 richard nixon announced the end of the vietnam war and prepared for a triumphant second term until tele

> i met nixon in 1954-'55. the assistant pro looked at the rookie caddie and i went along 18 holes and 12 years later i'm in st. louis young editorial writer and he's coming over to speak and go to a cocktail party afterwards. i got invited to it. met him in the kitchen. i said if you're going to run in '68, i would like to get aboard early. two weeks later i was in his office in new york and i was hired december 1965 and there are only three people in the office. rose mary woods, pat buchanan and a lady named pat ryan answering the phones. patricia ryan nixon. mrs. nixon. that was his entire staff in there in new york. a couple guys traveled with us in '66. nixon went out into something like 35 states. 80 congressional districts. it was a phenomenal republican comeback. 47 house seats. and suddenly he was in the hunt again. >> so how did this happen pat? we have to put this in proper perspective. nixon lost in '60. he ran for governor in '62. howard k. smith on an abc special, good job howard k. smith. the pro

history you realize nixon didn't start the war on drugs. the warren trucks has had stricter policies domestically and abroad for most of the 20th century. he expanded it he'll march day, this open skies domestically and abroad, which is the area i was interested in. although the book will it go both areas in the united states and also around the world. nixon had a few things in mind. one there had been growing drug inside the united states. part of mr. nasty campaign was running on the mantra of law and order that he was going to restore law and order to the united states after the disorder of the 1960s. so there is that law and order seen. also, looking at drugs come as soon as this menace in connecting it antiwar opponents and that is one way to kind of discredit them. there's various reasons why he declared the war on drugs. >> resonant mexican nation governors today discuss with the president called indeed a national problem. he proposed a nationwide campaign of education reached at the community level. >> it was an unlikely setting for

we are among the only 50 or so living memories of nixon's [indiscernible] nixon was totally correct is seeing john as a threat. [laughter] he was a veteran of the korean war who became a prominent critic of the vietnam war. he went on to not only vote to impeach nixon but over the past 50 years, he has proved to be a very dangerous threat to the forces that want to destroy or undermine our democracy. so i would like to toast my fellow members of nixon's enemies, a great guardian of democracy, my great friend john conyers, who will be leading all of you in the next 50 years with the wonderful things he was able to accomplish. thank you very much john, our love to you. for all of its passion and all of it's good, thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mark. karen is going to introduce our next speaker. i just realized as he entered the room, there are three members of nixon's enemies list now in the room. karen will tell you more. >> almost on cue of nixon's enemy list entered congressman charles wrangle. -- rangell. [applause] congressman rundangel is a war herol and history making lawmake

. >> and the nixon white house wasn't happy with you. >> the nixon white house, imagined i could use this word about a president, a presidency, sneakily, prepped the guy, young guy who was a right-winger to oppose kerry, left winger, called t.v. booking. as they saw it. kerry was effecti. so was the other fellow but the white house wasn't thrilled. they thought i didn't let him -- i am just sorry nixon is not with us. let me take that back instantly. what i mean is, i'm sorry he didn't live long enough to see my dick cavett's watergate which was on pbs and you can find it online, and you must see it. dick cavett's water graduate. you can find the whole show. somebody found that i had tons of watergate stuff on my show. i had mitchell. i had g gordon liddy. and you can see him ask if i am a jew, ask somebody. and if you want to just a sample, youtube has the moment where nixon says to his lickspeetle, hr that woulderman, what can we do to screw him? have you ever seen your name mentioned by the president of the most powerful man in the country who wants to screw you? context? >> the s

to a judge saying there was perjury at this trial and he jumps into watergate with both feet forcing nixon to take action. otherwise not sure he would have taken action. he is sending the watergate people up to congress and if they don't testify they would get sentenced. he was putting a hammer on them. and those events forced nixon to deal with the situation >> who was the judge john sarica and how did he get the case? >> he was the chief judge of the united states court district of columbia. he got the case while it would normally come up in a rotation, it appears he picked this himself. he may have gotten the original break-in trial for those arrested in the rotation and then as chief judge decided to stay with the trial of that. he became as knowledgeable as any judge and he is a republican but takes on the president of the united states no question about it. he pushes the limit for a federal district judge on some of his actions. for example the 40 year sentences for a break in unless you talk to the senate is pushing the fifth amendment and someone's fifth amendment right a long way.

richard nixon went to atlanta and 125,000 people turned out. he could taste republican victory in the south. and in the end he couldn't decide whether he wanted to be henry cabell launch or strom thurmond. >> to some extent he tried to be both. he put through the first affirmative action policy of government and then he appointed tried to point segregationist to the supreme court when he became president. governor weld, let's talk about the future. what does the republican party look like to you now? how similar or different does it seem the party that you were major figure in? >> if the governor's wing gets into the ascendant as i was predicting, i may be getting old. i've got two events with governor dukakis in the last week so -- [laughter] i may be coming around to his view as you were saying, and larry was saying, about what government can do for you. michael dukakis and i were meeting with the group to support the boston harbor islands, because we think we have doubled the usable area of the city of boston. vacuum in part because of the b

history, you realize that nixon didn't start the war on drugs. the war on drugs had been in effect in the u.s. has had stricter drug policies domestically and abroad for most of the 20th century, but what nixon did is was he expanded he enlarged it, the scope and size of both domestically and abroad which is kind of the area that i was interested in the although in the book a look at both areas, what's happening in the united states and also what's happening around the globe. >> nixon had a few things in mind. one of there had been growing drug abuse inside the united states. part of his domestic campaign was running on the mantra of law and order that is good restore law and order to the united states after some of the quote-unquote disorder of the 1960s. so there's that law and order theme. also he's just been looking at drugs, sort of this menace and connecting it to the antiwar opponent, and that's one way to kind of discredit them. there's a various reasons why he declared the war on drugs. >> other than nixon at the nation's governors met i

it's like a slave plantation, basically. >> nixon is serving 15 years for third degree murder. marcus young has ten years for robbery and battery with a deadly weapon. but he's had plenty of trouble inside prison, as well. >> marcus young has approximately 25 disciplinary reports in his history. disorderly conduct. theft. disobeying orders. fighting. possession of weapons. possession of narcotics. assault or an attempted assault on inmates. lewd and lascivious exhibition, telephone violations. several spoken threats. >> nixon has also seen his share of trouble. >> i came here for a ride, the whole, it was a big ride and they emergency transfer everybody to this unit. the officers kept on just bugging us about oh, you won't do this. you won't do that. y'all scared. y'all kids. and they just always mess with us. so everybody got tired of it and we just tore up the dorm. >> in confinement, the men have little to do when they're not working on the labor squad. but young hopes his new book will open a door to his future. >> i just wanted -- one of the first books i ever read right h

but what nixon did as he expanded it. he lurched the scope and size of it both domestically and abroad which is kind of the area i was interested in. although the book i look at those areas what is happening in the united states and also around the world. nixon had a few things in mind. one there has been growing drug abuse inside the united states. part of his domestic campaign was running on the mantra of law in order that he was going to restore law and order to the united states after the quote, unquote disorder of the 1960s. so there is the law and order theme. also, just in looking at drugs sort of this man is in connecting it to sort of the antiwar opponent and one way to kind of discredit them. there's various reasons why he declared the war on drugs. >> other than nixon the nation's governors met today to discuss what the president called indeed a national problem drugs. he proposed a campaign of education waste at the community level. david shoemaker reports. >> it was an unlikely setting for a psychedelic happe

to call for nixon's resignation and yet seemed to have retained nixon's respect. that tells you something about the way people on both sides of the aisle viewed brooke who was a senator's senator. >> he was a moderate in a way you don't see in the senate anymore. he was a really moderate republican who really prided himself on being able to work across the aisle and who was not afraid of bucking the party leadership at many times. >> ifill: and he was elected in massachusetts at a time when the black population was something like 2%. does that mean he was what people later said that barack obama should have been or could have been which was the transcendent break-through candidate? >> in a way he was. he got elected in a state with hardly any black voters. he was elected by white people, essentially. >> ifill: his brand of biparentsship could it survive today? > his type of republicanism. he joined with water mondale in minnesota and offered the fair housing act. that was the last of the great civil rights bills. can you imagine that happening today? but what you

nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you are live on television and there is a camera right here there is really no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you? >> that's the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want. what you want this country to bee, what you want to do with the future. i think we're ready to move. >> if you saw it on television, clearly kennedy had won that debate. >> general men, thank you very much for permitting us to present the next president of the united states on this unique program. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you could have a huge impact. and if you couldn't, you were toast. >> i'd like you to give a real tonight welcome to senator of massachusetts, mr. john kennedy. may i ask you -- so i don't look too naive, a tough question right off the bat? >> whether i'm democrat or r

nixon's funeral. later in the day, a reporter asked george why he should honor the wife of a man with whom he had waged a sometimes bitter battle for the white house. and senator mcgovern replied: "you can't keep on campaigning forever." george was right. bob strauss and i used to do that when he was chairman of the democratic party and i was chairman of the republican party at the same time. what happened? we became lifelong friends. there is a time and place for everything, including partisan politics. it was a lesson i tried to put to use on my last day as senator on june 11, 1996. many of my good friends and campaign advisers urged me to take advantage of the occasion. with all the media attention sure to be focused on my farewell address, it seemed the perfect opportunity to contrast my agenda with that of the clinton administration. drive a wedge. score some points. others thought i could help myself by taking a few parting shots at congress as an institution. i didn't take their advice, politic

. >> here we have christmas with the nixons. >> this ornment that mrs. nixon is holding, this is referred to as the state flower balls and you can see more of them in this other picture and these were ornaments, one was made for each state. they were made by handicapped individuals and combination of felt and artificial flowers. and these ornaments were left behind, where first ladies make arrangements and take them to the presidential libraries. i had heard that these were around and i wanted to see them when i was researching my book and no one could tell me where they were, and we were working in the warehouse and there are a lot of boxes and we came across a box that was marked pat's balls. [laughter] that's the raunchy part of this segment and they were inside. they have been used by mrs. reagan and mrs. obama. they have been brought out. they have moved into the category as a national treasure because of their age and what they represent. so that's my story. , >> that is quite a story. and this is more from the nixons. >> she loved garland. >> wher

unlike lyndon johnson, unlike richard nixon reagan had no for power. he found the brooks office to be funny. i think ed meese would confirm that. he thought the trinkets of the governor were funny. he thought when i traveled with him with nixon he thought those accoutrements of power were funny. he really didn't have a driving political ambition. he was competitive and we will come to that in a minute but he wasn't ambitious. it was nancy that provided the driving ambition. one earlier report comes from reagan's son michael to an earlier conversation shouted down the hallway from their home in 1965. nancy was shouting if you don't run for governor ronnie i want a divorce. now she didn't mean that of course but the point is that is evidence that the drive came from her. fast-forward to the inauguration in 1981 johnny carson claimed the moniker nancy ted to equate nancy's ambitions with those of abe peron. exactly, i agree. without nancy ronald reagan never would have been elected to anything. she was the one with the driving ambition, not ron. another m

you managed to make an enemy of richard nixon. here's the recording how to get revenge against dick cavett. >> what the hell is cavett? >> oh, christ, he's -- god he's terrible? >> he's impossible. he loads every program automatically. there's nothing you can do about it. we've complained bitterly about the show. >> is there any way we can -- >> we've been trying to. >> did you ever sense that screwing was occurring of yourself by the president and his people. >> it's a strange feeling to have the most powerful man in the world -- i became an enemy of the nixon administration through various things, including that halderman, his -- who introduced john lennon to him verbally as a man who could sway an election. any numbers of things i crossed. but somebody asked me -- i hope you saw my watergate special on pbs. if not, would you watch it tonight? >> okay. let me ask you about the quality of your programming. when i was over on the peace corps, asking how the carson show was going people said no you everybody is watching dick cavett

[laughter] >> got any nixon stories? >> here he comes. [laughter] imagine, he can stand up there and do that. nothing on the board. >> that's all you need for nixon, isn't it? [laughter] >> this gallery is a teaching gallery, which covered to me, is one of the most exciting developments at yale in the last 25 years. the idea that all the different disciplines, as they say in academic life, all the different aspects of human life, can be taught here by professors, instructors, lecturers, in virtually any department. imagine coming here to see this work when you are studying the politics of the last 40-some years. what a different lift it would give to the experience. [laughter] >> it takes a while. [laughter] >> patrick, i get the feeling you have a good time doing that face. >> it comes back about once a year. a strange afterlife he has. good for a cartoon, even now. [laughter] [laughter] [laughter and applause] >> i didn't know he was left-handed. [laughter] did you ever meet him? >> though, i never did. that's ok. [laughter] when i did

. >> got any nixon stories? [ laughter ] >> here he comes. [ laughter ] >> imagine, he can just stand up there and do that. nothing on the board. he touches -- >> that's what you need of nixon really, isn't it? [ laughter ] >> this gallery is a teaching gallery, which, to me, is one of the most exciting developments at yale in the last 25 years or less. and the idea that all of the different disciplines, as they say in academic life, really all of the different aspects of human life, can be taught here by professors, instructors were lecturers in virtually any department. and imagine coming here to see this work when you're studying the politics of the last 40-some years, 50 years. and what a different, what a different lift it would give to the experience. >> this take as while. [ laughter ] >> patrick, i get the feeling you have a good time doing that face. >> well, it comes back about once a year. there's a strange afterlife he had. so he's good for a cartoon in a year, even now. [ laughter ] [ laughter ] [ a

nixon said now it's time for us to do something. now you read in some of these books -- again i tell you how people are writing our history -- somebody even said that rosa was chosen and had been counselled what to do. that's why she sat down. biggest lie that could be told. mary burke and joann robinson had gotten from the bus company a seating arrangement. rosa was the first two seats, the long seat across the back, and the first two rows from the back forward. rosa was seated in one of those seats when the bus driver asked her to get up and give her seat to a white man. she refused because she was seated where the bus company had said blacks were legally supposed to sit. so when you read that rosa was chosen to sit there to get a case, that's not true. i was in montgomery. i answered the phone when e.d. nixon called and said ralph, we've got to do something. rosa has been arrested. because my husband was a leader in montgomery as a student head of the student body at alabama state and an activist in the community as a pastor. pas

especially considering the popularity of nixon nixon's boss eisenhower. my only point of going back in history and mentioning these examples is that they upset the consensus which at the time ruled out the guy who eventually won out even winning out, in a crowd despite a crowd, over that crowd. so i say for republicans or democrats bring them along. all along. may the best man or woman win. but don't let experts died that. decide that. if i've learned anything about politicos that dismiss crowded fields they fail to see the folks that rise from those crowded fields. maybe they're distracted. because they never saw lincoln coming or ronald reagan coming or dare i say bill clinton coming. all rose from supposed political dwarfs who supposedly didn't have a chance in hell until they did. because that's the thing about crowds, they have a way of whittling down. but no damage was done before they did. d.c. watcher kevin says competition ultimately does foster better candidates. i guess the question, kevin is that this notion that it's always suicidal when ther

richard nixon. >> while the watergate stain scandal remains on the white house, they debate richard nixon's positive legacy. pat buchanan and douglas brinkley brinkley join us. if pat buchanan had his way, you never would have been able to write that book because he said

to the first world war and the chamber and telegrams and then of course we have jake or hoover and nixon. if the government has the capacity to read our mail and e-mail and listen to our phone calls, the temptation to abuse that capacity is great and again if we were all angels about public officials but james matheson said if men were angels we wouldn't need government. it's because they are not angels but we have to have safeguards in place. >> host: he's a johns hopkins political science professor and we've been talking about the most recent. he's written about 20 of the worth of war. you are watching the tv on c-span2. >>> january 24 is being called national reading day by a group. jen martinez with riverhead books. what is national readathon? >> guest: it is coming up january 24 where all across america we are inviting readers to commit to spend the afternoon reading any book they like and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues participating across the country that include libraries and bookstores and schools. >> host: and why are you promoting this? >> guest: it is a wo

nixon. >> what do i think of him? i think he was a thief. i think he was a man who used facts for only one purpose, and that was to maintain power in his hands, and with a cabinet that was the beginning of the end of a certain kind of democracy. >> there's a picture called the kennedy legacy and it's kennedy's -- john f. kennedy's hair on a balloon. >> well, at that point, there were things that i didn't think -- kennedy has passed in and out of good deeds, good intentions. there's certainly an -- they're certainly an attractive group, and i say group because it was more than just one kennedy. there was a kind of -- look how wonderfully ted kennedy turned out to be. in my heavy-loaded biased days i would have just written him off and said fascist, some stupid thing like that. >> there are several drawings of henry kissinger. i understand one of them was rejected by a publisher? >> no. by all other than one publication. that is, the nation. in fact, the nation was known as -- among cartoonists that if you really had to try something or you wa

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nixon got the nomination and the presidency. >> yeah, it made nixon look like a wimp. [ laughter ] >> this is an attack ad that romney had ready for the 2008 campaign, the first run, linked to buzzfeed. posted today, was aimed squarely at his former opponent, huckabee. it just happened to leak today, showing that romney does have bullets in his gun. here it goes. >> i'm mitt romney and i approved this message. this is my daughter. she was pregnant with her first child. she was murdered by a serial rapist, released early from prison in arkansas. it was mike huckabee's intent that wayne demond be released. it's a pattern of bad judgment, very bad judgment. i don't know how you could trust that person with the highest power in our country. >> i think this was lee atworld that said i was -- isn't this showing, at least by the mental memory of this terrible ad, was this a signal from the romney people look out, i'm coming and shooting, i'm going to kill huckabee in his bed and will get rid of -- this is a tough ad. >> it's a really tough ad. i think it's very possible that could be a messa

ford succeeded richard nixon. and he had done, you know great damage to the presidency and so forth by the watergate. and how he handled watergate. and i think this made all the people in the ford administration determined to go in a completely different direction. plus the fact that i came out of the press. and i knew that there was always a suspicion that the, you know that the press was, i mean the press secretary was not being completely honest with us. and so forth. and just to tell you, and i'm not making this up. just to show you how i was determined to be completely different than the nixon white house, nixon's press secretary was named ron ziegler. and one of the things i said when i was first appointed ford's press secretary was i'm a ron, but not a ziegler. but no, seriously, you know given the fact that ford had succeeded nixon and what how the nixon administration ended, you know, and the fact that i came out of the press and the fact that ford you know, in his whole political career had built a reput

folks and i mean it as a compliment but i think last night president barack obama found his richard nixon. he was a realist and put a lot of things on the table. the possible strategic link with iran and moving with cuba and engaged with the allies with isis but not so overdeployed we take us down into another ground war like nixon getting out of vietnam, the president ending combat in iraq and afghanistan. and those criticizing him are sometimes thinking that being enmeshed in the ground and american power trapped and impotent is more leverage to the world and showing you can still shape the international system in positive ways so i was very impressed with the president last night and i think his critics are wrong. >> i want to stay with you for a moment, steve, because i had my list with the domestic policy pieces about the three things not mentioned last night and that myself and others weren't mentioned. nigeria with boko haram and al qaeda was not mentioned specifically. but staying with the issue of palestinians for a moment what do you make of the prime minister netanyahu comes to

but mitt romney followed the nixon formula which is after he lost in '60, nixon campaigned in 64:00 and '66 across the country. romney after 2012 became the national republican surrogate everywhere, went everywhere and was welcome everywhere, as long as he was contrasted to barack obama, and barack obama was at the lowsest point of his presidency, maybe buyers remorse on the part of some voters. i think david is right there's more options now. we're not talking about herman cain and donald trump, but we have a field with no dominant figures in it and you're in a competition. jeb bush accelerated this system. you have competition force fundraisers, for talent who work in the campaign and to inspire and engage voters, i mean whoever can do that that's the competition. >> also, first of all, people are sick of the status quo so they want change and freshness, but the mood toward all the other candidates now, they're sort of intrigued by marco rubio or ted cruz or chris christie they're interesting figures and you want to see how it will play out. mark and i greed the john kasich jug gn

that so long as you depend on psittacine bill payers that is up with the casualties so with richard nixon we created the all volunteer army with the purpose to create a military force to be used without citizens get team in though way. -- getting in the play. so the armies of the the east were professional soldiers coming very heavily from the south or southwest from military families. there was not much domestic conflict but no one was up in arms about it. but it is a professional army not drawn from the chatter but it

the it is, by the way, dick nixon's birth the day former president richard nixon's birthday. 102. >> he would have been 102. >> hi, everybody. >> hi. >> i'm or that i before just now i didn't know the word flakeage but i could have have put flakeage here with buddy. you don't see too much of him. again, you cannot let down your guard because there is so much world out there. it is better then yesterday but still really coal. we will give you 25 out of ten. snow should not last too much longer, it is a smattering of snow as we have been saying all morning. coming through the area. every now and then you'll see snow where there is an area of whiter white then what we have seen coming through on ultimate doppler. so up in the mountains maybe less than an inch. we don't have a winter weather advisory like we did on tuesday, that is how quickly it is coming through but as we say just enough to perhaps make a little bit of the mess. so we have flake age in the philadelphia area. we have some in north wilmington around the southeastern portion of the chester county around middletown delawar

you tell your good friend nixon there's nothing more important than a taping system. [laughter] and there by he contributes to the downfall of his good friend richard nixon. >> that lapse in historical judgment notwithstanding president johnson was telling bill moyers that just the change you talked about was coming. but doris you've written about how he said he felt he had to get civil rights to establish his credibility so he could then do the things of the great society that were so important to him to push the freedom envelope further to push opportunity even further. i wonder joe if you could talk a little bit about did dr. king give him credit for that and you too, mr. ambassador for doing that? they were obviously on the same page, they were divided later by vietnam and hoover but did dr. king give him credit? >> i think andy can answer that better than i can. i don't think he was -- relevant is the wrong word, but he certainly wasn't involved when you look at everything from head start to the secretary of education higher education the food stamp program medic

so nixon had a dilemma but came up with a solution. henry kissinger, who i actually think has a great book out the world order and he also just came out and said, we are on the verge of a new cold cold war. what did they do? they needed to secure the demand for the u.s. dollar and also secure the supply of oil to the united states. so nixon sent kissinger to saudi arabia and kissinger set up what would eventually be known as the u.s. petro dollar. what did they do here? well if saudi arabia would trade oil only in u.s. dollars and u.s. debt securities, the u.s. government in return would promise military support to keep the existing house of saud the saudi family in power, and the house of saud accepted. then kuwait agreed and eventually the other members of opec followed suit. so u.s. and staudt diarabia and other members of opec had a very strong relationship, and by 1992 because they were pumping oil into the international markets, the russians who went from 10.6 million barrels oil a day, down to 4.5 million-barrels of oil a day an

vital records have been obtained of the nixon kissinger overthrow of the chilean government in 1973 and, and his book was entitled "a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability." they read like an outline of a novel. he has obtained documents after the u. s. attempt to overthrow the cuban government. in 1998 he wrote a book that was a page turner for researchers entitled the bay of pigs declassified. the secret report of the invasion of cuba. here is the sequel, brought soon to television soon. >> i hope. though it took years, he has extracted four of the five volumes of the most important cuban history, politics, strategy, that led to the disaster that was the day of figs. this history was written by a cia historian who has had access to many but nowhere near all of the documents generated by key components and the groups government that they works worth. these volumes confirm the most important decisions about the development to oust fidel castro, some of the most important word made by a small group of officers within the cia working from angleton shop, from the navy and els

. >> nixon. >> not carter. i don't know. >> it's carter. >> i think it was a serious mistake. >> they said his name weird. jimmy carter. >> mr. cotter. >> are you a carter family. >> what are you looking at popeye. >> who is that? jfk. >> jfk. >> what does that stand for? >> idiot. >> who is that? >> hoover? >> dwight eisenhower. >> who are you? one of the mental patients. >> fdr. do you know what that stands for? >> franklin roosevelt. >> i honestly didn't know that. >> what is he known for. >> stlntisn't there a famous building named after him. >> if she were a president she were be babeaham lincoln. >> who is that >> taft p.m. >> taft. >> they door roast. >> strange certificate wise. >> who is that >> bush sr. >> this is ronald reagan. he was wonderful. yes. >> what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear ronald reagan? >> wasn't he an actor. designee cared about this country. >> what's his most famous line >> the broccoli. no that's george bush. >> i do not like broccoli. >> nixon. >> is she