welcome to the nixon library, my name is jim, executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation and special to everyone watching on youtube this evening for the nixon foundation website for all of us watching on c-span. have a pleasure this evening buckling and introducing to eminent scholars -- eminent scholars of richard nixon. are of moderate is a member of the senior white house fellows who later served as t special assistant to counselor donald, the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on the research and writing of his memoirs during former presidents years in san clemente and rare distinction of having sat and interviewed the former president from 38 hours on tape 1983 and the materials reside at the university of georgia's archives john roy price, a scholar and educator attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of richard nixon. in 1969, working withck patrickn the urban affairs council theater working with domestic john with special assistant to the president urban affairs. he later wentrs into banking becoming head of government relati

the richard nixon foundation hosted this event. >> welcome to the nixon library. my name is jim byron. special hello to everyone watching on youtube this evening. or the nixon foundation website or all of those watching on c-span. i have the pleasure to welcome and introduce two eminent scholars, of richard nixon and the nixon era. our moderator is frank gannon. member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as assistant to donald rumz. >> well, our distinguished speaker is john roadway price. roland scholar and harvard educated attorney who co-founded -- society and migrated from rockefeller campaign to that of richard nixon. proudly joined the new nixon administration in 1969. 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 surpris

in the nixon era. her moderator this evening is frank gannon a member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counselor donald rumsfeld. he's the chief editorial assistant to former president nixon on research and writing of his memoirs during the presidency years in san clemente. and he has the distinction of having seven interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983 in those materials reside in the peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jona

. >> welcome to the nixon library, name is jim byron the executive vice president of the nixon foundation it and toer everybody watching on youtube this evening the nixon foundation website or all those watching onn c-span. i have the pleasure this evening welcoming and introducing to eminent scholars of richard nixon in an action in the nixon era in our moderator this frank gannon a member of this prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration and the latest served as special assistant to counselor, rumsfeld and he was a chief editorial of the research and the memoir's writings the former president years and sent clemente. and he is the rare distinction of having sat and interviewed the formerer president for 38 hours, on tape,e, in 1983 rightn those materials now reside at the university of georgia keep body archived in our distinguished speaker is a rhodes scholar, john roy price harvard educated attorney and cofounded the society migrant from the 1968, rockefeller campaign to that of richard nixon. he probablyd joined at the nixn administration in 1969, working for the ur

the richard nixon foundation hosted this event. >> welcome to the nixon library. my name is jim byron. i'm the executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation and a special hello to everyone watching on youtube this evening. or the nixon foundation website or all of those watching on c-span. i have the pleasure to welcome and introduce two eminent scholars of richard nixon and the nixon era. our moderator is frank gannon. member of the prestigious white house fellows in the nixon administration who later served as special assistant to counsellor donald rumsfeld. he was the chief editorial assistant to nixon on the research and writing of his memoirs during the former president's years in san clemente. and he has the rare distinction of having sat and interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983. and those materials now reside in the university of georgia's peabody archive. our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price. a rhodes scholar and harvard educated attorney who cofounded a society and migrated from the 1968 rockefeller

so, nixon. >> really interesting question. in the interest of the speed round i'm going to say mostly it's the person. but i think the policies have been underemphasized as a reason for the hatred over time. >> johnson. >> i think it's a combination of both. for example, if you look at something like the kernor commission where johnson commissions this group to look into the reasons for some of the riots that happened in american cities, you know, with the best of intentions, but ultimately ignores the findings. so it's like, the policy seems to be there, but then ultimately the personality gets in the way. >> roosevelt. >> i would say it was both. he smoked and he drank and his kids divorced their spouses, and all those things caused problems. it was also the policies. without mussolini, franco, i don't think there would have been as much fear and hatred of roosevelt. >> lincoln. >> a lot of people made fun of lincoln about chopping wood. i would say it was far more policy. the opportunity to address one of the questions abou

nixon's expansion opens an entirely new theater of horse elsewhere nixon through american support for double down on american relationships with authoritarians and places as diverse as brazil, chile, pakistan on and on one could go. for many commentators this tolerance for brutality and they turn away from democracy provides a major reason to despise nixon. jimmy carter gave a classic formulation in his famous 1977 speech at notre dame university pretty said in part for too many years we have been willing to adopt a flawed and erroneous tactics of our adversary sometimes abandoning our values for theirs. vietnam he said was the best example of the intellectual and moral poverty of u.s. poverty choices. but he blessed nixon's decision-making more generally and embrace of any dictator joined us. it kind of criticism perhaps peaked in the early 21st century with the publications the trial of henry kissinger which proposed no less than prosecution for the decision making during the nixon presidency. expressions of hostility nixon had departed from honored american traditions both in the c

nixon and nixon v.serickre. because senate select committee basically approved and, kind of, reaffirmed the prior decision from nixon v. suricka and saying that the need overroads the privilege and therefore the privilege has to yield and the documents have to be produced. but there is a second step, whichs that kind of akin to a lawn index in a foia case and excited epa v. mink case. as to a particular document that one isn't really responsive or really sensitive because its got personal information or kind of there are some other kind of extraordinary circumstance where that document should be redacted or maybe a substitute should be produced. then you can, like, make those individual you can make those individual requests. but you essentially have to provide an index where you say as documents they shouldn't be produced because they're not really responsive or there's personal information or some other, you know, kind of compelling reason why even though privilege has been overcome, we want you, court, to loo

the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda. where is she? there she is. [applause] and councilman gene hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome to jesse's wife. thank you for joining us. [applause] emma and jesse left their 4-month-old baby to be with us here tonight. we appreciate them for being with us here tonight. how many of you are members of the nixon presidential library? i want to see everyone's hands shoot up or that's pretty good. how many of you have renewed your membership since covid? that's better than i was expecting. if you are not a member i would encourage you to look at it gives you receive all kinds of special benefits including advanced ticket sales to events like this one and you can sign up at nixon foundation.org. i'd the pleasure of welcoming staff to the nixon moderator our moderator jennifer and a host of of -- on kla said i'm ready but he can hear jennifer every weekday along with her cohost from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on a.m. 870. pl

the nixon foundation. councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda there she is . and councilman jean hernandez . and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jeff p's wife. thank you for joining us. emma and jesse left their four month old baby to be with us tonight so we know it's tough on them and we're doubly appreciative to them for being here. how many of you are members eof the nixon foundation? i want to see everybody's handschewed up . that's pretty good. how many of you have renewed your membership sense covid? that's better than i was expecting. if you're nota member you will receive all kinds of special benefits . >> .. please welcome jennifer warren. [cheering and applauding] >> i think every host fox news channel has graced this page. we've had greg got felt. [cheering] 's we've had dana marino. [cheering] wen have one williams. let's hope he is not watching. [laughter] but we haven't had jesse waters. we are going to fix that tonight.o jesse joined fox news in 2002 as a production ass

to the t nixon presidential library. [applause] : : : my name is jim byron and i'm the executive vice president of the richard nixon foundations my pleasure to welcome you back. this is the nixon foundation's only second in person east room event since march of 2020. and the biggest crowd. [applause] the [applause] the biggest crowd that we have assembled since then and our first book signing in nearly 17 months. thank you to all of you for being here and being part of it. i'd like to start by recognizing a few special guest with us here today. a member of the board of directors ofxo the nixon foundation. and the grandson of president missus nixon sandy quinn a member of board of directors of the nixon foundation and former president of the nixon foundation. [applause] councilwoman beth haney of the city of yorba linda. where is she? there she is. and councilman jean hernandez. [applause] and a special welcome tonight to emma waters, jesse's wife, thank you for joining us. [applause] emma and jesse left their four -month

nixon staff and women reporters. one of tricia is gifts from a lady of the press. to be an expression of sympathy for tricia and ed's desire for anonymity. to the movement of all, tricia donned her disguise. on friday evening june 4 at washington's beautiful anderson house, mrs. william rogers, wife of the secretary of state, hosted a reception for the diplomatic corps in honor of tricia and it. dean of the diplomatic corps led the way through the receiving line. the secretary of state was unable to be there as he was attending meetings in portugal and france. tricia graciously accepted the gift from the ambassador. in his remarks to this international group of guests, the president expressed this wish for his daughter and her future husband. >> i would like to leave one thought with you on this occasion which is my wish for the bride and groom after the wedding ceremony. first, the chance to live their own lives. second, more than anything else, the chance to know the world as i've had a chance to know it. and i look forward to a time when this will truly be an op

nixon was preoccupied. his relationship with nixon was nothing like the bush-baker relationship. when it came to the middle east, nixon with his anti-semitic views regarded kissinger in his pocket and did not want him involved in the middle east. the first three years he had to maneuver around that reality. and he got control, nixon became so tied down with his watergate woes, that kissinger in effect became president of foreign policy. that is with the new york times labeled him as. he had, in effect, the powers of the presidency in his hands. because the presidency was so weakened when he would draft a letter in nixon's name, and he did it a lot, to try to move the israelis in particular, they did not take it seriously. he did it have -- he had a disadvantage in the fact that he had a weakened president. essentially ford was in ingenue. he did not know about the middle east. kissinger had all of the successes under his belt. ford was willing to defer to kissinger. he essentially remained the president for foreign policy with ford. the same thing happened. when he would draft th

is fascinating about nixon, that the most potent evaluation of of nixon was by nixon in his farewl address. on the day that he resigned in august 1974, he is up there talking and his wife is there and his daughter, two daughters and son-in-law's and everyone is in the east room in the audience and is going along in any kind of like what this is why call you here and he says, always remember others may hate you but those who hate you, don't when unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself and then think of the wisdom not just for politicians, the hating destroys you. and you look at and listen to his tapes. and if hate was a piston that drove him, and he never let go of that hate. nixon's gift to history thank you so that lesson of you know the hardest thing to do is to cricket packages, say, you know, and he was an active hater and so is there something positive there, sure, environment. what he did with china and so forth but you cannot have that added to in fact politics and culture the way did and feel good about it. >> one more question because we could do them all but then i wi

of senator jon kennedy's victory over vice president, richard nixon. that scenario was now inconceivable. now that the republican party has sunk below even the nixon level of honor and decency, and become the trump party. as long as the republican party is locked in his were trip of donald trump, it is inconceivable, but a republican vice president would participate in certifying the electoral victory of a democratic president. the house select committee investigating the attack on the capital is, added to most and vicious, attempting to prevent such an attack from happening again. but it might simply be an investigation that shows us exactly what we should expect to happen the next time a trump republican loses a presidential election. today, the house select committee investigating the january attack issued five more subpoenas to witnesses involved in planning and organizing the trump rally on january six. two prominent trump allies. they are targeted in this batch of subpoenas. they are roger stone, and alex jones. roger stone avoided serving the 40

enter presidential candidate richard nixon. he knew exactly how terrifying 1968 was to the right wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of future in america. >> fear, fear, fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. build a base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> the code word, the dog whistles, law and order. >> law and order is something that everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to their horror, he wanted to make government bigger. >> he proposed a universal health insurance program and no president left behind a more ambitious environmental legacy than richard nixon. >> nixon actually founded the environmental protection agency. >> big government was there to stay. it was disappointing for a lot of conservatives. >> and there is a president waving good-bye. >> but then the watergate scandal consumed the nixon presidency. it would be 1980 before conservatives found a new hero. ronald reagan was goldwater r

so let me conclude as follows: we are here in the nixon library, and i know that one of president nixon's favorite quotes where nixon would say in a number of speeches that you have to wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been, and that quote, by the way, governor wilson actually quoted during his eulogy for president nixon at this very library. so let me end by saying this, now as we step back 25, 30 years from the wilson administration, we now can see how splendid the day was during governor wilson's tenure. thank you. [applause] >> -- a place where everybody refers to everybody else as my friend. it can hard to form real and lasting friendships in a place like congress. that's why we have been so grateful to have pete and gayle wilson as true friends for many years now. he was already in the senate when i arrived in 1985. i liked him right away. he was a principled leader and an effective legislator across a number of subjects. but of course [inaudible] -- one step in his career as public service. he stood up for things like public safety. imagine that. so my friend, i'm

president nixon's daughter mary's on june 12, 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this >> mr. gorbachev. tear down thisll wall. foundatin and institute hosts a look back at the evolution of president reagan's "tear down this wall" speech and its importance more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address participated in the event. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >> next, we visit plimoth patuxet and plymouth, massachusetts, to explore the re-created 17th century colonial village and talk to interpreters about daily life. the you depicted is 1627, seven ye

back in 1977, president nixon who seems, victor, to have been a touchstone for much of what happened with the trump presidency during his years in office and now right after it, there are also echoes of president nixon. here we have it again. president nixon was trying to hold on to watergate tapes that he wanted to keep from the archives and he wanted to destroy those tapes. it went to the supreme court, and the supreme court said, first of all, as a threshold matter, a former president does have a right to exert executive privilege. in that case there were other concerns, the public interest in obtaining documents and tapes from the watergate scandal overrode that. and the court at that time noted that the executive privilege right actually is something to be owned by the republic, not by an individual president, whether current, past -- especially past. in that instance, the justices who sided with the -- it was the general services administration at the time that wanted the records, said, look, presidents ford and carter who came after president nixon, they weren't asserting exec

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>> this is an understanding with china and the united states, and the nixon. that china would not insist and we would not talk about it to china's negotiation. so a large of china can develop. as it has over 50 years when china has become in taiwan has become a democratic state and a large almost able to complete in the internal foreign affairs so it would be whether we can come up on both sides with a solution that gives us another long. of tranquility within which other things can change. neil: a lot of people say it's inevitable the hostile relations between our countries now that something could go wrong and we could go to work, can you fear that? >> i don't believe that it'll lead to a confrontation to military confrontation and if it does it will be extremely serious for the whole world of china and the united states with the technology that they have achieved to confront each other when they should have. i still hope for a diplomatic solution relieves outstanding problems can be found. i have the impression that the administration is given a dialogue to

then at 3:10 p.m., president nixon's daughter tricia marries on june 12, 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> and at 5:25 p.m., the hoover institution and the ronald reagan presidential foundation and stult look back at the evolution of president reagan's tear down this wall speech, it's important more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address peter robinson participated in the event. it forms the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span 2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime hat c-span.org/history. ♪ >> sunday night on queuing day, in his latest book, edward, professor of philosophy at the university of british columbia looks at the purpose of intoxication and the role that drinking has played throughout history. >> alcohol makes it harder to lie. it also makes us better at detecting lies. humans are not over focusing consciously on detecting lies. we do not do a good job of it. we relax and take in the cues that are put out. are hall -- alcohol, in the

especially with nixon and floyd tolbert was a front favorite of his. several others, harry welsh. >> i will add real quick, he kept a foul on every one of his soldiers. whenever they wrote a letter he made a photocopy, he put it in the file had cabot in his office this guy was meticulous. so he kept in touch with them very thoroughly. >> we have the major dick winters files an easy company files along with his photo album which is amazing too. you know, i have to get a little bit of credit to dick winters wife. she was a librarian. she helped keep everything so organized. we owe her as well. >> dick winters show and share any form of ptsd at that time? they didn't call it that back then it would be impossible and short yes. he did cope with ptsd. back in lancaster the end of the war. his walking down the street one day and a little kid came running up the sidewalk he ran a stick along a picket fence that in his mind that sound like machine gun. as he later wrote he dove to take cover because that staccato sound was kind of like a machine gun to him. as

nixon tried wage and price controls. the only thing that worked jacking up interest rates, that triggered recessions like it did under carter which led to reagan. the white house new narrative, all of biden's problems could be blamed on covid. when the democrats led shutdowns like in california. hillary vaughn with much more. hillary. reporter: liz, americans are being hit with high prices around the country but house republicans today say democrats are too concerned about supply chain issues with green energy in the future instead of focusing on what is impacting americans with the supply chain right now. >> instead of holding a hearing how we can fix the supply chain crisis, fix higher energy costs unprecedented inflation, we're here to talk about the clean energy supply chain this strikes me as a bit of a joke. president biden is doing everything in his power to make energy less affordable and harder to come by. reporter: president biden is trying to make green energy affordable though, dumping taxpayer dollars into g

it's from the nixon era. you're trying to figure out and navigate the contours of presidential privilege. traditionally, the justice department, since the nixon era, has taken a broad view of the sanctity of executive branch communications and has sought to protect even those against former employees, which would obviously encompass somebody like steve bannon. whether it applies here, elie is collect. but he has a defense. we'll see it play out. he's been indicted. i would imagine it would be an assertion of privilege as a bar a contempt proceeding. that will take some time to sort that out. with record to mark meadows, we can all agree, that's an easier case. mark meadows was the former president's chief of staff. it's the indication of privilege, to a former president, and the current president, that is one in the best position to decide whether to assert or waive the privilege. we have addis agreement between a former president and a current president, whether executive privilege can cover this. the congre

going on the list, we can see that nixon's average rating is 32 and 425 and others reagan 18 and bush and clinton is 17 and bush, 36, and as we took the average ranking of all of these presents, it is 19. and franklin roosevelt and the average ranking was 19 of the greatest and why is that set the result of their individual fault, ball to some extent sure, over the course, is very critical of jimmy carter and not out of any personal opposition to anything he tried to accomplish. the criticism of his understanding of executive authority and is use of the powers of leadership. carter's ranking as we saw we flipped back here, concord, 25 and 1919 and 27, 25 and 26. and we can identify those specific reasons that carter fell short of greatness that only he can be - one, denny undermined the presidency speech, and prestige is key. like how the president is viewed by people outside or rather how president is viewed by washington and trying to determine how the public views, when he will be able to successfully convince what he wants is in the people's best interest. he did things like carry

during the '73 war and how for a year from the time he got out, you had nixon cabinet members doing everything they could to keep the world stable when richard nixon was not stable. >> that's exactly what happened here. if you look at it and milley was confronted with a practical problem. they had intelligence that it the chinese thought we were going to attack them. that is the most dangerous environment internationally. soed milley talked to his counterpart in china, and we have the dialogue and quite frankly, it's clear what he's trying to do it. he's trying to tamp things down. i'm sorry to take this literally from the book, but you have to do the literal moment when milley says to general lee, if we're going to attack, i'm going to call you ahead of time. people have misconstrued that to say, oh, that means i'm going to tip you off. what it means is there will be a build up. there will be tensions and they will be talking on this top secret back channel. >> that's what he says right there on page 129. if there's some kind of kinetic action, there's going to be a build up just l

and what about with nixon? >> dick did remain very close with lots of his men, especially nixon. because he went to work for him. he maintained that contact with them. he participated in reunions. and it was because of that close relationship that all the stuff was documented and they were able to bring these guys back for the interviews and everything. so, yes, he did stay in contact, especially with nixon and floyd taubert was a favorite of his. several other, harry welsh. >> i'll just add real quick, he kept a file on every one of his soldiers whenever they wrote a letter he made a photocopy, he put it in a file folder, he had cabinets in his office. this guy was meticulous. so, yeah, he kept in touch with them very thoroughly. >> is any of that in your collection? >> yes. we have the major dick winters files and the easy company files along with his photo albums, which is amazing, too. i have to give a little bit of credit to dick winters' wife. she was a librarian and she's the one that helped keep everything so organized. so we owe her as well. >> indeed. >> did dick winter