For those who this evening, and those watching by livestream cspan, welcome to the distinguished lecture series. We would ask that you please silence your cell phones. A little activity there. Let me begin by first lifting up those who have been impacted in our giving and are dealing with hurricane dorian. If you are able, please consider supporting relief efforts. Clintonrd dean of the school, and on behalf of at t, the Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton School, we are glad youre here. Special thanks to catherine and compurisrue and dean for establishing this series honoring their parents. What a gift. [applause] and what a tribute to your mom and your dad. Just please know how grateful we are. I want to recognize the new class of Clinton School students. Stand up, guys. [applause] as well as our returning students, our faculty, our staff and our very talented group of alumni, right over there. [applause] also joining us, congressman french hill, university of arkansas system preside
Distinguished lecture series. We would ask that you please silence your cell phones. A little activity there. Let me begin by first lifting up those who have been impacted in our giving and are dealing with hurricane dorian. If you are able, please consider supporting relief efforts. Clintonrd dean of the school, and on behalf of at t, the Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton School, we are glad youre here. Special thanks to catherine and compurisrue and dean for establishing this series honoring their parents. What a gift. [applause] and what a tribute to your mom and your dad. Just please know how grateful we are. I want to recognize the new class of Clinton School students. Stand up, guys. [applause] as well as our returning students, our faculty, our staff and our very talented group of alumni, right over there. [applause] also joining us, congressman french hill, university of arkansas system president don, and his wife, susan. System Vice President for academic affairs, current an
Watergate hearings, the impeachment hearings and finally his departure from the white house. And thenit was too passionate a time to use the images right away for any major purpose. I had done it as a historic document primarily. And so i had to wait andwhich i did, until about three years ago, and at which time i took the negatives out of storage, where i had them, and produced about 1,000 work prints and edited them. And now, 25 years later, the book is published, and there is an exhibition at the same time at the National Museum of american history. Cspan where does this photo come from . Guest this is in the oval office. It was one of the earlier photographs that i did during his presidency. He just sat in the chair, and the only thing you could hear werewas the rustling of the pages as he turned them. I used a very quiet camera, whichwhich i like to use. Its like an m camera, which doesnt make the sound that aa largethat a single lens reflex does. I didnt want to get thrown out. I
Dannel daniel. In 2008, i want to get this right, you thought hillary would make an excellent president. As recently as 2012 you thought she would be terrific. What happened. Let me just explain to you. When i was a businessman i had a beautiful story trump a worldclass businessman all over the world, i speak well of everybody. They ask me about hillary, shes wonderful, everybody is wonderful. Including contributions. I give everybody contributions. You were full of [ bleep ] when you said that. Thats one way to look at it. Its thursday, happy thursday. May 26th. Okay, now, stop it here. With us on set veteran columnist
and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Where have you been . Paris. Thats kind of nice. Cofounder politico jim. Where have you been . Working and doing secret things. Then theres donny, we know where hes been, former advertising executive and marketing Donny Deutsch. And al hunt with us. Good to have you aboard. Obviously, a lot to get to this morning. Good news obviously
The beginning, from 2006 when the National Archives hired me to do this, i was very straightforward about what i was going to do. So there is no debate in switching. The archives came to me. But it was a very interesting conflict of different events because the head of the Nixon Foundation at that point was john taylor, rev. John taylor. And john taylor is an intellectual. He is very complicated. He is a bit torn about nixon. And he admired nixons mind. And he wanted nixons library to be credible. Now, i dont believe that every member of the Nixon Foundation shared johns intellectual goal. He really wanted the cold war historian. He knew who i was because i had worked on the project with pda. I just let the materials speak for themselves. I write books, but on different subjects. John taylor wanted me, too. He was hired by thenpresident george w. Bush. My first book is about the cuban missile crisis. Both of them wanted me. They came to me. I did not apply for the job. From the beginni