with friends or countries you don t necessarily before. i think benghazi is a moment that will be associated with the secretary. i think some questions remain unanswered england questions the cia and the pentagon and white house and the political debate house to some extent blurred the picture a little bit. i think that in the big picture with information that we have now i don t think it changes her legacy that much better will be used against her if she decides to run for president and she reenters the political light that jury briefly the big picture is that these things, these tragedies unfortunately happened when you re doing diplomacy in these places or a journalist in these places. america lost one of its great embassadors but under president ronald reagan s watch it is the first thing people associate with the name. she was free elective accept of course for the relatives of those who died in beirut to it s hard to say how it will affect her legacy that it continues t
eisenhower did send money over there. he sends him arms and he probably helped prop up the regime. but whether he would ve gone much further i don t know. i can t imagine. i can t imagine 550,000 american soldiers fighting a war under anyone. at that point, yes. 1961 would have played out quite differently had richard nixon been the president. fortunately we have the history that we have. do you think the kennedy assassination come and major turning point for richard nixon? i do. i think the kennedy assassination was the worst thing that ever happened to richard nixon. he had a really traumatic loss in 1960. nixon had long detailed memo setting forth the pros and cons, the call and really won the argument. you can see the temptation, okay, rockefeller as governor of the biggest state. rockefeller was his chief rival. he lost a big way. but in many ways people say it wasn t that big of a deal for him. he didn t really care. he didn t wan