They were always very welcoming to me. And i have to tell you that publishers and authors do all kinds of sorts of things to be able to speak at this marvelous place. And it was lovely and as david said, brad and melissa had carried on the wondrous tradition that began with the energy and ingenuity. And they are keeping going and tonight is a testimony to the job that they do and the reverend that they did for books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first remember him as a child in a blackandwhite fuzzy television, seeing this odd man. He was on the ticket with general eisenhower. There was some problem of taking money from this secret funds. He was blaming his daughters dog. And i thought, isnt he interesting. Well, he never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. And if david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicled in the book, beginning when spiro agnew
And i pray that there will be nothing like it and i think we just have to be sure to hold the president accountable and then get after the congress if theyre not doing their job. Especially on one particular issue that i dont have to even mention. Because theyre so obsessed with looking for that they sometimes end up finding it. So it should balance out in the end. The constitution works and it varies, but it works. I cant think of a better system and im also very concerned with ideas for tinkering with the constitution and that is a whole other subject. And we dont want to play tough politics with the First Amendment or any of it. Hello, my name is richard. You think that theres any truth to the thought when nixon had phlebitis that he was sort of not taking his own life, but not necessarily writing to live . Know, nixon was not a quitter. And then he finished when he quit. And i am not a quitter. And he never quit. He was just down and out as a person could be when he landed in san c
Had they made a quid pro quo. And there are many investigations of it. But nobody has found anything and ford, as president had bought before the subcommittee to testify on what had happened. Gerald ford was picked, i believe, a lot of people were nominating themselves because he was safe and he was old gerald ford and he had been a critic of nixon and he was a decent guy, a decent man, a good guy from michigan and ohio, having a partiality for midwesterners. But he was no sparkling figure and i described the scene here in the white house when nixon was going to announce who is going to be his Vice President after they got rid of spiro agnew for accepting cash and the Vice President ial office from some contractors like that. So he was out. And i remember and i described the scene at as he was talking in sort of building it up and people stand up and applaud and i thought, there has to be a mistake. He must be confused and sure enough it with him. And he turned out to be just right for
Falwell has his own Segregation Academy and this is what gets him and others motivated. As the architect of the religious right has corroborated is emphatic about this point i was trying to kick these people ever since of Goldwater Campaign and i tried everything i could think of. School prayer, prayer, abortion, nothing got their attention until the school issue and that is what galvanized them into a political movement. The second part of the story , the bob dylan case with the evangelical leaders but was also savvy enough to realize he needed day different issue to have grass roots evangelicals from the religious right and in 1978 the answer finally comes to him and particularly in minnesota and iowa something remarkable happens there are three seats up for office. And the governorship rollup for grabs. And in iowa dick clark was the incumbent and going into the election no poll showed clark ahead by fewer than 10 Percentage Points during those final. But what happens in iowa and mi