Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Next, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go in to achieving happiness. This is about an hour. Thank you, jonathan quite a lot actually. Its always great to be back at the Nixon Library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of nixons birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come offing. As many of you know, in late 1988, the phone rang. I was searching for president reagan and his administration. On the other end this president nixon asking me to come back to your belinda to oversee construction of the library for a couple years. So i was very, very pleased to do so. It was a shining jewel and anyone watching on cspan across the United States who has never been to the Nixon Library, you want to come here. Its an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also extra or a lead, the small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measure in decades that achievement, not hours of achievement, but a truly signif
The verge of energy independence, whats going to happen to saudi arabia and what sort of impact are they going to have on the rest of the arab world . Saudi arabia has made it clear that in general with the exception of syria they are against what is going on in the arab world. They dont see this as a historical transformational process. They see this as an arab inferno, a revolutionary process that is going to really ruin the arab world, etc. And they see the world, i think, in terms of two prisms, if you will; a sunnishiite prism and a status quo change prism. And these are not always, you know, converging. And so in most of the arab world, they see it in terms of status quo versus change, and they have attempted to do so, to slow down the process if not reverse it altogether through basically financial means. Theyve done so in their own country, theyve done so in the gulf, theyre doing so with egypt where basically, now, theyve poured billions with of dollars not towards necessarily