Paris peace accords and the president s historic visit to china. This is just under two hours. Good morning. Im here to welcome you on behalf of the Richard Nixon foundation which cosponsors these legacy forums with the national archives. Its a wonderful partnership. David is responsible for 12 billion documents, some of which is placed at the library, which is his facility. And we, in turn, have the people who created those documents. If youre old enough to remember warren beaty and the movie shampoo, weve got the heads and he has the shampoo. Since my experience on nixons staff was on the domestic side we tend to favor topics that i knew. That didnt include Foreign Affairs but weve stumbled on to a brilliant and helpful counterpart of me that is my pleasure to introduce. Thats kt mcfarland. You know kt as fox news analyst. Everybody has to start somewhere and kathy troyas started as a clerk typist on the graveyard shift of National Security council when she was a sophomore at the Geo
Working on this war without trying to negotiate an end. I had come back from paris, we were trying to do the exact thing. But you couldnt mention it. Couldnt mention it. Whose decision was it to make these talks secret . So was it so you could advance more who had the courage to do it. We felt you cannot make progress, propaganda, with the whole world watching. Youve got to do it secretly. I think the North Vietnamese werent that interested in negotiations, except as a tactic to wear us out or to see whether we could make the kind of deal they could live with. They didnt want to accused by the vietcong and others of being overly soft. What do you think, joe . I think here winston and i may differ slightly. I think its important to have secret negotiations. They accompany almost any negotiation about a serious issue. But i think henry had a somewhat expansive view of that, which is keeping it secret. Thats a different issue. I meant the public. I understand. My point is, for him secret
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Presidency, former National Security council and state Department Officials from the Nixon Administration discussed the president s efforts to stabilize relations with china. Henry kissingers 1971 secret trip to china and Richard Nixons official trip a year later. National archives and the Richard Nixon Foundation Hosted this event. Good morning. I am the archivist of the United States. It is a pleasure to welcome you here today. A special welcome to our cspan audience joining us from around the country and around the world. Today, we have the latest in an ongoing series of nixon legacy forums. When asked about his Library President and saenz said i have insisted that the Nixon Library and birthplace be not a monument to the career of one man but a place where visitors and scholars will be able to recall the events of the time i served as president and to measure in way the policies my administration pursued. I hope the library and birthplace will be different, a vital place of discove
And who would contribute. And i hope that it get around that sometime. It is not ok. And finally to i took, what to call it . The blue van. To the airport from the community. And ive mentioned this. Just a conversation. And i kept asking, we are from kenya. You can see the level of education. And asking, what is your background . Engineering. How far did you go . Phd. [laughter] and he is driving the shuttle. Anyway, i leave it there. Lets thank our analyst for an illuminating discussion. Thank you. And it will all of you be available for questions during lunch perhaps . Great. Lunch is served in the other room. You can bring your lunch in here and have something to eat. A huge issue related to immigration is labor. Our panel this afternoon will deal with immigration and we had discussion and we will have panels. We see you for that. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Up next, a discussion with form