Very tender and moving from the early years. Both of them started drinking too much. They really stop talking to each other and a guy named frank gannon who wrote nixons memoirs and was around then set it down or they would not talk about the main thing. They would talk about anything but the main thing but at night they would pass a note to each other and leave notes like that of tolstoy. Always avoiding the main topic to try to be polite with each other as their world collapsed. When nixon decided to resign he didnt tell pat. He told rosemary woods the secretary to tell pat. Thats how distant he was at the end and of course he got the famous getting on his knees with kissinger and asking kissinger to pray with him on the last night. Thats a true story. Kissinger came back to his office. He was still kind of undone by this and started telling about this on the phone ring and it was Richard Nixon on the phone asking kissinger not to tell anybody because he was so embarrassed. Kissinger
Allen, a author of our declarations reading of declaration of independence and defense of equality. Joseph ellis, revolutionary summer, appeared in chicago to talk about their books. This is about 40 minutes. Hi, good afternoon. Im jane dailey, i teach American History at university of chicago. Dont want to take up too much time introducing our panelists because each of them is so accomplished because it would take most of our time to speak about all the things they have done. I will say, professor danielle allen, member of institute of advancedll study at princeton. Formerly at the faculty of university of chicago and we miss her very much. Political theyre orist, who written broadly on questions of justice and democracy and equality. The book were discussing today is, in defense of equality. There it is, sorry. Our declaration. Reading of declaration of independence in defense of equality. That will be published at end of this month by norton. We also have with us, Professor Joseph e
I for a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera, the 1st football will come to be held in the middle east is just hours away. More than a 1000000 fans are expected cheer on that teams and cats all over the next 4 weeks. The 1st game on sundays between the hosts and ecuador, brazils National Team of touchdown in cat, are there the last god to arrive, brazil of one, the most will cup titles thats 5 and hoping for 6, the name on his teammates take the field. Their 1st match on thursday against serbia defending champions, france of suffered a set back on the eve of the tournament star strike a carrion bens emma has been ruled out of playing in any of the upcoming matches. After sustaining an injury during training, france opened their campaign against australia on tuesday. After long delay leaders at the cop 27. 00 climates summit have reached a deal to help vulnerable countries, they bank a fund that would require wealthy nations to compensate poor owens for the loss damage caused
Hello again. The headlines on al jazeera, fearful chief, johnny infants, he knows accusing western critics of hypocrisy. When it comes to cut our, with kick off for the 2020 to football world cup just one day away. In cantino defended the treatment of migrant workers, saying europe should not be giving what he called moral lessons. Who is actually carrying about the workers who he for the us football thus the woodcock does and to be fed to him, cut out at us as well, or is he soon like has visited ukraine for the 1st time since becoming britains prime minister. He told the ukrainian president , the u. K. Will supply weapons on technology to counter iranian, made drones operated by russian forces. We will continue supporting your fight to get grain out of ukraine. And it, it is a testament to use. A lot of that you have kids so deeply about how this conflict affects the rest of the world. We are also working to mobilize private finance to help you rebuild your country. And i look forwar
Has been involved in matters that are very difficult to prosecute. He noted the mr. Smith some experience dealing with war crimes. In kosovo. And so this is a situation where the Justice Department is trying to make certain that this work is completed. But that there is not any way of accusing the department of trying to tilt the scales for or against donald trump, or is working at the specific behest of joe biden. This is a matter of trying to remove at perceived conflict of interest, a rosalind what have for Donald Trumps representatives being saying about all of this. They have not said anything. It was, are widely reported before his declaration on tuesday that the former president believed that by saying he was going to run for reelection, that the Justice Department wouldnt be able to continue its investigations. But as we heard the attorney general just say, there are 3 different matters to directly involving the former president and those investigations will continue rosalyn jo