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
Well, i was sort of in the middle of that one. Because john chafee, i never had a more valued friend in my life. He was an 18yearold marine grunt. He was sent off to school and was the platoon leader at okinawa. And then he stayed in the reserves like i did and we all got called up again for another conflict, korea. He was a wonderful man. But ive got to be really careful here. He had a little bit of a liberal streak in him. Mel laird had a little bit of a liberal streak in him, that wisconsin water, you know. It produces we call that beer. And string cheese and so forth. And i was very strongly and i was three months away from taking over from chafee. We take the plane back to the center of france. We get on that plane and fly back. All the way over were writing a memo to the president of what happened at the meeting, beginning to type up the transcripts of the meeting. We get back to washington, at which point it was about 6 00 am paris time but midnight washington time. We go to sle
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
Reported that President Trump had disclosed highly classified intelligence information to russian envoys during a white house meeting last week. Then on tuesday came the explosive news that President Trump had urged the fbi director james comey to end the federal investigation of Michael Flynn before he fired comey last week. On wednesday the Justice Department names former fbi director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the probe into russian meddling into the 2016 president ial race. Joining me now with analysis are uc berkeley political professor steven fish, and cory shocky joining us from Stamford University campus. He left today for his foreign trip for nine days. He recently wrote an article entitled the bombshell of Donald Trumps liabilities. Can you explain that . Yeah, i think the domestic turmoil of how the president is choosing to do his job creates three kinds of problems for him internationally. The first is the allies are nervous. They dont know what to expect. Th
Reported that President Trump had disclosed highly classified intelligence information to russian envoys during a white house meeting last week. Then on tuesday came the explosive news that President Trump had urged the fbi director james comey to end the federal investigation of Michael Flynn before he fired comey last week. On wednesday the Justice Department names former fbi director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the probe into russian meddling into the 2016 president ial race. Joining me now with analysis are uc berkeley political professor steven fish, and cory shocky joining us from Stamford University campus. He left today for his foreign trip for nine days. He recently wrote an article entitled the bombshell of Donald Trumps liabilities. Can you explain that . Yeah, i think the domestic turmoil of how the president is choosing to do his job creates three kinds of problems for him internationally. The first is the allies are nervous. They dont know what to expect. Th