lott. over the next few months, all we will be hearing a lot of positive statistics from the president about he is turning the economy around, and he deserves a second term on the basis of progress toward reducing unemployment and making all kinds of the economic situation better. moving us away from the great recession. the book we are discussing today, however, paints a different picture of the resident economic policies. it sums up well by the books title. debacle. their presale on jobs and the extent of regulation and deficit spending, perpetuated by this administration, will be very different from what i think you will be hearing on the campaign trail from the incumbent president. to get it off, we will have grover norquist start with this talk about what they were trying to do when they wrote this book. and also their vision for the economy under obama. the book has three parts. the first, people are more familiar with. the failure of fannie mae and freddie mac s.
success is promoting women in the federal government. the administration is led by the staff assistant to president nixon who was hired in many 971 to end list female candidates to fill high-level positions. this is about an hour and a half. [applause] good evening. i m the archivist of the united states, and it s a pleasure to welcome you this evening, and a special welcome to our c-span viewers. tonight we have a distinguished panel. i will take a little-discussed topic, the role of women in the administration of president richard m. nixon. our panelists will discuss how the tenure of the nixon-appointed women shaped opportunities for later generations of women as presidential assistants and advisers and heads of agencies and departments. i want to extend our thanks to barbara franklin and the richard nixon foundation. ron walker, who is chairman of the foundation, is with us tonight. where are you, ron? was with us tonight. [laughter] a special thanks to him for, um, mak
black bag jobs, all in an effort to weaken and discredit the anti-war movement first and then later president nixon s own quote, unquote, enemies. this body of literature has been largely shaped by historian and washington one-time washington insider arthur schlessinger s book the imperial presidency published in 1973. shaf lessen injury made the case that since world war ii, the executive branch had amassed unprecedented and unchecked powers in order to manage the nation s security. though its publication predated the revelations that would come out during the senate watergate investigation, his workplaced the nixon administration s use of state power within the longer history of the growth of the na state. later historian theo harris work spying on americans, political surveil frens hoover to the houston plan published in 1978 which was a work based in large part on theo harris work as a consultant to the church senate investigation into intelligence abuses reinforc
number of like henry porter, write each one like a chapter out after book so we could have an intant book. television probably came mainly from roger hails. we talk about photo opportunities in terms of reagan. who was thinking about photo opportunities in china? i don t think anybody we didn t have enough advancement to really think about what would happen over there. just figured two happen. normally you have an advance man that can tell you about different things. there weren t that many. i went there about three month later when we had a cease-fire and the president saent kissingr and myself to hanoi to negotiate with the north vietnamese as to what our relationship after the cease-fire. that s how i got to know cho lei. henry was just like an aide on it. but it was interesting because it was a time when jane fonda promoted the idea that there had been a christmas bombing. we d wiped out hanoi. i had a chance to get their car, their driver and see most of that city.
bloody saturday. saturday night massacre? yeah. i was in maybe at that time i was working for metro media and i got a call. you won t believe what just happened but you better know. because they just went on thinking they could get away with it all. had he just admitted wrong and got rid of a couple people early, it probably never would have happened. is there help me understand this. this is man who didn t think he would get a fair shake from the washington press. yes. so he should have been on his guard, and yet he thought he would get away with it. why? nobody else had been caught up in that kind of thing. but you ve been around you ve been around for a while. you ve been through all those campaigns. was it the same kind of stuff as what johnson and kennedy had been doing? well, thewhat they were doin probably was worse. johnson s people were stealing money. and you heard a lot of questions about his broadcast license. other things like that. this is an e