He was the brains behind this thing. Francis and his brother had them find a council. There was a partisan staff leftover from keller who was defeated. And he understood this had to be seen as nonpartisan and really fair. Fran francis and his brother john went out and found the council for the committee in john door who was in the Justice Department working on civil rights and was a hero but no one called john door a flame thrower or a partisan figure. And they understood that this had to come from the center. It had to be bipartisan for the country to accept it. And that is why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia and other things suggested were set aside. They had as much trouble pushing aside the lefties who wanted to go into issues and the people on the far right who could find no wrong with nixon. And then you had members you really didnt know about. There was a man carl butler was one. A man from south carolina. James man. He looked like a founding father. He imputed to them
Next from the nixon president ial ivory museum pat buchanan describes when nixon rebounded for president in 1916 california governor in 1962 to win the presidency in 1968. Monday september 8 marks the 40th anniversary of president gerald fords pardon of Richard Nixon. Tonight is a great night because we have a very special treat for you. We have someone who spends a number of years at Richard Nixons side and remember that when he lost the two elections, the president in 1962, the gubernatorial or pardon me and 60 in the gubernatorial in 1962, people wrote him off. They said Richard Nixon was gone. He said this is my last press conference. Not so. At about the same time a young man left columbia university, graduated from columbia, joined the st. Louis dispatch, became an editorial writer and along the way match Richard Nixon and that began a magnificent journ journey. He began a Magic Carpet Ride from Richard Nixons defeat through years of what Richard Nixon described as voluminous ear
At about the same time, a young man last Columbia University, graduated from columbia, joined the st. Louis postdispatch, became an editorial writer and along the way she met Richard Nixon and that began a magnificent journey. It became a Magic Carpet Ride from Richard Nixons defeat through years of what Richard Nixon described as the Wilderness Years to the achievement of the highest office in the world, president of the United States. And pat buchanan was with him every step of the way and its record in this great book Just Launched last week. In fact, this is the Pacific Coast launch of it. The greatest comeback of how Richard Nixon built the new majority and the silent majority and how he won the presidency. So here is a man who spent every day within, strategizing, planning, creating and he is a firsthand eyewitness to the magnificent brilliance of the 37th president. Please file, pat buchanan. [applause] [applause] thank you very much, sandy. With that reception, and may start lo
And that began a magic carpet p ride from Richard Nixons defeat through years of what Richard Nixon described as the Wilderness Years to the achievement of the highest off office in the world, president of the United States. And pat buchanan was with him every step of the way, and its record inside this great recorded in this great book that was Just Launched last week. In fact, this is the Pacific Coast of it. The greatest comeback, of how Richard Nixon built the new majority, the silent majority and how he won the presidency. So heres a man who spent every day with him strategizing, planning, creating, and hes a firsthand eyewitness to the magnificent brilliance of the 37th president. Please welcome pat buchanan. [applause] thank you very much, sandy. With that reception, i may start looking at 2016. [laughter] [applause] you know you, i always relish coming back here. This is the second time ive spoken in the east room of the nixon library, and it is a magnificent and memorable plac
Facebook. Com booktv. I first met sally ride in 1981 when, as a correspondent for abc news, i was invited to join the team covering the thenupcoming Space Shuttle program. The first shuttle flew in april of 81. So in january of 81, i joined our group going down to the Johnson Space center in houston to start preparing the stories ahead of time. And we had a great team. Im sure you will remember many of them. The anchorman was frank reynolds, the abc anchorman who knew, who was extremely knowledgeable about space. Our space correspondent was Jules Bergman who, essentially, who had sort of half invented the field of science journalism and was brilliant at what he did. I was brought in to be what i now describe, its like in the baseball booth, i was the color guy, right . I was supposed to do the feature stories and all that. Because of a variety of incidents, i wound up anchoring and becoming the lead space reporter and anchoring almost all the shuttle liftoffs and landings for the first