Now. On these talks, senior diplomat, rick, somebody speaking on the north korean side, back channel talks they tell us continue to take place. Surprising encouraging anything we should take away from that. It is not surprising. It is encouraging. Weve had sixparty tax going on a long time. Weve been trying to talk to the North Koreans. I think the bigger diplomatic talks are with china. They hold all the keys. Were making progress although there needs to be more action. One of the problems, connell, the chinese who are supposed to implement past sanctions and new sanctions, they havent done a good job of implementing those sanctions even though they raise their hand inside of the Security Council to go along with that we need to pressure china and watch. With have the program, the psi, which is in japan, south korea and United States and others. We watch all of the ships and flights going in and out of north korea. We have stop. We have authority through the Security Council, stop, bo
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Things. When we get to the qanda part of the session. But we ask if you have a question first put it in the form of a question in the second, make your way to the microphone because we are videoing both for our own page and cspan tv is here this evening as well, and they would like to be able to hear your question. And at the end before you come up to get the book signed the stuff was appreciated. The presidency was profiled in a new book by tim weiner thats receiving a lot of attention. Hes quite familiar to many in washington and he lived and reported here for 15 years in the previous books. He got it into the newspaper business after earning a masters degree in journalism at columbia 30 sixes ago and by the early 1980s he had landed at the Philadelphia Inquirer where he worked for a decade. They were right up ready to put the budget to sponsor the Defense Research and that led to the first book. They joined the New York Times in the mid1990s covering National Security issues that he
Kippur be war that you refer to, when, indeed, after a number of snafus an emergency airlift of weapons was organized from the United States to tel aviv. The soviets are are detected by american intelligence sensors shipping Nuclear Warheads through the dardanelles into the mediterranean. The National Security council, kissinger, cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs meet. Nixon is noncampos mentis because that week had happened the saturday night massacre in which the attorney general and the assistant attorney general quit because nixon ordered them against law to fire the special prosecutor investigating watergate. So while this crisis is happening, nixons upstairs drunk in the residence, non compos mentis, and six elected officials put the United States on a Nuclear Alert one step short of imminent nuclear war. So there was some Decision Making that was just part of American Foreign policy, okay . That went contrary to his own biases against what he called the establishment. H
That foreign have positive things that Richard Nixon did was step down rather than impeachment, my question is, did Richard Nixon know ford was going to pardon him before he stepped down . The question have been broached a week before next and left office. By his new chief of staff general alexander haig. By the way its the only person ever went from kernel to fourstar general of five years without being in combat. Unless you count clinical combat. It is ambiguous. The evidence is ambiguous. President ford absolutely did it on the stack of bibles that there is any deal cut. Here was the dilemma he faced. If ford had not pardon sent there is no question that and would have been indicted for obstruction of justice among other crimes. That wouldve been a pretty ugly process is our bicentennial anniversary approach. Theres no precedent for that in american history. The criminal conviction of a former president. So, ford ford was trying to bind up the nations moon, they are Long National ni