United states. in the middle east rockets flying it looks like israel may have taken out the leader of hezbollah. We ll stay on that. And donald trump is taking the stage any moment for a town hall in warren, michigan, all important michigan, focused on the economy and saving the auto industry. And i hope you re sitting down for this. Kamala harris has made a trip to the border. Yeah. Hell has frozen over. She is going to speak live later this hour. But, first, kamala s high crimes at the border. That s the focus of tonight s angle. as i said, she is hitting the border, hoping to turn the page on her reputation as an open border zel lotted. Instead, the book was opened to reveal the stomachchurning truth about the criminal element she welcomed in. And in response to a congressional request for information, ice revealed that more than 13,000 illegal aliens convicted of murder are now in the united states. Oh, and they are not in custody. More than 1800 have been accused of murder as we
So this is quite unusual for me but i did want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for this wonderful evening for me. I shall remember it always. And thanks to the young people for this great welcome. Pat nixon, the first republican first lady to address a national convention, miami, 1972. She went from a hardscrabble background to the white house. As first lady, she traveled more widely than any before her, made volunteerisms her issue, and was a chief supporter and behindthescenes political adviser to her husband, president Richard Nixon. Good evening, and welcome to cspans series first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of pat nixon, although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate. So were going to tell more about her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are our two guests to
Ago. How many others are left . Patrick im sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like Dwight Chapin and others who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. But i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before . Patrick well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech my memos on that. There is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before a great number of them and theres a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. I was so unhappy with it, and theres also the end of it, you know where you put in that quote by john osborne and it looks so he said, he saw i had seen shelly and me when first day, the Inauguration Day in 1969 looking up at the portico and then he had seen how it all end
Thee is also the end of where you put in the quote about john osborne. Day, the inauguration he was an 1969 june old liberal current margin. He said it almost breaks your heart. All of this is fresh and new. Most of the memorandum had never been published. Reallyat is about is what it was like as a young conservative in the white house trying to do battle for your belief. The transition the party was undergoing. Operated, held the whole thing together until watergate collapsed it. I said this is the time to take on the networks directly, openly, at a high level the way to do it is with a speech by the Vice President of the United States which i will write and it came back, a memo, a photograph of it is in that book, where haldeman wrote back, he has seen, go ahead. That means the president of the United States has seen your memo, go ahead and start writing that speech. I wrote it for about three or four days. I was in touch with the Vice President. I went through three drafts, which is
Pat buchanan and the knowledge of your new look acknowledges of your new book, you wrote this is surely among the last to be written by a confidant who served in the white house from its first to its final days over four decades ago. How many others are left . Im sure there are some of the young man around nickel nixon. Who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure theyre going to. I do think in terms of a written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. What you put in this book youve never talked about before . The origins of the agnew speech, my memos on that, theres a number of memos in their i got out that ive never published before and there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip i was so unhappy with it. End of itlso the where you put in that quote, he said he saw shelley and me on the first day of the Inauguration Day looking at the book looking up the portico and saw how it all ended, he said it alm