Finn, tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan, our mobile app and online at cspan. Org be sure to scan the qr code to listen to our companion podcast to learn more about the authors of the books featured. Host we are back to talk about the speaker battle. Guest thanks for having me. 202 7488000 there are nine people running. What strikes you about the list . It is large. We have never seen anything like this. Steve scalise the majority leader versus jim jordan, scullys came out on top, jordan had his three strikes to try to get the full speakership and it didnt work. Now we have nine. They will go through rounds on tuesday in which the loser in each round gets pulled but this is a large list. Are you surprised so many people want the job . Guest it is the worst job. One candidate said he didnt like emmer. Host there is a speaker candidate at 6 30. What happens in that . That is a closeddoor hearing. Guest each member will introduce themselves for two minutes and then there will be a q a sessi
Nixon had a movie on the wall that showed the campaign. He had an idea that people would write down the questions and pass them on and they would answer just the questions the staff wanted them to answer, but it looked like they only came from the audience. So these are all yours. I might put them in a certain order, but i promise not to edit them. So one of the questions that we have is would the Civil Rights Act have passed if nixon had won in 1960 and 64 . I think it probably would have, because in 1957 when the Civil Rights Act was pending on the senate floor and lbj scaled it back and compromised, dropped entirely this provision that would have allowed the attorney general being sued and compromised the jury panel, effectively all white juries in the south, nixon was close to tears. It seems so paradoxical now, but he had a good record on civil rights. In 1960 when Martin Luther king was in jail, nixon didnt do it because he thought it would look like a grandstand play and he didn