Good afternoon. Welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial library. I am jonathan movroydis. Before we introduce our special guest today i just want to announce a few upcoming events. On september 7 we are going to have a cold war historian and member of the National Security council the Kennedy Johnson nixon and reagan and kramer and is going talk about inside the cold war from marx to reagan the roots history strategy and documents of the cold war. It should be a really interesting historical discussion. On that similar note on october 23 we are going to have historian nick looked her to talk about his book nixon and europe, reshaping the postwar atlantic world. On september 11 we are going to have at 11 00 a. M. Our annual 9 11 commemoration. Please look on our web site for that at nixon foundation. Org in november 7 we will have the daughters of president george w. Bush and first lady laura bush. Jenna bush hager and Barbara Pearce bush are going to talk about stories from our wild
you? how important is religious liberty? here s the number to call you can email in your comments to journal@c-span.org. here s the survey i mentioned a moment ago from the public religion research institute. most, that s 56% of americans, do not believe religious liberty is threatened in america today but four in 10 do believe religious liberty is under threat and it breaks it down into which groups find it more perilous and which are less worried. majorities of tea party americans, republicans and seniors believe religious being threatened. white evangelical protestants do believe that religious freedom is being affected today. majorities of catholics and the unaffiliated do not believe religious liberty is threatened. among those who have concerns about religious liberty, there are breakdowns about what they perceive as a threat. 23%, when asked about how religious liberty is threatened, said, religion from the public square is of concern. 19% said hostility towards ch