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Their airborne divisions are moving towards airfields and weve got American Forces on heightened alert. I cannot have my attorney general successfully defined me whenwe got brezhnev over there watching my reaction to whats going on. We got no choice but to do it. And to this day, i think the president had no choice. [applause] i think he did the right thing. Theyre going to call me back to another committee. But thats the circumstances of this are all lost in what you see as the president just went over to just clear everybody out of thespecial Prosecutors Office when they were doing such a nice, honorable, upright job. So let me now turn you now, i think we want to get to some questions. Let me talk about what are really the achievements of Richard Nixon and again, this library really has done it magnificently. Gree ....
Go back to 1947 where he is going off to europe and he and Jackie Kennedy both supported the marshall plan, supported nato, supported containment of the soviet union. Politics, richard nixon, i think, is fair to say, in his strategies, political strategies and tactics, he was antielitist, partly populist, middle american, representing those who were unrepresented in his own way. The combination of those things were the things that gave in 1972, socially and culturally he was a traditionalist and there are idiosyncrasies. One story in my book, i did the briefing books after agnes walter when i went to work for him in 6566, nixon soon had me doing the briefing books in new york and during the campaign of 68 and during the presidency he would go to his office and i want my briefing book by such and such a date, i would go through the papers out, go through zieglers briefings, call around the major departments, pushing the secretary, ....
Go back to 1947 where he is going off to europe and he and Jackie Kennedy both supported the marshall plan, supported nato, supported containment of the soviet union. Politics, richard nixon, i think, is fair to say, in his strategies, political strategies and tactics, he was antielitist, partly populist, middle american, representing those who were unrepresented in his own way. The combination of those things were the things that gave in 1972, socially and culturally he was a traditionalist and there are idiosyncrasies. One story in my book, i did the briefing books after agnes walter when i went to work for him in 6566, nixon soon had me doing the briefing books in new york and during the campaign of 68 and during the presidency he would go to his office and i want my briefing book by such and such a date, i would go through the papers out, go through zieglers briefings, call around the major departments, pushing the secretary, ....
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. Here on through the decades we take a long view of history. Examining how events of a single day continue to impact our world for years to come, often in ways that are hard to see in the moment. Few eras have had the reach or see in the moment. Few eras have had the reach or the influence that the cold exacted. This wasnt some remote Foreign Policy relegated to sound bites on the evening news. As well see in the next hour, it was connective tissue that impacted our politics, pop culture and personalities all woven through the decades. But we begin with, the 1959 debate when politicians from the soviet union and the u. S. Went toe to toe on telelvision. The summer of that year, vice moscow as part of a cultural exchange. That trip would earn a place in history thanks to an impromptu debate with the soviet premier that would forever be known as the kitc ....
Cspan created by americas Television Cable companies and brought you as a Public Service by a public cable provider. Youre watching book tv on cspan2 and as we get closer to the election, book tv and American History tv which is on cspan three have teamed up to bring you programs about past president ial races. Beginning now with book tv its a Panel Discussion about Richard Nixon with authors evan thomas and taylor weiner. This is from this years Annapolis Book festival. Immediately following this program on book tv, touring American History tv on cspan three to watch the first ever televised d ....