Jeff spent 13 years at the washington post. Im not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a Senior Editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. Besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. So this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. He brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage . Because as to be focus of this because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesnt know each other. One was American Hero of sort we dont have anymore. Fivestar generals, no more fivestar generals. The man credited to leading allies to victory in e
Statewide numbers add up. If youre philly and your vote this is like some guy living in the suburbs where the vote is more important. You live in a big city never lived in a state that really was a close call. I guess the saying about florida . Only three kind of people down here, those who vote, those who count and those who cant count. Stupid joke. [laughter] always had a different number. Always say, this thing called im sorry. Gore. Hi, chris. Quick question, i guess, the last one. Im a big fan of worldwide government, and what . Worldwide government. Federal recallism. Just a different government in Different Countries around the world, whether it be in israel, china, different places, watching their government work. I always think of that my career, ending gold to travel around the worldful see how democracy is doing in different cubs. The thing that confuses me about america is the twoparty system. Do you think well get to the place without a twoparty system . It will be like in
House in damascus. They have been chanting, with our soul and blood, we will defend you, assad. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] lex a discussion about defense spending in us national security. At 9 30 a. M. One c span2. Cspan is thorough. Almost every program is available on cspan. It will be about coverage and debate on the floor. She watches cspan on comcast. 1979, rockeded abouin to you at the Public Service by your television provider. This week on q a, author and historian Timothy Naftali discusses the oral history he conducted as the director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum from 2007 to 2011. How would you describe your effort to put nixon on the record, on tape . I had the challenge at the federal government was taking over a private museum and library. I was asked to be the First Federal director. This was a library that was in place for 17 years. Roughly 100,000 people visite
Over a museum or library and was asked to be the First Federal director. This was a library had a this been in place 17 years. About 10,000 school children. It had a special message. When you run a private institution, you have a right to any message. When it becomes a National Institution it meets a different standard. I knew one of my jobs was to change the museum. I was told to change the watergate gallery. How do you do that after a local community is accustomed to one particular description . A museum might be a National Museum but also is a partner and local neighbor. Host in california. Guest i thought the best way, im a trained had us torrian though i wasnt a nixon specialist was for the players, the key People Living from that era to tell the story themselves. But i thought the west bay to do this was to start a Video History Program that involved the nixon players but also players in the watergate drama from the left and the right to have them tell the story and then to use p
I will leave it to the viewer. All i can say is that president nixons comments on the tapes are about jews in a way that is different from how William Safire describes it. Richard nixon is talking about how jews have exaggerated the holocaust because they want sympathy, and they have used it to gain sympathy. There is an anger towards jews that i believe cannot be explained simply in terms of liberal versus conservative, but i leave it to others to make up their own minds. I will tell you there is now a very good collection of people speaking on this issue that is publicly available. That is my job. Here is chuck colson telling a story. Kissinger had the right, although he abused it, to have nobody announce him. Kissinger could walk in when he wanted. Nixon told him that because of the severity of Foreign Policy issues, feel free to come in and interrupt anything. Henry would do it for trivial things. One day, nixon was really kind of ticked off at henry for a variety of things. In the