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Hello, and welcome to the kansas city public library. I am director of public affairs. I want to thank you in joining us for the latest iteration of our hail to the chief lecture series, cochaired by our partners at the Truman Library institute, the Foundation Arm of the Harry S Truman president ial library and museum in independence. As many of you know, we here at the library just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries, and such is the case tonight. 40 years ago, well, technically, 39...

The beginning, from 2006 when the National Archives hired me to do this, i was very straightforward about what i was going to do. So there is no debate in switching. The archives came to me. But it was a very interesting conflict of different events because the head of the Nixon Foundation at that point was john taylor, rev. John taylor. And john taylor is an intellectual. He is very complicated. He is a bit torn about nixon. And he admired nixons mind. And he wanted nixons library to be credibl...

A group of alumni of the Nixon Administration who worked on the domestic side rallied and raise a lot of money for this program. I received contributions from donald rumsfeld. I believe dick cheney. I think paul oneill provided some funding. Member people. The fault of the domestic side of the head ministration hasnt received the b. J. Of the administration hasnt received the domestic side of the administration has not received that much attention. For the watergate interviews, i used the trust ...

A group of alumni of the Nixon Administration who worked on the domestic side rallied and raised a lot of money for this program. I received contributions from donald rumsfeld. I believe dick cheney. I think paul oneill provided some funding. Member people. The fault of the domestic side of the head ministration hasnt received the b. J. Of the administration hasnt received the domestic side of the administration has not received that much attention. For the watergate interviews, i used the trust...

Not there yet. Ive directed secretary hagel and our joint chiefs of staff to prepare a range of options. Reporter another address by the president. There have been many lately, but it was these words regarding syria that many were not expecting. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. Reporter his critics quick to pounce. The Republican Party tweeting whats the obama strategy . To have no strategy. Ukraine, isis, russia. But the white house was equally quick to...

This is a caucus at a middle school in des moines, where democrats are making their president ial preferences known on the republican size, cbs news estimates that donald trump is the leader in an early threeway race with marco rubio and ted cruz nipping at his heels. Now for the democrats, Hillary Clinton has the early lead over challenger Bernie Sanders. Keep in mind, it iss very early in the counting, and these are estimates that are based in part on questions we asked voters as they entered ...

Reporter six days after taking office, President Donald Trump is facing his first diplomatic assistantostandoff. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Reporter thats not how mexico sees it. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto said he was cancelling the meeting alerting the white house in a message op twitter. Trump learned about it making his way to philadelphia, his first trip aboard air force one, presenting his agenda to Congres...

Administration. The second in three days. This time its the president s pick to run the labor department. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuels on capitol hill tonight with the breaking details. Good evening very late today and a poster announced he was withdrawing from consideration to be the next secretary of labor, saying i am honored to have been considered by resident donald trump to lead the department of labor and put americas workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable...

Administration. The second in three days. This time its the president s pick to run the labor department. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuels on capitol hill tonight with the breaking details. Good evening very late today and a poster announced he was withdrawing from consideration to be the next secretary of labor, saying i am honored to have been considered by resident donald trump to lead the department of labor and put americas workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable...

Richard nixon resigned from office. The white house was in turmoil, the Nixon Administration was reeling from the monthslong watergate scandal. He was on his way out the door. Nixons defense secretary was worried about what might happen if the president decided to subvert the constitution to stay in power even as everything around him was falling apart. By using the power of the presidency to call up the military, or god forbid if he tried to authorize the use of Nuclear Weapons without consulti...