Jeff Shepard News Today

Wife of our president newly elected hugh hewitt. [applause] our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to president nixon. He joined kissingers security staff in 1969 as special assistant traveling the world on virtually every Major Initiative in the greater cold war. He was with dr. Kissinger during the talks with go she ate her in purse that culminated in the paris peace accords. He was with president nixon in moscow in during his first trip there in 1972 and he was th...

And what the tapes did and did not reveal. This is an hour and a half. Were not talking about current events. And were not really focusing on the chronology of watergate because what im trying to tell you is what went on behind the scenes, the back story, both of developments at the white house itself where i worked and the special prosecutors office, where ive done a tremendous amount of research in finding out what their thinking was and what the documents show. So its an insider ceas view, im...

Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. So nixon was wrong on that one. Bill clinton talked to him a lot, which was strange, considering no two politiciansing hapoliticians could have ever been more opposite. And hillary had been on the staff of the Judiciary Committee that had voted to impeach him. But clinton respected him and listened to him. And nixon was sort of he wasnt he didnt despair about the fact he didnt have a great influence in his exile years. But he was a realist enough to know...

jeff, remind us where you were on this day in 1972. >> i was in the middle of a five term -- i was the youngest lawyer on the staff, and i knew everybody involved. i did not know anybody in the break, and it was not of particular concern with me. i had a full-time job, i was working domestic policy issues, law and order. life moved on. it was a very busy and happy time, i could not have been prouder than to work on nixons white house staff. >> and where were you on this day 50 years ag...

watergate break in, a conversation on two individuals who played a key role when it came to the prosecution and defense of watergate. joe joins us. a former special prosecutor. more recently, the author of the book watergate girl, a fight for truth and justice against the criminal president. jeff shepard joins us. he was a chief deputy to nixons lead lawyer during watergate. his most recent book, titled the nixon conspiracy. watergate and the plot to remove the president. good morning ...

next on the presidency, we hear about richard nixons policies to restore indian lands. and allow a new era of self government. we will hear about the native american college football coach who may have inspired nixon thinking on indian fares. >> president nixons opinion on indian fares is seen as one of the most pro-indian. and to restore indian lands to tribes, and became a new era of self government. if americans found a champion in president nixon, a sense that resulted from his per...

The book he was writing is finally here. We are pleased to give him this opportunity, the book came out on monday so we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. Thank you bill. Its an honor to be here and an honor to have bill as the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is a trashing of our constitution and bill of rights in a successful effort to drive nixon from office and to realign political power without the inconveni...

When he comes into office in 2009, one of, one of his first acts of offices to give a new years greeting to the iranian people. He says i want to get on a different page with iran and recognize their rights and later to enrich uranium which not many countries in the world do. This is the problem for the state of israel. Thats an understatement that its a problem. Why is it a problem 1st of all understand what the Iranian Nuclear Program Means for us. Is. Is not just one threat. It is several thr...

Adjourned. [inaudible conversations] good evening. I am the president of the Richard Nixon and validation i am pleased to welcome you and the foundation and jeff shepard. And a first of this position just name was identified as a person very active with the of the nation going back to the Domestic Policy Group with legacy forms across the United States to achieve the of policies i heard he was right to a book when i finally met jeff he is a good friend in the book he is writing is finally here. ...

Where israel captured the west k and gaza and other territories, a pivotal moment. But i think over the course of the research for the book, i came to think of rabin as a man of firsts. He was the first nativeborn israeli to become r. , to be elected Prime Minister. He was the first israeli leader to really embrace the palestinians and try to resolve that conflict once and for all including to shake hands with Yasser Arafat who is really the embodiment of terrorism and evil. And then, of course,...