History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor
Be live from austin with two other events. Today you would hear from authors charles blow francis fukuyama. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. We will begin at a panel on president Richard Nixon featuring former Nixon White House counsel john dean author of the nixon defense and historian Douglas Brinkley and luke nichter editors of the nixon tapes 19711972. Journalist Robert Draper is the moderator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] this is a wide broadcast on cspan. We will keep things moving smoothly. Thank you very much. We will have introductions in a moment and then we will move forward into our first panel of the day. Thank you all very much for being here with us. [applause] good morning everyone. My name is Robert Draper and im with the New York Times magazine. Our abiding fascination with the 30th president of the United States Richard Milhouse nixon has been stoked by two remarkable books
Now, admittedly, in the summer of 1811, madison knew that george, iii,s old ministers were not likely to ease up. Now, this prediction would come to pass. Now, how do we know this . We know this because of an editorial in the administration newspaper. Oh, sorry. Okay. All right. I wasnt looking behind me. Yes. Onwards and upwards. Yes, how do we know this . Because an editorial in the newspaper, the national intelligence, the newspaper that coburn trashed when he burned washington in 1814, it said as much. And we know from a surviving fragment of the diary of the paper, joseph gales, that madison had dictated the contents of that editorial to the editor. So what that means is that as early as the spring of 1811, madison was considering very seriously the need to go to war with Great Britain. And this is seven months before the 12th congress and the war hawks even meet in washington. They would continue with these policies for as long as it took r took for them to end this abomination o
So what that means is that as early as the spring of 1811, madison was considering very seriously the need to go to war with Great Britain. And this is seven months before the 12th congress and the war hawks even meet in washington. They would continue with these policies for as long as it took r took for them to end this abomination of the affairs of europe. Now, this was 1811. In 1811, nobody was predicting that Napoleon Bonaparte would be gone. You might have made that prediction after 1812 and 1813, but in 1811, nobody was kournting kourn counting on napoleon going away any time soon. He decided he had no other option than to prepare for war against Great Britain. It took this decision weeks and weeks before congress knew what policies that might have to pass judgment. Maybe its spoke man worked its way through committees and votes and the house of representatives as congress prepared for war in the First Six Months of november late after november of 1811. But the primary movement
Every paper and deal he ever signed and maybe find a lawyer made a mistake, where they didnt dotd a a i and put a a down and should never, ever be allowed to happen again. Thank you very much. Mr. President , on the russian Opposition Leader hospital iciz we havent seen it yet. Mikes going to be reporting to me soon. Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. Lets go. Lets go. This way, please. Press, thank you. Hello, everybody. Im john king in washington. The president of the United States with the Prime Minister of iraq. The president talking about a number of issues including the plans to draw down u. S. Troops in iraq and afghanistan and questions from the reporters of a setback for the president , a federal judge in new york saying the president must turn over the tax returns to a manhattan prosecutor investigating the president s business conduct and personal finances and the president calling it a sad development. On the indictment, the charges against his former top political advi