obama. the richard nixon presidential library and museum hosted this hour-long event. >> gil troy is professor of history at mcgill university. he is the author of 11 books, including the recently released "the age of clinton." it was hailed as the best book on president clinton in his time. the book is for sale in the store right after the program and professor troy will be here to sign it for you. his previous book, the award-winning "moynihan's moment: america's fight against zionism as racism" was designated by jewish ideas daily as one of the best jewish books of 2012. other works include "morning in america," "leading from the hillary rodham clinton, polarizing first lady," and two books which in previous years brought him to the next and archives for research. ran" and" mr. and mrs. president from truman to the clintons." he wrote a weekly column for the daily beast and contributed to the campaign section of the "new york times" in 2012 and 2016. he has been widely published and quoted an american and canadian media. university at mcgill since 1990, from 1997 to 1998, he se

, for your leadership. it's amazing to see this collaboration between the csp and the richard nixon library. week just lecturing this about nixon to my students. starting with the same thing that we begin with, the chaos of 1968, i said you thought 2016 was crazy, we had a crazy campaign. offensive,, the tet the kennedy assassination, we had serious trauma going on in the country. richard nixon was elected by just a few votes. and therom the center left were in from a. people were saying what's going to happen, the country's not going to survive. the country faced its challenges, but the country survived. constitution is strong, or people are proud, our people are decent, and we should stop moaning and groaning, love him or hate him, the president-elect will become president on january 20, and we all have to give him a chance to succeed or fail trust the constitution. go on, applaud. patriotic when we criticize, but we all have to be patriotic citizens when we deal with the complexity of the president who is both our king and prime minister. i want to start by apologizing very long and a co

attorney general elliot richardson resigned after president richard nixon ordered him to fire the special prosecutor investigating the watergate scandal. totallyadds up to a unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis and the president has set himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. amy: we will speak to former u.s. congresswoman elizabeth holtzman who served on the watergate committee and former assistant watergate prosecutor jill wine banks. she was the first woman to serve as u.s. army general counsel. then sarsour versus trump. >> this is an important time for many community's desk communities. this is an opportunity for us to say we will protect the most marginalized amongst us. amy: palestinian-american activist linda sarsour and other prominent muslim americans sue donald trump over the muslim ban. we will speak with her and trita parsi of the national iranian american council. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president donald trump fired acting atto

to appear was the vice president-elect, richard nixon. his entrance to the stands being met with a spontaneous cheer from the crowd. last to arrive was the general escorted through the rotunda by , senator bridges, speaker martin and others, the president -elect appeared solemn and reflective for this occasion was in the name of the republican party striding back into power for the first time in decades. the band struck up the ruffles and flourishes, and again a , cheer burst from the crowd. the significance was now full upon the great gathering, filling every available space to see the end of one regime and to beginning of a new era. >> [indiscernible] i, richard m. nixon, solemnly swear i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all of its enemies, foreign and domestic. richard nixon: i, richard m. nixon, solemnly swear i will support the constitution of the united states against all of its enemies, foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. richard nixon: that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >>

. david brinkley, former director of richard nixon presidential library and author of "richard nixon: the life" you'll know as well. thank you for joining us and good evening. douglas, this idea of one president at a time is taking a beating. sean spicer is saying that terrorism is someone who donald trump is not going to sit back and wait for january 20th. there's no surprise there. he won the election. why wouldn't he jump in at this point in the game? >> look at mess that donald trump is in because of the russian hacking. could have said i'm going to wait until sworn in as president. this is president obama's intelligence reports, i'll look at them but give the president the courtesy of waiting a couple of weeks -- the fact that he hasn't done that, puts them in that -- >> stop right there. put your mike back on. i think it fell off. it's right there in your lap. >> we'll just be transparent here. what were you saying? did you finish your thought? >> i think donald trump would have been wise to stick with the one president at the time policy instead of being found in the middle of this

nominee for president, richard nixon engaged, that the sitting president of the united states, lyndon johnson, privately said was treason. and now we have new proof published in "the new york times" yesterday of exactly what richard nixon did. in 1968, the vietnam war was raging out of control to the point that lyndon johnson decided not to run for re-election. humphrey was the democratic nominee. president johnson was december prat desperately trying to get the south vietnamese we were supporting into peace talks with north vietnam. south vietnam's president was afraid lyndon johnson would not be tough enough with the north vietnamese so it was a struggle to get the people we were supporting with money and already 30,000 american war dead to the peace talks. richard nixon got word to the south vietnamese to resist any peace negotiation. nixon feared any breakthrough in the peace negotiations would give the election to hubert humphrey. the broad outlines of this story have been known for years now, the names of the key players have been known, but with jack ferrell has discovered and

against richard nixon's inauguration in 1973. that was 100,000 people in washington, d.c. there was also a multi-city component to that, including internationally. there were protests in london over richard nixon's inauguration. this is much bigger than any of that. we're talking about in washington, d.c. alone, possibly 500,000 people. five times more than protested against the nixon inauguration. in boston, brian, 125,000 is the estimate in boston alone. that is bigger than what we saw than what we saw against richard nixon 45 years ago. and the surprise here shouldn't be very great. richard nixon was the last president to provoke any significant inauguration protest. yesterday, we inaugurated the most unpopular president on inauguration day in the history of polling, including richard nixon. and so the idea that that would provoke a rather significant demonstration was predictable, especially if you'd been in touch with any of the people i've been in touch with over the last month, where every day i was hearing new anecdotal reports about people who were going, including people, brian

"richard nixon: the life" you'll know as well. this idea of one president at a time taking a beating. saying donald trump is not going to sit back and wait for january 20th. there's no surprise there. he won the election. why wouldn't he jump in at this point in the game? >> look at mess that donald trump is in because of the russian hacking. could have said i'm going to wait until sworn in as president. this is president obama's intelligence reports, i'll look at them but give the president the courtesy of waiting a couple of weeks -- >> stop right there. mike back on. right in your lap. did you finish your thought? >> i think donald trump would be -- would have been wise to stick with one president at a time policy instead of being found in the middle of this hacking situation every minute that he's in right now. >> we'll fix the mike. go to john now. you discovered evidence of another situation where a presidential contender seemed to interfere in foreign policy. october of 1968, lyndon johnson was close to a break through in the peace talks between north and south vietnam but fou

tell a lie" richard nixon saying i can't not tell the truthnd donald trum sang i cannot tell the difference. it is a legitimate question. can he tell the difference between the falsehoods or is he intentionally lying? either way doesn't matter. alternative facts are not true and we cannot be lulled in a to another version of reality. it is orwellian. >> how old did you say your son is? >> fifth grader. >> his political education is way beyond mine in the fifth grade. that's impressive. david corn, our nbc news reporting on what donald trump said at the white house has two sources confirming to nbc news that donald trump spent approximately the first ten minutes talking about this and about the vote totals and saying that between 3 million and 5 million illegals, that was his word, illegals, voted in the 2016 election. so in this country, where illegal voters cannot vote because they don't have acceptable i.d.s to certain states, somehow 5 million illegals, as he put it -- you can see he needs a number that is more than 3 million, i think, david because he needs to have -- he does

president richard nixon at his inaugural in 1969. >> and i'm fascinated by the photo of that woman with those glasses. nothing says 1969 like those glasses in the background. not the words but the imagery there. >>> this morning we are looking at a few of president nixon's words in a letter written to donald trump nearly 30 years ago what's taking place today in the nation's capitol. here's david wright. >> are you 40? >> reporter: 30 years ago donald trump was promoting his book, "the art of the deal". when this interview apparently made quite the impression prompting a former president to send trump a fan letter. dear donald, mrs. nixon said you were great on tv. she's an expert in politics and she said whenever you decide to run for office, you'll be a winner. signed, warm regards, richard nixon. what did they hear that they liked? trump spent a lot of time talking about how his dad taught him business and his mom taught him show business. >> i believe whatever i have in terms of the dra mat yik, i think i got it from my mother. >> reporter: skills he'll take with him along with that

candidate running in 1968 knew that very well. richard nixon was the republican candidate in '68. he was determined to take advantage of anti-vietnam-war sentiment in the country. he said if you wanted to end the vietnam war, you needed to elect him, vote the democrats out of office. but five nights before the election was due to happen, the democratic president, lbj, went on tv and made a surprise announcement that peace was at hand in vietnam. the communist side, the north vietnamese, were going to make major concessions, and the south vietnamese were going to agree to a deal based on those concessions. peace was at hand. in recognition of the fact that peace was about to be declared, he said the united states would step back right away and stop all military operations in vietnam. lbj made that announcement on the thursday before the election was due to happen on tuesday. but in the interim, on saturday morning, it all fell party. the south vietnamese side pulled out of the peace talks and the war was back on for the reasons those very promising peace talks in 1968 failed is because of

mrimportant as far as unifying the country. >> he looked at reagan's, jfk and richard nixon's inaugural speech. if you look back to richard nixon, he had a divided country. he won with 43% of the vote in a three-way race. and what he did was give really a unifying speech at his inauguration. and in the short term, it worked for him, and he said we cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another. and that was richard nixon saying that. and so a lot of people thought nixon would never do that. well, maybe -- maybe a lot of people think that donald trump can't do that. let's see what he does tomorrow and what his overall message is. we remember when he won, he gave a real uniting kind of speech, and i think he might do that. >> i think he will do that tomorrow morning when he speaks and addresses not only the american people but the world to set the right tone. >> absolutely. whatever he does say on that stage, one of the biggest stages you can have in politics it will have a major impact on setting the tone for his administration. but it's only the first step, really,

today. 45. coming up next, newly discovered promise by richard nixon to president lyndon johnson. he said he was not interfering with the vietnam peace talks, but our next guest has discovered that that was not the case. very, very interesting new reporting out. we will have that on the other side. ♪ eyes open? good. because it's here. cue the confetti. say hi to xiidra, lifitegrast ophthalmic solution. xiidra is the first prescription eye drop solution approved to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye. so give your eye doctor a ring, and your eyes just might thank you. one drop in each eye, twice a day. the most common side effects of xiidra include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when the drops are applied to the eyes, and an unusual taste sensation. to help avoid eye injury or contamination of the solution, do not touch the container tip to your eye or any surface. if you wear contact lenses, remove them before using xiidra and wait for at least 15 minutes before placing them back in your eyes. are you ready to do something about your dry eyes? talk to your doctor

chelsea manning. and why richard nixon's former lawyer is literally having nightmares about trump's presidency. >> when the president does it, that means it is not illegal. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. there are now just three days until donald trump is sworn in as president and it will happen against the backdrop of deep unpopularity among the american people. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll finds just 38% have a positive view of trump while 48% have a negative view, making trump the most unpopular incoming president in the history of the poll. of course, trump doesn't buy it. after other polls showed similar ndings trump tweeted "the same people who did the phony election polls and were so wrong are now dog approval rate l polgs, they are rigged, just like before." >> the polls are not rigged but they can be wrong sometimes. we should note national polls entering election day turned out to be pretty accurate. hillary clinton won the national popular vote by 2.86 million vote, about two percentage points. on election

trade, gross economy -- richard nixon's definition of progress i, that s based on free trade. >> rose: stable regimes. and egyptian under mubarak was stable, and unstable in egypt, under nice to se sisi is. >> rose: there are real challenges. >> the interesting thing is president trump signed an order adding the muslim brotherhood or directing the secretaryof state to add the muslim brotherhood to the list of terrorist okayizations. it would be controversial but i believe sisi would go for that. i believe sisi and netanyahu will get along and we will be better off in four years than with obama. >> rose: as a friend of israel, do you worry about the settlements and the fact it makes a two-state solution seem further away. >> doivment mike lauren is a frequent guest on my show and ambassador, deputy minister is very smart historian and i think he represents the center right in israel which would be the center left in america on settlements and i think he's wise and netanyahu is political, and i don't think thoapts do away with a two-state settlement either but would require --

right speeches that don't sound like them, richard nixon in 1969. i don't know this but he had to have told his speechwriters i want this to be as great as john kennedy's inaugural address in 1961. the result is that speech was almost an imitation of the speech kennedy had given. it didn't sound like nixon, sounded like someone trying to imitate. >> what about abraham lincoln's second inaugural address, one of the speeches we still talk about a century and a half later. >> we do because it was as sublime a statement of what was important to lincoln, saying with malice towards none, charity for all. talking about the way he wanted to end the civil war which is becoming quickly, and the idea of reconstruction to the south. >> when franklin roosevelt was sworn it was march 1933, that changed after that. >> roosevelt rightfully said the congress said why do we have a long period from a residential election in november, and the fourth of march, you have a lame-duck president not to be able to do very much and the country is in limbo. the result was they moved the inauguration up and you had

them. for instance richard nixon in 1969, i don't know this but he had to have told the speechwriters i want this to be as great as john kennedy in his inaugural address of 1961 and the result was that was almost an imitation of the speech that kennedy had given. it didn't sound like nixon. sounded like someone was trying to imitate him. >> host: what about abraham lincoln's second inaugural address? >> guest: it was a supply misstatement of what was deep and important to lincoln as you could get saying that with malice towards none, with charity for all. he was talking about the way he wanted to end the civil war which was coming very quickly but also the idea of reconstruction that he had for himself. >> host: and franklin roosevelt was sworn in it was march of 1933. that changed after that. why? >> guest: that change because roosevelt rightfully said and the congress said why did we had this long period from a presidential election in november to the inauguration of the new president. the constitution is to say the fourth of march. you have all those months in which y

attorney general naturally was richard nixon. all in the service of getting an independent special prosecutor fired during the watergate scandal to save his own skin. that was the saturday night massacre, nixon's mowing down of the justice department in service of his own aims. this obviously is different. but history tends to rhyme on matters like this. joining us is abc news presidential historian and a columnist for the daily beast. gentlemen, i appreciate you bothing with here staying up late to cover this. >> pleasure. >> michael, let me start with you in washington we talked a little bit about the historical precedent of the saturday night massacre. we are now on to a new level of expectation with this story. the new kt aing attorney general the one installed tonight after sally yates was fired he immediately rescinded her order which told department of justice lawyers that they shouldn't defend their refugee and immigration executive order in court. that means he has rescinded that order, he is effectively oshding the department of justice lawyers that they need to go to cou

president richard nixon and said. convention, goldwater admonished conservatives who were threatening to stay home, to grow up and get to work. did, soon after the election, conservative media activists turned their attention to the next election cycle. in --"conscience of the conservative" sure goldwater would remain their best hope in the race. fast-forward to four years later. media activists were poised to become full-fledged political leaders. people like bill, publisher of national review, took the political organizing rains from manion. you have a radio host running americans for goldwater. by 1964, you have a magazine publisher. were not part of the goldwater for america team, were highly important as goldwater emerged the front runner and nominee. goldwater about to have a shot of the presidency. the campaign put conservatism right smack in the middle of american politics, elevating it from a fringe movement to a major force in american politics. for media activists, the trip from the fringes to the center was not without its challenges. established conservative o

had been appointed who was demanding richard nixon's famous tapes and nixon was refusing to give them up and so nixon finally decided he's going to fire cox but to do that he had to get his attorney general to do it. the attorney general was elliott richardson, an upstanding gentleman from massachusetts. he said, absolutely not. i will quit before that happens. so he quit. the number two was a man named william ruk kels house. he wouldn't do it either. he also quit. number four was nominated for the supreme court, the nomination failed. borke said i will fire cox. cox was fired and the fbi was called in and that was called the saturday night massacre. it was on this network by the anchor at this time, this may be the greatest constitutional crisis in history. what we're seeing now in 2017 doesn't loom as large as that but i think it raises a couple of questions, which are, number one, how independent is the department of justice going to be under the trump administration? this raises real questions. number two, you mentioned that jeff sessions is about to be confirmed. the whole

price for the most famous removal for attorney general naturally goes to richard nixon and got resignations from an attorney general, deputy attorney general all in the service o an independent special prosecutor fired during the watergate scandal to save his own skin. nixon's moeing down of the justice department in service of his own aims. my friend columnist for the daily beast michael jonathan. i appreciate you both staying up late with us to cover this. michael, let me start with you in washington. we talked a little bit about the historical precedent of the saturday night massacre. we're now on to a new level of expectation with this story. the new acting attorney general, the one who was installed tonight after sally yates was fired, he immediately rescinded her order, which told the department of justice lawyers that they shouldn't defend this refugee and immigration executive order in court. that means he's rescinded that order. he's effectively ordering the department of justice lawyers that they need to go to court and defend this thing. do we expect that her resista

border adjustment thing. i am a reagan-naut. richard nixon's definition of real progress, the ongoing incremental expansion of a literacy in areas allied to the west. in stable regimes. that is based on free trade. charlie: democratic regimes are stable regimes. hugh: egypt under mubarak was stable -- charlie: there are some threats to that. i talked to a lot of egyptians. i interviewed them in the parking lots there are some real , challenges. hugh: the interesting thing will be is that there is a suggestion that president trump will sign an executive order adding the muslim brotherhood to the list of terrorist organizations. if he does, it will be quite controversial. but i think president cc would welcome that. lawrence wright argues, gives me the reason why i think it would be justified. but i don't expect a democracy in the middle east to come out of egypt. will think trump and cc get along and we will be better off in four years than we were under president obama. charlie: as a friend of israel, do you worry about all the settlements and the fact it makes a two state sol

president, including richard nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way that this president-elect does. we now have a president-elect who in terms of truthfulness, richard nixon was nothing in terms of lying compared to what we have seen from donald trump. >> there is an exclusive list of people who are qualified to make an accurate and informed comparison between richard nixon and donald trump. you just heard from one of them, investigative journalist carl bernstein. another one is joining me right now, john dean is the former white house counsel to president richard nixon and author of "conservatives without conscience" which i highly recommend you read with trump coming into office. john, thanks for being here. always great to talk to you. >> good morning. >> before i get to the ethics challenge of donald trump, i want to get you to button up the conversation we were just having with my previous panel, because you wrote what could only be described as a pretty scathing article about media coverage of donald trump, which i 100% agreed with every word of, even tho

importantly, "hardball" starts now. >>> richard the second get ready for the second coming of nixon. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. richard nixon build up a enemy list. it took him sometime to do it t. nixon was a slacker as far as mr. trump is concerned. 1600 pennsylvania avenue with his enemy list already packed and ready to attack. tweeting the media lies to make it looks like against intelligence when i'm a big fan. that's out of line with his mocking statement with the intelligence community. on december 12, he said this are same people that said saddam w hussein had weapons of mass destruction. you did to bld a case. today ding the senate testimony about the russian hacking, clapper took a shot for disparaging intelligence community. he clowned "democrats lead by head clown chuck schumer." he called people enemies. happy new years to all including enemies who have fought me so bad they don't know what to do. former deputy campaign manager, stephanie cutter. clad to have you back. i have to ask about the behavior of the new president. he calling me who disagree his enemy, en

recall any election, including the election of richard nixon, of which i was more excited at that particular time, because i knew that meant he had the nomination. >> newscaster: however, governor rockefeller has promised a fight to the finish. now, most of the sound and fury will fade until the republicans convene in san francisco's cow palace. >> buchanan: did i think he could beat lyndon johnson at that point? basically, no. when they got to the convention at the cow palace in san francisco, the moderate liberal republicans -- scranton, rockefeller, romney -- were not reconciled to goldwater's nomination. >> goldwater, jr.: you had that eastern establishment out there who were all jockeying for enough delegates. the goldwater contingent outmaneuvered everybody. we were so well organized. everyone had walkie-talkies, and they were in communication with a headquarters in a trailer outside the cow palace. they had every delegate identified and pinpointed, knew where he was, what his vote was going to be. they had people walking through the cow palace making sure that nobody was ou

to appear was the vice president-elect, richard nixon. his entrance to the stand being met with a spontaneous cheer from the chairman this crowd. last to arrive were the generals, escorted through the rotunda by senator bridges, speaker martin and others, the president elect appeared solemn and reflective for this occasion was in the name of the republican party riding back into power for the first time in decades. cheer burst from the crowd. filling everyone available space to see the end of one regime and to beginning of a new era. >> i, richard m nixon, solemnly swear i will support and of the constitution of the united states against all of its enemies foreign and domestic. that i will bear true faith and , that ice to the same any this freely without reservation or purpose of and that i will well and officelly execute the upon which i am about to embark, so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. vice president. -- richard m next who has become the vice president of the united states. ask at this moment, the united states had no president. harry truman's term expired at noon and

richard nixon and i was going to contrast nixon and trump. nixon didn't live in a social media age and imagine richard nixon by the way with a twitter account, that would have been something. i think i don't know if the climate and technology is allowing people to see past their own hatred. >> it is not, it is encouraging it. >> dickerson: let's take a pause here. we are going to take a short break and we will be right back with more from our panel. tiki barber running a barber shop? yes!!! surprising. yes!!! what's not surprising? how much money david saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. who's next? so we sent that sample i doff to ancestry. i was from ethnically. my ancestry dna results are that i am 26% nigerian. i am just trying to learn as much as i can about my culture. i put the gele on my head and i looked into the mirror and i was trying not to cry. because it's a hat, but it's like the most important hat i've ever owned. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. >> dickerson: and we ar

speech that richard nixon was a template, perhaps, for president trump and i went back and looked at that, there was a dark part of that speech but he started wit a lot of light and just one line from it, we cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, we speak quietly that our voice can be heard as well as our voices. that was the piece missing from donald trump. >> others have said things are bad, ronald reagan says things are bad, presidents have a taken over in greater times of national crisis than we face now. but they haven't been quite so unrelenting about it. i am surprised he didn't start by acknowledging what president obama has achieved as president and thanked him, thanked him for the transition ever but, effort but he didn't say you took over at a time of financial crisis, he didn't acknowledge the president on stage, that he defeated the election, acknowledged her later -- >> dickerson: in the unity -- >> it is not only he was dark but it was that he didn't seem gracious to his foes, he didn't reach out to people who did not vote for him. >> but

days to match what richard nixon took years to do, which is fire an attorney general who wouldn't do what you wanted them to do. now, you have to understand something. the part of the press release that was put out there today by the administration was that they had cleared this with the office of legal counsel at the department of justice. the problem with that is that the office of legal counsel only looks at whether or not the form, and whether or not it's facially constitutional. she was looking beyond that. there's two prongs to this. is it constitutional, number one, as a law, and then number two, as it's applied. and it was her judgment as it's been two district court's judgment that it's not constitutional as applied. >> okay. we now have a new acting attorney general, but ron, to you, i -- the acting attorney general has betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the united states. what does that say to you about the politics here? >> it is not surprising that a president would dismiss an acting attorney gen

about that so far, a lot of interest how he deals with the press. richard nixon fought the press and he lost. that a lot of people say it led directly to his impeachment but donald trump is not richard nixon. how do you think this will end up? >> this is a different set of circumstances. i would say if we were still in nixon's time, trump's strategy would fail miserably. he would lose again just as predictably as richard nixon lost. i would prefer he take the route of ronald reagan just smile and wave, let them say whatever they want to say and go directly to the hearts american people. because of the internet, because of twitter, new openings, the corporate media is losing some of its power and some of its hold and they sense that. that is where some anger comes from. they are losing some of the power they have to shape public opinion. david: always a pleasure, doug. don't be a stranger. appreciate it. >> thank you, david. melissa: coming up next a fresh season much "strange inheritance" kicks office. we have a sneak-peek what brand new episodes have in store. don't want to miss it. oo

richard nixon tampered with the peace prospects and costing another i think it was 27,000 american lives in vietnam, so i wish we wouldn't be so bla say about realizing this guy that's going to assume the presidency actually has no business there. it also brings up my disappointment for how the american people -- i know there's a lot of people hurting. there's a lot of people hurting everywhere, then we have a lot of super wealthy people in this country, i don't know how -- i have a hard time finding where there's any patriotism in them i think they hide their money anywhere they can. i think it's going to be a repeat of the blush administration and america is going to continue to go downhill. >> bill there talking about the 114th congress doing very little. they are still in session, they are going to adjourn around 11:00 a.m. eastern time and gavel in the new around noon, so what are you expecting today? >> well, to pick up one thing the caller said, accomplishing or doing little last congress, i mean, i think one reason that's sometimes a hard measure to use, democrats have a ce

people showed up in washington to protest the inauguration of richard nixon. now, that was a very organized protest that was organized months in advance and that was organized by groups that had been protesting the vietnam war for six years at that point to become very sophisticated. in producing turnout for gran dmon stragss like this. it was not a spontaneous group. it was a set of -- a set of protest organizations to the vietnam war who really knew what they were doing and really knew how to draw people. this being much more spontaneous is all the more impressive in its way and what we did see in 1973 was other demonstrations in other cities around the country, international demonstrations including london as we are seeing today, big demonstration in paris today, all sorts of other places around the world where the demonstrations are going on, the numbers are stunningly overwhelming to that last high point of 1973 and the history of inauguration protest is quite thin. the first was richard nixon's first inauguration in 1969 and that drew only about 8,000 people the day before t

the vice president in only 1969 who just lost the presidency to richard nixon and he declined to take the job so the job then fell to the president pro tem of the senate. >> host: what happens next? does this go to the president for his signature like a bill? what's the procedure and how is this finalize? >> guest: it does not. there are tally clerks and after the read from alabama down to wyoming, the votes are tallied up. there are sort of ceremonial tally keepers from the house and the senate who keep the count. at the end of the count is announced at the magic words are the vice president says, where are those magic words? the magic word or essentially says that he's got, i hereby rule, i had it here. hold on just a second because this is what you want -- this announcement shall be deemed sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president. and that's it. the vice president, you know, the winners have one and they are the president-elect and vice president-elect. there is no such presidential signature. there is no indwelling of the bill. there's none o

position of the prophecy of democracy. >> more so than george w. bush or ronald reagan or richard nixon? >> he was able to assemblies implement his policy. we could actually push this back to the contract with america. they can actually push it back a little further than that. i think what we are witnessing now is in some ways a kind of apex of a general tenor of our politics for its broke into its core. donald trump is an exaggerated indication that the rock at the heart of the beltway. >> host: david maraniss, you corrupt with what richard nixon faced during watergate. any difference is last eight years? >> well, i think it has intensified. actually, the contract for america seems kind of tame now. policy is the least important thing now it seems like. it's opposing whatever someone opposes. richard nixon was impeached and resigned from office because of his unconstitutional actions. president clinton was impeached and saved from being removed from office or for largely political community since he was impeached that would argue. so that is where he would start this modern trend. but i think

. richard nixon's entrance met with a spontaneous cheer from the tremendous crowd. generalarrive was the escorted by senator bridges and others. the president elect appeared solemn and reflective for this occasion was in the name of the striding backty into power. the band struck up a flourishes and eight cheer burst from the cloud -- from the crowd. filling every available space. >> i, richard him next in, saw only i will support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. i will defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and faithfully execute the office upon which i am about to embark. so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> they are shaking hands with mr. eisenhower. >> this moment, the united states has no president. eisenhower was not sworn in until 12:32. but now he was the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court who would administer the brief oath. his voice was slightly tr

office in new haven. when the fbi, under president richard nixon, started attacking panther offices and assassinating people in the middle of the night, the panthers fortified their offices. this was during bobby's trial, mayday, in 1970 in new haven. and there was a rumor that the office was going to be raided. and the crazy photographer stayed in the office all night with the panthers. but the police never came, luckily. or maybe i wouldn't be here right now. new york. fred hampton on the left. [ applause ] i've got to wrap up so i'll go through real fast. new york 21. some of the new york 21. again, new york 21. this is the new york panther office in brooklyn. again, why was the black panther party needed. you can kind of see, they were right there in the community. i put some pictures of some new york panthers in here to honor the new york panthers who are here tonight. and you can clap for them. [ applause ] on the left is david hilliard, who was a chief of staff. that's hughie newton with elaine brown on the right. george jackson. [ applause ] george jackson's funeral. and look at