Answer: Vice President Spiro Agnew

Vice President Spiro Agnew appeared on Meet the Press in September of his first year in the Nixon White House, 1969. The former Maryland governor was known for his opinionated politics and outsized persona, but he kept his focus on the accomplishments of President Nixon and the rest of the administration throughout most of the Meet the Press interview. But when it came to a discussion of his role in government, Agnew showed his famously direct style. In the last two minutes of the program, Meet the Press panel member Lawrence Spivak asked: “Mr. Vice President, traditionally Vice Presidents have found their jobs confining, unrewarding and frustrating. How do you find the job of Vice President?” Agnew’s response showed he was anything but confined or frustrated. He admitted, “Perhaps I have been accused in some cases of being a little more outspoken than Vice Presidents usually are.” But, he said that was because neither he nor Nixon saw the role of Vice President as a inhibited one: “I understand that my contribution to the administration, as the President understands it, will be enhanced by my being completely candid and forthright and attempting to bring to the national government the particular expertise that I have accumulated in state and local government.” He added that Nixon recognized that the Vice President is a “standby President.” In his second term as Vice President, Agnew would be accused of abusing that power; he was charged with accepting bribes and falsifying federal tax returns, and resigned from office in 1973. But there was no sign of such trouble in that early Meet the Press interview. At the end of the program, when asked if he had anything more to say about being a Vice President, Agnew cheerfully replied “I have little to add except that it keeps me pretty busy.”

You can watch more of Spiro Agnew’s 1969 appearance from Meet the Press at the beginning of his Vice Presidential career in the clip below.

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon described his company's $2 billion trading loss as "terrible, egregious mistakes," adding, "there's almost no excuse for it."

Although Dimon had what CNBC Analyst Andrew Ross Sorkin called a "mea culpa" moment about the errors, the JPMorgan CEO was optimistic about the future of the bank. 

"This is not a risk which is life threatening to JPMorgan," he said.

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) also joined the program to respond to Dimon's comments and made the case that more government regulation could have prevented the loss.

"It could be prevented because these are the kind of bets that put us into the soup to begin with," Levin said. "If we can prevents these kind of bets from being made, we can avoid ever again having to bail out banks."

Gay marriage was also a central part of our discussion this morning. After President Obama announced his support of gay marriage this week, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus reinforced the Republican position that "[marriage] is between one man and one woman."

You can watch the entire program on our website including our political roundtable for more on the gay marriage debate and what role it will play in the 2012 election. We were joined by: Lt. Governor of California Gavin Newsom; Chairman of the American Conservative Union Al Cardenas; Washington Post columnists Kathleen Parker and Jonathan Capehart; and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

Also, you can watch my full PRESS Pass conversation with Jamie Dimon about the economic recovery, politics and how to get America working again.

We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.

Last Wednesday, one day before news broke that JP Morgan Chase suffered a $2 billion trading loss, David sat down with the company's CEO Jamie Dimon.

In the interview, Dimon highlighted the now-stalled Simpson-Bowles economic plan as a "fabulous road map" to help get the country's fiscal house in order.

Although he is disenchanted about the partisan gridlock in Washington, Dimon hopes that both parties will "split the difference in half" for what he believes is the good of the country.

Moreover, he argues that passing it would have symbolic value. "If we do something like Simpson-Bowles, I think it'll show that America once again can come back."

Dimon, the man once dubbed "America's least-hated Banker," also said he was worried by the amount of negative attention directed at his colleagues on Wall Street during the past three years.

"Finger pointing, scapegoating, yelling and screaming; I've never seen it fix something," Dimon said, later adding, "Not everyone on Wall Street was bad."

However, he believes that the failure of our nation's institutions are what Americans should direct most of their anger.

"Washington and Wall Street are the epicenter.  I blame both of them," Dimon said.

You can watch David's entire interview with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon above to hear more of his thoughts on the economy, and what America can do to speed up recovery.

A preview of David Gregory's interview with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. The full interview will air this Sunday on Meet the Press.

Longtime Meet the Press host Lawrence Spivak was famous for challenging the assertions of his interview subjects, but not very used to being corrected himself, as French Prime Minister Guy Mollet did in a 1957 appearance. Mollet had been in office for twenty-two months by that point – the longest of any Premier in post-World War Two France, and Spivak gave him an unusually effusive introduction to Meet the Press, saying, “That his cabinet has survived the great and continuous crises which have confronted France this past year is a testament to  his leadership.” But he also said that Mollet “began his career as a teacher of English and Latin” – a statement that the Premier lightheartedly took issue with, parsing it as only a former school-teacher could. Before he answered Spivak’s first question, Mollet pointed out “a little error, if I might say so, in the way you presented me – just a word.” Mollet had in fact been a teacher of English grammar, not English, in his previous career. Sharing a laugh with the panel, he humbly noted that, missing the word “grammar,” Spivak’s introduction might give American audiences a bad impression: “What would the people over here think of the way the French people choose their English teachers when they listen to me with my awful accent?”

You can watch the clip from March of 1957 below – including Lawrence Spivak’s response to Guy Mollet’s on-air correction of his Meet the Press introduction.

Vice President Joe Biden made news in Meet the Press’ exclusive interview this Sunday. The Vice President told David Gregory, "I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties" and went on to discuss more of his personal feelings on the issue. His comments made headlines in newspapers and across the web. The Washington Post wrote of the interview, “Vice President Biden on Sunday appeared to go further than he has in the past in expressing support for same-sex marriage.” Monday’s front-page New York Times story said “In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Biden invoked some of the same language that advocates of same-sex marriage use, speaking of family, equality and love” and noted that “The comments, which aides described as the off-the-cuff views of a vice president not known for fidelity to a script, sent the White House scrambling to clarify that Mr. Biden was not articulating an official change in policy.” The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Post – among many others – also highlighted Biden’s comments Sunday. You can watch what he said in the exclusive interview below.

The Journal also noted the Vice President’s foreign policy comments on Sunday in a story about Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng: “Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," defended the Obama administration's handling of the case. "We have not, in any way, backed off of our commitment to human rights," he said.” And the LA Times reported that Biden compared Mitt Romney’s national security credentials to those of Mitt Romney: “Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday morning that American national security wouldn’t be as strong if Republican Mitt Romney were president, based on his recent assertion that Russia is the country’s ‘No. 1 geopolitical foe.’ ‘If that’s his prism through which he views our national security interests, I would say it would not be as strong,’ Biden told David Gregory on ‘Meet the Press.’”

You can watch Sunday’s full Meet the Press on MeetThePressNBC.com.

We had a busy Meet the Press this morning with headlines out of both the Romney and Obama campaigns. 

Vice President Joe Biden made news in showing his support for Gay marriage.

"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties." (You can read more about Biden's comments from NBC's Carrie Dann)

On the economy, Biden also defended the administration's jobs record saying there has been "steady growth" and "no stagnation."

As the president's opponent, Mitt Romney, decides on his own running mate, one of those people mentioned as a possibility is New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte. She was on our roundtable today and did more than leave the door open to being Romney's pick.

When David asked Ayotte if she was ready to be president, she replied, "I have great experience as attorney general of the state. I'm very proud of that experience. And i would say i have, some would say, better experience than Barack Obama had when he was Senator and ran."

However, Ayotte added that her main focus right now is "serving New Hampshire."

You can watch our entire conversation on our website to hear more of David's interview with Vice President Biden as well as our roundtable featuring Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH); Chief Economist from Mesirow Financial Diane Swonk; and NBC's Chuck Todd and Tom Brokaw.

We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.

David discusses the week in politics, including the new jobs numbers released on Friday and how they will affect the 2012 general election race.

Robert De Niro lamented the "shenanigans" and "divisiveness" that have become a mainstay in Washington politics.

In a PRESS Pass interview with David, the Academy Award-winning actor said politicians should put party labels aside for the sake of the country.

As an Obama supporter since the 2008 campaign, De Niro thinks the president has done a “good job,” although he says the political gamesmanship of Washington is “upsetting.”

“Everybody sees [politics] as just a game,” he said. “It’s really about doing something.”

With Manhattan's newest and highest-soaring skyscraper at One World Trade Center – and the still-clanging drills of the active construction site audible below - De Niro discussed the impact of his efforts as an ambassador of sorts to help rebuild lower Manhattan after the 9/11 tragedy. He said he spent the years after the tragedy trying to “drum up business” in the neighborhood that had been decimated by dust and debris from the towers. One such effort was the Tribeca Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2002.

A little more than ten years after the attacks, De Niro reflected on the meaning and importance of the newest member to the Manhattan skyline. The memorial will be completed “and we will move on,” he said. 

“But we must never forget.”

You can watch David's entire interview with Robert De Niro above to hear more of his thoughts on the President's record, and even learn about his process for developing the characters he plays. 

Answer: Montgomery Blair High School

The day of his last Meet the Press appearance, then-Senator John F. Kennedy coined one a phrase that would become part of the program’s history. Kennedy  appeared on Meet the Press on October 16, 1960 – during the final three weeks of his campaign against Richard Nixon. Later that day the Senator spoke at a local high school, Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring, Maryland. He described his campaign to the audience: “We have been to New Jersey today and Delaware – and to the fifty-first state, as I call Meet the Press.” The name stuck, and Meet the Press would continue to be an essential stop, a “fifty-first state” for candidates running for president and campaigning across the country.

Kennedy arrived at Montgomery Blair High School after facing a tough grilling on Meet the Press. The threat of the Soviet Union and China had occupied the nation during the campaign, and the MTP panel focused on the Democrat’s views of foreign affairs, compared to those of Nixon. Throughout the interview they kept to the program’s tradition of holding the guest to account for his previous words, particularly his claims that he would be a stronger leader in foreign policy than Nixon. Permanent panel member Lawrence Spivak was, characteristically, one of the most contentious questioners, and pressed Kennedy on whether there was really so much daylight between his views and those of his opponents. Spivak noted that Kennedy and Nixon agreed that the United States was the strongest military power in the world, and asked the Senator “why do you continue to make an issue of our military strength?” Kennedy fired back that “When I talk about prestige, I am talking about the image of the United States abroad, militarily, economically, politically, socially, scientifically, educationally. I believe in all those areas our relative position is not satisfactory.” Spivak continued to respond that Kennedy had previously agreed with Nixon in his comments about American power -- until  Kennedy finally drew a sharper contrast between himself and his opponent: “There is no note of urgency in the messages, which Mr. Nixon has been giving in the last two months. They have been reassuring, and I don’t think these are times when we can reassure ourselves that we are stronger, better, that our power and influence is growing.”

October 16 also marked Kennedy’s final appearance on the “fifty-first state”; and he would of course go on to win the election for President three weeks later. You can watch his exchange with Spivak in the 1960 clip below.

Senior Obama campaign strategist Robert Gibbs defended his boss this morning from attacks on the president's economic policies. Gibbs claimed the Romney campaign's only message is: "You didn't clean up our mess fast enough."

In addition to the economy, foreign policy played a big part in the discussion as the one year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden approaches. President Obama's campaign released an ad this week featuring former President Bill Clinton that questions whether or not Romney would have made the call to approve the raid. Romney strategist Ed Gillespie accused the president of politicizing the event. 

"He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans... and he's managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack."

Plus our roundtable examined The Deciders in the upcoming election, specifically the impact that women voters will have. We were joined by the Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen; Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA); MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow; and Republican strategist Alex Castellanos.

You can watch the entire program on our website including our special PRESS Pass conversation featuring a general election preview with SNL stars Jason Sudeikis (Mitt Romney) and Fred Armisen (President Obama).

We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press. 

David discusses the week in politics, and the race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney now that Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee.

When it comes to politics and comedy, there’s nothing that compares to the cast, crew, and writers of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. So as the general election gets underway and Mitt Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, we thought we’d bring you a preview an Obama-Romney matchup, Saturday Night Live style.

After nine years and what will be his third election cycle with SNL, veteran Jason Sudeikis thinks politics can be "repetitive."

Sudeikis, who is the late-night comedy program's version of Mitt Romney joked that his candidate is "as bland as bland can be."

"He's like a butter sandwich -- unsalted butter -- and the crust cut off," Sudeikis said during a PRESS Pass interview along with his SNL counterpart Fred Armisen. 

Armisen, who plays President Obama for the show, argues that there's not one specific thing that helps him impersonate the president. Instead, he says, it's a culmination of a lot of little things.

"It's the writing, it’s like the outfit, it's the makeup; it's a lot of things that come together -- even the set -- that make it work."

Sudeikis, in true bipartisan fashion, also plays Vice President Biden on the show. As for his inspiration for Biden? “Joe Biden is like a version of my dad. Just a guy that feels like when he’s talking to you he’s gonna slap you on the back too hard, and you’re just like ‘oh my God!”

Watch David's entire interview with SNL's Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis above to hear more about political comedy, and watch their characters make the case for their own re-election.