it was robert schuller and his television broadcast and the crystal cathedral that parted the watersfor the churches that followed. >> the cathedral is one of the most recognizable churches in the country designed as a window on god. in his prime, he towered as high as his church. >> this is the day the lord has made. let us rejoice. >> robert schuller drew international recognition as one of the first to spread the word from the electronic pulpit. one of the first of the tell evangelists. >> hour of power. >>> schuler said if you can dream it, you can do it. his dream built a ministry that once reached 20 million people around the world. this sunday, the ministry returns to its root with a sermon to be delivered by schuller's daughter in the multiplex across the street. they were forced out of the church her father started. >> it's not maybe the story or script that you would want to write for your life. but it doesn't matter. >> from a peak in the '90s. the aging congregation dwindled. the recession hit and income dropped by a third. elaborate holiday pro ducks helped push the chur

let us rejoice. >> reporter: robert schuller drew international recognition as one of the first to spreadthe word from the electronic pulpit, one of the first of the tell evangelists. >> hour of power. >> schuller said you could dream it, you can do it. his dream built a ministry that once reached 20 million people around the world. but this sunday the ministry returns to its roots with a serm mon to be delivered by schuller's daughter in the movie multi-pleks across the street. she and the extended schuller family were forced out of the church her father started. >> it's not maybe the story or script you would want to write for your life, but it doesn't matter. >> reporter: from a peek in the 90s, the cathedral's aging congregation dwindled and income dropped by 1/3. elaborate holiday celebrations pushed the church to bankruptcy. it's devolved into lawsuits and robert schuller's only son is estranged from the family. >> reporter: did you go too big? >> i don't think so. i think i'd rather grow too big and implode than not try to reach all those people. >> reporter: last sunday sheila col

the ministry in bankruptcy and the church building sold to the catholic church, the reverend robert schuller and his wife announced over the weekend their family is leaving the ministry he founded four decades ago. >>> former first lady pat nixon's 100th birthday would have been this friday. to mark the occasion, the nixon library has released some letters from her husband. let's just say they give us a whole new picture of the man known forever in history for a whole lot of other things. our report tonight from nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: to describe richard nixon, who would use the words "playful, corny, romantic"? after all, his boldness and brilliance were matched and eventually overwhelmed by his political and personal ruthlessness that led to the watergate scandal and to these unprecedented words -- >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> reporter: now the letters between the ambitious young lawyer just moved to washington, d.c., and pretty thelma catherine ryan, known to all as pat, whom he'd asked to marry him on their first date. he writes to his irish gy

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