ford then gets another phone call from alexander haig, and he said, mr. ford, i need to see you, and you cannot bring bob hartman with you. ford goes back to hague's office, and hague shares with gerald ford the contents of the smoking gun conversation, from 1972, where richard nixon tells bob haldeman on the tape, another story, tells bob haldeman on tape that he is to stop the cia investigation of watergate. it is an obstruction of justice, and nixon was guilty of it. end of that story. ford sees the transcript and knows that nixon has to resign. both hague and ford, mr. vice president, are you willing and able to take over the office of presidency of the united states at a moments notice, and ford said, yes, i am, and then hague said, but wait a minute. i am prepared to talk to you about a list of options. these options can take place if you choose to add president. one of them is, as hague says to ford, the option of pardoning the president. ford does nothing. in fact, he leaves hague with the feeling that perhaps he is considering it. he leaves the m

and directly next to that alexander haig reporting -- >> bye-bye alexander. >> and the other one you mentioned that george bush and jaworski had a connection. i wanted your take on how those two things might have played out the. >> i don't know the details. i know because of texas politics and houston politics they knew each other. i've seen some correspondence, most of it not germane at the bush library. in terms of a being farmed out to nato. that's part of a systematic part that gets back to this gentleman's question here. ford, too late decides he has to have his own administration and starts to move out is the members of the nixon administration. who does he get in? chief hoff staff, congressman from illinois, don rumsfeld who brings him with him a completely unknown kid from wyoming as his assistant chief of staff, dick cheney. you have ford being brought in at the cia. they call it the ford foul ball dagues. so many will go to work for ronald reagan or george bush and they say they really learned their craft under president ford. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you. >> yes, sir

that has given cabinet members like secretary of state alexander haig the ability to ask president reagan for a simple green light. what he said, according to nancy reagan, is give me the word and i will turn that bleeping island into a parking lot. what would seem puzzling -- think of this will stop 16 -- six feet to 1500 feet relationship, what would seem puzzling to a visitor from another planet is why, when the cubans have refused to behave of way we want them to that the castro government was not thrown out of office and cuba wasn't turned into a parking lot. how did they manage to get away with it? we could squish them easily. how do we manage to get away with it? it's costly, especially in the currency that might matter most in the end, which is global opinion. so unless there is a crisis like the cuban missile crisis of 1962, which i would be happy to talk about, this is a crisis, why bother? we have so many other important things to do. you living right now in a week where more attention has been given to cuba than any time says they shoot down of the brothers to the rescue plane

and that has also given cabinet members like secretary of state alexander haig the ability to ask president reagan for a simple green light. what he said, according to nancy reagan, is you just give me the word and i will turn that bleeping island into a parking lot. what would seem puzzling to a visitor from another planet is why when the cubans refused to behave the way we want them to the castro government was not thrown out of office. cuba wasn't turned into a parking lot, how they managed to get away with it. we could squish them easily. how have we managed to get away with it? first of all, it is costly especially in the currency that might matter the most in the end which is global opinion. so unless there is a crisis like the cuban missile crisis of 1962, which i would be happy to talk about later if you like unless there is a crisis, why bother? we have so many other important things to do. you are living right now in the week where more attention has been given to cuba than any time since probably the shootdown of the rescue plan in 1996. this is an unusual moment. basically if so

and that has also given a cabinet members like secretary of state alexander haig the ability to ask president reagan for a simple green light. what he said according to nancy reagan is you just give me the word and i will turn that bleeping island into a parking lot. whatwould seem puzzling, would seem puzzling to a visitor from visitor from another planet is why when the cubans refused to behave the way we want them to the castro government was not thrown out of office. cuba was an turned into a parking lot, how they managed to get away with it. we could squish them easily. how have we managed to get away with it? first of all, it is costly especially in the currency that might matter the most in the end which is global opinion. so unless there is a crisis like the cuban missile crisis of 1962 which i would be happy to talk about later if you like, unless there is a crisis, why bother. we have so many other important things to do. you are living right now in the week where more attention has been given to cuba than any time since probably the shootdown of the rescue plan in 1996. this is an