bob haldeman cated the modern office of the president. on his first day on the job, as white house chief of staff, bob was 43 years old. even more strange, i was 23 years old! [laughter] over the next five years, from 1959-1973, i became known as haldeman's halderman. i took that is the highest praise come about to be honest, i'm not sure most people thought that way. [laughter] i was privileged to go to china and the soviet union and many other places. president and worked to end the vietnam war and set the world on a path to lasting peace. in addition to running the white house office every day, bob had a strong sense of history and his duty to it. he applied this extraordinary discipline in writing and later recording a daily diary of events he experienced and observed. haldeman diaries, available on kindle, is increasingly considered to be one of the most remarkable and insightful windows into the american presidency. at first, bob wrote his diary and longhand. this is what they looked like. here's the title page with the dates and he

fact in essence, bob haldeman created the modern office of the president. job, asirst day on the white house chief of staff, bob was 43 years old. even more strange, i was 23 years old. [laughter] fromthe next five years 1969 to 1973, i became known as haldeman's haldeman. i took that as the highest praise though to be honest i don't think most people saw it that way. privileged to go to china and the soviet union and many other places, as president nick's and worked to end the vietnam war and set the world on president nixon worked to end the vietnam war and set the world on a path to world peace. bob had a strong sense of history. and his duty to it. he applied this extraordinary discipline in writing and later recording a daily diary of the events he experienced and observed. the haldeman diaries, which are now available on kindle, isn't -- is considered to be one of the most remarkable and exciting windows into the american presidency. at first bob wrote his diary and longhand and accountants ledgers. this is what they look like. here's the title page wi

her husband, hr bob haldeman served as 37th president's chief of staff. she shares experts from her book -- excerpts from her book. the richard nixon foundation hosted this hour-long program at the nixon presidential library and museum. >> good morning, welcome. this is the new richard nixon library and museum. i am the president of the richard nixon foundation. i'm glad you are here on a very important day for the foundation and library.

bob and the children. putting the head down i plow through the crowd. mrs. haldeman, jamil's calls out, stopping me in the hall. he expenses and a mock size with me. i want to wish you well, no matter what the up, might be. the heartfelt message from bob's adversary -- puts my emotions over the top. , ihting to hold back tears am more determined than ever to get away. once outside, the tears come -- i can no longer hold them back. and the threeb children find me, i have my emotions under control. it's been a crying day and no one feels like talking. carfestivus onto a bird with one thought in mind -- to get home as quickly as possible. bob told skate -- in the ignition, but nothing happens. he tries again, but the engine won't turn over. getle ignore us as they into their cars and drive away. finding a scarf around his neck -- from bitter cold, leads to get help. returnsasses before he to the cap leaflet we see. that's in a cage -- and exclaims. he is a prisoner. obtaining the assistance of two policemen, bob has returned with them in their patrol car. unfortunately,

but they were wrong. >> i'd never been asked a question about bob haldeman. >> sloan in fact had not timony. the white house pounced. >> i don't respect the type of journalism, the shabby journalism that is being practiced by the "washington post." i use the term shoddy journalism, shabby journalism. i've used the term character assassination. >> this was their opportunity to discredit the "post," woodward and bernstein and bury the story. >> they came after us. ziegler, the press secretary. so we knew that at that point the stakes were very high and we were the targets. >> all i know is that the story that ran this morning is incorrect -- >> we made a mistake. we [ bleep ] up. we had an intellectual understanding of the facts of the story and haldeman's role in watergate, but what was in the "washington post" was untrue. we should not have allowed that to happen. >> i was angry at myself and carl and how we got it wrong. and we thought maybe we are going to have to resign, maybe we should resign. i mean, we were kind of at the end of our rope. >> for woodward and bernstein the path t

her husband, hr bob haldeman served as 37th president's chief of staff. she shares experts from her book -- excerpts from her book. the richard nixon foundation hosted this hour-long program at the nixon presidential library and museum. >> good morning, welcome. this is the new richard nixon library and museum. i am the president of the richard nixon foundation.

her husband, hr bob haldeman served as 37th president's chief of staff. she shares experts from her book -- excerpts from her book. the richard nixon foundation hostedhi

joe haldeman offers an insider's view into richard nixon's white house and the watergate scandal bob haldemanserving an 18 month prison sentence. rings white house phone and i instantly assume it is that dreaded call from nexen. the conversation was surprisingly brief. when the white house phone rings again, i fight to stay composed. that was ron zigler, press secretary. feels verynt now strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. day --ay on cue and >> barack is very deeply committed to presenting his story and i think that is different from history. >> part one of our interview with pulitzer prize-winning author david gero, talking about his book which covers president obama's life up to winning the presidency. political barack's aspirations and sense of destiny lead him to push sheila e. eger aside. baker aside --yeager aside. newhouse, who everyone in black chicago believed could never go higher because he was married to a white woman. so it is in the political tradition of black chicago in the late 1980's, in the early

." >> you wanna understand bob haldeman?ob haldeman was the chief of the staff to the white house. and people said, "whatever haldeman knows, the president knows." >> in february of 1972, the election year, there was one reputable poll that said that one of his opponents, was within one point of beating him in an election. and clearly mr. nixon said, "i'm gonna make certain that my enemies don't get me." >> democratic front runner george mcgovern. >> operation jump stone was a plan of dirty tricks and political tactics leading up to the election year of 1972. nixon would call it hard ball. it wasn't just tough politics. it was criminal behavior. >> i said if you're talking about an all out full out offensive and defensive political intelligence operation you're talking about one hell of a lot of money. >> g. gordon liddy put together a mad cap of crimes. >> each different operation was given a name of a precious gel. we quickly ran out of precious jewels. by the time we were were down to coal and brick. >> liddy was a cowboy

i was a young reporter in california, got to know bob haldeman before he became bob haldeman in a mannerut eight months into the nixon presidency he called me and said, there is a guy who is going to have a conversation with you and you have to listen carefully. when i heard what they had in mind i had heart palpitations. i had to go to the office and say to my boss you can't tell anybody this. new york has got to get me out of it. there was a wonderful man named julian goodman running nbc in those days and happened to be a patron of mine. he went to the white house and said to bob haldeman, look, we have big plans for tom. i only wanted to be a journalist. i didn't want to be a press secretary for anybody at that point. i really wanted to do what i have been doing my whole life. >> when you roo eflect back, hos the press and culture different then compared to now? >> it was a much smaller culture in those days, the press was. karl and bob were unique. they weren't part of the old crowd. the old crowd were in sear-sucker suits and taking notes and falling asleep at briefings. these guys

1973, president nixon talks about watergate, some of his key aides, including jon erlichman and bob haldeman, were let go. >> as the new attorney general, i have today named elliot richardson, a man of unimpeachable integrity and rigorously high principle. i have directed him to do everything necessary to ensure that the department of justice has the confidence and the trust of every law-abiding erson in this country. i have given him absolute authority to make all the decisions bearing upon the prosecution of the watergate case and related matters. i have instructed him that if he should consider appropriate, he has the authority to name a special sprfing prosecutor for matters arising out of the ase. whatever may appear to have been the case before, whatever improper activities may yet be discovered in connection with this whole sordid affair, i want the american people, i want you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that during my term as president, justice will be pursued fairly, fully and impartially. no matter who's involved. this office is a sacred trust. and i am determined to be wort

in one of the tapes he says to his chief of staff bob haldeman, bob, we need more use of wiretapping't get anything more clear-cut than that. that was the smoking gun we didn't hear go off that wasn't discovered until several years ago. one of the things that the trump tweets has done is accelerate this process, instead of having something that drags on for over two years as in watergate, you have things that are happening in matters of weeks or months. >> let me back to that point which is the role of congress in all this. you're saying congress is acting honorably and they are allowing the investigation, certainly to some extent on the senate side. nixon's impeachment got bipartisan support back in the '70s. do you think it is likely we're going to see republicans support a trump impeachment for what so may argue are equivalent infractions? >> i would say no, but there's quibbles to that because, first of all, history says no. we've never had a president impeached and convicted and thrown out of office because it's very difficult. 67 votes in the u.s. senate is a really tough margi

bob haldeman. >> the conversation is surprisingly brief. the president wants john and meet to meet him at camp david at 1:30 today. when the phone rings again, i fight to stay composed. bob says, he is at camp david too.| the president now feels very strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. >> for our complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> next a look at mari security. with vice admiral commander

>> indeed, in which he said to bob haldeman, his chief of staff, i want you to use the cia to stop, blockbi investigation of watergate. >> that was 45 years ago today? >> everything old is new again. >> it's like you create historical reference points as a force field around you, as you move through the world. you're like, i'm going to be here. i'll arrange for something to have happened 45 years ago today that's relevant. >> see what i can do. >> michael, thank you very much. great to have you here. we'll be right back. stay with us. an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. it actually helped to know that somebody else cared and wanted make sure that i was okay. that was really great. we're the rivera family, and we will be with usaa for life. usaa. we know what it means to serve. call today to talk about your insurance needs. >>> we've got one more story there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price matc

when i played the tape the other night, i played it a cup of times where bob haldeman lays out a cases idea that we get the cia to tell pat gray at the cia to lay off this investigation. and all president nixon does on that tape is to say "uh-huh," and you can barely hear the "uh-huh" on the tape. that was enough for one of the elements of obstruction of justice in the articles of impeachment. >> that's right. article i of the impeachment voted by the house in 1974 i guess it was, by the time they got around to voting on it was an attempt to obstruct the investigation of a crime. the difference at this point, lawrence, is this. at this point, the crimes were clear. the crimes were going to send people to prison. the crimes were burglary and ver-up and discovery of evidence and hush money and all the rest. at this point there is no such clear predicate for the cover-up. when mr. nixon said "uh-huh," he didn't even have to say "uh-huh." the very fact that had he remained silent and not objected to this would have been itself incriminating. >> george will, thank you very much for joining

>> indeed, in which he said to bob haldeman, his cleef of staff, i want you to use the cia to stop, blockergate. >> that was 45 years ago today? >> everything old is new again. >> it's like you create historical reference points as a force field around you, as you move through the world. you're like, i'm going to be here. i'll arrange for something to have happened 45 years ago today that's relevant. >> see what i can do. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. stay with us. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get time for more life. this family wanted to keep the game going. son: hey mom, one more game? tech: with safelite, you get a text when we're on our way. you can see exactly when we'll arrive. mom: sure. bring it! tech: i'm micah with safelite. mom: thanks for coming, it's right over here. tech: giving you a few more minutes for what matters most. take care! family: bye! kids singing: safelite® repair, safelite® replace. so when i need to book a hotel to me tharoom,vacation. i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it, with great

her husband, hr bob haldeman served as 37th president's chief of staff. she shares excerpts from her book. "in the shadow of the white house." the richard nixon foundation hosted this hour-long program at the nixon presidential library and museum. >> good morning, welcome. this is the new richard nixon library and museum. i am the president of the richard nixon foundation. i'm glad you are here on a very important day for the foundation and library. joining me in this welcome is michael elzie, national archives director of the presidential library, and all of those present today. in our redcoats and blue coats. [applause] before i introduce larry higby,