system, lobbied the press secretary and others, not only why she should get the interview but why diane sawyer should not. the abc washington bureau chief who was in the middle of this into been very much involved, it is diane's turn, diane is going to get this interview if we get one, she got a call from the persecutory said we've decided it is going to barbara. so they understood this would cause internal consternation. she said the good news is we've got the interview with clinton, the bad news is the white house is giving it to barbara and he exploded in anger because it was just the latest, the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of barbara's rivalry with diane, diane was complaining about that and he said to the washington bureau chief of abc turn it down, tell them we won't take it. which is as you know unheard-of, totally unheard of. -of. you don't turn down an interview with the president because they won't give it -- that's not the right word. they tried to say this will not be kept quiet. the world will know it and it will be embarrassing and turn it down and hung up. a frien

barbara walters had had to scrap and struggle every step of the way and diane sawyer to have a much easier path to getting to this job of being of anchoring her own interview show on abc and i think that diane, who i interviewed for the book was taken aback by the ferocity of the rivalry that barbara greeted her with. what astonishes and again i was white house in washington i was not in new york when when the two of them competed to try to get the same newsmaker interviews. but i do remember didn't see it as it happened. bill clinton was president. united states. and as people may know, the white house hands out network interview not to the white house reporters, but to the big anchor stars. and it was kind of abc sees turn what happened. so roone arledge decreed roone arledge the head of the news division decree, said that it was turn and diane would get if the network got a bill clinton interview, which wasn't guaranteed, but they thought was entirely possible. that it was supposed to go to diane and talk about ignoring a rule. barbara walters went around the system, lobbied mike mccurr

barbara walter had to scrap and struggle every step of the latey diane sawyer had a much easier path of anchoring her own interview show on abc. and i think diane when interviewed for the book was taken aback by the rivalry that barbara greeted her with. >> what astonishes me i was white house in washington i was not in new york on the two of them competed to try to get this to same newsmaker interviews. i remember as it happened bill clinton was president of the united states. ast people may note the white house and that network injuries not to the white house reporters but to the big anchor stars. it wasas kind of abc's intern. what happened? >> he did create as a head that news division decreed s that it was diane's turn and diane would get it. if the network got a bill clinton interviewed which was not guaranteed but they thought was entirely possible it was supposed to go to diane. on talk about ignoring a rule. barbara walters went around the system, lobby the press secretary and others explain not only why she should get the interview but why diane sawyer should not. the abc wa

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nixon's chief editorial assistant organizing to researching and writing of his memoirs, wiki with diane sawyer. frank received his bs in from the georgetown university school of foreign service, a masters from the london school of economics and a phd from oxford. ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in welcoming dwight chapin and frank gannon. [applause] okay. good evening. ladies and gentlemen. what a great great group we have here. i want to thank you all for coming. this obviously is a huge occasion for me, and i am really honored to have frank here asking the questions. so we hope you enjoy it. we're going to have some q&a at the end and be thinking of any questions you might have as you listen to us. frank well again, thank you for being here and helping to launch dwight's a superb hook. it's quite a story. it's ranges over a whole period of history and a whole period and whole gamut of emotions from this little plenty of ecstasy, but there's a lot of agony. it's sort of goes from the kansas to the white house to the forbidden city to the lompoc federal correctional institution.

speaking to diane sawyer in 2003 -- >> does graceland seem like another world away? like home? >> it's kind of a sad thing. a life that existed there at one time, and the history, and -- there was so much life. but -- it's still home to me, very much. when i'm there. >> reporter: after lisa marie's tragic death last year at 54, she was buried near her father on graceland's grounds. >> there was so many mixed signals in lisa marie's last few months or so. you know, she went to a golden globe ceremony. she just didn't look physically well. at the same time, she went to graceland just a few days before she died. >> this year's been 18 incredible year. >> ask visited her father's grave and said she had so much more she wanted to do. >> reporter: the estate was partially passed down to one of her daughters, actress riley keough. but earlier this year, a group calling themselves nassani investment is announced great land would be sold off to the highest bidder, claiming lisa marie presley had taken out a $3.8 million loan using graceland as collateral. >> anyone who studie

a year before his death, the actor speaking to our diane sawyer about his decades-long battle with addiction. >> addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together, one day at a time, we can beat it down. >> yeah. your disease is just outside, just doing one-armed pushups, just waiting, just waiting for you, waiting to get you alone. >> reporter: and david, a short time ago, in that courthouse, dr. plasencia pleading not guilty. he faces up to life in prison if convicted. and jasveen sangha, the so-called ketamine queen, she faces up to 120 years, if she's convicted. she also pleaded not guilty. earlier today, the family of keith morrison, who is the stepfather of matthew perry, put out a statement saying they remain heartbroken by the loss, but they hope that justice takes its course. david? >> david: matt gutman leading us off from los angeles tonight. matt, thank you. >>> we turn now to hurricane ernesto, growing in strength at this hour, taking aim at bermuda now, churning in the waters off the east coast and the threat now to the east of this

i think that there's been revisionism and rehabilitation pat buchanan diane sawyer all these people excusing the thugs so as you look back now did we i mean to be honest the republican party ended up being vengeance full they felt like they were decapitated their leader and the washington post did it and in fact, it was itself implosion by thugs so there's a cultural discord from this moment and if you could just talk to us from your perspective now your comments did we learn anything? yeah. thank you. actually, we're 50 years from the watergate breaking june 1972. and next month will be the 50th anniversary of the watergate break-in which gives you a certain detachment and historical perspective. um, you know, everything is relative. and of course nixon was i mean he committed criminal acts while in office for which he was forced to resign. and and as i say the well, the cover-up is technically it's called obstruction of justice and his aids went to prison for that. but you know since i've i mean some people say that my book is more sympathetic to nixon than some other books. i'm actually i

i think that there's been revisionism and rehabilitation pat buchanan diane sawyer all these people excusing the thugs so as you look back now did we i mean to be honest the republican party ended up being vengeance full they felt like they were decapitated their leader and the washington post did it and in fact, it was itself implosion by thugs so there's a cultural discord from this moment and if you could just talk to us from your perspective now your comments did we learn anything? yeah. thank you. actually, we're 50 years from the watergate breaking june 1972. and next month will be the 50th anniversary of the watergate break-in which gives you a certain detachment and historical perspective. um, you know, everything is relative. and of course nixon was i mean he committed criminal acts while in office for which he was forced to resign. and and as i say the well, the cover-up is technically it's called obstruction of justice and his aids went to prison for that. but you know since i've i mean some people say that my book is more sympathetic to nixon than some other books. i'm actually i

if you if you recognize her from abc, cbs news, that's diane sawyer. and that young man looks like george clooney with glasses. and that's ray price. the other fellow's ray price, who was president nixon's chief speechwriter in the white house. anyway, those were the briefing books we used over two months of preparation for the interviews with, david frost. but it was it was critical that we had to get that done and get behind. but it's important. it was important to write this chapter because the movie by ron howard, the frost nixon movie, a distortion, and the book's the frost nixon there is where have been the distortion and the play. so this is the first inside view of the frost nixon and it was a momentous decision on nixon's part because it got he got watergate behind them and put him in front of the people to for to acknowledge that he did in fact, in in parts mislead the american people on some of the small things, in his judgment. but he said on the big things he's that he told the american people it was was the fundamental truth. but it was i

nixon cheap editorial assistant organizing the researching and writing of his memoirs working and diane sawyerfrank received his bs from georgetown university school ford servicece master's in the london school of economics and a phd from oxford. ladies and gentlemen would you please join me and walking dwight chapin and frank gannon? thank you. good evening ladies and gentlemen. what a great, great group we havean here. i want to thank you all for coming. this obviously is a huge occasion for me. i am really honored to have frank here asking the questions. we hope you enjoy it. we will have q&a at the end. be thinking of any questions you might have as you listen to us. frank? >> well, again thank you. thank you for being here. and helping to launch the whites book. it's quite a story. it ranges over the whole period of history on the whole gamut of emotions plenty of ecstasy but a lot of agony for the forbidden cityfe to the federal instituti. it's a book for all seasons. contemplating beginning a career in thinking about public service and thinkt about other older people who are assessing o

nry kissinger the us secretary of state el patrick gray t former acting director of the fbi diane sawyer worked for a while befor going to network television in the nix wte house john dean. who was nixon's cncil in the early days of the watergate scandal pat buchanan, who is a nixon aid who leran for president three times? sticking and faing to win the republican nomination for esency alexander hague who was nixon's chief of sta later in the watergate period ron ziegler, he was the press crary. the one who mentioned who referred to wergate famously as a third rate burglary. theseer all among the candidates these and many more were identified as likely sources. likely to have been deep throat. in fact, there were college courses. one of them at the university of illinois that spent semesters. digging through the tips and clues and hints and all the president's been to try to figure out. who the most likely source was? and one of these efforts identified pat buchanan an arch conservative republican who seemed on his face to be quite unlikely to have been deep throat. but since he was a nat

carter press secretary, and diane sawyer, co-host of cbs morning news and two panels with lucy turbin, linda chance and robin sisson ford, vance and allen si grace who was franklin delano roosevelt's granddaughter betty ford, welcomed and did a keynote speech. speech, as well as dr. gore. and i'm going to take the liberty of quoting because unfortunately, the keynote speeches were not filmed and so on. we have the written remarks from the keynote speeches, betty ford stated the conference goal saying today we have started a new and i hope a continuing we have set out to look at what the role of a first lady has been and what direction that role take for the future. we are the first formed group effort to bring definition to a job that has no job description but has been, by tradition, individual preferences. i hope our two days will focus future attention on what just might be one of the most demand jobs in the federal government, excepting perhaps the job the first lady has. goals keynote address for. she received a standing ovation. i communicated with google that all of this he sta