one ratio that edward levi begin to think about was the intelligence culminated in the enactment in 1977 after edward left office. do i talk about the problem that was about and how edward levi came to conceive of those problems? >> this is another area which was remarkably uncomfortable. there was no statute that provided for getting moorings to do electronic surveillance, including break-ins to plant microphones and other surveillance. there was no statute that provided the power to issue a warrant in spy versus spy kinds of cases or in cases involving positive core intelligence. that is you try to find out what none for sirius doing, not just doing against you in an intelligent site tv about to do to you. there's no provision. there is a lot of activity. there is still the soviet union at that time and there is a lot of espionage activity going. the watergate. had thoroughly discounted the idea that national security could provide a justification. the courts -- the supreme court had never spoken on whether there was inherent power on the part of the president to authorize electronic s

honored to be able to discuss one of the most extraordinary period in the life, an amazing man, edward levi. i don't plan to recount the details of levi's biography, which are well-known to everyone in this community presentation in his role as an alumnus to our law school president of the university. part of a plan to describe his critical of monumental role as attorney general, which are panel i promise to introduce in a moment is here to discuss. they do want to say a few words about what someone means to me as dean of our great law school. i've been thinking a great deal lately about leadership, male leadership of the law school and what i hope our law school does to generate great leaders in many of her students in the audience today. for anyone who holds the office of dean of the university of chicago law school, edward levi looms large. then legacy of leadership is everywhere in the law school, which he did so much to shape. it would be an exaggeration to say in my decision-making process, i often ask myself, why would someone do a quick since i was not fortunate to know him, and mus

outside the box perhaps, never outside the constitution. >> so, jack, one of the challenges that edward levi faced had to do with how the government would read just itself so as to avoid some of those abuses. readjust itself. could you talk about how came to life and how attorney general levi responded to that situation? >> so, it was an fbi program, counterintelligence program. it was, the product, the basis for it was supposedly that by taking steps of action one could prevent violations of the law. what it had really done was a program which they were directed against foreign agents, but the ones, those are typically not the ones that were controversi controversial. the ones that were very controversial rant against political organizations, and they were civil rights organizations and antiwar organizations and so forth. and they became in the language of the post-watergate period or the watergate ready get -- rhetoric, they were dirty tricks kind of things. edward said that those that were not foolish were outrageous. and so part of the response was to say that, to reveal and actually som

of attorney general edward levi.as a booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> it comes from the decision to resign from the saturday night massacre, which should be called an involuntary manslaughter, because nixon didn't tonight. he just wandered into it. some believe that the president has the ability to control everyone and fire and subordinate herself. includes insubordination on national tv. whether a president is wise to exercise that authority history to decide. this attorney general had promised the senate that he would maintain the special prosecutor in place. and he ought to be how to resign when nixon asked him to fire the cost. but he had not made any such promise and he thought he was entitled to dig his own grave. he also thought that he should not appear to be part of this. the deputy talk to my resignation. the line of succession and the department of justice after the solicitor general. so bob had walked the plank on department of justice would've been leaderless. no one knew wha

he was on the list that edward levy sent to president ford of possibilities. but had he quit, the nation as a whole would have suffered. so he stayed in office, in the sg's office. he was so determined not to benefit that he turned down an opportunity to be appointed as attorney general, he turned down the chance to work from the attorney general's more elegant office, he avoided the attorney general's private dining room, and he even turned down the attorney general's chauffer and limousine during the time he was acting attorney general. i can't say much more about those times. today occupied the last six months of 1973, and i did not arrive in the solicitor general's office until mid 1974. but everything bob bork says in his book he said in 1974 too. richardson, ruckelshaus and the people who worked with him most closely then such as edmund kitsch and keith jones tell the same story. and bork's narration in the book is entirely consistent with the man i knew for 40 years; intellectual, considering consequences before acting and absolutely honest. he's also t

prime-time programming at 11:00 eastern with a panel on the career and speeches of attorney-general edward levi. booktv.org for more on the television schedule. >> this department may be nearing a stage where frequency of this crime and perception that there is tolerance of it could very well undermine our ability to effectively carry out the mission and recruit and retain the good people we need. that is unacceptable to me and the leaders of this institution and it should be unacceptable to everyone associated with the united states military. we need cultural change where every service members treated with dignity and respect, where all allegations of inappropriate behavior are treated with seriousness, where victims's privacy is protected, bystanders are motivated to intervene, where offenders know that they will be held accountable by strong and effective systems of justice. >> defense secretary haig allow lines new initiatives to fight sexual assault in the armed services today and 1:40 p.m. eastern, sunday morning at 10:30 senior diplomat in libya gregory hicks before the house oversight c