haldeman, number 148963 the. i cringe. we pushed forward to greet him, but b is distracted, guiding us towards the door in the opposite side of the room. he tells us to hurry if want to get seats at the table in the patio. the guys told me outside his best place to be explained. the three of us step out into a small, grassy area, which is enclosed on three sides by the l-shaped visitors center and the camp chapel. it's open to the road -- and painted white line runs along the edge of the asphalt. but doesn't relax until we are seated at one of the picnic tables. as we need bob and his mother are both at ease and animated. i feel restrained and out of sorts. sharing stories with us about when in the camp -- bob described an overly strict guard named, deputy dog. he talks about one of the guys try to blow up his mother's plane after he took out life insurance on her. [laughter] bob tells us he lives in a multistory dorm with over 400 other inmates. he is signed cubicle, which he refers to as his house, a five foot high parti

named haldeman in his testimony. >> 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 to the truth had just gotten long

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. 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. ,oining me is michael elzie national archives director of the presidential library, and all of those present today. [applause] >> before he introduced larry larry higby, i'd like to recognize three of joe and bob's children. children.ob's thank you. [applause] wo of our foundation friends who knew bob alderman well are also here. now a board member of the next foundation, cindy quinn. [applause] truly remarkable and very special woman who was a use it -- at ucla with bob alterman in the post-world war ii years, she took a train to washington dc after graduating. in july of 1951, rosemary woods hired her to join the staff of t

[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 with the dates he filled in, january 18 through april 25. when it came to the last page she began the next volume. this handwriting that he was famous for looked like. also interested in developing tec

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.

for harry robbins haldeman. >> haldeman and ehrlichman were, like, brothers to nixon at times.ry possible personal and professional role for him. haldeman and erhlichman understood the importance of protecting the president. >> i knew haldeman to say hello to, although he was a much-feared figure. and i remember my father used to call him the "jolly steel buzz saw." >> you wanna understand bob haldeman? look at his haircut. >> bob 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 ful

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

bob haldeman in serving an 18 month prison sentence.gs 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 1990's, that for a black man to aspire

and haldeman wants no, i think these catholic. i don't know what either one would have to do with it but the role of mark felt in the case of watergate is extremely significant. when i think of vietnam dish don't know what the first thought that comes to your mind is -- it's the pentagon papers and when i think of the pentagon papers i think of daniel elseburg and the work that daniel elsberg did in the 1970 and continues to do, including writing a very nice blush for the book that i'm very proud of and in june i'm going to appear with daniel elsburg in berkeley. when you think of the scandals of torture and abuse become that the need nor a whistle-blowers think about abu ghraib. that involved a whistleblower. know edward snowden is extremely controversial and it's clear he broke laws. edward snowden admitted to the fact he has broken certain laws dealing with certain kinds of intelligence, communications intelligence, signals intelligence, but edward snowden told us about unconstitutional -- not just illegal but unconstitutional

. >> i guess somewhere this came with maybe haldeman said give me a tough sob, you have to be an sob to be good? >> i think it depends on the president's personality. the one thing the chief of staff cannot do is be inconsistent with the way the president runs the white house, so no, i don't think you have to be an sob. you have to be tough sometimes. you have to make the hard decisions and be able to either fire someone or reassign someone from one position to another position. that's not easy, because you know these people worry, working with these people, so toughness, yes. >> there are three functions that any chief of staff has to meet. first is the care and feeding of the president. and that is a logistical khan, it is also paying attention to the state of mind of the president and the roller coaster that the president might be on, the emotional roller coaster and that's a large job many people don't pay attention too to but it is all coconsume fog a chief of staff and then you have the policy debate, the chief of staff manages policy debate, not necessarily the policy but the

so when the tapes come out that he's talked to haldeman within days of the break-in about using the c.i.a. to block the f.b.i. investigation, you know, it decimates his defense. so he's clearly involved all the way along. host: john dean, who served as white house counsel until he was fired in april of 1973. if you go to cnn.com, some of the watergate fast facts have been posted on the cnn web sited. you can check it out at cnn.com. by the way, john dean is our guest on c-span's "the sidebar," our weekly podcast, and he reflects on exactly where he was 45 years ago, returning from the philippines, expected to stay in san francisco, but rushing back to washington when he got word about the break-in. his immediate words were, what did chuck get us into? the full podcast on our website at c-span.org. brian is first up, utah, independent line. good morning. caller: hey. is that you guys? host: yes, good morning, brian. caller: ok. i'm scared for our country. there's no water great crap going on right now. but the media, you know, you go throw a lie out, and then everybody runs with it, and it

it is not as powerful as hearing the voice of nixon and haldeman, his chief of staff.here is no substitute for that. but it is pretty close. and remember, the president threatened that there are tapes. so, maybe there are. that would be very exciting. so, i am waiting to see what accumulation of evidence this drip-drip-drip of pieces of fact and facts matter. soledad: jill wine-banks thank you for joining us. next.cer: president trump: i was elected to represent the people of pittsburgh -- not paris. announcer: the president pulls out of the paris accord. soledad: so, pulling out -- what does that mean? announcer: find out how the decision could affect you. and later -- >> dr. martin luther king was assassinated. and my school refused to put the flfl announcer: what are the lessons soledad: it is news some would call a decision heard around the world. president trump, who has previously called global warming "a hoax," announces his decision on u.s. participation in the paris climate agreement. president trump: the united states will withdraw from the paris climate acco

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,

on the presidency, joe haldeman offers and insider's view into richard andn's white house watergate.> the white house phone rings and i instantly assume it is that dreaded call from nexen. the conversation is surprisingly brief. the president wants my husband and me to chopper to camp david. --n the white house rings phone rings again, i struggle to stay composed. that was ron zigler, bob says. feels verynt now strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. washington journal continues. host: welcome back. frank mora is with us. he directs the latin and center at florida international university and we are talking about the future of u.s.-cuba policy under the trump administration. yesterday, as you well know, president trump said he was canceling as what he views the obama administration's completely one-sided deal with cuba. he did less than that. tell us about it. guest: he did a lot less. i think there is a lot less continuity to change from obama's policy. two fundamental changes, americans will be restric

walters, testified to a very bizarre meeting he had at the white house with nixon's two top aides, hr haldemannd john ehrlichman and the head of the cia was -- cia was there. ehrlichman directed the cia to tell the fbi to hold off a bit on the investigation of watergate because it might compromise cia secrets. that messageered on behalf of the cia but when he went back to langley he checked to see whether it was in fact true, and discovered the cia had no participation as an organization in the watergate break-in and that it had no secrets to worry about being disclosed. this sets up a very big obstruction of justice problem for richard nixon that when it was ultimately resolved over a year ago -- padilla year later, chris -- a year later, precipitated his resignation. richard next tape recorded his oval office conversations because alexander butterfield testifies to that before the senate watergate committee. it will be possible to tell objectively whether richard nixon obstructed justice, whether he gave the order to have the cia shut off the fbi investigation. the watergate committee and ar

i want to start with you professor haldeman. what are the dangers of manipulation of voter registration database? if it isn't apparent until election day when big show up at the polls to vote? this coulderned that be used to try to sabotage the election process election day. if voters are removed from the database and they show up on election day that is going to cause problems, if voters are added to registration database that can be used. i am trying to get my arms around this world of contractors , any ideantractors even a ballpark number of how many of these people there are? 10, 70, 200? vendors that host the voters registration system? i'm sorry, i don't have an answer >>. i don't have an exact number, but in indiana we have six different voting types but they are all certified the program. >> somebody is doing over theseon contractors and subcontractors and equipment vendors and the like? does that include voting machines? >> it does. most states will have a mechanism to certify the voting machines they are using, the tab

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

haldeman said, so what's different here? >> i don't think mr. dershowitz is correct. there is no general structure or constitutional principle that overrides the obstruction of justice law. it can't be the case that the president has absolute plenary authority to do whatever he was with the law enforcement machinery or the -- for "house of cards" fans it would be like if president underwood in that show during the timed the fbi to stop investigating his chief of staff who, you know -- spoiler alert -- at some point in the show knows a lot about what the president has done in violation of the law. that wouldsh -- >> be prepared for a lot of tweets there on the spoil are drop. the president pushed back on comey's testimony sometimes say it vindicated him, other times says comey was not truthful. does it make sense for the president to act in this way, do the strategy? or does this carry a risk? >> i think it's not that unusual of a kind of defense strategy in a criminal investigation. you on which fight on several fronts as once, you might concede certain things, and th

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

people can go listen to the testimony before congress just last week by alec haldeman, one of the foremostrts, it's not rocket science. we need to make our system protected not just get russian interference or chinese or mafia but also private corporations who, for example, control our voting software and have a stake in the outcome of the election. this system needs to be protected so americans can have faith and confidence in in it. >> okay, i'm for all of that. now, take me inside the dinner you had with vladimir putin in 2015 and the prominence it afforded you. my question is was that in and of itself a form of meddling along the lines of let me give some attention to green party candidate jill stein on any theory -- you know the theory -- any vote for stein say vote that otherwise would have gone to hillary. what was that dinner about? tell me about it? >> let's be clear, that was a conference. and that picture didn't start to circulate until long after the election. it essentially wasn't covered here in the u.s. there was media at that conference. and it was a day-long conference whe

haldeman, nixon, they are all involved in this, 1970. following is a summary of the most pertinent conclusions from my meeting with the three network chief executive spirit one, the networks are terribly nervous over the uncertain state of the law, the recent state decisions and granting congress access to tv. they are also apprehensive about us. why did you put that memo in the book? tom: because of the licensing control that was vested in washington, ostensibly, in an independent regulatory agency, but the factor, there is political control. and the nixon administration had a very pointed policy to talk to the network chiefs, particularly the presence of the news divisions, at the three network, cbs, and bc, and to tell them -- cbs, nbc, abc and to tell them they were not happy with the reporting, with the content and they would look at regulatory options. they would look at the fairness doctrine and foresman and look at licensing issues and make things difficult for the corporations in the economic sense. so, this happens early on in

and all nixon says to what haldeman is saying, all he ever says is uh-huh. and that was enough. that was a sking gun. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> he doesn't have the declarative statements that president trump has in all of these conversations. >> no. in fact, if you look at one of the other conversations in that -- the watergate investigation, where john dean was present and they talk about paying hush money to the burglars, including howard hunt, and then they're talking about a million dollars in hush money, all that nixon says is "but that would be wrong." >> yes, yes. sometimes it's just a wink, a nod, a little bit of a gesture. but here, i mean, it's so explicit. and on top of it all, you've got his admission on lester holt that in fact he had russia on his mind when he got rid of comey. and you've got the tweet that essentially is an effort at witness tampering against comey by threatening him with a potential tape if he goes out and leaks information. >> it's astonishing. nick akerman, ron klain, thank you both for joining us tonight. we're going to be back tomorrow ni

>> 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

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

haldeman and nixon saying how can we use the cia to get the fbi to stop investigating the water goitd breakin? this is trying to stop the fbi from investigating his close soeshs. that's what trump is doing. >> i agree with that. >> do you take its -- take all of this to mean that as well, given of course that comey d.l. say in here he was willing to assure the president that the president himself was not under investigation. if he wasn't under investigation, how could he be obstructing that or do you see the flynn thing as enough to do that. >> i also -- you have to look at this statement in a larger context and that is the firing of jim comey. >> yes. job and what was said by the president in the -- and the reason for it, that he wanted to stop the investigation. also i think we ought to clarify -- and i don't know the answer to this -- but i don't think comey released this statement. typically the senate has rules for their committees. >> he did not. >> it was the senate committee that released it. >> he asked for it to be released. >> oh. >> he did want it to be released. >> actual

haldeman after watergate, six days after the watergate break-in, they have this fbi investigation that they can't control. >> exactly. >> and they come up with this idea of telling the fooe that the cia wants this investigation stopped and it's that tape that's the smoking gun tape that persuades the house judiciary committee to vote to impeach richard nixon. >> there are two people the president is concerned about here. for some reason, general flynn -- >> always. >> -- always reminding comey, can't you tell people publicly that i'm really not the person you are looking at here? and, of course, comey couldn't do that because things change and there were different investigations going on and maybe he wasn't the subject of a counterintelligence investigation but maybe something else. so the president, you can just sense his frustration. this is a cloud hanging over my administration. i have to get rid of it. you have to clear this up for me. this is -- and he gets more and more frustrated before comey's testimony on may 3rd but you can imagine the president having all of this garbage no

i mean, the june 23rd, 1973, the so-called smoking gun tape between hr haldeman and richard nixon was their agreement to pretend to use the cia to stop the investigation of the watergate break-in. this conversation was president trump saying to director comey, stop the investigation of michael flynn. it's the use of presidential power to stop an fbi investigation for an improper purpose. >> jeff, can i ask you a question about this? there was a crime, everybody knew there was a crime. there was a break-in at the watergate. do we know that flynn has committed a crime? >> by no means. >> that's my question, i'm not a lawyer. if he hasn't committed a crime, does that make it a weaker case? >> not under the statute. and another question that i think a lot of people have is, well, if he didn't successfully obstruct justice, is it obstruction of justice? because after all, the president did not stop the fbi investigation. but the statute is very clear that an attempt to obstruct justice, even if it's unsuccessful, is obstruction of justice. >> i think it was the national review i saw someon

on the 45th anniversary at the watergate breakin joe haldeman offers an insiders view into richard nixon's white house. >> the white house phone rings and i instancely assume it's that dreaded call from nixon. the conversation was surprisingly belief. the president wants john and me to meet him at camp david at 1: 30 today. when the white house phone rings again, i fight to stay composed. that was ron zeigler, press secretary. bob says he's at camp david, too. the president now feels very strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.o c-span.org. >> next a look at the future of historically black colleges and universities. speakers focus on outreach and recruitment efforts and funding challenges. from the american enterprise institute, this is an hour and a half. >> so first of all, let me say welcome. my name is gerard robinson, i'm a resident fellow of education and policy studies hire at the american enterprise institute. for those of you who are here for the first time, welcome to our lovely home. for those of you w

eastern on "the presidency," joe haldeman offers an insider's --w into richard nixon's jill haldeman offers an insider's view into richard nixon's white house. house phone rings and i instantly assume it's the dreaded call from nixon. the conversation is surprisingly brief. me president wants john and to meet him at camp david later that day. when the phone rings again, i find him composed. that was the press secretary, he says. he is at cap david, too. the president now feels very strongly that john and i should volunteer to resign. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. services johnd mccain was critical of the trump administration for not having a comprehensive strategy for the ongoing war in afghanistan. defense secretary james mattis and the chair of the great of staff took questions from senator mccain -- general dunford to questions from senator mccain.