carl albert tells richard nixon, i can get you jerry ford. nixon makes that choice and ford goes through an extended investigation -- background information. even as he is selected, there is this whirlwind of controversy surrounding richard nixon and over the matter of watergate. nefarious activities that have taken place during the 1972 election and before involving secret tapes, bucking opposition offices, and a number of other issues that many people believed the president himself have been involved in. what nixon was involved in was obstructing the investigation into it. even for is being investigated. there are a number who believe they are not choosing the next vice resident but the next president of the united states. president next and nominates gerald ford to full the vacancy for vice residency. over 400 fbi agents spread out to investigate congressman ford. he passes the investigation, the results are handed to congress. congress schedules of vote on his nomination. this is the card that speaker of the house carl albert hands to jerr

. >> catherine, in the modern era, you think of a guy like jerry ford, came from the house of representativese he was a giant representing his district out in grand rapids. and so many of his thoughts and deeds every day were kind of party minded. he thought like a legislator and a local party guy. there is none of that now. what can donald trump start giving these gop men and women to run on and defend their seats with? >> that's a good question and it's complicated because of course donald trump is not a traditional republican, even though obviously he won the republican nomination and went on to run with all these members. so, some of them have to make different choices about whether they run on what the white house is doing, whether they try and go it alone. and it depends a lot -- i mean, a lot of these races do vary by district, but obviously a mid-term election can be a referendum of the president and the work of the president and congress. and, so, i think we're going to really see how, how voters feel about that. >> rick stengel, if you sent president trump out to campaign for folks,

used to call the spokes of the wheel, where money is in charge, that it took jerry ford about a to figure out that that was a disaster. >> dickerson: ken, in the current administration, you have achieve of staff, you have steve bannon advising the president who is quite powerful and you have the president's daughter, who also has an important role and then you have the president easton law, that is at least four people with, i don't know whether you wanted to call it walk into the white house office, privileges or seems to be on the same kind of power level. how do you evaluate that power structure in terms of the job that achieve of staff has to get done? >> by chris's, going by chris's comment the president needs to empower one person to be the white house chief of staff and the funnel rather than the spokes of the wheel, the person in reince priebus who has to be designated as first among equals. he is the person who may be the partner and may be a partnership of the white house with lots of people but he is the senior partner. >> dick cheney once told me, you can't have eigh

as i'm talking to him, i say, you were a close friend of jerry ford, who succeeded nixon and pardon himand a close friend of nixon. did you play any role and nixon's resignation quest mark -- resignation? he said, oh yeah. i told nixon he would be pardoned. everyone has said they were -- there was no deal were nixon would be pardoned. here he was in his mid-90's telling me this. i asked him to tell me again. finally i said, you are telling me something that is going to be very controversial because there has always been both presidents insisting that there was no deal, and you are saying that you did convey word that he would get a pardon if he resigned. he said, i predicted. i wasn't conveying word. this was my conclusion that i predicted. so what do you do with that? do you put that in the book and make it a selling point, that you've got proof of a deal? or do you realize that at 95, he's an old man doing his best are member the things. having written a memoir which doesn't say this at all may have been mistaken. brian: let me begin with another source note on another page. pardoned

when you start talking personnel changes in any administration whether jimmy carter in 1989 or jerry ford1975 getting rid of rockefeller or george w. bush getting rid of his chief of staff, good indication you're in trouble, all three lost, and that's going on right now i think. steve bannon made an incredibly dumb move and that is you don't put the boss in the position of being forced to choose between your favorite child's spouse jared kushner and him, and it looks like that's what bannon has done and he's coming up short. >> woodruff: what about that, david? what's going on? >> from what we can tell, two things, one, they've had a series of failurs and i hope they recognize them as failures -- the healthcare, budget failures, a series of other things -- and second the poisonous atmosphere within the administration. if you talk to people working within the administration from outside or those from within, they all describe a scorpions in the bottle type atmosphere and that's something the president engineered himself by deciding who's going to be with him one second, who's not going to

jimmy carter didn't run around trashing jerry ford all day. it isn't what you did.ver trashed george herbert walker bush once he got to be president. they were all positive presidents whatever their limits were. they didn't spend all day trashing their predecessor. >> we've never had a president with the temperament of donald trump. >> it's not normal. >> obama also has been more critical of donald trump since he took office than george w. bush was of obama. george w. bush famously retreated from the spotlight and never said a word in criticism of obama. >> who threw the first stone, trump or obama? >> obama has come out of the wood work repeatedly or he's been asked, but he has weighed in on things trump has done, so i think trump feels he's justified. >> i don't think so. >> you hit on something with the low unemployment because what happened there is as simplistic as it sounds, he needs to make america great again or he needs to be able to tell people that america is great again. it's all about those numbers. if the unemployment numbers, the economic growth numbe

because i really like jerry ford because i got to know him very , well. thought he was a decent man. i'm not saying he was a great politician but he was a good friend and i always admired him. i will tell you a funny story about him. he came to campaign for the presidency in 76. even after he lost he would come back and we would campaign together. we were going down to a fundraiser. we went to the airport and i got in the car with him and we drove to newport. we got to newport in here to -- down there and we had to stop at a hotel. what is the name of that hotel? hyatt i think. thing witho a press one of the channels. i stayed outside. there was a big crowd there. we stayed for half an hour to -- then he got back into the car. but there was a third guy in the car. so i knew who he was. he sat in the car in the jump seat and it was only a five-minute ride to go to this house we were going to to go to this party. and, so this guy said, this is 1976, i'm going to go here and i'm going to campaign here and go to alaska and do this, that and the other. we got