he'd been with nixon since the 1950s, and he'd become nixon's chief of staff. john ehrlichman was haldeman classmate at ucla. he was nixon's first counsel, and then headed his domestic affairs unit, where he was my boss in the bottom are the actual crooks, the mid-level soldiers, who got their hands dirty, the break in or in the cover. interesting. labor had not been active in the 68 campaign, but they sure were in the second with gordon liddy was a former fbi agent. remember, he'd masterminded the plumbers break in, andy masterminded the watergate break in. jim magruder was a public relations staff member who had been sent early to the reelection committee to get things running while. they waited for john mitchell to arrive from the department of justice. john dean was erlichman successor as nixon's counsel. he ended up running cover up and was described by the fbi as watergate master manipulator. all these people have passed away except john dean. all of the people wrote books about their watergate. except john mitchell. but james rosen did a wonderful biogra

. >> paul nixon. >> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game. it actually says here, george washington of washington, on chapter one, page seven of washington, an american soldier says he throws or catches the ball for hours with his aid and probably working with rounders. the bridge game with eight precursor. >> there are a lot of books or stories about baseball is involved, and it evolved in part out of the british rounders. there have even been stories about how baseball goes back many centuries or something similar to baseball goes back many centuries, but i don't ink we have any indication that there is not any real involvement of that in the lincoln cartoons. >> fred, over the years, why have there been such a close relationship between presidents and the sport? >> a lot of things state back to the first pitch position, and a started in 1910. but it is really two years later when a new manager came in name clark griffith. he was an owner of a team, and he saw a lucky opportunity. he said let's make this an annual tradition. that's what wen

nixon wrote a letter saying he should run for office trum wrote nixon letter saying he was a great man. so it was a lesson lesson an nixon was. you can obstruct justice you can almost bring down democracy but you'll get pardoned in the end by geral ford those days are over as o tonight and thank. and we no longer have th danger of a lawless presiden who can do terrible things assuming - >> what was the u.s. reaction. the public reaction to the pardon but also to wha preceded net the supreme court going essentially up against nixon directly on things lik the white house tapes which le to his resignation was the public reacting to those things in a way that showed him sympathy or inclination towards one side o another in those previou fights >> the country - one month to nixon resigned in august of 1974 he'd been quite popular. his parole rating has droppe about 20 or 25% people were so angry. thursday there's some people who think that nixon and for made a deal where nixon woul leave office and fort wort respond by giving him th presidency some people even think tha ford russo frayed of

around with him in nixon's post presidency trump even try to get nixon to move into trump tower, and the light and the 80, t speak together that point is that for someone like trump, to the extent he knows anything about history a all, the lesson he would'v taken away from what richard nixon did in watergate was yes nixon was in jeopardy of being indicted and going to prison but gerald ford had pardon him almost immediately, and nixo spent years of his seaside manchin near the pacific trump may have taken from that the worst that could happen to me, no matter what i do as president, it's been like nixo with forward i will be able to spend that time by my seaside mansion and -- in palm beach. if gerald ford, at the ver least, not pardoned nixon on month after nixon resigned, at least if he had waited for nixon to be fingerprinted an actually indicted, maybe a least part of the trial to g on, that would have been the message to later presidents. you break the law, you are going to suffer th consequences the same as any other american citizen i honored -- >> you saw, i wasn't sure if i

and i don't think he ever got over jane his you know what nixon. nixon did to him. yeah. he never nixon wrote him letters. he refused respond. he was sort of an exculpatory he said that he voted with nixon. so much because he saw a certain centralist strain in nixon, which would be evident in like revenue sharing. but watergate was also interesting because he he spoke of it. the break in is like a frat boy prank. it was embarrassing the cover up in lie was were worse but he thought nixon's greatest crimes were in the impeachment indictment up the the use of the fbi and the irs against political opponents and political dissenters is actually one amusing scene where it's in july i think. and he's talking to wilbur mills and mills. so something like, oh, what are you doing this weekend? this is why i'm going home. i'm taking in mounds, evidence from the judiciary committee, and i'm going to read through it and was like, well, your boy scout is going to read through. come on, who hasn't made his mind up by now? but, you know, as jane often, i mean, he was a boy scout and jane

welcome to the richard nixon presidential library and museum. my name is jim byron and i the honor of being the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it's my pleasure to begin this evening by recognize seeing a few special guests. and i'll start with a member of our board of directors the former governor of california, wilson and first lady gayle wilson. you. steve craig, a member of the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation. maureen nunn, longtime board member. sandy quinn, the board member and former president of the nixon foundation. dr. daniel stroupe, president of chapman university and a member of the board. and thank you to all of our board members that are here tonight. i'd also like to recognize lisa sparks, chairwoman of the orange county board of education and fred whitaker, chairman of the republican party of orange county. thank you both for being here. i want to acknowledge and thank all of the members of the president's council, the associates club in our audience and, those who are watching tonight onlin

nixon. and in 1995, i actually talked to gerald ford and said, why didn't you at least wait until nixon went through the process and was at least fingerprinted so you could show someone who steals a can of hairspray in a store that there's equal justice in this country? and what ford said was, i don't think the american people have the stomach for a former president being indicted and going through a trial and going to jail. i didn't want the country to be distracted he also said that i had heard that mr. nixon's health was bad, there were even rumors he was so depressed he might take his own life, so it was punishment enough for nixon to have to accept a pardon. my view would be, and i feel more strongly about it than i did even on that day, that if you want presidents not to behave lawlessly, they have to expect that if they do the kind of things that donald trump we now see has just been indicted for, before he was president, some of the things he may be indicted for as president, and som

that is mitch mcconnell standing up, decades after nixon said, that contradicting richard nixon and saysecute him for anything he did while he was president. >> exactly. and, i think, you know, we've spent a lot of time focusing, of course, on the hush money payments to former adult film star in recent weeks, but she may or may not be indicted for soon. but remember, who while he was in office, he also fomented insurrection. the worst attack our nation's capital nation's history. he also intervene him self into the outcome of an election in georgia. that's not something that is presidential behavior. not only took classified documents, but now we learned in the last few days, lawrence, he lied to his own lawyer about those classified documents. those are historic actions, as well. i think that's important to remember. as you mentioned earlier, our 42 presidents, i think it's important for the public to know, this is not just not normal behavior, but the vast, vast majority of people who serve in the oval office, who said the resolute desk, or whatever test may choose, do it with respect

he did that like nixon.a federal probe during his presidency, which may have weighed on his mind, showing people, look, no one should get in trouble for what they do in office. when trump was under that federal probe, bob mueller and deputy andrew weissman conducted a probe and followed the doj rules against indicting a sitting president. there is no such rule, again, protecting a former president. and that veteran prosecutor, andrew weissman, joins me when we're back in one minute. helps restore gum health, and rehardens enamel. i'm a big advocate of recommending things that i know work. you're doing business in an app driven, multi-cloud world. that's why you choose vmware. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enterprise control, vmware helps you keep your cloud options open. >>> joining me now is one of the top prosecutors i mentioned leading that mueller probe, andrew weissman. he's hosting a new podcast surz "prosecuting donald trump." welcome back, sir. >> nice to be he

she was mentioned 100 times as you report on the nixon tapes., held her captive in a motel room in california so she wouldn't talk during one of the key weekends. how did this all happen? >> yeah, well, martha mitchell was actually someone that the nixon administration enjoyed having in their corner in the early years. they really sort of deemed her an unofficial spokeswoman for the administration. so she was very convenient, and they were able to use her and use her popularity in a way that leveraged the power of the administration. until she started speaking out against the administration saying the vietnam war stinks and saying things out of turn. we always say that martha colored outside of the lines, and that made her a very inconvenient person for the administration after all. she was privy to some of the dirty things happening. we don't know exactly what she knew, but she -- you know, she knew things that were going on, and she was willing to speak out against, you know, the most powerful government in the world, so she was incredibly bra

nixon it's 1960. you >> do everything including your makeup. >> before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you've been asking a lot of questions this hour and, i know nobody's been able to ask you thi question yet can i just get your kind o chris opener in terms of how much you think this changes th country, if at all >> i think it changes th country, and i think there's kind of a no going back in thi to it that i think is correct. i have to say, in this is weird to say, back to you, the monologue you did about that this is happened before, thoug not surfaced specifically th president citing the menende trial, the john edwards trial, has been the north star for me and the thing that i'm kind of holding to, almost aspirationally which is othe countries have done this, we have done it in other contexts and if the law is to mea anything, this is part of what that law means, even if, i people think it's a bad case and they don't have the good then he's acquitted. he gets his rightful due process an

with warm regards, richard nixon. that letter is from a new book, from donald trump, coming out next month. and it is titled, letters to trump. it includes correspondence with celebrities and dignitaries and former presidents, including, apparently, richard nixon. today, trump called nixon, a very interesting guy, and informed reporters that nixon's biggest regret was resigning amidst the watergate scandal. the twice impeached trump went on to say that, unlike nixon, he does have public support and, if it were him, trump would not have resigned as nixon did. now it is quite fitting for president trump to be focused on president nixon today, endorsing that he would not have resigned during watergate, because trump now finds himself under federal investigation, or rather federal investigations, plural. special counsel jack smith is overseeing two sprawling criminal inquiries into the former president regarding events surrounding january 6th and classified documents that trump kept hidden at mar-a-lago. yesterday, a brig

of staff alexander hague that nixon was going to get pardon anyway he should make a big statement of contrition. we now know that nixon never felt in danger during that months i guarantee you that donal trump feels in danger tonight. we all just saw that video that is not someone who is calm >> glenn, i need not remind you, i need not remind our audience that this is only one path t accountability for the forme president. we've talked about new york. let's talk about this testimon from trump's attorney. you have the washington post reporting, quote, trum spokesman stephen chung said the prosecutors's efforts to solicit testimony from corcora was assigned their investigation was in trouble whenever prosecutors target th attorneys, that's usually good indication thei underlying case is very weak your response to that? >> yeah, i think they ar targeting donald trump's criminal defense attorneys they are investigating obstruction of justice involving some of our nation's most highly guarded classified documents. we don't often try to take the attorney who is representing a defendant or a

three articles of impeachment against nixon resigned in disgrace.the full house never voted on the articles of impeachment. i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. his successor , president gerald ford, pardoned him and nixon was never indicted. more than 20. years later, another president was staring down. an indictment did not have sexual relations with that woman. miss lewinsky that was president bill clinton in january, 1998 denying he had an affair with then white house intern monica lewinsky. that same month. he denied it again under oath during a deposition in a sexual harassment case brought against him by a woman named paula jones. months later, he reversed course. in a deposition in january, i was asked questions about my relationship with monica lewinsky. while my answers were legally accurate. i did not volunteer information. indeed, i did have a relationship with mr lynskey that was not appropriate. clinton had perjured himself during that earlier deposition by falsely claiming he hadn't had sexual relations with lewin

but we are at the nixon library and lot of out of the 11th and that's first lady pat nixon just. she's deserving of so much applause because she really was so special. she was the first first of so many firsts, really. she was she was the first first lady to ever go to active combat zone vietnam, where she visited orphanages and these wounded soldiers, these wounded american heroes first lady, first first lady in africa, one of my favorites, first first lady to throw out the first pitch at an mlb game. all of this. but so many people, they don't know this. they don't know about the path she paid for women that came after her. she they don't they don't know how special she was. so do we bring a woman like pat nixon to the fore front of the woman empowerment movement? you know, i think we have to talk about them. and that was the thing is the hardest part, when you can only do ten, there are so many women that have really laid the groundwork for what's happened the country. and that's why i loved reading those biographies of first ladies, because these ladies really steered the cou

could be fingerprinted, and he would have a harder time in the future arguing, as nixon did for thes, i didn't do much that other presidents have not done i was railroaded i was treated unfairly, and ford -- and i respect his point of view -- felt that the american people just would not tolerate the idea of a pre president, i think given what we've seen with donald trump, that has to bow to constraints against a lawless president. we now are confronted with a president, donald trump, who seems to have done possibly lawless things before he became president, which is what we're talking about now, while he was president instituted, encouraged an insurrection that almost took down our democracy after he was president in terms of what he did with classified documents and other things as well the only way that you can stop people from doing such things is for there to be a penalty, and if there's no penalty, this is going to happen again and our democracy might be taken down by some future president. >> this is going to become, to both of you, this is going to become such a part of histo

after those, we'll hear from richard nixon, 1969. richard nixon talked about e great silent majority. and in 1974, he resigned from office beginning now. here's lyndon johnson. president hatcher. governor romney. senators mcnamara and hart. congressman meader and stabler. and other members of the pine michigan delegation. members of the graduating class. my fellow americans, it is a great pleasure to be here today. this universe today has been coeducational. since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said, and i quote, i choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school. well, we can find both here at michigan, although perhaps a different ours. i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son's education had been a real value. it stopped his mother from bragging about him. i have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of yo

from richard nixon to jerry fort, the kind of communication that report murdaugh is proposing here. richard nixon seemed to believe that it was possibly illegal for him to request -- from jerry forte, the vice president, in order to then hand over the presidency to him by resigning. is what rupert murdoch was advocating there, that trump make a deal with mike pence for -- resigned, pence becomes president, gives him a pardon, could that be illegal deal report murdaugh was proposing? >> so, i have a factual and, legal answer for you. i think the factual part is important to note there is this is just a week after january 6th and you have the head of fulton's realizing that donald trump has criminal exposure for what just happened. this, it didn't take the january six committee to do that, but he knew exactly what was going on. he -- because he thinks there is no potential liability in that by the way, -- this is just relating to what happened six days before that. so that is sort of a important factual point. just as an aside, this is, this is the new station, news in square quotes t

and not so the pardon was as much for gerald ford as it was for richard nixon. i don't think that the men were close, but they weren't really, really good friends and i don't think it was a matter of compassion or even protecting the presidency. i think it was the ford presidency itself that was jeopardized by the ongoing investigations. and we've just learned as we are talking right now that the former president trump will be arraigned on tuesday at 2 15 pm in manhattan in this hush money case, there are a lot of questions being raised right now by people whether they like trump or not. democrats and republicans about the nature of this case, you have david urban in a quote to the washington post, saying, if you're going to indict the president, there should be a dead body laying next to him, and this is far from it. what's your view on that? well first of all, we do not know exactly what those 30 plus counts of the indictment might be. ah so that's where all speculating still at this point , i am from what i've heard over the last 24 hours. think this is a hea

we now know that nixon never felt in danger during that month. i guarantee you that donal trump feels endangered tonight we all just saw that video that is not someone who is calm >> glenn, i need not read mind you. i need not remind our audience this is on the own path to accountability for the forme president. let's talk about new york an this ruling on testimony fro trump's attorney in th classified documents the washington post reported quote, trump spokesperso stephen chung -- to solicit testimony fro corcoran which was found whe the investigation was in trouble. when they ever they target a attorney, that usually is an indication that the underlying case is very weak. you response to that, glenn? >> yeah, i think they ar targeting donald trump's criminal defense attorneys because they are investigating obstruction of justice involving some of our nation's most highly guarded secrets, classified documents it is rare we don't often try to take the attorney who's representing defendant or target in a grand jury investigation and put tha person

he'll be saying nixon's most famous line if you get him to say that. a couple weeks ago here on this show we talked about something happening abroad. we talked about big growing protests in israel, protests against a plan by that country emphasis prime minister to effectively take over the judicial system in that country, to take over the courts merchandise. the prime minister in israel is facing criminal corruption charges himself, and show he says the court system is out of control and he's going to bring it under control, specifically he's going to bring it under his control and he's basically going to take it ever. so law enforcement and the courts would no longer be independent. he would consolidate power massively by consolidating control over that part of the government, which would no more push back for anything he wanted to, and also presumably the corruption charges would go poof. and once that happens, of course, you don't have to worry about dissuaded from any other potential crimes that might capture your fancy in the future pause you cont

in this episode, we'll hear from two presidents lyndon johnson and richard nixon. lbj was president of the united states fro19 to 1969, and during those turbulent years, he often invoked america's better angels in speeches. and he also talked about his vision of a great society. and he went to the statue of liberty to sign an immigration bill. after those, we'll hear from richard nixon, 1969. richard nixonald about the great silent majority. and in 1974, he resigned from office beginning now. here's lyndon johnson. president hatcher. governor romney. senators mcnamara and hart. congressman meader and stabler. and other members of the pine michigan delegation. members of the graduating class. my fellow americans, it is a great pleasure to be here today. this universe today has been coeducational. since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a detroit high school girl said, and i quote, in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school. well, we can find both here at m

richard nixon .ey got as far as drafting one they were going to charge him with obstruction of justice and bribery for the cover up. but then he was pardoned and that ended the drafting drill. so that's as close as we got with nixon with with bill clinton. there was talk of it. the special prosecutor, robert ray, let him know that he was subject to an indictment. but they backed off and got a deal beforehand. so we've never been here before. this is a new page in american history is this bad for american history or good for american history. we were just having this debate on our panel. l z was saying that you know, this is what democracy is. but of course, it is unsettling to see a former u. s. president be indicted. it's unsettling, but it's not the first public figure or presidential aspirant or senator or member of the house or judge or what have you to be indicted? so are all our other public figures have indeed been subject to the criminal justice process? only a president so far, and that's pr

nixon had to leave the room, but after nixon had to leave the room, the seeds were planted in a very charismatic governor of california campaigning for the presidency in 1980. really courted evangelical christians, such to the point that the sitting president, jimmy carter, who at that time and still is an evangelical christian there was a that we turned our back on you jimmy. behind jerry falwell, the pride of virginia. can i call him that man now? anyway, behind jerry falwell, a native virginian, i believe. certainly someone who led a ministry here in virginia and a deliberate attempt to bring evangelical christian into politics surrounding and supporting the 1980 presidential candidate of the republican party. reagan. ronald reagan made this is cited in the book ronald reagan made famous quote in the 1980 presidential election, you can endorse me, but i certainly endorse you. right. that created a that lasted for 40 years at least. nick's life, please. and why do i say that? union? because what richard nixon began, what ronald reagan solidified and gave us, make america great agai

what next should nixon was par of pedro ford, a lot of people rightly set, why does nixon ge off.drugstore, that person wil have to go to jail we have decided that i everyone is subjected to law and this is a government o laws, not of men and women hard to do that a presidents get off all scott-free >> michael beschloss, i got to and might week for you o friday when i was in for stephanie ruhle at the 11t hour i get to wrap up my work weekend with you on american forces, thank you so much, a always >> my honor, as always, than you, alicia. >> what is still misunderstood about addiction? our conversation with -- i, here's a look at what els is ahead tonight on msnbc. >> hey there, i am ayman mohyeldin, tonight on ayman, i will speak with congressman' don't often, a former member o the january 6th select committee on donald trump an his expectation that he will b arrested that is tonight nine eastern right here on msnbc. what if all i do isn't enough? or what if i can do diabetes differently? (avo) now you can with once-weekly mounjaro. mounjaro helps your body regulate blood sugar,

he has previous include richard nixon the life which won the pen. jacqueline belgrad world award for biography and the new york historical society. barbara and david, the lines neck. sorry about that book book prize for american history and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in 2018. clarence darrow, attorney for the -- and tip o'neill for the. and tip o'neill the democratic century. he has also earned a george polk award, the gerald r prize and white house association honors for his coverage of the presidency during a prize winning career as a journalist, including distinguished service at the boston globe. and i'm also so glad to welcome our moderator for this david nasaw back to the library. he's the author of the patriarch the remarkable life and turbulent times of joseph kennedy, which was selected by the new york times as one of the ten best books of the year and a 2013 pulitzer prize finalist in biography. andrew carnegie, a new york times notable book of the year and recipient of the new york historical society's american history book pri

. >> paul nixon. >> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game.actually says here, george washington of washington, on chapter one, page seven of washington, an american soldier says he throws or catches the ball for hours with his aid and probably working with rounders. the bridge game with eight precursor. >> there are a lot of books or stories about baseball is involved, and it evolved in part out of the british rounders. there have even been stories about how baseball goes back many centuries or something similar to baseball goes back many centuries, but i don't ink we have any indication that there is not any real involvement of that in the lincoln cartoons. >> fred, over the years, why have there been such a close relationship between presidents and the sport? >> a lot of things state back to the first pitch position, and a started in 1910. but it is really two years later when a new manager came in name clark griffith. he was an owner of a team, and he saw a lucky opportunity. he said let's make this an annual tradition. that's what went ba

. >> paul nixon. >> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game.actually says here, george washington of washington, on chapter one, page seven of washington, an american soldier says he throws or catches the ball for hours with his aid and probably working with rounders. the bridge game with eight precursor. >> there are a lot of books or stories about baseball is involved, and it evolved in part out of the british rounders. there have even been stories about how baseball goes back many centuries or something similar to baseball goes back many centuries, but i don't ink we have any indication that there is not any real involvement of that in the lincoln cartoons. >> fred, over the years, why have there been such a close relationship between presidents and the sport? >> a lot of things state back to the first pitch position, and a started in 1910. but it is really two years later when a new manager came in name clark griffith. he was an owner of a team, and he saw a lucky opportunity. he said let's make this an annual tradition. that's what went ba

and that's exactly the kind of like nixon's they're very of based on economic opportunity. and that's that's not nothing that's not to say those things are bad necessarily good. but but it's different than having a more comprehensive plan about federal involvement and equal opportunity about bolstering voting and these things were important to the administration. and there there's plenty of evidence that carter was carter was in these ideas. he agreed with these ideas that even as a as a person in the south, he had actually borne personal cost as a business person, not joining these kind of reactive southern white citizens councils and things. but when it came to being president just wasn't at the top of his agenda and he has sort a mixed legacy for that reason in them. and the early part of the administration, the supreme heard a big case on affirmative action and the administration was really torn internally about exactly where to go with that. but they ended up kind of coming out in general support of of the concept of affirmative action. but again, that's kind of reacti