leak of a top secret pentagon papers led to a landmark supreme court case and triggered the nixon white house plumbers group that ended up in gaging in watergate the full report has been declassified all seven thousand pages now at least i did national archives. really that's all you got how they are talking about bradley manning in his confinement did you know the government's case against daniel ellsberg where they tried to charge him with espionage conspiracy and all that fell apart because of government misconduct because they tap his phone illegally and they broke into his psychiatry's office to steal his records and yes all of that was wrong but all that pales in comparison to keeping a man locked up in solitary confinement for ten months and then forcing him to strip naked and not allowing him to sleep well mention of that in the press no mention of the fact that the information that daniel ellsberg leaked was classified as top secret that's a higher classification level than everything that we can fix put out there you can't possibly tell me that we're reporting on daniel ellsberg and

and in a sense the pentagon papers fell into the laps of the nixon white house it didn't hurt the nixon administration. >> it wasn't really about them. >> it wasn't about them. henry kissinger national security advisor was negotiating for the opening to china. and he said if we don't do something about this, of course he happened with intense personal dislike for dan elseburg and other people involved -- >> those things were never involved in history reports. >> of course. he said if we don't do something about this, the chinese will never trust us. so reluctantly almost with bliners on the nixon administration went into court, made claims about the danger and national security, the solicitor general at the time griswold later said that he didn't believe the claim that he himself was advancing the courts on behalf of the nixon administration. it was essentially a political prosecution. >> brown: and you referred to watergate earlier there was a tie with the creation of the plumbers, right. >> absolutely. the plumbers, the squads of the nixon administration organized to go after leaks li

as you might expect, the nixon white house was not exactly a hotbed for add miraculous of the foreignst guys for first names who occasionally took time out of their busy day to implement the president's foreign policy. for much of my professional life the secretaries of state and defense were barely speaking to p wynne another. in the we've become cherished colleagues and good friends. i suppose that giving a big speech calling for more money for the state department didn't exactly hour, but we should never forget the it diplomats and development experts from state and aid are making risk ares in some of the planet's least hospitable places. i speak with all of our military in appreciating the contributions they're making every day to our success in the missions in afghanistan, iraq and elsewhere around the globe. in doing my utmost to support the troops downrange, i spent a good deal voicing frustrations to the pentagon bureau crassescy. i did it knowing that those usually were the uniformed men and women. i understand and appreciate the challenges these public servants nais and the

elements of the watergate story has to do with an 18-minute gap in the tapes coming out of the nixon white house. they talked about it in yesterday's " the new york times." what are watergate historians and people who have dug into this subject matter, what are they looking at in that 18.5 minutes? guest: they don't know what is there but that the nature of the erasure raises their suspicion. the five different attempts to arrest it shows the person who erased it tried five times. they decided it was not good enough and erased more. that is very suspicious. the common-sense answer that many people assume and you don't when you are a soon -- when you are an historian, the common- sense answer is that there is speculation that the president thought he better listen to this end he might have thought that was bad any better a racist. the more you listen, the more he thought he had to be raised it. -- erase it. it is remarkable to me what we learn about history given enough time. it is remarkable. what we are learning now about franklin delano roosevelt's era and we read books about him and we read t

host: yes, he worked in the nixon white house during that administration. and then his ideas along with others created the cable network. caller: makes sense. also, is this man's syntax tied in with grover norquist? grover norquist was part of jack of' thing.'s i don't understand why everybody is getting so excited about the tea party. they are severe right-wing. it would be like someone in the democrats talking some crazy tea party thing and call it on the left. 1972 on june 17 is when it happened. caller: i just finished reading a book about nixon. host: that was the day of the break-in. june 17, 1972. caller: i'm sorry. i always celebrate june 16 because my husband came back from vietnam on that host: day thanks for the call. guest: freedomworks is a separate organization from grover norquist. in terms of whether or not the tea party is an extreme right- wing thing, i would invite you to come out to the tea party events in your community and discover that you will meet people from all walks of life who are bound on common-sense values that the government

host: yes, he worked in the nixon white house during that administration. and then his ideas along with others created the cable network. caller: makes sense. also, is this man's syntax tied in with grover norquist? grover norquist was part of jack of' thing.'s i don't understand why everybody is getting so excited about the tea party. they are severe right-wing. it would be like someone in the democrats talking some crazy tea party thing and call it on the left. 1972 on june 17 is when it happened. caller: i just finished reading a book about nixon. host: that was the day of the break-in. june 17, 1972. caller: i'm sorry. i always celebrate june 16 because my husband came back from vietnam on that host: day thanks for the call. guest: freedomworks is a separate organization from grover norquist. in terms of whether or not the tea party is an extreme right- wing thing, i would invite you to come out to the tea party events in your community and discover that you will meet people from all walks of life who are bound on common-sense values that the government

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i thought we had a chance to move into the white house. nixon had left so quickly and an expense believe that, when he resigned, they were not able to pack up all their belongings. so it took six days or seven days. that night, after dad took the oath of office, we went back to our little three-bedroom house in alexandria, va. i will never forget my mother standing over the stove that night cooking. [laughter] and thinking -- she said you know, jerry, something is wrong here. [laughter] you just became president of the united states and i am still cooking. [laughter] so the bubble around the president's let back in 1974 is a little different than it is today. let me hand at citations and awards and we will get to our keynote speaker general scowcroft. our first award is reporting on the presidency. this is the gerald ford prize distinguished award for reporting on the presidency 2010. the judges for the presidency of pet -- have selected steve, as the winner of the 24th annual gerald r. ford prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency. i

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the nixon white house was not exactly a hotbed of admiration for the foreign service.was thought of as people with last names for first names who took time to implement the president's foreign policy. for much of my professional life, the secretary of defense and the president were barely speaking. i have not only been on speaking terms with these formidable women, but we have also become colleagues and good friends. giving a speech for more money for the state department did not hurt, but we should never forget the development experts who are taking risks and making sacrifices in the least hospitable places on the planet. and i appreciate the sacrifices they are making for afghanistan and iraq and other places across the globe. as i were to support the soldiers on these missions i spent a great deal of time venting frustration with the bureaucracy. the people most often frustrated in this building are the career civilian professionals whose drive every day to overcome the obstacles to get things done. i understand and i appreciate the challenges of these public servan

house and put your child in school. the motto around here has become innocent until nominated. every legal counsel since president nixon of the white house agrees with what i have just said. in the name of effective government, this process ought to be changed. there are some limits on what we can do in the senate. we have to respect separation of powers. in the end, the president has to conduct his own vetting process, and in the end, the senate must conduct its own veegz, but we might work together to look at possible ways of reducing burdens and delays in the appointment process, and that's what the executive branch working group provided for in our legislation -- and our legislation says. it would be chaired by the director of the office of presidential personnel and members would include representatives from the office of personnel management, the office of government ethics, the f.b.i., individuals appointed by the chair who have experience and expertise, individuals from other agencies, other individuals from previous administrations, and they would report to us in 90 days on a smart form. a smart form would simply be a sing

congressional approval ratings down to 16%-- and that's lower than richard nixon's approval ratings when he was forced out of the white house-- it seems to me this is not just a problem for democrats. >> it's a problem for the institution. this is getting beyond ridiculous. i feel so sorry for huma and her family most of all. we have to get this behind us because it's a distraction. yes, he should resign. i don't take pleasure in saying that. we have important work to do, and this is just a ridiculous distraction. >> schieffer: is there something that can be done to speed this along? >> well, there is a process. it would take a little while for this process to go through. there are censuring and... you'd have to go through a process, you'd have to go through the ethics committee would have to process. this would take time. i think the fastest best way is for anthony to resign. >> effectively, i think paul and i and probably all his colleagues agree that any process, judicial process through the ethics committee is going to take time. i don't know that we have that time. i would hope that mr. weiner would use this opportunit

nixon. it was a very serious meeting, though, that day in the white house. ring his help in fighting the drug problem. >> yeah, believe it or not, this meeting inspired president nixon to announce the start of the war on drugs 40 years ago today. we're going to have a story of a family who has suffered personal tragedy in that battle and that is comipng up. >>> welcome back. >> half past the hour now. >>> ahead in saudi arabia a potential revolution under way. women there are fighting for their right to drive. today, activists are kicking off the women to drive campaign an effort to defy that law and the latest on it coming up. >>> first, betty nguyen is at the headlines desk with the top headlines of the morning. >>> good morning. >>> ten days after admitting he sex sexted women online, anthony weiner is stepping down. >> i am announcing my resignation from congress. >> reporter: hecklerring punctuated his announcement. weiner's wife did not appear with him during his resignation announcement. >>> a security scare outside the pentagon this morning. u.s. park

white house. i thought you got a chance to move into the white house and nixon left so quickly and unexpectedly when he resigned to the were not able to pack up all their belongings so it took six or seven days. so that night after he took the oath of office, we went back to our three-bedroom house in alexandria virginia, and i will never forget my mother standing over the stove that might cooking. [laughter] she said jerry, something is wrong here. [laughter] you just became president of the united states and i'm still cooking. [laughter] of double boiler and the president's life in '74 was different than it is today. let me handle these citations and awards and get on to the keynote speaker, general scowcroft. the first award is reporting on the presidency. this is a gerald ford journalism prize to a distinguished reporting on the presidency in 2010. let me read the citation. the judges for the presidency selected steve of feed mcclatchy newspapers as the 24th annual gerald ford prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency. in his reporting, steve demonstrates a clear understanding that not

white house. he got a chance to move in the white house and nixon had left so quickly, so unexpectedly that they were enabled to pack up their belongings. and so, it took six, seven days. after dad took the oval office, we went back to her three-bedroom house in alexandria, virginia. i'll never forget my mother standing over this does that make cooking, thinking, jerry, something's wrong here. [laughter] you just became president of the united states and i am still cooking. so, the bubble around the president's place in 1974 was a little different than it is today. let me hand out the citations and awards and get onto our keynote speaker, general scowcroft. our first a word here is reporting on the presidency. this is gerald r. ford journalism on the presidency in 2010 steve thomma. the judges for the presidency had selected steve thomma of the newspapers of the winter of the gerald r. ford prize for distinguished reporting on the president. in his reporting, steve toma demonstrates a clear understanding that not the first year, but the second year in office for a new president is more accurate measu

nixon tapes. that imagines that he not only planted microphones but cameras in the white house and ignores watergatend vietnam because that's history and just focuses on the hours and hours of amazing stuff of, of character revelation, of what a, a crazy guy this really was. you know, smart and crazy and all those combinations. but really a remarkable, remarkably funny character, not intentionally. [ laughter ] but we're going to do a pilot of that in june. >> for british television? >> for british television. i have a deal and a really great production company. they're, they're so sensible over there. you know, we had these phone conversations and they -- the guy.and i'll retract these words i'm sure at a future date, but right now here's how it appears, the guy who's head of the production company when a problem occurs he sees his job is to reduce the drama. [ laughter ] imagine that. >> doesn't he understand he's in television? >> yeah i know as opposed to america where. >> right. >> .everybody's a drama queen. >> but the theory is if this succeeds over there perhaps it can. >> we'll sell it back

nixon and we went in. dad got sworn into office and we took the picture in the oval office and the interesting thing -- we didn't get to move into the white house. [laughter] >> i thought you got a chance to move in the white house. but, you know, nixon had left so quickly so unexpectedly when he resigned that they weren't able to pack up all their belongings and so it took six, seven days. so that night after dad took the oath of office, we went back to our little three bedroom house in alexandria, virginia, and, gosh, i will never forget my mother standing over the stove that night cooking and she said, gerry, she said something's wrong here. [laughter] >> you just became president of the united states and i'm still cooking. [laughter] >> the bubble around the president's life back in 1974 was a little different than it is today. well, let me hand out these citations and awards and we'll get on to our keynote speaker, general scowcroft. our first award here is reporting on the presidency. this is gourd r. ford distinguished prize reporting on the presidency in 2010. steve tomer. let me read the citation. the judges for the presidency have sel

nixon asked "who lost china?" and i flare people at the white house right now that among obama's closest people, one of the reasons why they're so careful with that afghanistan is they don't want to lose it. they lose it, obama loses the election next year. so they are very mindful of the legacy of a lost war like vietnam. >> woodruff: deborah kalb, you all worked on this for five or six years, you learned there's an enormous amount of fresh reporting in here. do you come away the sense that one president more than the others understood vietnam, got the message, the legacy of vietnam better than the others? >> that's a great question. i think one of the presidents that maybe seemed to get it more than the others in the way we talk about it is george h.w. bush who spoke about burying the vietnam in the sands of arabia. he went to a certain point in the gulf war, came out working successfully at that point and a year later he lost the election to bill clinton, but at that point he did seem like he had learned the lessons in a way some of the others presidents didn't. >> woodruff: is there a president, marvin kalb, w

need to put an end to nixon's drug war first the bad michele bachmann it's looking like we are you hypnotized congresswoman from minnesota is jumping into the race for the white house and not to be outdone by simple lundy's radical new tax scheme with the bush tax cuts on steroids bachmann introduced her own plan it cuts corporate taxes from thirty five percent down to nine percent even though some of the biggest corporations in america already pay zero tax plan also gets rid of the estate tax and the capital gains tax through taxes that really only affect millionaires and billionaires and then bachmann plans to raise taxes on people who currently don't make enough to pay taxes look for as she said a system in which forty seven percent of americans are paying any taxes ruinous for democracy. but it's tax system that breeds massive wealth inequality and corporate rule isn't ruinous for our democracy. and a very very ugly rush limbaugh on his radio show today ron paul's explaining who is really to blame in a we interviewed scandal liberal women have a list. what kind of women his infinity wiener been around his whole life he has been. bunch of these kinds of women wh

nixon fearful and insecure, afraid of more leaks about his own policy decisions. >> he actually committed the impeachable offense of setting up a secret police organization in the white houseter known as the plumbers, and he set it up to commit illegal acts. >> reporter: nixon went to court to stop the media outlets from publishing the papers. but the supreme court in a landmark 6-3 decision sided with the press. at the newseum in washington, d.c. where the documents leaked to the newspapers are on display, visitors wonder why it took 40 years to declassify the full report. >> the fact that they haven't disclosed everything until just today, that's really long enough. long enough. it's about time. the pentagon papers from my generation was a really big news story and i say it's just about time that things have come out completely. >> reporter: the national archives first said it would release the full report except for 11 words. well, that had everyone speculating what were the 11 words and why did the government not want people to read them? but the government backed off from that and one reason is they realize people could compare previously leaked versions with the new

nixon administration. was there any connection between the president and they had a of the rnc and how much did the future president know about what was going on inside the white house? guest: he did not know much about what was going on in the white house that that is a great question. there was a story that tried to follow the trail. they discovered that the town house a fair run by roy gleason and how he went and gave money to a candidate and that became leverage until the candidate broke a new low when he took that cache, this is from dick and pat nixon, police and kept those records and receipts so they could prove the money had been given to the candidates and later used for blackmail. that box of receipts was given a gleason to george bush at the head of the cia. lowell weicker contended that bush called him and asked him what to do with these things. that is the sort of thing that in the watergate era would become a big scandal. today, not so much. we were almost trigger happy about any little thing that was said and done in that era. it could lead to charges and had lunch and scandal. when it came up years later, it went nowhere. host: doug weed is a presid