but the richard nixon that they supported through the years was not the richard nixon that they thoughthey knew. >> every generation has to lose their virginity, and it was just the day that my generation did. but to think that we're the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. >> he is already before the cameras now. president richard milhous nixon, 37th president of the united states. >> throughout the long and difficult period of watergate i have felt it was my duty to persevere. >> watergate doesn't go away because it was so extraordinary, it was so hidden. >> we act like it can't happen again. and it did a lot of stuff after. there was a lot of hoo-haing and passing laws, giving speeches. but if you ask me do i think we learned anything from it, no. >> i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president i must put the interests of america first. >> the president had been driven from office because the american people p learned the truth about rich

but the richard nixon that they supported through the years was not the richard nixon that they thoughthey knew. >> every generation has to lose their virginity, and it was just the day that my generation did. but to think that we're the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. >> he is already before the cameras now. president richard milhous nixon, 37th president of the united states. >> throughout the long and difficult period of watergate i have felt it was my duty to persevere. >> watergate doesn't go away because it was so extraordinary, it was so hidden. >> we act like it can't happen again. and it did a lot of stuff after. there was a lot of hoo-haing and passing laws, giving speeches. but if you ask me do i think we learned anything from it, no. >> i have never been a quitter. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president i must put the interests of america first. >> the president had been driven from office because the american people p learned the truth about rich

some of those members of the court had been appointed by richard nixon himself. so you had the court system acting in a nonpartisan way, in a credible way, regardless of politics. >> imagine that in the politicized supreme court that we've had in our recent history. >> while nixon tried to put on the pretend act that operations were going on as normal, they weren't. they were disintegrating every day. >> three days after the supreme court ruling, the house of representatives took the step most dreaded by the president. impeachment. nixon's fate now rested in the hands of the committee. >> today i am an inquisitor and hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole. it is complete. it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the constitution. >> mr. hungate? >> aye. >> mr. conyers? >> aye. >> some republicans who voted for the impeachment, some democrats who voted for the impeachment, they were putting t

some of those members of the court had been appointed by richard nixon himself. tem acting in a nonpartisan way, in a credible way, regardless of politics. >> imagine that in the politicized supreme court that we've had in our recent history. >> while nixon tried to put on the pretend act that operations were going on as normal, they weren't. they were disintegrating every day. >> three days after the supreme court ruling house of representatives took the step most dreaded by the president. impeachment. nixon's fate now rested in the hands of the committee. >> today i am an inquisitor, and hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole. it is complete. it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the constitution. >> mr. hungate. >> aye. >> mr. conyers? >> aye. >> some republicans who voted for the impeachment, some democrats who voted for the impeachment, they were putting their political lives on the

richard nixon ranted privately. we learned a lot about that when the tapes were released but nixon was very careful not to let the public see the inner turmoil. only a couple of times near the end of his administration did the people actually see the anger within. so president trump has actually put on display even before the wolf book came out, this turmoil and anger. it's really damaging for him. frankly, a president should not be telling the world that he's not unfit and mentally unstable. i mean, that's not what the world needs to see. that's not what our adversaries need to hear. >> but he's telling the world he's a genius. >> he's being a sales man interesman there. the point is, it's damaging. >> he hasn't done anything differently than what we've seen him do previously. he's been consistent as far as that goes. ken, the president, though, is supposed to be planning the 2018 agenda today with the biggest republican leaders in congress. if you are mitch mcconnell and paul ryan in that group, what's going throug

richard nixon: "we could get that."hard nixon and white house counsel secret recordings talking about the watergate break-in. the special prosecutor - archibald cox - wants the tapes.and subpoenas the white house for them. nat of pres. richard nixon: "play it tough, that's the way they play it, and that's the way we're going to play it."but nixon invokes executive privilege and refuses to give up the tapes. but the u.s. court of appeals steps in - ruling that nixon must comply.nixon instead tries to hand over summaries of the recordings.but cox balks at the idea. archibald cox/special prosecutor, watergate investigation: "i think it is my duty to bring to the courts attention to what seems to me non- compliance with the courts order."thinking he has the country on his side, nixon takes a gamble and orders his attorney general, elliott richardson, to fire cox.nats of tom brokaw/nbc news: "good evening, there are reports tonight the president nixon has ordered attorney general elliott richardson to fire the special waterg

richard nixon tried to get them to block the watergate investigation and that ultimately brought richard nixon down. but nixon never hinted at that publically, the stuff he was trying to do at the fbi. nixon never tweeted his antagonism toward the fbi for investigating him. he wouldn't dare publically intimidate the fbi. but donald trump is not half as smart as richard nixon. so he has spent the better part of a year attacking the fbi and the justice department for investigating him. which, of course, makes the need to investigate him all the more urgent. but andrew mccabe will no longer have a hand in that investigation or any fbi investigation. the only deputy director of the fbi and former acting director of the fbi to be publically attacked by the president of the united states repeatedly decided to quit the fbi this morning. a couple of months sooner than he was reportedly considering retiring. and he was only considering retiring then because he believed he had become too much of a distraction to the fbi given the president's public obsession with him. andrew mccabe has had a 20-ye

watergate that richard nixon was committing a crime by firing archibald cox.e had every right to do that, including the right to do that because he didn't like the fact that archibald cox was getting close to, you know, showing that richard nixon engaged in criminal misconduct. now, you can charge -- once he's removed from office, richard nixon for a whole bunch of things, including orchestrating a conspiracy to obstruct justice by having a slush fund to pay off witnesses. but what you can't do, i don't think, after you remove him from office, is charge richard nixon or donald trump with a crime of obstruction of justice because he removed somebody from office which he had every right to do. >> but even though someone has a right to remove him from office i think this is why the question of obstruction is what his intent was. if he thought there was terrible conduct, racial discrimination, or he just didn't like comey, okay, right? i think we would all agree on that. but here i think the real question is going beyond that, did he do it because he intended to s

but it's pretty bad and a different atmosphere from the time of richard nixon.king and as tom was talking, i sort of think, i always complain about the fact that donald trump has zero interest in history and doesn't learn from history. i wonder if some people in his entourage, at least, have studied the saturday night massacre in which richard nixon fired his special considerate, archibald cox. and maybe what they have concluded is that it's not that nixon did it, it's the way he did it. and that maybe he would have gotten away with it, if he would have done it more slowly and more obliquely. and maybe that's what we're seeing today. >> folks say that if there was -- or posture, at least, if there was a fox news back then when nixon was in power, winix wouldn't would not have had to resign. what do you think of accusations like that, tom? >> i think we have to, especially in our business, just deal with the facts as we find them out on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. you know, part of the condition, part of the environment that has changed so much is social

richard nixon lord high executioner there. how did he create the model.hat was in place if anything, before that period? guest: i could have gone back to eisenhower in the book. one of the things that shocks me nobody beat me to this book. it's really extraordinary when you think about it. nobody what looked at this history in quite this way before. you could go back to sherman adams who was the civilian version of dwight eisenhower's army chief of staff. he was famously known as the noman. it was a gruff, tough gatekeeper. i chose holderman. he took it to another level. he and nixon were obsessed with trying to get this right. holderman became nixon's famous words, the lord high executioner. he became the guy who was the gatekeeper. he was the broker of information. he was in charge of communications. he executed the president's agenda. the fascinating part thing about it is that holderman who wrote this template for the modern white house chief failed in the end spectacularly to speak truth to power during watergate. which was of course, richard nixon's

can you comment on how things started to turn one's richard nixon took office? >> guest: certainly it is a change and as you were intimating the southern strategy and nixon saw and the people who are doing the politics saw that having lyndon johnson himself in terms of the democratic party in the south, that's what nixon was pursuing. there are two things that happened along with that. clearly one part of it is the white people who at least organized in the senate as democrats even if they didn't believe in the things that humphrey or other liberals did. but when they turned to being republicans they were also voting for the leadership. they were the majority after a while. but there are two other things that are very important in the conversation. one is mass incarceration and the other is what i call the 30-year war on welfare. what they saw the nation do was to have a signal that they would send to the white people where they would say we are still the liberal voice here. >> host: codewords. >> guest: codewords, that's right. we started in the 70s with locking

- there's an anecdote about richard nixon pulling over on the side of the road, running up to a police officer who's lying on the ground after a car wreck that he had been sort of affected by and nixon runs up to him, puts out his hand, shakes his hand and says, "well do you enjoy your job?" richard nixon was someone afflicted by- - empathy deficit. - exactly, an inability to connect with common people. i actually think that ted is a guy who's very smart, and i think that he will probably become someone, a figure along the lines of jesse helms in the senate. ultimately, someone who- - you mean that as a compliment? - well, i mean that in terms of someone who will have an out-sized impact on the body. - so i wanna understand trump not as a contrast to cruz or anybody else, but trump in his own way. what is he about really? did we see in the campaign the real trump? did we see a reality show version of the real guy, essentially a hyped up entertainment celebrity masquerading as a real person? i've wondered over the last since whatever it is, june of 2015 when he descended that escalator

can you tell me how things started to turn once richard nixon took office? >> guest: it certainly is a change. in the southern strategy, basalt that lyndon johnson himself had said in terms of what happens to the party in the south, tha sous what makes him was pursuing and there are two things that happened along with that. clearly, one part of it is to get them for people with organized in the senate as democrats as they didn't believe in the things that humphrey or other liberals did, but when they turned to the republicans, they were voting for the leadership in the majority after a while. but there are two other things that are important in the conversation. one is mass incarceration and the other is the 30 year war. what they saw that they needed to do is to have signals they would tend to say we are still good boys here. so one store in the 70s arresting a lot more people, walking up a lot of people. there is a degree of crime, but the response is much more extended and worse than that. and it's politics that work for them. and then for women they star

and donald trump plagerizes this from richard nixon. >> this would have been a bigger bloodbath than the saturday night massacre. because at least the justice department remained intact after cox, the special prosecutor was fired. in fact elliott richardson and mr. ruckleshouse, the special deputy, nixon administration couldn't take over the department of justice and insert their own people. here, i think, and i really believe, that it wasn't just mueller that was going to be fired. it was going to be rosenstein, it was going to be the attorney general, and it was going to be everybody else that was in that hierarchy and it was clearly trump's plan to put all of his own people into that department of justice and basically take it over and gut the rule of law that we have in this country. >> and barbara, this brings us to another foundational constitutional text, i'm speaking of course of the book "fire and fury" and i'm joking, there's not a lot of law there, but there are extensive passages there of steve bannon, when the book came out, it was like, gosh, i think that man runs his m

( laughter ) >> wallace: how does richard nixon, if elected by a majority? the second program, the candidate made a remark that history would note. >> nixon: the most important thing about a public man is not whether he's loved or disliked, but whether he's respected. and i hope to restore respect to the presidency at all levels by my conduct. >> bill clinton: we moved into this place. >> kroft: virtually all of the presidents of the last half century have fielded questions on the broadcast. >> jimmy carter: you didn't anticipate all these questions. >> stahl: are you really going to build a wall? >> donald trump: yes. >> kroft: lesley got the first television interview with donald trump shortly after he won the 2016 election. >> stahl: are people going to be surprised about how you conduct yourself as president? >> trump: you know, i'll conduct myself, in a very good manner. >> stahl: he was thoughtful. he answered all my questions. but are you going to be tweeting? >> trump: i'm going to do very restrained, if i use it at all. >> stahl: and i thought, okay

le they never figured out how to do that with richard nixon if they had to. sten to what she says. >> did you have to consider this during the nixon investigation, if we have to serve a subpoena, how do we put the piece of paper in the president's hand? >> we did worry about that. we eventually worked out the subpoena went through his lawyers and they accepted delivery of the subpoena. but then we worried about if he didn't comply with the subpoena by turning over the documents, how would we get a marshal to enter the white house to seize the documents. that was a serious question. and we never really figured out an answer. but luckily public pressure after the saturday night massacre forced the president to give us the tapes. >> the watergate prosecutors never figured out how to serve a subpoena on the president if his lawyers were unwilling to accept it on his behalf. >> i'm a little surprised to hear jill wine-banks say what he just said. you give it to the white house counsel, he takes it on behalf of the president. if the president refuses to hand over th

joining me now, ben stein, former writer for richard nixon and gerald ford, author of "the capitalist code." great to have you with us here, ben. let me start by asking you how much this institution, the state of the union, has changed since you were penning them back now a few decades ago. >> many decades ago. i would say it has become much, much, much more controversial now that we have such a controversial president in office, but bear in mind in the last two years of president nixon's administration, he was wildly controversial, as well. so the state of the union was wildly controversial, as well, but i think in terms of the issues on the table, as i've been watching your show and watch your station generally, you're not hitting what to me is the giant issue, the elephant in the room that really must be hit, and that is national defense. and it breaks my heart that we don't see more emphasis on that. that is a huge super issue. there's not going to be secure peace until america is militarily secure, and we're not militarily secure now. >> national security something the president

the watergate scandal, there were the pentagon papers, the first expert is of a cover—up in the richard nixon described it asa set in 1971. yes. you described it as a timely movie. well it is obviously... you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics richard nixon used to try to silence the press. i am talking about the current administration and the absolute broadside in of media, social media, anyone that offence, there is a label that is immediately attached to them which is called "well, that can't be true because they're all fa ke can't be true because they're all fake news." can't be true because they're all fake news. " it can't be true because they're all fake news." it is more insidious now than in1971. fake news." it is more insidious now than in 1971. we could all go to prison. there has been another massive press expo is a recently. —— expose. the endemic sexual harassment in hollywood. you are a seniorfigure in hollywood and have been around a long time. could you have done more to stop this?” been around a long time. could

really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics richard nixoncurrent administration and the absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anyone that offends, there is a label that is immediately attached to them which is called "well, that can't be true because they're all fake news." it is more insidious now than in 1971. if we publish, we could be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there has been another massive press expo is a recently. the endemic sexual harassment in hollywood. you are a senior figure in hollywood and have been around a long time. i can only react to that question in my own workplace environment. in my organisation, there were no instances except a few years ago that gave me any experience to be an authority on that question. what happened in those instances? a couple of instances. i will not go into detail, they happened years ago. we had to let somebody go. people are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper. she does not have the resolve to make the tough choices. thank

robert stone worked for richard nixon for decades.or the president to talk to robert mueller and presumably he would be in favor of this. so i think it probably is a slow motion effort to fire mueller. and that's what the context i think of last night will be in history because if all of that happens and we're talking about a state of the union of address of 2018, probably we'll think of it as a prelude to trumps efforts to close down this investigation, that turns out to be less slow motion so fast as you were saying earlier. he can't get out of the house chamber without telling a member of congress that he's 100% behind releasing that report that related to the firing of rosenstein. >> susan stage, with that as a backdrop, what did you think of the president's speech? >> he did not follow the nixon script in terms of talking about the elephant in the room during the state of the union. he did not mention the russia investigation. i think it's possible that when we look back on this speech, that aside, that spontaneous comment took j

can you comment on how things started to turn once richard nixon took office? >> guest: it certainly is a change. as you were in a meeting, that southern strategy and nixon saw, and the people who were doing his politics with them, saw that having lyndon johnson himself had said in terms of what would happen to the democratic party in the south, meaning that's what nixon was pursuing. there are two things that happened along with that. clearly, one part of it is to get that white people who at least organized in the senate as democrats, even if they didn't believe in the things that humphrey or other liberals did, but when they turned to being republicans, then they are also voting for the leadership. they are in the majority after a while. but there are two other things that are very, very important in the conversation. one is mass incarceration and the other is what i call the 30 year war on welfare. that started in. because what they saw that they needed to do was to have signals that they would send to the white voters to say we are still the good old boys h

is an award-winning author, a cnn presidential historian and also served as the director of the richard nixon presidential library and museum. please join me in welcoming richard and timothy. [applause] >> thank you, warren, and thank all of you. richard, you've written a wonderful book which you will all have the opportunity of purchasing. [laughter] and take it. why did you decide to write about arthur schlesinger? >> first of all, can i just say what a real pleasure it is to be here at the jfk library, and i'm very grateful for the invitation. and also wonderful to be interviewed by such a fine kennedy historian. i think the answer to that question actually in some ways, maybe the real answer lies in my childhood that arthur schlesinger was one of the first historians, proper historians that i read. and i can still see the gold spine of the british edition of "a thousand days" on my father's book shelf. and i i only realized this fairy recently that when i look back at the very first newspaper article i wrote quoted schlesinger, the first academic article that i wrote quoted schlesinger. a

haldeman's sonbe as he was described by richard nixon. you have to be able to inspire a team and you have to be able to reach across the aisle. that's the simplest way i can put it. on the coverhipple of the book. this is during the final year of the presidency. the book is called "the gatekeepers." he is in new york city. we have an independent caller from little rock, arkansas. good morning. caller: this is a great topic. whipple, chris whipple, is that right? bookyou ever heard of this i just found it in my little private library here? guest: i know it very well. caller: it is similar to yours. in 1979.ut guest: that's right. it's a very good early study of some of the closest advisers. so muchout well before of our recent history. it came out before ronald reagan picked james baker as his chief of staff. bar i thinkt the for chiefs of staff who followed. it's a very good early book on the subject. caller: he loved all of the early presidents -- lumped all of the early presidents together. starting in 1857, that was the modern day maki

really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics richard nixonon and the absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anyone that offends, there is a label that is immediately attached to them which is called "well, that can't be true because they're all fake news." it is more insidious now than in 1971. if we publish, we could be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there has been another massive press expose a recently. the endemic sexual harassment in hollywood. you are a senior figure in hollywood and have been around a long time. do you think you could have done more to stop this? i can only react to that question in my own workplace environment. in my organisation, there were no instances except a few years ago that gave me any experience to be an authority on that question. what happened in those instances? a couple of instances. i will not go into detail, they happened years ago. we had to let somebody go. people are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper. that she does not have the reso

get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us right back to the same tactics that richard nixon their absolute broadsiding of media, social media, news, anybody that offends. you know, there is a label that is immediately attached to them, well, that can't be true, because they're all fake news. i mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way, than it was in 1971. if you publish, we'll be in the supreme court next week. meaning? we could all go to prison. there's been another massive press expose the last six months, it looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation of women in hollywood. i mean, you're a really senior figure in hollywood and you've been around a long time. do you ever think, you know what, i think i could have done a bit more to stop this? well, you know, i can only basically react to that question within my own workplace environment. within my organisation, there weren't incidences, except for a couple of years and years ago, that i would say gave me the experiences to be the authority on that question you ask. what happened in those incidences?

richard nixon took us off the gold standard meaning we now have a currency that is a currency with no intrinsic value so the u.s. dollar has a lot of power because we have a big guns and a lot of people use the dollar and anybody who tries to stop using the dollar like saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi. you see how that turned out for the. drop in the dollar has been on direct correlation with the u.s. military invasion that ends with your head on a spike ok. so big point is encrypted ledger of transactions that is global fast and free to use and perhaps the best way to explain it is to go through the arguments people have against it people say it's not backed by anything the brightest out back by the there's no you know there's nothing you can hold you like i have a thing you know bitcoin has no chickens ok there's no chicken right. but neither does the u.s. dollar it's not backed by anything either and over ninety percent of u.s. dollars aren't even printed so you can't even point to a green piece of paper with a racist white dude it's a. yes. thank you thank you yes very. big poin

i'll tell you one thing about donald trump, it frightens me and that is i think richard nixon was more mentally stable than donald trump is and i think richard nixon had a minimal respect for constitutional norms. donald trump has no respect for any norms. he's a human wrecking ball. when nixon was on the verge of conviction in the senate for watergate, a delegation went to him, explained he had to resign and went quietly. can you imagine in a similar situation what donald trump would do? >> no, he would take to twitter. twitter or anyway possible. you know, guys, i'm looking at these extraordinary results of a poll that asked people to give word association as to how they describe the presidency with the first year in office. it was an nbc news poll and remarkable. those who approve of the job use the words like positive, excellent, accomplished a lot but in the mix, the remark, quit tweeting so much. those who disapprove call it a disaster, embarrassing and chaotic. several references to racism, as well. i want you each to think of a word and i'll start with you, chris, that you thin

well, it turned out that the money had come from president richard nixon's reelection campaign so he was asked to approve subpoenas that. makes sense. but the white house successfully pressured snuff membenough membt committee they could not get a majority vote for those subpoenas that and the country yawning about the snooze fest watergate break out thing, richard nixon went on to win a second term. patman failed. the watergate investigation came to a promising place but politically got stopped. you know what, the scandal came roaring back in the president's second term and the truth did come out and within two years, nixon's attempt to interfere with right pat mman's investigation, that ended up being included in the articles of impeachment against nixon. that story, the story of his early failed attempt to investigate richard nixon, that's one of the stories told on the slate.com pod cast called slow burn that gives listeners a sense of not just what happened in the watergate scandal but what it was like to live through the scandal in the moment when nobody knew what would happen

well, turned out that the money had come from president richard nixon's re-election campaign. so patman asked his banking committee to approve subpoenas for several nixon officials and campaign aides. makes sense. but the white house flummoxed him. the white house successfully pressured enough members of that committee, that even with a democratic majority on that committee, they could not get a majority vote for those subpoenas. and with the country yawning about this snooze fest side show watergate break-in thing, richard nixon went on to win a second term by one of the most lopsided margins in the country's history. patman had failed. the watergate investigation came to a promising place, but then politically it got stomped. but you know what, the scandal came roaring back, in the president's second term, and the truth did come out. within two years, nixon's attempt to interfere with pat man's investigation by pressuring those congressmen on the subpoena vote, that ended up being included in the articles of impeachment against nixon. that story, the story of patman's early

republicans, the title of your book. >> power accompanied by arrogance is a way of describing richard nixon. but when george h-w bush talks about it being particularly dangerous when men with no real experience have t that not nixon. he was a congressman, senator, vice president, he went on elected to the presidency twice. so he is not talking about richard nixon it say hypothetical but it allows, obviously to donald trump. and i think that the bush's likely see him as endangering the institution that they revere most in the world and that is the president. >> taking us through their interactions with donald trump, some of them-- potential interarks they chose not to have and what exactly they told about their thoughts on the president. >> george herbert walker bush when he was former president in the 1990s was waiting for his private aircraft to get some maintenance and he was told by his chief of staff, who was told by an attendant at the airport that donald trump was about to land. and would the former president like to meet donald trump. and when presented about this idea, george bush h

is there a fair comparison to be made between this presidency and that of richard nixon?there anything nixonian about donald trump? >> it's an easy comparison because nixon got impeached and there's a lot of talk about impeaching trump. but they're not the same. nixon was an extremely well read, regular government guy. he did some crazy things. yes, he did. but he also negotiated arms control treaties. he got a lot of stuff through congress. he was a very different president than trump. i think it's a mistake to compare nixon and trump. they're superficial similarities but trump is in a world of his own. >> there's a major difference between donald trump and richard nixon. donald trump is willing to burn america down for his own sake. when richard nixon saw his time was up, he left. >> evan thomas and morris reed, thank you so much. i apologize for the brevity of our conversation. see you again soon i hope. thanks, guys. >>> rear in review of the trump presidency, all the events that helped define his first 365 days in power. ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to seve

i will say with regard, even nixon no one claimed during water gate that richard nixon was committingby firing cox. he had every right to do that. including the right to do that because he didn't like the fact cox was getting close to showing that richard nixon engaged nd criminal misconduct. you can charge once he's removed from office. for a whole bunch of things including orchestrating a conspiracy to obstruction justice. to pay off witnesses. what you can't do i don't think is charge richard nixon or trump with a crime of obstruction of justice because he removed somebody from office. which he had every right to do it. >> this is why the question is obstruction is intent. yes, if he thought there was terrible conduct, racial discrimination or didn't like comey. okay. we agree on that. the real question is going beyond that. did he do it because he intended to stop an investigation into his campaign? >> an unusual constitutional law. your role in new jersey. correct. but the president is a unique constitutional officer. he's the only person other than the vice president who is elec

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say, employer-based private insurance for every american was proposed 20 years ago by president richard nixonthe united states congress. it was a good idea then and it is a better idea today. >> we cut taxes for 95% of working families. we cut taxes for small businesses. we cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. we cut taxes for parents trying to care for children. we cut taxes for 8 million americans paying for college. announcer: watch sunday, at noon eastern on american history tv on c-span3. announcer: an oral history interview with a u.s. military academy graduate who served as a helicopter pilot in the vietnam war. he describes his time as a west point cadet and his decision to switch to aviation and his experiences flying through antiaircraft fire. here is a preview. >> made the major assault in the valley during that timeframe. that was a big deal effort. we lost 24 aircraft the first day. the distinct memories i have is a chinook flying down the valley with its tail end on fire. we were in the first lift that went in and he was hovering up the side of this mountain and he hovered right

and that was in the early '70s and presidency of richard nixon. richard nixon wouldn't touch it. it was just unthinkable, that a president would have anything that could be read by, from any viewpoint, giving approval, or giving moral equivalency to those neo-nazis, deep anti-semites in skokie. now we go forward to 2018, to 2017 to the present year, and this, this is why we have to recognize as a people, whether we're republican, democrat, independent, mugwump, whatever we are, to send a very strong signal that with the president of the united states who is, remember, he is not just head of government, but under our system, he is also head of state. by the way this is going back to my saying to i have great respect forve the office of the presidency. i was we've white house correspondent for cbs news for 10 years. i don't want to sound sophomoric but i felt a great sense of pride and responsibility every morning i walked into those gates, thinking about our history, thinking about what the office of the presidency is. sometimes our foreign friend don't understand. sometimes we do

to richard nixon was know indicted. they let impeachment proceedings continue.nd a pardon from gerald ford for and all crimes he may have committed. one more relevant, now that inquiry is reaching critical mass. we have had impeachments and pardons, nevered in the sitting president has been criminally be indicted. can the president be charged with a crime. and if so, what would it look like? joining us, you worked for both of them. >> we kept going, the next day, after the saturday night massacre, to let people in the white house know we were still open for business, i was making calls and keeping appointments. >> you were in the front row of that announcement. >> i think the group of the staff, you saw me coming out, i looked a lot different. i had a lot more hair and was a lot younger. >> apparently, in the case of watergate, it never got to that the determination was nixon could have been indicted for crimes. the impeachment of bill clinton, 1998, it is proper, constitutional, for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president, contrary to the president's

liberal democrat for the republicans you have a moderate, it is sometimes conservative and moderate richard nixonso if you believe in limited government what if you truly believe in individual freedom and responsibility. a strong national defense. all these compromises going on within this or that party, which you need is an organizatio organization-making conservatives. bill buckley said that make sense to me. i'll make happy to host a meeting. said 90 of us showed up at sharon, his home in september of 1962 found young americans for freedom. it's not the phrase that god given rights you should be in the statement. there was a vote taken on them and the vote was 44 - 40. to keep out votes. there were libertarians over to the libertarians too? do they walk out? no. they stuck around they said this is where it's going. were going to see where it goes and they did not walk out. the other debate was over the name. two possible names were young conservatives of america. americans for freedom and we wanted to be inclusive. with that we were too limited. that at that time as i said earlier we were quit

nixon is going to deliver the state of the union address and part of it will be on the state of richard nixon well. >> mr. nixon's goal is to convince people despite watergate he's in command of his office and can govern this nationfecteffectively. >> mr. speaker, i would like to add a personal note. i repfer to the investigations f the watergate affair. as you know, i have provided to the special prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. i believe that i have provided all the material that he feeds to conclude his investigations and proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. [ applause ] >> one year of watergate is enough. proclaimed richard nixon to sustained applause. that was 1974. by august of that year, seven months later, he resigned from office. turns out one year of watergate wasn't nearly enough. tomorrow will be 44 years exactly from that speech and president trump will be giving his first state of the union. tonight