spiro agnew, mrs. lady bird johnson, lyndon johnson and spiro agnew, the vice president at the time. behind them are mr. webb and mr. siemens. they had given their lives to do in which they had been sort of -- had to leave over the terrible fire of apollo 1. and you'll see that president nixon who was president did not attend because he feared a disaster would happen and it would taint his presidency so he spent agnew instead. here's the firing room at kennedy watching as well. i guess you can't really see it in the projector but if you look closely at every single one of those faces you can see there's like this half-calm, half-fear, half-nervousness in almost every single expressions of these men's faces. one of the astounding things to me they were racing so hard to get to the moon that they would change plans at the last minute. and here are the post-it notes. it says flight plan written in pencil and this is stuck into the dashboard of the apollo 11 command module. now, what happened that i though

written by ted sorensen at the request of some members of the democratic congress to add the time saw spiro agnew had left the vice presidency. there was some thought they could delay on gerald ford, richard nixon was near to being on the ropes and perhaps democrats, carl albert being speaker of thspeaker of the houe the presidency himself. there were some very detailed thinkings of the imaginations of how to present this new presidency to the american people. i think his point is that this is not a good incentive. one that if it was time to remove richard nixon, one might have gone down the line to the secretary of state and others in the cabinet of the nixon administration but you wouldn't have had the incentive to take over that we saw in that case, not fulfilled but envisioned by some members. so i'm going to turn to john feerick. >> thank you for the invitation to comment on your report of presidential succession. let me say that the continuity of government commission plays and exceedingly important role in studying and calling attention to and making recommendations on subjects bearing on

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and the vice president, spiro t. agnew, a news anchor who had more credibility at his moment than the president of the united states. >> and that was the thing, john -- urging -- >> he was more popular than richard nixon. >> it was '72 when they were urging him to try to get the democratic party nomination for president. i bet he would give nixon a run for his money, don. >> i remember getting a call from a democrat politician in albany, very high up in the democratic party, who asked me if i would ask walter cronkite if he would consider running for a senate seat from new york. and i did. and walter said, tell him thank you very much, but no thank you. >> and, don, you would reflect on larry's point earlier, that walter, his legacy is remarkable. at the end he was not happy. he felt he was being forced out. did he not? >> i know why he was unhappy. he agreed to step down from the anchor chair of the "evening news." he assumed that that did not mean he was stepping down as the anchor of all the big special events. and when

in the fall of 1969 spiro agnew delivered his famous attack on the media.rn establishment elite that were neither elected or selected. we found out that that was the initial attack on the media by the nixon people. walter was furious about that on the grounds that if the media was not going to defend itself, who wouldn't? the two of them flew out to st. joseph, missouri. walter's birthplace. they had a town meeting with citizens of st. joseph, letting the citizens explore the whole idea out that we were -- and of course, it caused quite a stir. cbs broadcast that town meeting that night. it was the event that kind of signal cbs news as an enemy of the nixon white house. there were other aspects of walter that would drive anybody crazy. there is the idea that he would add lib -- ad lib the newscast and recite the stories important tenought -- empirortant enough to report. and is cast as the most structured event in any news media. walter insisted that when it came time to roll a piece of film, he would russia's knows. -- he would brush his news. [laughter] i

written by ted sorensen at the request of some members of the democratic congress to add the time saw spiro agnew had left the vice presidency. there was some thought they could delay on gerald ford, richard nixon was near to being on the ropes and perhaps democrats, carl albert being speaker of thspeaker of the houe the presidency himself. there were some very detailed thinkings of the imaginations of how to present this new presidency to the american people. i think his point is that this is not a good incentive. one that if it was time to remove richard nixon, one might have gone down the line to the secretary of state and others in the cabinet of the nixon administration but you wouldn't have had the incentive to take over that we saw in that case, not fulfilled but envisioned by some members. so i'm going to turn to john feerick. >> thank you for the invitation to comment on your report of presidential succession. let me say that the continuity of government commission plays and exceedingly important role in studying and calling attention to and making recommendations on subjects bearing on

written by ted sorensen at the request of some members of the democratic congress to add the time saw spiro agnewleft the vice presidency. there was some thought they could delay on gerald ford, richard nixon was near to being on the ropes and perhaps democrats, carl albert being speaker of thspeaker of the houe the presidency himself. there were some very detailed thinkings of the imaginations of how to present this new presidency to the american people. i think his point is that this is not a good incentive. one that if it was time to remove richard nixon, one might have gone down the line to the secretary of state and others in the cabinet of the nixon administration but you wouldn't have had the incentive to take over that we saw in that case, not fulfilled but envisioned by some members. so i'm going to turn to john feerick. >> thank you for the invitation to comment on your report of presidential succession. let me say that the continuity of government commission plays and exceedingly important role in studying and calling attention to and making recommendations on subjects bearing on conti

spiro new. >> yeah. >>oue going to hear about that from agnew's family."countdown" for this the 2,25h day since the previous president declaredission accomplishedn iraq. i'm keh bermann. goodight and good luck.

you vote for richard nixon and if you don't get richard nixon you get spiro agnew and if something happens to him, you get someone who nixon picks and that's gerald ford and if something happens to ford, you get someone who ford picks and that's nelson rockefeller. this is what the 25th amendment provides, an apostolic linear succession from the president who has the mandate and did constitutionally way. you get republican policies for four years in the white house or for democratic presidents, four years of democratic policies. and that vision of the 25 amendment is most consistent with cabinet succession where you're getting someone really the elected -- the duly elected president hand-picked or someone who follows in that line. what's you get in cabinet succession. you do not get that with congressional succession. so if the president or vice president die or disabled sequentially you're going to get party continuity but if they are taken out of action at the same time you get massive discontinuity in vision with the 25th amendment. the 25th amendment envisions a regime in which preside