no relationship -- walter nixon? no relationship to the president. the house brings the charges and half to basically agree on reasons why a president should be removed from office, or a judge. house does that work, the senate then tries the case. we had hearings before a house subcommittee. to be honest, the subcommittee chair was very troubled by the case. he kept us there for almost a year just reconvening hearings and wanting to hear more evidence. ultimately, he went along with it, with the impeachment case. it was approved by the house and sent over to the senate. brian: how many votes do you have to have in the house to impeach somebody? david: simple majority is enough, by one vote is plenty. brian: once you are impeached, what happens next? david: the senate gets the case. the house appointed managers who serve as prosecutors on the senate side in whatever proceeding they have. these days, since the last 30 or 40 years now, the senate does not convene judicial trials before the full senate, but appoints a committee to hear the evidence, a pr

david: i served as defense counsel for a district judge in south mississippi, walter nixon junior in late 1980's. he had been convicted of perjury before a grand jury, a lengthy and somewhat ill-conceived investigation. he was actually imprisoned that the impeachment effort so that was a real barrier for us to work with. he felt it was wrong conviction, a bad case. i concurred. we resisted the impeachment both in the house of representatives and the senate. it went to trial on the senate side. brian: what happened in a house and why did it have to start in the house, the impeachment of walter nixon? no relationship to the president. david: the house brings the churches at and has to basically agree on reasons why a president should be removed from office, or a judge. and once the house does that work, the senate then tries the case. hearingsse, we had before house subcommittee. to be honest, the subcommittee chair was very troubled by the case. did not care for it. he kept us there for almost a year just reconvening hearings and wanting to hear more evidence. ultimately, he went alon

david: i served as defense counsel for a district judge, trial judge in south mississippi, walter nixon, jr. in the late 1980s. he had been convicted of perjury before a grand jury, a lengthy and somewhat ill-conceived investigation and was actually imprisoned at the time of the impeachment effort, so that was a real barrier for us to work with. but he felt it was a wrong conviction, it was a bad case and i concurred. so, we resisted the impeachment both on the house of representatives and in the senate. it went to a trial on the senate side. brian: what happened in the house and why did it have to start in the house, the impeachment of walter nixon? no relationship to the president. david: correct. the constitution basically sets up the house if you want to use a criminal analogy as the grand jury; it brings the charges and has to basically agree on reasons why a president should be removed from office, or a judge. and once the house does that work, the senate then tries the case. in our case, we had hearings before a house subcommittee and to be honest, the subcommittee chair was very

nixon. >> walter cronkite news, march 18, 1975. >> according to pentagon sources, the north vietnamese havencial capital of ban me thuit, which fell over the weekend. >> the cease-fire which wasn't a cease-fire involved a lot of bloody combat, and for the first 11 months the south vietnamese fought quite well. but by 1975, it became more and more clear that the north vietnamese were building up a formidable logistical system that portended real danger for the south vietnamese. >> the communists began the first major attack of their offensive. saigon's troops made a stand. it was a vital one. the entire central highlands might be lost, and south vietnam could be cut in two by the north vietnamese and the viet cong. >> the plan that the north vietnamese conceived would be a two-year plan. what happened was that when attacking the central highlands town of ban my thuit the thieu government lost its composure. >> government troops were secretly ordered by president thieu to pull out of the central highland provinces. >> the withdrawal became a rout, civilians and soldiers fleeing in panic, leav

and everybody expected richard nixon was not going to reappoint walter washington as the mayor. and when nixon came in and re-appointed walter washington, it changed the whole cly nat the district of columbia in terms of opening up possibilities. what i found was, once nixon was there was all of my reform ideas that i had in mind which was languished under lyndon johnson was suddenly interesting and by may of 1969, i my first correctional reform programs were funded. you can't imagine how fast the federal government moved under those circumstances and that changed my life. what really changed -- >> we're going to stop you right there. >> that gets you started. >> life has changed. >> we're very eager to tell our stories. these are good idealistic people, young people coming to washington. and then we get to john kohlmann. >> thank you very much, jeff. i'm very honored to be here today and this panel. i graduated from college in 1964. a year later, i joined the federal bureau of narcotics in new york. my boss found out that i took to post language literature. this t me to working

president nixon fought a subpoena for his walter gate tapes all the way to the supreme court and lostton tried to fight a subpoena in the lewinsky investigation, he eventually agreed on his own to appear before a grand jury. giuliani are gutz president trump should be immune from testimony because the it would be too much of a distraction from the president's job. legal scholars are split. >> there is not a lot of case law in the area. what exists favors mueller, not trump in this fight. the president's have been compelled to appear, have been compelled to produce documents unless the court reverses the precedent, the president would have to appear. >> now, another big legal battle potentially brewing is whether president trump could be indicted while in office if it came to that. the justice department long had guidelines saying a sitting president cannot be in dieted, but that has never been tested in court. if it does get to the supreme court, legal analysts say don't expect brett kavanaugh to automatically weigh in in president trump's favor. kavanaugh they say has voiced many leg

nixon was a great fan, there was an endearing walter middy quality to him.was offered the commissionership of baseball, as well as the director of the players union in 1965, but turned them down because he had other plans. the other plans were winning the presidency in 1968. he threw a great all-star game bash in 1969 when the last prior all-star game came to washington, d.c. in fact, hank aaron said that nixon knew more about the game than many of the officials in the game. so that's where we were. that's where we are today as we come back to washington, a great deal has changed, but not baseball. >> 1971 wasn't that long ago, but i got to say 2001 was much more recent. you think about george w. bush at yankee stadium, and presidents have used baseball with that first pitch he threw, derek jeter was there, and brought the country together. and baseball has had that ability. it sort of pains me, whether it's a democrat or republican, that many can't throw out the first pitch now, because half the stadium is booing them. >> well, i think there's a plague on b

walter annanberg, who was an ambassador to great britain appointed by president nixon. he had a long-time interest in franklin. we also have a few likenesses of british subjects in our collection. this is the portrait of fannie kembolt painted in 1834. sully was born in england. his family emigrated to the united states when he was still a boy. and he later became a well-known portrait painter. francis ann kimball was a celebrated actress and member of the theatrical family who came to the united states on tour in 1832. in 1833, she performed in washington to great acclaim. in fact, she was presented to president andrew jackson at the white house. she would later describe the president as a good specimen of a fine old battered soldier. [ laughter ] sully met her in philadelphia, introduced by pierce butler, a cousin of his, and was enthralled by her. he painted several likenesses of her. fanniement on to marry pierce butler in 1834. he came from a wealthy philadelphia family that owned plantations in georgia. theirs, however, was not a happy marriage. she was opposed to

the same john dean who broke ranges with president nixon to tell prosecutors everything he knew about walter john dean himself joins me with his take on that. he's next. we're drowning in information. where in all of this is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you partner with a firm that combines trusted, personal advice with the cutting edge tools and insights to help you not only see your potential, but live it too. morgan stanley. with i get rewarded explowherever i go. going out for a bite. rewarded! going new places. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ this is a story about mail my favorite things ♪ and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes tha

nixon until the final week. we were taught growing up that walter cronkite was a communist. my dad watched him and loved him. when he said that's the way it was, he believed that's the way it was but he still believed it was all a plot by "the washington post" and "the new york times" and walter cronkite and the mainstream media to take richard nixon down who they hated. and i remember the morning in 1974 where my dad was reading the newspaper and it's just like the scales fell off of his eyes all at once. and he may have said a couple of words that i can't repeat here, the second one was damn it. and then he said, if this man -- by the way, this is a guy my dad had worshipped since '52. if this man has done one third of what they're saying he has done, he should be thrown in jail tomorrow. this is a disgrace. but he said that broken but after the tapes, there was no denying that richard nixon had acted abhorrently. >> well, this is the week. we're in the anniversary period between supreme court decision in which nixon had to turn over everything. he turns over the smoking gun tape where he's ordering the ci

walter annenberg. annenberg was editor and publisher and later appointed ambassador to great britain by president nixon. he had a long-time interest in franklin. enhanced by the fact that the statesman was an editor as well as a printer in philadelphia and that he had founded the university of pennsylvania, of which mr. annenberg was a trustee. we also have a few likenesses of british subjects in our collection. this is a port portrait in 1834. sully was born in england. his family later emigrated to the united states which he was still a boy and he later became a well-known port rat painter. she was a actress and who came to the united states on tour in 1832. in 1833 she performed in washington to great acclaim. in fact, she was presented to president andrew jackson at the white house. she would later describe the president as a good specimen of a fine, old battered soldier. sully met her in philadelphia, introduced by pierce butler, a cousin of his. and he was quite enthralled by her. in fact, he did several likenesses -- painted several likenesses of her. fanny went on to marry pierce butler in 1834

military victory for the united states but walter was making it sound on as debeat and the real majority talked about the 1968 election and said that one nixonsaid, the young people on the riots and the streets that the american people were more concerned with the policemen than radicals, your ideas on that? >> you know, america was so divided in 19 68 and i know a lot think that we are divided. whole red state and blue state fe -- phenomena, what we endured paled in comparison. when martin luther was shot in 1986 a hundred major cities were a aflame in riots. campus riots in universities and colleges were breaking out. people were being injured, people were losing their lives. by tend of 1968 we really were as a nation looking like there was a possibility of civil war or revolution. it was talked about openly. i'm not sure if that really answers the question but -- well, you know, i served in congress i have no opinion on fake news. [laughter] >> next question. >> looking forward to reading your book, how do you compare writing fiction to nonfiction and which is easier and is this your new trend? >> by the way, do not write a book like this

nixon tape is potentially significant. if that didn't happen we might have never heard this. >> the way to handle this now is for us to have walterspat gray and just stay the hell out of this. >> stay the hell out of this. that is the kind of tape that confirmed a presidential cover-up. we had a lot of talks about tapes in the last few weeks. no one knows right now if there are truly pivotal tapes that could resolve the russia probe. it is the president that decides whether that kind of evidence sees the light of day. donald trump's supreme court pick is not the one saying, let there be light. the supreme court pick -- >> and an important conversation next. noticing what most will never notice. it's what you do. when the thing you're making... isn't a thing. it's your reputation. the all-new ram 1500. comfortably, the most luxurious truck in its class. and why more people are switching to ram than ever before. back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. from fares to fee policies to our rewar

. >> the historian walter actually makes the argument that given that the two leading candidates at that point, i mean, humphrey and nixon were both promising to end the war in some way, that the more dominant issue, and this is what worried nixon, because george wallace was running, was the situation at home and what became known as law and order and concern over the cities -- violence in the cities but also crime. it was in '68, lyndon johnson was trying to push a crime -- a new crime bill through congress to address that concern because there was some feeling that they had ceded that issue to the republicans or to george wallace, and so i think there was agreement on vietnam to the extent that people wanted the united states to get out. nixon, i think, pretty astutely said he would get the united states out without saying how he would do it. but it would be with honor. it would be peace with honor. and -- which i think is a phrase he used later, but that was -- and then he addressed the domestic issues in a way that i think appealed to voters. >> and if i could add to that, briefly. it's very interesting you mention t

nixon was re-elected. and he was re-elected in the middle of the watergate scandal, that walter cronkite decided that he wanted. ben said we don't have any documents. so -- but walter did go on, did a two-part series. i think that changed in terms of the media. i think that changed the way people began to see the watergate story. >> michael and sally, everybody lies to themself and it is inherently not in your interests. some path logically to lie to yourself. the republican party it took a little while for them to tell the truth to themselves. now we are sort of in that same situation. what could potentially happy when a party decides it is going to actually lie to itself? >> well, that's the problem. and it didn't in 1974. what changed, what sealed richard nixon's fate was the tape was released, smoking gun, showed that he had obstructed justice and there were members of the house judiciary committee who had been arguing for weeks "nixon is innocent of any crime." they gave press conferences saying, "i was wrong, i'm going to vote for that article of impeachment which says obstruction of justice." we have no