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And international affairs. And from 2008 to 2009 was president of the association, has won several awards for his work including two awards, at st. Our Journalism Award and american library. Joining an onstage is chris hedges who has spent two decades as Foreign Correspondent in the middle east, africa and the baltics. And has worked for the Christian Science monitor, National Public radio, Dallas Morning News and the new york times. And a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for global terrorism. He is autho...

And my colleagues on this committee know full well that we cannot escape history. That the decision we must jointly make will itself be tested and tried by our fellow citizens, and by history itself. The magnitude of our mission is awesome. Theres no way to understate its importance. Nor to mistake its meaning. We have unsheathed the strongest weapon in the arsenal of congressional power. We personally, members of this committee, have felt its weight, and have perceived its dangers. The framers ...

Has in fact either authorized the bake in or personal the cover up. We were persuaded beyond a convincing case that he should stand trial in the political sense of having to have a trial in the senate but nobody felt great about it. Most people get burdened. They didnt want to. We felt there was no alternative. We were the elected officials and had a duty to see whether the highest officer in the country had breached his duty. William cohen, 1974, a republican member of the House Judiciary Commi...

I think that came through, as i was listening to it. We thank you for your insights into this time period 40 years ago. And here is more from july 1974. The house judiciary committee. I recognize the gentle lady from texas, ms. Jordan, for purpose of general debate, not to exceed a period of 15 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, i join my colleague, mr. Wrangle in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquir...

Vote on his, i decided that he was doing the right thing and so i supported his motion. Well, i left that night, trying to get back into my office and ran into Barbara Jordan on an elevator and she simply said in that great voice, an almost british accent, that she said, bill, history one day will vindicate you. And thats all she ever said. Those are the only words we ever spoke during the entire time. July 1974, these House Judiciary Committee hearings, was it part of the epicenter of the water...

>> i am bradley graham, co-owner of politics and prose. i would like to welcome you. as those of you who attend our events no, we try to have an off her come as soon as possible after his or her book is released. most times the authors will have appeared in one or two other places or will have given interviews to news organizations but tonight we actually have a world exclusive. this is the first time jeff himmelman is speaking publicly about his new biography of former washington post...

[applause] thank you. thank you. lets open it up to some questions. if you could wait for the microphone and keep the questions short because of the time limits and constraints here so it will all work out just fine and bar will answer any thing you want to ask me. the first man is right there. >> thank you for all the heart and vision. what are your thoughts on the field of gop contenders? >> i feel sorry for the old school republicans like my grandfather who believed in a basic conse...

30 other conservative leaders, which is just about everybody in the fiscal conservative movement, which said we need to look at reducing pentagon spending, and look at defense spending. somebody had said you cannot possibly cut anything out of the defense budget, including the $100 billion per year we spent to occupy afghanistan, a country with a gdp of about $14 billion. i am not sure how we do that, but we do. is that something we intend to do for the next 50 years? $100 billion occu...