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That ultimately led to an expanded war. >> will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this was not just tinkering with a few votes. this cost 20,000 american lives. i dont know how many thousand wounded. the cost of that was horrendous, you know, it was treason by any standard. >> those who said no to the war, draft dodgers, resistors, they were described as treasonous. well, if i had known as a soldier in vietnam that nixon had scuttled...

That led to a expanded war. >> will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this was not just tinkering with a few votes. this cost 20,000 american lives. i dont know how many thousand wounded. the cost of that was her republican douse. it was treason. by any standard. >> those who note of the war. draft dodgers and resisters. they were described as treasonous. if i had known as a soldier in vietnam that nixon had scuttled or certainly del...

Nixons plot to undermine the vietnam peace talks. >> i do solemnly swear. >> president johnson did believe that this was a treasonous act. that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this was not just tinkering with a few votes. this cost 20,000 american lives. i dont know how many thousand wounded. the cost of that was horrendous, you know, it was treason by any standard. >> those who said no to...

Im not in those meetings. i dont know how thats going. there is a pardon attorney inside the justice department who processes this, makes a recommend days ago to the deputy attorney general who in turn then says to the white house, heres what we recommend. but at the moment -- and it is true that the president has absolute power. and with regard to watergate, there was a question about whether nixon could or would even consider pardoning himself. that turned out to be a non-starter, both legally...

Public who hostility -- did the hostility become publicly. the vietnam series quoted as being very harsh about protesters outside of the white house and draft dodgers. and that was one of the rare times that he said in it a way that more than a few people in the room could hear it. >> and this is a president who had two son-in-laws, sons-in-law serving in vietnam. >> i think the presence there is what finally triggered his deep resignation to the fact that he had to get out. >> yeah, yeah. that ...

Protocol conscious in terms of attacking dissenters, publicly or people who disagreed with him. privately he often said very harsh things about them, particularly as the war in vietnam escalated and as it then became a quagmire. >> yes. >> he felt they were communists on the left. he said privately, i dont know if he thought it and would say privately on telephone tapes, communists stirring up trouble. they dont want us to win in vietnam and rarely did the public hostility -- did the hostility b...

Confidence, out playing tennis early this morning. the competition on the court came from members of his campaign staff. some suggested it wasnt quite as tough as the competition mondale might expect from the debate tonight. >> nixon makes the same speech everywhere he goes. all candidates do that. but nixon is speaking on the issues of the day in only the most general way. hes saying theres lots of things wrong with this country and hes promising to do something about it, but hes not saying wha...

>> senator mondale suffers from hypertension. today he was a study in relaxed confidence, out playing tennis early this morning. the competition on the court came from members of his campaign staff. some suggested it wasnt quite as tough as the competition mondale might expect from the debate tonight. >> nixon makes the same speech everywhere he goes. all candidates do that. but nixon is speaking on the issues of the day in only the most general way. hes saying theres lots of things wrong with t...

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Thats a challenge to recognize what is so obvious to everyone else. political attack is part of the game -- >> thank you for that. >> no thank you. political attacks are part of the game. john mccain is worthy of criticism as anybody else in the game. do you think its wrong to confuse that criticism with the service to the country john mccain and so many others gave? >> well to begin with it somehow degrades military people and people in uniform. on the other hand you have to consider the source...