Page 9 - John Ehrlichman News Today

The book he was writing is finally here. We are pleased to give him this opportunity, the book came out on monday so we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. Thank you bill. Its an honor to be here and an honor to have bill as the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is a trashing of our constitution and bill of rights in a successful effort to drive nixon from office and to realign political power without the inconveni...

Things. When we get to the qanda part of the session. But we ask if you have a question first put it in the form of a question in the second, make your way to the microphone because we are videoing both for our own page and cspan tv is here this evening as well, and they would like to be able to hear your question. And at the end before you come up to get the book signed the stuff was appreciated. The presidency was profiled in a new book by tim weiner thats receiving a lot of attention. Hes qui...

Watergate scandal. [inaudible conversations] im going to put this down here for just now. Okay. Good ioning. Good evening. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine. On behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to silence any cell phones or other things that might go beep. When we get to the q a art of the session part of the session, we invite anybody to ask a question, but we ask t...

To Domestic Policy Group within the nixon administration. Later he had developed a number of legacy forums that were held across the United States that represent policies and achievements of the administration. Then i heard he was writing about. When i finally met jeff he became a good friend i now understand all the current efficiencies made to the foundation and in particular in the nixon legacy. In the book you striving is finally here so we are very pleased to give them this opportunity its ...

He was driven from office [inaudible] [laughter]. They were getting together in advance to work it out, which youre not supposed to do. Lets remind ourself of who the players were. These were the top six. The folks across the bottom row, gordon lidy, general magruder and john dean, are the ones who committed the crimes. Gordon liddy mastmindded the breakin into the watergate hotel. General magruder was his boss and john dean ran the coverup. In his open words he was the chief desk officer for th...

The march of progress westward. Doing the smallpox book i come across this Huge Population of out in the middle of north dakota. At the time of the revolution, population hub bigger than charleston, south carolina, the fourth biggest city on the atlantic seaboard and i just said holy cow, what if we told this story of america from the center of the continent . What if we called this is American History and this is the quintessential american story. Thank you dear ill stop there. [applause] you a...

If the egos are getting in them way. Juddson and john seem to have dalliances with groupies and theyre married at the time. There are ways in which they mirror our ideal of rock musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and these internal struggles richmond the group apart. By and large, after the civil war, the hutchinson family singers, asa moves out west. The brothers founded hutchinson, minnesota, and then asa moves to colorado and john remains centered in lynn, massachusetts. Abby will remain in new...

Get kids to watch sports on new media platforms. Indira lakshmanan reports on the Nuclear Power talks in vienna. We begin with peter cook and a new review of a controversial u. S. Surveillance Program First leak by Edward Snowden. What does the reports say . Of this report from the privacy and Civil Liberties board, a group appointed by the president and confirmed by congress may give reassurance to americans that the government is not reading all of their emails and it could provide political c...

He only needed to be found guilty of one article of impeachment. Richard nixon, seeing the writing on the wall, he was very gifted, he saw the writing on the wall and he decides to resign before he is actually thrown out of office. He announced his resignation august 8, 1974. He leaves office at noon on august 9, 1974, 40 years ago this august. Timothy naftali who served as director of the Richard Nixon Library Museum in california. Now the director of the library at new york university. Thank y...

Enough. Acts signed by gerald ford. The American People said enough is enough. Actually, the presidency has gotten too powerful by making use of vague areas in the constitution. This debate may not have been necessary for the impeachment but it was a critical element in the changing thinking of americans about what to expect from their president. Tim naftali who is with nyu and was the director of the nixon president ial Library Director joining us from new york. Thank you for adding your voice ...