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Cooperation with prosecutors as they continued to press on with the watergate investigation that led up to and including the presidents resignation from office. and it was less than two months after kalmbach reported to prison that nixon was gone too, resigned in disgrace. right? and instantly pardoned for all his crimes by the vice president who took his seat. today when we got news that this presidents personal attorney, michael cohen, appears to be making his own preparations to start talking...

Illegal and secret campaign fund that hed set up with the nixon white house to help republicans win in the 1970 mid terms. he also went to jail for effectively selling an ambassadorship in exc for yet more campaign donations to republicans. but even with just those two counts that they prosecuted him on, it looked like herb kalmbach would serve potentially years in prison. at least a year and a half in prison. the judge eng him from federal prison after only six months, specifically because of k...

Before president trumps refusal to release his tax returns, the biggest example in presidential history of a president getting in trouble with regard to his taxes was nixons tax scandal about his vice presidential papers. this is sort of become an obscure thing. it probably never would have been resurfaced in modern discussions about the presidency were it not for trurting controversy about his taxes, but thats what sort o b up again what nixon had done that t people so upsetut his taxes that le...

The national archives. what he was donating was his vice presidential papers from when he had been vice president to eisenhower. he then put an enormou financial valuation on that donation of his vice presidential papers. he ended up claiming like a half million tax deduction because of that self-proclaimed valuable gift to the country. and thatas bullpucky in terms of tax law, but nixon tried t get away with it. that nixon tax scandal back in the day, that was a herb kalmbach joint. that was ni...

Acknowledge that this is the dilemma that people in media face. but, please, talk to the people out there. find out why this happened. there isnt enough attention given to that in my opinion. >> in six or seven months after election day. >> we finally realized white working class, middle class people were angry. and angry enough to go kaboom and the kaboom manifested itself in the election of donald trump. this is what -- >> do you feel the country is ever going to get over the election? the pre...

Its been a busy and productive four years and i expect the same for the next four years. i intend to carry out the agenda that i campaigned on. >> certainly has been a busy four years but presidential encores have a history of arriving to cheers and leaving to jeers. its become known as the second term curse, inability to carry the momentum of the first four years in to the second four. from washington to eisenhower to clinton to bush, each of them and many in between found their second term mar...

They know each other. theyve talked about these issues before. theyve already winoed down the issues. >> fascinating. if that becomes true. well talk more and get other opinions about this. first we have a trivia time. since 1860 how many republican and democratic presidential candidates have lost the general election twice in a row? the answer, three. adlai stevenson, to eisenhower, thomas dewey lost to fdr and william jennings bryan lost to mckinley in both 1896 and 1900. crucified on a cross ...

Candidates all releasing their tax returns. before richard nixon was elected president in 1968, of course, he en vice president to eisenhower for two terms. separate and apart from the whole watergate scandal, the reasond up with this tradition of candidates releasing their tax returns is because nixon had a whole separate tax scandal. he cooked up this scheme where he declared that he was making a generous personal donation to the national archives. what he was donating was his vice presidentia...