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MSNBCW All The Presidents Men Revisited June 25, 2018 01:00:00
Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the
United States
. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that
Executive Power
that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The
Richard Nixon
they supported through the years was not the
Richard Nixon
that they thought they knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. He is ready before the cameras now. President
Richard Nixon
, 37th president of the
United States
. Throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i felt it was my duty to persevere. Watergate doesnt go away. It was so extraordinary. It was so hidden. We act like it cant happen again. It did a lot of stuff. There was a lot of passing laws and giving speeches. If you ask me do i think we learned anything from it . No. I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. In hollywood terms, woodward and bernstein were the good guys. Their weapon was the written word. Did he confirm it . I played bob woodward in the fi. Carl bernstein was played by dustin hoffman. One of the things i observed with carl is that he smoked so incessantly. Carl was always always had ashes on his tie and his shirt. I said, thats got to be in the movie. Is there any place you dont smoke . 40 years later, the two investigative reporters are back in the
Washington Post
newsroom. I join them for a reunion with ben bradley. Their former editor. The first time in decades we have all been together. Hello, robert. Its
Texting Intempting
to watergate could never happen it again. They know better. I look good. Its only 40 years ago. I wanted to dig deeper into their story and to what if any impact it had on our culture today. A photographer is here to document the three men. For bob woodward, watergate started the way most stories do, with a phone call from his editor. The moment i got the call about 9 00 a. M. On saturday morning, june 17th, no one flashed a message to me, this is going to be one of the most important days of your life. I was in the office that day. I saw all this commotion around the city desk on a saturday morning. Went to find out what it was. There was this moment in history that became known as watergate. Woodward and bernstein, for those of us in the profession, i think we were quickly in awe of what they were doing. I became truly inspired by both their incredible investigative reporting and their storytelling. I remember thinking when first read the woodward and bernstein articles, where is this going, especially coming in the midst of the turmoil playing out in the streets around the country. President nixons first term in office had been marched by loud and frequent and sometimes violent protests. Largely against the vietnam war. It really did seem like the world was unraveling. Growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revoluti revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. When i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. Probably was some of the most intense times i think our country had ever faced. Often we were feeling like we were in a state of siege. You felt it physically. And we knew that we were going to have to protect the white house. Theres a lot of discussion about using troops directly facing the demonstrators, which i felt could lead to direct confrontation and conflicts. So it came to me, why dont we do what john wayne did . Circle the white house with buses. Not wagons but with buses, which is what we did. Did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne . My parents chose john wayne. Therefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of
Law And Order
. Nixons
Law And Order
platform was very popular. In the coming election, he seemed a shooin for a second term. I proudly accept your nomination for president of the
United States
. By the summer of 1962, nixons
Campaign Machine
was in full force. His
Reelection Committee
would become entangled with a mysterious illegal breakin. Five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the
Democratic National
committee. It was the sunday after the burglary. We were the only two who showed up in the office. I was in the office that day. I was writing a profile. I said, this is a better story than the one im working on. I think i would like to work on this. It turns out that one of the men has an office in the headquarters of the committee for the reelection of the president. James mccord, the lead burglar, had been in the cia in the
Security Business
for decades. Was the head of security at the nixon campaign. Wait a minute . Whats going on here . Woodward and bernstein never imagined answering that question would lead them smack into the oval office. We were dating, wed to get excited about things like
Concert Tickets
or a new snowboard. Matt whoo wh jen but that all changed when we bought a house. Matt voila jen matt started turning into his dad. Matt mm. Thats some good mulch. Im awake. But it was pretty nifty when jen showed me how easy it was to protect our home and auto with progressive. [
Wrapper Crinkling
] get this butterscotch out of here. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents. Theres quite a bit of work, cause this was all this was all stapled. But we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. But we can protect your home and auto were not on an island anymore. [ roaring ] what could go wrong . You good . Yeah, you . [ roaring ] [ screaming ] nope. Rated pg13. On august 1, 1972, i picked up woodward and bernsteins third article on watergate. It said one of the burglars had gotten money from the nixon campaign. What the reporters would soon discover was that nixons
Reelection Committee
was engaging in sabotage against the democrats. Woodward and bernstein were beginning to pull back the curtains on a strange and shadowy world. I wanted to know how they were doing it. I got intrigued with making a film about woodward and bernstein because one was a jew, the other was a wasp. One was a radical liberal and the other was a republican. Beyond that, the hard work that they did together to get at this story. So i gave woodward a call. He was chilly on the phone. I said, this is bob redford calling. He said, yeah. I said, i wanted to know if i could meet you and your partner. I have this idea i want to share with you. Woodward came to me and said that redford had called. I put together who redford was. Interested in talking to us or whatever. I said, were busy. We gotta do this story. For woodward and bernstein it wasnt only that it seemed fishy, there was something just as odd about the white house response. The
Press Secretary
called it a third rate burglary attempt. Calling it a third rate burglary, that was the tipoff us that seemed to be nothing third rate about it except they got caught. They raised the stakes so high with this third rate burglary nonsense. It was apparent that something here was really rotten. Nixon assigned his top lieutenants the task of managing the fallout from the breakin. Among them, bob haldeman and
John Ehrlichman
would welcome the guardians of the clandestine activities. Watergate begins to monopolize more of their time. We know that because nixon had a secret
Tape Recording System
in the oval office. I really very quickly become the desk officer at the white house on watergate. Im the person who others below me report and then i in turn report up. They are deeply involved. Its a classic criminal conspiracy. As woodward and bernstein suspected, the first clue would be found at the
Republican Committee
to reelect the president. Its treasurer was hugh sloane. We raised 60 million, the most successful fundraising to that point in history of any president ial campaign. Some of the committees practices were starting to make sloane uneasy. He was right out of republican central casting. Clean cut, seemed to always have his shirt and tie on. He was troubled, because he was the one who was giving out the money. I was fine with everything up to the point i was directed to give cash to specific individuals. Sloane would soon learn that some of the
Campaign Money
raised by the
Reelection Committee
had found its way into the hands of the watergate burglars. The key was the money and finding these people who controlled the funds and figuring out what they did with the money. By now, woodward and bernstein werent the only ones following the money. The fbi were on the trail and a grand jury had begun its own investigation. Everyone wanted to talk to hugh sloane. The cash that financed the watergate breakin, five men had controls of the funds. They recommended to tell them the story to print it. Were
Ask Ugh Ing You To Be
say we wrote a story that said he controlled the fund. Would we be wrong . Established through conversations and other means that i would have acknowledged five people as having the authority to tell me to dispense funds. One of them was bob haldeman. I would have no problems if you run a story like that. You wouldnt . No. Okay. If you are looking for a phrase that defined what the execution of watergate was, it was a haldeman operation. It was driven by nixon. But operationally, it was haldeman doing it. On october 25th, two weeks before the election, the front page headline pointed the finger at the number one man in the president s inner circle, haldeman. Sloane had testified that haldeman controlled the secret fund. But they were wrong. I had never been asked about bob haldeman. Sloane had not named haldeman in his testimony. White house pounced. I dont respect the type of journalism, the shabby
Journalism Being
practiced by the
Washington Post
. I use the term shoddy journalism, shabby journalism. I used the term character assassination. This was their opportunity to discredit the post, woodward and bernstein and bury the story. They came after us. The
Press Secretary
. We knew that we were the targets. All i know is that the story that ran this morning is incorrect. We made a mistake. [ bleep ] up. We had an intellectual understanding of the facts of the story and haldemans role in watergate. But what was in the
Washington Post
was untrue. We should not have allowed that to happen. I was angry at myself and carl and how we got it wrong. We thought, maybe we are going to have to resign. Maybe we should resign. We were kind of at the end of our rope. Woodward and bernstein, the path to the truth had just gotten longer and harder. Over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. In 24 hours, youll send him off thinking youve done everything for his wellbeing. But meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. While meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. Like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. Meningitis b strikes quickly. Be quick to talk to your teens doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. And now for the rings. Im a fouryearold ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. Still wont eat my broccoli, though. And if you dont have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. So get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. Like me. Can a ring bearer get a snack around here . Wlets do it. . Come on. This summer, add a new member to the family. At the mercedesbenz summer event. Lease the glc300 for 429 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Ive never known a
National Election
when i would be able to go to bed earlier than tonight. Repeat after me. I
Richard Nixon
do solemnly swear. I
Richard Nixon
do sal manically swear. That i will faithfully execute the office of president of the
United States
. Looking back at the early watergate reports, its hard to believe that nixon was completely unscathed. Imagine a president getting away with that unfolding scandal in todays political environment. Woodward and bernstein went back to their desks, put their heads down and continued to grind away at the story. I knew i was going to be judged, the paper was going to be judged on this story. Therefore, you know, i think you could get away with not being 100 accurate on day one, but you had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and closer the day after that. They knew that haldeman was controlling the secret fund. The question was, who was controlling haldeman . I was amazed by woodward and bernsteins resolve. Theres nothing glamorous about what they were doing. I thought it was important to portray the hard work and the feelings about the film from a
Studio Standpoint
was noncommercial. Phones, typewriters, washington. Bob did something which was brilliant. He said, these guys, even though they are from separate, diverse backgrounds, think of them as one. Particularly when theyre interviewing people. He said, lets learn not only our own lines but lets memorize the other guys lines. Sloane. Sloane was the treasurer of the committee his wife did what . Shes pregnant. She made sloane quit. Make a note of it. What do we got . Where is that each of us would come in at any time. We would take one half of a sentence. Finish it. She said it. Right here. She said at the time of the breakin there was so much money floating around that i know i thought it was one of the most exciting and most successful things that we did in that film. Like woodward and bernstein, dustin and i couldnt have been more opposite. One of the things that i remember you telling me was that you had trouble even you at that time had trouble getting a studio to say yes, because they all said we know the ending. Why should we do all why would we do this when we know the outcome. Its about the two guys. And what they did that nobody knew about. You said it was a detective story. The main thing i think you felt the same way. The alchemy of the two guys considering their differences. One of the tough story points was how do you betray someone so twisted on the inside and straightlaced on the outside . Richard nixon is now the guy who when you see photos of him, even at his prime, you cannot believe he was ever president of the
United States
. He seemed to me to be the kid in the schoolyard whom all the other kids picked on. I identified with that. Who was nixon . Nixon. Nixon was a party guy, an animal. To me, nixon was a character couturcan a tur. I had my nixon down. Ten years owed
Walking Around
the house. I am not a crook. I have a more complex view of the man and his presidency. President nixon created a new federal department, the
Environmental Protection
agency. The question of who is
Richard Nixon
is almost imponderable. I look at him as one of really one of the great minds that has ever really been in the presidency. He had achieved some extraordinary breakthroughs. His opening to china, soviet union. I think nixon would by todays standards be considered maybe a conservative democrat, maybe at some levels a radical leftist. Hello. Here is one of the men around the president we dont hear much about, alex butterfield. Deputy assistant. My first meeting with the president , my god. I cant tell it without acting. Today, butterfield and the president nixon came out from behind his desk and looked tentative. He had no idea what to do. He began to gesture. No words came out. Its just this deep gutter all this is the president. I couldnt believe it. Butterfield would play a crucial role in the investigation. He had knowledge of the secret taping system in the oval office. Haldeman came to me. He said, the president wants a
Tape Recording System
. The
Secret Service
has a technical security division, electronics and communications guys. Thats who i went to. The first thing, he indicated he intimated that they had done this before. He didnt say we did it for johnson, we did it for this president or that. He also indicated these things usually
Dont Work Out
very well. He was a paparanoid man. He gave them a lot to get him with. He wasnt glamorous. He wasnt social. He was kind of awkward and very smart. But its hard to get past the tapes and what you hear on the tapes and the rambling and the paranoia and just the insanity. I really didnt know
Richard Nixon
when i went into the white house. I had a public image of him. As he gets more comfortable with me, i start to see a rather dark side of this man. I realize very quickly, he is a man who harbored tremendous animosity towards his enemies, literally. He doesnt forgive. He doesnt forget. He wants to get even. The real nixon is on those tapes. It is a road map of his mind. It is a road map of his presidency. It would lead to an
United States<\/a>. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that
Executive Power<\/a> that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The
Richard Nixon<\/a> they supported through the years was not the
Richard Nixon<\/a> that they thought\rthey knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. He is ready before the cameras now. President
Richard Nixon<\/a>, 37th president of the
United States<\/a>. Throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i felt it was my duty to persevere. Watergate doesnt go away. It was so extraordinary. It was so hidden. We act like it cant happen again. It did a lot of stuff. There was a lot of passing laws and giving speeches. If you ask me do i think we learned anything from it . No. I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. In hollywood terms, woodward and bernstein were the good guys. Their weapon was the written word. Did he confirm it . I played bob woodward in the fi. Carl bernstein was played by dustin hoffman. One of the things i observed with carl is that he smoked so incessantly. Carl was always always had ashes on his tie and his shirt. I said, thats got to be in the movie. Is there any place you dont smoke . 40 years later, the two investigative reporters are back in the
Washington Post<\/a> newsroom. I join them for a reunion with ben bradley. Their former editor. The first time in decades we have all been together. Hello, robert. Its
Texting Intempting<\/a> to\rwatergate could never happen it again. They know better. I look good. Its only 40 years ago. I wanted to dig deeper into their story and to what if any impact it had on our culture today. A photographer is here to document the three men. For bob woodward, watergate started the way most stories do, with a phone call from his editor. The moment i got the call about 9 00 a. M. On saturday morning, june 17th, no one flashed a message to me, this is going to be one of the most important days of your life. I was in the office that day. I saw all this commotion around the city desk on a saturday morning. Went to find out what it was. There was this moment in history that became known as watergate. Woodward and bernstein, for those of us in the profession, i think we were quickly in awe of what they were doing. I became truly inspired by both their incredible investigative reporting and their storytelling. I remember thinking when first read the woodward and bernstein articles, where is this going, especially coming in the midst of the turmoil playing out in the streets around the country. President nixons first term in office had been marched by loud and frequent and sometimes violent protests. Largely against the vietnam war. It really did seem like the world was unraveling. Growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revoluti revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. When i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. Probably was some of the most intense times i think our country had ever faced. Often we were feeling like we were in a state of siege. You felt it physically. And we knew that we were going to have to protect the white house. Theres a lot of discussion about using troops directly\rfacing the demonstrators, which i felt could lead to direct confrontation and conflicts. So it came to me, why dont we do what john wayne did . Circle the white house with buses. Not wagons but with buses, which is what we did. Did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne . My parents chose john wayne. Therefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of
Law And Order<\/a>. Nixons
Law And Order<\/a> platform was very popular. In the coming election, he seemed a shooin for a second term. I proudly accept your nomination for president of the
United States<\/a>. By the summer of 1962, nixons
Campaign Machine<\/a> was in full force. His
Reelection Committee<\/a> would become entangled with a mysterious illegal breakin. Five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the
Democratic National<\/a> committee. It was the sunday after the burglary. We were the only two who showed up in the office. I was in the office that day. I was writing a profile. I said, this is a better story than the one im working on. I think i would like to work on this. It turns out that one of the men has an office in the headquarters of the committee for the reelection of the president. James mccord, the lead burglar, had been in the cia in the
Security Business<\/a> for decades. Was the head of security at the nixon campaign. Wait a minute . Whats going on here . Woodward and bernstein never imagined answering that question would lead them smack into the oval office. We were dating, wed to get excited about things like
Concert Tickets<\/a> or a new snowboard. Matt whoo wh jen but that all changed when we bought a house. Matt voila jen matt started turning into his dad. Matt mm. Thats some good mulch. Im awake. But it was pretty nifty when jen showed me how easy it was to protect our home and auto with progressive. [
Wrapper Crinkling<\/a> ] get this butterscotch out of here. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents. Theres quite a bit of work, cause this was all this was all stapled. But we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. But we can protect your home and auto were not on an island anymore. [ roaring ] what could go wrong . You good . Yeah, you . [ roaring ] [ screaming ] nope. Rated pg13. On august 1, 1972, i picked up woodward and bernsteins third article on watergate. It said one of the burglars had gotten money from the nixon campaign. What the reporters would soon discover was that nixons\r
Reelection Committee<\/a> was engaging in sabotage against the democrats. Woodward and bernstein were beginning to pull back the curtains on a strange and shadowy world. I wanted to know how they were doing it. I got intrigued with making a film about woodward and bernstein because one was a jew, the other was a wasp. One was a radical liberal and the other was a republican. Beyond that, the hard work that they did together to get at this story. So i gave woodward a call. He was chilly on the phone. I said, this is bob redford calling. He said, yeah. I said, i wanted to know if i could meet you and your partner. I have this idea i want to share with you. Woodward came to me and said that redford had called. I put together who redford was. Interested in talking to us or whatever. I said, were busy. We gotta do this story. For woodward and bernstein it wasnt only that it seemed fishy, there was something just as odd about the white house response. The
Press Secretary<\/a> called it a third rate burglary attempt. Calling it a third rate burglary, that was the tipoff us that seemed to be nothing third rate about it except they got caught. They raised the stakes so high with this third rate burglary nonsense. It was apparent that something here was really rotten. Nixon assigned his top lieutenants the task of managing the fallout from the breakin. Among them, bob haldeman and
John Ehrlichman<\/a> would welcome the guardians of the clandestine activities. Watergate begins to monopolize more of their time. We know that because nixon had a secret
Tape Recording System<\/a> in the oval office. I really very quickly become the desk officer at the white house on watergate. Im the person who others below me report and then i in turn report up. They are deeply involved. Its a classic criminal conspiracy. As woodward and bernstein suspected, the first clue would be found at the
Republican Committee<\/a> to reelect the president. Its treasurer was hugh sloane. We raised 60 million, the most successful fundraising to that point in history of any president ial campaign. Some of the committees practices were starting to make sloane uneasy. He was right out of republican central casting. Clean cut, seemed to always have his shirt and tie on. He was troubled, because he was the one who was giving out the money. I was fine with everything up to the point i was directed to give cash to specific individuals. Sloane would soon learn that some of the
Campaign Money<\/a> raised by the
Reelection Committee<\/a> had found its way into the hands of the watergate burglars. The key was the money and finding these people who controlled the funds and figuring out what they did with the money. By now, woodward and bernstein werent the only ones following the money. The fbi were on the trail and a grand jury had begun its own investigation. Everyone wanted to talk to hugh sloane. The cash that financed the watergate breakin, five men had controls of the funds. They recommended to tell them\rthe story to print it. Were
Ask Ugh Ing You To Be<\/a> say we wrote a story that said he controlled the fund. Would we be wrong . Established through conversations and other means that i would have acknowledged five people as having the authority to tell me to dispense funds. One of them was bob haldeman. I would have no problems if you run a story like that. You wouldnt . No. Okay. If you are looking for a phrase that defined what the execution of watergate was, it was a haldeman operation. It was driven by nixon. But operationally, it was haldeman doing it. On october 25th, two weeks before the election, the front\rpage headline pointed the finger at the number one man in the president s inner circle, haldeman. Sloane had testified that haldeman controlled the secret fund. But they were wrong. I had never been asked about bob haldeman. Sloane had not named haldeman in his testimony. White house pounced. I dont respect the type of journalism, the shabby
Journalism Being<\/a> practiced by the
Washington Post<\/a>. I use the term shoddy journalism, shabby journalism. I used the term character assassination. This was their opportunity to discredit the post, woodward and bernstein and bury the story. They came after us. The
Press Secretary<\/a>. We knew that we were the\rtargets. All i know is that the story that ran this morning is incorrect. We made a mistake. [ bleep ] up. We had an intellectual understanding of the facts of the story and haldemans role in watergate. But what was in the
Washington Post<\/a> was untrue. We should not have allowed that to happen. I was angry at myself and carl and how we got it wrong. We thought, maybe we are going to have to resign. Maybe we should resign. We were kind of at the end of our rope. Woodward and bernstein, the path to the truth had just gotten longer and harder. Over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. In 24 hours, youll send him off thinking youve done everything for his wellbeing. But meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. While meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. Like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. Meningitis b strikes quickly. Be quick to talk to your teens doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. And now for the rings. Im a fouryearold ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. Still wont eat my broccoli, though. And if you dont have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. So get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. Like me. Can a ring bearer get a snack around here . Wlets do it. . Come on. This summer, add a new member to the family. At the mercedesbenz summer event. Lease the glc300 for 429 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Ive never known a
National Election<\/a> when i would be able to go to bed earlier than tonight. Repeat after me. I
Richard Nixon<\/a> do solemnly swear. I
Richard Nixon<\/a> do sal manically swear. That i will faithfully execute the office of president of the
United States<\/a>. Looking back at the early watergate reports, its hard to believe that nixon was completely unscathed. Imagine a president getting away with that unfolding scandal in todays political environment. Woodward and bernstein went back to their desks, put their heads down and continued to grind away at the story. I knew i was going to be judged, the paper was going to be judged on this story. Therefore, you know, i think you could get away with not being 100 accurate on day one, but\ryou had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and closer the day after that. They knew that haldeman was controlling the secret fund. The question was, who was controlling haldeman . I was amazed by woodward and bernsteins resolve. Theres nothing glamorous about what they were doing. I thought it was important to portray the hard work and the feelings about the film from a
Studio Standpoint<\/a> was noncommercial. Phones, typewriters, washington. Bob did something which was brilliant. He said, these guys, even though they are from separate, diverse backgrounds, think of them as one. Particularly when theyre interviewing people. He said, lets learn not only our own lines but lets memorize the other guys lines. Sloane. Sloane was the treasurer of the committee his wife did what . Shes pregnant. She made sloane quit. Make a note of it. What do we got . Where is that each of us would come in at any time. We would take one half of a sentence. Finish it. She said it. Right here. She said at the time of the breakin there was so much money floating around that i know i thought it was one of the most exciting and most successful things that we did in that film. Like woodward and bernstein, dustin and i couldnt have been more opposite. One of the things that i remember you telling me was that you had trouble even you at that time had trouble getting a studio to say yes, because they all said we know the ending. Why should we do all why would we do this when we know the outcome. Its about the two guys. And what they did that nobody knew about. You said it was a detective story. The main thing i think you felt the same way. The alchemy of the two guys considering their differences. One of the tough story points was how do you betray someone so twisted on the inside and straightlaced on the outside . Richard nixon is now the guy who when you see photos of him, even at his prime, you cannot believe he was ever president of the
United States<\/a>. He seemed to me to be the kid in the schoolyard whom all the other kids picked on. I identified with that. Who was nixon . Nixon. Nixon was a party guy, an animal. To me, nixon was a character\rcouturcan a tur. I had my nixon down. Ten years owed
Walking Around<\/a> the house. I am not a crook. I have a more complex view of the man and his presidency. President nixon created a new federal department, the
Environmental Protection<\/a> agency. The question of who is
Richard Nixon<\/a> is almost imponderable. I look at him as one of really one of the great minds that has ever really been in the presidency. He had achieved some extraordinary breakthroughs. His opening to china, soviet union. I think nixon would by todays standards be considered maybe a conservative democrat, maybe at some levels a radical leftist. Hello. Here is one of the men around the president we dont hear much\rabout, alex butterfield. Deputy assistant. My first meeting with the president , my god. I cant tell it without acting. Today, butterfield and the president nixon came out from behind his desk and looked tentative. He had no idea what to do. He began to gesture. No words came out. Its just this deep gutter all this is the president. I couldnt believe it. Butterfield would play a crucial role in the investigation. He had knowledge of the secret taping system in the oval office. Haldeman came to me. He said, the president wants a
Tape Recording System<\/a>. The
Secret Service<\/a> has a technical security division, electronics and communications guys. Thats who i went to. The first thing, he indicated \rhe intimated that they had done this before. He didnt say we did it for johnson, we did it for this president or that. He also indicated these things usually
Dont Work Out<\/a> very well. He was a paparanoid man. He gave them a lot to get him with. He wasnt glamorous. He wasnt social. He was kind of awkward and very smart. But its hard to get past the tapes and what you hear on the tapes and the rambling and the paranoia and just the insanity. I really didnt know
Richard Nixon<\/a> when i went into the white house. I had a public image of him. As he gets more comfortable with me, i start to see a rather dark side of this man. I realize very quickly, he is a man who harbored tremendous animosity towards his enemies, literally. He doesnt forgive. He doesnt forget. He wants to get even. The real nixon is on those tapes. It is a road map of his mind. It is a road map of his presidency. It would lead to an
Underground Parking Garage<\/a> and their next big break. Woodward met with a
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Opposition Party<\/a> i questioning the results. Deep throat would become the\rmost memorable figure in the watergate scandal. When
Woodward And Bernsteins Book<\/a> came out, guessing deep throats identity turned into a cottage industry. I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know and i will confirm. I will keep you in the right direction if i can. But thats all. Just follow the money. Deep throat was a blessing. I didnt want to mess with. My day, it was known as the double cross. Our present context, it means infiltration of the democrats. I just felt it was a wonderful piece of drama. I want to talk about watergate. Sometimes he would just he was not very forthcoming. A couple of key times he was. Clear from the book and i hope from the movie that its somebody who was conscience\rstricken, somebody who crossed lines that somebody in that sort of responsible position rarely crosses and crossed for the best of reasons. He gave us a solidity in what others were telling us that might have sounded unbelievable given how crazy some of it was. I didnt know what deep throat looked like. Didnt know if it was a man or woman. The mystique. Its embarrassing. Its deep throat. Named after a porn movie. The nickname deep throat was dirty from the beginning. Yet, because it was so important to the story, everyone talks about deep throat this and deep throat that in this casual way. The term deep throat, everybody was on deep background, meaning you could use it but not with any kind of attribution at all that would indicate where it came from. I wouldnt quote you even as an anonymous source. You would be on deep background. The fascination with that one source i think was driven in part by the anonymity, that we knew what happened in the administration, we knew through all the president s men
How Woodward And Bernstein<\/a> ferreted out the information. No deep throat, no movie. Theres something so incredibly bondish about it that without that, im not sure you get the hollywood of the story. He to me was probably a crucial element in follow the money. Deep throat was woodwards contact. It took him a while to let bernstein in on the secret. He said i have something that works at the
Justice Department<\/a> who is in a very advantageous position. He told me a bit about him. Didnt tell me exactly who he\rwas or where he worked. He didnt want to talk on the phone. He knew about what was going on with wiretaps and how they would go after journalists. He said, we have to meet. It struck me at the time as kind of odd. But again, i was just beginning this process of washington reporting. It sounded reasonable to me. Lets meet at 2 00 a. M. In this underground garage. In this garage under the cover of night, deep throat began to allude to a farreaching conspiracy deep in the heart of the white house. It involves the entire u. S. Intelligence community. Fbi, cia, justice. Its incredible. Deep throat was a great help in that he confirmed information that we had obtained elsewhere for the most part. It gave us a better idea of how big the conspiracy was. Deep throat was out there. And we began to hear about it from the ground up that bob had this special source. When will the rest of the world know who is deep throat . When that source passes away or releases us from our agreement and pledge of confidentiality. Who is deep throat . We said deep throat is a man. You can rule out some suspects like diane sawyer. Woodward says deep throat was a man. You build a strong case for the identity of alexander hague. Do you have any idea what deep throat was . Deep throat is a collection of people. How did the secret of deep throat last for so long . The answer is, neither of us told our exwives. During our filming, woodward mentioned the portrayal was close to the real thing. When i asked him who the man was, he just smiled. Other guesses over the years, john sears, mark felt. I never leaked any information. I didnt give anybody any documents. Im getting fed up with the whole thing. Mark felt caught some peoples attention. He was the number two man in the fbi. He looked the part. No, no, im not deep throat. The only thing i can say is that i wouldnt be ashamed to be. Three decades later, bob woodward went to visit mark felt. The elderly man was living with his daughter on a quiet street in the suburbs of san francisco. Coincidentally named redford place. I was talking to a friend of mine. We started talking about watergate and he asked me about my father. I started telling him about the reporters calling. I said, as a matter of fact, one reporter, i think he said his name was bob woodward from the
Washington Post<\/a>, came to the house to try and get an interview with dad and try to find out if dad is deep throat. My friend said, joan, bob woodward knows who deep throat is. Thats when i started thinking, oh, my gosh, maybe dad could be deep throat. But dad denied it. He said that he wasnt deep throat. I said, dad, you got to tell me the truth. Please tell me the truth. I need to know. Tell me. So he did. He looked me in the eyes and said, all right, if thats the way its going to be, he said, all right, i am, i was that person. I got a call from vanity fair and told in the next few hours they were going to break a story saying that felt was deep throat and would i confirm it. Carl came down to washington. We talked about this. Should we reveal it . Should we confirm it . Whats the obligation now . Then ben bradley stepped in and said, its out. Its over. You need to confirm it. So we did. Felt was the number two man at the fbi when he says he became the source who helped reveal watergate that brought down
Richard Nixon<\/a>. My dad, i know him, i know him so well. Hes a great man. He is so kind. He is so attentive to other people. And loving. Were so proud of him, not only for his role in history but for that, the character he has, the person that he is. Clearly, there was an element of the conflicted man, the divided man. But then when i saw him on the doorstep, the video of mark felt in his pajamas with a smile on his face, the smile that i had never seen him smile. He was not a happy person in all the years i dealt with him. Turns out it had been\rliberating for us, for the truth, for felt, because now there was an awful lot of speculation in those 30 years, including by many of our peers and colleagues that we made this up. This was an element of clarity and closure, answering a question that had persisted for a long time. Deep throat begins to
Guide Woodward And Bernstein<\/a> through an elaborate maze of corporate activities. They begin to connect watergate to more of the president s men. By the beginning of 1973, congress could no longer ignore the scandal. Their investigation would boil down to one simple question. What did the president know and when did he know it . Matt whoo whoo jen but that all changed when we bought a house. Matt voila jen matt started turning into his dad. Matt mm. Thats some good mulch. Im awake. But it was pretty nifty when jen showed me how easy it was to protect our home and auto with progressive. [
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Reporters Nosing<\/a> around a suspicious break in. It has grown into a fullfledged examination of the nixon white house. I know we are obstructing justice. I told haldeman that. I told ehrlichman that. They didnt want to hear that. One point ehrlichman said, john, theres something putrid in your
Drinking Water<\/a> out there in old town where you live. I said, no, john, im just a realist. We got problems. On march 21st, john dean walked into the oval office and\rgave nixon a blunt assessment of the damage that watergate was doing to his presidency. He had had his feet on the desk when was looking around his shoes at me. I have the impression you dont everything i know and it makes it very difficult for you to make judgments that only you can make. After that remark his feet were solidly on the floor. He had slid his chair up and i had his full attention. I knew at that point he knew something but i didnt know how much. There is no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we got. Im warning him hes got problems. This was not good news i was about to share that there is a cancer on his presidency. We have a cancer within close to the presidency thats growing. Its growing daily. He kind of just absorbs that for a minute and thinks about it. As the conversation goes on, i say, mr. President , you know, i dont know where this will end. Its just going to keep going up. The
Senate Investigation<\/a> was closing in on the president. To distance himself from the cover up, nixon needed scapegoats. One of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, i accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates at the white house. Bob haldeman and
John Ehrlichman<\/a>. Two of the finest
Public Servants<\/a> it has been my privilege to know. When he gets rid of them he is also planning his defense. The watergate scandal broke wide open today. The two closest men to the president have resigned. He thinks this will protect him, and he will claim he had known nothing about a cover up until i told him on march 21st. He is sorting all this out until\rthe end of the month when he decides hes just got to let everybody go. And then, of course, he fires me. On may 17th the senate held its first public hearing. One by one, the president s men were summoned to the senate chamber. Under crossexamination each was asked, had the president of the
United States<\/a> broken the law . What did the president know and when did he know it . I dont think there has ever been a moment in american
Nonfiction Television<\/a> history that is as riveting as the
Watergate Hearings<\/a> were. I did not grow up with the memory of having seen it, obviously. But it was this omnipresent thing in the way that my mom talked about my young childhood. She was a young mother, home with a baby on the hip and what she did for my infancy was feed me and watch watergate. I was sitting in a dressing\rroom making a film
The Great Gatsby<\/a> and you would watch the hearings to keep yourself from going mad. The hearings were so interesting, you couldnt stop. What was interesting is the drama and the tension and the certain area of mystery. Whats going to happen . Do i understand you are testifying the committee to reelect the president and those associated with him the
Watergate Hearings<\/a> were an absolute unifying
Television Experience<\/a> for the entire country. This is a
Special Report<\/a> i can remember watching it and thinking, man, theyre interrupting soap operas, wow. You just figure that this must be something enormously fundamental to our democracy. Most of us thought the most dramatic testimony would come from haldeman and ehrlichman, but in the end it would be john dean that transfixed the country. Haldeman and ehrlichman and the president knew we did have an option. We could at that point drag the wagons around of a giant lie that would protect everybody who was willing to lie. Who was willing to lie . Haldeman, ehrlichman. The point is i didnt run around trying to bribe anybody or shred documents. We preserved the documents. The president , ehrlichman and i made no attempt to take over the watergate case. The view of all three of us through the whole period was that the truth must be told and quickly although we did not know what the truth was. So when i testified council will call the first witness. Mr. John w. Dean iii. I knew clearly, was i in or out, was the question . And i decided i could not play that game. Ive made mistakes. Wed gotten ourselves in a deep problem and further lying and living that lie, even if i can get away with it, isnt something im comfortable with. More earning something you love per roll. Bounty is more absorbent, so the roll last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Now with new prints featuring
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Furniture Stores<\/a> that sold tv sets watching in the plateglass windows, the television. I told him the cash that had been at the white house had been funneled back to the
Reelection Committee<\/a> for the purpose of paying the seven individuals to remain silent. And dean wasnt pulling any punches. A recipient of
Wiretap Information<\/a> and haldeman also. Received some information. I said to myself wow everything john dean is saying to that committee, i hope they know, it is true. The counsel was retained at that time. What date was that . That was on the 25th, as i recall. We absolutely believed what he was saying and the more evidence we got the more it confirmed what he was saying. Meeting of march 21. As i have indicated, my purpose in requesting this meeting, particularly with the president , was that i felt it was necessary that i give him a full report of all the facts that i knew and explained to him what i believed to be the implications of those facts. We had white house logs of meetings. So when he said i met with the president on march 21st, we could look at the log and say, well, he certainly did. How do you expect us to resolve the truth in this matter when you state one story and you testified here and made yourself subject to crossexamination and\rthe president states another story and he does not appear before this committee . Can you give us any information as to how we might resolve this . Mr. Chairman, i think this. I strongly believe that the truth always emerges. I dont know if it will be during these hearings. I dont know if it will be through the processes of history, but the truth will out some day. Its very hard to think about the president not being believed and john dean being believed. So if it came down to he said he said, the president was going to win. President nixon and his counsel, john dean, now appear to be at odds over the watergate scandal. One nixon aide knew how to prove who was lying, but no one had asked him. While in the barbershop im watching the hearings, as was everyone, every place. This is the morning of monday\rthe 16th of july. I was really quite relaxed until i got that phone call. Were going to want you to come up here and testify. A senator wants you to testify at 2 00. I said, you can just tell him im not coming. So on the tube i see this guy go in behind the senators and whisper in urbans ear. And its those big bushy eyebrows of his went, whoop. You can see them going up and down. And he wasnt pleased. You could tell that. He tells this young man something and the guy leaves. Predictably right away the phone rings. And he said i just told the senator what you said and he said if you are not in his office at 1 00 he will have federal marshals pick you up on the street. Thats exactly what he said. Carl stern is outside the
Senate Caucus<\/a> room and maybe can tell us more about mr. Butterfield and what he is expected to tell the committee. Carl . There was a lot of speculation. Obviously, something was cooking as far as what he was going to say because we were deviating from the schedule. We believe his testimony will have to do with white house procedures. That room was chock full of people. Boyfriends with girls standing on their shoulders, people in the
Window Ledges<\/a> up there. Cameras all over the place. Id like to change the usual routine of questioning and ask minority counsel to begin the questioning of mr. Butterfield. Thank you. The old caucus room was packed full of famous names and celebrities and whatnot, kind of a circus atmosphere, frankly. Mr. Butterfield, i understand you previously employed by the white house . Is that correct . Thats correct. During what period of time were you employed by the white house . I would like to preface my\rremarks, if i may. Im sorry. Go right ahead. Although i do not have a statement as such i would simply like to remind the
Committee Membership<\/a> that whereas i appear voluntarily this afternoon, i appear with only some three hours notice. I wanted them to know i was enjoying a haircut just at 11 00 today. Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of installation of
Listening Devices<\/a> in the oval
Office Of The President<\/a> . I tried to think is that direct . Yeah, thats direct. Thats a very direct question. Im not trying to sound dramatic here, but i knew then that the jig was up. I was aware of
Listening Devices<\/a>. Yes, sir. I was under the assumption that this
Tape Recording System<\/a> was still deep, dark secret over\rat the white house. That secret was well kept. When you stop and think,
Rosemary Woods<\/a>, his secretary, never knew about the tapes. Henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes. John ehrlichman never knew about the tapes. Two people told me about it before it became public. I called
Bradley At Home<\/a> at 9 00 on
Saturday Night<\/a> i believe and said, nixon taped himself. What should we do . Ben said, i wouldnt bust one on it. Its kind of a bplus story. I thought, okay. The boss says bplus. I wont work on it. I took sunday off and monday they called butterfield. I remember ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, its better than a bplus. From that point on, of course, its a fight for the tapes because they answer the questions. Am i telling the truth . Is the president telling the truth . What else happened . The prosecutors immediately subpoena the tapes. The
Senate Subpoenas<\/a> them. So nixon is early advised to destroy the tapes. The full value of your new car . Youre better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled,
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Saturday Night<\/a> in october 1973 he also ordered his
Attorney General<\/a> to fire the special prosecutor. The
Attorney General<\/a> was appalled. He said no and resigned. Then the president told one of his assistants to call the
Deputy Attorney<\/a> general. When i picked the phone up it was al haig. He said he wanted me to fire cox and i said im not going to do it. Ruckleshouse refused in a moment of constitution of drama to obey a president ial order to fire the special
Watergate Prosecutor<\/a>. First the
Attorney General<\/a> to his credit to say im not going to do that and then resign and then the next person who is the
Deputy Attorney<\/a> general, bill ruckleshouse, one of the great people in the nixon administration, one of the most ethical men i have ever known, he, too, was not willing to do it. So the
Deputy Attorney<\/a> general, ruckleshouse, also resigned. There will be an announcement out of the white house later on. There will be . Does it have to do with the resignation of the
Attorney General<\/a> . It might. You will have to get it from them. Al haig said your
Commander In Chief<\/a> has ordered you to do this. I dont know what that added to the discussion. He said, well, who else is around . I said bob bork is here. He was the number three guy in the department. Bork was the last one that was really eligible to do it. The
Commander In Chief<\/a> found someone willing to carry out his orders. Bork fired cox. And i have asked all the personnel in the department to stay and help keep the department from going in this extraordinarily difficult time. And so ended what would become known as the
Saturday Night<\/a> massacre. One white house source said the president s motive was to remove the possibility of a constitutional confrontation as quickly as possible. Richard nixon violated the law, he compromised the office and he violated the compact that we thought we had with him. Before he did all of this he must have considered the\rprobable reaction in congress including the possibility of impeachment. There with some of us who felt that the imperial presidency was getting out of hand. The
Saturday Night<\/a> massacre was a signal to the
American People<\/a> that a president was putting himself above the rule of law and they demanded action. And the public outcry to the
Saturday Night<\/a> massacre was so significant. Just the insanity of the
Saturday Night<\/a> massacre like who does that . How could you think you could get away with that . Its just not stable. People in high office tend to want to have power to themselves and they tend to want to keep it. Power still tends to corrupt. President s by the nature of the job are just unlikely to ever shed any of the
Executive Power<\/a> that their predecessors have accrued to the office. Every president since jimmy\rcarter has expanded the powers of the presidency. And when president obama ran for office, he had as part of his pitch as a candidate, what was wrong with the expanded
Executive Power<\/a> that was asserted by the george w. Bush administration, especially on
National Security<\/a> issues, things like torture and secret prisons and all of that stuff after 9 11. He hasnt given any of that power back now that he is president. Tonight i would like to give my answer to those who have suggested that i resign. I have no intention whatever of walking away from the job i was elected to do. After four months of legal squabbling the president ial
Tape Recordings<\/a> were finallydelivered today to the chief judge. We wont hear them, however, until all the discrepancies have been accounted for and today that situation grew worse, not better. Much worse. Nixon had handed over the tapes\rbut there was a catch. I was in the white house. Things were fairly quiet. And i got a call to go to ron zieglers office. I go up to rons office thinking its something routine and ziegler is clearing his throat a lot and is kind of rattling his coffee cup and that is when we learned about the gap in the tapes. We had been told just about three days earlier that the worst is behind us and suddenly there was an 18 1 2 minute gap in the tapes and all hell broke loose again. The conversation in question took place three days after the watergate burglars were caught and the
Watergate Prosecutor<\/a> thought it was important. We know the 18 1 2 minute gap was a conversation about watergate because it was with haldeman and the president and haldeman was a
Meticulous Note Taker<\/a> and he took notes. The president s personal secretary,
Rosemary Woods<\/a>, was recalled to explain how she accidentally erased 18 minutes of a conversation with the president three days after the\rwatergate breakin. It didnt happen by accident would have been our first suspicion. I was the lawyer who questioned
Rosemary Woods<\/a> about the 18 1 2 minute gap. Are you discussing testimony tomorrow . Or an actual reenactment of bringing in her desk . I dont want to comment on it. Im called the mini skirted bitch. That was my name. Pictures of me were always head to toe. My male colleagues are shoulder up. Thats just how it was. Rosemary woods represents really the majority of women at that time. You could be a nurse. You could be a teacher. You could be a secretary, or you could be a housewife. Those were your choices. I was a very early professional and there we were head to head combat basically. Ms. Woods said it was a mistake. A
Record Button Hit<\/a> accidentally while she took a phone call. She described that she pushed the wrong button. Instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. She also had to keep her foot on the pedal. Mrs. Woods used the machine to show how it happened. When i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. Her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. There was just no way it was believable. The white house intention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidently erased would give more ammunition to the president s critics. To hear something that was so obviously untrue changed a lot of the american publics view of the whole situation. Rosemary woods would stand by her story. Bob woodward would later write the 18 1 2 minute gap became a symbol for nixons entire watergate problem. The truth had been deleted. The truth was missing. And we welcome back gary, whos already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r. V. I would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. Saved me a ton of money. Love you, gary you dont have to buzz in. Its not a question, gary. On march 1, 1810 [ ding ] frederic chopin. Collapsing in 226 [ ding ] the colossus of rhodes. [ sighs ]
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Carl Reworking<\/a> his story. Hows it going . What are you doing . Polishing a little. Whats wrong with it . Nothing, its good. What are you doing with it . Im just helping. Its a little fuzzy. May i have it . I dont think youre saying what you mean. I know exactly what i mean. Not here. I cant tell. May i have it . Its only conclusions. Yes. Im not looking for a fight. Im not looking for a fight either. Just aware of the fact youve only been here nine months. Now, having known both of them, that was so true and thats what goes on in newsrooms. If you are going to do it, do it right. Heres my notes. If youre going to hype it, hype it with the facts. I dont mind what you did. I mind the way you did it. The thing about bernstein that i think you captured so well was his assuredness about how right he was, at the same time, totally intuitive and\rinstinctive, where he had to push woodward. And how you have to rewrite me because youre a better writer. And you do it without even thinking how bruised its going to be. Woodward was didactic. If thats the right word. He would go a, b, c, d in his investigative work. And bernstein would go a, b, h. We had the luxury of a fat, dynamic institution in the
Washington Post<\/a>, it was right at its peak. Its always been some chicannery in
American Politics<\/a>, youre always going to have some underhanded dealings. Nothing comparable to this. Ended up that woodward and bernstein ushered in a new era of journalism that opened up the white house in a way that would have made lbj and jfk and fdr very uncomfortable. Marcus, everyone asks the question, could the post do a story like watergate or do watergate now . What is your you know, in todays world that story would catch fire much faster. The minute the breakin\roccurred, you know, you would tweet it. Both sides would seize on it. Its an election campaign. It would be they would be using it immediately as fodder for their both sides in the battle. Everybody would chase it. There would be bloggers. As a result it would be much harder to do what you did probably because there would be such they would clamp down much faster. Its a great question how watergate might unfold in the current news environment. You could look at the sort of
Glass Half Full<\/a> argument and say with all of these people on twitter and all of these reporters the 24hour news cycle, if a big story began to emerge, it would never be two lonely guys pursuing it forever because the entire pack of the cyberuniverse would bay like wolves after the white house until it happened. They used to say a reporter\rwas only as good as their phone numbers. We can hunt and stalk sources so many different ways. The tool box that i have available to me as a reporter, digital voice recording, email, social media. We can truth tell them in realtime. When they
Say Something<\/a> we can be googling what they are saying. Playing back to them. We have access to all known thought one click away. Ability to surround and ferret out a source in a way that woodward and bernstein only dreamed of. The internet is a tool just like a typewriter is a tool, a telephone is a tool. At the end of the day journalism requires incredibly dogged persistence on the part of journalists who are seeking the truth. We worked over here. Im here. Youre here. And im here. Yeah. And it was the noise of typewriters and it was the smoke of people who smoked. People smoking. 38 years ago. Jesus. Why did things have to change . Every day bob and i would go have a cup of coffee together in the morning in a
Vending Machine Room<\/a> off the newsroom. It sure is quiet in here. And on this particular day, not that long after the breakin, i put a dime in the coffee machine, which is what it cost then. And i literally felt this chill go down my neck. I mean literally, made my hair stick up, i think. I turned to woodward and i said, oh, my god, this president is going to be impeached. Woodward looked at me and said, oh, my god, youre right. Its just a burst pipe, i could fix it. laugh no. With claim rateguard your rates wont go up just beacuase of a claim. I totally couldve. wife nope switching to allstate is worth it. And the
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My Namspecialist<\/a> for pg e. My job is to help educate our
First Responders<\/a> on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. Everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. I live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. Once i moved here i didnt want to live anywhere else. I love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other peoples lives. Together, were building a better california. I would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all americans over the past year. I refer, of course, to the investigations of the socalled watergate affair. I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of watergate is enough. But as hard as nixon tried, watergate would not go away. The meeting will come to order. Resolve that the
Committee On The Judiciary<\/a> is authorized and directed to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach richard m. Nixon, president of the
United States<\/a> of america. It took the
American People<\/a>\rto force congress into action. This was not like what happened with president clinton where a special prosecutor said you should do an impeachment. There were those of us in congress who wanted to take action, but the powers that be refused. It was only when the
American People<\/a> broke down the wall of that resistance and said you have to do what you can do under the constitution to rein in the imperial president. The
American People<\/a> were losing patience. And the
Congressional Committee<\/a> was furious. They knew they had only scratched the surface. There were thousands of hours of recordings. But nixon was refusing to release any of them. President nixon today defied subpoenas demanding that he produce tapes and papers in his possession and the country moved closer to a clash between the white house and the congress and the courts which will be unprecedented in american history. It became clear he wasnt going to produce them voluntarily. Theres a reason why hes drawing the line. Hes taking all this flak, there must be some damaging things on\rthere. I was concerned we were concerned that he might dispose of the tapes. That in and of itself could be a criminal offense. Burning the tapes, destroying the tapes. Nixon never thought the tapes that he was making secretly would ever surface publically. They would always be for private use. It was never designed that they would come out so there is kind of a spontaneity and free flow of people talking about their authentic conclusions. And its horrifying. Mr. President . Mr. President , you have made it perfectly clear you dont intend to release the tapes. Perfectly clear . Perfectly clear. It would be up to the
Supreme Court<\/a> to make the decision. On july 24, 1974, the court issued its ruling. Good morning. The
Supreme Court<\/a> has just ruled on the tapes controversy. And how is that ruling . It is a unanimous decision,\r80, ordering the president of the
United States<\/a> to turn over the tapes. The court voted unanimously, unanimously to require the tapes to be released. Some of those members of the court had been appointed by
Richard Nixon<\/a> himself. So you had the
Court System Acting<\/a> in a nonpartisan way, in a credible way, regardless of politics. Imagine that in the politicized
Supreme Court<\/a> that weve had in our recent history. While nixon tried to put on the pretend act that operations were going on as normal, they werent. They were disintegrating every day. Three days after the
Supreme Court<\/a> ruling the
House Of Representatives<\/a> took the step most dreaded by the president. Impeachment. Nixons fate now rested in the hands of the committee. Today i am an inquisitor and hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. My faith in the constitution is whole. It is complete. It is total. And i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the constitution. Aye. Mr. Conyers . Aye. Some republicans who voted for the impeachment, some democrats who voted for the impeachment, they were putting their political lives on the line. All of us were putting our reputations on the line. Aye. We voted on the impeachment. It was one of the most sober and solemn moments in my life and i think in the life of everybody on that committee. Everybody understood the stakes for the country. Thats what this was all about. And it was above party. It was what was good for america and what our democracy required. Aye. It was the republicans that ultimately provided a real measure of putting country ahead of party. Nixon held his ground. He insisted he knew nothing of the cover up, but among the thousands of hours of tapes one conversation recorded shortly after the breakin would destroy what was left of his credibility and his presidency. On that investigation the
Democratic Party<\/a> campaign thing, were back in the problem area because the fbi is not under control and they have their investigation is now leading into some productive areas. What finally catches him is\rwhen the tapes are released, the
Smoking Gun Tape<\/a> puts the lie to the statement that he had no advanced knowledge. On the tape you hear nixon telling haldeman to direct the cia to stop an fbi investigation. Without going into detail, dont lie to them to that extent. But you could say its comedy of errors. But say that they should call the fbi and dont go into further into this case. Those words clearly led to an obstruction of justice. And i was always amazed at the president s nonchalance. He didnt seem to care. I wanted to say to him, my god, man, do you know what you just said . Do you know those tapes are rolling . After the
Smoking Gun Tape<\/a> came out the president lost all support, republican, as well as democrat. Republicans went to him and said you have to resign. We cannot support you anymore. It was republicans finally who made sure that nixon had to leave office. Barry goldwater, marching down to the white house. We sat there in the oval room and the president acted like he just played golf and just had a hole in one. You would never think this guys tail was in a crack. Nixon said how many votes if im impeached in the house . How many votes in the senate . About 20. And goldwater said very few and not mine. The 37th president of the
United States<\/a> was facing the ultimate disgrace. For a man who craved
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New York City<\/a> with attorneys. Now back to all the president s men revisited. I dont remember exactly where i was or what i was doing the night nixon resigned, but i remember the feeling. Relief. Okay. Sir . You are better looking than i am. Why dont you stay here . Blonds, they say, photograph better than brunettes. We are standing by now for president
Richard Milhous<\/a> nixon, 37th president of the
United States<\/a>. Have you got an extra camera in case the lights go out . Where did we get it from . Is that nbc . Get these lights properly . My eyes always you find when you get past 60 thats enough. Thanks. In just a moment now the president of the
United States<\/a> will begin his speech, perhaps his last speech from the white house. Good evening. We watched it sitting
On The Floor Eating Bologna<\/a> sandwiches and having a sense of unreality, quite frankly. From the discussions i have had with congressional and other leaders i have concluded that because of the watergate matter i might not have the support of the congress that i would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interest\rof the nation would require. I was just awe struck at the whole thing. No gloating. Very little sense of self. It was really about the magnificence of what had occurred in terms of the right thing. Therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. Our first reaction really was okay, hes not president anymore. Hes just a citizen. Now we can indict him. Honestly, that is what we thought. The morning he resigned i remember i walked down the street and bought a bottle of scotch. Earlier today the
East Room Of The White House<\/a> was the scene of an emotional meeting between the president , his cabinet and the aides who have stayed with him during all of these years of\rmr. Nixons tenure in the white house. You have this president who is bitterly resentful of what had happened to him in his political career overlaid with a shakespearean level of paranoia. He was willing to engage in extraordinary acts to preserve his power. All president s are human beings. I assume they will have faults and flaws. I assume they will make mistakes. I assume that once they are caught in their mistakes because of who they are and the kind of people they are, they will try to cover up those mistakes. I was in the
East Room Of The White House<\/a> when he made that very bittersweet, very poignant, very maudlin speech with his family gathered around him. I look around here and i see so many in this staff that, you know, i should have been by your offices and shaking hands and would have loved to have talked to you and found out how to run\rthe world. Everybody wants to tell the president what to do. And boy, he needs to be told many times. But i just havent had the time. He is not looking into the camera. Hes kind of staring off and going into this
Stream Of Consciousness<\/a> about his mother, who was a saint. I guess all of you would say this about your mother. My mother was a saint. Thats the most honest speech i have ever heard any politician give. And im standing there, much, much thinner, younger version of myself, crying. We think that when we lose an election, we think when we suffer a defeat, that all has ended. Its really sad, really sad. I dont think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than nixon, ever. I just i think he was a saint. Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you dont win, unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Ultimately, what comes through on the tapes and what comes through in nixons actions is his hate, his vengeful hate. And in that last farewell he gives that selfrevealing line that hate will destroy you. That this piston of hate, this allencompassing desire to get the opposition to wiretap, to spy, to destroy, to sabotage,\rthe ugliness of warfare was brought to
American Politics<\/a> by
Richard Nixon<\/a> and the day he resigned he kind of seemed to get it. Seemed to say, yeah, i destroyed myself. There were no tanks in the street. There were no armed men around the white house. We had this exceptionally peaceful transition of power in a very traumatic time in our lives. The presidency was secured by the decency of gerald ford and by the extraordinary strength of the constitutional law that defines what the presidency is. There were this relief that somehow the system had worked. And then in the aftermath, a lot of reforms that were put in place. The media changed. Investigative journalism had been an incidental situation prewatergate. Postwatergate it almost becomes a standard. President s before watergate had been really by most reporters, been given a presumption of innocence. In the aftermath, theyre almost presumed guilty. It really dramatically changes the relationship of the news media with the president. The system had worked, including the role of the press but really, the idea that the system had worked in this amazing way, that a criminal president had been forced to leave office, that the principle that nobody in this country is above the law, including the president of the
United States<\/a>. For nixon and the nation, one question remained unanswered. Would the president now be hauled into court . Oh, you brought butch. Yeah butch growls at man hes looking at me right now, isnt he . Yup. butch barks at man butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. laughs vo you can never have too many faithful companions. Thats why i got a subaru crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Advil liquigels minis. Breakthrough in pain relief. A mighty small pill with concentrated power that works at liquid speed. Youll ask. What pain . Advil liquigels minis. Find thenah. Ote yet . Honey look, your old portable cd player. My high school rethainer. Oh dont. Its
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Order Administration<\/a> of
Richard Nixon<\/a>. Sounds bad when you put it like that, huh . In the end, some 40 people pled guilty to watergate related crimes. Ho ho. Im trying to figure out when did i cross the line . When did i enter that illegal conspiracy. No question i went across it. There was a real major break down in personal integrity and organizational integrity on those given those assignments. Im not sure where i will be the next few months but i will miss you all. And requires you to ask the\rethical questions. Is this right . Is it respectful . Is it responsible . Is it fair . We didnt ask any of those questions. We should have started with, is it legal . We were so caught up in trying to serve the president s needs or desires that we did not ask those questions. I, gerald r. Ford, do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto
Richard Nixon<\/a> for all offenses against the
United States<\/a> which he president fords pardon of
Richard Nixon<\/a> stunned the nation. Nixons legal problems were now over. When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, by definition. Exactly. The former president was still not accepting responsibility. Three years after resigning, nixon was paid to participate in an historic interview with the
British Television<\/a> journalist, david frost. At the very end, the inevitable\rquestion came up. Do you feel you ever obstructed justice or were part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice . He would not he wouldnt really admit anything, not even mistakes or whatever, he was really stonewalling completely. He was beginning to look like the
Haunted Nixon<\/a> of the actual
Watergate Hearings<\/a> rather than the californian expresident. So finally i said, why dont you go further than the word mistake. What word would you express . That was a real gum stopping, gum smacking moment. My goodness. I threw aside my clipboard. I said, i think there are three things you ought to say. The first is that in fact you did go to the very verge of criminality, and secondly, that you let down your oath of office, and, thirdly, i put the\r
American People<\/a> through two years of needless agony, and i apologize for that. I know how difficult it is for anyone and most of all you, but i think that people need to hear it and i think unless you say it, youre going to be haunted for the rest of your life. Youre wanting me to say that i have participated in an illegal coop . No. The key to nixon really is his dislocated relationship with truth. If true, the greatest words ever written in journalism, what is the truth . What is the truth . What really happened . You guys are probably pretty tired, right . You should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath, rest up, 15 minutes, and get your asses back in gear. Were under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothings riding on this except the
First Amendment<\/a> of the constitution,
Freedom Of The Press<\/a> and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters. Arguably, maybe the best movie on reporting made. What i didnt expect was the echo of the movie to last that long. To this day, i keep hearing about it. One thing about watergate, it was going to change the culture of washington. It did no such thing. You know of course this kind of thing will happen again, and it will happen in a much much bigger scale. Whether you talk about fdr or whether you talk about nixon or whether you talk about kennedy or whether you talk about clinton, we have president s that seem to be in politics for the right reason, but president s that also have a fatal flaw. Richard nixons fatal flaw\rbrought him down. People in high office tend to not want to lay themselves open to their enemies and acknowledge embarrassing things or mistakes that they have made. They tend to want to lie when they feel like they can get away with it. All those things have been around long before watergate and still are around. It was an ageold story of an abuse of power and forgetting that youre accountable to the people that put you there. There will be more and well survive. What pulses through the nixon story is the question why. When he was elected, the good will of the nation and the world, it was his. Thats the sadness of the nixon presidency of what could have been. Woodward and bernstein are\rthe most famous journalists of our age. Their names will always be associated with the downfall of a president. 40 years later, a moment to ask what the greatest political scandal in modern history means to us. Its an evolutionary tale and weve evolved. And were older. Bob and i brought very different baggage to the story and it measured. This was when you were 29, 30 years old. Youll never see a story this good again. Well, who knows . Who knows. Who knows. Its a tale to maybe inspire a whole new generation, maybe. A generation now learning about watergate for the very first time","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"https:\/\/vimarsana.com\/images\/vimarsana-bigimage.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240618T12:35:10+00:00"}