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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 don't 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 or certainly delayed for sure a peace process, it seems treasonous and more treasonous than the gu...

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 don't 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 delayed for sure a peace process, it seems treasonous and more treasonous than the guys who said no, i...

Nixon's 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 don't 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 s...

I'm not in those meetings. i don't know how that's 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, here's 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 and more importantly politically. on the other hand nixon was pardoned before he was charged wi...

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 actual part of his move which was really executed in 1968 where he really started moving johnson sta...