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Bit more bleakly a few days ago and even george w. bush the same, you know, these were scathing statements about an incumbent president. if you look at corker and flake today, these are probably the most scathing speeches we've heard from a sitting senator of a president's own party all the way back to next to and the time you were talking about with ed brooke and james buckley. one thing we have to remember about that last year of nixon, it culminated a couple days before nixon resigned. the republican leader of the senate and the presidency nominee, berry gold war on terror, this he said to ...

He won 49 states. the electoral map looked like this in 1972. nixon got that landslide win november 7th, 1972. and then in 1973, the following year, he didn't quite make it a year, he didn't quite make it to november 7th, he only made it to november 4th before the first senator of his own party called on him to resign. that was edward brook of massachusetts. edward brook went through a lot in his career. he was the first african-american popularly elected united states senator. he was a combat veteran from world war ii. he served in a segregated regiment. edward brook was used to being a light...

Looking back on that now, though, it's easy to forget how deep we were in the watergate scandal before the first republican senator finally took sides against nixon. by the time edward brooks spoke out november 4th, 1973, by then senate watergate committee had its hearings. the watergate hearings already started. country had learned that there were tapes of nixon in the oval office. nixon refused to turn over the tapes to the watergate committee or the special prosecutor who by then was looking into the matter. less than a month before, the vice president had to resign in a corruption scandal....

Leadership and being successful at exercising leadership. >> alan schechter was hillary's political science professor and faculty adviser. >> she was very interested in the major issues of the era, issues of race, gender, poverty. >> issues that would soon push hillary to abandon her republican roots and begin leading the way for change. >> she was no doubt the leader of not just the senior class but the entire college. >> it was that leadership which led her classmates to insist that hillary be their voice at graduation. >> there had been no tradition of a student speaker at wellesley, but th...

Faculty adviser. >> she was very interested in the major issues of the era, issues of race, gender, poverty. >> issues that would soon push hillary to abandon her republican roots and begin leading the way for change. >> she was no doubt the leader of not just the senior class but the entire college. >> it was that leadership which led her classmates to insist that hillary be their voice at graduation. >> there had been no tradition of a student speaker at wellesley, but the student body insisted that there be one and they chose hillary. >> she was scheduled to speak at commencement after the ...