MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show September 15, 2021 08:08:00
Schlesinger to military leaders in 1974 not to follow orders that came directly from president nixon, who was facing impeachment, or the white house without first checking in with schlesinger and his jcs chairman general george brown. general brown in 1974 feared president nixon might go around the chain of command and independently contact officers or a similar military unit to order a strike putting the country and the world in jeopardy. they had been unwilling to take that risk. milley saw alarming parallels between nixon and trump. in 1974 nixon had grown increasingly irrational and isolat...