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Coming up next, a 1988 interview. Ith congressman peter rodino he discusses his experience as bringuse judiciary chair the impeachment hearings for president nixon. Discussing how he was chosen to leave the inquiry. Rep. Rodino there were those who were a little concerned that speaker albert, who had not made , but who realize that impeachment was in the offing, certainly was considering, thinking about it, felt,ere were those who my god, if it goes to congressman rodino, congressman ray dino is one who has been working in the background, has never got out front, you know and then out there. T...

Nomination. Timothy hi, im timothy naftali, director of the richard museum, yorba linda, california. I have the honor and privilege weld interviewing william in new york city for the Richard Nixon oral history program. Mr. Weld, thank you for joining us today. Please tell us how you came to be involved with the inquiry . A call in the fall of 1973. I was an associate at a law firm asking me if id be interested in interviewing for a job on the impeachment staff. Point it really hadnt gotten off the ground. I said, no, i have to stay here i make partner and then i called the guy back 15 seconds ...

During the impeachment of president nixon in 1973 and 1974. The interview is from the president nixon president ial library and was conducted by the Library Director in 2008. You surprised a lot of people by winning and you came to washington. How was it you got on the Judiciary Committee . Well, i was looking at the demographics, i got access to some of the polling numbers and when i ran, i think maybe in the district i was running in, the fifth Congressional District of mississippi, 8 of the people identify themselves as republican, but if you studied the internals, the majority of them were...

Rep. Rodino there were those who were a little concerned that speaker albert, who had not made up his mind, but who realize that impeachment was in the offing, certainly was considering, thinking about it, and there were those who felt, my god, if it goes to congressman rodino, congressman rodino is one who has been working in the background, has never got out front, you know and then out there. I believe in building on a consensus and recognizing that that kind of leadership is going to have its effect. There were those who wanted to create an Ad Hoc Committee and have the speaker designate a...

Current events and were not really focusing on the chronology of watergate, because what im trying to tell you is what happened behind the scenes, the back story at the white house where i worked and the special Prosecutors Office where ive done a tremendous amount of research in finding out what their thinking was and what the documents showed. So, its an insiders view. And im the insider. So im responsible for all of the views. Lets take a quick review of the preceding nine presentations, so i can try to convince this will all made sense. The first week, we introduced some people and then we...