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We followed the rules. if this president needs to be removed, there are remedies for that. the ballot box or the 25th amendment. >> right. i hear what you're saying, but i think what you're raising is also an important point, is that he thought he was being the calm one there, by maybe going outside the traditional guardrails, but not knowing what he didn't know, west bmeaning t investigation was already underway, not as far as long as it is now, and not as advanced as it is now. and the little bits of information they had led them to see a five-alarm fire with regard to the potential for the ...

Get you back quickly. maybe we should land on the south lawn. and bush, ever concerned about appearances and not wanting to take control at that moment or show that he wanted to take control said, no, we need to land at andrews. only the president lands on the south lawn. and even in that moment, he was all about humility and dignity of the office and i think that that's where a lot of people will remember this president. neil: i'm remembering al haig at that time the secretary of state saying i'm in charge and that rough ruffled a lot of feathers at the time. >> a different choice. neil: very...

General, one of the great people in the nixon administration, one of the most ethical men i've ever known, he too was not willing to do it. >> so the deputy attorney general ruckleshouse also resigned. >> there will be an announcement of the white house. >> does it have to do with the resignation of the attorney general? >> it might. >> al haig said your commander in chief is ordering you to do this. i don't know whether that added to the discussion. he said, well, who else was around. i said bob bork was here, he was the number three guy in the department. bork was the last one eligible to do...

Drama. >> nixon's attorney general had appointed a special prosecutor, archibald cox to investigate watergate. the special prosecutor demanded that nixon hand over eight of the tapes. >> eight specific tapes of conversations either in the president's office or on his telephone. >> nixon not only refused but on a saturday night in october 1973 he also ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. the attorney general was appalled. he said no and resigned. then the president told one of his assistants to call the deputy attorney general. >> when i picked the phone up, it was al ha...

Unilaterally stopping missile launches and stopping the nuclear program. frankly, if they violate that, there won't be any talks. god bless him. he start add process that nobody started in 30 years. >> this isn't the first time that we've seen somebody disposed of politically speaking in terms of being fired, i would say. in the 1980s, we saw it happen. >> yeah. 1982, in july of 1982, ronald reagan summarily fired al haig. he brought in the very same minute george schultz. george schultz served the duration of that administration. did a fantastic job. saw the world i think very much the way ro...