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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...

Lawyers, lawyers donts play fair. They argue two things. They can argue, look, the person didnt do the crime. The person wasnt guilty. But usually in a political scandal the argument is there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. Its not theyre blameless, its not theyre innocent. But we say wed rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. So were were loading it to a very high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you didnt get that evidence into the courtroom p...

Members of either wounded victims or people who have passed away now this city is gone through a lot to say the very least over the past several days and its going through more as time goes on on thursday thats tomorrow with the 1st of 22 funerals are going to be held here in el paso and in cities in cross the border in neighboring cities in mexico the visit by President Trump to this city has been quite controversial for a number of reasons one hes criticized el paso in the past as being a crime infested city a false claim that was refuted by the mayor and by other city officials with statist...

And simplicity. It emphasizes the ideas of the 1950s as this era of prosperity where america was a world leader in the American People were happy in suburban homes. I like ike. So simple. It conveys that happiness. This idea however is a myth and its a political construction. The 1950s was a time rut with racial discrimination, conflict, political and social pressures to a confirmed to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies, and mandated heterosexuality in the law. There was a time when anti communism targeted the literal liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anti co...

Recordings program. Quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Kent was with us for years and years, spent time at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well l in, to explore dynamics there but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and the only we a...