black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or land. tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. we of tulsa of an undetermined number, it should have not taken any nine years. anyone who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak does not have the ears to hear. the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade, so that has been well, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. and there was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. and they would help you get your business started. 1920 greenwood was booming.
listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father strangling the chi
political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america, and god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the watergate tapes and their tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what had happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall im
high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the team received an overwhelming mandate from the american voters leaving every state but one, massachusetts . it is not just a desire for political power. it is a lost. that is what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle, john wesley dean the third. i thought the cover-up was going to and after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the water great break in. is going to get much, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with a break in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. the white house managed to contain the breaking of the watergate to only seven people. but, john new that people had lied and it passed him off. so, what he wanted to do was to find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail. he thought the only way for that to happen would be t
the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the president s white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the