say things like this is crazy. there s no basis to do this. all you will do is create an institution which will haunt you as long as you re president and beyond. don t do this. don t do this. the others were saying that s ridiculous, the republicans, even democrats are coming out want it. it will end the media, the media storm that s going on now with respect to whitewater and things like that. i said no. we had a big debate on the telephone. it s all mentioned in a recent book. i said you have to do something, i ll tell you what you do. what you do, mr. president, you and hillary go down to the senate judiciary committee and testify. ford testified after the nixon pardon. go down and testify. let them ask you any question they want about whitewater. and they started screaming, the other staff members, stephanopolous started screaming this is i d rather have vast publicity. you ll handle testimony because there is nothing here, than set up an institution with 25 fbi age
you know, that was a debate. garrison made interesting arguments and i think this was reflected in the agony of the republicans when i watched this. many of them thought he was a good overall good present. not only a president of their party but a good president. certainly? in foreign affairs and maybe even in domestic affairs. in some ways he was a good president. apparently didn t like me because i told you i mentioned a smk that he spoke. this is years later after i was in the white house with bill clinton he made some comments about me and my deputy and said in my book, he thought i was a tough shit and maybe i drove my deputy, vince foster to suicide, which was of course not true. he was a wonderful man who unfortunately had a breakdown. president nixon was a very able guy. but he did what he did and we did what we had to do, and is the congress reaches a decision. sam garrison s office, was it close to yours? yeah, yeah. we were all we worked out of the congressio
those people in order to avoid trying to go to jail will remember something about you, which didn t happen but will remember something about you and say things like this is crazy. there s no basis to do this. all you will do is create an institution which will haunt you as long as you re president and beyond. don t do this. don t do this. the others were saying that s ridiculous, the republicans, even democrats are coming out want it. it will end the media, the media storm that s going on now with respect to whitewater and things like that. i said no. we had a big debate on the telephone. it s all mentioned in a recent book. i said you have to do something, i ll tell you what you do. what you do, mr. president, you and hillary go down to the senate judiciary committee and testify. ford testified after the nixon pardon. go down and testify. let them ask you any question they want about whitewater. and they started screaming, the other staff members, stephan open miss start
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pittsburgh and, kind of character studies and i found it helped a lot in tackling these big books of nonfiction because you learn dialogue and learn to study people and so it was helpful. this is not your first big book. i say this is a big book, but not your first one. you wrote a biography of archibald cox, did you not. yes. he was of course the principled and famous watergate special prosecutor who was fired rather than back down from president nixon and that led to the unravel, as you know of the nixon presidency. he was my law professor in harvard and i wrote that book fairly early on out of law school. it was another big project and took 7 years, and it was a lot of fun, that i have to say was easier in a since of one life, you kind of know where you are going from start to finish and this once had so many movable parts, this was scary at first, because it was just such a big project. well, that raises the question about why you did it. obviously, this was a topic