Process. But there were the injustices that i saw happening. I always said later, i wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. I really wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. Because i saw things and know things and could have, in my little mind could have done things that would have helped solve some problems. Can you give us examples . This whole incarceration and how it works. What you do to people. You take these young people and put them in there and you collectify them. If they have a drug issue and they are in there and theres more drugs, you are creating an incubator effect rather than separating them out and giving them some kind of Halfway House thats clean on the outside and not putting them into these facilities together. Its endless. The system is so screwed up. Im not saying they are not very smart and wise people trying to work on this problem and people who understand it better than i do. Im sure thats true. But theres just so much
And mitchell said, mr. President elect, i cant go with you. And a tear comes down his face. And he says, ive got to go to connecticut and figure out what to do about martha. She was in an institution up in connecticut at that point. So her problem really was severe then. And she gets out. Shes in this washington environment with all this stuff going on. And it was just a tragic story. And she was not a well person. You mentioned you were a point of contact . She liked to call the president. She liked to call my president. So she would call. And the system had been arranged by which i would get marthas calls, and i would talk to her and act accordingly. Whatever the plan was. I would also call over and let john know that she had called. But she would call and say, i want to talk to my president. I would say he was in a conference or on the phone. Can i take a message . I want to talk to him. You have him call me, and so forth. Then i would call her back 20 minute s later and say, mrs. M
Indicted. So the grand jury is early 73. Then a period of six months when it looks like you might not be indicted. The saturday night massacre is october of 73 . Right. I was indicted in november. So you thought this might go away . Yeah. It started paling in relationship to Everything Else. The dirty tricks thing was just such an amateurish rinky dink thing. Was it wrong . Did segretti do things wrong . Yes. He admitted he did. He took responsibility for it. Did i lie . I didnt think so. Did i try to mislead the grand jury . There was no question, by the way, when you read the grand jury thing, that im evading telling them that haldeman and ehrlichman called me in there and told me. When it finally got down to the question and they asked it, i told them. I told them i had been called in and that they had told me to hire him. But you can see me wondering through there trying not to say that when you read it. Trying not to say that haldeman and nixon or haldeman and ehrlichman. Haldeman
This is probably going to be the first in a several part on how it the Nixon Administration change the world. Particularly, Henry Kissingers National Security council. It led to the first middle east Peace Agreement in probably 2000 years. What gets lost in this amazing series of successes is how president nixon and his very able foreignpolicy adviser Henry Kissinger transformed the National Security decisionmaking structure. On the very first day of the administration, these innovations created the groundwork for all of the successes they were able to achieve in the next and poshard presidency nixon presidency. And you might say, that is more about Good Housekeeping is that a brilliant policymaking. But they realized that the key to a successful foreignpolicy was dedication. They discussed how they wanted to structure the National Security Council Staff. Nixon learned firsthand about a good counsel when he was eisenhower poshard Vice President. Eisenhowers Security Council was more li
Stephen hess talks about the relationship between president nixon and his onetime adviser Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Few name is Jonathan Movroydis im director of communications at the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 10 2nd birthday. Before we start, i just wanted to say that todays a free admission day, so i encourage you to visit the white house right across the way. Take that in, also visit the memorial sites and visit the galleries to learn about the life of this extraordinary man. Who became president of the United States. Another extraordinary man is stephen heads hess who can our nixon legacy lecturer today. Mr. Hess began his career in the Eisenhower Administration as a speech writer, and he joined president nixon for his 1962 california gubernatorial bid. He returned to the white house in 1969 as the chief of staff of to Daniel Patrick moyni