also the other of a new book. thank you for the time. remind us where you were on this date in 1972, june 17. guest: i was in the middle of a five-year term on the nixon staff, the others lawyer on the staff. i knew everybody involved, although i didn t know people in the break-in. the break-in wasn t of particular concern. i had a full-time job working on policy issues and life moved on. it was a very busy and very happy time period couldn t have been prouder than to work on nixon s white house staff. host: wherever you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the where were you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the time and lived in dupont circle and write about the break-in. host: bob woodward was one of the writers. he talked in 2011 and. his from his perspective. we [video clip] those were captured. what did you hear in the courtroom? this saturday they sent me down to the arraignment. these were not the average d.c. of burglars. that hundred dollar bills in their pocket, very
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Book you talk about the Golden Triangle of freedom. Your leaping right in, arent you . I have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book im talking about america and at the very heart of it is the Golden Triangle of freedom. But what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. A number of years ago dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Again all founders understood this. Quickly its that freedom requires virtue. When we say freedom we mean selfgovernment requires a virtue. Virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. To explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. You cant have selfgovernment or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you cant force people to go
I have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year ive been talking about america. And at the very heart of it is this concept of the Golden Triangle of freedom. Ut but what i find funny is that id never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. Dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. I didnt know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the Golden Triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly . All the founders understood this. Freedom requires virtue. We mean selfgovernment requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom. To explain it the founders said they wrote this over and over. You cant have selfgovernment, you cant have actual freedom unless people govern themselves which is to