American mayor. The first african mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in about 30 minutes, the history of uncs basketball program. As we tore the North Carolina basketball museum. We will also speak with author jay smith on the academic scandal that involve the universities athletic department. Our special with local lawyer rufus edmonton talking about delivering a subpoena to president nixon in 1973. His other experiences as a deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. At more head we still talked about the role that we play on the front lines of the cold war. It was a Major Initiative within the cold war. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition yuck we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina and chapel hill. Im standing in front of the more head mid building. Home of the more head planetarium which is now the morehead planetarium in the center. The Jean Morehead attended the university studying and chemist
Watch booktv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as with the booktv and American History tv on the road. Benefit clause i suppose in the ncaa rulebook. It specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really. Related to their status as an athlete. That means a fan, a a booster,e wouldbe agent, a coach is not permitted to give anything of value be on what is specified in basically the ncaa consultation, x number of dollars for your books, et cetera, et cetera. Anything beyond that is not permissible and will get you in trouble with the ncaa policeman. The ncaa open an investigation of that, as for unc to cooperate in that investigation. And by the end of the summer of 2010, it was was clear the also academic violations that were included in this initial investigation. I would say it really wasnt until the summer of 2011 that the scope of the ugliness really came to light. It reared its head. We began to
Visit ncicap. Org] the house will be in order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy event from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979. Cspan has brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of overnment. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road with the support of our spectrum cable partners, this weekend, we travel to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the hour, well go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and also talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas moorhead planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about 10 minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the
Watergate committee. He recalls the day he served president Richard Nixon with a subpoena. Subpoenaed the president 46 years ago on july 23, it was the first time in the history of the country that a committee of congress had ever issued a subpoena to the president. Becauselectrified washington was filled with anticipation. The did not know whether president was going to be totally indicted or what was going to happen to him. When those takes were finally revealed, that was the way they removed mr. Nixon from office voluntarily. He saw that his own words convicted him. What was your role during watergate . I was the deputy chief counsel. Was the chief operating officer. I was there to serve as the righthand man to see that things were working well, the train kept running. Coordinate the hearings, who the witnesses would be, how they would be handled. It was a big job to run a committee with competing personalities and a lot of computing staff. It was my job to just see that things work
With support from our spectrum cable partners, this begins traveling to chapel hill, North Carolina. Coming up in the next 90 minutes, will learn about the citys Literary History and speak with local authors including jake smith on his book cheated. Then in about ten minutes, we sit down with the citys first africanamerican mayor, howard lee. Following that in about 30 minutes, subpoenaing president nixon during the watergate hearings. We begin our special feature with the academic scandal that involved the Athletic Program. [applause] four seconds to play. I would say sports are very important. In that respect, youre like probably other universities but maybe a little more so because weve had such Great Success in theres an ingrained tradition of winning and competing in lots of different sports. Its an important part of the culture. For many years, weve all involved in the myth of being the tarragon of virtue and the master of joining athletic rights. I think we all convinced ourselv