the staff advising the house judiciary committee on impeachment. he worked alongside future first lady and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton and later served as counsel to the president of the united states in the clinton administration. this is the first of two parts, and is about one hour. hi. i m director of the richard nixon presidential library museum in yorba linda, california. it s october 1st, 2011. we re in new york city. i have the honor and privilege to be interviewing bernie nussbaum for the richard nixon oral history program. thank you for doing this. glad to be here. so to help the viewer understand 1974 and you, let s go back and tell us please a little bit about how you became a lawyer. i was born in 1937. so i was 37 years old in 1974. i was born in manhattan on the lower east side of manhattan. my parents were immigrants. they were the first in their family to come to the united states. they met and married here but they were born in poland.
coming. let s just put it together and we ll present it in a neutral fashion. that judgment which some of which i opposed at the time i realized after it was all over happened to be a correct judgment. and i think it was very helpful in at achieving what was the ultimate outcome. at the beginning, we weren t sure. i wasn t sure at least and i don t think doer was sure either although ars have been written contrary to in that we were going to recommend impeachment of the president. we didn t come in to and this is how i remember it and i truly believe this. we weren t coming to drive him out of office. we were going to see what the facts really were. obviously we were suspicious about the events that led to the 79 massacre and you know. and the president s conduct and the conduct of some of his chief aides but there was no real you know no real animus, no real desire to say we re going to try to get nixon, president nixon out of office. look at what i just said. nixon i s