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.