People, acts sign by president gerald ford, congress and the American People said enough is enough. That actually the presidency has gotten too powerful by making use of vague areas in the constitution. So this debate may not have been necessary for the impeachment, but it was a critical element in the changing thinking of americans about what they expected from their president. Tim naftali, who is now with nyu and previously the director of the Richard Nixon library and museum in california, joining us from new york. Thanks for adding your voice and perspective about the debate that were about to show. Well take you back to july 29, 1974. The house judiciary kmet the session began in the morning but up next for the next thee hours the evening debate over article ii of impeachment against Richard Nixon. The committee was weighing the wiggins motion to strike paragraph three and those in opposition to the amendment had consumed eight minutes and those in support of the amendment had con
In the near future net several decades to provide energy for 7 billion people. Whatever you say about them unless you prove the world is going to blow hot and everyone will buy you cant say you shouldnt be allowed because energy is a more fundamental need to than lack of pollution at least in superpristine environments. Superpristine environment is only something we have in modern times largely because of fossil fuels. Even the caveman has to sit next to a fire and breathe in smoke. There is no clean air a paradise whatsoever. So the law should be fine, this is a scientific and technological issue. What is the proper level of emissions. There can be all sorts of considerations like how is it affecting if you are running a factory and someone moves into your neighborhood versus if you move into someones neighborhood with a factory. One has a much different threshold. I am running a factory and people start moving in, they agree in a sense to deal with my factory versus i go in to a coal
Although lincoln is hard to read emotionally, what was so fascinating was that they spoke about loving lincoln. Over and over again people right we loved him. They loved him as a father. People most often spoke of him as a brother and son. That speaks to his emotional distance. I have some questions on psychohistory. I am a licensed psychiatrist. I am bound not to speculate. You can look at what information is available and put into some context. I caution against trying to utilize information on someone who has been dead since 1865, trying to put that into a category that is 150 years later in terms of that. I think at times with a figure as large as Abraham Lincoln, what would have not have been as large is made larger in that extent. I do have some concern about that. Having said that, it was not clinical depression. It would be classified as this fine mia dysfimia. One of the most astute psychological assessments of lincoln, it depends on what you are trying to find. I would make a
That before i went in to make sure i had his intention. He seems pretty relaxed and i was in there with a session. But the rest of it was just trying to generally characterize what had happened, because i believed i was taped, i was under testifying because i thought what a great way to hang a witness is on perjury if he is being held to things that are not. I, for example, and afterwards realized i confused something that happened around the 21st with the 17th, but your mind cannot separate those sorts of things when they are all kind of unfolding. Moderator what didnt you testify to . You gave eight hours of testimony. John in the greater scheme of things, i certainly highlighted everything. I had expected in doing it the way i did it was summarily suggesting measuring areas, do cross examination, but they never really got over the bullet points of eight hours of bullet points. The testimony before during the senate excuse me, during the u. S. Vs. Mitchell, haldeman, ehrlichman, et a
Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungled as what happened at the watergate. It was james bond stuff, where they thought how could you walk in with an army of people to do what cat burglars normally do if youre working for a Foreign Espionage operation . When you discussed with mcgruder before his before his grand jury testimony, you talked to him. Some people used the word coached him. Did he tell you what happened . Absolutely. Absol