Graham. The coowner and with my wife and behalf of the entire staff i would like to wem you. A few notes it would be a good time to turn off your cellphone or anything that might go beep. When we get to the q and a part of the session try to make your way to the microphones. We are recording for our Youtube Channel and cspan tv is here. Finally, when we get to the end of the program, before you come up to have your books signed our staff would appreciate it if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and lean them against something that will not topple over. I am delighted to be detrointroducing evan thomas. He is a wonderfully fluid writer and engaging and someone who has enjoyed two remarkable careers. One living in the presence as an accomplished journalist and the other living in the past as a firstrate historian. In journalism he spent ten years with Time Magazine moving to news week staying for 20 years. He was Washington Bureau chief and assisting managing editor and editor at
Guys would have loved to be drugged and taken below the border. That was the ilk of this plan he envisioned that included everything from using prostitutes to gather information to wiretapping. It was a whole illegal plan. I did not think mitchell would give it a second look. Liddy did revise it down to, i think, a quarter of a million dollars. It was a half a million the next time. I went back and i was not planning to attend any more meetings. I have now realized that i went to haldeman. I was able to document from haldemans calendar years after the fact and long after this was available i went to haldeman twice on this, once after the first meeting and said it was absurd and went to him the second meeting and said this thing has to be cut off. I only testified to going to him the second time because that was the only one clear in my mind. Haldeman knew i had been in there twice to talk about this plan. I was invited back by mcgruder the second time, went up the elevator. Have been b
Matters were collectively. Bud said i agree totally. I said i dont want to cause a lot of grief for everybody but the president is not being well advised and these activities he said i believe my instruction came directly out of the oval office. Bud later did not support that memory that i so vividly remember when he gave it at the moment. Whether he was doing that to bolster my drive to get in there and get the president to get his feet on the ground or whether it was an actual fact, i dont know. Maybe he doesnt remember to this day. As you piece together after the fact, the trials that occurred when ehrlichman was convicted for that, ehrlichman would later claim that he had a conversation, ironically, on the beach outside of the taping devices in san clemente with the president about a lot of activities of that nature. Who knows . I dont know. I have found in my own historical inquiry from time to time into issues when i have used the tapes that nixon had a very steady practice of se
Federal government was taking over a private museum and library. I was asked to be the First Federal director. This was a library that was in place for 17 years. Roughly 100,000 people visited a year. In addition, 10,000 schoolchildren. It had a certain message when you run a private institution, you have a right to any message you want. When it becomes a National Institution it has to meet a different standard. I knew that one of my jobs was to change the newseum come up with in particular i was to change the watergate gallery. How do you do that . After a local community was accustomed to one particular description a museum might be a National Museum but it is also a local neighbor. This is in california. Yorba linda, california. I thought the best way i was a trained historian. I was not a nixon specialist was for the players, keep People Living from that era to tell the story themselves. I thought the best way to do this was to start a video and Oral History Program that involves n
Good evening, im chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. First of all, a few programming notes, Hillary Clinton is running late with chris hayes. The minute she does call in, i am we are going to show you chris hayes interview with Hillary Clinton. But everything is running a little bit late. Just want to get you updated on that. Lets talk about this wild day as usual in american president ial politics. What we saw earlier today from donald trump could best be described as press conference porn. Trumps Morning Press Conference was splashed all over the airwaves all day long and he ripped the press who cover him, furious at the scrutiny over millions of dollars that he believes he was always going to give to the veterans charity. The press fired back. It was a spectacle. But lets be real. This dog fight with the press is not the most important story of the day, of the week, of the mon month. Its just happening today with his face on it. The more important story took place over t