Senior Political Correspondent for the center for public integrity, a Nonprofit Center for Investigative Journalism in d. C. In 1996 he received the gerald r. Ford prize and the aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents Association for coverage of the presidency. The first time anyone had captured both the wars awards ie year. Hes a frequent guest lecturer at various yufruniversity inclu stanford, harvard, the United States military academy, university of chicago and other institutions abroad. He is the author of three books, clarence darrow, attorney for the damned and chip oneal. Tonight his third book on Richard Nixon, a biography of the 37th president of the United States. This book has won the pen america award for the best biography of the year, the New York Historical societys barbara and david zalosnik book prize in American History and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. After the program, please join us in the atrium where his book is for sale and signing. Ple
Current events and were not really focusing on the chronology of watergate, because what im trying to tell you is what happened behind the scenes, the back story at the white house where i worked and the special Prosecutors Office where ive done a tremendous amount of research in finding out what their thinking was and what the documents showed. So, its an insiders view. And im the insider. So im responsible for all of the views. Lets take a quick review of the preceding nine presentations, so i can try to convince this will all made sense. The first week, we introduced some people and then we ended with three surprising refusing las veg revelations. There were secret meetings going on between the judges and prosecutors. A lot of them. You dont know what is the bigger surprise, that they were meeting in secret or that they were writing the memos. And i have the memos. John dean, john dean, who was the chief effect officer of the coverup, and then switched sides and became the lead gove
Its an insiders view and im the insider so im responsible for all of the viewing. Lets take a quick review of the preceding nine presentations. I could try to convince you that this all made sense. The first week we introduced some people and ended with three surprising revelations. Secret meetings going on between the judges and prosecutors, a lot of them, and you dont know which is the bigger surprise. That they were meeting in secret or writing memos about the agreements. I have the memo. John dean the second surprising revelation who was the chief desk officer of the coverup and then switched sides to become the lead government witness, john was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in prison. But it turns out he never spent a night in jail. The jury and maybe the American Public was led to believe he was being punished but in reality he was not. And third, what i uncovered and what i believe is what really drove nixon from office where secret allegations that the prosecutors made about his pe
prosecutor and the new book in the and geoff shepard , deputy to the lead counsel and also the other of a new book. thank you for the time. remind us where you were on this date in 1972, june 17. guest: i was in the middle of a five-year term on the nixon staff, the others lawyer on the staff. i knew everybody involved, although i didn t know people in the break-in. the break-in wasn t of particular concern. i had a full-time job working on policy issues and life moved on. it was a very busy and very happy time period couldn t have been prouder than to work on nixon s white house staff. host: wherever you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the where were you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the time and lived in dupont circle and write about the break-in. host: bob woodward was one of the writers. he talked in 2011 and. his from his perspective. we [video clip] those were captured. what did you hear in the courtroom? this saturday they sent me down to the arraignment. thes
defense teams of watergate. jill wine-banks, a former watergate assistant special prosecutor and the new book in the and geoff shepard , deputy to the lead counsel and also the other of a new book. thank you for the time. remind us where you were on this date in 1972, june 17. guest: i was in the middle of a five-year term on the nixon staff, the others lawyer on the staff. i knew everybody involved, although i didn t know people in the break-in. the break-in wasn t of particular concern. i had a full-time job working on policy issues and life moved on. it was a very busy and very happy time period couldn t have been prouder than to work on nixon s white house staff. host: wherever you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the where were you? guest: i was a prosecutor at the time and lived in dupont circle and write about the break-in. host: bob woodward was one of the writers. he talked in 2011 and. his from his perspective. we [video clip] those were captured. what did you