The book he was writing is finally here. We are pleased to give him this opportunity, the book came out on monday so we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. Thank you bill. Its an honor to be here and an honor to have bill as the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is a trashing of our constitution and bill of rights in a successful effort to drive nixon from office and to realign political power without the inconvenience of an election. We will get to that in a couple minutes but i want to start by telling you why i think i am good shape to write this book or may conclude i may know what im talking about. Im a california native like many of you. I went to Long Beach Wilson high school and whittier college. I think of myself back then as normal. Then something changed for me. I got a scholarship to scholarship to Harvard Law School and i did well coming from the uncultured west coast. I graduated with honors
Thank you all of you, and again books are available from. We really appreciate everyone. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next from nixon president ial library, geoff shepard, president nixons at the thought give her what would win. The 70 from not the primary. Right now shes running a primary campaign flanked by senator sanders of vermont and only mildly disturbed by james webb, dismissive of Vice President biden and casting a wary glance at john kerry in switzerland was preparing to have an account but to contrast with her accomplishment free tenure at the department of state. She is, in fact, a dreadful candidate, she in fact had a catastrophic tenure at the department of state. So if your dreadful camera with difficulty connecting, people raising issues as karl rove raised about her health, if you cannot but run into ageish of Ronald Reagan ran into danger to confronted squarely, and if you have nothing on which to run, what do you do . I suggest to her a platform that has f
To Domestic Policy Group within the nixon administration. Later he had developed a number of legacy forums that were held across the United States that represent policies and achievements of the administration. Then i heard he was writing about. When i finally met jeff he became a good friend i now understand all the current efficiencies made to the foundation and in particular in the nixon legacy. In the book you striving is finally here so we are very pleased to give them this opportunity its his first stop. The book came out on monday we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. [applause] thank you, bill. Thank you, bill but its an honor to be here, and honored to have bill have the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is the trashing of our constitution and bill of rights and the successful effort to drive president nixon from office, to imprison his senior aides, to realign political power without the inconv
When he comes into office in 2009, one of, one of his first acts of offices to give a new years greeting to the iranian people. He says i want to get on a different page with iran and recognize their rights and later to enrich uranium which not many countries in the world do. This is the problem for the state of israel. Thats an understatement that its a problem. Why is it a problem 1st of all understand what the Iranian Nuclear Program Means for us. Is. Is not just one threat. It is several threats for the obvious one is that they break out or sneak out of whatever restrictions have been placed on them and they make a bomb. According to the program on the ground, the deal that has been proposed, it would take them a year according to an oped piece in the New York Times by one of the leading experts on the subject, they could do it in less than a month. Thats too short for us. They are ready have injured continental Ballistic Missiles that can reach most of Central Europe and any city
He was driven from office [inaudible] [laughter]. They were getting together in advance to work it out, which youre not supposed to do. Lets remind ourself of who the players were. These were the top six. The folks across the bottom row, gordon lidy, general magruder and john dean, are the ones who committed the crimes. Gordon liddy mastmindded the breakin into the watergate hotel. General magruder was his boss and john dean ran the coverup. In his open words he was the chief desk officer for the coverup. The gentleman at the top or the supervisors, nixons top aides. John mitchell, bob hall haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. They were convicted on all counts but the question has always been in the minds of people who arent shoe we got the true story, whether the folks at the bottom were operating under the direction and control of the folks at the top. Go back a little bit further, ive outlined four of these people in a red box. And theyre outlined because they were present, the only peopl