Effective at noon tomorrow. Timothy hi. Im tim naftali. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now new watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we professional historians write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other big challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It had been run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundation. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it lacked th
the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of d
watergate break in, a conversation on two individuals who played a key role when it came to the prosecution and defense of watergate. joe joins us. a former special prosecutor. more recently, the author of the book watergate girl, a fight for truth and justice against the criminal president. jeff shepard joins us. he was a chief deputy to nixon s lead lawyer during watergate. his most recent book, titled the nixon conspiracy. watergate and the plot to remove the president. good morning to you both. thank you for the time. good morning. so, remind us where you were on this date in 1972. june 17th. i was in the middle of a five-year term of office at nixon s white house staff. i was the youngest lawyer on the staff. i knew everybody involved, although i didn t know people in the break-in. the break-in was not of particular concern to me. i had a full-time job, i was working on domestic policy issues, law and order. and life moved on. it was a very busy and very happy time
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
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. It is a sunny day in miami. I am the dean of the college at Miami Dade College ended is the pleasure to be with you today for the 2014 Miami Book Fair international. The book fair is great for for the support of the night foundation, American Airlines and many other generous supporters. We would like to acknowledge special people in the audience today. I see some of you here. Thank you for your continued support. [applause] todays presentation features two speakers. We will reserve time for q a. If you entry would have been given an index card. Please be certain to jot your questions down on the card and pass them to the right on this side and on that side as well. We will be collecting them throughout the program. At this time we invite you to silence your cellphon