Whether or not it is egged on by extra credit or something else, i dont judge. It is fantastic to see you all together, exercising your constitutional rights. One of the goals of my office has been to set a new standard for accountability and openness in our community. That is why we have done 17, yes, 17 town halls in person across our Community Just this year. Three of them have been in manteca, at least three. And we are trying to make sure we are listening to every single voice in our community, whether you voted for me, didnt, didnt vote, i am still your representative and it is my job to make sure i am listening to your concerns, suggestions, comments about how i can do my job, making sure my First Priority is to be grounded in the needs and realities of our community. A little about my story. I ran for office because i love the Central Valley. My family settled here in manteca. My great, great grandfather came on a wagon train in 1850, 2000 miles in search of gold and he stopped
We will look to explore the dynamics. To the also let them contemporary developments to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, the history they contain, parallels to todays events, that is a practice of democracy itself. Established in 1998. We are the only institution of its time doing it, analyzing and transcribing the secret made fromal tapes 1974 to 1973. We do this work at the Miller Center. So much of our work is browserbased. The Digital Edition is ours. We also publish the greatest hits through Miller Center dot oregon. We share with you those clips today. I just want to knowledge of few people that helped us on the way. The National Historical records commission. We appreciate their belief and confidence in the work that we do. We welcome our program administrator. Finally, i would like to knowledge mark saunders. Of thethe director university of virginia press. The founder and motive force behind this. This weekend,ay suddenly. It is a
And what the tapes did and did not reveal. This is an hour and a half. Were not talking about current events. And were not really focusing on the chronology of watergate because what im trying to tell you is what went on behind the scenes, the back story, both of developments at the white house itself 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 show. So its an insider ceas view, 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 you this has all made sense. The first week we introduced some people and then we ended with three surprising revelations. There were secret meetings going on between the judges and the prosecutors, a lot of them. And you dont know which is the bigger surprise, that they were meeting in secret or writing memos about their agreements. I have the memos. John
Covered the coverup trial. I understand people were convicted. But you need to understand that lawyers, lawyers donts play fair. They argue two things. They can argue, look, the person didnt do the crime. The person wasnt guilty. But usually in a political scandal the argument is there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. Its not theyre blameless, its not theyre innocent. But we say wed rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. So were were loading it to a very high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you didnt get that evidence into the courtroom properly, then it cant come in. If you didnt share exculpatory information properly with defense, those are procedural violations which can equally invalidate a verdict. And im happy to argue both. So, thats thats kind of what were going to go through. One word from last week. Last week was the allure of
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