on terror and killing americans and others. pete: bingo. let s break it down. so we don t have a memory of five seconds, we have a long memory. we re going to break down the history of terror from the iranian regime. the 52 targets the president s talking about? that s the 52 hostages. just a short bit of what they ve done, april 1983, bombing of the u.s. embassy in beirut by hezbollah, the party of god. they were in lebanon but now across the region. 17 americans killed. october 1983, bombing of the u.s. marine barracks in beirut. we all remember this event. 241 u.s. marines killed. we actually left after that, learning a tough lesson. september 1984, bombing of the u.s. embassy annex in beirut, also hezbollah. now, in july of 1984 they changed tactics a bit, going after hijacking aircraft, air france flight hijacked.
the jewish synagogue. that was an act of terrorism. there is no money to be had. there was no criminal gain. it was punishment. they felt embolden and things escalated rapidly in july of 1984. we learned that the car robbery in california. it was on the last day of the democratic convention that was held in san francisco, 1984. we are all sitting in a post and waiting for the convention over. a phone call came. we had no idea of the order and all the players and people involved at the time. that was a separate criminal case. so i get to the scene and figure out what will happen and it started growing from there. we started to discover, the ones that s most vulnerable.
the implications of the verdict of the civil war. cut to nixon. andrew johnson was about politics. nixon, the reason he had to resign was they had him on tape. there was clear evidence of obstruction of justice, he was ordering one federal agency to stop, another federal agency, and we forget this, and we may end up with another element in this crisis. nixon fold the rule of law when the supreme court ruled 8-0 in july of 1984 that he had to hand everything over, he did, in fact, hand everything over. so he left after barry goldwater went down and said you don t have more than a dozen votes and i don t think i m one of them, mr. president, which brought that home to nixon. then with clinton you had a question of proportionality. pretty clear what happened, but basically the country and the institutions decided it wasn t worth undoing an election over that. here we are now with something
instructed but not dispositive. the republicans tried to get andrew johnson before 1865 was out. they opened hearings in the house trying to find reasons to remove him from office. ultimately it failed by a very narrow margin in the senate. but they were really after him because he was trying to undo the implications of the verdict of the civil war. cut to nixon. andrew johnson was about politics. nixon, the reason he had to resign was they had him on tape. there was clear evidence of obstruction of justice, he was ordering one federal agency to stop, another federal agency, and we forget this, and we may end up with another element in this crisis. nixon fold the rule of law when the supreme court ruled 8-0 in july of 1984 that he had to hand everything over, he did, in fact, hand everything over. so he left after barry goldwater went down and said you don t
that was an act of terrorism. there was no money to be had. there was no criminal gain. it was punishment. they felt emboldened and things escalated rapidly. in july of 1984, we learned about the armored car robbery of a brinks truck in ewe chi yap, california. it was on the last day of the democratic convention that was held in san francisco in 1948. we re at a command post waiting for the convention to be over. and a call came in saying there was an armored car robbery. we had no idea about the order and the people and players involved at the time. that was a separate criminal case. i get to the scene and figure out what happened and it grows from there. they scoped out where the truck would be most vulnerable and they hit the truck on highway