president anymore, because you are a criminal and violated the law. so when we wrote about the final days of nixon s last months in the presidency, we went to is it hood happened as he saw it at the end. he poured himself a big whiskey, and began reading from the diary and told us how he and the republican leadership in the house and senate, had marched to the white house, confronted nixon across the desk, and nixon said, in terms of barry, in terms of conviction, would i prevail or not, gold water said, no, you only have a few votes, you will not have mine. you will not be acquitted. that s the difference. the senate watergate committee
and the actual abuse of power goes. that is trump goes to being the first seditious president of the united states. not just criminal like nixon, but the first seditious president of the united states. 50 years ago, could you imagined the two of you would still be discussion? perhaps reporting, but the idea we would be reporting on another president who abused his office bob did an amazing thing in the piece that ran will you wos woes today. he ran back to george washington s farewell address. amazing, shocking, at the beginning of the people, we write, washington says, beware. democracy is fragile, unprincipled men in the presidency will go forward and usurp the power for than own ends. that s what the two presidents
i said you seized history s clock, pointing at the clock in the oval office, and he was, yes, and i ll do it again. of course, he did not do it again, but it was only by 47,000 votes, but the idea that we re going to do things and say things to widen the partisan divide i don t think serves the interests of the country or quite frankly of journalism. i think we need to say this is what we know, this is what we don t know. be very, very careful, and be unemotional, frankly. it s difficult, but be as unemotional at possible here. one of the lessons of watergate, if i may, is that aides to nixon turned on him.
h.r. haldeman finally wrote in his memoir said the dark shadow of nixon runs through all of the crimes of watergate. that s exactly what we re finding, and i think we ll find more this week, and i think it s going to go on for a long time that the tentacles of the trump presidency and the subversion of basic democracy is great, and i think people will look at that, if we can kind of take the strident tone out as much as possible. let me add one important thing, without the strident tone, and that is the huge difference between watergate and what is happening today. that is, it was courageous republicans who said about richard nixon, you cannot be