you did all right. you did all right. bill weld, would your life have been different without watergate? it sure would have. it was the beginning of everything for me. i think of it as one of two events that electrified my generation, the other being the assassination of president kennedy and teddy white s book. but some people in my generation were disillusioned by watergate when gordon strong said one of the people who was convicted, what advice would he give to young people regarding public service, he said stay away, stay away. but for every one of those, there were ten who were very highly motivated. i shared an office with a young yale law graduate, hillary rodham. both of us went into public service. i came down there as a corporate lawyer and went back just championing to become a litigator and criminal litigator. and within half a dozen years, i was u.s. attorney under president reagan for five years and then head of the criminal division down here for two years
biggest fan in the 1950s. i never went on a date without elvis presley. and he was really helpful, so i owed him a rot. did nixon say he had a favorite song, like blue suede shoes? no, he never broke out into song, though elvis was dressed for it. i gave an answer to the president that was beyond what was correct. he was hesitant. i moved him over to the president s desk. he started talking about things he had been studying like communist brainwashing. keep it up. we need more communist brainwashing studies and elvis said the beatles came over here and made a lot of money. president, beatles? you know, very popular rock group, sir. is that true? you re making this up. no, not really, completely. the closest he got to rock n roll was i had to explain it. elvis said to the president, mr. president, can you get me a badge from the bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs? and that s what he wanted? that s what he wanted. that s what the meeting was about. presiden
bung bungled break-in in this building. as mr. woodward and mr. bernstein reminded us a few days ago, watergate were things that occurred in 71 and things that occurred back to 1969. what are the lessons? one of the questions you posed to me was how i felt after archibald cox said he had been fired. my lawyer that s here tonight, carl chaffer, had told me, john, you have the case that we can now describe as the oliver norse case, and they can t touch you. but the lesson to me was, charlie, you may be right. he absolutely was right from a legal standpoint. still, for those who get involved, the lesson is to be accountable, to stand up, tell the truth, because the truth is really the only way these things get resolved. and while there are revisionists out there trying to rewrite that truth at this point, we basically have the best historical record we ll ever have, and it not only corroborates those of us who were involved in the unraveling, it corroborates what the washing
favorite song, like blue swaued shoes? no, he never broke out into song, though elvis was dressed for t i fwav it. i gave an answer to the president that was beyond what was correct. he was hesitant. i moved him over to the president s desk. he started talking about things he had been studying like communist brainwashing. keep it up. we need more communist brainwashing studies and elvis said the beatles came over here and made a lot of money. president, beatles? you know, very popular rock group, sir. is that true? you re making this up. no, not really, completely. the closest he got to rock n roll was i had to explain it. elvis said to the president, mr. president, can you get me a badge from the bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs? and that s what he wanted? that s what he wanted. that s what the meeting was about. president turned and said why can t we get him a badge? now when you don t have a clue, what could you have said? sir, i ll check into it. i yi
the kind of focus, a more expensive list cannot. cary goldstein is publisher and editor-in-chief of 12books.com is a website. senator mike lee is reading it is dangerous to the right when the government is wrong by judge andrew napolitano. visit booktv.org to see this and other summer reading lists. next on booktv republican congressman james rogan 3 counts his role in the impeachment trial of president bill clinton and the affect the verdict had on the executive branch. the author contends by not executing impeachment proceedings against the president a precedent would have been set allowing future presidents to remain above the law. this is about 50 minutes. you admire james rogan. you have to read the book rough edges which many of you probably have. we premiered it here when it first came out. it is about his life from welfare to washington. it is fascinating because he has in toward in toward a tough life which all of a sudden said this isn t for me and picke