Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the United States. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that Executive Power that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The Richard Nixon they supported through the years was not the Richard Nixon that they thought
they knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. H
the white house? is that correct? that s correct. during what period of time were you employed by the white house? i would like to preface my remarks, if i may. i m sorry. go right ahead. although i do not have a statement as such i would simply like to remind the committee membership, that, whereas i appear voluntarily this afternoon, i appear with only some three hours notice. i wanted them to know i was enjoying a haircut just at 11:00 today. are you aware of installation of listening devices in the oval office of the president. i tried to think is that direct? yeah, that s direct. that s a very direct question. i m not trying to sound dramatic here, but i knew, then, that the jig was up. i was aware of listening
rolling? after the smoking gun tape came out the president lost all support, republican, as well as democrat. republicans went to him and said you have to resign. we cannot support you anymore. it was republicans finally who made sure that nixon had to leave office. barry goldwater, marching down to the white house. we sat there in the oval room and the president acted like he just played golf and just had a hole in one. you would never think this guy s tail was in a crack. nixon said how many votes if i m impeached in the house? how many votes in the senate? about 20. and goldwater said very few, and not mine. the 37th president of the united states was facing the ultimate disgrace. for a man who craved power the question was would nixon continue to fight? uh uh - i m the one who delivers the news around here.
on october 25th, two weeks before the election, the post s front-page headline pointed the finger at the number one man in the president s inner circle, bob haldeman. woodward and bernstein reported that under questioning by the grand jury sloan had testified that haldeman controlled the campaign s secret fund. it was a journalistic coup. but they were wrong. i d never been asked a question about bob haldeman. sloan, in fact, had not named haldeman in his testimony. the white house pounced. i don t respect the type of journalism, the shabby journalism that is being practiced by the washington post. i use the term shoddy journalism, shabby journalism. i ve used the term character assassination. this was their opportunity to discredit the post, woodward and bernstein and bury the story. they came after us. ziegler, the press secretary.
the smile on his face, the smile the likes of i d never seen him smile. he was not a happy person in all the years i ve dealt with him. it turns out to have been liberating for us, for the truth, for felt because now you know, there was an awful lot of speculation in those 30 years including by many of our peers and colleagues that we made this up. this was an element of clarity and closure, answering a question that had persisted for a long time. deep throat begins to guide woodward and bernstein through an elaborate maze of covert activities. gradually, the reporters begin to connect watergate to many more of the president s men. by the beginning of 1973, congress could no longer ignore the scandal. their investigation would boil down to one simple question. what did the president know, and when did he know it?