Tribes of wisconsin. Shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the American Indian communities in the state of wisconsin, sending researchers and other personnel. We get the beginnings of a research relationship. I think it is time that we look back on that history and look forward to the next 100 years of the relationship. American history tv is featuring wisconsins state capital, madison. Learn more about madison and other stops on our city store at www. Cspan. Org localcontent. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. President Gerald R Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon. Up next, john logie and Jill Winebanks recall the events up to the pardon. This was at the gerald r. Ford president ial museum. This event is one hour and 10 minutes. [applause] thank you, hank. Along with our audience here at the beautiful gerald r. Ford president ial museum in grand rapids, i would also like to welcome our cspan audience to this
Thank you, hank. Along with our audience here at the beautiful gerald r. Ford president ial museum in grand rapids, i would also like to welcome our cspan audience to this event. My passion for this flowed from my understanding of Archibald Cox, who became a National Hero who stood up to Richard Nixon i demanding secret white house tapes that would prove or disprove nixons guilt in the watergate coverup. After interviewing president ford in 1995, i was struck by his passion in explaining the reasons for his pardon. I think there are more compelling reasons even now to step back and look at the historical evidence and the perspective that comes with time. To begin todays program, we have a special filmed piece by tom brokaw who covered the events of the pardon. Mr. Brokaw could not be here today, but he filmed this especially for todays historic gathering. All i remember of the pardon was many things. It was a sunday morning, back then in washington it was very relaxed. You must remembe
Im harry fortanado drk tore of public affairs. I want to thank you for joining us in the latest it ration of the hail to the chiefs lecture series copresented by our partners a the trueman Library Institute the Foundation Arm of the harry s. Truman Library Museum and independence. Here at the library, we just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries. And such as the case tonight, 40 years ago. Well technically, 39 years and 363 days ago. But work with me on this gerald ford became the first and to date the only unelected president of the United States. An outcome that would have been beyond conception just two years earlier when Richard Nixon was cruising to his landslide victory over george mcgovern. To tell us more about that in the administration that ensued weve brought back for the third time dr. John robert green. But you can call him bob. Who among many claims to fame ranks as the first historian to perform a serious scholarly study on the administration. The First Editio
First historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. He First Edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the University Press of kansas. It is still in print. Report, on its fourth printing. Of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. In the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting president s had been taken. Thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bobs scholarship. While ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the country after the travails of watergate, bob argues theres a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who performed a credible job as a national. Aretaker locally, we should also recall that he was here in kansas city in 1976. Somehow, i have a feeling well be commemorating that in about tito years. The librarys good friend, who was in the audience tonight with a young city then councilmembe
[ applause ] and im thinking that there are others here who served if you served in any of the administrations represented here, will you be known to us . Will you just briefly give us a little wave . [ applause ] and we say thank you. Thank you. Well talk about the whole relationship between the media and press secretaries. If there are any press secretaries here, whether you served on capitol hill or in the white house, elsewhere, can we make yourself and if you especially returned my phone calls, thank you. And if you didnt well, thank you anyway. Okay. Any press secretaries here . Thank you for coming. Thank you, thank you. [ applause ] its a little like the defendant thanking the prosecution but whatever. So anyway, now that weve gotten that out of the way, lets talk about what we really want to talk about which is all the things we wanted to know when we were sitting in those chairs that we didnt get to talk about then so this is our chanceing to spill it. So lets do that. So the