wanted to protect the environment and the rule of law. what i would hope tonight and going into tomorrow is every self-described republican supporter of donald trump would read that obituary very carefully. and imaginatively project themselves to that ultimate moment of reckoning. do you want said of you that when the constitution was under ferocious attack you stood in the breach and stood for the work of madison, hamilton and jay or do you want to be seen as someone who took a dive which easily could have happened on that october saturday in is t 7. ruckelshaus believed in the law, and ultimately fired archibald cox that night, that s a separate debate for another night, but i think someone like
his boss, beleaguered president clinton. john meachum happens to be the author of impeachment an american history. john, in addition to learning that the early 70s were a bad era for television earphones that stuck out on camera and that mr. chancellor preferred copy on paper to the teleprompter in front of him, tell us about the man i heard a historian talk about ruckelshaus about a patriot s patriot. tell us about the mark he left on society. that s a great description. he was part of a vanished breed, a moderate republican, of the rockefeller president bush school of republicans who believed in fiscal probity, but
ruckelshaus, and we are almost exactly a year from the one year death of george h.w. bush who belonged to that company of men and women who believed in the system. they believed in the constitution. and they knew that at some point however imperfect they were, however ambitious, however many things they got wrong, they believed at the end of the day that the system, the country, was the thing that had to come first, and their own ambition, however much they worked and driven through the arena with it had to take a second spot. let s fast forward to a week from today, second round of the hearings and a new and different committee for television viewers opens up. tell us what high crimes and misdemeanors may look like in 2019 because the only thing your