Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my
Watergate the United States senate created a special committee. They had a long official title. The Senate Select committee to sfud di governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities and took on the nickname of the chairman, frank church and it was known as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months, reviewed 10,000 documents, called 800 witnesses before the committee and the staff. The legacy includes it creation of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. They were held in the Historic Senate caucus room scene of the hearings two years earlier. We go to meet kate scott, who explains how and why the Church Committee came about and sets the stage for september 16, 1975 hearing with cia director, William Colby. The Church Committee was created in january of 1975 by the senate. In response to a series of revelatio
Let me go back. Pres. Roosevelt [indiscernible] prof. Dean you get a sample there. Let me give you that is amazing when you think of somebody today, that we have cell phones, just talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Anyway, nixon got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson predecessor, during the transition between the two presidencies. He said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. He said, i strongly recommend you do the same. Nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. But this is the first time he had heard of president s recording. So what were the reasons that he does install . Back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed in prior lectures, there was a pretty efficient Management System, except in the instances like watergate and a few others where the Management System did not come into play. But the Management System on a
When they first went to talkie movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system put in the oval office that recorded. I am going to try a very quick sample. Oops, let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. [indiscernible] prof. Dean you get a sample there. That is amazing when you think of somebody today, that we have cell phones, just talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Anyway, and got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson nixon got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson during the transition between the two presidencies. He said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. He said, i strongly recommend you do the same. Nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. But this is the first time he had heard of president s recording. So what were the reasons that he doesnt install . Back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed i
System. In june 1973, during testimony before the watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated mr. Nexen and officials in the watergate coverup. Mr. Dean later pleaded guilty for obstruction of justice in his role in watergate and spend four months in prison. This class is one hour caret john was it lucky or inevitable . The story of the next and tapes Richard Nixon tapes has been partially told. Has taken me years to be it is taken me years to gather it. It is important to get the history straight. We are going to try to do it in a summary fashion. Before i start, i would liked to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with method firstelt, when they went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a recorder put in the oval office. Sample of a quick roosevelts taping. Let me go back. [indiscernible] all right, you get a sample there. When you haveg someone today when we have cell phones, talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so