Democratic party for the presidency through espionage and sabotage that would be the weakest opponent of Richard Nixon. When we wrote that story, we thought, ah, now it makes sense. Now after 40 years it all makes much more sense about this huge criminal enterprise. And, ken, you have probably we were talking about this earlier. We have probably spent more hours listening to more president ial tapes than any human being in america. Youve been immersed in not just nixon tapes but lbj takes. Whats your take, leaving aside your 10yearold self, on what we knew now, what we know now about nixon that we didnt understand at the moment of his resignation . First off, i just want to talk about how honored and what a surreal experience it is for my former 10yearold self to be sitting here between woodward and bernstein talking about watergate with all of you. But that said, in between then and now, i have listened to an awful lot of tapes. And i think the biggest thing that ive learned about wat
Because i was always unable at the time to keep any of these characters straight but, of course, the main character was Richard Nixon. And complex and impenetrable and not understandable but youve done about as good a job as anyone of trying to understand the kind of tortured mind that led us to this national crisis. And to look at nixons activities even post watergate as a way of interesting him. So tell us a little bit about nixon and what compelled him to do these things from your point of view. Some talk about when did watergate begin . Was born in this little town in yorba linda, california, where he was born. Now, i say this with some empathy. I think he was trapped in his own personality, in his own hangups. And hangup is too light. But i dont do any psychobabble. This was a man who all his life felt that everybody else was getting a break and they all had more advantages than he did and he had to show them that he was going to be he went out for football he couldnt run or throw
Married women with children, and a history of being boys and young men that they have never spoken about before. So over several years i spent time with them, and these are some extremely brave women in the book who also decided to tell their stories to open up a window, if you will, you know, into what is actually going on in Afghan Society and with afghan families. Because the way i see it, is also mirrors the whole construction there of a very harsh page your keep and in gender apartheid. Is there a danger to these girls and these families being put in this book at . You can never predict everything thats going to happen in the universe. This has been a very different process for me as a journalist, because most of the time as a reporter you want people to tell you as much of possible. In this case its almost in our first negotiation, when theyve opened up to me and ive said that i dont know if we should include this, this is potentially controversial, and i changed some details, so
A president who has gotten a really bad rap and no one understood it. As long as the facts about nixons presidency and watergate, he wont be wellrespected as a president. Not going to be an admired figure. He cant be. Not only that, but what the tapes show, almost had the view of the presidency as an instrument, which he could use for personal revenge. In these new tapes you have he will say, go after the mcgovern contributors, go after the dnc contributors. Get the irs to run their tax returns and so forth. And guest very interesting the more successful he is, the more revengeful he becomes. He reaches the pinnacle of his reelection with real serious numbers. Its a record in the top three of all president ial races, and the electoral and the popular vote. Host in 1972. Guest what happens . He becomes more bitter. What he talking about most . How he is going after his enemies. This is not a gracious winner. But he is also troubled. Host you knew him and work for him and had all those m
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