This office. And that was august 8th, 1974, when president nixon went on national tv to announce his resignation from office. That followed a compel long series of hearings in the us senate the year before and a threat of impeachment by the house of representatives. Thanks for joining us for the American History tv series. Congress investigates where we look at significant congressional investigations over our history. This week, its a look at the watergate hearings and their aftermath. Our guest is kate scott, who is the Senate Historian and author ofhe book reining in the state Civil Society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. Ms. Scott, what was the defining event that led to the Senate Hearings in 1973 . The trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the Senate Hearings in 1973 had happened the prior year in june of 1972, when five when burglars broke into the Democrat National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Office and apartment complex here in washingto
Vice president for will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. And that was august 8th, 1974, when president nixon went on national tv to announce his resignation from office. That followed a compel long series of hearings in the us senate the year before and a threat of impeachment by the house of representatives. Thanks for joining us for the American History tv series. Congress investigates where we look at significant congressional investigations over our history. This week, its a look at the watergate hearings and their aftermath. Our guest is kate scott, who is the senate htoan and author of the book reining in the state Civil Society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. Ms. Scott, what was the defining event that led to the Senate Hearings in 1973 . The trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the Senate Hearings in 1973 had happened the prior year in june of 1972, when five when burglars broke into the Democrat National Committee Headquarters
Will be deported to egypt he has been based in the u. A. E. Since the two thousand and twelve president ial election last week announced that he plans to run for president again in two thousand and eighteen those are the headlines im going to be back with a full news hour in just over twenty five minutes they were still coming up now is inside story by. With. Has flipped Donald Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn has fitted fealty to law into the f. B. I. With flynn planning to cooperate with the name in this game of political russian roulette this is inside story. Alone welcome to the program im peter dalby now the president of the United States has been dragged into the investigation looking for answers about suspected russian meddling in last years u. S. Election his former National Security adviser Michael Flynn is guilty hes admitted it he lied but the main question now is how far up the political food chain will Robert Mullers inquiry reach so much to talk about
The library of congress cohosted this 50 minute event. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming and welcome to the library of congress. I am carla hayden, the 14th librarian of congress. [applause] thank you. We are looking forward to a very, very exciting afternoon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing by president Lyndon Johnson of the public broadcasting act of 1967. Four starstudded panelists in store for you, featuring many great names of public broadcasting in on radio and in television. I want to take this opportunity to single out one of our guests today. Is mr. Henry morgan fall morganthall ii. I. He is 100 years old. [applause] and he was working at wgbh 50 years ago with the act was passed. His grandfather was fdrs treasury secretary. I am proud to say the library of congress has the papers of his grandfather. Sir, we are truly honored you are here with us today. Thank you. [applause] carla many of you may know that the library of congress is the largest and most compr
Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the public broadcasting act of 1967. Next, public media figures including jim lehrer and talkshow host dick cavett gather to discuss programming. The next panel is on news and Public Affairs and talk shows. We will show you a clip from the watergate hearings. We Just Launched a curated exhibit about the coverage of the watergate hearings and that will be the first time they have been made available online. So will the next panel, and we can run the clip . Coveragee videotape for the Senate Select committee. Here is the Senior Correspondent robert mcneil. Good evening from washington. In a few moments we will bring you the entire seatings in the first day of the Senate Watergate hearings, hearings to hear the truth about the wide unethical, oral, improper activities surrounding the reelection of president nixon last year. We are running it all each day because we think thes