Visit ncicap. Org] the house will be in order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy event from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979. Cspan has brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of overnment. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road with the support of our spectrum cable partners, this weekend, we travel to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the hour, well go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and also talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas moorhead planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about 10 minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the
Watergate committee. He recalls the day he served president Richard Nixon with a subpoena. Subpoenaed the president 46 years ago on july 23, it was the first time in the history of the country that a committee of congress had ever issued a subpoena to the president. Becauselectrified washington was filled with anticipation. The did not know whether president was going to be totally indicted or what was going to happen to him. When those takes were finally revealed, that was the way they removed mr. Nixon from office voluntarily. He saw that his own words convicted him. What was your role during watergate . I was the deputy chief counsel. Was the chief operating officer. I was there to serve as the righthand man to see that things were working well, the train kept running. Coordinate the hearings, who the witnesses would be, how they would be handled. It was a big job to run a committee with competing personalities and a lot of computing staff. It was my job to just see that things work
With support from our spectrum cable partners, this begins traveling to chapel hill, North Carolina. Coming up in the next 90 minutes, will learn about the citys Literary History and speak with local authors including jake smith on his book cheated. Then in about ten minutes, we sit down with the citys first africanamerican mayor, howard lee. Following that in about 30 minutes, subpoenaing president nixon during the watergate hearings. We begin our special feature with the academic scandal that involved the Athletic Program. [applause] four seconds to play. I would say sports are very important. In that respect, youre like probably other universities but maybe a little more so because weve had such Great Success in theres an ingrained tradition of winning and competing in lots of different sports. Its an important part of the culture. For many years, weve all involved in the myth of being the tarragon of virtue and the master of joining athletic rights. I think we all convinced ourselv
Tu president was going to be totally indicted. When the tapes were revealed, that was the way they removed mr. Nixon from office voluntarily. He saw his own words convicted him. What was your role during the watergate situation . Guest my job was what i describe as the chief operating officer. I was there to serve as the righthand man. To see things that work well and the train kept running. I would coordinate who the witnesses would be, how they were handled, and it was a big job to run a committee with competing personalities, a lot of competing staff, and it was my job to see that things worked well. I was not that old, i was 31 years old which nobody should have a job like that 31 years old. I said that when i was elected general attorney, nobody should have a job like that at 32 years old. It sort of worked out. Was an experienced person on capitol hill. I had been there almost 10 years because i began with senator urban senator senator ervin in 1964. I knew the procedures and wha
75 minutes, a kind of meeting of two cultures. One culture is represented by the people on this stage, who are scholars associate the with the Miller Center here at the university of virginia and whose studie of the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words in the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant, so please, greet pat oliphant with a [ applause ] but even nmore so by the work o pat oliphant which youll see displayed on this screen. The culture that he represents is not sort of broad gauged and long range by highly specific, daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, the washington star for several years. And along the way pat ol fant became the first to work independently of any newspaper. Thats how popular his work was, and it was syndic