I shall restein presidency effective at noon resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Hi. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It was run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundations. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it la
Holtzman 9 the irony was i got my Campaign Office was broken into. Is a very ugly incident. What kind of training did they have for new congresspeople . Rep. Holtzman nine. Nine . None . Rep. Holtzman none. What were your assignments . Rep. Holtzman i set around with my advisors. In just to give you a 90 a of how remote the idea of impeachment was not only. Emote nonexistence. We try to figure out the best committee to beyond. Since the agreed that president had been on the House Judiciary Committee for 50 years, 50, it would probably be good to break new ground and try to get on another committee. To lobby washington know to be on the judiciary committee. In those days, freshmen members of congress i remember coming down, and i remember the ways and Means Committee made the decision. The democrats, the republican members of the committee for the newly elected members of congress. I went down to the ways and Means Committee and it did not to me any good. He vacated the seat. The seat w
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This. Just barely. Was aony was that there breakin at my old headquarters roughly around that time. Beple got beat up and had to taken to the hospital. I was worried about my campaign workers. Far in theas distance. I won the primary in brooklyn. Of course, it was a november election. What kind of training did they have for new congress . None. You got to washington. What were your assignments . I did not get to washington day one. And be on ao committee, so i sat around with. Y advisors just to give you an idea of how remote the impeachment was, we tried to figure out what would be the best committee to be on. We agreed that since my predecessor had been on the committee 50 years, it would be a good idea to break new ground and try to get on another committee. Down to lobby. I came down and in those days, the committee made the decision. I went down and i visited old members. Any good. Me they were putting me on it, no matter what, so i was actually down, it first ensured was an utter
Timothy we are here on april 5th, 2007 with Elizabeth Holtzman with the Richard Nixon oral history program. We are taping this in new york city. Hello, liz. Thank you for joining us. Rep. Holtzman glad to do this. Timothy lets start, its the summer of 1972. You have toppled a Senior Leader of the Democratic Congressional leadership. Youre running for office. The watergate breakin takes place. Youre very busy running for office. Do you notice it at all . Rep. Holtzman just barely. Actually, the irony is that there was a breakin in had i own Campaign Headquarters roughly around that time and a really ugly incident and people actually got beat up and had to get taken to the hospital. So i was worried about my own campaign and worried about my own Campaign Workers and worried about the breakin at my Campaign Headquarters. So watergate was just a kind of far in the distance, thunder far in the distance. Timothy you get elected. Rep. Holtzman i won the primary. That was in brooklyn, the equi