Spanned from june 1971may, 1973. The Richard Nixon president ial library conducted this interview as part of a project to document the 37th president s administration. This portion is about 50 minutes. On Labor Day Weekend after their unsuccessful operation in the break and go back to washington via new york. They stay at the pair i believe no, what was the hotel that kennedy was famous for going into . I associated with kennedy all the time. Whats the one the plaza. The one that the little girl remember . Metal line. Madeiline. They stayed at this hotel. A very fine hotel for them to stay in. That weekend, i think on a sunday, the office of senator goodale is broken into. My memory is not perfect on all the names but i believe the name of goodells assistant was andrew pair pierre and he told me there is no question there was a burglary that weekend in his office. My former wife this gets complicated had told the fbi in 1969 that i had given let me get that right she had told her stepm
Basically, july of 69 is when i ended. Is that right . 6 9d. Im sorry. Yes. He saw the file cabinet was broken into in Labor Day Weekend, 69. No, Labor Day Weekend of 71. 71. Thats right. Sorry. So 37 years ago. Hold for 15 segts here and see if this phone goes away. The phone is still wait. There we go. Yeah okay. So the pentagon papers had come out in june. So he knew all of that. So he now knows, you know the white house is very interested in this. So somebody has burgled his office. He was certain it was the white house. But i wasnt seeing him then. I was in cambridge. He wasnt in direct touch with me. I called Something Else happened. But let me come to this point. His lawyer, he talked to a lawyer about it. And the lawyer advised him dont get involved. Dont get ininvolved. Its a white house operation. And dont tell well he said he apologized to me. He said i felt guilty. I feel i wronged you, which, from a professional point of view, he certainly had. And i apologize. I said, fin
One of them says what are we celebrating . We didnt find anything, which is not quite true. And hunt says, i think this is in the harper term, we know that, but he doesnt know that. Youve been watching American History tv in prime time. Part ii of the interview with daniel ellisburg begins shortly. And a reminder that every weekend here on cspan3 experience American History tv starting saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. 48 hours of people in the events telling the american story. Here to witness historians, visit museums and College Campuses as top history professors and leading historians delve into americas higs ri past. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. And our prime time presentation continues tuesday night in farmville, virginia. A seminal on the civil war in 1865. The program was cohosted by the university and National Historical park. That begins tuesday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern right here on cspan3. Coming up next, part two of a twopart interview with daniel ellisburg. He talks a
Said, go ahead. And i had always told him that when i give you the copy as far as im concerned its out of my hands. I know i cant control whether its done or isnt done and so forth. Thats my okay to go ahead. And even though he hadnt told me yet, i changed my mind and did let him have the copy. That was about in april. They were working night and day, meanwhile, of course, in the new york hilton to put it out. So actually, this uncertainty on me persisted until the last day because i had learned that senator senator gravell was going to do a filibuster against the draft which was about to expire and i thought, okay, this is perfect material for him to use in his filibuster, you know, get it out on the floor of the senate. So i had had it in my apartment with the intent that i was, for the first time that i was going to take it to washington on monday and deal with gravell on the issue, hand it to him if he wanted it. But i had never allowed it in the apartment before lest i be caught w
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