Indicted. So the grand jury is early 73. Then a period of six months when it looks like you might not be indicted. The saturday night massacre is october of 73 . Right. I was indicted in november. So you thought this might go away . Yeah. It started paling in relationship to Everything Else. The dirty tricks thing was just such an amateurish rinky dink thing. Was it wrong . Did segretti do things wrong . Yes. He admitted he did. He took responsibility for it. Did i lie . I didnt think so. Did i try to mislead the grand jury . There was no question, by the way, when you read the grand jury thing, that im evading telling them that haldeman and ehrlichman called me in there and told me. When it finally got down to the question and they asked it, i told them. I told them i had been called in and that they had told me to hire him. But you can see me wondering through there trying not to say that when you read it. Trying not to say that haldeman and nixon or haldeman and ehrlichman. Haldeman
Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address ethnic and Racial Disparity in the criminal Justice System, explore the impact of militarization of the nations Law Enforcement infrastructure, rein in overcriminalization and promote the restoration of rights and status for those who have had a brush with the criminal law. All of this is a reflection of the core mission of americas criminal defense bar, libertys last champions as we define ourselves. Fairness is the bedrock principle of any society and of any judicial system. The reforms ensuring
Great issues forum has brought the campus noted thinkers. Elliot richardson, the former attorney general, known as a hero of watergate. David gergen, a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court sandra day oconnor. Tennis icon and humanitarian arthur ashe. Governor of new jersey and chairman of the 9 11 commission. So jack, you have got to live got a lot to live up to. Today i had the privilege of introducing our speaker jack rakove. An exceptional student and teacher of history, a Pulitzer Prizewinning author. He will share his insights on James Madisons ticklish experiment at constitution making. Will prompt us to question and reflect on the concept of polity, something we cherish at st. Johns. Is is the one you the William Robertson professor. At Stanford University where he has taught since 1980. He is also taught at Colgate University from 1975 to 1980 and has been a visiting professor at nyus school of law. He is a visionary scholar and author. His book, original meanings, po
Lawyer in frederick county, maryland, taney had defended jacob gruber, an antislavery methodist minister accused of disturbing the peace and inciting rebellion. And in the process, taney had cited the declaration of independence in support of his antislavery views and had actually called slavery a blot on our national character. The author of the unjust judge made much of this type of change of heart, describing taney as failing to live up to his early ideals as well as those of the nations founders. In hid analysis, he said that africanamericans, contrary to taneys assertion, had been included in the Political Community at the time of the founding. But more than an academic criticism of taneys reasoning in the dred scott came in t, t unjust judge constituted a rhetorical assault on the character of the nations fifth chief justice. The author excoriated taney as a malevolent old man engaged in the most nefarious of purposes, a man has untrue to the principles of the christian religion
Battlefields. Well let you hear from scholars and reenactors and bring you the latest historical forums on the subject naps programs on the civil war every saturday 6 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Oliver Wendell Holmes jr. Served in the union army from 1861 to 1864, and he was wounded three times in battle. Next a panel of scholars looks at the impact of the civil war on the life of the future Supreme Court justice, including how his time as a soldier shaped his law career. The Supreme Court Historical Society hosted this hourlong discussion. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Supreme Court. Its great to see so many people here for the Supreme Court Historical Societys second lecture of the 2014 leon silverman lecture series. The society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren berger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. And it does that in many ways, through lectures like these, 1yn through the pu