In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight, and were going to try to do that in a very summary fashion today. Before i start, though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
Do you want that person to protect the confidentiality of the investigation . Even rumors about your case can impact your reputation. You want someone who values the truth. You want someone with the courage to make the right decision, even if its an unpopular decision. Theres an Old Supreme Court case that sets out the Job Description of a prosecutor. It is not the win. It is not the simply get convictions. It is to be a minister of justice. I have a daughter in law school. Shes heard me say this a million times. Good prosecutors clear more innocent people a month than Defense Attorneys do in a lifetime. But you have to be objective. You have to be fair. And you have to be honest. I would be hard pressed to think of any lawyer i worked with in congress who is less qualified to be a prosecutor than adam schiff. Yet this week we learned he wants to be the next Attorney General of california. I guess california is progressive. I guess the next Attorney General there will not share any of
Make. I have said, and i believe that there is a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton locked many firsts in her role as first lady, Political Partners since law school, the clintons survived scandals and even the impeachment of president bill clinton. And as she considers a another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clintons story is being written still. Welcome to cspans yearlong series, first ladies influence and damage. Tonight, we will tell you the story of the space of our 42nd president , Hillary Clinton. Here to tell us of the story are too journalist to know the clintons well. Gayle from vanity fair is a biographer of Hillary Clinton. Her 2000 book was called hillarys choice. David is from the Washington Post, author of two books about the clinton including a 1995 biography of bill clinton. Welcome to both of you. As we start, here i want to play a bit of a video from 1992. It is one of five or six Hillary Cli
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Hello. This is Hillary Clinton. I want to thank you for letting me speak with you about an issue that is central to our childrens future and critical in our fight to restore this nations economy, solving our Nations Health care crisis. There is no prescription or role model or cookbook for being first lady. The future is created every day. The future is not something that is out there waiting to happen to us. The future is something that we make. Well, i have said, and i believe, that theres a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton logged many firsts in her role as first lady. Political partners since law school, the clintons survived scandals and even the impeachment of president bill clinton. As she considers another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clintons story is still being written. Good evening and welcome to cspans year long series first ladies influence and image. Well tell you the story of Hillary Clinton.