The Richard Nixon foundation. Mr. Johnson president s ands president nixons administration is regarded as one of the most proindian of the 20th century and one that restored lands to tribes and ushered in a new era of selfgovernment. Native americans found a champion in president nixon. A stance that resulted from his personal history and his consultation with indian leaders who helped shape his view of Indian Affairs. This policy breakthrough took place in an atmosphere of indian activism and even militancy. And in a famous incident, a group of native american activists took over Alcatraz Island in 1969,reclaiming it as indian land during their 18 month occupation. Amidst this assertion of cultural identity and land claims, president nixon advanced a successful proposal to repeal termination,and congress acted on nixons reform proposals. In his special message to congress on july 8, 1970, both as aixon said, matter of justice and as a matter of enlightened social policy, we must begin
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. John dean knows a thing or two about the political scandals, servinging as white House Counsel to president Richard Nixon and key figure in exposing the infamous watergate saga, and he has been vocal about the similarities of a nars sis tick and similarities of his former boss and President Trump. He has a new book out called the defense, when he knew it and what he did. Welcome ba to the show, sir. Thank you. Always good to have you back. My pleasure. And let me jump right in, and what are the similarities that you can see between Richard Nixon and donald trump . Well, the sim lilarities are most striking that happen behind closed doors between nixon versus trump. They have very similar auth authoritarian personalities, but trump is out on the street with it, on the street with it. Campaigned on it. Nixons authoritarianism, and if we didnt have the secret tapes that he made, we wouldnt know the extent of it. Bu
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. John dean knows a thing or two about the political scandals, servinging as white House Counsel to president Richard Nixon and key figure in exposing the infamous watergate saga, and he has been vocal about the similarities of a nars sis tick and similarities of his former boss and President Trump. He has a new book out called the defense, when he knew it and what he did. Welcome ba to the show, sir. Thank you. Always good to have you back. My pleasure. And let me jump right in, and what are the similarities that you can see between Richard Nixon and donald trump . Well, the sim lilarities are most striking that happen behind closed doors between nixon versus trump. They have very similar auth authoritarian personalities, but trump is out on the street with it, on the street with it. Campaigned on it. Nixons authoritarianism, and if we didnt have the secret tapes that he made, we wouldnt know the extent of it. Bu
People, acts sign by president gerald ford, congress and the American People said enough is enough. That actually the presidency has gotten too powerful by making use of vague areas in the constitution. So this debate may not have been necessary for the impeachment, but it was a critical element in the changing thinking of americans about what they expected from their president. Tim naftali, who is now with nyu and previously the director of the Richard Nixon library and museum in california, joining us from new york. Thanks for adding your voice and perspective about the debate that were about to show. Well take you back to july 29, 1974. The house judiciary kmet the session began in the morning but up next for the next thee hours the evening debate over article ii of impeachment against Richard Nixon. The committee was weighing the wiggins motion to strike paragraph three and those in opposition to the amendment had consumed eight minutes and those in support of the amendment had con
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