To continue that this evening with this discussion. I just want to mention briefly what the Bard Globalization International Affairs Program is. Its a program that allows students to come to new york city for a semester or a summer, to take classes with great faculty members including the president of the carnegie council, joel rosenthal, whos one of our faculty members. Also to do internships here in the city and to just revel in all of the things that new york city has to offer. And im very happy to also report that starting this semester we have a new partnership with Central European university in budapest, so we have several of their students with us this semester, here with us this evening as well. So we have other events that we run throughout the semester. If you are interested to find us on facebook, on twitter, on various other places our web site, please do that. And if youre new to the carnegie council, make sure you Pay Attention to whats going on here. Theyve always got g
My name is jim byron. Im the executive Vice President of the Richard Nixon foundation and a special hello to everyone watching on youtube this evening. Or the Nixon Foundation website or all of those watching on cspan. I have the pleasure to welcome and introduce two eminent scholars of Richard Nixon and the nixon era. Our moderator is frank gannon. Member of the prestigious white house fellows in the Nixon Administration who later served as special assistant to counsellor donald rumsfeld. He was the chief Editorial Assistant to nixon on the research and writing of his memoirs during the former president s years in san clemente. And he has the rare distinction of having sat and interviewed the former president for 38 hours on tape in 1983. And those materials now reside in the university of georgias peabody archive. Our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price. A Rhodes Scholar and harvard educated attorney who cofounded the Rippon Society and migrated from the 1968 rockefe
character, a documentary that aired on national geographic last year. after that the ambassador will come up and give remarks about why he felt the need to initiate this series. thank you for being here and let s roll the clip. [applause] even as president ford was growing in assurance in popularity, he knew he could not truly heal the country until the situation with richard nixon was resolved. the former president had resigned, but would he be prosecuted for his actions? at ford s first major press conference a month into his presidency, journalists world grilled him if he would use his power to pardon nixon. are you saying that it is an option you will still consider? every day was a different issue. it was serious times. he needed to and wanted to attack those problems, but you can t attack those problems when you have a press conference and 90% of the questions are asked about watergate. so you are not ruling it out? president ford: i am not ruling it out. i
[applause] so character and the presidency is quite a subject, isn t it? here in grand rapids, we are lucky to enjoyed a fine example of moral courage in the presidency of gerald ford. we thought we would open tonight s program with a brief clip of gerald r ford: ford a a test of character, a documentary that aired on national geographic last year. after that the investor will come up and differ much about why he felt the need to initiate this series. [applause] even as president ford was growing in assurance in popularity, he knew he could not truly heal the country until the situation with richard nixon was resolved. the former president had resigned, but would he be prosecuted for his actions? at ford s first major press conference a month into his presidency, journals asked him if he would use his power power to pardon nixon. are you saying that it is an option you will still consider? every day was a different issue. it was serious times. he needed to and wan
that, ambassador seki a will give opening remarks about why he felt the need to initiate this series. [video] even as president ford was growing in assurance and popularity he knew he could not heal the country until the situation with richard nixon was resolved. the former president had resigned. but, would he be prosecuted for ? at ford: ford s .irst meeting, are you saying the option of a pardon is one you will consider? every day was a different crisis, a different issue. it was a different time. he needed to and wanted to attack those problems. but you can t do that when you have a press conference and 90% of the questions are asked about watergate. ruling it out. it is an option. over the labor day weekend, ford gathered his closest legal advisors and considered the options. if nixon faced trial, the country would be mired in watergate for years to come. if he steered america clear of that fate, by pardoning nixon before trial, public anger would cost him el