Investigation or personal privacy. Becauseas reluctant everyone of his federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. You mean people are going to be rummaging through our files . We cant do that. Thebill moyers helped newspaper editors especially to marshall their argument about how we really are in favor of open government. One of the fascinating things we found was bill moyers had written a nice signing statement where hedent johnson had this ringing language that this registration spring from our most essential principles. Democracy works best when people knows what their government is doing. They must have access to policy and rules. Good government functions best in the full light of day. What is great about that is we now know from l. B. J. s own daily schedule that on the telephone johnson called moyers and said cut that out. Thiss have to x through ringing declaration about freedom of information and puts in the final version that this legislation springs from one of our most
Sam j. Of the book ervin, last of the founding fathers. He will be guiding the ship through the waters of watergate. In the center, we have former state attorney general and no street or to most people here, nous edmisten and stranger to most people here, Rufus Edmisten. [applause] closest to me, i hope no stranger to people around here or maybe not, he is a judge. Judge sam ervin iv. [applause] all right. Thank you, guys. I will let them take it away. Good afternoon. It has been 40 years and a few hours since Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. [laughter] [applause] wow. [laughter] for those of us of a certain age, we remember the trauma of watergate and perhaps for decades later, we are ready to put the scandal in a greater historical context. Whothose of you younger dont remember of watergate, perhaps youre wondering why every scandal since 1974 has to end with the word gate. Example, new jersey bridge gate. This anniversary of watergate has created the usual controversies i
Jeff spent 13 years at the washington post. Im not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a Senior Editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. Besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. So this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. He brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage . Because as to be focus of this because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesnt know each other. One was American Hero of sort we dont have anymore. Fivestar generals, no more fivestar generals. The man credited to leading allies to victory in e
All right. Good afternoon. Thanks for coming out to the North Carolina museum of history. We are getting ready to do our program right now. My name is michael scott. I do a lot of programming at the museum of history. We have three distinguished guests with us. We have dr. Karl campbell, author of the book senator sam ervin, last of the founding fathers. He will be guiding the ship through the waters of watergate. In the center, we have former state attorney general and no stranger to most people here, Rufus Edmisten. [applause] closest to me, i hope no stranger to people around here, or maybe not, he is a judge. Judge sam ervin iv. [applause] all right. Thank you, guys. I will let them take it away. Good afternoon. It has been 40 years and a few hours since Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. [applause] wow. [laughter] for those of us of a certain age, we remember the trauma of watergate. And perhaps four decades later, we are ready to put the scandal in a greater historical c