johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johns ton think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage hanoi. i mean saigon, that's the top of the table. we got to get them to paris or you can't have the peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government. to keep them from negotiate the peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> some of the old china lobby are going around and implying -- >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this effort to sabotage the peace talks, because the south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser. anna chennault unless they knew for sure that she was speakinging for nixon. >> you see that your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government? >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood. if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. >> in saigon, a vet

johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> i would never do anything to encourage saigon not to come to the table. good god, we want them over in paris. i mean, get to paris or you can't have a peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating a peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> some of the old china lobby are going around and implying -- >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this effort to sabotage the peace talks because the south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser, anna chennault, unless they knew for sure that she was speaking for nixon. >> you just see your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government. >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood, if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. >> in siaigon, a ve

nixon. so ken, ken is a recent one, and ken was a researcher taking time from columbia law school when he was a law student. emily and her husband martin formed the domestic advisory group and marty flew with the campaign and emily ran the homebase doing all the hard work. pat mccann requires no introduction at the is a fantastic guy, and joined nixon way before the campaign, and finally, we get to the white chapin, -- the white chapin -- dwight chapin. what we are going to do is start with each of us explaining to us how they met richard nixon and how they came to be a participant in the campaign. jim, we will start with you. >> actually in 1962 as a freshman at university california at santa barbara, i cornered him at a rally that he did, and he gave me some debate pointers. then in 1967, as a second year law student at columbia, i saw an article in the new york times with a sample of this fella on the stage, pat buchanan and marty anderson and the white chapin -- dwight chapin, and nixon

nixon owes me. and basically he wants no part of her. >> the nixon administration were >> the nixon administration were afraid of any position for which she would have to have a senate confirmation or under oath and asked a question about the october events. >> she was taken advantage of in not being offered a real position. it is possible that she herself felt she was most taken advantage of by president nixon. >> i suspect that she didn't like nixon because nobody liked him. but she got burned. you lie down with dogs you get fleas. >> each moment in history is a fleeting time. but some stand out as moments of beginning. in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries. >> nixon wins in part thanks to johnson's decision not to make public what he knew about ji nixon's treachery. nixon's plot to undermine the vietnam peace talks. >> i do solemnly swear. >> president johnson did believe that this was a treasonous act. that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> will to the best of my ability p

nixon wins. thinking i will be a big deal in this administration because richard nixon owes me and he wants no part of her. >> the nixon administration were afraid of any position for which you have to have senate confirmation and have to be under oath and ask questions of the october events. she was taken advantage of and not being offered a real position. it is possible that she herself felt she was most taken advantage of by president nixon. >> i suspect that she did not like nixon because nobody liked nixon. but, she got burn. you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleece. >> each moment in history is a fleeting time. some stand out as moments of beg beginning. which cards are set that shapes decades of century. >> nixon wins thanks to johnson's decision of not to make public of what he knew is treachery. >> president johnson did believe that this was a treasonist act that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> for the best of my ability to prese preserve and protect the constitution of the u

here is mixed nixon -- mrs. nixon in her famous cloth coat in the campaign. pat nixon, as a vice presidents wait for eight years, traveled the globe and went without any personal assistant. she packed all of her own clothing, and she ironed not only her husband's clothes, but her own, and arranged it so that she could wear clothing that was appropriate to each culture. that is, of each nation that she was visiting, and always careful not to repeat wearing the clothing in a way that timewise, that coverage of her in one country will not get to the next country so that it would not look like she was wearing anything of the same and kind of trying to show respect to each country she was visiting by appearing in something different. it was during the 1960 campaign that the issue of potential first ladies and their clothing was really thrust into national headlines and made a political issue. the media had essentially created an article -- artificial race for the first lady, between pat nixon and jackie kennedy. it began with a story claiming that mrs. kennedy and

nixon. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. hey, john. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much bud wilkinson, i thank all of our television audience. everyone who hears bud wilkinson abche commentating on sports remembers his great oklahoma team, but i am glad he is on my team. bud wilkinson. [applause] it looks like we are in a winner city. i was taking the tigers and the world series and the lions doing so well. let's hope a little of that rubs off on me while i am in detroit. [laughter] and two other celebrities in the audience i would like to introduce before we go to our panel -- we have the governor of michigan, governor george romney. [applause] and then we have two of, i think, the greatest campaigners mrs. georgery, romney and mrs. richard nixon sitting on either side. [applause] the other day when i was in salt lake city, i mentioned that general eisenhower once said he was talking about politicians on the fact that they were so

specifically about what nixon did. part of nixon's criminal history is that he did use contact with the justice department to spy on the investigation. part of the way nixon did that was his frequent contact with a man who was then the head of the criminal division at the justice department. his meetings with henry peterson, his repeated calls with peterson, he extracted key information about what was going on in watergate, what was going on with key witnesses before the grand jury, and nixon did that so he and his legal team could strategize around it. right now, there are concerns about whether or not matt whitaker is playing that role for president trump. it was therefore provocative for james baker to publish that piece, right after matt whitaker was named. this is baker pointing out that, you know, when nixon used the justice department official as a back channel of information and intel about the investigation that targeted him, that was treated as an impeachable offense for that president. and this is a very liv

richard nixon, unlike trump who squeaks through in his election, richard nixon was elected in one of the biggest landslides in amererican history. amy: in 1972. >> so for in impeachment to take place, you would have to change the mind of f the majority of american voters. democrats werere not se that could ever happe s so th werere worrie about the polical coequencnc for theelves stead ofhinking out ththe country. but the american people dedemand. they said, congres y you g too protececour democracy. ancocongre didid. we did not take a sese cou bere we e arted. i member wn we staed the impeachmt pceedingsnobody even knewhat a hh crime misdemeanor was. what is the standard for impeachment? amy:y: so explaiain what happenn the end, what richard nixon left. >> richard nixon left because the house judiciary committee proceeding in a methodical, fair, transparent, open and bipartisan fashion voted that he engaged in impeachable offenses. ultimately, every single republican on the committee -- initially will be voted, there were 11 or 12 republicans who did not join. you had seven or eight

nixon don't like that. eisenhower thought part of the military career was rotating through offices and thought it would be good for nixon to have real administrative experience. nixon knew in american politics to go from vice presidency to a cabinet position would be not good. the one other point i will make is eisenhower's role in the 60 campaign is quite interesting because eisenhower said to nixon said look i will do whatever you want me to do. i appreciate you have to run on your own. if you need me to get out of the way, i will, and i will give broad speeches about peace and prosperity in america and you can go after kennedy. he said i will stay away from the campaign. but as the campaign unfolded, particularly as the first debate, eisenhower said this guy may lose to kennedy of all people. so eisenhower said, look, i will be glad to give some more speeches. i will be glad to talk more. so they are trying to negotiate that, and then there's conflicting accounts. the account nixon gave is that he wanted

nixon. johnson also got word on october 28, from the fbi, cia, nsa, wiretaps that nixon was in fact not only telling the south vietnamese not to come to negotiations, but north vietnamese that they will get a better deal from him. called johnson did was call up everett dirksen, the republican minority leader, conduit to nixon saying your guys are playing dirty pool, tell them to cut it out. eventually, october 31, he also got further word and he calls up -- i'm sorry, cause of dirksen again. .. and said i would never do anything to slow the negotiations. when humphrey was briefed on november third, two days before the election by william bundy, assistant secretary for far eastern affairs and state department about what the nixon campaign was doing, humphrey knew that it was too late. there was nothing he could do. when johnson told him, johnson told him we've got it on tape i don't have hard proof, then humphrey knew exactly what johnson was telling him. if you say anything, i will not give

nixon for we think of nixon as perpetually old, but he was 46. he was one of these 46-year-olds who did not project youth and dynamism in the way kennedy did and kennedy it is worth noting had significant health problems throughout the 50s. his senate career he was chronically ill. but he was very good about projecting youth, vitality, had a suntan all the time, was photographed playing football and so forth. kennedy ran explicitly on a generational theme and said the eisenhower years were tired, reactive and we need a new generation, a new era. for kennedy quite shrewdly played on that theme. as someone said, what did kennedy like? someone said he didn't like old people. he didn't like to talk to old people. he wanted to be around people who were his age. that was the bias he had. some thought he could have learned from some of the older folks who would put some perspective into it. clifford once said this was the cocky used group of people i have ever been around. sam rayburn famously said some of these people to actually run for sheriff. >> i

nixon gets caught for doing this. as you spell out in your piece, one of the articles of impeachment is based in part on him having improper contact with the justice department about this ongoing investigation. >> right. >> i wonder, though, if it was also improper from the perspective of the justice department for henry petersen, for this senior justice department official to be talking to the president. certainly petersen at the time was pilloried for having done that it didn't necessarily look good that he had been having all these conversations with the president about that investigation. how do you view that, looking back on it? >> i guess a couple of things. one is i'm not a watergate historian. sarah's not a watergate historian. so we're not capable of really making a full accounting of everything that happened here. that's number one. i mean, look, it does look alarming when you look at this, of the interactions, but mr. petersen did not know all the facts that we know now, right, in terms of what the presiden

richard nixon. >> thank you very much. thank you very much, bud wilkinson, and i think in view of the sports consciousness of this great city would be interested a little bit about you. everyone else's has heard of him and remembers the great oklahoma teams but i'm glad he is on my team and i'm on his team. bud wilkinson. >> it looks like we are in the windy city. i was thinking of the tigers in the world series. -- i hope a little bit of this rubs off on me while i am in detroit. >> we have other celebrities in the audience. we have the governor of michigan , and -- governor george romney. and then we have two -- greatest campaigners in the country, mrs. george rumsey -- mrs. george romney and mrs. richard nixon. the other day when i was in salt lake city, mentioned the fact that general eisenhower once said when he was talking about politicians and the fact that they were so different that only one thing the most successful politicians had in common and it was the ability to marry above themselves

they got richard nixon's returns when they suspected richard nixon of being involved in some tax issues, and they found $500,000 worth of underpayment by richard nixon on his tax returns. they not only have the power to do that but to reveal those tax returns to the full house. those tax returns could be if revealed to the full house by the ways and means committee of interest to the intelligence committee, couldn't they? >> that's right. we shouldn't do it for any voyeuristic interest but the american people have the right to know if the president is a cheat. if you look at that "the new york times" investigative report, that exhaustive report, it suggests he's a cheat and that his financial interests are in conflict with our domestic and foreign policy interests. and we see that play out in saudi arabia, in turkey, see that playing out with easing sanctions in china on zte so he can get a $5 million loan the same week on a chinese property. so we certainly want to know if the president is corrupt and if that affects a decision the white house makes. >> the congress was actually given

nixon. you see that mrs. nixon liked the mini skirt. the reason she did was because she was once with her two daughters while they were buying clothing during the campaign. it's a designer by the name of vincent mignon. julie and her mom wore the same size. julie said her mom liked a dress on her. she said why don't you try it on and she did. you know, so -- i'll get more into that. but what is really fascinating is we call that chapter the california girl in pants. because you really see how early on, long before she even thought she'd be a public theater, sfig liked wearing pants. when she was a junior at usc, in a letter she wrote to her aunt in new york she was telling her about the job. she said i wear pants and everybody complains because they want to see my legs. but i really don't care. i like wearing pants. you know, we're talking in the 1930s katherine hepburn was wearing pants. even as a young girl, one of the photographs that's shown, and it's a picture we used in the book. when she's not probably more than 14, 15 years old

with misses nixon -- mrs. nixon he would see a lot of those blend which were practical because of all the traveling she did. >> next question from the front row. i want to acknowledge olivia forgiven her input. she is the curator here. she put an incredible amount of thought, time, and work into that runway just outside in the hall and the display in the main gallery. if you have not gotten in make sure that you go see them. >> you can see him from the bowers museum. she works on runways addressing costumes. >> we will do two more. the next one will come from the front row. i will ask the last one if it is okay with you. >> a couple things he talked about how martha washington intentionally wore american- made clothes. when did they start when different regional clothing for different diplomatic reasons? >> there's always the issue in the 19th century of our way a private person or a public person. where does that line begin and end. for example tony medicine we have records of her purchasing most of her items

johnson did not like nixon, he did not trust nixon. he had a longstanding animosity going back to 1950 and the senate race that nixon ran existence douglass where he just trashed him. he didn't forget easily. i hope that sort of answers the question. again, i can't answer some of these questions, i can just speculate. any others? okay, i think we're done. i want to say thank you for coming out on this rainy day. hope you enjoyed it. [applause] .. >> who is married to beth, chief of staff for lady bird. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you can watch thian

richard millhouse nixon. what platform is nixon running on? >> promise to pull out from vietnam and the war. >> okay. he's not talking about pulling out troops yet but he is promising, i'm going to end the war. what else is he promising the american people? if you are living in peoria, turning on your "nightly news," what do you see? >> the absence of law and order and he is promising those things. >> the democrats are running? hubert humphrey. but there's going to be a problem. the democratic national convention for that year will be held in chicago, and the students for democratic action, these anti-war groups and a host of other social protest groups are going to gather together in chicago, trying to basically disrupt or shut down the convention as much as they can. the mayor of chicago is richard daley, who does not like to have the machine messed with and so as these protesters increasingly sort of restful start to surge, he calls out his cops. what happens next will be called a police riot. you know what a police riot is? >> they start b

nixon makes strategic decisions based on what kissinger was telling him. classic lines about beer getting close to withdrawing their troops and later they said at y. and z. but when he said he left the counterparts that were out of attack that gave him the evidence he needed. even if it is richard dixon, deceiving the president for that office was some reason of negotiation the president is going to make decisions based on those conversations, that gives me pause. the only thing that squares the circle a little bit is they didy never had much faith in kissinger or those talks. i don't know how much photocd was making from that, but if i heard that the north vietnamese were interested in a troops withdraw i might behave this w way. they would never admit this to begin with because they didn't recognize the political legitimacy. at no point, and i can say this with extreme confidence come as no point do they ever even remotely hint that the average troops to be removed from south vietnam or in agreement and in the end they conceded on that point to allow the

richard nixon. so what platform is nixon running on? >> he is going to end the war. >> he is not going to pull out the troops, but he is prompting i am going to end the war. what else is he promising the american people? if you are living in peoria and turning on your nightly news, what do you see? >> the absence of law and order. >> the bureaucrat is running, hubert humphrey. that there is going to be a problem. the democratic national convention for that year will be held in chicago. the students for democratic action, these antiwar groups and a host of other social protest groups are going to gather together in chicago trying to basically disrupt or shutdown the convention as much as they can. the mayor of chicago is richard devi. he does not -- richard daley. as he protesters increasingly start to search, he calls out his cops. what happens next will be called the police right. do you know what a police riot is? >> they start beating up everybody. >> here is the nightstick upside of the he behead. the spec hippie -- hippie head. the

i, richard nixon. -- donald driver trump. america's president is being investigated for the gravest of crimes. could trump, like nixon, be forced out of office? well, the similarities between watergate and what's happening with regard to trump tower disturbingly similar. that i will faithfully... trump tower disturbingly similar. that i will faithfully. .. execute the office. or is it a witch-hunt? they're not going to find anything. they're not going to find anything. they're going to try to get him out of office. it would be unconstitutional to impeach president trump based on this alleged conduct. i don't think president trump is morally fit to be president trump is morally fit to be president of the united states. ousting a president is never easy. clinton pulls group —— pulled through. but tomorrow america votes for a new congress. if the senate tries to remove president trump, he will be... there will be protests in this country like you've never seen since the sixties. we ask, will trump survive? iam i am thrilled

no one -- no one in the nixon white house had to say to anyone else in the nixon white house, don't let one word of this pardon discussion leak because they knew that the very fact that the president was even thinking about pardons would move the president even closer to impeachment. and today we see in the 21st century version of the nixon administration there is no leonard garment. there is no one aissing to donald trump you can't discuss pardons publicly and you can't do pardons. there's no one saying even to donald trump's utterly incompetent tv lawyer rudy giuliani we cannot discuss pardons. and so the president of the united states today publicly discussed pardoning paul manafort. quote, i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? that means there is a pardon table in the white house with a manafort pardon on it, possibly on the top of the stack of pardons ready to be issued by this president. and this president unlike richard nixon wants everyone, everyone to know that he is thinking about pardons, especially paul manafort. if you're paul manafort and the

nixon, president of the united states. it's the belief of this grand jury that it should presently defer to the house of representatives and allow the house to determine what action may be warranted at this time by this evidence." and then it just lays out all the evidence. in the simplest possible terms. this is, like, a 60-page document. you can read it in -- you can read it on a coffee break. this lays it out with no narrative. page one of the evidence, watergate burglar communicates to the white house that he wants $120,000. he says he has done, quote, "some seamy things for white house and if not paid soon, he'll have to review his options." that's page one. page two, that message is relayed to the white house counsel, john dean. page three, the white house counsel tells the top aide to the president, who says, oh, we better tell the attorney general about this. page four, the attorney general is told about this. page five, the next day, the president convenes a big meeting to talk about this matter, to talk about how

the pardoning of nixon might have connected ford more closely with nixon in a way that was not good for ford. and ford might have made a mistake or two in presidential debates. he was a tremendously good man, but also perhaps a little bit bland in terms of demeanor. television was beginning to capture people's imagination. ford had some things working against him and carter had the idea of freshness and newness and a commitment to ethics, which was a very important element to his campaign. brian: what do you mean by ethics? mr. gerhardt: carter wanted to restore ethics in washington and in the white house. he could make that part of his agenda. he later put into effect the government ethics act as president which was a cornerstone in modern, ethical law. carter could make these promises and perhaps they had some appeal for people. in the wake of watergate, a lot of the country thought perhaps it was time to turn the page and see if we can do things better. brian: in the world of ethics, what remains today that he did? mr. gerhardt: a number of things still remain in effect that apply to

it was called the nixon answer. >> tonight from atlanta live and in color, that nixon answer. [ applause ] >> tonight, richard nixon is person is going to be answering the questions that citizens want answered. the panel members are rich murphy, and adrian harper, a farmer. also, john kennett jr., a businessman from columbus, reverend roland smith, a minister from atlanta. eight textile worker from mulcher he and morgan stamper, a lawyer from atlanta. charles kinman, a grocery store owner from columbus. that is our panel for tonight, and here is your moderator, bud wilkinson. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i am excited to be in this unusual television event. richard nixon and i live telecast, answering questions put to him by a panel of georgia citizens. the program is live and nobody had any idea what questions will be asked. mister dixon cannot possibly know. 's edges must be immediate and direct. our panel is representative, and include a he operator, an editor, a farmer, a grocer, a lawyer, a minister, and a textile worker. some are democrats and some are republicans and some are supp

and then, that september 1972, pat nixon went to a national park celebrating its centennial. she was actually there to mark the centennial of the national park system. and there she is wearing a pair of pants at a public ceremony. doing that four times within a year makes it rather clear that she is not only more comfortable wearing what she wants to wear, but sending a cultural, and somewhat of a political statement. it is gentle, but it is firm. she still liked to try and get out and shop. mrs. nixon told virginia sure word in her interview -- sherwood in her interview, because she like to keep current

planet nixon in goal. planet nixon to goal. planet nixon to score jlanet nixon to score his |et and nixon to score his first european goal. steven gerrard's side back ahead the score lines very temporary in this match. moskal reverse swing in a couple of snap minutes with this heading that level again and then it's straight from the kick—off, this taking aim. this deciding a freezing, frenzied up match. chelsea are into the knockout stages thanks to a 1—0 win over bate borisov in belarus. olivier giroud scored his first goal of the season, nodding home emerson's cross early in the second half. the win puts maurizio sarri's side into the last 32 and maintains their 100% record in the competition so far this season. arsenal are also through, but their goalless draw at home to sporting lisbon was marred by a serious—looking injury to forward danny welbeck. he was taken to hospital after being stretchered off in the first half at the emirates. two goals from two debutants helped england's women to a 3—0 win against austria

10 or 12 votes, nixon knew the game was up. more than two thirds would vote to convict. so he knew he would have to resign or and at being impeached. brian: how much did chapter eight in your book on impeachment drive you to write the book? the title of the chapter is " will donald trump be impeached?" mr. gerhardt: it is a topic a lot of people talk about. what i tried to do in the chapter is clean up misconceptions about legal issues and constitutional issues. i try to work through the different subjects that can come up with trump. it is a subject that interests me as someone who studies impeachment and as an american. that was an important chapter. brian: do you have a gut instinct as to whether or not there will be an attempt to impeach him at any point? mr. gerhardt: it is likely there will be an attempt to impeach him but success is doubtful because impeachment is a numbers game. it depends on who controls the house and senate. so if his party controls the house, it reduces the odds of if he will be impeached, regardless

war orc stuff like nixon's resignation. with carter, he was putting into that actuallyions continue to this day. with fifa, he was trying to respond to a problem that occurred in nixon's administration, the boundary between the cia and fbi and who could look at what. respect toy with spies. carter tried to put together institutions to address it. brian: this book is available in paperback. "the forgotten presidents" and you have a new book. this original book was by oxford. "just book is called impeachment." mr. gerhardt: i wrote that recently. havechment is a subject i read a lot about in the last few years because i have had a in howanding interest constitutional law happens outside the courts. importantress is most -- one of congress's most important abilities is impeachment authority. i wrote this book over my christmas break. the point of it is to try to explain the laws impeachment for everybody. it is not an academic book, it's thisfort to try to explain to people who are not lawyers. brian: how involved were you wit

this is a level that richard nixon never went to. >> you also worked in the nixon white house. is he right? >> well, he's right that president nixon, we had no record of him ever ordering the justice department or even thinking about having the justice department prosecute a particular individual, especially a political rival. he didn't try to put in jail the people that ran against him. he did abuse the intelligence agency. he tried to abuse the fbi and cia. so i don't think richard nixon's record is comparable. i think john is right. but critical to both of these is they emphasize how important it is to preserve our democratic system with all of the checks and balances. our president, today's president, would be a long way down the road toward authoritarian regime when it came to law enforcement. >> i don't think we can sugar coat the steps that we were now aware of that this president attempted to take here. he attempted to get his justice department to prosecute enemies. we know he communicated with matt whitaker in advance of his appointment about his positions on this inv

very nixon. i'm glad roberts has said this, he's now sort of put himself on the spot and we're going to watch very carefully whether the supreme court is full of independent justices or people who do operate robotically. >> roberts is the new candidate. >> i think. while it remains to be seen. it would be nice to think that's true. >> i would be interested what he thinks about voting rights. >> i think you know about that within a couple years. >> absolutely. always a treat. happy thanksgiving. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. business unlimited card, i get unlimited 1.5% cash back. it's so simple, i don't even have to think about it. so i think about mouthfeel. i don't think about the ink card. i think about nitrogen ice cream in supermarkets all over the world. i think about the details. fine, i obsess over the details. think about every part of your business except the one part that works without a thought. your ink card. chase ink business unlimited. chase ink business unlimited,

nixon. i'm glad roberts has said this, he's now sort of put himself on the spot and we're going to watch very carefully whether the supreme court is full of independent justices or people who do operate robotically. >> roberts is the new candidate. >> i think. it remains to be seen, but it would be nice to think that's true. >> i would be interested what he thinks about voting rights. i think we'll know about that within a couple years. >> absolutely. always a treat. happy thanksgiving. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. why did i walk away? well, not because it was easy. i mean, the game is all i know. you think back to your draft. it felt like a fantasy. but the second you know you can't compete anymore, you owe it to yourself, to your team, to find a fresh start. so, yeah, that's why i did it. that's why i walked away... from my fantasy league. (announcer) redeem your season on fanduel. play free until you win. fanduel. more ways to win. >>> in 1863 you needed a magnifying glass

and nixon in them are starting to sweat bullets. 1968, igo'sjuly of recommended to fix seven, nixon had met anna chennault and discussed alongside the south vietnamese ambassador issues relating to south vietnam in the war. nixon'sment one of aides -- nixon department nursing. their people inside the white house, including the guy to the right here was advising both the johnson administration and the starts reporting back there closing in on a deal. what will happen a week before the election is the major feasts advance -- peace advance is made? who is that going to benefit? humphrey. no doubt. they are starting to worry. the question is what do we do now? less than a week out, with a start to do, and then already been doing this to a certain degree, they start telling the south vietnamese government will give you better deal. anna chennault starts communicating this to the president and you say how we know that -- how do we know that? for wiretapshe nsa of for of house in saigon clearwire tapping our own allies and when johnson heard of this, he placed wiretaps on motion alt as well as

it was called the nixon answer.

>> i think that's right and i think the nixon case does provide a president and it is important that we realize that doctrine and president are not confined to courts. the action of the senate and the house and the president inform policy, they all provide constitutional precedents. i would answer a question that you did not ask. i would say of course you are right that a president who contrived to had the headquarters of the opposing party burgled and their private documents purloined and published or used in some intimidating way, that it would be subject to impeachment. but i would also say from the nixon president, that a president who can strive to have the actions of such burglars not investigating, or use -- or use the federal government to mislead the investigators, even if he, and i think this was true of nixon, was not aware or had not directed or planned the original burglary, then yes, i think that would be a predicate for impeachment. >> here is one of the very important element of the nixon president, and it is different say them from the clinton president. i was not go

administration, how did the nixon administration, how did president nixon deal with the pressure, you know, people are saying that president trump is feeling the walls coming in, things like that, that's up for debate. how did nixon handle that sort of pressure? and how did it impact his leadership? >> at the end, it got pretty bad, the emotional toll was very dramatic, and understandably. but, again, if you go back to the nixon case in watergate, you need evidence of high quality. you need tapes, you need documents, you need witnesses like john dean. if you listen to those tapes and go through what dean testified to, it wasn't just oh, yeah, we talked about something. it was dean saying in the tape, proving in one meeting, president nixon authorized, ordered, paying blackmail money to the watergate burglars 12 times in just a single meeting. and the power of that led to nixon's demise. does mueller have something like that, or is he headed in that direction? i think jeff toobin jumped a little ahead of the facts. >> bob woodward, it's always great to have you on. thank you so much. >

and nixon and them are starting to sweat bullets. as early as july of 1968, back into 1967, nixon had met anna chinault. and discussed with the ambassador, the issues relating to south vietnam and the war. there are people inside the white house, including the guy to the right right here who is advising the johnson administration and the nixon campaign who starts reporting back. they're closing in on a deal. what will happen a week before the election if a major peace advance is made, who is going to benefit, nixon or humphrey? humphrey, no doubt. so, again, they're starting to worry. so the question is, what do we do now? less than a week out, what they start to do, and they had already been doing this to a certain degree, they start telling the south vietnamese government this, we'll give you a better deal. anna chinault communicates this to the president, too. you'll say, how do we know that? one was, because they had wiretapped the presidential palace in site gonaigon. so johnson placed wiretaps on madame chinault and the embassy

nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> kennedy never had to answer that question, am i serious enough or am i equal to this guy who's had eight years in the white house? >> kennedy and nixon slug it out for six more weeks in one of the hardest fought presidential campaigns in history. >> today, on election day, the big question is, how will the people vote? >> america may be choosing a president, but they're also determining the destiny of the kennedy dynasty. >> the whole family gathered in hyannisport. they set up a war room. they brought in dozens and dozens of phone lines to communicate with campaign directors all over the country. and they waited. >> it appears that senator kennedy is moving into the lead. >> but as the night went on, the early lead that kennedy had seemed to drift away. >> when ohio went for nixon, the kennedy team began to wonder whether they would win this at all. >> senator kennedy's early lead of 2 million votes dwindles perilously as the returns come in from the western

that's way beyond watergate. >> you just said could be ten times worse than nixon. when you look at the reasoning, james comey removed the president on the record in the letter firing him. >> right. >> this was, hey, you cleared me of wrongdoing. then they had to clear up the rod rosenstein and now jeff sessions has been removed, had a cover story that was removed. >> don mcgahn that left the white house says he was asked to fire mueller. jeff sessions now out for that reason. all the evidence come income says that the new person is in also for an elicit reason as you just said to be a loyalist. >> and also someone who is already prejudiced and should recuse himself. >> that article that whitaker wrote on cnn.com saying the mueller investigation was illegitimate, he's got a view in advance. that's not someone -- >> you think he should be out? >> he should recuse himself from the mueller case. >> it's fascinating, given your knowledge of how this has worked in the past. michael beschloss, thank you for being here tonight. what is mueller doing right now? will america