While some Nixon stooges called Dean a "rat," John Dean did the nation a favor by coming clean about the Watergate affair. Telling the truth is the right thing to do under these circumstances.
I was home with a newborn and a 13 mo old and with only 4 TV channels available, I just cared for my babies and watched Watergate. I got to stay at the Watergate 20 years later!
My mom went into labor on August 8, 1974, and I was born August 9, 1974. She said she was all but forgotten in the hospital because the nurses were all glued to a small television set in the nurses station, and they were very annoyed that she insisted on having a baby at such an inconvenient time. I told her that is probably why I am a Democrat (my parents are Republicans)
John Mitchell should have done 10 yrs as he was still the Attorney General of the U.S. at the time of the planned break in. The chief law enforcement officer of the country approving burglary!
@@mariannesmith7175 positively angelic even. [I know it's not the time/place in a historic documentary, but I saw Barr spouting grotesque lies in a sweet mild-mannered tone and I thought, that's just how the devil would do it.]
Sam Erving was the perfect choice to be the Chairman of the special select committee. I also remember as small child watching this entire hearing it had me mesmerized as a 6 year old little girl
I lived through this and also had to view it in eight grade AP History. My generation instinctually distrusts all politicians. "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
SO AFTER YEARS IN VEITNAM AND OVER PRINTING THE DOLLAR TO PAY WE SEE NIXON IN 1971 REFUSE TO FRANCE GOLD FOR THE DOLLARS THEY HELD AND ALL COUNTRIES WHEN HE WENT OFF THE GOLD STANDARD... NOW A COVER UP OF THIS DEAD DOLLAR WHILE THEY WORK IT OUT MUST COME...HERE IS WHERE A USELESS BREAK IN AT WATERGATE ENTERS OUR NEWS DAY AND NIGHT FOR 3 AND A HALF YRS TO KEEP THE WORLD AND COUNTRY BUSY AS THEY NOW GO WORLD WIDE TO SEND OUR CORPS TO CHINA AND ALLOW RUSSIA IN AS OPEC PLUS AND OTHER DEALS TO MAKE THE DOLLAR IN DEMAND ALTHOUGH IT IS BACKED BY NOTHING... SO WATER GATE WAS THE COVER UP OF THIS NEW DEAL FOR THE DOLLAR AND SENDING OUR CORPS TO FRANCE LIKE CATIPILAR AND STEAL AND ALUMINUM TO CHINA AND ALL COUNTRIES RECIEVED THESE CORPS TO BOOST THIER ECONOMIES AND CREATE JOBS ANS TODAY EVERYONE FORGETS THIS TRADE WAR IS NO WAR BUT WAS THE DEALS NIXON WAS TOLD TO MKAKE BY THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS TO BRING THE ENTIRE WORLD UNDER FULL BANK CONTROL ... THERE IS NO TRADE WAR..WE SEE NIXON IN THESE YEARS RUNNING TO CHINA AND RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST CUTTING THE DEALS ... ONCE DONE HE IN THE MIX BRINGS IN EX CIA CHIEF GERALD FORD TO TAKE OVER WHEN HIS WORK WAS DONE... AND LATER BUSH RUNS AS HE WAS CIA CHIEF AFTER FORD AND WE SEE A WHITE HOUSE EVERY SINCE UNDER CIA RULE NOT PRESIDENTS.... SO THE ISSUES TODAY ARE ALL THE FAULT OF THE [PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS WHO EVERYONE VOTED IN.. THE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSABLE FOR SEEING IT ALL BUT NOT THINKING AND WATCHING TO SEE THE REAL COVER UP.. I WAS A PAPER BOY IN 5TH GRADE READING ALL THIS AND KNEW WHAT I WAS SEEING AS THIS UNFOLDED INTO MY FIRST YR OF HIGH SCHOOL .... COME AS CHILD CHRIST SAID AND YOU CAN SEE BUT EVERYONES EGOS MAKE THEM BLIND BY REASONING AND IGNORING WHAT THEY SEE... NOW IS TIME FOR ALL THE CARDS TO FALL AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULTS AND EVERYONE MUST BE RESPONABLE FOR THIER OWN IGNORANCE AND REFUSAL TO PAY ATTENTION AS LONG AS THIER LIVES GOT BETTER WHO CARES FOR THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD IS ALWAYS THE ATTITUDE...ME AND MY HOUSE IS THE AMERICAN WAY..NOW ITS ENDING FAST..
All politicians in the current Congress and all the political employees of the White House should watch these two. Oh how different today's GOP attitude is compared to the one shown at the end of this docu.
I've been looking for this documentary for years. Thank you! I watched these proceedings live. I lived through Watergate. Now, I can look back at it with the wisdom of old age. I still think it was one of the most shameful periods in the this country's history.
Cynthia Fink - In comparison to today’s evil doings by politicians, Watergate was a mere bump in the road. Nixon was perhaps the best President in last 50 years - Certainly the smartest by far.
Rob, anyone who has listened at least to part of the tapes will of course get a totally different impression. Where are today's burglaries, were are today's obstructions of justice, wiretappings? And I still have not talked about his sabotage of the Paris peace talks, which in any other country would have been punished as treason. I also did not talk yet about a president who talked about peace, but ordered the criminal bombing of cambodia. Rob, listen to the evidence. You are dead wrong.
I was 5 in 1973, this & Billie Jean, King beating Bobby Riggs, are the clearest memories I have. Aside from Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Wonderama, & HR Puffin Stuff, that is.
Social media has destroyed the concept of Truth...full on lying everywhere and "alternative facts"... Social media is the downfall of Western Civilization.
I was born one month before Nixon's resignation, so I grew up in the aftermath of all this. I never thought I'd see another time when we'd see this kind of political crisis happen again.
They tried very hard to keep it bipartisan. I don’t know if it could be done today. Many would be too concerned with talking points and making speeches. Ervin/Baker are definitely outliers.
This is an amazing documentary. It shows how our congress investigated crimes at the executive branch (which unfortunately doesn’t happen much anymore because of the political polarized nation we live in today).
The best dialogue: Ervin: National security for Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. (Point of statement) Erlichman: how do you know what Ervin: “Because I understand the English language as my momma taught me!”
The Watergate Hearings WERE my US History class in high school. Our history teacher informed us that we were witnessing something unprecedented in American history, and that the entire us history class for that semester was Watergate. Only perhaps the OJ Simpson murder trial in the modern "social media" era, had more news and media time dedicated to one subject. Watergate day and night in the news. The news coverage in the day was totally overwhelming, nothing but Watergate. I hate to think how much coverage this would get today.
But, surely, Watergate was not "history" in 1973 . Shouldn't at least 20 years pass before any historical evaluation to facilitate some objective frame on the events.
I don't think so. I think our teacher and most of us were "aware" that we were witnessing a historic event, subsequently a witness to history. Certainly your point that time must pass before any historical evaluation can be made, i.e. Pearl Harbor, the Gettysburg address, JFK assassination etc., it is no less "historic" to personally witness an event that at the time is sure to become historically relevant over time.
Your point is a powerful one. While an event is happening , access to primary source material is freely abundant. Perhaps, as a former history teacher, I wondered how your teacher would "square it" with his department head as Watergate could not have been part of any examination syllabus. But I realize this is a narrow focus and applaud his actions. It must have made for really enjoyable class work.
+Michael Igoe Maybe not history yet, but surely historic and earth-shattering. Anyone even remotely aware of it could sense we were in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime scenario.
But surely in a History class , current affairs should not be on the syllabus. That's my point. The election of Donald Trump is historic ; but no History class could yet discuss the greatness of his achievements. That will become a valid question in about 20 years time.
That’s hilarious. He had a face like a slapped arse when they cracked that joke about Erving and Harvard. I think he realised at that point how much trouble he was in and the committee wasn’t going to stand for any of his/ Haldemans “spin” which they invented before we had a definition for the word
Being that I was around 7 years old when this first happened in 73 . I have over some years now taken the time been reading about it and I wanted to read from both the Democrat as well as Republican to get a somewhat equal view of both sides. I never just sat down for hours on end , I just read about and watched videos like this one and then here and there, and I came away from the material that I had read and I had a feeling that I was still missing what must have been one of the biggest mistakes of all the “mistakes” that were made . I have yet to understand how on earth this man “President Nixon” ordered that he wanted a system that would Record every word spoken in the Oval Office and then ,, Then proceeded to talk Openly and quite frequently about the issues of WaterGate . Heck I don’t know I’m just an old country guy but I’m sure that even Me would have told everyone or at least the key personnel that “ um yeah hey y’all listen up , I had Recording Devices installed in the Oval Office so everything you say is recorded , for history purposes ya know. So try not to cuss too much and act like you got some smarts and Oh Yeah don’t mention WaterGate whatever you do “ 😊
Colson said he never discussed pardon with Nixon directly. He threw it out to Haldeman, and Haldeman believes he had. Mr Dean in my opinion was no hero. He did what he had to do to get a good deal from himself.
These events occurred 3 years and 10 months before my birth, my Dad had graduated High School in May of 1974. His parents were both teachers. My GrandDad was Dad's Woodshop(Industrial Arts) and Drafting(Technical Drawing) teacher....also head coach of both Football and Baseball. I say all this because as Dad put it, his Parents paid Zero attention to the whole Watergate issue from start to pardon. Dad said it was a choice on their part because they were teacher specifically of non social science subjects. Dad said because that he said they felt they shouldn't influence their students thinking on that issue or any other ie Vietnam etc, i feel like that having that opinion and stance on such issues has been lost over the decades. I feel that teachers should focus on teaching students how to and not what to think outside of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, the operation of our government as its supposed to operate,(that is to say mainly the relationship tween the federal branches) including checks and balances
Wanting an investigation to appear to be fair and be fair was the furthest concern of the January 6 committee, or should I call it the hearsay committee?
53:40 This needs to be said to #45 by someone as brave as Weicker. Amazing documentary. Love hearing McDowell's voice. Such a shot across the bow of our republic, pre-Murdoch & Fox poisoning of American truth.
I personally feel that the reason Gerald Ford granted Mr Nixon a full pardon was because of Mr Nixon's health issues .. He would have never been able to deal with being sent prison.... Although at the time I didn't understand what this country was dealing with it was because I had just turned 3 years old.. Now after viewing several documentaries on this subject I fully understand....
I'm not sure who he told, but Ford told either John Dean or Bob Woodward that he pardoned Nixon not for Nixon's sake or his own, but to take Nixon and Watergate off the front page of the newspapers. He (Ford) saw no other way of moving forward as a country if he didn't pardon Nixon. TL;DR it had next to nothing to do with Nixon's health.
I was 4 and enjoyed every moment learning a whole lot about how our country worked. Had a hard time though understanding the difference between marital and martial lol.
In March of 1974 President Nixon sent General Vernon Walters, who was then deputy director of the CIA, as his special representative for a secret meeting with two PLO leaders, Khalad Hassan and Majed Abu Sharar, who represented, respectively the so-called "right" and "left" wings of Fatah, the largest and most influential of the Palestinian factions that made up the PLO. Although the meeting evidently ended with great promise of working out a comprehensive Middle East settlement, British journalist Alan Hart reports that not long afterward, Henry Kissinger sabotaged that back-channel effort by President Nixon to achieve peace. Although the details are spelled out clearly in Hart’s biography of Yasser Arafat, few Americans know - although they should know - that Chairman Arafat and the two Hassan brothers told Hart, in Hart’s words, "that they were convinced that the government of Israel and the Jewish lobby in America had made use of the Watergate affair to break Nixon before he forced Israel to make the necessary withdrawals for peace." Khalad Hassan also told Hart that he (Hassan) had discussed Nixon’s continuing back-channel peace initiatives with then-King Feisal of Saudi Arabia who had played a part in the effort. Evidently, according to Hart’ rendition, President Nixon himself told King Feisal this: “If [Nixon] found his way blocked by Israel and the Jewish lobby, he would throw away his prepared text when he made his next State of the Union report [in January of 1975] and that he would tell the people of America, live on TV and radio, the whole truth about how Israel and its friends in America were the obstacle to peace.” In other words, Nixon was preparing to expose the way in which the Government of Israel and its supporters in America controlled American foreign policy. President Nixon never had the opportunity to make such a bold move. The media focus on the burgeoning Watergate scandal drove him from office. Thanks to an inside source today remembered as “Deep Throat,” The Washington Post led the the drumbeat for Nixon’s removal from office. In that regard it is interesting to note that former American diplomat Richard Curtiss, executive editor of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, stated frankly in 1995 that “it’s long been our opinion that whoever played the role of ‘Deep Throat’ was in fact only a conduit for information collected by Israel’s Mossad and used to discredit Nixon,” and that Nixon’s attempt to reassess U.S. relations with Israel was “the catalyst that led directly to his downfall..” There is, in fact, evidence that the enigmatic source “Deep Throat” was, at the least, an indirect operative of Israel’s Mossad. In her book, Katharine the Great, a critical biography of Katharine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post, Jewish-American journalist Debra Davis has almost certainly provided the real key to Watergate. Miss Davis presents a solid case that the Post’s famed Watergate source - ”Deep Throat” - was most likely Richard Ober, the right-hand man of James Angleton, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief and longtime and Israeli-allied liaison to the Mossad. Miss Davis revealed that Ober was in charge of a joint CIA-Israeli counterintelligence desk established by Angleton inside the Nixon White House. From this listening post, Ober (at Angleton’s direction) provided inside information about Watergate that helped bring down the Nixon administration. So despite all that you - and the American people - have heard from the major media about Watergate, this information is not something that is in widespread distribution. Suffice it to say, based on what we have discussed here today, I think you understand why.
Great theory and all. If I can remember, Yom Kipper war broke out at the time the hearings were beginning. Angleton was a master crowd manipulator. His favorite saying was "deception is a state of the mind and a mind of the state." But I thought Mark Felt was the confirmed "deep throat", pissed off he was passed over. (no pun intended) lol
In 2005 Mark Felt revealed to Vanity Fair magazine that, during his tenure as associate director of the FBI, he had been the source for Woodward and Bernstein known as deep throat. Woodward confirmed this fact in his book The Secret Man.
Nixon's biggest flaw was that he was not handy with gadgets in any way shape or form. Even the seat controls on Air Force One for his chair he had to have his aids adjust it. If you are going to "secretly" tape conversations, DON'T have anyone set up the taping system. Put a Lloyd's or Panasonic in your desk drawer and keep the desk drawer open slightly so the microphone can pick everything up. I think the max for a cassette tape per side back then was 60 minutes. Fine, keep taped meetings short and sweet. And if anyone ever found out there was a recorder in a worst case, just say it was for making audio dictations and entries to be used for his memoirs one day. Make some tapes with typical day to day stuff to keep for appearance sake and chuck the "hot" ones if things started to hit the fan.
I remember when this was going on. I was in high school at the time and I knew it was historic and all that but just too damn boring to me to sit through. So I didn’t watch much of it but still had a pretty good idea of what was happening because of the coverage it got.
When you find out how exactly Miss Hunt Lost her life, will let you know exactly what's capable of taking place in America when most of you happen to be sleeping.
Witch hunt! I remember seeing some of these hearings on TV even though I was a kid. They interrupted every show I watched. From "Sesame St. " to Mr Rogers, etc, they were boring at the time, but years later, when I saw them again, they were interesting. It was a witch-hunt. Sam Ervin was a Segregationist.
same here. I was 2 at the time and remember yelling "witch hunt"impeach him, impeach him at the console tv. Guess i just had an astonishingly impeccable vocabulary thats all.
More likely you are a biased person that is not willing to accept the findings and - later - the confessions that came right out of Nixon's mouth. At lest they should silnece you for ever.
While some Nixon stooges called Dean a "rat," John Dean did the nation a favor by coming clean about the Watergate affair. Telling the truth is the right thing to do under these circumstances.
It is now known that Mr. Dean was going to be the fall guy for the White House.
Chosen by Nixon, to be exact.
I agree!
"under these circumstances" So when is telling the truth *not* the right thing to do?
you'd be surprised how many times that telling the truth works best for all. Perhaps, your mother taught you about this when you were five...
Great documentary. it focusses squarely on the Senate Watergate Committee proceedings with fine detail.
I was home with a newborn and a 13 mo old and with only 4 TV channels available, I just cared for my babies and watched Watergate. I got to stay at the Watergate 20 years later!
Same here. It was exciting and I've always wondered what would have happened if Nixon had not been pardoned.
My mom went into labor on August 8, 1974, and I was born August 9, 1974. She said she was all but forgotten in the hospital because the nurses were all glued to a small television set in the nurses station, and they were very annoyed that she insisted on having a baby at such an inconvenient time. I told her that is probably why I am a Democrat (my parents are Republicans)
John Mitchell should have done 10 yrs as he was still the Attorney General of the U.S. at the time of the planned break in. The chief law enforcement officer of the country approving burglary!
John Mitchell was convicted for obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury, but not for any kind of participation in the Watergate burglary.
John Mitchell is today's Bill Barr.
Mitchell did wrong - but William Barr makes Mitchell's wrongdoing look tame. DIS-BAR BARR!
@@mariannesmith7175 positively angelic even.
[I know it's not the time/place in a historic documentary, but I saw Barr spouting grotesque lies in a sweet mild-mannered tone and I thought, that's just how the devil would do it.]
What was the Conspiracy Charge for?.
Sam Erving was the perfect choice to be the Chairman of the special select committee. I also remember as small child watching this entire hearing it had me mesmerized as a 6 year old little girl
Loved Old Sam. I was 15 that summer and recall how creepy we thought Nixon was before all of this happened.
I was nine and remember it especially because Sam Erving was from my state.
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Ervin, not Erving.
I lived through this and also had to view it in eight grade AP History. My generation instinctually distrusts all politicians. "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
Time for you to look for another place on Earth where you and your family can build a life and just be happy.
SO AFTER YEARS IN VEITNAM AND OVER PRINTING THE DOLLAR TO PAY WE SEE NIXON IN 1971 REFUSE TO FRANCE GOLD FOR THE DOLLARS THEY HELD AND ALL COUNTRIES WHEN HE WENT OFF THE GOLD STANDARD... NOW A COVER UP OF THIS DEAD DOLLAR WHILE THEY WORK IT OUT MUST COME...HERE IS WHERE A USELESS BREAK IN AT WATERGATE ENTERS OUR NEWS DAY AND NIGHT FOR 3 AND A HALF YRS TO KEEP THE WORLD AND COUNTRY BUSY AS THEY NOW GO WORLD WIDE TO SEND OUR CORPS TO CHINA AND ALLOW RUSSIA IN AS OPEC PLUS AND OTHER DEALS TO MAKE THE DOLLAR IN DEMAND ALTHOUGH IT IS BACKED BY NOTHING... SO WATER GATE WAS THE COVER UP OF THIS NEW DEAL FOR THE DOLLAR AND SENDING OUR CORPS TO FRANCE LIKE CATIPILAR AND STEAL AND ALUMINUM TO CHINA AND ALL COUNTRIES RECIEVED THESE CORPS TO BOOST THIER ECONOMIES AND CREATE JOBS ANS TODAY EVERYONE FORGETS THIS TRADE WAR IS NO WAR BUT WAS THE DEALS NIXON WAS TOLD TO MKAKE BY THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS TO BRING THE ENTIRE WORLD UNDER FULL BANK CONTROL ... THERE IS NO TRADE WAR..WE SEE NIXON IN THESE YEARS RUNNING TO CHINA AND RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST CUTTING THE DEALS ... ONCE DONE HE IN THE MIX BRINGS IN EX CIA CHIEF GERALD FORD TO TAKE OVER WHEN HIS WORK WAS DONE... AND LATER BUSH RUNS AS HE WAS CIA CHIEF AFTER FORD AND WE SEE A WHITE HOUSE EVERY SINCE UNDER CIA RULE NOT PRESIDENTS.... SO THE ISSUES TODAY ARE ALL THE FAULT OF THE [PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS WHO EVERYONE VOTED IN.. THE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSABLE FOR SEEING IT ALL BUT NOT THINKING AND WATCHING TO SEE THE REAL COVER UP.. I WAS A PAPER BOY IN 5TH GRADE READING ALL THIS AND KNEW WHAT I WAS SEEING AS THIS UNFOLDED INTO MY FIRST YR OF HIGH SCHOOL .... COME AS CHILD CHRIST SAID AND YOU CAN SEE BUT EVERYONES EGOS MAKE THEM BLIND BY REASONING AND IGNORING WHAT THEY SEE... NOW IS TIME FOR ALL THE CARDS TO FALL AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULTS AND EVERYONE MUST BE RESPONABLE FOR THIER OWN IGNORANCE AND REFUSAL TO PAY ATTENTION AS LONG AS THIER LIVES GOT BETTER WHO CARES FOR THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD IS ALWAYS THE ATTITUDE...ME AND MY HOUSE IS THE AMERICAN WAY..NOW ITS ENDING FAST..
@@FeastofTabernacles-iz1gi sssshhhhhh quietly, quietly……….
Or, in Reagan's case of Iran-Contra, "What didn't the President know, and when didn't he know it"?
All politicians in the current Congress and all the political employees of the White House should watch these two.
Oh how different today's GOP attitude is compared to the one shown at the end of this docu.
Engrossing. Thank you for sharing this.
This is a fabulous documentary, thanks for sharing.
It interrupted Prime time shows as well. It was on every channel. This was back when we had 3 channels, 3 independent channels, & public TV.
I've been looking for this documentary for years. Thank you!
I watched these proceedings live. I lived through Watergate.
Now, I can look back at it with the wisdom of old age. I still think it was one of the most shameful periods in the this country's history.
You got that right Cynthia!!!
me too Cynthia, skipped school to watch proceedings - happy I did
I disagree, because finally justice has been done.
Cynthia Fink - In comparison to today’s evil doings by politicians, Watergate was a mere bump in the road. Nixon was perhaps the best President in last 50 years - Certainly the smartest by far.
Rob, anyone who has listened at least to part of the tapes will of course get a totally different impression. Where are today's burglaries, were are today's obstructions of justice, wiretappings?
And I still have not talked about his sabotage of the Paris peace talks, which in any other country would have been punished as treason. I also did not talk yet about a president who talked about peace, but ordered the criminal bombing of cambodia.
Rob, listen to the evidence. You are dead wrong.
This is when you could find non partisan politicians in Congress.
I was 5 in 1973, this & Billie Jean, King beating Bobby Riggs, are the clearest memories I have. Aside from Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Wonderama, & HR Puffin Stuff, that is.
Yeah, feminists everywhere were elated that King beat an old man. They didn't want real competition.
Remember my mother being pissed because no soap operas.
I remember following the Watergate affair closely from across the pond, what is happening currently in Washington reminds me so much of the affair.
Stephen Cook Except this time it is the actual criminals holding the trial. Accusing someone else of things they themselves are guilty of
@@pthornburgh1 This has aged well...
Sam Ervin was 86 in this interview?? He looks and sounds damn good!
Yes and he died two years later of emphysema darn it. All those southern politicians smoked.
Mortal Clown that sure was a time when everybody smoked! Thanks for the info 😄
The more things change the more thing's remain the same.
A time when honor counted and folks wanted to get to the truth. Unlike now.
Why can't committee behave this way nowadays? Smh
...different morals...
Because this was bipartisan
Yes, that's the question, isn't it?
Social media has destroyed the concept of Truth...full on lying everywhere and "alternative facts"... Social media is the downfall of Western Civilization.
I was born one month before Nixon's resignation, so I grew up in the aftermath of all this. I never thought I'd see another time when we'd see this kind of political crisis happen again.
TC Sam ...This is worse...
@@vivianperino5006 I wonder how long it will be before America realizes just how utterly lawless this administration has been in just two years.
They tried very hard to keep it bipartisan. I don’t know if it could be done today. Many would be too concerned with talking points and making speeches. Ervin/Baker are definitely outliers.
The nobility of law wasn't always a punchline.
Fred Thompson was in "The Hunt for Red October"
And Rosanne
Law and Order
Die Hard 2? 🙄
In addition to his IMDb, he was also elected to the United States Senate.
In the Line of Fire also
I think it paved the way for C Span & 24 hour news cycles.
This is an amazing documentary. It shows how our congress investigated crimes at the executive branch (which unfortunately doesn’t happen much anymore because of the political polarized nation we live in today).
Sam Ervin didn't age much in 10 years. Hope I make it to 86 with a sound mind like that.
He was a very smart man.
His eyebrows were Supenad by the select committee on hair growth.
The best dialogue:
Ervin: National security for Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. (Point of statement)
Erlichman: how do you know what
Ervin: “Because I understand the English language as my momma taught me!”
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I don’t think Sam, “manscaped”
I remember watching the hearings with my pop. I couldn't understand what was going on because I was so young at the time.
The Watergate Hearings WERE my US History class in high school. Our history teacher informed us that we were witnessing something unprecedented in American history, and that the entire us history class for that semester was Watergate. Only perhaps the OJ Simpson murder trial in the modern "social media" era, had more news and media time dedicated to one subject. Watergate day and night in the news. The news coverage in the day was totally overwhelming, nothing but Watergate. I hate to think how much coverage this would get today.
But, surely, Watergate was not "history" in 1973 . Shouldn't at least 20 years pass before any historical evaluation to facilitate some objective frame on the events.
I don't think so. I think our teacher and most of us were "aware" that we were witnessing a historic event, subsequently a witness to history. Certainly your point that time must pass before any historical evaluation can be made, i.e. Pearl Harbor, the Gettysburg address, JFK assassination etc., it is no less "historic" to personally witness an event that at the time is sure to become historically relevant over time.
Your point is a powerful one. While an event is happening , access to primary source material is freely abundant. Perhaps, as a former history teacher, I wondered how your teacher would "square it" with his department head as Watergate could not have been part of any examination syllabus. But I realize this is a narrow focus and applaud his actions. It must have made for really enjoyable class work.
+Michael Igoe Maybe not history yet, but surely historic and earth-shattering. Anyone even remotely aware of it could sense we were in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime scenario.
But surely in a History class , current affairs should not be on the syllabus. That's my point. The election of Donald Trump is historic ; but no History class could yet discuss the greatness of his achievements. That will become a valid question in about 20 years time.
Please post Part 2!
Part 2 can be viewed online at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_512-gm81j9840b
+Austin Chamberlin Thx! You're my hero!
They did. It's here but it isn't titled part 2: ruclips.net/video/CtECb4yNYHo/видео.html
I never miss a day, or night that summer.
I wish Bill Hader would do an imitation of this reporter.
Ironic that Ehrlichman translates to Honestman in German
Lol is that true?
Is that Right?
That’s hilarious. He had a face like a slapped arse when they cracked that joke about Erving and Harvard. I think he realised at that point how much trouble he was in and the committee wasn’t going to stand for any of his/ Haldemans “spin” which they invented before we had a definition for the word
'Ehrlichman' literally means 'honest man'
Lol, that's remarkable
@@jimreily7538 Ironic too.
A time when Republican Senators could admit that the president did something wrong.
Neither party is covered in glory... To target Republicans is naive
@@danmullen3076 Amen to that danmullen--Democrats today will go to any length to protect the crooks in the Democrat party.
Being that I was around 7 years old when this first happened in 73 . I have over some years now taken the time been reading about it and I wanted to read from both the Democrat as well as Republican to get a somewhat equal view of both sides. I never just sat down for hours on end , I just read about and watched videos like this one and then here and there, and I came away from the material that I had read and I had a feeling that I was still missing what must have been one of the biggest mistakes of all the “mistakes” that were made . I have yet to understand how on earth this man “President Nixon” ordered that he wanted a system that would Record every word spoken in the Oval Office and then ,, Then proceeded to talk Openly and quite frequently about the issues of WaterGate . Heck I don’t know I’m just an old country guy but I’m sure that even Me would have told everyone or at least the key personnel that “ um yeah hey y’all listen up , I had Recording Devices installed in the Oval Office so everything you say is recorded , for history purposes ya know. So try not to cuss too much and act like you got some smarts and Oh Yeah don’t mention WaterGate whatever you do “ 😊
"I am so appalled at this illegal action, that I will pay these criminals $mils of dollars to keep their traps shut."
Amazing!
When will the second part be uploaded?
Once again, in late 2019, sadly, we are now reliving history.
It was on all the time. The only thing that I think interrupted it was the local & evening news.
Where is pt 2?
americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_512-gm81j9840b
Enjoy!
Please add it to RUclips
@@Jerseysson27 ruclips.net/video/CtECb4yNYHo/видео.html
Great video , where is part 2?
americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_512-gm81j9840b
Enjoy!
Colson said he never discussed pardon with Nixon directly. He threw it out to Haldeman, and Haldeman believes he had.
Mr Dean in my opinion was no hero. He did what he had to do to get a good deal from himself.
I was 13 yrs old and very uninterested about prez Nixon.
Where did the GOP leaders go? Wonderful leaders.
These events occurred 3 years and 10 months before my birth, my Dad had graduated High School in May of 1974. His parents were both teachers. My GrandDad was Dad's Woodshop(Industrial Arts) and Drafting(Technical Drawing) teacher....also head coach of both Football and Baseball. I say all this because as Dad put it, his Parents paid Zero attention to the whole Watergate issue from start to pardon. Dad said it was a choice on their part because they were teacher specifically of non social science subjects. Dad said because that he said they felt they shouldn't influence their students thinking on that issue or any other ie Vietnam etc, i feel like that having that opinion and stance on such issues has been lost over the decades. I feel that teachers should focus on teaching students how to and not what to think outside of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, the operation of our government as its supposed to operate,(that is to say mainly the relationship tween the federal branches) including checks and balances
Wanting an investigation to appear to be fair and be fair was the furthest concern of the January 6 committee, or should I call it the hearsay committee?
When the Congress had real leadership and understanding of the gravity of the hearing
It was nauseating.
They have taken the “Service” out of PBS
If there was no narrator to tell me who to believe I would be lost. 😉
WHERE IS PT 2???
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“It depends on what your definition of is is”
Where is part 2? 😢
Love Baker asking questions that are really statements for his own benefit
53:40 This needs to be said to #45 by someone as brave as Weicker.
Amazing documentary. Love hearing McDowell's voice. Such a shot across the bow of our republic, pre-Murdoch & Fox poisoning of American truth.
Fox TELLS the truth. you must be thinking of CBN, and other major biased journalists.
Watergate: The Darkest Passage in American Politics.
1/6/2021 Insurrection: Hold My Beer!
“Non-meetings”. Oh that sounds legal
Equating politicians with the “nation”? Absurd
Who is the host?
I personally feel that the reason Gerald Ford granted Mr Nixon a full pardon was because of Mr Nixon's health issues .. He would have never been able to deal with being sent prison.... Although at the time I didn't understand what this country was dealing with it was because I had just turned 3 years old.. Now after viewing several documentaries on this subject I fully understand....
I'm not sure who he told, but Ford told either John Dean or Bob Woodward that he pardoned Nixon not for Nixon's sake or his own, but to take Nixon and Watergate off the front page of the newspapers. He (Ford) saw no other way of moving forward as a country if he didn't pardon Nixon.
TL;DR it had next to nothing to do with Nixon's health.
Why do we need the narrator to interpret the video for us? We don’t
I was 4 and enjoyed every moment learning a whole lot about how our country worked. Had a hard time though understanding the difference between marital and martial lol.
then it went down from here.
If this was roday, rather than '73, Nixon could have "rode this out". His Republican Congressmen wouldn't have abandoned him.
In March of 1974 President Nixon sent General Vernon Walters, who was then deputy director of the CIA, as his special representative for a secret meeting with two PLO leaders, Khalad Hassan and Majed Abu Sharar, who represented, respectively the so-called "right" and "left" wings of Fatah, the largest and most influential of the Palestinian factions that made up the PLO.
Although the meeting evidently ended with great promise of working out a comprehensive Middle East settlement, British journalist Alan Hart reports that not long afterward, Henry Kissinger sabotaged that back-channel effort by President Nixon to achieve peace.
Although the details are spelled out clearly in Hart’s biography of Yasser Arafat, few Americans know - although they should know - that Chairman Arafat and the two Hassan brothers told Hart, in Hart’s words, "that they were convinced that the government of Israel and the Jewish lobby in America had made use of the Watergate affair to break Nixon before he forced Israel to make the necessary withdrawals for peace."
Khalad Hassan also told Hart that he (Hassan) had discussed Nixon’s continuing back-channel peace initiatives with then-King Feisal of Saudi Arabia who had played a part in the effort. Evidently, according to Hart’ rendition, President Nixon himself told King Feisal this:
“If [Nixon] found his way blocked by Israel and the Jewish lobby, he would throw away his prepared text when he made his next State of the Union report [in January of 1975] and that he would tell the people of America, live on TV and radio, the whole truth about how Israel and its friends in America were the obstacle to peace.”
In other words, Nixon was preparing to expose the way in which the Government of Israel and its supporters in America controlled American foreign policy.
President Nixon never had the opportunity to make such a bold move. The media focus on the burgeoning Watergate scandal drove him from office. Thanks to an inside source today remembered as “Deep Throat,” The Washington Post led the the drumbeat for Nixon’s removal from office.
In that regard it is interesting to note that former American diplomat Richard Curtiss, executive editor of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, stated frankly in 1995 that “it’s long been our opinion that whoever played the role of ‘Deep Throat’ was in fact only a conduit for information collected by Israel’s Mossad and used to discredit Nixon,” and that Nixon’s attempt to reassess U.S. relations with Israel was “the catalyst that led directly to his downfall..”
There is, in fact, evidence that the enigmatic source “Deep Throat” was, at the least, an indirect operative of Israel’s Mossad. In her book, Katharine the Great, a critical biography of Katharine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post, Jewish-American journalist Debra Davis has almost certainly provided the real key to Watergate.
Miss Davis presents a solid case that the Post’s famed Watergate source - ”Deep Throat” - was most likely Richard Ober, the right-hand man of James Angleton, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief and longtime and Israeli-allied liaison to the Mossad.
Miss Davis revealed that Ober was in charge of a joint CIA-Israeli counterintelligence desk established by Angleton inside the Nixon White House.
From this listening post, Ober (at Angleton’s direction) provided inside information about Watergate that helped bring down the Nixon administration.
So despite all that you - and the American people - have heard from the major media about Watergate, this information is not something that is in widespread distribution. Suffice it to say, based on what we have discussed here today, I think you understand why.
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Ever heard of Mark Felt. AKA deep throat. If so, your theory falls apart.
Great theory and all. If I can remember, Yom Kipper war broke out at the time the hearings were beginning. Angleton was a master crowd manipulator. His favorite saying was "deception is a state of the mind and a mind of the state." But I thought Mark Felt was the confirmed "deep throat", pissed off he was passed over. (no pun intended) lol
In 2005 Mark Felt revealed to Vanity Fair magazine that, during his tenure as associate director of the FBI, he had been the source for Woodward and Bernstein known as deep throat. Woodward confirmed this fact in his book The Secret Man.
I lived through Watergate.
Nixon's biggest flaw was that he was not handy with gadgets in any way shape or form. Even the seat controls on Air Force One for his chair he had to have his aids adjust it. If you are going to "secretly" tape conversations, DON'T have anyone set up the taping system. Put a Lloyd's or Panasonic in your desk drawer and keep the desk drawer open slightly so the microphone can pick everything up. I think the max for a cassette tape per side back then was 60 minutes. Fine, keep taped meetings short and sweet. And if anyone ever found out there was a recorder in a worst case, just say it was for making audio dictations and entries to be used for his memoirs one day. Make some tapes with typical day to day stuff to keep for appearance sake and chuck the "hot" ones if things started to hit the fan.
His biggest flaw? Egads, man.
53.00 What happened with the Republican Party since 1973?
Judgement or judgment ?
I remember when this was going on. I was in high school at the time and I knew it was historic and all that but just too damn boring to me to sit through. So I didn’t watch much of it but still had a pretty good idea of what was happening because of the coverage it got.
I see what you did. You cropped off the logo from this video and uploaded it seperate. Fun.
Cool midnight 🕛 viewing 😂🎉
Grandstanding politicians
"Self seeking?" WTF?
No whitewash at the whitehouse lol
John Dean the saviour
You have to be pretty naive to take politicians’ questions as sincere and at face value
What judgment are they done.......
Three words. 'Guess who's next?'.
When you find out how exactly Miss Hunt Lost her life, will let you know exactly what's capable of taking place in America when most of you happen to be sleeping.
Dean’s statement he read seemed very self serving. Take with grain of salt
What if they would have gotten away with it ??? What then.🤔📝 exactly what 🌐
Grasshopper plays guitar What things did they do that we don’t know about.
Nixon would have been reelected anyway. There was no need for the break-in
PBS Video Index: 2m23s = 2:16
My faith in this doc is broken! ;)
Jeb Stuart Magruder, testifying at 25:00, has a passing resemblance to Ted Bundy.
They're all crooks. Always have been. Always will be. Both😊parties. Both houses. It'll never change. All power corrupts.
Dean planned to return the money? LOL
They say they were "impartial " but I don't know..
I was 5 years old.
Nixon 2024
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Luckily, we've learned our lesson. No President would commit such level of crimes as to indicted today.
So much pipe smoking 😂
Such BS and grandstanding
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49:50
Witch hunt! I remember seeing some of these hearings on TV even though I was a kid. They interrupted every show I watched. From "Sesame St. " to Mr Rogers, etc, they were boring at the time, but years later, when I saw them again, they were interesting. It was a witch-hunt. Sam Ervin was a Segregationist.
Witch hunt. Let us try to guess: You follow #45's Tweets, correct?
Who were the innocent people convicted of any crime, please do tell??? You are cracked!
same here. I was 2 at the time and remember yelling "witch hunt"impeach him, impeach him at the console tv. Guess i just had an astonishingly impeccable vocabulary thats all.
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:-( can't hear it over my knittinbg needles
Very bias production.
More likely you are a biased person that is not willing to accept the findings and - later - the confessions that came right out of Nixon's mouth. At lest they should silnece you for ever.
@@ThomasKossatz Nixon did nothing wrong lol