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Reel opens - Summer of Judgment 1973
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| 00:58:40 6.38 |
Journalist and host of the film, Charles McDowell, speaking from the empty Senate Caucus Room into the camera. He talks about the Watergate Committee Hearings thus far and John Dean's testimony.
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| 00:59:04 30 |
Pan out from a B&W photo still of the Watergate Senate Committee in Senator Ervin's office.
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| 00:59:16 42.18 |
Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. speaks from his porch to McDowell unseen about his phone call to President Nixon to ask for his cooperation.
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| 00:59:50 76.51 |
Republican Senator Howard Baker (ranking minority member of Watergate Committee) speaks to the press.
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| 00:59:58 84.3 |
Talking head, Watergate Committee Investigator, Scott Armstrong, speaks to unseen reporter about John Dean's testimony, and other miscellaneous White House employee's stories.
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| 01:00:29 115.78 |
Z'in on the Watergate Committee members at the long table strewn with papers in the Senate Caucus Room. Photographers seen taking photos
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| 01:00:34 119.98 |
Richard Moore, White House Aide, testifies at the Watergate Committee Hearings on Friday, July 13, 1973
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| 01:00:44 130.41 |
Scott Armstrong talks to unseen interviewer about Alexander Butterfield's (Deputy Assistant to Nixon) testimony about a White House document plus a recording that contained Presidential conversations.
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| 01:01:44 190.46 |
Fred D. Thompson, Former Minority Counsel, talking from his office to unseen reporter reminiscing about a private conversation he had with Don Sanders, a key figure in the investigation, where Sanders verified that everything in the Oval Office is on tape. A big revelation that would have a great impact on the investigation.
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| 01:02:37 243.2 |
Sam Dash, Former Chief Counsel speaks with unseen interviewer regarding the investigation and the realization that Nixon recorded all his conversations. A huge revelation. The most remarkable evidence they could get at the time.
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| 01:04:25 350.99 |
B&W photo still Fred D. Thompson on the phone.
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| 01:04:55 381.68 |
WS Senate Watergate Commmittee members at conference table in the Senate Caucus Room, July 1973. pan the room, reveals Alexander Butterfield (Administrator of the FAA and Deputy Assistant to Nixon) with right arm raised taking the Oath at the Witness table.
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| 01:05:23 408.89 |
CU Alexander Butterfield speaking into mics from witness table, introduces himself and footage of his testimony mainly about the listening devices in the Oval Office of the President.
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| 01:05:32 417.85 |
Sam Dash at Senate Committee table in the conference room
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| 01:05:46 432.34 |
Fred Thompson and Senator Baker and another Senator at the conference table questioning Butterfield.
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| 01:06:10 455.98 |
Senator Ervin and Sam Dash leans over to speak with him. Ervin asks about the tapes, but the President would not release them citing "Executive Privilege" (states the unseen narrator). Ervin gives a moving speech and announces there would be a subpoena on the President for release of the tapes. WS - Committee members raise their hands in agreement.
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| 01:07:39 545.22 |
Time Magazine with mangled audio tape on the cover of Time Magazine entitled "The Nixon Tapes" "Playback Wanted".
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| 01:07:48 553.86 |
Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ervin announces there was no precedent for the litigation (taking the President to court). He stated they needed to decide whether the President was above the law...
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| 01:08:37 603.74 |
A member of the Senate Watergate Comittee, Senator Inouye from Hawaii speaks with unseen interviewer about the incriminating tapes and state if they weren't the President would have happily released them.
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| 01:08:53 619 |
Fred Thompson continues speaking with unseen interviewer about the tapes.
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| 01:09:00 625.88 |
B&W still photo shot through glass door looking into the President's office - Nixon can barely be seen with his feet up on his desk.
Z'in from there to CU on still shot of President Nixon staring out and looking contemplative and not too happy |
| 01:09:08 634.2 |
Journalist Charles McDowell sums up thus far, pressure on Nixon increased, and the Committee moved on to John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman
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| 01:09:37 663.3 |
Color still photo John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman
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| 01:09:49 675.58 |
Color still photo Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon riding in a convertible during his campaign, crowds of people on the sidelines and Nixon Now posters
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Specialty CollectionThis reel is currently not available for online viewing.
Year: 1973-1974
Color: Color
Genre: NIXON
Description: Nixon's Watergate Impeachment - Senate Watergate Committee Hearings - Part 2 Interviews, opinions, and reviews of what happened from the folk involved with hearings and the investigations - 10 years later.
Keywords: 1973
