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Reel opens - Summer of Judgment 1973-74, Watergate Hearings and Nixon's Impeachment
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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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Pan out from a B&W photo still of the Watergate Senate Committee in Senator Ervin's office.
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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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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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Fred Thompson and Senator Baker and another Senator at the conference table questioning Butterfield.
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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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Time Magazine with mangled audio tape on the cover of Time Magazine entitled "The Nixon Tapes" "Playback Wanted".
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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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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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Fred Thompson continues speaking with unseen interviewer about the tapes.
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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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Z'in Exterior - White House
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Pan across color photo still John Ehrlichman with President Nixon in the White House sitting across each other at a conference table
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| 01:10:05 691.69 |
Various photo stills 1973 - John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, President Richard Nixon - shots in the White House, Ehrlichman's arrest surrounded by media, Ehrlichman with a grey beard - photos of him in the 1980's
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Cutaway to live footage at the Watergate Hearings. John Ehrlichman at the witness table, Sam Dash questioning him.
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| 01:12:59 864.83 |
WS of the Senate Caucus room, the conference table with Committee members seated, media kneeling or sitting on the in front of the table
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| 01:13:02 868.08 |
CU John Ehrlichman's face.
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| 01:13:04 870.47 |
Chairman of the Watergate Committee, Senator Sam Ervin questioning Ehrlichman at the hearing.
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| 01:15:26 1012.68 |
Senator Ervin at home on his porch speaking with unseen interviewer (10 years later) about the Watergate burglary.
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Watergate Committee member, Senator Herman Talmadge (Democrat-GA), questioning John Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman responding.
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Pan across the very crowded Senate Caucus room, July 1973, during the Hearing.
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| 01:16:51 1097.37 |
Footage from the Hearing - Chairman (Senator) Ervin, and Counsel - Sam Dash sitting next to him, making a point, bringing levity to the situation and a bit of laughter from the audience, including John Ehrlichman.
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| 01:17:44 1150.57 |
Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr. questioning John Ehrlichman.
John Ehrlichman testifies. |
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Slow pan the audience in the crowded Senate Caucus room during the hearing
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| 01:20:00 1286.29 |
Watergate Committee member, Senator Daniel K. Inouye from Hawaii, questions John Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman answers confirming he believes his actions were legal and ethical.
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Slow pan the Committee conference table, member seated with mics and papers on the table. Media is seen kneeling or sitting on the floor in front of the table.
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Z'in on Fred Thompson, Minority Counsel, apologizing to Ehrlichman for the 'testy' treatment he received during questioning.
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Fred Thompson, at his desk in his office, speaking with an unseen interviewer 10 years after the hearings.
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| 01:21:17 1363.31 |
Committee member, Senator Howard Baker.
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John Ehrlichman sums up his testimony and comments on the testimony from White House Aid. Gordon Strong..
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| 01:22:06 1412.09 |
Back with Journalist and Host of the film, Charles McDowell, seated in the empty Senate Caucus room. He introduces next segment regarding Bob Haldeman's testimony.
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Various B&W photo stills Bob Haldeman (Former White House Chief of Staff) - sitting with President Nixon in the White House amongst huge piles of papers; with John Ehrlichman, Henry Kissinger and others, flying with other dignitaries in Air Force One, outside Federal Prison Camp Administration Building. And years later seen with his wife.
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Footage at the Watergate hearings, Bob Haldeman with his right arm raised being sworn in.
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Seated at the witness table, Haldeman testifies at the hearing.
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WS Watergate Committee members, Senator Ervin, Sam Dash, Senator Baker and Senator Inouye at the conference table.
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CU Bob Haldeman testifying at the Watergate Committee Hearings, July 1973
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| 01:24:52 1578.62 |
Hand drawn B&W cartoon rendering of Nixon and Haldeman holding a briefcase of "tapes to take home" with the caption, "Not at All - It's a Privilege"
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Senator Daniel K. Inouye (Democrat Hawaii) questioning Bob Haldeman at the hearing about the tapes. Haldeman testifies that when he took the tapes home to listen to them, the existence of the secret tapes was unknown to other than a limited number of people.
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| 01:26:03 1649.55 |
Senator Ervin speaking with unseen interviewer from the porch of his home several years later. He talks about the tapes and how President Nixon allowed Haldeman listen to them, but not the Committee aka the American people
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| 01:27:59 1765.51 |
Committee members at the conference table, Senator Lowell Weicker, Senator Ervin and legal counsel Sam Dash. Papers strewn about across the table.
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| 01:28:05 1770.87 |
Fred Thompson in his office sitting at his desk and talking to unseen interviewer years later about the mistake Nixon made by giving the tapes to Haldeman.
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CU Senator Howard Baker questioning Haldeman. Haldeman seen at witness table with his attorney leafing through his notes.
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| 01:30:27 1913.66 |
Footage of Haldeman conferring with his lawyers seated beside and behind him at the witness table.
Unseen narrator states Haldeman testified for three days and throughout the pressure by the committee, protected the President. |
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CU H.R. Haldeman's face looking serious and stern.
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| 01:31:28 1974.3 |
Senator Lowell Weicker questioning Haldeman at the hearing.
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Years later, Senator Weicker talking with unseen interviewer about his intense questioning of Haldeman.
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| 01:32:18 2024.78 |
Journalist McDowell talks to camera from the empty Senate Caucus room seated at the conference table. He gives an opening review of the next segment of the hearings.
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| 01:33:04 2070.32 |
Wide shot of the Seanate Caucus Room - Watergate Committee members are seen seated at the conference table, the witness table is seen, media and other folk in the room.
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| 01:33:07 2073.64 |
Footage at the hearing of the testimony of Attorney Donald Segretti who was a Campaign Aide on Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President. He is seen describing his meeting with Dwight Chapin, a Deputy Assistant to Richard Nixon where they talked about acting in secrecy so that there would be no trace to the White House. Chapin also had asked Segretti to spend his time in terms of his political activities on Senator Muskie.
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| 01:34:06 2132.54 |
Terry F. Lenzner, Former Assistant Chief Counsel to the Committee speaking with an unseen interviewer about Segretti's testimony and their attempt to subvert and infiltrate candidates for President.
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| 01:34:18 2144.74 |
Donald Segretti at the witness table with his attorney. Tilt down CU on open pages of paperwork. Segretti and attorney leafing through paperwork on the desk in front of them as Senator Inouye unseen points out the false letters they sent out on Mr. Muskie's campaign stationery.
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tilt down on the papers, false letters, that Senator Inouye questions Segretti about. Inouye, unseen, points out a particular letter which had accused Senator Jackson and Humphrey of sexual misconduct.
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Donald Segretti at the witness table admits and apologizes for the vicious letters that were sent. CU Senator Inouye
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CU Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. questions Donald Segretti at the Hearing. CU on Segretti where he states "pranks" or anything of the like do not belong in the American political system. Ervin pressures and cross examines.
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Senator Inouye (Hawaii) years later speaking with unseen interviewer states that it is "no political prank"... "to steal letterheads of some candidate and type scurrilous statements about a senator's alleged sexual deficiencies and send those letters out as though it was sent out by the person whose name appeared on the letterhead". He states that he can understand political pranks but that these letters were a commission of crime.
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| 01:37:12 2318.02 |
Cutaway to int. shot of the crowded Senate Caucus room. Senate Committee conference table partially seen.
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Hands holding up poster reads, "Help Muskie Support Bussing More Children Now."
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CU hands holding and gesturing over an article close to mics, article headline partially obscured. "....in a plot to sabotage McGovern"
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Witness Martin Kelly (a Segretti 'recruit) testifies from the witness stand talking into mics. Pan from behind the Committee conference table toward the witness table. He admits to the Committee that he was aware some of his activities were not legal, but couldn't get out of it as he was "in a hole too deep".
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Kelly testifies and gives details about the allegation by the Committee that he intended to parade a nude woman past Muskie headquarters and she was to shout, "Muskie I love You". His testimony brings laughter from the audience.
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Another witness, Robert Benz, testifies from the witness table. His attorney Delbert McClaughlin seated next to him and are seen conferring as Watergate Committee Chairman Senator Ervin challenges Banz' testimony. In turn, Benz challenges Senator Ervin about an accused "stolen election" in 1960.
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| 01:40:13 2498.79 |
Back with Journalist and Host Charles McDowell talking into camera sums up the hearings thus far. The hearings at this point were winding down, the President's part in Watergate became the central issue, and talk of impeachment was in the air.
He states that the hearings had provided the most compelling view of a political scandal in American history. And responsibility in the case had moved to the Judiciary Committee in the House - they used the evidence from the hearings and their own to determine whether Nixon would be impeached. |
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Late July, 1974: WS Congress (the House Judiciary Committee) seated on a dais at the United States Capitol. At this point, the Judiciary Committee makes their last arguments after six months of hearings, testimony. Decision time and turning point.
CU Representative Peter Rodino, Jr. (Democrat New Jersey) speaks into mics about the possible impeachment of President Nixon. |
| 01:42:28 2634.29 |
CU House Representative Charles Wiggins (Republican California) speaks into camera. Narrator, unseen states, states Wiggins and other Republicans felt the Dems were moving too fast and not giving enough attention to the evidence.
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Pan seated Congress members of the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. Capitol
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| 01:43:15 2680.94 |
CU Representative Paul Sarbanes (Democrat Maryland) holding up a document , the U.S. Constitution, as he speaks to Congress and audience members about ending the abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
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Representative M. Caldwell Butler, Republican Virginia, states his opinion in anger and sadness. He states if they fail to impeach they would be condoning a course of conduct inconsistent with the reasonable expectations of the American people.
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Representative Walter Flowers, Democrat - Alabama, states his case for impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
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Representative Barbara Jordan, Democrat - Texas talks about her faith in the Constitution.
Shots of the audience looking on increduously, some with hands to their mouths. |
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Representative James R. Mann, Democrat - South Carolina. Mann talks to about accountability.
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WS members of the House Judiciary Committee seated on the dais at the U.S. Capitol.
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The House Judiciary Committee states their vote for impeachment - one by one each member's name is called out and they verbally casts their vote.
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The counted votes from the Judiciary Committee are announced, 27 voted ay, 11 members no. Representative Rodino hits his gavel and announces that Article One Resolution had been adopted and would be reported to the House
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| 01:47:31 2936.82 |
New York Times headlines, July 1974 - Nixon Must Surrender Tapes, Supreme Court Rules, 8 to 0; He Pledges Full Compliance
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| 01:47:35 2941.55 |
CU Huge headlines from The Daily News - Nixon Admits 'Omissions'
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Fast aerial pan across Washington D.C. pan stops at the White House.
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| 01:47:50 2956.1 |
Footage members of Congress, friends of Nixon's, surrounded by people, mics pointed at them.
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| 01:47:57 2962.89 |
Chicago Tribune newspaper headlines: "Impeachment sure, Nixon admits; support crumbles."
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| 01:48:01 2967.1 |
Footage August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announcing his resignation to the American people and that VIce President Ford would be sworn in as President...
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| 01:48:21 2987.28 |
Nixon and his wife seen walking through a crowd and past the podium.
Historic footage of Nixon speaking to his staff for the last time - as his family stands stoically nearby. |
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President Nixon, Pat Nixon, Vice President Ford and Mrs Ford walking arm and arm across a lawn on a red carpet.
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| 01:49:11 3037.53 |
Nixon filmed walking up the stairs onto the plane stops at the top and waves to the American people. Military officers are seen.
CU Vice President Ford and Mrs. Ford standing in a crowd of people. |
| 01:49:17 3043.2 |
Vice President Gerald Ford, right arm raised, is sworn in as 38th President of the United States. Mrs. Pat Nixon looking on. Audience applause.
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| 01:49:25 3050.9 |
Journalist and Host Charles McDowell introduces and welcomes, Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow from the Brookings Institution, political scientist, and writer of a biography of Richard Nixon before Watergate, and had worked in the 1969 Nixon White House.
McDowell cuts to a clip of Hess from 10 years ago. |
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Footage of Stephen Hess on television, 1973, during a TV interview.
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| 01:51:01 3146.89 |
Hess talks with McDowell about his experience listening to the Hearings in the '70's and how he couldn't handle what he was hearing at the time, it gave him nightmares, as he knew Nixon personally for many years. Hess goes on talking about Nixon and what he knew about him.
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| 01:55:08 3394.57 |
McDowell seated alone at an empty conference table in the Senate Caucus room sums things up by stating "....no record of another instance when so many illegal things were done in such a concerted, coordinated way"...
He states among other things in his summation, that there was a clear response to Watergate from the American people, Congress and the Courts - and this we should be proud of . |
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End Reel - Summer of Judgement 1973-1974, Watergate Hearings and Nixon's Impeachment.
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Year: 1973-1974
Color: Color
Genre: NIXON
Description: Nixon's Watergate Impeachment - Senate Watergate Committee Hearings - Part 2 Footage from the Hearings, testimony from John Ehrlichman and H.R. Bob Haldeman, interviews, opinions from the Committee and members of Congress, and reviews of what happened from the folk involved with hearings and the investigations - 10 years later.
Keywords: 1973
