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H Richard, Bill House Nixon do solemnly swear.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another.

The message won him the White House, but by a narrow margin.

Next up, for them the moon.

This has to be the proudest day of our lives.

Kennedy went into court today and pleaded guilted.

The left needed something to muddy up the man from the Orblinda.

Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light.

The Pentagon paper story would become a turning point in American politics.

Well, it's a re reasonable action on the part of the backer to put it out.

Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.

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We're at part five of our series of episodes entitled The Fighter.

You've probably heard part four, but if you haven't, stopped and go back and listen from the beginning.

We're looking for the answer to the question, why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.

So to pick up where we left off, on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, the New York Times published a bombshell story.

The report cited top secret documents that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, and it was a brutal indictment of both JFK and lbj's Vietnam War actions.

The article claimed that the two Democrat presidents lied about why the United States was involved in the Vietnam War by publishing the classified documents.

Nixon's then Attorney General, John Mitchell believed the Times violated the Espionage Act and that it was the government's obligation to enforce it.

After some hesitance in much debate, Richard Nixon gave the go ahead for Mitchell to send a legal notice to The New York Times to demand they stop further publishing of the documents.

The Pentagon Papers did not in any way implicate Nixon, but in the eyes of the Nixon administration, America could not have an orderly government if such highly classified material could be stolen then made available to the press.

The Nixon team were on to something.

If there were no repercussions for the publication of the Pentagon Papers, it would create a novel line of attack on the White House.

In essence, it would give a new power to unelected officials deep within the federal government.

This is clearly seen in the origin of the leak's documents.

The Pentagon Papers were originally commissioned in nineteen sixty seven by President Lyndon B.

Johnson's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

LBJ believed that the Pentagon Papers were initially created as a weapon to attack his presidency and in the process helped McNamara's close friend Robert F.

Kennedy, who was preparing to challenge LBJ for the Democrat nomination.

And there's plenty of evidence to support this claim.

In the early days of Vietnam, Secretary McNamara was one of the leading proponents of America's involvement in the war.

We believe this essential to help safeguard the freedom of South Vietnam and to save the lives of those South Mcnamese.

Americans, Australians and Zealanders, and Koreans were fighting to ensure that freedom.

The LBJ administration believed that of South Korea fell, the entire region would fall to communism, to be known as the domino theory, the belief that if a critical country fell to tyranny, the surrounding regions would fall as well.

The theory made sense at the time the memory of World War II was still fresh and Western leaders witnessed how the Knatzi started a domino effect throughout Europe after taking over Berlin.

In fact, the State Department in the early nineteen sixties referred to the Vietnam area as the Asian Berlin.

Macnamara was a subscriber to this belief, but by the fall of nineteen sixty six, while retaining his belief in this theory, macnamara began coming to the conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable and at the same time was igniting violence throughout America.

Adding to his concerns, many of the intellectuals and academics that McNamara respected were also turning on the war, so he tried to convince LBJ to abandon the goal of victory and instead attempt to persuade North Vietnam that the two were at a stalemate, better to call a mutual ceasefire than continue the bloodshed, but lb JAY rejected the idea.

It wasn't long until the president's inner circle began to isolate McNamara.

As time went on, he became more and more distraught with lbj's Vietnam policies.

He contemplated resigning, but would eventually opt for a different route.

McNamara's closest friend, Senator Robert F.

Kennedy, was becoming one of the war's biggest critics, and in nineteen sixty six, the two began venting to each other about the conflict.

Kennedy griped about how the country was being torn apart, and McNamara confided that the war was not going well.

Possibly sensing McNamara's impending resignation, Robert F.

Kennedy reportedly asked McNamara to leave behind a record of the Johnson administration's Vietnam decision making process before his departure.

In November nineteen sixty six, McNamara reportedly received the same suggestion by the faculty at the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University.

An idea began to take root.

The idea to create a study that would trace the history of the United States involvement in Vietnam, and it was planted by the anti war set within the establishment.

In June nineteen sixty seven, McNamara decided to commission a report, but notably, he didn't seek President Johnson's authorization to create the study.

In fact, he kept it concealed from LBJ.

To create the study, macnamara avoided the team within the Department of Defense that were responsible for handling historical records.

Instead, he put together a separate team.

The consensus on the final Pentagon papers is that the documents are an indictment against American involvement in Vietnam.

It was a harshly anti war document, but at the time there were very few at the Pentagon or the State Department that were outright against the war, and they appeared to align with the American people.

The media had a love affair with the anti war radicals on college campuses, but throughout America there was a silent majority that wanted to win the Vietnam War.

Right now, we can't back out because we never lost the war anything in our lives, Americans.

If we back out of Vietnam right now, the via Warren Bangkok, maybe six seven months later.

And I'm back to president.

The reason is that I think that they are on the way to making peace, certainly not the beatnicks around the streets.

And he's right when he said US anarchy when they allow this sort of thing to happen.

I believe very strong that as long as we are there, we'll have to fight them win.

That's all.

So for the report to have ended up with its anti war slant, the team had to have been carefully selected, and it was.

McNamara eventually appointed a man named Leslie Gelb to lead the day to day of the study, and he directed Gelb to keep it secret.

Gelb was a thirty year old Ivy League grad PhD who had recently been an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University.

He was cut from the same cloth as the intellectuals that were vehemently opposed to the war at the time.

Gelb was the director of paulice he Planning at the Pentagon and had become strongly opposed to American involvement in Vietnam.

I wish I had turned against the war much sooner.

That's Leslie Gelban a twenty eighteen interview.

But eventually I did, and then I spent several years in my life fighting against the Nixon policy and for the early end of the war.

As the director of the study, Gelb put together a small team of analysts and promised them anonymity.

The project was launched when Secretary McNamara gave Gelb a place to start.

We got a list from McNamara of one hundred questions.

Questions like has bombing been effective?

The kind of questions at Pentagon Press Secretary would field in a briefing.

Most of the topics didn't inspire Gelb, but there was a small subgroup of questions that caught his eye.

Eight of the hundred questions were historical, and I was given six people to work on this these questions, and we were given two months to get them done.

We decided, well, you know, it might be interesting if we could look back into the files and maybe give more in depth answers to the questions we had been answering more or less from our daily experience, and inevitably you had to dip back into the history.

We wrote up a list of about twenty Summard monographs.

Monographs are short essays.

Then Gil wrote a memo to McNamara, presenting the essays as the potential format for the study.

I sent the memo to McNamara and he wrote on that memo, Okay, let it be encyclopedic and let the chips fall where they may.

But we were still enjoined from telling people about it.

McNamara continued to keep the study secret.

He hid it from lbj's entire inner circle.

So the report was destined to be one cited.

It wouldn't include any executive branch insight or documents because they couldn't ask the White House for access without tipping them off.

With no White House feedback, the report could not illuminate the why to its decision making.

Therefore, the Pentagon Papers would not be a definitive history.

It would be a document filtered through the minds of the unelected anti war leadership conducting the study.

The project started in June nineteen sixty seven.

Two of the analysts would later confess that they had the impression that they were writing campaign documents for Robert F.

Kennedy's use in the nineteen sixty eight primary.

McNamara would eventually leave the Department of Defense in February nineteen sixty eight.

A few weeks later, LBJ announced he would not be seeking a second term.

A couple months after that, RFK was killed.

The document could no longer benefit the presidential hopeful or hurt lbj's re election prospects, but it could affect a future administration's Vietnam policies.

Work on the study went on.

Clark Clifford would eventually replace Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense.

The director of the study, Leslie Gelb, was initially suspicious of Clifford.

We thought Clifford was sent to the Pentagon by Johnson to sit on people like us who had begun to ask questions about the war that the White House didn't like.

Clark Clifford sensed this right away and laughed and said, you know, realize I've been against this for since nineteen sixty five, just as.

The Nixon administration would later claim the entire project was being led by peace Nicks within the Pentagon.

Sure, it was a whole study that was done for McNamara and then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford and the Peacenicks over there.

When the study was officially completed in early nineteen sixty nine, it did not follow the type of protocol that signals objectivity.

It wasn't circulated for review by the Pentagon's top officials.

No one from the State Department, the CIA, the National Security Council, the National Security Agency, or the White House received a copy for review.

The project was simply designated as complete by Leslie Gell in early nineteen sixty nine, just days before Nixon's inauguration.

Only a few copies of the study were distributed, none to President Johnson or his inner circle.

The director of the study, Gelb, and two other high level leaders, were concerned that the seven thousand page report would be deep sixth so they kept personal copies in the top secret safe in the Washington offices of the Rand Corporation.

The finished document was chalk full of classified material, so the three agreed that they would not give access to anyone unless two out of the three of them agreed.

But then on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, it became obvious that someone did in fact get access to the documents.

The New York Times began publishing top secret sensitive details and documents from forty seven volumes that comprised the history of the US decision making process on Vietnam policy, better known as the Pentagon Papers.

By the following evening, Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell already had a potential name for the leaker.

We've got some information we've developed as to where these copies are and who they're likely to have leaked them in A prime suspect.

According to your friend Rossdell, you're quoting as a gentleman by name of Ellsberg, who as a left winger that's now with the Rand Corporation, who also have a set of these documents.

Daniel Ellsberg was a former Pentagon analyst whose friend circle included socialist intellectuals Nom Chomsky and Howard Zen.

Initially a supporter of the war, Elsburg grew sour on the conflict.

He'd eventually be asked to work on the Pentagon Study, led by Leslie Gelb.

Ellsberg distrusted President Nixon.

Despite the fact that Nixon was massively reducing troops and canceling draft calls for the end of nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg believed Nixon really meant to escalate the war, so in October nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg began smuggling the Pentagon Study out of the safe at the Rand Corporation.

He then secretly made copies of the study to leak to the public.

He first began quietly divulging portions of the Pentagon papers to the war's biggest critics in Congress.

Elsburg took the angle that the papers showed both JFK and LBJ lied to the public about their intentions in Vietnam.

He argued that Nixon was doing the same.

The document could be used to initiate investigations into the president's actions.

The director of the study, Leslie Gelb, later reflected on what Elsburg was up to.

Elsberg created the myth that what the papers show was that it all was a bunch of.

Liwes, and gel would know he was the director of the study.

Gel believed the Pentagon papers showed some lying, but that was nothing unique.

What he believed the documents really showed was that the JFK and LBJ administrations believed in the mission of the war but had no idea how to win.

However, Daniel Ellsberg started creating a different narrative, and there was a likely reason for his approach.

Elsberg had an anti Nixon objective.

He was using the Pentagon papers as a weapon to raise doubts on President Nixon's intentions.

If Elsberg could sell his narrative, he'd create a new line of attack against a president.

Unelected officials deep within the infrastructure of the federal government could shift public opinion against White House policy.

Elsberg provided portions of the Pentagon Papers to the anti war politicians, hoping they'd make them public, but they didn't, so in March nineteen seventy one, Elsberg allegedly leaked the entire top secret document to a New York Times reporter.

This was an unprecedented move.

At the time.

Americans frowned on leakers.

The public's reference point was Alger Hisss's classified Pumpkin Papers.

Espionage leakers of top secret documents were villains.

Elsberg was attempting to be the hero, and the leak broke precedent in another way as well.

Publishing the Pentagon Papers appeared to break a federal statute.

All I knew was they had a bunch of classified papers.

And the question for me is a lawyer, there is can you publish classified papers?

That's James Goodale, New York Times General Counsel at the time, reflecting on the newspaper's dilemma.

The law here is a statue called the Espiona jack and if you read it and stretched it and pushed it, it was possible to apply it to the publication of the Pentagon papers.

Several of the editors didn't think The Times should publish the documents.

They thought it hurt national security.

The Times debated the decision for three months, but ultimately they decided to publish them.

The unprecedented leak would eventually shock Nixon.

In the wake of the leak, Nixon spoke with his national security advisor Henry Kissinger, recalling a conversation they'd had a few days earlier.

Boy, you're right about one thing.

If anything was needed to underline what we talked about Friday or Saturday morning, about really cleaning house when we have the opportunity, By God, this underlines it.

Oh yea.

And people have got to be put to the torch for this sort of thing.

This is terrible.

Nixon's team was beginning to see the implications of the situation.

Government could not function if leaks of top secret documents were permitted, especially in a lopsided town like Washington, d C.

When Nixon was elected in nineteen sixty eight, Washington, d C.

Voted nearly eighty two percent for his Democrat Establishment opponent, Herbert Humphrey.

The media at the time was largely liberal and anti Nixon.

If a process were set up were Democrats within the federal government were allowed to leak classified materials to a near universally liberal leaning media, a Republican president would find it nearly impossible to govern.

President Nixon gave his Attorney General John Mitchell the ok to send The New York Times a legal notice.

In it, Mitchell demanded that they stop publishing the top secret material and return all of the documents to the Justice Department.

If the newspaper didn't, the Justice Department would seek an injunction forcing them to comply.

The newspaper quickly responded, stating, quote.

The Times must respectfully decline the request of the Attorney General, believing that it is in the interest of the people of this country to be informed of the material contained in this series of articles.

The next day, the Times published part three of the series.

Before the day's end, the court put a halt to further publications.

A federal court has ordered the New York Times to stop publication temporarily.

The government asked for and got an injunction against the Times.

The New York Times complied with the injunction, canceling its report scheduled to publish the next day.

The Time said what was revealed had to be revealed, that people have the right to know.

The newspaper's publisher vowed to fight the injunction.

Newspapers, I think, as our editorial said this morning, were really a part of history that should have been made available considerably longer ago.

And I didn't dealer with any any breach of national security in the sense that we were giving secrets to the enemy.

But of course by publishing the one sided Pentagon papers, the outlet was impacting national security.

The New York Times was signaling to the Viet Cong that American leaders were losing their resolve.

Nix invented to an advisor about the Times position, that was.

Really what alcher his did.

You says, right, He put himself on a higher pedestal and said, well, the Russians are entitled to know this, and he passed the information, and The New York Times dessently was among the papers that supported him.

And that's right now.

The point is that here.

What The Times has done is placed itself above the law.

They say the law provides us, but we consider this an immoral war.

It's irresponsible to panic.

No, God Dammach, you can't have that thing in a free country.

As the media frenzy continued, Nixon's Secretary of State William P.

Rogers, publicly addressed the administration's reasoning for seeking the injunction.

The law clearly provides that secret documents and top secret documents should not become public until they he classify.

Secondly, from my standpoint, it's going to cause a great deal of difficulty with foreign government.

And if government can't deal with us in any degree of confidentiality, it's going to be a very serious matter.

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The Pentagon Papers led every nightly news program for two weeks, and just as the administration feared, the Democrats and the media used it to attack President Nixon.

In their view, if the two previous administrations lied to get America into a war, what's to say Nixon wasn't lying about getting America out.

The existence of these documents and the fact that they said one thing and the people were led to believe something else is the reason we have a credibility gap today and the reason people don't believe their government.

This is the same thing that's been going on over the last two and a half years of this administration.

There's a difference between what the president says and what the government actually does.

They were following Daniel Elsberg's narrative.

To a t.

Behind the scenes, Ellsberg was covertly fighting against the injunction.

With the New York Times on hold, he decided to get the documents to the Washington Post.

The Post picked up where the New York Times left off, publishing additional stories based on the Pentagon papers, but as quickly as they started, the Federal Court of Appeals issued an injunction on the Post as well.

Attorney General John Mitchell responded to the News.

He subscribed to the Bill of Rights, but they are not absolute in any circumstance.

It looked like the newspapers were going to be stopped in their tracks, but then the Pentagon papers leaker began to get bolder.

My name has now come out as the possible source of the time as Pentagon documents.

It is that of Daniel Ellsberg, forty years old, one time marine, later a top policy analyst for the Defense and State departments during the Vietnam build up, and now our researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At a secret location, Ellsburg was interviewed by Walter Cronkite, who'd openly began a campaign against the Vietnam War.

The Narrative Machine went to work to humanize the leaker.

To the administration's surprise, the media was giving Elsberg the martyr treatment.

And that's because the media weren't just anti war, they were anti Nixon.

This was a cause that media could all get behind.

They could come together to defeat the anti communist from yor Belinda.

With both the Times and the Post on hold, Elsburg decided to flood the zone.

He gave portions of the Pentagon Papers to the Chicago Sun Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press, the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, and others.

In total, he planted the classified documents with reportedly seventeen organizations.

The outlets began running their own articles.

The media picked aside and it was against the man who took down Algerhiss with the classified documents hid in a pumpkin.

In fact, the Pentagon Papers got their name from the Pumpkin Papers.

It was kind of a middle finger to Nixon.

President Nixon vehemently believed the leak of the documents jeopardized forever the orderly function of government, so he began to rally the troops within the administration to take down the leaker.

I told Holoman to day, and I also told the cabinet, and I told Mitchello, We're going to fight all out in this thing.

While with the point is that the Elsburg case, however it comes out, is going to get all through this government among the intellectual types and the people.

That have no loyalties, the idea that they.

Will be the ones that will determine what's good for this country.

That's right, Adlam that they weren't elected and they're not going to determine it that way.

I just say that we've got to keep our eye on the main ball, the main balls, Elsberg.

We got to get this son of a bench.

We can't be in a possession of ever allowing it just because some guys are going to be a martyr of allowing a follow to get away with this kind of wholesale devers or otherwise it's going to happen all over the government.

Nixon even attempted to bring the Liberals into the fold.

He argued to Democrat Congressman Wilbur Mills the importance of punishing Daniel Ellsberg for the leak.

This whole business of the way they're handling this, these secret papers and stories, and the way too that Johnson's people are rating on him, and it's just unconscionable, you know, I, you know, I had my differences as a basically with Johnson on a political basis, but dammit, he's a former president of the United States.

This son of a bitch Ellsberg.

He's a left winger who apparently carried all these papers out.

He's much further left than mc namara was on the thing.

And then what the papers are printing are his views about Johnson.

Of course, we're getting people saying we're trying to cover up.

Hell, we're not trying to cover up.

We got nothing to cover up.

This doesn't involve us, and involved Johnson and Kennedy of course to do it.

I think, as you realized, we got a protect the security system.

As the newspapers flooded their pages with new stories in the Pentagon papers, Nixon's advisor's fears were coming true.

Daniel Ellsberg was reaching hero status within the media.

Daniel Ellsberg and MIT senior research associate surrendered to federal authorities in Boston and admitted giving the papers to the press.

He was indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of having stolen and held secret documents.

Even if the NBI had wanted to arrest him outside the courthouse this morning, they probably couldn't have done it.

Ellsburg was walled off by newsman and supporters as he admitted that he was indeed the man who brought the Pentagon papers to the press and congressional leader.

I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I can no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public.

I did this clearly.

At my own jopardy, and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of these.

He faced life in prison, but was released on his own recognissance.

As Elsberg was given the martyr treatment, the New York Times versus the United States oral argument was being heard by the Supreme Court.

The case, of course, raises important and difficult problems about the constitutional right of pre speech and of the free press, and we've heard much about that from the press in the last two weeks.

But it also raises important questions of the equally fundamental and important right of the government to function.

Great emphasis has been put on the First Amendment, and rightly so.

But there is also involved here a fundamental question of separation of powers in the sense of the power and authority which the Constitution allocates to the President as chief executive and as Commander in chief of the Army and Navy.

Four days later, on June thirtieth, nineteen seventy one, the Court reached a verdict.

The argument moved swiftly to the Supreme Court, which ruled six to three that the First Amendment guarantee of a free press outweighed the government's claim to a potential harm to national security.

In one of the most important judicial decisions in the history of the country, the Supreme Court today ruled that the New York Times and the Washington Post may continue to publish the secret Pentagon papers.

The ruling was amazingly simple.

It was that proving the need for prior censorship is a heavy burden, and the government didn't meet that burden.

Daniel Ellsberg responded to the verdict.

The decision was a great one.

The story today is what the Constitution of this country means to us.

I really have I've never appreciated what the meaning and importance of separation of powers is so much as in the last week.

It was a monumental turn of events.

The verdict changed the relationship between the government and the media.

It created a new weapon for unelected bureaucrats to attack a sitting president, especially a Republican one.

All they had to do was create a document chalk full of innuendo and seemingly damning information, give it credibility by branding it top secret, then leaking it to a compliant press.

It didn't matter if it was one sided or lacked objectivity.

The media would run with it and use it to cripple the president.

And in a city dominated by the Democrats, it was the type of weapon that would always have Republicans in the crosshairs.

In essence, the deep state was born.

While President Nixon was figuring out how to handle future leaks, Hollywood was busy making Daniel Ellsberg a tinsel Town star.

Well you welcome, please, the man who uugh made the whole thing possible, Doctor Daniel Ellsberg.

I think that the very revelation of the papers strikes at the system of secrecy, which has in fact been essential to perpetuate in this particular policy.

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As a media frenzy on the Pentagon papers calmed, Nixon navigated an extraordinary streak of monumental domestic and foreign policy events.

We are certifying the twenty sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

He presided over the extension of the right to vote to the age of eighteen, the same age Americans were asked to risk their lives in war.

That amendment, as you know, provides for the right to vote of all of our young people.

Between eighteen and twenty one, eleven million new voters.

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Weeks later, in the midst of a financial crisis, Nixon made a decision that many believed preserved American dominance in the world currency wars.

President Nixon officially decoupled the dollar from gold.

I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take the action necessary to defend the dollar against the speculators.

I have directed Secretary Connolly to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar in the gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest to monetary stability and in the best interests of the United States.

It was a controversial decision, but with the massively expensive, unfunded programs of its predecessors, experts believed the dollar was in effect already decoupled from gold and was now under attack by foreign nations.

If he avoided the move, some have credibly are argued that there would have been a complete collapse of the dollar, leading to its end as the world's reserve currency.

At the time.

Nixon's decision was widely heralded, but its biggest accomplishments were in addressing his nineteen sixty eight campaign promise to bring normalcy back to America.

By nineteen seventy two, the violent protests orchestrated by Marxist college radicals and black militants had largely subsided.

Gone were the constant campus takeovers and violent clashes of the previous decade, and abroad, Nixon shepherded a long desired de escalation of the Cold War.

I might to express my very deep appreciation to all of you who have come here to send us off on this historic mission.

In February nineteen seventy two, President Nixon embarked on a historic trip to communist China.

We, of course, are under no illusions that twenty years of hostility between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America are going to be swept away by one week of talks that we will have there.

We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the United States have had great differences.

We will have differences in the future.

But what we must do is to find a way to see that we can have differences without being enemies in war.

The spirit of seventy six taxis to a stop on the runway of the Peking Airport, and Premier joe In Lye moves forward to greet the first American president to set foot on Chinese soil.

East meets West as a handshake bridges sixteen thousand miles and twenty two years of hostility.

Nixon met with Chinese communist leaders Malse Tongue and Premier Joe and Lai.

For a week, he and his wife pat toured the country, including the Great Wall of China.

He sees all expectations and one stands there, sees the wall going with the hoop of this mountain and realizes that it runs for.

Hundreds of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of miles over the mountains and through the valleys.

Of this country.

That it was built over two thousand years ago.

I think that you would have to conclude that this is a great wall, that it had to be built by a great people.

This magnificent banquet marks the end of ours day and the People's Republic of China.

We have been here a week.

This was the week that changed the world.

If we can find the common ground on which we can both.

Stand, where we can build the bridge between us and build a new world, generations in the years ahead look bad and thank us for this meeting that we.

Have held in this past week.

Nixon's visit to China was met with near universal praise.

American leaders would later batch the balance of power with the communist country, but President Nixon's historic visit was the first step in cooling off Cold War tensions.

He compounded his China success a few months later with another historic foreign visit.

President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev conferred today, twenty four hours in advance of the scheduled formal talks.

Mister Nixon's arrival at the airport outside Moscow was described as cool but correct.

About one hundred thousand persons lined the streets to welcome the President, the first United States head of state ever to visit the Soviet capital.

Later in the day, a banquet was held at the Kremlin, and mister Nixon criticized veiled criticism the Soviet Union as a military supplier to Vietnam.

Asident Nikolay Pudgourney responded by saying that Moscow and Washington must work together to establish better and friendly relations.

It was a truly remarkable first half of nineteen seventy two.

Richard Milhouse Nixon used his entire life experience as an anti communist crusader to finally ease tensions that had been rising since the end of World War II.

The American people had a leader for the ages, and it appeared that he'd easily cruised to a re election, but on his return from Moscow, a bizarre news report hit the airwaves.

The Democratic National Committee is trying to solve as fy mystery.

It began before.

Dawn Saturday, when five incruiders were captured by police inside the offices of the Committee in Washington.

Five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the middle of the night.

The Democratic National Committee is located in the Watergate office building.

The burglars forced a stairwell door, then taped its latch open.

The door, now part of police evidence, was noticed by one of the guards employed by the Watergate complex.

At first, the police found nothing.

Then they spied five men crouching behind some desks.

The five men carried cameras and apparently had planned electronic bugs.

One of them had several crisp New one hundred dollars bills in his pocket.

The Democrat, I'd say, they have no idea who would want to spy on.

One of the suspects, James McCord, operates his own security company in Washington.

He was doing work for the Republican National Committee and the Committee to re elect President Nixon.

Officials of both groups say McCord was fired.

Today, President's press secretary said, of this incident, I'm not going to comment from the White House on a third rate burglary attempt.

Obviously, he said, we don't condone that kind of second rate activity.

The head of Nixon's re election committee, John Mitchell, talk to reporters about the break in.

Neither the President, obviously, or anybody in the White House, or anybody in authority and any of the committees working for the reelection of the president, have any responsibility for it, and therefore there's no reason why it should be a matter of concern to the American public.

No one has proved that the Republicans are behind the break in, but tomorrow the Democrats are expected to file some sort of legal action against the GOP.

Anyway, Republican Party officials like Bob Dole promised to get to the bottom of the break in.

Frankly, I was surprised and dismayed, as I'm certain many others were when they read the story or heard the story or watched it on television.

Where you are in favor of wide open investigation the whole thing, Oh yes, I think until we know the facts, it's the difficult to respond.

Certainly, we deplore it, but the fact remains at one of the five was a Republican National Committee employee, and frankly, I would like the facts laid on the table and let the chips fall where they may.

In the run up to election day nineteen seventy two, Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern attempted to pin the break in on President Nixon.

Mister Nixon, did you know about the burglary of our Democratic National headquarters at the Water Game?

And just days before the election, Walter Cronkite used the break in to muddy up President Nixon in front of a national audience.

Five men apparently caught in the act of burglarise then bugging Democratic headquarters in Washington.

But as the Democrats and media attacked him, President Nixon was on the verge of another extraordinary moment, the end of the Vietnam War.

As you know, we have now made a major breakthrough toward achieving our goal of peace with honor in Vietnam.

Just five days before election day, the parameters of an agreement with North Vietnam were set, a return of all prisoners of war, a cease fire, an agreement that the South Vietnamese would alone determine their own future.

These were the terms the two sides agreed upon, but as the settlement with North Vietnam was emminent, Nixon made his case to the American public that he didn't want to rush the agreement before election day.

We are not going to repeat the mistake of nineteen sixty eight, when the bombing Haled agreement was rushed into just before an election without pinning down the details.

We want peace, peace with honor, a peace fair to all, and a peace that will lie.

That is why I am insisting that the central points be clearly settled, so that there will be no misunderstandings which could lead to a breakdown of the settlement and a resumption of the war.

I am confident that we will soon achieve that goal.

But we are not going to allow an election deadline or any other kind of deadline to force us into an agreement which would be only a temporary truce and not a lasting peace.

Not only in America, but all around the world.

People will be watching the results of our election.

The leaders in Hanoi will be watching.

They will be watching for the answer of the American people.

For your answer to this question, shall we have peace with honor or peace with surrender?

Always in the past you have.

Answered peace with honor.

By giving that same answer once again on November seventh, you can help make certain that peace with honor can now be achieved.

And on election day, the American people responded.

It's rare that anyone wins the presidency without carrying Ohio, and Predident Nixon has not only one Ohio.

But he has done it in devastating fashion.

President Nixon wins New York, but there's no question about the size of the landslide.

Senator McGovern has won only one state from Massachusetts, but since we last reported, he has added the district of Columbia, which now has three electoral votes, you know, to his total.

The voters have returned to President Nixon to the White House by a landslide over Senator McGovern.

Richard Millhouse.

Nixon won forty nine states.

It was one of the biggest landslides in American history.

He'd brought law and order at home and was on the verge of peace abroad.

On the victory stage in nineteen seventy two, he was thought to be one of the greatest presidents in modern times.

I first want to express my deep appreciation to every one of you, the millions of you who gave me your support in the election today.

I have noted, in listening to the returns a few minutes ago that several commentators have reflected on the fact that this may be one of the great political victories of all time.

In terms of votes.

That may be true, But in terms of what a victory really is, a huge landslide margin means nothing at all unless it is a victory for America.

It will be a victory for America only if in these next four years we all of us can work together to achieve our common great goals of peace at home and peace for all nations in the world, and for that new progress of prosperity which Ama.

But what the American public didn't know was that behind the scenes trouble was brewing.

The Democrat Party was looking to erase Nixon's historic win, and they'd look to get some help from deep within the government.

Coming up on red pilled America.

At the Pentagon Papers trial in California today, it was revealed that the people who burglarized the Watergate also burglarized the office of Daniel Ellsberg's.

Psychiatristlic when are you telling me?

At The break in the doctor Fielding's office was to satisfy the President of the United States.

The President wanted very much to make sure that a thing like this could not happen again.

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