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Overseas, a conflict in Vietnam was spiraling out of control.

This American Marxist revolution was slowly infecting the nation.

American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred and sixty thousand men.

He's the first president in history who has been unable to unite his own party behind a war.

Comedians who refer to Richard Nixon as a loser I can win.

Democrats saw an opportunity to challenge President Johnson for the nomination.

I thank all of you.

Makes it possible to see Senator Kennedy has been shot.

I can't see.

Our projection is that Nixon will win.

Great objective of this administration at the outset to bring the American people together.

Why are Hollywood and the media so obsessed with Nixon.

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

You've probably heard Part three, but if you haven't, stop 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 in nineteen sixty eight, Richard Milhouse Nixon had overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to win the presidency, and in the process he jolted the GOP back to life.

He ran on a simple platform, bringing normalcy back to America by prioritizing lawn order at home and ending the Vietnam War abroad.

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

With the third party candidate also running on a law and order platform, Nixon won the popular vote by less than one percent.

It was a fact he no doubt understood when he entered his inauguration ceremony, I, Richard.

Bill House Nixon, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office as President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

So help me God, Nixon could see that he was about to preside over a deeply divided nation, divided over the Vietnam War, divided over lawn order at home, divided over the big spending programs of his predecessor.

So in his inaugural address, he pleaded with the country to come together.

When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things, such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.

Greatness comes in simple trappings.

The simple things are the ones most need to today.

If we are to amount what divides us and cumment what unites us to lower our.

Voices would be a simple thing.

In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words, from inflated rhetoric of promises more that it can deliver, From angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds, from ambastic rhetoric to postures instead of persuading.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

In the ceremonies that followed his inauguration speech, Vietnam War protesters wasted no time in attacking the new president.

Ironically, they took the opportunity to protest the man that pledged to end the war.

I meant to throw a firecracker out into the rank of the marching soldiers as the soldiers passed the demonstrator d' hot game in.

These anti American forces raging throughout America were attempting to remake the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, and the newly formed far left narrative machine were going to help in that effort.

Nixon had his work cut out for him as he entered the White House.

Assassinations had become commonplace, and that was only the beginning of the list of troubling trends he faced.

Roughly thirty six thousand American troops were dead from the Vietnam War.

Over five hundred thousand soldiers were committed to the conflict.

College campus violence had become the norm, Big government spending had corrupt inflation up.

It was going to take a team effort to calm the storm, But Nixon wasn't going to receive any easy help from Congress.

Both the House and the Senate were controlled by the Democrats.

The anti war radicals, Congress, and the media were all against him.

So to get anything done, Nixon had to compromise again, and Coulter, author of the Unsafe sub Stack.

The way I've described him, just you know, this ferocious anti communist.

You would think it would be the most right wing of the Republican Party that would support him the most.

But he had actually been, in some ways a little bit of a rhyeow And the reason for that, I think is understandable.

He would make a lot of compromises with the Democrats because, as with Reagan at that time, there was one issue that was more important than any other issue, and that was the communist threat.

In this time of great turmoil, the Nixon administration could not afford to be a conservative one.

To tackle his top priorities, he had to compromise in a way that looked like rhino virtue signaling in the rearview mirror.

He created the Environmental Protection Agency.

He put teeth into affirmative action with the Philadelphia Plan, a program that required federal contractors to meet certain minority hiring goals, and construction jobs.

He poured money into historically black colleges.

None of these were particularly conservative, but he didn't have control of Congress and needed help from across the Aisle to bring normalcy back to America.

It was this spirit of compromise that allowed him to pull off the kind of efforts that he felt protected Americans from the communist threat, like an anti ballistic missile defense system.

The new program that I have recommended this morning to the leaders, and that I announced today is one that perhaps best can be described as a safeguard program.

It is a.

Safeguard against any attack by the Chinese Communists that we can foresee over the next ten years.

It is a safeguard of our deterrent system, which is increasingly vulnerable due to the advances that have been made by the Soviet Union.

It was a nail bier, but President Nixon would end up getting the program through Congress.

He'd quickly compound that victory with a massive publicity win.

It's T minus one hour, twenty nine minutes and fifty three seconds and counting.

Follow eleven astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins are the left off from Pad thirty nine A out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about.

Next up for them the Moon.

On July sixteenth, nineteen sixty nine, nearly a billion people's eyes were glued to the TV.

Set and then on a Sunday afternoon the landing on the Moon, and a to twenty am Monday, July twenty first, the date which we'll live in history as long as man is on this planet and on the other planet.

Thirty eight year old civilian Neil Olden Armstrong is to become the first human being to touch the Moon.

T minus fifteen seconds.

Guidance is internal twelve eleven ten nine.

Ignition sequence starts six five three three two one zero, all engine running, lift down.

We had to lift e thirty two minutes.

Cash the eye lift that the A eleven.

Oh boy, oh.

Boy, it looks good.

And we're here building shaking.

We're getting that buffeting.

We've become used to what a moment plan on the way of the Moon.

Then four days later with in the.

Tan quality Babe here the angle heirlanded Roger tranquility.

We caught the on the ground.

You got a bunch of guys about the turn blue.

We're breathing again, Tankalon day and Neil, we can see.

You coming down the ladder.

Now at the foot of the ladder, although the surface appears to be very very fine grained, ad you get close to it.

It's almost like a powder That step brought the lamb.

Now at one small step for man one by amplete tranquility base.

It is Houston.

Do we get both of you on the camera from any place?

Yeah?

I think something rather important is coming up here.

Neil and Buzz.

The President of the United States is in his office now and would like to say I do worry see you're over.

That would be Hunter.

Go ahead, mister President.

This is Houston.

A well, Neil and Buzz.

I'm talking to you about telephone from the over.

Room at the Lighthouse, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House.

I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done.

For every American this has to be the proudest day of our lives.

And for people all over the world, I am sure that they too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is.

Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world, and as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man.

All the people on this earth are truly one, one in their pride in what you have done, and one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

Thank you about a president.

Just as President Nixon was presiding over this monumental event, news began to trickle out about his likely opponent in the nineteen seventy two elections.

Senator Ted Kennedy may have seen history chances for becoming president deflated because of a bizarre and almost unbelievable car accident in which he was involved.

At midnight last Friday, Senator Edward M.

Kennedy drove a car off a narrow bridge and into a pond on Marthur's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

A young woman in the car with him was drowned.

Kennedy survived, but failed to report the accident until ten hours later.

Today, police moved to prosecute the senator on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing bodily.

Harmed Kennedy, the only one of the four brothers left alive, went into court today and pleaded guilty to leaving the scenes of an accident where a young woman drowned.

He got a sentence of two months in jail, the sentence suspended, and a year's probassion.

The judge gave him the minimum jail sentence and suspended that because he said Kennedy already had been and would be punished more than anything the court could do to him.

I have made my plea and I've requested the networks for fine this evenings that'll make a report to the.

People of Massachusetts.

Jenator will make a statement on television tonight at seven thirty Eastern time.

It will be a statement only, not a news conference.

No reporters will be allowed in by his decision, and so no questions will be asked.

Little over one mile away, the car that I was driving on an unlit road with an off a narrow bridge which had no guard rails and was built on the left angle to the road.

The car overturned in a deep pond and immediately.

Filled with water.

I remember thinking, as the cold water rushed in around my head that I was for certain drowning.

Then water entered my lungs and I actually felt the sensation of drowning, but somehow I struggled for the surface alive.

I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Joe by diving into the strong and murky current that succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm.

My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, for the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all.

The opportunity to work with you when serve Massachusetts has made my life worthwhile, and so I asked you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think.

This through with me.

In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion.

The answer they gave was clear, stay in office, and he did.

The Massachusetts Senator refused to take questions instead of demanding answers.

The media were much more concerned about a different topic.

Before the Young Blond was killed, many politicians, including Republicans, looked on Senator Kennedy as a shoe in for the Democratic presidential nomination against President Nixon's bid for reelection in nineteen seventy two.

Senator Kennedy's suspended sentence was granted on the basis of his character and his worldwide reputation.

But it's this worldwide reputation that is now the larger question, what can or will he do to preserve his potential as a candidate for president of the United States.

Over the years and decades that followed, the treatment of Ted Kennedy would become an astonishing example of liberal bias in the media, especially when they decided to turn the screws on President Nixon.

But one thing could be sure at the time, the Democrats' leading contender to take down Nixon in nineteen seventy two was now fatally compromised.

The left needed something to muddy up the man from your Belinda, and they'd find it in a problem created by another Kennedy.

The mass march on Washington to protest the Vietnam War was peaceful.

About three thousand mobilization marshals.

They're keeping the demonstrators within the bounds of the march permitted by officials.

The cry of peace now goes up in several places along the root of march almost continuously.

Hands are held high with the anti war peace sign.

Flags, American un piece, a pale blue with a dove in the center, and Viet Kong are waved all along the route of march.

In the fall of nineteen sixty nine, tisters continued their campaign to turn the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, they began to turn up the temperature a few notches.

Crowd estimated at two hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand persons, took part in the demonstration in the nation's capitol a month earlier.

Across the country, thousands more showed their opposition to the war with parades and peace rallies.

Well aping nail all.

Help.

For his part, President Nixon was doing what he could to end the war.

Dating back to his entry into the White House, he began peace talks.

They floundered.

The effect of all the public, private, and secret negotiations which have been undertaken since the bombing hal a year ago and since his administration came into office in January twentieth, can be some done In one sentence, No progress whatever has been made except agreement on the shape of the marketing table.

By June nineteen sixty nine, Nixon began making progress.

He met with South Vietnamese President IW on Midway Island and then made an announcement as.

A Jew informed me that the progress of South.

Vietnamese forces had been so successful that he could now recommend that the.

United States began to replace.

US combat forces with Vietnamese forces.

This same assessment was made by General Abrams when he reported to me last night and this morning.

As a result, President Nixon began reducing American troops in Vietnam.

His program of handing the war over entirely to the South Vietnamese came to be known as Vietnamization.

In June, President Nixon began withdrawing some of the five hundred and forty thousand American troops.

Three such reductions.

Were announced in nineteen sixty nine, a pullback totally in one hundred and ten thousand men.

In September nineteen sixty nine, he canceled the end of year draft calls.

But Nick didn't believe he could just pull out all American troops at once.

In his view, it would have left South Vietnam to quickly fall to the communist North, and more importantly, an unstable South Vietnam would have led to American troop deaths as they exited the country.

So by the fall of nineteen sixty nine, the Marxist College agitators used Nixon's decisions to continue their campaign of turning the Vietnam War into Nixon's war through campus and Washington, DC protests, they demanded an immediate withdrawal from the conflict.

Nixon was asked if the demonstrators would alter his Vietnam policy.

I have often said that there's really very little that we in Washington can do with regard to running the university and college campuses of this country.

We have another problems running the nation, the national problems.

Now, I understand that there has been and continues to be opposition to the war in Vietnam, on the campuses and also in the nation.

As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expected, however, under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by it.

That's about when Hollywood began to heavily enter the fray.

The Tinsiltown crowd was largely quiet when both JFK and LBJ escalated America's involvement in Asia, but now with a Republican in office, the shackles were removed.

They were free to blame Nixon for the entire affair.

Comedian Dick Gregory captured the mood of activist Hollywood at the time.

Last month, President of the United States said, nothing you young kids would do would have any effect on him.

Well, I suggested the President of the United States, if you want to know how much effect you youngsters can have on the president, he should make one long distance phone call to the LBJ rant and half that by how much effect you can ask.

As nineteen seventy arrived, Nixon continued his Vietnamization.

The Vietnamese have taken over virtually the entire fighting war.

American combat troops still remaining have been pulled away from hot border areas into the interior and coastal regions, and as a result, US casualties in nineteen seventy were less than half of the nineteen sixty nine total.

President Nixon vowed to bring home more American.

Troops this year.

So far, that's what's happening.

I am to night announcing plans further withdrawal of an additional one hundred and fifty thousand American troops to be completed during the spring of next year.

This will bring a total reduction of two hundred and sixty five five hundred men in our armed forces in Vietnam, below the level that existed when we took office fifteen months ago.

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So Nixon was fulfilling his campaign pledge by massively reducing American troops in Vietnam, but just days after he announced an additional one hundred and fifty thousand true production, something happened that gave his enemies an opening to attack.

As Americans continued exiting the country.

In early nineteen seventy one, the Vietcong increased forces along South Vietnam's western border of Cambodia.

They used the area as a base for attacks on both South Vietnamese and American troops.

So to protect his military, President Nixon announced in action.

On April thirtieth, nineteen seventy one.

Good Evening, my fellow Americans.

Ten days ago, in my report to the Nation on Vietnam, I announced the decision to withdraw an additional one hundred and fifty thousand Americans from Vietnam over the next year.

I said then that I was making that decision despite our concern over increased enemy activity in Laos, in Cambodia, and in South Vietnam.

And at that time I warned that if I concluded that increased enemy activity in any of these areas endangered the lives of Americans remaining in Vietnam, I would not hesitate to take strong and effective measures to deal with that situation.

Despite that morning, North Vietnam has increased its military aggression in all these areas, and particularly in Cambodia.

After full consultation with the National Security Council, Ambassador Bunker, General Abrams, and my other advisors, I have concluded that the actions of the enemy in the last ten days clearly endanger the lives of Americans who are in Vietnam now and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who will be there after withdrawal of another one hundred and fifty thousand to protect our men who are in Vietnam, and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and Vietnamization programs, I have concluded that the time has come for action.

Tonight, Baracan and.

South Vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire Communist military operation in South Vietnam.

This key control center has been occupied by the North Vietnamese and viet Cong for five years in blatant violation of Cambodia's neutrality.

This is not an invasion of Cambodia.

The areas in which these attacks will be launched are completely occupied and controlled by North Vietnamese forces.

Our purpose is not to occupy the areas.

Once enemy forces are driven out of these sanctuaries and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw.

Marxist radicals took advantage of the announcement.

The place Kent State University in Ohio.

If you were there on May fourth, you would have seen a campus filled with Ohio National Guard units called into quell student rioting, which began as a protest against the use of US forces in Cambodia.

The guardsmen had been ordered onto the campus after the university's ROTC building had been burned to the ground in the second night of disruption by anti war students.

The National Guard was called in over the weekend by Ohio Governor James Rhose.

Today, when fifteen hundred students started an anti war rally on the university commons, the guardsmen surrounded them.

Then, when some students started throwing rocks, the guard moved in with tear gas.

The students were forced up a hill by the tear gas.

Some of them started throwing gas canisters back at the guardsmen.

Others threw rocks.

Suddenly they turned around, got on their knees as if they were ordered to.

They did it all together aim And.

Personally, I was standing there saying they're not going to shoot.

Say they can't do that.

You know, if they're going to shoot it's going to be blank.

No one knows who shot first, but ultimately several guardsmen opened fire.

The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a bullet passes your head, it makes a crack.

I hit the ground behind the curb.

Looking over, I saw a student hit.

He stumbled and felled to He was running towards a car.

Another student tried to pull him behind the car.

Bullets were coming through the windows.

Of the car.

It was maybe twenty five thirty thirty five seconds of sporadic firing.

Firing stopped.

I lay there maybe ten or fifteen seconds.

I got up.

I saw four or five students lying around.

In the lot.

When the dust settled, four students laid dead.

A law enforcement officer commented on the tragedy.

I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason.

I believe that we used every conceivable effort to get the people to dis bursten the move long before the information moved up the hill.

And we regret as much as anyone that people were killed and wounded.

We even regret the fact that it was let's say to be here.

The media dubbed it the Kent State massacre.

Counter protesters hit the streets.

Many who called themselves the Silent Majority rallied around President Nixon to show their support for him and at the same time to visually display their disgust with anti war demonstrators.

In New York City, construction workers, some still wearing the bright yellow hard hats of their trade, confronted a line of anti war demonstrators.

While the students shouted peace now, the hard Hats rallied with signs and slogans that said, all the way USA and America love it or leave it.

We want to shake the stones that maybe today we can open a door for discussion and saken the stones.

Who have problems.

Where are wanting to work with you?

Where the fellows shall build this country, Where the fellows will.

Build a hospital when they need don has six, We build a budget and tolls for them to get around in.

We build the sholes that they want to.

Find out, and we all shall know all the obervations.

President Nixon weighed in on the Kent State tragedy.

I do know that when you do have a situation of a crowd throwing rocks, nctional guard is called in that there is always the chance that it will escalate into the kind of a tragedy that happened at Ken's State, And if there's one thing I am personally committed to.

It's this.

I saw the pictures of those four youngsters in the Evening Star the day after that tragedy, and I vowed then that we were going to find methods that would be more effective to deal with these problems of violence, Methods that would deal with those who would use force and violence and endanger others, but at the same time would not take the.

Lives of innocent people.

Student violence had long turned public opinion towards the law and order message of Richard Nixon, but the radicals had to trick up their sleep.

They were about to employ a new form of attack on the Nixon White House, a novel strategy that would revolutionize media attacks and at the same time make governing the country nearly impossible for a Republican president to a rational observer, President Nixon was fulfilling his campaign promises, I want.

To end this war.

The American people want to end this war.

He was removing American troops and strategically handing off the conflict to the South Vietnamese.

The American people were largely supportive of his Vietnamization program, but then a nuclear bomb hit the.

News this weekend.

Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light for all the world deceived and brought cries of outrage from Washington.

The New York Times began publishing parts of a voluminous report that the Pentagon had drawn up on the causes and conduct of American involvement in Vietnam.

On Sunday, June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, just a few weeks after the Kent State shooting, the New York Times published the first of what they announced would be a series of articles on top secret documents documents it would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers.

The first article ran a quote from a nineteen sixty five a highly classified military document divulging that seventy percent of US involvement in Vietnam was to quote avoid a humiliating US defeat, Only twenty percent of the reason American troops were there was to keep South Vietnam out of Communist China's hands, and the remaining ten percent was to permit the South Vietnamese to enjoy a better freer way of life.

In other words, according to the Pentagon Papers, the LBJ administration was far more concerned with saving face than promoting freedom.

The article argued that the Pentagon Papers demonstrated that both JFK and LBJ systematically lied not only to the public, but also to Congress.

It was a bombshell.

The nineteen sixty seven Secretary of Defense McNamara assigned his officials to write a top secret history of how we got into Vietnam.

Composed over two years, it was seven thousand pages in length, full of sacred documents.

Well one copy has been leaked to The New York Times, which yesterday began publishing a digest of it.

The Pentagon Paper story would become a turning point in American politics, but it took some time for the Nixon white House to realize it.

We know this because recordings of their conversations would later become public.

Hollywood and the media have long built the narrative that President Nixon installed a recording system in the White House because he was diabolical.

As the story goes, he trusted no one and saw enemies everywhere.

The truth is that recording systems were nothing new in the White House.

President Franklin D.

Roosevelt was angry that The New York Times allegedly misquoted him in an article.

So to be able to set the record straight, FDR installed the first secret taping system in the White House in nineteen forty.

His successors followed.

Suit JFKA reportedly installed a recording system after his adviser's publicly contradicted private conversations they had with him about the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba.

Did they apply to that day with any of the play on flu in combat over the Bay of Pigs?

They were not, in other words, sent on those things.

Lyndon B.

Johnson reportedly told Nixon he installed a system to both record calls.

And meetings the HW budget they wanted four.

And a pay.

LBJ viewed taping as a defensive measure against being misrepresented during the transition stage.

LBJ reportedly encouraged incoming Nixon to do the same.

Nixon hated the idea, and on his arrival to the White House, he ordered lbj's equipment to be removed immediately, But as time passed, he began to understand why his predecessors opted to record.

Nixon tried many different methods to document important meetings, ranging from shorthand note takers to memos written immediately after meetings, but nothing seemed to work to get an accurate record, and there were other challenges.

Advisors would often publicly misquote conversations they had with Nixon in meetings, conversations that had potentially major national and international implications.

Additionally, it was often extraordinarily risky to trust a single interpreter's translation of a meeting with an important foreign diplomat.

Recordings could also help with a future memoir.

Nixon slowly warmed to the idea, so in early nineteen seventy one, he installed a recording system that would both record telephone calls and meetings in key spaces within the White House.

Hollywood and the media have cemented the narrative that Nixon's recording system was diabolical, but it was not unique.

He was following the example of former presidents.

And it's because of these recordings that we know that Nixon was slow to understand the magnitude of the Pentagon papers.

The publication of those documents set the stage for a new line of attack against Republican presidents.

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On the day of The New York Times published the Pentagon Paper story, Nixon had a call with his deputy National Security Advisor, Alexander Haig.

Okay, nothing else about Christian the world a very significant This goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly classified documents of the war.

All that I see that I didn't read the story.

But do you mean that that was leaked out of the Pentagon, Sarah?

The whole study that was done for mcnamaran.

McNamara was lbj's Secretary of Defense.

For mcnamaran then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford and the peace snakes over there.

This is a devastating security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything I've all seen.

Well, what's being done about it?

Then?

I mean, I didn't do it?

Could we know this was coming out?

No?

We did not, sir.

Well, I'm sure it came from Defense, and I'm sure it was stolen at the time of the turnover of the administration.

It's two years old, I'm sure it is, and they've been holding it for a juicy time, and I think they've thrown it out to effect Hatfield mc govern.

That's my own estimate.

General Haig thought it was being released in an attempt to gain enough votes to pass the McGovern Hatfield Bill, known as the End the War Amendment.

The amendment set a Vietnam withdrawal deadline of June nineteen seventy two.

As we mentioned earlier, Nixon thought this would jeopardize more American lives, so he opposed's the amendment.

General Haig went on to say that the New York Times article placed the genesis of the war on JFK and was a brutal attack on President Johnson.

But Haig thought the report would give fuel to the anti war movement at a time that could hurt Nixon's Vietnam exit plan.

So that same day, Nixon took a call with his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger and opened with General Haig's concerns.

Haig was very disturbed by that New York Times thank Fortunately, according to Haig, its own relates to the two previous administrations of that correct.

That is, it's so it's massive mismanagement of how we got there, and it spins it all on Kennedy and John sure Agnamara.

So from that point of view it helped us.

They had sort of tried to make it Nixteme's war.

And what this proves is that if it's anybody wore, it's Kennedy's and sohn so that these Democrats now pleading about what we're doing wrong this graphically who is responsible for the basic math.

The thing though, that Henry to me is if unconsfortable, this is reasonable action on the part of the batter to put it out.

The following day, the issue began to heat up.

President Nixon took a call with his domestic affairs advisor, John Erlikman, and Erlikman got right into it.

Miss President.

The Attorney General's called a couple of times about these New York Times stories, and he's advised by his people that unless he puts the Times on notice, he's probably going to waive any right of prosecution against the newspaper.

And he is calling now to see if you would approve his putting them on notice before their first edition.

For tomorrow comes out.

You mean to prosecute the Times.

Hell, I wouldn't prosecute the Times.

My view is to prosecute the goddamn pricks it David to me out if.

You can find out who that is?

I know, I mean, could the Times be prosecuted?

Apparently?

So wait a minute, Wait a minute.

They on the other hand, they're going to run another story tomorrow, right and waited after that one.

Well, his point is that he feels he has to give them some sort of advanced notice and then if they go ahead in disregard, why then there's no danger of waiver.

But if he doesn't give them notice, then it's almost like entrapment.

We sit here and let them go ahead on a course of conduct and don't raise any objection.

Nixon was hesitant to take action against the New York Times, dating back to the nineteen forty eight alger his case.

The media had been targeting Nixon at every turn.

Authorizing his Attorney General John Mitchell to send a legal notice to the New York Times could only exacerbate an already contentious media relationship.

Nixon continued, well, could he wait one more day?

They have one more day after that?

I don't know.

I don't know.

He apparently feels under some pressure to either decide to do it or.

Not do it.

Does he have a judgment in himself as to whether he wants to or not?

Yeah, I think he wants to.

You might want to give him a call and talk with him about it directly, as I'm not very well posted on this whole time.

How do you feel about it?

Well, I'd kind of like to have a cause of action against him in the sock in case we needed it.

I'd hate to wave something as good as that, but I don't know what the ramifications.

Would be in terms of the Hill.

Oh hell, I didn't an affect the vote in my opinion.

Just Erlickman was concerned a confrontation with The New York Times could hurt a Congressional vote on the McGovern Hatfield Amendment that would force a disastrous troop withdrawal.

So Erlikman asked President Nixon if he'd take a call with Attorney General Mitchell to hash it out.

Would you want to take a call from him.

Oh, yeah, I'll cry, I'll call him.

Good, Okay, thank you.

Nixon spoke with Attorney General John Mitchell the same day about sending a legal notice to the New York Times.

What your advice on that time?

Sing John, you would like to do it?

I wouldam as president.

Otherwise we will work a little foolish and not following through on our legal obligations.

And has this ever been done before.

Publication like this?

Or no?

No, no, as the government ever done this to a paper.

Before, advising of lair.

Yes, we've done this before.

Have we?

All right?

Yes, sir?

How do you go about it?

You do it sort of low key?

Low key.

You call them and then send a telegram a confirment.

Say that we're just we're examining the situation and we just simply are putting you on notice.

Well, we're putting them on notice that they're violating a statute because we have a communication from mel Laird as to the nature of the documents.

Right.

Mel Laird was the United States Secretary of Defense at the time.

Right, they fall with a statute.

Now, right, I know you've I haven't been noticed that, But this thing was.

Mel was worthing.

Henry, Henry's on the other I just he just walked in, Henry Kissinger.

Now put him on the other line, and go.

Ahead mel had a pretty go up there before the committee to day on it, and it's all over town and all over everything.

And I think we look a little silly if we just didn't take this low key action of Mailingham about.

The public mail take a fairly hardline on it.

Yes, he gave a legal opinion and it was a violation of the law, which well puts us up.

You know, we have to get well.

Look, look as far as the Times is concerned, held there our enemies.

I think we just want to do it in anyway.

Henry told them what you just heard from Rosto.

But Rostock called on behalf of Johnson.

That's former President Johnson, and.

He said that it is Johnson's strong view that this is an intact on the whole integrity of government, that if whole file cappenants can be stolen and then made available to the press, you can't have ood of the government anymore.

Nixon gave the go ahead.

Attorney General John Mitchell put The New York Times on legal notice to halt from publishing the stolen top secret documents, and when he did, it would start an epic chain of events that would set the entire Democrat media complex against President Nixon and would ultimately give rise to what many refer to today as the deep State.

Coming up on Red Pilled America.

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

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

I did this it rarely at my own peopardy that I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of these decisions.

Just because some guys are going to be a martyr.

We can't be in a position of allowing the follow to get away with this kind of.

Wholesale faver he or otherwise, it's going to happen all over the government.

We got to get this, son of a bitch.

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