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It was almost two years ago, in June","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=5.26,8.59"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1972, that five men broke into the Democratic","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=8.59,11.89"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"National Committee headquarters in Washington. 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The basic","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=20.35,24.13"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"question at issue today is whether the president","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=24.13,27.58"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"personally acted improperly in the Watergate","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=27.58,30.22"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"matter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=30.22,30.46"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, when you grew up in Iowa, which I did. 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We may not have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=45.48,49.2"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"agreed with everything the president said. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=49.62,52.2"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's what I grew up with. I grew up with that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=52.2,54.18"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"names. We listened to the president's on the radio","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=54.68,58.38"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there, not as much television. And it gave us a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=58.38,60.9"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sense of pride than that period where I go to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=60.9,64.89"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congress. 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So it really showed that the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=599.26,602.08"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"institutions of government can work and what the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=602.08,605.02"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"founders really intended to do. So I hope the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=605.02,608.38"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"papers will bring out perhaps what can be done","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=608.38,612.13"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rather than what we're witnessing perhaps on the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=612.52,616.39"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"front pages and on television today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=616.39,618.48"}]},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65173/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/065/173/original/MS0274_Watergate_event.vtt?1709218653","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/065/173/original/MS0274_Watergate_event.vtt?1709218653"}]},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65174","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["MS0274_Watergate_event.txt [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670/transcript/65174/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"- Good evening. It was almost two years ago, in June 1972, that five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. It turned out that they were connected with my reelection committee and the Watergate break in became a major issue in the campaign. The basic question at issue today is whether the president personally acted improperly in the Watergate matter. Well, when you grew up in Iowa, which I did. It was the son of immigrants we prided ourselves in our country, you know, we were proud of our country, proud of our president. We may not have agreed with everything the president said. So that's what I grew up with. I grew up with that names. We listened to the president's on the radio there, not as much television. And it gave us a sense of pride than that period where I go to Congress. And just because I was a different party from Nixon and I had met Nixon at the White House when we got sworn in, it wasn't enough just because we differed with him on policy or certain issues to vote for the impeachment. So that's really what I walked into when I was elected in November. In the general election, I had to decide what committees I wanted to be on and I decided I did not want to be on the House Judiciary Committee. Of course, not knowing that it would be in the middle of history when it would have to take up the impeachment of Richard Nixon, of course, if anybody had the slightest inkling that there would be an impeachment inquiry, you know, I would never have been put on the House Judiciary Committee. I was a brand new member. I had no clout. And there's no way that the leadership would have ever given me such a plum assignment. There have been allegations, insinuations that I knew about the planning of the Watergate break in and that I was involved in an extensive plot to cover it up. The House Judiciary Committee is now investigating these charges. From our perspective and from the committee's role, it was a combination of putting the presidency on trial. We had to decide whether or not under our Constitution, this one check of the abuse of power, whether this one check that the framers of our Constitution laid out, which they never expected probably to ever happen, whether that check was in play, what we didn't realize at the same time the presidency was on trial, the Congress was on trial because the Congress had to make a decision which was momentous, which affected the country. The stakes are very high. If we wanted to have justice done, we couldn't be seen to be. Acting in a partisan way, so the effort was very serious and sincere. The House Judiciary Committee went out of its way to act and as much a nonpartisan way as possible because we did not want any questions to be asked about where we being unfair to Richard Nixon. So we wanted to do whatever we did correctly. Ever since the existence of the White House taping system was first made known last summer. I have tried vigorously to guard the privacy of the tapes, I've been well aware that my effort to protect the confidentiality of presidential conversations has heightened the sense of mystery about Watergate. And in fact, this has increased suspicions of the president. Many people assume that the tapes must incriminate the president, otherwise he wouldn't insist on their privacy. We had no idea that there would be tapes that we would listen to and the impact of those tapes, which probably no president now is ever going to have in the White House again, really was a crushing blow. And when I heard the tapes and had to make that decision, that's that's really what was a major factor in terms of ultimately deciding the vote. No one in the White House was involved. I want there to be no question remaining about the fact that the president has nothing to hide. He wasn't able to admit his mistakes if he would have been able to have gone before the camera and said, look, I'm sorry the events happened that were not right. It was wrong and I was wrong. And I I asked the American public for forgiveness. And I still want to be your president. I think our public is a forgiving kind of public. And the voter would have accepted that. And I think it would have been very difficult to proceed. I think that argument would have been hard. He could have acknowledged what happened and I think it would have been taken on its face and perhaps would have changed the ultimate outcome. The only other emotional moment that came to me was that I felt sad when we had the vote was very emotional because I didn't want to impeach the president, I didn't want to remove a president. I didn't want to acknowledge the abuse of office. Mr. Flowers, I. Mr. Sarbanes. I. Mr. Railsback. MS. Holtzman, I. Nobody took any pleasure in that vote. I didn't agree with many of the things that Richard Nixon stood for, but I hated having to cast that vote because he was my president and I did not want to see president of the United States engage in that conduct. But I knew I had no choice. I knew I had a responsibility under the Constitution to hold him accountable. Mr. Cohen. Mr. Rodino, I. Mr. Connor, I. Mr. Mezvinsky, I mean, we talked among ourselves, including the Barbara Jordan and the other people and the chairman Rodino instead, it was a sad moment, but yet it was probably one of the finest hours for Congress. Later, we discovered when we voted for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, I don't recall that any poll had been taken. So nobody exactly knew what the consequences of this were going to be, we just did what the evidence and the Constitution and the law told us was the right thing to do. And then when Nixon had to make he made his resignation speech in the White House and he talked about it. And I was then driving to the Hill. This was after the hearings and everything. I literally pulled off the road and cried because I felt what it did to our country. But yet, on the other hand, it was as I indicated, Congress on trial was the test. And it probably, as I said, came out to perhaps be one of the finest hours. The impeachment of a president is a remedy of last resort. It is the most solemn act of our entire constitutional process. The impact of such an ordeal would be felt throughout the world, and it does have its effect on the lives of all Americans. For many years to come. There were many people who said the country can withstand an impeachment, that this would be tear the country apart, that we could never do this. It would be terrible. But, you know, the fact of the matter is, Americans are pretty strong people and our country is a pretty strong country and know the country did not collapse in the face of the of the impeachment effort. In fact, I think it became stronger because Americans discovered that in the end, we all shared the same value, or most of us overwhelming majority, shared the values that more important than a president, a party was the Constitution and the rule of law, that we were a democracy. So the president did something wrong and this was the procedure. Then the procedure was going to be followed. Here we are 40 years later and no one's really seriously attacked. The process in which under which the committee acted or the results of the impeachment process, the papers should be available for the public and for researchers to sort of know what what we went through. The history of this also maybe as a lesson as to perhaps how government. Can run, whether you're a partisan on one side or the other, that there comes a time when you know the country, you have to face issues and you have to come together as a people to deal with with volatile issues. Yes. That are emotional. But yet you expect your government and your representatives to sort of be to be able to do that, to take this position. So it really showed that the institutions of government can work and what the founders really intended to do. So I hope the papers will bring out perhaps what can be done rather than what we're witnessing perhaps on the front pages and on television today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2753/collection_resources/125437/file/231670#t=0.0,625.94"}]}]}]}