Summer of Judgment Pt 1 of 2
Summer of Judgment Pt 1 of 2
"Summer of Judgement Pt 1 of 2" Award-winning documentary regarding the Nixon Impeachment Judiciary Hearings & the Committee headed by Peter Rodino following the Watergate scandal. Includes excellent background material on the Watergate break-in, scandal and investigations by the Ervin Committee.
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DO NOT USE Still of Watergate. Still of New York Daily News: "4 Top Nixon Aides Out: Kleindienst, Haldeman, Dean & Erlichman Resign."
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MS former White House Counsel JOHN DEAN (John W. Dean III testifying to Senate Subcommittee: "I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency and if the cancer was not removed the President himself would be killed by it."
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DO NOT USE Still of Time Magazine cover w/ illustration of President Nixon: "How much did he know?" Still of Washington Post: "Nixon Tells Editors, I'm Not A Crook."
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CU President RICHARD M. NIXON delivering speech ot Joint Session of Congress: "One year of Watergate is enough."
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DO NOT USE Still of Time Magazine cover
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MSs Rep. PETER RODINO (D-NJ) holding gavel aloft during Impeachment hearings.
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DO NOT USE Opening credits.
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Panning TLSs Congressional Committee during Impeachment Hearings. CU Peter Rodino: "This is a turning point, whatever we decide." Quotes from unidentified Congressmen.
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Host Charles McDowell introduces program from congressional hearings room.
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TLSs President RICHARD M. NIXON shaking hands with Vice-President SPIRO T. AGNEW, being introduced, taking to podium during Inauguration, 1/20/1973; MS President Richard Nixon delivering Inaugural Address-- "As we meet here today we stand on the threshold of a new era of peace in the world."
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Mugshots of five convicted Watergate burglars, zoom in to James McCord.
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DO NOT USE Stills of John W. Dean III & Jeb McGruder. Still of White House aides Bob Haldeman & John Ehrlichman conferring. Still of John Dean. Still of Attorney General Richard Kleindeinst. Still of Richard Nixon & Elliot Richardson.
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MS President Nixon delivering national address, 4/30/1973: "He has the authority to name a special supervising prosecutor for matters arising out fo the case." MS Attorney General ELLIOT RICHARDSON & Special Prosecutor ARCHIBALD COX talking w/ press. Sideview MS Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices (aka Ervin Committee) in session, Chariman Sen. SAM ERVIN (D-NC) holding gavel; MS press photographers & film crews covering event; MS Sen. Sam Ervin speaking, May 17, 1973 "The nation & history itself is watching us. We cannot fail our mission." LS/TLSs Ervin Committee. MS former White House aide JEB MCGRUDER testifying to Senate Select Committee, 6/14/1973: "Mr. Mitchell agreed to approve the project & I then notified the parties w/ Mr. Mitchell's approval." CU former Attorney General JOHN MITCHELL testifying to Committee. CU former WH aide BOB HALDEMAN testifying. MS former WH aide JOHN EHRLICHMAN testifying. CU John Dean testifying, 6/25/73: "Particularly in reference to the President of the U.S., I'd like to say this. It is my honest belief that while the Pres was involved, he did not realize or appreciate at any time the implications of his involvement." TLS/MSs Sen. Ervin & Committee. MS John W. Dean III tesifying, wife MAUREEN DEAN sitting behind him. MS Senator HOWARD BAKER (R-TN): "What did the President know and when did he know it?"
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DO NOT USE Magazine cover.
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CU John Dean testifying to Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices. MSs White House assistant ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD testifying, being grilled by Sen. FRED THOMPSON (R-TN), 7/16/73: "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?" "I was aware of listening devices, yes, sir."
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DO NOT USE Still of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Washington Post: "Judge Rules Against President." Newspaper excerpts of Nixon's appeal, falling ratings in polls. Still of Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew. Washington Post: "VP Agnew Resigns; Fined for Income Tax Evasion."
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Panning MS President RICHARD NIXON walking main aisle of Congress w/ Vice President GERALD FORD & Rep. TIP O'NEILL during Joint Session, passing the likes of Secretary of State HENRY KISSINGER & Secretary of Treasury GEORGE SCHULTZ; MS Gerald Ford displaying his inimitable wit to Congress-- "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln." H/a LS Congress applauding.
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MS/TLSs Archibald Cox speaking to media at press conference.
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DO NOT USE Split-screen stills of Nixon, Cox, Elliot Richardson & Deputy William Ruckelshaus. Chicago Tribune & NY Daily News headlines re: Saturday Night Massacre.
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MSs former Attny Gen ELLIOT RICHARDSON at press conference, 10/23/73: "At stake in the final analysis is the very integrity of the governmental processes I came to the Dept of Justice to help restore. The rest is for the American people to judge."
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DO NOT USE Stills and Newspaper excerpts re: Nixon's issuing world-wide alert to U.S. military forces.
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MSs President RICHARD M. NIXON entering room for press conference, smiling, nodding, taking to podium, 10/26/73; a reporter asks Nixon if he's caving under the stress of Watergate; MS Richard Nixon to reporters. "I intend to continue to carry out to the best of my ability the responsibilities I was elected to carry out last Nov."
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Charles McDowell talks about the Judiciary Committee.
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Panning TLS Judiciary Committee.
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Charles McDowell talks about the Judiciary Committee. Pan to Oil painting of Peter Rodino.
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CU Rep PETER RODINO (D-NJ) speaking to committee: "I as the chairman have been guided by a simple principle. The principle that the law must deal fairly w/ every man." LS/TLSs Judiciary Committee in session.
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Former Rodino Aide Francis O' Brien says Rodino believed the American public would accept the judgment if it was a fair trial.
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1974 Judiciary Committee
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Former Rodino Aide Francis O' Brien.
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Special Counsel to the Judiciary Committee JOHN DOAR testifying, 1974.
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John Doar in a 1984 interview talks about the Jud Comm. Former Rep. Charles Wiggins (R-CA) in a 1984 interview says initially GOP was united in the belief it was a partisan attack on Nixon.
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TLS President RICHARD M. NIXON at White House press conference, 2/25/74; MSs Nixon "I do not expect to be impeached." "You don't have to be a Constitutional lawyer to know that the Constitution is very precise in defining what is an impeachable defense - er, uh, an impeachable offense."
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CU Constitution, graphic of Art III, Sec 4.
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DO NOT USE Washington Post headline: "Former Nixon Aides Indicted in Cover-Up of Watergate Case." Post headline: "Nixon Tapes are Subpoenaed."
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MS/CUs Richard Nixon delivering nat'l address, stacks of edited WH transcripts to his left, 4/29/74: "The materials I make public tomorrow will provide all the additional evidence needed to get Watergate behind us & to get it behind us now." Tilting CU stack of transcripts. TLS/MSs Rodino Judiciary Committee in session.
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Split-screen stills of Rep. Walter Flowers (D-AL) & Rep. Ray Thornton (D-AR), Rep. Jim Mann (D-SC),
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Jim Mann in a 1984 interview says he received grief from pro-Nixon constituents.
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TLS/MSs Rodino Judiciary Committee in session. Hamilton Fish (R-NY), William Cohen (R-ME), Tom Railsback (R-IL), M. Caldwell Butler (R-VA). Rep.
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DO NOT USE Still of Richard Nixon, Tom Railsback, two other members of the GOP social group, Chowder and Marching Society.
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M. Caldwell Butler in a 1984 interview says he was defensive of Nixon initially.
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LS Judiciary, press & crowd milling in FG. MS Judiciary Chairman Rep. PETER RODINO (D-NJ) speaking. MS Special Counsel JOHN DOAR testifying to Judiciary.
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Caldwell Butler in a 1984 interview. MS/CUs notebooks of evidence, memorandums. Jim Mann in a 1984 interview says the evidence was overwhelming.
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MS former WH aide ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD testifying to Ervin Committee, 1973. CU former Attorney General JOHN MITCHELL testifying to Ervin Committee, 1973.
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DO NOT USE Still of Richard Nixon & James St. Clair in Oval Office.
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MS former WH counsel JOHN DEAN reading statement to Ervin Committee, 1973.
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Jim Mann & Tom Railsback in 1984 interviews say that among the seven swing voters, none had any idea how the other was going to vote. Host Charles McDowell
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MSs Judiciary Committee Chairman PETER RODINO holding gavel aloft, banging the session into order, July 24, 1974. TLSs Judiciary Committee in session. MS Peter Rodino (R- NJ): "We have deliberated. We have been patient. We have been fair. Now the American people, the House of Reps, the Constitution & the whole history of our republic demand that we make up our minds." Edit. "Make no mistake about it, this is a turning point, whatever we decide. Our judgment is not concerned w/ an individual but w/ a system of constitutional government." Panning TLS Rodino Committee. MS/CUs Rep. JIM MANN (D-SC) speaking to committee during debate: "Do you want us to exercise the duty & responsibilty of the power of impeachment, whether that means conviction or exculpation? You know-- Are we so morally bankrupt that you would accept a past course of wrong-doing or that we would decide that the system we have is incapable of sustaining a system of law b/c we aren't perfect?"
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TLS Judiciary Committee in session. MSs M. CALDWELL BUTLER (R-VA) speaking to Committee durign impeachment debate: "If we fail to impeach we have condoned & left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent w/ the reasonable expectations of the American people. In short, a power appears to have corrupted. It is a sad chapter in American history but I cannot condone what I have heard. I cannot excuse it. I cannot & will not stand still for it." Panning TLS Jud Comm. MS/CU Rep. EDWARD HUTCHINSON (R-MI) debating: "As I see it the Constitution imposes 2 separate conditions for removal of a President. One, criminality. Two, serious impact of that criminality upon the gov't." CU Rep. CHARLES SANDMAN (R-NJ) debating: "The weight of evidence must be clear & convincing. Let's keep to those two words. You can't substitue them for anything else. Prove to me they are & I will vote to impeach." MS/CUs Rep. LAWRENCE HOGAN (R-MD), Rep. HAMILTON FISH (R-NY), Rep. WILLIAM COHEN (R-ME), Rep. ROBERT MCCLORY (R-IL) & Rep. HAROLD FROEHLICH (R-WI) debating. MSs Rep. TOM RAILSBACK (R-IL) debating: "When you put all this together in perspective, I am concerned. I wish that the President could do something to absolve himself. I wish he would come forward w/ the info that we have subpoenaed."
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TLS Judiciary Committee. MS unidentified Democrat Rep debating: "Should Richard M. Nixon be found guilty for obstruction of justice? Yes. Should Richard M. Nixon be found guilty of abusing the powers of his office? Yes." CU/MSs Rep. RAY THORNTON (D-AR), Rep. JIM MANN (D-SC) debating. TLS section of Judiciary Committee - one can see Rep. CHARLES RANGEL (D-NY) & Rep. BARBARA JORDAN (D-TX). MS/CUs Rep. WALTER FLOWERS (D-CA) debating: "I wake up nights, at least those nights I've been able to sleep lately, wondering if this could not be some sordid dream. Impeach the President of the United States." Edit. Rep. Flowers incites the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (We the People). MSs Rep. BARBARA JORDAN (D-TX) debating in Judiciary Committee: "Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. We the People. It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of Sept in 1787 I was not included in that We the People. I felt somehow for many years that George Washington & Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation & court decision, I have finally been included in We the People. My faith in the Constitution is whole, complete, total. And I am not going to sit here & be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." Panning LS seated crowd in hearings.
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Host Charles McDowell closes first half of program.
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DO NOT USE Closing Credits