The Richard Nixon Presidential Library has released interviews with key staff charged with investigating whether there were grounds to impeach President Nixon.  This oral history is with Francis O’Brien, chief of staff to Congressman Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974.

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To mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in on June 17th, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library released interviews with key staff charged with investigating whether there were grounds to impeach President Nixon. This is the first time that many of these individuals have spoken for the record about the work and inner politics of the impeachment inquiry. This is an interview with Bernard Nussbaum, who served as a senior member of the staff advising the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment. He worked alongside future Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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June 17th marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in that ultimately resulted in President Nixon's resignation. To commemorate the anniversary, the Chapman University School of Law held a symposium about Watergate's lasting impact. This is a keynote speech by John Dean, former White House Counsel to President Nixon and a key figure in the Watergate investigation and political scandal. He spoke about Watergate, President Nixon, and his own involvement in the events that led to the end of the administration.

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Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein participate in a discussion on Watergate and presidential accountability as well as how Watergate changed the presidency.

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The Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California recently opened a new exhibit about Watergate. Library Director Timothy Naftali gave American History TV a tour of the exhibit, which chronicles events that led up to the break-in at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee on June 17, 1972. Mr. Naftali also discusses the aftermath of the scandal, the resignation of President Nixon, and the lasting impact that Watergate made on our system of government.

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Washington Post journalists Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward recently traveled to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum-–where a new Watergate Exhibit has just debuted-–to talk about the political scandal and the fallout for President Nixon. They reflect on the role of the anonymous source known only as “Deep Throat” and reveal the behind-the-scenes events that shaped the newspaper’s Watergate coverage.

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At the direction of Congress, the voices and experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20^th century are being documented in an oral history project. This effort is a collaboration of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, the Library of Congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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We continue our series of interviews from the Eisenhower Legacy Collection with unedited excerpts from a 1992 conversation with former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Mr. Brownell was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s senior campaign strategist in 1952, became Attorney General in 1953 and served in that capacity until after the Little Rock integration crisis in 1957. In this oral history, Mr. Brownell talks about his relationship with Ike, the election, U.S. involvement in Korea, and the Warren Court.

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These are unedited excerpts from a 1995 conversation with journalist James Reston. He was the New York Times Washington Bureau Chief during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, and he offers his observations about Ike’s foreign policies, his relations with the GOP’s conservative wing, and the influence of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He also explains why the downing of an American U2 spy plane led Eisenhower to consider resigning the presidency.

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From the Eisenhower Legacy Collection, unedited excerpts from a 1992 conversation with former staff secretary and defense liaison officer to President Eisenhower, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. After World War II, Goodpaster served with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in the late 1950s. In this interview, Goodpaster explains Ike’s views of the military industrial complex, his ideas on military spending, and working with Congress. Independent producer George Colburn conducted this interview for a series of documentaries on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military and political career – a period covering from 1941 to 1961. C-SPAN 3’s American History TV is airing a selection of interviews that Mr. Colburn has conducted over the last two decades with the people closest to Ike during the war years and his presidency. 

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