Richard M. Nixon

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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"I made a speech which made a lot of people in public television very unhappy, and some of them happy, saying that it was clear that Richard Nixon was trying to turn public broadcasting into a domestic voice of America." - Robert MacNeil, Journalist

Interviewees discuss the presidency of Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974).

Highlights

Robert MacNeil on covering Vietnam and Richard Nixon

04:03

Connie Chung on covering Watergate and Vice-President Rockefeller

04:22

Leo Chaloukian on unknowingly supplying Nixon with the equipment for all of his infamous Watergate recordings

03:16

Walter Cronkite on the pressures on the press by the White House over the Watergate story

04:00

Mike Doulgas on how Roger Ailes helped Richard Nixon with his television image he appeared on The Mike Douglas Show

02:11

Hector Ramirez on the most important image he's ever captured

01:14

Who talked about this topic

Tom Bettag

Tom Bettag on covering Watergate during his early years at CBS News

01:28

David Brinkley

David Brinkley on covering President Richard M. Nixon

03:33

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw on receiving an offer to be Richard M. Nixon's press secretary

03:18

Tom Brokaw on covering Watergate for NBC News

07:53

Tom Brokaw on his relationship with Richard M. Nixon when he was White House correspondent for NBC News

01:24

Leo Chaloukian

Leo Chaloukian on unknowingly supplying Nixon with the equipment for all of his infamous Watergate recordings

03:16

Leo Chaloukian on demonstrating the Nagra Recorder that Ryder Sound gave to President Nixon

01:30

Connie Chung

Connie Chung on interviewing Haldeman during the Watergate scandal

01:30

Connie Chung on covering Watergate and Vice-President Rockefeller

04:22

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite on the pressures on the press by the White House over the Watergate story

04:00

Walter Cronkite on the question of whether he found it difficult to report the news during the Watergate scandal; how Richard (Dick) Salant negotiated a compromise between the network and the White House

01:48

James Day

James Day on Richard Nixon vetoing funds for public broadcasting in 1973

01:32

Sam Donaldson

Sam Donaldson on almost getting an interview with President Nixon at the 1972 Republican National Convention

01:12

Sam Donaldson on covering Watergate for ABC News

06:52

Sam Donaldson on losing a scoop during Watergate

02:04

Mike Douglas

Mike Doulgas on how Roger Ailes helped Richard Nixon with his television image he appeared on The Mike Douglas Show

02:11

Betty Cole Dukert

Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Richard M. Nixon

10:43

June Foray

June Foray on appearing on Richard Nixon's Enemies List

04:37

Reuven Frank

Reuven Frank on Richard Nixon's hostility toward the press

04:50

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson on his close relationships with several American presidents - Richard M. Nixon

02:46

Hal Gurnee

Hal Gurnee on Jack Paar having John and Bobby Kennedy, and Richard Nixon on as guests on Tonight Starring Jack Paar at various times

02:47

Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel on reporting on Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during Watergate; on Kissinger's relationship with the press

10:54

Ted Koppel on reporting on Nixon's trip to China in 1972 and witnessing staged moments for the American press

08:16

Ted Koppel on Richard M. Nixon and his inability to handle small talk

05:34

Perry Lafferty

Perry Lafferty on on having John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon on Person to Person

08:43

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb on working for Richard Nixon's campaign in 1968

09:25

Brian Lamb on working in the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal

03:31

Jim Lehrer

Jim Lehrer on joining up with Robert MacNeil and covering the Watergate hearings

04:23

Stewart MacGregory

Stewart MacGregory on acting as unit manager for NBC's coverage of the 1960 Presidential Elections

06:21

Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil on covering Vietnam and Richard Nixon

04:03

Robert MacNeil on going to work for PBS and covering the Watergate hearings with Jim Lehrer

06:02

Robert MacNeil on covering Watergate

10:01

Robert MacNeil on the inside politics at PBS of covering the Watergate hearings

02:55

Dick Martin

Dick Martin on Richard Nixon's cameo on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

01:47

Sig Mickelson

Sig Mickelson on his reaction to the Kennedy-Nixon Debates, and on talking with Richard M. Nixon

01:43

Bill Monroe

Bill Monroe on covering the presidency of Richard M. Nixon

04:04

Lloyd Morrisett

Lloyd Morrisett on on funding for a second season of Sesame Street being different under the Nixon administration

03:11

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers covering Watergate and the Nixon administration's reaction - to cripple public broadcasting

05:03

Roger Mudd

Roger Mudd on CBS coverage of Watergate

02:17

Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn on being an advisor to the John F. Kennedy campaign

06:01

Don Pike

Don Pike on going to China to act as technical director for NBC News' coverage of President Richard Nixon's historic visit

01:27

Don Pike on going to China to act as technical director for NBC News' coverage of President Richard Nixon's historic visit

07:08

Maury Povich

Maury Povich on covering the Senate Committee Watergate Hearings for Panorama and launching political pundits on the program

01:49

Hector Ramirez

Hector Ramirez on the most important image he's ever captured

01:14

Dan Rather

Dan Rather on Nixon's relationship with television

18:57

Dan Rather on Nixon's 1974 press conference in Houston

08:39

Hank Rieger

Hank Rieger on traveling with Bob Hope when he performed for President Nixon

01:31

Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer on covering Presidents Ford and Nixon as the White House correspondent for CBS News

02:02

Max Schindler

Max Schindler on directing coverage of the wedding of Trisha Nixon and Ed Cox

05:01

Max Schindler on directing coverage of Watergate and Richard Nixon's relationship with television

08:58

George Schlatter

George Schlatter on Richard M. Nixon's appearance on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

01:53

Alfred Schneider

Alfred Schneider on an episode of Howard K. Smith: News and Comment ("The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon"), and how it led to the formulation of a policy to protect news departments from the interference of sponsors

04:01

Alfred Schneider on the role of the government in regulating television content and President Nixon's attempt to encourage anti-drug messages in television programs

01:29

Daniel Schorr

Daniel Schorr on covering Richard M. Nixon, and on being on Nixon's "enemies list"

05:11

Daniel Schorr on being investigated by the FBI at the behest of the Nixon administration

03:23

Daniel Schorr on covering Watergate, and on the end of his career with CBS News

07:55

Howard K. Smith

Howard K. Smith on interviewing President Nixon in 1971

03:23

Dick Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their dealings with CBS, their firing, and their thoughts about the larger political issues which may have contributed to the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

17:37

Tom Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their dealings with CBS, their firing, and their thoughts about the larger political issues which may have contributed to the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

17:37

Sanford Socolow

Sanford Socolow on changes he made during his time at the CBS Washington News Bureau under the Nixon administration - identifying who was asking questions of the President

02:33

Sanford Socolow on his time at the CBS Washington News Bureau under the Nixon administration; on his direct line to Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, and to NBC and ABC

06:18

Sanford Socolow on CBS' coverage of Nixon's resignation and the Pike Report

06:48

Lesley Stahl

Lesley Stahl on coverage of Watergate by network television and on Watergate burglary trial judge John Sirica's importance in the "assault" on President Nixon

01:41

Lesley Stahl on being assigned the "unimportant" Watergate break-in story as a rookie reporter and what a break it was for her career

01:47

Frank Stanton

Frank Stanton on his associations with John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, and on the Kennedy-Nixon debate

04:32

William Tankersley

William Tankersley on how CBS Program Practices handled storylines involving drugs on TV shows in the 1960s

00:09

Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace on covering Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1967-68

06:17

Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes' coverage of Watergate

01:40

Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters on covering Tricia Nixon's White House wedding

01:09

Barbara Walters on covering President Nixon's trip to China

02:52

David L. Wolper

David L. Wolper on making convention films in 1972 for Richard M. Nixon

02:12

Lauren Zalaznick

Lauren Zalaznick on watching the Watergate hearings as a child

01:33

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