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00:00Every inauguration has its special drama. I suppose the special drama of this one is
00:24the game that destiny has played with Richard Nixon. Eight years ago, he was defeated for
00:29president of the United States, something few politicians recover from. Six years ago,
00:33he was defeated for the governorship of California and quit politics, something no politician
00:38has ever recovered from. And he's back today, the winner to be sworn in as the 37th president
00:43of the United States.
00:49The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons
01:02America. This is our summons to greatness. And I believe the American people are ready
01:09to answer this call.
01:16As the presidential motorcade moved west on Pennsylvania Avenue, the president passed
01:22a group of peace demonstrators. People are throwing things into the street now. As we
01:30move toward the end of this inaugural day, the title that President Nixon yearns for
01:35most is that of peacemaker. So we wish our new president well on all the luck in the
01:42world. He'll need it.
02:05When I walked into the office, January of 1969, I inherited a problem. The war in Vietnam
02:28had been going on for a period of five years with the cash register running two to three
02:32hundred a week. I didn't send 550,000 men to Vietnam. Nevertheless, this was the responsibility
02:40that I knew was mine.
02:58Good evening, my fellow Americans. Since I took office four months ago, nothing has
03:03taken so much of my time and energy as the search for a way to bring lasting peace to
03:08Vietnam. I want to end this war. The American people want to end this war. But we want to
03:15end it permanently. And therefore, we have ruled out a one-sided withdrawal from Vietnam
03:23or the acceptance in turn that it would amount to a disguised American defeat. When we assume
03:30the burden of helping defend South Vietnam, millions of South Vietnamese men, women and
03:35children place their trust in us. To abandon them now would risk a massacre that would
03:41shock and dismay everyone in the world who values human life. Let me be quite blunt.
03:49Our fighting men are not going to be worn down. Our mediators are not going to be talked
03:54to. And our allies are not going to be let down. Thank you, and good night.
04:04This speech this evening was a culmination of more than a month of background speculation,
04:09and I'd like to know if indeed there is anything new in the speech tonight.
04:16Roger, I think the immediate visceral reaction is same old stuff. The President did not announce
04:22any limited U.S. troop withdrawals. He announced no U.S. troop withdrawals at all. There just
04:26isn't a great deal in this speech that the American people will immediately recognize
04:30as new. You think you already narrowed a piece after
04:32listening to President Nixon's speech? Well, maybe in the next three or four years,
04:37but no way soon.
04:46For nine days, American and South Vietnamese troops have been trying to take a mountain
04:52near the Laotian border, and ten times they have been thrown back. The casualties have
04:57been so high that the mountain has come to be known as Hamburger Hill.
05:01They just kept sending us up there, and we weren't getting anywhere. And they were just
05:07slaughtering us like a turkey shoot. And we were the turkey.
05:15Hamburger Hill, captured only last week, apparently is going to be abandoned.
05:21The battle for Hamburger Hill and the resulting casualties set off quite a controversy this
05:25week, and Senator Edward Kennedy was in the center of it.
05:29But certainly anyone, anyone that witnessed the cruelty and savagery of this past week
05:36would only have been immoral if they had remained silent, silent about this war.
05:42Responding to that criticism, the spokesman said, Mr. Nixon does not second guess his
05:47field commander.
05:48Teddy Kennedy is far and away the Democratic front-runner for president in 1972.
06:001972, there's a great many stories about the Muskie-Kennedy ticket and the Kennedy-Muskie
06:05ticket. I want to just say tonight, right now, there's absolutely no truth to those
06:09stories. Ed Muskie hasn't picked a vice president yet. Let me say, neither have I.
06:21For Democrats, the young Massachusetts senator, last of the Kennedy brothers, speaks out strongly
06:28on the major issues where conflict arises with President Nixon and Republicans generally.
06:35All of the so-called intellectual elite, the so-called better people, were against
06:40what we were doing in Vietnam. They thought we should get out, whatever the cost might
06:43be. Well, if they wanted to end the war, they should have supported what we were trying
06:48to do, rather than to sabotage our efforts to end it.
06:54The president asks for time to end the war, but these people think he's had enough, and
06:58they hope the American public will give him that same message in a big way on October 15th.
07:05Mr. President, what is your view, sir, concerning the student moratorium being planned against
07:15the Vietnam War?
07:18As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it. However, under no circumstances
07:26will I be affected whatever by it.
07:30That brief categorical statement has backfired and become a rallying point for the anti-war
07:35movement.
07:36Today we unite from one coast to another to seek, to request, to implore an armistice.
08:04Hundreds and hundreds of thousands in cities from New York to Du Bois, Wyoming, have sought
08:09to impress upon the president their opposition to the war.
08:13More than 40,000 of our men have given their lives as sacrificial lambs to a godless cause.
08:24When will it cease? When does the moratorium on death to our sons begin by the United States
08:33government?
08:34It just seems to all of us who observe politics that something has changed since Richard Nixon
08:41has come in. What caused that?
08:44Well, I think one must say that the disillusionment index begins to represent middle America,
08:50not just the left wing.
08:52What we've seen today, President Nixon will have to take account of it, because if it
08:57appears to him to be essential to the success of his own administration, he must do it.
09:02We can go further than that, Ed, and you can say that President Nixon himself started this.
09:09President Nixon ran on a platform of ending the war and winning the peace, so ending the
09:14war is now dogma in American politics, and it becomes a matter of when, and then it becomes
09:21inevitably a matter of hurry up.
09:32I was particularly concerned about this protest we had on October the 15th, and another was
09:42planned. So under the circumstances, I knew it was necessary to address the nation.
09:50After a lot of the demonstrations, he seemed frustrated, and he seemed beleaguered. So
09:55I saw the toll it had taken on him, but his first reaction was to fight back.
10:01In a few moments, the president will address the nation in a major policy speech on the
10:06situation in Vietnam.
10:08The president undertakes his most important selling job since he moved into the White
10:12House, and how well he does it may influence the making or breaking of his presidency.
10:17Good evening, my fellow Americans. I believe that one of the reasons for the deep division
10:24about Vietnam is that many Americans have lost confidence in what their government has
10:29told them about our policy.
10:31Tonight, therefore, I would like to answer some of the questions that I know are on the
10:36minds of many of you listening to me. We have adopted a plan for the complete withdrawal
10:42of all U.S. combat ground forces and their replacement by South Vietnamese forces on
10:49an orderly scheduled timetable. I have not and do not intend to announce the timetable.
10:57I recognize that some of my fellow citizens disagree with the plan for peace I've chosen.
11:03In San Francisco, a few weeks ago, I saw demonstrators carrying signs reading,
11:09Lose in Vietnam. Bring the boys home.
11:13But as President of the United States, I would be untrue to my oath of office.
11:19If I allowed the policy of this nation to be dictated by the minority who hold that
11:24point of view and who try to impose it on the nation by mounting demonstrations in the street.
11:31And so tonight, to you, the great silent majority, I ask for your support.
11:39I pledged in my campaign for the presidency to end the war.
11:44The more support I can have, the sooner that pledge can be redeemed.
11:49Let us be united for peace.
11:51Thank you and good night.
11:59Whatever reaction to the president's Vietnam speech you want, you could find here in Washington the day after.
12:05The president himself received lots of it and twice invited reporters in to see it stacked on the desk where the book stops.
12:13Most of the response was favorable, but not all was spontaneous.
12:17Before the president's speech, Republican Party officials directed to generate as much favorable reaction as possible.
12:23How many of the telegrams and letters are part of the carefully orchestrated Republican Party publicity campaign?
12:29It is too early to say.
12:31Do you believe there's something such as the silent majority?
12:35Yes, I do. The minority have been very active and very loud.
12:40The silent majority are the people that are, I think, a little bit more in agreement with what is happening
12:46before they're not as loud.
12:50I hope that the minority group does join the majority group because he's doing a great job.
12:55I agree with him 100%.
13:02Our approval rating went up to 68%.
13:09Despite the fact that the media was overwhelmingly against the war,
13:13despite the fact that we had demonstrations, thousands of them, that that was not the voice of America.
13:18The voice of America was the silent majority.
13:23I believe that we can see that the Vietnam War will come to a conclusion.
13:44The time has come for action.
13:48If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America,
13:54acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,
13:58the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations throughout the world.
14:05The United States of America
14:11Mr. Nixon argues that enemy activity across the border in Cambodia has been provocative
14:16and that to ignore it would hurt the president's ability to continue withdrawing U.S. troops.
14:21They went ahead telling no one in Congress and almost no one in the State or Defense Departments.
14:26This is certainly going to be a decision that will provoke great controversy.
14:30We are protesting Richard Nixon's stupid action of expanding the war in Southeast Asia.
14:38President Nixon doesn't want peace.
14:40You're not going to tell me that somebody escalates a war that wants peace.
14:43He's just lying to the American people.
14:49You know, you see these bombs, you know, blowing up the campuses.
14:52Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world.
14:58And here they are burning up the books.
15:01I mean, storming around about this issue.
15:03I mean, you name it, get rid of the war, there'll be another one.
15:08You can't have the president of the United States alienating students,
15:12refer to students as bums,
15:15You can't have the president of the United States alienating students,
15:19refer to students as bums.
15:22The statement itself really was an affront to students emotionally.
15:34After two days of rioting over Cambodia, the university had banned rallies,
15:38and the National Guard stood by to enforce the ban.
15:45Get out of here!
16:16Get out of here!
16:28She resented being called a bum
16:33because she disagreed with someone else's opinion.
16:38She felt that war in Cambodia was wrong.
16:41Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl
16:47has to be shot
16:50because she disagrees deeply with the actions of her government?
16:58I must say it was certainly the most emotionally wrenching experience I had
17:03during the entire period of the presidency.
17:06Because you see, a girl like that shot and killed at Kent State.
17:10Her father made a statement to the effect,
17:13My daughter was not a bum.
17:15And I thought of my own daughters.
17:18But let's understand that this was not just a case
17:22of a group of hard-nosed military people shooting down innocent students.
17:29Kent State had been virtually a battleground.
17:32They threw rocks at the Guard and threw the tear gas canisters.
17:37I particularly was disturbed by those that had brought it on, in my opinion,
17:43by the kind of actions that they were inspiring.
17:49The White House tonight issued the following statement.
17:52This should remind us all that when dissent turns to violence,
17:56it invites tragedy.
17:58It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident
18:01will strengthen the determination to stand firmly
18:04against the resort to violence as a means of such expression.
18:09I believe the Nixon administration is really not trying to bring us together,
18:15but is engaged in a polarization process.
18:23In New York, the students have been demonstrating against the war
18:26and the killings at Kent State.
18:32These kids, so-called peaceful,
18:35and they can get away with all the garbage that goes on here in the city.
18:38Well, enough said.
18:44Soon dozens, then hundreds of hard-headed workers
18:47from nearby construction jobs charged through police lines,
18:51chasing the protesters from the steps,
18:53beating those who did not move fast enough
18:55and the few who tried to slug it out.
19:09President Nixon tonight will attempt to dispel
19:11the atmosphere of growing crisis.
19:13The words he uses tonight are perhaps the most important of his political life.
19:17Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States,
19:21Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.
19:34Would you be seated?
19:37Mr. Risher.
19:38Mr. President, have you been surprised
19:40by the intensity of the protest against your decision
19:43to send troops into Cambodia?
19:45No, I have not been surprised by the intensity of the protest.
19:49Those who are protesting believe that this decision will expand the war.
19:54I know how deeply they feel.
19:57But I know that what I have done
20:00will accomplish the goals that they want.
20:03Mr. Cormier, do you believe that you can open up
20:06meaningful communications with this college-age generation and how?
20:12I would like to try as best I can to do that.
20:17It is not easy.
20:19Sometimes they, as you know,
20:23talk so loudly that it is difficult to be heard.
20:28When the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool.
20:32Do you believe that the use of the word bums
20:35to categorize some of those who are engaged in dissent,
20:38do you believe that's in keeping with your suggestion
20:40that the rhetoric should be kept cool?
20:42All the members of this press corps know
20:44that I have for years defended the right of dissent.
20:48I have always opposed the use of violence.
20:51And when students on university campuses burn buildings,
20:56when they engage in violence,
20:58then I think bums is perhaps too kind a word
21:00to apply to that kind of person.
21:02Public opinion polls have indicated
21:04that lately the president was slipping in the matter of trust.
21:07There was a vague feeling that perhaps President Nixon
21:10did not have quite as strong a grip on things
21:12as might have appeared during his first year.
21:15He is on the spot. He knows it.
21:19Campaign 70, Election Preview.
21:22Perhaps the most striking feature of this campaign
21:25has been the unprecedented personal effort by President Nixon.
21:36In the last year or so,
21:38the United States Senate has served as a focus
21:41for the opposition to the Vietnam War.
21:44And so this year, Mr. Nixon is hoping to change
21:47the complexion of the Senate.
21:50Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present to you
21:53the President of the United States.
21:55Let's welcome him.
21:57Let's welcome him.
22:16There are those who say,
22:18how do we answer those who engage in violence?
22:20How do we answer those who try to shout down a speaker?
22:24And my answer is, don't answer in kind.
22:27It's time for the great silent majority
22:30just to stand up and be counted.
22:41There have been reports, sir,
22:43that those who shout obscenities to the president
22:46are his secret weapon.
22:48I don't think there's any question about it.
22:50I think the president said the other day
22:52that one obscenity was worth 10,000 votes.
22:56What did you think of the disruptions?
22:58The disruptions?
23:00Oh, I'm always sorry for young people that have no values.
23:08The president of the United States
23:10should not be heckled and yelled obscenities at.
23:13They just ought to throw them out and shoot them
23:15or hang them or something like that.
23:23We will get a direct answer tonight
23:25on how successful Mr. Nixon was
23:27in helping his hand-picked candidates for the Senate.
23:44Now from election headquarters in New York,
23:46Howard K. Smith and Frank Reynolds.
23:49Howard, what do you make of the effects so far
23:51so far as we can tell
23:53of the last-minute blitz by the president?
23:56The blitz did not have the expected results.
24:00President Nixon's law and order campaign
24:02failed to touch off the Republican stampede he hoped for.
24:05Democrats have retained control of the Senate.
24:08The House remains in Democratic hands.
24:10And in the balloting for 35 governorships,
24:13the Republicans have come out behind.
24:15The message of the campaign seems to be
24:17the Republicans are doing something that's not right.
24:20They'd better find out what it is that's wrong before 1972.
24:27Here we are at an all-time low.
24:29The polls are low. The credibility rating's low.
24:31The magazines are saying Nixon's in trouble.
24:33Everything is bad.
24:35And we needed to do something about that.
24:51How are we working here?
24:54It's an enormous headache.
24:57This is what happens in a rare case like this.
25:08This is totally inappropriate.
25:11We should put a file in my file box,
25:14your file box, or anybody else's file box.
25:18There is a file box.
25:20We have to have it.
25:22It's a person's file box.
25:24It could be somebody's.
25:25It could be your girlfriend's.
25:27It could be somebody's gun.
25:29It could be your girlfriend's mind.
25:31It could be somebody you recognize.
25:36The problem in the Navy
25:38is that they discriminate too much
25:40for the wives in the positions they aren't able to do.
25:44We can't put them in command positions, can we?
25:48Sexuality, immorality in general.
25:50These are the enemies of strong society.
25:54They're trying to destroy us.
25:57Don't be deployed.
25:59Trust the Vatican.
26:00Take care of it.
26:03The press is the enemy.
26:05The press is the enemy.
26:06The press is the enemy.
26:08The establishment is the enemy.
26:10Write that in the Blackboard 100 times.
26:14The war represents a very serious problem.
26:18You can see.
26:19War has eroded America's confidence in human society.
26:23I think you would strike this if you'd been a strong president.
26:26That's true.
26:27I agree.
26:28I agree.
26:29That's everything.
26:30Everything has to be played out
26:32in terms of how we survive.
26:35I want a lot more use of wiretapping.
26:38I want a lot more use of wiretapping.
26:40Are we going to have to leave the...
26:42We're on and off on the desk.
26:48I don't care.
26:49I don't care.
26:50We've got to stop her.
26:53I'm telling you.
26:54See you.
27:09The preparations are in full swing at the White House
27:11for tomorrow's wedding of the president's daughter,
27:13Tricia, to Edward Finch-Cox.
27:15Nervous?
27:16No, I'm not nervous.
27:17Not yet.
27:18Why did they put that in the office?
27:20Oh, shit.
27:21Why did we finally decide to do it?
27:23You know, that's all worked out.
27:25So it's going to be very, very big.
27:27Very, very big.
27:28TV.
27:39Hello.
27:40Hi.
27:41Hi, Mr. President.
27:42Hey, that wedding was just great.
27:44You know, I thought the press coverage was excellent.
27:47All three networks did it.
27:49Just really couldn't have done better.
27:52Incidentally, I don't know whether you...
27:54I didn't read the piece,
27:55but that piece in the Times
27:57is, of course, a massive security leak
28:00from the Pentagon, you know.
28:09In 1967, Secretary of Defense McNamara
28:13assigned his officials to write a top-secret history
28:16of how we got into Vietnam.
28:21Composed over two years,
28:23it was 7,000 pages in length,
28:25full of secret documents.
28:27Well, one copy has been leaked to the New York Times,
28:30which yesterday began publishing a digest of it.
28:33Unconscionable damn thing for them to do.
28:35Unconscionable damn thing for them to do.
28:37Unconscionable.
28:38Unconscionable on the part of the people that leaked it.
28:40My point is,
28:41if there are any of the people there
28:43who participated in leaking it,
28:45this is treasonable action
28:46on the part of the bastards who put it out.
28:49It's a conspiracy, Bob.
29:01Was Nixon paranoid? Yes.
29:04And he took on this self-survival cloak,
29:08and that led to other things happening.
29:18I want the man to work directly with me on this whole situation.
29:22I want somebody who's just as calm as I am for a change.
29:25We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy.
29:28They're using any means.
29:29We are going to use any means.
29:33There was a mood of panic and despair.
29:36Nixon wanted to bring in a group of people
29:39who would do security,
29:41these kind of black bag jobs,
29:43and told me to do whatever it took.
29:45It really led to the creation of the plumbers.
30:16From the Oval Office of the White House,
30:19a conversation with President Nixon,
30:22with White House correspondent Dan Rather.
30:25Thank you, Mr. President.
30:26Happy New Year to you.
30:27Since this is a new year,
30:29may we assume that you are a candidate for re-election?
30:32Well, that's not an unexpected question.
30:34While I cannot announce it on this program,
30:36at most assume that a man who has served in the office of president
30:41will be a candidate for re-election.
30:43Everything seems to have been pointed in the direction of climaxing
30:46in this election year.
30:48Trips to Peking and Moscow.
30:50Is all of this coincidental, the timing,
30:53or is it, as some of even your friends say,
30:56politically motivated?
30:58Those of us who make decisions in offices like this,
31:02certainly we think politically.
31:04But the country comes first.
31:07The government of the People's Republic of China
31:09and the government of the United States
31:11must see that we can have differences
31:14without being enemies in war.
31:19Many world leaders said they felt the visit might be a key
31:22to ultimate peace in Southeast Asia.
31:24But the United States,
31:26the United Kingdom,
31:28the United States of America,
31:30the United Kingdom,
31:32the United Kingdom,
31:34the United States of America
31:36is the key to ultimate peace in Southeast Asia.
31:39Mr. President.
31:40Hello, Henry.
31:41Have you checked in to see how they played the Chinese thing today?
31:44Oh, yeah, it was tremendous.
31:46And it's been the lead item on every television thing.
31:49Rather than Vietnam for a change.
31:51For every reason,
31:53we've got to have a diversion from Vietnam in this country.
31:57That's the point, isn't it? Yeah.
31:59Certainly from here on,
32:01the attention, the publicity, the news reporting
32:04will be centered on Mr. Nixon's journey to China.
32:15My hope is that many, many Americans,
32:18particularly the young Americans
32:20who like to travel so much,
32:22will have an opportunity to see this wall,
32:25to know the Chinese people and know them better.
32:28It's the whole thing.
32:30The China thing was superb
32:32from the spotless standpoint of the people.
32:35The American people are stars.
32:37And they can tell you all that bullshit
32:40about the great middle America,
32:43the middle America.
32:45The president's China visit is politically convenient.
32:48The other candidates in the New Hampshire and Florida primaries
32:51aren't getting any attention.
32:53Mr. Nixon is on the other side of the world
32:55and he's getting all of the attention,
32:57because he is the president and he is in China.
33:27...Vietnam long before the election.
33:58The North Vietnamese have launched a major military offensive.
34:06South Vietnamese forces are evacuating the positions in South Vietnam,
34:10and the civilians are going with them.
34:13The first real test of South Vietnamese military forces
34:16has been failed.
34:18Andrew Pearson...
34:22The enemy offensive touched off alarm bells
34:25throughout the White House.
34:27The president is personally coordinating
34:29much of the battlefield strategy himself.
34:36I've been thinking about this,
34:38and I don't think that anybody really realizes
34:41how far I'm prepared to go here.
34:48The United States of America
34:50cannot abide by foreign policy.
34:53If we are humiliated in Vietnam,
34:55we must not lose Vietnam.
34:57It is as cold as ice.
34:59Right?
35:01And they have not given us any way
35:03to avoid being killed.
35:05And since they have not,
35:07we must draw the sword.
35:12It is a misty, rainy night in Washington.
35:14The president requested nationwide broadcast time
35:17after a series of meetings with his chief aides.
35:19The White House would say only
35:21the president will discuss Southeast Asia.
35:23It is important.
35:27Today there was no effort to conceal
35:29the grave atmosphere which precedes
35:31a military decision of the highest importance.
35:35Good evening.
35:37The communist armies of North Vietnam
35:40launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam.
35:43The North Vietnamese arrogantly refused
35:46to negotiate anything.
35:48Their answer to every peace offer
35:51we have made
35:53has been to escalate the war.
35:56And the communist offensive
35:58has now reached the point
36:00that it gravely threatens the lives
36:02of 60,000 American troops
36:04who are still in Vietnam.
36:06There's only one way to stop the killing.
36:12I have ordered the following measures
36:14which are being implemented
36:16and I am speaking to you.
36:18All entrances to North Vietnamese ports
36:20will be mined.
36:25Rail and all other communications
36:27will be cut off to the maximum extent possible.
36:33Air and naval strikes against military targets
36:35in North Vietnam will continue.
36:40I know how much you want to end this war.
36:43I know how much you want to bring our men home.
36:46And I think you know from all that I have said and done
36:49these past three and a half years
36:51how much I too want to end the war
36:53to bring our men home.
36:56With God's help, with your support,
36:59we will accomplish that great goal.
37:17We can do all of this without killing too many civilians.
37:20With God's help, don't be so careful
37:22that you don't knock out the oil tanks.
37:24See my point?
37:47The War on Terror
37:58Today, U.S. bomber pilots reported destroying
38:00an important railroad bridge
38:02cutting one of two rail lines through China.
38:06The North Vietnamese say American planes
38:08bombed a dike on the outskirts of Hanoi
38:11and other populated areas.
38:13The Hanoi government claimed
38:15that the targets were not just military installations.
38:18Hospitals, schools, factories,
38:21and storehouses were damaged.
38:29The president pledged in 1968
38:32a plan to end the war.
38:34Now we're moving into the year of his reelection
38:37with the war escalating
38:39to a level it has heretofore not achieved.
38:42I am now convinced
38:44there's no way to end this war
38:46except to take Richard Nixon out of office.
39:15What's your opinion?
39:17I think it's great.
39:19I'm back of him 100%.
39:21They ought to blast the whole damn place off the map
39:23and forget it.
39:25I approve thoroughly.
39:27Would you approve stronger military action?
39:29Yes, I would.
39:31Bomb them and then get out. I think that's the best way.
39:45Good evening.
39:47We have a mystery story out of Washington.
39:49Five people have been arrested
39:51and charged with breaking into the headquarters
39:53of the Democratic National Committee
39:55in the middle of the night.
40:00The Watergate Apartment Hotel
40:02office complex in Washington
40:04is noted for its security.
40:06But the burglars penetrated that security
40:08through a firewall door.
40:10Material from files there
40:12has been found in their possession
40:14as well as extensive photographic
40:16and electronic eavesdropping gear.
40:18The suspects are saying nothing.
40:20The Democrats say they have no idea
40:22who would want to spy on them.
40:26The season's first hurricane
40:28was born today in the Caribbean.
40:30She's moving through the Yucatan Channel
40:32on a course that could bring her ashore
40:34somewhere along the west coast of Florida.
40:36A small but extremely dangerous storm
40:38is now shifting westward.
40:40A consultant was implicated today
40:42in that apparent attempt to bug
40:44or burglarize the offices
40:46of the Democratic National Committee.
40:50All residents of the low-lying areas
40:52are advised to evacuate
40:54by noon today.
40:56The White House denied
40:58and continues to deny
41:00involvement in any wrongdoing.
41:02Tides are running six to eight feet
41:04above normal,
41:06and it's going to get higher.
41:11It's worth a lot of work
41:13to try and keep people
41:15at home, I suggest.
41:17Everybody says when they're
41:19all out of jail,
41:21they've all been taken care of.
41:23It's going to cost us less.
41:25Well, they're going to be
41:27under arrest, and they have to be
41:29made to understand.
41:35Mr. Nixon has made it clear
41:37that he does not intend
41:39to obey the law of the land.
41:42Any suggestion
41:44that this president
41:46is ever going to slow down
41:48or is ever going to leave this office
41:50until he finishes the job
41:52he was elected to do...
41:54The president has engaged in a series
41:56of actions designed to thwart
41:58the lawful investigation
42:00by government prosecutors.
42:02That, that's just plain poppycock.