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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.96,0:00:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The presidency of\Nthe United States of America
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.31,0:00:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is often said to be one of\Nthe most powerful positions in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.90,0:00:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But of all the U.S. presidents accused\Nof misusing that power,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.66,0:00:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only one has left office as a result.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.14,0:00:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does Richard Nixon deserve\Nto be remembered
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.22,0:00:26.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for more than the scandal\Nthat ended his presidency?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.79,0:00:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find out as we put this disgraced\Npresident's legacy on trial
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.86,0:00:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in History vs. Richard Nixon.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.20,0:00:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Order, order.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.49,0:00:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, who's the defendant today,\Nsome kind of crook?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.34,0:00:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Cough. No, your Honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.11,0:00:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Richard Milhous Nixon,\Nthe 37th president of the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.35,0:00:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who served from 1969 to 1974."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.65,0:00:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hold on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.35,0:00:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a weird number of years\Nfor a president to serve."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.50,0:01:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, you see, President Nixon\Nresigned for the good of the nation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.30,0:01:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was pardoned by President Ford,\Nwho took over after him."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.03,0:01:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He resigned because he was about\Nto be impeached,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.43,0:01:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he didn't want the full extent\Nof his crimes exposed."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.48,0:01:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And what were these crimes?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.77,0:01:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your Honor, the Watergate scandal\Nwas one of the grossest abuses
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.43,0:01:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of presidential power in history.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.74,0:01:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nixon's men broke into the Democratic\NNational Committee headquarters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.91,0:01:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to wiretap the offices\Nand dig up dirt on opponents
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.99,0:01:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the reelection campaign."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.21,0:01:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Cough
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.30,0:01:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was established that the President\Ndid not order this burglary."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.22,0:01:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But as soon as he learned of it,\Nhe did everything to cover it up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.92,0:01:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while lying about it for months."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.50,0:01:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Uh, yes, but it was for the good\Nof the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.90,0:01:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did so much during his time in office\Nand could have done so much more
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.73,0:01:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without a scandal jeopardizing\Nhis accomplishments."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.30,0:01:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Uh, accomplishments?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.99,0:01:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, your Honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.55,0:01:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you know it was President Nixon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.30,0:02:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who proposed the creation\Nof the Environmental Protection Agency,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.51,0:02:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and signed the National Environmental\NPolicy Act into law?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.59,0:02:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention the Endangered Species Act,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.88,0:02:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marine Mammal Protection Act,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.92,0:02:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expansion of the Clean Air Act."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.28,0:02:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sounds pretty progressive of him."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.26,0:02:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Progressive? Hardly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.09,0:02:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nixon's presidential campaign courted\NSouthern voters
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.67,0:02:23.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through fear and resentment\Nof the civil rights movement."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.43,0:02:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Speaking of civil rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.45,0:02:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prosecution may be surprised to learn\Nthat he signed the Title IX amendment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.92,0:02:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,banning gender-based discrimination\Nin education,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.64,0:02:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ensured that desegregation of schools\Noccurred peacefully,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.13,0:02:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he lowered the voting age to 18,\Nso that students could vote."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.29,0:02:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He didn't have much concern\Nfor students
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.21,0:02:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after four were shot\Nby the National Guard at Kent State.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.03,0:02:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, he called them bums\Nfor protesting the Vietnam War,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.24,0:02:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a war he had campaigned on ending."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.01,0:02:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But he did end it."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.52,0:03:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He ended it two years\Nafter taking office.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.40,0:03:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, his campaign had sabotaged\Nthe previous president's peace talks,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.41,0:03:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,urging the South Vietnamese government\Nto hold out for supposedly better terms,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.49,0:03:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, I might add, didn't materialize.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.55,0:03:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he protracted the war for four years,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.40,0:03:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which 20,000 more U.S. troops,\Nand over a million more Vietnamese,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.85,0:03:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,died for nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.35,0:03:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hmm, a presidential candidate interfering\Nin foreign negotiations --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.04,0:03:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't that treason?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.01,0:03:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It is, your Honor, a clear violation\Nof the Logan Act of 1799."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.53,0:03:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Uh, I think we're forgetting\NPresident Nixon's many
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.38,0:03:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreign policy achievements.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.72,0:03:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was he who normalized ties with China,\Nforging economic ties that continue today."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.04,0:03:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Are we so sure that's a good thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.30,0:03:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And don't forget his support\Nof the coup in Chile
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.07,0:03:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that replaced the democratically-elected\NPresident Allende
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.35,0:04:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a brutal military dictator."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.68,0:04:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It was part of the fight\Nagainst communism."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.22,0:04:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Weren't tyranny and violence the reasons\Nwe opposed communism to begin with?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.46,0:04:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or was it just fear of the lower class\Nrising up against the rich?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.09,0:04:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"President Nixon couldn't have predicted\Nthe violence of Pinochet's regime,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.24,0:04:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being anti-communist didn't mean\Nneglecting the poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.61,0:04:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He proposed a guaranteed basic income\Nfor all American families,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.36,0:04:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still a radical concept today.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.24,0:04:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he even pushed for comprehensive\Nhealthcare reform,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.28,0:04:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just the kind that passed 40 years later."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.58,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm still confused about\Nthis burglary business.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was he a crook or not?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.12,0:04:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your Honor, President Nixon\Nmay have violated a law or two,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.14,0:04:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what was the real harm compared\Nto all he accomplished while in office?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.78,0:04:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The harm was to democracy itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.13,0:04:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole point of the ideals\NNixon claimed to promote abroad
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.47,0:04:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that leaders are accountable\Nto the people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.46,0:04:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when they hold themselves\Nabove the law for whatever reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.64,0:05:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those ideals are undermined."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.21,0:05:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And if you don't hold people accountable\Nto the law, I'll be out of a job."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.18,0:05:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many politicians have compromised\Nsome principles to achieve results,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.62,0:05:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but law-breaking and cover-ups threaten\Nthe very fabric the nation is built on.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.30,0:05:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who do so may find\Ntheir entire legacy tainted
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.13,0:05:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when history is put on trial.