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In this episode we travel the world with Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Here we see one last triumph for the President who brought peace to millions. He first visits France to restore good relations in Europe which had felt long neglected by its American ally as we had been bogged down in Vietnam for over a decade.

While President Nixon was busy there his confidant , Dr. Henry Kissinger, was shuttling through out the Middle East working to bring a stalemated conflict between Israel and two of its Arab neighbors to an end. It was called shuttle diplomacy and it was during this time that the term peace process was coined. We will tune in to the era with contemporary news reports from the time and we will hear from several of those intimately involved in these moments of high drama.

Then we will join Richard Nixon in his final triumphant visits to a Middle East he had brought balance and peace to in this tumultuous era. He was greeted, much to the shock of the American press corp, to a heroes welcome everywhere he went from a train ride across Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, and Syria to a thanks filled event in Israel as he was proclaimed the statesman of the age and thanked for his role in saving the nation by the leader of Israel himself.

Then after a brief stay at home, Richard Nixon took off again to meet Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. There they would sign an economic agreement, limit missile sights, and lower the number of nuclear missiles, but as the effort to topple the administration at home was gaining momentum, the Soviets decided to play hard ball as they sensed Nixon's power was fading.

So while the summit was a success it would also become the first "What might have been" of what would become long list of them, as the United States would force the greatest leader it had produced so far in the last half of the 20th century from office.

And this show will leave you with a question for the ages......

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Fritz Kraemer, was a mysterious figure, here described in Wikipedia

"He was always flamboyant and eccentric. Kraemer wore a monocle and it became his trademark"

" Kraemer was described as the father of the neo-conservative movement in US foreign policy.[6] Kraemer was unswerving in his contempt for “provocative weakness,” warning that U.S. military weakness invites aggression by America’s enemies. He also railed against forsaking one’s principles through compromise or conciliation.[7] "

He was the mentor of Henry Kissinger, who turned on his student due to his belief that the policy of Detente was wrong , and that our departure from Vietnam showed weakness.

That rift, represented by the Kissinger and Kraemer wings of conservative foreign policy thought, has shown itself in the conservative movement, again and again, for over a half century. It was never healed when Kraemer died at age 95 in 2003.

In this episode , thanks to the scholarly work of Dr. Luke Nichter, we will get a full look at who Fritz Kraemer was, his influence which is still felt today, and finally we will hear him in a half hour meeting with President Richard Nixon as the two men talk about the foreign policy that Nixon was creating in the 1970's. It is a fascinating meeting.

Let's get to know him, shall we..

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Welcome to the fourth edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon.

This episode will conclude the arguments by both sides to the Supreme Court in the historic case of Watergate.

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Welcome to the third edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon.

This episode will conclude President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation and include the Special Prosecutor's Office Counsel Phil Lacavara's presentation. He had worked in the Solicitor General's Office during the previous Democratic Administration but claims to have voted for Richard Nixon twice. Mr. Lacovara was featured in our previous episode titled "The Battle Lines are drawn" from a presentation he did at Rutgers University.

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Welcome to the second edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon.

This episode will conclude Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's presentation and begin most of President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation.

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Welcome to the first of four episodes that will make up our podcast rebroadcast of the entire oral arguments of the case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America.

When people usually see the Youtube video of these arguments the first thing they notice is that they are three hours long. Way to long for most people to even want to listen to them. We have broken them apart into roughly four 45 minute, give or take, segments for you to enjoy over the next four days.

If you have never heard them, or not ever heard an argument of any case in front of the United States Supreme Court, I think you will find the next few episodes educational. You will see how the court works and the types of questions the Supreme Court Justices ask when hearing a case.

No matter whether you agree with our editorial opinion of the case of Richard Nixon in Watergate or not, you will find these episodes, offered without anything other than a brief introduction during this first episode, absolutely fascinating. Enjoy!

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This is a brief introduction to our format for the next two weeks of podcast episodes. We had a storytelling issue because the events covered were things that occurred simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. We broke them apart in order to not leave you confused as these events unfolded. We also decided to change the order which led to a small error in a show that aired earlier this week concerning President Nixon's overseas trip. That episode will air next week.

As important as President Nixon's mission was in his final overseas trips in 1974 , I actually found finding material on the trips fairly difficult. So to supplement that episode we thought we would also examine two people who have had an enormous impact on the world, Fritz Kraemer and Anatoly Dobrynan. One has impacted conservative thought in foreign policy for a half century and counting, and the other was a vitally important figure in Soviet Union - American relations for nearly two decades of the Cold War.

We will cover this and the Supreme Court arguments in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon over the next two weeks. We hope it will give you a sense of the gravity of this time period and its events on both world events and the history of our nation here at home.

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In this episode we examine the events that led to the Supreme Court Case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America.

We examine the wrangling over just how many tapes the Special Prosecutor would ask for and his attempt to blackmail the President into backing off of his claim of Executive Privilege. We will take both a scholarly look at the actual doctrine of Executive Privilege with Dr Noah Zerbe , and listen to those who were involved on both sides of the issue in 1974, we will look at what the settled law had been up to the point the case went to the Supreme Court, and a look at the timeline in which the leadership of the House Judiciary staff, mainly John Doar, had been secretly working with Hank Ruth to design a pathway for the Special Prosecutor's case to be made by his staff to the House Committee.

In fact, the word "secret" is one you will see a lot over these final days of the legal case mounting against the President of the United States. Secret meetings, secret files, secret namings of people as conspirators, secret files being taken with Special Prosecutors and then sealed for years after the case was closed, files secretly sealed, it is secret, secret, secret, and when this much stuff is kept secret there must be a secret nobody wants the public to ever actually see and hear.

Well it is all not a secret any longer, as we will hear in this episode.

We will also hear from a Special Prosecutor we have not heard from until now, Phil Lacavara. We have read several of his memos but this is the first time we will hear from him as he addresses the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon in "An Evening with Phil Lacavara" at Rutgers University. These segments will set the stage for the oral arguments in front of the United States Supreme Court we are about to replay for you in their entirety.