Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min · 4 segments
Send us Fan Mail A preview for three different stories we will be sharing on all three of our podcasts. On Grand Strand Politics we will be covering the race for Governor of South Carolina between…
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And on the Richard Nixon Experience, we'll hear from two of the most consequential staffers on the Watergate House Judiciary Committee staff.
Several aspects of this that I hope historians and citizens, particularly young people, understand.
There were three big challenges that Doar wanted us to meet.
One was, well, what are the grounds for impeachment? There had been Andrew Johnson.
There had been a number of judges who had been impeached.
There was an outcry for an independent counsel to investigate these acts.
I was vehemently opposed to that, vehemently opposed to that.
There was no independent counsel act.
I mean, the Democrats would introduce one in place, vehemently opposed to that, and I argued vehemently in the White House to the President that he should not appoint an independent counsel.
I've said this is a dangerous institution.
I've said it.
And you'll get to hear what they really think of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office.
The independent counsel is a dangerous thing to have, because you have to have a unique person in that position who will walk away without making any case, especially when the president's involved, maybe another lower official.
So I was very wary, and when I came into the White House in 93, 94, of the institution of special prosecutor of the independent counsel.
And on the Richard Nixon Experience, we'll hear from two of the most consequential staffers on the Watergate House Judiciary Committee staff.
Several aspects of this that I hope historians and citizens, particularly young people, understand.
There were three big challenges that Doar wanted us to meet.
One was, well, what are the grounds for impeachment? There had been Andrew Johnson.
There had been a number of judges who had been impeached.
There was an outcry for an independent counsel to investigate these acts.
I was vehemently opposed to that, vehemently opposed to that.
There was no independent counsel act.
I mean, the Democrats would introduce one in place, vehemently opposed to that, and I argued vehemently in the White House to the President that he should not appoint an independent counsel.
I've said this is a dangerous institution.
I've said it.
And you'll get to hear what they really think of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office.
The independent counsel is a dangerous thing to have, because you have to have a unique person in that position who will walk away without making any case, especially when the president's involved, maybe another lower official.
So I was very wary, and when I came into the White House in 93, 94, of the institution of special prosecutor of the independent counsel.
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