23: Journalist Elizabeth Drew Explains Impeachment to Al

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🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Al talks impeachment with Elizabeth Drew, veteran journalist and author of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall. Her heralded dissection of the Nixon and Clinton sagas makes her the go-to on the pending Trump impeachment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Al Franken podcast.
0:07.3	We've got a great one today for a change.
0:11.0	Elizabeth Drew, someone who has covered three now impeachment processes, Nixon, Clinton.
0:19.7	And now we're in an impeachment inquiry, and so she probably knows more about impeachment
0:28.4	than anyone except Julie Eisenhower, and it'll be close.
0:41.0	Did you know that I have a Nixon bathroom?
0:48.8	Oh, I'm trying to think of what that would consist of. It consists of three photos that my brother, who's a photo journalist, took when he was about to get in the helicopter and he was doing the Vs.
0:55.2	The two Vs, yes.
0:56.2	Yeah, and so he took three pictures, which are interesting because you see kind of what the
1:01.6	posture of the Fords are and the other people there.
1:05.6	That's a great scene.
1:07.2	Yeah, so I got three of his pictures from that.
1:10.2	I have a letter from Elvis to
1:14.5	Nixon that he wrote on American Airlines on the way to the White House and it is the
1:22.6	craziest letter you have ever seen.
1:33.0	Among other things, he wants to be an FBI agent.
1:35.8	Isn't it Elvis who got his way into the White House?
1:36.4	Yes.
1:39.5	Without an appointment, he got in to see Nixon, something like that. Yeah, not only that, he was carrying guns.
1:42.8	Right, right, right, right.
1:43.7	And they took the guns away from him. They thought.
1:49.1	Ah. But he had one gun when he went into the Oval Office, and he wanted to be an FBI agent because he knew
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