And I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years

of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I've earned

every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And

I think too that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of

examination because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the

crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

So as we sit here on the day, the night before the impeachment vote of Donald J. Trump on

the historic night, I thought of inviting someone on the podcast who was very much a part

of the abuse of office in the part of president Richard Nixon, who was under investigation

and going through impeachment hearings back in 1974. And the House voted on their articles

of impeachment that included illegal and abusive actions against my guest here today on the

podcast. And as a result of the House committee voting in favor of these articles within

a number of days, Richard Nixon decided he did not want to wait for the vote that was

surely going to take place on the House floor and remove him. Be the first president to

be removed from office because the Democrats had the Senate and he was going to get convicted

so he resigned. But my guest here today on the podcast, he was somebody who was a

patriot, had a American. He was a former Marine. Before that, he was born in Chicago, grew

up partly in Detroit, went to the Cranburg School there. And on my fellow Michiganders,

we all know Cranburg. Parents had wanted him to be a concert pianist. And instead,

initially his mother and sister died and that point, his life changed in a profound way.

So in 1954, he found himself after having gone to Harvard and Oxford, joining the Marine

Corps to do his bit to support the defense of the country. In the pond getting out of the

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