This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

This is CBS Eye on the World.

I'm John Bachelor.

It is March 19, 1974.

The Senate floor.

Rising to speak, Senator James L. Buckley of New York.

His remarks to begin.

There is one way and one way only by which the crisis can be resolved.

And the country pulled out of the Watergate swamp.

I stopped there to welcome the author of a new measure of James L. Buckley's life and times.

John Bolton, writing at the National Review Online, National Review Magazine.

Mr. Bolton is a former ambassador to the United Nations for the United States, former National Security Advisor.

John, a very good evening to you.

I only had occasion to speak to Senator Buckley once.

Later in his life when he had published a book about Congress and both parties working together for the greater good and smaller government.

It was a delightful conversation, although given the partisan fury in Washington, it seemed out of time.

His remarks in March of 1974.

What was his intention and how was he heard, John?

Good evening to you.

Buckley saw that Nixon was in deep trouble at the arc of the investigation from the Senate Watergate Committee to the House Judiciary Committee,

was pointing in the direction of impeachment and then conviction in the Senate.

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