| Richard Nixon | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1909 |
| Catalog #: | 514953 | |
| Clip Number: | 514953-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | COOPER REEL 21 | |
| Timecode: | 02:07:46 - 02:09:11 | |
| Location: | Texas, United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1968 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Campaigns LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Texas OCCUPATIONS: Politicians / Statesmen PERSONALITIES: Nixon, Richard M. | |
| Description: | Master 1909 Part 2 MS Richard M. Nixon standing on stage speaking into microphone, his pose looks like that of a stand up comedian, he talks about needed reform in the Supreme Court. Ironically, he talks about wire tapping legislation which should only be used against organized crime. Most likely he is campaigning for the presidency. What he says (impromptu answer to a question, it seems): "The escalation received a boost from both the attitudes at high levels and, particularly, by the Supreme Court decisions - the Supreme Court decisions not so much insofar as they affected individual criminals who were not brought to prosecution or who were released because of those decisions, but because that was, in effect, a green light to many who were embarking on criminal careers to go forward without the fear of an effective reaction against them. That's why I think that what is needed now is a change in attitude at all levels. That's why I think the change in Supreme Court decisions is just as important, for example, as the wiretapping legislation, which as you know would be used only against organized crime, and also, in long terms, the prison reform, which I think will get at it more fundamentally. But to be quite accurate and quite fair, crime has been with all administrations. Crime, certainly, in the Eisenhower administration in its last years, was more than any of us would want to tolerate today. But at this time, we are faced with a crisis on crime and now is the time to deal with that crisis and to reverse the trend which unfortunately I think began with this administration through some of its decisions." | |
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