“Presidents today guard their privacy and their phone calls. They claim “executive privilege” to avoid telling Congress about the advice they get and the promises they make behind closed doors.” | Analysis by Zachary Wolf
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They claim"executive privilege" to avoid telling Congress about the advice they get and the promises they make behind closed doors.Gone are the days of Oval Office recordings like the ones that forced President Richard Nixon to resign.When recordings of these powerful people emerge, it can be shocking -- such as with the recordings of President Donald Trump pressuring officials in Georgia to "find" votes to overturn the 2020 election results.
"My feeling was that this wasn't the President Johnson I had seen in action and that I knew," says Andrew Young in the documentary. He was King's confidant and later the US Ambassador to the United Nations and then mayor of Atlanta."This was a President Johnson that -- they had been beating up on him. He was tired and he was worn. And there was no fire in him. We were asking President Johnson to try to pass a voting rights act.
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