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Maddow’s Transparency Teach-in with Watergate-era Attorney Philip Lacovara
Rachel Maddow gave the nation an important history lesson with the man who made that history with two important decisions for transparency in the Watergate-era, Philip Lacovara.
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Rachel Maddow gave the nation a teach-in for this important historical moment that includes a very rare interview with the attorney, Philip Lacovara, who won two important transparency decisions from the Supreme Court in the Watergate-era. He then resigned when President Ford pardoned the resigned former-President Nixon, unable to serve a government that would forgive his crimes. Lacovara had been a staunch supporter of President Nixon.
Imagine that?