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Let’s connect during the Winter Doldrums for an unforgettable hour of “Walking the Walk” with the man who has for 8 decades been on the “Justice Trail.”

Justice is Mercy, Justice is Equity and Justice is what the Judge says it is.

Blogger at https://justice4all.blog

The Ole’ Buzzard on a Criminal Justice, Road Kill Roundup …

Here we are now … in Your Venue with a Proposed Program Outline.

“My Own 2 Hands” Video (3min)

“The Justice Trail”

Pre-lecture mingle with participants (5min or so while video is playing)
Introduction … “Scholar named Fressor” (1min) “I’m with you all the way, but you’ve 60 years of catching up to be with me.” “Those who forget failures from past are doomed to repeat them.” Dial a number on a dial phone. (4min)
Where were you 10 years ago? Who/what did you think you’d be today? Tomorrow(s)?
“The Land that Made Me Me“ (5min)
How we view millennials (3min)
Romp along “The Justice Trail” Events and Opportunities … (10-20min + Q&A)
1955 Runaway from home at 17 … hitchhiked from Oregon to The Baja Peninsula (over 1,000 miles);
My first car (3min);
In 1950s, Entertainment for us was Fred Astaire “Dancing On The Ceiling” (4min);
Crashed in Alaska ;
Top Secret Operation “Dark Eyes”;
“Washed out of the Air Force Academy’s Prep-school”;
Japan and Karate Senior Advisor & 7th Degree; ASKKA ; Grandfather Sensei;
Owner International Business;
Former FBI Agent; The only Agent in the history of the FBI to have a letter of commendation from Director J. Edgar Hoover and also a letter of commendation from Jack Anderson of “The Washington Merry-go-Round.” Hoover and Anderson loathed each other ;
Organized Crime(1min); DeNono (30sec); The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (3min);
Watergate (30sec); Bank of Credit and Commerce International (4min); BCCI & the Utah Connection(2min);
Patty Hearst(6min); Shot at by the Symbionese Liberation Army (5min);
Laguna Niguel Bank Heist (1+hr); Bank Robbery; Kidnapping; Hijacking; Disruptive;
Fired by an Attorney General for Insubordination; White Collar Crime; Corruption in Government;
Referenced in non-fiction work “The Politics of Murder” (1min); Published OnLine;
Stoned by the Ku Klux Klan;
North Korean Intel Operative Probe;
Protected the World’s 7th Most Wealthy Man;
Caught Bank Robber after a High Speed Chase;
Military Master Parachutist; Major Retired… U.S. Army Special Forces (2min); USAF 5,000 flying hours; Typhoon Reconnaissance; Collected Upper Atmosphere samples of Soviet, Nuclear Fallout;
Blogger; Grandfather; Retired Secondary Schools Educator; Missionary; Investigative Journalist;
Master’s Degree; Graduate FBI Command School of Advanced Criminology; Farmer, Logger, Rancher; and ………
“Justice Definition Discussion” Mercy vs. Equity vs. What the Judge says it is. (5min)
Government “American form of Government” (10min)
Mantra “Tis vile to rob a henroost of a hen, but thieving largely makes us gentlemen.” Chicken Thieves, Oligarchs & Goodfellas (5min)
Our Strategy … (5min) “Our strategy … should be not only to confront empire but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness–and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling–their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.”
What to do? What to do? What to do? Shame Them! (5min)
“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.”— Anton Chekhov (Russian doctor, playwright, author; 1860-1904)
Drain the Swamp (2min)
An Ambulance Down in the Valley

Exit:

“Somebody said that it couldn’t be done ….” (1min) Q&A & Brief Back (?min) It may not have been done yet! So what are you going to do with what we’ve done here today together?

The Power of One (4min)

“My Own 2 Hands” Video

Food for Thought Time Permitting

What have we done with what they won?

Tucker Carlson: America’s Goal Is Happiness, But Leaders Show No Obligation To Voters (15min)

The Deseret News and Moderator Boyd Matheson brought a legendary reporter, a former law clerk and current Latter-day Saint apostle, and the president of a nonpartisan fact tank to discuss “Integrity & Trust: Lessons from Watergate and Today.” The event took place Monday, Jan. 14, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

Deseret News convenes key Watergate figures Bob Woodward and Elder D. Todd Christofferson to discuss “Integrity and Trust: Lessons from Watergate and Today” On Jan. 14, 2019 at the Newseum in Washington DC, the Deseret News will convene a conversation about integrity and trust with two people who had a front-row seat to the Watergate scandal.

Fake news, diminishing trust and public lapses of integrity by business and political leaders, is fraying the fabric of the nation. Woodward and Christofferson will provide insight, inspiration and perspective on the need for integrity and restraint in order to restore trust in institutions, in communities and within individual relationships. Learn more at: http://events.deseretnews.com/integrity-and-trust The current climate of diminishing trust in politicians and institutions has its roots in events that rocked the nation in the early 1970s.

On Jan. 14, 2019, the Deseret News convened a conversation about integrity and trust with two people who had a front-row seat to the Watergate scandal.

Bob Woodward — Woodward and his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Watergate story in 1973. Woodward won a second Pulitzer in 2003 for his post-9/11 coverage. He has authored 19 best-selling nonfiction books, including “All the President’s Men” (with Bernstein) and “Fear: Trump in the White House.” He currently is an associate editor at The Washington Post.

Elder D. Todd Christofferson — As a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica, he was among the first to hear the Nixon White House tapes. Elder Christofferson left a distinguished legal career in 1993 to become a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he currently serves as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Also, Michael Dimock, President of the Pew Research Center — a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world — will present research findings about trust in individuals, elected officials and public institutions.

On Monday, Jan. 14, legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodwardwill meet Elder D. Todd Christofferson, a law clerk for Judge John J. Sirica who was among the first to listen to President Richard Nixon’s White House tapes, to engage in a discussion on honesty and trust in public life. Hosted by the Deseret News and held at the Newseum, “Integrity & Trust: Lessons from Watergate and Today” will highlight the lessons Woodward and Christofferson took away from their Watergate experiences, how those lessons have shaped their lives and how those lessons apply today. To provide further context, Michael Dimock, president of the Pew Research Center, will present findings from recent polling on trust in individuals, elected officials and institutions.

As a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, Bob Woodward is known for relentlessly pursuing the truth. Inspired by Judge Damon J. Keith’s statement that “Democracy dies in the dark,” Woodward often uses that idea in reference to the Nixon years. (The Washington Post began using the phrase “Democracy dies in darkness” as its slogan in 2017.) Woodward is an associate editor of the Post and author of 18 nonfiction books, including 13 that topped best-seller lists.

Along with Judge Sirica, Elder Christofferson was one of the first to hear the tape recordings that implicated President Nixon in covering up the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex. Last year, Elder Christofferson told an audience at Oxford that many media commentators at the time talked about Nixon as if he were pure evil. “But such a critique is too easy, as if only those who are inherently bad make serious mistakes, not us ‘normal people.’…To me, this is a false view of Watergate and draws the wrong lessons.”

Christofferson left a distinguished legal career in 1993 to become a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he now serves as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, providing spiritual guidance to millions of believers around the world.

As President of the Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock works to ensure that one of the nation’s most trusted research institutions maintains the high standard of credibility that has made it such a frequently cited resource for commentators on both sides of today’s most vital issues.

Event details:
Integrity and Trust:
Lessons from Watergate and Today
Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, 6:30-8:00pm
Newseum, Washington, D.C.