Amb. Monica Crowley

But also he served as a grandfather to me.

He was a mentor and he was a very, very dear friend of mine.

When I was very young and he was at the end of his life.

So I promised him before he passed away that I would take care of his legacy.

I said, Mr. President, I pledged to you that I will spend the rest of my life.

advancing and protecting and defending your legacy.

And Glenn, I'll never forget, he looked at me and he kind of smiled in a wry kind of way.

And he said, Monica, I appreciate that, but you're going to have much more important things to do in your life and career.

And now, of course, here I am working for President Trump.

But I pledged it to him.

And Glenn, I have literally spent the last 30 years since he did pass away doing exactly that.

So now to see these new documents coming out, these new revelations about the truth, about what happened to Richard Nixon and how Watergate was a deep state frame up of him is personally very gratifying.

I will say that when I worked for him in the early 90s, Glenn, to your question about

We did speak about it, but nobody really knew what the deep state was.

Now, remember that Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president.

Eisenhower's farewell address famously warned about the rise of an unaccountable president.

deep state, what he called the military industrial complex, what we now know as the deep state.

Nixon internalized that lesson because he saw Eisenhower, a military man who helped to win World War II and free the West from Nazi oppression.

He saw what Eisenhower was going through and the rise of the security state that was unaccountable to anyone.

So after World War II, the creation of the CIA, the creation of the NSA, the creation of the DIA, the corruption of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon saw all of this.