WAFR Recording of Bobby Seale at UNC-Chapel Hill, Divine Right to Executive Privilege, February 21, 1974

WAFR Recording of Bobby Seale at UNC-Chapel Hill, Divine Right to Executive Privilege, February 21, 1974

This is a recording from WAFR—a Black-owned community radio station in Durham, NC—of Bobby Seale speaking at UNC-Chapel Hill on February 21, 1974. This clip is about categorizing Nixon's use of executive privilege as a divine right—drawing from the doctrine of divine right or divine right of kings.

WAFR (Durham, NC); Seale, Bobby, 1936-

From WAFR: Bobby Seale, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., 21 February 1974, Audiotape T-70092/114 in the Media and the Movement Project Collection of Black-Owned Radio Station Broadcasts #70092, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

February 21, 1974

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“Now the Watergate mess across, now he trying act just like King George III. King George III used to have his special divine kingdom right of special vetoes, tyrannical vetoes, with George. Richard M. Nixon is trying to pull the same thing with his divine right to executive privilege.” *clapping* “Same basic thing.”

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