WHITFIELD: The final episode of Tricky Dick premieres tonight at 9:00 p.m. right here on CNN. And joining us right now is CNN Presidential Historian Tim Naftali. He's also the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, and was a consultant on the series Tricky Dick, all right, good to see you.</s>TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Nice to see you.</s>WHITFIELD: So yeah, at what point did people start losing faith in President Nixon?</s>NAFTALI: Well, people started losing faith in large numbers of President Nixon after the Saturday night massacre in 1973 when Nixon ordered the firing of Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor. But a small group hung on supporting the president until the summer of 1974 when the House Judiciary Committee, in a bipartisan move, found the president -- past three articles of impeachment. And then the president released the so-called smoking gun transcript that showed him obstructing justice. And at that point, his support dropped to 20 percent, and that was it. And he lost most members of Congress, including most of the Republican Party.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Tim Naftali, it's been an extraordinary series. Thank you so much for your input all the way through it. The final episode of Tricky Dick airs tonight 9:00 eastern and pacific, followed at 10:00 p.m. by a special presentation of Talking Tricky Dick, a fascinating conversation with some of the key Watergate players hosted by Anderson Cooper. Only right here on CNN. We'll be right back.
Final Episode of Tricky Dick