Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/robert-macneil-and-jim-lehrer-and-the-watergate-hearings Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Transcript “How high did the scandals reach and was President Nixon himself involved?” That was what the NewsHour’s Robert MacNeil, then co-anchoring with Jim Lehrer, dubbed “the ultimate question” as the program began its gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Watergate hearings on May 17, 1973. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.