details and updates. i'm don lemon in new york. good night. where to begin? we've had a long time to chat with bob haldeman and have the opportunity and the question is where to start? here you were, you worked four years in washington as nixon's number two man, nixon's s.o.b.

as you called yourself. he never went anywhere without you. >> pretty close to right. >> what you're accusing yourself of is a cloudy crystal ball. that's hardly the thing the american public thinks it's entitled to. that's the issue. >> well, maybe the american public is wrong. i know in my own heart and i know in my own head precisely what i did and why i did it. >> okay. >> and i know that i made some mistakes. i deeply regret those mistakes. >> as richard nixon's right-hand man he was the one most often recorded on the tapes, and they destroyed him. >> i had the rare privilege for four years serving on the white house staff under one of the greatest presidents. >> former white house chief of staff h.r. haldeman found guilty today on five counts in the watergate trial. >> do you regret what happened and what you did? >> oh, sure. the country lost motion, a lot of the good things we were working on in the way of domestic reforms were lost in the mess. you can't help but regret aftermath of that.

a lot of good people had their lives spoiled in the process. >> john ehrlichman has finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase. the holding room gives you an idea they are holding a chemical or bacteria or something. >> former white house domestic affairs adviser, john ehrlichman, four counts, guilty. >> the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of its democracy, i mean, i just don't see it that way. >> chapin was linked to the watergate case, alleged sabotage of the dnc democratic campaign. >> i don't think you can take

that little priest of history, which may have been the darkest days of nixon's career and construct from that a mosaic that tells you about that man. [ cheers ]

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♪ do you, richard milhouse nixon, solemnly swear -- >> i, richard milhouse nixon, do solemnly swear -- >> that you will faithfully execute the office.

>> that i will faithfully execute the office. >> of president of the united states. >> of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god? >> so help me god. [ applause ] ♪ >> the new president was in his office here at the white house at 7:30 this morning before anyone else on his staff and after only about four hours sleep. he's felt for some time he can do this job well and he was eager to get at it. >> president elect nixon today named another long-time aide

h.r. haldeman, who served as chief of staff for the nixon campaign. haldeman is the closest thing to an alter ego the president has known for conservative views, crew cut and non-stop video taking. >> it was just an extremely exciting time for all of us. it was terribly hard work and very, very long difficult hours, but it was exciting because you were building something. there was no great idealogical thrust or noble ambition involved in this, and no thought of all becoming permanently involved in either politics or government. it was, it was the thing i felt would be an interesting experience where i could make a contribution and something that

would be a learning experience and an interesting experience for me. so that's why i did it. >> the white house staff as it evolves, i think you'll find will be smaller than it's been in the past. i know you'll find it will probably be the youngest one in history, certainly one of the youngest. >> also named as a special assistant was another man, 27-year-old dwight chapin. he served as mr. nixon's personal aide. >> you got to keep in mind i was 27 years old at that point, and we had just gone through this campaign, and i was just waiting to see what unfolded. the day i went in and interviewed for the job, and i met this young 35-year-old crew cut guy by the name of bob haldeman and bob haldeman changed my life. i've never laughed as much as when i worked in the nixon white house. the sense of humor was the

leveling factor. things, messes we would find ourselves in or whatever it might be. >> i think a lot of younger staff people here find that he can far excel them in terms of energy and stamina. >> i took a camera on all my trips, a super 8 and i have quite a collection of film. >> john ehrlichman, a lawyer who directed nixon's campaign tour, will have a broad advisory role in the nixon administration. >> i think this first year we'll see as basically the time of reform. >> ehrlichman is chief of affairs and under study. >> i was not a passionate nixon person going in, probably if some college friend invited me to go advance for john kennedy, i might have gone.

there were very few illusions about richard nixon, i think, among the senior staff particularly as we got into things. a good deal of kind of dry humor about his mannerisms and foibles and prejudices. but nevertheless, you work for the president of the united states. he's the only president around. you-all elected him. we all worked for him and it's up to us to make it work. >> it was a very unnatural kind of life and you had the feeling you were in the middle of a great big, brilliantly lighted, badly run television show. i was taking home movie of this throughout. ♪

>> i advanced the first trip to europe, eight countries and found myself hobnobbing with the king of belgium and the pope and all these folks and it got to be very heady very fast. ♪ [ applause ] ♪

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critics call them the germans and describe their office as the berlin wall. i'm speaking of president nixon's chief white house advisers. john ehrlichman and haldeman. everyone these days know who henry kissinger is but h.r. haldeman's job is not an easy, tidy one to describe, and of the three he's been by his own choice the least visible to the public.

he's the only one of the three never to have given a television interview until now. his friends talk of his brilliance, efficiency, his dedication to the president and his lack of personal ego or jealousy. his critics call him cold, arrogant, inaccessible. this interview was filmed a week ago in mr. haldeman's office at the white house. you have no calendar? you really follow the president's day. you're available, as i understand it, from 7:00 in the morning and on and on and on. what does this do to your personal life? >> well, it poses some problems in it sometimes, but i have fortunately, a very understanding wife and four very interested and understanding children. >> do your sons want you to grow your hair longer? >> i was afraid you would probably ask that. you've probably seen the picture

of my sons that we sent out for christmas, but -- because my older son has what i would call very long hair and my younger son has pretty long hair. >> they don't look like daddy. >> they don't. i faced the fact they are the ones in style and i'm out of step this hairstyling, and i'm afraid they're right and i'm wrong on that one. >> you have said, i'm using one of your own words, i often find it fascinating to ponder by what standards history will judge nixon when all the partisan battles are over. well, how do you think he will be judged? >> if he has the opportunity to move ahead with what he's trying to do, i think there isn't any doubt he'll be judged as one of the great presidents. >> good morning. man is about to launch himself on a trip to the moon. with the expectation of landing there. man going to the moon here this

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a typical day for me, haldeman would pick me up around 7:15. the car would get bob, then it would get larry higby, bob's aide, and then it would swing by my house and then into the white house. i am responsible for the scheduling and also for the president's daily activities. our thing was a machine, and i knew my place. it really reflected a lot about richard nixon, the degree to which he wanted things controlled. >> it literally was from 6:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night every day of the week and saturdays and sundays, too. and that pace was unremitting,

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why didn't you burn the tapes? surely you talked about it. >> well, the question came up at one point, should the tapes be destroyed and my strong recommendation was that they should not be destroyed. >> that was a mistake, wasn't it mr. haldeman? >> yes, sir, i would say given what we now know and what happen it was a disastrous thing to have done but there was never a thought that one word of those tapes would be played in public or be played to other people, and when it got to the point of having to release them or having even to consider the possibility of releasing them, they should have been, in my opinion now, should have been destroyed. >> i had no idea about the taping system. no, no. >> did you ever talk to haldeman about that? >> no, never.

>> john, you didn't know about the taping system in the oval office, did you? >> no. >> did it come as a surprise? >> it did. our white house staff was essentially a dysfunctional organization. i think nixon believed that he didn't have to share every piece of information with everybody. listening to the tapes is very revealing because he's talking to others about me, and what i should know and what he didn't want me to know. and he did the same thing with kissinger and a lot of people. several times i recall his saying to me, don't tell henry. he kept little watertight compartments of information, and it didn't work very well. >> dan rather, who has closely observed the nixon presidency reports now on the first year in office.

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president nixon's primary focus, his own personal attention was almost totally dedicated to ending the war in vietnam. he tried to move into the committed areas of welfare reform, some areas of economic reform but the one factor which really totally overrode all of those factors was vietnam. >> i had been in the office, in the president's office several different occasions where he had a handkerchief out and writing notes to parents of the kids that had been killed. so the president was doing the very best he could.

and he was trying to end it, and i didn't have much compassion for the people in the streets. i respect their right to demonstrate because that's, you know, that's what the country is about. but i mean, i was of the opinion that the demonstrators prolonged the war. they didn't help us get out. they made it worse. and that's just how i view it. ♪ >> hello? >> yes, sir. >> john, are you home or at the office? >> still at the office. >> that's too bad, too bad. with regard to this matter bob just went over with me with

regards with what we do on the things tomorrow -- just a second. yeah, let's face it, it isn't as bad as berkeley had or san francisco had yet. >> i think you can expect these people will be in very massive numbers and that probably the police department will be swamped. they will not be able to handle the numbers. >> what do you mean massive numbers? >> i think in any one of these 20 intersections, you'll have anywhere from 700 to 1,000, 1,500. something of that kind. >> who is organizing it? >> it's a highly structured operation. it's beautifully organized by rennie davis and a group of more or less professional organizers that have been at this for a

long time. the general conclusion we came to is we should not call troops. >> no, god, no -- >> don't let em say marshall law about the war or this -- >> we leave it to jerry wilson and the police department to conduct their affairs in the normal way. >> what do you want? what do you want? what do you want? >> good evening. marching behind flags and banners and picket signs demanding peace now, at least 200,000 anti-war protesters jammed the streets of washington today in what was probably the biggest peace demonstration to be held since it began six years ago. despite the huge crowd no nixon official spoke at the rally or appeared at the capital

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and i. we've been here before, and we've been other places, and what we have to decide is that we're going to keep coming back until this war ends. >> yeah? >> mr. ehrlichman is here. >> hello? >> yeah? yes, sir. >> i bet bob a dollar the television wouldn't show the raunchy ones. >> they did show some. they softened it some. they didn't describe the profanity or any of that sort of thing. >> so they came off rather well on television? >> i think they came off pretty good considering what they pulled. ♪

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good evening, my fellow americans. a few weeks ago i saw demonstrators carrying signs reading, lose in vietnam, bring the boys home. well, one of the strengths of our free society is any american has a right to reach that conclusion and to advocate that point of view.

but as president of the united states, i would be untrue to my oath of office if i allowed the policy of this nation to be dictated by the minority that hold that point of view and try to impose it on the nation by mounting demonstrations in the street. so tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow americans, i ask for your support. i pledged in my campaign for the presidency to end the war in a way that we could win the peace. i have pledged to you tonight that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers. thank you and good night.

>> hello? >> yes, sir. >> that was great. i must say i put an awful lot of emotion into it. i don't know whether it got through. >> it sure did. the last part, of course, was a -- was quite a work of art to be frank with you. >> it sure was. >> put that and compress it with that and say it without being maudlin, and yet to have emotion with style. >> it sure was. >> did you talk to the vice president. >> yeah, i talked to him. >> and graham? >> and graham. i talked to those three because i felt i should. rockefeller called, the hell with him but it was a goddamn good speech. >> that is coming through, all the way through. >> want to give me a run down? >> sure, o'neil at the new york

daily news said it was the most effective job you've done yet and adequately answered critics but retained the flexibility you'll need in the time ahead. it will really get through to the american people. it was honest and sincere. >> uh-huh. >> and george mcgovern didn't like it. he said it hadn't changed anything. >> that's great. wouldn't want him to say anything. well, what the hell? it doesn't make any difference. as i say, tomorrow, we'll just live through the day and we've heard from only the cabinet officers, which i expected. >> we had more than that. >> no, that's all. rogers, mitchell, hodgson. >> have you heard from conley, though? that's curious. >> not to my knowledge, no. >> call him and ask him what he thought of it? >> sure. >> want me to call you back then? >> if you would. yes.

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♪ it was irish night at white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait for the truly big event of the evening. the president and mrs. nixon ended the suspension with a light hearted move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement, i find some way it's leaked before i get to make it. even though the information may have leaked out, until i say it, it's not official. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> and so tonight, mrs. nixon and i are very honored to announce the engagement of our

daughter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [ applause ] ♪ [ applause ]

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tonight, you would not dare drop another bomb. bless daniel elsberg. ♪ >> "the new york times" began publishing a partial text of a prepared study in the pentagon relating to the origins of american involvement in vietnam. five days later, "the washington post" began publishing excerpts from the same pentagon report. on june 22, "the boston globe" published additional material from the study. the documents printed in the papers were classified, and were not to be made public according

to the government. ♪ >> the attorney general has called a couple of times about these "new york times" stories, he's advised that unless he puts the times on notice, he's going to waive any prosecution. >> hell, my view is to prosecute the person that gave it to him, if you can find out who that is. >> a single name has been mentioned most prominently as the possible source as the "times" documents. daniel elsberg. a former state department and pentagon planner, and of late, something of a phantom figure. >> we cannot let the officials of the executive branch determine for us what it is that the public needs to know about how well and how they are

discharging their functions. ♪ >> he's the brightest student i've ever had. he volunteered for service in vietnam. he was so nuts he would drive around vietnam with a carbine when it was guerrilla infested. and he'd shoot at peasants in the field on the theory everyone is black. but late '67, he turned into a beatnik. >> all right, all right. ♪ [ applause ] >> the pentagon report is only the beginning in itself.

there will be much more. temptation will be great for a witch hunt, the unmasking of villains and the manufacture of scapegoats. >> the president was furious. kissinger was furious. it was very intense. it was a little like walking on egg shells. it was just a tense, tense time. >> the irony of the pentagon papers is they were not critical of nixon. they were very critical of the johnson administration. but nixon was committed to the proposition that classified documents, secret documents ought not to be stolen and given away. some of these documents did get into the hands of foreign governments, as well as part of them getting into the papers, and the president and kissinger

were very upset that this man would be doing these kinds of things. >> you were so mad at elsberg, this dirty guy. i don't have to tell you or anyone else that the anger and the resentment toward elsberg was near hysterical levels in the white house. >> this didn't develop into any pathological hatred of elsberg, it developed into a rather cold blooded, and in my view, a misguided attempt to discredit him in the public eye. because at the time, he was being made a public hero and there was an effort to try to show that this man was not necessarily the great savior of the nation that many were portraying him as. >> i think i changed during the time i was at the white house. i'm not sure whether it was for the better.

it probably was not at the time that i was there. when you first go in, at least when i first went in there, i asked a lot of hard questions. why are we doing it this way? what is the justification for this program? why are we spending this money? why does this fellow work here? those kinds of things. after a couple of years, i felt like i was defending the status quo rather than challenging it and trying to get it changed and repaired and made better. and that does not satisfy me. i had a very clear sense that i was becoming part of the problem after a while rather than the solution. and i remember one day thinking i had just moved a pile of