quotes calendar. >> part of the beauty of me is that i'm very rich. >> very rich but not very punctual. jeanne mooss. >> over the next two weeks. >> new york. thank you so much for joining me tonight. have a good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com r >> where to begin. r we waitwe waited p wi have the opportunity. ap and tand the question i start. here you were. you worked four years in washington. >> pretty close to right. >> what you're accusing yourself of is a cloudy crystal ball.

that's hardly the mea culpa the american public thinks it's entitled to. >> neighbor american public's wrong. i know in my own heart and my own head precisely what i did, i know precisely why i did it. and i know i made some mistakes. i deeply regret those mistakes. >> richard nixon's right hand man was reported on the tapes and they destroyed him. >> i had the rare privilege of serving on the white house staff on one of america's greatest presidents. >> chief of staff hr holman found guilty in the watergate coverup 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 an aftermath. a lot of people had their lives spoiled in the process. >> john finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase, the holding room. gives you an idea they're holding a chemical or a bacterium or something. >> domestic affairs adviser, four counts, guilty. >> the references to, like, an era of criminality or people there were trying to rape the country of its democracy. i mean, i just don't see it that way. >> several reports to the watergate case allege sabotage

of the presidential campaign. >> he was found guilty of lying to the watergate grand jury. >> i don't think you can take that little piece of history, which may have been the darkest days of richard nixon's career and construct from that a mosaic that tells you all about that man. [ cheers ]

♪ ♪ you've been around for such a long time now ♪ ♪ maybe i could leave you ♪ but i don't know how ♪ why should i be lonely every night ♪ ♪ when i can be with you ♪ oh, yes, you make it right ♪ and you don't listen to the guys who say that you're back on me and i should turn you away ♪ ♪ because they don't know about us ♪ ♪ they've never heard of love ♪ i get a feeling when i loo at you ♪ everywhere you go now ♪ ♪ i want to be there too ♪ they say we're crazy, but i just don't care ♪ ♪ and if they keep on talking

inso still they get nowhere ♪ ♪ so i don't think they will understand ♪ ♪ when i look at you ♪ and you hold my hand ♪ because they don't know about us ♪ ♪ they'd they ever heard of love ♪ ♪ they don't know about us ♪ they've never heard of love . >> you, richard milhous nixon, do so let mely swear.

>> i richard milhous nixon do so let mely swear. >> that you will faithfully executed 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 noted for his conservative views, his crew cut, and nonstop 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. [ speaking foreign language ] [ 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. henry kissinger, 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 total 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 on hairstyling, and i'm afraid they're right and i'm wrong on that one. >> you havsa, i'm using on of your quotations again. 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 morning from this florida complex aboard that rocket. the rocket will put the men into orbit 115 miles above the earth for 1.5 orbits and then the third stage will put them on

their way -- ♪ >> go ahead, mr. president. this is houston. >> hello, neal and buzz, i'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call made from the white house and as you talk to us from the sea of tranquility, it inspires us to redouble efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth. for one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the

people on this earth are truly one, one in their pride in what you have done. >> armstrong is on the moon, neal armstrong, 38-year-old american standing on the surface of the moon on this july 20th, 1969. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. [ helicopters whirring ] 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

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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. >> in 12 months richard nixon

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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

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>> 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

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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.

>> all right. >> how are you? ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ [ our soldiers and our sailors ♪ ♪ our fight to keep our freedom snoemt america's the greatest land no doubt ♪ ♪ in all the world ♪ we are americans, what can we do ♪

♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ we hope that you are too yeah! [ applause ] ♪ >> it was irish night at the 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 ] ♪ ♪

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human beings, animals and vegetation. you go to church on sundays and pray to jesus christ. if jesus christ were here 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. ♪ i've got to thing or two to say, so here's my version of this whole affair ♪ >> mr. president, the attorney general has called a couple times about these "new york times" stories, and he's advised that unless he puts the "times" on notice, he's probably going to waive any right of prosecution. >> to prosecute the "times"? >> right. >> 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. ♪ i'm meeting no resistance ♪ i'm the one who needs assistance ♪ >> he's the ightest student i' 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 into a pascnik. being associated with a murderer. >> 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

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the announcement i shall now read is being issued simultaneously in peking and in the united states. the premier, on behalf of the government of the people's republic of china, has extended an invitation to president nixon to visit china at an appropriate date before may, 1972. president nixon has accepted the invitation with pleasure. ♪ >> every two decades, the president of the united states has been presented to the chinese people as the arch enemy. personification of hated capitalism and imperialism. most asians recognize this development as a momentous step that can change the whole complexion of this part of the world. >> i found out i was going to

china from bob haldeman. i was the acting chief of protocol for that trip, and it was one of the great mountain top experiences. the thing -- the thing that's -- one of the things was, it was just kind of surreal. the plane is taking off to go to china, and we've got a television set there watching us take off. i mean, everything about that trip was televised. i mean, it was a production from start to finish. >> the president will journey to peking in the dead of winter, a season especially severe in the chinese capital. following the announcement issued at 4:00 a.m. peking time, the white house news secretary re-emphasized mr. nixon's stated purpose for becoming the first american president to visit mainland china. >> as president nixon has pointed out on a number of

occasions, he has try in the meetings with the leaders of the people's republic of china to seek a new direction in the relationship between our two countries and to end the isolation of our two great peoples from each other. ♪ >> four hours after his arrival, mr. nixon is taken to see mao, the fact that the chairman arranged a meeting in his home is considered significant by diplomatic observers. [ indiscernible ]

>> included is an evening at the peking opera to see a ballet, the red detachment of women, that depicts the overthrow of a cruel landlord by female communist partisans. [ indiscernible ] >> a complete propaganda operation. extremely well done. the emperor seated behind me explained the theological aspects all the way through and wanted to be sure i understood all the points.

that was a rather odd sight to see the president clapping at the end for this kind of thing, which should have been horrifying to him. but it all seems to fit together here somehow. >> the skies have been somber in peking all day. and in the afternoon, a light snow began to fall. in the city street, men and women with brooms began sweeping it up, almost flake by flake. and it seemed to have no dimming effect at all on the exuberance of president nixon and the premier in their third long conversation. ♪

♪ >> it's the end of a very memorable day in american history. >> haldeman, please. >> thank you. >> that italian story on henry is the most -- did you see it? >> henry called me last night about it. >> it's unbelievable. henry talks about the china trip. he said the thing about it that was appealing to the public is, he said i did it -- he, henry, did it alone. he said people like to see somebody do something alone and i conceived it all and did it all by myself, the whole china initiative. what happened? was this some girl he met at a party or something?

>> this is the point he made to me yesterday, henry is always very careful what he says publicly to build up the president but never privately. when he knows he'll be quoted, he makes sure he says how great of a job the president is doing. where it really counts in the private conversations, he builds himself. >> uh-huh. take a reading and give me a call back. >> yeah. >> bye. call me back today. i'm not going to leave until 11:30. bye. >> all right, bye.

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and it was our -- our senses of humor and our personalities that made it all, you know, nice. >> illegal bugging apparently was the aim of a team that broke into the democratic national headquarters in washington during the weekend, and the political background of the men charged in the case have kicked up a storm. >> the watergate apartment complex in washington has a fortress-like appearance. that is noted for its security. but the burglars penetrated security to break into the sixth floor offices of the democratic national committee, materials and files were found in their possession. a democratic spokesman called the information very mundane. here in the men's rooms, police

confiscated photographic and electronic eavesdropping gear, as well as several thousand dollars in consecutively numbered bills. >> apparently about five men, one of them clearly under contract and employed by the republican national committee and the campaign to re-elect the president, i thought this administration was a law and order administration. and i've never seen such a crass violation of individual rights as we have seen in this instance. >> i must say it's the legacy of years of wiretapping and snooping and violation of privacy which the government itself has been too deeply involved. [ cheers and applause ] >> i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ]

and let us stretch ourselves to win an even greater victory this november in 1972. >> four more years! four more years! ♪ ♪ we need to find a way ♪ to make tomorrow a brighter day ♪ ♪ making dreams reality more than never nixon now for you and me ♪ ♪ nixon now, nixon now, he showed us how ♪ ♪ nixon now, nixon now, oh,

nixon now ♪ ♪ listen america, nixon now ♪ nixon now, nixon now he's made a difference, he's shown us how ♪ ♪ nixon now, nixon now, listen america, nixon now ♪ >> president nixon's victory in the election is surely one of the biggest landslides ever. let's look at the popular vote with almost all of it counted. 98% of the precincts reporting, nixon, 45,860,000, and mcgovern, 28 million. this adds up to a record breaking 521 electoral votes for

president nixon, who won 49 states. mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first, it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister. no longer a caper, but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. the charges center around a man whose very name in italian is secrets. >> donald segretti. reports in major newspapers say white house aides recruited him for secret intelligence work and dirty tricks against the

democrats. he went to college with several men now in the white house. he was particularly close to dwight chapin. and several press reports document recent links between chapin and segretti. a grand jury is investigating. >> the only obvious problem is going to be the whole watergate grand deal, chapin, that whole -- >> how are you going to handle that? >> well, i'm of mixed minds, but i thought one approach would be to attack "the post" for picking on a fine, clean, upstanding patriotic young man. he's come to washington and -- >> hearsay. >> and done his part. >> why don't you use the word mccarthyism.

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[ applause ] i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear -- >> i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear -- >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> and will, to the best of my ability -- >> and will, to the best of my ability -- >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve and protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. [ applause ] ♪ >> the phone rings.

it's john dean. and he said, have you given any thought to what you're going to do next? and i said, john, what in the world are you trying to tell me? and he said, well, i think you need to figure out what you're going to do next. and i said, does bob know this? and he said, bob asked me to talk to you. i could not believe it. so the next day i flew up to camp david and bob met me and we went over to one of the cabins and talked and we were both crying. and he said that it looked like it was going to be a political problem to the president because of all this segretti stuff and this guy sam irvin may hold some hearings. so therefore it's probably better for your career and everything else if you move on.

i mean, it was just horrible. nothing that can describe how i felt. so i sucked it up, said yes, sir, went into the men's room to get myself straightened up, and there is the attorney general of the united states, balling like a baby. he had just met with ehrlichman. i'm thinking to myself, this thing is surreal. i can't believe this. so i went back, got on the helicopter and started figuring out my life. >> leon jaworski said if the american people had not demanded action in the watergate scandal, it might have grown into outrages as great as those in nazi germany.

>> well, here again, you're into this verbal excess thing that just seems to me is easy to do, after the fact. >> question, what was the mentality, what was the mindset in the nixon white house that led to watergate? >> watergate didn't lead from -- didn't come from the nixon white house and i don't think there was any mindset that led to watergate. >> the president is out of office. men in the nixon white house went to jail. what was the mindset -- what happened? >> that's the problem. i don't know what happened. >> the burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time that it occurred. if he had kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didn't know about that in advance, i'm persuaded. i never heard anybody come forward with any evidence that he did. if he had kept distance between

himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it, they're going to have to take their punishment, that is what could have saved richard nixon, i'm persuaded. a little quick surgery. but he was the compulsive minutia man. he had to get involved. he had to dabble in this -- in this conspiratorial spy stuff. and he pulled it all into his office. >> what is the dumbest thing you did? >> the dumbest thing i did was not to go to him when i realized this and say, look, if you don't go out there and make this clean, i'm going to go to the press room and tell them everything i know about this and walk out of here. >> do you think you would have had the courage to do that? >> well, obviously i didn't. i was not playing with a full

deck. i just didn't know at the time, one, that there were tapes. two, that he was as deeply involved as he was. >> president nixon has requested time on the networks this evening for a report on vietnam. >> good evenin i have asked for this radio and television te tonighfor the purpose of announcing that we, today, have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in vietnam and in southeast asia. the following statement is being issued at this moment in washington and hanoi. at 12:30 paris time today, january 23, 1973, the agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in vietnam was initialled by dr. henry kissinger on behalf of the united states and the

republic of vietnam. let us consecrate this moment by resolving together to make the peace we have achieved a peace that will last. thank you. and good evening. >> mr. haldeman, please. >> thank you. >> yes, sir? >> i thought you would be amused to hear that marvin and dan, they were just green, sick. >> it was a bad night for eric. >> they were all just sick about the fact that the peace had come. yes, we're pissing on it all over. >> in a sense, it was so masterfully underplayed. you dropped this huge bomb in your first sentence, and there

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>> when it was learned today that some of the watergate conspirators had been involved in illegal actions relating to the pentagon papers case, the whole affair took on a new and more sinister air. two of the convicted watergate conspirators burglarized the offices of a psychiatrist of defendant daniel elsberg to get files on elsberg. >> the message of watergate, as i read it, is the same as the message of the pentagon papers. from the eyes of people who work for the president, all law stops at the white house fence. >> the entire political system that the entire standard of politics in the country has reached an all-time low. >> the president and his cabinet and his administration owe this country an explanation firstly,

and secondly an apology. >> i don't respect the type of journalism, the shabby journalism that is being practised by "the washington post." >> informed sources say it was the watergate prosecution that set off the recent series of explosions and there are further time bombs in president nixon's hands. >> we're in late april of 1973, and i'm really getting beat up in the press. >> we're going to make it. yeah, let me get up here to the door and i'll -- okay. excuse me. there we are. >> i'm going to be following the unvarying practise of having no comment on this matter until its final disposition. >> i have delegations of fbi agents in and out of my office all the time, and all of a sudden it's dawned on me that i have a very serious problem, that richard nixon has a problem

and a lot of other people have serious problems. >> the president flew south to look at flood damage and dedicated naval training station in mississippi to senator john stennis. in the presidential party were bob haldeman and john ehrlichman. >> we were on air force one. we were going off to dedicate a john stennis memorial rocket launcher or something in mississippi. and i'm standing on the flight deck, and it occurred to me for about 30 seconds that i could crash this airplane and that would put an end to everybody's problems. mine, nixon's and haldeman's, everybody who was aboard. i stepped off that airplane, and usually the drill is richard nixon steps off the airplane and all the cameras click away and all that. he got off and nobody paid any attention to him.

i got off and boy, they were all taking morgue shots. >> in the very last conversation i had with him there, we were talking about this break-in, in california. the elsberg psychiatrist break-in. and he said, i didn't know about that, did i? and i had to indicate to him that he did know about it. >> that, of course, is a totally out of our -- have you ever heard of this? >> yes, sir. >> i never heard of it, john. i should have been told about that, shouldn't i? >> i'm not so sure that you weren't. my recollection is this was discussed with you.

>> yeah. yeah. hmmmm. well, i've got to know about that. if i'm in that kind of a position, i'm in a position i just didn't know about. believe me, throughout this thing, i must say i have not known -- i should know about the watergate and i knew that we were checking all this, but my god, i didn't -- >> i didn't know there was a taping system in the room at the time. since then, it's occurred to me that he was talking for the record, among other things. but at the same time, i'm convinced he really didn't know the difference between what was true and what wasn't true at any given moment. for a long time. and he could persuade himself of

almost anything, which is kind of too bad. >> hello. >> mr. ziegler calling you. >> yeah. >> there you are. >> yes, sir, i talked to bob and told him that your decision was to ask for the resignation and you had thought this through for now three weeks, and i told him that you recognize that their lawyers don't agree with this approach and they don't agree with this approach, but the president feels clear in his mind now that this must be done. and that's what he wants. bob said, fine. he understands. he feels it's the wrong decision, but he will abide by it. and in terms of john, he said i think john is going to be more difficult in accepting this. bob said, i'll do what i can with john. >> good. big man. >> he sure is.

>> big man. >> you're going to talk to john, i presume. >> i'll talk to him on the helicopter. >> okay. thank you. >> yes, sir. >> good evening. president nixon moved at the highest level today to cleanse the white house of the taint of the watergate scandal. the president has asked me to announce that he has today received and accepted the resignation of two of his closest friends and most trusted assistants in the white house. in their statements of resignation, they blamed many of their problems on the press. whether the president plans to incorporate any such statement in his nationwide address tonight is unknown.

>> today, in one of the most difficult sions of my presidency, i pted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the white house, bob haldeman, john ehrlichman, two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know. i want to stress in accepting these resignations, i mean to leave no implication whatever of personal wrongdoing on their part. and i leave no implication tonight of implication on the part of others who have been charged in this matter. god bless america. and god bless each and every one of you.

>> hello. >> hi. >> hope i didn't let you down. >> no, sir. you got your points over. and now you've got it set right and move on. you're right where you ought to be. >> well, it's a tough thing, bob, for you and john and the rest. but i'm never going to discuss this son of a bitching watergate thing again. never, never, never, never. an interesting thing. we haven't heard -- the only cabinet member has called is weinberger, god bless his soul. all the rest are waiting to see what the polls show. let me say you're a strong man, and i love you. i love john and all the rest. by god, keep the faith, keep the faith. you're going to win this son of a bitch. >> absolutely. >> i don't know whether you can get any reactions and call me back. like the old style.

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>> i loved what i did, and it was very important to me. and i think these friendships just, you know, are golden and they still exist. >> john ehrlichman is behind bars tonight, the highest ranking former nixon aide to go to prison so far. >> for myself, i went through a

process of being absolutely stripped bare. i woke up one day realizing that there was nothing left. there just really wasn't anything. and it occurred to me there might be an opportunity in all of that to do it over again, simpler and better. >> h.r. bob haldeman convicted for his part in the watergate scandal is here to see his daughter graduate from law school. on wednesday, haldeman reports to the federal prison in california to begin serving a 2

1/2 to 8-year sentence. >> i spent five years in a legal defense against first of all an investigation, then a charge, then a trial. then a year and a half in prison. all of that time had to work on my defense. the time is here to stop defending, at least on my part, and to start looking ahead. there's a lot more to my life than watergate. there's a lot more to my life than politics.

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being taken off the air immediately. did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated and, if so, who and why? >> justice will be pursued no matter who's involved. >> do you have information implicating president nixon? >> i have no comment. >> the president of the united states demanded the attorney general fire the special prosecutor. >> that is the definition of tyranny. people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> i don't think there was ever any discussion that there wouldn't be a cover-up. >> congress must move ahead with impeachment proceedings. >> there can be no whitewash at the white house. ♪