and bob haldeman changed my life.use. 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.

but they were wrong. >> i'd never been asked a question about bob haldeman. >> sloan in fact had not imony. the white house pounced. >> i don't respect the type of journalism, the shabby journalism that is being practiced by the "washington post." i use the term shoddy journalism, shabby journalism. i've used the term character assassination. >> this was their opportunity to discredit the "post," woodward and bernstein and bury the story. >> they came after us. ziegler, the press secretary. so we knew that at that point the stakes were very high and we were the targets. >> all i know is that the story that ran this morning is incorrect -- >> we made a mistake. we [ bleep ] up. we had an intellectual understanding of the facts of the story and haldeman's role in watergate, but what was in the "washington post" was untrue. we should not have allowed that to happen. >> i was angry at myself and carl and how we got it wrong. and we thought maybe we are going to have to resign, maybe we should resign. i mean, we were kind of at the end of our rope. >> for woodward and bernstein the path to

he worked for bob haldeman, so those of us in the white house, the number two people that work for anyone in the white house became a higbee, so larry's last name became a noun. so, john, assistant to todd holland was his higbee and howard was chuck colson's higbee and ron zigler had a higbee. she happened to be diane sawyer. even higbee had a higbee, gordon strong. so, i was buchanan's higbee and that became that 50 year long-term friendship. pat was part of a white house that was very unique. it was a part of a row of speechwriters that they have never had since. pat mechanic, bill safire who won a pulitzer prize, ray price who came to the nixon staff from the new york herald tribune and he had written interestingly enough they editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and you had to journeyman speechwriters, bill gavin and we, the most remarkable speechwriting staff ever, i mean, then stein and i were in all of them as we were lowly speechwriters. pat became a remarkable career with nixon or as he effectually called him the old man. in 1965, when mr. nixon writer, res

my presidency, i accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the white house, bob haldemann. >> he thought, by throwing out his inner circle, he would be left alone. he was throwing these people under the bus so the bus wouldn't hit him. >> justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially no matter who's involved. >> richard nixon wants to control everything. but he's extraordinarily delusional. i mean, he really doesn't seem to understand that he's digging himself deeper and deeper into the crime when he's trying to dig himself out. >> we must maintain the integrity of the white house, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. there can be no whitewash at the white house. >> in may of 1973, earl silbert is preparing to hand the case over to archibald cox. and he says there are 39 principals involved in this case. and he said, number 39, richard m. nixon, president of the united states. >> what if this trail leads into the oval office at the white house? >> well, as i replied then, the trail should be followed wherever it leads. radio: scorching heat today, st

richard nixon allowed bob haldeman, his first chief of staff, to be the gatekeeper. the problem with haldeman and nixon is it didn't always work. nixon would go around haldeman. and haldeman also had some ethical personal problems. but the strong chief of staff is the haldeman model. when presidents leave that model, as we've seen with trump, they only encounter troubles. trump's problem is he lets other people talk to him, besides his tweeting. his problem is bannon has direct access, kushner has direct access. >> scaramucci. >> scaramucci has direct access. in order for a chief of staff, whether he's a general or not, to be successful, he has to be the gatekeeper. he has to not only control the president's time. he has to be able to tell people no, you can't see the president. will trump allow kelly to do that? we've seen trump delegate to mattis. but trump is delegating things he doesn't really understand. military operations. will he delegate to kelly? that's the key. and we'll see. >> the one thing i think we can say about kelly, military people generally have a

her worked for bob haldeman, so those of news the white house, the number two people that worked for anyone in the white house became a higby. so larry's last name became a noun. so, john ehrlichman, holland was ear lickman -- ehrlichman and ron zigler had a higby, happened to be diane sawyer, and even the higby had a higby, gordon. so i was buchanan's higby and that became that 50-year long-term friendship. pat was part of a white house that was very unique. it was part of a murder's row of speech writers that they've never had ever since. pat buchanan, bill sapphire who won a pulitzer prize. ray price, who came to the nixon staff from the new york herald tribune and he had written interestingly enough the editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and you head two journeymen speech writers, bill and -- the most remarkable speech-writing staff. ben and i were in awe of them as their talents because we were locally speech writers. pat began his remarkable career with nixon or, as as he called him the old man in 1965, when he became mr. nixon roz writer, researcher, b

would have been a great king that he inherited a revolution and it was about a day or two later bob haldemand and said when do you think the president should make the speech and i said we have to demonstrations coming up, the biggest in washington. you don't want to be spooked by these things, so sure enough the president picked the third between october 15 demonstration and the one coming on novembe november 15 for the silent majority speech. now let me say there are a lot of people that have gained credit to that, but it belongs to richard nixon and as far as i know, the speechwriter i looked at my files but didn't find a contributing speech. .. members of congress endorsed the president's speech and i think the real - about that night, that night something happened.something else happened. most of the speech was over. and the networks trashed it. the anchors trashed it. they inherited an instant analysis. they trashed it. and they failed miserably in paris and trashed what the president had done as well. so we had messages the next day or so unite so again the memo to the president said i

richard nix soften allowed bob hald erk haldeman as his chief of staff. nixon would go around haldeman. when presidents leave that model as we have seen in trump, they only encounter troubles. trump's problem is he lets other people talk to him. besides his tweeting. his problem is bannon has direct access, scaramucci has direct act says, in order to be successful, he needs to control people, he has to be able to tell people, no, you can't see the president. we have seen trump delegate to mattis, but trump is delegating things he doesn't really understand, military operations. will he dell delegate to kelly? >> one thing i think you will see, is that if trump asks kelly will do something illegal or unconstitutional. -- >> president nixon asked alexander hague to destroy the tapes, and hague said, don't ask me, ask your valet. don't ask me to do it. he was thinking about his family and he said no. >> we are going to go out to robin wright and we will ask her about the crises in north korea, and if these crises is a way to distract from his deep domestic tr