jail were involved in an earlier operation on behalf of the white house to break into daniel elseberg's psychiatric office. it's at that moment that i realized we've got really big problems and i don't have a clue what to do with them. my pred sesz so far who had been white house council, one of the things i said to him very early in the conversations after reporting what i knew, john, we probably need a criminal lawyer here. he dismissed that. i realize that if there was anything that was essential at the white house it was that richard nixon have the most talented criminal lawyer that was available. that be didn't happen to be the case. we proceed from there trying to gather the information as to what's going on. the dye is cast that week. one of the more interesting bits that happened is nixon calls john mitchell when he gets back to washington from the residence. not a recorded call. the call was reported not on the eob phone, but the room phone. it's a fascinating conversation where mitchell is tole by the president that he thinks that the matter can be controlled and he comes up w

so most significantly the break-in to daniel elseberg's psychiatrist's office which was conducted by the same team that broke into the -- into the watergate building that we're sitting in this evening. so many things that had been done. any single one of which today would have been cause for screaming headlines. one goes back and looks over the, you know, the kinds of things that were done the idea of fire becomes the brookings institution to steal material from their safe. the idea of paying thugs to rough up anti-war demonstrators, the list goes on. the enemies list. >> we should ask the audience how many were on the enemies list? i would assume a number of them. at the time it was a big deal. it was a badge of honor. >> the fact is that knicnixon h surrounded himself with people who vied for his attention. and the way to get nixon's approval was to bring the dead mouse to his door. to show that you were a tough guy. to show that you weren't bound by the rules that you remember going to play hard knuckle politics and in the end that didn't -- >> for those that are watching, who wer