i wrote a letter to dick moore to give to the attorney general. and then dick called me and said, dwight, give up. just relax.

i wrote a letter to dick moore to give to the attorney general. and then dick called me and said, dwight, give up. just relax. you have to get through the process. but there were the injustices that i saw happening. i always said later, i wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. i really wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. because i saw things and know things and could have, in my little mind could have done things that would have helped solve some problems. >> can you give us examples? >> this whole incarceration and how it works. what you do to people. you take these young people and put them in there and you collectify them. if they have a drug issue and they are in there and there's more drugs, you are creating an incubator effect rather than separating them out and giving them some kind of halfway house that's clean on the outside and not putting them into these facilities together. it's endless. the system is so screwed up. i'm not saying they are not very smart and wise people trying to work on this

we went back to the moores. and dick and i went into the white house and met with ehrlichman and ziegler. i think john dean was there. i'm not certain. and tried to figure out how we were going to manage this and how we were going to handle it. we wrote out some statements. then sunday night, we went back to the moores house, had dinner. i'm telling this for a reason. why -- we went home, drove in our driveway and i hear this, dwight, dwight. this guy comes out from behind a tree. i had known him for years through the campaign. it was bob simple of "the new york times" hiding in my front yard. i said, they send a friend here to do this? and he said, i'm so embarrassed. and he said, i just hate being here. but that's how it all got started. >> did segretti call you? >> i don't remember. i don't think so. i talked to him. he's right there. he may remember. i don't remember. i mean, i was too focused on me. >> what was the game plan for you? >> it depends on where you're talking. we have the story, which i want to say was l

the president suggested that only exception might be dick moore. when peterson expressed reservation, the president said, let's just better keep it with me then. in an afternoon conversation in that same day, a telephone conversation when the president called peter son, he said, henry, feel free to confide in me. i'm going to keep it confidential. i know the rules of the grand jury. what did he do with the information that henry peterson gave to him? henry peterson, who was taking the place as really the chief investigator in the watergate case, the president on april 17th met with halderman who had been implicated again by information that was given to henry peterson and henry peterson had revealed it to the president and the president advised at that point halderman that he better get together with john and map out some kind of a strategy on the money. then there's the big deletion. i don't know what the material deleted is. then he comes back and says what about calmback? what's he going to say about the money? he says, you better get ahold of c

i wrote a letter to dick moore to give to the attorney general. and then dick called me and said, dwight, give up. just relax. you have to get through the process. but there were the injustices that i saw happening. i always said later, i wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. i really wish i had gone to prison before i went to the white house. because i saw things and know things and could have, in my little mind could have done things that would have helped solve some problems. >> can you give us examples? >> this whole incarceration and how it works. what you do to people. you take these young people and put them in there and you collectify them. if they have a drug issue and they are in there and there's more drugs, you are creating an incubator effect rather than separating them out and giving them some kind of halfway house that's clean on the outside and not putting them into these facilities together. it's endless. the system is so screwed up. i'm not saying they are not very smart and wise people trying to work on this

the president suggested that only exception might be dick moore. when peterson expressed reservation, the president said, let's just better keep it with me then. in an afternoon conversation in that same day, a telephone conversation when the president called peter son, he said, henry, feel free to confide in me. i'm going to keep it confidential. i know the rules of the grand jury. what did he do with the information that henry peterson gave to him? henry peterson, who was taking the place as really the chief investigator in the watergate case, the president on april 17th met with halderman who had been implicated again by information that was given to henry peterson and henry peterson had revealed it to the president and the president advised at that point halderman that he better get together with john and map out some kind of a strategy on the money. then there's the big deletion. i don't know what the material deleted is. then he comes back and says what about calmback? what's he going to say about the money? he says, you better get ahold of c