so, dwight chapin, his body guy. dwight brennan, his military aide; ray price, his speechwriter. larry higbee who worked for hr halderman. there were a lot of people who were kind of in the office with him and who were around him. years later, they are a little defensive around the press and around me. i'm an east coast establishment. i work for the "washington post" company. but what the heck, a lot of years have passed and they were pretty generous with me. steve bowl talked to me about what it was like. they were sympathetic. i think that they wanted to -- yes, nixon was a weird guy. no doubt about it. but he was a considerate boss, a thoughtful boss. he tried to buck up his troops. i think they wanted to get that side of him across, so they talked to me. a lot of his aides -- he was always a good talent scout for young talent. brent scowcroft, later national security advisor, henry kissinger talked to me. because he is interested in his version of history. but also a thoughtful, receptive critic of nixon. donald rumsfeld was a young aide who worked for nixon. he talked to me.

people like dwight chapin. scholars helped me.rwin gelman, the one nixon scholar who is actually read all of the documents. he was incredibly generous with me. pointing me to this and that. mills mall is a great nixon scholar out in the midwest. you know, i'm a journalist more than i am a scholar, so i go to scholars and i asked them. and they help me. archivists help me. my researcher mike hill has helped me over the years. a little bit less on this particular project, but he has been in an incredible help to me over the years. mike and i were at the library i spent a couple months out of the library listening to tapes and the archivist there helped me. there is a mountain of material. the one thing that scholars, or rather journalists, need to know, is that if you want cold -- walk into a presidential cold library, forget it. you cannot even read the finding aid. you need to spend a couple of years reading the secondary stuff and talking to people before you even darken the door of a presidential library. but then, if you befrie

dwight chapin, his body got. -- his body guy. his military aide, speechwriter.here were a lot of people who were kind of in the office with him and who were around him. they are a little defensive around the press and they were a little defensive around me. i'm an east coast establishment. a lot of years have passed and they were pretty generous with me. steve bowl talk to me about how it was like. i think that they wanted to -- yes, nixon was a weird guy. but he was a considerate boss, a thoughtful boss. i think they wanted to get that side of him across so they talked to me. a lot of his aides -- he was always a good talent scout for young talent. kissinger talk to me. donald rumsfeld was a young aide who worked for nixon. george schultz was a young cabinet secretary. a lot of these names became more famous later but got their start with richard nixon because he had a good eye for talent. someone i wish i had talked to was roger ailes out of fox news. roger ailes was a fairly obscure daytime tv producer when richard nixon discovered him and put him in charge o