jo haldeman, the wife of the late bob haldeman, says that bob haldeman wouldn't agree with some of your conclusions. what are those? >> guest: number one, my conclusion is that he was guilty. jo will not accept that, and he never would accept that. i used to argue with him about it, that, "you didn't go to jail for nothing, bob." c-span: guilty of what, by the way? >> guest: guilty of covering up a crime, which is what he was accused of; guilty of perjury, both in court and before the ervin committee. c-span: if someone hasn't been paying any attention to what these diaries are, a 30-second thumbnail sketch of what are they? >> guest: haldeman kept a diary every night of his period of chief of staff, which ran through the whole of the first nixon administration and into the first six months of the second nixon administration. every night he dictated an entry to the diary that ran to sometimes an hour's worth of dictation. it's a marvelous insider's look at american politics as it is played at the center. c-span: how did you get involved in this? you have a foreword and an afterword. >>

" two night in a row and i've been besieged with calls from reporters on the haldeman diaries. and then here comes d-day. i've been planning this book for 13 years, and i knew 13 years ago i wanted to have a big book on d-day to come out in the period of the 50th anniversary. it's the coincidence of nixon having died and the haldeman journals coming out at the time that the d-day book aired. c-span: where is this picture from? >> guest: frank capa took that picture, and there is a wonderful story with it. he is a famous photographer. perhaps the most famous war still shot of the 20th century is from the spanish civil war. everybody knows it. it's the spanish soldier getting killed, and frank capa took it. he went in on d-day with the first wave at the toughest part of omaha beach, and capa shot, i think it's eight rolls of film, and then holding his camera high over his head he went running back out to an lct. there are a couple of his pictures. i interviewed a guy who was in the lct who helped capa back over the side. they took him out to an lst, and from there he got to engla