haldeman concurred. quote: he was really peeved, he wrote in his diary a few hours later, really needs some good rest. leaving the briefing trailed in the lobby of the pentagon by a few reporters with tape recorders, nixon compared american soldiers, they're the greatest, with american students. these bums blowing up the campuses, a statement he later realized only, quote, added fuel to fires of dissent. on monday, may 4th, haldeman went to nixon's executive office building hideout with some bad news. quote: something just came over the wires about a demonstration at kent state. haldeman said, the national guard opened fire, and some students were shot. are they dead? nixon asked. i'm afraid so, haldeman said. four had been killed and nine insured at the ohio campus. injured at the ohio campus. haldeman's diary, quote: he's very disturbed, afraid his decision set it off. really sad to see this added to his worries about the war. he's out on a tough limb, and he knows it. this makes it a lot worse. he has

haldeman corralled him at 6:15 a.m. the president demanded a plate of corn beef hash at the mayflower hotel. he got it. haldeman urged him to get some rest, but nixon still could not sleep, and he rattled about the white house all day without purpose as a peaceful protest of 100,000 people swirled around him. haldeman wrote in his journal that day, weirdest day so far. [laughter] very weird. president completely beat and just rambling on but too tired to go to sleep. i am concerned about his condition. he has had very little sleep for a long time. haldeman added that he had demanded the president take a five-day weekend in key biscayne, but that proved futile. i quote again from haldeman's recently-declass classified diaries. more of the same, he just keeps grinding away. and he won't anytime it, but he is letting -- he won't admit it, but he is letting himself slip back into the old ways. that meant hitting the bottle. nixon, desperate for respite, was drinking heavily night after night after night. i think we'll stop

haldeman and yours truly, we're obstructing justice.hinking about the politics of it all. >> all of the burglars stay quiet. nobody else is indicted, which is exactly what the white house's strategy was. >> the strategy was containment. if it doesn't get widespread coverage in the country as a whole, then we'll be able to handle this. >> this is about the government. this is about credibility. this is about bugging. this is about deception. this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. with your vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly. president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the democrats drawn tonight for the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan, delaware, arkansas and north dakota, those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was

john mitchell, bob haldeman and john ehrlichman. they are the ones who are convicted in the watergate cover-up caught, convicted all counts but the question has always been in the minds of people who are not really sure we got the true story whether the folks at the bottom were operating under the direction and control of the folks at the top. about a little bit further, i've outlined four of these people in a red box come and they are outlined because they were present, the only people present at two key meetings that took place in john mitchell's office where they discussed gordon liddy's intelligence plan to they didn't approve it at those meetings but they discussed it. they reviewed it. and so you can see how after the break-in, arrest them when these people were arrested, these four people might believe they were at risk of prosecution because they knew what was started, what was under consideration. again, it wasn't approved but it was under consideration. and they reacted in different ways. gordon liddy told john dean it was

haldeman recorded. kissinger just wants to let the students go for a couple of weeks and then move in and clobber them. they could be hit with anything harder than the bullets of the national guard wasn't the question. he was very concerned we haven't given in any way. they could really call for them if we wait for the cambodian success. and now a quote from a national security agency history the invasion of cambodia declassified a year and a half ago. the incursion was a medicated disaster. the most famous of the attempt they were always on the move always able to get out of the way in the stripes, which as we know were predicted with great accuracy from the intelligence and repeated strikes over the years never did any damage. kissinger's in-house expert remembered vividly when he heard the reports that nixon was going after. by the time i stopped laughing i almost felt like crying, he said he then wondered who had briefed the president on this and it turned out to be kissinger. there was no way that

john mitchell, bob haldeman and john ehrlichman. these men these men were convicted on all counts the question has always been in the minds of people who aren't sure we got the true story, whether the folks at the bottom were operating on their direction and control of the folks at the top. if you go back a little bit further, i've outlined four of these people in a red box. there outlined because they were president, they were the only people present at two key meetings that took place in john mitchell's office where they discussed the intelligence plan. they didn't approve it at those meetings, but they discussed it and reviewed it. so you can see how after the break-in arrest where these people are rest, these four people might believe they were at risk of prosecution because they knew what was started. they knew knew what was under consideration. it wasn't approved, but it was under consideration and they reacted in different way. one said it's my fault and then he clammed up and wouldn't testify wouldn't talk or take the stand

haldeman once called him the weirdest man i ever met.aughter] so how did this shy lonely poor boy do this? the key was he was an outsider this new hell to play on the hopes and fears of other outsiders. when nixon got to college there was a cool guy's fraternity. nixon was spotted for the uncool guys because he understood there were more of them. there were more outsiders and that's how into the toshiba himself elected to elected student body president. he had a lot of those standing on the steps. he came up with that phrase the silent majority because they understood in 1970 that most of the country got the silent majority was then asked to delete. they were anxious about the riots on the street and a student protesters and the inner-city. and nixon kept right into that patriotism. by 1972, this boy won the groups know though republican had one before. he won 35% of democrats in 1972 and yet he was still haunted by the cool guys one in particular john f. kennedy. mixing and kennedy were friends. their offices were across the whole from

in his office with all the men haldeman and ehrlichman, he could get wound up and say a lot of bad stuff but there's a kind of quality obj knew how to square. [laughter] mixing there was something kind of think about it and there's another side to nixon late at night he would take his legal yellow pad and he would go to the sitting room and make notes to himself and those notes he would describe the man he wanted to be and he would use words like joyful and serene and inspiring and competent, all words that we don't really associate with which her nixon but this is the person he wished to be. he didn't do it once or twice, he did it all the time and he inspired to be somebody that he couldn't really be. it would last for a while and then he would lash out. again the tapes missed things. nixon was substantive. if you listen to the tapes, he had a level of knowledge and expertise particularly on foreign policy that is deep. nixon was always saying they hate intellectuals. he said i don't like intellectuals there's something feminine about them. i would rather talk to an athlete. he was a t