after nixon has announced haldeman's resignation.by the time he talks to haldeman he's already put back a few so you can hear that in his voice he talks about haldeman as you are going to hear i think that this is a reference to nixon's own brother, one of his own who died from tuberculosis when he was a young man and when he is forced to part he's thinking of this tragedy that happened when he was a young man but there was one in particular to whom he was very close so i'm just going to share the screen again and then we can talk on the other side of this last recording that i am going to play for you. that's the wrong one. april 30th, 1973 president nixon and bob haldeman. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i can. [inaudible] that was the end of this 30 day period. i go beyond that. but this is the main arc of the narrative. if there are any questions, i would love to respond. thank you for bearing with me. i hope you could all hear those little audio extracts without any trouble. happy to answer any questi

after nixon has announced haldeman's resignation.and it's so painful to him that nixon's starts drinking and by the time he talks to haldeman he's quite already has put back a few whiskeys and so you can hear that in his voice. he talks about haldeman as you're going to hear my brother. i think this is a reference to nixon's own brother, one of his brothers who died from tuberculosis when nixon was a young man. and you know, so when he's forced to part company with haldeman he's thinking of this tragedy that happened to him when he was a young man but actually two of his brothers died oftuberculosis but there was one in particular he was very close . so i'm just going to share the screen again and then we can talk on the other side of the last little recording thati'm going to play for you . >> april 28, 1973, president nixon and john ehrlich. >> that's the wrong one beforethat . >> lincoln's sitting room april 30, 1973. president nixon and bob haldeman . >> sorry i let you down. [inaudible] >>. [inaudible] >>. [inaudible] they know

april 30th, 1973 president nixon and bob haldeman.[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> okay so that was the end of this 30 day period. i actually go a little beyond that, but this is the main arc of the narrative. if there are any questions, i would love to respond. thank you for bearingg with me. i don't know if you could hear those audio extracts without any trouble. happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. we do have questions but first and foremost, can you talk a little bit about how you access these tapes and about how many hours of tape there are. >> 3,700. a small fraction of which were released back while nixon was still president on the orders of the supreme court. so, most of the standard nixon watergate books do not include this 3,700 hours which were only released in the last ten years or so. so they are actually all up on the library website. it takes a bit of navigating but can find them and you can also listen to some of the extras on my website at least some of the tapes i use

turn out, been high with pulse kept open to several hours longer to allow everyone to vote. haldeman passes in the capital, the sako, with the latest provision resolves, have side is coming in right now. it's really is still too close to call. it seems for now that the opposite, that a the dilemma is leading. but like you many african elections, the urban results, i use the analogy 1st and in the urban areas that we have your position, have they struggled when the war results are coming in that place. sometimes things seem to change. so in a couple of hours, maybe a day or so, we'll have a clear indication of what actually is going on in terms of what's happening on the ground at the moment the army has been deployed, you seeing most soldiers that we saw before across the country and in the talk, in particular, the capital, they are obviously here at the results into and the also in areas official think they could be problems later on. if the final results are disputed election. officials say the reason why it's taking so slow to announce the result and that because it's manual count

tierney, who is the executive director of the center for arms control and nonproliferation, and jacob haldeman, editor of the national interest, one of the nation's leading journals on current and international affairs, is great to have you both here, john, let me, start with you and ask you, you know, just a simple question. you know, how many nukes is too many nukes in his america beyond where it should be? well, some of us will tell you that any new committee do, given the danger that they present human, kind on that. but let's assume that people are still in the mindset of the parents wanting to have enough new weapons so that anybody else who would use them or has them would not use them against them for fear of being wiped out themselves. in that case, you know, in 2013, the military command, united states, that we do have committed 1050. both the united states and russia are allowed to have under the new stock re, is about higher than we actually need even for the parents purpose. so putting the rest of the military on statements. yes, we have too many by about a 3rd, and every one that

in addition to that, his chief of staff bob haldeman captain audio diary every night. they are memoirs of, from the white house aides, practically everybody who plays an important role in watergate, hundreds of thousands of documents from the nixon white house. so you end up with the richest treasure trove of information you can imagine for any president. and because no president is ever going to take themselves again, we're never going to get as close of you of which really going on in the white house as we do with richard nixon. even though this was never nixon's intention. nixon regarded these recordings as his private property which intend to use for his memoirs, and was horrified when the recording started to be publicly released. because he's completely indiscreet in these conversations. so now this sort of wealth of documentation poses both a challenge as both a blessing and a curse for biographers of nixon. because if you're up our -- a biographer trying to describe all of nixon's life to death, just you don't have the space to give, to go into detail about wha