after nixon has announced halderman's resignation.and it's so painful to him that nixon starts drinking, and by the time he talks to halderman he is quite already, has put back a few whiskeys and so you can hear that in his voice. he talks about halderman as, you're going to hear, my brother and 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. so when he's forced to part company with halderman he's thinking of this tragedy that happened to him when he was a young man with actually to back of his brothers died of tuberculosis 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 the recording that i'm going to play for you. can't david april 28, 1973, president nixon and -- >> sorry, that's the wrong one. just before that. >> lincoln sitting room, april 30, 1973, president, president nixon and bob halderman. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [ina

mitchell and halderman. these were things that weighed on them. there are story where is he occasionally reaches out. halderman gets out of jail. nixon calls him. it's a pretty emotional conversation. he felt their grief very personally. there are a lot of those stories and conversations in here. the heart and soul of the book by design is really to show him kind of emerging from this emotional state in '74 and '75 and really focusing on his policy objectives and really sort of taking him seriously as an ex-president and what he was trying to achieve and what he was trying to achieve was become a counselor and adviser on foreign policy. most of the book tends to focus on those relationships. reagan, reagan's team, scholtz, al hague, mcfarland i mentioned earlier, and then of course bush with james baker and bill clinton. those are described in more detail. there's certainly a good amount of him reaching out to his former aides visiting with them and you get a sense through the dialogue and some of those conversations of how much it weighed on him.

then in addition to that, his chief of staff bob halderman captain audio diary every night, memoirs of the former house white -- why does it come back to that but who plays an important role in watergate, you know, hundreds of thousands of documents from the nixon white house. so you end up with the richest repository of information that you can imagine for any president. because no president is ever going to taped themselves again, we will never get as close of you of what's really going on in the white house as we do with richard nixon, even though this was never nixon's intention. nixon regarded these recorded as is private property which he intended 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 a challenge, is both a blessing and a curse by biographers of nixon because if you're a barter for trying to describe all of nixon's life from birth to death you don't have the space to give, to go into detail about what was occur