as john dean says but i think over time people became to appreciate about him 4 >> and when i see haldermanlich man and agnew, it seemed he didn't know how to pick the people around him to give him great support and advice. guest: nixon accomplishments includes the integration of the southern schools and includes affirmative action and includes the volunteer army and includes social security and for the first time -- he did all of this with the democratic congresses he never had a republican congress to work with. he knew that edmund musk yes was going to run against him and could steal his thunder by by signing the clean water act. many of these were counter moves to combat what was going on in the congress. but in his heart, this is a man who supported -- reagan didn't but he supported every civil rights bill. he drew the line at forced busing says that wasn't a bad place to draw the line. not only was he awful, but he failed to supervise and he wore his closest aids down to the point tay they failed to supervise and they recruited the biggest bunch of knuckle heads and spy, f.b.i. world,

i interviewed, uh halderman over there and then interviewed butterfield reported to my minority council. i was on i was a democrat majority council my minority counselor. don sanders great guy. he died about 20 years ago, but his heart and i said don, let's see if there's a tight recording in the oval office when don's turn came the investigator goes first. he investigator. i better not say what i'm going to say about him. he went three hours and never asked the right question when it got to don don and his uh said, uh, mr. butterfield. is there anything about there being a type recording in the oval office and the butterfield's comment? i was afraid you all were going to ask this and i've been told that i've got to tell the truth. my memory is bad, but those words stick right with me. that's exactly what happened and he told the truth not only was there a tape recording the oval office when an executive building in another office and mainly there was one at camp david's down in virginia where the president went on vacation the thought occurred to me on july the 13th 1973. oh my god an

you submitted halderman for transmission to the president. is that right now in that document, you make certain recommendations with respect to changing restraints, which you thought had been placed upon intelligence collection. is that right? yes. in making those recommendations, did you believe you were representing the consensus of the entire working group that had worked on the study for yourself and for the president? yes. so that whatever recommendation you made with respect to illegal opening of the mail or burglary or surreptitious entry were ones which you believed represented the views of the entire intelligence community. with the exception of the footnotes of mr. hoover himself. is that right? yes. and you did recommend did you not, that. the united states should commence, in your view, commence as you understood it, commence or recommence. the illegal opening of mail is that correct? you? yes, i'm i understanding from my contacts with the bureau and through the working committee was that in the past that this had been a technique

our mentor bob halderman had been active in all of this and he had tutored me. we were not in the business of reinventing how nixon would campaign and how he would be dealt with. we were in the business of implementing it the way that he wanted and that you might say well what does thatoe mean? we are talking about an incredibly smart man here that wanted to have in his schedule time for thinking. he wanted to have things regimented. he didn't want any surprises so all of the habit patterns of how people work or in this case how a former vice president worked became the rule by which i was expected to follow. and as i said in an interview yesterday, that became my credential. if i had to put something on it my credential became the ability to understand what he wanted, when he wanted it. >> this is another photograph that isn't in the book. the photographs in the book are wonderful site on the white choseit this but to me it doesnt illustrate the points you want to make. it illustrates to me the point of what you are doing. so there you are, this is early in the

you submitted halderman for transmission to the president. is that right now in that document, you make certain recommendations with respect to changing restraints, which you thought had been placed upon intelligence collection. is that right? yes. in making those recommendations, did you believe you were representing the consensus of the entire working group that had worked on the study for yourself and for the president? yes. so that whatever recommendation you made with respect to illegal opening of the mail or burglary or surreptitious entry were ones which you believed represented the views of the entire intelligence community. with the exception of the footnotes of mr. hoover himself. is that right? yes. and you did recommend did you not, that. the united states should commence, in your view, commence as you understood it, commence or recommence. the illegal opening of mail is that correct? you? yes, i'm i understanding from my contacts with the bureau and through the working committee was that in the past that this had been a technique

so you don't have a tape of halderman walking into the oval office and say that they're going into watergatebut there certainly was a tone set from the top that we are going to use every trick possible, and of some of them go across the lines, some go across the lines. there is an amazing memo from that same time where you before watergate, nixon's aids runs into the manager and says we are going to put spies into all the different democratic candidates headquarters so we know where the desks are and where the phone lines are. ahead of this, so we are ready when it is time to start doing the illegal bugging. a major problem is that he lied to the country and try to cover it up. and the famous smoking gun tape, he talked about using the cia to lean on the fbi and shutdown down the investigation, and then the tapes come out. if they never came out, he probably would have survived, but when the tape comes out, and they shall all the wrongdoing, his support evaporates. why were they going into larry o'brian's office? it was the democratic committee's headquarters. i think it was a logical target