he leaves the meeting and goes to see bob hartmann again, and hartmann goes ballistic. he says, "you should have grabbed haig and thrown him out of the office." who told you? and he says, "i got this from a white house lawyer that that option is there," and that there was a lawyer in the white house, and then they remembered that richard nixon was a lawyer, and ford says, "yes, maybe i left him with the wrong impression," and hartmann says, "what you have to do is call jack marsh", a former congressman, and he would become secretary of the army. ford meets with marsh, marsh hears the story, and marsh immediately understands the gravity of the situation. he has left richard nixon believing that there could be a pardon, and they wanted to get the troops together. "i want you to talk to hartmann again," and one of nixon's closest advisors who is still working in the white house, and they both tell ford, "you can't leave this this way." this becomes important. they are all three in the room. ford picks up the phone and called al haig and says, and i am paraphrasing here, i