the president was aware of this break in before it happened and that the president agreed with holderman's suggestion and interdeed reiterated it that the cia should be told to tell the fbi that this was something the fbi should stay out of. that strategy did not work. the cia ultimately refused to go along with this approach but there was no question that the president was involved in deciding to ask them to do that. that led very quickly to the president's announcement on august 8th that he was going to re-sign and to his actual resignation on august 9th. so everything happened more quickly after the 8-0 decision. it was 8 because justice renquist had refused himself because he had been involved in the case while working for the executive branch and appropriately took himself out of the case. it was 8-0 written by the chief justice. the chief justice has the right to assign a decision to himself. he did assign this to himself. as you read the opinion, you see that it is trying to accommodate various interests of the judges trying to come, i think, so my judgment, trying to come to a unan

the president after talking to holderman congratulated him for plugging leaks and talking abdomen containment and something about cutting losses or something like that. then you go into the next period, march 21st. then me say that i don't think the president directed the payment of hush money. i don't think we can make that allegation. but let me tell you what happened. the president on march 20th ordered john dean. things were beginning to get a little hot. the president on march 20th ordered john dean to conduct a report, another report. this is the second dean report. he says, that's right, this is the president speaking, try just something general like i have checked into this matter. i can categorically based on my investigation the following. halderman is not involved in this. that and the other thing. mr. so and so did not do this. mr. blank did not do this, right down the line. if there are any further questions, please let me know. the next morning john dean advised, john dean advised the president that ur lick man was implicated, halderman was implicated, that john dean himself was

he seems to forget that bob holderman went to jail for claiming he said that. that is not in that conversation. that conversation has been publicly available for decades. it's on the nixon library website. i suggest frank go to the website, read the transcript, listen to it and you will find that he is dead wrong. >> host: okay. and the second thing he says at the end, he said there are many mysteries about watergate. now, i don't think there are many mysteries at all. i think we know too much, but he makes a good point when he says we don't know who ordered the break-in, and we don't know what they were looking for. >> guest: not true. i think there's no question they were looking for financial information of some sort. i put an appendix together where i drew out everything from every conversation, put it in summary form so people could see it. and it's just a question. the white house understood, this is what -- what i didn't add and what i have done elsewhere, showed everybody's involvement in the break-in, but they were looking for financial information. ba

the president after talking to holderman congratulated him for plugging leaks and talking abdomen containment and something about cutting losses or something like that. then you go into the next period, march 21st. then me say that i don't think the president directed the payment of hush money. i don't think we can make that allegation. but let me tell you what happened. the president on march 20th ordered john dean. things were beginning to get a little hot. the president on march 20th ordered john dean to conduct a report, another report. this is the second dean report. he says, that's right, this is the president speaking, try just something general like i have checked into this matter. i can categorically based on my investigation the following. halderman is not involved in this. that and the other thing. mr. so and so did not do this. mr. blank did not do this, right down the line. if there are any further questions, please let me know. the next morning john dean advised, john dean advised the president that ur lick man was implicated, halderman was implicated, that john dean himself was

the president was aware of this break in before it happened and that the president agreed with holderman's suggestion and interdeed reiterated it that the cia should be told to tell the fbi that this was something the fbi should stay out of. that strategy did not work. the cia ultimately refused to go along with this approach but there was no question that the president was involved in deciding to ask them to do that. that led very quickly to the president's announcement on august 8th that he was going to re-sign and to his actual resignation on august 9th. so everything happened more quickly after the 8-0 decision. it was 8 because justice renquist had refused himself because he had been involved in the case while working for the executive branch and appropriately took himself out of the case. it was 8-0 written by the chief justice. the chief justice has the right to assign a decision to himself. he did assign this to himself. as you read the opinion, you see that it is trying to accommodate various interests of the judges trying to come, i think, so my judgment, trying to come to a unan