. >>> sunday night on q & a -- >> and so here was a yellow pad where holderman writes down in the midst of the october 1968, we're going to monkey wrench lyndon john's peace initiative. this is something that had always been rumored and bits of pieces had come out over the years but nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and denied it to david frost and he denied it to the biographers, always said he never played a role in doing this. >> john ferrell author of "richard nonexxon" on the political career from the early days in congress to his tenure and downfall as president. >> the way that the watergaert burglars, the team assembled was clumsy. cynical, burn out cia or intelligence agents supervised young men on nixon's staff who just wanted to be one of the famous quotes go the cat that brought the dead mouse to the president's door. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> next, three former pentagon officials testify at a house armed services committee hearing on the future of the u.s. armed forces and in particular, what opportunities exist to improve the servic