was that some genius in the white house actually was probably holderman. thought well nixon is a technological cluts to say the least, you know, he's very ham-fisted with technology. and as holderman put it no one's ever going to trust you and you're not going to trust yourself to turn on the tape recorder when you want it. so let's have a tape recording system without an on-off switch. imagine it will tape everything will start recording when you go into the room. i mean think of that in your private houses if you had tape recorders that recorded absolutely everything you said whenever you walked into a room or whenever you picked up a telephone. and they thought this was a great thing because nixon wouldn't have to worry about it. but in the end it proved his undoing because the tape system recorded the good the bad the ugly the illegal. and they're very sort of it's not just all terrible things on the table on these tapes. there's some intimate moments with his family his daughters that show nixon in a different light, but there's also of course the ill

judge and then the catastrophe above the aides turning on each other and nixon was forced to -- with holdermanthinks he'll have to resign himself to he manages to hang on for another year but he hangs on while there's a big fight in you probablyy remember it over whether or not the case will be published. okay so we see, the other quality or characteristic of that tragic stories that you have to see the hero suffering. and i think we do see nixon sufferer. receive his human side to him. he gets rid of haldeman and he said i'd love to and then there's applause, like my brother. i think he's referring to his two brothers who died of tuberculosis as young men and it was painful for him to get rid of haldeman as it was to lose his two brothers as a young man. he wasn't like trump. to nixon it was extremely painful. he said to kissinger at one point nobody willpo ever know wt they put a president threw in a time like this. so we can talk about later on how nixon is the true tragic hero in talk about the right minds of watergate and i love the line from haldeman he says to dean, dean once the toothp