i think that the pressure he was putting on jed mcgruter to some of the things he did on the break-in. i can't prove that. i don't think colson ordered it anyway but mcgruter did. i have a theory on how mcgruter got john mitchell to approve it but again that's my speculation. john had a wife who could be a very big problem sometimes. she'd speak out at all hours of the day or not about what are was bothering her. one of my jobs was try to take care of martha mitchell as well. that was me. so he was taking a little vacation in in order. jed mcgruter came down with a list of things he wanted to prove for the committee and my theory is that he waited until about the last and martha mitchell was yeg at john, saying get rid of that young guy and come back here. and so he just checked it off quickly and let it go. i think he's too smart to do something like that deliberately. my other theory is that i used to talk to mcgruter sometimes about what we did in 1960 on jennings and in 160 kennedy had a guy named dick tuck who was a great trickster and a good guy. so he would do like he planted c