in the presidential party were bob haldeman and john ehrlichman. >> we were on air force one. lane and that would put an end to everybody's problems. mine, nixon's and haldeman's, everybody who was aboard. i stepped off that airplane, and usually the drill is richard nixon steps off the airplane and all the cameras click away and all that. he got off and nobody paid any attention to him. i got off and boy, they were all taking morgue shots. >> in the very last conversation i had with him there, we were talking about this break-in, in california. the elsberg psychiatrist break-in. and he said, i didn't know about that, did i? and i had to indicate to him that he did know about it. >> that, of course, is a totally out of our -- have you ever heard of this? >> yes, sir. >> i never heard of it, john. i should have been told about that, shouldn't i? >> i'm not so sure that you weren't. my recollection is this was discussed with you. >> yeah. yeah. hmmmm. well, i've got to know about that. if i'm in that kind of a position, i'm in a position i just didn't know about. believe me, thro

haldeman his chief of staff and john ehrlichman, his chief domestic adviser, have resigned. esident's white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly, dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal, and he may implicate ehrlichman and haldeman. >> good evening. i want to talk to you tonight from my heart on a subject of deep concern to every american. today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, i accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the white house, bob haldeman, john ehrlichman. >> he thought, by throwing out his inner circle, he would be left alone he was throwing these people under the bus so the bus wouldn't hit him. >> justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially no matter who's involved. >> richard nixon wants to control everything. but he's extraordinarily delusional. i mean, he really doesn't seem to understand that he's digging himself deeper and deeper into the crime when he's trying to dig himself out. >> we must maintain the integrity of the white house, and that integrity must b

john ehrlichman, bob haldeman, john dean and 16 others went to jail. >>, you know, to this day i'm not that's one of the things i'm actually trying to figure out when did i cross the line, had when did i enter that illegal conspiracy? no question i went across it. >> there was a real major breakdown in personal integrity as well as organizational integrity on the part of us that were given those assignments. >> not quite sure exactly where i'm going to be for the next few months, but i'm going to miss you all. >> it also requires you to ask the ethical questions. is this right? is it respectful? is it responsible? is it fair? we didn't ask any of those questions. and we should have started with is it legal? we were so caught in trying to serve the president's needs and desires that we did not ask those questions. >> i, gerald r. ford, do grant a few, free, and absolute pardon on to richard nixon for all offenses against the united states which he -- >> president's pardon of richard nixon stunned the nation. nixon's legal problems were now over. >> when the president does it, that means

so, john ehrlichman, holland was ear lickman -- ehrlichman and ron zigler had a higby, happened to be diane sawyer, and even the higby had a higby, gordon. so i was buchanan's higby and that became that 50-year long-term friendship. pat was part of a white house that was very unique. it was part of a murder's row of speech writers that they've never had ever since. pat buchanan, bill sapphire who won a pulitzer prize. ray price, who came to the nixon staff from the new york herald tribune and he had written interestingly enough the editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and you head two journeymen speech writers, bill and -- the most remarkable speech-writing staff. ben and i were in awe of them as their talents because we were locally speech writers. pat began his remarkable career with nixon or, as as he called him the old man in 1965, when he became mr. nixon roz writer, researcher, briefer, traveling campaign aide, and along with his current book, which i knowow have all purchased, you really have to buy his other book think greatest comeback, where chronicled

of people that worked for anyone in the white house larry and his last name became a noun, so john ehrlichman, the assistant was ehrlichman higbee and ron higbee and happened to the diane sawyer and even higbee had a higbee. so i was buchanan's higbee and that became the 50 year longtime friendship. that was part of the white house that was very unique. it was part of a murderer's row of speechwriters that they'd had ever since. pat buchanan, phil safire, ray price who came to the nixon staff from the new york herald tribune, and he'd written interestingly enough the editorial that endorsed lyndon johnson over barry goldwater and two journeyman speechwriters as the most remarkable staff ever. pat buchanan has remarkable career with nixon when he became the writer, researcher, briefer traveler campaigning and along with this current book you really have to buy his book the greatest combat on this remarkable period had worked with. richard nixon rose. it is no was not only the consee conscience but the strategist for the president. no other single person in my judgment had the same creative ins