south to look at flood damage and dedicate a naval training station in mississippi to senator john stennis off to dedicate a john stennis memorial rocket launcher or something in mississippi. and i'm standing on the flight deck, and it occurred to me for about 30 seconds that i could crash this airplane and that would put an end to everybody's problems. mine and nixon's and haldeman's and everybody, 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 mark shots. >> the very last conversation i had with him there, we were talking about this break-in in california, the ellsberg psychiatrist break-in. and he said i didn't know about that, did i? and i had to -- i had to indicate to him that he did know about it. >> that, of course, is a totally, totally out of our ken. have you ever heard of such a thing? >> yes, sir. >> goddamn it, i never heard of it, john. i should have been told about that, s