>> larry higby was bob haldeman's staff assistant. bofb had three staff assistants. we called it the beaver patrol. they were all little guys, young -- i don't mean little in stature, but i mean young, 23, 24. and larry was sort of the main guy. he was haldeman's closest staff assistant. so when -- everybody wanted a higby. if you had a higby, you had some status there in the white house. if higby came in and said something, you knew it came from haldeman, and he just came into my office one day, and my office then -- i had taken over haldeman's office. i had the office that adjoined the oval office. haldeman had moved to the grand big office down the hall where we had put spero agnew, and we had to kick the vice president out so haldeman could take that office. nixon was the first president to put the vice president in the west wing, to give him an office there. so higby said bob wants me to tell you that the president wants a taping system installed in the oval off fills and he wants to make sure it's a good taping system, and he'll talk to you more about it later.