he took a yellow pad and drafted a letter to leonid brezhnev, the hea of the soviet union at the time one of the things we discovered in our research was this handwritten draft which was -- has never before been found. we were really thilled to find that draft. he wrote that draft and dick allen had it typed up, his national security advisor, at d.n.c. and tried to combine it with the state department draft but the president was not satisfied. this is an example of what marty was saying, that he imposed his own policies on the government. he didn't let -- i mean he decided what he wanted to do. and in the end, the draft from the state department was not combined with the president's draft. rather, the president wrote his own letter to brezhnev by hand and put it on top of the state department draft which also was typed and he also signed, and the letters were delivered via the soviet embassy and they got two letters, one handwritten which was very much like he -- what he drafted in the sol airium, and -- solarium and one typed. he made a couple points in the letter, two points he ofte

hearings almost immediately after john's testimony, where two more people had to testify, because leonid brezhnev, the premier of the soviet union was coming to the united states, big date, hot meeting and you couldn't have watergate going on during that period. well, this gave us a little bit of a reprieve. a little respite. just before that, we said, this is not the way to investigate. i'm serious when i say the law, the criminal process in particular, but even the law when it applied to, in the senate context. you can't just go around questioning people under oath. you're not going to get the truth. you have to go work around the edges. one of the things we found out, there were all of these invisible people in the white house, and the invisible people to some extent were the lower level staff but particularly women. we didn't have any women professional staff members at the time. the white house didn't have very many, scarlett hills, i can't leeb th remember who they might have had. >> the secretarial staff. >> the secretarial staff. talk about sexism, like the remarks made last night. it was