so he turns on nixon, or first of all he turned on magruder and tries to get magruder to show responsibility it's kind of this infighting between magruder and dean. as nixon puts it in his aides are passing on each other and then they start pissing off president, to be crude about it, which is what nixon was. so once the taboo has been broken that there's just one person, james mccord, is not willing to go along with this the cover-up and starts blowing the whistle on it. then this whole sort of house of cards begins to fall apart. >> art they mostly attorneys and lawyers? from my memory it seems that nixon was quite the law student and several of the aides were law students. did they not -- >> right. that's one of the points that john dean makes actually. at one point he writes up a list of everybody who was involved in the white house, in the watergate, either in the white house or the committee to reelect the president and he was -- most of them are lawyers including nixon himself. of course the whole legal question of obstruction of justice and conspiracy is a specialized branch of the l