particularly magruder so that triggers a whole. long episode of one of nixon's aids running for cover, you know one x nixon aid accusing the other and nixon himself had a very colorful expression for this he said you know, the my aids are going to start -- on each other and then they're going to start -- on the president. excuse my language, but it's actually nixon's language. um, so this book describes what's happened how this happens how in a magruders? the fingering of magruder leads to john dean becoming very worried about his future and john dean turning traitor on nixon and cooperating with the prosecutors. you know, i've called it's like a sort of. in shakespeare you have or in greek tragedy you have hubris. and then you have crisis and then you have catastrophe and then you have at the end some kind of catharsis or resolution. um, and so this is what happens. you've got the hubris the opening scene of them thinking that everything is wonderful that resulted this watergate problem. then you get the crisis of mccord's letter

so magruder came up with this great idea. we will give them 20 year labor contracts, african-americans and they can get paid at the end of the 20 years. i'm technically not slavery technically not. matthew fontaine, maury is someone you should have heard of. you haven't. he had a statue on richmond's way three years ago. matthew fontaine maury was one of those prominent girard refers. anyone studying geography at uw in the mid-19th century 1848 would have known him would have known who he was. he was a confederate ambassador to england. he never came back initially after the war, he straight to mexico. he was the chief and recruiter for american citizens to come to mexico after the war. after that, he came back to the united states and founded tech university, was offered the presidency of. the university of virginia didn't take it. and he, by the way, he wanted to live close to robert e lee intentionally. that's virginia tech is where virginia tech is. robert e lee was at washington lee university at that or i guess it was w

he could have been one of your neighbors and he thinks to himself why should i go to jail when magrudering off scott free. he was was running the a knock grove festivities at that time. so the court is not willing to put up with it and the judge said perjury was committed in this trial and ordered some of the much higher up's we decided of their own accord to break-in. particularly magruder so that triggers the whole long episode of one of nixon's aides running for cover and one nixon aide accusing the other and nixon himself had a very colorful expression for this. he said might aides are going to start testing onhe each other ad then they are going to startt pressing on the president. excuse my language. so this book describes what has happened and how this happened. magruderec leads to john dean becoming worried about his future and john dean incorporates with the prosecutors. it's like y in shakespeare you have inha the greek tragedy you have hubris and then you have crisis and then you have catastrophe and then you haven't and some kind of catharsis, a resolution and so this is wha

and john magruder was in charge of 13,000 confederates. he's built a line from yorktown along the warwick river, all the way to the -- and he's blockedup the river so it's almost impassable. thers 13,000 men in these out number 10 to one by mclaughlin. johnson is sitting down to take over this. again, johnson can ad a map, these controversial obviously. he's not a stupid man. looks at that second those, okay, i have two problems here. first is, my main fortifications are in yorktown. the confederates actually rebuild british expectations in your klein. but he knows that mcclellan has heavy artillery, and it's close enough that he cannot compete with that. mcclellan's gonna bubble bloom out of yorktown. the other thing you'll notice is the new york river. he realizes with the unit navy it's the union oops can pull landrieu and go past him economy often richmond. this will come to pass. he wants to pull back. davis and is totrobert e. lee, o general president davis. it is totally against that. lee does not want any grounds to make he figures

john bank head magruder was in chge of about 13,000 confederates. he's built a line along the warwick river all the way to the -- he has blocked up the warwick river so it's almost impossible. he only has 13,000 man. he's out numbered about 10 to 1 by mcclelland. johnston is set down to take er this. again, he can read a map. he's very controversial. he's not a stupid man. he looked at this and he es, okay, i have two problems here. the first is that my main fortifications are in yorktown. the confederate actually rebuilt yorktown and added some. he knows that mcclellan has heavy artillery, and he thinks it's close enough that he can compete with that. mcclellan is going to blow him out of yorktown. you will notice the york river. he realizes with the unionavy it is possible that union troops could pull on and run and go up past him and cut him off from richmond. this will come to pass. an effort we made to do this. he wants to pull back. robert e. lee, who is the adviser to president davis, is totally against that. lee doesn't want any ground to be