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

particularly magruder.o that triggered a whole long episode of one of nixon's aides running for cover. and then to have a very colorful expression and said my aides will start kissing on each other and then they will start testing on i the president. the fingering of mcgruder leads to john dean being buried about his future and then cooperating with the prosecutors. and then shakespeare with the greek tragedy you have hubris and you have catastrophe and then a catharsis or resolution you have hubris and with the letter to the judge and that catastrophe of the aides turning on each other and then nixon forced to part with his closest aides and nixon becoming very close at that point thinking he had to resign himself. he hung on for another year but he hangs on while there is a big fight over whether or not the tapes will be published. so to see the tragic story you have to see the here suffering. and we do see next send suffer. and then to say i love you. and then like my brother. he is referring to his two

and john bank head magruder was in charge of about 13,000 confederates. he hasuilt a line from yorktown alonthe warwick river all the wato the james. and he has ocked off the warwick river sohat it is almost impossle. but he only has 13,000 men. he's out numbered about 10 to 1 by mcclelland. so johnsois sent down to take over this. and aga, johnson can read a p. and he is very ntroversial obviously. but he is not a stupid man, he looks athis and he goes, i have two problems here. the first is, my main fortifications are in yorktown. the confederates actually rebuilt -- in yorktown and added. somebody knows that mcclellan has heavy artillery including mortars and if he gets close enough you can't compete with that and collin disgruntlement of yorktown. the other thing, if you will notice as the york river. he realizes with the union navy it is possible that t union troops could pull in and run and go up past him and cut him off from richmond. this will come to past, and effort will be made to do this. he wants to pull back and robert e. lee, who is the adv