adulterer. of all the history of the presidents of the united states the one least likely to be cheating on his wife is richard nixon. that's not something you'd celebrate, knowing you. >> now, wait a minute. >> there was a sense of propriety that others and nixon fans have noted. he wouldn't take his jacket off in the oval office because he held such high regard. he was a formal man in many ways. >> he was. >> he had a history of public service. how do you square that and how do you think the journalists were looking at this man. usually the president gets a great deal of deference on these matters in the culture and yet there was a turning point, was there not, there maybe there was a man in office who maybe wasn't really fit for it. >> the atmosphere of that time, in a larger sense, was anti-establishment. coming into the '60s. the protests and the war, the whole reputation of tradition, the whole challenge of authority