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>> john finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase. the holding room gives you an idea they are holding a chemical or bacteria or something. >> john eurlichman, guilty. >> the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of its democracy, i mean, i just dont see it that way. >> chapin was linked to the watergate case, sabotage of the campaign. >> i dont think you can take that little pries...

>> hello? >> hi. >> i hope i didnt let you down. >> no, sir, you got your points over, and now youre -- you got it set right and move on. youre right where you ought to be. >> well, its a tough thing, bob, for you, for john, the rest, but goddamn it, im never going to discuss this son of a bitching watergate thing again, never, never, never, never. the interesting thing, the only cabinet officer that has called is cap weinberger, bless his soul. all the rest are waiting to see what the polls sho...

Serious problems. >> the president flew south to look at flood damage and dedicate a naval training station in mississippi to senator john stennis. in the presidential party were h.r. haldeman and john ehrlichman. >> were on air force one. were going off to dedicate a john stennis memorial rocket launcher or something in mississippi. and im standing on the flight deck, and it occurred to me for about 30 seconds that i could crash this airplane and that would put an end to everybodys problems. mi...

I got off, and boy, they were all taking mark shots. >> the very last conversation i had with him there, we were talking about this break-in in california, the ellsberg psychiatrist break-in. and he said i didnt know about that, did i? and i had to -- i had to indicate to him that he did know about it. >> that, of course, is a totally, totally out of our ken. have you ever heard of such a thing? >> yes, sir. >> goddamn it, i never heard of it, john. i should have been told about that, shouldnt i...

Almost anything, which is kind of too bad. >> hello? >> mr. ziegler calling you. >> yes, hello. >> i talked to bob and i told him that your decision was to ask for their resignation. and you had thought this through now for three weeks. and i told him that you recognize that their lawyers dont agree with this approach and that they dont agree with this approach. but the president feels clear in his mind now that this must be done, and thats what he wants. and bob said fine. he understands. he fe...

A lot of good people had their lives spoiled in the process. >> john finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase. the holding room gives you an idea they are holding a chemical or bacteria or something. >> john eurlichman, guilty. >> the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of its democracy, i mean, i just dont see it that way. >> chapin was linked to the watergate case, sabotage of...

What we now know and what happen it was a disastrous thing to have done but there was never a thought that one word of those tapes would be played in public or be played to other people, and when it got to the point of having to release them or having even to consider the possibility of releasing them, they should have been, in my opinion now, should have been destroyed. >> i had no idea about the taping system. y no, no. >> did you ever talk to haldeman about that? >> no, never. >> john, you di...

And when it got to the point of having to release them or having even to consider the possibility of releasing them, they should have been, in my opinion now, should have been destroyed. >> i had no idea about the taping system. no, no. >> did you ever talk to haldeman about that? >> no, never. >> john, you didnt know about the taping system in the oval office, did you? >> no. >> did it come as a surprise? >> it did. our white house staff was essentially a dysfunctional organization. i think nix...