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and here were reporters and then eventually the watergate committee. i was the sixth person on the democratic side, the majority side. there were seven senators, four democrats, three republicans. and there was a sense of partisanship that was kind of twofold. there was the democrats and republicans and people protecting nixon and democrats who for partisan reasons might want to go after him, and then there was us. i was 27 years old at the time. jerry garcia, the grateful dead, were m...

and have a far more thorough knowledge than i, i defer to their wisdom, but thats what i saw up close. i was in and out of his office all day, sat in on conversations with him and nixon in his very funny way ran the show. >> scott, how about you? what was your first reaction as it started out -- and you learned of woodwards reporting and your reaction? >> well, youve got to go back in time to what a different world it was. it was a very partisan environment, and not just partisan democ...

so i never saw the drinking that you find, that comes through in some of the accounts from people who were there toward the end. i thank you he couldnt hold his liquor. to this day i dont accept as real the portrayal of him that came through the -- >> the final days? >> the final days. who is the guy that did the jfk movies? >> oliver stone. >> oliver stone. im sorry. i should remember that. i actually know oliver stone. i have come to have a higher regard for oliver stone over the yea...

it was just so -- it was like, what in the hell are we doing here? you know, this is a farewell -- this is the first time in the history of the country -- hopefully the last -- when a president of the united states has been forced to resign in a scandal. and then president nixon came in with his wife pat and the family and of course gave this speech that was -- that went back to his mother. it was a speech in which he talked a great deal about handling nixon but he never talked about h...

dreams in somebody you really want them to be above things and i had come to believe he was probably innocent. i was less cynical. i would have liked to have believed he was innocent. i didnt know anybody, i had never known anybody who had gone to jail. a lot of my friends didnt go to jail. i didnt come from that type of environment. i tended to be one of the ones who believed longer than i should have. i do remember one morning driving in on a summer day in my little blue volkswagen b...

questions than i did but even -- im not even sure. fred fielding was working in the john dean suite and friends, terrific guy, well respected since. im not sure he understood. but when i read the john dean book i came away feeling like there was a white house within a white house that i didnt know anything about. i didnt even know it existed. and i had come to believe that the white house can be more compartmentalized than you would think. look, i work for two or three years next to --...

for me on the inside as a player inside was a much, much more innocent, they dont understand, they dont get it. theyre just out to get us. this is the liberal press. theyre trying to bring us down. its kay graham is just, you know, on a vendetta against nixon. shes never liked him, etcetera, etcetera. and what i then was discovering was woodward was getting a much sharper view and as time went on it became clearer to me the woodward view was much closer to reality than i was hearing an...