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Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the United States. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that Executive Power that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fata...

The white house? is that correct? >> thats correct. >> during what period of time were you employed by the white house? >> i would like to preface my remarks, if i may. >> im sorry. go right ahead. >> although i do not have a statement as such i would simply like to remind the committee membership, that, whereas i appear voluntarily this afternoon, i appear with only some three hours notice. >> i wanted them to know i was enjoying a haircut just at 11:00 today. >> are you aware of installation o...

Rolling? >> after the smoking gun tape came out the president lost all support, republican, as well as democrat. republicans went to him and said you have to resign. we cannot support you anymore. >> it was republicans finally who made sure that nixon had to leave office. barry goldwater, marching down to the white house. >> we sat there in the oval room and the president acted like he just played golf and just had a hole in one. you would never think this guys tail was in a crack. >> nixon said...

>> on october 25th, two weeks before the election, "the posts" front-page headline pointed the finger at the number one man in the presidents inner circle, bob haldeman. woodward and bernstein reported that under questioning by the grand jury sloan had testified that haldeman controlled the campaigns secret fund. it was a journalistic coup. but they were wrong. >> id never been asked a question about bob haldeman. >> sloan, in fact, had not named haldeman in his testimony. the white house pounce...

The smile on his face, the smile the likes of -- id never seen him smile. he was not a happy person in all the years ive dealt with him. >> it turns out to have been liberating for us, for the truth, for felt because now you know, there was an awful lot of speculation in those 30 years including by many of our peers and colleagues that we made this up. >> this was an element of clarity and closure, answering a question that had persisted for a long time. >> deep throat begins to guide woodward a...

Time, totally intuitive and instinctive, how he had to push woodward. and how you have to rewrite me because youre a better writer. and you do it without even thinking. >> woodward was didactic. he would go a, b, c, d in his investigative work. and bernstein would go a, b, h. >> we had the luxury of a fat dynamic institution in the "washington post," it was right at its peak. >> there has always been some chicannery in american politics, youre always going to have some underhanded dealings. noth...

From halderman but in the end it would be john dean. >> they knew we did have an option we could drag the wagons around of a giant lie that would protect everybody who was willing to lie, who was willing to lie. >> the point is i didnt runaround trying to bribe anybody. i didnt runaround trying to sled documents. in matter of fact, we preserved documents. we made no attempt to take over the watergate case. the view of us is the truth must be told and quickly but we didnt know the truth. >> when ...

Government documents, forged state department documents and letters, secret slush funds, plans to audit tax returns. conspiracy to obstruct justice. all of this by the law-and-order administration of richard nixon. it sounds bad when you put it like that, huh? >> in the end, some 40 people pled guilty to watergate related crimes. jon ehrlichman, bob halderman, john dean and 16 others went to jail. >> im not quite sure when i enter the conspiracy to obstruct justice. thats one of the things im tr...

You could get away with not being 100% accurate on day one. but you had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and then closer the day after that. >> they knew that haldeman was controlling the campaigns secret fund. the question was, who was controlling haldeman? i was amazed by woodward and bernsteins resolve. theres nothing glamorous about what they were doing. but i thought it was important to portray the tedium, the hard work, and the feelings about the film f...

>> after four months of legal squabbling the presidential tape recordings were delivered today. we wont hear them, however, until all the discrepancies have been accounted for and today that situation grew worse, not better. >> much worse. nixon had handed over the tapes but there was a catch. >> i was in the white house. things were fairly quiet. and i got a call to go to ron zieglers office. i go up to rons office thinking its something routine and ziegler is clearing his throat a lot and is k...