the pad overall was saved in the national archives. it's now known as government exhibit 61. notes that nobody realized might be incomplete until an intelligence veteran and amateur watergate historian named phil mellinger realized that not every page was there on that pad of paper and there might be a way, he said, to use the pages that were still there on that pad to figure out what had been written on the pages that were torn out. great mystery, right? great. in an early "moment of geek" on this show in 2009 we had phil mellinger, that historyion guy, we had him on the show to talk about how one might go about figuring out what was written on those pages, those crucial pages before they were torn out of that yellow legal pad. >> like when you were a kid maybe you might have taken a pad that somebody had written on and traced it over with a lead pencil and you could see the writing come back up.