realize until i spent the last year deep in these tapes and this research that it was the pentagon papers, the release of the pentagon papers that put him over the rails, that really triggered this festering paranoia and hatred of the press and all the rest that he had, and it was that summer when he really went nuts and started ordering these burglars, the plumbers, to go into the brookings institution, and daniel ellsberg's, psychiatrist's office in l.a. and later watergate. i never quite realized how vietnam and specifically the pentagon papers released turned him into the gangster he was always ready to be. >> let's listen to the tape that's in your podcast where nixon basically makes the decision that ends his presidency. >> huston swears to god that