i said i'll talk to my wife. i think it's probably a good idea. but when i arrive up there, haldeman calls me and said, "john, while you're at camp david, why don't you write the dean report." >> this was another attempt to get me to write a bogus dean report way back in august 29th of the preceding year. nixon implied that i had written a report or given him a report. i never talked to the man about it. >> the counsel to the president richard dean indicates that no one on the white house staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this very bizarre incident. >> the problem is they didn't want an honest report. they want a report that would make everything go away and be hunky-dory. and those would be a lie. this is something we can't do.