for the time, but even with that advanced for the '70s system, the audio quality ended up being often really bad. i mean, if one person was shuffling papers next to one of those hidden recorders, good luck ever desief 49ering that tape. the result of that is that some of the most famous and most damning nixon quotes that are technically from the watergate tapes, they're still really hard to hear. they're sort of better off being read from the transcripts like for example this one from march 22nd, 1973. here you have nixon talking to his soon to be imprisoned watergate henchman, john mitchell, about how the white house should respond to demands for testimony at the watergate hearings. how they should respond to them trying to get white house officials to come in and talk. nixon tells mitchell, quote, i want you all to stonewall it. let them plead the fifth amendment. cover up, anything else, if it will save it, save the plan,