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Consultant in the series. you hear so much of richard nixon's own voice thanks to the white house recordings which i think he probably regretted for sure after that. but you see and hear an inner thinking of a president almost more than you ever do. it's a psychological study. >> first of all, i think there are few people in the country who have spent time with the nixon tapes. generally you hear this piece and that piece. they don't get a sense of the audio diary. this tortured audio diary nixon left us. first of all, this is all nixon. there are no talking heads. it's just him and the people...

Captured their budding romance in selfies. >> i got through that exterior and realized he was a -- a nice person. and i was lonely. and uh, he kept me company. i fell deeply in love with leon. >> reporter: but valerie said she never intended to have her husband killed. >> i hate the idea that everybody thinks i'm a monster. >> reporter: the audio diary turned out to be her final recorded words. >> i don't want to hurt anyone. just me. okay, thank you for listening. bye. >> reporter: a little over two weeks after her arrest, valerie mcdaniel jumped to her death from the seventh floor balcony of...

Teeth in. >> reporter: after the arrest, maggie confronted valerie. >> and i just kind of said, listen, you are under some sort of spell right now. this monster has gotten you into some trouble and you need to fight like hell. >> reporter: what did she say? >> she did not understand what was happening. she just seemed off. terribly, terribly sad. >> reporter: at home alone, valerie recorded an audio diary on her ipad. >> hey, it's valerie. >> reporter: she recounted how, back when her marriage to mack was crumbling, she ran into her neighbor's son, leon. >> i was completely turned off immediat...

Where it analyzes what they thought they did right and did wrong. you also played a clip earlier jon meacham, one of the people eulogizing today, wrote a book called destiny and power. president bush handed over to him his verbal diary, audio diary. he kept a diary throughout his presidency and sometimes in the middle of the night he would sit and talk into a tape recorder and say what his feelings were. you played one earlier where he had just become president and it is very raw. you hear this before he sends troops into war and how much trouble he was having sleeping before the gulf war. the...

To just check in, say hello, and really identify with the folks who were working for him. >> jon: bret, thanks. our fox news senior political analyst brit hume joins us now. brit, he will be the 35th person to lie in state of the capitol rotunda. it hasn't happened all that often in this nation's history. >> no, it has not and it is a moving tribute because of the grandeur of the capitol and the feeling the nation has for the man. it is interesting, jon, as we watch this hearse pull away that the president said -- he kept an audio diary, recorded diary, which we were able to use for a special ...