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now, this is 1988. this was 14 years after that conversation we had in the car. and bill clinton at this point i think is 43 years old. 1988, he was born in '46. how old is he in 1988. >> he's -- he's 42. >> 42. he's 42 years old in 1988. 42. she tells me that -- she's the same age, no, a year younger. she was born in '47. he's thinking of running for president and she doesn't want me to commit to support anybody else. as if my support for anybody makes any difference which although i've been a contributor to political campaigns, it makes no difference. i say to her very tentatively....

you know, that was a debate. garrison made interesting arguments and i think this was reflected in the agony of the republicans when i watched this. many of them thought he was a good overall good present. not only a president of their party but a good president. certainly? in foreign affairs and maybe even in domestic affairs. in some ways he was a good president. apparently didn't like me because i told you i mentioned a smk that he spoke. this is years later after i was in the white house with bill clinton he made some comments about me and my deputy and said in my book, he though...

>> you did all right. you did all right. bill weld, would your life have been different without watergate? >> it sure would have. it was the beginning of everything for me. i think of it as one of two events that electrified my generation, the other being the assassination of president kennedy and teddy white's book. but some people in my generation were disillusioned by watergate when gordon strong said -- one of the people who was convicted, what advice would he give to young people regarding public service, he said stay away, stay away. but for every one of those, there were ten w...

biggest fan in the 1950s. i never went on a date without elvis presley. and he was really helpful, so i owed him a rot. >> did nixon say he had a favorite song, like blue suede shoes? >> no, he never broke out into song, though elvis was dressed for it. i gave an answer to the president that was beyond what was correct. he was hesitant. i moved him over to the president's desk. he started talking about things he had been studying like communist brainwashing. keep it up. we need more communist brainwashing studies and elvis said the beatles came over here and made a lot of money. pres...

bung bungled break-in in this building. as mr. woodward and mr. bernstein reminded us a few days ago, watergate were things that occurred in '71 and things that occurred back to 1969. what are the lessons? >> one of the questions you posed to me was how i felt after archibald cox said he had been fired. my lawyer that's here tonight, carl chaffer, had told me, john, you have the case that we can now describe as the oliver norse case, and they can't touch you. but the lesson to me was, charlie, you may be right. he absolutely was right from a legal standpoint. still, for those who get...