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On july 27th, 1970, i began my career at the nixon white house. the first thing i noticed driving in was, there weren t a lot of porch drivers, which i was. john dean was new to all of us and very young. he was obviously bright, smart. very handsome and kind of had a baby face for a guy who was counsel to the president. he wore moccasins with tassels on his shoes, just like the ones i m wearing now. but that was new to all of us. we were very straight, conservative guys. jack caulfield, who would be assigned to my staff, was there to meet me. i was told by caulfield where my office was. and it s right between a bank of elevators and the urinals of the men s room. not a really prime piece of property in the eob. ....
Had jack caulfield not arrived in my office. and jack said to me, this is no problem, i ll handle it. i don t know if they started a tax audit or not. i never looked back. but i should have killed it right there, and i might have killed my job right there. it was wrong. and almost on my first day, i d crossed a moral line. isher inves we re clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher investments. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees. (fisher investments) no. we structure our fees so we do better when clients do better. that might be why most of our clients come from other money managers. at fisher investments, we re clearly different. ....
jack caulfield came into my office wide-eyed. and he said, colson wants me to firebomb the brookings institute. i said, come again? the president wanted classified documents, and he told the plumbers, do it. chuck colson says, what you re going to do is start a little fire. fire alarms go off. and the plumbers were going to rent a fire truck and answer the fire. while liddy and others go up, go to the safe, break it, and pull out all the classified material. i said, this is insane. this is declaring war on a think tank because they have papers the president thinks he wants. called john erlichman. he was in california with the presidential party. so i made arrangements to get on the next flight to california. and nixon keeps saying, i want that place firebombed. ....
The memo said, it has been noted that a magazine had made a vicious charge against vice presidenting a new alleging that he planned to cancel the 1972 election and repeal the bill of rights. the assignment also said a tax audit would be appropriate on this magazine. i had no idea what to do with this. my immediate reaction was, how petty. i thought, you know, the president shouldn t be worried about things like this. but he obviously is. and this was one of my first glimpses at richard nixon. this is tricky dick. not sure what i would have done had jack caulfield not arrived in my office. and jack said to me, this is no problem, i ll handle it. i don t know if they started a tax audit or not. ....
Would just have nothing to do with it. a year before the watergate break-in, there is a discussion with nixon, haldeman, and kissinger. and they are talking about firebombing and breaking into the brookings institution to get some papers that are in brookings that would make lyndon johnson look bad in his conduct of the war in vietnam and nixon look good. jack caulfield came into my office wide-eyed. and he said, colson wants me to firebomb the brookings institute. i said, come again? the president wanted classified documents, and he told the plumbers, do it. chuck colson says, what you re going to do is start a little fire. fire alarms go off. and the plumbers were going to rent a fire truck and answer the fire. while liddi and others go up, go to the safe, break it, and pull ....