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and here were reporters and then eventually the watergate committee. i was the sixth person on the democratic side, the majority side. there were seven senators, four democrats, three republicans. and there was a sense of partisanship that was kind of twofold. there was the democrats and republicans and people protecting nixon and democrats who for partisan reasons might want to go after him, and then there was us. i was 27 years old at the time. jerry garcia, the grateful dead, were my notion of how i should dress for work. which was a lot different than the white house or the senat...

and have a far more thorough knowledge than i, i defer to their wisdom, but that's what i saw up close. i was in and out of his office all day, sat in on conversations with him and nixon in his very funny way ran the show. >> scott, how about you? what was your first reaction as it started out -- and you learned of woodward's reporting and your reaction? >> well, you've got to go back in time to what a different world it was. it was a very partisan environment, and not just partisan democrat/republican but partisan because of the vietnam war, and my generation was trying to shut down...

so i never saw the drinking that you find, that comes through in some of the accounts from people who were there toward the end. i thank you he couldn't hold his liquor. to this day i don't accept as real the portrayal of him that came through the -- >> the final days? >> the final days. who is the guy that did the jfk movies? >> oliver stone. >> oliver stone. i'm sorry. i should remember that. i actually know oliver stone. i have come to have a higher regard for oliver stone over the years. i didn't recognize the nixon of hole very stone. the nixon of nixon frost i recognize. but th...

it was just so -- it was like, what in the hell are we doing here? you know, this is a farewell -- this is the first time in the history of the country -- hopefully the last -- when a president of the united states has been forced to resign in a scandal. and then president nixon came in with his wife pat and the family and of course gave this speech that was -- that went back to his mother. it was a speech in which he talked a great deal about handling nixon but he never talked about his wife. it was clear that that childhood relationship had been so important. had been that positive...

dreams in somebody you really want them to be above things and i had come to believe he was probably innocent. i was less cynical. i would have liked to have believed he was innocent. i didn't know anybody, i had never known anybody who had gone to jail. a lot of my friends didn't go to jail. i didn't come from that type of environment. i tended to be one of the ones who believed longer than i should have. i do remember one morning driving in on a summer day in my little blue volkswagen bug into the west parking lot there just outside the west wing. and as i came through the gates, i...