Straight. earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. if you don t know richard nixon s psychology, you don t know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. froday one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. president nixon created a what you d have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you re supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you ve got to go get your enemies, well,
And we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. president nixon created a what you d have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you re supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you ve got to go get your enemies, well, we ve got to go get our enemies. nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? well, the persons who the
Siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. president nixon created a what you d have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you re supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you ve got to go get your enemies, well, we ve got to go get our enemies. nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. by august 29th, nixon is
Like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. president nixon created a what you d have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you re supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you ve got to go get your enemies, well, we ve got to go get our enemies. nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? well, the persons who the
Siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. president nixon created a what you d have to call a paranoid atmosphere in the white house. that you re supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said, you ve got to go get your enemies, well, we ve got to go get our enemies. nixon did not know that they were doing the break-in, but once it happened, he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? well, the persons who the