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Truth? >> i happen to believe that he did have knowledge. >> so i talked to deep throat, unknown for 33 years who you got to talk to alexander butterfield. >> he had this key role in the haldeman-nixon circle. and he was in charge of what is called internal security, which means wiretapping. >> i was the deputy white house chief of staff, chief administrative officer, and director of internal security. >> i then said to sam dash, you've got to interview alexander butterfield. >> we put butterfield before the committee. and i think we thought that it might be an interesting investigation, and w...

Executive privilege forries goodrich white house officials will testify before the special senate committee investigating the bugging and break-in of democratic national headquarters last june. there was a dramatic change on his previous silence and his refusal to let white house aides testify. >> i was told very early i was looked at as a witness, and he said i think you should get i mount and i'll go to the senate and get it. >> sam dash says that don was will to talk to us. we're not going to deliver to nick that -- and sort of laying out or everything. i took the incident of the

And nixon was fascinated by the memoirs of the people like de gaulle and others, and wanted to show himself as a great world leader. >> the president did tell me at one point, along with haldeman, that no one was to ever learn about this taping system. >> alex butterfield had indeed confirmed my suspicion that i had been recorded. but more than my conversations had been recorded. everybody's conversations had been recorded. i was delighted to learn this information. >> one last question. one therefore had to reconstruct the conversations at any particular date, what would be the best way to re...

American-of-american flag. there would be some. >> he has to convince the american people that the system is work and if part of the system broke down, another group can come in and make sure that it runs correctly. >> howard baker was the vice chair, senator from tennessee, a conservative republican. >> and the chief counsel of the committee was a fellow named sam dash. he was looking for three people to run the investigations, i had no idea that this was going to go this high. no idea. >> our role is to make close closures and inform the american people through televised hearings. we had the...

>> or was john dean telling the truth? >> he did have knowledge. >> i talked to mark, deep throat. unknown for 33 years. who it was. you have to talk to alex butter field. he had a key role in the circle. and he was in charge of is called internal security. which means wiretapping. >> i was the deputy white house chief of staff. chief administrative officer and director of internal security. >> i then said to sam dash, you have to interview alexander. >> we put him before the committee. i think we thought that it might be an interesting investigation. we might uncover wrong doing. but nobody a...