coming from the white house including the president who was nominating both men to be the top law enforcement official in the country. with bill saxby's nomination in december 1973 specifically, a kind of amazing and singular thing happened, because when saxby got up there to be the fourth attorney general for nixon, democrats on the senate committee that was considering him, they not only sought assurances from saxby that he would let the watergate prosecutor proceed without interference, that he would provide the rouresources he nee, get out of his way, make sure he was protected. democratic senators on the committee, they also did something kind of nuts. they brought the watergate special prosecutor into the hearing room. and swore him in and made him sit down next to bill saxby the attorney general nominee so the two of them were sitting there side by side. they both had to swear under oath that they both understood about the special prosecutor's