the issue of whether a president can be indicted and the context of watergate, they believe that nixon really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and again, he was there when it was written is in the course of expressing the view that a vice president can be indicted, which was the imperative of the moment, robert dixson opined on the president's ameanbility to the indictment but wasn't the intent of the memo but asserted that about the president to make the relevant case about the vice president. which is important about that history and important in terms of how that memo became woven into what we currently understand as how the justice department works. because to some extent the justice department position right now that a president can't be indicted rests on the conclusions of that 1973 office of legal counsel opinion by robert dixson. that's where it started.