that's hardly the mea culpa that the american public thinks it's entitled to. that's the issue. >> well, maybe the american public is wrong. i know in my own heart, and i know in my own head, precisely what i did, and i know precisely why i did it. and i know that i made some mistakes, i deeply regret those mistakes. >> as richard nixon's right-hand man, he was the one most often recorded on the tapes, and they destroyed him. >> i had the rare privilege for four years of serving on the white house staff under one of america's greatest presidents. >> former white house chief of staff, h.r. haldeman, found guilty today on five counts in the watergate cover-up trial. >> do you regret what happened and what you did? >> oh, sure. the country lost motion, a lot of the good things we were working on in the way of domestic reforms were lost in