it can't be done unless you do a fraud. i think that haldeman had been sort of sent out to test me and see where my loyalties might fall. he wasn't sure i could be loyal to richard nixon. and this was something that was very important to them, that there be blind loyalty to nixon. that, you know, whatever nixon said was the final word. >> the unconditional loyalty is how people maintain their hold. and we see this in a lot of different contexts. we see it in authoritarian regimes. we see it in organized crime. we see it in cults. it's a powerful control mechanism. that helps enable corruption and misconduct. >> deep in the middle of all this at camp david, the l.a. times issues a story based on jim mccord's talking to his