>> jack caulfield came into my office wide-eyed, and he said colson wants me to fire-bomb the brookings institute. i said, come again? >> the president wanted classified documents, and he told the plumbers do it. chuck colson says what you're going to do is start a little fire. fire alarms go off. and the plumbers were going to rent a fire truck and answer the fire. while liddy and others would go up, go to the safe, break it and pull out all the classified material. >> i said this is insane. this is declaring war on a think tank because they have papers the president thinks he wants. i called john ehrlichman. he was in california with the presidential party, so i made arrangements to get on the next flight to california. >> and nixon keeps saying i want that place firebombed, and he comes back to it the next day.
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