john, you didn t know about the taping system in the oval office, did you? no. did it come as a surprise? it did. our white house staff was essentially a dysfunctional organization. i think nixon believed that he didn t have to share every piece of information with everybody. listening to the tapes is very revealing because he s talking to others about me, and what i should know and what he didn t want me to know. and he did the same thing with kissinger and a lot of people. several times i recall his saying to me, don t tell henry. he kept little watertight compartments of information, and it didn t work very well. dan rather, who has closely observed the nixon presidency reports now on the first year in office.
a lot of good people had their lives spoiled in the process. john ehrlichman has finished his statements. he was then returned to the holding room, rather a strange phrase. the holding room gives you an idea they are holding a chemical or bacteria or something. former white house domestic affairs adviser, john ehrlichman, four counts, guilty. the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of its democracy, i mean, i just don t see it that way. chapin was linked to the watergate case, alleged sabotage of the dnc democratic campaign. i don t think you can take
as you called yourself. he never went anywhere without you. pretty close to right. what you re accusing yourself of is a cloudy crystal ball. that s hardly the thing 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 why i did it. okay. 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 serving on the white house staff under one of the greatest presidents. former white house chief of staff h.r. haldeman found guilty today on five counts in the watergate 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 the mess. you can t help but regret aftermath of tha
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a typical day for me, haldeman would pick me up around 7:15. the car would get bob, then it would get larry higby, bob s aide, and then it would swing by my house and then into the white house. i am responsible for the scheduling and also for the president s daily activities. our thing was a machine, and i knew my place. it really reflected a lot about richard nixon, the degree to which he wanted things controlled. it literally was from 6:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night every day of the week and saturdays and sundays, too. and that pace was unremitting,