he served as mr. nixon s personal aide. you got to keep in mind i was 27 years old at that point, and we had just gone through this campaign, and i was just waiting to see what unfolded. the day i went in and interviewed for the job, and i met this young 35-year-old crew cut guy by the name of bob haldeman and bob haldeman changed my life. i ve never laughed as much as when i worked in the nixon white house. the sense of humor was the leveling factor. things, messes we would find ourselves in or whatever it might be. i think a lot of younger staff people here find that he can far excel them in terms of energy and stamina. i took a camera on all my
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i m going to be following the unvarying practise of having no comment on this matter until its final disposition. i have delegations of fbi agents in and out of my office all the time, and all of a sudden it s dawned on me that i have a very serious problem, that richard nixon has a problem and a lot of other people have serious problems. the president flew south to look at flood damage and dedicated naval training station in mississippi to senator john stennis. in the presidential party were bob haldeman and john ehrlichman. we were on air force one. we were going off to dedicate a john stennis memorial rocket launcher or something in mississippi. and i m standing on the flight deck, and it occurred to me for about 30 seconds that i could crash this airplane and that would put an end to everybody s
i think i changed during the time i was at the white house. i m not sure whether it was for the better. it probably was not at the time that i was there. when you first go in, at least when i first went in there, i asked a lot of hard questions. why are we doing it this way? what is the justification for this program? why are we spending this money? why does this fellow work here? those kinds of things. after a couple of years, i felt like i was defending the status quo rather than challenging it and trying to get it changed and
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 that. 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