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 kissenger 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 what has closely observed the nixon presidency reports now on the first year in office. in 12 months richard nixon proved himself to be under estimated a political manager to be remembered as a poll digs like franklin roosevelt. nixon was supremely disciplined. his mind methodical, cautious, given to worry, yes, but never, never let the worries show. control the by ward for every
a lot of good people had their lives spoiled in the process. john 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. john eurlichman, guilty. the references to like an era of criminality or like people there were trying to, you know, rape the country of it s democracy, i mean, i just don t see it that way. chapin was linked to the watergate case, sabotage of the campaign. i don t think you can take
that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers. thank you and good night. hello? yes, sir. that was great. i must say i put an awful lot of emotion into it. i don t know whether it got through. it sure did. the last part, of course, was a was quite a work of art to be frank with you. it sure was. put that and compress it with that and say it without being and yet, to have emotion with style. it sure was. did you talk to the vice
presidency to end the war in a way that we could win the peace. i have pledged to you tonight that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers. thank you and good night. hello? yes, sir. that was great. i must say i put an awful lot of emotion into it. i don t know whether it got through. it sure did. the last part, of course, was a was quite a work of art to be frank with you. it sure was. put that and compress it with
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, totally consuming for somebody like me. i was very tough on people feeling that i had to be. there is something about the presidency that i ve been ridiculed from my picking up the navy term of zero detects that you have to operate as close to zero defect as you can. and i was not overly concerned with whether people like me as a result of it or not, i was only concerned with the result the president wanted that carried out.