and here were reporters and then eventually the watergate committee. i was the sixth person on the democratic side, the majority side. there were seven senators, four democrats, three republicans. and there was a sense of partisanship that was kind of twofold. there was the democrats and republicans and people protecting nixon and democrats who for partisan reasons might want to go after him, and then there was us. i was 27 years old at the time. jerry garcia, the grateful dead, were my notion of how i should dress for work. which was a lot different than the white house or the senate at that time. so there was a skepticism. and i remember the first day of work i interviewed haldeman and ehrlichman who just resigned and they went back and reported that the white house said they d been interviewed by a group including a white panther who actually was allowed to ask them questions. thought that was quite bizarre. within a day or so i realized how divided things were. at the c
and have a far more thorough knowledge than i, i defer to their wisdom, but that s what i saw up close. i was in and out of his office all day, sat in on conversations with him and nixon in his very funny way ran the show. scott, how about you? what was your first reaction as it started out and you learned of woodward s reporting and your reaction? well, you ve got to go back in time to what a different world it was. it was a very partisan environment, and not just partisan democrat/republican but partisan because of the vietnam war, and my generation was trying to shut down the vietnam war and felt very powerful, but we were outsiders, and the establishment was closed. and here were reporters and then eventually the watergate committee. i was the sixth person on the democratic side, the majority side. there were seven senators, four democrats, three republicans. and there was a sense of partisanship that was kind of twofold. there was the democrats and republicans and
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