way he describes that conversation where nixon sort of bugged in or interrupted a conversation between john mitchell and the others? it s plausible, chris, but i wouldn t bet any money on it. jeb magruder switched his story constantly. he was almost a professional liar. he told so many different versions that a scholar looking into this doesn t know what magruder really thinks. either nixon knew or john mitchell knew. it seemed like it did come from the white house, but i don t think magruder is a footnotable source because he wasn t credible. tom? well, he may or may not have been credible. maybe he was just trying to assuage some of his own guilt. he was 68 or 69 years old when he made those revelations. it s clear, it s kind of like the hitler diaries that turned out to be fake. somebody once wrote it almost didn t matter. bottom line was the conspiracy reached all the way to top levels of the white house, and