literally, these were from the scene of the crime. i told ehrlichman about it, and he said john, you drive across the river at night, or over the potomac on your way home. i said, i do. he said why don t you stop on the bridge and deep six that stuff? i convinced ehrlichman the smartest thing for president was for us to give as much of this to the fbi as we could. they wanted to give the fbi the impression this operation was some unique event by this out-of-control group, and that the white house was cooperating. we had a night police reporter who heard from one of his sources that one of the burglars had an address book. and in it was the name howard hunt, as well as the initials for the white house next to it. woodward took that information. he started trying to find out who howard hunt was.
potomac on your way home. i said i do. he said why don t you stop on the bridge and deep six that stuff? i convinced ehrlichman the smartest thing for president was to give as much of this to the fbi as we could. they wanted to give the fbi the impression this operation was some unique event by this out-of-control group, and that the white house was cooperating. we had a night police reporter who heard from one of his sources that one of the burglars had an address book. and in it was the name howard hunt, as well as the initials for the white house next to it. woodward took that information. he started trying to find out who howard hunt was. called the white house switchboard 456-1414. asked for howard hunt, and the
with the orders of the president. he always wanted the bubble top down unless it was a weather emergency because he didn t want people saying oh, my god, there s the president under glass. so he did make a mistake. but my novel, this guy has guilt feelings because he thinks it might have saved his life if he had kennedy s life if the bubble top had stayed up. bob, you told me the story once. your brother is the one that told you kennedy had been shot. yes. i was asleep, because i worked the late shift. i was the night police reporter at the star telegram, so when all of this happened in dallas, i was still asleep. he woke me up and said you better get up and get to the office, the president s been shot. i did, i was in a total fog. i got up, got dressed. i hadn t been assigned to cover the story, i was pretty upset about it. went down to the office and was just trying to help out answering the phones on the city desk and of all things, a woman calls in and says is there anybody t