let others wallow in watergate. we re going to do our job. i m going to kick their ass. nobody is going to package me. nobody is going to make me put on an act for television. i m not going to engage in any gimmicks or stunts, wear any silly hats. if people look at me say that s a new nixon, then all i can say is, well, maybe you didn t know the old nixon. i recently sat down with three legends of the watergate era, carl bernstein, whose dogged reporting helped uncover the scandal, david gergen, and former white house counsel and star witness whose testimony ultimately brought down nixon s presidency. here is our conversation. john, i want to start with you. you worked with president nixon. in this series, we hear a lot of nixon in his own words, in candid moments, without a filter. does it paint an accurate picture of him as a person and
feeling that he could be a great things for the country. and yet this was what brought him down. he had these demons inside him that he never learned to control. they got the best of him. if you were not for me, he thought you must be against him. he believed in the law of the jungle. eat or be eaten he had this dark side that came spilling out that ultimately knocked him out. as he told david frost later on when he was asked, what really happened. he said i gave my enemies a sword and then they ran me through. and that s what he did. he did give them a sword. i think john and carl and i probably all agree on that. gentlemen, thank you so much for this interesting conversation. the series is going to be fascinating. i appreciate it all. good to have you with us. thank you. who is tricky dick?
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