my bosses, dick kleindienst and john mitchell, discovered i was a fast study so they started sending me to go to the white house for background briefers for the media, where programs were explained. that s how i really met people like ehrlichman. he was the first to have the title of white house counsel. ehrlichman had personality. wonderful personality. he had humor. he knew how to talk to reporters. so i have to admit, i liked him very well. as you know very well, number one, it isn t the largest white house staff but let s not quibble on that right now. as the white house evolved, he decided to become an assistant to the president for domestic policy. so he decided to give up the job of white house counsel. that s when they sent bud krogh to ask me if i d be interested in the job. mitchell said to me, don t take the job at the white house because you ll grow up in the department of justice.
the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong.
blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much
reporters, so i have to admit i liked him a lot. as you know very well, number one, it isn t the largest white house staff, but let s not quibble on that right now. as the white house evolved he decided to become an assistant to the president for domestic policy so he decided to give up the job of white house counsel. that s when they sent bud krogh to ask me if i d take the job. john mitchell said don t take the job because you d go up in the department of justice. kleindienst said i wouldn t work at that zoo if they paid me. and i should have listened.
where the white house had his residence in office and saying could i get to the next plane in california. bob haldeman introduced himself, asked me to come into his office. it was very theatrical the way it was set up. h.r. bob haldeman, considered by insiders, the tough et, most conservative and perhaps the most powerful man on mr. nixon s staff. haldeman had that funny crew cut so he always looked like he was from another era. he had no humor, just the facts man. that s the way he present himself, dark. one of the questions that haldeman asked me is can i be loyal to richard nixon? it struck me as a strange question because i thought we were all on the same team. the loyalty is about being a member of the group. that becomes the paramount value. if you re not loyal, then you get kicked out of the group so to maintain your tribal membership, you have to go along with whatever the leader says and that s incredibly dangerous. a vice president, a member of