woodward came to me and said that redford had called. and i put together who redford was. and was interested in talking to us or whatever. i said we re busy, we ve got to do this story. for woodward and bernstein it wasn t only that the break-in seemed fishy. there was something just as odd about the white house response. presidential press secretary ron ziegler called it a third-rate burglary attempt. ron ziegler calling it a third-rate burglary, that was the tipoff to us. there seemed to be nothing third-rate about it except they got caught. they raised the stakes so high. with this third-rate burglary nonsense. it was apparent that something here was really rotten. nixon assigned his top lieutenants the president s men the task of managing the fallout from the break-in. among them chief of staff bob haldeman and presidential adviser john ehrlichman would become the guardians of the
i said we re busy, we ve got to do this story. for woodward and bernstein it wasn t only that the break-in seemed fishy. there was something just as odd about the white house response. presidential press secretary ron ziegler called it a third-rate burglary attempt. ron ziegler calling it a third-rate burglary, that was the tipoff to us. there seemed to be nothing third-rate about it except they got caught. they raised the stakes so high. with this third-rate burglary nonsense. it was apparent that something here was really rotten. nixon assigned his top lieutenants the president s men the task of managing the fallout from the break-in. among them chief of staff bob haldeman and presidential adviser john ehrlichman would become the guardians of the clandestine activities. ehrlichman begins to monopolize more and more of their time.
phone. i said hi, this is bob redford calling. he said, yeah. and i said, i wanted to know if i could meet and you your partner because i have this idea i want to share with you. woodward came to me and said that redford had called. and i put together who redford was. and was interested in talking to us or whatever. i said we re busy, we ve got to do this story. for woodward and bernstein it wasn t only that the break-in seemed fishy. there was something just as odd about the white house response. presidential press secretary ron ziegler called it a third raitt burglary attempt. ron ziegler calling it a third-rate burglary, that was the tipoff to us. there seemed to be nothing third-rate about it except they got caught. they raised the stakes so high. with this third-rate burglary nonsense. it was apparent that something here was really rotten. nixon assigned his top
investigations, how does the interplay work? well, i had the same problem, cox tried to block my testimony. it was not archy cox s finest moment, but we were the beneficiaries of a lot of work done by the senate select committee on watergate. but as we ve been saying, watergate really puttered along, john and his friends did a good job of keeping a lid on watergate, putting out the story, third rate burglary, et cetera. it wasn t until the saturday night massacre that was a turning point in watergate, when people began to pay attention, because something extraordinary happened. not only did nixon fire the man who was investigating him, but the attorney general of the united states and the deputy attorney general resigned
i have the same problem h. cox tried to block my testimony. it wasn t archie cox s finest moment. but, indeed, there was tension at the beginning, and thereafter we were the beneficiaries of a lot of work done by the senate select committee on watergate. but as we ve been saying, watergate really puttered along. john and his friends did a good job of keeping the lid on watergate, putting out the story, third-rate burglary, et cetera. it wasn t until the saturday night massacre that was the turning point in watergate, when people began to pay attention because something extraordinary happened. not only did nixon fire the man who was investigating him, but the attorney general of the united states and the deputy attorney general resigned because they wouldn t fire cox