martinis or cook steaks or sit for hours when nixon was deep in thought. here s where it all went wrong, he was loyal to a fault. when nixon got into office as president he started to involve bebe robozo in his nefarious acts and deeds. he asked him to take a million dollar bribe. that was the impetus for why nixon decided to bug the watergate which led to his impeachment and resignation. a good friend would have said, no, dick, you have to appeal to your better angels. that s when good friends are helpful, you need good friends to tell you the hard truths, right? let me ask you about go ahead. go ahead. i was just going to ask you about joe biden, one of the things that i noticed about biden is that he has a sort of insular circle around him.