Garman. Hague said, bob, the president wants you to argue this case in the Supreme Court on the tapes. I said i cant. I said, well, because jawarski is a member of the department of justice, and i have been on his i have necessarily been on his side. If i switch sides and oppose him, my next argument is going to be before the character and Fitness Committee dealing with the state bar as to why i shouldnt be disbarred. I cant start arguing the case on both sides. So st. Claire then said that this is where i kind of lost some respect for st. Claire. He said, hey, walk the way, muttering something about technicalities. St. Claire leaned over and said, i think youre right. I said tell him so. He said maybe i will some day. That struck me as not the most standup position i had heard in a while. Just so were clear, you felt that it was right to fire cox because the president had the authority to do so . The authority to do so and i thought he had good reason to do so. Because of the press co
Thats not what it was about. Okay. You guys want to pick up the point about the bay of pigs . You want to start . Go for it. All ill say is, nixon was i read the question a couple different ways. Nisksson was often interested to ask his people, could we release some prior records from president s kennedy and johnson that he thought would look embarrassing to him. And he wanted the bay of pigs records themselves out. It was not a high moment for kennedy foreign policy. So i think nixon does talk, does scheme at times to release records out about democrats, and predecessors that he thought would make them look worse and him look better. Let me add one thing about the kennedy assassination. I had the privilege of getting to interview gerald ford. He became president 40 years ago. And president ford, ill always remember, he called me over, i did my interview and he said, come here. I went over, and he said, you see this stack . He had a huge stack of papers. I said yes. He said, you see th
Or so between these two moments, what did you do to make sure you didnt put yourself in jeopardy of an obstruction of justice charge . I told them to continue with their investigation. What more am i supposed to do . You had just mentioned earlier that you avoided firing them. Oh, yeah. At one point somebody over there, a couple of them you get a special prosecution force, what you do is get enemies of the person being investigated. They want to get him. In nixons case they clearly did. Ive seen it in other cases, too. I told them that i want them to go forward. At one point i said i hope you have some good cases because if you havent got any good cases, this could look like an obstruction of justice. If i fire cox and the whole thing collapses. They said we have good cases, and he designated a guy, a man, of considerable seniority who he said he had a case against. For some reason peterson exploded at that point and denounced him. Although peterson didnt like the guy he was talking ab