kind of crackly and some of them are really hard to hear and there s a lot of background noise? haldeman tapes are not like that. haldeman tapes are clear as a bell, because i think he s just talking right into a handheld microphone. and it seems from these audio diaries that he had a habit of just making one of these audio diary entries at the end of every day to explain what he had done that day, as nixon s utt utterly corrupt criminal chief of staff. well, not long after nixon was sworn in for his second term, after he won the 72 election and the watergate scandal really started to pick up steam, bob haldeman as chief of staff was one of the first people who nixon threw overboard to try to save himself in the scandal. all on the same day, in april 1973, nixon announced either the resignations or the firings of his white house counsel, the attorney general of the united states, his top domestic policy adviser, who was john ehrlichman, and his white house chief of staff bob haldeman.
he kept a daily audio diary of everything he did as nixon s chief of staff. i think he did it on a portable voice recorder. you know how the oval office tapes from watergate are all kind of crackly and some of them are really hard to hear and there s a lot of background noise? haldeman tapes are not like that. haldeman tapes are clear as a bell because he s talking right into a handheld microphone. it seems from these audio diaries he had a habit of making one of these audio diary entries at the end of every day to explain what he had done that day as nixon s utterly corrupt criminal chief of staff. well, not long after nixon was sworn in for his second term after he won the 72 election and the watergate scandal really started to pick up steam, bob haldeman as chief of staff was one of the first people who nixon threw overboard to try to save himself in the scandal. all on the same day, in april 1973, nixon announced either the resignations or the firings of his white house counsel, t