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
I think where we are in his head is with the tapes. Thats as close as we want to come. The country was obsessed with vietnam. Lynn don johnson had abday kated as the president of the United States. We had had chicago, riots in the streets at the democratic convention. So the whole country was in upheaval of a kind that we had never seen. Antiwar movement such that we had never seen in this country. So thats the context. Yeah, but nixon was a smart politician. Well, now im going to go to this. What you hear on the tapes and if you read dougs book, if you read this book that these two jentle men, and i have not read the whole doorstoper, but im giving it a pretty good look. And what you see in the nonwater gate tapes, and doug and i were just talking about it, is the same darkness of nixons mind. Its about nixon, the dog that doesnt bark is what would be right for the American People. You dont hear that. What you do hear is what you just referred to. Nixons fine intelligence. You dont he