Bob Haldeman
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Oct 7, 2026
Thomas777GUEST
It's the most-- It, it was kind of the second revolution, in my opinion, after the 1933, um, New Deal revolution.
Thomas777GUEST
But, um, [paper rustles] it was amidst this context that Nixon quite literally told his staff, "The press is the enemy." He was quoted as saying that to Haldeman, I believe.
Thomas777GUEST
"The news is concerned and nobody in the press is a friend.
Thomas777GUEST
They're all enemies." Um, the, uh, [sighs] you know, the, the men, as, as Paul Johnson relayed, the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson's authority and, and broke his back in political terms in '68, they turned their gun sights proverbially on Nixon.
9 MINS LATER
Thomas777GUEST
Okay.
Thomas777GUEST
Such that any one moment can be identified as the point at which things changed.
Thomas777GUEST
Now, what Nixon did to protect his nascent administration, his senior White House advisors were Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, both of whom are villainized to various degrees.
Thomas777GUEST
Even my people should know better.
John DeanGUEST
What Jill is talking about was US versus Nixon, where the court said, yes, the special prosecutor is entitled on behalf of the grand jury, who was invest- which was investigating Watergate, to get this information, particularly since it was a trial subpoena.
John DeanGUEST
Uh, Nixon's former chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, his former attorney general, John Mitchell, his former top policy advisor, uh, had all been indicted and were awaiting trial when the court ruled on that, and they said, "This is a trial p- this is a trial subpoena, and w- we need, the, the, the government needs these to fairly try these cases." Uh, what Jill is saying is, yes, they got the, the, uh, the president's phone logs, which enabled them to dig out other conversations.
John DeanGUEST
Uh, they weren't...
John DeanGUEST
The- they're actually...
John RothmannGUEST
just going to say, you know, Trump is claiming national security when it comes to keeping CNN, for instance, off Air Force One.
John RothmannGUEST
And I remind people that if you go back and listen to the smoking gun tape of June 23rd, 1972, and you listen to the conversation between Richard Nixon and Bob Haldeman, Their attempt to obstruct the investigation of Watergate was going to hinge on national security.
John RothmannGUEST
And the fact that the president is throwing around this issue of national security is just, to me, an indication of the corruption and the abuse of power in this administration.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Well, I love that you've mentioned national security because it's with the raising of the flag of national security that this administration has been able to do everything.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
He only learned about it afterwards and then participated in a cover-up because some of his top people were involved, and he didn't want to lose his top people.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
Okay? But, you know, Haldeman and Ehrlichman in particular.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
This, this came straight from Biden.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
This came straight from Merrick Garland.
ThomasGUEST
But, um, it was amidst this context that Nixon quite literally told his staff, the press is the enemy.
ThomasGUEST
He was quoted as saying that to Haldeman, I believe.
ThomasGUEST
The news is concerned that nobody in the press is a friend.
ThomasGUEST
They're all enemies.
9 MINS LATER
ThomasGUEST
Okay.
ThomasGUEST
Such that any one moment can be identified as the point at which things changed.
ThomasGUEST
Now, what Nixon did to protect his nascent administration, his senior White House advisors were Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, both of whom are villainized to various degrees.
ThomasGUEST
Even my people should know better.
David RutherfordHOST
All right? And if you go back, just look up the ITT antitrust case.
David RutherfordHOST
This is hundred mil- millions of dollars, right? '75, there was the Watergate Committee with H.R., uh, Haldeman and John Mitchell.
David RutherfordHOST
Uh, their perjury counts rested on the Senate testimony.
David RutherfordHOST
All three of, uh, Haldeman's and one of Mitchell's each served about a year and a half.
David RutherfordHOST
So Watergate, pretty, pretty interesting.
David RutherfordHOST
There was more...
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
I'm not saying it.
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
A- any American can go and listen to Richard Nixon tell Haldeman, his top aide, "Just tell the Senate Watergate Committee you can't remember." That's called suborning perjury.
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
Anybody could listen to that.
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
Anybody can listen to the smoking gun tape.
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Jacob SoboroffHOST
It's, he says it's looking into the past failures of the FBI, but really it's an attempt to b- basically a- again, exonerate Donald Trump.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
Um, when you were investigating Richard Nixon, how much of that depended on the evidence that you had b- ultimately becoming public and, and this whole idea that this so-called Patel report is gonna be classified, how does that sit with you?
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
Uh, I, I don't wanna even think about the Patel report for the moment because what I want to say is that in the end, while we were convinced with e- other evidence such as the notes that were very carefully taken by Nixon's Chief of Staff, Haldeman.
Liz HoltzmanGUEST
He took excellent notes.
Bob WoodwardGUEST
What happened in the case of Nixon? 40 people went to jail.
Bob WoodwardGUEST
Not only did John Dean turn on Nixon, but most of Nixon's other aides, Haldeman and, and Ehrlichman, in books later after they served their time in jail, said, "The president conspired with us to break the law." And then we have the seasonal, uh, uh, tapes that come out of the Nixon Library.
Bob WoodwardGUEST
At, at the Washington Post, we referred to, to those as the gift that keeps giving.
Charlie RoseHOST
[laughs] Well.
Hugh HewittHOST
Gordon Liddy being, of course, the guy who caused this all.
Hugh HewittHOST
But he has spent the better part of his life proving, to my satisfaction, prosecutorial misconduct in the trial of Mitchell, Haldeman, and others.
Hugh HewittHOST
Does that not matter to you that Sirica and the special prosecutor and the House Judiciary Committee were up to no good and breaking all the rules?
Jim GeraghtyGUEST
Okay, so first of all, Hugh, we're talking about celebrated Miami Vice star G. Gordon Liddy, right?
Heather Digby PartonGUEST
He's going to issue pardons to all of Nixon's henchmen who went to jail.
Heather Digby PartonGUEST
John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Coulson, the whole crew.
Heather Digby PartonGUEST
I could totally see that because it was a witch hunt.
Heather Digby PartonGUEST
They were unfairly targeted.
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