Nick Bryant

And then the next thing is Watergate.

It's kind of interesting why the Watergate was chosen.

And Nixon did not order a break-in into the Watergate.

I don't believe Ehrlichman and Hallerman, they were number two.

H.R.

Hallerman was the number two guy in the next administration.

John Ehrlichman was the number three guy.

And John Mitchell was the attorney general and number four guy.

None of those guys ordered that break-in.

John Dean was counsel to the president, and Jeb Magruder was the acting boss of the committee to re-elect the president.

John Mitchell, the attorney general, was going to take over for Magruder, but while Mitchell served as attorney general, Magruder was the acting boss.

And he and Dean...

were the ones that colluded together and sent those burglars into the Watergate.

And the first time they broke in... So...

The Democratic National Committee was on the sixth floor and the Federal Reserve was on the eighth floor.

So McCord and four Cubans sign in like at 11.30 on a Friday night to the eighth floor, to the Federal Reserve, which had been burgled and had intensified security at that point.

I mean, they were trying to get busted and the security guard had the IQ of an avocado.

he couldn't put it together that these guys were about to pull off a burglary.

So they went in there a second time, and they actually told, there was a D.C.

cop named Carl Schoffler, and he was, he was a C.I.