Nick Bryant
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with Ben Bradley and they're breaking all these stories on Nixon.
And they're getting information that nobody else is getting.
And ultimately Ehrlichman and Halderman,
the Nixon's chief of staff and then Halliburton was like domestic czar.
They got tainted and they had to resign.
Alexander Haig who had worked at the National Security Council became Nixon's chief of staff.
Haig secretly hated Nixon for pulling out of Vietnam and for forging a relationship with both the Chinese and the Russians.
He hated that.
But he was good.
Haig was a shapeshifter.
And he was originally on the National Street Concert with Henry Kissinger.
And
he would plate Kissinger and Nixon off one another.
I mean, sociopath, but really, really good.
And he ended up, when he was at the National Security Council, he was a four-star, or he was a colonel, but then Nixon ultimately made him a four-star general, even though Haig hated him.
But he was that good at bamboozling Nixon and everybody around him.
But here's the dirty little secret about Watergate.
And this is Woodward's big lie.
He was briefing... Woodward was a naval intelligence officer.
He was briefing Haig in 69 and 70.