Nick Bryant
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They weren't taken to his specific room.
So that all falls apart.
And Woodward rolled out Felt in 2005, and Felt was very far gone with Alzheimer's.
And I don't doubt that Felt gave Woodward some information, but the most damaging information came from Alexander Hay.
And there was... So Archibald Cox was the first Watergate prosecutor.
And he...
was pushing Nixon very hard for taped conversations.
It came out that Nixon was taping all his conversations, and that was by Alexander Butterfield, who was another CIA guy.
Wow.
I mean, he was a liaison guy between the CIA and the Army, and he lied to Halderman to get the job.
So he was another CIA guy.
And he was the guy that coughed up the tapes.
And then once the tapes, it came out that the tapes were, that Nixon was making tapes of all his conversations, then the prosecutors wanted certain tapes so they could find out what Nixon knew or whether or not he was obstructing justice.
And the tapes, Nixon wouldn't surrender the tapes.
and he fired the special prosecutor.
And then there was a drumbeat for impeachment, and Nixon realized, whoa, what I just did was really reckless.
And then he backpedaled at Mach 3 speed, and he had Haig hire a new special prosecutor.
So Haig hired Leon Jaworski,
this big time Houston lawyer to be the new Watergate prosecutor.
Leon Jaworski also got CI connections.