Nick Bryant
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But he just went ballistic and started screaming and hollering.
And he goes, OK, we'll do it.
and then they leave, and Helms double-crosses Nixon.
He doesn't do it, which is, because Helms just wants, everybody wants, well, the hawks, and Helms is firmly a hawk, wants Nixon gone.
So what happens is Haig tells Woodward about the tapes,
specific tapes.
And then Haig tells Jaworski which tapes to subpoena, which the tapes that show like the conversation that Halderman had with Dick Helms.
So all this information is coming from Haig to both Woodward and also Jaworski.
And Jaworski eventually subpoenas the tapes that has Nixon talking about
covering up Watergate.
He did not order Watergate.
And actually, those guys did not know who ordered Watergate.
They didn't realize till much later that it was Jeb Magruder and John Dean.
And the Nixon race was, I mean, the plumbers were engaged in some crazy stuff.
So it was easy for Magruder to come in and Dean to come in and tell them to burgle the Watergate.
So that's kind of Watergate in a nutshell, is that there was a conspiracy within a conspiracy.
Some of the burglars were going for like blackmail material, but the CNI guys definitely wanted Nixon gone.
And it ultimately came together.
And with the Washington Post, with Bradley and Woodward,
being of the same ilk as Helms and the Joint Chiefs.