Our Nixon Page #2

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met this young 34-year-old

crewcut guy by

the name of Bob Haldeman.

And Bob Haldeman changed

my life.

I've never laughed as much as

when I worked in the Nixon

White House.

The, the sense of humor was

the leveling factor.

Things which'd--

messes we would find ourselves

in, or whatever it might be.

-I think a lot of the younger

staff people here find that he

can far excel, uh, them in terms

of energy and stamina.

HR HALDEMAN [OFFSCREEN]: I

took a camera on all my

trips-- a super 8--

and I have quite a collection

of film.

-John Ehrlichman, a 43-year-old

Seattle lawyer,

who directed Nixon's campaign

tour, will have a broad

advisory role in the Nixon

administration.

-I think this first year

will be seen as

basically a time of reform.

-Ehrlichman is the president's

chief aide for domestic

affairs, understudy of Haldeman,

whom he has known

since college.

JOHN EHRLICHMAN [OFFSCREEN]: I

was not a passionate Nixon

person, uh, going in.

Probably if, if some college

friend had invited me to go

and dance for John Kennedy,

I might have gone.

There were very few illusions

about Richard Nixon, I think,

among the senior staff--

particularly

as we got into things.

Uh, a good deal of kind of

wry humor about his, uh,

mannerisms, and his foibles,

and his prejudices.

Nevertheless, you're, you work

for the President of the

United States.

He's the only president

around.

Uh, you all elected him.

Uh, we all work for him, and

it's up to us to make it work.

HR HALDEMAN [OFFSCREEN]:

It was a very

unnatural kind of life.

And, um, you had the feeling

you were in the middle of a

great big, brilliantly

lighted, badly

run television show.

I was taking a home movie

of this throughout.

JOHN EHRLICHMAN [OFFSCREEN]:

I advanced the

first trip to Europe.

Uh, eight countries, and, and,

uh, I found myself hobnobbing

with the King of Belgium, and

the Pope, and all these folks,

and, and it got to be very

heady, very fast.

[speaking italian]

[speaking italian]

[applause]

[applause]

MALE SPEAKER [OFFSCREEN]:

Hello.

Hello.

How are you?

BARBARA WALTERS [OFFSCREEN]:

Their critics call them the

Germans, and describe their

office as the Berlin Wall.

I'm speaking of President

Nixon's chief White House

advisers, Henry Kissinger,

John Ehrlichman, and HR--

for Harry Robbins--

Haldeman.

Everyone these days knows

who Henry Kissinger is.

John Ehrlichman is the

president's assistant for

domestic affairs.

But HR Haldeman's job is not an

easy, tidy one to describe.

And of the three men, he has,

been by his own choice, the

least visible to the public.

He's the only one of the three

never to have given a

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