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...screening is arduous, however. While Lyndon Johnson proudly showed visitors his 60-button telephone console, Nixon has just three direct lines?to Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Kissinger. Only four Cabinet members can count on getting through to Nixon at any time: Mitchell, of course, and Secretary of State William Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Labor Secretary George Shultz. Every program proposal is "staffed out," since Nixon dislikes to be unprepared when a visitor springs an idea on him. Haldeman supplies him with dossiers on everyone he is to see each day. In the competition for Nixon's attention, many ideas...
...While Haldeman's traffic-cop role at Nixon's office door has not changed since he assumed it in January 1969, Ehrlichman's responsibilities have continually grown and shifted. "I have a feeling that Ehrlichman is a little astonished that he's where he is," says one associate. He began as White House counsel and troubleshooter?policing conflicts of interest on the staff, helping assemble a package of crime legislation, managing Nixon's financial affairs (including sale of the President's New York apartment...
...some ways, Kissinger has an easier relationship with Nixon than Haldeman or Ehrlichman; he does not have to fend off unhappy Congressmen, and his specialty is Nixon's pet preoccupation. "The old man," says a Nixon aide, "doesn't give a damn about parks and stuff, relatively speaking. He's not interested in mobile homes or farm problems. He wants to talk to Henry Kissinger about foreign policy, and he expects the Germans to keep people away from him so he can do it." Kissinger has more experience in Washington than his two colleagues, since he was a defense-policy...
...President must claw hard to reach the outside world. He must fight his own natural inclination and that of the men around him to make his life as easy as possible. Says Haldeman, who thinks that Reedy overgeneralized his experience under Johnson: "I agree that the place could entrap a President. That's why President Nixon physically leaves the place and goes to Camp David or Key Biscayne. Kennedy said that one good thing about the White House is that it was a short walk to the office ?but that cuts both ways...
...think like the President, and that's why I believe I can serve him well." By that, Harry Robbins ("Bob") Haldeman means that he shares with Richard Nixon a deep-rooted belief in hard work, loyalty and efficiency. The identification began early. Haldeman was a student at U.C.L.A. in the late '40s. Alarm about the Communist threats was approaching its zenith, and his hero then was Congressman Richard Nixon. Today, at 43, still trim, tan and crewcut, Haldeman very much resembles that student of decades past...