Word: haldemans
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...Spiro Agnew, I received a phone call from the President. He said that the refusal to grant immunity would throw "the fear of God into any little boys" who might attempt to escape their responsibility by dumping on associates. Nixon asked out of the blue whether he should fire Haldeman and Ehrlichman; he was heartbroken, he said, even to have to ask the question. I was dumbfounded; if Nixon held that view, he must be in mortal peril. Not possessing any basis for judgment, I ventured a formulation from which I never deviated: whatever would have to be done ultimately...
Agnew came in as I was putting down the telephone. In a somewhat contemptuous, unfeeling manner, Agnew said that Nixon was kidding himself if he thought he could avoid firing Haldeman and Ehrlichman. He would be lucky to save himself...
...April drew to a close, in almost every conversation, Nixon asked me in his elliptical manner whether Haldeman and Ehrlichman should resign, without giving me any reason for it. It was a strange query. Not once did Nixon tell me his version of events. He maintained in private the same posture he had adopted in public, that every revelation...
...Sunday, April 29,1 was in New York when I received a phone call from Nixon at Camp David. Nearly incoherent with grief, he told me that he had just asked Haldeman and Ehrlichman to resign. Richard Kleindienst, the Attorney General, had also submitted his resignation. John Dean was being fired. The President said he needed me more than ever. He hoped I was abandoning any thought of resignation...
...keeper of the gate, someone to buffer him from the conflict that he now had even less desire to handle directly. On the evening of May 2, I received a telephone call from Rose Mary Woods, his touchingly loyal secretary who had been banished to the periphery by Haldeman but who was now back as one of Nixon's principal props. Nixon wanted to bring in Alexander Haig as chief of staff, she told me, for a week or two. He was afraid I might resent seeing my former subordinate in a technically superior position. She hoped that when...