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    "ocrText": "4\nK: Spill their guts from now on.\nG: It's not a question of impressions--it's a fact.\nAlthough it isn't clear to me what they think they are accomplishing. Well,\nthey - Dean himself urged the President--last Monday he drafted a statement--\nit was very much like mine to the point where the President asked me to get\ntogether with him and compare statements. And, his statement to the President\ncalled for the -announce the suspensional resignation of Dean and Haldeman\nand Magruder and Straghan and..\nK: You know that I knew so much that I thought it was spelled STRONG. Why\nhas he changed now?\nG: Well, Dean hasn't changed. Dean--he can't announce it himself. I don't\nunderstand, why has he changed? We feel that the others should take responsibility\nthat we feel is rightly theirs. That he was just following orders.\nK: Well, if these stories are right that Dean knew about the bugging and then\nwas put in charge of the investigation--in addition to the unbelievable immorality\nthe incredible instupidity.\nG: Correct. Well, we're past the point of diagnosés and analyses. The question\nis whether anything can be done that will cause some action to be taken.\nK: Blood flowing. Blood up to the neck.\nG: Well, how can that be done?\nK: Don't you think?\nG: Of course. What do you mean, don't I like? I told you last week, Henry.\nK: Blood and total dissociation. A frontal attack on these guys saying I was betrayed\nby my closest friends. It was a horrible tragedy. But we'd need a guy who would\nbe willing to set up them. What if these guys say no, it was all done in the Oval\nOffice?\nG: Um huh. KI don't know whether it was. I'm just wondering if they would say\nthat.\nG: God knows what they would say. But I think people would set on them like\na lynch mob to tear their tongues out.\nK: It's better than having it because it will be said anyway. If he doesn't\ndo it it will be said that Bruce was the\nG: Right, in the Oval Office. I don't think people will listen to them or believe that.\nIt's in the first order of importance."
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