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    "ocrText": "-2-\nE:\nThis is a very hard down and environment to have to report.\nK:\nI know you are a decent man and you know I know you are not\ndoing this as a hatchet job. I think you have been a little hard\non Haig in several columns. He doesn't know I am calling you.\nE:\nI\nam sure you are right. I am sure he feels different. I think\nhe is one of the most decent, honorable, upstanding men I have\never met. He has given up a lot to come back to the White House.\nHe has sacrificed a brilliant military career, but I don't think\nhe is the right man for the job. He knows I think that. I don't\nhave a closed mind on it but I started off with a presumption that\nwhat Nixon needed was a very tough outside politician. I don't\nthink Nixon can work with a guy like Laird. He couldn't work\nwith Connally. In which case he had to have a Haig in there.\nDo you see my point?\nK:\nI see your point very well.\nE:\nI may be wrong on that. It may be that in this season he is the\nonly guy that could fit that job.\nK:\nYou have to understand this txxbex terrible sense of siege in here.\nE:\nI understand. We got that this morning. This thing about the\ncommittee being partisan is bullshit. This committee is not\npartisan. If it were, the Republicans would have left it long\nago and denounced the chairman. Yet they really believe this\nin the White House\nthe same old paranoia.\nK:\nThe country, whoever is doing it, is just being torn apart.\nE:\nI can't agree with you more. I am having nightmares on this.\nI think we are going right down the wrong road, Henry. I think\nhis decision on the tapes is inexcusable. I don't give a damn\nabout how complex they are. They should have had someone\nlike Cooper or Barry Goldwater sit there and listen and make\na report to the prosecutors. To conceal these tapes is the\nmost stupid single act this man has ever committed.\nK:\nIt is the second - making the tapes was the first.\nE:\nWhen he was alone listening to the tapes, it said in the Times this\nmorning, we wonder whether he was bugging himself. What\nhappened, Henry. Easy now to sieze as a solution. No salvation."
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