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"He asked me to call Haldeman and I handed him the phone. He spoke with Bob first and then he talked to John. "And then the president got on the line," Magruder said. "I could hear him. His voice was very distinctive."

Magruder heard the distinctive voice of Nixon.... which, in this case, was basically a buzzing sound eminating from the earpiece of a 1970ish telephone which was being held to the ear of another person.

Okay. Let's include this completely unverifiable morsel in our "documentary". Yeah.

Nixon certainly surrounded himself with a group of very questionable characters. Including John Mitchell, husband of poor dying of cancer Martha Mitchell who kept trying to tell us what the hell was going on but this group of thugs kept shoving her into a padded cell, 'cause poor Martha is crazy, y'kno! Finally, Martha quietly died and the boys could be boys again.

Frankly the DNC had been bugging the RNC regularly over the years, this sort to thing was fair game to the players. Still is! We hear about political espionage all the time, called something else, of course, like a "leak", or a "lost, or found, tape". Papers that mysteriously appear in compromising places, and aides who have mouths hinged in the middle and move at both ends, otherwise known as "reliable scoures".

Nixon was not a crook! But oh boy, how he played into the jaws of the beast with his coverup. He may have not been too bright, or common sense wasn't something he practiced. But he was not a crook!