Nixon Was Afraid of His CIA Director

There's an incredible moment which has been recorded on tape where Richard Nixon is in the Oval Office with the director of central intelligence and CI director and he mentions Kennedy's assassination [music] and Nixon suggests he knows who did it and the CI director doesn't say a single word and his eyes are blind Johnson etc etc etc maybe not by me but maybe on a very very The CI director works for the president. The job of the director of central intelligence is to bring intelligence to the president so he can make better foreign [music] policy decisions. That's the whole purpose of the agency. Nixon doesn't grab him by the tie and say, "Listen, son, I want that information. I want to know everything you know about that assassination." No, no, no. He treats the director of central [music] intelligence with kid gloves, with deference. And it's like, whoa. Why is Richard Nixon afraid of his own employee? Because he knows his own employee has more power than he