Buzhardt next listens to the tape from March 21, 1973. It begins promisingly enough with Dean explaining the entire Watergate situation just as the President had said. Then, however, when the discussion of paying off the burglary suspects comes up, Nixon does not say the payouts would be wrong. Instead the two men conspire to make it happen. Then Nixon, not Dean, as the President had told them, brings up Hunt’s clemency. Dean tells him clemency may never be possible. Nixon says perhaps after the election, but he agrees it may be wrong. After discussing every manner of making this plan a success, Nixon tells Dean he had the right plan before the election and now they need an new plan. It’s clear to Buzhardt that Nixon knew more than he’d let on.