Enough

by Cassidy Hutchinson

picked up my phone, ignoring safe driving conventions, and tapped “Watergate” into the Google search bar, looking for someone who’d had a role similar to mine in the Nixon White House. That’s when I discovered Alex Butterfield, deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman. I didn’t know it then, but the person whose name I had just seen for the first time would alter the course of my life. This guy must have written a book. I searched. He hadn’t. Nor could I easily find a transcript of his Watergate committee interview, or any interview. I instantly had a good impression of him. I did find a book that had been written about him, by famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: The Last of the President’s Men. It was a look back, fifty years after the fact, at Butterfield’s role in the Watergate investigation. I immediately ordered two copies. When the books arrived to New Jersey the next day, I tore open the package as I ran upstairs to my bedroom.