I 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.
