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the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the presidents white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. >> watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. >> five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. >> this room and the next contain m...

in washington. >> many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. >> this room and the next contain my archives. its magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism, but were dangerously cl...

>> ive heard the president say i dont care what it takes, god dammit. fire bomb the brookings institute. get in there and get that save. >> i told ehrlichman about the insanity of it all, the danger of it all and finally he leans back in his desk and picks up the white house phone and says to colson, chuck, young counsel dean is out here, does not think that the brookings plan is very good. cancel it, thank you, boom. i left. i had been in the white house for about a year. i was losing my respec...

Dean is out here, does not think that the brookings plan is very god. cancel it, thank you, boom. i left. i had been in the white house for about a year. i was losing my respect for these people quickly. did i really want this kind of life? went back to the white house, told haldeman that i thought i had done the best i could and that i had opportunities that i really wanted to explore. i thought hed say, well, thats great. we thank you for the job youve done, but that isnt the reaction he had. ...