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cant imagine my parents. give me a name like that but backwards is spelled suffer. and and i was the deputy chief counsel of the senate watergate committee under center sam irvin the man im worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutiona...

blackmail. >> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. >> as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. >> its not just a desire for political power. i...

political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in americas history. god bless america, and god bless each and every one of you. >> central to the problems faced by president nixon is the watergate tapes and their tangled history. fred graham traces that story. >> it all began suddenly when an obscu...

>> high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. >> the team received an overwhelming mandate from the american voters leaving every state but one, massachusetts . >> it is not just a desire for political power. it is a lost. that is what nixon said. i lust for power. >> the man in the middle, john wesley dean the third. >> i thought the cover-up was going to and after the election. i was wrong. >> i have no prior knowledge of the water great break in. >> is going...

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...

>> the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. >> its about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whateve...

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...

national election. we had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. >> its about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> i told the american people i did not...

>> this room and the next contain my archives. its magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have 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 close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told...

in sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the nixon foundation colonel jack brennan. the marine military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san clemente years judge, jim rogan. thank you for being here, sir. jean hernandez the mayor pro tem of the great city of yorba linda. thank you for being here gene. i want to welcome dr. lori cox hahn, who is the doybee henley chair of presidential studies at chapman university and her colleague dr. luke nichter, ...