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could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. >> it is 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 it means that it is not illegal. >> i told the americ...

>> 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...

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...

Editor of the paper. bradley said to us, you know there has never been a story like this ever before. youre about to say that the attorney -- the former attorney general of the united states, the highest law enforcement officer in the country is a crook. and we said, yeah. but were right. >> "the washington post" says it has been told that while mitchell was attorney general, he controlled a secret republican party fund used to finance clandestine political espionage operations. mitchell denied ...

>> we started at the bottom. we learned from this bookkeeper who worked at the committee for the re-election of the president that there had been a secret fund that paid for undercover operations against the democrats. there were five people who controlled the funds, and finally, we get to the point where we know that nixons campaign manager john mitchell, former attorney general of the united states, had been among those five people who controlled the secret funds. so we decided were going do a...

And then i went a few more words into the first paragraph, and mitchell said, "jesus." and then i got to the end of the first paragraph, by which time the drift of the story was unmistakable. and mitchell said "jesus christ, all that crap, youre putting it in the paper. if you print that, katharine graham the publisher of "the washington post" is going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer. and when this campaign is over, were going do a little story on you two boys," and hung up the phone. ...

And the american people to learn they thought they were working for him. >> to keep the burglars quiet the nixon white house starts talking to the cia about paying their legal fees and their salaries through the end their trial. >> i went in. i said those who were arrested at the dnc appear to have connections with the cia. theyre now in a lot of trouble. is this the thing that the cia can come in and take care of them? >> the cia said, what? why? we wont be paying your spys. that will make the ...

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>> when somebody denies something that you know is true, it actually was a stimulus to us to keep working on this story, no matter how harsh the criticism and denunciation was. >> we started at the bottom. we learned from this bookkeeper who worked at the committee for the reelection of the president that there had been a secret fund that paid for undercover operations against the democrats. there were five people who controlled the funds, and finally we get to the point where we know that nixon...

That. >> announce the vote. >> 15 ayes, 20 nays. >> the resolution lost. >> so we lost the vote 20-15. we were running out of time. they called the hearing for october 10th and asked for voluntary appearances. so even though we didnt have subpoena power, we thought we could get them. we called john mitchell, maurice stans, and john dean, and they, of course, did not show up. >> as a result, patman just had the cameras come in and take pictures of all the empty chairs with their name plates, and ...