March 1973 News Today

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...

>> 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 power to put people under oat but congress does not have a prosecutorial funk. its only to investigate, legislate and to inform >> by march 1973 you had the smart select committee pushing for hearings. >> but nixon by and large did not want aides to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going to claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president cant use executive privilege to shield his own criminal conduct. >> nixo...

We had the power to put people under oath, but, congress does not have a prosecutorial function. it is only to investigate, to legislate and to inform. >> by march, 1973, you have the senate select committee pushing for hearings. >> nixon by and large did not want to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going to claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president cant use executive privilege to shield his own criminal co...

State, strategizing out loud for how he thought all his watergate henchmen should handled the congressional investigation into watergate. what they should do to try and make it all go away. he said, on the white house tape, and the really hard to hear, but theres so much that, it can be hard to hear, but we have a transcript of them. he said on the tape, march 22nd, 1973, this, i dont give a bleep what happens. i want you all to stonewall it. let them plead the fifth amendment, if it will save i...

Charges against his core business and his chief financial officer. are you going to plead the fifth? it seems to be kind of a trend. in march of 1973, nixon had been reelected 1972, sworn in january 1973. watergate was now erased by him running for election. he kind of hoped it would be watergate. he felt in fact, in the early months of a second term as such. and as watergate was finally starting to crack around richard nixon, this was around the time that his staff said in his audio diaries tha...

Seriousness of watergate koultd mean, how much trouble he could be in if the watergate unravelled. march 22nd, 1973, nixon was caught strategizing out loud how he thinks his henchman should do to try to make it all go away. he said on the white house tapes, theyre heard to hear. theres so much static. we have the transcripts of them. what he said on the tapes was this, i dont give a bleep what happens. i want you all to stone wall it. let them plead the 5th amendment. if it will save it, save th...

Around the time his chief of staff h.r. alderman that nixon finally seemed to understand the seriousness of watergate could mean, how much trouble he could be in if the watergate unraveled. march 22nd, 1973, nixon was caught strategizing out loud how he thinks his henchman should do to try to make it all go away. he said on the white house tapes, theyre heard to hear. theres so much static. we have the transcripts of them. what he said on the tapes was this, i dont give a bleep what happens. i w...

Thus he stated in march 1973 saturdaying the watergate investigation, i quote, all members of the white house staff will appear voluntarily when requested by the committee. they will testify under oath and they will answer fully all questions. as a result, many senior white house officials testified including white house counsel john dean, white house chief of staff h.r. holdenman and deputy assistant to the president butterfield. in addition nixon produced many documents in response to congress...

Different branches and youre saying theres something aberrant here, thats not the case? >> like fundamentally, this is worse than nixon. seriously, nixon -- >> take me to school, neal. >> march 1973, nixon says im not going to let the executive branch witnesses testify in this fake impeachment proceeding. and congress then says were going to start jailing those witnesses if they dont testify. what does nixon do? he backs down and lets them testify. >> so you think this sort of full bar that they...