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>> 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...

>> called the white house switchboard, 456-1414. asked for howard hunt, and the operator said, well, i believe he might be in mr. colsons office. colson was nixons hatchet man. and that of course increased the interest. and finally, i got hunt on the phone and said, how come your name is in the address books of the burglars caught at the watergate? and he paused and screamed "good god," and hung up the phone. >> and so that became the next great focus of what we were trying to learn, if one of t...

Justice together. he knows not only everything the fbi knows, he knows everything the grand jury and the u.s. attorneys know. i was keeping an eye generally on where the investigation was going, sharing with haldeman, ehrlichman, and sending it up to the president. we learned very quickly the secret service had a report from metropolitan police. howard hunts name was in the address book they found in the possession of the burglar. howard hunt was involved with the plumbers, the private investiga...

President. >> offering clemency to one of the burglars so he wouldnt talk, that would be obstruction. >> but colson goes to the president. the president promised colson executive clemency, in other words, a pardon for hunt with the understanding that colson would tell hunt and hunt would stay quiet. >> seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. two are former white hou...