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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...

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The election. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> because i had covered watergate from the beginning, i was part of helping put the things together. in my time at cbs, id never seen anything like that. that was explosive. >> escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign, a political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. >> elevating the ...

The election. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> because i had covered watergate from the beginning, i was part of helping put the things together. in my time at cbs, id never seen anything like that. that was explosive. >> escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign, a political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. >> elevating the ...

Powerful pieces, right before the election. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> because i had covered watergate from the beginning, i was part of helping put the things together. in my time at cbs, id never seen anything like that. that was explosive. >> escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign, a political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in ameri...

Thing. >> those are the places i see parallels with trump. one of the things is that as sort of venal as many people view the president, theres still some sense in which it seems fundamentally unserious to think he sent an e-mail at some point, hack the e-mails. yet who knows? the lesson from watergate is, a president could literally be that venal. >> watergate was initially reported as the watergate caper. it was seen as this funny thing that happened. but in the same way you think -- imagine d...

Think he sent an e-mail at some point, hack the e-mails. yet who knows? the lesson from watergate is, a president could literally be that venal. >> watergate was initially reported as the watergate caper. it was seen as this funny thing that happened. but in the same way you think -- imagine donald trump jr. dming over twitter with wikileaks. you imagine papadopoulos having meetings. it all seems very small. and you cant imagine that a presidential campaign would actually engage in this stuff. s...

President nixon, who won 49 states. mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first, it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister. no longer a caper, but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american his...